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Back when we started the Farmer's Wife 1930's Sampler Quilt Sew-along I had no idea how much my life would change and how much I would come to love Marti Michell's templates. I was already using them to make my version of Lucy Kingwell's Smitten and loving them, but I had no idea how I would go on to use them in everything I do. Marti and her team had very generously sent myself and the other Farmer's Wife 1930's Sampler Quilt Sew-along Bloggers all the sets we needed to make the quilt and so I started using them. I loved them. My accuracy improved, cutting out was so much easier and I started to think about all the patchwork I was doing in terms of what templates I could use.
I took advantage of a sale that Marti had and converted all the rulers that I use over to Marti Michell rulers so that I knew my measurements would be accurate across all cutting. I've found them to be great and will recommend them to anyone that asks. However, I've noticed in our Farmer's Wife 1930's Sampler Quilt Facebook Group that others have struggled to find uses for the templates outside of the sew-along. Seeing people struggle to adapt to using the templates with standard quilt patterns gave me an idea and so I got in contact with some of the amazing quilters that have been helping out on the Farmer's Wife 1930's Sampler Quilt Sew-along and we've hatched a plan.
Starting on Friday 12 August, and continuing for 13 weeks, each Friday a fabulous blogger will share with you a tutorial on how to use the Marti Michell Perfect Patchwork Template Sets A, B, N, D and S to make your very own mini quilt. Each blogger is designing a mini quilt just for you and I can't wait to see what they come up with. Would you like to know more?
Who's Involved & What's the Timetable?
I'm so thrilled with the line up for this little event. We've got some great bloggers with their own unique styles from all around the world. Mini quilt patterns will be published on the following dates at the following websites:
12/08/2016 Angie @ GnomeAngel.com
19/08/2016 Tonya @ The Crafty Mummy
26/08/2016 Lucy @ Charm About You
02/09/2016 Kirsty @ Bonjour Quilts
09/09/2016 Cat @ Cat + Vee
16/09/2016 Nathalie @ Les Ouvrages de Nat
23/09/2016 Alyce @ Blossom Heart Quilts
30/09/2016 Peta @ She Quilts A Lot
07/10/2016 Lisa @ Sweet Little Pretties
14/10/2016 Rachel @ Wooden Spoon Quilts
21/10/2016 Raylee @ Sunflower Quilting
28/10/2016 Lisa @ In The Boon Docks
04/11/2016 And the lady herself, Marti Michell
What's the Incentive?
The love of quilting, of course! Ok, so you want something a little more than that. Fair enough. How's a prize pack from Marti Michell sound? Fabulous, right!
For now, that's all I'm going to tell you. But be sure that over the coming weeks as we reveal our mini quilts we'll also be revealing some other great prizes and giving you a taste of what's included in the Marti Michell prize pack.
How do you Enter?
Simple. On Friday 18 November myself and the other bloggers will post a linky on their blogs. You can submit your photo via this linky. Alternatively you can submit your photo to the specific album in the Farmer's Wife 1930's Sampler Quilt Facebook Group or you can post it on Instagram with the hashtag #MartiMichellMiniQuiltmania and tag myself (@gnomeangel) and Marti Michell (@MartiMichell) in the photo. So many ways to enter there should be no excuse for you not to be in the running!
Entries will be open from Friday 18 November 2016 @ 7am AEST (Sydney Time) and close Friday 25 November 2016 @ Midnight AEST.
How do I Win?
We have a secret panel of judges that will choose their favourite entries which will go in the running to win a prize. It's open internationally and winners will be announced on Wednesday 30 November at 7:30am AEST. (Judges decision is final and discussion will not be entered into.)
Excited? I know I am. I can't wait to see what everyone makes and how you all make your own versions with your own unique spin on it. If you have any questions hit me up in the comments or click here to drop me an email.
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The story of the iconic Freitag bag made of used truck tarpaulin began in Zurich (Switzerland) in 1993, when the two brothers and keen cyclists Daniel and Markus Freitag were looking for a practical and waterproof messenger bag. As they couldn't find one that suited their needs, they just produced one themselves. The inspiration came from the trucks that passed by in front of their students flat. First the Freitag brothers sewed together bags made of used truck tarps, car seat belts and bicycle inner tubes just for themselves and their friends. But the uniquely designed bag became popular and even cult.
Today the Freitag brothers and their company are a both a prominent part of the urban street scene as well as a model of the (not only Swiss) creative industry. Time for the Museum of Design Zurich (Museum für Gestaltung Zürich) to have a closer look at company and their individual recycled freeway bags. The first Freitag retrospective called Freitag -- Out of the Bag takes a look behind the scenes and spotlights the history, products, manufacture, organization, marketing of Freitag. Rather than just showing the bags, which can be seen in the streets of cities all over the world, the show presents material from the company archive, observations in film, prototypes, and a number of interviews.
Daniel Freitag.
VernissageTV met up with Daniel Freitag and the curator of the exhibition Freitag -- Out of the Bag, Renate Menzi to talk about the company and the exhibition, and to follow them on a tour through the show. The above video is a video summary of the exhibition and the interviews. The complete videos can be viewed at www.vernissage.tv. Daniel Freitag speaks about the secret of Freitag's success, their design philosophy, what inspires them, how the brothers work together, the essence of a Freitag product, sustainability, different tastes across the world, future projects -- and why he wears a beard. Curator Renate Menzi provides us with an introduction to the exhibition, and points to two different scenarios for the future of the company.
Bike and Bag.
Almost 20 years after the launch of the first product, the original bag is still the best-selling, but is complemented by additional lines and products. There are 40 models of the Freitag Fundamentals range, and 17 Freitag Reference models. The Freitag brothers expect this year's sale to reach about 300,000 items. The company employs a staff of 130, and processes around 400 metric tons of truck tarpaulins. The Freitag products are sold through 400 sales partners, the online shop, and nine of its own F-Stores in Berlin, Cologne, Davos, Hamburg, Tokyo, and Vienna, including one across the New Museum in New York and their spectacular flagship store in Zürich, built from shipping containers.
Freitag Factory.
Each Freitag bag is made from original truck tarpaulins of different colors, markings and contours, thus every Freitag product is a one-off. Another key element of the design is the green aspect, the use of second-hand material. This is also the biggest constraint on growth: Finding enough suitable tarpaulin for the products.
Tarps in the Museum.
Freitag -- Out of the Bag. Retrospective at the Museum of Design Zurich (Museum für Gestaltung Zürich). Interview with Daniel Freitag and Renate Menzi (Museum of Design), Zürich / Switzerland, May 9, 2012.
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Just The Facts Please: Laurie McKinnon has been practicing and teaching yoga since 2003. She has participated in 4 Teacher Training Bootcamps with Baron Baptiste, trained extensively with Philip Urso and Stacy Dockins, attended a teacher training with Bryan Kest, and has participated in classes and workshops all over the country. Laurie's own practice and her teaching have always been intimately connected, so much so that she turned her guesthouse into a hospitable yoga studio. Though she's logged enough hours of training to be certified several times over, she hasn't sought certifications. Experience and Love are her credentials.
Laurie is also certified by Jennifer Reis to Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra, a deep relaxation practice designed to heal your whole being.
(Update: In order to assimilate with the growing popularity of yoga practice she is now certified through Yoga Alliance as a 500 hour certified yoga teacher.)
The Inside Scoop – The REAL Story:
I started practicing yoga in 2003, age 42, after a friend said to me, "Hey, we ought to do yoga." (Thank you Mary Ann. I always say that Mary Ann has the best ideas!) At the time, I was looking for a new form of exercise. Staying fit has always been a "thing" for me. (Notice fit, not necessarily healthy.) I'd find one exercise program, stay with it for while, get bored, then move on to something else. Yoga was a new thing to try. With zero exposure to yoga I began to check it out. Of course, all the research indicates that yoga is good for you. Lengthening, strengthening, toning muscles, opening and lubricating joints, massaging internal organs, relieving stress, and on and on. A great way to stay fit over a whole lifetime. But as I dug deeper I discovered that there's much more to yoga practice than just the physical aspect. It's the "much more" that drew me in...
My other "thing" (that at the time seemed to be a separate subject altogether) is an intense, maybe over the top, spiritual search for Truth. ("I'm obsessed, thank you very much" – Emilio Estevez in Saint Elmo's Fire) Since my early twenties I've studied, read about, went to all kinds of lectures and workshops on, spent time in monasteries so I could feel like a monk in search of, taught and tried to do spiritual formation. All from a Christian perspective. A seminary master's degree "just for the fun of it" and literally TONS of books on the topic. My pursuit was never for the purpose of a career. I was searching for Truth. It was a quest. I admit, it was an obsession.
I found in yoga a way to bring my two obsessions together! Yoga literally means "union – bringing together; to unite; to join." Tada!!! Yoga is not just a way to be in shape, it is a way to be healthy, whole – body, mind and spirit. Now, I've told you about my body and spirit obsession, but what about the mind part? Well, that has been a huge epiphany. Mind isn't intellect as much as it is perspective, thought processes. Before yoga I didn't realize I was obsessed with my mind. Maybe it wasn't an obsession as much as a possession. I was possessed by my thoughts, slave to my skewed perception, governed by a conditioned mind. I had eyes that could not see the reality of who I am, who we all are. ("You have eyes that do not see." – Jesus)
For me, yoga, the union of body, mind, spirit has opened my eyes and shown me the Truth that I didn't even know I was searching for. Early on I thought I was searching for answers to my theological questions. I thought I was searching for God. Come to find out, I was searching for Truth. The truth of my very own heart. The Truth of who I am…and who we all are. Love.
But on to the story: Since there was no yoga in town, I bought a bunch of books and DVD's and started "practicing" with a group in our episcopal church's parish hall. I had no idea what I was doing. I spent my days in Barnes and Noble, sipping coffee and sitting in front of the yoga section for hours on end, until I finally picked up Baron Baptiste's book. I'd seen it – and avoided it – on many a B&N visit. I didn't like its title, or its cover – JOURNEY INTO POWER: "How To Sculpt Your Ideal Body, Free Your True Self And Transform Your Life With Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga". Sounded like a tall order to me, not to mention a little self-improvement-ish. ("How To Win Friends and Influence People") The cover had a picture of the big, buff author in crow pose waiting to pounce. He looked like a bouncer. The "ideal body"? Uh, yeah. And the term "Power Yoga" seemed like an oxymoron to me. It seemed like an appeal to the ego, and I sure didn't need that, I'd had way more than enough of that. But upon flipping through the pages of that muscle-bound book I immediately resonated with what I found. (What do they say about judging a book by its cover?)
I learned that the "power" Baron spoke of was not about being buff and intimidating, or winning friends and influencing people. It wasn't even really about being physically strong. It was about finding TRUE power through surrendering the ego to the Divine Power of Love. It meant personal transformation, NOT self-improvement. It meant a centered power, the power to be, the power that comes from a body, mind and spirit aligned with a loving God.
I didn't know what "vinyasa" meant. But listen to this: it means "removing blocks to flow." Blocks are seen as those attitudes and ways of being that we use to protect ourselves from the world but have kept us from knowing and being our true selves. Removing these blocks will restore flow of the True Self. ("Free Your True Self") Well, I knew I had plenty of blocks to flow! Just didn't know what they were. It said that these blocks actually reside in our bodies and our minds, and that yoga, practiced regularly and intentionally, gently eases those blocks to the surface in order to be removed. Mind, Body, Spirit – all involved in taking a person home, back to their true selves. But all this through physical exercise? There had to be more to yoga than just exercise. I liked everything I discovered. It jived somewhere deep inside me. I'd been led to the next step in this quest. I had no idea what I was getting myself into!
I felt a connection with Baron's story: I liked the fact that yoga was not just some passing fad for him. He had been birthed into the yoga world in the '60's with yogis for parents who dragged him all over the world studying with the major gurus of the time. If I was going to do yoga I wanted it to be the real deal, I wanted it to have deep, authentic roots. (Celebrity fitness guru turned yogi? No thank you. "Christian" yoga? Not interested.) Having been steeped in the yoga world, seeing its uses and abuses, Baron came to a place as an adult where he had to sort through it all, tossing what was not really true in order to find what really worked.
For years I had been in the process of doing the same thing with my own evangelical Christian background. I had been dragged all over our world (west Texas) during the charismatic movement studying with its version of the major gurus: prophets that scared the pants off of me; teachers that told me to submit to my parents or the devil would get me; healers that made people fall over; and prayers that were prayed in other "tongues". It was fairly early in my adulthood that I began sorting through all of that, trying to toss out what was not really true in order to find what really worked. It was confusing though. That stuff really had a hold on me. I just wanted to be free. I just wanted to love and be loved.
Over the years I began to see the "sin" talked about so much in my childhood, not so much as all the bad stuff I do all the time, but as those things that keep me from being me, the person I was before I was born, the person I was intended to be. By the time I found Baron and read about those "blocks to flow" I was experiencing blocks like crazy, yet had no experience of freedom, nor had I found a real way to freedom. I'd been taught that Jesus is "The only Way" and that if I believe in Jesus and do my best to follow him, I'll be "saved." I didn't want salvation from sin and hell. I wanted transformation of the very core of my being. I wanted to be free to love. I felt so blocked from love and my own ability to give and receive love. I felt trapped by my own ego need to be on the "right" team, following "The Only Way". You'd think that knowing I was on the right team would have given me a sense of security but instead it gave me a sick, perverted sense of self-righteousness that was totally insecure. It also gave me a false sense of belonging. I belonged to the Body of Christ but by virtue of that belonging I was separated from others who believe and act differently. It drew lines in the sand, even among those who were going the "right way". All this right and wrong, in and out, black and white stuff, this need to be separate, felt like fear and didn't look a thing like Love. I knew it, but I didn't know what to do about it. I was caught by it.
I wholeheartedly believed Jesus' saying that the greatest commandment is to love God with everything you have and to love others as you love yourself. For one thing, I knew I wanted more than anything to be able to live that way. For another thing, I sensed that it was possible or Jesus wouldn't have put it out there. ("It is possible or I wouldn't have told you." – Buddha) But it seemed so out of reach. An intuition slowly started rising to my consciousness. I sensed that there was more going on in Jesus' commandment. I began to sense that there was a code hidden in it. A code telling us who we really are. I sensed that THAT was why Jesus commanded it, NOT because we are supposed to love and then feel guilty because we really can't do it all the time, if ever, and therefore need a savior, which just so happened to be him, to forgive our lack of love so we can feel some relief from our sinful selves and so we can go to heaven in the end. NO. I sensed that he was showing us that by living in Love we are living in the truth of who we really are! We silly humans have forgotten the truth of our own Divine Nature – Love. Jesus wasn't saying that believing in him was the way to that Truth. He was saying that the way back to our true nature of Love is through Love. We simply love our way back to ourselves, our true selves. Love heals us. Love IS us. That is salvation. "The Way" Jesus spoke of was not a belief in him as God. "The Way" was the Love that he lived.
I saw in Jesus a person who embodied Love. He was completely himself. At ease in the world. Free to love. Free to be loved. Free to heal. Free to play. Free to express. Free to be quiet. Free to party. Free to bring life-giving energy everywhere he went. Free to feel and honestly struggle and wrestle and agonize over very human predicaments. He was free. Free to be. And he was humble and courageous enough to follow his very radical vision for humanity, a vision that all can live in that same freedom and Love (what he called The Kingdom of God). He bravely followed that vision all the way to his own death, because he knew it was true. Somehow I knew that nothing less than our own embodiment of that exact same Love could be our true identity, our true salvation.
But I found no way in my evangelical Christian world. In fact, I found in it a hindrance to Love because of its need for right and wrong, black and white, in and out. I wasn't ready to give up Christianity but I needed a different way of doing it. I needed something real. No amount of reading and studying and knowing the right things and praying and trying and acting and doing things right had enabled me to really love. Jesus said to love, but I found no way to Love. Just a carrot dangling out there for me to chase after. What kind of way was that? I was sick and tired of myself, and my anger at a system that promised transformation but reinforced my ego, that spoke of Love but operated from fear. There was so much of "me" in the way. Then I found yoga. Or, what I believe is really the case, yoga found me.
I read every book on the topic I could get my hands on (Remember? "I'm obsessed thank you very much"). I couldn't help but mesh my former studies and experiences in Christianity, the ones that I didn't throw out, the ones that were real, with what I was learning about yoga. There were too many similarities. It seemed that yoga offered a "way", a practice. I was beginning to feel what Baron meant by power. "The Way" was finally becoming accessible.
An aside: This is a conversation I had with Baron at the most recent Bootcamp I've been to: He had been teaching on the Hindu principle of Samadhi and the Zen Buddhist principle of Satori – Nothingness, Emptiness. Coming to a place of emptiness in order to be filled. It jived with me. I went up to him after the talk and asked if he thought Jesus had taught anything about Nothing. He said, "Oh yes. Jesus lived from Nothing. He said, 'Of myself I can do nothing. It is the Father in Heaven who lives and gives life through me.'" Then he said, "You know, I didn't really get yoga until I discovered the teachings and person of Jesus." I said, "Well, I didn't really get Christianity until I found yoga." He smiled and said, "Looks like we've been on the same path coming from different directions." Exactly.
Anyway, back to the story: When I first found yoga I practiced to Baron's DVD every day and began teaching others twice a week at the church, still having no idea what I was doing but loving every minute of it. After a year I decided I had better get some training. Got on Baron's website, found a Level 1 Teacher Training Bootcamp in Tulum, Mexico, filled out the application, waited anxiously to be accepted, was, got my passport and went. I was scared to death. Didn't know a soul and I'd never even been in an official yoga class! But I knew this was my next step, not just toward teaching, but toward the transformation we are all destined for. Turned out to be true. By the 8th day I'd experienced a significant shift. It was a physical shift in my body, my left hip to be exact, but it brought with it an opening to Love. I can't explain it at all. All I knew was that I experienced Love in that moment and it totally bypassed my brain. That shift set me firmly on this yogic path of transformation. That shift would radically change my life, change me, to the core. At that time I had no idea where that shift would take me. Nor what it would take me through. ("There's a tunnel that leads to Rivers of Love. It's sides make you bleed 'til you're white as a dove. Don't bother to bring all the baggage you cling to. The porter will free you before you come through." – Sarah McLachlan) All I knew was that it was trustworthy and I had to follow it, no matter the cost.
Thus began my yogic journey. A year later I went to Level 2 Bootcamp where Baron told me in order to become a good teacher I just need to get out there and teach a lot. Teaching at the church limited how often I could teach so I began looking for a studio space, not thinking of looking literally in my own back yard! Finally it made perfect sense to turn our guesthouse into a yoga studio. I began teaching more often and having morning prayer (sun salutations and meditation) every weekday. Just this morning, after 8 years or so, I was flooded with gratefulness for these people who show up every morning and meditate with me. I remember when I first started learning to meditate, it felt like a taboo in my evangelical Christian world. Something I had to keep to myself. In fact, ten years prior to the Bootcamp experience of Love, I'd had the same exact experience of Love meditating all alone at my kitchen table. That's how I knew to trust it. I'd experienced it before. (I remember Baron saying, "What you believe about God holds no interest for me. I am interested in your experience of God. Your belief isn't going to change you. Your experience is.")
I say sometimes that yoga will f*#k you up! And it will do just that – to your ego. Practiced intentionally and mindfully it will have the effect of bringing up all kinds of unhealthy patterns and attachments that you'd rather not know about – all those blocks that keep you from your truest, deepest self. But it doesn't just bring them up and leave you there to suffer with them. Through the physical practice of yoga you find the tools to deal with life in a healthy and life-giving way. It trains you to find the courage to allow feelings to come up. It helps you to find the patience to stay with those feelings even if they scare, threaten, intimidate, or sadden you. It teaches you to find the strength to break through unhealthy habits and patterns. It shows you that you have the wisdom to replace old ways with new ways of being and relating that are all about freedom, truth, love, joy, health and ease. It will expose everything in you that is not of those ways. It will reveal layers of protection and slowly peel them away. It will point out every inauthentic way of being and make you real. In short, it will heal your body, mind and spirit. It will take you home, back to your True Self. Best of all, it will allow you to really love by slowly removing everything in you that is not of Love. How does it do it? I don't know. I just know that it is a trustworthy and reliable process. Maybe it's that we are all meant to come home to our True Selves and that when we align ourselves with a process that aims to take you there, things happen.
Warning: Coming into these new ways can be excruciating ("My God, my God! Why hast Thou forsaken me?") and can generate all kinds of fear and resistance inside yourself, not to mention in those you love. But it reveals your deepest desires for healing and wholeness and gives you the guts to follow through. It gives you the courage to stay in the process no matter what arises because you experience the process as good and healing and all about giving Life. As painful as tearing off layers can be, oh! it feels so good to get them off!
Solution: To undergo this process alone is impossible. It just won't happen. That's why yoga brings community. Yoga will place you right smack dab in the middle of a community that is going to love the heck out of you just as you are. We come together with the common intention to align ourselves with Love ("OM"); we work stuck, negative energy through our bodies and minds and hearts together; we land in corpse pose as a symbol of dying to our old ways; we roll over into fetal position as a symbol of being born into new ways; we sit up and open our eyes and see the Divine, the Love that is within us all ("Namaste"); and we leave with a shift in perspective and a little more freedom to be Love in our worlds.
Yoga practice is changing my mind, my attitude, my body, my ego, my emotions, my energy, my eating habits, my sleeping habits, my caffeine intake, my relationships, my commitments and loyalties, all of it! It has enriched my faith in the God who is Love.
The journey continues, leading me into places unknown. It will continue even after this body is no longer needed. But for now I will use this body of mine as a vehicle for experiencing and communicating that only Love is real, fear is not, and that every human being is Love in flesh and bones.
Oh, by the way, yoga is an amazing way to get in great physical shape, maybe even get a bit buff like The Baron!


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Just because Creative Assembly are working on a new Total War game doesn't mean they've given up on the last one—Empire—as a new expansion for the game is due next month.
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In addition to the expansion, a patch for the game will be released later today, which not only fixes a few bugs but also adds two new historical battles, Rossbach and Fontenoy.


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I'm having trouble running a video-intensive software (xtranormal state) on my laptop. The DxDiag reports
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Software Project Manager
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
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Bastian Software Solutions is the software development division of Bastian Solutions specializing in designing and developing supply chain applications. The company strives to provide businesses with the tools they need to achieve highly efficient supply chain and material handling operations.
The Project Manager provides oversight and is responsible for all phases of various software development and automation projects, including coordinating team members, material, and equipment. Projects are installed throughout the U.S. The Project Manager will ensure that all specifications are being followed and that work is proceeding on schedule and within budget. By being the single point of contact to our customers a proactive, positive, problem solving approach is crucial.The Project Manager also assist with implementation of the software to the customer.
Superior Performance Objectives:
- Maintain a Constant Customer Focus.
- Manage all Financial Aspects of the Project.
- Perform all Scheduling of Project Events.
- On-site Implementation of the software.
- Project Design Input.
- Personnel Supervision.
- Work with Sales Consultants.
- Provide Long-term Customer Support.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering with 3 to 5 years of related experience. Preferred Discipline: Industrial Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
- PMP Certification a plus
- Strong computer skills with: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Databases (SQL Server and Oracle)
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Pyramid has been around for quite some times but he really started getting attention this year, his 10 tracks long EP "Lost In Space" is simply filled with awesomeness, that guy will seriously be big in 10 years. His songs could fit so much movie scenes perfectly, everytime I hear one of his track I just picture the whole scene instantly.
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Pyramid - Digital Rain [click to download] |HTML5|
Pyramid - Behind You [click to download] |HTML5|
Talking about songs in movies : Drive wouldn't be the masterpiece it is if it did not have such an amazing OST. Kavinsky as opening credits, incredibly good COLLEGE track that will make you remember the scenes it's used in instalty when you listen to it. And Cliff Martinez original tracks made for the movie are really making you feel the tention.
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College - A Real Hero (ft. Electric Youth) [click to download] |HTML5|
Former half of Aeroplane Stephen became the magician for the pleasure of everyone enjoying retro synths. Magic tapes, remixes, original tracks, he did everything with talent, giving us something every month of the year...
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Lykke Li - I Follow River (The Magician remix) [click to download] |HTML5|
He was already around for a year, getting recognition for his remix of The Island by Pendulum but 2011 was really HIS year. He remixed Deadmau5, Yelle (and opened for her too), made a mashup of Wolfgang Gartner for Porter Robinson. Oh and yeah he made Pop Culture Mashup who got crazy (well deserved) attention all over the interwebz.
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The kind of guy who links his bandcamp page on the shoutbox, you listen to it out of curiosity and instantly fall in love with. In addition to being a very nice guy he produced one of the best album of the year, it really came out of nowhere and I LOVE THAT.
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Here comes the sad part of the post, the very sad part. I never understood much those people crying over famous people deaths, I was a bit sad when MJ died but that's about it. But now I get it, when someone who makes music you listen to almost everyday, makes songs who go right into your heart such as Pocket Piano or Signatune, and you hear that this man died, well you seriously feel something. I never had the chance of seing Mehdi on stage, but I always heard good things about his lives and about him being a genuinly nice guy. Hats off mehdi.
Dj Mehdi - TragicoMehdi [click to download] |HTML5|
The Krays - We're Ready When You Are (DJ Mehdi remix) [click to download] |HTML5|
Yes, another name... You might not know him, we only posted once about Rei, but he made some very relaxing ambient tracks. A man to be remembered.
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Rei Harakami - Lust [click to download] |HTML5|
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In a move that should surprise absolutely nobody, HBO has officially announced that the hit fantasy series Game of Thrones will be back for a 4th season. Congratulations, this means that you can keep torrenting the latest from the realm well into 2014.
"#GameofThrones is renewed for a fourth season. RT & share this update with your friends across the realm," tweeted HBO's official Game of Thrones Twitter account this afternoon.
Before today, there was technically a doubt as to whether or not HBO would pick up the show for another season. Technically. The show has been a huge success for HBO, and is one of the network's most-watched shows (along with True Blood).
#GameofThrones is renewed for a fourth season. RT & share this update with your friends across the realm. twitpic.com/cgh7ze
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4.4 million viewers tuned in for Sunday night's season 3 opener, which is a couple hundred thousand more than tuned in for the season 2 finale - and even more than watched the season 2 opener.
But that 4.4 million number isn't really representative of everyone who has watched the Game of Thrones premiere in the past few days.
Today we learned that the season 3 premiere broke BitTorrent records. In just a few hours after the first torrent of the show was uploaded, 163,088 people were sharing the single torrent - 110,303 actively sharing and 52,786 still downloading. That broke the previous record of 144,663 peers on a single torrent set after a Heroes season premiere. TorrentFreak estimated that over 1 million people had already downloaded the season 3 premiere. So your 4.4 million is looking more like 5.5 million and maybe even more who have actually watched the show since Sunday.
With numbers like this, Game of Thrones is well on its way to reclaiming the distinction of the most pirated show around - an honor the show took in 2012.
And some at HBO couldn't really care less. HBO programming head Michael Lombardo recently said that Game of Thrones piracy is really more a compliment than a threat, and that it surely didn't hurt DVD sales. He made a point to say that HBO still doesn't support piracy of its content (obviously), but that they "haven't sent out the Game of Thrones police."


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In re-entering the territory abandoned by American Home Products Corp. last September, Knoll launched an estimated $50 million direct-to-consumer ad effort for its prescription drug Meridia, aimed at women.
The diet drug category eventually is expected to be a blockbuster. Roche Laboratories' Xenical will likely join the market next year.
AHP never advertised Redux to consumers, but it enjoyed strong demand as clinics popped up to take advantage of the product's popularity. Sales hit $134 million in 1996, but fell to $121 million the following year, according to IMS America. It was pulled voluntarily but at the request of the Food & Drug Administration because of dangerous drug interactions.
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Meridia works differently than Redux, acting in the brain to fool users that they're full while eating less.
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Print ads to break in January women's magazines compare full and half-eaten plates of food, reading: "Love it. And leave it."
"We were very careful to have a compassionate, warm, woman-to-woman tonality in the spot," said Ellen Perleff, senior VP-group creative director at Foote, Cone & Belding, New York, which created the work. "You almost never see overweight women on TV, but we went over the [FDA] standard body mass because we liked some of the women so much."
The ads specify the drug is for people overweight by "30 pounds or more," and state that the product is a "controlled substance, so some patients may experience dependence."
Both statements are language compromises reached with the FDA after it insisted the areas be addressed, following reports of improper prescriptions by physicians for people who want to just lose a few pounds.
Though the Meridia account already had been awarded to Health Medical Consumer Advertising & Marketing, New York, FCB grabbed the business in July after a second review. HMC sister agency Corbett HealthConnect, Chicago, continues to handle professional advertising for the brand.
Though Knoll first considered a health-related approach, it opted for ads with a positive message.
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Bobby Brown is about to be a dad again!
The R&B singer and his wife Alicia Etheredge are reportedly pregnant with their third child together, according to the singer's attorney. This will be Bobby's 7th child.
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Notice is being provided that this meeting would also constitute a meeting of the Transportation and Connectivity Advisory Board under the open meetings law if five or more board members attend.
The Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (DCHC MPO) will be holding a public drop-in session for the 2045 Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) on September 19th from 4pm-6:30pm at Carrboro Town Hall.
What is the MTP?
The Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) will plan state and federal transportation investments in our region through its 2045 MTP. To develop the MTP, the MPO is reviewing different alternatives for meeting future transportation needs. Staff from is holding a series of public workshops in the region to seek feedback on several alternatives for future transportation investments. The MTP maps and tables are available to view here: www.bit.ly/DCHC-MTP-Alternatives.
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EL Presents 'BAR 3' Mixtape (The Lomi Era)
The whole of Ghana have been anticipating for the mixtape of the year titled "BAR 3". Finally, EL has released the mixtape for free download as he has been doing since the beginning of the BAR journey.
The 16 track mixtape served us a full dish of Hiphop like never before! The "BAR 3" is different from the previous ones because, it featured even more new artistes who are breaking or have broken into the mainstream and also, introduced to us some producers most people haven't heard of yet. To me, I think this Mixtape was done to celebrate the HipHop culture; and that is to say, it acknowledged the new kings of Hip hop as well as paid homage to the pacesetters.
The mixtape featured artistes like Gemini, Dex Kwasi, MI, Khuli Chana, Ko-Jo Cue, Worlasi, Adomaa, Recognise Ali, C-Real, Ayat, Medikal, Teephlow, Illa Shaz, Stargo, Kiddblack, Osei, Cabum, Edem, Medal, Shaker and AI… Production credits goes to EL himself, Drumroll, Ghost, Magnom, DNA, Peewezel, Coptic, Sam1, G. Mo, Slimbo, Essence Beats, and Dj Julz. We at Loud Sound Ghana will urge everyone to purchase the Mixtape when it gets online. We are hereby sharing the songs to stream without the download link. Lets support the artiste! Listen below!


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Well frack! After 3 years of dutiful service, our portable dishwasher has finally bit the dust. The old roll-up was never a permanent solution, but we had honestly hoped for another year before having to deal with it.
Why did we want to wait, you might ask, given how ugly and clunky the roll-up is? Well, shifting from a portable to a built-in isn't nearly as straightforward as it might seem.
Required Steps:
- Shifting our kitchen junk drawer and ALL OF OUR POTS/PANS to another location
- Shifting our paper/summer plates, dog food, and dry storage (onions/potatoes) to another location
- Building three sliding drawers and a roll-out pan hanger in the tall cabinet
- Cutting up the existing pot cabinet
- Running electrical
- Running supply lines
- Reconfiguring our entire under-sink drainage lines
- Reframing/expanding the cabinet face frame (+patching +painting)
- Buying an 18″ dishwasher
- Hooking up said dishwasher
Even those 10 steps seem to downplay the scale of this pop-up project. Ah well, such is the joys of home ownership.
Here is the current pot/junk drawer cabinet that will house the new dishwasher:
The annoying thing is that this cabinet is only 22″ wide (if we remove all of the face faming, which means we are exploring 18″ dishwashers rather than the standard 24″. Plus, it is quite literally the only option for housing a built-in in the micro-kitchen. So… where to put all of our pots and pans? In our tall, narrow dry goods cupboard of course:
I've already taken out the shelving. Our plan is to relocate Ohia's food into the back pantry, and add a variety of sliding drawers to house all of our pots and pans.
While it's annoying to be forced into a project, I do love trying to optimize every tiny nook in this house. Here's hoping we'll be up and running before December.
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Potatoes are enjoyed in various authentic international cuisines, specifically in Latin America countries. For centuries, the potato has been the main source of income for farmers and their families. In Uruguay, potatoes help to improve the countries economic status by being a major exporting crop in their agriculture market.
Scientists used a 75-year-old technique to save the Uruguayan potatoes. (Photo credit: Bernard Pollack)
In 2001, Uruguayan's exporting began declining because of a plant disease called Bacterial wilt (Ralstonia solanacearum). It was found in 39 percent of samples from Uruguayan potato farms and forced the country to import potato seed. This fungus is extremely difficult to get rid because it multiples quickly in high moisture environments such as South America. It has also been found to infect other crops such as sweet potato and cassava, which are common in other developing countries.
In order to completely eliminate the fungus, farmers have to suffer the loss of their main source of income for their families and make the difficult decision to remove their entire yield. It is necessary for farmers to quickly choose their plan of action because the permanent wilting of the crop causes crops to die in a short period of time. Otherwise, the fungus has the potential to spread among farming supplies, soils, and water irrigation systems.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) recognize that sufficient funding is an impediment for many poverty-stricken countries. In addition, implementing sustainable agricultural development is very challenging when their economic status is at risk. In 2008, the ITPGRFA Treaty Benefit-sharing Fund Project granted funding for 11 projects, including the Uruguayan potato research which was the first project to be approved.
Scientists at the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INIA) of Uruguay developed the potato species Solanum commersonii (S. commersonii), using a 75 year old genetic technique called introgressive hybridization. This potato species evolved from transferring the traits of a "native wild-relative" potato species, Solanum phureja (S. phureja) and a commercial potato species. The outcome was a new Uruguayan potato that is naturally resistant to Bacterial Wilt, drought, and cold temperatures.
The expansion of native crop species through diversification is one way to sustain agriculture development. The ITPGRFA Uruguay potato project indicates the significance of supporting traditional (indigenous) knowledge in research and development. Now farmers in the Uruguayan potato sector can continue to gain income for their families and enjoy nutritious, disease resistant potatoes in their Latin cuisines.
To read more on innovation through scientific techniques, see: Potato, Potahto, The Locust Bean: An Answer to Africa's Greatest Needs in One Tree, Drought, Pest, Disease and Taste: A Sweet Potato for Every Occasion.
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Spider-Man 4 producer Todd Black says the villain of the sequel will "be a big part of New York."
Black shot down rumors that Morbius the Vampire would be the villain, telling The New York Post, "We're just coming up with who the villain's going to be now. We'll be shooting in New York again. Trust me, people will appreciate who we pick, because it'll be a big part of New York."
(IGN Comics Editor-in-Chief Richard George thinks this is a non-answer on the producer's part, seeing as how all Spidey villains are part of New York.)
The producer also dismissed the rumor that the film would see Peter Parker finally marry his girlfriend Mary Jane Watson. Speaking of MJ, Black confirmed that Kirsten Dunst is now set to reprise the role for the film, ending months of rumors that she might not be back.


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Reference Sources
- The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism
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- Encyclopedia of Global Religion
- Encyclopaedia of Islam
- Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion
- Encyclopedia of Religion in America
- The Macmillan Dictionary of the Bible
Finding Articles, Conference Papers, Statistics, etc.
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Provides data on religious groups and affiliations in the United States.
- L'année philologique: Indexes periodical articles as well as articles in collections and conference papers in classics and classical studies; useful for researching early Christianity.
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Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.
- ATLA Religion Database
Abstracts for articles in periodicals and collections of essays in religion and theology; book reviews are also included.
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A complete edition of the Nag Hammadi codices
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Finding Books
Online catalog of the Columbia University Libraries, including the Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary and Barnard Library, but excluding Teachers College and the Law Library.
Religion call number range: BL
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The online catalog of the Jewish Theological Seminary Library.
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Citing Your Sources
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On Saturday we went to pick huckleberries. We must really like them, it was rainy and cold and we went anyway. My friend Jody and her girls came with us. It hailed, and rained, and was so very cold! But we powered through and ended up with quite a few huckleberries.
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In last place in the women's service field with less than 600 ad pages, it lacked entries from the cosmetics, home furnishings and fashion categories. The Woman's Day woman had "egg yolk on her blouse, her hair in curlers and hit her sexual climax by spraying Pledge on furniture," Mr. Burzon says.
He knew the look had to change, and as he rose through the ranks -- to Eastern ad manager and then to ad director -- it did. By 1974 Woman's Day was in first place in the women's service field with 1,393 ad pages.
When Mr. Burzon left Woman's Day in the early '80s as VP-associate publisher, he had set a foundation of good staff members who matched his level of competition, ambition, intensity and hard work.
"I had to make myself a success," he says. "I was born poor and told myself, 'I ain't going back.' "
With that attitude, he set the stage by taking chances on young, driven unknowns to fill his staff.
Bob Mate, now VP-publishing director at Meredith Corp. who started at Woman's Day as a junior salesman in 1976, says, "The attitude in hiring was: let's look for people who can become stars."
Today, those fledgling account managers and sales reps are the stars of publishing. Most of them remember Woman's Day as the real training ground.
Donna Kalajian Lagani, now senior VP-publisher of Cosmopolitan, remembers badgering Mr. Burzon for nine months before he hired her. Young and inexperienced, she wanted to be part of what she believed to be the best sales staff around in 1979.
"At that time, Woman's Day was considered to be the creme de la creme of magazines and sales," Ms. Kalajian Lagani says. "I thought, why not shoot for the stars?"
Mr. Burzon finally hired her as a junior salesperson."I learned to set high standards, to never take no for an answer, to be customer-conscious," she says. "Woman's Day was idea-oriented before the business was idea-driven."
Mr. Burzon's staff-building was only the first step. The coach-player relationship he had with his employees was based on a game plan that was simple yet ahead of the curve: "Know your product. Show your product. Sell your product."
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When Woman's Day didn't have any Clairol business, and the other women's service books had close to 150 pages, he put pressure on his staff to get Clairol ads. That year they secured six pages, which grew to 86. But that wasn't enough for Mr. Burzon. He enrolled himself and a salesman in Clairol Hair Coloring and Hair Care School.
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Anne Sutherland Fuchs, senior VP-group publishing director at Hearst, went to Woman's Day in 1982 as VP-publisher of the magazine's special interest group, becoming publisher of the magazine three years later.
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Ms. Fuchs challenged Mr. Mate and Mr. Coleman: "You get those pages and I'll buy you each a Rolex." At that, Mr. Mate broke the watch he was wearing. The team came close to 300 pages, and the magazine had its most profitable year. Ms. Fuchs bought a Rolex for everyone, "and the place went wild," she says.
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The Exmouth Club held their AGM on Wednesday 1st June at the club premises of Age Concern in New Street.
Club President and Treasurer, Mark Abbott, took the chair and advised those present that things ran at a financial loss this season. Some fat had been used up, and there might be enough left to carry on without change for another season, but that would leave nothing in the kitty. He advised that it would be prudent to avoid this danger by raising subscriptions now. After some discussion, it was felt that an increase from £20 p.a. to £30, although a 50% increase, would still represent good value, when one bore in mind the facilities available at Age Concern, and the subscriptions of other clubs in the county. Passed unanimously.
Team Captain, Bob Jones, reported on team successes in winning Devon's Div. 2 (the Mamhead Cup), and the Exeter & District League Div. 1 the night before (see previous report) – these were the top two tournaments the club had entered. However, he had been somewhat frustrated in other tournaments, by a number of factors – lack of available players, work commitments etc. and he sought more team captains for some of the teams to share the repsonsibility.
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Meyne Wyatt is thrilled to join the cast of Neighbours, but says it's been a long time coming.
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Since graduating from NIDA, Wyatt has pursued and won parts in everything from Peter Pan at Belvoir Theatre to Bell Shakespeare's production of French comedy The School for Wives.
In 2013, he was in the big-screen adaptation of Tim Winton's The Turning and a few months ago finished filming on Strangerland with Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes and Guy Pearce.
At this year's TV Week Logie awards, he was also nominated for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer for his part in ABC TV series Redfern Now.
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