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World War II was responsible for the deaths of 40 million people, the dawn of the atomic age, and a realignment of the world into communist and non-communist blocs. This powerful two-part survey examines the war's many battles and invasions, as well s the twisted obsession of Hitler, the nationalistic fervor of the Nazis, the methodical extermination of millions of Jews, the introduction of blitzkrieg warfare, the first use of the atomic bomb, and the rationing, mass production, and patriotism that occurred in war-conscious America. The DVD includes three printable teacher guides featuring reproducible handouts, activities, exercises, vocabulary words, and other related materials. Recommended for grades 4-10. 30 minutes.


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Categories: Atari ST, GEM VDI, Programming, Revisiting GEM For The Atari ST
Sorry it's taken me so long to come back to this subject. I had a lot of good feedback from part 1 and I'd originally mentioned talking more about true color video modes and outline fonts, but since then I've had a lot more ideas popup and I wasn't sure which way to go until now.
In early 1987, I became the "Chief Software Engineer" for a small company named Neotron Engineering. Small in this case meaning that I was the third employee. I was in the final stages of completing my GEM font editor program (Fontz!) and had seen an ad in one of the Atari-related magazines for a new word processor called WordUp that Neotron was releasing soon.
WordUp looked like it might be the first product to fulfill the promise of GEM's ability to create multi-page documents that mixed graphics and text with different typefaces and styles. At that point, it was a year and a half since the Atari ST series had come out and only a handful of programs had touched on those promised capabilities. In retrospect, one can see that the reasons for that promise not being fulfilled weren't completely as they seemed at the time, but back then the main thing everybody pointed their finger at was GDOS.
When Atari first announced the Atari ST, the promise of GEM included the idea that you could use a GUI-based word processor that would allow you to format your document with a variety of different typefaces and styles, include graphics together with text, etc. In fact, the main hype about the machine in those early days was that it promised the power of the just-released Apple Macintosh at a lower price. However, when the machine shipped in July 1985, the GEM VDI graphics engine was missing a key component necessary to make that possible: GDOS.
GDOS stands for Graphics Device Operating System but to be honest it's really a lot less complicated than it sounds. GDOS did basically three things.
- Read a configuration file (ASSIGN.SYS) at system boot time which specified the names of loadable device drivers and the names of the font files that went along with them.
- Upon demand, install a loadable device driver into memory and patch it into the GEM VDI dispatcher.
- Upon demand, load the bitmapped fonts that were specified for a given driver into memory.
That's all it did. It really should have been part of the regular GEM VDI that was (eventually) put into ROM, but it didn't make it into the original release. Even when I worked at Atari I'd get different answers depending on who and when I asked… was it bugs (early versions had a lot of memory leaks), or was it a lack of licensed bitmapped fonts, or what?
I'm sure part of the problem was the logistics of fitting everything into the system. The early Atari ST models shipped without a hard drive of any sort, and had the operating system loaded from disk instead of in ROM. That meant a standard 520ST had somewhat less than 300kb of RAM available after booting, before any application was loaded.
That still seemed like a lot of memory to those of us freshly upgraded from 8-bit computers where 64kb was the typical maximum. But a printer driver would take up a minimum of about 70kb before loading any fonts. Even a minimal set of bitmapped fonts for a printer device could run another 100kb or more, leaving minimal room for the application itself.
Keep in mind that this was in the old days before virtual memory was a standard feature on computers. The Atari development system did include a linker that theoretically allowed for overlays – program segments which shared the same memory blocks and which were loaded upon demand as needed, but the feature was never really more than briefly alluded to in the documention. I remember thinking it seemed like the required runtime support was missing.
At some point the decision was made that GDOS would be provided as a separately loaded program that you would place in your boot disk's AUTO folder (containing programs to be run at boot time). This would allow it to be included with programs that needed the features it provided, while not consuming memory or other system resources otherwise.
The first program that shipped with GDOS was Easy-Draw, from Migraph Software. At least I think it was the first one. It was a vector graphics drawing program which allowed the user to create drawings from combinations of the various graphics primitives supported by GEM VDI. (This did NOT include bezier-curves or splines until many years later.)
The way Easy-Draw got around the memory issue was to use one program for creating the drawings and another for printing them. When you wanted to print something, it would save your drawing as a GEM Metafile. This was basically a file consisting of a list of GEM VDI commands that, when executed in sequence, would reproduce the drawing. The only thing the program needed to do was scale the coordinates in the metafile to the resolution of the output device. Once the metafile was created, then the Easy-Draw program would unload the screen fonts, freeing memory, and then terminate. As the final step of the process, it would ask GEM to run the OUTPUT program.
OUTPUT was actually a part of the original GEM setup from Digital Research, where the memory situation on 640K-limited PCs wasn't much different than that on the Atari. As such, it was included in the GDOS distribution from Atari. GEM even had specific API calls for launching the OUTPUT program.
When you exited from OUTPUT, it would ask GEM to run the program that had started it, in this case Easy-Draw, so that it looked like you were more or less going from the "design" module to the "output" module as seamlessly as might be possible under the circumstances. In those early days it meant a fair amount of swapping floppy disks around, but ultimately it worked.
Easy-Draw shipped with GDOS disks containing the printer drivers and bitmapped fonts that Atari provided. There was a printer driver for the Epson FX series dot-matrix impact printer, another for the Star Micronics printers, and three sets of bitmapped fonts, two for different screen modes, and one more shared by both printer drivers.
The three typefaces included were Typewriter – basically a Courier fixed-character-width font, Swiss– a sans-serif font similar to Helvetica or Arial, and Dutch – a serif font like Times Roman. Typewriter was included in 1 size (per device) and the others in 5 or 6 sizes ranging from 9 point to 36 point. Those fonts were high-quality as long as they were output at the right size, but didn't provide much variety.
Enter Fontz!
In mid 1987 I purchased an Apple Macintosh II computer. This was the first model with expansion slots and no built-in monitor. I had been using the Magic Sac emulator on the Atari ST since the previous summer, but I found that when I started programming with the Lightspeed C (later Think C) package, the debugger didn't work so well under emulation. Not really surprising since the emulator had to hook into low-level stuff to make things work on the Atari, and the debugger had to hook into much of the same stuff to do its thing. Anyway, I really wanted to learn how to program for the Mac platform, and I also wanted to experiment with high-res color graphics.
To be honest, in large part another reason I got the Mac was because of the unfulfilled promise of the Atari ST. However, the Mac didn't quite take over as my main machine and I continued to work regularily with the Atari. The Mac was heavily supported by many large software publishers, so I saw the Atari platform as a better place for a single developer just starting out to make his mark.
At some point, I wrote a little utility program that would read bitmapped fonts from the Atari 8-bit computer and create a GEM-format bitmapped font from it. Then I started playing around with converting other bitmapped font formats. I had font collections on the Mac with dozens of bitmapped fonts in a variety of sizes, so I dug down into the Inside Macintosh book (the programmer's bible for the Mac in those days) and before long I had figured out how to extract the data and create a GEM font.
Eventually I pulled these various individual conversion utilities together and a friend suggested it would be nice to be able to edit the actual bitmaps. Before too long, I'd created the Fontz! bitmap font editor, which could import a variety of different bitmap formats, scale fonts to different sizes for different devices, and more. It had what amounted to a paint program built-in for manipulating the character bitmaps.
This brings us back to the beginning of the story… I was getting a lot of interest from various publishers about Fontz! when I saw the advertisement for Wordup. After meeting with Neotron, they offered to buy the rights to publish the program and a position as a software engineer.
GDOS Printer Drivers
After I started at Neotron Engineering (later renamed to Neocept), my first task was to finish off Fontz! so we could ship it, and then I started working on various features for WordUp. Once we finally shipped, we included the same basic GDOS package as anybody else. The main difference was that we didn't use the OUTPUT program for printing, but rather printed directly from the main program. This used more memory, so we specifed that the minimum memory requirement for WordUp was 1mb instead of the usual 512kb. This was early 1988, and at that point there were all sorts of memory upgrades available for 512k machines, and newer machines like the 1040ST and Mega ST had more memory in the first place. The program actually worked on a 512kb machine, but you often needed to use a limited number of fonts to make everything fit, so we decided just to say that 1mb was required.
One of the biggest problems we had in with the initial release was that there were a lot of new printers coming on the market every time you turned around, and many of them required a different printer driver than either of the ones Atari provided. So we were constantly getting requests from users for drivers.
For whatever reason, Atari was really slow to come out with new drivers, so initially we had no way to respond to those requests, but eventually we were able to convince Leonard Tramiel, VP of SW Development at Atari, to release the GDOS Driver Kit to us. I'm not sure if we were the first developer to get this from Atari, but I don't think there was ever more than 1 or 2 other developers who ever released a driver. I think part of the reason was that some of what we ultimately did with it went way beyond what Leonard was expecting us to do.
The GDOS Driver Kit was basically the source code and linkable library for the existing printer drivers. The linkable library was, for all intents and purposes, a version of GEM VDI which rendered into a bitmap buffer. This would be combined with a chunk of code that you customized for each printer that did nothing more than output a buffer using whatever custom codes that the printer required. There was printer-specific code provided for the Epson-FX series 9-pin dot matrix impact printers, and for the Epson LQ series 24-pin dot matrix impact printers. I'm thinking there may have also been a third example for Atari's own SMM804 9-pin dot matrix printer, but without digging up those old floppies I'm just not sure if that was there originally, or if it came later.
In order to minimize memory usage, the driver would allocate a buffer that was only a fraction of the size needed for the overall page, represented as a horizontal strip across the overall raster area. This strip would extend across the entire width of the raster, but might only be 8 lines tall even if the overall printer raster was 3000 lines. The driver would rasterize all of the GEM VDI primitives making up the page and clip the output to the current strip. Then the printer-specific code you created would output to the printer using whatever custom codes were needed. Then it would move down to the next strip and repeat the process. This would happen over and over until it reached the bottom of the page.
This may sound inefficient in some respects, since the primitives might be rendered dozens or even hundreds of times in the process. However, keep in mind that sending data to a printer over a standard parallel port was not a very speedy process back then. Compared to the amount of time required to actually send the data to the printer, not to mention the time it took most impact dot matrix printers to actually print that data, the rendering time was usually not a major factor.
Breaking the raster down into strips allowed the printer driver to use much less memory than would otherwise be required if it rendered the entire page at once. The minimum resolution of the printer drivers we were using was 120 x 144 dpi, or 960 x 1260 dots for a letter-sized page. For regular monochrome output that would have required about 180kb of RAM to create the entire raster at once. Remember what I said earlier about how much RAM was available and you see why minimizing RAM usage was important.
Back in those days, you might have 5 different manufacturers creating printers that had basically the same exact capabilities, but for whatever reason, used different escape codes for the same function. More likely, you had 80% compatibility from one device to the next, but one or two codes here and there would be different. The first few printer drivers I created were fairly easy to do, as they involving nothing more than changing the printer escape codes that were used. This was, I think, all that Leonard Tramiel at Atari really expected we were going to do, even though no restrictions were ever placed upon us.
However, before long we started looking at printers that required more work. The Epson JX-80 was a color version of their popular FX-80 printer. Another popular inexpensive color printer was the thermal wax transfer Okimate from Okidata. The first inkjet printer the HP Deskjet, had just hit the market. The original HP LaserJet was quite popular among the higher-end users.
When I first started working on the drivers that were more complex, or which at least needed changes beyond what escape codes were output, I needed to figure out a way to debug them when things didn't work right. This was not straightforward, because of the way printer drivers were loaded into the system and executed. Eventually I added code to the printer driver that did the equivalent of standing up and shouting "here I am!" when the system loaded it into memory. This allowed me to tell the debugger where it was in memory, load debugging symbols, etc. Along the way, I learned a ton of important facts and trivia about GEM VDI and the way it worked internally.
Optimizing The Output
Remember a moment ago when I said that sending the data to the printer was a significant bottleneck? Well, the basic printer driver code supplied by Atari was set up to output complete strips of data to the printer no matter what the strip actually contained. That meant we output the same amount of data if the strip had lots of information or if it was empty. That's not very efficient. We noticed that some printers had the ability to skip over empty space and start printing graphics data in the middle of the line instead of just starting at the beginning, so we started working on optimized drivers that would take advantage of that. This could speed up the time it took to print a page tremendously. I think we did one test where the unoptimized driver would take about 6 minutes to output a page, but the optimized version took like 30 seconds. That's a 1200% improvement, and it was not even the theoretical maximum improvement. Of course, most pages people printed fell somewhere in the middle.
Somewhere along the line, Migraph software had come out with a GDOS driver for the HP LaserJet laser printer. This also worked with the HP DeskJet printer, which was a very popular printer with Atari users as it produced near-laser quality at a much lower price. However, it was slow, mostly because of the amount of time it took to send over the 1mb+ of data that it took for each page, so Migraph supplied two versions, one for fast output at 150 dpi and another for high-quality 300 dpi.
Our WordUp word processor worked with the Migraph driver, but we weren't happy with the speed so we decided to do our own driver. Our original optimization technique that I described earlier did not apply to the DeskJet, but we discovered that it supported the concept of sending Run-Length Encoded (RLE) graphics data. This would allow you to send just a few bytes of data whenever there was a long string of repeating values, as would be the case whenever there was an area that was all black, or all white, or which repeated some pattern over and over.
My boss hadn't really gotten involved in the printer drivers too much up to that point, but he got interested in this and worked on the encoding algorithm for the data while I did the rest of it, and ultimately we created a driver that was 200-300% faster on average than the Migraph DeskJet driver out there. This was released along with a full set of fonts as the TurboJet printer driver package.
G+Plus From Codehead Software
As I said earlier, in the early days, GDOS had a reputation for being buggy and slowing down your system. As far as I could tell, the "buggy" part was mainly a reference to memory leaks that could occur as drivers and fonts were loaded and unloaded. It was something where you might easily never see any problem. But as far as slowing your system down goes, this was a bit more commonplace and easy to measure. It wasn't a huge difference, but it was there. The cause was simply that there was extra code being executed each time a GEM VDI call was made, and that code wasn't really especially optimized.
Codehead Software was a company that specialized in publishing utility software for the Atari ST. One of their early products was G+Plus which was advertised as a GDOS replacement. They claimed to have used optimized assembly language to eliminate most of the system slowdown. They also had other improvements to the way regular GDOS worked, like the ability to change the list of installed fonts for a device without rebooting your system.
I first got involved with G+Plus because the very early version had some compatibility issues with our WordUp program. It initially wasn't clear if it was a bug with G+Plus, or something WordUp was doing, and so I ended up working with Codehead's Charles Johnson to figure out what was going on and fix it. I don't remember exactly what the problem was now, but it didn't take us long to figure out.
That all happened before we had gotten the GDOS Driver kit and I had acquired the knowledge about the internal workings of GEM VDI that came from working with it. Later, as I learned more about how GDOS and GEM VDI worked internally from the printer driver stuff, a variety of questions occurred to me regarding how G+Plus did certain things. Eventually, I ran into Charles again at a regional Atari User Group show and asked him those questions. To my surprise, he was largely unable to answer them. In fact, he didn't seem to know some of the very basic low-level details about how GEM VDI worked internally.
I couldn't understand how someone could write a new version of GDOS without such knowledge. I came to the conclusion that Codehead hadn't actually written their own version of GDOS from scratch, but rather that they had taken the original version from Atari and disassembled it. That was easily done, and the program file was only about 8-9 kb. Once they had a disassembled version, it would be possible to hand-tune the original code generated by Atari's C compiler to eliminate the various inefficiencies that contributed to the system slowdown. Along the way, they also figured out how to do a couple of things like alter the bitmapped fonts configuration on the fly.
While I was initially disappointed to concluded they hadn't written their own version from scratch, I later came to appreciate the fact that they managed to introduce as many new features as they did, while maintaining compatibility. It was quite impressive.
The Atari Gets Vector Fonts
As 1990 drew to a close, the big news was the impending arrival of FSMGDOS. "FSM" stood for "Font Scaling Module" and basically that meant outline fonts. Outline, or vector-based, fonts were nothing new. Several desktop publishing applications for the Atari computers used their own proprietary flavor of outline fonts, including Calamus and Pagestream. However, there was as yet no system-wide solution.
FSMGDOS was a new version of GDOS that took the regular features of GDOS and added in the ability to generate character bitmaps as-needed from scaleable outline fonts. It also added some new GEM VDI drawing primitives for bezier curve and splines. All while maintaining backwards compatibility (mostly) with the original GDOS and programs that used it.
The biggest compatibility problem with FSMGDOS was the fact that existing applications using GDOS with bitmapped fonts would typically determine which specific sizes were available and limit the user options accordingly. But with FSMGDOS, this didn't work quite right, since any size requested would resolve back to "available". However, this was a relatively minor problem overall.
At Neocept we got an early version of FSMGDOS and started making changes to accomodate it, but Neocept was not doing well and essentially dissolved before that job was really finished.
A couple of months later, I moved to the SF Bay Area to take a position at Atari as the developer support engineer for the ST platform. When I arrived at Atari, FSMGDOS was just about ready to go in many ways, but one of the big problems was the fact that it used a proprietary type of outline font that was not in common usage. The availability of a variety of typefaces was a big question mark. The big player with outline fonts was Adobe's Postscript Type 1, which had been around for several years and which was supported on Windows and Mac via their ubiquitous Adobe Type Manager software. True Type was just making its debut but had backing from both Apple and Microsoft.
We tested the waters briefly by allowing the original version of FSMGDOS to ship with a new version of WordFlair from Goldleaf Publishing, but at the same time, we started looking into an alternate font scaling library from Bitstream. Since Bitstream was (and continues to be) one of the world's foremost type foundries, all the lingering questions about font availability faded away. The big question came down to performance, as the Speedo format required a bit more math processing to render, and floating-point support was software-based on all Atari machines except for the new TT030, which could take an optional floating point chip.
If I remember correctly, the rendering speed differences turned out to be less of an issue than originally anticipated, and combined with improved bitmap caching routines, the Bitstream Speedo scaler and fonts ultimately won out. Thus was born "SpeedoGDOS", the "Speedo" version of "GDOS".
In Conclusion
Part 3 of this series is forming in the back of my brain even now… stay tuned!


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Below are a few examples of niche affiliate websites. I am showcasing a couple of my students who are doing a great job with their websites and currently 1 of mine.
Use these examples as a way to see how we layout our sites and products that we are promoting.
You will have to copy the URLs and paste them into your browser though as I did not want to artificially create an unrelated link to any of these sites.
Niche Demo #1: howtoconceiveababy.org
This is a nice site created by a student of mine named Dawn. Dawn is doing a great job of putting up unique content here. Very little of the content on this one is outsourced but even the outsourced stuff reads very well.
This is a very narrow niche market that focuses on conception.
I really like the personal touch to the site. Notice her use of video and her own image to help with the sites trust and personal feel.
Dawn also blends in her affiliate marketing on the site by simply recommending products that will help people in their quest.
Niche Demo #2: muscleoldschool.com
This is a great "topic" style niche. The niche isn't just the "build more muscle niche" this niche focuses on old school work outs for amazing results.
Brent Partner, one of my students, is doing an outstanding job with this one. Plus, he's built a heck of a community on Facebook with this one! I am anxious to see where he takes this niche as he continues to grow the site.
This is just an example of how you can break into an extremely competitive niche by simply finding a sub niche within.
Niche Demo #3: 4ktvreviews.org
This site is a review style site that focuses on 4K TVs. Notice the post layouts and separation of text and images.
Notice a direct focus on the images standing out. This helps convert sales.
The write-ups are detailed and made to give the facts. Notice in the reviews there is no hard selling at all.
This site I created and ranked within a month for several keywords. It made it's first sale in under 60 days.
Notice, Adsense is placed in some of the key hot spots to help increase some of the sites revenue. This is a good mixture between Adsense ads and affiliate products.
Niche Demo #4: Gimme-Golf.com
This is a niche site created by one of my students named Mark. Mark loves to golf and decided to create a niche site to show his expertise.
This is a branded style of niche site and the goal he has is to be in a more broad niche rather than a smaller sub niche. You'll notice his title for the homepage isn't really focusing on a specific keyword, but, rather his brand.
However, he is focusing on keywords on many of his site's inner pages.
He is doing a great job with the tutorials on here and he is focused on create his own videos for Youtube to bring in additional traffic.
Niche Demo #5: Coffee Pot Review: http://percolatorcoffeepot.org
Another good website by Brent! You can see clear coffee reviews, mixed with a nice logo. He is using my Sleeky Clean Theme that he snagged free as a member of Keyword Underground.
He has this site monetized with both Adsense and affiliate programs. Brent does a great job of creating relevant content with a neat and clean look.
Niche Demo #6: Yours?
How would you like to add your demo here? Got a cool site you've created using my techniques that you'd love to share with me?
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Mother pleads for information as son recovers from shooting
A 13-year-old boy who survived getting shot in the head at a party is home recovering.
Someone opened fire outside a house party crowded with teenagers. DeAndre Yates' mother says she got a bleak outlook from doctors, but against the odds, her son has rallied back to health.
"I have to give him his medicines all weekend long and after 6 p.m. when the nurse leaves," said DeAndrea Yates.
On February 2, DeAndre attended a birthday house party in northwest Indianapolis, but the crowd grew far beyond capacity. After party organizers asked uninvited guests to leave, someone started shooting into the house.
"Why would you just randomly shoot at a party that was intended for kids?" DeAndrea Yates asked. "When I see my son in the condition that he his in, it hurts."
DeAndre's classmates have helped with that hurt by crowding his room with countless get well cards, photographs of the 13-year-old and his favorite - chocolate.
"He would tell them, 'When life gives you chocolate, make Hershey's.' He loves Hershey bars. Milk chocolate, no almonds," Yates said.
Even DeAndre's teachers are reaching out to support him.
"His school has been awesome. Imagine West, they have done above and beyond," Yates said.
She hopes parents of other children who witnessed the shooting will convince them to come forward, even if it means remaining anonymous.
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"If a mother or father knows that their child was there, I wish that they would speak, for the simple fact that it could be them sitting here and not me," Yates said.
Over the next couple months, DeAndre will have close to a dozen doctor appointments as part of his recovery.
Detectives believe as many as 30 teenagers may have seen who was shooting that night, so they are keeping their fingers crossed for clues. Anonymous tips can be called in to Crime Stoppers at 262-TIPS and be eligible for a reward up to $1,000.


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Prison Break Map is a map inspired and based on the Prison Break TV series. Your brother was sent to prison after trying to rob a bank and your mission is to try to save him. Not only will you help him escape prison but you will also go through with a bank robbery and escape by helicopter. It's one of the most clever maps we've ever tested here on MCPE DL and is definitely worth playing if you enjoy some tense action, clever puzzles and an intriguing story.
A few months ago your brother, Ryan Cooper, was incarcerated in Fox River State Prison after being caught trying to rob the Bank of Minecraft. Your name is Mike Cooper and you have decided to help your brother escape prison.
Not only because he's your a beloved brother but also because he knows the code combination that's required for robbing the bank. And just like him, you love diamonds a little too much, and can't resist the thought of being rich.
Grab the gear, gunpowder and compass from one of the chests at spawn. Put on the gear and use the compass to locate the supermarket. Read the signs to continue through the map.
It's not easy to escape prison. One of the challenges include crawling through a vent.
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Headteacher's Letter - October '16
18 October 2016
Dear Parents
As you may be aware this is the time of year when the school receives the outcomes from GCSE appeals we have placed on behalf of a number of students.
I am delighted to inform you that as a result of these appeals the school's Gold Standard has now increased from 74% to 75%.
Maths GCSE A*- C grades has risen from 84% to 85% and English GCSE A*- C grades have risen from 82% to 83%. English Literature has risen from 83% to 84%.
This places the school within the top 10 schools in Hampshire for Gold standard results.
I know that you will share in our delight at this news and feel as proud of The Henry Beaufort School as I do.
If you have visited the school in the last few weeks you will be aware that the school buildings are being redecorated, a further example of the Local Authorities investment in the school. The media suite has opened and I would like to thank the Parents Association for their very generous financial contribution to the creation of this new facility for our students.
The Parent's association has also asked us to pass on to you an easy way to raise money for the school that won't cost you a penny!
Could I also remind parents that if children are cycling to and from school they must be wearing a cycle helmet and reflective clothing.
Kind regards
Miss Hearle


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The TC Alladin carafe (Aladdin) was the first product made in the TC Carafe line. The option with the gold Flower of Life design in the carafe base has been the most popular TC product for many years. The universal design form with its 6-wave structure has been tailored to the natural development of life. Natural water crystallisations exhibit a 6-fold structure and therefore a high degree of vitality. Predecessors in nature can be geometrically/musically interpreted. The generation of resonance, which pulses in tune with the great cosmic conditions, is the core focus of the TC design. This passes on information to the biological system of plants, animals and people, which in turn is able to provide biological support and harmonisation. The cavity resonance generated by Alladin (or Aladdin) reflects the sound frequency of the note F. This frequency is an information carrier for a vertical energy flow, similar to the energetic motion patterns in trees. It therefore supports a bonding of the various energy potentials (chakras) in human kind.
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Carney rejects prospect of negative interest rates
Bank of England governor Mark Carney has quashed speculation the bank will move to negative interest rates in the future saying it has other options to provide economic stimulus.
Bank of England governor Mark Carney has quashed speculation the bank will move to negative interest rates in the future saying it has other options to provide economic stimulus.
Earlier today, the Bank cut its base rate to 0.25 per cent from 0.5 per cent, as well as announcing a £10bn corporate bond buying package and increasing its quantitative easing programme to £435bn.
Announcing the policy moves, the Bank of England said the majority of Monetary Policy Committee members expect interest rates to be cut further during the year to "close to, but a little above zero".
At the press conference following the announcement, Carney was repeatedly asked if interest rates could drop below zero.
He said: "I am not a fan of negative interest rates. We have other options to provide stimulus
"We are not intending to move to negative interest rates. One would not want to see deposit rates go below zero."
Carney did not rule out further interest rate cuts, saying all aspects of the package announced today could be increased.
The governor delivered a clear message to banks not to withhold the rate cut from borrowers.
He said: "The banks have no excuse with today's announcement not to pass on this rate and they should write to their customers."
Carney dismissed suggestions the stimulus measures could be seen as an overreaction, calling the package an "appropriate response" to the economic conditions.
He said: "There is a clear case for stimulus – and stimulus now – in order to be there when the economy really needs it. This is about cushioning the shock and ultimately making this a success."


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LogADmin 2.0
LogADmin 2.0 from NetPro Computing is a secure event log archiving, searching and analysis IT compliance tool for Windows. It's a way to meet security and compliance requirements -- without manual scripting.
LogADmin consolidates, compresses, and encrypts Windows event logs for long-term archiving, instant searching, and deeper analysis. As new servers are brought online, LogADmin dynamically includes them in the log archival process, eliminating manual processes. And it compresses logs to save disk space.
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This IT compliance tool collects and consolidates enterprise-wide event logs via a user-friendly interface. It then displays detailed information about individual event logs and organizes them for fast filtering of specific events and side-by-side analysis. LogADmin allows Windows systems administrators to track and analyze user activities to determine the cause of an impending compromise.
LogADmin 2.0's new features include the following:
- Event log searching and indexing: Searches, filters and sorts through hundreds of pre-indexed logs spanning multiple servers to quickly locate the event logs matching search criteria.
- Consolidated event log viewer: Users can view the contents of the filtered search, spanning one or more event logs in a single view.
- Advanced Windows event log reporting: Delivers information quickly by creating rules to send related or filtered events into one or more reporting databases, depending on business requirement.
System requirements: Microsoft Windows.
Pricing: All prices are on a per-user basis -- $1 for LogADmin, $5 for annual maintenance.


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An ongoing list of opinionated thoughts of food and travel related subjects by Richard Sachs
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Catching Up From The Holidays….
It's a treat to dine at "old school" restaurants in any city, but New York City just has that something special thing you don't find in a lot of cities. Old School means just that; a place that has been in existence since 1908! One of those places is John's of 12th Street.
I decided to order two items that were featured on TV; Veal Meatballs and Tuscan Ragu served over homemade Pappardelle, both of which were exquisite to say the least. Hearty veal meatballs in a red sauce and the perfectly cooked Pappardelle with the very rich Ragu!
Served with bread and good red wine, you can't go wrong….and top it all off with real New York Cheescake. Excellent waiters, bartender and owners made for a great meal. I'm happy!
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20-09 Myles Sanko presents new album: 'Just Being Me'
After releasing two albums and being Gregory Porter's support act during his European tour, Myles Sanko is back with brand new music. The first single 'Just Being Me' from his new album will be available from September 30th on Dox Records.
Myles is a Jack-of-all-trades. Besides writing his own music, he occupies himself with producing, performing and composing. For his new album 'Just Being Me' he picked 11 songs with the classical jazz sound supported by a serious groove. "I tried to reflect on my current times whilst taking my fans to a new and exciting place."
The first single is of the same name as the album itself: 'Just Being Me'. The song and corresponding video clip will be available from September 30th. The 4-minute single is a vigorous soul song with a strong statement about the journey of finding your inner self and staying true to your goals. The album 'Just Being Me' will be available from 28 October 2016.
In addition to his release, Myles Sanko will start his 'Just Being Me Tour' this fall and will be performing throughout Europe. His music and characteristic voice can be heard as of November 11th in Dutch venues such as Paradiso Noord (Amsterdam) and BIRD (Rotterdam).
Tour dates:
11 November Patronaat, Haarlem
12 November Poppodium Grenswerk, Venlo
13 November Mezz, Breda
16 November Luxor Live, Arnhem
17 November Hedon, Zwolle
18 November Paard van Troje, Den Haag
30 November Paradiso Noord, Amsterdam
01 December BIRD, Rotterdam
02 December Podium de Vorstin, Hilversum


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Smith, Adam, Edwin Cannan, and Max Lerner. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. New York: The Modern library, 1937.
Question: How do we apply Smith's notions of regulation in a globalizing era?
Claim: Reading Smith in the context of his English and Scottish nationalism reveals de-regulation works only in reference to the domestic market, that there is always a type of regulation, and that the invisible hand serves in the interests of home.
After gaining great reputation as a moral philosopher, in 1776, the Scottish Enlightenment figure Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, the second in what was meant to be a trilogy of great philosophical/policy books (the third in political economy). Smith was much misunderstood in his own time, and perhaps even further misunderstood in the contemporary era, when colorful ties express selfishness as a virtue and Left leaning liberals use the metaphor of the invisible hand as a useful straw man to discredit Smiths(xx) rationalism and the privatization of the market.
Perhaps Smiths(xx) most non-applicable ideas are that ;every individual naturally inclines to employ his capital in the manner in which it is likely to afford the greatest support to domestic industry, and to give revenue and employment to the greatest number of people of his own country;(xx 27) To Smith, every individual in an unregulated maritime commerce naturally employs their capital in support of the domestic industry, specifically the industry of the country. It is this proposal that begins the paragraph where the invisible hand first appears, where the individual engaged in commerce ;led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention;(xx) Yet this advantage is always towards the domestic sphere.
As the Chair of Moral Philosophy in Glasgow, Smiths interests were especially aligned with the moral character and interest of his homeland. His attention to jurisprudence and economics during the height of the English East Indian Company and the great agricultural achievements of the North American colonies also places him as a national subject in service of discovering effective means of deriving the most output from the input of the overseas colonies.
Furthermore, Smiths(xx) invocation of the invisible hand come with two conditionals, the first that monopolies be imposed when the defense of the country comes into question, and when a tax is imposed to even out competitions. Yet all of the examples that Smith cites are examples that favor Britain rather than its colonies or other European nations. Naturally, in the monoeconomies of the colonies, the many communities and towns that rely solely on a single resource whether it be cotton, tobacco, textiles, oil, silver, rubber, steel, etc. may not see the same invisible hand that naturally adjusts to the shifting dynamics of commerce. If another resource or technology is introduced, monoeconomies become devastated by these fluctuating waves, as has been the case in the monoeconomies of Africa. Britian and the United States, with immense diversification of resources, find it in their self-interest to promote the invisible hand as a policy of free trade that engages in creative destruction for the benefit of the nation, where, as Smith puts it, being cast out of ;their ordinary employment and common method of subsistence, it would by no means follow that they would thereby be deprived either of employment or subsistence.; naturally, only in a diversified economy might this shifting of employment be quick, easy and trivial.
It is of little importance to say that Adam Smith has grown irrelevant since the Wealth of Nations, his wish to entirely restore freedom of trade was stymied by the American Revolution and the uprisings in India that resulted in the total takeover of the British East India Company by the state. In other words, de-regulation and laizze faire economics seems to have dissipated in Smiths(xx) standards. The imposition of the state of economic means came in response to uprisings from within free market maritime trade within a system whose invisible hand privileges Great Britain but not its constituent parts.
So how do we think of Adam Smith in a globalizing world? Does situating him within a nationalist interest call for a new theory of economics situated with a global interest? Or rather, is it more commonplace to utilize Smiths(xx) ideas to justify neoliberal policies and conditional loans? In The Wealth of Nations, free trade and the use of private capital is legitimated through the metaphor of the invisible hand to prove that foreign commerce always directs funds back to the homeland. Yet this context seems lost to history, as the invisible hand that self-regulates the market continues to work for the homeland, not the monoeconomies of Africa, not the resource rich countries in Latin America and in some cases the middle East, and certainly not for the East Asian tigers, who, after the IMF crisis in 1997, have failed to reach comparable substantial growth after ingesting IMF policies compared to their mainly state-regulated policies before the IMF. Whether correct or not, Adam Smiths legitimization of self-interest in commerce and the exchange of capital cannot be separated from its nationalist context and its value upon improving the homeland.
According to the United Nations(xx) Department of Economic and Social Affairs, ;the growth record has been uneven and the macroeconomic environment increasingly unbalanced. The one ubiquitous trend has been sharply rising inequalities.; (1). The Department puts one of the mechanisms for these inequalities in the myth of the self-regulating market, but rather than ;unregulated markets were more prone to self-destruction than self-regulation;(xx2). Yet this insight seems ineffectual in radically shifting the direction of conditional loaning programs imposed by the IMF and the Washington Consensus. The policies of globalization do not fall in line with the unregulated/regulated bind very easily. On the one hand, such organizations are regulating economies through the very imposition of conditional loans, their ;suggestions; are meant to produce a watchdog effect over national economies, naming other economies so-called ;transition economies; or not-yet a Western economy, promising rapid and positive growth through shock therapies. On the other hand, globalizing organizations such as the IMF are also deregulating institutions, in that the very conditions for the loans that are given are a deregulated economy, more free trade and massive privatization. In other words, such neoliberal organizations can wear multiple masks, unconstrained by the regulated-deregulated binary, imposing the deregulation of the state for the regulation of a world organization, opening up ports that favor Western diversified economies but not the struggling monoeconomies of the third world.
Appearing ineffective towards analyzing global mechanisms and institutions, the polarizations between regulation and de-regulation perhaps invoke the need to think of different types of regulation. Many countries can provide a plethora of examples of different modes of regulation, but in being typified as ;transitional economies;, these economies are rarely seen as proper economies in their own right. Transitional Economies are economies which are changing from a centrally planned economy to a free market, undergoing economic liberalization by letting market forces set prices and lowering trade barriers, progressing through macroeconomic stabilization where immediate high inflation is brought under control, and restructuring its privatization in order to create a financial sector to move from public to private ownership of resources. By forcing a binary between state-centered and free market, ;transitional economies; in their very definition of ;transitional; are seen as always on the path towards a Western style privatization, progressing on full deregulation as an ideal economic situation, which, as in the case of Britain, is simply stymied by insurrection and the need for intervening state power. Yet, it is in this very transitional period from state-economies to free economies that we can find incredible amounts of growth. In Japan, the move from the Meiji period to deregulated capitalism saw vast amounts of growth, but in the 1990s, having reached an ideal deregulated capitalism with the übercapitalist Keiretsu companies, real growth in GDP decreased to a stagnant 1.5% a year. In South Korea, the greatest amount of growth came also in the so-called ;transitional; period from the vast influence and state-power of President Park Chung-hee, whose rule began in a Coup d'état, ended in assassination and whose cabinet was rightly accused of corruption and vast abuse of state power. Though he was democratically elected, President Park used a state of emergency from the Korean war to dissolve parliament, suspend the constitution and, for our purposes, took a step from the American-imposed free trade market, back to a more state-regulated Korean economy, privileging certain companies and organizations far over others, and overtaxing the populous at times to fund large infrastructure projects dictated by the state, displacing thousands and invoking student protests in Korea as well as in the West. Yet despite all these shortcomings, President Parks(xx) step away from American economical pursuits and steps towards state regulated institutions by coercing Korean businesses into letting in capital from Japan, per capita income increased twentyfold, while South Korea's rural, undeveloped economy was transformed into an industrial powerhouse.
President Park's step back from a deregulated economy shows two things. First, that Smith's notion of a fully free market economy as the ideal endpoint which is only stymied by insurrection, war and tyranny, is not only false, but perpetuates a myth that taking these necessary steps back from de-regulation are only stymied by war and the need for national defense. Second, South Korea's spur of economic growth during Park shows not only the ineffectiveness of the regulation/deregulation binary, but the ideological implications of naming countries like South Korea and Japan as transitional economies, suggesting that they are ;not-yet; a Western economy. South Korea along with the other Asian Tigers has shown that transitional economies should be seen as economies in their own right, and that the invisible-hand imposed by the IMF in 1997 was truly a hand grown from a Western nationalist impulse, a hand serving the IMF's ;home,; a hand meant to protect domestic growth, as Adam Smith says explicitly. The country of Malaysia proves this historically, being the only Asian country to directly refuse IMF imposed policies, and whose growth did not stagnate in the post-IMF era. Indeed, it was not the regulation of the state that has left much of Asia ravished by the 1997 crisis, but the regulation of the IMF serving in the interests of the foreign bankers who run it.
Finally, I would like to end with a reformulation of Smith's theory for a type of new globalization, implicitly demanded by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, but one that must be directly materialized through a new Brettonwood with new mechanisms meant to make global capitalism work. The DESA proposes a new facility for automatic response to disasters and economic crises, rather than through the conditional loans of the IMF. Yet this seems to be a somewhat disappointing response to our current global economic crisis. Rather, a new Brettonwoods would mean new organizations not centered in the United States, but trusting in the regionalism of institutions like ASEAN to deal effectively with their own areas—in other words, an organization that understands Smith's idea of free market as withholding a bias towards the nation, the domestic and the home. If the invisible hand serves in the interests of home, then the type of regulation by foreign economies must utilize this invisible hand in the interests of its own home.


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How To Get Unstuck + Start Fulfilling Your Life Purpose
Although the pull to procrastinate, get distracted, or play it safe may feel especially strong when it comes to your job, the time is now to begin pursuing your life purpose. While stability may feel like the most important thing, know that you are divinely supported to step out of what's keeping you stuck.
There are few good reasons to be at a job that doesn't fully utilize the incredible gift that you have to offer the world. Today, you can begin the process of consciously fulfilling your life purpose.
This may feel like a terrifying call to action, but if you're reading this article, I invite you to consider that it's a sign that a part of you is ready to move from dreaming about your purpose to living it.
Here are three steps to gently guide you into consciously fulfilling your purpose.
1. Investigate your feelings of vulnerability and fear.
Let's face it: the prospect of consciously living your purpose is one of the most vulnerable things you can do. Dropping all that is familiar with the intention of declaring your authentic self to the universe is no easy feat. But the potential energy of this action, the potential that is inducing uncertainty and fear, is also what makes this journey so energizing.
For example, if your purpose is to write books, it may feel like a big part of you is within the pages of the book. Therefore, when others read it, you may feel exposed or open to criticism or rejection.
Let's take this example one step further: if you don't support the parts of you that are afraid of criticism and rejection, then you'll always find excuses to not write your book. It's a form of self-protection. If there's no book, then there's no vulnerability.
Investigation is important to support the parts of you that feel vulnerable allowing others to experience the fruits of your life purpose. When you find yourself feeling vulnerable about consciously living your life purpose, investigate those feelings by consider the following statement for yourself:
If I consciously live my purpose, I'm afraid that...
Then ask: What do the parts of me that are terrified need to know to feel supported?
2. Harness the power of change.
You've probably been taught that it's important to be consistent and steadfast in everything you do.
And it's true that consistency and perseverance are important traits in consciously living your life purpose. But I invite you to get curious about what would happen if you gave yourself permission to change constantly.
For example, when you plant a seed in the ground, at some point it becomes a sprout. Then the sprout becomes a flower. Then the flower becomes a fruit.
If at any point in the process the seed decides that it doesn't want to change because it's afraid of what the sun and moon will think of it or that it won't be good at being a flower, it will begin to die. Well, not exactly ... but you get my point.
Permission to change gives you freedom to grow and consciously experience all aspects of your life purpose. Forcing yourself to stay the same forever limits your life purpose and kills its conscious, creative expression.
What part of you is afraid of changing? What is this part of you afraid will happen to you or your relationships if you change? How can you support this part?
3. Keep getting weirder and weirder.
Have you ever had a cool idea but then thought to yourself, "This is too weird. Nobody will ever want to hear, see, or buy this"?
Unsurprisingly, judging your creativity or inner voice is one of the most common ways of prohibiting yourself from connecting to your life purpose, and fulfilling it.
Life purpose is inherently weird and unique to you. In other words: of course it's going to look weird to others because it's wholly unique. You express your life purpose in a way that only YOU can.
Think about Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. When they talked about their visions for technology in the early stages of their careers, they got a lot of blank stares and scoffs. Their ideas were weird and different. However, instead of buying into that judgment and allowing it to stop the conscious fulfillment of their life purpose, they took their vision even further and made their weird ideas products, that now, most of us can't imagine living without.
We are all being divinely supported and called to wake up to our life purpose and take action. If you need "proof" of this support, do a quick Internet search for "life purpose." It sounds silly, but you'll at least see that you have access to an incredible amount of information to support you in your journey that wasn't readily available in the past.
If you're ready to accept that support and consciously live your purpose, check out this free training on fear and manifesting your life purpose.
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Here's a convenient new way to segregate humanity. One is either a believer in cyberloafing or not. Nonwork activity online is sapping the economy or, at worst, it's a harmless diversion that doesn't hurt productivity.
There's a debate about the effects of employees dilly-dallying online (Cyberloafing...another view). In the conspiracy of life, the question is small, but scratch the veneer of almost any corporate cog and you're likely to find someone who feels he or she is at peak performance per take-home dollar. Meanwhile, the "C" in CXO might as well stand for cranky these days. CEOs understandably want more margin and they want it now.
Parry Aftab (nom de guerre: the Privacy Lawyer) wrote a few weeks back that companies lose up to $50 billion each year because employees use their computers to goof off ("Cyberloafing And How It Affects Productivity," Nov. 10, 2003). What's more, businesses can be held liable for a laissez-faire policy.
"If a company allows personal use of the Internet at work, there may be union organizing and liability. If you allow Girl Scout cookie sales, you may not be able to keep out alternative-lifestyle discussions," she advises. "Once Pandora's box is opened, all roads lead to litigation and legal risks."
"Arlene Leonard" contends that Internet use hurts productivity. "Is it much different than personal calls at work? Heck, yes. Once you hit your favorite site, you can stay there forever. Especially if what is waiting for you is more database entry. We have had employees terminated for any nonwork computer use."
That sounds harsh, but "Dave Marston" says it's just the beginning. "Restricting Internet access will happen soon and quickly. Competition demands it. In July, Merrill Lynch shut access to Yahoo Mail and Hotmail. It took the other big banks two days to follow. All the arguments go out the window when the company isn't making its numbers because employees aren't producing."
The opposing view, buttressed by skepticism about statistics cited in the debate, holds that people aren't inherently slugabeds. "I feel it is important to challenge surprising statistics that are often delivered by the news media," "Mark Tempel" writes.
He doubts the authenticity of figures others are using to prove productivity-endangering cyberloafing exists. Tempel cites less-alarming figures published by the ePolicy Institute. The institute says a third of workers' online activity is "recreational," he says, not the 50% or more others cite. Even this just shows that "personal use of the Internet occurs," not that it's a problem.
"Cathy O'Daniel" doesn't necessarily want to know if her subordinates are online. "I find it interesting that corporations want to control the calls, E-mail, and time online for personal use," she says. "A bad employee will find ways to loaf."
O'Daniel feels her employees are responsible adults. "If they weren't performing up to par, then, yes, I would watch computer activity, but if their work is excellent, what they do online is up to them. Certain sites are inappropriate at work, but surfing in general, checking the news, shopping a bit, is a nice break from work."
Talk about worries of union organizing: O'Daniel goes on to say, "I don't think enough companies realize that breaks during the workday are good. Breaks give the brain time to refocus, energize, if you will. Taking these breaks should only increase productivity and creativity."
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To All My Public Adjuster Friends Across the Nation:
Each of our states enjoys the use of our state represented public adjuster association, but where and how does the American Association of Public Insurance Adjusters (AAPIA) fit in? Simple.
When your state association stands for your public adjuster rights in your state, AAPIA is working in the background with each state representative separately to show how each state works towards the public adjuster model and helps to achieve success in the bill passing stage.
Five states remain that do not have laws regarding public adjusters. AAPIA has worked on behalf of policyholders and public adjusters to inform legislators on The Value of Public Adjusting. I have contacted Mr. Gene Veno, President of AAPIA, on numerous occasions, to seek his advice on licensing laws in multiple states. Mr. Veno is there to help his public adjuster members because he believes in the work we do day in and day out to help our clients.
Last year during the Florida FAPIA Spring Session, I saw Gene Veno and Mike Capilli repeatedly, making headway in passing several bills in other states. As you are well aware, it is nearly impossible to get legislation passed on a state or national level. I have seen where AAPIA has had tremendous success in Virginia, California, NJ, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Georgia just to name a list of AAPIA'S work on behalf of our Public Adjuster Industry.
AAPIA works tirelessly towards this goal of assisting policy makers to understand the myriad of bills and how other states word them, their meanings and implications. No other association does this for you. The Annual Fee of just $250.00 is a small price to pay for peace of mind after a legislative session is over and you don't have a fee cut or an action created that forbids you work that you once had.
Please consider Joining Today Join at http://www.aapia.org and rest assured you will have protection. There has never been a time I have called or emailed Gene and didn't receive an immediate response back within 12 hours or sooner. Surely you understand the deep pockets of the insurance industry. Your support helps us to fight back with a loud voice.
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I like to take the opportunity as a member of the American Association of Public Insurance Adjusters to thank you and your team for your diligent work on the current law with the Public Adjusters Act and contract that just passed in our state. Your team and the whole public adjuster community came together to make the law fair and equitable to all parties involved being the consumer, the insurance industry and also Public Adjusters.
Again, I have recommended numerous new members to our organization in hopes that they join to make the American Association of Public Insurance Adjusters stronger and to stand up not only for their rights of public adjusters but also the rights of consumers/policy holders in the country. Keep up the good work.
Very truly yours,
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Ruback & Associates, LLC.
Mr. Veno, let me start off by saying that you were responsive to my e-mail. You called the contact person within the public adjustment company I signed the contract with, investigated the matter, and tried to be a mediating voice to ensure fairness. You also were firm about your stance regarding the positive reputation of your industry and I can appreciate that. I do thank you for hearing and understanding my position. You showed professionalism, patience and integrity rather than just blowing me off. Although the final details regarding my case are not quite resolved your involvement did get attention in my favor. Thanks for everything.
Quintin Wilkinson
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Just bought the "Safety in the field" book, here is my testimonial
"The American Association of Public Adjusters lead by Gene Veno, is a fantastic organization. They are a great source of information for many different types of challenges that come up in the public adjusting field. Gene is always prompt with getting the best answers and solutions needed. The members of the association serve as a great source of information as well. There are regular updates to members on current topics related to the public adjusting industry. Gene is also involved with legislation to protect public adjusters nationwide. The question is do you want to join an association that only wants to collect dues or or do you want to join an association that actually cares and protects it's members? AAPIA does that latter. I strongly recommend joining the association to any one wanting to be with the best public adjusting association around period".
Thanks again Gene, as always there will be more questions coming :)
Please understand, I am very pleased with the work AAPIA does for us. The recent transition in Pennsylvania's licensing laws in tandem with the bonding requirements went especially smoothly, primarily through your efforts.
Thank you so much,
David DeFlavis Regional Vice President Metro Public Adjustment, Inc.
I would like to thank you for a quick response with my problem with the public adjuster that I was dealing with. You took action on my problem and im really greatful. Im a firm believer that their are good people in this world who go unrecognized and you should be. Thank you again and may God bless you.


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Traditional Anti-Traditional: Stefan Sagmeister's Graphic Furniture / Gerrit TerstiegeAustrian graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, who lives in New York, is known for his work with space. Like a stage designer he arranges and produces scenes that resemble still lifes and stage sets, which he then transforms into posters, loose series of pictures, book covers, record covers, or videos. When I asked him why he preferred this complex and elaborate way of working, he said: "There are two important reasons. First, I find it exciting to include the viewer in my design. Sometimes the viewers have to do something with the work before they can understand it. And secondly, I am interested in testing the borders of a medium, no matter whether that is a business card or an advertising pillar.Borders or limitations can be very inspiring! Brian Eno once wrote in his diary, that the reason why the guitar became the most important musical instrument in the twentieth century was that it really offered so little. This made guitarists want to explore its limitations - something the synthesizer never managed, because it already offered so many options. It is the same with a sheet of paper. It is sosimple that it invites you to explore the borders."It is probably the simplicity of traditional arts and crafts that attracted Sagmeister to the project shown here. It includes a carved faceted ceiling panel, three very unusual armchairs, a table with dozens of compasses integrated into the table top, a light object made of stacked egg cartons, and a standard lamp which can be moved as desired by three remote controlled toy dogs. All of these objects seem to be anti-traditional at first, but they all have their precedents. They were all made in 2009 on the island of Bali. Every seven years Sagmeister withdraws from his everyday work to concentrate on freer projects. He spent his first sabbatical in 2002 in New York, not exactlythe best place to relax and gain some distance to hectic everyday business. "I did not know at the time whether I would stay a designer after my time out. I had no plan at all for the first few weeks. This time I wanted to do things differently. I was interested in Bali because I wanted to work in an unfamiliar environment. I laid out a plan for each day and wrote a list of things I wanted to try out.Some of them did not work out, like a purely typographical comic. One of the items on my list was furniture."Graphic furniture - this has to be explained. In recent design history there are countless products and ideas that can best be termed graphic, since their form, their points of reference, and their surfaces draw on analogue and digital forms of representation. They seem to be "roughly pixled", like Ron Arad's sofa "Do Lo Res", or they quote graphic means of expression like Philippe Nigro's sofa series"Intersection", which is reminiscent of the glaze or colour mix of watercolours. Or they thematise the simulation of space in drawing and graphic art, like the furniture series "Shade" by the Swedish design group Front, in which enlarged pencil shading emphasizes the real spatiality of the objects. It is to be expected that the chairs, tables and lamps of a graphic artist look different from those created by a trained furniture designer. In a certain way Sagmeister's furniture can be seen as a logical continuation of his three-dimensional designs. The difference, however, lies in the functionality of the furniture - its everyday use value. These armchairs are not just the representation of armchairs for the duration of a photo session, and not just mere props. They are items of furniture in the verytraditional sense. They quote forms of seats like the lounge chair, easy chair or the throne, and at the same time ironise all the representative gesturing that traditionally accompanies these pieces of furniture. A good example is the armchair that thematises the many stray dogs that are so common in Bali. Sagmeister carves images of the dogs on the right and left of the seat, which is reminiscent of the thrones of ancient Roman emperors, and also of artificial theme worlds in Las Vegas and elsewhere. In the case of the "Compass Table" Sagmeister gives his table a very humorous further function - being able to use compasses to locate the table itself and all of those who sit at this table. The remote-controlled "Dog Lamp" is an ironical comment on product designers who like to equip their objects with all kinds of new technical features, ostensibly to make them easier to use.In the tradition of artists like Marcel Duchamp, Martin Kippenberger and Jeff Koons, Stefan Sagmeister did not build most of the furniture himself, but commissioned local craftspeople, making a particularly innovative use of the Indonesian art of carving and rattan furniture. A rattan chair now seems to be a typographical sculpture, while its message is as simple as a postcard greeting: "I very much love sitting here looking over the Sayan Ridge with a large pot of coffee and a medium size cigar and letting my mind go." The carvings of a large facetted panel refer to Sagmeister's "Greatest Hits". Today it decorates his New York bedroom ceiling in a particularly idiosyncratic form of self-assurance. Looking at this, anyone who knows Sagmeister's oeuvre will easily be able to identify the motifs that derive from his spatial works of recent years. Finally, a true curiosity: the "Egg Lamp". Sagmeistercommented on this as follows: "On a country road a woman in front of me was riding a motor scooter, with just one hand on the steering wheel. In her other hand she was balancing several stacked egg cartons. This image inspired the "Egg Lamp", in which small networked LEDs emit blue lightilluminating the shells from the inside." Truly a shining example of associative design - with no model, almost no tradition, and quite definitely illuminating.
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Around the NPB Horn: Marines, Tigers, Carp, Hawks, Swallows, and Giants
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Chiba Lotte Marines
...The Marines are opening up their Fall camp at Chiba Marine Stadium to fans for free.
The team is currently split up into two groups right now but beginning on the 16th, the team will come together again for 3 days of training.
Hanshin Tigers
...Kodai Sakurai took some infield practice while a few of the infielders took outfield practice during Friday's Fall camp. Pitchers also spent time fielding come-backers using a softer ball.
...Takashi Toritani is looking to play every inning of every game next season.
...The Tigers are planning to get Kenji Johjima involved as soon as possible. And since building rapport with the pitching staff is important, he'll likely start in most, if not all, exhibition games.
...Norihiro Akahoshi ran sprints for the first time in two months on Friday.
He ran three 40-meter sprints, played some catch, and did some light running for practice on Friday at the Naruohama training grounds.
...Atsushi Noumi's no throw ban was lifted on Friday; he spent about 10 minutes airing out his arm with long throws.
...Yuya Nohara has been getting hitting advice to use his lower body more.
...Shunsuke Ishikawa is making some modifications to his delivery. He tossed 65 pitches in a bullpen session on Friday and was seen shaking his leg three times during his delivery to help his timing.
...Wei-Chu Lin will be focusing on building up his body this off-season. He'll also continue working out at the Naruohama training field.
Said Lin, "I'll make time to work on my throws. It'll be better for me if I practice on a field. I'll also be working with weights to build up my body."
...The Tigers will keep their eye on Hideki Matsui to see what he does during the off-season.
Hiroshima Carp
...Jun Hirose (OF), Masafumi Suenaga (OF), Shigenobu Shima (OF), and Choji Mori (P) have put contract negotiations on hold.
Hirose was offered a contract worth 19M yen (up 3.5M yen from this past season) while Suenaga was offered a 12M yen contract (up 4M yen). Both players felt as though they deserved more.
Shima was also offered a contract and while he liked the numbers, he said that there were a few more things that needed to be hammered out.
...The Carp will be working on stealing bases during the off-season, an aspect of the game that Kenjiro Nomura values. On Friday, six players (including Soichiro Amaya, Suenaga, and Shogo Kimura) worked on stealing second base.
Softbank Hawks
...Hiroki Yamada was released back on 10/30. The team invited him to Fall camp and Sadaharu Oh liked what he saw. So much that the team will likely re-sign him to a contract.
Said Oh, "He's got a big body and he can throw the ball at an angle. It would be good if he can become a start for us."
Yakult Swallows
...Since there's a good chance Ryota Igarashi won't be with the team next season, Hirotoshi Ishii is trying to work his way into the set-up role.
...Hitoshi Yamamoto tossed BP to 16 batters and gave up 3 hits. He's working on making his way into the rotation next season.
Yomiuri Giants
...The Giants are planning on offering Akira Eto an Ikusei coaching position.