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It has been a beautiful Autumn with good rain early in March; a superb display of colour with the deciduous foliage from April to late May and long-lasting zinnias, dahlias and salvias, as well as a repeat-flush of roses; and lots of gardening activities, creative pursuits and local exploratory trips!Autumn vies with Spring in my affections. The weather is much more stable, though is tempered by the knowledge of the impending Winter, only to be assuaged by the parade of brilliant deciduous colour, as each tree prepares for its Winter dormancy. The verandah is such a vantage point, the backdrop changing daily.The zinnias and dahlias lasted well into late May, having been touched up by a few early frosts, and Ross has finally put them to bed with a good layer of protective mulch.The roses have taken centre stage again with a wonderful Autumn flush. These photos were all taken this Autumn. I have organised them into their separate beds:
Soho Bed:
Top Row: Left to Right: Just Joey; Fair Bianca; LD Braithwaite and Alnwyck.
Bottom Row: Left to Right: The Childrens' Rose; Mr Lincoln; Eglantyne and Icegirl.
Moon Bed
Top Row: Left to Right: Golden Celebration; Heritage; Windermere; William Morris
Bottom Row: Left to Right: Lucetta; Jude the Obscure; William Morris; and Troilus
Main Pergola
Top Row: Left to Right: Mme Alfred Carrière and Adam
Bottom Row: Left to Right: an older Adam bloom and Souvenir de la Malmaison
Hybrid Musk Hedge : Left-hand side : White Roses
Top Row: Left to Right: Autumn Delight and Penelope
Bottom Row: Left to Right: Penelope and Tea rose Sombreuil on arch.
Right-hand Side: Pink Roses
Left to Right: Cornelia on arch; Stanwell Perpetual and Mutabilis
Rugosa Hedge
Left to Right: Fru Dagmar Hastrup and Mme Georges Bruant
Left to Right: Cécile Brünner first two roses and Mrs Herbert Stevens
Top Row: Left to Right: Viridiflora and Archiduc Joseph
Bottom Row: Left to Right: Archiduc Joseph and Countess Bertha
I have organised the rest of the garden blooms by colour:
Blue :
Top Row: Left to Right: Wild Petunia, Ruellia humilis; Violet; Pasque Flower, Pulsatilla;
Bottom Row: Left to Right: Poor Man's Lavender Plectranthus neochilus; Plumbago; and Hydrangea
Green :
Top Row: Left to Right: Tree Dahlia buds and Elkhorn Fern
Bottom Row: Left to Right: Rosebud Salvia new bud and Bells of Ireland, Molucella
Orange, Gold and Yellow :
Top Row: Left to Right: Paris Daisy with Salvia, Indigo Spires; Woodbine; and Paris Daisy
Bottom Row: Left to Right: Hill Banksia, Banksia collina; slightly older bud of Rosebud Salvia; and Orange Canna Lily
Pink :
Top Row: Left to Right: Fuchsia; Salvia; Christmas Pride, Ruellia macrantha;
Bottom Row: Left to Right: Rosebud Salvia, Salvia involucrata; Christmas Pride; Pink 'Doris'
Red :
Top Row: Left to Right: Grevilleas Lady O and Fireworks; and Salvia 'Lipstick'
Bottom Row: Left to Right: Grevillea Lady O; Echeveria and Azalea Dogwood Red
Purple :
Top Row: Left to Right: Mexican Heather, Cuphea hyssopifolia; Cigar Flower, Cuphea ignea
Bottom Row: Left to Right: Dames' Rocket, Hesperis matronalis, and Violet
White :
Top Row: Left to Right: Nerines; Honeysuckle; Strawberry flowers and first of the Paper White Ziva jonquils for the season!
Bottom Row: Left to Right: Autumn Crocus; Windflower; Tea, Camellia sinensis; and Viburnum opulus – an out-of-season bloom.
We have been very busy and productive in the garden, gradually crossing jobs off the list! Weeding is a constant in the Soho and Moon Beds, as well as around the feet of all the shrub roses and bulb patches. We have just dug up either side of the shed garden path, so the shed roses are now in garden beds and we planted out many of the potted cuttings, which we took from my sister's garden at Glenrock. All are doing well!We also made two arches out of old gate weld mesh, one leading into the future chook yard and supporting Cornelia (photo 2) and Sombreuil (photo 3); and the other on the corner of the shed, with Reve d'Or (photo 3) and Alister Stella Grey (photo 4) either side. Ross defined the edges of the vegetable beds with old recycled fence palings and planted out young vegetable seedlings, which he then mulched. We are really enjoying their Winter crop in our salads at lunchtime.From front to back in the photos below: red and green mignonette lettuce; spring onions; broccoli; spinach; cos lettuce and kale. We harvested the pumpkins, which again engulfed the compost heap, zinnia bed and maple tree, as well as the last of the tomatoes, making 3 bottles of green tomato chutney. We also have plenty of late Autumn fruit, now that the bats have gone, though I suspect our citrus is fairly safe anyway! Unfortunately, the figs did not ripen in time, but the Golden Hornet crabapples have lasted well on the tree. All the new citrus are growing madly and bearing fruit – the lime (photo 1) has a particularly fine crop and the lemonade (photo 2) is also bearing well. The cumquats have been an absolute picture, both in full blossom and fruit.We picked 6 Kg of fruit to make into cumquat marmalade and there was still fruit left!The loquat trees were in full bloom for weeks, attracting huge noisy parties of rainbow lorikeets, which then went on to eat the Duranta berries, along with the Crimson Rosellas and huge flocks of King Parrots. Up until early May, we had even larger flocks of screeching Little Corellas in the thousands, gathering in the trees, recently vacated by the bats, then flying off en masse right on dark to their roosting trees to the north, occasionally accompanied by the odd Galah! We have enjoyed flyovers by the local Gang-Gangs (photos below) and Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoos. We even had a rare flypass by a Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo, en route to the local mountain forests. Other exciting glimpses included three Dollar Birds (photos 1 and 2) and a Figbird (photo 3), both Summer migrants, normally found further north. Other larger birds in our garden at the moment include very quiet Australian Magpies (photo 6), a pair of courting Australian Ravens (photo 2), a Grey Butcherbird (photo 3), Pied Currawongs (photo 5), Spotted Turtle Doves (photo 4) and our Blackbirds (photo 1), which have been on holiday and have just returned. And our littlies: the Eastern Spinebills (photos 1 and 2), Silvereyes (photo 3) and Double-barred Finches (photo 4). all of whom do a stirling job keeping the bugs in check.We found this delightful Grey Fantail nest in our old camellia tree at the front door.The slightly cooler weather has been wonderful for pursuing creative tasks from cooking to sewing, embroidery and paper crafts. I made my son a delicious carrot cake, using a recipe from https://chefkresorecipes.wordpress.com/2017/03/23/carrot-cake/ for his birthday: and hot cross buns for Easter Friday, using a recipe from https://bitesizebakehouse.com/2017/04/08/cranberry-hot-cross-buns-2/ , with a fun Easter Egg hunt in the garden with friends on the Sunday. My friend Heather, who visited us during the Candelo Arts Festival and is the Melbourne agent for Saori (http://artweaverstudio.com.au/), gave us a Saori weaving workshop and we were thrilled with our woven runners. I gave my friends Rae, Brooklin and Kirsten, a hand embroidery lesson, inspiring Rae's wonderful exhibit. I was so impressed! I made embroidery rolls for their birthdays, as well as a pair of felt appliqué cushions for my sister's bed. And another decoupage floral card and a paper owl, assembled from a German kit, which was given to me by my daughter in Berlin.And finally, there were the bouquets from the garden! Masses of colourful zinnias… and bright dahlias; Scented roses;
Simple blue salvias and bold hydrangeas; And wonderful mixtures of colourful blooms! How I love arranging flowers!And finally, we had some wonderful days out, exploring new spots and revisiting old haunts. The Bendethera day in March was rather inclement and while we could not reach our final destination due to the amount of water in the final creek, we did ascertain that our vehicle could manage the 4WD tracks for a future camping trip and despite the rain and constant cloud, it was still a lovely day out. We had much better April weather for our Monaro drive to Delegate, Jindabyne (including the wonderful Wildbrumby Scnapps Distillery in photo 2) and Thredbo (the Kosciuszko chair lift in photo 3) and discovered a wonderful birdwatching and trout fishing venue, Black Lake, near Cathcart, on our way home (photo 5), where we saw six elegant Black-Winged Stilts (photo 6). We introduced friends to Bay Cliff and Greenglades (also see: https://candeloblooms.com/2016/12/13/wonderful-wonboyn/) in late April (see if you can guess the tracks on the beach in photo 7!); and Aragunnu (also see: https://candeloblooms.com/2015/09/11/aragunnu-and-bunga-head/) in May, two of our favourite spots on the coast;as well as revisiting Nunnock Swamp and Alexander's Hut (also see: https://candeloblooms.com/2016/10/18/south-east-forests-national-park/).And we went canoeing on Back Lake at Merimbula, where we photographed a beautiful Azure Kingfisher, as well as a teenage cygnet and white egrets. We are so lucky to have such easy access to these beautiful unspoilt natural areas! Next week, I am returning to our dreamy roses!


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I´d strongly encourage you to raise this question also within the IACCM technology network, which is a micro-community, where you will be able to get insights to new trends in this specific field and where I am sure you´ll have the opportunity to share ideas regarding the topic you have brought:
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Hi Adriana,
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Hi everyone,
I have, like Vladimir Koval, a question regarding the Non- Disclosure Agreement.
Imagine the following situation: you have to issue a standardized Non-Disclosure Agreement to your suppliers, that ultimately your Client will review (and he expect that all documents will look the same). However, some suppliers would be keen on modifying clauses, in order to preserve their own company's interest, which as mentioned could be an issue to your Client at the end, as he is expecting a unique document.
I was therefore wondering when working with multiple suppliers, if the terms of an NDA can me modified for some of them or standardization in this case is the norm.
thanks for any thoughts. I hope I am clear.
• Freeport LNG • 2018-01-08 15:33:22
While standardization may be a noble ambition, achieving it is usually quite difficult. You can improve your odds through the use of mutual NDAs that protect the confidential information of both parties and by having fair and balanced agreements, but expecting all suppliers to sign them as-is may be expecting too much.
Your role is to understand their requested changes and to determine the impact to your company and whether the changes are acceptable, and to advise your internal client accordingly.
Hope that helps. Sincere regards.
• CommonAccord.org • 2018-01-14 10:29:18
Consider whether you might be able to use a "standard" and have each negotiated difference stand out as a specific change. There are a number of ways to do this. The most systematic would be to use a master and generate each of the documents from the master, with a patch for the differences. That's possible in a number of technologies. A broad example is shown here:
• Tata Communications • 2018-02-22 04:33:24
Hi Vladimir,
We have standard NDA template and additional clauses in the clause library if the vendor pushes for Mutual NDA. This helps build the agility in NDA execution. My experience says that we are able to push 80% cases on standard NDA template and the balance needs engagement.
• 2018-03-27 17:30:53
If a NDA is well drafted, clear, fair and equitable then it should be signed without issue.
If the client has specific requirements that are reasonable and equitable they should be acceptable to all parties.
If there is an element of inequity or unreasonableness then expect suppliers to push back. The simplest test is "would I sign this on behalf of my organisation": if not, then why expect the other party to sign?
What could be up for discussion: whether the NDA is one-way or mutual? what law and jurisdiction apply? the length/duration of the NDA and of any surviving obligations? whether personal NDAs/statements are required?
I would have concerns if I have received unacceptable terms in an NDA - it wouldn't bode well for any subsequent contract discussions negotiations.
• Health Quest • 2018-07-12 21:57:19
In my organization we use a Mutual Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality Agreement. I can see where there may be a need for specifics to be outlines, and in that event, I would consider an addendum as a sufficient protocol. The addendum can include the customer specifics that would otherwise present as "sticking points" that tie up getting the project off the ground.
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How to handle scope issues ?
• Tecnimont • 2017-07-27 12:59:49
The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustment to time, cost and resources is referred to as Scope Creep. Scope management Plan can reduce the risk of scope creep.
Disadvantage: Loss of Cost and Time and can derail the Project;
1 Ambiguous scope;
2 Design errors / omissions, lack of material, labor issues, new legislation / regulation, financial issues, environmental issues;
3 Improper Scope management process;
4 Lengthy or tedious Change management process;
5 Lack of proper Monitoring and Control;
6 Too many cooks spoil the broth;
7 Informal meetings with Client / Customer leading to change which is carried out but neither recorded nor approved.
Measures to avoid Scope Creep:
1 Team awareness: Every team member must be aware about importance of Change management process and ill effects of non-adhering to same. Change alert card must be available with every team member in order to highlight the issue in time and conduct periodic meetings of team members;
2 Define Scope, create WBS with well-defined work packages, link them with resources and allocate definite time for same. Monitor progress as per Scope Baseline. Update progress reports periodically.
Monitor progress of individuals / groups and for any shortfalls / delays, ask reasons. Maybe they are carrying out work which is not part of Work Package (Scope Creep) hence even though work is carried out but it does not show any progress as per Scope baseline.
3 Ensure that Project includes all the Work required and only the work required (avoid gold plating) to deliver right solution to the Client / Customer in an efficient and cost effective manner.
• Academy Sports + Outdoors • 2017-07-31 16:38:26
My general thought here is as follows: 1. The contract is only one step, and; 2. an appropriate governance model can be established in detail after the SOW outlining the general governance model is executed.
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2017-07-05 07:55:04
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I have 30 list of suppliers. And I am handling these 30 contracts but due lack of bandwidth I am not able to go through all contracts and extract necessary information from document. Can anyone suggest me what activity I can take up to initiate cost reduction for suppliers contracts ?
• Seal Contract Discovery & Analytics • 2017-07-06 15:52:14
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Automotive OEM
2017-02-27 23:22:00
How to enforce NDA?
Hi everyone, Can anyone please share their advice on how you enforce your Non-Disclosure Agreement? If you have a large pool of subcontractors working on information ...
Hi everyone,
Can anyone please share their advice on how you enforce your Non-Disclosure Agreement? If you have a large pool of subcontractors working on information sensitive project, how can you really makes sure they wont share it?
Is having liquidated damages spelled in agreement the best and only way to do this?
Really appreciate any thoughts on this.
• ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions (India) Private Limited (formerly Uhde India Private Limited) • 2017-03-01 11:20:42
Dear Vladimir,
First you need to sign a flow down NDA with your subcontractors on the same (or stricter) terms as with your customer and get your subs sign NDA with their personnel working on the project. This will ensure that your subs (and personnel) adhere to the confidentiality requirements. This should be followed up with surprise audits on the working of your subs to ensure that the NDA provisions are adhered to.
As regards your question of LD, I do not think it is a good idea to have LD in NDA. The whole premise of NDA is that unauthorized disclosure would result in irreparable loss and damage to the owner of the sensitive information. This fundamental premise will be diluted if you put LD provision in NDA.
• Automotive OEM • 2017-03-01 17:24:45
Hi Rajesh,
Thanks, I see your point. The purpose of LD is to get supplier/subcontractor who violated NDA immediately pay damages, rather then going through investigation and litigation.
This seems to be more effective and fast way to control and enforce your NDA.
However, I was wondering what else you can do to get your NDA work better and actually prevent contractors disclose (by accident tor on purpose) info and pay more attention to NDA.
• Telefonica • 2018-03-27 17:36:37
Carrie nails it below (above?).
When you disclose information, mark it appropriately and ask the recipient to acknowledge receipt. Also, ask for sight of the recipients 'information control policies' to satisfy yourself that they will apply appropriate control and rigour, and also ask for details of any audits/checks that they conduct to ensure compliance with their own processes/policies.
Of more importance to me: if you are GENUINELY concerned that the recipient will breach the provisions of the NDA,I would be wary of disclosing anything of importance at all. An NDA isn't an obligation to disclose, its an obligation to protect what has been disclosed.
• Pretorius Consulting • 2017-06-01 07:12:48
The number one rule regarding the NDA is know what information you are sharing. Set it out in writing. For every meeting, any new confidential information should be captured, this includes conversations, ideas, discussions etc. Capture it in writing between the parties. Always mark your documents "Confidential"
Keep your subcontractors updated of their obligations, create an opening remark at all your meetings.
Have an Information Security Policy for your company, spelling out what the different security settings are for your confidential information, Wikipedia has a good starting point.
and Classification
More importantly ensure that your company has access control based on need to know, need to access.
In order to make a claim for breach, you first will have to provide evidence that the information was indeed classified and controlled. Each country applies their own Trade Secrets Acts differently but one thing is for sure, if you are giving your core intellectual property away to a "large pool of subcontractors" it will be very difficult to prove that the information hasn't gone "public".
• Pretorius Consulting • 2017-06-01 07:15:18
One other thought. Every single subcontractor you work with will have vendors. Ask for a full disclosure of all companies and people that your subcontractor will be contacting in order to perform their portion of the work. Include that list in your NDA.
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Mississippi has produced hundreds of nationally and internationally known musicians. It is time we recognized and honored their achievements. The Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame has two major objectives:
- Showcase successful Mississippi musicians.
- Encourage public interest in and education about Mississippi's music heritage.
The Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame is a non-profit corporation and is calling on Mississippians to support its efforts. At present, its major activities include researching successful Mississippi musicians, distributing information over the Internet about their work, educating school children about Mississippi's musical heritage, teaching music in the school workshops, conducting talent searches, and holding music industry seminars.
The Hall of Fame relies on donations and contributions to maintain our activities. You can help by making a donation.
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Mississippians have succeeded in classical, jazz, blues, country, gospel, contemporary and rock and roll. Mississippi is the birthplace of the blues, country music, and rock & roll. All other forms of popular music came from those roots.
Mississippi must have a mechanism to show its appreciation to the many native sons and daughters for their musical success. We should be grateful and proud for their achievements.
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Man Draws 137-year Sentence for Rape, Assault
PLATTE CITY (AP) — A Kansas City man who was identified partly by a shoe print on his victim's face has been sentenced to 137 years in prison for rape and assault.
The Platte County prosecutor says a judge followed the jury's recommendations Thursday in sentencing 22-year-old Stephen J. Lockhart.
The victim testified that Lockhart grabbed her outside her apartment around 12:30 a.m. on April 30, 2011, and then drove to a secluded area in the northern part of Kansas City.
The woman said Lockhart raped her twice, choked her with a belt and stomped on her face. When he drove away, she walked two miles in the dark for help.
Another woman testified during the sentencing phase of the trial that Lockhart had assaulted and raped her in the same secluded area in March 2011.


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Headlines come free with your Starbucks Breakfast Blend now. Connect to the Wi-Fi at the coffee chain, and the New York Times will let you read up to 15 articles for free a day.
There are a couple of limitations though. Once you're logged onto the Starbucks network, you can check out three articles in five different sections—Top News, Business, Technology, and Most E-mailed. The fifth category rotates every day. Monday is Sports, Science is Tuesday, Dining is Wednesday, Styles on Thursday, Weekend on Friday, The Magazine on Saturday, and the Sunday Review on the Lord's Day. Makes sense to us. Who doesn't like to read the paper with their coffee? [New York Times via TheNextWeb]


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This is for Jeff - mille fois merci! So did you know there"s a ZIZOU MOVIE??? 90 minutes of Zizou for the duration of an entire match, 17 cameras, one man, one legend. It premiered unofficially at Cannes in May, it premieres officially at the Edinburgh Film Festival on August 16, and you bet your boob job I"ll be on top of that sh*t as soon as it crosses the pond. Full Story
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Inline Inspection Counts on Custom Conveying
|To deliver stamped frame rails, complete with in-die-inserted hardware, to an inline visual-inspection station, the first set of dual-belt conveyors reaches into the press to grab the bowed rails from the die.
However, in 2001, all of the in-die sensing and measuring the firm had built into dies used for one major program—stamping frame rails for a Tier One automotive customer—couldn't prevent an inordinate number of bad parts from escaping the 110,000-sq.-ft. plant.
"We insert hardware—studs and nuts—into the frame rails during the stamping process," says Jim Szymanowski, Tella Tool's sensor specialist, "and every so often the insertion mechanism would malfunction. We charged the press operators with visually inspecting every part, at 40 to 60 strokes/min., to make sure we didn't ship bad parts to our customer. But no matter how hard we tried, the customer reject rate was still too high. That led us to look into the use of inline vision systems for part inspection and quality verification, as well as for automated containment of any nonconforming parts."
A Custom, Portable Inspection Solution
The frame rails run in various sizes on five different presses, from 200 to 600 tons, at the Tella Tool plant. Production volumes average nearly 185,000 rails/month, and each rail includes one to four pieces of hardware installed in the die.
To engineer a portable self-contained inspection station that the firm could quickly install at the end of each press on which the rail job was running, Tella Tool turned to conveyor manufacturer QC Industries, Batavia, OH, and its integrator Gem Automation, Hillsdale, IL. Together the companies developed and built a custom conveyor system to move the parts from the press to an inspection station, and then to good- and bad-parts bins.
"Working with QC and Gem, we developed a conveyor arrangement that allows the parts to come out of the die in somewhat of an orderly fashion," says Szymanowski. "Orienting the parts in a predictable , to ensure that the key features fall repeatedly within the field of view of the vision system, was critical to preventing any bad parts from slipping through the system, and it proved quite challenging. But we were able to get where we needed to be."
The rails exit the die and come down one set of dual conveyors that reach into the press and butt right up against the die. The parts then transfer to a second set of conveyors that resides on a portable inspection cart that also houses the cameras and lighting. An automatic sorting system kicks bad parts out of the line and drops them into a locked box.
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Part size and complexity called for the use of center-driven dual-belt conveyors. As rail length (width across the belts) changes from die to die, operators, as part of the job setup procedure, quickly shift one belt in or out as needed.
Once the mobile visual-inspection system was built, installed and debugged to ensure repeatable delivery of the rails in a predictable pattern, all quality concerns vanished. In fact, the setup worked so well that over the years Tella Tool has constructed a total of five of the mobile inspection systems—conveyors and all —for use at its Lombard plant, and a sixth mobile visual-inspection station for use at its 50,000-sq.-ft. sister plant in Brownsville, TX.
|A portable cart houses everything needed for the visual-inspection station, including a second set of conveyors, overhead-mounted camera and a parts-sorting setup that deposits bad parts in a locked bin
"We've yet to ship a bad part to the customer since we began using the vision systems," says Szymanowski. "Our customers are very happy—customer satisfaction has gone through the roof. These systems are difference makers. And, we're much more comfortable running our presses faster knowing that the cameras see all."Tella Tool has about 380 dies in active duty, Szymanowski says, changing dies on its two dozen presses every day or two. Of those dies, about one-third make use of the custom-built vision systems for part inspection and quality verification.
"We use the systems to look for holes, forms, inserted hardware and other features," says Szymanowski. "They couldn't be easier or faster to set up—when the operators execute a die change, they also enter into the inspection-system control a code that calls up the appropriate custom inspection routine based on the part number. Some inspection programs look for 25 to 30 different features on each stamping. The configuration of the conveyors might be the only thing that requires a manual change in the entire setup."
As the presses run under the keen eyes of the cameras, Szymanowski can monitor operation of each press line remotely. Any adjustments to the lines can be done either at the press or from his office.
"For example," Szymanowski offers, "if one coil of steel appears darker in color than another coil, we may need to adjust the contrast setting in the program, rather than adjust the intensity of the lighting. We can monitor that from our office and make the necessary changes to the program settings from the office rather than having to run out onto the shop floor, or having to rely on the operators to be able to do that.
"We're working toward becoming more and more lean, and allowing our operators to become as productive as possible," adds Szymanowski. "These automated visual-inspection systems have helped us make great strides in that direction." MF
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Anyways, this is what I've come up with -
And here is how I got there. First off I crinkle up aluminum foil until I get a shape I like. I use aluminum because I don't want to use that much clay. While it is inexpensive I'm too
Then I make a sandwich of whatever colors strike my fancy – like this:
Then I cut it in half and stack it -
And cut and stack again and again until I don't want to do it anymore. Make sure you are smooshing it good so you eliminate air bubbles.
Then I take a slice and roll it into a ball and flatten it and cover the white – like this:
Then smooth it out with your fingers. Press and rub your fingers over the project. Then I slice thin layers from the clay – flip the cut piece over and lay it down somewhere else. It give the clay kind of an "agate" look. (Look at the top picture again – otherwise you have the "marbled" look – which is also good!) I cut with a blade I removed from a small box cutter – again cause I'm too thrifty
Then I roll out "snakes" of black clay and very carefully form my letters by laying the black clay on top of the colored clay. Don't try to make your letters on the table cause they will distort when you try to lift them. Then when you're happy with how your letters look carefully press the black into the colored clay (If you don't flatten it you can take it off and redo the letters) – The letters widen it a bit but we're having fun remember?!
Then I put a wire bent into a U shape on the back and covered it with a layer of black clay to hold it.
Then bake it as per manufacturers instructions on a bit of foil (base for your next project). I bake it about 15 minutes at around 225.
Let it cool and then I wet sanded it with 600 grit sandpaper. This will get rid of your fingerprints. I don't get too excited about it cause it is just for me – someday my kids might get a kick out of my fingerprints. If you want start sanding with a courser grit sand paper and you start sanding colors off and get really cool effects – play! Oh – then I sprayed it with a spray sealer. You could poly it, or use a wax floor sealer (Future works best) or sand it until it's shiny – play! This isn't very expensive. I think the kit I got at Walmart was about $9.00 and I bought an extra white along the line for around $5.00. I've made lots of projects since then with these same basic supplies – fun stuff!
Here is another:
And another (I got crazy with this one and made it round – then dismantled a silk flower and attatched it):
Now, wouldn't it look cute with a clay tomato on the tomato marker and a clay basil leaf on the basil marker and so on? Well, that is beyond my talents - but if you make one let me know so I can show it – just play! This will probably be the last post for the week – but I have a fun project planned for next week – see you then!!


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The cuisine of Asturias
Fabada asturiana, the classic regional dish of Asturias
- Autonomous region: Principality of Asturias
Asturias, a natural and culinary paradise
Without a doubt, Asturias is a magnificent natural sea, mountain and country paradise with a very diverse environment. Protected on one side by the Bay of Biscay and on the other by the Picos de Europa mountain range, this region has always been isolated and protected from possible invasions and therefore has many deep-routed traditions and rituals. The typical Asturian is friendly and open, always willing to receive outsiders who wish to get to know their land. Its cuisine is based on cider, fabada (bean stew) and cheese, together with shellfish and fish.
If Asturian cuisine had to be described in few words, it could be defined as slow cooking over low heat. The Asturians do not use many spices or other condiments in their dishes which could distort the natural taste of the ingredients. The kitchens use old-style stoves which conjure up an atmosphere from another era, contrasting strongly with the stress of modern day life. Asturians delight in their stews, the "fabada" being the queen of them all.
Fabada "Fabada asturiana" is prepared with dried white beans called "fabes", accompanied by chorizo, black pudding, cured pork shoulder, potatoes... this dish is of international renown and there is no set recipe - it can be varied according to the chef's fancy: clams, lobster, hare and partridge have all been used in its preparation. Although the "fabada" is the most famous of Asturian dishes, it is by no means alone - soups or "potes" also form an important part of the local cooking. These include "asturiano", which is made with dried white beans (fabes), cabbage, chorizo, cured pork shoulder and potatoes; "pote de castañes mayuques", made with chestnuts and parsnip top stew, typical from Ibias.
The generous sea The Asturian chef carefully chooses his ingredients from many sources: from the sea, the rivers, the market gardens, the mountains... Both freshwater and seawater fish and shellfish are used in local recipes. From the sea, we have anglerfish, which is known as "pixín" in Asturias, hake, conger eel, bonito, sea base, scorpion fish, etc. Shellfish include barnacles, shrimps, small crabs and clams. The "oricio" (sea urchin) has become a real institution, especially in the winter months at Gijón, where they are eaten raw or cooked in various different ways. River fish such as salmon, trout, sea-trout and lamprey complete the range of aquatic species which can be tried whilst visiting Asturias. However, it is also very important to keep the local meat dishes in mind. The "vacuno mayor" (meat from large bovine animals, such as ox, bull, etc.) is very much appreciated by Asturians and it is also exported to nearly all other Spanish regions: entrecote with Cabrales cheese, ox hotpot... "pitu de caleya" (chickens bred in the open air in small villages or hamlets). The partridge, wild boar, roe deer and venison are always prepared with aromatic herbs and truly taste of the mountains. The flavour and character of "carne gobernada" (beef with bacon, eggs, peppers and olives) and tongue "cachopo" are very much appreciated by the locals.
The cheese legacy Cheese is another extremely important component of Asturian cuisine. In fact, every valley or mountain usually makes its own cheese and as a result, Asturias offers one of the widest ranges in Europe. They can be made from cow's milk, goat's milk or even using three different types of milk, but without doubt the most famous of all is the celebrated Cabrales, a blue cheese included in a Denomination of Origin together with Gamonedo, Pría, Porrúa, Beyos, Casín or Afuega´l Pitu, Peral, Urbiés, etc. The Principality of Asturias also boasts a wide variety of confectionary products which are found in specialist shops throughout the region. The Asturian is known for his sweet tooth and therefore there are endless specialities on offer. The most traditional Asturian dessert is rice pudding, but the traveller should also try almond tart, "brazo de gitano"(a type of Swiss roll), "milhojas de crema" (custard millefeuille), "pastel carbayón" (almond pastry), "carajitos del profesor de Salas" (hazelnut biscuits), or the festival specialities, such as "frixuelos" (crepes), "casadielles" (walnut popovers), "panchones de Carnaval" (type of brown bread) or the "huesos de santo" (made from marzipan) and "teresitas" (made from tea) eaten on All Saints' Day, and "tocinillo de cielo" (pudding made with egg yolks and syrup).
Cider and restaurants Austurian cider is the local drink which is drunk socially and used in the preparation of many dishes; it has almost become a cult. It can be drunk in the cider bars called "sidrerías", in restaurants and at times in the "llagares" themselves (where it is pressed). The cider is poured from a height (a practice known as "escanciar") into a wide-mouthed glass only just covering the "culín" or bottom and induces friendship and festivity. Everybody should experience this type of fiesta when visiting Asturias. The Casa Fermín, located in Oviedo and awarded two suns by the CAMPSA Guide serves typical Asturian products of prime quality. The Casa Gerardo, located in Prendes and also awarded two suns by the same guide, serves traditional Asturian dishes. Other restaurants worth visiting are the Restaurante del Arco in Oviedo, and the Corral del Indiano and Casa Marcial in Arriondas and the Taberna Viavélez Puerto, all of which have been awarded one sun by the CAMPSA Guide.
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Juarez (Spanish:Ciudad Juárez) is a city in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. It stands on the Rio Grande, across the United States border from El Paso.
Get in
No documentation is currently required to enter Juarez since it is located in the Mexican Zona Frontera. However, After January 2009 land border crossing will require a passport. Re-entry to the United States will require documentation as usual.
By car
Near the Stanton Street bridge in downtown El Paso, most visitors that come for a single day choose to park on the US side of the border and walk across the bridges as to avoid dealing with the chaotic Juarez traffic and long waits for vehicles reentering the United States. Parking is generally $3.00 U.S. near the bridges.
By plane
Abraham González Airport (IATA|CJS) (ICAO|MMCS) offers flights to several destinations in Mexico, including Chihuahua, Monterrey, and Mexico City. El Paso International Airport (IATA|ELP) is the most convenient airport for U.S. travelers [1].
Juarez is a large Mexican city located in the middle of the Chihuahuan Desert. While you are undoubtedly in Mexico, you are nowhere near the tropical Mexico with beautiful beaches and Aztec and Mayan culture many people expect. Juarez is home to the Mexican Vaquero (Cowboy) culture and you will be more likely to encounter people resembling cowboys than any other vision of a Mexican one might have. However, Juarez is rich in the northern culture of Mexico, and most travellers will find this more charming and realistic than the culture they experience at many other locales that are not off the beaten path in Mexico.
Get around
There is a public bus system in Juarez; however, it is not very easy to use and is often overlooked by tourists. In general, buses have their end destination on a board in the front window. They make frequent stops, and often run in close succession to one another; if you miss a bus another of the same route is likely to appear in a matter of minutes. Many routes continue to run overnight - exercise extreme caution on buses at night, and buses that go into poorly policed barrios of the city (especially to the west and south)
Taxis are abundant and inexpensive, always ask for the ride fee and if possible ask two different drivers to get the best fare. Taxis are not metered - and initial fares may be given based on one's percieved ability to pay (a tourist or wealthier Mexican may be quoted a higher fare). However, most sites of touristic interest in Juarez can be reached by walking in the historic center. Upon arrival in Juarez it is likely that most foreigners will received by a plethora of taxi drivers offering to drive them to the market. While the market cannot be seen from the border crossing it is a relatively short walk - after crossing the Santa Fe street bridge, walk down Avenida Juarez to 16 de Septiembre, turn left and then walk about seven blocks (street blocks are much smaller in Juarez than in neighboring El Paso).
Most larger businesses have parking lots with attendants that will ask for a nominal fee ($0.25 US, or two to three pesos). Watch where you park. Cars that are illegally parked on streets may have their license plates removed by a transit cop. The idea is to ensure you will pay the fine before leaving the country (and your plates should be returned after doing so). If this happens to you, the ticket should indicate where to pay your fine, should you chose to do so (you should be able to re-enter the United States in any event, though you may face some added complications with a missing plate).
Juarez is unlike many border towns in that it is a major city with over a million inhabitants. However, most foreign tourists will still enjoy the same elements of stereotypical Mexican culture that they do in other border towns such as Nogales, Tijuana, and Nuevo Laredo.
Typical Mexican souvenirs such as blankets, pottery, and trinkets themed in Mexican culture.
Make sure to haggle as it will be expected. If you act disinterested, or begin to walk away, you should get quoted a lower price. The merchants speak English and are constantly encountering Americans so you will not seem very foreign to them if you are not Mexican yourself. Goods may range from kitschy trinkets to high quality artesan-made glassware, pottery, jewelry, leather goods, and woven cloth. Most markets also have good food and drink, and musical entertainment.
Don't forget the "burritos"
Be aware that you can't drink in public places or in the street, ask before.
Juarez has its fair share of local and international hotels. However, many travellers will find it easier to spend the night across the Rio in El Paso, as it is a large American city with all the usual American services.
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Stay Safe
Mexican authorities report that more than 1,800 people have been killed in the city since January 2008. Additionally, this city of 1.6 million people experienced more than 17,000 car thefts and 1,650 carjackings in 2008. As of April 2009, the presence of approximately 10,000 Mexican soldiers in the city has diminished violent crime, especially in public places during the daytime. U.S. citizens should pay close attention to their surroundings while traveling in Ciudad Juarez, avoid isolated locations during late night and early morning hours, and remain alert to news reports. A recent series of muggings near the U.S. Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez targeted applicants for U.S. visas. Visa and other service seekers visiting the Consulate are encouraged to make arrangements to pay for those services using a non-cash method.
Though authorities in both Juárez and El Paso have tried to curb underage drinking, the downtown districts do fill with intoxicated club and bar patrons at night, many of these patrons are under 21 and over 18. A drunken fight or barroom confrontation can escalate into serious violence, so be careful. High-end clubs will very openly discriminate against anyone who looks like "trouble" (shaved heads, tattoos, gang clothing, or even a working class appearance), but they should be safer to visit. At times, there will be suspicious activity in high-end clubs and bars. If you see this going on turn the other way. Also keep in mind, in traditional Mexican bars or cantinas, unaccompanied women may be seen as "fair game" or may even be rather unwelcome - bars known as "Ladies Bars" are more accepting and tolerant of female patrons.
While sampling Mexican beer and tequila is highly recommended for a tourist, it is probably wise to avoid heavy drinking in an unfamiliar border city. It is also best to keep a close watch on drinks in nightclubs, as they may be spiked by strangers.
Currently, Juárez is being patrolled by the Mexican army, in an attempt to crack down on crime. Mexican military personnel are generally professional (in comparison to the police), if intimidating with their automatic weapons. Stop at any checkpoints. Driving through a checkpoint may result in gunfire.
Juarez is notorious for police setting up traps to pull over motorists or, sometimes, question people leaving bars and clubs. This is done so "mordidas" or bribes are offered. While bribes are widespread, don't immediately assume a $20 dollar bill will get you out of any situation (especially with military agents). Most police officers will at least go through the formality of writing a ticket, asking questions, or writing a report before any "arrangement" takes place.
One serious word of caution. Do not be caught with any type of weapon in Mexico. This can include a small pocket knife, or even ammunition or bullet casings. American motorists have been jailed for driving into Mexico with spent ammunition casings in their car trunk.


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Folks have asked me if I could make a tutorial on Cleo de Nile, which is a character line from Monster High that is developed by Mattel. Instead of doing Cleo, I thought it would be more fun submitting a lesson on "how to draw Frankie Stein", step by step instead. As you can tell by her name, she is the daughter of the very powerful Frankenstein, and she was born fifteen days ago. It is also said that her mother may very well be the woman that we know as Frankenstein's Bride. This is rumored because of the fact that both Frankie and the Bride both have black hair with white streaks. Anyways, she is one of the major or main students that attends Monster High, and out of everyone there, she probably has the oddest fashion sense. Like her daddy, she too has various stitches all over her body, with the most prominent being her arms, legs, and hands. Also like her father she has the two legendary bolts on the sides of her neck as well, which is used to conduct electricity through her body. Because her body is all stitched up, her hands sometimes fall off during fearleading practice, (that is the monster term for cheerleading), and this gets very frustrations for poor little Frankie to deal with. Luckily her BFF's are there to help her through the tough times as they run to her aid whenever she needs them to. Well, I guess that just about does it for this tutorial description. I will let you get down to the nitty gritty as you learn "how to draw Frankie Stein" so you can keep filling that page of all the gals from Monster High. Adios amigos, and try to enjoy the rest of your drawing day as you wait for me to return.
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Ah, Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney Phil – called the world's most beloved seasonal prognosticator by his handlers in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania – might or might not see his shadow on this Groundhog Day 2019. This U.S. and Canadian tradition comes every year on February 2. It has its roots in astronomy, in the sense that it's a seasonal festival, tied to the movement of Earth around the sun. It's a great excuse to go outside and enjoy some revelry during the winter months.
We all know the rules of Groundhog Day. On February 2, a groundhog is said to forecast weather by looking for his shadow. If it's sunny out, and he sees it, we're in for six more weeks of winter. On the other hand, a cloudy Groundhog Day is supposed to forecast an early spring.
Of course, it can't be cloudy, or sunny, everywhere at once. And many towns in the U.S. and Canada have their own local groundhogs and local traditions for Groundhog Day.
Punxsutawney Phil predicts 6 more weeks of winter. #GroundhogDay pic.twitter.com/tmTkHRWDuZ
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) February 2, 2018
Punxsutawney Phil, the great weather prognosticator. By far the most famous of the February 2 shadow-seeking groundhogs is Punxsutawney Phil in Punxsutawney, in western Pennsylvania, which calls itself:
… original home of the great weather prognosticator, His Majesty, the Punxsutawney Groundhog.
Since 1887, members of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club have held public celebrations of Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney is where Bill Murray was in the movie Groundhog Day. From the looks of things … a good time is had by all.
How accurate is Phil? NOAA's National Climatic Data Center says Phil's forecasts have shown no predictive skill in recent years.
Groundhog Day has its roots in astronomy. What you might not know is that Groundhog Day is really an astronomical holiday.
It's an event that takes place in Earth's orbit around the sun, as we move between the solstices and equinoxes. In other words, Groundhog Day falls more or less midway between the December solstice and the March equinox. Each cross-quarter day is actually a collection of dates, and various traditions celebrate various holidays at this time. February 2 is the year's first cross-quarter day.
Of course, the division of the year into segments is common to many cultures. Our ancestors were more aware of the sun's movements across the sky than we are, since their plantings and harvests depended on it.
Groundhog Day in various cultures. In the Celtic calendar, the year is also divided into quarter days (equinoxes and solstices) and cross-quarter days on a great neo-pagan wheel of the year. Thus, just as February 2 is marked by the celebration of Candlemas by some Christians, such as the Roman Catholics, in contemporary paganism, this day is called Imbolc and is considered a traditional time for initiations.
The celebration of Groundhog Day came to America along with immigrants from Great Britain and Germany. The tradition can be traced to early Christians in Europe, when a hedgehog was said to look for his shadow on Candlemas Day.
Try this old English rhyme:
If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, winter will have another flight. But if it be dark with clouds and rain, winter is gone and will not come again.
Or here's another old saying:
Half your wood and half your hay, you should have on Candlemas Day.
In Germany it used to be said:
A shepherd would rather see a wolf enter his stable on Candlemas Day than see the sun shine.
There, a badger was said to watch for his shadow.
A friend on Facebook said that, in Portugal, people have a poem about February 2 related to the Lady of Candles. Here's the poem:
Quando a Senhora das Candeias está a rir está o inverno para vir, quando está a chorar está o inverno a acabar. [Translation: If Our Lady of Candles smiles (Sun) the winter is yet to come, if she cries (Rain) the winter is over.]
One final note. It's supposed to be bad luck to leave your Christmas decorations up after Groundhog Day.
The National Geographic Society once studied the groundhog and found him right only one out of every three times. But what the heck? It's all in good fun.
So, you may celebrate with a real groundhog and a real shadow – or just pause a moment on this day to reflect on the passing of the seasons.
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Bottom line: February 2 is Groundhog Day. It's a celebration with roots in astronomy, in the sense that it's a seasonal festival, approximately halfway between a solstice and an equinox. Astronomers call it a cross-quarter day.
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President Eisenhower had three secret meetings with aliens, former Pentagon consultant claims!
President Eisenhower had three secret meetings with aliens, former Pentagon consultant claims
Ex-President met with extra-terrestrials on three separate occasions at New Mexico air base
Eisenhower and FBI officials organised the meetings by sending out 'telepathic messages'
Eisenhower Met With ETs
It's a story that has circulated in and out of the UFO community for years: Did former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower have three meetings with extraterrestrials?
An ex-government consultant says the story is true that the 34th commander in chief chatted, if you will, with aliens at a New Mexico air base, according to reports.
No definitive proof has ever surfaced to confirm this president-meets-aliens tale. However, according to Timothy Good, Eisenhower and FBI officials arranged for the out-of-this-world summit at Holloman Air Force Base.
"Aliens have made both formal and informal contact with thousands of people throughout the world from all walks of life," Good, an author, lecturer and former consultant to Congress and the Pentagon, said on Frank Skinner's BBC2 program, "Opinionated."
Good claims that governments of the world have had ongoing contacts with ETs over many years.
The story about Eisenhower's close encounter of the very personal kind — where he reportedly met with Nordic-looking aliens — supposedly unfolded while the president was vacationing in Palm Springs, Calif., in February 1954.
Whether you believe this story or not, an interesting related side-story reared its head in 2010. A retired New Hampshire state representative, Henry McElroy Jr., taped an intriguing video announcement in which he revealed seeing a secret briefing document intended for Eisenhower.
This document, according to McElroy, contained information that aliens were in America and that Eisenhower could meet with them.
"To the best of my memory, this brief was pervaded with a sense of hope, and it informed President Eisenhower of the continued presence of extraterrestrial beings here in the United States of America," McElroy said on the video.
"The tone of the brief indicated to me that there was no need for concern, since these visitors were in no way causing any harm or had any intentions whatsoever of causing any disruption then or in the future," he explained.
McElroy goes on to say that, although he couldn't verify times or places where any meetings might have taken place between Eisenhower and "off-world astronauts," he believed that there were such meetings.
While it's certainly difficult to prove any of these things, we're left with the same question that always follows such stories: Who do you believe?
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article … z2IvlRdbC1
Now we learn from legendary Bob Dean who the Actual ET's were that our Government met with!
The Anunnaki met with our leaders in 1954 says Retired, Command Sergeant Major, Robert O. Dean!
More info on the meeting…
How US President General Dwight Eisenhower sold out the human race in pact with rogue extraterrestrials?
In addition to President Dwight David Eisenhower (Ike) and other top brass, the Muroc Airfield meeting with extraterrestrials on February 20- 21 1954 was attended by a "Wise Men" group of four members of civil society, that is, those who were not politicians, intelligence agents, or members of the armed forces, all in their 80s. They were GERALD LIGHT, a metaphysical scientist; EDWIN NOURSE, a leading economist; JAMES FRANCIS MACINTYRE, bishop and head of the Catholic Church in Los Angeles; and FRANKLIN WINTHROP ALLEN, a well-known journalist.
Says exopolitics scholar Michael Salla: "The four represented senior leaders of the religious, spiritual, economic, and newspaper communities and were advanced in age and status. They would certainly have been plausible choices for a community delegation that could provide confidential advice on a possible public response to a First Contact event involving extraterrestrial races."
The meeting was at once awesome and terrifying to most of the people present, who thought they had met supernatural beings and the world had come to an end. In a highly emotive letter to a confidante dated April 16 1954, Gerald Light underlined his fear, shock, and bewilderment in the following words: "I had the distinct feeling that the world had come to an end with fantastic realism. For I have never seen so many human beings in a state of complete collapse and confusion, as they realised their own world had indeed ended with such finality as to beggar description."
Salla, citing Charles Suggs, whose father, a former Navy Commander, was present at the meeting, chronicles the proceedings thus: "Ike along with others…met and spoke with two white-haired Nordics that had pale blue eyes and colourless lips. The spokesman stood a number of feet away from Ike and would not let him approach any closer. A second Nordic stood on the extended ramp of a bi-convex saucer that stood on tripod landing gear on the landing strip… these visitors said they came from another solar system. They posed detailed questions about nuclear testing."
"Beware of the Grays"
Message from the Anunnaki?
Disk Decoded reads – "Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises.
Much pain, but still time. Believe there is good out there.
We oppose deception. Conduit closing."
Physically, the Nordics looked like humans only they were larger in stature, about 7 to 8 feet tall. They spoke perfect, sweet-sounding English but with an accent. Their speech was conveyed rather mentally than verbally. "There was telepathic communication," Salla says. "It's as though you're hearing a person but they're not speaking."
The technology they put on show defied belief. "During my two days' visit I saw five separate and distinct types of aircraft being studied and handled by our Air Force officials – with the assistance and permission of the Etherians!…When the Aliens demonstrated their ability to become invisible along with mental telepathy, everyone there was terrified."
The ability to disappear (an ability based on pure physics, not magic) and to communicate using thought (again something based on a mastery of biophysical science and not on supernatural ability) was what made Gerald Light characterise the aliens as "Etherians", that is, people who do not dwell in this physical world but can in a flash enter and leave it at will, like "God".
Not all history is recorded and not all history is known. Hence, we will probably never know the full details of the day-long meeting between Ike and the Nordics. What we know for sure is that the Nordics warned Ike about the Aliens – the Grays – who were orbiting the equator, that he should not have anything to do with them as they were a sinister race who would bring untold harm both to Earth and the human population.
The Nordics in fact proposed an alliance with Earthlings to fight the Grays and promised to help us in spiritual development. However, they insisted that an alliance with us would only be possible if the US and any other country on Earth got rid of their nuclear weapons and other armaments programmes.
The Nordics also offered Earthlings very advanced technology for the betterment as opposed to the destruction of mankind. "The Nordics offered to share their superior technology and their spiritual wisdom with Ike if he would agree to eliminate America's nuclear weapons," says Salla. "They were afraid we might blow up some of our nuclear technology and apparently that does something to time and space and it impacts on extraterrestrial races on other planets."
It was a no-deal. Ike rejected the Nordic overture because he did not like the idea of getting rid of nuclear weapons. Apparently, he didn't trust the Nordics. What if it was a ruse and all they were up to was to seize control of the planet eventually? The Nordics advised that Ike think the matter over again and left. But not before they reiterated the warning "Beware of the Grays".
The titbits we have about the Muroc Airfield meeting do not expressly state that the Nordic Aliens were Anunnaki probably because this was obvious. But it is clear they were Anunnaki and were emissaries of Enki.
There are several pointers in this direction. First, they looked exactly like the Sumerians describe the Anunnaki in thousands of cuneiform clay tablets. In any case, the Anunnaki belong to an extraterrestrial race classified as Nordics – towering, albino-white, blue-eyed, blonde-or white-haired in the main (some Anunnaki are red-haired and green-eyed.) Second, the Nordics arrived rather fast, almost out of nowhere.
Their meeting was not scheduled: it was abrupt. What this clearly demonstrates is that they came not from deep in outer space, like the Grays did, but from within the Solar System. We know that the Anunnaki are present on the Moon, Mars, Jupiter's moon Ganymede, and Saturn's moon Titan. They could have scrambled from one of these locations at Enki's electromagnetically relayed signal and with their superluminal spacecraft would have been on Earth in no time.
The Nordics were certainly messengers of Enki because they came in peace and were pro-mankind. When the Anunnaki were directly ruling earth 4000 years ago, they were in two factions. One faction was led by Enlil, the Bible's Jehovah/Yahweh, and his clan, and the other was led by Enki and his clan. Enlil treated mankind as serfs or slaves and even wanted us to disappear from the face of the Earth. On the other hand, Enki, who created us, tried his best to elevate us to his equals and to do things that served mankind's best interests. Needless to say, the Anunnaki team that met with Ike must have come from Enki.
Perhaps the most persuasive argument that the Anunnaki delegation was sent by Enki stems from the way they introduced themselves. They said they were from another star system called the Pleiades. Of course that does not mean they were at that juncture coming from the Pleiades: it could simply mean they were of Pleiadian roots. The Pleiades are a cluster of star systems in the constellation of Taurus. The Pleiades group is 400 to 500 light years from Earth and constitutes 200 to 250 stars, only nine of which are familiar. More than any other star group, the Pleiades have captured the attention of both modern and ancient civilisations.
They are even mentioned in the Bible three times – in Job 9:9 and 38:31, and Amos 5:8. The royal Anunnaki – Anu, Enki, Enlil – originate from the Sirius, Orion, and Pleiadian star systems; hence some Anunnaki also classify themselves as Pleiadians. The Pleiadians are the closest to Earthlings in terms of the way they look, which is not surprising as they are our creators. The group of extraterrestrials from Sirius, Orion, and the Pleiades are known as the Sirian Group.
Enki's mother was descended from Pleiadians. And do you know how the name Pleiades came about? According to the Hopi, a Native American tribe whose knowledge of Earth's history is highly esteemed by scholars from across the globe, Enki was called EADA, meaning "The Creator", because it is he who created mankind. His other title was BA-AL (also rendered BA-EL or PAAL), which means "LORD FATHER", that is, Father of Mankind. The term "Pleiades" is the English version of PAAL-EA-DAUS, meaning "Place of Our Lord Father the Creator". In other words, the Pleiades are named after Enki!
Eisenhower's meeting with the Anunnaki is commonly referred to as the First Contact (with extraterrestrial races). The Second Contact was the most significant and the most tragic. It was not with the Anunnaki but with the Grays, who actually worked for, and were in league with, the Draco Reptilians. The meeting took place at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico toward the end of 1954.
And last but not least, Proof the Anunnaki Enki is truly here and now!
UFO "Ea Enki" – ASCII code was drawn in Crop Circle at Poirino, Italy on June 20, 2011!!!!!!!
ASCII code was drawn in Crop Circle at Poirino, Italy on June 20, 2011:
A new crop picture which appeared near Poirino, Italy on June 20, 2011 shows at its center a large seven-pointed star.
Even more interestingly, a series of seven rays along the outside of that new crop picture at Poirino are written in eight-bit ASCII code, and seem to identify the crop artist as "Ea" or "Enki" who was a extra-terrestrial god in ancient Sumeria. According to ancient legends, he and his sister created modern humans by hybridizing sperm from the male gods with eggs taken from local aboriginals, already living on Earth tens of thousands of years ago.
The precise ASCII code which was drawn at Poirino goes as follows, reading clockwise around its large seven-pointed star:
01100001 a
01101110 n
01101011 k
01101001 i
00100000 space
Read more: http://www.disclose.tv/forum/president-eisenhower-met-with-ets-the-anunnaki-t83662.html#ixzz2lUAbeRPK


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2017 Ram 1500 pickups feature roomy cabs with comfortable, easy operation, big, intuitive screens, lots of cubby storage. The optional Ram Box bed is a compelling feature, while the optional adjustable suspension kneels for easier ingress.
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The Laramie Longhorn has handsome stitching and fine wood grain trim.
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Part-time 4WD is available, and an on-demand AWD system is offered with V8s. The former is generally better for rugged terrain, the latter is generally better for snow, ice and inconsistent road conditions.
The 2017 Ram 1500 is the outgoing model. Look for bargains as dealers sell down their remaining stock to clear the way for the all-new 2018 Rams.
Mitch McCullough, editor-in-chief, New Car Test Drive, contributed to this report; with staff reports by The Car Connection.


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