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Schweizer, Karl W.
Karl Schweizer, is Professor of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the author of many books and articles, including England, Prussia, and the Seven Years War (1989) and Cobbett in His Times (1990). Dr. Schweizer is also a Fellow of the British Royal Historical Society. He received his doctorate from Cambridge University, where he studied with the late British historian Sir Herbert Butterfield (1900-1979). Schweizer's past appointments include visiting fellowships at Princeton University; Yale University; Cambridge University and the London School of Economics.
England, Prussia, and the Seven Years War Studies in Alliance Policies and Diplomacy
1989 0-88946-465-0
Contributes toward re-assessment of the Anglo-Prussian alliance and illuminates the mechanics of the international system of the period. Relies extensively on previously unconsulted official and private papers.
Winner of the Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship
FranÇois De CalliÈres, Diplomat and Man of Letters, 1645-1717
This is the first detailed scholarly appraisal (based on French Archival materials) of Callières' life and career, also illuminating the course of 17th century French diplomacy.
Herbert Butterfield- Essays on the History of Science
This collection of essays presents Herbert Butterfield's insights into and ideas concerning the history of science. The introduction analyzes the central ideas and themes running through the essays.
In Defence of Australia's Constitutional Monarchy
Never before, since the Federation of the Australian Colonies in 1901, had the Constitution of Australia come under such intense scrutiny as occurred in the lead-up to the Republican Referendum of 1999. Just as there were differences of opinion amongst republicans on what form an Australian republic should take, there were different perceptions amongst monarchists on what formed the modern day structures of Australia's Constitutional Monarchy. In this collection of speeches and articles, Philip Benwell has attempted to explain the various interpretations not just of the Constitution itself but also of 'The Crown of the United Kingdom' under which the Australian Federation has been formed. It is the only known work of its kind and an invaluable contribution to scholarship not only for its in-depth examination of the meaning of 'The Crown,' particularly within Australia's Constitution, but also as research tool for future occasions.
Oligarchy, Dissent and the Culture of Print in Georgian Britain. Essays, Reviews, and Documents
The essays and reviews in this volume illuminate some of the still obscure, fragmented, paradoxical yet fascinating aspects of Britain's complex progress towards modernity. Drawing on a vast array of manuscript sources, many previously neglected or unknown, the narratives explore new linkages between personalities, the dynamics and rhetoric of formalized politics, press activity and the patterns of compliance and dissent that interactively defined and shaped the growth of national unity.
Statesmen, Diplomats and the Press - Essays on 18th Century Britain
The eleven essays in this volume examine three broad themes: the dynamics of national policy-making during the Hanoverian period; the role of diplomats in the formulation as well as execution of foreign policy; and the political impact of the press.
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I've been asked a few times why I started blogging and even filled in a short survey about it recently.
It all started for me back in 2006/2007 with a basic website with a company called FreeHostia and a trial offer of completely free web hosting. Funnily enough it wasn't a blog at all but if I remember correctly I had an about me page and then a random PayPal link for people to donate me money.
The Wayback Machine is a handy tool for looking back to websites of old but it won't show me the design of the site. The title of the page does show though as "J.Burrell Enterprises… The Home of Joshua Burrell" which shows my want to be enterprising from an early age. I probably watched too much Kerching! as a teenager but I did have a few successful (and some VERY unsuccessful) business ventures. The link featured on my eBay account, YouTube videos and even some free business cards I had printed.
Looking back now, it makes no sense though. I don't think I ever made a single pound directly from the site, but it was what started out my want to share information with people online (blogging) and tracking views and analytics. I also had to do some quite complex things with website code which have proved to be useful quite a few times since then when blogging or doing work on websites.
I must have started blogging properly back in 2007/2008 with a post titled Welcome Back, although it wasn't really a return but a launch of "Looking Down the Burrell" as the blog was previously known.
I had ambitions of working as a journalist or a reporter when I was at Sixth Form up until 2009. The blog direction then moved towards ranting, reviews and describing life through my writing online.
I was moving from an innocent school child to a young adult – drinking and partying most weekends while also holding down a part-time job at a library and applying for university courses. Once I got my university place to study Journalism the partying and drinking continued and this online space got a little neglected.
It did become a cool place to share some of my work in print, magazine, radio and television journalism as well as creative writing though. I also covered the London Riots when I was working for local newspapers in South London during my summer break in 2011.
After graduating I had a steady number of posts being published on the blog. However, 2015 was a year when I wrote a few posts but never actually published any. It coincided with a time when I was busy trying to sort my career as well as my personal life, but perhaps one day I will share those drafts with you!
In 2016 I really wanted to get back into the swing of things blog-wise and was able to buy the current domain and also get a proper upgrade of the design, moving all my old posts over did prove to be tricky though.
My girlfriend Olivia now plays a major part in thinking up ideas for new posts, and writing them. She also keeps me sane and sub-edits my posts effectively proofreading them and helping take and select photographs.
Lookdown.com (the other spelling) still holds the advert for an American "vacation home" in Montana, but I hope to make the best of this website and who knows what the future holds for my little weblog of my life and travels!
If you're a blogger, let me know why you started blogging in the comments.
It's always really interesting to find out what motivates and inspires people. Thanks for the positive comment.
You do seem to get down to some great restaurants! I'm certainly a fan of the food posts! What are the best gift posts you've done that you'd recommend?
I felt like I had some original ideas that I wanted to share with anyone who was willing to take an interest in them. I had read quite a lot of books form a lot of different sources and I felt this would make me more creative. Often I was just writing for myself little things that would make me laugh or warnings from past mistakes. Then it became more about the music I wanted so share. Big respect that you have stuck with yours Josh.
I was very interested in your posts! I found one of my old posts that linked to your blog from when we went to see Akala. Part of the reason I've continued so long is thanks to people reading so all respect goes to anyone that's ever read the blog.
My blog was initially a platform to sell cushions that I made with a little bit of writing on the side. I realised pretty quickly that I loved writing way more than I loved making cushions and that was that. I blogged on and off for years until I started getting paying writing jobs off the back of my content and I realised it was my gateway to the freelance life. So here we are!
Glad to hear it all worked out for you and so cool that you had a little business before! I dream of starting my own business in the future but writing is my main way of being creative.


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Q: Idea: regular voter badge Should we add a new badge (silver):
Regular voter: Voted at least once every week for 20 weeks in a row.
This helps make sure people vote regularly and is somewhat more powerful than the Civic Duty badge.

A: Another vote related badge is set to come rolling out of the SO factory in the who knows when future:

   Plus, we already have Civic Duty, and another badge related to voting that I haven't rolled out yet.

A: That badge should be reserved for users who log in and vote under multiple accounts on the same day.

A: Yes, but then people will ask for a Republican badge, which will lead to the inevitable Ron Paul badge...

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Stuttgart: Frenchman Lucas Pouille came from a set down and needed a second set tie-break to beat Spain's Feliciano Lopez 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-4, to claim the grass-court title at Stuttgart on Sunday.
"That's my first title on grass," said the 23-year-old, who has now won three ATP Tour titles and sits 16th in the world rankings.
"I had a tight match in the first round and from there I took it one match at a time," he added, looking back to his win over Jan-Lennard Struff in which he saved a match point.
Pouille suffered from the power of Lopez's serve early on but gradually got the measure of the 35-year-old, who faded towards the end of the third set.
It was his third final of the season after a defeat to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at Marseille and a victory over Aljaz Bedene in Budapest.
Nottingham: Donna Vekic ruined Johanna Konta's bid to win her first title on home soil as the Croatian beat the British number one in the Nottingham Open final on Sunday.
Konta took the first set, but the world number eight couldn't seal the silverware in the second set tie-break and eventually slumped to a 2-6, 7-6 (7/3), 7-5 loss.
The 26-year-old's failure to land her first grass-court title is a setback ahead of Wimbledon, which gets underway next month.
Sydney-born Konta has never been past the second round at Wimbledon, with her best Grand Slam performance a run to the semi-finals of the 2016 Australian Open.
"All credit to Donna, she was continuously able to raise her level all throughout that match," Konta told Eurosport.
"I was not able to stay with her. Full credit to her for playing incredibly well.
"But I'm very happy that I got to play five great matches on the grass. For Donna and I, heading into Wimbledon, we just want to play on the surface as much as possible."
Thanks to her gutsy effort, 20-year-old Vekic, ranked 70th in the world, was able to celebrate her second WTA singles title.
"It's pretty amazing. It's my first grass-court title and my second overall. I'm really happy," she said.
"Jo played amazing, she's having an amazing year, but I was just trying to focus on myself and serve as good as I can and be aggressive."
's-Hertogenbosch: Luxembourg's Gilles Muller downed towering Croat Ivo Karlovic on Sunday to claim the title in 's-Hertogenbosch in a final with the oldest combined age for two players since 1976.
Muller, 34, beat 38-year-old Karlovic 7-6(5), 7-6(4) in a showdown of two of the game's biggest servers to lift his second tour-level trophy, following January's triumph in Sydney.
It was the oldest men's singles final since Ken Rosewall (42) and Ilie Nastase (30) went head-to-head in Hong Kong 41 years ago.
Muller smacked 22 aces to Karlovic's 19 with not a single break point for either player as the Luxembourger atoned for last year's final defeat in the Netherlands to Nicolas Mahut.
He next heads to Queen's where he faces Georgia's Nikoloz Basilashvili in the opening round of the Wimbledon warm-up event.
Estonia's Anett Kontaveit scooped up her first WTA title after beating Natalia Vikhlyantseva of Russia 6-2, 6-3 in the women's final.
The 21-year-old from Tallinn, ranked 49th in the world, routed Vikhlyantseva, 20, in just 73 minutes to continue her strong 2017 form.
Kontaveit finished runner-up on clay in Biel in April and has also recorded wins over world number one Angelique Kerber and 2016 French Open champion Garbine Muguruza this season.
"I'm just so excited!" said Kontaveit. "It's been amazing for me, I had really tough matches and I'm so happy to be through them - to win the final, it's amazing."


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Relief Package Includes Less for Cybersecurity
$2 Billion for Security and IT, Rather Than $10 Billion as Originally Proposed Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • March 11, 2021
President Joe Biden in the Oval Office (Source: Wikipedia)
The $1.9 trillion economic relief package known as the American Rescue Plan, which the House approved Wednesday and President Biden signed Thursday afternoon, includes about $2 billion for cybersecurity and IT modernization, rather than the $10 billion the president originally proposed.
The cybersecurity and IT funding includes $650 million allocated to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for "cybersecurity risk mitigation" as well as $1 billion for the General Services Administration to spend on IT modernization projects throughout the government. Another $200 million is set aside for the U.S. Digital Service to hire additional security experts and provide additional services to agencies. The package does not include any further details.
Before I took office, I promised you that help was on the way. Today, I signed the American Rescue Plan into law, and can officially say: help is here. pic.twitter.com/uuEZAkGloz
— President Biden (@POTUS) March 11, 2021
In its original COVID-19 relief proposal, the Biden administration called for allocating a total of nearly $9 billion to CISA and GSA for cyber and IT modernization projects, as well as $1 billion to other agencies to improve security (see: Biden's $10 Billion Cybersecurity Proposal: Is It Enough?).
A 'Down Payment'
Several security experts and analysts say the cybersecurity and IT modernization funding in the massive stimulus legislation amounts to a fraction of what's needed to address security issues that have come to light following the SolarWinds supply chain attack and the hacking of Microsoft Exchange servers.
"The funding in the stimulus bill is helpful, but a down payment only," says Phil Reitinger, a former director of the National Cyber Security Center within the Department of Homeland Security who's now president and CEO of the Global Cyber Alliance.
"It is increasingly difficult to pretend that cybersecurity is not one of the two most important national security issues, along with domestic extremism," Reitinger adds.
Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I, who serves on the House Homeland Security Committee and worked on the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission, says he was pleased that the bill included $2 billion for cybersecurity and IT modernization, but the amount is only a down payment for much larger needs in these areas.
"We need significant, sustained increases in CISA's budget to ensure it has the personnel and tools to succeed in its vital missions," Langevin tells Information Security Media Group. "We need to replace our antiquated digital infrastructure at both the federal and state and local levels [and] to improve operational efficiency and tighten security. We also need to enact a national cybersecurity assistance fund to provide prioritized investments in critical infrastructure based on a careful analysis of intersectoral risk."
Thinking Strategically
Greg Touhill, a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general who served as the country's first federal CISO, says any stimulus money spent on cybersecurity will be effective only with a formal, strategic vision for the government's overall approach to security.
"It's not very transparent what they're going to be spending the money on," says Touhill, referring to the allocations for cybersecurity in the stimulus package. "And that's part of my concern. Throwing money to spending wildly is not the answer - it needs to be strategic."
Touhill notes that over the last year, in the wake of COVID-19 and the shift to work-from-home, many government and private organizations spent money on outdated VPN technologies instead of taking more modern approaches, such as retiring older network access controls and investing in software-defined perimeters to improve security.
While increasing funding for cybersecurity is important, Touhill believes that CISA and other departments responsible for security need to have strategic plans in place. He advocates implementing a zero trust framework across all federal agencies' networks.
"We need to have that 'North Star' strategic vision to accomplish what we need to do and protect the American people's data. And that's really why I'm convinced that the zero trust security strategy is critical for the U.S. government to formally embrace and implement," says Touhill, who now serves as CEO of Appgate Federal, which provides security and other services.
"Certainly, the recent events with SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange - and I'm sure there are many others out there we don't know about - have highlighted the fact that the software supply chain and the hardware supply chain are at risk," Touhill says. "And if you can't trust your software or your hardware, you've got to implement zero trust."
Reitinger offers a similar assessment.
"I'd also note that spending technology modernization funding the right way - to drive the transition to the cloud and shared services with cybersecurity built into the service from the start - is an essential response to the endemic challenges demonstrated by SolarWinds," Reitinger says.
Other Priorities
Tom Kellermann, head of cybersecurity strategy for VMware and a member of the Cyber Investigations Advisory Board for the U.S. Secret Service, wants to see federal funds dedicated to expanded threat hunting across federal networks as well as hiring more dedicated security staff for federal agencies.
He also calls for agencies to work toward better integration of endpoint protection platforms with network detection and response tools.
The cybersecurity money in the stimulus package "will not stop the digital hemorrhaging," Kellermann says. "It is a minimal down payment. America is dealing with a cyber insurgency, and billions more are necessitated."
While CISA did not receive as much funding for cybersecurity under the stimulus package as originally proposed, the agency could gain greater responsibility for security issues in the months ahead.
After the House held two public hearings last month concerning SolarWinds, several lawmakers voiced support for CISA taking on additional authority to conduct threat hunting exercises across federal networks and coordinate intelligence sharing with private firms (see: House SolarWinds Hearing Focuses on Updating Cyber Laws).
While the Biden administration has filled certain national security positions, including secretary of homeland security, director of national intelligence and federal CISO, it has not yet nominated a permanent leader for CISA and for the newly restored national cyber director position in the White House.
Touhill notes that while it's important to have people in these leadership positions, having the right staff in place to execute policies is the more urgent need.
"It's not that we haven't had good policies; it's that we haven't executed them well. So my advice is that we should be focusing on executing the policies we have," Touhill says.
ROI Case Study - Nucleus Research: European Financial Services Institution
Microsoft Exchange: At Least 10 APT Groups Exploiting Flaws
Scott Ferguson
Managing Editor, GovInfoSecurity, ISMG
Ferguson is the managing editor for the GovInfoSecurity.com media website at Information Security Media Group. He's been covering the IT industry for more than 13 years. Before joining ISMG, Ferguson was editor-in-chief at eWEEK and director of audience development for InformationWeek. He's also written and edited for Light Reading, Security Now, Enterprise Cloud News, TU-Automotive, Dice Insights and DevOps.com.
Cybercriminals Are Resilient. How About You?
The Anatomy of a Third-Party Data Breach
Automating Security Operations
Assessing Cyber Risk for the Defense Industrial Base
Stronger Security Through Context-aware Change Management: A Case Study
A Banker's Guide to Insider Fraud: 6 Ways to Spot Insider Fraud Before It Strikes
Playing A New Hand: How Digitalization Is Reshuffling The Cards For Banks Worldwide
5 Ways to Rapidly Reduce Risk
Case Study: The Road to Zero Trust
Beginners Guide to Observability
https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/relief-package-includes-less-for-cybersecurity-a-16165

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An experimental installation + group activity built with Processing and Touch OSC.
Based on the common occurrence of people using their mobile devices while in public, I created an experience that would allow users to create images and patterns using mobile devices. For the app to function, all users must be in the same shared space and utilize a public screen for their creation - forcing users to interact with more than just their device.
Because each user's device can only one control a select feature of the building visuals, the team interaction successfully brings users together within a communal space to construct a unique work of art.


In these enlightening and interactive sessions, audiences will have the opportunity to celebrate African American and Afro-Cuban jazz history, culture, and music, and the invaluable contribution of women.
The events are free and open to the public!
This intersectional extravaganza is part of a multi-year emphasis on "Minneapolis College: Promoting Beloved Community," and co-sponsored by African American Education Empowerment (AME) and Raices Unidas, in conjunction with Student Life and Student Senate.


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Once again, car enthusiasts and supporters of Boys Republic in Chino Hills, Calif. will take to California's back roads for the third annual Friends of Steve McQueen Rally. The "must attend" affair takes place April 27, 28 and 29, 2018. Participants will meander from Santa Barbara to Paso Robles, exploring the pastoral countryside and partaking of a little twist and shout two-lane driving.
The event gets underway on Friday, April 27, as drivers gather at their first overnight destination, the beachfront Fess Parker Hotel in Santa Barbara. Saturday morning the group heads north to Allegretto Vineyard Resort in Paso Robles, Calif. for an overnight stay. A special dinner program featuring a presentation by automotive writer and personality, Matt Stone will cap off a day behind the wheel.
The final stage of the rally, Sunday, April 29, commences with breakfast at the hotel and concludes with a private tour of the Mullin Museum in Oxnard, Calif. The event is sponsored by Circle Automotive Group, a family-owned automotive group of dealerships located in Southern California along with the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, Calif. In addition, the rally is pleased to welcome back continuing sponsor, collector automobile auction company Russo and Steele.
A tax-deductible donation of $1750 includes rally entrance, hotel stay for two nights (one room, two person maximum), dinner events, lunches and breakfasts. Also included is free entrance to the Friends of Steve McQueen Car and Motorcycle Show, two tickets to the Friday, June 1 Commemorative Car Show Dinner, and rally car group judging at the show.
Participant space is limited to 48 vehicles. All proceeds benefit Boys Republic in Chino Hills, Calif.
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Another day, another bowl of oatmeal.
I'm not sure about you, but I think I've come to a point in my life where I'm no longer settling on my morning bowl oatmeal. It's what I truly crave. And I'm okay with that.
So yes today is just another day. But it's also the day I encourage you to wake up and smell the French Press, in the kitchen you no longer have to apologize for when people walk in your apartment. Today is the day to own your adulthood. To stop apologizing for being "lame" or "old" just because you've mastered the art of taking care of yourself.
So yes…I am eating oatmeal for breakfast. And not because I'm on a "health kick" or a "detox." For no reason other than that I woke up jonesing for it.


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Yes, the holiday celebrating the departure of the Israelites from Egypt began last night. Hopefully you cleaned the hometz (leavened bread) out of the house before sundown; we had two slices left, and I ate them just in time. Here is Pesach.com, the official website to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Passover, but were afraid to ask. They have pictures, videos, informative links, and even matzoh wallpaper. Chag Sameach, and next year in Jerusalem!
I didn't know babies could smile when only five days old. This is probably the cutest one of Lexi yet. Lindy is looking better, too.
That was the headline on today's newspaper. As you probably heard, the basketball playoffs are over for the University of Kentucky men's team. They made it to the "Elite Eight," and then fell to West Virginia, 73-66, in a badly played game last night. Also, the game was scheduled at the same time as a service at my church, so last night I learned the priorities of the other congregation members by who showed up.
By the way, both today's game and one of last week's games (UK vs. Cornell) are scheduled to start at 10 PM. Why is that, when neither of the teams involved is from the west coast? Maybe the broadcasters can get more advertising revenue that way, but some of us DO have to get up early in the morning. I don't know about the real fans, but I don't think one should have to take the next day off, just to watch a sporting event.
A drunk in Punxsutawney, PA was found trying to revive a possum that had been killed on the road. Yes, the town known for the world's most famous groundhog. Well, they know their groundhogs in Punxsutawney, but evidently not their possums. This wouldn't have happened near the Okefenokee Swamp, home of Pogo.
I always thought it was stupid for dogs to chase cars. After all, what would a dog do with a car if it caught one? Now I know.
p.s., With all the excitement over the birth of Lexi in Georgia, I forgot to mention that Leive came home without a hitch last Wednesday.
Okay, I think I figured out what I was doing wrong when I tried uploading the first three videos of my granddaughter to YouTube; YouTube is not fully compatible with the Opera browser. Here they are, with three more that were posted on Facebook yesterday. I thank the father, Adam Sherwood, for all of them.
Yes, the March Madness hoopla continues here, with both the mens' and womens' basketball teams from the University of Kentucky in the "Sweet Sixteen" playoffs. I believe that hasn't happened since 1982. Here's a song composed for the mens' team right here in Lexington, by Scott and Jeff "Sonny" Collins.
You will note that today's opponent, Cornell, is mentioned a couple times. Well, the song has been revised at least once already; another YouTube video from last week had East Tennessee State University as the opponent. Those fans who have heard the song are hoping it will need more revisions before the playoffs are all over. Go 'Cats!


The concessionaire had attempted to carry out the task on January 29 as well, but work was obstructed by residents and members of the DXP Welfare Association, who staged a demonstration and prevented work from being completed.
The wall was demolished on January 23 following an inspection by Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar.
Fifteen days after the wall that had been obstructing direct connectivity between the Dwarka Expressway and National Highway 48 was broken down, the highway concessionaire once again erected a "temporary" barrier to prevent "at grade connectivity" between the two.
As a result, work was finally carried out under the supervision of a duty magistrate, appointed by the Deputy Commissioner, and in the presence of a police force, on Thursday.
In his order regarding the matter, Deputy Commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh wrote, "National Highways Authority of India… has requested that in compliance of Hon'ble Delhi High Court judgement to prevent the vehicular traffic from getting on to the bypass road at Km, 41.200 RHS, which is linked to Dwarka Expressway to NH-8, local residents and social associates did not allow execution of the above judgment. That is why, in order to maintain law and order, there is a need for appointing a duty magistrate and police assistance…Keeping this in mind, I appoint Hitendra Sharma, Tehsildar, Gurugram, as duty magistrate until the work is completed," he stated.
Residents of gated condominiums and townships along the Dwarka Expressway, as well as regular commuters in the area, have long been demanding a direct connection between the Expressway and NH48, saying that in its absence, they have to travel past Kherki Daula toll plaza before they can rejoin the expressway. Following this, they have to stand in the long queues at the plaza and pay the toll before they can re-enter the city and travel towards their destinations.


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NSW Labor promises to cut stamp duty for first home buyers in big election promise
NSW Labor has announced a huge election promise to abolish or significantly cut stamp duty for eligible first home buyers.
Prospective homeowners won't have to pay stamp duty at all when buying a home with a value up to $800,000, plus a significant concessional rate given to properties priced under one million. Current schemes are capped at property values of $650,000 for full stamp duty exemption, and $800,000 for a discounted rate.
"I understand the stress of trying to purchase your first home. I want more singles, couples and families realising this dream," said NSW Opposition leader, Chris Minns who will going to the polls on March 25.
"Under Labor any property purchased under $800,000 will have absolutely no stamp duty, and any property purchased up to $1 million will have a reduced rate.
"What I will not do is saddle first home buyers with a new, yearly tax bill that increases every year."
NSW Labor has announced a huge election package to abolish or significantly cut stamp duty for first home buyers.
Stamp duty rates applies to the charges involved when transferring the ownership of a property, and is paid for by the buyer. Using figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the stamp duty of an average home (valued at $1,125,600) in NSW is roughly $46,108.
Under existing measures, the First Home Buyer Assistance Scheme waives the transfer duty on homes valued up to $650,000, with a concessional rate given to properties up to $800,000.
First home buyers can also access a $10,000 grant for new homes under the First Home Owner's Grant (New Homes) for properties under the value of $750,000 which have no been lived in before.
The NSW Labor Party suggests this applies to 95 per cent of all first home buyers across the state.
Initial modelling done by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PDO) suggests that within three years, 27,700 first home buyers will benefit by paying no stamp duty at all, with 18,800 qualifying for the reduced rate.
The scheme has been costed at $722 million, with funding for the plan taken from the government's land tax reforms introduced in November of last year.
Libs give FHB choice between stamp duty and property fee
In November, Dominic Perrottet's Liberal government passed the First Home Buyer Choice legislation which gives new homeowners the choice between paying stamp duty, or an annual property fee.
While the plan was criticised for creating a "forever tax," Mr Perrottet said the reforms would help people get into the housing market sooner.
"The great Australian dream of home ownership just got much easier for a generation of
young families," he said.
"For the first time we will provide first home buyers with a choice, helping thousands of
people to shave around two years off the time needed to save for a deposit."
The plan is applicable to dwellings up to the value of $1.5 million, or vacant land up to $800,000.
In costing done by the NSW Treasury, a $1 million property bought and re-sold within 10 years would incur a property fee of $19,881, compared to stamp duty feeds of $40,909.
First home buyers from January 16 onwards can access the scheme, however households who've bought a home between November 12, 2022 to January 15, 2023 have the option to apply for a stamp duty refund.
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A client of an appointed representative or, if applicable, a tied agent is a "client" of the firm for whom that appointed representative, or tied agent, acts or intends to act in the course of business for which that firm has accepted responsibility under the Act or MiFID (see sections 39 and 39A of the Act and SUP 12.3.5 R).
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You Have Atomic Bombs, We Have the Martyrdom-Seekers: Ayman Al-Zawahiri's Narrative Arc of the Martyr
Tim Huffman, Saint Louis UniversityFollow
Martyrdom has an undeniable rhetorical dimension, and part of a martyr's voice is the manner of his or her death. However, martyrdom does not stand alone. It is contextualized and constructed by the voice of ideologues. This project looks at the spoken and written rhetoric of Ayman Al-Zawahiri, leader of al-Qaeda, and seeks to understand his descriptions, attributions, and stories about martyrs and martyrdom. An analysis of 93 statements by Zawahiri was performed to identify his overarching martyr narrative and archetype. Major findings include a taxonomy of martyr attributes and a narrative trajectory of martyrdom. While pro-USA rhetoric constructs al-Qaeda's martyrs as radical terrorists, Zawahiri tells a tale of stalwart, pious, and simple men.
Huffman, Tim (2016) "You Have Atomic Bombs, We Have the Martyrdom-Seekers: Ayman Al-Zawahiri's Narrative Arc of the Martyr," Peace and Conflict Studies: Vol. 23 : No. 1 , Article 3.
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The following is a news article I read from Washington Post. Do you see any similarity with our anti-Orthodox friends?
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Before a service at Reborn in Christ Church this week, a man hawked gospel CDs outside the front door. In the cavernous nave, volunteers placed envelopes soliciting cash donations on each of about 1,000 chairs, while cameramen working for the church's television network focused on the altar.
Everything was ready, except the church's founders and spiritual leaders.
Estevam Hernandes-Filho and his wife, Sonia -- who oversee more than 1,000 churches in Brazil and several in Florida -- were under house arrest in Miami, accused of carrying more than $56,000 in undeclared cash. Some of the money had been stuffed between the pages of their Bible, according to U.S. customs agents who detained the couple last month at the Miami airport.
The arrests and the accusations back home of systematic embezzlement have resonated loudly in Brazil, where tens of millions of people have joined evangelical Christian churches in recent years to create powerful new cultural and political movements. Some of those movements are now under increasing scrutiny from investigators, who say they are receiving testimony alleging similar scandals among other faith-based empires.
Arthur Pinto de Lemos, a state prosecutor who is heading the case against Reborn in Christ Church, pointed to several stacks of folders cluttering his desk this week.
"There are now a lot of other accusations coming in, all of which have started to surface after this case," he said, slapping a palm atop the files.
Defenders of the churches say the spotlight is little more than thinly disguised persecution -- religious prejudice in a country that until recently was overwhelmingly Catholic.
An attorney for the Hernandeses did not respond to repeated requests for an interview. But the church's Web site posted a video interview with lawyer Luiz Flavio D'Urso, who called the charges "absurd."
"I am absolutely sure that this is a mistake -- not only are the accusations false, but the arrest is also a mistake," he said. "God willing, this will be clarified, and their innocence will be proved."
Although Lemos said Catholic organizations are among the institutions accused of wrongdoing, most of the recent attention within Brazil has focused squarely on "evangelicals" -- a loosely used term here that can include Baptists, Pentecostals and many other Protestant denominations. Those movements have roots that stretch back to Pentecostal missions that arrived via the United States nearly 100 years ago, but their numbers have exploded only in the past two decades.
Between 1980 and 2000, the number of those who identified themselves as evangelicals in national census counts doubled, to more than 26 million people in this country of about 185 million. The growth has changed the religious complexion of Brazil, where about 90 percent of residents identified themselves as Catholics in 1980. If the spread of the evangelical denominations continued at the same rate -- an unlikely possibility, according to analysts -- Catholics would be a minority here within 20 years.
Reborn in Christ Church has been at the forefront of the evangelical surge since the Hernandeses formed the church in 1986. The charismatic couple -- known affectionately as "Apostle Estevam" and "Bishop Sonia" to their congregation -- oversee several radio stations, a gospel television network and a record company. Last year, their church helped lead an annual "March for Jesus" rally in downtown Sao Paulo that attracted a crowd that police estimated at about 3 million -- about twice as many people as it had drawn the year before. The Hernandeses have opened multiple churches in Florida, where they also own a home.


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Let's Learn English - Lesson 15: I Love People-Watching!
This is the fifteenth episode of Let's Learn English. Anna and her friends are eating lunch outside on a beautiful day in Washington, DC. They are people-watching. They like seeing the many different people walking by.
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Anna Hello! People from all over the world come to Washington, D.C. When I'm at work, I love eating lunch outside. I like to watch people walking by. They all look very different. Today, my friend Ashley is eating lunch with me.
Anna Ashley, today the weather is beautiful, isn't it?
Ashley Yes, it is. Ahh. Ooh, we have to return to work!
Anna No, we have time! Let's people-watch a little more.
Anna Oh, I know her. She works in my office! Keyana, hi! Come and join us!
Keyana Hi Anna, how are you?
Anna I'm doing great! Keyana, this is my friend Ashley.
Anna We need to return to work. But the weather is beautiful and people-watching is fun!
Keyana I love people-watching too!
Anna Well, have a seat! It is fun to see how people are different or the same.
Keyana It is. For example, Anna, you are tall. But Ashley and I are short.
Anna And Keyana, you and Ashley have brown eyes; I have blue eyes.
Keyana You two have light skin and I have dark skin.
Anna Ashley, you have straight hair. Keyana and I have curly hair.
Ashley You have very curly hair, Anna.
Keyana I need to return to work. See you, Anna! Nice to meet you Ashley!
Ashley Anna, I have to go, too. Are you returning to work?
Anna I still have time. And this sun feels so good!
Ashley Um, Anna, what does your boss look like?
Anna She is short. She has straight, light hair.
Ashley Does she wear glasses?
Anna Yes. Yes, she does.
Ashley Is she wearing a blue sweater today?
Anna How do you know that?
Ashley She's coming this way.
Anna Oh no! Hide me!
Ashley Um, bye, Anna. Call me later.
Anna Bye, Ashley! Talk to you later!
Caty Anna? Is that you?
Caty What are you doing behind that bench?
Anna I am looking for my, my … stick. Here it is.
Anna I am people-watching. Oh! But it's time to return to work!
Caty No need to hurry. I love people-watching too! Let's sit!
Caty It's a beautiful day, isn't it?
Anna Yes. Yes, it is, Ms. Weaver.
Anna People-watching in D.C. is fun. It makes me forget the time!
Anna Until next time! Ahh.


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Professors-in-residence
Coimbra World Piano Meeting
Sardoal International Piano Meeting
International Piano Prizes
Figueira da Foz International Piano Prize
Special Prize "D. Shostakovitch"
Special Prize Best Portuguese Contestant
Live Video Recordings
Arriving in Coimbra
Special Prize "D. Shostakovitch"
This prize will select one participant of the festival to perform with orchestra, in the Opening Concert of the festival, in Grande Auditório do Convento São Francisco, in Coimbra, on the 28th January 2023, the following concerto: D. Shostakovitch – Concerto nr. 1, Op. 35
The selection will take place by video, please check below the repertoire and the rules to submit your video recorded performances.
Selection Round - VIDEO (before 15th January 2023)
One virtuoso Etude of the participant´s own choice, among those of Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Prokofiev or Ligeti
One determinant free choice work
Maximum duration: 15 minutes
Final - VIDEO ( before 22nd JANUARY 2023)
6 pianists may be admitted.
Repertoire (max. 20 minutes):
Free choice program which must include one work composed after 1900.
Concert with Orchestra -PRESENTIAL (28th January 2023)
The winner must perform with orchestra, in the Opening Concert of the festival, in Grande Auditório do Convento São Francisco, in Coimbra, on the 28th January 2023, the following concerto: D. Shostakovitch – Concerto nr. 1, Op. 35
Special Prize "D. Shostakovich" 2023 will be by pre-recorded video submission (see "Video Recording Requirements" section below for all details).
IMPORTANT: The jury reserves the right to select less finalists/prizewinners if the level of the performances is below the standard considered appropriate by the jury to perform as soloist with orchestra.
Video Recording Requirements
Competitors must send one (1) downloadable video link, to an email provided by the organization after a successful enrolment, complying with the requirements of each round and all the recording regulations. The video must be sent respecting the following
deadline: January 10th 2023 (Selection Round) and January 19th 2023 (Final)
By participating, competitors give to the Organization all rights regarding audio and video recordings, so they can be broadcasted with no financial compensation to the candidate.
The Organization must be able to easily download the original files to upload and stream them during the competition days. The contestant must use WeTransfer, DropBox, Filemail, Google Drive, OneDrive or similar when sending the video. YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, etc., links will not be accepted.
The video must be unpublished and must have been recorded after December 15, 2022. To ensure that the recording has been
made specifically for the competition, competitors have to say "Coimbra World Piano Meeting" at the beginning of the video, before performing. The video recording does not necessarily have to be professionally made but it must have a good video and sound quality so it can be evaluated.
Duration of the files cannot exceed the timing requested. The total performance time must include the pauses
between pieces (if more than one is played). Files that exceed the allotted time will not be accepted.
Edited video recordings will not be accepted. The video must be taken in one shot, no interruptions during the entire performance are permitted or after the spoken presentation. The video must be made by one fixed camera and must show the keyboard and the musician in full view.
All compositions must be performed in whole. Works must be performed by memory.
However, single movements from a sonata, or single pieces from a collection, are accepted. Repeats will be left to the discretion of the competitor. The chosen pieces should be published musical works. If requested by the jury, the candidate should provide a copy of the score by email. Compositions and improvisations made by the participants are not allowed.
All participants must aknowledge that in case of winning the prize, they must be in Coimbra on the 27th and 28th January 2023, for rehearsals and concert with orchestra.


Hmmm. It's one of those days. I have watched Explorer crash my computer 5 times this morning, and on several occasions gone off in a huff to pack the dishwasher, do two loads of laundry, fling some old clothes to Goodwill, water the garden and brush the cat. I also watered another cat, hidden behind a potplant, but I honestly didn't mean to do that. I will not be forgiven today.
My computer needs to be revamped, and I just don't want to tackle it while I have so much work to do. However, the work would go more easily if the computer was running more efficiently. Do I meddle with it? Or just plod through the work, like walking in treacle, grimly putting up with the freezes and crashes and the dreaded bluescreen. I have ordered more memory, and I will reinstall Windows, but please, not n ow!
I am also trying to take some photos for another online tutorial, but I keep getting interrupted at that too. But 5 minutes here and there will see it done. Is this a backing being prepared? More later.
One problem of having a twin who thinks exactly as you do is that it's difficult to buy presents for each other. One year I bought Mereth a fantastic book for Christmas, that I knew she would love. I couldn't resist gloating to her on the phone about how much she was going to enjoy her present from me. She assured me that I would love her gift more. This went on for a while, and we admitted to each other that both presents were books, then a horrid suspicion began to form. We both ran off and got our books, and I read out the f irst sentence, and they were the same book! So we saved on postage and wrapped them up and put them under our own Christmas tree. That has happened three times.
Just recently I saw a fantastic book on textile design on Fiona's blog, and promptly ordered it for myself on Amazon. When it arrived I rang Mereth and raved about it, saying she had to have her own copy. She was Furious with me! She had bought a second hand copy and it was waiting to be posted to me as a birthday present. Sheesh! Like I knew? So we each have our own copy, though hers is hard-cover and seeing she bought it for me as a present then maybe we could swap and she can have the soft-cover.... But that would be petty, wouldn't it?
I adore this book; there is so much inspiration in it for designs and quilts and colour schemes. I do love my reference library. I almost never read fiction any more, except for Harry Potter and Tolkien. I love autobiographies, history and resource books that get me thinking along new lines.
These birds would make lovely applique designs, and the colours are so rich and sumptuous. Things like this inspire me to look at my fabric stash with a new eye, and to combine colours in ways I wouldn't ordinarily do.
One of Mereth's interest is ornithology, and bird illustration. How many of you have kept a dead Avocet in your freezer while you made proportionally correct sketches over several days? I know I haven't! Last week I found a lovely book on bird illustration and I bought it for her, but I made a point of telling her so she won't buy it for herself before I can post it to her.
I have to go to the hairdresser soon, to get a cut and colour so I can look presentable at the Sydney quilt show next month. I have a dreadful time with hairsalons, as does Meggie. I have felt the depths of despair watching my hair being tarted around by well-meaning girls and boys, confident that they can be the ones to take control. But my hair is all passive resistance. Even as they stand back to survey their work it starts stubbornly curling back to wherever it wants to be. And that's not a good thing. "Have you tried 'product'?" one woman asked disbelievingly, unable to comprehend that my hair will not be controlled. But I don't have the time or lifestyle where I want to slather my head in 'product' and blowdry it into an edifice and then live in dread of rain or humidity. Not me.
My last haircut, before my FIL's funeral, left me looking like a Viking warrior in a horned helmet. The hairdresser, having cut it so badly, only charged me $5. Amazingly, the day of the funeral it looked fine, but has misbehaved and given me demonic horns almost every day since. And now it has almost grown long enough to lie down flat, and I have to go back and get it cut again.
It's a Hoopoe, if you're interested.
Looks like Mereth was spotted by fellow quilters and bloggers at the Perth Show. It's such a small world. Hi Nicola, hi Kathy!
I needed a break from the computer, so I hopped in the ca r and drove a few miles out of town to a plant nursery. We have been going there for the last 22 years and it's hardly changed a bit. I love walking among the corridors of plants and dreaming of what I could do with a bigger block of land. Palms. fruit trees, flowering shrubs, hibiscus, more herbs, and of course the roses! The air was heavy with their perfume, it was a lovely interlude. And I was sensible and bought nothing, but I truly hate being sensible sometimes. I think I'm going to go back and get myself a rose; it's less than the price of a bunch of flowers, and will give me a whole lot more pleasure as I watch it grow, even if I have to grow it in a pot.
The palms make fascinating patterns of light and shade. I loved the basket weave effect of the new fronds emerging. So much inspiration all around.
I have a thing for Hawaii print fabric. In the 60s my oldest brother had a silk shirt printed with rolling surf, palm trees and dusky maidens, and I thought it was sooo elegant. I was 6 years old! What did I know? I badgered my family for years to let me buy them Hawaiin shirts. They wouldn't, spoilsports.
I have loads of fabric, in the most amazing colourways, of island-themed images. I have been collecting it for years, for something I call my Escape Quilt. I imagine it will be a Ruth MacDowell type quilt, with a bit of patchwork and and a panel of scenery. I don't feel any pressure to actually make it just yet, I'm still collecting ideas and thoughts.
It's not that I want to live on a tropical island; I've had enough of the tropics with it's humidity and bugs and endless summer. It's just the Idea of escaping, if you know what I mean, and being separated from the workaday life. Would you have to do dishes or vaccuum on a tropical island?
I also loved those old Hollywood movies set on tropical islands, which is probably where I got all the imagery from in the first place. Of course they were in black and white, and I was pleased to find this monotone print at an op-shop.
My Dad flew bombers in the Islands during the war, and his photos were fascinating to us kids. And I have all Thor Heyerdahl's books on his Pacific Island expeditions.
Just don't ask me to go there!
No sewing, no sleeping, much computer work being done. Nothing blogworthy to report. I haven't even unlocked the door to my sewing room in 5 days, that's dreadful! I will have to go down today and breathe fabric fumes for a while, to restore my equilibrium.
My spare room is covered with stuff that I'm selling on Ebay, which is adding to the stress and confusion, but I think I have a system worked out and things are progressing. I have sold most of my vintage stash now, which might cause me a pang of suffering if not for the fact that I never used a bit of it. I was just the caretaker, and I decide d to let other enthusiasts enjoy the bounty. I'm awfully good at preserving things that need to be rescued, but then I never do anything with them, or I get snowed under with stuff. So I'm liberating myself.
I used to visit op-shops a lot, picking up vintage fabric and laces and clothing. I had a marvellous hat collection, real monstrosities that women of my Mum's era considered essential for the well-bred woman. But when I sold my quilt cottage it all had to go. This pink crimplene one is the only one I kept; it's like a piece of sculpture! I keep repeating "I am not a Museum, I am NOT a Museum!" Ebay is the perfect solution. I rescue things of worth when I see them, and pass them on to people who are still in that acquisition phase.
My most treasured vintage piece, that Ebay will neve r see? This rose fabric of Mum's, bought before the reality of having three children under 4 years of age dictated that there be no more sewing of her own clothes. I know the exact sort of dress she was planning, with a huge pleated skirt to show off her tiny waist, and a petticoat to make the skirt stand out even more. Maybe a couple of little buttoned tabs on the bodice for decoration, some little designer touch of the sort that she was so good at. But it never happened, and I lusted after this fabric in her stash every time I saw it. She gave it to me about 15 years ago, and I still adore it.
I finished my Single Irish Chain today, and it is now residing on the bed and looking wonderful. It's even bigger than the Red Elephant quilt, it took 10 binding strips and I've never had to use that many before. It took forever to stitch the binding on, I kept running upstairs to do some more work, then back down again to sew another side. I'm sure there were 5 sides on this thing, it was never-ending.
But I'm so pleased with how it turned out, and it gives the room a new look. The Red Elephant quilt that normally lives on the bed will be folded on the quilt rack for a while, so it can have a rest.
I think our bedroom looks rather nice now, can't think of anything else to add to it, except maybe to hang some pictures on the walls. If there were more space I would have a chair and a bookshelf so I could read in comfort; I don't like reading in bed for some reason. I also loathe the whole 'breakfast-in-bed' ritual, I don't think I have ever volunteered for that. If I'm awake then I want to be up and doing stuff, not balancing plates and coffee cups and dropping toast crumbs where I don't want them.
I'm in a quilting mood, so I dragged out one of the projects I'm part-way through and spent a day marking the quilting lines for the next step. Of course I had help. I know I should be very cross with Bob for beating up on my quilt, but he's just so funny all I can do is pick up the camera and laugh. He's such a staid gentleman normally, it's hysterical to see Bad Bob in action. It's like watching a cart-horse gambol about in the paddock, very ponderous and unexpected.
This quilt is Enormous, another huge one. I obviously went through a BIG phase, and I'm still dealing with finishing the monsters. It does look nice on the bed though, and seeing as Wimbledon is coming up I may just hand quilt the blocks in this while I watch my tennis. Just a simple outline, and maybe a motif in the square. Only 61 blocks, wouldn't take long... All the blocks are already ditch-stitched, and the sashing quilted with double lines.
If I can get the borders quilted before then I would be happy, I could manhandle the thing in the hoop without any of the layers shifting then. It's definitely a Plan.
Time keeps running away from me, and I just can't keep up! I have actually had some things to blog about lately, but simply no time to edit photos and post them. I seem to have caught up today though, and I'm going to get busy on some personal projects in amongst the work stuff. That's the plan anyway.
I had 22 blocks of a Many Trips Around The World that I was making for our bed, and made the executive decision to make a smaller quilt instead. (Pattern by Bonnie, over at Quiltville...) One UFO finished, a small quilt completed, more time to move onto the next project; it made perfect sense. Still does. The colours are way off in the photo of the whole quilt, they are like the smaller photo. It's nice and rich and intense, and quite big enough for the spare bed thank you!
And just to make this instructive, photos of how I do a mitred corner. I use a folded mitre, not a seamed one. I don't bother to measure 45 degrees on the border strips, because if the pieced centre isn't a perfect 90 degree angle then the 45 degree mitre won't fit it anyway. Often if you square the piecing up to 90 degrees you chop off points of triangles and lose seam allowances. None of which is necessary because all you need is a diagonal join, not a perfect 45 degree angle.
I sew my border strips on as usual, stopping the seam 1/4" away from the edge of the pieced top, so that I don't obstruct the seam allowance of the adjacent side. I back stitch for two or three stitches to secure the ends so that it won't come apart when I manipulate the strips in the next step. Then I lay the top on a large surface, like a table, padded with a towel, so I can iron on it. The surface needs to be large so you can lay out the top, one corner at a time, and make sure the corner is flat and the borders are laying right.
I make sure the pieced area is perfectly flat on the table, then fold one strip back at an angle roughly how I want it. Then I make sure that both borders are not stretched out or bent in or anything. Once it's lying nicely I fine tune that fold, matching seam lines between the pieced section and the very edge of the border. A pin through all the important points will hold it in place while you gently give it a press with the iron. No moving the iron back and forth, or you will disturb the placement. Next I pin the layers together, with the pin heads facing towards the outer border. And then I run a tacking stitch along the folded edge using the machine set on a long stitch.
The final step is to slip-stitch the fold to the fabric underneath, keeping the stitches small and unobtrusive. I tend to use a normal applique stitch for this, and if I'm being fastidious I may even change thread colour for the different fabrics, but it would have to be a special quilt to make me do that. I usually choose a thread that will match most colours, and be extra careful to hide the stitches if the thread wants to show up.
I trim the seam to about 3/8", remove the tacking thread and it's finished.
Folding the mitre made short work of this heavily pieced border on my Roman Stripe quilt from last year. This would have been nasty to do as a seam, with all those seam allowances going the same way. The whole quilt is in the post for September 23, 2006, if you want to see it again.
I can't be bothered going to the extra effort of sewing this seam on the machine, getting it wrong, unpicking it, trying again etc. I do folded mitres on all my quilts, and if I didn't tell people, they'd mostly never pick it.
Last night I wanted to sew a small block just for fun, so I made a little Double X block. I loved how it turned out, and would like to make 20 of these blocks. They are 9" finished, and will have 1.5" sashing, so it will only be a small quilt. Knowing me it will probably grow into another monster, but it's a delicate little block so I'd be happy to leave it as a small wallhanging or lap quilt.
With the magic of EQ6 I laid it out roughly how I want it to be, and put a few other blocks in there as well. I'm really liking the looks of this, it's rather formal and elegant. It will be quick and fun to do, and I think I will kit it up so that I can work on it when I get a spare day or two.
"Hope this isn't received as nagging, but when you get some time, would you consider a post about how you kit-up a project? Would love to watch over your shoulder when you do this, and learn maybe some tips on this especially for a scrappy project. The hot weather coming up here in North America cries out for small and portable projects."
I've never actually thought of this as a set process, because I kit different quilts in different ways. Most of my kits are somewhat controlled in colouring, because that makes it easier to plan and cut. Totally scrap would be a bit of a challenge unless I worked with generic size strips that I have already cut.
I don't think I can do justice to this subject in a single post, so I will take photos as I kit up the Double X, and share my thoughts on the process as I go.
I am not missing having the huge pile of scraps! I even went to the LQS and bought some new fabric, something I haven't done in a long time. It was very refreshing to see bolts of fabric, instead of shreds.
The materials for the borders, sashes, corner-posts and future binding all came from deep stash. That's stash that's more than 4 years old. I wanted another fabric for the small pink border, but I only had a FQ, which is why I was at the LQS trying to match it. 'It's, oh, about 2 years old...' I told the assistant. No Luck. When I got home I looked through my fabric books, and found that I bought that FQ in Paducah, 5 years ago. Time does march on.
My resolution not to make large quilts went out the window with this quilt. It fits the QS bed, and that's bigger than I intended but it just wanted to be like that. I am helpless in the face of such insistence. I just do what I'm told. Several blocks, like the diamond star and the one to the right of the M block, are pieced with leftover strips from the 1" checkerboard of the Maverick Stars.
I did get a bit desperate towards the end, when I needed three more crumby blocks and the pile of scraps was blechh and down to the dregs. That's when I raided the orphan block pile, and came up with the larger bits and pieces to use as the beginnings of a crumb block. They turned out to be my favourite blocks, that's always the way.
The Initial blocks were just because I've never monogrammed a quilt before. If I had any sense I would have made a '7' block to date it to this year. I may applique that on one of the blocks still, wouldn't take a minute. And I made them blue because it is so out of character for me to be noticeable; I like to be wallpaper, in the background observing, quietly enjoying. I don't do the centre-stage thing happily, and I still feel uneasy at how noticeable these letters are. How bizarre! It's MY quilt! I need to get over that.
I had another border planned, and it was just beautiful. Wrong border for this quilt though, so it's in the ideas basket and I will get round to developing it with another quilt. It was sooo pretty; it always amazes me that in the process of finishing one qu ilt I stumble across ideas for at least three more. That's why there will always be new quilts to make.
What to start next! I think I may actually quilt something, and then there's a darling thing that Mereth is working on, and I could do some blocks for that to help out... I love this moment, when there's so much delicious choice of what to do next. Once the project is begun I get obsessed at seeing progress and work too hard, so I really enjoy the deep breath before it all starts again.
How slack of me, leaving a photo of cheese as the latest post on the blog for a week. I will have to try and do better than that this week. I do have pr ogress on my various projects to show, but I'm being stubborn and want to post the finished product, not the interim photos. So with a bit of effort today I should have one top finished and another well on the way.
Let me just say I am sick of eeny-weeny scraps and want to chop up some Yardage! On the good side I have used up all my wodges and little bits, and now there are just strips left in the scrap drawers. That is a major achievement, seeing these scrap bins were full of snippets from 15 years of quilts. I hope I never accumulate that many again, it was overwhelming. I am going to pick a block, like Crosses and Losses, and make all my scraps into those blocks, not let them pile up in a mountain again.
I am showing you two of my favourite blocks; more tomorrow.
We have had drama with our Maxi-cat, who was attacked by a marauding stray tom. We took him to the vet to be patched up, and he's recovering nicely. If I had a gun I would happily shoot the stray, he's a vile creature. And I'm quite a good shot too, so I wouldn't miss the bugger. Bob is our official Care-Cat; whenever one of the others is sick or in trouble Bob comes to tell us, and then sits close to the afflicted one, being a good friend. I've never seen a cat do that before; he and Max don't always get on, but whenever Max is unwell Bob will be right there next to him. We adore Bob!
I hope I can do a lot of sewing and get all my work stuff up to date in the next few days, seeing as I can stay up all night if I want to. If I can! I don't know if I can do the all-night thing these days, but I'll give it a try.


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In this Episode I share a few of my tips, suggestions and facts I've recently learned on how to open an ebay store. As I finally got myself organized and opened mine this weekend!
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If you're driving through Baltimore at the corner of E. Pratt Street and S. Patterson Park Avenue at sunset, your eye might be drawn to the golden light playing across the stained glass windows of the Patterson Park Pagoda, a towering 60-foot structure resembling the pagodas in China, Korea, and Japan.
Its iron steps wind up through its octagonal base to balconies that overlook the city from under the eaves of its second, third, and fourth stories. Here you get a bird's eye view of a rich history lived out on the hill below.
Imagine burning 720 gallons of Dutch gin in the "gin riots" of 1808, or ready to spring into action as a citizen soldier in 1814. Picture the park when it was a union encampment during the Civil War in 1861 or a hospital site in 1862.
Photo Credit: Pillar Photography
Through the ages, Patterson Park — the oldest park in the city, established in 1827 — has seen a lot of big moments. And the pagoda, which sits atop what was once known as Hampstead Hill, has its own part in that story.
Built as an observatory in 1892, its Eastern aesthetic was influenced both by the Victorian Chinoiserie style (a European interpretation of East Asian design) and its designer, former park superintendent Charles H. Latrobe, assisted by City Hall architect George Frederick. Latrobe also paid homage to Eastern architecture with his Moorish Tower and Chinese Pavilion in Druid Hill Park.
Photo Credit: Vimal Konduri
Arguably one of the most iconic structures in Baltimore, along with Mr. Boh, the Domino Sugar sign, and the Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower, the pagoda almost didn't stand the test of time.
After the pagoda fell into disrepair from lack of maintenance funds, decay, and vandalism, it closed in 1951, and after several attempts at a permanent reopening over decades, was in danger of demolition.
Fortunately, Friends of Patterson Park (which operates and maintains it today) in partnership with the Baltimore City's Department of Recreation and Parks, community volunteers, and a hefty $500,000 investment from the city and state, restored the park by 2002.
Today it remains a popular attraction for locals and tourists alike. Those visiting the pagoda (scheduled to open in mid-April) will find plenty to do both in and around the park. Street parking can be a challenge, so do a little research and capitalize on off-peak times.
In February, Patterson Park was named one of the top 10 parks nationwide by USA Today. The sprawling 137-acre green is a picture of the late Victorian period, with many modern amenities including a seasonal pool, ice rink, casino, and rec center.
The park also sits at a convenient crossroads to numerous restaurants and businesses within a 10-minute walk.
Photo Credit: Bmore Licks
Stop by Patterson Perk for a coffee or sandwich, or try one of the more than 100 flavors of soft serve at Bmore Licks. You can have a slice and play some skeeball at Johnny Rad's Pizzeria Tavern or have a beer next to the stations of the cross in church-turned-brewery Ministry of Brewing. If you walk by community arts hub Creative Alliance, you might even hear some Sidewalk Serenades.
Whether you come for the history, the charming collection of ducks at boat lake, or to discover something new in Baltimore's neighborhoods, there's a little bit for everyone.
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You should check out the information on Canvas.  It is very thorough.


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The announcement came after the ANC took the extraordinary step of calling for a no-confidence vote in the leader on Wednesday, a day after it publicly demanded his resignation. Zuma has been in office for nearly a decade.


This slideshow explains the process to submit local agency projects to SMUD which may require the relocation of existing SMUD facilities, e.g. - road widening's, water / sewer improvements / extensions, etc.
Submit your project's "A Plans"
SMUD will provide an initial response to your submittal by providing SMUD Plant Records Maps of the area identified where the work is to take place.
These maps can be utilized by you to determine whether conflicts exist or not within your project boundary.
The local agency develops minimum 65% construction plans which are to be submitted to SMUD.
All SMUD facility conflicts as determined by the local agency.
Potholing data which shows conflicts with existing SMUD underground facilities.
SMUD reviews plans to determine if SMUD facilities are in conflict with Local Agency proposed work. If no conflicts exist, SMUD will notify you of such and the process will end.
If conflicts are identified, SMUD will assign the project to an engineering designer typically within 5 business days to develop SMUD construction plans to relocate its facilities.
The assigned engineering designer will be your single point of contact for your project to address your project's requirements to meet your needs.
SMUD will notify you of the engineering designer assigned, preliminary schedules for design and construction, and any fees required to locate SMUD's facilities.
Your SMUD engineering designer will complete the final job design and determine any cost if applicable for the SMUD relocation work.
This final job design will be used by SMUD construction crews to perform SMUD's required work.
Upon submittal of 100% signed and approved "C" plans, SMUD will review the C plans against SMUD's design package to ensure no change in B plan submittals and project scope. If no scope changes exist, SMUD will notify you of such and the process will proceed as detailed below.
If scope changes are identified, SMUD will contact you to determine whether the local agency will revise its C plans to match SMUD's construction plans or whether SMUD will revise its construction plans to match the local agency's C plans.
Please Note: Revisions to SMUD's construction plans may cause delays in relocating SMUD facilities and to your project.
When required, you'll receive a project quote and contract letter from SMUD. It'll include instructions for approving the contract and making a payment.
We'll schedule construction of your project after we receive your approved contract letter (when required) and any required fees, and after any other holds have been removed from the project.
At that time you'll receive an email from your engineering designer that the job is progressing to construction.
Our construction team will relocate SMUD's electric facilities and equipment specified in SMUD's final job design and the job will be closed out.
This slideshow explains SMUD's meter and service process to connect to SMUD's electrical system. It also explains the common requirements for projects requiring SMUD construction.
Each local agency has its own requirements for construction projects. You'll need to submit your project plans to the appropriate authority and obtain a "plan check" number before submitting your project application to SMUD.
Click the link below for more information about local agency requirements.
Once SMUD receives your application and fees, we'll assign a SMUD engineering designer, typically within five business days to be your single point of contact for your project.
Our engineering designer will address your project's electrical requirements and schedule to help make sure we meet your needs.
In some cases, you'll need to complete civil improvements before SMUD can begin construction of your project. This could include things such as trenching and installing conduit, boxes and pads for SMUD's electrical cable and equipment.
When civil improvements are required, your SMUD engineering designer will provide you with a Commitment Package that explains the requirements, process steps and your responsibilities. For most jobs you'll receive your commitment package within 60 days or less.
Your Commitment Package will include information about how to schedule a pre-construction meeting with a SMUD inspector. SMUD's inspector will provide direction for your installation of the SMUD required civil improvements, which you can begin after the pre-construction meeting.
Your engineering designer will tell you what documents you'll need to complete and/or return before SMUD can begin construction of your project.
These can include SMUD's agreement to grant easement, conveyance agreement, copies of your property grant deed or building permits. To avoid project delays, please return all required documents as soon as possible.
Your SMUD engineering designer will complete the final job design and determine the cost of the work. The final job design will be used by SMUD construction crews to complete our part of the job.
We'll schedule construction of your project after we receive your approved contract letter (when required) and any required fees, and after any other holds have been removed from the project. At that time you'll receive an email from your engineering designer that the job is progressing to construction.
Our construction team will install SMUD's electric facilities and equipment specified in the final job design. This includes all equipment except the meter, which will be installed after the panel is inspected by your local authority.
You'll need to contact your local agency and arrange for your electrical panel to be inspected. Local agencies typically notify SMUD of their approval one business day after they approve the work.
A SMUD service crew will install the new meter, connect or install the service wire, and energize your service once we receive inspection approval from your local authority. This is typically done within seven business days of the meter panel inspection approval.


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Q: Is it possible to work with an connection range BLE? For one of our projects i'm looking for a way to only let centrals (native iOS or Android app) connect with the perhiperal when they are inside a defined connection range (distance around the perhiperal).
I know that BLE is not designed for distance measuring but i hoped there is a reliable way to make a difference between centrals in a range <2m from the perhiperal and centrals >3,5 meter from the perhiperal.This means i do not need to measure the exact distance.
An important thing to mentoin is that our perhiperal can be located in an "open field" situation but also in situations where it is surounded with walls or concrete for example in a entry floor of a building or a carpark.
Another possible issue is that the central can be inside a car but if this is the case, all centrals for the concerning perhiperal are inside a car. Ofcourse it can be different cars.
Note that there is max 1 perhiperal at the time inside the connection range.
In our current version we developed an formulla what uses the received RSSI strength to estimate the distance. Unfortunately we cannot get this working reliable enough. Maybe we need to use another formulla or calibration method or whatever, we really tried many things during the last 6 months.
The concrete question is:
Is it technically possible to achieve the target as described above and when yes, what is the way to achieve the target above? We are open for specific BLE antenna's or specific designed casings for the BLE antenna or whatever is needed. It is also okay when we need to build an calibration application or specific hardware to calibrate our perhiperals, for each perhiperal, so we are realy open minded for any solution as long as it works reliable!
When more info is required to give an answere, please let me know what is missing and i will complete the info.

A: Unfortunately, it is like you said, you cannot use Bluetooth or Bluetooth Low Energy for short distance/range measurements. Bluetooth was just not designed that way. You want to get accurate reliable measurement for something between 2-3.5, this is way too small for BLE to be capable of that. I know that this is not what you want to hear, but I have already tried this and wasted many months on this before.
The only thing I can recommend if you really really need to continue down this path is that in order to get a more reliable outcome, you will need many many devices that are measuring the RSSI simultaneously, and then those devices need to be talking to each other to get an average RSSI measurement. You may also want to look at configuring the Tx power based on the average readings that you get, i.e. the closer the device gets, you lower the Tx power of both the scanning and advertising devices. Finally, directional antennas can be used if you are planning to use non-Android non-iOS devices for scanning, but this will be tricky if the only antenna you can change is that of the peripheral.