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Ministry of Education Mandate to Learn English in Universities and Colleges in Peru is Driving Growth for Lingo Media
Peru is the third largest country in South America, rich in mineral resources and now with a renewed focus on education to revive an economy that has been vulnerable for the last decade. According to a whitepaper published in July 2014 by the Ministry of Education (MoE) in Peru, amongst other initiatives, teaching a foreign language, preferably English, is no longer optional, but a mandatory requirement for undergraduate students for a minimum duration of 5 years.
According to the British Council of Education Intelligence, President Ollanta Humala announced that bilingual education was a priority and set the goal of achieving bilingualism, with English as the priority language by 2021. Funding has been allocated to meet this goal with initial aims of English language reform to include more resources, increasing English lesson time at the higher education levels and prioritizing teacher training and professional development through online and face-to-face training. Additionally, in order to create a bilingual nation more resources have been marshaled for both student learning and teacher training. In 2016 alone, the goal is to equip 280,000 teachers with dual language skills.
Ultimately, growth in the amount of Peruvians that can speak English will improve employment. For example, foreign investors are showing increasing interest in Peru's mineral wealth. The countries ability to boost English levels reflects its goal of expanding and globalizing the economy further.
Lingo Media's ELL Technologies' virtual English-language teaching platform is currently being deployed to students in the Universidad de San Martin de Porres and CERTUS, a leading educational Institution in Peru. The Universidad de San Martin has over 20,000 students over two main campuses in Lima and Chiclayo, Peru. The software platform has the ability to monitor and manage the progress of the student, assign activities, train pronunciation and the general spoken skills, interact with users, and save the information. This initiative is aimed to contribute to the digital transformation of English language learning in Peru.
Through Lingo Media's distribution agreement with Telefónica Educación Digital, its English language learning portfolio of products is assertively being promoted and delivered to universities, colleges and vocational schools in Peru. Gali Bar-Ziv, COO of Lingo Media, commented on Telefonica and its recent contract with CERTUS, "Our partnership with Telefónica in Peru is based on their commitment to promoting and advancing the digital transformation of education in Peru. This contract is a resounding example of what this partnership can achieve and it is a strong endorsement of our software, to be adopted by CERTUS, a leader in Peru's education sector."
There are more than 80 Universities in Peru with over 500,000 students of which 18 were listed in the top 300 in Latin America. Furthermore, in all of Latin America there are approximately 1,300 Universities, creating immense opportunity for growth for Lingo Media as it deploys its software and helps 'Change the Way the World Learns English'.
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Welcome to HeyJobs GmbH, the modern recruiting solution for companies!
HeyJobs GmbH (hereinafter also referred to as 'HeyJobs', 'we' and 'service provider') offers its customers (hereinafter also referred to as 'service recipients') digital solutions to pursue successful recruiting.
These terms define the conditions of cooperation agreements with HeyJobs GmbH, Paul-Lincke-Ufer 39/40, 10999 Berlin (Register court: District Court Berlin-Charlottenburg, registration number HRB 175212B, tax number 37/345/50019, represented by the Managing Director Marius Luther and Marius Jeuck) and the customer (beneficiary).
2.1 The cooperation agreement concluded between HeyJobs and the service recipient is a service contract subject to §611 BGB.
2.2 A cooperation agreement may be entered either in the form of subscriptions (with limited or unlimited service periods) or quota contracts.
2.3 In areas where the various cooperation agreements differ, such as the start and duration of services, it is clearly indicated in the context of these General Terms and Conditions if a specific provision only applies to one specific type of cooperation contract.
2.4 All other provisions of these General Terms and Conditions apply without exception to all cooperation agreements made between HeyJobs and the customer.
3.1 These general terms and conditions are the basis of all cooperation agreements between HeyJobs as the provider of the services stipulated in the cooperation agreement and the service recipient involved.
3.2. These are the General Terms and Conditions of Business, which are openly visible on the HeyJobs website at the time of signing the cooperation agreement, and which HeyJobs can make available to each service recipient as a copy in pdf. format any time upon request, are valid.
3.3 By signing the cooperation agreement, the service recipient declares his complete agreement to these General Terms and Conditions.
3.4 These terms and conditions apply exclusively. Conflicting or deviating from our terms and conditions of the customer, we do not recognize unless their validity was expressly stated in the cooperation agreement in writing.
3.5 These terms and conditions also apply to all future transactions with the customer in the version valid at the time of the last contract conclusion. However, they only apply to entrepreneurs in accordance with § 14 BGB.
4.1 The cooperation agreement is concluded when HeyJobs receives the signed and dated acceptance of the cooperation agreement offer in the original, as a fax or copy, as a scanned PDF or photo or in another electronic form from the customer. It is also an explicit consent by e-mail to a bid as contract acceptance.
4.2 §312i (1) no. 1, 2 and 3 as well as § 312i (1) sentence 2 BGB (German Civil Code), which stipulate certain obligations of the contractor in electronic commerce, are hereby waived.
4.3 Changes in the content of the cooperation agreement offered by HeyJobs are considered in a new offer to the customer. The contract is then only in power by explicit acceptance by HeyJobs to the conditions. A service provision is not considered an implicit consent.
5.1 HeyJobs as a recruitment platform offers its recruiters modern recruitment solutions. Through the use of digital technologies and the inclusion of modern marketing methods, HeyJobs supports their service recipients in optimizing their own recruitment process and addressing suitable, qualified applicants directly and efficiently.
5.2 The services provided by HeyJobs for the purpose of supporting the recruitment process mentioned in 5.1 include, but are not limited to optimizing job advertisements, disseminating these job advertisements on a variety of channels, improving the application process through targeted targeting and re-booking targeting potential active and passive applicants, as well as providing an optimized application solution for computers, smartphones and tablets.
5.3 The services provided by HeyJobs are selected and adjusted according to the individual needs of the beneficiaries and the vacant position.
HeyJobs reserves the right to individually check for each beneficiary which combination of marketing activities and channels is the most appropriate solution and reserves the right to adjust individual services without prior agreement with the beneficiary or to replace them with equivalent services, provided that service not expressly and in writing in the cooperation agreement is held.
5.4 HeyJobs also provides its service recipient with further explanations on terminology and methods in the context of providing services on demand at any time, usually verbally.
5.5. The HeyJobs Employer Service Team ensures that beneficiaries receive ongoing support throughout the performance period for any questions related to the cooperation agreements and services provided.
5.6 HeyJobs reserves the right to use sub-cooperation partners at its own discretion.
In the case of cooperation agreements with an agreed term (subscription), both limited (without automatic renewal) and unlimited (with automatic renewal), the commencement date of the service corresponds to the subscription date of the cooperation agreement.
In the case of cooperation agreements with an agreed number of advertisements (contingent) (with respective active use of 30 days), the respective commencement of services takes place after the call of the service recipient. Only with the retrieval of an advertisement begins the process of optimization of the job advertisement, as well as the marketing on the selected channels. The retrieval of quotas can be informal but must be done in writing by email, for example. Unsolicited advertisements expire without meaning after the expiry of the agreed service period.
6.2 The duration of benefits is regulated by the service period as part of the cooperation agreement.
7.1 HeyJobs undertakes to support the service recipient to the best of its knowledge and belief in its recruitment activities.
7.2 The recipient of the service undertakes to provide HeyJobs with all the information and documents necessary for HeyJobs to optimally support the recruitment process (obligation to cooperate). This includes, in particular, the provision of detailed descriptions of the vacancy, additional company information and the company logo in digital form.
7.3 HeyJobs reserves the right not to execute orders placed by the customer, or to remove performance elements already published on the internet, insofar as the contents to be published violate legal requirements, official prohibitions, rights of third parties or morality ("Illegal Content").
7.4 All communication between the applicants and HeyJobs GmbH takes place exclusively on behalf of the customer. Decisions on the selection of candidates, invitations to interviews of any kind, as well as subscriptions and cancellations of job seekers for an advertised position lie solely with the customer. HeyJobs GmbH does not take decisions concerning the applicant and acts exclusively according to instructions.
8.1 Invoices of HeyJobs GmbH are provided in electronic form as a file attachment of an e-mail in pdf format.
8.2 HeyJobs GmbH reserves the right in the future to adapt the electronic invoicing with discretion to its own requirements, for example, to make the invoices available as downloads on the website within a protected employer area.
8.3 Invoicing by post shall only take place if both contractual parties have agreed on this form of invoicing in writing in the framework of the cooperation agreement.
9.1 Cooperation agreements with an unlimited duration (automatically recurring subscription) extend towards the end of the service period automatically not the initial base period provided that the co-operation agreement by HeyJobs or the recipient with a period of 14 days at the end of the base or of an extension running time is terminated.
9.2 Limited term contracts (non-automatically renewing subscriptions) terminate automatically and without notice of termination on the last day of the term as specified in the cooperation agreement. For contracts with a limited duration, ordinary termination is excluded.
9.3 Cooperation agreements, the subject of which is a fixed number of advertisements that can be called up flexibly by the service recipient (contingent), end automatically upon expiry of the service period specified in the cooperation agreement. Unused contingents expire at the end of the service period. Ordinary termination during the service period is not possible.
9.4 The right to extraordinary termination remains unaffected.
9.5 All terminations require the written form. Terminations of the Beneficiary shall be sent by e-mail to arbeitgeberservice@heyjobs.de and are subject to the specified period of at least 14 days before expiry of the current service period.
10.1 The compensation for the services to be provided by HeyJobs shall be determined in writing in the cooperation agreement concluded between HeyJobs and the customer.
10.2 All prices are exclusive of applicable statutory value added tax (net prices).
10.3 All payments are due without deduction at the latest on the 14th day after the invoice date.
10.3 The payment of the invoice amounts takes place - if not otherwise agreed - by transfer by the service recipient to the bank account specified by HeyJobs on the invoices.
10.4 If the service recipient does not settle outstanding payments within the set period of 14 days, then he automatically arrives in default of payment without having to file a separate payment reminder or reminder. HeyJobs reserves the right to suspend existing services in the event of late payment until the outstanding claim has been settled. Likewise, HeyJobs reserves the right to claim default interest and other damages for delay in accordance with §288 BGB against the beneficiary and to exercise the right to extraordinary termination at its sole discretion.
11.1 Upon acceptance of the offer, bilateral compliance with all applicable data protection laws is agreed at the same time.
11.2 The customer hereby, in accordance to Data Protection Act, states that HeyJobs can store their data in a machine-readable form and processes it for contract purposes.
11.3 It is the customer's responsibility to apply utmost care in the use of IDs, passwords, usernames or other security devices provided in connection with the services, and to take any measures to ensure the confidentiality and security of the data guarantees and prevent their disclosure to third parties. For the use of passwords or usernames by third parties, the customer will be held responsible if he can not sustainably state that the access to such data was not caused by him and the reasons for it could not be influenced by him. The customer is obligated to inform HeyJobs immediately about a possible or already known, unauthorized use of his access data.
12.1 The concluded cooperation agreement does not include any transfer of ownership or use rights, licenses or other rights to any HeyJobs proprietary software to the customer. All rights to the used software, trademarks, titles, trademarks and copyrights and other commercial rights of HeyJobs remain unrestricted with HeyJobs.
12.2 All work results and information produced and provided by HeyJobs for the Beneficiary are subject to the copyright of HeyJobs.
12.3 By placing an order for the publication of job advertisements, HeyJobs receives the sole database rights to the job advertisements optimized and published by HeyJobs.
12.4 The customer is solely responsible for the press, competition law and other responsibility for the contents intended for publication.
12.5 By placing the order, the customer confirms that all rights of use of the owners of copyrights, ancillary copyrights and other rights to the documents and data provided by him for the purpose of posting on the Internet have acquired or may freely dispose of them.
13.1 Transfer of contract. HeyJobs is entitled to transfer the contractual relationship with the service recipient to a company affiliated with HeyJobs pursuant to Section 15ff of the German Stock Corporation Act. HeyJobs will announce the transfer to the beneficiary in good time, at least four weeks in advance, and give the beneficiary the opportunity to withdraw from the Agreement before the transfer takes effect by expressly granting a special termination right. HeyJobs, paid in advance, will reimburse the beneficiary pro rata in the event of a special termination.
13.2 Explanations: Unless otherwise provided, notifications and declarations under this contract may be made in text form in accordance with § 126b BGB (eg by e-mail). HeyJobs can use the e-mail address provided by the service recipient in the order form. Changes will be communicated to the recipient by HeyJobs immediately.
13.3 Textual form: Changes to the cooperation agreement require the text form according to § 126b (eg e-mail, letter or fax). This also applies to the waiver of this formal requirement.
13.4 Set-off: The Beneficiary may only set off other claims than its contractual counterclaims from the relevant legal transaction or assert a right of retention if this claim is legally established or undisputed by HeyJobs.
13.5 Applicable law: This contract is exclusively subject to German law, excluding the UN Sales Convention.
13.6 Jurisdiction: It falls under the district court Berlin-Charlottenburg. HeyJobs reserves the right to sue at the place of jurisdiction under which the beneficiary falls.
13.7 Partial ineffectiveness: Should individual provisions of this contract be or become ineffective, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions. Instead of the invalid provision, that which the parties honestly agreed under the originally intended purpose from an economic point of view shall apply. The same applies in the case of a contract gap.
This document is purely informative. Only the German version of the document is legally binding.


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Much Respect: Rockstar Games Asks Take-Two To Step Off GTA V PC Modders And OpenIV
by Brittany Goetting — Saturday, June 24, 2017, 12:29 PM EDT
It is better to have some mods instead of none, right? In a welcome move, Rockstar Games and Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive have agreed to not take legal action against single-player mod projects.
Rockstar released a statement noting, "Take-Two has agreed that it generally will not take legal action against third-party projects involving Rockstar's PC games that are single-player, non-commercial, and respect the intellectual property (IP) rights of third parties."
It is important to note that Take-Two and Rockstar could potentially take legal action against mods relating to multiplayer or online services, tools, files, libraries, or functions that could affect multiplayer or online services, or the importation of unrelated IP. Rockstar also made it very clear that their statement was not a license and did not constitute approval of third-party projects. Take-Two still could revoke the rights of third-party projects as well. For now, they're just toning down the aggressive stance.
This complicated concession from Rockstar and Take-Two comes on the heels of the recent OpenIV controversy. Take-Two sent a cease-and-desist letter to Yuriy "Good-NDS" Krivoruchko, the developer of OpenIV, last week. The publisher wanted to target "malicious mods that allow harassment of players and interfere with the GTA Online experience for everybody".
Many GTA V fans believed that that cease-and-desist letter was an attack on modding as a whole, despite the fact that Take-Two and Rockstar stated that they were not specifically targeting single-player mods. Never-the-less, Fans left bad reviews for GTA V on Steam in protest. They also started a petition for OpenIV that gained over 77,000 signatures.
OpenIV may still experience some trouble in the future, however, because it allows users to decrypt and edit proprietary file formats. Many people have used OpenIV's capabilities to cheat in GTA Online. Krivoruchko insisted that he was uninterested in GTA Online, but did admit that it was possible that some modders may have used OpenIV for some unscrupulous projects. Although OpenIV did release an update, it is unclear how long they can exist before indirectly violating Rockstar and Take-Two's new policy.
Regardless, thanks to the outcry from fans, Rockstar and Take-Two will leave single-player modders alone for now. Modders will be able to mod as long as they don't impact company profits or the multi-player, on-line user experience.
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Quartzline lays coverings in small, medium and large sites and premises. The company has the necessary equipment and materials to cover floors with various systems. The technologies being used make it possible to perform laying onto compromised foundations of various type – concrete, putty, terracotta. A team of 40 appliers takes care after the product selection and coverings laying.
Quartzline has professional equipment for laying floor coverings that makes it possible to prepare them in rapid and quality manner. The equipment also includes machines for elimination of tiles, linoleum etc; blasting machines; concrete mills; grinding machines; gap cutters; spreading machines; flanging machines; installation for quartz sand colouring and others. Additionally, the company has its own aggregates for mono-phase and three-phase currency, bobcat and trucks with load carrying capacity to 10 tonnes.
The Quartzline team would offer the suitable solutions for the floor coverings depending on the use and load inside the premises.


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Granting access to secure website content
Organizations can grant or restrict access to content available in iMIS based on a group membership, for example, downloadable and online products. Staff users can do the following:
Define content, then restrict access to that content to a particular group.
Define a product, and assign purchasers of that product to the group which controls access to certain content.
Do the following to create products that offer group-based access to post-purchase information and content:
Add a new product, or edit an existing product (see Adding products for more information):
In the Staff site, go to Commerce > Add product.
Fill out the required information, and any additional applicable information, for your product.
Click Assign purchaser to group. New group definition options are displayed.
Specify a new Group to which you can assign purchasers, or select an existing Group from the drop-down. Click the Save icon. The group will be created, regardless of whether you complete the process of creating the product.
Note: You can create more than one group through this interface, but you can assign only one group to this product. Each group will have a role of Member and a type of Purchased Products.
You can also associate multiple products to the same group once the group is created.
Enter the Term span in months. This is the term for which the purchaser can remain a member of the group.
Fill out the Post-purchase information. This is information available to the purchaser. Whatever is entered in this field (for example, instructions, a link, or a simple message) is available as soon as the product is purchased.
Note: If you want to provide a link to content, you must have the content created before you finalize the Post-purchase information. You can create the content before you create the product, or vice-versa.
Create the content you want to provide to purchasers.
Configure group access to the content. Go to the Access settings tab:
Select Make this available to.
Deselect Everyone under Specific Roles.
Click Add group under Specific Groups. If you created a new group when you created the product, search for that group.
Select Read permission only for this group.
Click Save & Publish. Now, everyone who purchases any product associated with this group will become members of the group and have access to content restricted to members of this group. For example, members might be able to see certain restricted Members-only pages on your site.
Another use of this feature is to provide downloadable content for purchase. To define a downloadable product, do the following:
Add a new product, or edit an existing product.
Create a downloadable product:
(optional) Add a Content HTML content item. You can describe the product, provide information about the product, and so forth.
Note: Shipping and handling charges will occur for downloadable products unless shipping minimum values are set to 0, or the shipping method calculation is set to ship by weight.
Add a Content File content item (Content Gallery > Content > Content File).
Enter a Name. This is displayed as the name of the content that can be downloaded.
Click upload to select the file you want to upload and offer as downloadable content. Browse to find the file you want to offer, then click Upload. You can upload a new file to replace a previous file, or you can delete the file you have uploaded.
Note: The group Type must be Purchased Products.
Click Save & Publish.
Open the content record once it is published, and click Generate Full URL. Make a note of this URL; you will use this to help define your product and post-purchase information.
Edit your Post-purchase Information.
Note: You must enter the generated full URL. You can add HTML tagging to make this a live link for a purchaser, for example:
Congratulations! You have purchased the Sample Guide to Examples! You can download your copy by clicking  here  at any time.
where yourwebsite.com is the actual name of your website, and contentpath/contentname is the path and name of the content item containing the purchased content.
You can also use the [website] variable in place of your actual website name if your customers can purchase content from multiple websites, for example, Member, Member Mobile, or Donor. This link takes the customer back to the website from which they made their purchase. For example:
Congratulations! You have purchased the Sample Guide to Examples! You can download your copy by clicking  here  at any time.
Finish defining your product and click Save.
The information you added in the Post-purchase Information field, including a link to the purchased content, is delivered to the purchaser:
In an on-screen order confirmation upon successful order submission.
In an order confirmation email.


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Fortnite Extra Winterfest Present: Where is the Last Present?
Check out where to find the last present in Fortnite Chapter 3
January 3rd, 2022 by Franklin Bellone Borges
Fortnite's Chapter 3 Winterfest 2021 celebration, an event that gave players of the multi-awarded and acclaimed battle royale the ability to take part in a series of holiday-themed quests and challenges, as well as the chance to win many items, such as cosmetics, weapons, and more, is coming to an end. With that said, as part of the event, players could open a total of 14 presents, located at Cozy Lodge. But now a new and mysterious present arrived, showing itself among all the already existing ones. We will now tell you where to find the last Winterfest present in Fortnite Chapter 3, as well as all we currently know about it.
All We Know and Where to Find the Last Fortnite Winterfest 2021 Present
The mysterious extra present became part of the game after Fortnite suffered from server malfunctions on December 29 of last year, with made many players question if the new present was a glitch or in fact a new reward. In response to the find, the team behind Fortnite responded with a message on Twitter, not revealing much about the present but revealing that they are currently working on it. With that said, you can still find the extra present in Cozy Lodge but is currently not possible to open it. It's important to point out that even if the present is indeed a glitch, players can hope for some compensation for the server malfunction.
Already opened all your presents but still see one extra present left to open? Sit tight, we're working on that. 🎁
— Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) December 29, 2021
If you haven't already, don't forget to check out all the rewards available as part of Fortnite's Winterfest 2021. as well as how to hide for 10 seconds as a Sneaky Snowman within 25m of an opponent, destroy 10 Holiday decorations, fly with a chicken, and how to ram a snowman with a vehicle.
You can play Fortnite right now on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, Nintendo Switch, Android, and PC, exclusively via the Epic Games Store. Fortnite's Winterfest 2021 will run until January 6th, 2022, at 9 AM ET.
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On Lenin's orders the subtropical Black Sea resort of Sochi was opened up to the masses in the 1920s. Ministries, army units, unions and factories started to build spas and accommodation for workers, with trips being offered as a reward for hard work. The resorts also became a refuge for the Soviet elite, including politicians, cosmonauts and actors. In Soviet times, millions of workers were sent to sanatoriums in Sochi to revive their spirits and strengthen their bodies. In the run-up to the Winter Olympics in 2014, almost all the sanatoria would be converted into luxury hotels. There is no place for sentimentality when it comes to the past.
Together with writer Arnold van Bruggen I spent ten days at Sochi's Sanatorium Metallurg, among the elderly and infirm Russians who still flock there for daily massages and 20-minute radon baths.
Sanatorium Metallurg on a postcard from 1980s
"Following Lenin's decree in 1919 that 'localities with curative properties are the property of the people and are to be used for curative purposes,' Sochi has harnessed its 90 miles of spectacular coast to this end."
—The New York Times, 1982
View from the garden on new apartment block
Sanatorium Metallurg, Sochi, 2009
"Before the revolution, there were 36 spas and 56 sanatoria. Today there are 350 spas and nearly 2500 sanatoria where, last year, four and a half million people were treated."
—Pittsburg Post, 1955
Magnetically charged sulfurous clay treatment
Former theater, now closed for renovation
"The popularity of the spas seems to be in the Soviet character. There is something about treatment based on mineral springs, sun and air that appeal to a proclivity among Russian for folk cures, natural medicines and selfdiagnoses."
View from balcony on the Black Sea
"Russians often profess astonishment that Americans do not share their faith in sulfurous muds and radioactive springs."
Room for radiographic treatment
Inhalers and radiography equipment.
"Like everywhere else, the hot water didn't work, the washstands had no stoppers, the bathtubs were rusted, tiles were missing in the floors, panes of glass were broken and the toilet sputtered all day long."
Disco night from 8 until 10 pm.
Mikhail Karabelnikov from Murmansk
Almost all sanatoriums have a private beach
"One may swim, go out in a motorboat and join excursion groups under the aegis of a hostess. But at 10 p.m., everyone must go to sleep. Only high officials and officers are exempt from this rule."
Sanatorium Metallurg (top left) on a postcard from 1968
Dima gets treatment for his burns
Matsesta, Sochi, 2009
"The claims made for the waters of Matsesta vary from curing sterility in women to arresting baldness in men, and if nastiness is a measure of the quality of a medicine the smell in this sanatorium should be proof of its excellence."
—Journey into Russia, 1964
Heated saltwater pool for winter
Introduction movie © Arnold van Bruggen, Prospektor, 2009.
"Book-wise, Sanatorium is short but its sexy design and production values deserve attention. Designers Kummer & Herrman employed an interesting double stitch binding that achieves a squared off spine and a division of text from the photographs which were printed on different paper stocks from one another."
— 5B4, 2009
Text: Arnold van Bruggen. Design: Kummer & Herrman
Sanatorium became the first annual publication created during the course of The Sochi Project. It was our first attempt to capture the city, by focusing on what had made it famous: the fresh air, healing waters, and medical facilities in Lenin's palaces for the proletariat. The book is an account of our two week stay in Sanatorium Metallurg and the story in the back is written as a fictionalized diary of a spa guest. Old postcards recall the heyday of sanatoriums in the Soviet times. Quotes from earlier articles about sanatorium life in Sochi appear in the margins alongside the photos.
Utrecht, The Netherlands: self-published, 2009. 24 x 32 cm. (9 3/8 x 12 5/8 in.), 40 pages, 21 color photographs, white folio with stitched binding,.
Winner New York Photo Book Award 2010
"If you've liked '101 Billionaires', you'll like 'Sanatorium', too."
—Conscientious, 2009
Travel Journal, Noorderlicht, Groningen, 2009.
Contact Gallery, Toronto, 2014.
Calvert JournalSpa town: capturing the faded glory of a once grand Soviet-era sanatorium
ConscientiousReview: Sanatorium by Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen
5B4Review: Sanatorium by Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen
BuffetRob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen
Sanatorium - Limited Edition booklet, 2009
Fotografie.nlNederlands duo wint New York Photo Book Award 2010
Mare (Germany), October 2011
"Schwerfällige Frauen in silbernen Pumps tanzen miteinander. Man meint, die Zeit sei stehen geblieben".
—Mare, 2011
Vrij Nederland (Dutch), January 2010
Het Parool (Dutch), February 2010
"To immerse themselves in the full restorative experience, Hornstra faked a backache and a sore knee and Van Bruggen pretended to suffer from heart problems. From morning massages to evening discos, nightly vodkas and three sour cream-loaded dinners a day, they emerged a fortnight later a little heavier and a little less fit and healthy."
—Calvert Journal, 2014
Sunday Times (UK), August 2010


Tommy came to us from a friend for us to sell. He had been purchased from Melton Horse Sales he was a very frightened nervous pony who has a lot of issues. After tracing his old owners they assured me he was good to ride but very nervous in the stable after being wild on the New Forest until he was a three year old.
After we had him for a month we decided he would struggle to find a home that would be suitable for him so we decided to keep him ourselves.
Charlotte is now competing him very successfully and gaining high marks with his dressage at Prelim and is now going to move on to Novice. He still finds everything on the ground very stressful but is totally happy and confident once ridden.
He also enjoys jumping and going for a canter around the fields. Unfortunately we do have an issue with catching him so just hope nobody ever falls off!!!!!!!!
Tommy has gone from strength to strength in the time we have had him, proving to be a very versatile pony with a flare for his dressage. Time and time again he brings red rosettes home and is a credit to the yard and his rider Charlotte.
What a swoop after the Doverbeck Presentation Evening, Tommy showing his "Best Young Horse" Trophy!!!!!!
Penny takes Tommy out for the first time!!!
Charlotte and Tommys results speak for themselves!!!!!!
Ellie borrowed Tommy for the day to do the Combined Training, he was an absolute star and won the Prelim 14 with a massive 73%. He had two stops at some "scary" fillers in the showjumping which was a shame and knocked himself out of the overal placings.
Charlotte and Tommy had a successful competition gaining qualification for the second round trailblazers with super results.
Charlotte and Tommy had a very successful two days, bringing home rosettes again!!
Tommy found the atmosphere a little difficult the first day and was wound up but Charlotte helped him to ride two tests with the following scores.
On the second day finding a quiet warm up area seemt to work really well and they both rode two superb tests and gained fantastic scores in good company.
Well done to them both!!!!!!!!!!
Tommy is really getting the hang of wearing his prizes!!!!!!!!!!!! Something we would never of dreamt of happening a year ago, he is getting better and better every day that goes by!!!!!!
Charlotte, Tommy, mum, and sister Rebecca made the long trip to Addington complete with all camping gear and had a very successful competition. Each age group were split into teams of four and the team was judged over the four tests.
QUALIFYING FOR THE SEARCH FOR A STAR FINALS!!!!
We decided it wouldnt have been a good thing to come 1st or 2nd as the prize was a rug, this would have been a major problem as Tommy struggles to wear a lightweight rug without turning himself inside out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tommy getting quite used to showing off his rosettes!!!
Charlotte and Tommy Win Again!!!!!
A successful trip to Doverbeck Riding Club for Tommy and Charlotte.
Pony Day - 30th May 2007 proved to quite a "wet one" so not many pictures!!!
Charlotte gained 3rd place in the prelim 7 with 62.5% receiving 3 lovely rosettes and a gift voucher. She also rode a lovely prelim 12 test and gained 60% but was just out of the prizes.
Tommy finished!! Tommy going home tired!!!!
Well Done Charlotte and Tommy!!!!
Charlotte and Tommy rode four superb tests over the weekend, in huge classes, and gained results to prove it!!!! After some very hard work, and lots of learning tests, as all our children ride the tests from memory, Charlotte brought home loads of rosettes, prizes and a huge trophy!!!!!!!!!
Tommy has come on in leaps and bounds, he is still an extremely nervous pony to handle, but Charlotte understands him completely, and Tommy tries his hardest to please and work correctly.
A very brave Tommy showing off his rosettes!!!!!
Charlotte took our new pony Tommy and came 5th in the Mountain and Moorland, and 8 faults in the show jumping. Also competing in the family pony and most appealing.
Tommy, George and the girls out for a canter!!!


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Watchman's Teaching Letter #200 December 2014
2014 Watchman's Teaching Letters
WTL200.pdf
This is my two hundredth monthly teaching letter and continues my seventeenth year of publication. Since WTL #137, I have been continuing a series entitled The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, and have been expanding on its seven stages ever since: (1) the courtship, (2) the marriage, (3) the honeymoon, (4) the estrangement, (5) the divorce, (6) the reconciliation, and (7) the remarriage.
THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD, Part 59,
THE RECONCILIATION (i.e., Redemption):
In the last lesson, WTL #199, I found that there was more to the subject of Isaiah 4:1 than I anticipated, so I left off with the question, "(Isa. 4:1?)", which reads:
"And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach."
I would also like to repeat Isaiah 3:12, cited in WTL #199, as it gives us some idea of where we are at today:
"As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." This verse refers back to Isaiah 3:4-5 thusly:
"4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable."
So, not only do we have a situation where the women of Israel are outnumbering the men seven to one, but we have a second dilemma, where the children are in a state of rebellion against their parents and refuse the wisdom of their elders. What else should we expect from our children when we leave their upbringing to the State, baby- sitters and preschool services. After all, Proverbs 29:15 speaks quite clearly:
(KJV): "The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his motherH517 to shame."
Charles Thomson Septuagint:"The rod and reproofs give wisdom: but a child led astray shameth his parents."
Of these two translations, the KJV does a little better rendering "mother" rather than the Septuagint rendering of "parents". I will now quote in part from The Theological Workbook of the Old Testament on Strong's Hebrew #517:
"... The word always (except once) means 'mother.' In most occurrences it refers literally to the female parent. It is used at times in a figurative sense.
"517 ... 'êm refers to Eve, figuratively as mother of all living beings (though she was also the literal mother, Gen. 3:20); to Deborah as a mother in Israel (Jud. 5:7); to a city as mother to its inhabitants (Isa. 50:1; Ezk. 16:44; Hos. 2:2 ...); and even to a worm as mother of Job (Job 17:14). On some occasions the term is applied to nonhuman mothers: Ex. 34:26; Deut. 22:6.
"In studying the contexts and senses in which the word is used we note several of particular interest, first, texts which relate to the duties of the mother. She is to be a source of comfort (Isa. 66:13), a teacher (Prov. 31:1), and a disciplinarian (Zech 13:3).
"We note also what her children owe her. These obligations may be defined as positive duties and negative duties. On the positive side, her children owe her obedience (Gen. 28:7), blessings (Prov. 30:11), honor (Ex. 20:12), fear (i.e., respect, Lev. 19:3), and mourning when she has died (Ps. 35:14). On the negative side, her children must not strike her (Ex. 21:15), rob her (Prov. 28:24), chase her away (Prov. 19:26), bring her to shame (Prov. 29:15; so Lev. 18:7), set light by her (i.e., ridicule her, Deut. 27:16), nor forsake her law (Prov. 1:8). This shows clearly the high standing of motherhood in a redeemed society.
"Yet, the mother's role in her adult son's life was clearly subordinate to that of his wife (Gen. 2:24). His duties to his mother could not supplant or take precedence over his duties to his wife ...."
With this, it should become apparent that the mature Israelite woman has her unique place and duties in a lawful marriage, as well as her husband and children! Therefore, each family member should endeavor to fulfill his/her Yahweh given place and perform the duties of attending that position. One element in that direction is found at Deut. 22:5, where it instructs:.
"The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto Yahweh thy Elohim."
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, edited by Jerome H. Smith has this comment on this passage, pp. 219-220:
"5. woman shall not. 1 Cor. 11:4-15; 1 Tim. 2:9; Titus 2:4-15 ... This prohibition was no doubt intended to exclude the idolatrous customs of the heathen, as well as to prevent the evil which would be produced by the introduction of such customs. Nothing was more common among idolaters, than for men, in the worship of several of their gods, to put on the garments worn by women; particularly in the worship of Venus, to which that of Ashtaroth among the Canaanites bore a striking resemblance, the women were accustomed to appear in armor before her, and the men in women's apparel. But independently of this, the practice has produced the greatest confusion in society, and has been productive of the grossest crimes. Hence Clodius, who dresses himself as a woman, that he might mingle with the Roman ladies in the feast of the Bona dae, [good goddess], was universally justly execrated. Jer. 10:2 ...."
It might be well to cite these Biblical passages which The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge makes reference to:
1 Cor. 11:3-15: "3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is [Yahshua] Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is Yahweh. 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. 5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. 6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. 7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of Yahweh: but the woman is the glory of the man. 8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. 9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. 10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. 11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in Yahweh. 12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of Yahweh. 13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? 14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? 15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering."
1 Tim. 2:8-13: "8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. 9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; 10 But (which becometh women professing Yahweh-likeness) with good works. 11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve."
Titus 2:2-15: "2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. 3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of Yahweh be not blasphemed. 6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. 7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, 8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. 9Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; 10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of Yahshua our Saviour in all things. 11 For the grace of Yahweh that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12 Teaching us that, denying un-Yahweh-likeness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and Yahweh-like, in this present world; 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great Yahweh and our Saviour Yahshua Christ; 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. 15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee."
Jer. 10:2: "Thus saith Yahweh, Learn not the way of the [non-Israel] nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the [non-Israel] nations are dismayed at them."
Back to our subject at Isaiah 4:1, which reads: "And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach."
Whatever period of history one wishes to place the fulfillment of this prophecy, it is speaking of some women who never had any children, as that is the reason for their "reproach"! And for whatever logic one chooses to believe why these women didn't happen to have any children, their motive in this passage is to rectify that omission by "taking hold" of an already married man! We surely understand that the Almighty Yahweh has a sovereign will, and a permissive will. At Matt. 19:3-9, it is stated by Yahshua:
"3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore Yahweh hath joined together, let not man put asunder. 7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? 8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery."
Therefore, it should be quite evident that Yahweh's sovereign will is for one Adam-man to have one Adam-woman! Evidently, these "seven women that take hold of one man" fall under Yahweh's permissive will. Under Yahweh's sovereign will, it is only reasonable, then, that one Adam-woman should have one Adam-man. Since these seven Adam-women of Isaiah 4:1 are only to take hold of one Adam-man, they are safely within Yahweh's sovereign will on their female side of the issue.
It should also be noted that only "bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh" count as husband, wife or offspring. Therefore, if the Adamic-man or Adamic-woman sexually unite with a nonwhite, non-Adamite and have children, that union is not one Adam-man with one Adam-woman, and the half-breed child is a violation of Yahweh's original law of "kind after kind" of Genesis ch. 1!
Malachi 3:6 states: "For I am Yahweh, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."
Gen. 2:21-24 reads: "21 And Yahweh Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribsH6763, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the ribH6763, which Yahweh Elohim had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."
It is very important that we now consider the Hebrew word #6763, which the translators rendered in English as "rib":
"6763. ... tsêlâ', tsay-law´; or (feminine) ... tsal'âh, tsal-aw´, from 6760; a rib (as curved), literally (of the body) or figuratively, (of a door, i.e., leaf); hence a side, literally (of a person) or figuratively (of an object or the sky, i,e., quarter); arch. a (especially floor or ceiling) timber or plank (single or collectively i.e., a flooring):– ..."
From Strong's electronic Enhanced Hebrew Lexicon:
"6763. .... [tsêlâ', tsay-law´/ tsal'âh, tsal-aw´,] noun feminine. From 6760; ... 41 occurrences; AV translates as 'side' 19 times, 'chamber' 11 times, 'boards' twice, 'corners' twice, 'rib' twice, 'another' once, 'beams' once, 'halting' once, 'leaves' once, and 'planks' once. 1 side, rib, beam. 1a rib (of man). 1b rib (of hill, ridge, etc). 1c side-chambers or cells (of temple structure). 1d rib, plank, board (of cedar or fir). 1e leaves (of door). 1f side (of ark)."
Of all of the various Hebrew lexicons, I favor the Strong's Hebrew Lexicon on the meaning of this particular word. Strong's on both #'s 6763 and 6760, has the leading definitions as "probably to curve" and "a rib (as curved)". Not only this, but the Septuagint and Samaritan texts have a slightly different rendering on Gen. 2:21-23. I will use Charles Thompson's Septuagint to demonstrate this:
"[21] Then God brought an ecstasy upon Adam and caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs and filled up flesh instead thereof. [22] And God built up the rib, which He took from Adam, into a woman, and brought her to Adam. [23] And Adam said, 'This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh, let her be called Woman.' Because she was taken out of her man ...." The Samaritan text also has "taken out of her man". (See the 12-volume The Interpreter's Bible, on Gen. 2:21-23, vol. 1, p. 449)
As I wrote in my "Angels Chained In Darkness, #1": Once we understand that many of these terms are veiled in idiomatic language, it behooves us to break the hidden code in which they are written. In particular, "... anything wound (or coiled in a spiral), a twisted rope ...". This definition is a perfect description of the DNA "double helix" within every cell of a mammal, vegetation or other form of life. It is a violation of Yahweh's genetic laws that once two alien types of DNA are locked together it forms a half breed plant or animal which can never be reversed. Such creatures become a type of a third-kind. Therefore, the term "third world", as used today to describe nonwhite peoples, is not out of order. For instance, a mule (from which we get the term mulatto) is a creature of a third-kind. There is one thing we can be very sure of, and that is the fact that Yahweh never created a creature of a third-kind! So, that brings up a very important question: Where did all of those nonwhite creatures of a third-kind come from?
DATA: DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID (DNA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deoxyribonucleic_acid
"Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and some viruses. The main role of DNA molecules is the long-term storage of information. DNA is often compared to a set of blueprints or a recipe, since it contains the instructions needed to construct other components of cells, such as proteins and RNA molecules. The DNA segments that carry this genetic information are called genes, but other DNA sequences have structural purposes, or are involved in regulating the use of this genetic information.
"Chemically, DNA is a long polymer of simple units called nucleotides, with a backbone made of sugars and phosphate groups joined by ester bonds. Attached to each sugar is one of four types of molecules called bases. It is the sequence of these four bases along the backbone that encodes information. This information is read using the genetic code, which specifies the sequence of the amino acids within proteins. The code is read by copying stretches of DNA into the related nucleic acid RNA, in a process called transcription.
"Within cells, DNA is organized into structures called chromosomes. These chromosomes are duplicated before cells divide, in a process called DNA replication. Eukaryotic organisms (animals, plants, and fungi) store their DNA inside the cell nucleus, while in prokaryotes (bacteria and archae) it is found in the cell's cytoplasm. Within the chromosomes, chromatin proteins such as histones compact and organize DNA. These compact structures guide the interactions between DNA and other proteins, helping control which parts of the DNA are transcribed."
The following is part of what I wrote about chromosomes in my essay, The Day The Word Became Flesh:
The very instant at which the Word became flesh is when the very first DNA of Yahweh began to intertwine with the very first DNA of Adam-man, uniting in the very first living cell to begin the birth process. This process then continued until every single cell in Immanuel's body was united in this way. The very first cell to unite in this way was the identical time when the Word became flesh, and this all happened at what we would consider conception. This is called the Incarnation. There are some who believe that, in some way, Mary became pregnant by the sperm of Yahweh and He had a son by her. This presents problems. If this were true, Yahshua would not represent the one to whom Israel was previously married. The Scripture says that Yahweh Himself became flesh, therefore the sperm theory cannot be true. Science knows today that each single cell of the human body has two sets of 23 chromosomes, or a total of 46. I will now quote The World Book Encyclopedia, volume 9, page 192d:
"Every human body cell contains two sets of 23 chromosomes. These two sets look very much alike. Each chromosome in one set can be matched with a particular chromosome in the other set. Egg cells and sperm cells have only one set of 23 chromosomes. These cells are formed in a special way, and end up with only half the number of chromosomes found in body cells. As a result, when an egg and a sperm come together, the fertilized egg cell will contain the 46 chromosomes of a normal body cell. Half of the chromosomes come from the mother, and half from the father."
I favor the DNA creation of Eve over the literal "rib" theory, as every single cell of the 46 to 68 trillion cells which make up a healthy person has all the biological data to clone an exact copy of the original person from a single cell. Therefore, it would have been a small task for Yahweh to have subtracted the Y male chromosome and replaced it with an X female chromosome to get the desired result. Hence, Eve's relation to Adam was closer than a sister.
Actually, it is a bit more complicated than this, as in each of the 46 to 68 trillion cells people have, there is one pair of sex chromosomes for each one of these trillions of cells. The Y chromosome is present in males, who have one X and one Y chromosome in each cell, while females have two X chromosomes in each cell. Just consider the complexity of subtracting maybe 500,000 Y chromosomes found in one male rib of Adam, and replacing them with an equal amount of X chromosomes, where all this could have been accomplished by subtracting one Y chromosome from one male cell, and replacing it with one X chromosome! With this scenario, Eve would have been equivalent to a fetus at conception, and as Eve began to develop, each new group of cells would replicate in conformity with the first fetus cell having two X chromosomes in each new cell.
Be that as it may, the cell taken from Adam to create Eve very well may have been taken from one of his ribs. It will be noticed that the Thomson's Septuagint at Gen. 2:22 states in part, "And God built up the rib, which He took from Adam, into a woman ..."
A further example of this is found in the apocryphal books. For instance, in Brenton's Septuagint, at 4 Maccabees 18:7-8, we find a woman who is obviously being compared to Eve: "7 And the righteous mother of the seven children spake also as follows to her offspring: 'I was a pure virgin, and went not beyond my father's house; but I took care of the built-up rib. 8 No destroyer of the desert, [or] ravisher of the plain, injured me; nor did the destructive, deceitful, snake, make spoil of my chaste virginity; and I remained with my husband during the period of my prime'."
One will have to decide for himself just how Yahweh took one of Adam's ribs to bring about a woman. Whatever the process, and the time involved, Yahweh must have done something right, as after 7,500 years there are still male and female White-Caucasian babies being born. Let the mad scientists of today try to duplicate this in a test-tube with the same result!
Back to Isaiah 4:1: "And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach."
The only way for these seven women to have their "reproach" taken away is for them to bear a child under Yahweh's law where both the mother and father are "kind after kind". The command for this is found at Gen. 1:26-28 thusly:
"26 And Yahweh said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So Yahweh created man in his own image, in the image of Yahweh created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And Yahweh blessed them, and Yahweh said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish [i.e., fill] the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
Note: I have changed the word "God" to "Yahweh" in this passage, as other passages support the premise that it indeed was Yahweh who created, formed and made Adam and Eve at Gen. 6:7-8 and Isa. 43:1, as follows:
Gen. 6:7: "7 And Yahweh said, I will destroy man120 whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of Yahweh."
Isa. 43:1, 7: "1 But now thus saith Yahweh that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine ... 7Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him."
There is absolutely no record that Yahweh ever created, formed or made any other race of people than the White-Adamic-Caucasian-European and directly related families! And at Gen. 1:28 Yahweh commanded Adam and Eve thusly:
"And Yahweh blessed them, and Yahweh said unto them (i.e., Adam and Eve), Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
This excludes all the nonwhite people, as they don't have the breathed-in spirit of life given to Adam. Thus they are the walking-dead, or zombies, and "be fruitful and multiply" doesn't apply to them. But "be fruitful and multiply" does apply to Adam and Eve and their descendants, so this is where our "seven women shall take hold of one man" comes into play by Yahweh's permissive will, as it is Yahweh's Sovereign Will for Adamic-women to have children!
No doubt, some of the more judgmental will regard these "seven women [who] shall take hold of one man" as being very repulsive, and the very image of wickedness. Actually, just the opposite is true, as maybe for the first time, these seven women are making an attempt to do that which is righteous in the sight of the Almighty! No doubt some of these seven women committed the same "transgression" as Eve did, by having intercourse with someone not of her Adamic race. This is going on big-time today, as our women have been deceived by a boldfaced lie right out of the pits of hell. These women who are doing this have been brainwashed into believing that should they give birth to a mulatto child, that child will be more intelligent than a pure White child! Here, again, the opposite is true. The media have just revealed in the last few days that some of the more widely known and acclaimed colleges have been admitting negroes with the mental IQ development of a 3rd or 4th grader for the last 30 to 40 years. One young negro, probably in his 20s, admitted that one of the subjects he got credit for had no assigned class room, so it was impossible to attend. This same news item indicated where some did have a class room, they were directed by the one in charge to simply copy and paste something at random from the Internet, so these low IQ blacks got credit for something someone else authored. (See these and other Internet websites):
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/06/03/for_profit_college_sleaze_everest_admits_a_student_with_a_third_grade_reading.html
which also leads one to:
http://www.republicreport.org/2014/for-profit-college-student-reads-third-grade/
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Education-of-Dasmine-Cathey/132065/
This isn't the only downright lie that these young White-Adamite women are told! In addition, the educational institutions tell these innocent young White girls that if they will birth half-breed children, there will be no more wars! All of this brainwashing leaves these young women in a state of mind where they believe they are doing the Almighty a favor to mix their race. Some would even say: "It's the Christian thing to do!"
From an article at another website entitled: CNN analysis: Some college athletes play like adults, read like 5th-graders, we read in part:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/us/ncaa-athletes-reading-scores/index.html
... "Academic vs. athletic scandal: As a graduate student at UNC-Greensboro, Willingham researched the reading levels of 183 UNC-Chapel Hill athletes who played football or basketball from 2004 to 2012. She found that 60% read between fourth- and eighth-grade levels. Between 8% and 10% read below a third-grade level.
"'So what are the classes they are going to take to get a degree here? You cannot come here with a third-, fourth- or fifth-grade education and get a degree here', she told CNN.
"The issue was highlighted at UNC two years ago with the exposure of a scandal where students, many of them athletes, were given grades for classes they didn't attend, and where they did nothing more than turn in a single paper. Last month, a North Carolina grand jury indicted a professor at the center of the scandal on fraud charges. He's accused of being paid $12,000 for a class he didn't teach.
"When Willingham worked as a learning specialist for athletes from 2003 to 2010, she admits she took part in cheating, signing her name to forms that said she witnessed no NCAA rules violations when in fact she did. But the NCAA, the college sports organizing body, never interviewed her. Instead, it found no rules had been broken at Chapel Hill.
"UNC now says 120 reforms put in place ensure there are no academic transgressions.
"But Willingham said fake classes were just a symptom of the bigger problem of enrolling good athletes who didn't have the reading skills to succeed at college.
"'Isn't it all cheating if I'm sitting at a table with a kid who can't read or write at college level and pulling a paper out of them? Is this really legitimate? No,' Willingham told CNN. 'I wouldn't do that today with a college student; I only did it with athletes, because it's necessary.'
"NCAA sports are big business, with millions of dollars at stake for winning programs.
"In 2012, the University of Louisville earned a profit of $26.9 million from its men's basketball program, according to figures that schools have to file with the Department of Education and were analyzed by CNNMoney. That's about 60% more than the $16.9 million profit at the University of North Carolina, whose mens' hoops team had the second-largest profit.
"Willingham, now a graduation adviser with access to student files, said she believes there are still athletes at UNC who can't do the coursework.
"UNC Athletics Director Bubba Cunningham told CNN the school admits only students it believes can succeed.
"'I think our students have an exceptional experience in the classroom as well as on the fields of competition,' he said.
"Anecdotally, NCAA officials admit there are probably stories that are troubling, but they also say the vast majority of student-athletes compete at a high level in the classroom.
"'Are there students coming to college underprepared? Sure. They are not just student-athletes,' said Kevin Lennon, vice president of academic and membership affairs at the NCAA.
"But he said the NCAA sees it as the responsibility of universities to decide what level athletes should be admitted to their schools.
"'Once the school admits them, the school should do everything it can to make sure the student succeeds,' he said. '(Universities) don't want a national standard that says who they can recruit and admit' ..."
This doesn't include the colleges giving the negroes a 10 to 15% advantage on all tests! The question is: How will Yahweh rectify all of this at Isaiah 4:1? Will these "seven women" be given a second chance, as Eve was given a second chance to bear a true-born child?
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Context plays an important role in the trust that consumers have in an exchange. Trusting the institution can diminish the importance of personal relationships, though it can also provide a foundation for building strong bonds of trust with an institution's employees.
Context is plays an important role in consumer trust in new industries, and professional associations can help build institutional trust. The validation they bestow gives consumers a reason to trust a company, but unfortunately, that trust is not always warranted.
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Forbes' pledge to use Thursday's Budget as 'stepping stone' to fairer Scotland
The Finance Secretary said this year's budget would be set against a 'fiscal backdrop' due to the UK Government 'removing' ongoing pandemic funding
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Finance Secretary Kate Forbes will reveal her draft plans for the budget this week (Image: Finance Secretary Kate Forbes will deliver her tax and spending plans next month)
Finance Secretary Kate Forbes has insisted that the pandemic must not be allowed to define Scotland's future, with the promise that her Scottish Budget this week will serve as a "stepping stone towards a fairer, greener" nation.
Forbes will reveal her draft tax and spending plans for 2022-23 in a statement to Holyrood on Thursday.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already confirmed this will include cash to double the Scottish Child Payment, which helps youngsters in poorer families, from £10 a week to £20 a week from April.
However Sturgeon also warned that funding this commitment will mean hard choices elsewhere in the Budget.
The finance Secretary said that the Budget this year would be "set against a challenging fiscal backdrop as a result of the UK Government's decision to reduce Scotland's day-to-day spending by removing ongoing Pandemic funding, despite the continuing impacts of the pandemic".
The UK Government however insists that it is providing record amounts of cash to Holyrood.
In his Budget statement in October, Chancellor Rishi Sunak claimed the Scottish Government was in line to receive £41bn a year from Westminster.
However Scottish ministers argue that when additional spending over the last two years to help cope with the pandemic is included, the amount they will have at their disposal will fall in 2022-23.
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Forbes pledged: "The Budget I will present on Thursday will enable the Scottish Government to make good on our promise to build a fairer, greener Scotland. That is our social, economic and environmental imperative."
It comes at what she described as a "critical time for Scotland", with the Finance Secretary noting: "We are still in the grip of the pandemic and families and businesses across the country are bearing the brunt of the cost of living crisis.
"However, in these times of crisis, we need to go beyond the norm.
"While the pandemic may have defined our lives in recent times, the Scottish Government is determined it does not define our future. The 2022-2023 Scottish Budget that I will present on Thursday is another stepping stone towards a fairer, greener, more prosperous future."
She also promised that her Budget proposals would help "provide certainty and stability for families whilst working to reduce inequalities" – adding that the process for this had already begun with the commitment to double the Scottish Child Payment from April.
This will initially benefit 105,000 youngsters under the age of six – but that will rise to more than 400,000 children when the payment is rolled out to all those under 16 at the end of 2022.
In the wake of the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow, Forbes also pledged the Scottish Government would "invest in infrastructure that allows us to drive down emissions and create the green jobs of the future that come with the transition to a greener Scotland".
Thursday's Budget will also look to set out plans to bolster economic recovery and support public services, she added.
Scottish Conservative finance and economy spokeswoman Liz Smith said: "The SNP must deliver a Budget that fully focuses on Scotland's recovery from Covid.
"Scottish jobs, businesses and public services must be protected and supported through this difficult time.
"Above all else, this budget must kickstart Scotland's economic recovery and start rebuilding our public services."
Scottish Labour said the SNP must make sure the fight against poverty "runs through every part of this budget".
The party's social security and social justice spokeswoman Pam Duncan-Glancy said: "This budget will set the tone for our recovery from the pandemic and it is essential that we get it right.
"Tackling the scale of child poverty in Scotland is the challenge of a generation.
"If we miss our statutory child poverty targets, not only will we be breaking Parliament's commitment to do it, we'll be catastrophically failing children across the country."
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If you are a big fan of playing Fortnite, then here is a golden opportunity to win a lot of money. Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, has announced the 'Fortnite Skirmish Series', which will be an 8-week long competition with an $8 million reward.
As per the blog post by Fortnite, the tournament is set to start with a $250,000 'Duos' competition in which "community creators and Fortnite players with competitive prowess" will participate. It was also written that the format or competitors may change from week to week, so it would be advisable to stay alert.
"In order to jumpstart the competition, invitations for the inaugural Summer Skirmish matches have already been sent. Stay tuned for more information on how you can qualify for an event.", the blog post read. This is not the only upcoming competition on the world's most popular multiplayer video game. Epic Games had announced at E3 2018 of the arrival of Fortnite World Cup in 2019, with a prize pool of $100 million and that the qualifications will begin later in 2018.
In more recent news related to Fortnite, Chinese conglomerate Tencent has all but confirmed the release of Fortnite for Android in China on 24 July. The source of this new information was a tweet which read "Fortnite, wow! It's coming." along with a picture of a calendar showing the date 24 July, which is presumably the date on which Fortnite will launch on Android.


Honda Performance Development has extended its contract with the Indy Racing League to remain the sole supplier of engines for the IndyCar Series through 2011--although no one who has paid attention to the series expected the California-based company to leave.
IRL officials have said for months that the current engine platform will remain, along with the current chassis (Dallara) and tire (Firestone) manufacturers, until a new formula is in place. The IRL has pushed back the introduction date for a new car/engine to 2012 at the earliest.
Honda has been the only engine in the series since Toyota and General Motors withdrew following the 2005 season. Honda's last contract was good through 2010, according to the league. Its 3.5-liter, eight-cylinder, normally aspirated engine produces roughly 650 hp.


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Defence ministry takes a shot at the startup game
A picturesque village with green paddy fields and swaying coconut trees seems far removed from the world of deep tech hardware and startups. But Pattimattom in Kerala's Kunnathunadu panchayat is the home of EyeROV Technologies, which makes underwater drones. The drones swoop into waters too dangerous for divers, inspect what lies beneath, and report back in detail.
The rover can spot a crack in a dam 100 meters underwater or live stream corrosion in pipelines transporting oil. Data analytics and visualization help make timely decisions based on what the drones record. Soldiers sometimes have to cross treacherous rivers in a hostile environment. The waters are often ice-cold, currents strong, and visibility near nil. An underwater drone could go in first and tell the troops what to expect.
EyeROV and 11 other startups are part of a new initiative for defence innovation at the Forge incubator in Coimbatore. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) was the first to use EyeROV's drone at its Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory to conduct underwater experiments in December 2017. EyeROV's founders, IITians Johns T. Mathai and Kannappa Palaniappan P., had pitched their months-old product to a group of DRDO scientists and it was chosen over competitors from around the world.
"The feedback from DRDO was crucial," Mathai recalls. The scientists wanted the drone to carry a 2kg payload. This helped later when EyeROV took its drone to Bharat Petroleum, Mumbai Port Trust, coastal police and dam operators last year.
Now, EyeROV's underwater drones will help the Navy in reconnaissance and repair. The startup was picked by the defence ministry after a country-wide call from Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX), a programme started in April 2018 to equip the armed forces with cutting-edge technology by fostering startups.
The Defence Innovation Organisation—a not-for-profit company formed by public sector undertakings—got the army, navy and air force to come up with 11 requirements to kick off iDEX. These included unmanned underwater and airborne vehicles, see-through armour, body protection systems and new materials. It threw the challenge open to innovators.
PROCUREMENT TO INVESTMENT
Thousands—from startups to research scientists—made pitches and 44 winners were chosen a few months ago. These winners, including EyeROV, will receive ₹1.5 crore from iDEX to develop and commercialize products or technologies in close consultation with the armed forces.
"This could be the beginning of some Lockheed Martins from India," Mathai says, eyes twinkling. He visited the Lockheed Martin facilities in Washington DC and Boston last October. He came away impressed with how the company, now the world's largest defence contractor, built its first product 24 years ago with help from US government. He believes iDEX could do that for India.
"How can we get more Indian engineers to look at problems of defence and help reduce the cost of import, rather than just making the next Swiggys or Flipkarts? True, they created value, jobs and got the spirit of entrepreneurship going. But Indian engineers are second to none and you would want them working for defence. This was the premise on which we started creating the iDEX structure," says Mudit Narain, programme director at NITI Aayog.
With experience as the founding manager of Atal Innovation Mission, Narain could speak the language of startups as well as government. "I saw myself as a translator—I could help these universes talk to each other and achieve innovation instead of indigenization, which is mostly reverse engineering oriented towards low-cost import substitution," he says.
Traditionally, defence has had a procurement mindset—you choose from what's available out there. So you buy a product instead of identifying a need and developing a product to meet that requirement. India is the world's largest defence equipment importer and the procurement process favours mature companies with ready products. Indigenous innovation was confined to R&D labs funded by PSUs.
"You need to step away from this mindset for real innovation to happen. The user and the innovator have to ideate and iterate on products several times. That's why the principles of co-creation, open innovation, and an investment model are wired into the core of iDEX," Vishwanathan Sahasranamam, co-founder and CEO of Forge, explains. Forge is one of the six incubators iDEX is partnering with. "In India so far, defence has been doing a lot of indigenization but it's not the kind of transformative innovation we would ideally want to gain a competitive edge," he says.
FUTURE OF WAR
Forge is working with 12 of the 44 innovators who won the initial grant from iDEX. A few, like EyeROV, have a product in the market. Others have backers besides iDEX and are working on multiple products.
An unlikely inclusion is a pair of aerospace engineering students: Akash Jayakumar and Akash Vineet. They had a recycling startup, R-Cube Plastics, and had no hope of winning when they applied to the iDEX challenge to build individual protection systems with built-in sensors.
"Everyone else had PhDs in their subjects, and we were not even electronics students. But we didn't want to lose the opportunity," Jayakumar says. They are going to be iDEX entrepreneurs-in-residence at Forge, building a monitoring system that will map the health of a soldier. "We will be connecting the squadron and the control base, so a commander will always know the strength of the soldiers," says Vineet. The defence ministry is reportedly planning to spend ₹13,000 crores in the next five to seven years to modernize the armed forces. A fraction of that will go towards innovation with programmes like iDEX. But it may have already seeded an ecosystem of defence startups. After all, at least 44 high tech projects are off the ground.
But there are gaps. The startup world has little understanding of how government functions. The reverse is true too. For example, Narain has been in situations where founders don't understand the difference between state and central government. There's an immense gap between what Narain calls "the east and west coast of India"—the stereotype being the east coast of the US housing the government while the west is where innovation happens. "For many founders, 'sarkar' is one monolith they fear and abhor. They don't understand the different arms, levels, ways of functioning," he says. Similarly, the government has no real sense of how startups work. "Only recently when their children started working in startups or using startups to get them cabs or food have officials realised what startups are," he says. He believes that with policy and initiatives like iDEX, the scene will change.
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Seen one of Michael Moore's documentaries? Then you've seen this one.
With typically red-hot prescience, the provocateur follows up his healthcare autopsy Sicko with a look into the recent financial meltdown. But as ever, Moore's movie still seems to be about a fatman on a soapbox.
The Flint-Michigan firestarter isn't an academic or an economic – but he is an immensely skilful agitprop filmmaker. Opening the film with surveillance footage of bank robberies, he lays out the history of how democracy got corrupted and how big business is eeeeevil. As well as making complex ideas easy to swallow, Moore reminds us he's a master of investigating tragedy with comedy, exposing injustice with shock and awe.
Heroic pilots who are so badly paid they need second jobs. Judges scoring millions of dollars in exchange for jailing as many juveniles as possible. Corporations like Wal-Mart who take out life-insurance policies on their employees ("Dead peasant insurance") and collect millions when they die.
Trouble is, this cinematic spoon-feeding is getting old. Rolled out for more than two hours, his trusty arsenal is all here: film clips, comic musical cues and stunts that just aren't cunning anymore. From attempting to make a citizen's arrest at the AIG headquarters to covering Wall Street in crime-scene tickertape, Moore's finally told the same joke too many times.
True, his heart is in the right place even when his camera isn't. Watching victims of foreclosure being hired to clear out their own homes is incredibly moving – until Moore slaps on weepy music to slam the point. The filmmaker reveals he once wanted to be an activist priest. But preaching to the converted is easy.
Lacking the focus and fire of his two best films (Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11), Moore's latest attack-doc doesn't have enough insights to pay off.
Still fighting the good fight for the working man, Capitalism is entertaining but conspicuously bankrupt of fresh ideas and insights. By now, Moore is starting to feel like less.
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My mother passed away last week; I spoke at her funeral on Monday. When I began to write the words I would say, it was my intention to make a eulogy. However, I need someone to write to so rather than speak of her, I wrote to her in a letter. I placed a copy of this in her casket and read it at the funeral service.
For these past days, I've struggled to find words to say in this moment. It's something we've been aware of and preparing for but, when it came, it all seemed so sudden. I've never known a moment of my life without knowing you were there somewhere or at least on the other end of the phone. Now I'm standing here and, while your presence has not diminished, it has changed. It will take a while for all of us to live with this. It will take a while for all of us to understand the ways we've been parted but also, perhaps, the new ways in which we are together. Yesterday, at the visitation, so many friends and family spoke of the presence you had in their lives and how they feel this will continue. I think your spirit was so alive with people here that, even now, we feel that will carry on.
I spoke with you the day before you died; you could acknowledge hearing me but really couldn't form words. I said you were the best mother I could have ever hoped for; that you would always be in my spirit. That, if you needed to get better you could but also, if you needed to let go, you could go that way with grace. We've spoken much in the past months of hope and grace–the hope for healing but also the grace we can find in difficult times. We are given this grace to learn what it means to be human spirits in this world yet that's not often an easy grace to receive. You have, for me and so many of the people here today, been a channel for grace. You've come to be, in the midst of it all, an example of what it means to have a good spirit in the times that challenge us most. I think, for all of us who knew you, that's not making you more than who you were–but saying you always seemed to be the best of who you were in the middle of that grace.
You have, in your life, brought the joy of your presence to so many people–as a nurse, as a friend and neighbour, as a member of our family, your joyfulness was your most apparent trait. I think, as a child, I didn't fully realise the energy needed to maintain the kind of graciousness you brought to people; but, somehow, you seemed to always have plenty of it in reserve. Our ancestors were Quakers, their founder, George Fox had a saying–he hoped we could "Walk cheerfully over the earth, answering that of God in everyone." You I think, more than many people I know, could see that of God in others. So much of your spirit has informed who I am as a person. I have walked all over the earth, not always in cheerful places, but the spirit you have given me as my mother has also allowed me to see the presence of God in all these different people. I hope I can go cheerfully in my journey as you did in yours; I hope that the energy for doing so can pass along to me–to all of us here–in a way that can increase and multiply. That, for me, is the legacy you leave.
Since I flew back a couple days ago, I've been looking through pictures of us as a family when I was a child. It's a strange thing to see pictures of you and dad when you were fifteen or twenty years younger than I am now. It's something to realise the responsibility you both took on to have a child but, as I think how much I've grown during the past twenty years as an adult, to also consider how you were maturing and growing during that time in your life. Of course, as a child, your parents are always 'adults' like you are some kind of static finished people. But I'm of an age now where I am friends with 'young' people who are older than you when you had me–and we still all have a lot of completing to do. I want to thank you for the time you took to grow with me; to become who you were and shape who I am. You are my mother, but in so many ways you were also my closest friend. In that, you have shown me what friends need to be so I can wisely choose mine and also be a friend to others.
There is much more I would like to write; I will probably still take the time to do so in the coming weeks and months. I'm so glad we've had the time we were given since you fell ill to speak openly about many things; most people don't have that opportunity. When you had heart surgery and were later diagnosed with cancer, I was far away having such a difficult time personally. I'm glad you could see that time pass and know that I'm okay. Also, and this is a dear gift, many people speak of frustrations with their mother or unresolved issues of one kind or another–we truly had none of that. You told me last month that you were at peace with whatever was to come of this; I can tell you now that, though I will miss your presence here, I'm at peace with where we parted. We had forty tremendously close years together and I will carry that with me for whatever time I remain here as well.
I've always been a wanderer; I've traveled and now live on the other side of the world. Yet, wherever I have been, I knew you and dad were here at 'home'–that this was a place to return to. That's a little different now; a few days ago in Australia, on the phone with dad after you passed, I felt this great loss of home. But, I'm coming to understand that you are with me everywhere now, that this spirit of you and what you've helped make in me gives me that sense of place wherever I am.
When we last spoke, I told you I love you; you did manage to say, 'I love you' in return. Those were your last words to me; I imagine they were your first as well. All the years in between were filled with love. I hope, as I continue on in this world, I can bring the love you have shown me to others in my life. We shall all miss you but you've left your love here with us; so, for me, the greatest part of you remains.


YOU'RE ON your way home. You're on the brink of total exhaustion. You wanted to tightly embrace your pillow to forget all the body aches, the outside noise, the unavoidable rancid smell from other commuters, the challenges of the day. You missed your soft, smooth bed that assures you home. But you couldn't. You stood on a train. When you got in, no seat was available. It's jam-packed again. It's hot. You wanted to rest right at that moment. But for some reason, unexpectedly, someone offered you a seat. You're surprised, puzzled, and at the same time grateful.
There, on that scene, you're reminded of the goodness of people. You felt more comfortable and relaxed. You listened to your favorite songs. And as you alighted from the train, you stared at the stranger who sacrificed for you and you wholeheartedly offered your gratitude. It was an unforgettable day. It was a gift.


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Tactile items and products have always been a big deal in my life. It's probably the graphic designer in me, but I love being able to handle something with texture and substance, all while still looking appealing. Making hand-written lists is so much more effective for me than making lists in a program on the computer. It feels more real when I get to physically cross out a task rather than using the delete key.
The Colette Sewing Planner is seriously so much fun to work with. Since I'm newer to sewing garments in the last year or so, it is really cool to be able to organize and prioritize projects for my sewing queue. There is this extra level of care and genuine thought that I didn't really put the time into when previously planning my projects.
Gone are the days where I have random notes in places I'll never remember, and spending too much time on my phone in the fabric cutting line to figure out how much I need for a project (can you tell I don't plan very well?). I can have everything in one place now.
I tried really hard to realistically think about what my style is when picking these images, not who I want to aspire to be. I realized that a lot of the images I gathered don't really have a TON of pattern, they mostly have a subtle pattern and really bold colors incorporated. An example of how the sewing planner kept me focused is this past weekend, it saved me from buying fabric that I loved in the moment, but I knew I wouldn't end up liking as a garment for myself.
Referencing the "My Style" Section is really helpful as well. It keeps me very focused on what I need to concentrate on and it's a great reminder to work on the projects I have already planned for.
The planner has also helped me plan specific details. I've been slowly working on a rain cape for riding my bike in the rain.
Sewaholic's Cypress Cape is in my queue, but something I was worried about is how much volume there would be. I love a loose-fitting silhouette, but sometimes too much ease can really weigh a sister down. So I used the croquis in the back to try to better imagine what it make look like on me in real life.
Here are two more project pages that I'm currently working on. I like to put reference images and notes to myself to keep myself focused to get the results I really want.
It's what I need. I'm a visual and tactile person. I get so much more done when it's right in front of me, rather somewhere in computer space.
What about you? Are you someone who needs to physically make a plan by writing it down, or do you have other ways of planning that work better for you?
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Taylor is an enthusiastic maker. As the graphic designer at Colette she infuses her creativity into all of our projects from print to web.
I First read about this on my e-mail. my reaction was "what!? there is such a thing as a sewing planner?!" I was thrilled! I'm a planner/agenda person and when I read about a sewing planner I already knew I was going to buy It and I did. I can't wait to have it in my hands and even post a review on youtube. I know is going to be a great tool! Especially since I have two jobs + my sewing passion…yeah I need manage and organize as much as I can. Thank You for coming up with this wonderful idea!
This is way out of my budget. But I love the idea and I'm going to come up with my own, using my notes from Wardrobe Architect. I'm going to use some of the realistic tracings from http://www.tracingrealbomodels.org for croquis.