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Witch, Warlock, Whatever…
My name's Devon Jinx, and, yes, I'm half warlock, half witch. But I couldn't care less about which kind of magic is better. All I want to do is keep my head down and get on with my new job as an investigator at the Hunted Witch Agency.
A recent, shall we say, mistake, has put me in place to inherit the leadership of the warlocks. Which means only one thing. I have a choice to make: Leave behind my life of witchery to become a warlock, or lose my warlock magic forever.
Complicating my choice is the fact that someone is trying to destroy the warlock coven. If I don't stop them, the warlocks will be annihilated. The task seems impossible until Gerard Freshwater, a distractingly handsome witch, explodes into my life. He's determined to make me see that being a witch isn't just the best option, but the only option.
About the Book
Magically Bound
by Rachel Medhurst
Hunted Witch Agency #1
Urban Fantasy
Publication Date
November 28, 2017
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About Rachel Medhurst
Rachel grew up in South East England. She learnt at a young age that life can be hard work. She now believes that whatever happens to you, you can overcome it.
She writes to help others see that no matter where you come from, you can still achieve your dreams. As a teenager she would never have dreamed of becoming an author.
However, in her twenties, she realised that she was allowing her past to dictate her future. She decided to accept and forgive everything that had happened to her, everyone that had hurt or upset her and she even forgave herself for allowing life to bring her down.
In early 2014 after writing The Deadliners, Rachel decided to self publish. It was one of the best things she's ever done. Since then, she's released a series called Avoidables and a novella called Choice! (October 2014) which is part of the Modern Dreams series published by Salt Publishing.
Rachel will always remember where she came from, but only to see how far she has come.


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यह पृष्ठ हिंदी में उपलब्ध नहीं है.
Good News In Arnhem Land
In February 2011 the first representatives for MAF Learning Technologies (MAFLT) began work in Arnhem Land, which is home to the Yolngu Aboriginal people. The need for equipping and empowering the local believers was very clear from the start, as there have been minimal Bible and Christian resources in their languages to reach the unreached or meet the needs of the young and old Yolngu believers.
The Good News in Gumatj DVD (Manymak Dhäwu DVD)
Before arriving in Arnhem Land, MAFLT representatives were aware of an unfinished project - the Good News in Gumatj DVD. This DVD project was started three years ago, using an original GRN (Global Recording Networks) audio track recorded in the 80's with the voices of two ladies, Mutilnga and Gulumbu.
The Gumatj language audio track was 2 hours long and it re-told the Good News gospel story and how to live a Christian life. Accompanying the Good News audio track was a 40-page colour picture booklet that had been put together by GRN, for use with any language. After an initial 40-picture DVD was produced and shown to the Yolngu, they requested more pictures be included to explain the concepts of the story better; so with the help of the MAFLT department in Arnhem Land, the original 40 pictures eventually expanded to 900+ digital pictures to reflect the story being told in the audio narrative.
Many months later the project was produced in DVD format and then converted into mobile video format as well, with files small enough that they can be put onto a MicroSD card and shared easily via Bluetooth. The DVD is being used for ministry outreach events and is also handed out to Yolngu people. For the MAFLT team it was a special moment in July 2011 when the DVD was first shown and distributed at a ministry outreach night. It was exciting to see people walking around afterwards with the Good News in Gumatj on their mobile phones.
MAFLT wants to thank all those who have put time and energy into this project. This Good News DVD is a beneficial resource for evangelism and discipleship amongst the Yolngu Aboriginal people in East Arnhem Land.
These 900+ pictures have now been made available for producing similar projects in other languages.
Please contact GRN or MAF Learning Technologies for permission to use this resource.
This article has been reproduced with the kind permission of Missionary Aviation Fellowship- Learning Technologies

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Thanks so much to everyone who joined in the first month of the Bloggers' Dinner Party! It was so fun to see all of your creations and a few of your even shared recipes too (yum!). Here were a few of my favorites...
Awesome flower placemats from Sara of Sew Sweetness |
Sweet Crop Circles Tablerunner from Skooks Playground |
Rainbow Quilt-As-You-Go Tablerunner from Michelle at City House Studios |
You can see all the June entries at the Bloggers' Dinner Party page!
The winner of this month's lovely fabric prize is:
Skook's Playground! Congrats Skooks, I will get in touch to get your mailing info so you can look forward to receiving this...
A huge thanks again to Peg and Becca at Sew Fresh Fabrics for donating this great prize!
Stay tuned, I will be back in another day or two to open the linky for July :)


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How to spiff up your old leather shoes....
*an old pair of leather shoes (that you are about to throw away anyway, cause they are all scuffed up)
*acrylic paint (the art kind, not the craft kind)
*paintbrush (see below, though it doesn't need to be matt or this brand)
*pen (if you are scared to freehand)
1. decide what colors you want to paint the shoes, and what designs.
2. If needed, use a ballpoint pen to LIGHTLY draw out your designs
3. Paint directly on the shoe!!
4. Let dry for a few hours before wearing.
The story (cause you know I always have one)... I bought these shoes the second time I studied abroad in New Zealand (2002). The first time (2001), I bought the same exact ones, but in florescent orange and grey, because they matched this DKNY florescent orange jacket I owned (which I would constantly hear people scoffing at as I walked by on campus). I had loved the first pair so much, that when I went back I searched for another pair. The grey/dark grey pair was even on sale! score! Those two pairs of shoes got LOTS of wear time during college and after. So comfortable, slim, and stylish (for a tennis shoe type).
2 years ago, the grey ones were about dead. The leather was peeling and scuffed, even though the insides and soles were okay. I just didn't feel cute when I put them on. Sooooooo I had an idea to paint them! I figured, why not? I was going to trash them anyway! I wasn't sure how long it would last, but went with it.
2 years later and this is what they look like. Almost as good as the day I painted them!
Try it out. Its a ton of fun. I can see doing this on a pair of heels too. I would loved to have had my students graffiti a pair of heels when I was teaching in Miami. darn. (I'm serious.)
Monday, February 22, 2010
4 comments:
- Christy said...
OOOOhhhhh! Love this. It's so refreshing to see truly new and unique "crafty" ideas... i feel like I've heard and seen 'em all, but this! This is just fabulous!
I'll let you know how mine turn out! - February 22, 2010 at 12:40 PM
- Susan said...
what a great idea + they look great.
- February 28, 2010 at 1:36 PM
- Stina said...
Love it! I just found your blog with Dana-made-it...I'm going to have to add you to my reading list! I love your tutorials!
- March 2, 2010 at 8:38 AM
- felicia said...
I have been wanting to paint on leather to make some jewelry. Do you have to seal it with anything?
- March 11, 2010 at 7:21 PM
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Test for measles-specific IgM antibody
This test looks for an antibody called measles-specific IgM in your blood. If you have been exposed to the rubeola virus, your body may have made this antibody. The rubeola virus causes measles, an extremely contagious disease. It is spread through the air in droplets after people cough or sneeze.
Thirty percent of people who catch the measles have complications. These include pneumonia, diarrhea, and ear infections that may cause permanent hearing loss. In rare cases, children may get encephalitis. This is a brain infection that can lead to intellectual disability and deafness.
Measles is much less common than in the past because so many children in the U.S. are now vaccinated against the disease. Most cases in the U.S. are among people who have brought the disease from other countries and spread it to others who are not vaccinated.
You may need this test if you have been exposed to measles and haven't been vaccinated against the disease. If you are infected with the measles virus, you may not develop symptoms for 2 weeks.
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Your healthcare provider may also order tests for mumps or German measles (rubella).
Test results may vary depending on your age, gender, health history, and other things. Your test results may be different depending on the lab used. They may not mean you have a problem. Ask your healthcare provider what your test results mean for you.
Normal results are negative, meaning you don't have the measles-specific IgM antibody in your blood. A positive result means the antibodies have been found and it's likely you have a measles infection.
Levels of measles-specific IgM antibody in your blood will rise shortly after the rash becomes visible. It may be necessary to repeat the test several days after the rash begins. This should be done in case at the time of the first test the antibodies were not high enough to find in the blood.
The test is done with a blood sample. A needle is used to draw blood from a vein in your arm or hand.
Having a blood test with a needle carries some risks. These include bleeding, infection, bruising, and feeling lightheaded. When the needle pricks your arm or hand, you may feel a slight sting or pain. Afterward, the site may be sore.
Timing is important for this test. Your body may not create much IgM antibody at the beginning of the infection, which would give a false-negative result. You may need to have the test again after the rash has been visible for several days. If you've recently been vaccinated against the measles, your IgM antibody level might be higher, giving a false-positive.
You don't need to prepare for this test. Be sure your healthcare provider knows about all medicines, herbs, vitamins, and supplements you are taking. This includes medicines that don't need a prescription and any illegal drugs you may use.


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New DSP7200 chases flagship performance
Got £17,500 for a pair of speakers? Thought so, well Meridian's new DSP7200 may be just the ticket if absolute fidelity is the audio's holy grail. The Cambridgeshire-based hi-fi stalwart chose Bristol's Sound and Vision Show 2008 to unveil the new DSP7200 - a fully active DSP-equipped speaker, which replaces the company's ageing DSP7000.
New formula
The company says it has made a number of improvements to the new speaker over the old model. These include revisions to the internal electronics, new 'advanced' software and upgraded drive units and power amplifiers. Meridian says the improvements bring the speaker more in line with the performance of its DSP8000 flagship.
The newcomer is the first of Meridian's DSP loudspeaker range to include the company's latest input-board architecture - dubbed 'SpeakerLink' - which employs RJ45 (Ethernet) ports for 'Meridian Comms' interconnection via CAT-5 cabling.
Like all of the company's DSP models, the speaker uses on-board amplification – in this case, four 100-watt units – and digital signal processing for crossover filtering and all other signal manipulation.
The amps are balanced-input, high-current designs (employed in the flagship DSP8000). They drive a pair of refined 200mm (eight-inch), long-throw bass units separately housed in their own enclosure.
Completing the driver compliment is a 150mm (six-inch) polymer midrange unit and a 25mm (one-inch) composite-dome tweeter driven by its own amplifier, also within a second completely separate enclosure.
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I also posted about it on MMAUnderground.
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/metv_producer_faces_sex_assault_charges was the original link. It's so old, it's down, but still preserved on the Wayback Machine here:
Wayback version: https://web.archive.org/web/20160917124303/http://www.austinvida.com/city-culture/2011/saucid-probation-sex-offender/
And the Texas state website: https://records.txdps.state.tx.us/SexOffender/PublicSite/Application/Search/Individual.aspx?IND_IDN=12321661
In my original post I was happy to share that his instructor and former employer Rigan Machado was disavowing any connection with Paul, not teaching seminars for him and generally distancing himself from this inserter-of-a-penis-into-a-woman's-sex-organ-without-her-effective-consent (for those apologists who objected to me calling him a rapist since the 2009 offenses he plead guilty to in 2011 were unlawful restraint and indecent exposure.)
But until this afternoon, Paul bragged that Rigan promoted him to black belt. Here's a screen grab from the morning of March 20, 2017. Second sentence.
Wait... this was Rigan's stance at the time:
This was Carlos' position:
Fortunately both Carlos and Rigan reacted promptly to my original version of this blog post. Whatever they did, by this afternoon, Paul's website was changed:
My understanding is that Carlos Machado has no affiliation with either Paul or Rigan, according to Lindsay Machado, Carlos' wife, and a written signed statement by Carlos.
Rigan also prepared a statement:
It seems, and I hope, that Paul was lying for the obvious credibility boost of being a Rigan Machado blackbelt.
Here's what I do know. He's teaching girls and their moms. Does mom know you're a registered sex offender? August 2013.
October 2013.
February 2014.
November 2014 with Rigan. No relationship, no ties.
September 2016 he's promoting students to brown.
October 2016 he was promoting a Rigan seminar (that link no longer works so I cannot confirm if it was a seminar Paul hosted or just promoted.)
January 2017 he's presenting at least two instructors at his academy as Rigan blackbelts. Maybe visitors? (Screen grab from 3/20/17.)
Why do I care? I have no financial stake in this-- I'm not an instructor, don't own an academy. Don't even train any more while I recover from some surgeries. I have no personal animus towards Paul (despite the rumor that we had a relationship, it was never more than casual acquaintanceship, and I think he came and trained at the Relson school in Austin with us once or twice.) Well, other than my disgust that he forced himself on a woman passed out drunk at his own birthday party. He refused to give her her panties back because "she wouldn't want a reminder of that night." I'll bet.
I care about women (and men) who have survived an assault and come to jiu jitsu seeking safety, empowerment, healing and prevention. I care about people who seek to prevent being assaulted. And I think they should know who their instructor is. If Rigan didn't promote Paul then who did? and why? why afford such a position of respect and power to a predator?
Let Paul make his living wherever, however... but I want his students to be aware. To have the privilege of knowing consent that his survivor that night in 2009 didn't.


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As we grow up, we get better at knowing what we are feeling and why. Knowing our feelings help us know what we want and make choices. It helps us relate to other people. Even difficult feelings (like anger or sadness) help us know ourselves.
Paying attention to feelings is a skill that anyone can practice. Here are some things to try:
1. Notice and name your feelings. To start, just notice how you feel as things happen. Say the name of the feeling to yourself. For example, you might say, "I feel proud" when a class presentation goes well, "I feel disappointed" at not doing well on a test, or, "I feel friendly" when sitting with a group at lunch.
2. Track one emotion. Pick one emotion — like joy. Track it all day. Notice how often you feel it. Every time, make a mental note to yourself or write it down. Is the feeling mild, medium, or strong?
3. Learn new words for feelings. How many different feelings can you name? Try thinking of even more. How many words are there for "angry"? For example, you might be annoyed, mad, irate, or fuming.
4. Keep a feelings journal. Take a few minutes each day to write about how you feel and why. Writing about your feelings is a way to express them. You can also make art, write poetry, or compose music that captures an emotion you feel.
5. Notice feelings in art, songs, and movies. Pay attention to what the artist did to show those feelings. How do you feel in response?
The more you are aware of your emotions, the more they help you know yourself and understand the people around you. Noticing and talking about feelings is a healthy way to express them. It keeps difficult feelings from building up.
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Retiring Chronically Vintage
Retiring Chronically Vintage
About the project
About the project
Yesterday, after two very snowy weeks of early March, I felt the first tender rays of springtime warmth dance upon my skin. I took Annie out back and together we played amongst them, both entranced by a sensation that we had very nearly forgotten.
It was a moment of simple, untainted pleasure of that sort we all long for in our lives and it reminded me a great deal of the powerful feelings of warmhearted compassion that myself, Tony and Annie have been incredibly blessed to receive from scores of wonderful people – including many in the vintage community – over the past five months since the fire.
From that horrific day onward, there has been a part of me that had suspected this post would eventually happen. Perhaps many of you saw it coming as well. (Source: chronicallyvintage.com)
The methodology.
What occurred to us on that fateful, (ironically) rainy October night changed us forever. In one fell swoop, it rewrote our lives and tore into the fabric of who we were at our very cores. Though some pieces have been mended, others that remained (now) strengthened, and some are lost forever, we are not the same people we were before the fire. I highly doubt most folks would be, if they went through something similar. Hardship and challenges make you and shape you.


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PacSun, the clothing store inspired by the California lifestyle, has officially announced tour kick-off, November 6th in Los Angeles, CA at the House of Blues and wraps December 20th at House of Blues in Anaheim, CA. Saosin, P.O.S., Innerpartysystem, and Eye Alaska as well as local battle of the band contest winners will be performing on each date.
â??The diverse lineup this year makes me very excitedâ? says Josh Hubberman, Manager of Music Marketing for PacSun. â??Kids arenâ??t just listening to one genre of music these days and PacTour is a great place for them to be exposed to new music styles.â? PacSun stores near each tour stop will again play host to PacTour bands each day of the tour for free and intimate in-store acoustic sessions. Not only can fans show up for the performance and meet and greet, but this year, Ernie Ball will be giving away a free guitar at every in-store performance. Stay tuned for specific in-store performance dates and locations.
P.O.S. (Rhymesayers) is an artist whose music blurs genre lines. His most recent release "Never Better," equal parts hip-hop and punk rock, stretched far beyond the conventional underground hip-hop scene. Itâ??s been a busy year for P.O.S. whoâ??s traversed the country on his own headline tour, the entire Warped Tour and a stint opening for Atmosphere. New York Times praised P.O.S. as one of the breakout artists of SXSW 2009. "â??Never Better,â? is an early candidate for best hip-hop album of 2009. P.O.S. has bona fide star quality; itâ??s easy to imagine him achieving the same level of mainstream success as Mos Def or Common." - Metromix
Saosin erupted out of Orange County in 2003. The follow-up to Saosinâ??s 2006 self-titled full-length debut, which bowed at No. 22 on The Billboard 200 and peaked at No. 7 on Billboardâ??s Top Rock Albums chart, In Search Of Solid Ground charts a journey with universal themes â?? mankindâ??s search for truth and meaning, the fragility of relationships, the pain implicit in growth and goodbyes â?? from a fresh perspective. Hailed as one of the most anticipated albums of 2009 by Alternative Press, In Search Of Solid Ground is a remarkable step forward for Saosin.
Innerpartysystem started writing songs together, inspired by both their love of electronic music and hardcore punk. Says Innerpartysystem: "When you see us, there's a real aggressive vibe in some ways to what we do, and then there's also this party atmosphere." The band has begun working on a second album. "We don't know exactly what it will become, but this year has been a huge growth experience for all of us. The underlying theme of the material so far just seems to be 'bigger.' Bigger sounds, bolder statements, and creating a larger than life video, online, and live presence... like we've always done."
Eye Alaskaâ??s eclectic sound, self-branded as â??cinematic rockâ?, has never been more defined than on new album Genesis Underground. Orchestrated by renowned producer Matt Wallace (Maroon 5, Faith No More, Sheryl Crow) and co-produced by Eye Alaskaâ??s frontman Brandon Wronski, Genesis Underground encompasses pop rock, hip hop and laid back lounge, building on the Orange, CA quintetâ??s reputation for grandiose-yet-meticulous delivery. Following their successful main stage performance at Bamboozle left Festival for the second year in a row, Eye Alaska has just wrapped up a U.S. tour with The Cab.
In conjunction with the PacTour, PacSun has launched the PacTour â??Battle of the Bandsâ? competition, powered by FameCast, in which bands can enter to perform on their local city date. From the pool of local battle winners, one grand prize winning band will be selected to receive a prize pack worth over $15,000. To enter, check out: pacsun.com/battleofthebands and encourage fans to rate, comment and repost. 6 finalists will be chosen per PacTour market, and will then battle it out for a slot on their local PacTour date.
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Fri/11-6 Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
Sat/11-7 Chico, CA @ Senator Theatre
Sun/11-8 San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore
Tue/11-10 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
Wed/11-11 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
Fri/11-13 Salt Lake City, UT @ Murray Theatre
Sat/11-14 Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
Sun/11-15 Kansas City, MO @ Beaumont
Tue/11-17 Des Moines @ People's Court
Wed/11-18 Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
Thu/11-19 Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
Fri/11-20 Grand Rapids, MI @ Orbit Room
Sat/11-21 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
Sun/11-22 Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
Tue/11-24 New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
Wed/11-25 Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
Fri/11-27 Sayerville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
Sat/11-28 New Haven, CT @ Toad's
Sun/11-29 Pittsburgh, PA@ Altar Bar
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Thu/12-3 Allentown, PA @ Crocodile Rock
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Fri/12-18 Phoenix, AZ @ The Marquee
Sat/12-19 San Diego, CA @ Soma
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Burch Creek Elementary comes from a rich heritage stretching back almost 170 years when Daniel Burch Jr. and his family helped settle the area now known as South Ogden. Our school is built on the former site of the old South Ogden Jr. High School facing the majestic mountains of the Wasatch Front.
Opening in the fall of 2016, Burch Creek Elementary draws upon the lasting legacy of the pioneers who formed this community so long ago, while building a new one that honors the traditions and values that have made educating our children a foundation of this community from the start.
With an expected enrollment of approximately 600 students, along with 65 teachers and staff, Burch Creek also boasts full day kindergarten, an awesome afterschool program, an active choir, and on-site Family Resource Center, which provides quality resources to help parents and children in the community.


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Lagan Construction Group has launched a NAME THE CRANE competition in Belfast.
The company are asking the primary school children of Belfast to name their tower cranes in the Belfast skyline. Lagan Construction Group currently have a total of four tower cranes dominating the sky in Belfast where the 50m tall cranes are being used in the construction of the new Ulster University Campus and the new office development, City Quays II at the Belfast Harbour.
The competition is open to all primary school age students in Belfast who are asked to draw and name one of Lagan Construction Group's tower cranes.
They also need to say why they chose their name to be in with the chance of winning some vouchers to spend at Easons.
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Welcome to the 11th annual Shoreline Marathon, Half, 5k 10k!
Race starts times: Marathon-7:00am, Half- 7:15 am, 10k - 7:30, 5k-7:45
Very spectator friendly mostly flat Marathon, half, 5k 10k. USATF Certified #CA17018RS
Start / Finish Emma Wood State Beach Group Campground then travel along the bike path onto the Historic Old Rincon Highway along the Ventura Coast line. Miles of Ocean views that will keep you in awe as you stroll to the turn around point and back to the start/finish line. Full marathon is two loops of this course. Aid stations every 1.5 miles.
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Great course for a new PR (personal record) this year. Mostly flat course, gentle ocean breeze and plenty of room to make your move towards your PR
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This mostly flat course along the Historic Old Rincon Highway and a great way to test your speed. Beautiful ocean views, cool temp, fun people and a cold glass of beer after the race.


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Burned "Sprider" shop at Ermou street located in the main shopping area of Athens.
The killing of the 15 year old boy Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a policeman resulted in widespread riots that altered the city landscape. When I walked in the streets of my town the day after the riots I instantly forgot the image I had about Athens, that of a bustling, peaceful, energetic metropolis and in my mind came the old photographs from WWII, the civil war and the students uprising against the dictatorship. Thus I decided not to turn my digital camera straight to the destroyed buildings but to photograph through an old camera that worked as a filter, a barrier between me and the city.


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European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road
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Adding amplifiers to your vehicle will put an additional burden on your vehicle's electrical system. This may result in dimming dashboard or headlights especially when extremely loud bass notes "hit". This extra burden can also affect the performance of your system which can be noticed in excessive overheating and shutting down of the amplifiers in the system. Often times adding a capacitor or battery is the quick solution to the problem but it may not be the best solution. For example, a 2000W RMS amplifier will potentially draw up to 240 amps of current depending on the design and efficiency of the amplifier. Even though the normal operation of the amp will probably run less than that on average, even half of that, 120 amps, is more than most vehicle electrical systems supply to run the entire vehicle. Most stock electrical systems use alternators that are between 60 and 120 amps. Even if you add capacitors or batteries your stock alternator will still limit the amount of current that can be sent to the batteries and caps. Although upgrading your alternator may be more expensive, in the long run your system and vehicle's electrical system will perform much better than just adding a capacitor or battery.
Consult your local specialist installer or call 1-800-CALL-MTX for advice on current draw from your amplifier to see what would work best for your system.
In some vehicles, the wire size used by the factory between the alternator and the battery is calculated to limit the amount of current that can be drawn from the alternator. This can protect the alternator from excessive draw due to a bad cell in a battery or multiple batteries in the circuit. Upgrading the ground wire is a good practice but you should only upgrade the wire between the alternator and battery if the alternator is upgraded to a high output unit. If you are using a factory alternator, it may be best to assure that the factory wire is in good condition and then leave it alone to so as to avoid damaging the alternator.
Capacitors and batteries are often added to audio systems in order to help overcome vehicle electrical system shortcomings.
Capacitor - A capacitor in a system is designed to help an amplifier to compensate for transient current peaks, it is not a power supply.
Battery - A battery in a system is designed to allow extended play time when the engine is not running. A battery will be an additional load on the charging system.
Alternator - Your vehicle's alternator supplies the actual current to the vehicle's batteries and consequently the sound system.
A monoblock amplifier is a 1 channel amp (mono literally means 1). Since bass is omnidirectional, meaning you can tell where it's coming from, it isn't necessary to run subwoofers in stereo. you may see 2 sets of speaker teminals on monoblock amps and they will be labeled as either speaker 1 and speaker 2 terminals, or simply + + and - -. that is because the two + terminals are connected to each other inside the amp, as are the two - terminals. The second set is there simply to make it easier to connect multiple speakers to the amplifier. Do not confuse the two sets of terminals as separate channels. if you're not sure whether an amp is a mono or two channel amp, you can look at the labels above the speaker terminals. a multichannel amplifier will have the separate channels labeled as Left and Right, or L and R.
An amplifier's Class refers to the amplifier's output stage. Although a Class D amplifier can also be a digital amp, the "D" does not stand for digital. What "Class D" does signify is that certain parts of this amplifier turn On/Off to create a signal instead of constantly varing the voltage or current. Changing how long these parts are On or Off changes what you hear. Class A and Class A/B amplifiers are always "On" to some extent, being more or less On as the audio being amplified calls for. The benefit of Class D topology is that current only flows when the parts are On, meaning they run cooler and are more efficient. The problem is that the switching creates distortion, so a low pass filter must be used to counter the distortion produced, because of certain characteristics of the parts used in this circuit, it is much easier to adapt Class D technology for low frequency (subwoofers) applications than for full range speakers. See the Technology section to learn more about MTX Patented Adaptive Class D Technology and its added benefits.
Matching an amplifier with the correct subs can be a little confusing. The rule of thumb is to match the amplifier RMS power output, (also known as continuous power) to the subwoofer with comparable RMS power handling capability. When using multiple subwoofers, you must total the power handling for all the subs. That number should closely match the amplifier dynamic power.
Keep in mind that many subs are rated in peak power handling, and you always want to find out the true RMS to determine the correct power handling. In many cases you will find, the RMS is half of the peak power rating. For example, if the peak power is 500, the RMS is 250, but that is not always the case. Please contact the MTX technical support department to determine the correct RMS rating for your subs if you are not sure.
It is easy to confuse a dual voice coil sub as a better subwoofer, but that's not the case. You will get the same output from either sub when used in the right application. Both sets of terminals must be wired up when using a dual voice coil subwoofer. Your amp and the number of subs will determine which subwoofer you would want. For example, if you had a TA5601 amplifier and wanted to run a pair of 12s, you would want single voice coil 4Ω woofers. Wiring the two woofers would give the amplifier the correct 2Ω impedance when wired in parallel.
Read more on single and dual voice coils.
Set the Multi-Meter to resistance, which is measured in Ohms (Ω). With the meter set to resistance, place the + and – leads to the speaker terminals. Depending on the resistance of the voice coil, the actual resistance will vary. A normal 4Ω voice coil will usually range from 3.4-4.4 Ohms, depending on the speaker. When a speaker is damaged it will be obvious, it won't be anywhere near the correct impedance. Most blown subwoofers will show an open circuit or short, and, in that case, the meter would read zeros. Keep in mind, if there is any type of inductor attached (including amplifier) to the speaker, a correct reading will not be received.
Most MTX amplifiers feature a patented auto sensing turn on technology called Smart Engage. Smart Egage technology allows you to use the signal sent through the full range speakers in your car as the remote turn on mechanism for your amplifier rather than having to install a remote wire from the head unit to the amplifier. This is especially convenient if you are using a factory head unit as it allows you to install the amplifier in most instances without having to remove the head unit making for an easier and faster installation.
An EBC (External Bass Control or RBC Remote Bass Control) is a Remote Subwoofer Level Control (Remote Gain) - Let's say the amplifier's gain is set at halfway, when the remote subwoofer level control is plugged in, you now have external control of the gain from zero to halfway. The installation of this level control is NOT necessary to get full power from the amplifier. Note: One EBC (External Bass Control) can control two or more amplifiers using a mini plug Y adapter.
Read more on External Bass Control.
The input sensitiviy adjustment, or Gain, on an amplifier is designed to match the input voltage of the amplifier with the output voltage of the head unit (source). Different head units have different pre-out voltages, 2v, 4v...8v. Unfortunately, no one tells you what that means or why they're offered. the speaker level output of your head unit has been amplified internally, the pre-outs have not. everything that an audio signal has to pass through will lower the "quality" of the signal by adding it's own distortion to it. in most cases, it's so little we can't hear it, but it adds up. since the pre-out signal has not been amplified in the head unit, which is why it's considered to be a "cleaner" signal to send to an amplifier. the higher the signal voltage, the better the signal to noise ratio, which is why you see higher pre-out voltages with more expensive head units.
Follow these steps to correctly set the gain on your amplifier:
Bridging an amplifier is often most useful when you have a 2-channel amplifier that you want to use to run as a mono channel or a 4-channel amplifier that you want to run as a 2-channel amplifier. Bridging is the combination of the left and right channels of an amplifier, using one terminal from each side, to make 1 (mono) channel with a higher output than either channel running separately. A mono block amplifier has only 1 channel and cannot be bridged. The 2 outputs of a mono block amplifier are there to easily connect multiple subwoofers. If you are not sure whether your amp is a mono block or a multi-channel model, look at the speaker terminals. Multi-channel amplifiers are labeled Left and Right while mono block amplifiers are labeled Speaker 1 and Speaker 2. Every amplifier has different requirements for bridging, so consult your manual or installation instructions before making any connections.
When bridging an amplifier, there are a few things you would want to check before you connect the amp to the subwoofers. First, check the minimum load the amplifier is stable to when bridged, and make sure you do not exceed the minimum load. Most MTX amplifiers bridge the same way, using the Left Positive (+) and Right Negative (–) terminals. However, some older models, like the Thunder 942, may use the Right Positive (+) and Left Negative (–) terminals when bridging. Check your specific model's manual or call MTX.
Since we have come out with the Class D line of amplifiers, we have had an abundance of technical calls inquiring about how to bridge them. It isn't possible to bridge any mono-block Class D amplifiers. All of these models are Mono amplifiers, meaning they only have one channel. Then why does a single channel amp have two terminals (L and R)? We put both terminals there for your convenience. If you have two speakers, it is hard to attach two speaker leads under one terminal screw. Thus, it makes for a cleaner, easier install. Example: If you had two of the single voice coil 4Ω MTX Thunder7500 12" subs (model T7512-04) and wanted to power it with a TA7801, you could use either terminal. Since it is a Mono amp, as long as the speakers are wired in parallel, it will see a 2Ω load. If you wanted to wire each speaker to a terminal, the amplifier would also see a parallel configuration.
As a general rule you should use the largest gauge power wire that your amplifier's input terminal is designed to accept. For example, if your amplifier has a 4 AWG power and ground wire input you should use a 4 AWG power wire. Consult your owners manual or installation instructions if you are unsure what size input terminal your amplifier has.
Thermal protection is not a defect in your amplifier. Every amplifier has thermal protection built into it as a safety precaution against damaging critical electronic components within the amplifier due to excess heat. The amplifier once cooled down will resume playback. If your amplifier is going into thermal protection often, check the setting of your input sensitivity to ensure that it is properly set to match the output voltage of your source unit. You can also lower the volume on your source unit to increase the intervals between thermal events.
Volume displacement is the amount of air that a subwoofer or speaker can move during use. Volume displacement relates to the speakers ability to generate higher levels of SPL. Volume Displacement is calculated by multiplying the Surface Diameter (Sd) of a subwoofer, most often measured in square inches in the U.S., times the Xmax of that subwoofer, most often measured in inches in the U.S., with the resulting volume displacement number being measured in cubic inches. The final equation then looks like this: Vd = Sd*xmax. The values for Vd, Sd, and Xmax can most often be found in the Thiele/Small parameters of the subwoofer.
It is fairly easy to calculate air space when designing and building enclosures. The formula is internal cabinet length X width X height, divided by 1728 (ex: 12 x 12 x 12 / 1728 = 1.0 Cu. ft.) If you have a complicated enclosure to calculate, you can fill it with liquid; one cubic foot is equal to 7.48 gallons. For more information about calculating air space you can see our article on Enclosure Construction and Enclosure Design.
A subwoofer that is reverse mounted will not sound any different than a subwoofer that is mounted traditionally. The advantage to reverse mounting a subwoofer is that you can use a much smaller enclosure since the volume taken up by the subwoofer would not be a factor as it would be mounted outside of the enclosure. Read more about controlling phase of reverse mounted subwoofers.
Subwoofer frequencies often generate a considerable amount of rattle when played at high volumes in cars. The best way to eliminate rattling is to use a sound dampening material to absorb the soundwaves created by the subwoofer before they can reverberate and rattle parts in your vehicle. Sound dampening material is an adhesive material that can be stuck to the inside of doors, the headliner, the trunk or anywhere else a rattle can be heard. MTX recommends ZeroNoise NoiseKiller Mat from StreetWires as an excellent sound dampening option.
If your subwoofers are distorted you may have the input sensitivity (gain) on your amplifier incorrectly set. Distortion is caused when a soundwave has its amplitude adjusted from a traditional sine wave (round peaks) to a square soundwave (square peaks). Square waves are caused when the input sensitivity (gain) is set in excess of the output voltage of the source unit (ie. radio) and the volume is turned up louder than when the amplifier was set. This "amplified" signal results in the square soundwaves that you hear as distortion. You can use an oscilloscope to check the output wave if you have one available or you can use a multimeter and measure the output voltage of the amplifier at the speaker terminal and then use this calculation to determine if your gain is set correctly. Voltage equals the square root of RMS Power times Resistance. For example if you have a 1000W RMS amplifier connected to a 2 ohm subwoofer the optimum voltage should be 44.72V. You can adjust the gain up or down while measuring the voltage until the multimeter measures that voltage and your amplifier would be properly set and the distortion should be eliminated. Watch our Set Your Gain instructional video for more information.
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Our GP practice holds information about you and this document outlines how that information is used, with whom we may share that information, how we keep it secure (confidential) and what your rights are in relation to this. The Health Care Professionals (HCP) who provide you with care, maintain records about your health and any treatment or care you have received previously (e.g. NHS Trust, GP surgery, Community clinics or staff etc.).
These records help to provide you with the best possible healthcare.
NHS health records may be electronic, on paper or a mixture of both and we use a combination of working practices and technology to ensure that your information is kept confidential and secure.
What Kind of Information do we Use?
- Details about you, such as address and next of kin and carer information etc
- Any contact the surgery has had with you such as appointments, clinic visits, emergency appointments and so on
- Notes and reports about your health
- Details about your treatment and care
- Results of investigations such as laboratory tests, x-rays etc.
- Relevant information from other HCPs, relatives or those who care for you
To ensure you receive the best possible care, your records are used to facilitate the care you receive. Information held about you may be used to help protect the health of the public and to help us manage the NHS. Information may be used for clinical audit to monitor the quality of the service provided and to plan NHS services. Some of this information will be held centrally and used for statistical purposes. Where we do this, we take strict measures to ensure that individual patients cannot be identified.
Sometimes your information may be requested to be used for research purposes – the surgery or organisation concerned will always endeavour to gain your consent before releasing the information.
The NHS Care Record Guarantee for England sets out the rules that govern how patient information is used in the NHS and what control patients can have over this.
The NHS Constitution https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-nhs-constitution-for-england establishes the principles and values of the NHS in England. It sets out rights to which patients, public and staff are entitled, and pledges which the NHS is committed to achieve, together with responsibilities, which the public, patients and staff owe to one another to ensure that the NHS operates fairly and effectively.
What do we use Your Personal and Confidential/Sensitive Information for?
We can only use any information that may identify you (known as personal information) in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and other laws such as the Health and Social Care Act 2012. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/29/contents and http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/7/contents/enacted, however only the minimum necessary identifiers are used in processing personal information for the purpose. We also have a Common Law Duty of Confidentiality to protect your information. This means that where a legal basis for using your personal or confidential information does not exist, we will not do so.
Apart from direct health care sensitive personal information may also be used in the following cases:
- To respond to patients, carers or Member of Parliament communication
- We have received consent from individuals to be able to use their information for a specific purpose.
- There is an overriding public interest in using the information e.g. in order to safeguard an individual, or to prevent a serious crime.
- There is a legal requirement that will allow us to use or provide information (e.g. a formal court order).
- For the health and safety of others, for example to report an infectious disease such as meningitis or measles.
- We have special permission for health and research purposes (granted by the Health Research Authority).
- We have special permission called a 'section 251 agreement' (Section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 as re-enacted by Section 251 of the NHS Act 2006) which allows the Secretary of State for Health to make regulations to set aside the common law duty of confidentiality for defined medical purposes. An example of where this is used is in risk stratification. Further information can be found on the Health Research Authority's web site here http://www.hra.nhs.uk/about-the-hra/our-committees/section-251/what-is-section-251/
Risk Stratification
Risk stratification tools are increasingly being used in the NHS to help determine a person's risks of suffering from a particular condition, preventing an unplanned or (re)admission and identifying a need for preventative intervention. Information about you is collected from a number of sources including NHS Trusts and from this GP Practice.
A risk score is then arrived at through an analysis of your anonymised information using software managed by North of England Commissioning Support Service (NECS), which is based at John Snow House, Durham, DH1 3YG. The data is provided back to the GP Practice or member of your care team in an identifiable form. Risk stratification enables your GP Practice to focus on the prevention of ill health and not just the treatment of sickness.
If necessary, your GP Practice may be able to offer you additional services.
Should you have any concerns about how information is managed at your GP Practice, please write to the Practice Manager so you can discuss how the disclosure of your personal information can be limited.
Invoice Validation
If you have received treatment within the NHS, access to your personal information is required in order to determine which Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) should pay for the treatment or procedure you have received. The validation of invoices is undertaken within a controlled environment for finance within the North of England CSU (NECS) which is based at John Snow House, Durham, DH1 3YG. This is carried out via a section 251 agreement and is undertaken to ensure that the CCG is paying for treatments relating to its patients only.
The dedicated NECS team receives patient level information (minimal identifiers are used for this purpose, such as NHS number, post code, date of birth) direct from the hospital providers and undertakes a number of checks to ensure that the invoice is valid and that it should be paid for by the CCG.
The CCG does not receive or see any patient level information relating to these invoices. Further information about invoice validation can be found on NHS England's web site here https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/tsd/ig/in-val/
How do we Maintain Confidentiality of Your Records?
We are committed to protecting your privacy and will only use information collected lawfully in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 (which is overseen by the Information Commissioner's Office), Human Rights Act, the Common Law Duty of Confidentiality and the NHS Codes of Confidentiality and Security. Every member of staff who works for an NHS organisation has a legal obligation to keep information about you confidential. Anyone who received information from an NHS organisation has a legal duty to keep it confidential. We maintain our duty of confidentiality to you at all times.
We will only ever use or pass on information about you if others involved in your care have a genuine need for it. We will not disclose your information to any third party without your permission unless there are exceptional circumstances (e.g. life or death situations) or where the law requires information to be passed on.
The NHS Digital Code of Practice on Confidential Information applies to all of our staff, and they are required to protect your information, inform you of how your information will be used, and allow you to decide if and how your information can be shared. All practice staff are expected to make sure information is kept confidential and receive annual training on how to do this. This is monitored by the practice and can be enforced through disciplinary procedures.
We also ensure the information we hold is kept in secure locations, restrict access to information to authorised personnel only and protect personal and confidential information held on equipment such as laptops with encryption (which masks data so that unauthorised users cannot see or make sense of it).
We ensure external data processors that support us are legally and contractually bound to operate and prove security arrangements are in place where information that could or does identify a person is processed.
We have a senior person responsible for protecting the confidentiality of patient information and enabling appropriate information sharing. This person is called the Caldicott Guardian. The Caldicott Guardian for the practice is Dr Richard Dawson. We also have a Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) who is responsible for owning the practice's information risk. The SIRO is Kim Christie (practice manager).
We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) as a data controller which describes the purposes for which we process personal data. A copy of the registration is available from the ICO's web site by searching on our practice name.
Who are our Partner Organisations?
We may also have to share your information, subject to strict agreements on how it will be used, with the following organisations:
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• Specialist Trusts
• Independent contractors such as dentists, opticians, pharmacists
• Private sector providers
• Voluntary sector providers
• Ambulance Trusts
• Clinical Commissioning Groups
• Social Care and Health
• Local Authorities
• Education Services
• Fire & Rescue Services
• Police
• Other data processors
What Are Your Rights?
Where information from which you can be identified is held, you have the right to ask to:
- View this or request copies of the records by making a subject access request – also see below.
- request information is corrected
- have the information updated where it is no longer accurate
- ask us to stop processing information about you where we are not required to do so by law – although we will first need to explain how this may affect the care you receive.
Access to Personal Information
You have a right under the Data Protection Act 1998 to access/view what information the surgery holds about you, and to have it amended or removed should it be inaccurate. This is known as 'the right of subject access'. If we do hold information about you we will:
- Give you a description of it
- Tell you why we are holding it
- Tell you who it could be disclosed to, and
- Let you have a copy of the information in an intelligible form
- If you would like to make a 'subject access request', please do so in writing to the Practice Manager.
Summary Care Records (SCR)
The Summary Care Record is a national scheme to share information about the medicines you are prescribed and any allergies or other adverse reactions you have experienced. Health Professionals at other organisations will only be able to access this information with your permission. You can opt-out of the scheme; please ask at the surgery if you need more information or follow the appropriate link on our website.
Summary Care Record with Additional Information
This is a national scheme to share more detailed information including your current medical problems and your care wishes. Health Professionals at other organisations will only be able to access this information with your permission. This information will only be available to other agencies if you have given us your permission to share it.
Great North Care record (GNCR)
This is a local initiative to share medical information in the North East. The information shared is similar to that in the Summary Care Record with Additional Information. Health Professionals at other organisations will only be able to access this information with your permission. The health organisations with whom we share this information include the local hospitals, out of hours services and the ambulance service. This information will be shared unless you tell us in writing that you don't want us to share it.
You can opt-out of this scheme – please ask at the surgery.
Your Right to Withdraw Consent
If you are happy for your data to be extracted and used for the purposes described in this Fair Processing Notice, then you do not need to do anything. If you do not want your personal data being extracted and used for the purposes described in this Fair Processing Notice, then you need to let us know as soon as possible in writing to the Practice Manager.
Please note that withdrawing your consent from sharing data may, in some circumstances, cause a delay in your receiving care.
How Long do You hold Information for?
All records held by the practice will be kept for the duration specified by national guidance from the Department of Health, The Records Management Code of Practice for Health and Social Care 2016. Confidential information is securely destroyed in accordance with this code of practice.
Your Right to Opt Out
In some instances, you are allowed to request that your confidential information is not used beyond your own care and treatment and to have your objections considered. To support this patients are able to register objections with the GP Practice to either prevent their identifiable data being released outside of the GP Practice (known as a Type 1 objection) or to prevent their identifiable data from any health and social care setting being released by NHS Digital (known as a Type 2 objection) where in either case it is for purposes other than direct patient care. If your wishes cannot be followed, you will be told the reasons (including the legal basis) for that decision.
There are certain circumstances where a person is unable to opt out but these are only where the law permits this such as in adult or children's safeguarding situations.
You have a right in law to refuse or withdraw previously granted consent to the use of your personal information. There are possible consequences of not sharing such as the effect this may have on your care and treatment but these will be explained to you to help with making your decision.
If you wish to exercise your right to opt-out, or to speak to somebody to understand what impact this may have, if any, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this document.
What is the right to know?
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) gives people a general right of access to information held by or on behalf of public authorities, promoting a culture of openness and accountability across the public sector.
What sort of information can I request?
In theory, you can request any information that the practice holds, that does not fall under an exemption. You may not ask for information that is covered by the Data Protection Act. Your request must be in writing and can be either posted or emailed to the practice.
Where can I obtain further advice?
For independent advice about data protection, privacy, data sharing issues and your rights you can contact:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
Telephone: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745
Email: [email protected]
Visit the ICO website here https://ico.org.uk/
Complaints or Questions?
We try to meet the highest standards when collecting and using personal information. For this reason, we take any complaints we receive about this very seriously. We encourage people to bring concerns to our attention if they think that our collection or use of information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate.
Please contact us using the contact details below should you have any such concerns.
Houghton Medical Group
The Health Centre
Church Street
Houghton le Spring
Tyne and Wear
Tel: 0191 5842154


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Courses are available and they are often taught on a day out, so you don't waste time sat in a classroom.
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So, the monks start moving disks back and forth, between the original pile, the pile at the new location, and the intermediate location, always keeping the piles in order (largest on the bottom, smallest on the top). The legend is that, before the monks make the final move to complete the new pile in the new location, the temple will turn to dust and the world will end. Is there any truth to this legend?
The Game. There's a game based on this legend. You have a small collection of disks and three piles into which you can put them (in the physical version of this game, you have three posts onto which you can put the disks, which have holes in the centre). The disks all start on the leftmost pile, and you want to move them to the rightmost pile, never putting a disk on top of a smaller one. The middle pile for intermediate storage. Here's how the game looks with six disks:
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(if your computer can display graphics, you should access the graphical version of this game).
Use the buttons below to play the game, and see if you can move all the disks in the smallest number of moves possible. Then, see if you can figure out a mathematical pattern behind the number of moves required for different numbers of disks, and use this pattern to predict how long it will take the monks to move their 64 disks.
With 1 disk, it can be done in 1 turn. With 2 disks, it can be done in 3 turns. With 3 disks . . . well, that's for you to figure out, and see if you can find a pattern to the sequence. When you've found the pattern, you should be able to tell whether or not there's any truth to the chilling prophecy!
To help you out, the computer will give you a rating from 1 to 5 after you play the game, telling you how close you came to doing it in the minimum number of turns (a rating of 5 being the best).
Once you've played for a while, you might want to look at some hints on how to discover the mathematical pattern behind the game.
You may also be interested to know that there is a connection between this game and the problem of finding a "Hamiltonian path" along the edges of a cube and its higher-dimensional analogues; for more information, see the SIMMER presentation on this topic.


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I have to say that this is a serious card printer. It is over twice the price of the Evolis, and a bit faster. It is about the same running costs, maybe slightly less. It is way better!
What makes the ZXP8 model special is that it is a re-transfer printer. It prints the images on to a transfer film, and then separately heat transfers that on to the card. This is important as the heat for printing is very different to the heat needed to transfer on to some types of card. Direct printers are fine on perfectly smooth PVC blank white plastic cards. They do not work well at all on a SIM card, often not a smooth surface and with gaps and contacts and a dent for the chip on the back and so on.
I have to say it is impressive. It can do full colour, edge-to-edge, double-sided, and can print on SIM cards perfectly.
There are some points worth noting. The ribbons come in various sorts:-
- YMCK, allows full colour (YMC) and a solid black (K) layer as well.
- YMCKK, designed for double sided, YMCK one side, just K the other
- YMCUvK, does full colour, black, and Ultra Violet!
- YMCKI, does full colour, black, and Inhibit.
The Uv is quite cool. It is a separate print layer that is invisible. To work properly it needs a second transfer ribbon process of just Uv (all done seamlessly), but the end effect is something you can't see, so what's the point? Well, shine a UV light at your driving licence or some money or bank cards, they all use UV for security. The result is pretty cool. We did this at the LONAP/ISPA event this week for fun and found a fake tenner in someone's wallet, ooops.
The Inhibit is also rather fun, and for the SIM cards. It stops the re-transfer for an area of the card. This allows me to avoid printing on the SIM contacts, and for a mag card would avoid the mag stripe too. In practice, the SIM contacts do not stick, so no need, but would be needed for mag stripe I expect.
Also, it is able to cope with CMY on one side and K on the other, which is not an uncommon arrangement, and allows double sided for the same price as single sided in such cases. The transfer ribbon always uses two panels on this model (shame). But this is a nice feature to save on colour panels on some card designs.
There are several options, and I have gone for the SIM contact reader and the Mag stripe encoder/reader, just for fun. Not using either just yet. You can even get a separate laminater for added protection of the surface or using custom laminates with holograms and the like.
For the technically minded, the colour layer is 8 bits per colour and usually sent as RGB and converted to YMC by the printer. The Uv is 8 bits per pixel. The black and inhibit are 1 bit per pixel. It is 300dpi. Print area is 1024x648 which overlaps the edges of a normal card (1012x637 ish) so proper edge-to-edge even with minor feed/alignment variation.
Of course, having got this Monday morning, I had some work to do - it comes with Windows drivers. I had to find a Windows laptop (sales had one in a corner for use with BT eCo on IE). I spent the morning packet dumping (it is a network connected printer). I spent the afternoon coding linux drivers for it, and was surprised it took me until 6pm to print a card (my excuse is lack of blood sugar, too engrossed to eat).
Packet dumping was done using FireBrick pcap dump and tcpdump to decode, though mostly that meant reading hex.
So I have published the drivers now: http://aa.net.uk/kb-other-free.html
Basically it talks on TCP 9100, has a 16 byte command and 32 byte reply system with optional data payload. Several commands worked out (see comments in the driver code). The application I wrote takes separate postscript or BMP files for each layer, being colour, black, inhibit or Uv for each side, and sends to print. It can also make a preview BMP to see what would print.
I have yet to try and decode talking to the SIM card contacts (useful for smart card coding too) or the Mag stripe encoder, but that should be simple and will be added to the driver code as I need.
Why don't people either produce linux drivers or at least publish the interface specs? How hard can it be?
Update: Mag card read and encode was a doddle, but cannot get it to talk to the SIM cards yet!
It is quite neat that I can tell it to take a card from the hopper, manual feed, or left in printer, and tell it to send a card to the output, a reject tray, or left in printer. This means I can suck in a card, read it, print, mag encode, etc, all as separate jobs. When I get the SIM reader working I can get the SIM ID and then make a print job to print the details on the card. It is pretty slick.
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If you've watched an England game on telly this World Cup, apart from a feeling of ennui matched only it seems by Emile Heskey as he spends another match mostly inhaling the pitch, you'll have gained two things:
- The knowledge that what the England team lack is passion, monotone decide-to-be-Irish pundit Andy Townsend will have dulled that into you.
- A greater-than-before awareness of what Sir Clive Woodward and Nigel Benn look like these days. As they appear with numerous other English champions in an unashamed advert.
Except that they're sort of the same thing. One is an ex-player's easy statement on a team's failure without having to do such things as explain tactics, the other a Danish lager PR machine's attempt to associate themselves with football, without having to understand anything about it bar the jingoistic assumptions made by sections of the press.
Passion is an odd thing, it's the only piece of the gamut of emotional reaction to sport that advertisers and the media will attempt to engage the public over. You've seen John Barnes, a player torn apart by the press during his playing career for a perceived lack of it held up as someone to connect over just how much of it he has. If it can be whipped up to involve some cheap nostalgia so much the better. Barnes's appearance is linked to the current wave of re-imagining the golden era of Italy 1990, there's even a film out One Night In Turin based around the tournament — with the tears and kisses and penalty misses that do nothing so much as remind me how much the video from only twenty years ago has degraded.
It's not quite how I remember that World Cup, the headlines were about how bad things were, not how memorable. It existed as one of the great last sorties of English hooliganism abroad, there was constant footage of it raining plastic glasses and plastic chairs in picturesque squares all over Italy. The film is based on a book by Pete Davis called All Played Out (now re-issued as One Night in Turin), which is a fantastic, if depressing, read about how Planet Football is divorced from all reality and the lives of the fans. Davis quotes a distressed Englishman — no doubt dressed in too-small shorts and one of those headache inducing plastic flat-caps we used to have — after a disappointing draw against North African opposition: "fight you bastards" he says "like we fight for you". Sound familiar? The film doesn't touch too much on that.
Do players really have less passion now than two decades ago, and if so can that role-call of famous English help. Can a naked-from-the-waist (up, thankfully) Jeff Stelling inspire, does our greatest living World Champion — The Power — chucking a 'good arra' mean anything to our current team? I'm not sure it goes far enough, these are media savvy young men who will assume well wishes from the stars of stage and green (and have you noticed Steve Davis CGI'd into recent transmissions?). What they need is inspirational figures alongside them when it really counts.
It's said that the great Liverpool team of the 80s could afford to play Sammy Lee as they "could have covered for Thora Hird at left back", never mind a player who'd just been transferred a little above his ability. So with that in mind, can't the England team cover for the lack of experience or fitness of a sententious Englishman who will lead them in all things passion?
If Beckham can travel without being fit to play, surely the presence of a great who can play (without them being able to really play) is a possibility. And we could stick them on the wing that Gerrard doesn't seem to be using anyway.
Of the advert crew, we have to excuse Dames Holmes and MacArthur for FIFA are not enlightened enough to allow a female winger, but surely Ian Botham could do a job? Beefy is so English that supposedly preferring the charms of the West Indian dressing room to that of his own team hasn't dampened his iconic status, and he had a few games for Scunthorpe and Yeovil too.
He can't do everything of course, but not every game needs so much of the passion and we have a lot of national treasures around. An easy qualifier against the Faroes for example might only need the passion of a Bradley Walsh or a Jonathan Wilkes, a friendly against a local side pre a tournament could be the opportunity to rest the big guns and use a Duncan Norvelle or a Stan Boardman (who pioneer Fat Ron Atkinson used extensively in the build up to big Villa games in the nineties).
A vital qualifier away in Turin might be the time to use Brian Blessed, where you could use a home game to blood David Mitchell, maybe he and Robert Webb could be twin raiding wing-backs.
Roy Race knew all about the power of celebrity, and also blow-driers, when he picked Steve Norman and Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet for Melchester. Imagine the faces of the opposition when we bring on The Actual Mayor Of London for a corner. And BoJo has experience.
It's the World Cup and we need to show that passion, so we need to lay every card we have. Princes William and Harry were in the stands on Friday, and the dressing room after — luckily before anyone touching cloth came in to ask to use the bog — why were they not in the room before, kitted and booted, three lions over their royal right-nipples ready for battle. Where their ancestors lead England into the breach, they could be leading Aaron Lennon onto the bench and playing themselves.
Forget Gaddafi's son somehow making the Libya side (and oddly the squad at Sampadoria), forget Kevin-Prince Boateng. We might just have found a use for our Royal Family, just not Fergie in charge of the sponsorship deals please.


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Prior to the Civil War, over 300 enslaved people sued for their freedom in St. Louis courts. The most well-known of these "freedom suits" was that of Dred and Harriet Scott. In this DBQuest, students will explore the only known account of a freedom suit written by a former enslaved woman, Lucy Delaney. Using her autobiography, students will consider how enslaved people resisted slavery through both legal and extra-legal means.
The Big Question: What decisions did families make in their fight to resist slavery?
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I am crossing into Belarus by car this summer, thus I need a tourist visa. It cannot be issued at the land border: it must be obtained in advance through a consulate of Belarus.
Since I heard that the Belarus embassy in Stockholm has been re-opened in 2017, I was planning to apply for the visa in Stockholm, well before leaving for the summer trip.
However, the official website of the embassy (http://www.sweden.belembassy.org/) is not working.
Before going there with a potential loss of time, I'd like to know whether anyone had any recent experience with this kind of issue, I mean if the consulate is actually issuing tourist visas, what is the efficiency level, etc. Basically, how painful the paperwork is.
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"Doe Mesa Afternoon" 9x12, oil
It seems that many painters, as well as the galleries that represent them, are turning to giclée prints.
Well, a giclée print is little different from the poster you hung on your college dorm wall. Sure, it's more (much more) expensive and made with archival inks. But it's still just a printed reproduction.
They are not the same as monotypes, limited lithographic prints and the like, all of which are made through a printmaking process. Wikipedia defines printmaking thus: "Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting." I don't care if the giclée is hand-embellished, numbered and printed on canvas - it's an expensive poster.
The point is this. If you're thinking of buying something that will have monetary value down the road, it's not going to be giclée prints. Those college dorm wall posters you had are worthless. The only value they have is emotional and personal. That poster I had of Van Gogh's sunflowers was a nice decorative piece but it's now worth about five bucks, new.
As an interesting aside, I just looked up Van Gogh sunflower prints on eBay. The poster's buy-it-now price is $5. A giclée version on canvas, framed, is $69.95. Both of these are described as "rare" in the text. But compare these with one of the original sunflower paintings, which sold in 1987 for around $39,000,000 and is today estimated to be worth about $89,000,000.
If you can't buy the original, you're better off buying an inexpensive offset print, not a giclée. Giclées cheat the uninformed public, which is one reason why I don't do them.
In fact, I don't sell prints of any kind, other than on little notecards, because I feel my work is priced so inexpensively that almost anyone can afford it. And wouldn't you rather have the original, anyway? As a student, you can study it in a way you'd never be able to study a print. As a buyer, you've got an investment that a print will never be. Many of my sketches and demos are $100 and under - about the same as that giclée of Vincent's sunflowers - and my gallery pieces aren't that expensive, either. (The painting at the top of the page is for sale. I'll make you a deal - $100 +$10 shipping.)
I know the counter-arguments. If you have one painting that you could have sold a hundred times, wouldn't it make sense to make prints? Sounds good, but I think it devalues the original. I've had patrons buy certain paintings precisely because I don't make prints of them. Some artists will say prints increase the value of the original. I don't think Van Gogh's original sunflower painting has a huge pricetag because of all those prints hanging up on dorm walls. What are your thoughts?


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Today we have two announcements, both pertaining to Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. First—the show has been extended! It will now remain open in the Resnick Pavilion through March 27.
Second, we just posted an exciting new resource for costumers: patterns that may be used to approximate the design of these garments from our collection.
Thomas John Bernard and curatorial assistant Clarissa Esguerra at work pulling patterns from an 18th century waistcoat.
We talked with Thomas John Bernard, a theatrical costume designer and professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, who worked with the exhibition curators to create the patterns.
What was it like to work with these garments?
It was exciting because a lot of them are very unique and they are in amazing condition for their age.
When you look at the insides of these pieces, you discover things you don't really expect. You get to do detective work forensics to try to figure out what the garment was like, how it was made and perhaps remade.
When you are a costume designer, you read plays set at different times in history, and you make clothes for people to represent the time and place. I do a lot of patternmaking for Utah Shakespeare Festival and other theatres around the country; knowing how historical garments were made during the period helps me be a better craftsperson.
Man's Waistcoat, China for the Western market, c. 1740 Purchased with funds provided by Suzanne A. Saperstein and Michael and Ellen Michelson, with additional funding from the Costume Council, the Edgerton Foundation, Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer, Maureen H. Shapiro, Grace Tsao, and Lenore and Richard Wayne M.2007.211.811, photo © 2010 Museum Associates/LACMA
Can someone actually make a garment he or she could wear using one of these patterns?
These are pieces of art. These historic garments most likely would not fit a person today. These patterns are an historical representation. As a patternmaker, I can take measurements from people today and make the pattern fit by drafting it up using the same lines taken from the original piece. To make a garment that fits based on one of these patterns, you need to know something about patternmaking, and be able to modify the size of the garment in that way.
What did you learn about how the original garments were constructed?
A lot of the clothes were all sewn by hand. The stitches are smaller than what a sewing machine would make today; you can see the incredibly small, beautiful stitches made by expert tailors. When we did a pattern of a boy's frock we discovered it may have been made by a talented home seamstress; the pieces did not line up exactly, and sometimes the fabric is slightly off-grain. So you look at the pattern, and it's not exactly square. But we wanted to have an actual historical representation of that piece, so we left it that way and didn't fix it as I would if I were going to actually sew the garment. If I were going to make the garment I would square the elements so that they hang better.
A famous designer would not take one of these patterns and try to make it in exactly the same way the original garment was created. They would take the original garment as inspiration, and construct something using present-day techniques.
I think patternmaking is a combination of sculpture and engineering. One has to work on the body, but the garment also has to look beautiful and flow around the body. Every human body is different; making each person look his or her best is a challenge that involves many decisions about how a garment is cut and constructed.
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