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"Yeshasvini Scheme" (Yeshasvini Cooperative Farmers Health Care Scheme)"
Introduced by the State Government to the Co-operative farmers of Karnataka.
This scheme was inaugurated on 14th of November 2002 by then the Hon'ble Chief Minister of Karnataka Sri S.M.Krishna and was operationalised with effect from 1st June 2003.
With the introduction of 'Yeshasvini Self Funded Health Care Scheme' Karnataka has become role model state.
Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty of Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore, initiated the concept of "rural health care scheme" and with suitable modifications by Sri A Ramaswamy, then the Principal Secretary to Government of Karnataka, Co-operation Department and band of officers of Co-operation Department with the financial assistance of Government of Karnataka Yeshasvini Health Care Scheme was implemented through network hospitals to provide cost effective quality healthcare facilities to the Co-operative farmers spread across the state of Karnataka.
- It is one of the largest Self-Funded Healthcare Scheme in the country.
- Offers about 823 defined surgical procedures to farmers and their families at lower costs.
- The beneficiaries need to contribute a small amount of money every year to avail health facilities in this "contributory scheme".
- Subject to conditions of the scheme it offers cashless treatment at Network Hospitals spread across the state.
- One should be a member of Rural Co-operative Society of the State.
- All family members of the main member are eligible to avail the benefit of the scheme though they are members (with 3 months) of a rural co-operative society.
- Each beneficiary is required to pay prescribed rate of annual contribution every year.
- Presently [2017-18] member contribution is
- Rs.300/- for Rural Yeshasvini.
- Rs.710/- for Urban Yeshasvini.
- The period of each enrollment commences from July and closes by October every year.
- The scheme is open to
- All rural co-operative society members.
- Members of self-help group/Sthree Shakti Group having financial transaction with the Cooperative Society/Banks.
- Members of Weavers, Beedi Workers and Fisherman Cooperative Societies.
- The Scheme Commences from 1st of June and ends 31st of may every year.
- The Scheme covers entire state of Karnataka particularly Rural Areas and Urban cities.
- Through the recognized Network Hospitals of the Trust the Scheme is implemented.
- Includes 730 Network Hospitals (Private and Govt. hospitals) throughout the state.
- As per the approved empanelment criteria, the Trust identifies and approves Network Hospitals to provide medical/surgical facilities.
- Management Support Service Provider (MSP) through network hospitals implements cashless hospitalization under this scheme .
- Benefits of the Scheme are available only at the Network Hospitals recognized by the Trust.
- The yeshasvini beneficiary approaches the Network Hospitals.
- Network Hospitals Coordinator examines the UHID card of the beneficiary; enrollment fee paid by the beneficiaries for the current period and facilitates the patients to undergo preliminary diagnosis and basic tests.
- Based on the diagnosis if the surgical intervention is required hospital admits the patients and sends pre-auth request to the MSP online along with proof of documents.
- Doctors/Specialists of the MSP examine the preauthorization request received from Network Hospitals and approval is given to preauthorizations within 24 hours, if all the conditions are satisfied.
- The Network Hospital extends cashless treatment and surgery to the beneficiary subject to the limits prescribed under the scheme.
- Network Hospitals after discharge forwards the original bill, discharge summary with signature of the patient and other relevant documents to MSP for processing and settlement of their claims.
- Trust arranges payment to Network Hospitals through MSP within forty five days of the receipt of the bills from the Network Hospital.
- Yeshasvini beneficiary is required to produce Enrollment Card and other documents at the time of admissions, so that the Network Hospitals can send preauthorization for approval. If the beneficiary does not produce the identity card at the time of admission he is not entitled to avail the benefits under the scheme.
- In case of emergency, the coordinating officer of the Network Hospital will take undertaking letter from the beneficiary or his/her ward, that in case he/she is not covered under the scheme the cost of the surgery will be paid by the beneficiary only.
- Network hospitals in the State have adopted web enabled issue of E-preauths. The Network hospitals are obtaining E- Preauthorisation from the MSP for all ailments /surgeries.
- Daily 85% of the E- preauthorization proposals received by the Management Support Service Provider from various Network hospitals are approved on the very same day.
- 823 types of surgical procedures identified by the Yeshasvini Trust, defined in the list of surgeries, subject to the certain exclusions, at tariffs pre-negotiated with participating hospitals.
- From 2006-07 the following defined medical benefits have been included: Medical emergencies such as:
- Dog bite
- Snake bite
- Drowning and accidents occurred while operating agricultural implements
- Bull gore injures and electrics shocks
- Normal Delivery
- Neo natal care
- Angioplasty procedure.
- Surgery Package includes: Cost of Medicines, Consumables during hospital stay, Cost of Operation Theater, Anesthesia, Surgeons fee, Professional Charge, Consultant fee, Nursing fee, General Ward Bed Charge, etc are included in the package and Yeshasvini Trust reimburses this expenditure to the Network Hospitals. Package rates for each of the surgery is fixed under the scheme.
- Free Out Patient consultation at all participating hospitals.
- Discounted tariffs for lab investigations and tests.
- The plan excludes coverage for: Medical and Follow up Treatment, Implants, Prosthesis, Joint replacement surgeries, Kidney and Heart Transplants, Chemotherapy, Cosmetic surgery, Burns Cases, Dental Surgeries, Road Traffic Accidents and Medico Legal Cases, Diagnostic Investigations, Autoimmune diseases, Skin Grafting, Dialysis, Artificial Limb, Deviated Nasal Septum, Nails, Screws and Stents, etc for Orthopedic and Urological Surgeries.
- The Yeshasvini Scheme is a surgicare scheme does not cover inpatient medical treatment where surgical intervention is not required. If the beneficiary avails inpatient medical treatment at the Network Hospital, it is his responsibility to pay the charges as per hospital rates and the Trust is not liable to reimburse the treatment charges.
- Yeshasvini beneficiaries are entitled only for general ward admission. If the beneficiaries opt for a higher category of bed, he will have to pay the differential amount to the hospital.
- No specific time for inpatient is prescribed to the Network Hospitals for surgical procedures.
- In normal health care scheme pre-existing diseases like Diabetes, Hypertension, Heart related diseases, Kidney diseases etc., are not covered.
- Most novel feature of the scheme is that entire transaction from the time of admission till discharge of the patient is cashless limited to the package rates.
For more details Call us on 8100-999-111 for FREE Medical Assistance or visit our website www.DynamicMedicare.com for all information on Doctors, Hospitals, Treatments and Healthcare.

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Bharatiya Global Infomedia Limited (BGIL) IPO Analysis Report
Issue Highlights
Issue Period: 11/7/2011 to 14/7/2011
Issue Size: 67,20,000 Equity Shares
Face Value: ì 10
Price Range: ì 75- ì 82
Lot Size: 75 Equity Shares
Maximum Retail Limit: ì 1,96,800
Issue Type: 100% Book Building
Issue Allocation
· QIB (qualified institutional bidder): not more than 33,60,000 equity shares
· NII (non institutional bidder): not less than 10,08,000 equity shares
· RII (retail individual investor): not less than 23,52,000 equity shares
Company Overview
BGIL provides information technology services and solution in RFID (Radio Frequency Identification).Besides this company provides services in media and entertainment industry (films, animation and VFX) and plans to provide services in the area of mobile application and TTFA(Token-Less Two Factor Authentication).Its main business operations consists of RFID &smartcard.
Object of the Issue
· Setting up of corporate office and branch office at Noida and Mumbai respectively
· Expansion of R&D technology centre
· Repayment of bank borrowing
· Long term working capital requirement
· General corporate purposes and issue expenses
SWOT Analysis
· Company provides cost-effective product development services for all stages of product life cycle
· Some reputed customer companies are Honeywell automation India ltd., HCL infosystem and Schneider electric India private limited .
· In past company's application for NBFC status has been rejected by RBI .company and its 3 promoter group companies' name appear on www.watchoutinvestors.com
· In past Company had delayed its service tax payment and loans repayments .company is irregular in making debt and tax payments.
· Negative cash flow in last few years
· Lot of opportunities in services like TTFA, automatic number plate recognition, ticket dispensing system,
· Concentrated customer base
· There is reasonable probability for company to dilute its equity in future
· Owing to complex business model profitability is difficult to predict and subjects to high variations
· High investment in R&D is required
Financial Analysis
# Figures are for FY 2011 considering upper price band and post issue equity
EPS: ì 2.87
Book Value : ì 20.15
Price/Book Value: 4.1
ROE (Return on Equity): 14.24 %
ROCE(Return on Capital Employed): 7.15 %
Current Ratio: 2.4
M-Cap/Sales Ratio: 1.82
Reserve/M-Cap Ratio: .17
Debt/Equity Ratio : .18
Net Profit Margin (NPM): 6.4%
Interest Coverage Ratio: 10.02
Return on Assets (ROA): 9.55%
The issue is priced at very high valuations in comparison with peer company Bartronics . Post issue EPS shall be reduced to a tad below ì 3 and thus giving a very high earnings multiple of 28.6.Post issue there is already too much dilution of equity and further dilution of equity in future shall erode EPS like nothing. Apart from this ROCE and NPM are below industry peers. Company works in very competitive and challenging arena and requires very efficient R&D, failing to which company shall lose its concentrated customer base and that might just wipe out the company.
Considering the very low survival rate for a technology company in niche sectors, it is not appropriate to invest in this company that too at such a high valuations.
Investors better skip this IPO.
Analysis is for the information purpose only. Though due diligence has been taken while preparing this report, analyst shall not be responsible for any error and shall not bear any financial liability to the users of the report.


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Game 45: Agony Followed By Apathy
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Well, I can't say I was surprised by the result of tonight's game. Buffalo has been awful on the road for awhile now and the Red Wings were on a 14-game home winning-streak coming. All signs pointed to a blow-out and tonight's game didn't disappoint in that regard. The Sabres were absolutely outclassed and embarrassed by a score of 5-0.
1st Period: I was actually impressed with how the Sabres started off during the first few minutes. They had some solid jump and were skating toe-to-toe with the Red Wings. Gragnani put Buffalo in a precarious position by taking a hooking penalty early on. Fortunately, the Sabres did a really good job holding an impressive Red Wings power play unit at bay. Things were looking ok until about the 15-minute mark when Zetterberg sniped Miller from the top of the circle. That play got started, thanks to a terrible turnover by Leopold in his own zone. Detroit would take a penalty about a minute later though to give the Sabres a chance to tie the game up though. Although they had a couple of decent scoring chances, nothing came of the opportunity, so it was still 1-0 Detroit.
Despite the early lead, Buffalo still kept up their effort from early in the game, which was a very welcomed deviation from the norm. As the period went on, they were actually outplaying them and had a couple of really good scoring chances (Stafford's post and the scrum in front of Howard with Roy's line out there), but they couldn't cash in. Despite being outplayed, the Red Wings managed to expand their lead near the end of the period. Johan Franzen took a great pass by Pavel Datsyuk and sniped Miller to make it 2-0. Once again, Leopold was out to lunch on this goal. Detroit wasn't done though. With about 17 seconds left in the period, a shot was taken by Miller and both Leopold and Stafford weren't paying any attention to the other side, allowing Nick Lidstrom to sneak in from the point and shoot the puck past Miller who had no chance of stopping the puck to make it 3-0 to end the period.
2nd Period: Weber and Leopold continued their terrible play to start the period off. Weber got his pocket picked behind the Sabres' net by Datsyuk and fed it to Bertuzzi who put it past Miller who wasn't expecting his defenseman to throw up on himself. It didn't end there for Buffalo though. Almost right after that, the Red Wings had a 2-on-1 that turned into a 2-on-2 when Boyes came back on the backcheck. The only problem was that Boyes didn't really try to tie up his man, Derek Helm who took the pass from Drew Miller and scored to make it 5-0. The Sabres just looked they had completely given up. To no one's surprise, Miller got pulled for Enroth (not his fault tonight). Buffalo continued to just look flat and not threatening at all which made for a boring period since Detroit was content to just sit back and play defense with a 5-0, although Enroth did make a couple of nice saves. Hecht got a penalty for slashing Datsyuk to give the Red Wings their second power play of the game. Once again, the Sabres were up to the task of killing it off. The PK's been pretty much the only thing that has gone right for Buffalo tonight. The score would remain 5-0 going into the 3rd.
3rd Period: The start of this period had the same kind of feel the 2nd did: flat and lifeless. Buffalo did actually get a power play chance early on after a scrum along the boards near the Sabres' blueline, but couldn't do much of anything on it. Both teams traded penalties at pretty much the same time after the power play ended to give us viewers some 4-on-4 action for just under two minutes, which did result in a couple of scoring opportunities for the Sabres, but Jimmy Howard was up to the task. From there we were treated with the following for the rest of the game: Sabres skate the puck into the Detroit zone, Detroit clears the puck.
-It's really getting hard to care about this team, save for a handful of players. Something needs to change, even if it's only a lateral move. I didn't expect the Sabres to win tonight, but they just flat-out gave up and that's unacceptable.
-The Red Wings weren't even trying after the 1st period ended. From about the 2nd period onward, Babcock apparently called off the dogs. What they were doing outside on the ice was reminiscent of what my brother's team has done when they've gone up against a terrible team and laid them to waste early on….just sit back and dump the puck and make a 2-3 passes before attempting a shot if and when you have some offensive zone time.
-I really felt bad for Ryan Miller tonight. He got absolutely embarrassed in front of his friends and family because his teammates decided to play like complete garbage in front of him.
-I can't speak for Leopold because I haven't followed him throughout his career, but tonight was easily Mike Weber's worst game as a Buffalo Sabre. To stick out like he did when the vast majority of the team was awful should speak volumes about how bad he and Weber were.
-Enroth got a shutout in relief. Maybe he should be the starter. /sarcasm
-Henrik Zetterberg had gone 13 games without scoring going into tonight. I guess the Sabres were just the tonic he needed.
-The Blackhawks might beat this team worse next game.


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Gonzales ready for next matchup with Shaeffer after knocking off DA incumbent in primary
Joe Gonzales secured the Democratic nomination for Bexar County district attorney before 9 p.m. Tuesday, but he only managed to fit in two hours of sleep before the interviews began.
A politically unknown attorney five months ago, Gonzales found himself at the center of attention after knocking off incumbent DA Nicholas "Nico" LaHood, his former business partner, with an early and decisive primary result.
"We anticipated that we were going to have a slight lead going into the early vote, but I never imagined that we were going to have such a strong lead," Gonzales said during one of his eight media interviews Wednesday. "So that was a shock. But it was a pleasant shock."
The result, decided by an 18-point margin, sets up a general election race between Gonzales and uncontested Republican nominee Tylden Shaeffer, both local prosecutors turned defense attorneys. They each entered the race with their sights set on LaHood, but on Wednesday pivoted to an issues-based race after a primary in which cordial discussion took a backseat to personal attacks.
"First of all, the campaign that's going to be run between me and Joe is going to be much more civil, and we're going to talk about real issues," Shaeffer said in an interview Wednesday. "I think this campaign has a chance to focus on some substantive issues, some complex things that don't have easy fixes."
Gonzales and Shaeffer met more than two decades ago in the Bexar County District Attorney's Office, where they overlapped as prosecutors. They haven't spoken much since announcing their candidacies, Gonzales said, yet he doesn't "consider (Shaeffer) an enemy by any means."
Echoing Shaeffer's prediction about civility, Gonzales said the campaign — set to last eight months leading to the Nov. 6 election — would center on the differences between their distinct approaches to running the office.
He added that he would continue supporting the progressive platform he's already laid out, including reform of the bail bond system and elimination of an entry fee to the office's pretrial diversion program.
"I'm the reform candidate," Gonzales said. "And I'm going to focus on restorative justice. That's not typically a Republican plank. They are, by nature, more conservative in the way they approach everything, including running a district attorney's office."
Shaeffer acknowledged his conservative approach would differ from Gonzales' liberal principles, though added he's developed a reputation for being "tough and fair."
The two candidates differ slightly on the ideal makeup of a cite-and-release program, currently in its pilot stage in partnership with the Bexar County Sheriff's Office.
Shaeffer opposes the idea of a "one-size-fits-all program with a cookie cutter mentality," he said, pointing out the current system extends to "criminal destruction of property and theft" — more than just the small amounts of marijuana billed when LaHood rolled out the program.
"We can't solve every single one of society's inequities. The number one goal is to safeguard the community," Shaeffer said. But he acknowledged the crowded county jail, adding: "Let's be intelligent about this: You can't put everyone in jail. I'm a firm believer of giving everyone fair chances."
Both agreed on the idea of increasing training for prosecutors in the district attorney's office, though Gonzales has focused on informing prosecutors of "the effects of incarceration or rehabilitative programs," his website reads.
"There are a lot of very good prosecutors over there," Shaeffer said. "I'm going to give them the training and tools they need to succeed, and I'm going to expect them to do the right thing, and be real attorneys. The attorneys I will have in my courts, I will trust them."
One potential squabble emerged in a press release Shaeffer put out Tuesday night, immediately after LaHood conceded. It included two sentences that read: "The question now becomes, who should lead this county and based on what support? I believe that effective change comes from seeking the support of local community leaders and citizens."
Acknowledging the statement referenced the $958,000 of ads Gonzales received through a political action committee from liberal billionaire George Soros, Shaeffer nevertheless said the statement was "not a dig on Joe."
"It's a comment on why this outsider felt the need to come in and manipulate the election," Shaeffer said. "You can either agree with Soros' progressive message or not, but he's dropping $1 million, and probably more."
Asked about Soros' influence, Gonzales said he's not beholden to Soros or anyone involved with the PAC, and the contributions don't make him a "radical liberal."
"What's important is that voters understand, even now and into November, that there weren't any strings attached, that these people are never going to call me and say, look, we gave you money and now we want you to do x, y, z," Gonzales said. "There was a clear understanding from the beginning that we would accept their contributions, but we were not going to be told how to run this office."
Since the nomination was decided, Gonzales had not heard from LaHood, who did not respond to a call or text seeking comment Wednesday.
Jasper Scherer is a San Antonio Express-News staff writer. Read more of his stories here. | email@example.com | @jaspscherer


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Nice, I look forward to seeing which other pages get revised. Another question and a little bit off the topic of ShadowWood but I was wondering what sort of reference material do you use when you are creating your art?, I imagine you have a good library of art books to hand?
Looks like 2 sides – director's cut?
Reminds me of how they edited Star Wars episode VI to make Darth Vader say "Noo" in the final scene with the Emperor for the Blu-ray version. It completely ruins the scene.
Don't underestimate the power of silence!
Let us never forget: Han shot first! 😉
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In the following video, Sayer Ji, founder of GreenMedInfo explains a resource that is the byproduct of two years of information gathering on the topic of reducing Radiation Disaster Associated Toxicity. There are over 100 substances listed which are foods, spices and nutrients which may contribute greatly to reducing suffering associated with this event. The relevant research is located here
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SXSW 2012 is over. Head to the SXSW 2014 Schedule!
From Dan Oko, The Austin Chronicle:
As the anniversary of Japan's devastating earthquake and ensuing tsunami passes, the Pacific island nation's riveting, rocking musical community makes its mark at the annual Japan Nite showcase, beginning with fashion-forward Yokohama-based Rubies, a high-energy pop quartet featuring ex-members of the theatrical Emeralds (a SXSW presence from 2004 to 2008). Also arriving on the bill is the eagerly anticipated 24-year-old banjo phenom Saito Johnny, whose String Cheese Incident/Wasabi Highway sound won his Tokyo bluegrass band an opening slot on Taylor Swift's Far East tour. As usual, you can never count out Japan's latter-day riot grrrls, who follow in Shonen Knife's subversive steps. Lovely ladies include Tokyo's cheeky goth trio Akabane Vulgars on Strong Bypass, and ZZZ's, a driving, droning post-punk trio from the North Coast community Hyogo (it played in a previous incarnation last year as Hystoic Vein). The remaining bands include Kao=S and Osaka's Nokies! and Vampillia, respectively a grab bag of chaotic acoustic sounds and sword dancing, post-punk pop, and Nipponese nu-metal.


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Girl, 8, killed in farm accident was living in Limerick
SEPARATE investigations are underway after an eight-year-old girl, who was living in Limerick city, died in a farming accident last evening.
The girl, who was originally from Latvia, was killed when the bucket of a tractor fell on her while she was playing on a farm near Newtownshandrum in North Cork.
Another girl, aged 11, was seriously injured and was transported by air ambulance to Cork University Hospital, where her condition has been described as critical.
It's understood the two children were staying with friends as their parents were away for the weekend. It's reported the parents of the younger girl returned to Ireland late last night.
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According to the American Psychological Association's symptoms of stress, a massage can help relieve the following symptoms:
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- Muscle Relaxation
When stress is released throughout your body, it's an automatic response for your muscles to tense up and contract. Not only does this cause your muscles to stay sore if you're stressed long-term, but it can also lead to other negative repercussions such as headaches and chronic pain. During a massage, your therapist can focus on your pain points and lessen the tension that has built up over time.
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In a recent clinical study it was found that participants that were massaged showed lowered cortisol levels. Cortisol is a hormone linked to stress, and when elevated it can lead to adrenal fatigue. It was also noted that after a mere five minutes, massage also lowered the participants heart rate—and high heart rates are often linked to high stress.
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Different Stains for Knotty Pine
Many people appreciate knotty pine for its distinctive wood grain and natural whorls, called "knots," which create a rustic look. After sanding the wood to smooth its surface, you can use virtually any stain on knotty pine. Simply choose the color and finish that best suits the room. When selecting a stain, carefully consider the overall effect you want to achieve in your space.
Color Selection
Traditional knotty pine is a golden hue. Some knotty pine appears to be a more amber color, which can be caused by the varnish as it ages. The color of stain you choose may ultimately depend on factors like the size of the room. Wood paneling and ceilings tend to make a room seem cozy and small. Dark colors will enhance this effect, while lighter colors will open up the space, making it appear larger. Consider the room's other woodwork, as well, such as moldings and flooring; select colors that complement or match those hues. When opting for a dark color, find one that matches the knots of the knotty pine for best results.
Oil-Based Stains
Oil-based stains may be used on knotty pine, offering both advantages and disadvantages. Oil-based stains deeply penetrate the surface of this soft wood and provide a richer color. Penetrating stains often enhance the rustic look of knotty pine, allowing the natural texture and wood grain to show through the stain. Darker oil stains tend to appear slightly patchy on knotty pine, since the liquid may vary in density. Because oil-based stains produce hazardous fumes, they must be applied in well-ventilated areas. For this reason, these stains may not be suitable for pre-installed knotty pine cabinetry and paneling, unless the room has plenty of doors and windows that can be opened. Always wear eye protection and a respirator or high-quality particle mask when using these stains. After applying an oil stain, then letting it dry, use a clear lacquer or oil-based varnish to protect the wood and make it shine.
Water-Based Stains
Water-based stains do not penetrate wood as well as oil. As a result, dark water-based stains tend to produce uneven color on knotty pine. On the other hand, water-based stains do not produce toxic fumes and require less cleanup time than oil stains. Water-based stains are best for enclosed spaces, especially if further coats are needed to darken or even out the color. This is because you can apply multiple coats of a water-based stain immediately. Water-based varnishes are best to use over water-based stains.
All-in-One Finishes
Both oil-based and water-based stains come in all-in-one finishes that contain both a stain and a clear-coat finish in one product. These all-in-one solutions cannot be toned down, so they may not be appropriate if you want the knotty pine darkly stained. All-in-one finishes are easier and quicker to use than a separate stain and clear-coat finish, since only two coats of a single product are required, as opposed to multiple coats of two different products.
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Tim Holtz 2015 October Tag
Here it is my Scrappy Friends....Tim's October Tag!
He's so "cute" and "ugly" ....LOL!!!!!!
If you want to see how Tim made this monster tag,
follow the link to his blog and he walks you right
through it.
This year is flying by so very fast. Now that Fall is
here, my life gets very crazy. We have soooo many things
happening between work, school, football and lots
of Birthdays all the way to the end of the year. I can just
feel myself aging...Ahhh but I am having fun with this life....
and that's what it's all about! Being happy! Following along with
Tim on this 2015 Tag journey has made me very happy!!!!
I didn't think I was going to get this made with everything I had
to do ...but I did.
In honor of my oldest son's birthday, which was his due date,
and is his BIRTHDAY.....HERE IT IS...
(I hope you like it)!
William is..... drum rolls please:
28 years old today...Yep...telling my age here.
Birthday Party takes place later today.
I still have lots to do!
Sooo....let's get down to business:
TH Alteration Dies:
Tag & Bookplate #656938
Pumpkin Jack #657463
Mini Scary Jack-o-lantern Set #657462
TH Thinlits Dies:
Celebrate #660223
Halloween #660957
Labels #660060
Birthday Blueprint #659882
(this is a stamp and die set)
Sander, Stylus, Mini ink blending tool
Distress Inks:
Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Black Soot
Fossilized Amber, Hickory Smoke, Vintage Photo,Walnut Stain
Distress Marker:
Black Soot
Glossy Accents, Beacons 3-in-1,
TomBo Aqua Mono Liquid Glue
Mini Ink Blending tool
Spatters #THS009
We R Memory Keepers - Spookville:
Numbered Notes
Graphic 45 - Happy Haunting Collection
Midnight Magic
I just used these colors from my
scrap bin:
black, green, yellow, orange, and white.
The black and white diagonal stripe was in my
scrap bin too.
Paper Studio Ribbon #780379
Paper Studio Spare Parts Googly eye Brads #717017
Fancy Pants Bulb Shape Safety Pins #106
Recollection Stickers Ghosts & Bats #158919
Art-i-cake Charm #ALH46556
Making the Tag:
I cut my tag out of an old manila folder to use as my base tag and cut
my Numbered Notes paper into a tag using the Tag and Bookplate Die.
I glued the cardstock to the base tag, sanded and
inked it using Hickory Smoke Distress ink.
Next I cut Jack out two times out of orange and
yellow scrap paper, and a small
piece of green for the stem.
I used a stylus to draw the lines on the orange paper of Jack.
I place him on an old mouse pad as I drew the lines so
I could get an indention.
I then gave Jack a face by using the Mini Scary Jack-o-lantern die.
Then I sanded and inked Jack with hickory smoke.
I placed Jack on my tag to get a feel for where he
needed to go and to see how much room was left for
I removed Jack and stenciled some splatters
using black soot at the top and
bottom right corner. I wasn't sure yet how I was going
to embellish the tag so I put the splatters where I thought
I might have open areas.
I cut the "HALLOWEEN" strip off of the Graphic 45
paper, inked it and glued it to the bottom of the tag.
Now to finish Jack.
I put the yellow cut out of Jack under the orange cut out
and lightly traced his face onto the yellow Jack.
I removed the orange Jack and took my Distress inks:
Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, and Fossilized Amber
and inked the areas for his eyes, nose, and mouth that I
traced onto the yellow Jack keeping near the edges.
I wanted his face to "GLOW" from within...like he was lit.
I gently sanded and inked his "Top" and glued it
to the top of his head on the orange Jack and then placed
the orange Jack on top of the yellow Jack.
I then proceeded to gently glue Jack together at the edges.
I wanted the inside to be open to give him a
3 D effect. I then attempted to glue him onto the
tag. He was rather wide so I left part of Jack
hanging off the edge of the tag and bowed him a little
in the middle. That is how I was able to have Jack's face
lift off the inside layer.
I wanted this tag to say Happy Halloween BOOthday.
So I got busy trying to figure out how to get this
on the tag in such a small space.
I found the Art-i-cake charm that said "Happy Halloween"
............this is soooo "Perfect!"
So then I took the Thinlits Halloween and Celebrate
word dies and cut out the words Boo and Birthday
two times in black and yellow. I cut off the Bir
in Birthday and glued the word Boo to the
beginning of the word in the
black and yellow.
I now had "boothday" in black and yellow.
Then I glued the yellow on top of the black so the
black would shadow the yellow and distressed
it with Spiced Marmalade ink.
I then needed a label for this to go on. I used one of the larger
labels from the thinlits label set and cut it in black and green.
I cut the outer embossed edge off the green and
glued it to the black label. It was a little tight, but I'm
thinking it will work. But it still needed some
more layers. I cut a small candle out using the
Birthday Blueprint set, and inked it using Spiced
Marmalade and Vintage Photo, being careful to
leave some yellow in the middle of the flame.
Then I put some glossy accents on the flame.
I placed the word "boothday" and the candle
onto the label....and the oo's in the word
"boothday" said, "We need eyes."
So I got out the word Boo from the Halloween
thinlits die set and cut it in white card stock. I then
used the circles from inside the o's to glue onto the back
of the word "boothday." I used a black soot distress
marker to make eyes inside the white circles.
I could feel the tag finally coming together. I place the label
onto the tag next to Jack at the top. It was going to
cover up most of the splatters, but that's O K.
I then went digging in my stash and found the ghost and
bat stickers and the google eye brads....Gotta go with it.
I just couldn't work fast enough now.
The bats went on the label and I glued it on.
Jack got some eyes. I put 2 ghosts on the tag, one by Jacks top and
one by his cheek. I then added the ribbon and the charm.
Ta Daaaaaa!!!!
All Done!
Now to get Will's presents wrapped and his cards signed...Yep
this tag is going on his gift, but I am sure I will end up with
it so I can put it with the rest of my 2015 tags.


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On Jan. 16, 2018 the Los Altos City Council and Planning Commission studied two things. 1) Conceptual designs for higher density housing zoning along El Camino – namely raising density from the current 38 du/ac to 60 or 80 du/ac. 2) What the California housing laws 2017 mean for the City.
The Council was trying to see if increasing the max 38 du/ac in the El Camino CT zone would result in more units that would be "affordable by design" because they are smaller. They wanted to know what such El Camino housing might look like and what impact it might have on rear neighbors. Unlike the City of Mountain View, Los Altos has almost no "buffer zone" — a zone with medium density multi-family behind El Camino. In Los Altos the area behind El Camino parcels often transitions immediately to single family homes.
The Higher Density Housing report and graphics from the Staff and the consultant is here .
The City lawyers have prepared an excellent 15 State Housing Laws report here.
The meeting video is here. The lawyer takes almost 90 minutes to walk through the state laws. Reading Lalah's excerpts from the the League of Cities and from the City lawyer's report will take you 5 minutes. But if you have the time, the lawyer's talk and the Q&A are quite informative.
Planning for Higher Density Housing
Imagined on the 5150 El Camino parcel
The consultant created 3 concepts and placed them on a real parcel which is for sale. That parcel is 5150 El Camino, right at the intersection with Rengstorff. Right now on this parcel, there is a medium-sized 3-story office complex with large side and rear setbacks. The ground floor is sunken so the building height above street level appears to be no more that 30 feet. This almost 4 acre parcel had been considered by LASD as a site for the Bullis Charter School last year.
A: 308 units, 80 du/ac, 1200 sq.ft.
8 floors along El Camino, upper floors 100 ft from rear line, 3 lower floors have 40 foot setback
230 units, 60 du/ac, 650 sq.ft.
30 ft high, 3 floors, all floors 40 ft. from rear line
308 units, 80 du/ac, 675 sq.ft.
45 ft high, 4 floors on El Camino, 3 floors 40 ft. from rear line
To be clear, let me reiterate this is not a project concept proposal from an actual developer. It is a consultant study requested by City Council. This is not a real project, just pretend.
Concepts B and C (average unit size of 650-675 sq. ft.) have much smaller units than A (average unit size of 1200 sq. ft). [Or perhaps a very different mix of 1, 2,3 bedroom units? Unit mix is not part of the report. Nor is how many official BMR units might result. The exercise apparently assumed 100% market rate units, but because of their smaller size units were "affordable by design" units.]
Concepts A and C have the same number of dwelling units, 308. B has fewer dwelling units with just 230. (All of these concepts are way higher density than recorded in the General Plan, Housing Element pg. 81, which estimates a potential of 144 units…with the exisiting 38 du/ac zoning…for this parcel.)
Concept A is ~90 feet high along El Camino and probably ~35 feet high along the rear line. B is 30 feet high everywhere, El Camino and rear line. C is 45 feet high on El Camino and probably ~30 high along the rear line.
All concepts meet the 40 feet from rear property line zoning requirement…for floors up to 30 ft high.
There is not enough information to make a choice. The developer economics are missing. Will 650 sq. ft units be rentable? or saleable if a condo? Would someone pay $2400 a month for a nice and new 650 unit or rather seek out a worn out but larger 1200 square foot unit at $2400 a month? Do we know? So these small units are "affordable by design" but is the developer also going to use the the density bonus law and create some BMR units? Is this within 1/2 mile of a public transit hub? The express bus stop is by Whole Foods at Showers or Panera at El Monte? So there is no need for underground parking? These "what if" concepts don't explore parking at all.
This 5150 El Camino parcel is in the City's RHNA inventory. Because of the new Housing Laws 2017, the State can punish the City if it is unable to keep the promises it has made in the Housing Element Plan for the 2014-2023 RHNA plan cycle. Therefore, For this parcel in particular, it is certainly is tempting to try to maximize the number of BMRs –XLI, VLI, LI, Moderate income — dwelling units here…subject to the constraint that the economics of the number of market rate units allow a whole project to actually get built. The City Housing Element report estimates 144 units could be built here at 38 du/ac. These consultant "what if" plans at 60 and 80 du/ac show 230 and 308 units.
This parcel could be part of a WHOZ, Workforce Housing Opportunity Zone..if the City can jump through all the the hoops to create one — a Precise Plan/Specific Plan, an EIR. However, because the developer is required to "pay prevailing wage" per the WHOZ law, there might be zero developer interest.
After the presentation, Council members and planning commissioners seemed to realize that if the only policy change was raising du/ac from 38 to much higher on El Camino, that ALONE was not going to be the panacea they had hoped it might be. And it seemed to clear to Lalahpolitico, the developer economics on El Camino means the City should be thinking about how to create a neighboring buffer zone.
Image: Need for a Buffer Zone
All the A,B,C concepts impact houses on Casita
The City needs to consider how to create buffer zones for this fictitious example housing development…and for any other actual mega housing developments that may be proposed in the El Camino commercial thoroughfare zone in the next decade.
Option 1: Pay off the Neighbors. Make them rich with Duplex zoning
In the case of 5150 El Camino, how about giving all those Casita homes with their R1-10 zoning… which allows 35% lot coverage… a big rezoning boost up to duplex with 70% lot coverage? That's like going from 4 du/ac to 8 du/ac. That's serious money in their pocket when they sell. Yeah, it will change the neighborhood…but so will concepts 5150 El Camino concepts A,B,C. Duplexes would get built lot by lot, a spot here and a spot there.
Option 2: Or Make them rich with Graduated Density Zoning (GDZ)
An approach that would encourage the single family home parcels to be aggregated… perhaps to a minimum 1, 2 or 3 contiguous acres…would allow a more planned community, a more aesthetic look and feel. Graduated Density Zoning is such an approach. Until an owner acquires a minimum threshold of continguous acres, all that can be built is single family R1-10 homes. Once an owner has say 2 acres, he can build a project at say 16 du/acre.
Such aggregation of 1/4 acre parcels would make higher densities feasible…say 16 du/ac. With 2 or 3 acres, alleys could be added to a project, there could be shared common yards. Think of Tyndell and Lassen near Cuesta downtown, or San Antonio near Chester Circle.
GDZ works like the Monopoly board game. You have to aggregate 4 HOUSES on your land, before you can exchange them for a HOTEL.
Housing shortage: Graduated zoning changes are the answer
Shoup's original 19 page academic article
Skeptical review of Shoup's GDZ
2-page how-to from ABAG, Assn of Bay Area Governments
Examples including Glendale,, CA, author is Shoup 2017
What Could Be Built in a "Buffer Zone" with GDZ
First a google map pic from Chester Circle along San Antonio, then 3 pics from the Cuesta neighborhood near Downtown .
Lalahpolitico: Looks pretty ok to me. I would not mind if this king of housing were across the street from my single family home…which abutted a "buffer" zone for El Camino high density. So let's look at "paying off "the home owners who are most impacted by El Camino becoming high-rise…help them cope with El Camino height and bulk and loss of privacy.. by rezoning them for a big pay-day. Rezoning them does not force them to suddenly sell and move; it's just an medium-term option. It might take a decade or more for a buffer zone to emerge through market forces.
Next Slow Steps for
"Affordable by Design" High Density
Inclusionary % changes
BMR in lieu & impact fees
If the City study session had chosen to move forward with new zoning, increasing the du/ac on El Camino from 38 du/ac to 60 or 80 du/ac would require an amendment to the General Plan Land Use chapter. If the City choses to move forward with higher inclusionary zoning requirements than in State law [15%] that may trigger a need to modify the Housing Element plan chapter. If the City choses to move forward with a BMR housing in lieu fee, or a housing impact fee, the documents will have to be modified. That means these documents will need to be recertified by the State Housing and Community Development Department…quite an undertaking…and quite a delay until the desired law changes can take effect.
Compliance with 15 Laws
California housing laws 2017
Here follows a summary of the California housing laws 2017 penned by the California League of Cities. It's from their Jan. 23 Letter to California State Senator Scott Wiener, opposing a new bill SB827. According to the League, SB827 allows a developer to evade local standards merely if a project is along "a high-quality transit corridor." Lalahpolitico: Not much of a hurdle!
These California housing laws 2017 below took effect Jan. 1, 2018.
SB 2 (Atkins, Chapter 364, Statutes of 2017) Building Homes and Jobs Act is projected to generate hundreds of millions of dollars annually for affordable housing, supportive housing, emergency shelters, transitional housing and other housing needs via a $75 to
$225 recording fee on specified real estate documents.
SB 3 (Beall, Chapter 365, Statutes of 2017) Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2018 places a $4 billion general obligation bond on the November 2018 ballot to fund affordable housing programs and the veterans homeownership program (CalVet).
SB 35 (Wiener, Chapter 366, Statutes of 2017) streamlines multifamily housing project approvals, at the request of a developer, in a city that fails to issue building permits for its share of the regional housing need by income category.
SB 166 (Skinner, Chapter 367, Statutes of 2017) requires cities and counties to provide enough housing sites to meet RHNA at each income level at all times.
SB 167 (Skinner, Chapter 368, Statutes of 2017), AB 678 (Bocanegra, Chapter 373, Statutes of 2017), and AB 1515 (Daly, Chapter 378, Statutes of 2017) makes numerous changes to the Housing Accountability Act, including imposing mandatory fines for defying a court order, and modifying the findings requirement to deny a housing development project to be supported by a preponderance of the evidence, rather than by substantial evidence in the record.
SB 540 (Roth, Chapter 369, Statutes of 2017) streamlines the housing approval process by conducting all of the necessary planning, environmental review and public input on the front end through the adoption of a detailed Specific Plan. Workforce Housing Opportunity Zone.
AB 72 (Santiago, Chapter 370, Statutes of 2017) provides the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) new broad authority to find a jurisdiction's housing element out of substantial compliance if it determines that the jurisdiction fails to act in compliance with its housing element and allows HCD to refer violations of law to the attorney general.
AB 73 (Chiu, Chapter 371, Statutes of 2017) streamlines the housing approval process by allowing jurisdictions to create a housing sustainability district to complete upfront zoning and environmental review in order to receive incentive payments for development projects that are consistent with the ordinance.
AB 879 (Grayson, Chapter 374, Statutes of 2017) expands upon existing law that requires, by April 1 of each year, cities to send an annual report to their respective city councils, the state Office of Planning and Research and HCD that includes information related to the implementation of the General Plan.
AB 1397 (Low, Chapter 375, Statutes of 2017) requires lands in a city's housing element to include vacant sites and sites that have "realistic and demonstrated potential" for redevelopment to meet a portion of the locality's housing need for a designated income level
AB 1505 (Bloom, Chapter 376, Statutes of 2017) allows a jurisdiction to adopt an ordinance that requires a housing development to include a certain percentage of residential rental units affordable to and occupied by households with incomes that do not exceed limits for households with extremely low, very low, low or moderate income.
How to Comply with the California housing laws 2017
Step 1: Hire More Staff
Lalahpolitico: All the new laws mean the City needs some additional permanent and temporary staff and more consultants of course in order to comply!
STEP 2: Comply
or Pay Fines to Overlords at HCD
And if a City does not comply, with process streamlining, with expanded data collection, or fails to deliver the amount of housing by 5 BMR income levels it promised in its RHNA, and which is documented in the City General Plan/Housing Element…the State whip comes down! Unlike in the past, there are real punishments…
Introducing substantial fines. Previously, a challenger contesting the city's actions under the HAA was free to bring a judicial action seeking the court's issuance of an order or judgment compelling the city to comply with the law. Now, those provisions have been strengthened considerably, by empowering the courts to (a) order the city to approve the housing development project at issue (if it finds the city acted in bad faith), (b) impose fines of at least $10,000 per unit (if the court finds the city failed to comply with a court order demanding compliance with the law), (c) authorize a five-fold increase in the fine in certain instances, and (d) issue further orders as necessary, including deeming projects approved. [Source: excerpt from lawyers report]
Here are some Actions suggested by the City lawyers
for Los Altos to begin to comply with California housing laws 2017
1.Find out if we will meet our Housing Production Goals for 2023?
It would be advisable to take stock of where the City is at with meeting its RHNA goals (by income category) for this planning period. All new applications for sites in the housing element inventory will require careful review and analysis with regard to these new provisions [and whether they further meeting the goals].
2.Plan how to capture the new, extra data types.
One new burden is the expansion of housing data collection to include the status of various housing activities by the 5 BMR income levels . This seems to at least double the complexity. Keeping track of the inventory of buildable lots suitable for housing has also become more complicated. The City may wish to consider implementing steps to begin capturing all of this information so that records can be developed…number of applications submitted, approved, not approved, completions, sites rezoned … BY BMR INCOME CATEGORY.
3.Rewrite subjective zoning criteria to be objective.
SB 35 is a complex new law, which is only very broadly summarized here by the city lawyer. The Council may wish to consider further analysis of its impacts on Los Altos, with a particular emphasis on the review of any subjective planning criteria the City may want to convert to objective regulations. Staff will need to be ready to rapidly identify all objective criteria against which any proposed project should be evaluated for determining consistency in the event an SB 35 application is submitted.[Lalah: Looks like as short as 30 to 60 days for a planning dept. to do a review/project approval.]
4.Redo Planning Dept. Process and Forms
The new housing laws "streamline" a developers process – removing both governmental and other impediments that slow down a project. The City will need to review/redo its process and forms, etc. to foster proper and rapid compliance.
5.Be careful not to make Inclusionary Zoning too high, aka >15% BMRs.
Council has previously expressed an interest in revisiting the City's approach to inclusionary housing. If Council wishes to explore an inclusionary requirement for rentals in an amount greater than 15%, it might also consider commissioning an economic feasibility study to support that work. This would allow the Council to make a more informed decision and forestall any surprises in the event of an State Housing & Community Development (HCD) request for the same. Finally, alternative means of compliance [ in lieu fee ] should be added to the ordinance to satisfy the new requirements….[ Lalahpolitico: HCD does not want there to be "too many" BMRs such that projects are not built because they are uneconomic. Damned if you do include, damned if you don't include.]
6.Create a Precise Plan with EIR [perhaps El Camino?] to craft a WHOZ
The City may wish to consider whether it would like to explore the development of a WHOZ [Workforce Housing Opportunity Zone], the planning of which may be eligible for SB 2 funding in 2018…. While these [Precise Plan with a pre-done EIR] are not required to be put in place locally, adoption of a thoughtfully-crafted WHOZ might capture the attention of developers who may otherwise consider using SB 35 to secure expedited processing. Lalahpolitico: A WHOZ – once set up – could deliver a very quick development application processing/construction.


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All the wimmens and all you other flubbernuggers too:
Now I thinks I know how Linedan What Takes Good Facepunches was feelin' back when I said I was quittin' the first time around. As of this mornin', ol' Ratshag's gone a-fishin'. No, Mr. Shag: not bad fer a humble orc from Durotar. Not bad at all.
So raise yer glasses, those of you what's drinkin' this hour of the mornin', and pour a little out on the ground fer an avatar of virility what once roamed this here interwebs. We'll miss ya, Ratters.
Then drink the rest. What? We ain't wastin' good beer, ya glubbermunghin' morons!


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Lots of questions today for Mrs Buxton the midwife. Why do you check the baby? How do you travel to see the baby and mummy? How big are babies when they are born? When do babies grow legs?
Mrs Buxton had lots of equipment with her, stethoscope, weighing scales, measuring tape, blood pressure monitor and a sonicaid (to listen to the baby's heart beat). We were fascinated to see the model of a baby at 20 weeks old and then at full term of 40 weeks and putting balls in order of size gave us some idea of just how much a baby grows!
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With a satellite waveform on your smartphone you could safely move outside normal GSM coverage and still have the connectivity you look for and with this utilising the smartphone that you normally use for communication to the surrounding world. Having a smartphone-based waveform provides benefits such as reduced costs and increased portability. In the following we will describe how such a smartphone waveform could be built.
Getting access to satellite data services often requires expensive end-user terminals to be acquired, set up and maintained. In this project, we studied, developed and successfully demonstrated a prototype smartphone based satellite software-defined radio waveform, that could in principle be used with a generic small and cheap radio module, while all waveform specific functions are delegated to run on the smartphone. Today's smartphone are rich processing platforms that can easily handle the load of baseband modulation of a M2M satellite waveforms that do not support nor require high symbol rates.
The concept is to have a small radio module that connects to a smartphone via Bluetooth. The radio module performs the up/down conversion L-Band transmissions, while an app on the smartphone performs all base-band processing, modulation, receiver synchronisation and air interface protocol communications. The app presents a user interface with messaging/chat and status functions, or can provide remote control and monitoring for other devices.
The prototype was implemented using the Ettus Research E100 platform. A Bluetooth transport was used for exchange of digital base-band samples. The front-end module performs amplification and duplexing of the L-band RF signals. An off-the-shelf antenna was used for the prototype. For testing purposes, a network emulator was developed to run on a PC, using a separate USRP platform connected to the prototype. This allows system-level testing of the prototype before on-air trials. Finally, the prototype was tested on-air on a commercial service.
Have any questions?
Contact me on +45 9932 4086 for more information or to set up a meeting.
- Thomas S. Jensen


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This week, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed a bill into law that makes simple possession of any drug a misdemeanor rather than a felony. The new law, which takes effect immediately, means that first-time drug offenders will face smaller fines and less jail time, as well as getting a better chance at receiving treatment. The law also requires police to record demographic information on anyone that they stop for questioning, in an attempt to curtail racial profiling.
Proponents of the law believe that sending drug addicts to treatment facilities is a more effective deterrent than incarcerating them. "We are tying to move policy toward treatment rather than prison beds," said state Sen. Jackie Winters, supporter of the bill. "We can't continue on the path of building more prisons when often the underlying root cause of the crime is substance use."
The Oregon Association Chiefs of Police and the Oregon State Sheriffs' Association also supported the bill, noting that felony convictions can block access to housing and employment. In a letter supporting the bill, Kevin Campbell, executive director of the Oregon Association Chiefs of Police, wrote that "felony convictions in [drug possession] cases also include unintended and collateral consequences including barriers to housing and employment and a disparate impact on minority communities."
However, the letter also warns legislators that the new law "will only produce positive results if additional drug treatment resources accompany this change in policy." "Reducing penalties without aggressively addressing underlying addiction is unlikely to help those who need it most."
Legislators also approved another measure that appropriates $7 million for drug treatment.


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We say:
Have you ever built a fire?
but we also say:
Have you ever made a fire?
Have you ever lit a fire?
Verbs and Past Participles
make – made
light – lit
If you want to build a fire, first you have to find a safe place. Then you gather kindling. Kindling is dry grass, paper or sticks.
Then you get larger sticks. Finally you add big sticks. It is important to grade your kindling. First you light the kindling. Then the larger sticks will catch fire. Finally the big sticks will start to burn.
List of Verbs
Look at the list of verbs:
start to burn
Note that the first five verbs are transitive (with an object) and the next two are intransitive (no object is needed).
Different Meanings of "fire"
The word "fire" has different meanings:
Have you ever lit a fire?
Have you ever fired a gun?
Fire is an Element
Fire is an element in the classical western system of metaphysics:
Fire – Air – Water – Earth
It is also one of the five elements in the classical Chinese system:
Earth – Metal – Wood – Water- Fire
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Listening Practice
Listen to an Indian swami talk about the classical elements. Remember you do not have to understand everything. Just listen to the conversation and concentrate on the things that you do understand. This is good listening practice.
A Conversation about elements with an Indian swami
In astrology there are four elements and each star sign is one of them.
The fire signs are:
aries – leo- sagitarius
What is your star-sign?
What do you think about astrology?
Vocabulary of Fire
Fire consists of flames and usually smoke.The two usually go together. In English we say:
Where there is smoke, there is fire.
After a fire has gone out or been put out, there are ashes.
You can say:
There is ash.
There are ashes.
The noun "ash" can form a count plural "ashes" or a non-count plural "ash".
Verbs in Present Perfect Passive
These two are the same:
The fire has been put out.
The fire has been extinguished.
Verbs to describe Fire:
The fire starts.
The fire is starting.
The fire burns.
The fire is burning.
The fire goes out.
The fire is going out.
Sight and Smell
The fire smokes.
The fire is smoking.
The fire crackles.
The fire is crackling.
Feeling – Sensation
The fire warms.
The fire is warming.
Fire is mysterious and beautiful. Have you ever thought about the question below?
Is Fire Intelligent?
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D2.4 – Common validation methodology report
This document compiles a description of the target aspects that are going to be evaluated within ETEKINA project; the methodology of evaluation; the definition of key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor those aspects; and the characteristics of the measured variables.
The main impacts of the ETEKINA project that will be monitored are: sensible energy recovered ratio, primary energy savings, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the reduction of energy cost triggered by the project.
However as steel, aluminium and ceramic representative demo cases have each own specific performance peculiarities, specific KPIs have been defined to monitor their performance. Based on those specific KPIs and considering the common main impacts to be evaluated, some common KPIs are defined for the 3 demo cases to evaluate the ETEKINA heat recovery performance in a common way. In this document in order to preserve the confidentiality the common KPIs are shown.
Defined KPIs are the values to monitor the target impacts defined in the ETEKINA proposal and they will be directly obtained based on measurements of the project before and after the WHRS installation will be commissioned. Calculating the difference of the KPIs values before and after the installation the target impact values will be verified. The energy saving opportunity given by the heat recovery based on HPHE (Heat Pipe Heat Exchanger) technology defined in ETEKINA project will be evaluated.
The methodology and KPIs described in this document will be used in WP4 for the 3 use cases' installations validation.
To read full deliverable, please click on image to the left.
D2.6 – Common commissioning procedure
To use the same acceptance procedure for the 3 use cases, a common commissioning procedure is defined to confirm the installations are ready for their evaluation.
The commissioning procedure considers the following aspects: the inspection of piping layout, the sensors and data acquisition operation, electric connection, hydraulic and thermal performance and the acceptance of Waste Heat Recovery System (WHRS) installation comparing design and real performance values.
Following the Scientific Coordinator's suggestion the acceptance criteria will be defined by the technician, the RTD and the industrial partners, case by case, when the installation was ready for the commissioning.
The commissioning procedure is described in this document (D2.4) and it will be used in WP4 for the 3 use cases installations commissioning.
To read full deliverable, please click on image to the left.
D3.2 – ROI Estimation (for use case 1, 2 and 3)
In this deliverable the return on investment (ROI) of the three of heat pipes based heat exchangers (HPHE) designs that will be installed in three demonstration sites is presented . Each HPHE is specified in base of the available and required energy for each of the three use cases:
Use Case 1 (UC1): representative of non-ferrous sector,
Use Case 2 (UC2): representative of steel sector and
Use Case 3 (UC3): representative of ceramic sector.
This report describes how the ROI was estimated taking into account the primary energy saving cost and the carbon reduction savings.
The estimated ROI of the intial designs of the designed HPHEs varied between 7 months to 19 months among the the three demo cases.
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I have configured PPTP vpn in Sophos but PPTP vpn is not secured other than SSL VPN but SSL VPN Works very Slow. So my concern is i want to MAC Binding in PPTP VPN.
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This week was another week of social appointments, running round doing chores and admin... to the point that I simply didn't want to see anyone or tick anymore things of the never ending to do list.
hence I went on a day trip. Which did rejuvenate me a little but (after 2 days in the City ) left me feel for more!
I think I will try to go for a couple of day trips this week.......what are your plans for the week?
Will tell you about my little excursion in the week, for now I am going to look at a map and dream of my next road trip over a cup of coffe and brownies!


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Ripple and Litecoin is not much going on in the cryptocurrency world. Currently, the entire market is sitting just over $430 billion with $22 billion in trading volume within the last 24 hours. The only news currently circulating that remains unsurprising to most is that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are still slamming cryptocurrency. Let's be real here, their wealth can't be denied, but the two are clearly stuck in their traditional ways. Mr. Buffett was CLEARLY wrong about his initial assumptions of Amazon and Google and has even said so himself. The "FUD" has simmered off after the twentieth comment the pair has made and it seems their opinions have now zero effect on investor confidence.
Let's take a closer look at a pair of coins just under the green this morning and their latest updates.
The Ripple coin is also known as XRP. There are no new developments regarding the class-action lawsuit filed against Ripple (XRP) Labs. Since these things take a considerable amount of time, I don't expect to hear much anytime soon; especially since the SEC ultimately decides the lawsuit's outcome.
The team behind Ripple seem unphased by the lawsuit as this week they are holding YPO Innovation Week at their headquarters.
Ripple's CEO, Brad Garling house, spoke at the event and said:
"At its core Ripple is a technology company leveraging digital assets to solve a global payments problem. We believe payments are foundational to any use case so we're starting there."
The Litecoin is also know as (LTC). Litecoin Foundation is embarked on a new campaign to expand their reach and influence. #PayWithLitecoin and #LiteCoinAcceptedHere are flooding Twitter lately. The goal behind the latest campaign is to inspire businesses to accept Litecoin into their day-to-day operations.
Litecoin enthusiast Jon Moore even put together a mock-up for local businesses in his area to integrate Litecoin payment.


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A recent State of the Cloud survey shows that 95% of enterprises have incorporated cloud into their business in some form or another. The reason for this is simple – reduced costs and increased agility.
Cloud models allow enterprise businesses to quickly and easily scale, transfer operations between sites, and access business critical applications all while drastically cutting expenses.
However, the cloud comes with a catch – along with its benefits, this model introduces a new set of connectivity challenges. IT teams are responsible for ensuring security, performance, and compliance as company data and critical applications travel between the cloud and company sites.
Using the public internet to access the cloud is simply not an option if you want to protect and control your business communications. Between increasing cyber threats and unreliable performance standards, the public Internet is too unstable for the serious enterprise. Even if your enterprise runs on a private VPN or an MPLS network, you still cannot use external cloud applications without touching the public Internet at some point.
The only way to gain the benefits of cloud applications while ensuring performance, security, and reliability is to create a private connection between your network and the cloud.
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Perhaps the most robust solution for achieving private and secure connectivity to the cloud is AT&T's NetBond service. NetBond has integrated several leading cloud providers into its own network infrastructure, meaning that customers connected to NetBond automatically gain private, secure, and reliable access to the best cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Salesforce, Cisco, and many more.
By integrating these cloud providers, AT&T has done the background work so that customers don't have to. As long as you are currently connected to AT&T's network via a private connection, you can benefit from this solution without installing new equipment or making network upgrades.
How AireSpring Customers Benefit
AireSpring is already plugged into AT&T's network, meaning AireSpring customers gain the same advantage as AT&T customers. Of course, this only applies if you have an existing private network service from AireSpring. In addition to gaining access to 16 providers, customers on the AireSpring network can also seamlessly connect to a variety of top tier cloud providers through AT&T NetBond
A recent State of the Cloud survey shows that 95% of enterprises have incorporated cloud into their business in some form or another. The reason for this is simple – reduced costs and increased agility.


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Architecture is not the place to work through our collective guilt. Leave that to the poets and artists, says Leon Krier
Let's imagine that Antoni Gaudi had not just designed the Casa Mila but the entire urban block of which the building forms a corner. If that doesn't do it, assume that he designed every single block of Barcelona central and suburban, including all churches, schools, villas, factories, railway stations, airports, bridges and parks and, keeping the momentum, every single town and village of Catalonia, of Spain, of continental Europe, of the entire world, including the furnishings, tools and vehicles therein, private and public.
If you don't shudder at the thought, replace the Catalan "master" by any of the recognised "modern masters", Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Gropius, the current star architects and weigh the consequences.
Change of scene.
Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, an ugly, dysfunctional city may appear like a promised land. I had this experience overflying at high altitude Novosibirsk, the desolate capital of Siberia, the sun rising over a frozen urban abstraction, a Soviet version of the Charter of Athens.
It is common knowledge that the atomic mushroom, rising over Hiroshima, was a revelation of immense beauty for American bomber pilots. It follows that, by holding the appropriate distance, a cruel spectacle can be appreciated, independently of its moral implications. Observing pointedly portrayed human suffering in plays and films we experience aesthetic pleasure. In literature, distance and detachment allow us to appreciate tragedy.
In architecture no valid aesthetic experience can exist without proximity, without the closeness to masses and details, without our experiencing the constructed artefact from without and from within. The intimacy of the inhabitant with his home, of the citizen with the city has to exclude all dominance of the tragic and the catastrophic from architecture and urban design. While this may appear self-evident, there is today a tendency in design that confuses literature and architecture. By means of unbalanced and disruptive plastic violence, arbitrarily reducing innovation to form rupture, this trend professes to express the tragedy of our times through architecture.
For its champions, the memory of the unprecedented Holocaust crime must impregnate all architectural design and, as a consequence, architecture must be in mourning and revolt. In my opinion, this attitude is understandable but unsustainable for, if the proposition were true, it would not merely concern architecture but would have to deconstruct all artistic and technical cultures, languages, object design, industry, agriculture, education, services etc.
We are dealing with an absurd mind-set that confuses the objective and the subjective, the means and ends of culture, technology and morality, or more simply of memory and remembrance, mixing up conscience and emotion.
It fails consequently to grasp the diverging means of literature and architecture. It confuses the roles of the reader-spectator and the actor-inhabitant. We cannot inhabit tragedy without being overwhelmed by pain, and we cannot be passive witnesses of architecture that aggresses and horrifies us.
Franco Purini, proposing a 1000m long and 500m high slab building for central Rome pontificates that "L'architettura deve far' male" – "architecture must hurt". Hurt who and why is the question, especially when the architect lives, works and teaches in a beautiful quarter of the capital.
For architectural design, memory is neither moral precept nor obligation; it is not an archive of deadly testimony; it is on the contrary an instrument of knowledge and know-how; it represents an inexhaustible inventory of practical and aesthetic solutions and techniques that respond to the recurring problems of building structures and places; it is the treasure house of the art of building.


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What is Thread Engagement?
Thread engagement has two factors, length of thread engagement and percentage of thread engagement.
Length of thread engagement is measured by the length of interaction between the fastener and nut member (i.e. nut or mating material for screw.) For example a standard thread forming screw applied in10mm of material will have more length of thread engagement than the same thread forming screw in 8mm of material.
Percent of thread engagement is based size of the mating hole compared to the fastener and how much the height of threads of the screw are engaged. For example a #10-24 thread forming screw will have around 80% thread engagement in a .1683" hole versus around 70% thread engagement in a .1710" hole.
Why is thread engagement important?
Thread engagement is important because it directly relates to the integrity of the joint. With too little thread engagement (combination of length and percentage) the nut member may have a tendency to strip out at lower than desirable torques, in effect lowering the strip/drive torque ratio. On the other hand with too much thread engagement the torque needed to drive the screw will tend to be high, which can lead to inadequate clamp load or even breaking fasteners during assembly
Percent and length engagement can also be traded for one another; i.e. if the nut member material isn't optimally thick, a smaller hole can be used to get a more optimal amount of thread engagement and in effect a better joint.
How does thread engagement effect the tensile strength of a bolt/joint combination?
Simply put, more thread engagement can result in higher tensile strength a joint. Tensile strength is the force required to pulls something until it breaks or the capacity of that material to withstand that load. If a bolt is longer than needed to develop full tensile strength in a nut member, that excess material is wasted. On the flip side, if there is not enough bolt length engaged in a nut member, the bolt has a higher probability of stripping out before full tensile strength capability is achieved. Generally speaking, you need at least 1-1.5 bolt diameter engaged in the nut member to achieve optimum joint strength with a thread forming fastener, depending on the strength of the nut material. There are different factors that affect this such as the nut material; steel is a close to a 1-1.5 relationship, while softer material, like plastic, will need more thread length engagement to achieve optimum joint strength.
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You can never really read a customer's mind – or can you? Yodle commissioned an independent survey of 6,000+ U.S. consumers to answer this question.
In the "Yodle Insights: What Consumers Want from Local Businesses" survey report, we have included information on how consumers find, choose, use and interact with local businesses.
You'll discover:
- Online reviews are expected and satisfied customers are happy to write them.
- Local businesses compete on service and quality, not price.
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