If this is your first time to rent a limousine, you sure would want to save some money. You don't really want to shell out some serious money on limo rental since you're only going to use it for one day. Many limo rental services are worth a lot so if you want to go to an occasion with style, you may have to spend some money. Fortunately, there are many ways which you can save money when renting a limousine. Getting a limousine should not be that expensive. Here are some ways to save money on that.
Be aggressive when comparing rental companies. If you want to save money, you should talk to several limousine companies and get their quotes in writing. Ensure that their quote is real so make sure that write it. Make sure that their customer service is great to guarantee that they will honor their quote. Once you are done with comparing their prices, you should have an idea of how much limousine rental really cost.
Once you have an idea of how much limousine rental costs, now is the time to search for the best one. You can discard all the add-on service that you don't really need. That should even out the playing field for each company. After that, call each one of the companies and ask if they can match the best offer. If you are familiar with negotiating prices, you can easily get a discount of up to 25%.
What makes this an effective strategy is you have the leverage with regards to the price. You select a company which offers the cheapest rate – that company is your safety net. You then negotiate the price with the other companies if they can match the cheapest offer you got. If you are unsuccessful in lowering the price, you have something to fall back on – that is your cheapest offer.
For additional savings, you can split the bill with the other passengers. In case you're the only one riding the limo, it is just fair that you share the bill with the other passengers instead of footing the bill alone. It is certainly better than paying the whole price yourself.
With all these steps, your limo ride should become more affordable. You'll be able to enjoy your ride more knowing that you're not spending a lot of cash for it. With just these simple tips, you can save a couple hundred dollars which you can spend on something else. Renting a limo is just within reach if you know the right things to do.
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The key to getting the ideal limousine ride for your wedding is by doing your homework. While it can be a cumbersome task, a systemic approach to renting a limousine would make it hassle-free. Below are the best tips for getting the best limo service for your needs.
If you're having a theme wedding, you need to have many choices with regards to your bridal car. You want a car that closely matches your wedding style. Smaller companies will obviously have a smaller line up but what matters is you get what is the perfect car for your wedding.
Before you sign any contract, you want to inspect the vehicle you will be renting. Checking the photos or reading testimonials regarding the vehicle is not enough. You want to see the car in person and judge it that way. Make sure to check if the materials are good and if all the electronics inside are working properly. You only want the best service for your wedding.
For some people, price is going to be the most important factor when choosing their wedding limousine. Some limousine companies will not tell you upfront that there are many hidden charges until you sign the contract. In my opinion, these companies are shady and should not be trusted. Case in point, you should check the prices and ask the company if there are other fees. Make sure that you have all their answers in writing in case you want to dispute some of their claims.
Check whether the limousine rental company has a license to operate. A company without license to operate will not be covered by insurance so you should be wary of them. Make sure that your chosen company has all the legal documents proving it can operate in the state.
Obviously, there are many things to consider when you are renting your wedding limousine. The most important thing is to check everything that you can. Whether it's a simple document or quality of material used inside the vehicle, you need to check that out. It can be the difference between having an okay and a fantastic one.
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3 UK has unveiled the next-generation Skypephone handset, the 3 Skypephone S2. The new device gives users access to Facebook, Google and Windows Live Messenger and enables free Skype calls and instant messaging.
It will be available to pre-order from 19 August, available to purchase online from 27 August and at shops from 1 September.
The 3 Skypephone S2 has what 3 describes as a revolutionary 'carousel' interface, with button on the side of the handset to move between applications quickly. It has an improved 2.2 inch QVGA screen, 3.2-megapixel camera, HSDPA functionality and memory that is expandable to 4Gb.
Apparently the new device can be used as a mobile broadband dongle through its built-in modem drivers. It allows users to track up to 30 RSS feeds at once and is offered for GBP 69.99 on Pay As You Go and for free on any Mix & Match contract.
3 is understood to have sold well over 100,000 Skypephones and says more than a million minutes of Skype usage pass across the 3 network every day.

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Welcome to the first in a series of six articles, for the one teaching how to pitch. In the following weeks, you can read about how you teach the students to control their nervosity, how to engage the audience, how to handle critical feedback, how to get ready for pitching in front of strangers and how you can help their good ideas to live on after pitching in the classroom.
But first and foremost, here you can read an article on what matters when training how to pitch, and what you as a teacher especially needs to keep in focus.
When you pitch, the purpose is to hand on knowledge in an appropriate way. Whether it is the case of a final exam, or having an idea that should be carried out and shown to people of the real world. Too many times it happens, that good work is wasted, if you don't present your project properly.
The good content of the pitch, however, is almost destroyed if you don't understand how to perform on stage. It doesn't matter to just go up there and just read line by line what you wrote down or be so nervous that you end up disappearing into the wall behind you. We have all seen students that have brought in the PowerPoint slideshow for backup and just stand there with their back to the class reading out loud from the slides. That won't do. Especially not if you want to prepare your students for the pitching-reality outside the comfort of the classroom.
Up through the school years, when making a presentation, focus seems to have been more on the content than the performance itself. The content is still very important, being the reason for standing up and saying something in the first place. But without doing it interestingly in a way that engages the audience, many wouldn't bother to use their time on you. That's why it makes good sense, for you as a teacher, who want's to help your students get better at pitching, to have a greater focus on the form and how to deliver that message in practice. Naturally, you still keep an eye on WHAT the students are saying, but we're adding you teaching them HOW to say it, into the mix. In this way, the students learn how to extract and convey knowledge from a long process to a precise, understandable format; a generally important skill for both exams and the future life in a workplace.
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By Samantha Pires on July 3, 2021
Design firm MAD Architects has recently unveiled yet another futuristic design for the city of Jiaxing, China. Its new Jiaxing Civic Center will be built near its earlier proposal for Jiaxing Train Station and will continue to build up great architecture for the bustling city. Jiaxing Civic Center was greatly inspired by the surrounding context.
The project is intended as a massive complex that will cover a staggering 1.4 million square feet. Although it will take up a lot of space, the designers have created a flexible system to allow them to include building programs in distinct volumes. The roofscape acts as an umbrella, connecting the design in one clearly understood design language. This roof system is inspired by the flows of a historic canal found in the southern banks of the Yangtze River. The abstraction of the canal can be best understood and admired from the beautiful central garden.
Some of the specific building amenities included in the Jiaxing Civic Center include a women and children activity center, a science and technology museum, and a youth activity center. Each area will offer a great view of the river and greenery to be found in the city. The designers hope that the connection of these groupings in a fluid architectural style and the relationship to the metropolises and new greenspaces will provide a truly unique urban experience.
The intention behind this weaving of architecture and city can be seen in the series of beautiful renderings provided by the architects. As the center gradually curves and creates shelter, new views of landscape and building can be experienced. Some of the featured landscape has been thoughtfully preserved, including trees that have stood on the land long before current development.
MAD Architects' Jiaxing Civic Center is a great example of architecture that attempts to blend into the city is serves while providing the relief of nature to city dwellers.
The Jiaxing Civic Center reimagines urban life by blending it into the natural features of the city.
The undulating waves of the roofscape are inspired by a historic canal on the banks of the Yangtze River.
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Amy's work for SKIP of New York is propelled as much by her belief in its mission as by her history as a "SKIP parent." Over 800,000 children in New York suffer from autism, developmental disabilities, birth defects, or the effects from disabling accidents.
SKIP (Sick Kids Need Involved People) is a non-profit organization that serves as a free medical concierge, connecting children to the services and the equipment they need to live at home rather than in hospitals and institutions. SKIP is the only 501(c)(3) of its kind in New York.
After SKIP provided critical assistance to Amy's family, she became an active supporter, and eventually joined the Board of Directors.
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SKIP had a big story to tell, but it had not yet been told. SKIP had a wait list of hundreds of families desperately waiting for services but it needed funding to take these children off the list. Although it was an award-winning organization doing life-saving work, SKIP was not positioned to be attractive to potential donors and sponsors.
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Under Amy's leadership, strategic thinking and imagination, she created a visual and emotional identity for SKIP with a new logo and the slogan, "There's No Place Like Home". She produced a fundraising video, journal and materials to give to potential sponsor's, spearheaded a large auction and designed and created "The Ruby Slipper Awards" to honor those who have made outstanding contributions to those with special needs.
The Ruby Slipper Awards Celebration launched at Christie's Auction House in 2002 with Amy as chair and Meredith Vieira as host.
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The Ruby Slipper Awards Celebration has helped to get thousands of children off of SKIP's wait list and has helped SKIP almost triple in size. Since its launch in 1983, SKIP has helped over 25,000 children.
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Q: Which is better, Nagios or Sensu? I am unsure about which monitoring framework to use. Currently I am looking at either Nagios or Sensu.
Can anybody give me a good reference which shows a comparison of these two (or any other monitoring tool which may be a good solution)? My main intention is to scale-out on EC2. I am using Opscode Chef for system integration.

A: I tried using Nagios for a while: I got the feeling that the only reason that it's common is that 'everyone else uses it', because it's absolutely hideous to work with. Massively overcomplicated, difficult and long-winded to make it do anything new: if you find something it doesn't do, you know you're in for a week of swearing at crummy documentation of an archaic design. At the end of all your efforts and it's all working, it looks hideous. Scrapping it made me sleep better.
Cacti looks nice, but again it's unnecessarily complex when creating new plugins.
For graphing I'd recommend Munin: it's completely trivial to write new plugins in any language, there are hundreds available, and it looks reasonable. It's incredibly easy to install - one command to install and set one access rule, so works well for automated deployments, easy to wrap into a chef recipe. 2.0 is out soon and addresses most of its shortcomings (in particular adding variable update intervals, zoomable graphs, ssh transport). Munin can talk to Nagios for notifications, or it can do that itself, and it provides a basic dashboard.
For local process/file/service monitoring, monit is simpler and works better than god. I've not tried it with m/monit.

A: One important difference between Nagios and Sensu -
Nagios requires all the configuration for 1)checks 2)handlers but most importantly 3)hosts to be written in configuration files on the Nagios server. This means that each time one of the 3 above is changed (for example new hosts added, old hosts removed) you need to re-write the configuration files and restart Nagios.
Sensu is almost the same as the above, with one important difference -- when hosts are added or removed from your architecture (as is the case in most auto-scaling cloud deployments) -- the hosts themselves run a sensu-client that "subscribes" to different available checks. So when a new server comes into existence and says "I'm a webserver", the sensu-client running on it will ask the sensu-server "what checks should a webserver run on itself?" and run those.
Other than this, operations wise both Nagios (also Icinga) and Sensu are great and have a lot of facilities for checks, handlers, and visibility through a dashboard (YMMV).

A: From a little recent experience with Sensu and quite a bit of experience with Nagios I'd say both are excellent choices.
Sensu is definitely the new kid. It has a nice UI and nice API. It does however require Redis and RabbitMQ in your setup to work. So consider if you'll therefore want something to monitor those dependencies outside the sensu monitoring stack. Sonian provide Chef recipes for trying it out too.
https://github.com/sensu/sensu-chef
Nagios has been around for an awfully long time. It's generally packaged for most distros which makes installation simple and it has few dependencies. It's track record also means that finding people who know it or that have used it and can offer advice is easy. On the other hand the UI is ugly and programatic access is often hacky or via third party add-ons. Chef recipes also exist for Nagios:
https://github.com/bryanwb/chef-nagios
If you have time I'd try both, there is little harm in having two monitoring systems running as a trial. The main think to focus on, especially in a dynamic EC2 setup, is how easily the monitoring configuration files can be generated by your configuration management tool.
In terms of other tools I'd personally include something to record time series data, for instance requests per second or load over time. Graphs are a great help with monitoring, and can be used to drive alerting via Nagios or similar. Personally I'm a fan of both Ganglia and Graphite while Librato Metrics (https://metrics.librato.com/) is a very nice non-free option.

A: When compared with Sensu and Nagios... The pick would be Sensu monitoring systems.
Below is the are the main reasons,
1.Easy Setup.. There is lot of reduction of restarting of Clients.. which is major trouble in the large enterprise
2. Nagios Plugins can be used with the Sensu Ecosystem.
3. Scalable and easily for the Cloud environment.
Has anyone heard about Zabbix.It has lot many features and comes as a single package. I doubt the scalability

A: As long as enterprise it consists of databases, sap, network devices, webservers, filers, backup libraries.... there is barely an alternative to nagios (or it's cousins icinga, shinken)
Maybe one day everything will come out of clouds automagically but still a few years there will be static servers (physical or virtual, it doesn't matter) with a defined purpose resting at least for a few months. We will still have to monitor interface bandwidth, tablespaces, business processes, database sessions, logfiles, jmx metrics. All things where the plugin concept of the nagios world has an advantage.

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I have had my new Scooba 230 for about a month. It works pretty well but for some reason it will do this once or twice each run. It will suddenly start backing up as if the bumper is stuck or maybe cliff sensors are tripping and then stop with the three beeps error. If I immediately start the robot again it will usually start backing up and then throw the error again. But if I let it sit for a few minutes and then restart it, it will continue cleaning as normal.
First of all, why would letting it sit for a few minutes allow it to continue when immediately starting it again will throw the error right away?
Second, I'm not sure it is the bumpers because tapping the bumpers a few times does not usually resolve the problem.
Press the bumper on the front (and both sides) to feel for proper spring compression. It should allow you to push it in and then spring back outward when you release it.
Open and close the Fill Door and restart.
Any idea what the issue is? Could water or bubbles be building up somewhere and causing this fault? This would explain why letting it sit a while resolves the issue. Or is it possible excessive liquid on my linoleum floor would cause the cliff sensors to trigger?
Thanks for any help. Just hoping to avoid bothering iRobot with a replacement, but if that's the route needed I will contact them.
I've attached a picture of an all clear scooba 230 I have. If you look closely at the top of the bumper you can see (4) scratched areas under the bumper. These are (4) raised edges from the chassis that contact the top edge of the bumper to try to reduce friction a bit. Check to ensure there is no debris in these areas. You can also pull up on the bumper assembly a bit to reduce pressure here if something is misaligned.
The fact that time fixes the issue is troubling. This can be caused by the following (and it's hard to fix). If the water proof bumper covers have a slight leak, sometimes repeated bumper hits force air out of the bumper cover creating a vacuum. This pulls the switch into constant contact. After the robot sits, air gets pulled back in, and the bumper responds normally again. Sometimes this results in water getting pulled in as well.
There is a way to remove the outer bumper to fix, if this is the issue. But it's tricky. I got good at it, but I would not suggest it since you are under warranty.
third_deg could you do more pics of this prototype 230?? I'm interested...is it working? Could you make video of this? That must look cool when you see the water sucked inside this transparent tank.
Sure... I'll load up some still shots tomorrow, and a video later.
Oh! I have one other suggestion!
There is another issue as well. The fill port is attached to the bumper. This was done as one of the space saving ideas employed but has an issue. The vacuum motor is always trying to expand the bladder, and the pump is trying to shrink it. When you don't fully fill the bladder all the way, there is air trapped inside. This in effect pulls on the bumper.
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This solution worked for me. Thank you, five years hence.


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As a former language student, I recall spending hours every day reading Der Spiegel and Le Monde and noting down new words, which I would then sit, and re-read and contextualise with varying degrees of success, all in the hope that maybe some of them would stick for the next day's conversations.
While this method works for short-term recall, embedding new structures and words for long-term retention is extremely challenging.
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Floating, and the relaxed state of mind that it brings on, is very much in line with Lozanov's work and the effects of using this technique are astonishing. Lozanov's subjects have been able to learn and retain up to 3000 words per day!
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A McLaren MP4/5 egy Formula–1-es versenyautó, amit a McLaren tervezett az 1989-es idényre, illetve MP4/5B alváltozatát 1990-re. Az autó a mindent vivő 1988-as MP4/4-es továbbfejlesztése volt. Eleinte a Weismann longitudinális, majd később transzverzális váltójával szerelték, mellyel mindkét évben megnyerték az egyéni és a konstruktőri világbajnokságot is. Az MP4/5-öst már nem turbómotorral, hanem V10-es szívómotorral szerelték.

Az 1989-es idény és az MP4/5-ös
Miután 1988 végén betiltották a Formula–1-ben a turbómotorokat, a Honda is előállt saját szívómotorjával, a 3,5 literes V10-es motorral. Az első tesztek során is bebizonyosodott, hogy az autó továbbra is gyors és megbízható. Fő kihívója, a Ferrari, volánjánál Nigel Mansell-lel azonban komoly fenyegetést jelentett rájuk nézve. A McLaren előnye a technikában rejlett: a Ferrari rengeteget küszködött mechanikai problémákkal, különösen az új félautomata sebességváltóval, míg ez náluk nem volt meg. 1989-ben 15 pole pozíciót sikerült szerezniük, ebből Ayrton Senna 13-at szerzett, beállítva az előző évben szerzett rekordját. A Mexikói Nagydíjon Senna meg is előzte Jim Clarkot az örökranglistán, addigi 34 pole pozíciójával.

A csapat ebben az évben tízszer győzött: hatszor Senna és négyszer Prost. A küzdelmeket beárnyékolta a két versenyző között kiélesedő rivalizálás. Ez a folyamatos fejlesztési kényszerben mutatkozott meg, ahogy próbálták egymást folyamatosan legyőzni. Hiába volt Sennának több futamgyőzelme, ő többször keveredett balesetekbe és több meghibásodás jellemezte az autóját, emiatt 16 ponttal elvesztette a bajnokságot Prost ellen. Kettejük összpontszáma viszont elég volt arra, hogy a konstruktőri bajnoki címet megszerezzék. Az egyéni bajnoki cím az utolsó előtti versenyen dőlt el Japánban, ahol Senna dominált, Prosttal a nyomában, és a kiélezett küzdelemben a 46. körben összeütköztek. Prost kiesett, Senna viszont még vissza tudott jönni és megnyerte a versenyt, azonban utóbb diszkvalifikálták, mert újraindítása szabálytalan volt. Ennek köszönhetően Prost lett a világbajnok.

Az 1990-es idény és az MP4/5B-s

Prost nem érezte magát jól a McLarennél, mert úgy látta, a csapat Sennát favorizálja vele szemben. Ezért aztán 1990-ben átigazolt a Ferrarihoz, és vitte magával a tervező Steve Nicholst is. Az akkori szabályok értelmében a két csapat rajtszámot cserélt, Prost és Mansell a Ferrarinál 1-essel és 2-essel versenyzett, míg a McLarennél Senna a 27-es, az újonnan leigazolt Gerhard Berger pedig a 28-as rajtszámot kapta.

Az előző évi autót kismértékben továbbfejlesztették: áttervezték a szárnyakat és az autó hátsó részét. A motort is módosították, javarészt Senna javaslataira, hogy megbízhatóbb legyen. Az autó nagy harcban volt a Ferrarival, Senna hat győzelmet aratott csupán abban az évben, viszont ez is elég volt a konstruktőri címhez. Az egyéni cím ebben az évben is Japánban dőlt el: Senna és Prost a startnál összeütköztek, és mivel Prost nem tudta folytatni a versenyt, így Senna lett a világbajnok.

Az év végén fontos változás volt, hogy az addigi főtervező, Gordon Murray visszavonult, és a McLaren utcai autóit tervezte tovább.

1990 végén egy tesztautó, a McLaren MP4/5C is elkészült, mely az 1991-ben bemutatott V12-es Honda-motor kipróbálására szolgált. Ezt az autót a tesztpilóta Allan McNish vezette.

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Frasers Hospitality debuts in Geneva's city centre
Frasers Hospitality, a member of Frasers Centrepoint Limited, further strengthens its presence in Europe with the launch of its first Gold Standard serviced residence in Switzerland, Fraser Suites Geneva. The opening of the 67-unit Fraser Suites Geneva adds to Frasers Hospitality's portfolio in Europe, which aggregates to 55 properties with more than 4,300 units across the UK, Germany, France, Hungary, Turkey, Spain and Switzerland, including pipeline properties.
Located in the heart of the city centre, Fraser Suites Geneva is situated within the prestigious shopping and business district of Rue Du Marché, where the International Convention Centre and major international banks such as Credit Suisse, JP Morgan and UBS are within the vicinity. It is walking distance from the Quays of Lac Geneva and in close proximity to the Geneva Old Town, Palais des Nations Geneva, St Peters Cathedral and many other attractions. Fraser Suites Geneva is surrounded by the city's excellent public transport network.
Mr Choe Peng Sum, Chief Executive Officer of Frasers Hospitality Pte Ltd said, "Geneva is one of Europe's key destination cities and host to the highest number of international organisations in the world . Establishing our presence here in one of the world's most important financial centres is of particular significance to our global growth strategy as it further anchors our footprint in Europe, which is now in more than 30 cities."
This entry into Switzerland follows recent launches in Spain and Germany, where Capri by Fraser, Barcelona / Spain and Capri by Fraser, Frankfurt / Germany opened earlier this year. The opening of Fraser Suites Geneva will be the first of several to launch including Capri by Fraser, Berlin / Germany in 2017 and Fraser Suites Hamburg in 2018. Frasers Hospitality's bullish European outlook is bolstered by steady occupancies of over 80% on average and international recognition garnered, which include Europe's Leading Serviced Apartment Brand by World Travel Awards for the past two consecutive years.
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Frasers Hospitality's global portfolio, including those in the pipeline, stands at 136 properties in 78 cities and more than 22,000 keys worldwide.


In the "Cycle of War" report, we mentioned in passing our models on plagues. We reported that this cycle nearly matched the war cycle coming in at 25.15 years. Unfortunately, this has turned up also in 2014. We warned that the Ebola virus was in a bullish trend and should reach a major event in 2019. Interestingly enough, the places with the least impact should be New Zealand and Scotland.
We certainly seem due for a pandemic, which likely will occur between 2017 and 2020 thanks to the abuse of antibiotics. There has been an evolution in disease and superbugs are emerging. Now there is Zika, the mosquito-borne virus sweeping Latin America and impacting 22 countries. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has issued a level two travel warning for Central America, the Caribbean, South America, Puerto Rico, and Mexico.
Only one in five people affected with Zika will become ill, and many remain unaware that they carry the virus. The disease appears as a mild case of the flu with headaches, muscle and joint pain, mild fever, and a rash. However, the virus holds serious implications for pregnant women as it can transfer to the unborn child and cause serious, life-threatening, developmental issues. Governments are warning women not to get pregnant as there is no known treatment for the Zika virus.
The virus is spreading rapidly and scientists are trying to determine whether the disease can be transmitted sexually as well. In fact, Zika is spreading so rapidly that 20 travel-based cases have already appeared in the U.S. One such case appeared right here in New Jersey when a woman visiting from Colombia fell ill.
We are in a very strong upward cycle for disease. This will get worse as we enter the 2017 to 2020 timeframe.


For some people, sodium is a risk factor for heart disease and stroke. Doctors call these people sodium retainers. But it's not just eating sodium that can make you retain sodium.
Now, researchers at Georgia Health Sciences University have found that stress can cause this life-threatening problem as well. In fact, stress alone – without eating additional sodium – can cause as many as 30% of African Americans and 10% of Caucasians to retain sodium.
Just how serious is this problem? For those who retain sodium, stress can cause you to hold onto as much as 160 mgs of salt. Over the course of an entire day, that can add up to 500 mgs of salt. And that's on top of the already salt-heavy diet most Americans eat.
This much salt will cause the top number of your blood pressure to go up by about seven points more than usual. And it can stay elevated much longer than normal. That means stress can cause your blood pressure to stay elevated even while you sleep, which is when your body should be recuperating from the day.
Dr. Gregory Harshfield, a hypertension researcher, explains that "Every time you are stressed, you hold onto as much salt as you get eating a small order of French fries and this can occur many times over the course of even a good day."
Of course, modern medicine's answer to this problem is drugs. In this case, these researchers found that angiotensin receptor blockers, a common blood pressure treatment, will solve the salt retention problem. These drugs work by blocking angiotensin, which directs the kidneys to hold onto more salt.
But drugs are not the answer. I've detailed many of the problems high blood pressure drugs can cause in my newsletter. You can read all about it on my website. Plus, there are better ways to deal with this problem.
Obviously, you have to reduce your salt intake and your stress level. Regular exercise and meditation are two important steps to take. If they're not enough, support your adrenal glands that handle stress with Advanced Adrenal Factor, a comprehensive formula developed by Dr Frank Shallenberger to help your body handle stress better. It contains adrenal cortex as well as plant-based adaptogens.
This is groundbreaking information. It helps explain why low-sodium diets don't work for some people – they're too stressed. Now you can make the changes necessary to beat heart disease and stroke.
Georgia Health Sciences University (2012, September 7). Stress prompts some to retain as much salt as eating fries, study finds. ScienceDaily. Retrieved September 8, 2012, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120907125021.htm.


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Retired~ Precious is now loved and proudly owned by a wonderful new family. She is doing great.
Precious completed her Grand Championship in Perry, GA 11/01/08 at the Finish Spitz Club show. Thank you judge Maurice Baughn.
Also at the same show weekend Precious and Spark's son GRCH Goodtimes Hot'N'Spicy Moments, "Pepper" went Reserve BEST IN SHOW, not once but twice!!!!
How sweet it is~ Precious won two points toward her GRCH on 9/1/07, 9/3/07 and two more points on 8/30/08 and 8/31/08 at the Middle Georgia Kennel Club Shows in Perry, GA!
How sweet it is! Precious finished her UKC championship 2/18/07. Thank you judge Teri Murphy.
Also at the same show weekend Precious and Spark's son finished to become UCH Goodtimes Hot'N'Spicy Moments, "Pepper"
Blaze was Best of Breed at the Copenhagen Show on 9/8/07. Blaze is a DNA tested normal eyed non-carrier for CEA. CH. Blaze is proudly owned by Shellove Shelties.
Wonderful young male, most pleasing head with excellent underjaw, wonderful expression, excellent ears, very well balanced, very well built and very well moving with a coat excellent for the time of the year.
Blaze and Pepper are litter brothers sired by our Spark.
These pictures of Precious were taken 11/13/06 at 3 1/2 years old!
Precious is just that, PRECIOUS!


Saint Patrick's Day has to be one of the friendliest holidays in many parts of the world. Children and adults alike celebrate the day by wearing green and if you didn't, you suffered the consequences by being pinched. Cities throughout the United States celebrate with parades and block parties. Chicago even dyes part of the Chicago River green for Saint Paddy's Day.
Just where and when did all these traditions start? Did the Irish always wear green for Saint Patrick's Day? I was surprised to find out that the answer was no. Where did the term Luck of the Irish come from? While you are having a pint of Guinness, impress your friends with these fun facts about Saint Patrick's Day.
Saint Patrick's Day was a dry holiday until 1970: Can you believe it? Although now, Saint Patrick's Day carries the tradition of toasting with a pint of Guinness, it wasn't always that way. From 1903 to 1970 Irish law declared March 17th as a religious observance day for the entire country and therefore all the pubs were closed. It wasn't until 1970 that Saint Patrick's Day was reclassified as a national holiday.
13 Million Pints of Guinness: Yes, 13 million pints of the "Black Stuff" will be consumed throughout the world on Saint Patrick's Day, according to WalletHub. Did you know that the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin has the biggest pint in the world? Inside the Storehouse is the largest Guinness Glass which makes up the different floors of the walking tour. Touring the Storehouse in Dublin is a must do. I toured the Storehouse a few months ago. Part of the tour involves teaching and certifying you on how to pour a perfect pint. Plus, you get to drink your work and take your glass with you!
No Green: Did you know that Saint Patrick's Day was celebrated with blue? Saint Patrick wore blue. According to Time Magazine, green was introduced at for Saint Patrick's Day back in 1798 during the Irish Rebellion, when the clover became the symbol of nationalism in Ireland. "Wearing of the Green" on a person's lapel became a tradition.
Saint Patrick wasn't Irish: Saint Patrick was born Maewyn Succat (He adopted Patrick or Patricius upon becoming a priest) and was of British descent. He was kidnapped as a teen by pirates and sold into slavery in Ireland. He escaped and later made his way back to Ireland to preach Christianity to the Irish.
The "Luck of the Irish" phrase was meant to be derogatory: This term dates back to the mining period. During the gold and silver rush of the last half of the 19th century, most of the famous and successful miners were either Irish or Irish Americans. According to Irish Central, the association of Irish and mining fortunes took on the phrase Luck of the Irish. This phrase was to make fun and belittle the Irish. Because many thought it was only by sheer luck and not brains or skill that the Irish were accomplished, miners.
Saint Patrick's Day Parades Didn't Start in Ireland: According to Saint Patrick's Day Parade, Ireland didn't originate the parade celebration. The first Saint Patrick's Day parade was started in Boston in 1737 by the Charitable Irish Society of Boston. The city of Dublin hosted the first St. Patrick's Day parade in Ireland back in 1931.
NYC Has the Largest Saint Patrick's Day Parade: Boston may have the highest percentage of the Irish population in the U.S. but New York City has the largest parade. This Saint Patrick's Day parade does not have any floats it is strictly a marching parade.
There are more Irish in the US than in Ireland: About 33 million Americans, roughly 10.5% of the total population, reported Irish ancestry in the 2013 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. This compares with a population of 6.4 million on the island of Ireland.
No Corned Beef & Cabbage in Ireland: Irish do not eat corned beef & cabbage for Saint Patrick's Day. According to the Smithsonian Magazine, this traditional meal was started in the US. The Irish immigrants settled in proximity to Jewish immigrants and bought most of their meat from kosher butchers. And what we think of today as Irish corned beef is actually Jewish corned beef. In Gaelic Ireland, the cow was considered a sacred animal and a sign of wealth.
There Are No Female Leprechauns: Traditional Irish folklore depicts leprechauns to be male, bearded loaners who were shoemakers. Leprechauns were noted to be tricksters who cannot be trusted and will deceive whenever possible.
1817: This is the first year Guinness was imported to the United States.
Enjoy the festivities of Saint Patrick's Day this year and in honor of Saint Patrick's Day, I will end with an Irish blessing for luck.


Christ didn't die just for white Christians. He died for everyone regardless of their color, race, religion or other ideology, sexual preference, political view, and ice cream preference.
After that it's up to each to decide to lay aside their own will, grant Him lordship, and follow the Savior. If they do, then they will shed the things that He disapproves of and become part of one singular body.
It's not for you, or me, to determine who should be touched with the gospel. If He died for everyone, and He did, then He wants EVERYONE to hear His message of love.
Early this morning I was pondering with some melancholy how my children have grown to the age where they don't view me as the hero they once did. If you're a parent of older children or now adults you know what I mean. Not that they don't still appreciate, or even admire us, but we simply aren't seen with the eyes that prompt them to say "my dad this!", or "my mom that!" with glee. Then it was time to head out for work and I put the thought aside and hit the road, my mind focused on the duties of the day.
When I arrived at work a person I occasionally work with mentioned her daughter, who was also working with us this day was outside with vehicle trouble. As I'm oft to do I offered to take a look and determined her problem was simply some loose and corroded battery connections. Breaking out some tools I made quick work of the problem and with an appreciative 'thank you' we all headed in to get to our tasks. Later that day this young lady and her mom mentioned that I was a hero for my help.
Now normally I would just thank someone for their kind words and not give it much thought, but I sensed God reminding me of my early morning private lamentation and how if we are willing to be a blessing to someone else in need that we can be a hero each and every day.
Despite me sharing this story with the young lady and her mother I'm pretty sure she has no idea just how much I appreciated her letting me be someone's hero today, let alone that her words were God inspired.
May I be more like Christ each and every day, for He is my Hero.
You can bash me all you want for trusting God and His Word but you'll have to get in line…behind Satan.
Don't lose faith in your God. He's been right a lot longer than your antagonists have been wrong.
Ok, now that I gained your attention with that provocative title let me just say that consuming most of what Hollywood, or for that matter pretty much any source of modern entertainment, offer is like eating someone elses feces and agreeing to pay them to let you. My apologies for the bluntness and imagery but most of what is now produced for our consumption is just someone elses depravity being marketed to fools willing and eager to swallow it like pigs squealing for more slop.
Would you like a 5 gallon bucket of popcorn to go with that?
Talon's Point of the Day is usually meant to be concise yet thought provoking. The author couldn't be more pleased than to know someone else was impacted and willing to share the point with others, regardless of citation.


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Keir Starmer's radical House of Lords idea
By david marton On Dec 18, 2022
The House of Lords' origins are lost in the mists of the 13th century. Although for most of its existence it was the chamber of the aristocracy, it has largely lost that character as a result of two important changes made in the second half of the last century.
In 1958, a Conservative government created the office of "Life Peers" – that is, men and women appointed for life whose successors did not inherit their title. This was designed to make the Lords more meritocratic: in theory, at least, they were to be drawn from the most eminent citizens – distinguished scholars, scientists, business leaders, figures from the arts – as well as retired senior ministers. Thus people like Howard Florey and Lawrence Olivier came to grace the red benches.
Then, in 1999, Tony Blair attempted to abolish the right of hereditary peers to sit (although they would keep their titles). After fierce resistance, Blair reached a compromise: 92 hereditary peers, chosen by ballot among their number, would remain. How the number 92 was arrived at is a mystery, but it did have the paradoxical result that today the only members of the House of Lords who are elected are the hereditary peers – although being chosen by an electoral college of aristocrats hardly passes muster as a democratic mandate.
When one of the 92 dies or retires (usually the former), the hereditary peers elect their replacement; I remember being in the House of Lords tea room one afternoon at the time of such an election, when one of their Lordships stormed excitedly into the room to announce: "The Duke of Wellington has been elected!"
Now, Starmer wants to do away with the Lords altogether. Although the hereditary principle is indefensible from a democratic point of view, today's House of Lords – which numbers more than 800, although fewer than half of that number ordinarily participate – largely consists of life peers. It cannot be denied that a few rogues have snuck in, their paths greased by generous political donations, trade union power, or other undue influence. But the recent creation of an appointments commission, to subject nominees to an integrity review, has largely eliminated that problem.
The House of Lords has a large crossbench of non-politically-aligned members. Debates in the Lords are polite, considered and erudite. By those measures, they are far superior to the proceedings in the Commons. During the Brexit debate, when the Commons degenerated into an abusive political killing field, the contributions in the Lords were particularly influential in solving many of the thorny problems of leaving the EU.
As with all major constitutional reform, the problem arises of what to do with the replacement. Starmer has made it clear that he does not favour a single-chamber parliament. This is a good decision: a house of review almost always improves legislation and accountability. (One need look no further than Queensland, whose upper house was abolished in 1922, to see the more authoritarian tone of politics which results from the removal of checks and balances.)
The House of Lords – inside the magnificent neo-Gothic palace. Credit:AP
Starmer's current idea is for a kind of British senate, elected by proportional representation from across the regions of the United Kingdom. In such a structure, English regions – whose population comprises about 82 per cent of the UK – would overwhelm the rest of Britain. This will undoubtedly be provocative to the Scots (about 8.5 per cent) and cause problems in the always-disgruntled Wales and the tinderbox of Northern Ireland (less than 5 per cent each). It will only aggravate resentment among the Celtic nations. In Scotland, where the powerful movement to leave the UK has been somewhat subdued since the pandemic, it is precisely what the proponents of independence need to re-energise their cause.
Although it is almost two years until the next election, Labour must be favoured to win. Notwithstanding the cascading crises of the Tories, anyone who thinks a Starmer government would usher in a quieter, less divisive time is fooling themselves. Abolishing the anachronistic, undemocratic, irrational yet strangely effective House of Lords would be the beginning of a deeper, and perhaps existential, period of constitutional unsettlement. In his reforming zeal, Sir Keir Starmer should beware the law of unintended consequences.
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Patti wrote: I posted these very early in this discussion and you were in agreement with the colored ridges as matching on all three prints.
Patti wrote: The horizontal plane on Disney's print consists of these ridges. Above these ridges is the central pattern. Above the central pattern the ridges return to flowing from one side to the other.
No, I can only say that about the orange and green ridges.
The pink and the light blue ridge are already involved in creating what I described earlier as the LARGE TRIRADIUS (one could also say that is made by 3 triradii), and therefore these can not be considered as belonging to the horizontal plane because obviously the pink and the blue are not just simple ridge lines: they are involved in creating patterns .
Patti wrote: The 1933 print is the one where you would like us to not see the white space and not see the dark horizontal spot that connects the two upthrusts.
Even disregarding the 1933 print in this example, it is obvious in the darker 1937 print there is a tiny upthrust visible from the top horizontal plane ridge. Tented Arch of the 1st Type. An angle.
No, that tiny line appears to merge with the next ridge line. So, even if it had been on the HORIZONTAL PLANE, it would not make an 'upthrust'.
Instead, it could be described as the upper ridge line of a triradius.
Patti, your assocation regarding the 'tented arch of the first type' is... weird. Basically it is even a fundamental mistake to make this association (sounds a bit like the example that I described for palm readers who claim to have found an arch below a loop).
Because that the type 1 'tented arch' really requires that there is no triradius in the fingerprint at all (+ additionally: no loop, whorl, etc.).
Patti wrote: In the lighter 1937 print, this tiny angle is seen as abutting the ridge with the crescent moon shape on top. An angle. Tented arch of the 1st Type.
'Tiny angle'? 'Crescent moon shape'? What 'angle'? And again: 'tented arch of the 1st type'? ... Sorry Patti, I don't understand what you're trying to say here.
Patti wrote: In the 1933 print, you can choose to fill in the white space, eliminate what you think are ink smears and the print still conforms to the rules of a Tented Arch.
Wow... these words actually sound like a 'glimp of hope', because this could mean that that you have slightly changed your position.
Does this implicate that you can actually agree that we can safely ignore the LARGE WHITE SPACE in the 1933 print. And do you now agree that we can safely assume that there should have been at least a part of a ridge line visible in that LARGE WHITE SPOT?
Patti wrote: Please Martijn, respond to this post and if you need to change the subject or shift the perspective please do so in a separate post.
Patti wrote: "The Science of Fingerprints"
Patti, it is important here to notice that an 'apparent upthrust' ... implicates that the upward turning ridge line is formally not assessed as an 'upthrust' (despite that it may look as an 'upthrust').
And I have explained that exactly in my comments: in example 156 we can see an 'independent upthrust', but there is only an 'apparent upthrust' in 155... which is formally not assessed as an 'upthrust' because it is NOT independent.
I wave away your suggestion that I am 'the one' who is confused. While you are still faced with that you assessed 'two upthrusts' in the Disney fingerprint... while both examples do not meet the 3-criteria that we have discussed regarding with the examples 155 + 156.
3 - independent line (e.g. this obviously implicates that an 'upthrust' can never manifest as line which ends as a merging with another line).
Amazing how you keep coming up with new concepts to spoil the tented arch and manifest a loop.
Regarding you newest theory that a tented arch cannot be formed from a triradius - please explain why the FBI sees figs. 141, 148, 149, 154 and 178 as tented arches. All rise from a triradius.
Wow Patti... thanks again, this is the very first picture in 4 days where you agreed that we should better follow a line going through the WHITE PATCH in the 1933 print.
Yes, but when you follow the rules and follow the natural path of the completed in black ridge it flows over the top toward the left side of the fingerprint and does not recurve.
Studying the ridges you colored in orange, I also notice none of them create a loop.
Patti, I never proposed the theory that you just described. You have misread my words completely!!
You raised the topic of the 'type 1 Tented arch'... which concern the type where there is no triradius at all, only at least one ridge line (in the horizontal plane) which has an of 90 degrees or less.
- The type in which ridges at the center form a definite angle, e.g. 90 degrees or less."
Patti, maybe your brains are getting overheated...???
No problem. I thought you were saying it couldn't be part of a triradius.
Yes, angle would be more than 90 degrees on one side in Disney's print. There are examples of tented arches with the upthrust leaning. I don't get why this makes any difference.
A tented arch doesn't have to follow all the rules of all three types. All the rules help eliminate the possibilities of being mistaken.
But still, the abutted rising ridge does not recurve.
You would have to add or remove more ink to create your curve and at that point there really is too much creative expression involved. The rule of following the natural flow dictates now.
Patti wrote: I love you Lynn but you have a reputation for being polite and diplomatic at times like this and staying conveniently on the fence. Me - I just go out there and ruffle feathers calling it like I see it.
I love you too hon. I'll take my 'reputation' as a compliment But it isn't true! When I have a strong conviction about something I voice it .....Don't you recall the tented arch vs loop discussion on Sue's forum (which this thread reminds me of).
I too am "calling it as I see it" - 1937 picture looked like a radial loop, 1933 looks like a tented arch. But there are some aspects of the 1933 pic that I find confusing. And if it is a tented arch, why does it look like a loop on the other pic. I just can't be sure what type of print it is, which I don't think is the same as "staying on the fence".
1) Mickey can here better be described... as a 'whorl', and his hat is 'your tent'!
2) NOTICE: The 'whorl' (= Mickey) is STANDING on THE horizontal plane... and 'your tent' (= Mickey's hat) is standing on the 'whorl'.
Conclusion: 'your tent' is not on THE horizontal plane, and can not be called an 'upthrust'.
Patti, the fundamental mistake in your comment about this Disney picture is here that you are talking about... "a" .... horizontal plane - as is if a horizontal plane can be found at ANY location in a fingerprints.
But there is only one horizontal plane in every fingerprint, because the truth is that THE horizontal plane is always ONLY be found at the bottom-side of any fingerprint.
Therefore in this case the 'hat' becomes completely irrelevant because it is found at the position on top of the whorl. This picture is 'whorl', and an 'upthrust' can not be positioned on top a whorl...!!
Because what I just described relates to a common mistake that is sometimes made by 'palm readers' (not you Patti)... because sometimes they are talking about that the claim to have found an 'arch' below a 'loop' pattern.
But they make a likewise fundamental mistake like you did, because 'their arch'... is actually a part of the 'loop'... for their are actually talking about the horizontal plane!
The way I see it, the rim of the hat is the curving horizontal plane and the body of the hat is the tent arch. I'm not sure what Mickey's standing on, but its so far below the tented arch, it could be a rascette.
Patti wrote: ... You would have to add or remove more ink to create your curve and at that point there really is too much creative expression involved. The rule of following the natural flow dictates now.
Well Patti, you are right that removing ink needs to be done very carefully. Because obviously, due to the abundance of ink the ridges are way too wide... which is the reason that in the zone of the '8 pointed stars' we can hardly follow any ridge path.
Regarding the result of your efforts to delete three inkdots, I can see where you deleted the three INK DOTS (at those regions the print is still a bit more gray) - but I can also see that you also deleted a (small) part of the ridge line on the left side (see the picture below).
A ZOOMED version of the light 1937 print that I presented earlier.
So, your result after deleting the 3 INK DOTS (+ some part of the ridge line on the left) became already an example of 'creative expression'!!
And therefore I would not recommend to draw any conclusions from your attempt to delete some INK DOTS!!
Actually, your attempt to delete some clearly identifiable INK DOTS.... confronts us again with that basically there is simply too much ink involved in this print to follow most of the individual ridges in the center of the 1933 prints.
Patti, I think there is no way out of this problem if we continue to focuss on this 1933 print alone (like you described: if we focuss solely on the 1933 print, it is hardly possible to delete any ink without using 'creative expression').
Especially the light 1937 print is suitable for identifying the path of quite a few of the ridges near the center (and in the zone of the '8 pointed star'). Because that is the only picture where we can follow most ridges relatively easy. Yes, we also know that the light 1937 print has some flaws because there are a few 'strange' large white zones. But for those zones we can use the other two prints again to find what is really going on in those zones, etc.
I'm looking forward to you drawing for us this creative project.
The lines marked in red are already agreed on in earlier posts.
Note where the blue feature is found in all three prints. You can count ridge lines in all directions and will end up at the same place on on three prints. The bottom of the crescent shape in the one 1937 print is actually part of the horizontal bar that crosses the upthrust. It can be undoubtedly traced. Just count the ridges over the top and downwards.
Look at the location in all three images and the location above the pink dot at the axis. Axis drawn in two images via lines through 4 prints.
Horizontal plane on left side of images.
Vertical line is drawn down from the 'double' fork commonly seen in all three prints down through the axis.
How could these axis-analysis relate to what we are trying to do: to asses the fingerprint type only!?
2 - And I noticed with bare-eyes that the axes + some of the other points that your marked.... are not always founds in the same location of the 1933 print + the two 1937 prints. And my observations are confirmed when considering ZOOMED versions; you could have avoided these errors by using ZOOMED pictures.
- 1ST PICTURE: You told me that you understood my point about the MIRROR-effect when comparing the fingerprint of the right index finger with the fingerprint of the left index finger... but your axis-picture proofs that you didn't understand my point because you should have MIRRORED the fingerprint of the ring index finger to compare it with the axis of the left index finger.
- 2ND PICTURE: Second, I can see with bare eyes that you managed to draw the axes crossing at the same point in both 1937 prints... but in the 1933 print you are using a point that is about 1 ridge line lower!! This again demonstrates that you're not able to find the similar features in that 1933... and obvious that is the result of the abundance of ink in the zone of the '8 pointed star'.
- 3TH PICTURE: I can not understand that you keep drawing lines in UNZOOMED pictures; I can see again with bare eyes that in the picture you did not put the 'blue mark' and the 'purple dot' at the same postion for neither of the two 1937 prints, and also not for the 1933 print.
- 4 TH PICTURE: I am wondering... why didn't you add the fingerprint of the right index finger for the vertical-axis analysis?
I think there is an obvious reason: the triradius in the right index fingerprint is positioned at a relatively large distance from the core (of the whorl), and this applies for both triradii... so even MIRRORING that picture would change anything about that.
Edit: Sorry, I had not planned to produce any picture that includes an attempt to delete ink.... because I agreed with your comment that deleting ink is hardly possible without 'creative expression' (I suggested that there is one alternative.... but that would require the inclusion of the two 1937 prints as well).
I think one axioma in fingerprint analysis is that one should make an assessment based on adding CHANGES in a fingerprint (especially when the method includes 'creative expression' which you mentioned in the perspective of your own attempt to delete ink).
I can still see where I thought the loop was, but it's confusing...with the black spots & white patch.
The essential point of my analysis is that the radial loop is confirmed IN THE INK that we see in all three of Disney's fingerprints that we studied.
This essential point is illustrated by the picture below that I presented earlier; the 'white path zone' is an exception but we sort of agreed that we can (fairly) assume that there is a ridge line in that zone.
5) and finally it merges with the golden line.
I agree adding and removing ink totally ruins the accuracy. That is why matching coordinates in all three prints is an excellent alternative.
Comparing to the other index finger give us the natural genetics.
An ulnar loop on one index is a mirror of an ulnar loop on the other index finger.
Therefore, a radial loop on one finger and an ulnar loop on the other is a mirror - reversed.
The radial nature negates the need to mirror. Also, the easy fit of both index fingers to match along the horizontal plane is obviously helpful.
The abutting ridge forming an angle is apparent in all three prints if you use accurate coordinates and count ridges.
Once you have absolute matching coordinates, which I have shown and will continue to illustrate in my next post, you can easily discern what is in the 1933 print. The right index fingerprint supports the natural flow of the pattern - which matches in both index fingers.
There is no loop. The genetic code was all about a whorl and it failed to form, resulting in a configuration that can only be classified as a Tented Arch.
PS. I will now first wait for the outcome about what you have in mind.
p.s. Remember zooming is a creative process. It is better to start with the largest and best quality you can.
The process of zooming a black and white graphic results in the software "choosing" how to fill in adjacent spaces as it enlarges. When it's confused as to whether to make a black dot or white dot it will make a grey dot.
Then if someone afterward uses the sharpen tool, the software "chooses" which edges to trim to smooth out the edge.
So, I don't think we will disagree on coordinates. My mouse is a roller ball type and my hands are less agile than they used to be so it is difficult for me to draw perfectly. I'm also at the mercy of the process of using one software tool (Print Shop) to put all the images on the same page and save as a jpeg, then another to crop the image at the highest quality and add text. Each process takes a little quality away and tends to blur the colored added lines.
I'll upload my next diagram shortly, I'm in the process of putting it together.
Patti wrote: p.s. Remember zooming is a creative process. It is better to start with the largest and best quality you can.
- I agree that ZOOMING does implicate that the software makes some explotions, but that is according mathematical rules. So, this is basically not much more than a theoretical consideration.
- Any human attempt to delete ink is certainly not done according mathematical rules... especially when the person refuses to consider other prints available. But your idea of matching coordinates (between the 3 prints) doesn't require to delete any ink at all.
So, your criticism regarding ZOOMING doesn't really make sense, because there is simply no 'subjective' human influence involved in using that method of research.
To understand this properly, you should for example become aware... that the excellent quality of the mathmatics involved in the programs, helped your to present a very large high quality version of the 1933 print! The magnification was done with same kind of mathematics that are involved in ZOOMING.
Forensic researchers also use computer programs to identify essential points in a fingerprint, and these programs use a method which basically includes the same mathematics rules that are involved in ZOOMING.
Patti, your bare eyes can not compete with those mathmatics!
And neither can my eyes!!


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Lindsey Vonn – a boot-level perspective
The last downhill race of the season for the ladies on the World Cup circuit took place in warm, sunny conditions in Schladming in Austria today.
And surprise, surprise… it was won by Lindsey Vonn – her 12th victory of the season. She commented on her Facebook page: "Today was the last downhill of the season and it went really well, I won! The US women's team is the best DH team in the world this season-congrats ladies!
Vonn already has her 4th overall World Cup title in the bag this season, as FamilySkiNews.com reported here. With one super-G and one GS race left, Vonn is also within reach of the 2,000-point record for one single season, achieved by Austria's Hermann Maier in 2000. she currently has 1,908 points.
To celebrate her latest victory, and for an excellent close-up on carving technique, here's a rare and thrilling boot-level perspective of a Vonn downhill training run in St Moritz earlier in the season. Hold on tight!…
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France's centre-right government faced further trouble from a restive public sector yesterday when 268 senior hospital doctors signed a petition warning that the country's healthcare system was in crisis.
"The situation is so grave that we consider it our duty as doctors to inform you," the professors, heads of department and leading specialists wrote to "the people of France" in a letter published in Le Monde.
"Our hospitals, which practise medicine at the highest level, are being dislocated," they wrote. "Our healthcare system, seen yesterday as one of the best in the world, is being destroyed ... we can no longer provide our fellow humans with the efficient treatment they need."
France's healthcare system was ranked best in the world by the World Health Organisation four years ago. But a recent government report said that without fundamental reforms it would collapse by 2020.
The newly appointed health minister, Philippe Douste-Blazy, said yesterday that "every French person" should "recognise the disaster" of a system that was "out of control". Pledging to present detailed reforms next month, he said the service would finish this year €12bn (£8bn) in the red.
The petition follows a similar campaign by state scientists. More than 2,000 researchers resigned their administrative duties last month to protest against "crippling" funding shortages. Teachers have also staged walkouts over budget measures.
The hospital doctors' protest is another blow to the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, after his unpopular programme of economic reforms led to a crushing defeat in recent regional elections.


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Ceylon, which is now Sri Lanka, made beautiful coins with interesting designs and scalloped edges. This Vintage beauty is from 1944 and has a striking natural antique finish. Coin is approximately 3/4". Chain is gold-filled and 17". Below picture with crown is other side of coin.


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Simon Quarterman Biography
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