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|15'F to 105'F (120'F for sensor)
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|Identifies 4 zones / channels by 3 different tones / LED lights
|Able to learn 12 sensor codes (each of 4 zones can learn up to 3 transmitters)
|Over 8 million transmission codes possible, eliminates interference from neighbors
|Latches into alarm with "Continuous mode" function
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|Receiver powered by 9VDC adapter (included)
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|Entrance Alert Set, Rodann, RX/TX-1000ARodann entrance alert set RX/TX-1000A for open or closed doors or open entry ways. This unique set can also be used on warehouse roll up doors, inside display cabinets, restricted area protection, or (patio, bedroom, bathroom) window alerting device.
Long Range Wireless Door Entry Alert, UTDCDCR-2500The Door sensor/transmitter has a magnetic door contact, so that when the entry door is opened by a visitor / customer, it sends a wireless entry alert chime to the DCR-2500 receiver that is power by an AC adapter and can be plugged in up to 1500 feet away (depending on walls, building materials, etc.).
The receiver for this Long Range Wireless Door Entry Alert has four form "C" relay outputs and one 12VDC output. The output durations are adjustable up to 10 minutes. The receiver will play one of four different tunes that are selected at the transmitter so that different zones can be distinguished.


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The welcoming and community committee of the United Methodist Church of Osterville decided over a year ago it wanted to make the solarium next to the sanctuary a more inviting entrance.
Photo Courtesy of Lois Taylor
WORK IN PROGRESS – Lois Taylor and Barry Jones-Henry, artists and members of the United Methodist Church of Osterville, work on the mural they created last summer for the church solarium.Osterville church logo transformed into solarium mural
The welcoming and community committee of the United Methodist Church of Osterville decided over a year ago it wanted to make the solarium next to the sanctuary a more inviting entrance. They have accomplished that with some refurbishing and a large mural of a Biblical-style boat full of people fishing with a net, painted on the gable end of the solarium opposite the entrance doors.
The 8-by-20-foot mural was painted in acrylic by committee members and artists Lois Taylor and Barry Jones-Henry over six weeks last summer. They could only work four hours in the morning because of the heat, they said.
They also had to work on scaffolding set up by the church's Lend-a-Hand group of men, led by Fred Hembree, who do building maintenance every Monday morning. The group also painted the sky blue background Taylor chose for the mural.
A small logo Jones-Henry created for the church bulletin and other materials was the basis for the mural of the boat, which is flanked by the words "Together in Christ, Committed to Serve." The inspiration was Pastor John Holt's sermon "Fishing on the Right Side of the Boat," based on the Gospel story in John 21.6 in which Jesus told the people fishing to "Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some." When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.
Dick Weir and Kathy Silvia, chairmen of the welcoming and community committee, had the idea for the mural as part of the solarium refurbishing project, which also included new warmer paint, a custom built moveable desk counter and new bulletin boards.
Jones-Henry said he did the first sketch of the mural and Holt approved. The artists were able to project the logo onto the triangular space and trace it. They added color, fish and faces to the original black and white faceless logo and made the people of many races look contemporary by adding Red Sox, Celtic, Bruins and Patriots' logos to some hats and T-shirts.
"We wanted the boat to represent all humanity," Jones-Henry said.
Taylor noted that she and Jones-Henry have another common link. They both graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston – Taylor in 1953 and Jones-Henry in 1961. They also recruited a 2013 graduate of the school, Jessica Bevis, to help out, and she painted a face, but had only limited time, Taylor said.
Taylor taught art in public schools in several states for 25 years while her husband, the late Blaine Taylor, former pastor of the Osterville church, was assigned to different churches. Taylor said she does all kinds of art, craftwork and painting.
Jones-Henry's career has been in architectural design and drafting through his own company. Now he said he is "basically in retirement," but welcomes jobs when they come along. He also has been teaching painting at the Mashpee Senior Center for eight years.

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Dark View
The sun that puts its spokes in every
Wheel of manhandle and tree
Derives its path of seashines
(Sheer centrifugality) from my
Regards. I send it
My regards. Some yards
Of lumen from the fabrika
Have come unbolted from the look
Of it (or likes of me), a long
Unweaving or recarding I
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No! Not the spam folder! Unfortunately, even legitimate emailers like you can find yourself facing a sudden drop in opens that means your messages have been detoured.
Watch out for these 10 mistakes that can derail even your finest mailings:
- Spammy subject lines
Spammy language is particularly risky in subject lines. Avoid these:
- All caps
- Too much punctuation!!
- Adding a phony Fw: or Re:
- Deceptive content (potentially illegal as well)
- Faulty permission
If you didn't get compliant permission or didn't get permission to send what you are sending, you're in trouble.
- Purchased list
- Email append
- High complaint rates
- Sending irrelevant content
- Obscure From field
If your From field says noreply@… or 4396@… you might be a spammer. Frequent changes to your From address are also a red flag.
TIP: Asking new subscribers to add you to their address book goes a long way, too. (And it's easy to do.)
- Mail too often/not enough
Low engagement is an indicator of unwanted mail. Sending to a long-inactive list could get you flagged. Interestingly, people can lose interest if you message them too frequently OR not enough.
TIP: Ask your subscribers for their frequency preferences.
- Didn't test
A no-brainer. If you don't have an email service provider who tests your messages against spam filters, you will need to do this yourself using an online tool.
- Bad links
Presumably you don't want to send your readers links that don't work or links to questionable sites. Test them.
Also, if you include an affiliate link to a blacklisted URL, you will be blocked.
- Spammy text
Of course subject lines aren't the only text you have to watch. In the body of your message, avoid a lot of all-caps words, bright red or green fonts, and large fonts.
You are also spam-folder-bound if you talk a lot about money, mortgages, buy now, or a money-back guarantee. (And other things I don't want to talk about.)
TIP: You can find out if it is your content that triggered the spam filters by testing a text-only version.
- Missing one of these:
- Unsubscribe link
- Mailing address
- Plain text option
- Large file size
Filters will snag messages over 100 KB. (Huge files are a pain for your mobile readers anyway.)
TIP: Images can hide spammy text, so an all-image message won't make it. Be sure you have at least 500 characters of text(that's not much) and use alt tags.
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The cleaner the code the better. Streamline and simplify your code, and properly close all tags/tables. Spam triggers include:
- Using Microsoft Word to design in html
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- Using a URL in the HTML readable text that does not match the URL in the HTML code itself
- Leaving comments in code. Spam filters can view comments as adding more text to fool Bayesian filtering.
Finally, don't use a sketchy email service provider. ESPs that accept non-permission-based clients will eventually get all their senders blocked. Remember, if you are reported, your domain name and company name are on the list.
Fear not: If you have proper permission, clean code, and are sending relevant content, you're well on your way to steering clear of the dreaded spam folder.


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I spent a month away from writing. Several weeks ago, a perceptive, insightful friend insisted on stopping by my house for a couple of drinks. This seemed odd since we are both teachers and drinking past 9:00 pm on a Thursday night is a death sentence for Friday mornings. When she arrived, she wasted no… Continue reading Rabbit Hole
Category: Custody
Please, Take a Shower
Seven days ago I willingly asked my son's father to come to my home and take my son from me. Indefinitely. My 48-hour weekend visitation began with a grumpy 14 year old staring at his phone or playing Xbox for hours. I tiptoe around him, leaving him be, because I am nervous and weary of… Continue reading Please, Take a Shower
The Badge
As a single mother of two receiving a meager teacher's salary and little to no child support, I managed to buy a house, pay my bills on time and involve my children in extracurricular activities. I was the cook, the clean, the tutor, the chauffeur, the referee, the police officer, the monitor, the folder signer,… Continue reading The Badge
My daily life is significantly easier. I do not wake up and instantly begin fighting with my son because he refuses to get up with his alarm. He then refuses to take a shower. He then refuses to make his lunch. He then refuses to put his shoes on. He then refuses to pack his… Continue reading Guilt
I Can Choose to Forgive
My son came home for the weekend. Physically, I noticed several changes. He is taller. I anticipated that one. He is pale. Team Edward in Twilight pale like he has not seen the sun in weeks. He is flabby. Flabby like the only exercise he's gotten was walking from the couch to the toilet to… Continue reading I Can Choose to Forgive
Today marks 42 days since the last positive interaction with my son, 13 days since pure evil enveloped my life, and 23 minutes since the last time I cried. I have been doing a lot of reminiscing. Much of the time is spent replaying events and interactions wondering where the exact moment was when I… Continue reading Retrospect
Motherhood in the Age of Fear I read Kim Brooks' article, "Motherhood in the Age of Fear," and I realized I have joined the ranks of mothers who have been condemned for being a mother. I am so grateful for her article. It gives me a small bit of comfort to know I am not… Continue reading Motherhood


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Variable data printing enables the mass customization of documents with text and image changes for groups of addresses based upon which segment of the market is being addressed.
Customization and personalization allows a company to connect to its customers using a variety of software solutions such as:
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Archive for the 'review Bordeaux wine' Category
Andre Lurton and Chateau de Rochemorin
If you, my loyal reader, have been paying attention, you'll have noticed that my blog posts are always about wines I've enjoyed. Why waste time writing about lousy wines when there are so many good ones, right?
And the first thing I do, when I want to write about a wine I've enjoyed, is research. I want to learn about the wine's region, the people who contributed to its creation, and the winery that produced it.
So after drinking this really good Bordeaux the other night — Chateau de Rochemorin 2009 – I set out to do my usual. But what I discovered in my research wasn't "the usual". Take the winery's history, for example: this Chateau traces its roots back to 1520. Really! That's a long time ago.
And over the next 400 years the Chateau at Rochemorin was home to Lords and Ladies, Poets, one of the great philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment, and even an honest-to-God Musketeer! (the dashing, sword-wielding type, not the candy bar type).
Vines were planted on Lord Rochemorin's estate in the region we know as Graves in the 16th century, and good-to-very-good wine was made there continuously for four hundred years. Holy cow! That kinda puts the "Old" into "Old World" wines.
Then in 1919, the estate was sold to a lumber baron, and it wasn't until 1973 that it was rescued by Andre Lurton, a man whose family wine history isn't too shabby, either. The Lurton's have been wine producers in Bordeaux since 1650, and at this point there are "no fewer than 17 family members of the currrent generation working in the wine trade today." In fact, the appellation within Graves where the winery sits, Pessac-Leognan, was created in 1987 after 20 years of lobbying by none other than Andre Lurton.
So enough preamble: let's get to the wine. Bordeaux is arguably the King of Old World wine. Reds from Pessac-Leognan, which is part of Bordeaux's Left Bank, can be blended from the six traditional Bordeaux grapes (the Lurton website includes Carmenere as the sixth grape). The Chateau de Rochemorin is blended from just two grapes — 60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 40% Merlot. Read the rest of this entry »


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Mike Rayburn uses his comedic songs, his amazing guitar creations, and a contagious zest for life to challenge audiences to leap beyond their perceived limitations. From start to finish they will laugh uproariously as they learn 3 effective tools and the ultimate reason for getting the most out of their lives and careers. Your audience will leave Mike's program rejuvenated and eager to take on new challenges.
Mike Rayburn is a captivating keynote artist with a presentation completely unlike any you've ever seen! Having been called "the World's Funniest Guitar Virtuoso," Mike uses his astounding guitar creations, uproarious songs, and veteran presentation skills to encourage, challenge and inspire his audiences to leap beyond their perceived limitations. He can focus his program completely on entertainment, depending on your needs. Mike draws from a wealth of life experience as an adventurer, business owner, comedian, world-class guitarist, author, philanthropist, husband, and father, to deliver a presentation which is motivational, hilarious, and musically amazing!
Just to set foot on the stage at Carnegie Hall is a career moment for any performer. Mike Rayburn is one of a handful of people in the world to become a regular headliner at Carnegie Hall and to have recorded a live "Mike Rayburn at Carnegie Hall" CD . However, Mike performs most often for the world's leading corporations and associations, doing more than 100 presentations every year. Some clients have booked Mike as many as 10-12 times! His program is so unique he has been featured in USA Today, Newsweek, Billboard, Gig, Programming, American Entertainment, and Successful Meetings magazines.
Mike Rayburn's program is always based on a core of clean, universally appealing comedy and music. Mike can tailor his message of purpose and possibility to address your organizations' specific needs or seamlessly weave your theme into his presentation. Mike can easily focus his program completely on entertainment or include more of a take home message for your meeting or conference. We often get asked for "something different," not your standard keynote speaker but a fun and fresh keynote presenter… Mike Rayburn is your man!


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Trips tell me to simplify my life. The last (six thousand miles in three weeks, visiting family in Alberta, Minnesota, and Illinois) has said, "This is a lesson you will be learning all your life: Simplify!"
Part of the lesson is a harsh paring of online reading. I'm unfollowing many fine people on Twitter and unfriending far more on LiveJournal. Unfollowing is relatively easy: Twitter never felt personal. Unfriending is hard, partly because of the term, partly because I've had so many LJ conversations over the years.
The oddest thing is feeling sorry about unfriending people I know only as pseudonyms, whose race and age and gender I can't guess, whose names conjure nothing but a warm feeling. Severing those ties is like leaving a town: the people you like casually may never become good friends now, but you still have to go. If you meet those people elsewhere, you'll be glad to see them.
The hardest is unfriending people I love to see in the offline world and whose online life I enjoy. But I need to retreat, so I shall. This break-up line is mocked, but like many mocked lines, it's true: It's not you. It's me.
My main blog, it's all one thing, will continue. I'll keep forwarding it to Facebook, LiveJournal, and Twitter. I hope that by being around less, I'll be around better.


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It doesn't really matter what we do
in our own finite occupation
of planet earth, so one theory goes.
All the pollution and the global warming
and the depletion of the fishing stocks
and the extinction of various species;
not our problem.
And all the refugee camps in border regions
and the ragged children on the smoking
garbage mountains and all the repression
and the fear
and the greedy corporate exploitation
and all the political lies; about these things
we need have no concern.
Because Jesus is coming back.
Yeah, Jesus is coming back
and he'll wave his hand, his magic
Holy Spirit hand, and the new heaven
will replace the old, and the new earth
will take over from the old
and everything will be clean and fresh
and smell like a pair of shiny new shoes
just out of their box.
Or so one theory goes.
© Ken Rookes
Another poem from my collection Promptings & Provocations, with some relevance for Sunday's gospel reading


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Graph showing the rapid change in meat production over the coming decades.
Yet another exponential/Singularity-like effect that will ripple through our society, culture and way of life – transforming agriculture forever.
On current trends, essentially all meat will be produced either synthetically, or from vegan substitutes, by the mid-2050s. This will have profound implications for animal welfare and environmental impacts.


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How to use Real-Time Collaboration Feature on Mac, iPhone and iCloud
Have you tried real-time collaboration feature of macOS Sierra and iOS 10? This is a very useful feature that Apple has included in the latest update of the operating system. Now you can share a document with your colleagues, friends or family members, and all the users can work on a document at the same time. Everything happens in real-time. For example, If you share a document with your colleague, and ask him to make required modifications or changes, you can see all the made changes in real-time.
Requirements to make real-time collaboration work for iWork Apps (Pages, Number, and KeyNote)
- You need a Mac with the latest version of Operating System (macOS Sierra 10.12). iPhone or iPad users must be running iOS 10.
- The latest version of iWork Applications. Mac users need Pages 6.0, Numbers 4.0, or Keynote 7.0 or newer version. iOS users need Pages/Keynote/Numbers 3.0 or later version.
- Safari 6.0.3 or later, Google Chrome 27.0.1 or later, and Windows users needs Internet Explorer 11 or newer version.
- iCloud account, and a reliable Internet connection.
How to Use iWork's Real-Time Collaboration Feature on Mac
- Open a document or start writing a new one.
- Click on Collaborate button.
- Now you will get the options to share. You can choose to share via Email, Message, Social Media etc..
- In this tutorial, I will choose copy link option. After selecting this option, enter the email address of the user you want to share with, you can click + sign and add many users. (Note : You must use your friend's iCloud ID while sharing document)
- Then click on Share option, and the link will be copied automatically. Send the link to your friend, and ask to click on it to work on a document together. He will be taken to iCloud, and he can start working after login.
- Once you click on Share, you will see that the color of Collaboration icon will change. You can click on it to see the list of people (collaborators) working on a document or add more people.
- All the shared files get saved automatically to iCloud Folder. You can find it on Finder App –> iCLoud Drive –> Pages/KetNote/Numbers. The shared document will show that you have shared this document.
- Whatever changes are made in the shared document, you can see in real-time. It also gets saved automatically under iCloud folder of all the Collaborators' and Owner's Mac & iCloud Drive. There is no need to save the file manually.
Watch this demo video how iWork documents collaboration work on Mac and iCloud
Using Collaboration Feature On iCloud Web Interface
If you are using iCloud web interface to create a document, you can still invite people to work together. Just like Pages application, you also get Collaboration icon there where you need to click. Now you get the sharing window, type email address/mobile number, and share. You must use same email address or mobile that collaborators use for his iCloud account.
iOS Users (iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch)
- Open a document or start creating a new one using Pages, Numbers or Keynote app.
- Tap on options icon (icon with 3 dots on top right corner), and select Collaborate With Others option.
- Now you will get the sharing option, and rest of the process works the same way it does on Mac.
You can share any docs made on Keynote, Pages or Numbers app, and work together regardless of what device you are using. Collaborators can work via Mac, iCloud Web Interface (using Mac, Windows or Linux), iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
Watermark a Photo on Mac
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You can contact Marion by phone: 01792 416833
If she is unavailable please leave a message or alternatively you can contact her by email using the form below.
Either way, she looks forward to hearing from you and will reply as soon as possible.
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Quick post for you today :) This mani was inspired by a sponging mani I did for my sister in-law and Nailasaurus' tutorial of her pastel galaxy nails (super cool!)...
Colors Used: Sally Hansen - Blue-Away, Love & Beauty - Bright Cobalt and Periwinkle, Daisy Nail Lacquer - White Diamond, China Glaze - Fairy Dust
My hubby told me that it looks like the night sky, hence the posts title. A friend of mine told me that it made her think of Neverland which I also really loved :)
I started with 2 coats of Blue-Away and then sponged on Cobalt and Periwinkle. I added one coat of Fairy Dust, followed Nailasaurus' instructions for star bursts and then topcoated.
Altho I feel like the star bursts could use some work, I really like the way this turned out :D
Has anyone tried out some new techniques recently? I'm looking for a challenge ;) I hope you all are having a fabulous week!
Until next time!
Stef <3


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The tendons are thick cords found throughout the body that attach bones to muscles. Tendonitis occurs when those cords become irritated and inflamed.
Repetitive motion, like painting or pitching, is the main cause of tendonitis. Sudden injuries or degenerative conditions like arthritis can cause tendonitis as well.
Tendonitis can occur in any area of the body where there are tendons, but the most common areas are the:
Often, you can find relief from tendonitis symptoms – including pain and tenderness – using conservative therapies like rest, medication or physical therapy. In rare cases, when the tendonitis is severe, we may treat tendonitis with surgery.
No matter what caused your tendonitis, our orthopedic team will work with you to find the right combination of treatments to reduce pain and restore function – so you can get back to the things you love the most.
As one of the largest regional health care providers in Wisconsin, Aurora Health Care treats thousands of people for tendonitis and other orthopedic conditions each year. That experience means we can quickly identify the treatment solution you need to get back to your active lifestyle.
When you come to us for treatment, you will also find:
Tendonitis symptoms occur at the site of the inflamed tendon and include:
Causes of tendonitis include:
To see if you have tendonitis, you'll need to see a doctor. During your appointment, your doctor will perform a diagnostic exam that may include:
Once tendonitis is confirmed, your doctor will go over all of your treatment options and help you choose a plan that's right for you. Learn more about orthopedic diagnosis at Aurora Health Care.
We'll first recommend nonsurgical methods to provide tendonitis relief and restore function. Many people find long-lasting relief with these techniques to treat tendonitis:
If you have chronic, long-term pain and these methods don't work or work only temporarily, we may recommend minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery. Using small incisions, these procedures allow us to access and repair your tendon in a more targeted way, leading to less tissue damage and an easier recovery. Find out more about minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery at Aurora.
If surgery isn't right for you, physical or occupational therapy may be your best option. Our therapists can help you learn exercises that strengthen your tendons and muscles. These exercises also help improve your range of motion and relieve pain.


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- Your generous giving will help us continue to make Enliven Blog and other online resources freely available.
Enliven Ministries
Enliven Ministries Ltd is a registered "not for profit" company based in Melbourne, Australia. Our Board watches over the financial integrity of our ministry and there are strong accountability measures in place to ensure your offerings are wisely spent.
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Enliven Blog
Every week, Enliven Blog (est. 2009) reaches thousands of people with teaching to help them grow in their relationship with God and in prophecy, prayer and other spiritual gifts.
A significant part of this ministry is provided free of charge and it is our desire to continue to do so.
- Enliven Blog has many monthly expenses, including domain hosting, mailing list, web-mastering, as well as Helen Calder's time to write and manage the blog and respond to questions online.
Currently, the income received through the sale of our online resources does not cover all of these costs. We desire to be wise stewards, and will continue creating more opportunities for revenue, such as through online courses.
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Helen Calder does not receive a salary from a church, but is assigned a stipend which is set by our Board of Directors.
As a "not for profit" ministry, we rely on ministry gifts and donations, which are paid directly into our ministry fund, to cover this and other costs.
Enliven Ministries Ltd has been approved by the Australian Charities and Not For Profit Commission as a Religious Charity.
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Knitting Ahead – Spring 2014
Notes on Pantone's Spring 2014 Color Palette vs. Available Yarn:
This post is the result of an entire evening spent scouring the internet for yarn colorways which live up to Pantone's high standards. Granted, I did briefly get sidetracked looking at photos of Hitomi Shida's breathtaking designs. But I also managed to look at all the colors for all the spring/summer (and a few fall/winter) yarns at quite a few yarn companies, including Koigu, Plymouth Yarn Co., Swan's Island, Classic Elite Yarns, Rowan, Bergere, Knit PIcks, Blue Sky Alpaca's, Churchmouse Yarn, JimmyBeanswool.com, and the list goes on.
Classic Elite Yarns swept the field this year, with the highest number of colors which are Pantone ready right out of the box. Unfortunately, they also have the smallest sample photos on the internet, so when I placed them into the slide show some major pixelation resulted.
They were followed by Knit Picks in second place, mostly because Knit Picks has so many different colors.
Compared to current colors, Pantone's shades tend to be warmer – abandoning the green-blues entirely. The gray is a warm gray, and the lavenders are very red based making them incredibly difficult to match. I never did find an adequate match for the 2014 Color of the Year: Radiant Orchid. I ended up including three different colors which were all equally wrong: one is too dark, one is too pink, and one is too pale.
Finally, the labeling for each yarn is listed as follows:
- Yarn company
- Yarn Name
- Color Name and Number
- Pantone Number and Name
If you click on the photo when it comes up, you will automatically be directed towards the original website for the yarn.
Thanks, and Happy Knitting Ahead!
- Classic Elite: Naturally Soft Merino - Fawn 160 Matches Pantone 16-0000 "Paloma"
- Bergere de France: Sonora - Vapeur Matches Pantone 15-3920 "Placid Blue"
- Classic Elite: Solstice - Summer Sky 2347 Matches Pantone 15-3920 "Placid Blue"
- Classic Elite: Cottontail - Lagoon 7548 Matches Pantone 18-3949 "Dazzling Blue"
- Knit Picks: Wool of the Andes Super Wash - Grass (Available 3/15/14) Matches Pantone 18-6216 "Comfrey"
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"Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavor to build an earthly paradise for people." – Alvar Aalto
The Home remains the most significant architectural place we experience throughout our lives. Home represents safety, ownership, privacy, and stability. Home is where we can be alone and with people we care about most. Historically, the home has been a place of permanence. Despite how chaotic our lives are, we cherish the consistency of sleeping in the same bed and performing the same daily rituals here. Yet, new trends in digitalization and globalization continue to reshape realms of everyday life and alter our physical environments, including our homes. It is important to examine how we adapt our living spaces to these shifts.
Through the ages, architects have continuously investigated the role that homes play in our lives. These investigations present us with new notions of home environments that are sometimes wholistic, like Peter Eisenman's House VI or Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation, and sometimes specific, like the elevator in OMA's Maison Bordeaux.
The HOME competition invites all designers to explore ideas of domestic architecture for the future. Designers may consider the impacts of global population shifts, proximity of major cities to coastlines, new materials and building techniques, as well as the rise of co-housing, tiny homes, smart houses and marketplaces like Airbnb. HOME creates a platform to speculate the ways new technological, political, environmental and cultural changes can redefine the spaces where we live.
What do you believe will be the future of home?
Submissions may propose a single family home, a multifamily building, an adaptable structure, temporary living experience, or a home that takes the shape of any model or scale. All submissions should clearly define how a resident or residents interact with the proposed living space through graphic representation, text summary, or both.
Designers may propose any geographical location for their home design but should consider the relationship between their proposal and its site, taking into account the inherent benefits, drawbacks, and unique characteristics. Additionally, designers can propose homes with no defined site.
Submission Materials: (4) 12″ x 12″ (30.48cm x 30.48cm) graphic representations and (1) 12" x 12" project text summary (under 200 words) submitted as a combined PDF document. Graphic representation boards may not include text other than number labels (ex. ① ② ③). Graphic boards will be reviewed by jury members alongside their respective text summaries, where number labels may be defined. Upon competition results, all recognized proposals will appear with the text summary directly beneath graphic representations.
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Can text be included on the four graphic boards?
Text is not permitted on graphic boards aside from number labels (example: ① ② ③). Number labels included on graphic boards may be defined on the project text summary board. Boards will be reviewed by jury members alongside their respective text summaries.
Can I submit a project that was done in a school studio?
Yes; participants are welcome to submit projects that were done in school as long as they meet the requirements of the competition.
Can I submit a project that was submitted to another competition?
No; participants are not allowed to submit a project that was also submitted for a different competition which ends before the results of HOME Competition 2019 are announced.
Is the HOME competition restricted to only students or only professionals?
The competition is open to all designers, no matter age, location or experience.
Where do I get my team number?
Your team's identification number is the order number that appears on the top right of the confirmation email upon registration. The confirmation is only sent to the email provided during the payment.
How many team members can be involved in my project?
A maximum of four team members is permitted.
Can I change team members after I register?
Teams are welcome to add, remove, or swap team members as long as their total members does not exceed four.
Is the HOME competition judged anonymously?
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Its sequel to Hiiro no Kakera, in which the girl Tamayori awakens her powers as the enchanted princess, Tamaki and her guardians had apparently succeeded in sealing away Onikirimaru. However, Takuma's body(Her classmate) starts to change as the demon blood flowing through his veins starts to consumes him. While the relationship of the guardians is undergoing stress, Logos resumes their activity once more.
Anime Titles: Hiiro no Kakera Dai Ni Shou, Hiiro no Kakera: The Tamayori Princess Saga 2, Hiiro no Kakera 2nd Season, Scarlet Fragment 2,Hiiro no Kakera Season 2 , Hiiro no Kakera 2 緋色の欠片 第二章
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Episodes: 13
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Sep 30, 2012 to Dec 23, 2012
Genres: Fantasy, Romance, Shoujo, Supernatural
Duration: 24 min. per episode
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Sir Terry Wogan is returning to his chat show roots for Comic Relief.
The BBC Radio 2 presenter - who last fronted such a programme seven years ago - will join Graham Norton for a co-hosting stint as part of his bid to set a record for chat show presenting.
'Comic Relief's Big Chat with Graham Norton' will see the presenter attempt to set the Guinness World Record for 'Most Questions Asked on a TV Chat Show' from 7pm on Thursday, March 7 until the early hours of the following day on BBC Three, with Terry, 74, and Nick Grimshaw on hand to ask back-up questions.
Graham jokingly claimed his show is a match for previous Comic Relief and Sport Relief challenges, which included David Walliams swimming the River Thames, Eddie Izzard completing 43 marathons in 51 days, and John Bishop, who endured a "week of Hell" which saw him complete a 230-mile triathlon from London to Paris in five days.
Speaking about the challenge, Graham said: "David Walliams swam the Thames, John Bishop endured a week of hell and Eddie Izzard ran marathon after marathon after marathon.
"I am hoping to join the elite group of marathon celebrity fundraisers by doing what I do best - sitting on my backside and talking."
Guests who will appear on the talk show include Ronnie Corbett, Sarah Millican, Martin Freeman, Jimmy Carr, Lee Mack, Keith Lemon, Elle Macpherson, James Nesbitt, Paddy McGuinness, Heston Blumenthal and Kirstie Allsopp.
There will also be music from Example, Paloma Faith, Hurts and Laura Mvula.
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The Expendables 2 in streaming. The Expendables—leader Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), knife specialist Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), hand-to-hand combat specialist Yin Yang (Jet Li), heavy-weapons specialist Hale Caesar (Terry Crews), demolitions expert Toll Road (Randy Couture), the unstable Gunner Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), and sniper Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth), the team's newest recruit and Ross' protégé—are deployed to Nepal to rescue Dr. Zhou, a hostage. They also rescue the captured mercenary Trench (Arnold Schwarzenegger), Ross's rival. Yang leaves the group to escort Zhou back to China. After returning to New Orleans, Billy tells Ross that he intends to retire at the end of the month and live with his girlfriend Sophia. Later, Ross is forced to accept a mission from CIA operative Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) to retrieve an item from a downed airplane in Albania. Church sends technical expert Maggie Chan (Yu Nan) with the team. In Albania the Expendables retrieve the item, but are then ambushed by international criminal and arms dealer Jean Vilain (Jean-Claude Van Damme), his right-hand man Hector (Scott Adkins) and his mercenary group (the Sangs), who have captured Billy. Vilain demands the item in exchange for Billy's life. The team gives up the item, but Vilain roundhouse kicks a knife through Billy's heart and flees with the Sangs by helicopter. Ross recovers a note for Sophia from Billy's body; the team buries their fallen comrade, swearing vengeance on Vilain.
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The SEC Announces Its 2017 Examination Priorities
On January 12, 2017, the SEC's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations ("OCIE") announced its examination priorities for 2017. This year's priorities are focused around three topics: (1) retail investors, (2) senior investors and retirement investments, and (3) market-wide risks. These priorities affect investment advisers, investment companies, broker-dealers, transfer agents, clearing agencies, private fund advisers, national securities exchanges, and municipal advisers.
Protecting retail investors remains a primary concern of OCIE. So it's no surprise that its detailed areas of focus continue to include: risks related to electronic investment advice (i.e. "robo-advising"), "wrap fee" programs where investors are charged a single fee for bundled advisory and brokerage services, and "Never-Before Examined Investment Advisers," an initiative started in 2014. OCIE will also continue to focus on its Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs).
To protect senior investors, OCIE will continue its ReTIRE initiative with focuses on investment advisers and broker-dealers that offer variable insurance products to investors with retirement accounts and advisers that offer and manage target-date funds and registrants' interactions with senior investors. It also plans to examine investment advisers of pension plans of states, municipalities, and other government entities to assess how they are managing conflicts of interest and fulfilling their fiduciary duties, and to evaluate how firms manage their interactions with senior investors.
OCIE's third set of priorities focuses on market-wide risks, including cybersecurity, enhanced oversight of FINRA, additional anti-money laundering examinations, and the SEC's Regulation SCI. OCIE will also continue to examine municipal advisers, transfer agents, and private fund advisers.


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Jean-Paul Riopelle, CC GOQ (7 October 1923 – 12 March 2002) was a painter and sculptor from Quebec, Canada. He became the first Canadian painter (since James Wilson Morrice) to attain widespread international recognition.
Riopelle was arguably one of the most important Canadian artists of the 20th century, establishing his reputation in the burgeoning postwar art scene of Paris, where his entourage included André Breton, Sam Francis and Samuel Beckett. Riopelle produced over six thousand works (of which more than two thousand paintings) during the course of his lifetime.


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Using Social Media to Make Learning Stick
Social media is becoming more mainstream today – for internal and external networking, job searching, to publicize upcoming external learning opportunities (particularly webinars), and for some training applications.
Why is social media helpful to make learning stick? We have known for some time that "single loop" learning (that is, one exposure to learning content) is less effective than "douple loop" or multiple exposures. Social media tools – Twitter, Linked In, and Facebook are the big three – provide easy opportunities to stay in touch with trainees before and after formal learning events. Here are a few suggestions gleaned from my personal experience, recent articles and personal conversations:
Host a post-training discussion/support group on Linked In (or your internal intranet). Ask 2-3 open-ended questions that will encourage discussion of the ideas and how people are applying – or think they might apply – them. Don't be discouraged if people are reluctant to participate at first. Experience has shown that as more people become involved, participation tends to grow. I'm also finding that many people read others' posts but don't post themselves. While this behavior can be frustrating for the facilitator, people are usually learning even though they're not actively participating.
Use Twitter afer training to send periodic reminders to use and practice newly acquired behaviors. The reminders can be set up ahead of time, for your convenience. Short emails can also be used.
Use Twitter before a learning event, to get a quick "read" on trainees' interest in particular areas/topics in the training or simply to build positive expectations about upcoming training. (Hint: use short testimonials from previous participants).
Use Facebook for pre-training and post-training discussions, in the same way Linked In can be used, but with photos, PowerPoint slides, or other visuals. Remember, Neurolinguistic Programming tells us that 60% of learners prefer to take in information visually.
During a learning event, ask participants to submit their questions to you via Twitter or cell phone email. A trainer I recently spoke with has found that some learners who are reluctant to raise their hand will use this means to ask questions.
Personal note: I'm currently taking the best blended learning I've ever had, as a learner. The design is simple. A one hour webinar was scheduled. One week before this event, 2-3 open-ended, thought-provoking discussion questions were posted on a discussion board, and participants posted comments, asked follow-up questions, etc. And yes, some people didn't participate, but my guess is that they read the posts. The webinar was held yesterday, with the usual format of a 45 minute presentation with PowerPoint slides and 15 minutes of Q and A, with the questions submitted in writing via the webinar platform. Post-event discussion questions and a practice assignment have now been posted on the discussion board and participants will have one week to post. The software for the discussion board happens to be proprietary, but could just as easily be Linked In or Facebook.
More and more people are using social media, on and off the job. As a trainer, are you keeping up? Do you still consider training to be a one-time event or a process? How can you use social media tools to strengthen the learning process and help make your training stick?
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More Brazilian Students To Come To LTU For EngineeringLawrence Technological University and the Maua Institute of Technology in San Paulo, Brazil, have signed an agreement to bring Brazilian students to LTU to study mechanical engineering for a year.
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Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital recently opened their new Orthopaedics & Spine Pavilion providing surgical patients with a comprehensive, seamless care experience in one convenient location. The brand new, 20,000-square-foot facility was designed around the patient and family experience, and had input from hospital staff, physicians and former patients and their family members, known as patient and family advisors (PFAs).
"We wanted to make sure the patient gets the best possible experience from the time they walk in the door until they leave," says Paul Jeffords, MD, chief of orthopaedic surgery at Emory Saint Joseph's.
According to Dr. Jeffords, another important component of the experience at the Orthopaedics & Spine Pavilion is taking care of a patient's family. "The family is an integral part of a patient's recovery, and we try to ease their anxiety," he says.
This includes keeping families informed during each phase of surgical care with a specialized tracking board in the waiting area. Families are able to follow the progress of their patient from surgery through recovery, in one location.
With the consolidation of inpatient and outpatient orthopaedics and spine services in one location on Emory Saint Joseph's campus, the facility also includes six state-of-the-art operating suites complete with teleconferencing capabilities.
The multidisciplinary team at the Orthopaedics & Spine Pavilion is composed of orthopaedic and spine doctors, nurses and physical therapists, who care for patients going home the same day of surgery, and also those requiring a longer hospital stay.
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How to create a Banksy stencil
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Though stencil graffiti began during the Second World War, stencilling as a technique dates back to the beginnings of human art. Along with contemporaries like Shepard Fairey and Random von Nothaus, British graffiti street artist Banksy has re-popularised the use of stencils for public art.
Banksy often combines original drawings and text with re-appropriated works of photojournalism to make political and satirical statements.
Draw or photocopy your image and any text on to a 28 by 43 cm (11 by 17 inch) piece of paper.
Draw a 48 by 58 cm (17 by 23 inch) rectangle on the art board with a ruler and permanent pen, then cut it out with your craft knife. Place this smaller piece of board on the plastic sheet and spray it with adhesive. Flip your drawing over and spray the back of it with adhesive, then wait 30 seconds for the glue to begin to dry.
Place the drawing glue-side-down onto the art board and centre it so you have a 7.5 cm (3 inch) border on all sides. Press the two pieces together with the palms of your hands. Rub across the drawing with a hard squeegee to flatten it completely and encourage the glue to adhere strongly. Wait for the glue to dry.
Cut through the outlines of the black parts of your drawing with the craft knife, pressing hard enough to cut the board below. Leave narrow ligaments to connect independent shapes and ensure the stability of the stencil as a whole.
Find an empty pizza box and use it as a folder to carry your stencil. If you don't have a pizza box, take apart a file box, fold it in half and trim it to the right size with the craft knife.
Find a place to apply your stencil and stick it to the surface with gaffer tape. Shake a can of matt black spray paint repeatedly for 10 seconds, then spritz the inside of your cardboard folder to start the flow of paint.
Hold the spray can 20 cm (8 inches) away from the stencil and spray back-and-forth across the cut-out areas in sweeping motions. Try not to spray any paint outside the edges of the stencil. Use as little paint as possible to avoid causing drips. Remove the stencil from the wall and place it in the cardboard folder.
- Consider applying your stencil to your own home or vehicle, or to a canvas, wood block or large sheet of archival paper.
- Copyright law protects works of parody, comment and criticism. If you decide to base your design on a copyrighted image, add an ironic twist, as in the stencil where Banksy replaced a terrorist's grenade with a bouquet of flowers.
- Remember that stencilling on public or private property without permission is a form of vandalism, regardless of how creative your intentions. To avoid breaking the law, make artistic statements with the stencil design itself rather than the locations where you spray it.
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Nonverbal interactions are applied to trauma treatment for more effective results.
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Exercises to help mental health practitioners at all levels of experience recognize gut feelings and produce deep therapeutic change.
The Birth of Intersubjectivity: Psychodynamics, Neurobiology, and the Self
Neurobiological research helps explain the experience of motherhood.
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Facilitating change in couple therapy by understanding how the brain works to maintain—and break—old habits.
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In Stoke On Trent, Meir KA staged an alternative cup final with 70 non-league ground hoppers witnessing their 2-0 victory over Coleshill Town. Due to the rare afternoon kick-off, travellers came from as far afield as Edinburgh and London to the potteries where second half goals from Martin Wood and Steve Wollescroft defeated Town.
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Spie Press BookOptimization Techniques for Diffraction Spectrometers
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The unique properties of diffraction gratings make the optical design of diffraction spectrometers a complex problem. This Spotlight connects optical design and diffraction grating fabrication to address issues of diffraction efficiency, tolerance analysis, and optimization techniques. It further explores performance testing of gratings and modification of classical spectrometers using modern design and fabrication techniques.
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Brief History of Diffraction Gratings and their Fabrication
- 3 Description of a Diffraction Grating by Polynomial Phase Coefficients
- 4 Association of the Polynomial Phase Coefficients with the Fabrication Parameters
- 4.1 Surface type diffraction grating
- 4.2 Elliptical grating 1
- 4.3 Elliptical grating 2
- 4.4 Hologram 1 and hologram 2
- 4.5 Optically recorded hologram
- 4.6 Binary 1 surface
- 5 Diffraction Efficiency
- 6 Immersed Gratings
- 7 Calculation of Optical System Transmittance Including the Diffraction Grating
- 8 Diffraction Gratings and Tolerance Analysis
- 9 Optimization Techniques and Diffraction Grating Performance Testing
- 10 Modification of Classical Spectrometers Using Modern Design and Fabrication Techniques
- 10.1 First diffraction instruments
- 10.2 Monograph 44
- 10.3 Convex grating spectrometer
- 10.4 Cross-dispersion spectrometer
- 11 Conclusion
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Ray tracing and optimization programs - developed simultaneously with diffraction grating fabrication technology - were originally focused on lens design. New features, such as mirror systems and diffraction spectrometer designs, were gradually added, but the developers were not always familiar with all of the specific features and limitations of the technology. This Spotlight connects optical design and diffraction grating fabrication, focusing mainly on surface relief reflection gratings for spectroscopy.
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On the small side of medium, this cheerful yellow variety recalls both Red and Golden Delicious. Coville has the exaggerated ribbed and tapered profile of the former and the color and dark lenticels of the latter, from which it surely must be descended.
Some have a small slight blush, rosy orange. At the base a circle of bumps surrounds an open calyx. These bruise easily and have a lush sweet aroma.
Coville's flesh is a very coarse-grained light yellow, and almost impossibly juicy. Indeed the flesh of both of my tasting samples is marbled with veins so saturated with juice as to be translucent, the beginings of water core. I cannot imagine that this variety would be good for cooking.
All Coville's juice is mild and sweet, with just a hint of tartness to liven things up. There is a hint of Golden Delicious's honey, and a tiny suggestion of melon. All these flavors are mild, light, attenuated, and eminently accessible.


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The story of the 2004 war with Ottawa is the story of disconnects, mismatches, incongruities, of things that just didn't add up.
October 2004 is a good example. In the middle of the month, Loyola Sullivan, the provincial lead negotiator, went to Ottawa for a meeting with federal finance minister, Ralph Goodale. he headed the negotiations for the federal government in the effort to find a draft agreement.
Sullivan told reporters the chances of a deal looked good. The two governments were talking about something that would last eight years and bring the provincial government between $1.4 and $2.0 billion depending on the price of oil.
At exactly the same time, Premier Danny Williams was telling reporters the provincial position had not changed. "There are no movements from the government of Newfoundland and Labrador," Williams told Rob Antle of the Telegram on October 16. "There's no doubt about.that. We have no intention of moving."
The provincial position that Williams insisted had not changed called for a deal that had no fixed end-date. What Sullivan was talking about had a very specific limit. The two things did not match. On October 21st, Sullivan was in the Telegram again talking of the eight year deal with upwards of $2.0 billion in cash. And then two days later, Sullivan was slamming the same deal, claiming it was nothing more than a "shell game."
The provincial position itself didn't add up. The provincial government wanted all of the oil royalties that it received, in total, and without any reduction. On top of that, the provincial government wanted all of its Equalization hand-outs from Ottawa as if the oil didn't exist.
Yet both Sullivan and Williams frequently described the demand as being for 100% of provincial oil revenues. Many people in the province, including reporters and editorial writers, thought the provincial position would end the practice of provincial money going to Ottawa.. They were wrong: no provincial money went to the federal government in the first place.
Mr. Williams Goes to Ottawa
None of that mattered. Williams and Sullivan headed to Ottawa. They didn't go for the meeting, but for the media coverage they'd get for their boycott.
The media who covered the start of the meeting found plenty of drama Williams changing the deal he'd agreed to in June because oil prices had changed. According to Williams, Martin wanted some of the oil cash. None of what Williams said was true, on any level.
''Our pride cannot be bought," Williams told reporters. "We won't say yes to less.'' His jaw muscle clenched and unclenched so visibly as he fumed that news networks used a shot of his pulsing face during cut-aways.
With the media show in Ottawa over, Williams and Sullivan flew back to St. John's for another media event on October 27. "Yesterday, I made a difficult decision in Ottawa," Williams said at the beginning of his prepared remarks, "when I decided not to attend the First Ministers' Meeting on equalization." That wasn't true, of course. The reporters didn't know that Williams had already decided the week before to boycott the meeting based on the federal offer he already knew about, in detail. .
Williams summarised the situation that – he claimed – led him to his decision: What Williams had demand and Paul Martin had accepted "did not include a cap or a reference to fiscal capacity. It did not include any linkage to the fiscal capacity of other provinces. And, it did not include a time frame. In fact, it specifically excluded it."
That much was true. But Williams conveniently ignored – and none of the reporters apparently asked – why he and his finance minister had been discussing an eight-year deal for the past two months.
Instead, they repeated what Williams had said. CBC, for example, reported that Williams and Sullivan had "said they would lose about $617 million in the 2006-07 fiscal year alone if they accepted Ottawa's version of the deal, and between $2.6 billion and $4.1 billion over the 21-year production life of the Hibernia, Terra Nova and White Rose offshore oilfields."
"We are not prepared to give away potentially billions of dollars in revenue to contribute to an already bloated fiscal surplus in Ottawa," Williams said.
Williams released a chart with three coloured lines on it. One represented the value of the payment as Williams envisaged it. A second line referred to a federal offer of October 14. A green line purported to show the impact of the fiscal capacity cap in the latest version of the federal proposal.
The chart itself, like the entire news conference, was a perfect example of the other-worldly nature of the war Williams and Sullivan had started. The pair would present blatantly false or misleading information. People repeated the falsehoods as if they were true, even when, in some cases, they had the truth in front of them.
The reporters in the room knew that both the October 14 offer and the proposal dated October 22 lasted only eight years. In the chart, though, both deals continued until 2022, another decade. They couldn't continue if they lasted only eight years. The chart couldn't include the 1985 offsets on those as they stopped in 2012 as well.
Then there is the matter of what the charts show. Sullivan had already described the October 14 offer as providing the top of Equalization payments Williams was looking for. The line for October 14 should have been exactly the same as the provincial demand line. If it wasn't, there was yet another reason to wonder why Williams and Sullivan had been talking up an offer that - supposedly - fell so far short of their demands.
For good measure, Williams even invoked the spectre of another fiasco like the 1969 power contract: "The only group to benefit from that [fiscal capacity cap] would be the federal government. This is exactly the same scenario we have with Quebec in relation to the Upper Churchill and the absence of an escalator which has cost this province hundreds of millions of dollars."
"Simply put," Williams summed up, "our proposal on the Atlantic Accord protects us from the pitfalls of another Upper Churchill deal."
On the 21st of October, Williams and Sullivan were staring at criticism from some prominent people in the province. Vic Young, whose Blame Canada commission had laid the foundation for Williams' victory in 2003, thought the deal Sullivan was praising fell short of the numbers his people had come up with. .
Less than a week later, Young said that every person in the province stood behind Williams, just as he did. Federal politicians from the province fell in line with Williams. Some of them, like Gerry Byrne and George Baker, were names Bill Rowe and had given to Williams in a telephone conversation on October 22 as William looked for allies. Another, Bill Matthews, was only a Liberal of convenience. An old friend of Williams, Matthews had no problem wearing a Liberal jersey but – in effect – playing for another team.
Even future politicians got in on the action. Ryan Cleary was editor of a weekly newspaper called the Independent. In October 2004, his paper had run a poorly researched series that purported to show that Newfoundland and Labrador was getting the shit end of the stick from Confederation.
A Global television news crew filed a story with local reaction to Williams' decision to boycott the meeting and reject the federal offer. They included Cleary, who started off with the Williams-inspired change to the name of the province that was temporarily fashionable in certain circles in 2004:
"Newfoundland Labrador didn't have to join Canada," said Cleary, the future New Democratic Party member of parliament. "Ottawa wouldn't have these moneys coming into the treasury. So we want a better deal. That's what it comes down to." The separatist talk also ramped up very quickly. Global included in its report some clips from local open line show callers who said it was time for the province to leave Canada.
The Talks Resume
For all the media noise over the next four weeks, the two governments kept talking. The negotiations got back to details on November 22, a month after Williams and Sullivan had launched their war. This time, though, Williams pushed Sullivan aside and took control of the talks himself. On the federal side, Prime Minister Paul Martin kept Ralph Goodale as the lead on the file. but added clerk of the privy council Alex Himelfarb to the mix.
Williams told reporters the talks were "perhaps the most important battle ever waged in this province since Confederation." A month later – to the day - the federal government produced a draft agreement for Williams.
Building on the general outline of the October offer, the new draft agreement offered the province an extra payment to cover losses in federal transfers through the Equalization program. It would last for eight years, beginning with two years in which the payments were specifically defined.
The draft agreement also included an explicit commitment to renew the deal for eight more years provided the provincial government either balanced its annual spending estimates or qualified for Equalization. If the provincial government became a "have" province at any point during the life of the deal, the whole thing would stop. The draft agreement also included a new condition that would allow for eight years of additional offsets specifically for the Hebron project. The last of the four major projects had yet to reach the development agreement stage.
In order for the agreement to continue beyond the first eight years, the provincial government would have to meet three conditions. First, the government would have to balance the budget annually. Second, the province would have to qualify for Equalization in that year or the preceding year. Third, the province's debt-to-GDP ratio could not become lower than that of one of the provinces other than Nova Scotia.
Those conditions stuck in Williams' throat, however, they were consistent with what the provincial government had been saying all along about the province's financial state and about its own plans to deal with it. The federal cash was supposed to help get the provincial government out of a mess. Williams' letter to Martin in December 2003 had specifically committed the provincial government to use the extra cash from Ottawa in order to to modernize public infrastructure and to reduce public debt. In essence, Williams was left to argue against his own stated intention.
The prospect of renewing the agreement for a second eight year term was a major improvement over the earlier proposal. If he looked closely, Williams would have noticed that the provincial government only had to meet one of two conditions in order to renew the payments for a further eight years.
Balancing the books was an attainable goal given the extra cash forecast to flow from the offshore. The other trigger – having a debt-to-GDP ratio lower than that of any other province except Nova Scotia – was almost impossible given the size of the public debt even in relation to the oil economy.
Williams rejected the new offer offer as a Machiavellian insult. "It's also quite apparent to me," Williams told reporters, "that we were dragged to Manitoba in order to punish us, quite frankly, to try to embarrass us, to bring us out there to get no deal and send us back with our tail between our legs."
In four weeks, Williams had gone from telling the world he had every confidence – once again – in the Prime Minister's word to accusing the federal government of yet more conspiracies and plots. In October, he'd suggested that the federal government was organizing the provinces against Newfoundland and Labrador.
Mr. Williams Goes to Hell
Back in St. John's, Williams ordered provincial government officials to remove the Canadian flag from provincial government buildings. They would not go back, he sneered, until the federal government caved in and delivered Williams' original demand. "I'm not willing to fly that flag anymore in the province." Williams spat out the phrase "that flag" as if it was poison.
Angry letters and e-mails poured into Williams office denouncing his political use of the national symbol. Williams went to his stock line and claimed the whole thing was the result of a massive Liberal conspiracy. Coming back to work after the Christmas break, Williams vowed to undertake a national speaking tour to make the case against the federal government. It didn't go well. After a lengthy meeting with the editorial board of the Globe and Mail, the newspaper publicly told the Premier to take the deal in front of him.
A poll Williams commissioned confirmed that the flag stunt was a mistake. The poll put five questions in front of audience of Canadians outside Newfoundland and Labrador. Part way through the poll, Williams' office added a poll of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians in order to see how the flag flap was playing at home.
Nationally, 72% of respondents agreed with the idea the federal government should honour its commitment. Fully 96% of Newfoundlanders agreed, along with 72% of Westerners, 68% of Ontarians, 73% of Quebeckers and 84% of Maritimers. Even with the polls margins of error - 2.83% nationally, almost five percent in Newfoundland and almost 8% in the other regions, the figures were unmistakable.
Williams got the same kind of responses on three of the other questions. That isn;t surprising since the questions were worded in such a way as to lead people toward the strongest positive response possible.
The fifth question was simple and tied Williams' decision to the federal commitment: "To what extent do you support Newfoundland's Premier Danny Williams' decision to remove Canadian flags from Newfoundland's government buildings [sic] to protest Prime Minister Martin and the Government of Canada not living up to the commitment to allow Newfoundland and Labrador to keep 100% of provincial oil revenues?"
Despite the leading nature of the question, despite having heard the same rationale about commitments and revenues in two previous questions, and despite the skewed nature of the responses, 60% of respondents nationally picked the sole, extreme negative choice.
The view was as clear in the regions across the country, even allowing for the poll's margins of error.
Respondents strongly opposed the flag move in every region except Quebec and Newfoundland. Even 63% of Maritimers were not supportive at all. In Quebec, where flag flaps were old news, the figure was 45% not supportive at all, the single largest response category by more than two to one. In Newfoundland and Labrador, only 38% were completely supportive, while 29% were not supportive at all.
The poll numbers must have come to Williams as a shock. The flag stunt had been a calculated move. modelled on a similar ploy by a Parti Quebecois administration.. Nationalist sentiment, even separatist sentiment, appeared to have been growing in the province since October.
Interestingly, Williams admitted to reporters on January 7 that the flag issue had cost him support. it seems he had some of the poll results at that point. Even at home, as Williams knew from his own polling, his flag flap was a loser at worst, a distraction at best.
The national polling ended on January 9. On January 10, Williams met reporters to announce the long-delayed call for expressions of interest in development of the Lower Churchill. Before he got to that announcement, though, Williams unexpectedly told reporters the flags were going back up that very minute. Then he carried on with the announcement about his pet project.
End Game
On January 3, - in the midst of the flag controversy, and before he started polling - Williams wrote Martin. He released the letter and a summary of the provincial position on January 5. The letter ran through all the details of the provincial position. Williams detailed seven problems with the December draft agreement, all of which had to do with limiting the offset payments beyond a set period.
In characteristic fashion, Williams blamed Goodale and Efford personally for the failure of talks thus far. The deal had been cut between the two leaders. The underlings had intervened and failed. If Martin was serious about meeting his commitment from June, Williams concluded, Williams was prepared meet with Martin, Nova Scotia premier John Hamm, and Himelfarb. Williams emphatically refused to meet any more with federal finance department officials.
Things turned from bad to worse for Williams as he retreated from his flag folly. News broke that the federal government was close to a deal with Nova Scotia. After December 22, the two provinces had split and the news from Halifax meant that Williams would be left isolated.
In a desperate move that reflected his collapsing position, Williams called Martin from his vacation in Florida on Thursday, January 13. The two agreed that the finance officials would meet for more talks. As Williams was out of the country, he offered to have Sullivan in Ottawa on Friday. Martin was unavailable to meet Williams, though, until after January 28, when he returned from a trip out of the country.
Before the telephone call, Martin's office had already prepared a response to Williams. They sent it on January 14. The tone and content of the letter made it clear that Williams had gone too far. Martin rejected Williams' characterization of the discussions up to that point and what the two had agreed in June.
Martin stated emphatically that his concern from the outset had been to ensure that the provincial government did not suffer a loss of revenue as a result the way the Equalization system and the Accord offset provisions operated, as long as the province qualified for Equalization. He insisted that the federal government had worked in good faith and that the entire federal proposal met his commitment since he and Williams had first spoken a year before.
When it came to the idea that the province should receive a federal payment even after it no longer qualified for Equalization, Martin was clear:
You now are asking the Government of Canada to make additional and continuing 100 per cent offset payments even if the province no longer qualifies for Equalization. This would mean that Newfoundland and Labrador would be out of Equalization because of the strength of its own revenues, thus meeting the key objective of the Accord, but continue to receive additional offset payments, in practice indistinguishable from Equalization payments, from the Government of Canada. This is inconsistent with your public statements, for instance "once we get to the equalization standard, we are saying we don't want any more equalization. All we want after that, forever, is 100 per cent of our provincial revenues, no different to Alberta or anyone else" (Globe and Mail, A1, Nov. 18).
Martin stated his own willingness to meet but insisted that the technical aspects of Williams' letter were subjects for Goodale and Efford.
Martin's letter was as stern and complete a rebuke to Williams as he had likely ever received to that point. Martin systematically rejected Williams' contentions. By quoting Williams' own, often-contradictory comments back to him, Martin exposed the inherently contradictory nature of Williams' own position. As he had done in November, Martin brushed aside Williams' effort to give in to Williams' effort to make the dispute personal. Goodale and Efford would continue to represent the federal government on the details of the agreement.
By January 26, Williams was reduced to issuing a news release denying that he was stalling a final agreement. The accusation came from an anonymous source reportedly inside the federal Liberal caucus. The ground had shifted under Williams in more ways than one.
The next day, he issued another news release to let everyone know that, since he would be meeting with the Prime Minister on January 28 to finalize a deal, "I have requested that my Cabinet colleagues clear their calendars and be readily available if required to meet on this very important matter." There'd be no more stunts.
On the Friday night, Williams emerged from a meeting with Prime Minister Paul Martin to announce the deal was done. He returned home, triumphantly crying that "we got it!" His office issued a news release on Monday, January 31. It started by trumpeting the single payment of $2.0 billion that came with the agreement. Williams then turned to rewriting the entire history of the preceding 12 months.
"Our effort to secure a better deal on the Atlantic Accord was about more than money for the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. It was about integrity and dignity and honour, and it was about pride."
Saying Yes to much less
There is no mistaking the fact that Williams accepted a deal at the end of January that contained every single one of the points to which he had objected on January 3. In some areas, the deal Williams accepted on January 28 was demonstrably worse than either of the ones he had dismissed earlier. The final agreement, signed on February 14 in a ceremony in St. John's, proved it.
The first clause confirmed that the federal government had to pass legislation to put the deal into effect. But in the second clause, Williams and Sullivan admitted that their claim about a loss of provincial revenues was a lie:
Newfoundland and Labrador already receives and will continue to receive 100 per cent of offshore resource revenues as if these resources were on land.
Rather than receiving a federal cheque equal to provincial offshore revenues, even after the province no longer qualified for Equalization, Williams accepted that the deal would be for eight years, with the possibility of extending the deal.
In any event, the deal would end in the year that the province stopped qualifying for Equalization, although the final agreement included a transitional period of two years of declining payments rather than an abrupt stop. While the December deal needed only one trigger to the renewal, the final agreement deal required that the provincial government hit two targets. That reduced the prospect of a renewal dramatically.
Williams had complained that the December draft agreement did not include offsets for the three existing projects beyond the term of the agreement. It actually would have included a new offset for Hebron whenever the project started production. The final agreement included no offsets outside the life of the existing agreement.
For three months, Williams and his caucus had waged a high intensity war with the federal government that gained national headlines. Williams' personal popularity soared.
But the deal Williams signed in January 2005 was as far from his initial demand as one could get. What's worse, the basic nature of the deal – how much money and for how long – was the same in January has it had been in October. Arguably, as Williams' attacks grew more extreme, the federal position hardened accordingly.
Williams vowed that he would never say yes to less than what he had originally demanded. In the end, he agreed to far less. The gap between the two was so large that, in the end, Williams had to fill the gap with a redefined version of the goal. It had not been about money, Williams said. The fight had been about pride, integrity, dignity, and honour.
Williams could not declare an actual victory. He declared a moral one instead.


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Woolworths' Isaacs named CFO of the Year
JOHANNESBURG, (CAJ News) – WOOLWORTHS Holdings' Reeza Isaacs has been named South Africa's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Year 2016.
Reeza, the Group Finance Director of the retailer, has been honoured with the accolade at the just-concluded 2016 CFO Awards.
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