text: Catalog Auction info Yamaha Golf Cars - Gadsden, AL (#151963) 10/25/2018 12:00 PM CDT - 11/01/2018 2:00 PM CDT Starts Ending 11/01/2018 2:00 PM CDT Lot #2Yamaha 2016 DC Golf Car - Dealer Location: Gadsden Golf Carts, Inc. - 323 Ewing Ave., Gadsden, AL 35901 - (ph.) 256-547-5225 Click image to enlarge PreviousNext Lot closed - Winning bid:$1,900 (11 bids) Remove from watchlist Add to watchlist Tell a friendAsk a question Yamaha Golf Cars - Gadsden, AL (#151963) 10/25/2018 12:00 PM CDT - 11/01/2018 2:00 PM CDT Starts Ending 11/01/2018 2:00 PM CDT Description JW9-614486 2016 Drive DC Electric (early roll from course that went with our Quie Tech EFI) 48 Volt DC Motor 3.5 HP Yamaha Built 270 Amp Controller 6 Volt Trojan T875 Batteries Comes with Yamaha built microprocessor based high-frequency switching, regulated charger DIMENSIONS OVERALL LENGTH 94.3 in (2395 mm) OVERALL WIDTH 47.2 in (1200 mm) OVERALL HEIGHT (with suntop) 70.4 in (1789 mm) OVERALL HEIGHT (without suntop) 46.9 in (1190 mm) WHEELBASE 64.6 in (1640 mm) FRONT WHEEL TREAD 34.3 in (870 mm) REAR WHEEL TREAD 38.6 in (980 mm) MINIMUM GROUND CLEARANCE 4.3 in (110 mm) POWER SUPPLY / DRIVE TRAIN MOTOR Hitachi 48-volt high-efficiency, shunt wound motor with internal solid state tachometer OUTPUT RATING 3.5 hp (2.6 kW) for 30 minutes MOTOR CONTROL UNIT Yamaha-built solid state microprocessor with high-efficiency MOSFET switching. 270 amp armature output, 20 amp field output TRANSAXLE EnduraDrive direct coupled transaxle equipped with high-precision helical gears, 12.49:1 drive axle ratio BATTERIES Six 8-volt Trojan T875 Batteries CHARGER Yamaha-built automatic microprocessor-based high frequency switching-regulated charger with I.E.I.-type charging profile, an industry first. 17 amp DC max output at 48 volts, 9.5 amp 120 volt AC. Underwriters Laboratories (U.L.) Listed. C.S.A. Certified CHASSIS FRAME HybriCore Chassis features a robotically welded automotive ladder-style frame mated to a polypropylene structural floor. Frame components are protected with a multi-step full-immersion phosphate treatment, electro-deposition epoxy-based coating, and an electrostatically applied polyester/urethane powder topcoat BODY Custom-formulated thermoplastic olefin, painted with a two-part top coat of high-luster automotive-grade polyurethane STEERING Self-compensating double reduction helical rack-and-pinion, permanently lubricated with sealed, greaseless tie-rod ends FRONT SUSPENSION Tru-Trak II fully independent automotive style strut suspension REAR SUSPENSION Unit swing arm with coil springs and hydraulic shock absorbers BRAKES Maintenance-free internal transaxle disc brake SEATING Seamless, fabric-backed vinyl bonded to pure, virgin foam contoured seat cushions and mated to a warp and moisture resistant polypropylene bottom, strengthened with plated steel inserts. BUMPERS Front and rear 5 mph energy-absorbing bumpers PERFORMANCE MAX FORWARD SPEED 15 mph (24 km/h) MAX REVERSE SPEED 7 mph (11 km/h) TURNING RADIUS 9.2 ft (2.8 m) GENERAL DRY WEIGHT (less batteries) 536 lbs (243 kg) TIRE SIZE 18.00 x 8.50-8.00 (4-ply rating) SEATING CAPACITY 2 persons Terms and conditions Auction Terms and Conditions 1. By registering for this On-Line Auction, Bidders/Buyers are agreeing to these Terms and Conditions. 2. All disputes will be settled in Bradley County, Cleveland, Tennessee. 3. To participate a valid credit card is required for bidding. 4. Payment: Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, Check with a Letter of Guarantee and Wire Transfer. A convenience fee of 3.5% will be charged for all credit card usage. A flat fee of $100 per car will be added to all final bids. Manufactures Certificate of Origin (MCO ) will be mailed out 14 to 21 days after proper payment has been received. Bidders / Buyers without proof of tax exemption will be charged Local / State Sales Tax. Gadsden, AL: 3.25%. 5. Inspection: Bidders/Buyers are encouraged to visually inspect the items. Inspection Date is Thursday, November 1, 9:00am - 2:00pm (CDT) . All items have been available for preview. 6. This On-Line Auction opens on Thursday, October 25, at 12:00 pm ( CDT) and closes on Thursday, November 1, at 2:00 pm (CDT). 7. Check-out times are Friday, November 2, 8:00 am-4:00 pm (CDT) and Saturday, October 3, 8:00 am-12:00 noon (CDT). All other arrangements must be made with Stone Brothers Auction, LLC at 423-240-8383. Items not picked up by Saturday, October 3 will be charged a $5.00 per day storage fee. After 10 days items will revert to Owner. 8. Shipping: Bidders/Buyers are responsible for shipping arrangements. Bidders/ Buyers assume all risk and responsibility for loading and removal of items purchased. 9. 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Erika Hayasaki has written a fascinating article entitled in The Atlantic entitled "How Motherhood Affects Creativity". It refers to a mother as "bolder than before... more direct and lethal... she does not have time to waste.... she is more efficient, making fewer errors... she finds new and unusual ways to get tasks done- problem-solving approaches she had not considered before giving birth."
And this is in reference to a mother rat. (Read the article)
Honestly, the notion that creativity would decrease with motherhood had never crossed my mind- of course my children have made me more creative- but then I remember the sleepless nights and the exhaustion and maybe I can see it- culture would measure creative contributions in gainful artistic employment which would decrease with staying at home with littles I suppose.
But what a world of creativity a house full of children brings! I can't imagine anything else enhancing creative energy more. We are indeed more efficient and we find unusual ways to get tasks done- we are mothers after all, the most creative sector of society if you ask me.
We carry and deliver new life. We nurture tiny humans to become grown up humans, intelligent and kind. THAT takes ingenuity. We do all the things help our people learn and grow in as beautiful an environment as we can create as we ourselves are learning and growing and how could we NOT be creative? With all we have on our plates, we simply could not stay afloat without creative effort.
And most of all, as mothers, we cherish our children- down to the smallest freckle, the funniest little idiosyncrasy. Our minds eyes are sharpened and our hearts more aware of beauty because of our motherhood.
So yeah, we are bolder than before.
We have creative catalysts like no other. We are mothers.


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A federal regulator has tightened restrictions on Wells Fargo & Co., requiring it to get approval to replace or hire new executives and make other changes, in the latest fallout over the San Francisco bank's fake-accounts scandal.
Late Friday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, one of the regulators that reached a $185 million settlement with the bank over the creation of unauthorized customer accounts, issued a brief statement saying it was revoking some of the terms of that Sept. 8 deal.
Specifically, the OCC said it was canceling parts that had shielded Wells Fargo from some oversight usually reserved for troubled banks.
The OCC did not issue a statement explaining the cancellation, but Wade Francis, a former OCC bank examiner, said the move amounts to a regulatory vote of no-confidence in the bank's leadership.
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Not long until the school holidays. Here's what's on at Success Library. Just click the event names to book your place
Lego Session
Use LEGO to create models that live under the ocean, move through or travel over it. Ages 5+.
When: Tuesday, 1 October 2013 – 10:00 AM
Where: Success Public Library
Us a range of materials to create an under the sea collage with a moving fish. Ages 5+.
When: Friday, 4 October 2013 – 10:30 AM
Where: Success Public Library
Create some ocean inspired origami in Sanny Ang's unique Storigami styles. Ages 7-13. Bookings required.
When: Wednesday, 9 October 2013 – 10:00 AM
Where: Success Public Library
The Nature Pixie will be visiting to tell an enchanting story about sea turtles. Children will get to create a little turtle to take home with them. Ages 3-8. Bookings required.
When: Friday, 11 October 2013 – 1:30 PM
Where: Success Public Library
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All the blogs I've been reading lately have been listing their favorites from this year so I figured I would give it a shot. I've only just recently started a book journal (not this blog, obviously) so I'll do my best to be accurate not to mention that I will be forgetting so many that I would want to include (so sorry)...These are in no particular order:
Black Magic Woman by Justin Gustainis
Magic Bites & Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews (count them as one)
Moon Called, Blood Bound, & Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs (count them as one too)
Demon Night by Meljean Brook
Touch the Dark, Claimed by Shadow, & Embrace the Night by Karen Chance (also one)
Blue Eyed Devil by Lisa Kleypas
Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan series
Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Faefever by Karen Marie Moning
Hunter's Prayer by Lilith Saintcrow
Other authors I discovered for myself this year:
Diana Gabaldon
Terry Goodkind
Lee Child
Gena Showalter
Christine Feehan
Julia Quinn
Lori Handeland
Tara Janzen
J. R. Ward
Julia London
Vicki Pettersson
Anne Stuart
Cindy Gerard
Vicki Lewis Thompson
Lara Adrian
Maryjanice Davidson
Laura Griffin
Faith Hunter
Lynsay Sands
Looking at this list makes me wonder what I read before 2008 :) Thanks to all those hardworking people who are much more diligent than I and are able to keep their book blogs up to date and so damn interesting. You have no idea how much I (and so many others out there) appreciate all your efforts. The genre of urban fantasy (as well as romances of any type) has become an utter obsession of mine that I can't keep up with all the books I want to read (and I read a-lot). Please keep up the good work in '09!
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
Historical Romances
I resisted reading historical romances for a long time. Looked at them with disdain actually. I don't know what I expected - I guess I just figured they were just bodice-rippers (or "do me" books as a friend of mine called them). Would they have any substance or would they just be flimsy plot devices crammed in between raunchy sex scenes? I still can't bring myself to read the ones with Fabio-like cover models and if I read any that dance on the threshold of those dreaded covers then I do it on the sly. :) I recently broke down and read The Duke and I by Julia Quinn and was instantly hooked. I devoured each one as I got my grubby hands on it. Another writer is quoted on the covers of some of her books as saying that (I'm paraphrasing) Julia Quinn is the contemporary Jane Austen. I guess that is supposed to lend some legitimacy to this genre; romances are generally considered fluff (as I already admitted to) and no "serious" reader would never stick their big toe in the lake of romance novels (or something like that). But the aforementioned paraphrased author is right. I read the first seventy or so pages of Pride and Prejudice just prior to reading The Duke and I and I was struck how similar the stories are, though certainly not the prose. The time period, the society scene in London and surrounding english countryside, and attitudes toward the sexes and marriage are all seriously considered. I will also admit that I while I did enjoy (and will finish) Pride and Prejudice, I enjoyed Julia Quinn a great deal more. Jane Austen wrote some wonderful stories (ironically, most of them romances) but Julia Quinn was easier to read; Austen's prose can be difficult to navigate. Having said all this, I can no longer stick my nose up at historical romances. However I still sometimes can't take myself seriously when I read them but I'm not going to let that stop me. Julia Quinn, Lisa Kleypas, Johanna Lindsey and others, here I come. :)
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Picking out a new template for a blog has been a pain in my petunia. I either find one I like that won't allow me to tinker with it or it won't work at all. For now, I'll stick with this boring one while I continue to play around with the format. For those who have been looking at this blog to see what I've been reading, I'm sorry I haven't added anything new. Stay tuned!
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Welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge !! Thank you for joining us for the Anything Goes Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too :-)
Summer Sunshine
We are using Simon Says Stamp products this week. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some, we love to see them used :-)
I decided to create a fun circle card with a few sets of Simon Says Stamp: Circle Saying, Birthday Flowers and Happy and Smiles.
As you can tell, I went to town with these three sets of stamp.
This card is a great smile-maker!😊
As always, Simon Says Stamp will be giving away a $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store!
You have until Wed. 8am Eastern Time to join in :-)
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Sometime back in late March or early April I heard news on Twitter of a juice/smoothie street food vendor coming to Vancouver as part of the new fleet of food trucks this year. I found their handle (@juicetruck), and started following them. For months I was taunted by their tweets of creative and delicious sounding juice and smoothie creations, cursing the fact they they still were not open! Kinda mean if you ask me, but a good way to drum up interest for sure!
Then one day this July I saw the tweet I had been waiting for…
Yes! Finally, after months of drooling over my phone and computer screen, I was finally going to get to taste some of these creations I had read so much about. You better believe I figured out the earliest date possible to make the epic trek into downtown Vancouver to get my juice on.
I made my way into Vancouver last week (Tuesday I believe?), and wandered through Gastown until I came to the intersection of Water and Abbott Streets where I was greeted with that which I was searching – The Juice Truck.
I walked up to the window, chatting with the owners Zach and Ryan while perusing my juice and smoothie options.
So many to choose from! I had smoothie on the brain, so at least I was able to cut my options in half. I eventually narrowed it down to The Strawberry and The Almost Chocolate. It was Zach's description of The Strawberry – "tastes like a strawberry oreo Blizzard from Dairy Queen" – that finally helped me make a choice.
And so, The Strawberry was mine.
The Strawberry – strawberry blended with coconut meat, coconut milk, raw cacao nibs, vanilla & agave.
Now, I can't verify the whole tasting like a blizzard thing (note to self – get to DQ and try said blizzard), but I can tell you this was creamy and delicious. Lots of great strawberry flavour with a hint of chocolate and a little texture from the cacao nibs. Not overly sweet, and I wonder if the agave is even really necessary? My only issue is I wished it had been colder – I like me an ice cold smoothie, especially on a sunny day.
I didn't feel I could write a fair review of The Juice Truck based on one visit though. I mean, they have 13 juices and smoothies on the menu. So I planned another trip back this week.
This time, I thought I should try out one of the juices. And after the somewhat heavy lunch I had (more on that in another post), I felt The Green was the appropriate juice for the day.
Ummm…so it's not so green looking, because I had them add some red delicious apple to the blend.
The Green - cucumber pressed with green kale, parsley, celery, lime, and mint (add apple for 1/2 the green).
I was actually going to go straight up green, but after chatting with Zach and Ryan again (seriously great guys to talk to – so friendly and personable while you wait for your fresh juice/smoothie), they convinced me I might want a bit of sweetness in the juice if I wasn't looking for hardcore veggie flavour. I figured it might be safer to add the apple…just in case. I do have that whole "super taster/bitter flavour hating" issue after all.
This was an interesting blend. The apple definitely made it sweet, and yet the celery and parsley flavours really dominated the juice. The guys told me that the straight up green is very heavy on those flavours. I am curious as to how it would taste straight up, because I almost found the apple too sweet? Maybe subbing in something like a Granny Smith apple would be better – I may hate bitter, but I do love sour, plus this would help preserve the green colour.
After my two visits to The Juice Truck, I am definitely a fan. Not only do they have a tasty, fresh, healthy, refreshing product (using as many locally sourced and organic fruits and veg as possible), but the owners are awesome. All of the items on the menu are made to order, and although they don't do custom juice/smoothie combinations, you can ask them to leave something out if you aren't a fan (I'm looking at you ginger). They tell me that they do plan on offering a feature smoothie or juice each week that isn't on the permanent menu – apparently in their testing they had a bunch of other great recipes. I heard rumours of Apple Pie and Key Lime Pie creations…just sayin'.
Plus they have cool buttons!
If you find yourself in downtown Vancouver, say between the hours of 12 – 5 pm, make your way over to Gastown and get yourself a juice or smoothie from The Juice Truck. Tell them I sent ya – it won't get you anything, but it would make me feel special.


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In the 1950s, my parents divorced and my father moved to Sacramento, where he became an oil-field cartographer for Standard Oil. I was raised in Berkeley, where my mother was a library student and later a librarian and my step-father, Bill Glozer, was first a pastry chef and later ran an antiquarian book store with my mother. I spent a couple of years in Santa Monica when my mother worked at the Department of Special Collections at UCLA and then a year travelling through Europe with my folks. During the mid to late 1950s i became interested in folklore, ancient Egypt, sorcery, and popular music -- which for me meant rhythm and blues, rockabilly, and rock'n'roll up to around the time of Buddy Holly's death.
During the early 1960s i further formed my musical tastes, which have remained unvaried to this date: i like rural acoustic blues, jug bands, string bands, and early country music, as well as offshoots from these forms such as gospel quartets (both white and black), early New Orleans jazz, Cajun, Zydeco, Norteno, and some post-War electric blues. Anomalously, i am also very fond of Bing Crosby prior to 1934 and Hoagy Carmichael at any point in his life. In 1965 i went to Shimer College in Mount Carroll, Illinois, as an early entrant, before completing High School -- but soon dropped out and hit the road with my boyfriend Tom Hall. During the latter half of the 1960s i travelled around the United States and lived at Tolstoy Peace Farm, a rural anarchist commune in Washington state. I joined the I. W. W.; i protested the war in Vietnam; i attended the Great Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park. I went to jail in Spokane for growing marijuana. I travelled to England to fulfill a dream in which i was told i should seek out John Lennon. I met my long-time partner Peter Paskin, a fellow blues music and natural history fanatic, and we adopted the made-up surname Yronwode, and since that time i have been known as cat yronwode. In 1969 Peter Yronwode and i left Berkeley and moved first to the little town of Forestville and then to Equitable Farm, an anarchist commune in Mendocino County, California. There we had a daughter named Cicely Yronwode, who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome when she was very young.
In 1971 Peter and i had another daughter, Althaea yronwode. We spent much of the 1970s raising goats and sheep in the Missouri Ozarks on an 80-acre commune called the Garden of Joy Blues, south of the tiny town of Birch Tree. We were subsistence farmers, using 19th and early 20th century technology and home-schooling our children. There was no running water, and the only electrical appliance we used was a battery-operated cassette tape recorder, to play our precious compilations of rural acoustic blues. To supplement our home-grown garden produce and meats, the group of us earned money by hauling hay, hand spinning, and making quilts. I started seriously pursuing a career as a freelance writer, beginning with articles on old-time crafts and farming techniques. This blurry picture was taken in 1972 at the Garden of Joy Blues. I was 25 years old.
After Peter and i broke up, Althaea and i left the Garden of Joy Blues and lived at various sites in the boondocks off Highway 60 between Birch Tree and Mountain Grove, Missouri. It was during these years that i first began to write about popular culture for a living and to practice and write about a 19th century form of sacred sexuality called karezza. I still maintain my links to the people i knew during those days.
In 1980 i began to write a weekly column about comic books called Fit to Print, which continued through the mid-1990s. I edited comic strip reprints for Ken Pierce and comic book reprints for Kitchen Sink Press. In 1981 i wrote a book called "The Art of Will Eisner," about the works of a popular cartoonist. Eventually i wrote and edited a number of other titles of a similar sort for Kitchen Sink Press.
Through connections in the comics field i met Dean Mullaney and we were attracted to one another because of our mutual interest in comic books. For about 12 years -- from 1981 to 1993 -- Dean and i were partners and we ran a comic book and trading card publishing company called Eclipse Enterprises which had as its central mission the pioneering of creators' rights for comics writers and artists, similar to what creators enjoyed in the field of book publishing. In 1983 i co-wrote a book on the history of female cartoonists called "Women and the Comics."
That same year i persuaded Dean to move with me back to my home state of California and i became Eclipse's editor-in-chief. The comic book company grew steadily, but in 1986 our house (and the entire town of Guerneville) was flooded and we lost almost everything we owned. We were married in 1987 and bought a house together in Forestville, near where Peter and i had briefly lived in 1969. The Eclipse office and warehouse grew to include 14 staff employees and about 200 freelance writers, artists, letterers, and colourists. This picture shows me at a comic book convention in 1986. I was 39 years old.
By the early 1990s Althaea was grown up and had gone off to college at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1993 Dean left me; in 1994, shortly after our divorce, Eclipse went bankrupt. As i write this, i am listening to a CD that replicates an LP i had back in the 1960s -- a collection of rural acoustic blues from Mississippi recorded on 78s during the 1920s. This is typical of my course through life, which displays many superficial changes and a modest number of accomplishments in the ever-unfolding present, but always seems to have been anchored in the time span between 1924 and 1938, somewhere in the rural central South. I have not altered my basic attitudes toward politics, science, religion, philosophy, metaphysics, sexuality, diet, music, or country living since i was an eccentric, bohemian child. Aside from changing my surname to yronwode, my life has been entirely devoid of sudden surprises; i have made no sudden conversions to charismatic Christianity, radical feminism, Scientology, vegetarianism, alcoholism, or the Republican Party. I have neither gained nor lost weight or height. In fact, except that i have aged physically, memorized a very great deal of trivial information, found steady employment, picked up a bit of self-confidence, and bought a house, you will see in me the very same person i was at 17, when i first left home. I support myself by writing, editing, graphic design, and typesetting in the fields of popular culture, comics, collectibles, magic spells, hoodoo, herb magic, and gardening. At right is the cover of a book i wrote in 1998 called "The California Gardener's Book of Lists."
From 1993 to 2007, i worked in the production department of Claypool Comics while simultaneously owning and and operating two online businesses, The Comics Warehouse (which closed in 2003 with the final sale of all Eclipse back-issue stock) and The Lucky Mojo Curio Co., an occult shop. In addition, i have created and am maintaining a web site called southern-spirits.com, a scholarly research archive for academic students of hoodoo rootwork. This picture, taken in 1998, shows me making a mojo bag in the Lucky Mojo spiritual supply store.
Althaea graduated from UC Berkeley in 1996 and from UCSF Medical School in 2002. She is now a surgeon in the San Francisco Bay Area. When i was 50, i performed a very serious love spell that led directly to my living in tantric partnership with tyagi nagasiva, whom i first met through the internet in 1994 and then physically in 1998. When he moved in, he brought with him his best friend, Eris, the Doggess of Discord, a beautiful black curly-coated Portuguese Water Dog. Our chickens were two 2 black Minorca-Polish cross hens, a reddish Minorca-Polish-Sex-Link cross hen, a grey Minorca-Polish-Sex-Link cross hen, 2 brownish American Auracana hens, 2 silver-laced Wyandotte hens, and a silver-laced Wyandotte rooster. Our cat was Kitty Boy Floyd, a long-haired feral grey tabby.
Our home is Arkaotika, an 1875 Victorian farmhouse in Forestville, California, surrounded by a two-acre garden and orchard. The Lucky Mojo Curio Co. occult shop is located on the premises. We drive an art car called the California Mojo Car, which is covered all over with lucky, magical, and religious statuary. In addition to vegetables and fruit trees, i raise lots of roses, especially old-fashioned ramblers and climbers. Our house is full of books, magazines, pamphlets, and comics. I also collect labels, advertising art of the pre WW II period, Catalin jewelry and other Catalin artifacts, Fiesta and other Homer Laughlin dinnerware lines, McCoy pottery, Roseville pottery, Mary Engelbreit chinaware, folkloric lucky amulets, Victorian and reproduction blown-glass Christmas tree ornaments, and linen-era postcards of roadside attractions. This picture, taken in 2000, shows me with my daughter Althaea.
As the 2000s began, nagasiva and i were married. The ceremony took place December 31st, 1999, through January 1st, 2000, at June's and Valerie's home in Milpitas, California, and it has its own Wedding Web Page where you can read the entire ceremony and see a series of pictures. As a result of our marriage and in order to signify "a changed relationship with the Cosmos" tyagi legally altered his name to nagasiva bryan w yronwode. This picture shows siva and me snuggling at our pre-nuptial party. His nieces Ariel and Beverly were the originators of my custom of neatly plaiting his beard in numerous small braids, which he wears as his everyday style. Because this party was a special event, i wove black ribbons into his beard and each braid terminates in a small silver jingle-bell. I am wearing a necklace of Thai penis amulets. I was 52 and he was 38 at the time.
In 2002 i published a new book, Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic: a materia magica of African-American conjure. A few months later, our beloved Eris, to whom the book had been dedicated, died at the age of 14 1/2. One year after that, we acquired another Portuguese Water Dog, the darling Sophie, another black curly girl. We were joined by another cat as well, Copper Kitty, a short-haired, long-limbed orange gelding. In 2003 i wrote the The Hoodoo Rootwork Correspndence Coursec and in 2004 we started up In 2003 i wrote the The Lucky Mojo Hoodoo Rootwork Hour radio show. In 2006 we founded Missionary Independent Spiritual Church, and the church in turn gave rise to the annual Hoodoo Heritage Festival and the Association of Independent Readers and Rootworkers. My daughter and her husband David brought new happiness to us with the birth of their sons Max in 2007 and Sam in 2009. Our chicken flock waxed and waned, with Black Bantam Frizzles entering the mix as older chickens passed away.
The 2010s have been a time of social expansion. The Lucky Mojo Curio Co. added more staff and published many more books, including my own Throwing the Bones. We added the LMC Radio Network to our roster of creative endeavours, and the church forged ahead with a new online prayer chain and internet presence, the Crystal Silence League as well as publishing more book titles. including my own The Art of Hoodoo Candle Magic, and The Black Folder. Kitty Boy passed into spirit, as did several chickens, and our flock consisted if a Frizzled Black Bantam Cochin, a black Auraucana, and a black Silkie.
For more about me as a collector, you can rent or buy the film "Hunters and Gatherers," in which i am interviewed and in which i can be heard raving rather excitedly about "bringing order out of chaos." For a VHS copy of the film ($30, including shipping and tax), write to:
Darrell Varga
Hunt and Gather Productions
P.O. Box 10575
998 Bloor St. West
Toronto, Ontario
M6H 4H9 Canada
A few years ago, a friend and i were discussing our "deep levels of being" for some reason or another. Out of this discussion i produced a diagrammatic view into my own self-perceived outer, middle, and deep levels of being. These "levels" are available for browsing, should you be so inclined.
go to cat's outer levels
go to cat's middle levels
go to cat's deep levels
I guess that's about all i have to say about myself. I am 5'3" tall, i weigh 110 lbs, and so forth and so on, but since you are reading this on the web, those particular details are not of much practical use to either of us.
Thanks for reading what i write.
I am a member of AIRR: the Association of Independent Readers and Rootworkers
The Association of Independent Readers and Rootworkers (AIRR) is a gathering of professional practitioners of African American folk magic, hoodoo, conjure, and rootwork who provide psychic readings and spiritual root doctoring services to the public. AIRR promotes quality service and ethical conduct by means of accreditation and evaluation of our members. Unlike commercial online psychic reader services, AIRR is a membership-supported organization that receives no fees or kickbacks for referrals.
For free magic spells and information about how to cast them, as well as recipes for making your own magick oils, potions, and incenses, go to the Lucky Mojo Free Magic Spells Archive. The URL is https://www.luckymojo.com/spells.html and you will find hundreds of magic spells there, sorted by category, such as
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Video Marketing, an energy boosters.
Why Video Marketing Campaigns Are the Energy Boosters of Your Marketing Strategy?
Videos always have a way of creating a charming connect with the target audience; that's why some of the most engaging videos go viral in no time. There are many examples of successful video marketing campaigns, the million-times quoted Dollar Shave Club, Red Bull's ever popular videos, and Shell's #makethefuture videos. These inspiring, funny, and happy videos bring a smile to our faces and create an instant connection with the brand in our minds. Think about some examples – a lion running out of the jungle and into the arms of its former caretakers or a girl singing her heart from a nationwide talent show. We really just cannot get enough of these fantastic viral videos, can we? This deep influence of great videos can easily be extrapolated to digital marketing for IT products, services, and solutions too. So, let's check out what makes videos such precious value additions to marketing initiatives.
Building marketing value through smart videos
The amusement value of brilliant videos goes without saying, where song a television program, merchandise or cause is emphasized, but what about the marketing value? Do videos have marketing value? The answer is yes – if they're created and distributed smartly. But the most important ingredients of a smart video are relevant content, imaginative concept, and great execution. It also requires strategic placement across multiple social channels, where it has the potential to be viewed to create ripples.
What makes strong content, concept, and execution for videos? Let's take a look. A unique concept and a strong script are the common thread that runs across the video. They have the capacity to strike a emotional strong chord with the audience. From touching and warm to hysterically surprising or funny, to upsetting or shocking, brilliant scripts evoke emotions that enhance the videos' ability to deliver an entirely new degree of impact.
As for strategic placement, every social media channel has a unique personality of audience that can be leveraged. The most common channels that instantly come to mind are YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
A few pointers for creating smart videos
When creating a video, follow the same principles as with any advertising communications tools:
- Concept: Be tactical, have clear goals, and focus on one clear message
- Start with a great statistics, tell a story, a current problem that you can solve
- The first frame must have a wow factor
- Focus on the audience and not me, me, me!
- Every frame of the video should answer the audience's question So What?
- Make it crisp
- Enable it to be mobile friendly
- Add a clear call to action
- Remember to follow best practices of search engine optimization in terms of correctly crafted titles, meta tags, headers, captions, and descriptors.
Videos – the sharpest arrow in your marketing quiver
Most of our break times or moments of relaxation are spent watching interesting videos. Science has proven that the visual impact of what you see is much greater than what you read or hear. The message from any engaging video would definitely register much faster. Honestly, I wish I had created a video describing the value of videos in marketing than just writing about it! I know it would have been far more effective. So, good luck with your video marketing initiatives!


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Gov. signs bill to ban pure caffeine
COLUMBUS (AP) — Pure powdered caffeine won't be legally sold in Ohio under legislation signed by Gov. John Kasich.
The measure signed into law by Kasich Thursday also prohibits sales of powdered alcohol.
Passage of the bill follows a northeast Ohio teen's overdose death from caffeine powder last year. Eighteen-year-old Logan Stiner was just days from graduating high school when his brother found him unresponsive in the family's home in LaGrange, southwest of Cleveland, on May 27, 2014.
The proposal would make it a misdemeanor offense to sell products consisting solely or primarily of caffeine that's manufactured into a crystalline, liquid or powdered form.
Representatives inserted the ban on powdered alcohol into the bill. The powdery substance can be added to beverages to make alcoholic drinks.
Ex-homeless man: I'm running for president
COLUMBUS — A once-homeless Ohio man whose smooth radio voice made him an Internet sensation says he's running for president as an independent.
Ted Williams was propelled into the spotlight in 2011 after he appeared in a video by The Columbus Dispatch panhandling on a highway ramp with a sign advertising his golden voice. The video's millions of views led to national television appearances and earned Williams numerous voice-over jobs.
Williams announced his plans this week on Scott Spears' "Now" radio program on WWGH-FM in Marion.
Williams says he hasn't established a campaign staff and won't elaborate on fundraising efforts. He says he plans to focus on fair housing, veterans' issues, jobs and improving schools.
He says he's recently been appearing at corporate events and public speaking engagements.
Senate approves rape case prosecution extension
COLUMBUS — The Ohio Senate has approved a bill that would extend the time period for prosecuting rape and sexual battery to 25 years after the crime.
The bill passed by the Senate Thursday also provides an additional five years for prosecution from the time a potential suspect is identified through DNA testing.
The legislation comes as the Attorney General's Office continues to plow through a backlog of untested rape kits, with numerous cases of DNA matches in a criminal database.
The Ohio House approved a similar bill last month.
Opponents have told lawmakers they believe the bill is unconstitutional because it creates two classes of offenders — those whose cases involve DNA evidence, and those whose cases don't.
House passes student meningitis immunization bill
COLUMBUS — Ohio students would have to be immunized against meningitis under a bill passed by the Legislature.
The House approved it Thursday, sending it to the governor.
If signed into law, it would require students to be immunized against meningococcal disease once they reach a certain age, which would be determined by the Ohio Department of Health. The requirement would start in the 2016-17 school year.
With few exceptions, the proposal would apply to students at public and nonpublic schools that are subject to state standards. Students could be exempt for medical or religious reasons.
The Senate already approved the proposal sponsored by Republican Sen. Cliff Hite of Findlay. Hite has said his family learned how quickly meningitis can affect young people when his niece died hours after contracting the disease.


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Takuma, Super Aguri achieved its first Championship point at the 2007 Spanish Grand Prix, what were you thinking when you crossed the finish line in 8th position?
Takuma Sato: It was a fantastic feeling! In my mind I was thanking everyone in the race team, at Leafield, in Tochigi, our fans and my family. I was extremely satisfied with the result because every second counted throughout the whole race and there was no margin for error. I was also thinking about how it had only been 15 months since the team started and to get into the Top 10, to grab that point, well that was just fantastic. It means a lot to us, so I was a very happy man. Also the other thing I thought was that the second Sunday of May is usually Mother's Day in Japan and in some countries. At the 2002 Austrian Grand Prix the organisers had invited the drivers' mothers' to the race and this is where I had a horrendous accident. So in Spain it was a little gift for my mum as well as the result for the team.
The next Grand Prix is in Monaco and is a very challenging Formula One race for both driver and car, how do you think that the SA07 will perform?
TS: I am looking forward to Monaco not only because of the success we had in Spain, but because in Monaco you need good mechanical grip and the new gearbox that we introduced at the last race and the new aero package that we tested in Ricard worked well. I think that we are developing at a good pace, as everyone else is, and that we have a good car. The Monaco circuit is very challenging for the drivers and cars. Last year we had one of our best races in the SA05 there, but unfortunately we had an electric problem so I could not finish. Historically Monaco is a great circuit, but as it is unique to any other in F1 every moment you are on the track you need precision. It is a challenging race, but I am confident that we can do a good job with the SA07.
It will be the first time that the teams' will be running the soft and supersoft Bridgestone Potenza tyre options, how is that going to affect you?
TS: We tested both options in Paul Ricard last week, but as Monaco is the only street circuit on the calendar and you cannot test on it, it is difficult to reproduce its conditions during testing. The Monaco streets have such low grip so we shall be using the Bridgestone Potenza very soft compound tyre to maximise the mechanical grip. But if you put to great a force on these tyres they will not survive. We collected valuable data at Ricard, so hopefully we can make them work on our car, but it will be challenging on the supersoft Bridgestone option.
How do you deal with driving a very heavy car, loaded with fuel, and then a very light car around Monaco during the race?
TS: In terms of approaching corners the line is identical. Depending on the tyre grip level on the softer tyre you may be able to go in a little deeper, like in the Qualifying situation. The racing line is very limited in Monaco and during the race you have to handle it well under control when we are on the supersoft tyre as it is very delicate, so you have to treat it gently without killing any speed. But you cannot be too aggressive, especially with a heavier car. You have to be so precise because if you have a slide it is very difficult to correct it here and a heavy car makes it even more difficult. A lighter car with more grip helps in that situation. You have to adapt your driving on every lap as conditions and situations change.
There are further street circuits planned for Formula One in the future, what are your feelings on this?
TS: Safety is the main issue for me; for the competitors, spectators and marshals around the track. A street circuit is always challenging and exciting because you drive very close to the boundaries and there is no margin for error, so as long as the tracks are safe I think that we can enjoy them.


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Today we are going to take a quick look at two filters by Aurora Aperture. We have already tested their variable ND filter about a year or so ago so if you have been watching you should be familiar with the brand.
The first is a UV filter – pretty straight forward 72mm called PowerUV protector and the second is a 77mm PowerCPL filter. Both can come in different threads ranging from 37-95mm (the CPL also has a 105mm version). We have covered both when they were first announced last year.
Let's start with the UV protector filter first. If you are not shooting with analog cameras you probably don't need actual UV protection as digital cameras are not affected by light at these wavelengths. So why would you put an extra piece of glass in front of your lens? The reason most people who do this will quote is to give you extra protection for your front element against scratches or blows and let the relatively low cost filter take the hit instead of your potentially expensive lens. We will also add the fact that it is typically easier to clean as you can remove the filter and easily clean it from both sides, but hey – maybe this is just our thing.
There are people who don't follow this logic and prefer to go bare with their lens – if you are that type of person just jump a bit forward in this review to the CPL part, however if you are the type of person who is looking for some extra protection for your glass (we certainly are), the PowerUV protector seems like a very interesting option.
The PowerUV protector
On the Aurora Aperture website you can find a lot of interesting information on the PowerUV protector. Maybe the most important part is that this filter uses Corning's Gorilla Glass 3 technology which is used in many smartphones to protect the glass from breaking and scratching. The company claims that in its tests it was able to withstand a 50 inch or 1.2 meter drop of a metal ball weighing 56 grams – significantly more than any other filter (most good ones top at 16 grams or so according to the company).
Aurora Aperture also ran a successful scratch test for 30 min trying to imitate keys rocks and other potential scratching hazards that can destroy your filter.
Although we didn't run any sort of real world crash or scratch tests (anything we would have done would not really be considered "scientific" anyway and we only had a single filter which we didn't want to destroy by accident), we did want to try and see if the PowerUV protector influences the image quality in any meaningful way. For that purpose we shot a color chart and our resolution test target.
We shot these test in the sun outdoors – this gives us natural light but the drawback is that the results are not always exposed exactly the same. Here you can see a comparison between our Nikon 105mm macro lens without any filter and with the PowerUV protector – we don't see any noticeable color shift with the PowerUV protector (although in our shots the PowerUV protector image seems to produce darker blacks).
PowerUV – No visible color cast
We also see no noticeable reduction of sharpness with the filter (if anything the contrast seems just a tad better – really surprising). We compared this filter to our existing Hoya HMC UV filter and again we were not able to see much of a difference in terms of color or sharpness between the two.
Better contrast? (can this be or is this an artifact from testing outdoors?)
The PowerCPL is used to filter out polarized light, making a sky bluer and vegetation color more saturated and letting you shoot though water or glass without significant reflections (which are two things that you can't really replicate in post processing – at least not easily).
With the PowerCPL we also wanted to test its performance but also show how well it worked at polarizing light as you turn it around and give you some examples of possible uses.
The PowerCPL
Let's start with performance. First you need to realise that a CPL will reduce the amount of light that reaches your sensor. In this case it is just over one stop of light reduction so you need to keep this in mind and we compensated for that in our test. With that said we see a very minor change in some of the colors in our test chart – for example in the reds – but this might also be due to the exposure not being 100% identical.
Power CPL color test – notice any color cast?
As for sharpness, if you magnify the image to about 400x you do see a slight decrease in sharpness – but this is too much pixel peeping even for us – so for all intends in prepuces we would say that the sharpness of this CPL is very good.
Can you see a sharpness reduction?
The most striking demo that we were able to record that can show the power of this CPL was removing the glare from a monitor, at least in our testing the effects on the color of vegetation were not very strong and even water was not too effected by this CPL (although there are many factors here and you might see different results).
So let's some things up. The build quality of both filters seems good enough and we had no problem attaching and detaching them and the PowerCPL turns pretty smoothly. In terms of actual performance the PowerUV didn't show any visible reduction in image quality in our testing and even somehow improved the contrast by a tiny bit and if we should believe Aurora Aperture claims, it should be significantly stronger than other protective filters including the new Sigma Ceramic protector and Hoya's HD protector.
Corning's Gorilla Glass 3 on both filters
The PowerCPL was mostly effective in our testing when we shot highly reflective surfaces such as LCDs and less so when we tried shooting plants or water but it doesn't seem to have any significant color cast and has very minimal loss of sharpness.
In terms of pricing these filters are not as expensive as the Sigma Ceramic protector – for example the Sigma 77mm filter cost just under $120 while the Aurora Aperture PowerUV cost just over $80. The CPL is a bit more expensive at $125 for the 77mm version but if you look for example on the Hoya 77mm HD3 CPL you easily reach the $200 price range so the Aurora Aperture is certainly not the most expensive filter in this category as well (we could only find the new filters on e-bay at the time of publication).
Update: you can now get the filters on Amazon as well – PowerUV and PowerCPL.
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Hi Everyone – i'm back from a month long hiatus! I feel like i am turning a corner and feel much more hopeful and energized! Thanks for all the good vibes xo
I was asked by the kind folks at Patience Brewster to create a post for National Craft Month. I have been a huge fan of Patience's whimsical creations for many years so was delighted to create a post. Do check out her glorious characters and lovely stationary. They will blow your socks off!
Patience's daughter Marietta asked me why crafting was important to me. Well that's a big questions! I have pretty much crafted my entire life………i also call drawing crafting as that's my earliest memory of being creative. When i was little i did plastic mosaics, paint by numbers, crochet as well as a bit of clay work. I loved it all. I found my bliss while drawing though.
As I grew older i spent many happy hours drawing and crafting when i had my children. Crafting has been a constant in my life bringing me joy and solace as well. When i suffered from depression (and still do from time to time) i would turn to arts and crafts to lift my spirits.
Although i love drawing and i find it to be a solitary pursuit – i enjoying getting together with friends to art journal and chat about what's going on in our lives and about the latest supplies. (in the photo above are some of my art journaling friends).
I've met many online friends through my art and my first blog which i created over 11 years ago. It was a wonderful way to connect with kindred spirits virtually. I loved how creatives all gathered on my blog's forum and how some of us made lasting connections, shared our art, our lives and participated in swaps.
As time went on i discovered art journaling – something i had been doing but did not have a name for it yet. I shared my journal pages online and found that people actually loved them. So i did some tutorials and even learned how to shoot videos. You can check some of my how to videos on my youtube channel. So being online and being connected with so many lovely creative spirits truly helped me grow as an artist. I took more risks and grew my skills because i felt people were counting on me. It was easier for me to do new things for others rather than just for myself. As a result of art journaling and sharing my pages with folks online my first book on Art Journaling called Journal Bliss was published. That was 6 years ago. Wow! Hard to believe.
I used art journaling to document the joys in my life but also the sorrows. Creating art around depression or something upsetting in life helped me move through grief and sorrow. As i shared these pages i do know they helped others as well.
I have said it before and will say it again Art really saved my life. I know it has saved the lives of so many others as well.
I love how art often has a message for me……….i simply sit down with a pencil and a piece of paper and begin to draw. Usually if i'm quiet enough the doodle tells me what it wants to be and also the story of the piece is revealed. So i usually get a message that i need to hear like the above Gypsy message "I predict you'll be as happy as you decide to be". Obviously a message my moody self needed to hear on that day!
The messages i receive often repeat themselves like "Do what you love" "Love what you do", "be yourself" "love yourself" etc. What's not to love about that?
I continue to stretch and grow as i'm inspired by all the wonderfulness that is available online – pinterest and instagram are chalk full of artsy goodness!
Lately i have been working in a moleskine book – something i had not done for quite a while as i don't like to commit art to a book. I keep most of my journal pages in a box loosely. Recently i took up a challenge put out by Suzi Blu to create art and writing and keep a calendar in a moleskine book. I began actually liking it………..but sadly i have not been able to keep up with the prompts and am mostly using the book for my art journal pages and little sketches and writing.
It's been fun though to have a book that's gradually getting bigger by the day and poofy that documents my life. I couldn't commit to the Documented life project but felt this was a bit more doable.
Wow – it's been a while since I've blogged so i am going overboard here. I hope you are still with me. So now i want to circle back to the question Why crafting was important to me. Well it's pretty much my life. I use it daily to adorn my Magic Cottage, to make art and to craft a life that's beautiful, eccentric and that's worth living. I use it to connect with my little grandchildren who i'm teaching arts and crafts to.
Little Toby feeling very proud with his Christmas Shadow box!
Sam colouring Easter eggs and decorating them.
Cillian glittering a painted Rock for his Dad for Father's day.
Arts and Crafts have totally enriched my life. I hope they have yours too!
What are you doing to celebrate National Craft Month?
Love, Violette xo


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(First Posted November 12, 2013) One of the odder van conversions was this wide-body Dodge. I can't remember who exactly did these, but they essentially cut them down in half, lengthwise, and inserted a plug in the middle. The windshield obviously was two of them, cut down to size. These were mainly used as passenger shuttles, and such, but I seem to remember seeing one used as an ambulance. I know one of you will dig up the maker and name.
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I was hoping you;d come up with one of these eventually, I've seen them now and again and they are fascinating! The dashboard is still the original as well with either a plug at either end or a filler piece in the middle, can't recall which.
Yes,Ours its also lenghtend and fitted with a second rear axle.1980 sits out back, in a field in sull. co N.Y.
Since you are already going out on that limb: Guenther Artzt specialized widening VW and putting tham on top of Porsche 928 platforms. They were done so well you had to take a second look.
If Allpar forums is correct then it was made by a company called Wide One Corp
I know, I know' it's "van" week, but I'd really like a closer look at what appears to be a really clean 1970 Beetle……..
What a odd looking van, I wonder what they were used for and how the extra width was beneficial.
The Wide One company was actually in business through the mid 80's. I remember seeing their building in an industrial section of Fullerton, CA near where I lived at the time. I remember also seeing 'in production' pics at the time showing a rather involved process. The whole body (except for the instrument panel IIRC) was split right down the middle, and a 12″(?) wide section was fabbed in. 6″ inserts were spliced in on each side of the rear pillars for attachment of the original rear cargo doors. I saw them being used in So Cal mostly as airport shuttle busses and some as ambulances. A few were turned into B class RV's as well.
Actually, into the 90's obviously…the van featured here is a 94-97 Ram Van, and I am actually purchasing another 1995 Wide One Dodge van in a couple weeks. I used to own a '79 which was converted into a camper and am planning to do the same with the '95.
Would love to see any pics you might have of the RV conversion. Looking at one here in California. Thanks.
I recall seeing a Chevy motor home version widened out with the Superior name on it. This was early 1970's.
A fitting caption for the picture, I think:
"A pitiful squeak, the sharp crack of snapping metal, and the little Beetle was never seen again."
I like that haha. An Australian accent would add to it, a la Steve Irwin.
Today they'd have to make them wider; for a broader-beamed populace!
And wider front buckets – Dodge vans did have the most comfy front seats
of the big three, but even as a small guy I always did feel like I was going
to fall off of them if I wasn't seatbelted, esp. the vinyl ones. LOL
People are bigger now compared to when this round of vans came out, but
mostly in the wrong direction: horizontal.
I drove them here in Phoenix in the early 90's. I was wary at first but actually they drove no differently than a regular van. Wide one eventually went into bankruptcy but a revival was attempted that failed miserably=poor quality control. The later ones were junk.
Dave I have one of the Phoenix Valley transit wide one Vans. I got it this last June and have converted it to a camper, i'm wondering if you have any information or where I can get information on the specs for this van. Do you by any chance know what the fuel capacity is? Any bit of info would be very helpful thanks.


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Cement mixtures
BHS has developed the dry powder batch mixer (type DMX) specially for mixing dry powdery materials and composite cements. The DMX is based on the principle of twin-shaft mixing technology which has already proven its worth in a wide range of applications due to its outstanding mixing abilities. Thanks to the sophisticated mixing mechanism with the directed three-dimensional motion pattern, the speed of the mixer can be less than that for comparable single-shaft or intensive mixers while still producing a greater mixing effect. Formula ingredients that are added even in the smallest quantities are quickly and evenly distributed in a reproducible fashion.
Residue-free discharge is possible thanks to two large discharge door wings. The seals on the door wings are specifically designed to meet the requirements of the cement industry, where mixers must be "water-tight" when closed. For the minimization of residues in the machine, required when changing formulas, special smooth mixing tools can be selected. Compared with other mixing systems, twin-shaft mixers are filled to a much greater extent, making them more compact for a comparable throughput rate and also more warp-resistant. In the case of new plants, mixers of the DMX series are thus ideal because of their small dimensions; for modification to existing plants, they allow the installation of a more powerful mixer in the available space.
Cement dust
In a cement plant, the cement dust generated by the flow of exhaust gas during the calcination process – so-called bypass dust – contains the harmful substance chloride among other things. This cement dust can be reclaimed in the wet process. Water is added to the dust, creating a pumpable suspension. This suspension is then continuously fed to the BHS indexing belt filter (type BF) – an indexing vacuum belt filter. There the suspension is filtered, the chlorides are washed out of the filter cake and the washed dust is pre-dried. The solid matter is fed back into the cememt manufacturing process.


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This story comes from a SAC staffer:
Last spring, I received an email from a friend with the subject, "Help! I had an Easter disaster." The subject seemed suspicious, and normally I wouldn't even open an email with a subject like this, but the scammer who sent it used email spoofing to trick me into opening the email. The sender appeared to be my friend, and her name appeared exactly as it is saved in my contacts. It was only after clicking directly on her name and seeing a different email than her own appear that I knew for sure it was fake.
I was curious to see what horrible thing had happened to her on Easter only to find that she was "stuck in the Philippines" and needed me to "wire her $2,000 immediately". The email was surprisingly well written without the spelling and grammar errors I have come to expect from fake emails. In addition to having clicked on her name to reveal the true sender, I knew the email couldn't be real because I had seen my friend a couple days before, and she had mentioned nothing about traveling to the Philippines! I didn't click on any links in the email, and I deleted it.
I contacted my friend immediately to let her know, and she told me that her email had been hacked. Apparently, I wasn't the first person in her contacts to receive the desperate email. She contacted her email service provider and was able to gain control again, but it was still a very stressful situation for her.
She has since learned to use stronger passwords and to only view sensitive information on protected networks. A little precaution and awareness can go a long way!
Have you experienced a social engineering scam or phishing email? Tweet us at @secawareco and tell us your story!
Tyler Balding
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- Scam Alert: "Help! I had an Easter disaster in the Philippines." - February 3, 2016
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- Zandalar Demoniac's Mantle
- Item Level 61
- Binds when picked up
- Unique
- Cloth
- Shoulder
- 81 Armor
- +19 Intellect
+23 Stamina
- Durability 60 / 60
- Classes: Warlock
- Equip: Increases spell power by 12.
- Demoniac's Threads (5 pieces)
- [Kezan's Unstoppable Taint]
[Hazza'rah's Charm of Destruction]
[Zandalar Demoniac's Wraps]
[Zandalar Demoniac's Mantle]
[Zandalar Demoniac's Robe]
- (2) Set: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 12.
(3) Set: Increases the damage of Corruption by 2%.
(5) Set: Decreases the cooldown of Death Coil by 15%.
The Zandalar Demoniac's Mantle is a cloth shoulderguard for warlocks. The mantle is part of the armor set called the Demoniac's Threads.
The mantle is a reward for the quest Paragons of Power: The Demoniac's Mantle given by Al'tabim the All-Seeing on Yojamba Isle in Stranglethorn Vale.
Patch changes
- Patch 1.7.0 (13-Sep-2005): Added.
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School of Law - reach semi-finals
The La Trobe Vis Moot Team (from left to right): Konstantine Ketsetzis, Michelle Ward, Daniel Diaz, Cara Foot (absent Paul Romas)
Students at La Trobe University's School of Law have added another accolade to their growing list of achievements by being the only Australian Law team to reach the semi-finals of the annual Willem C. Vis (East) International Arbitration Moot held in Hong Kong from the 23-29 March.
The students competed in a simulated court proceeding (moot) against 500 students from 64 universities across the globe. In the general rounds the team battled against a number of the world's leading universities including Harvard and Freiburg, before proudly taking joint third place. Other Australian university contenders included Monash, Deakin, Griffith and Bond.
The School of Law's team consisted of 5 students: Daniel Diaz, Cara Foot, Michelle Ward, Paul Romas and Konstantine Ketsetzis.
"Reaching the semi-finals of this international competition is part of a very successful start to the year for the School of Law, with our law students winning the prestigious Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot in Germany earlier in the year," said Head of the School of Law, Professor Jianfu Chen.
"Our students were also recognised for their excellent advocacy with Daniel Diaz receiving an honourable mention throughout the competition and Cara Foot receiving a special mention in the semi-finals," he added.
Fourth year Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws student, Daniel Diaz, (21), from North Fitzroy said that preparing for the moot was an "amazing journey" for the whole team.
"We are really proud that we came in joint third having prepared as a team for over five months. I've gained some amazing advocacy and negotiation skills, and have had the opportunity to participate in oral arguments in front of some of Melbourne's top law firms in the lead up to the competition. As a group we would like to thank the team of staff that made this happen for us, with a special thanks to our coach Magda Karagiannakis," said Daniel.


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|Former Comelec Commissioner Gus Lagman
Comelec Chair Sixto Brillantes backed out of his daring dare to Gus Lagman, his former Commissioner whom President Aquino did not reappoint after politicians ganged up on him in the Commission on Appointments and refused to confirm him. Brillantes challenged Lagman to debate the necessity of the source code, after the latter had criticized the poll chief for claiming that the source code (the human readable instructions to the PCOS machines), is not necessary to conduct the automated May elections.
Napikon si poll chief and accusing Lagman of spreading false criticisms of him, challenged him to debate this issue. The IT guy, founder of the STI Computer School, readily accepted, merely asking for a few days to clear his schedule. Brillantes must have realized that Lagman was serious and he backed out, inviting him instead to a "dialog."
Brillantes insists that the "binary code' would suffice for use in this May AES, but as IT expert Jun Estrella asserts, the binary code is for the computer while the source code is the instruction for the humans, the programmers. In case of errors in the machine the Comelec would still fall back on the source code. But this won't be available since Dominion Voting Systems, which owns the technology, has refused for some time now to yield it---and in fact never yielded it to Smartmatic even for the 2010 elections.
Smartmatic had told the Locsin committee in 2010 that the source code was deposited in the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, as the AES Law mandated; but this was never done, as the law suit eventually filed by Smartmatic against Dominion in the US last year showed. Binobola lang tayo all along ng Smartmatic.
The Filipino electorate is now at the crossroads. Should we go ahead with the May 13 exercise when, as the experts say, the absence of a source code would not guarantee genuine and honest elections---or should we boycott them as useless?
All security measures for the coming elections seem to have been pulled out by Comelec in resolution after resolution---no digital signatures of the machines, discarding of UV lamps that would certify genuine ballots, no verification of voters' choice. In the Hongkong advance overseas voting, paper ballots blotted and were rejected by the PCOS machines. OFWs noted that the ballot boxes no longer had padlocks.
Then too, the critical random manual audit (RMA) of at least one clustered precinct per congressional district, as the AES law provides---which is to serve as counter-check to the veracity of automated poll results---was entrusted once again to the same person who botched this same job in 2010, obviously because she is close to the poll body---PPCRV Chair Henrietta De Villa.
The list of factors for anticipated failure of elections seems to be getting longer and longer and many of the electorate are increasingly re-thinking their options for May 13. There's enough reasons to be apprehensive.
Napikon din si President Aquino ki Socio Economic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan when, on the eve of P-Noy's departure for the Asean Summit in Brunei, the Secretary ordered the release of statistics from the National Statistics Coordination Board (NSCB) that said that poverty statistics had remained virtually the same from 2006 to the first half of 2012. Nothing has improved.
For his candor Balisacan was bumped off the passengers' list to Brunei by his piqued boss.
For his candor Balisacan was bumped off the passengers' list to Brunei by his piqued boss.
P-Noy assumed the presidency on July 1, 2010, but the NSCB statistics showed that in the first two years of his administration there was hardly any dent in poverty---28 out of every 100 Filipinos still lived below the poverty line, with 10% in extreme poverty. Worst off was Mindanao, topped by the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao with poverty at 46.9%, followed by Region 12 at 37.5%, Region 8 at 37.2% and Region 9 at 36.9%. .
Because the rural areas are gripped in poverty, rural folk flock to the aleady bursting cities where there's some hope for finding work; the grinding poverty is a rich mine for the NPAs. And the vicious cycle goes on.
The problem is that, as Sen. Panfilo Lacson, a staunch ally of P-Noy and widely rumored to be the next DILG Secretary, put it, his everyday trips around the metropolis validate the NSCB findings. The poor appear to have even grown in numbers.
Yesterday I was going down Pasong Tamo Extension in Makati and I passed by a totally naked little boy, perhaps no older than three years, washing himself off in a basin with water. I thought where are his parents? They probably were eking out a living in the teeming city. My heart went out to the boy.
Recently I took my family to Roxas Blvd. to watch the famed sunset and I was shocked to see a number of families lying around in the patches of grass next to the sidewalks, with children half-naked and mothers begging for food. This wasn't the same place where my future husband and I would sit around and munch peanuts after office many decades ago.
Campaigning politicos offer various analyses of the dismal findings and solutions. I found Senate ways and means committee chair Ralph Recto's analysis simple but direct to the point. He opined that the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer, and the gap between them wider and wider. Recto batted for more investments in educating poor families and creating more jobs for the poor, for as he observed rightly, a great majority of those living below the poverty line have not finished even grade school.
Indeed, one has only to look at the long line of tricycles parked everywhere to realize this.
The tragedy is that the budgets of state colleges and universities were even cut last year. Our economic gains have benefitted the rich and the middle class, but the great masses remain poor because they have inadequate education and skills-training to qualify for the few jobs available, especially in the countryside where agriculture barely survives owing to the lack of capital for small tillers and rampant smuggling of food commodities from abroad.
The Palace said P-Noy needs more help from Congress to tackle the poverty problem. It should be noted, though, that he already got the Conditional Cash Transfer in bigger and bigger volumes over the past three years---from P21 million in 2011, to P35 million in 2012 and a whopping P45 million this year. Every year Congress goes through the motions of questioning the huge jump in the CCT, but it still passes untouched despite so many complaints from COA.
I'm reminded of a Facebook entry: "If the opposite of pro is con, what's the opposite of progress? Congress!"
I'm reminded of a Facebook entry: "If the opposite of pro is con, what's the opposite of progress? Congress!"
UNA senatorial candidate Ernesto Maceda correctly observed that the dismal NSCB poverty statistics show that the CCT has been a failure. Former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo recalled in an interview some time back that during her time she hesitated to push the CCT program that aggressively because she realized it had to have the proper infrastructure and support system first.
By contrast, the P-Noy administration pushed the CCT too fast in three years' time. The result, as COA has repeatedly noted, is that there's a lot of anomalies on the ground, e.g., gross expenditures that cannot be accounted for properly. In this election season too, it has become a political tool for the administration.
By contrast, the P-Noy administration pushed the CCT too fast in three years' time. The result, as COA has repeatedly noted, is that there's a lot of anomalies on the ground, e.g., gross expenditures that cannot be accounted for properly. In this election season too, it has become a political tool for the administration.
The yaya of my sister's grandson recounted to me recently about how she lined up with hundreds of other women from sunrise to sunset in a Metro Manila barangay, so that they could finally get their CCT, known locally as "Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program" or "4-Ps." After four months of spending their own money and getting leave from already-irritated employers to attend interminable seminars run by DSWD, finally,the women received notice to show up in their locality.
This yaya was supposed to get P500 as a mother and an extra P300 per child, but at that awarding she only got two months of P500 each, and no explanation as to what happened to the children's stipend.
This yaya was supposed to get P500 as a mother and an extra P300 per child, but at that awarding she only got two months of P500 each, and no explanation as to what happened to the children's stipend.
The CCT handlers warned them first thing not to complain to anyone about what they would receive, and "to just be thankful that at least you have your ATM now." The handlers promised to deposit regularly into their ATM---but the recipients are not too hopeful after waiting for four months, only to get incomplete amounts. This is the problem: who among the poor could complain? Where does the rest of the CCT funds go?
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Craft Brewers
Since 1874
Willoughby Arms
The Willoughby Arms is situated in the attractive, rural village of Willoughby.
The village is the birthplace of John Smith, the famous explorer of the United States. In fact many Americans visit the village throughout the year to pay homage.
The Willoughby Arms is well known for its food and wide cask beer range. Furthermore it has an attractive beer garden to the rear and a well designed smoking shelter.
FREE WIFI is now available to all customers. Why not use the pub as an internet cafe with a nice hot or cold drink and sit in the warmth while surfing the internet at super fast speeds!
Big Screen showing major sporting events on BT Sport.
Pub Details
Phone Number
01507 462687
Church Lane, Willoughby, Alford, Lincolnshire, LN13 9SU
Opening Times
closed all day
Tuesday – Thursday
12 midday – 11pm
Friday & Saturday
12 midday – late
12 midday – 10.30pm
Food Served
Tuesday – Saturday
12 midday – 8pm
12 midday – 8pm (Sunday Roast 12 – 4pm)
Pub Facilities
- Beer Garden
- Darts
- Families Welcome
- Food Served
- Open Fire
- Parking
- Pool
- Wi-Fi Available


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Tedder Farm Equipment Co
Shopping / Farm Equipment and Supplies
location on Google Maps.
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on social media.
The business was established in the late 1930's under the name of Mann Implement Co. Richard Tedder, an employee since 1959, purchased the business in 1982 when Mr. Mann retired. Tedder Farm Equipment carries a full line of Cub Cadet , Stihl, Walker, and Toro for homeowners and professional users. We invite you to stop by and visit us.
Business Hours
Monday 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday Closed


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North America, United States, Alaska, Alaska Coast Mountains, Devil's Thumb Massif, Everything
Devil's Thumb massif, everything. Four years ago on an expedition to nearby Oasis Peak, Dieter Klose planted a seed: the complete traverse of Devil's Thumb. This seed grew into a dream that blossomed into reality in July, as Andre Ike of Squamish, B.C. and I were deposited below the East Ridge of the Thumb by Temsco Helicopters. A week of mostly bad weather followed, with just enough sun to advance a camp and scope the logistics of our mission. Finally the skies cleared, and we set off with three days of food and high hopes for the splitter white granite we had seen from the heli and from our scoping mission. We ascended through a crevasse maze to the ridge below the Witches' Tits and climbed eight moderate pitches to the base of the steep, clean headwall. This lower ridge had been previously climbed by the late Guy Edwards and John Millar in 2002. We climbed a new route to right of theirs on the headwall: Witches' Cleavage (eight pitches, 5.1la) to the col between the Tits and then up the east ridge to the summit of the West Tit. We then rappelled to the col between the Tits, and climbed the west ridge of the East Tit in three long pitches of 5.8 to its virgin summit. Rappelling and downclimbing its razor east ridge brought us to a tight bivouac in the notch between the Tits and the Cat's Ears. The next day started with a 45m rappel down the wildly exposed north side to a crack system we believed had been climbed in 1996 by Chad McMullen and Simon Elias. We freed their route at 5.10 (previously 5.10a Al) in five pitches and found ourselves at the Cat's Brow (the notch between the Ears). Each Ear then yielded incredible 5.9 climbing on steep, knobby stone full of cracks and chicken heads that kept us grinning ear to ear. It was the second ascent of the lower Ear and the third ascent of the higher, which Guy had claimed to be the sharpest spire in the Coast Range. From these summits we could clearly see our final objective glowing in the afternoon sun: the almost finished and not quite free West Buttress of the Thumb. A few steep rappels and traversing landed us in the chossy gully between the Ears and the Thumb. However, while crossing the gully, we generated rock-fall, and our rope took a core shot at its midpoint, leaving us with no choice but to descend. Eight raps, some downclimbing, and a five-star bivy later, we awoke to see the spires cloaked in an eerie mist. A few more rappels, more downclimbing, and we were back at ABC. At 2 p.m. the heavens parted, and 36 hours of nonstop rain began. Our rope chopping was a blessing in disguise, as continuing or retreating from high on the West Buttress would have been epic. A couple of days later, the rain stopped and we awoke predawn to clear skies and the finest aurora we had ever seen. Despite a poor and worsening weather forecast, we grabbed our packs and charged up and down the complete East Ridge of the Thumb in 12.5-hours roundtrip, making us the first climbers to tick the Thumb and all its satellites. During the descent we called our pilot on VHF radio so he could pick us up before the fast-approaching storm socked us in for another week. He showed up right on time and whisked us back to civilization, just an hour before the slashing rain of another west coast storm engulfed the range. Significant accomplishments: FA Witches' Cleavage 5.1la 800m to summit of West Witches' Tit (3rd ascent of spire). FA of East Witches' Tit via Witches' Cleavage and West Ridge 5.1la 800m. FFA of North Face (Elias-McMullen) of Cat's Ears Spires, 5.10 300m from Ears/Tits col. Enchainment of the Witches' Tits and Cat's Ears. Second and Third ascents of the lower and higher Cat's Ears spires, respectively. First to climb the Thumb and all its satellites.
We thank Dieter Klose for his hospitality and those who contribute to the John Lauchlan award for making the trip possible: Mountain Equipment Coop, Integral Designs, Rocky Mountain Books, Explore magazine, and Arcteryx.
jon Walsh, Golden, British Columbia


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As I was drafting this post, I received the following from my daughter's school:
This has been a challenging week to stay healthy: many students and faculty have had to stay home and recuperate from the bugs going around. It's always important to prioritize one's health, but especially this time of year. We hope everyone gets the rest, fluids, and care they need to return to 100% soon. The maxim 'wash your hands' is ringing loud and clear this week.
The stomach bug has been circling around town, even making a brief stop at my house. Fortunately I was spared. Although, not getting it this time around, probably makes up for the year I was hit twice in one month with different stomach viruses or food poisoning (it's hard to discern between the two)!
My little daughter was so sick in the middle of the night, with terrible stomach pains and vomiting. As a parent you want to alleviate as much of the discomfort as you can. As she was struggling with her symptoms, she asked me, looking for a concrete answer, "I wash my hands all the time, why did I get a virus?" Sadly, it isn't possible to completely avoid all illness or immune responses to invaders, even with hand washing– which is a great first line of defense so please keep doing so. However, there are additional natural and common sense approaches than can be taken to alleviate the symptoms and speed up the recovery.
The good news is you don't have to follow the BRATS (bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast) diet any longer. Even the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), suggests children can eat normally as tolerated. Here are some tips on what you can eat when recovering from the stomach bug (or dreaded food poisoning) while still following the Paleo diet.
It's that time of year when it seems like everyone is coming down with something — coughs and fevers are spreading all over the city. Besides compulsive hand washing (for 30 seconds with hot water and soap), sleep and nutrition are the two most important factors in maintaining a strong immune system.
Contact me to find out how I can help you and your family minimize the effects of those nasty viruses and stay well through the winter.