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If you're like me, you love drifting through gardens early in the morning, picking bits of this and that, assembling little bouquets. Even when I am sure that there is nothing to pick, I magically find a few items that look marvelous together, at least to my besotted eye.
Flower Picking
This morning, for example, I clipped some white daisies, some white astilbe, and white hydrangea. The pure white theme just emerged in my hand. Last week it was pink spirea and pink monarda that sat in my hand happily with some long grey felted spires of lamb's ears.
I like to pick the spires of lamb's ears for bouquets as it saves a lot of dead-heading of those plants later. They are also useful, I find, because their thick stalks placed on the outside of a bunch of flowers seem to help prop up the flowers with more fragile stems.
Soon, I look forward to picking branches of the red berries that are forming on my viburnum bushes and pounding their woody stems so that they last longer in a vase. A few big hosta leaves around the edge of a bouquet set off the berries, as do the fat bronze leaves of ligularia.


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Net Promoter Scores and Systems
What is the Net Promoter Score℠?
What was originally referred to as Net Promoter Score has now transitioned to Net Promoter System℠. Its prime function is to place customers into three groups: promoters, passives, and detractors. These groups are formed based on how the customer answers the question, "How likely is it that you would recommend Company XYZ to a friend or colleague?"
Net Promoter Score is a useful metric in tracking customer satisfaction, but using Net Promoter Score alone is the equivalent of going to the doctor's office and receiving a diagnosis, but no prescription. Fortunately, the "prescription" lies within the Net Promoter System.
The days of having a single net promoter score to measure CX success are over. Brands wanting to lead their industries are already making the move from a score to a system and beyond. Those brands are already reaping the rewards and watching customer and employee relationships improve and revenue increase.
Net Promoter Score Scale Groups
Promoters (score 9-10)
are loyal enthusiasts who will keep buying and refer others, fueling growth.
Passives (score 7-8)
are satisfied, but unenthusiastic customers who are vulnerable to competitive offerings.
Detractors (score 0-6)
are unhappy customers who can damage your brand and impede growth through negative word-of-mouth.
What is the Net Promoter System?
The Net Promoter System is the evolution of the score; it combines Net Promoter Score with other contextual customer data to create a strategy of ongoing action and customer centricity for your company. A Net Promoter System takes your CX program to the next level and helps steer business decisions to provide better service to your customers and improve customer satisfaction.
Five Keys to a Successful Net Promoter System:
The single most important factor in creating and maintaining a successful customer and employee-centric business is having a leadership team committed from the top down. This team recognizes customer experience as a competitive differentiator and invests resources, hires talent, and consistently makes decisions to reinforce commitment—across the organization, at all levels, and over time.
Using the NPS Score is an easy way to establish a common language for your organization. This score should be based on a constantly updated flow of information and data from customer engagement and feedback.
Close the loop! You hear this statement everywhere, but what does it mean? At its core, this is the ability for your organization to respond to individual customer issues (Inner Loop) while understanding larger patterns that affect your brand and sharing those insights with the right people so they can take appropriate action (Outer Loop) to improve customer satisfaction.
Your plans have been created and now they need to be carried out. Commitment from your employees is crucial. The interactions they have with customers will have a huge impact on whether a system succeeds.
Net Promoter Systems are complex and require power, flexibility, and scalability on the technology side. Supporting an enterprise's complex needs can quickly hinder many vendors because of the technical requirements involved. Look for a vendor who can scale to meet the needs of your Net Promoter System practices.
How InMoment Can Transform Your NPS
InMoment empowers line and field managers by giving them the tools? to act more effectively and efficiently and focus on the factors that have the greatest impact on customer experience.
At InMoment, we use our natural language processing-based text analytics to gather meaningful insights from mountains of data. Both our speech-to-text and text analytics tools are woven into every facet of our platform—from listening to insights to delivery.
InMoment is uniquely positioned to enhance key Net Promoter System practices. Our platform was built from the ground up to support Net Promoter Systems at every phase, from listening to analytics and reporting.
InMoment focuses on uncovering the "why" not just the "what." Understanding the "why" will uncover underlying organizational issues. With that knowledge in hand you can address the cause of the problem to improve customer satisfaction.
Our mobile-optimized application integrates qualitative and quantitative data from your customer feedback channels. With data collected from the most pertinent social sites and feeds, this information is inserted into your closed-loop process in real time. We then automatically highlight what is most impactful to your NPS practices and which actions your employees should take to improve.
Finally, InMoment provides executive, leadership specific views that make monitoring net promoter system progress quick and easy, including:
- Easy access to NPS and NPS drivers/themes by channel, product, etc.
- Real-time understanding of competitive threats, mentions, perceptions, and products.
- Easy access to the "what" and "why".
- Sentiment by customer segment, personas, products, etc.
- Geographic heat maps by division, region, state, market, zip, etc.
- Persona-based reporting.
- Proactive identification of statistically significant changes in NPS drivers.
- Seamless integration with complementary data sets including market, customer, operational data and more.
The days of having a single net promoter score to measure CX success are over. Brands wanting to lead their industries are already making the move from a score to a system and beyond. Those brands are already reaping the rewards and watching customer and employee relationships improve and revenue increase.

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The Antagonist is republishing the letter here, in full, for anyone else that also wishes to take the editors of the media institutions that have allowed the lies surrounding the murder of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes to continue, without question, until the timely leak of documents that exposed the lies for what they were.
If readers feel motivated enough to contact the media institutions for themselves, please feel free to post the responses and findings of your efforts in the comments to this post.
There is much unrest in the den of snakes. The time is now.
Bridget's open letter to the media, in full:
Now that some of the facts are emerging into the events that led to the assassination of Jean Charles de Menezes, we can start to ask similar questions about the events in London on the 7th and 21st July.
The paucity of evidence from 7th July, one CCTV image from Luton station and supposed discovery of personal documents at all of the sites, has been allowed to go unchallenged by the main stream media.
I have had a fruitless search for any further evidence, such as, what times did these trains leave Kings Cross? One small simple fact that would have aided in any genuine investigation and appeal for witnesses.
Was it just a coincidence that Peter Power of Visor Consultants conducted a security drill using those exact locations on the morning of 7th July (Radio 5 live). I have seen no interviews asking him about this, yet he has appeared at least twice on BBC's Newsnight to offer up his opinion on locking up suspects without charge for up to 3 months. Why?
If lies have been told about one event why should we believe anything else that we have been told? Just to remind those in power, you can fool some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time.
We need to start asking these questions,
Yours Faithfully
Ms Bridget Dunne


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This is my first blog post in quite some time. I'm sure that no one missed me, but I missed me. You see, at some point last year I gave up on our old website. It started out with many good intentions and served us well, but it had become quite a lot like the Winchester Mystery House, lacking a master plan and using it felt that way. It was a classic case of the cobblers children have no shoes. So, with that said, I quietly boycotted our site, waiting for the new one to arrive, and here it is.
As we launch our new website and new Phase2 brand on the one year anniversary (roughly) of the Treehouse merger, you'll notice a lot that's new. A new logo, new design, new colors, and a more people-centric approach to our communications. What you might not see at first glance, however, is that our site is not built on Drupal as most people would expect. We used...*gasp*...Wordpress. Our decision to use Wordpress is not some grand statement nor is it central to our rebrand, but all the same, we think it tells an interesting story, so we wanted to give you some insight into why we chose it here.
First, let's get one thing out of the way: no, we're not leaving Drupal. We are as committed to the Drupal community and using Drupal as a first-in-class platform as we ever have been. The majority of our clients have partnered with us specifically to build awesome Drupal platforms and sites, and we are as excited as ever by our work with them. We are also heavily invested in the new Open Atrium 2.0 (built on Drupal 7), and in community events like DrupalCon Portland, where 10 of our team members will be speaking, CapitalCamp, where we'll be the Diamond sponsor, and DrupalCamp Dallas, where our CEO Jeff Walpole will be keynoting.
So why did we choose it then? The real answer is that we always strive to choose the right tool for the job, every time, and this site is no different. It was time to dog-food our process on our own website.
Our team considered many different technologies for our new site: Drupal, Wordpress, Ruby/Rails, Jekyll, and many others. The goal at the beginning of this project was to not just assume we would use Drupal just because it is a website. Some of the goals that were defined for this site were (in order of priority):
- Ease of use for our *non-technical* content administrators.
- Quick implementation of brochure-site features, such as simple media handling, easy wysiwig, etc.
- Provide an opportunity for our team to step out of their usual comfort zone, gain more experience doing technical evaluations, learn something new, and appreciate the strengths of other technology solutions.
Another differentiator here to why we chose Wordpress over Drupal is that our corporate website is nothing like the Drupal platforms we build for clients, so we need not use the same tools that we would use for those sites. Our typical builds these days are not corporate websites that have some case studies, a people browser and a blog. We build platforms and enterprise content management systems with deep integrations to other systems. Our website is not one of those. We do, however, now have a much clearer understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of using Wordpress and this will benefit our clients tremendously over the coming years.
Yes, both Drupal and Wordpress were capable of creating the site we needed here, but ultimately, we chose Wordpress because we felt like it helped us achieve the goals mentioned above in the shortest timeframe and we got to exercise our learnin' muscles.
The straight truth is that while folks might consider us only a "Drupal shop", we are also a "DevOps shop", a "Content Strategy shop", a "Systems Architecture shop", a "Design shop"....you get the picture. We don't really identify ourselves as any specific "shop". We are consultants and technologists that know how to solve problems and what technology enables those solutions best -- this was the right tool for the job, it taught our teams something new, and it helped us get our goals accomplished quickly and on budget.
All that said, we hope you like our new site, we sure think it's purty.


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Please head to jasminemarcus.com for my full official website!
Dr. Jasmine Marcus, PT, DPT, CSCS is a physical therapist and writer. She graduated from Columbia University's program in physical therapy and received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Cornell University. Before deciding to become a physical therapist, she was a journalist and the host of a college sports radio show in Israel. Jasmine, a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, works at an outpatient orthopedics clinic in Upstate New York, and is especially interested in combining physical therapy with her media experience. Her writing has been published in The APTA's Pulse Blog, New Grad Physical Therapy, Covalent Careers, and other websites; she has been quoted by Men's Journal, Insider, Bustle, MSN, and several other publications; and she has been interviewed by NAOIMT and Creating a PT.
Jasmine is active on social media on on Facebook @JMarcus DPT, Twitter @JMarcusDPT, Instagram @JMarcusDPT, Pinterest at JasMarcus, LinkedIn, and you email her JMarcusDPT(at)gmail.com.
Jasmine has been writing and editing for over a decade. While minoring in Communication at Cornell, she served as Assistant Managing Editor of The Cornell Daily Sun, the oldest continuously independent college daily in the United States. Her writing has also been published in The New York Times, AOL Patch, The Forward Newspaper, New Jersey Newsroom, and the many physical therapy publications listed above. Her writing experience was part of the overall package that earned her acceptance to seven physical therapy programs, including Columbia University and The University of Southern California (USC). Most recently, Jasmine edited the content for her clinic's new website and is the director of social media content.
Contact Jasmine today to have her proofread and edit your application essay, physical therapy website, or other important document.


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Jesus' temptation in the wilderness, Part 3
Nov 26, 2013
The temptation of Jesus in the wilderness proved that He was an overcomer prior to the launching of His ministry on earth. This forty-day period followed the pattern of both Moses and Elijah, who also fasted forty days. Moses, of course, fasted three times for forty days, but as a result, he received a revelation of the law. Exodus 34:28 says,
28 So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Likewise, Elijah fasted forty days, as 1 Kings 19:7, 8,
7 And the angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said, "Arise, eat, because the journey is too great for you." 8 So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Elijah then received the revelation of the remnant of grace (1 Kings 19:18) who fulfilled the promises of God in spite of the disobedience of the majority of Israelites. Paul tells us in Romans 11:4-8,
4 But what is the divine response to him? "I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal." 5 In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God's gracious choice…. 7 What then? That which Israel is seeking for, it has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened; 8 just as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes to see not and ears to hear not, down to this very day."
Whereas Moses' revelation was of the law that was to be written on the hearts of the people, Elijah's revelation was a prophecy of the overcomers who would actually fulfill the purpose of God in their life time. Paul says that this remnant was "chosen" while the rest of the Israelites were given "a spirit of stupor." The clear implication is that the majority of Israelites were not chosen. In other words, their genealogy from Abraham did not make them chosen. Faith, shown by obedience, is the evidence of being chosen.
Jesus' temptation in the wilderness proved that He was chosen. The law was written on His heart, and He evidenced the faith of the remnant of grace. So it is not surprising that later, when Jesus was transfigured, Moses and Elijah were seen with Him (Luke 9:30). Also, after His resurrection, Jesus met with two men on the road to Emmaus, where we read in Luke 24:27,
27 And beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.
Jesus' close association with Moses and Elijah from beginning to end proved that He was the Messiah who was prophesied in the law and prophets. Jesus fulfilled all of the expectations of the law and prophets, for all that they had written Jesus did. Luke focused upon this, because it was powerful evidence that Theophilus would understand.
The First and Last Adam
Before we comment more specifically on the three temptations mentioned here, we should note how Jesus, the "last Adam" (1 Corinthians 15:45), overcame in every area where the first Adam had failed in the garden of Eden.
The first Adam was tempted in three areas that parallel the three temptations of Jesus. Genesis 3:6 gives us the three temptations of Adam and Eve,
6 When the woman saw that [1] the tree was good for food, and that [2] it was a delight to the eyes, and that [3] the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
A summarized explanation of these is given in 1 John 2:16,
16 For all that is in the world, [1] the lust of the flesh, [2] the lust of the eyes, and [3] the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
These three things are seen in Jesus' temptation in the wilderness. Jesus' first temptation was to turn stones into bread (Luke 4:3), because fasting makes all food look good. The second temptation was to be given the kingdoms of this world immediately, without having to die first. The third temptation was to test God by jumping off a pinnacle of the temple to force God to catch Him and thus prove His relationship with God. It is not hard to see that these three represent temptations of the body, soul, and spirit.
They may be paired this way:
The First Temptation (Body)
The tree was good for food (Genesis)
The lust of the flesh (John)
Turn stones into bread (Luke)
The Second Temptation (Soul)
The tree was a delight to the eyes (Genesis)
The lust of the eyes (John)
Taking the easier path to comfort the flesh (Luke)
The Third Temptation (Spirit)
The tree was desirable to make one wise to "be like God" (Genesis)
The boastful pride of life (John)
Tempting God so that one can boast (Luke)
The first tempts the body in its desire for food. The second tempts the soul in its lust of the eyes, for the carnal mind always desires the easier path. The third tempts the spirit, for those who have a wrong spirit desire wisdom in a prideful way. This is the wisdom offered by the serpent, who said in Genesis 3:5, "you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
John calls it "boastful pride." True wisdom is humble, not prideful. The devil tempted Jesus to jump off the pinnacle of the temple in order that He might boast of His great exploit after God saved His life. But Jesus understood that this was tempting God. Tempting God in this way puts the will of man over the will of God by forcing God to react to us. It puts man above God in a subtle manner, thus revealing the pride inherent in such actions. Those who tempt God in this way have a spiritual problem. Paul says of Jesus in Philippians 2:6,
6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped.
The devil tempted Jesus to force God to catch Him and to save Him from falling off the pinnacle so that He could fulfill His calling on the cross. If Jesus had fallen for this temptation, He would have failed the humility test by grasping "equality with God" in an unlawful manner. If anyone had the right to assert the right to be equal with God, it would have been Jesus. But if even He refused to do this, so also should believers refuse.
Having shown an overall view of the three temptations, let us now look at each of them more closely.
The Body Temptation
Luke 4:3, 4 says,
3 And the devil said to Him, "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread." 4 And Jesus answered Him, "It is written, 'Man shall not live on bread alone'."
When the devil said "IF you are the Son of God," he was not actually throwing this fact into doubt, as it may appear in the translation. Dr. Bullinger explains in his notes that the word "if" (ei) is followed by the Indicative Mood, which means that "the hypothesis is assumed as an actual fact" (The Companion Bible, Appendix 118, 2, a).
In other words, the devil was not questioning Jesus' position as the Son of God, but rather had already conceded this fact and was assuming it to be true. Yet he was using this fact to tempt Jesus, because as the Son of God, Jesus had the right to expect God to provide for His needs—in this case, with food for His body.
However, the purpose of Jesus' fast was to deny Himself that which the body needed or was craving. He was giving up food for a greater purpose. Furthermore, He understood that He was in the wilderness to fulfill the law and the prophets, who had already shown that this wilderness experience was the will of God. Moses' law made it clear that He was the second goat which was to be led into the wilderness "for Azazel" (Leviticus 16:8). Furthermore, He had to be tempted even as Israel was tempted in the wilderness before Joshua (Yeshua) could lead them into the Promised Land.
And so Jesus responded to this temptation by quoting Deuteronomy 8:3. Let us read verses 2 and 3 to get the full context:
2 And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. 3 And He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.
Take note that Israel was led forty years in the wilderness, connecting their experience to Jesus' forty days in the wilderness. In both cases, the purpose was the same. It was to prove what was in their hearts and to see if they would keep the commandments or not. In other words, was the law truly written in their hearts by the action of the Holy Spirit? Or was the law still an external force fighting against the natural, carnal desire of man to be disobedient and to go his own way?
True humility is to submit to the authority of God and to obey His voice. It is easy to be obedient when God leads us into the good things in life. But the true test of obedience is when we must choose between the desire (lust) of the flesh and the will of God. So Moses says that God "let you be hungry… that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone."
The bread of God is more important than the bread which our bodies crave. The true bread is the word of God, and Moses says we are to live by "everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord." This includes the whole of Scripture and also the specific word that He speaks to us as we learn to hear His voice.
In the past, I have met some Christians who set aside Scripture and who wanted only to hear the voice of God. Others reject the voice of God and read only Scripture. But we are to live by every word that has come out of God's mouth, whether it was spoken to men in the past (now known as Scripture) or to us personally. This includes the law, the prophets, the Psalms, the New Testament writings, and our own specific revelation. If we reject any one of these, we are failing to resist the first temptation.
This is part 3 of a mini-series titled "Jesus' temptation in the wilderness." To view all parts, click the link below.
Jesus' temptation in the wilderness
This is part 12 of a series titled "Studies in the Book of Luke." To view all parts, click the link below.


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Australian Corps News Sheet [drop-title masthead]. Number 14
[London], Australian Imperial Force, [January] 1919. The first headline is 'Repatriation and Demobilisation', and the first page and a half deal with all matters pertaining (not least, 'A.W.L. During Demobilisation'). A full column of sport is then followed by 'Extracts from London Newspapers of Recent Date' (one and a half..... More
Australian Imperial Force. Staff Regimental and Gradation Lists of Officers. 1st Australian Division; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigades; 4th Infantry Brigade; L. of C. Units and Reinforcements. Revised to 6th December 1914
[No Place, No Publisher], [1980s facsimile]/ 1914. The AIF commanders and officer corps in 1914; the first complete list after they sailed for Egypt in November 1914. The original, and this facsimile, remain surprisingly scarce, and an important snapshot of the AIF. With the binder's ticket of Norman J. Tyack..... More
The Australian Soldiers' Guide to Easy French and Arabic
South Melbourne, Popular Publications, [circa 1915]. With the ownership signature of a captain of the 2/48th. Cover title: 'Easy Conversational Arabic and French for the Australian Soldier. An Indispensible Guide for the Soldier Abroad'. More
Bank of New South Wales Roll of Honour
Sydney, Printed by W.C. Penfold and Co. [for the Bank of New South Wales], 1921. As 'many as 793 officers enlisted from the Head Office and nearly every branch in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua, and London, out of a staff of 1750 men' (actually 1880, according to the erratum)..... More
Commonwealth of Australia. Department of Defence. Manual of War Precautions. Fourth Edition. Containing amendments and corrections to 9th August, 1916
Melbourne, Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1916. More
The Con Camp Chronicle. Published by Permission of Lt. Col. H.L.W. Norrington DSO RAMC. Editors: Rev. H.F.S. Collier .. [and] Pte. William Farrow AIF. September, 9 1917, No 10 .. 1 Penny weekly [drop-title]
Rouen, The Editors, September 1917. Melbourne-born William Farrow described himself as a 'Black & White Artist' on his enlistment form in March 1916. He was in the 3rd Division Cyclists' Corps, before transferring to the 2nd Battalion and going to France in September 1916. His service records indicate that for..... More
The De Havilland Legacy. Hatfield Aerodrome Remembered
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HMT 'Orontes'. Saturday August 10th, 1918. Final Reunion of South Australians under the auspices of the Literary and Debating Societies of 2nd General Reinforcements 'S' UK, and South Australian Reinforcements AAMC .. [cover title]
[At Sea, The Societies, as above], 10 August 1918. Not surprisingly, we can find no record of this most ephemeral item. 'Pte C. Spencer Smith' is written at the head of the first page. The service record of 55891 Cecil Spencer Smith (courtesy of the invaluable National Archives of Australia..... More
King Albert's Book. A Tribute to the Belgian King and People..
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Sydney, William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1919 (second edition). More
'Plan of Turkish Positions in attack on Serapeum and Toussoum'. A large-scale map ('12 ins = 1 mile') printed on paper and mounted on linen (overall dimensions 1120 × 885 mm), produced by '3rd Field Coy. A.E. 1st Australian Div. 15th Feb. 1915. Reproduced by the Survey Dept. Egypt. (683)'
A detailed map of the battleground of the failed attempt by Turkish troops to invade Egypt on 3 February 1915. At the head of the map are large sketches of 'Frame of Kerosene Tin Raft in Turkish Attack' and 'Sketch of Turkish Pontoons captured at Toussoum-Serapeum 4.2.1915'. The Australian War..... More
Sands & McDougall's South Australian Directory for 1915
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Sands & McDougall's South Australian Directory for 1921
Adelaide, Sands and McDougall, 1921. With the ownership stamps of E.J. Cox & Son, Solicitors. More
Staff and Regimental Lists of the Australian Military Forces. 1st January 1914
[No Place, No Publisher], [1980s facsimile]/ 1914. The AIF commanders and officer corps in 1914 prior to the outbreak of the Great War. The original, and this facsimile, remain surprisingly scarce, and an important snapshot of the AIF. With the binder's ticket of Norman J. Tyack, Warburton. More
The Fighting 10th. A South Australian Centenary Souvenir of the 10th Battalion AIF, 1914-19
Adelaide, Webb, 1936. Black lettering on the spine is found on the second impression; the first impression is blocked in gilt. Dornbusch 332; Fielding and O'Neill, page 226; Trigellis-Smith 211. More
History of the 10th Battalion AIF [1914-1918. Egypt, Gallipoli, France, Belgium (cover subtitle)]
[Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1989 (reset and enlarged edition)]/ 1919. This reprint edition, limited to 300 copies, is reset, and contains additional material, a two-page preface by the author's great-nephew, the frontispiece portrait, and a six-page index. See Trigellis-Smith 212. More
History of the 10th Battalion AIF [1914-1918. Egypt, Gallipoli, France, Belgium (cover sub-title)]
London, Cassell, 1919. The first edition of this anonymously published book is fiendishly rare in our experience. This is only the fifth copy we have had in almost forty-three years as booksellers in Adelaide, and the 10th is a local battalion. Arthur Limb (1893-1920) was a member of the battalion;..... More
A very large photograph showing a bridge constructed by the 10th Field Company of Australian Engineers on the Western Front
[Picardie, circa 1918]. The original negative for this photograph is held by the Australian War Memorial (E01957: 'Glass original half plate negative ... Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer'). It is described as follows: 'A corduroy bridge built across the River Ancre by the 10th Field Company of Australian Engineers, during..... More
The Story of the Twelfth. A Record of the 12th Battalion AIF, during the Great War of 1914-1918
Swanbourne, John Burridge, 2000 [large-format revised edition]/ 1925. 'Unusually for Burridge, this is not a facsimile, but a new edition in a larger format. John Burridge told me in 1996 that he had put off this project for some years because of the challenge presented by the squat, thick format..... More
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[Swanbourne, John Burridge, 1989 (facsimile edition)]/ 1924. One of only 200 copies. See Trigellis-Smith 215. More


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The almonds and cashews roast at slightly different rates (see Note below), so place each in a separate baking pan. After initially roasting, you can place them in the oven together with the peanuts for this recipe, but rotate the pan for even cooking.
How to Make It
Step 1
Preheat oven to 250°F. Toss together all ingredients in a bowl. Arrange in a single layer on a parchment paper-lined rimmed baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven until liquid has evaporated and nuts are slightly caramelized, 13 to 15 minutes. Cool to room temperature. Serve immediately, or store in an airtight container up to 5 days.
Step 2
Note: Roast nuts at 300°F in a single layer on a rimmed baking sheet, stirring occasionally until lightly browned and crisp. Almonds: 25 min.; cashews: 28 min.


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When my son was growing up, he loved building things with Legos, a habit I also acquired (when I was allowed to help). A couple of years ago, I finished my first big Lego project the "Taj Mahal" – all 5900 plus pieces (took me 6 weeks), it was so much fun and I will never take it apart.
Then today, I came across the following Lego masterpiece (with thanks to the Register). This may well be the best thing by an Apple engineer this year (sorry iPhone 4 and iPad) This is truly impressive, and as the person in the video states. "Pretty impressive for a bunch of plastic blocks". I would love to see this as a kit.
For more information on the Antikythera Mechanism go here.


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Leadership of 152 Schools Enrolling 70,000 Students
Focus on Religious, Educational and Social Outcomes
With revenue of around $850m per annum and employing 9,000 staff, Sydney Catholic Schools (SCS) plays a critical role in ensuring the educational and pastoral welfare of 70,000 children enrolled in 152 primary and secondary schools across the Sydney metropolitan area.
Reporting to the Archbishop of Sydney through the Board of Sydney Catholic Schools Limited, the Executive Director will provide leadership in the pedagogical and spiritual missions of SCS, in line with the Archbishop's Charter for Catholic Schools.
Key accountabilities will include:
- Promoting Catholic education within the broader mission of the Church;
- Developing a vision of education for Catholic schools that reflects equity and excellence;
- Providing leadership and guidance, and setting performance expectations for the executive and school leadership teams of SCS to ensure alignment with overall goals;
- Promoting Catholic education as the preferred option for Catholic families;
- Fostering the nexus between school and parish communities;
- Ensuring SCS meets all requirements under relevant federal and state legislation;
- Leading the continuing organisational and cultural changes necessary to ensure achievement of students' learning and spiritual outcomes; and
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January 04, 2018 | NORTHWEST LEAF
This year's 'Strains and Genetics Issue' features profiles of important figures in the Northwest.
In a quiet corner of House of Cultivar's massive tier 3 grow facility in an industrial area of Seattle sits a sealed laboratory changing the world of Cannabis genetics.
As the Cannabis industry transitions into the mainstream world of agriculture, new technology is both disrupting and enhancing the marketplace as research and science take control from basement technology and classic growing methods. Tissue culture could be the biggest game changer of the next ten years, and it isn't even on the radar of big Cannabis.
Tissue culturing is the art of plant stem cells, giving a lab the ability to revert strains to the most basic genetic form, and fit 10,000 of them into a cryogenic freezer the size of a decent mini-fridge. The future of strains and genetic preservation intersect in a Petri dish full of weed cells and a new world of technology, and the roots are being laid in the Northwest.
Path to the lab
For Mike Hydro, the company's lead lab technician and strain aficionado who provided the basis for the process, the project began as a work of passion.
A medical grower for the last decade, he started experimenting with tissue culturing in his personal garden after reading about the technique in traditional agriculture. But like any new startup industry, there was almost no information in the beginning.
"For me to start, there was nothing to look up," Hydro said. "There were a few articles on orchid and bamboo propagation, but for specifically what I was trying to attempt, I threw darts at the wall until something stuck."
Through trial and error, Hydro was able to develop methods that worked. He began culturing his own strains in a homemade environment. The failure rate was high, as the chances of contamination run rampant outside a professional lab environment. Around that same time period, he started working with the House of Cultivar team, who built out a shipping container as an initial lab.
When the success and implications of that became readily apparent, the step toward a full-size lab was taken. At a cost of more than $350,000 it was a serious investment, one that paid off for the team, and is soon to help the greater industry.
Genetic Preservation
In a world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. That's been the story of Cannabis genetics for the last several decades. Breeding was underground and risky, and those who bred were rightfully careful about sharing strains. A select group of people globally represented the majority of the cutting-edge strains. For breeding to be successful, the key issues are protecting strains from leaking and becoming diluted while simultaneously protecting genetic lineage and keeping strains alive. The concept of a seed vault meets the House of Cultivar project.
Most people have heard of the "doomsday" seed vault in the Arctic, meant to hold humanity's seeds safe in event of calamity. Ironically, it flooded after less than a decade in existence, a product of global warming. The point is simple—there was previously no way to create a living vault of Cannabis genetics.
The cost to maintain a sample in a cryogenic freezer is minimal, meaning strain banks can and will become a new part of the Cannabis breeding world.
It's that passion that led Matt Gaboury, co-owner of House of Cultivar to fund the project. Gaboury has been growing for ten years and around Cannabis his entire life, always building grows and helping expand upon his formal education in architecture. His main contribution to House of Cultivar was designing and managing permits and construction of the facility, which took more than two years and $4 million.
"We spent the last year running our 60+ strains through the system, to where our entire mother stock was generated from tissue culture, which has proven our viability. Now I'm passionate about opening this up to other people and starting a true bank," Gaboury said.
"Once we begin the bank we will be able to help save heirloom strains, and discover the phenotypes of future."
In 2018 the team hopes to begin accepting storage samples for companies that want to protect strains or phenotypes that they can't keep in the garden, and helping companies reset genetics with the tissue culture process.
Eventually, House of Cultivar hopes to build a database of strains that will be unlike anything else in the world.
"We have the ability to hold 10,000-plus strains in one lab, with plant cuttings and cells stored indefinitely, in the truest form of a genetic bank. We want to fill the whole lab with strains, to collect and store and preserve," Gaboury said.
"We're pioneers of this industry."
Tissue Culture Explained
To understand the process of tissue culturing, it's best to start with a basic understanding of the Cannabis plant, and the simple way people have been spreading genetics since pot became modern.
Traditional growing takes a cutting of a mother plant that's been kept in a vegetative state perpetually, producing baby clones of a specific strain. Over time, the mother will pass generations of new cuttings, until she reaches a point when the cuttings are no longer producing value. A clone becomes a new mother as the process continues. The upside to this process is it's simple, and it works, but the downside can be massive. From passing bugs or pesticides to genetic drift, when the strain loses the properties over the passing of generations. Cloning is an imperfect art that doesn't always produce desired results.
Tissue culture enters the scene as a technology that allows sterile, lab-grade plant growth to create unlimited generations of new plants, all with the exact same traits and features.
The process for making a tissue culture starts by taking a genetic sample of a plant, which can be any piece of leaf or stem, but is best taken from the center stem: a piece about one centimeter large.
This plant matter is then placed into a sterile test tube with an agar gel that becomes the plant's new home. The gel tricks the plant cells into believing they are still attached to a plant, and causes the plantlet to grow callus cells — the stem cells of the plant world. These cells are genetic gold, the essence of the plant on a cellular level, free of all pesticides or chemicals and ready to transform into new plant matter.
The cells are grown out into small plantlets that resemble seedlings, and can then become grown out into full plants. While it might seem like a lot of work to end up back with a clone, the benefits are tremendous. Stripping the plant down to the most basic level preserves the genetic code and refreshes it, stripping away any pests, disease or environmental stressors that change the plant. The new growth is vigorous and fresh, with the original traits of the plant, and represents the full genetic potential of a specific strain.
Greater Implications for the Cannabis Industry
As the Cannabis industry continues to grow, hard questions are being asked about every aspect of cultivation, from pesticides and chemicals to the energy footprint it takes to grow.
While nothing can solve all the industry's myriad of problems, tissue culture offers a solution for a couple of them. Tissue culturing removes all pesticides from the plants workup, even systemic ones that linger for years such as Eagle 20, a banned chemical that caused gardens to fail pesticide tests. It also eliminates the space, energy and resources needed to keep mothers alive.
"Energy wasted just to keep a mother alive or a cut alive, what's the footprint of a cut like that, the amount of effort put into that, from any standpoint—money, ecological, labor—a strain vault is inevitably where we need to go," Hydro said. "It doesn't have to be rational then, people have attachments to plants that aren't viable, but you don't want to lose the cut. Put it in a freezer, stop the genetic degradation, and hold onto the essence of the cut for years."
Breeding of Cannabis is another area that will change with tissue culture. When a plant is first popped from seed, there are thousands of potential phenotypes. When true breeders develop and search for a strain, they pop thousands of seeds.
Currently accepted methodology requires a clone for every plant flowered, with tracking and data, so that at the end of the breeding run the plant that performs best can be traced back to a clone.
This means keeping double the plants alive and healthy, labeled and tracked, all to select a handful out of thousands. With tissue culture, a small piece of each plant could be harvested and labeled, and at the end of the test the chosen cuts can be picked out of a shoebox sized freezer instead of a vegetation room with thousands of clones.
"It's not magic, it's just a large sample population of cuttings, where taking full-size clones takes space and biological risk," Hydro said.
"What we can do is take large samples, isolate the cleanest, and then populate large lots from those clean samples indefinitely. The risk and effort of breeding is essentially cut in half with tissue culture."
By making breeding easier, and storing the genetics that make the strains we love, the potential to save our legacy is solidified, and the ability to spread Cannabis worldwide becomes exponentially easier. Science intersects with agriculture, and centers on a plant that's gone from illegal to one of the world's largest commodity crops.
"We came from basements and garages to commercial industrial, and it's amazing that we have this opportunity," Gaboury said. "It's tremendous and definitely surreal sometimes, as we are shaping the future of Cannabis one tissue culture at a time."
When did Cannabis come into your life and how did you get the name James Bean?
I was slinging herb before I was smoking it. I played high school football so I didn't smoke until I was 17, but I was selling joints as a sophomore, stealing my mom's shake. I liked smoking as it became a community thing with friends, a camaraderie thing. I earned the name James Bean in Boise, Idaho, when I dropped five units of the seediest brick I'd ever seen. People would call and beg hoping I had something else to sell, and I went from James Dean to James Bean.
How did you start selling seeds intentionally?
I met Alpha Chronic around 2010 and get a lot of knowledge from him, and helped him sell his 28-strain line. At that time, I didn't to take on more breeders, because I'd have to give each half. But after three years I ran him down to four strains, and I had to start adding selection. At that time, there were 1,000 cuts of ACDC floating around, and I hated that and wanted to put that out of business. I met with LaPlata (a breeder), he had a Harlequin and Cannatonic cross, Harlechronic, with 25,000 seeds. He was my first new vendor as I started selling CBD strains, and in 2013, I bought all 50 states' seedbank.com, WAseedbank.com was the very first. That was when I knew it could be bigger than just Washington, and at the time it was rent money or domain money, and I chose the websites.
What's the story behind the name, Seeds Here Now?
The weekend of the first CannaCon and Hempfest we had booths at the same time, and it was the first time I had teams in two places. And sitting at CannaCon, people kept asking "You got seeds? You got seeds here, now?" Finally, that became my opening pitch, we have seeds here, now, 100 different strains, and I wrote it on a whiteboard at CannaCon and put it in the corner. The next day I took it to Hempfest, and Darcy drove by and said "This is Hempfest, not felony-fest," and pointed at my sign.
So, I thought about it, and put .com next to the name, and the next time she drove by I said it's all brooches and marketing info and I'm only promoting a website, and she said that's fine! We bought the website that day, and the rest is history.
How many breeders are represented on the site and how do you choose them?
We have 42 United States breeders, and only work with people from the states. In my mind that's there the best breeders are, in the 80s and 90s a lot of U.S. guys sent gear to Amsterdam, but the quality development was always done here.
Your model is different than a lot of other seed banks so how do you spread genetic preservation?
We don't do shipping, but we do have couriers in every state, couriers that take care of orders, all 50 states. I'm a broker, I don't make seeds, I'm a middle man. I tell my breeders the day I start making seeds is the day you should pack up and leave. When I think about seedbanks that make or grow seeds I get upset, I think it's a definite conflict of interest. It's shady, and it's too close to the actual game.
Do you see problems with the seed game in general?
The seed industry has been shady in the past, and continues to be. Anyone can sell you bag seeds, and you'd never know the difference. We have all sent money to Amsterdam, waited months for our $150 pack, and popped seeds only to have two viable starts and they both end up males. It sucks, and if you call them and complain you get nothing. Having been on the losing end, I thought how can I fix that. Shit can happen though, which is why we have our guarantee.
You're known for having a satisfaction guarantee. Was that challenging in a business as unstable as seeds & genetics?
I've said since day one if I can't guarantee it I won't sell it. I have 100 percent satisfaction guarantee, it's not a germination guarantee like some seed banks, its satisfaction guaranteed. If you aren't happy I'm going to give you a new pack. Because I've learned it's a lot easier to give you a free 5-pack and say have a nice day, try it again.
But you don't sell seeds directly, so what do you sell?
We sell genetic preservation kits, they're for novelty use only. Do not get them wet or dirty, they will explode! The information about the strain is the real value, we cover lineage and flowering time and other info, and of course the connection to the breeder. It's very humbling to work with the breeders I get to, it's my pleasure.
How do you choose your breeders?
My first question is always "How long have you been in the business," because you need to have started before me to work with you. I want to work with the guys that paved the road I now drive on, the original guys taking the chances when they didn't need to, putting their freedom at risk to breed strains and work genetics, illegally and without the technology we have today. The guys I work with are chosen, if you made the strain, you built it, I work with you. If you're a "chucker," you cross other people's work, I can't work with that.
What's a "pollen chucker" to you?
A pollen chucker is someone who takes a 10-pack of Crocket's Tangie and crosses it with someone's gear and calls it Tangie Cream, so I ask, what did you go for, what traits, when you bred, other than the name. It's like Brad Pitt and Angelina, you're going have pretty kids, you can take two popular things and cross them, but it doesn't mean you did something special or should be awarded for. Guys like that take money out of breeders' pockets, and spread bad genetics to unsuspecting people, which is wrong all the way around.
Why are some strains more valuable than others and how much of it is hype?
First off, if a rapper raps about your strain, it's worth so much money! You have to always factor the rapper equation. But really, a lot of it is hype, but about 75 percent of the time the hype matches the breeder. There are breeders out there with up to $800 for a 10-pack, but they're only putting out 100 packs, and those will all sell out instantly. Put that in a safe and in five to ten years that's doubled or tripled in value.
How much should people spend on their genetics?
How much do people invest in their gardens? How much do you spend on a bulb? One hundred fifty bucks just for a bulb, but people will complain about $150 for a pack. You're talking about the genetics that will build the future of your company, a proprietary money tree, and nobody has that copy of that seed you have. You want the same thing as everyone else, go transplant a clone.
What is the future for Seeds Here Now?
My second play is licensing breeds. I work with every breeder personally, and we're coming up on a time where strains will begin to be trademarked and licensed. I keep the breeders' interests in mind, and the breeders deserve to protect their rights and their strains. California will be the first to start enforcing and accepting Cannabis trademarks, which is huge. We can't federally trademark because of the Controlled Substances Act, but someday strains will be extremely valuable.
When did you start growing?
Matt: I started officially growing for medical patients in 2007 with 36 plants, and expanded the following year to 96 plants, the biggest garden in Takilma and the greater area for that matter, at the time. My dad, Matthew Chalon Miller, went to prison for 18 months in 1999 for growing Cannabis. That was in impressionable experience for myself as the eldest of eight that drove to Coos Bay every other Sunday to see him. He died from a heart attack in 2015, while doing his pack-test for wild land firefighting.
Rhea: We are both second-generation growers, learning mostly from our fathers. And what's super cool is since the industry has become legal, we've been able to teach them a thing or two!
I understand your late father was around for the legendary creation of Jager. How did Jager come to be?
Rhea: Jager was born in 2009 in Takilma, Oregon. Takilma is a small, hippy community outside of Cave Junction, known since the 70s for some of the highest grade Cannabis in the nation.
Matt: I got Hindu Kush seeds from the Farmacy in California. I was getting into cross-pollination and exploring genetics at the time, while trying to find a strain that would set me aside from everybody else. But most of all, the high and the terpene profile I was chasing was gas and purps terps, like Purple Urkle. Sour Diesel was my favorite strain of all time and I wanted something semi-sour like that too.
I needed a strain that would stand out in a competitive market. I popped 30 different strains, with five up-to 30 seeds of each strain. Once I began, I was really surprised with how much irregularity there was in the phenos once the seeds popped. I planted all of my Hindu Kush seeds I had in the pack. I liked the variance because it's like a mystery that never stops giving. It's a true hunt to find the perfect pheno. It's a real adrenaline rush!
It's like gold-panning with plants. I wanted to see what the best was for myself.
I was, and still am, very passionate about discovering the best phenos in strains. After I cracked all of my Hindu seeds, I crossed the specific pheno that I felt was the one back onto itself, which gave us the Jager.
Was there any push back from the Cannabis community or the company Jägermeister?
Matt: I've been drinking Jägermeister for some time, and I was passionate about drinking my Jäger. I was doing a lot of Jäger bombs back when we were in cross-pollination during the creation of the strain. My brother and I were wrestling on the porch, and things got heated. Once we calmed down after the fight, we decided to roll one up to keep the peace.
We all picked our own smoke, and I rolled up what was to be the strain we dubbed Jägermeister. I told my brother, "It's like Jäger in a bottle, and Jäger in a spliff!" and that's how we named it.
It was all medical back then, so this was before legalization and branding. We called it Jägermeister in the early medical days, but a dispensary in southern Oregon got a cease-and-desist from the Jägermeister company. We personally have never been contacted by the company—ever. But to protect ourselves, we changed the strain name from "Jägermeister" to "Jager" to prevent legal action.
Rhea: Back in the medical days, there was pushback from the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP) community because we named Cannabis after an alcohol. But the complaints were pretty minor. To this day, especially after going legal, we don't hear as much, if any, opposition anymore.
Why do you think people conflate your strain Jager with the strain Purple Hindu Kush? Can you set the record straight on the subject?
Rhea: Purple Hindu Kush and Jager are not the same thing. I'm not sure why people think it's the same genetic. Both Jager and Purple Hindu Kush come from the same origins, but they are completely different phenos. Think of it like this: similar to Girl Scout Cookies Forum cut versus Girl Scout Cookies Thin Mint. Both strains are from cookie genetics, but they're two totally different phenotypic expressions. It's like siblings.
They have the same parents, but are two totally different people. The two probably get mixed up because they are from the same lineage, but they are different genetics. Jager is a specific, stabilized phenotype not to be confused with Purple Hindu Kush.
What got you interested in working with, cultivating and eventually breeding Cannabis? Specific strains?
My interest in cultivating Cannabis began in the summer between 11th and 12th grade. This would be the first of several failed attempts to grow a small number of plants from bag to seed outdoors. A couple of years later, during my sophomore year of college, I had my first successful crop. It was a small closet grow under a 250-watt HPS. At the time, the Virginia Beach Afghani cut was very popular amongst many of my friends. Although I never had the honor to cultivate her, her dominance in our market inspired me to explore the potential of various seeds I had collected over the years.
To be honest, nothing too exciting evolved from this but my passion to explore continued to evolve. I was introduced to Four Way in 1996. For several years this strain became the standard by which all others were judged. She was a perfect balance between sour and skunky and she was LOUD. This was the same Four Way that is referred to as the Fairfax Four Way today. This is the strain that really inspired me to start breeding. I moved to the West Coast in 1999. My first breeding efforts were to meet or beat the Four Way. It took a few attempts but eventually I got there. If I remember correctly, it was a Northern Lights, Big Bud, Haze cross that finally met the mark. From that moment, I knew the path with Cannabis that I was intended to follow. Moving to Portland enabled me to access amazing genetics to breed with.
Can you provide some insight on the selection process?
Many growers buy seeds to "pheno hunt" for the best flower expression. Not me. I am constantly looking at new crosses to see how they might integrate into my own breeding program. I ask myself, "What can this cross do to enhance another? Can it add depth in flavor? Will it help to stabilize? Is this a new foundation that I can build off of?" If I don't check the "yes" boxes for any of these questions, then I generally pass on those seeds. During the selection process, I am looking for complex flavor expressions. There has to be the right combination of different inhale-exhale experiences coupled with evolving layers that linger on the pallet after the exhale. No one-trick ponies allowed. Potency is also of significant interest to me. I want to produce chemovars that are rich in secondary metabolites. I believe these are the best resources for medicine.
What advice do you have for recreational growers?
Don't lose sight of quality as you pursue higher yields in order to meet your bottom line. Focus on creating a balance between the two.
What about for patients and consumers?
Do your best to be an educated consumer. Whether you're a medical or recreational user, product awareness is crucial.
What is your favorite strain to grow and what is your favorite strain to smoke?
For the last few years my favorite strains to grow are DogWalker OG and her sister The Bizz. The Bizz has only been released to a few, but be on the lookout for her and her offspring in 2018. In addition, I really enjoy my Scooby Snacks (DogWalker OG x GSC Forum Cut) and most recently Black Lime Reserve. At this year's Emerald Cup, I was gifted some pure Land Race Thai from Bodhi. This is amazing smoke! The flower was seeded. I can't wait to see how these seeds might integrate into future breeding projects.
Hopes for Cannabis breeding ten years from now?
Hopefully ten years from now we, the breeding community, will have stood together long enough to protect our genetics from falling into the hands of greedy corporate Cannabis pirates. We must do everything we can to prevent these giants from claiming ownership of our genetics that we have spent decades trying to create. There are several entities out there who are currently pursuing utility patents and genetic modification of Cannabis for self-serving interests. Scotts Miracle Gro and Phytec are two of these companies. Stand together, we must.
What are you currently smoking on?
There are about ten strains in the head-stash at the moment: Kali Snaffle, Ms. Universe, Cherry Vanilla Cookies, Pineapple/C99, Super Silver Haze F4, Bubba Kush and a few more, but I've mainly been smoking on the Sour Peach Cobbler.
What originally sparked your interest in breeding Cannabis genetics?
When I first started growing back in 1996, it was from seed. I made my first batch of seeds to become self-sufficient. I made seeds for years before I ever grew from a clone. Seed reproduction evolved into a strict selection process, which eventually became Dynasty Genetics.
What strains are most effective for your medicinal needs?
Pineapple Fields has been amazing for me personally. Its functionality allows me to keep up with my busy schedule but also subsides pain.
When working on new crosses, what traits do you look for?
It really depends on the goal for the breeding project, but ultimately testing the offspring will determine if the male is suitable for use. When I chose the Blue Heron #111 male for the Blue Magoo Bx2, I tested two "finalist" males for a side by side grow of the offspring. The male that looked identical to the Blue Magoo actually did not pass on the recessive-dominant traits I was looking for, but it was actually the taller one that passed on the dominant Blue Magoo traits to all offspring. This is also one of the reasons I test the offspring before committing to a particular parent plant.
Are there any strains or projects that we can expect a release of soon?
The Sour Peach Cobbler is one of the new upcoming releases in extract, bud and seed form.
What's your opinion on testing out crosses? It seems many breeders select an elite male and cross them with elite females without growing out the offspring.
Testing is a necessary part of the process in my opinion. If we are not testing offspring, we are not doing a big part of our job.
What does "breeding with intention" mean to you and why do you feel it's important?
Building a stable foundation is one of the most important factors that are determined when I begin a project. I believe breeding with intention is part of what differentiates "breeders" from "pollen chuckers." I am conscious of setting goals when beginning a project due to the amount of work I already have cued up, this helps keep things organized and efficient.
How was Archive formed and when?
Archive was formed around 2011 by Fletcher Watson in the great Pacific Northwest. The first seed packs were released around this time using the Albert Walker crossed with Manic 32 male. The idea was to create a male as close to the infamous Albert Walker to be crossed to many other cultural classics that have been collected for well over a decade.
What strains were involved at the beginning, and how were they chosen?
The first strains used in breeding after the Manic crossed with Albert Walker line was the Face Off OG line. Face Off OG female was old bag seed found from OG from SoCal in the early 90s. The Face Off was back crossed to find a number of tested males that made the cut.
These males were used to make the first Face Off line, which consisted of many heirloom genetics including Purple Urkle (Grimace OG), San Diego Catpiss (Code Blue), Pacific Northwest Dog Shit (Poochie Love), Skunk crossed with Chem 91 (Hazmat OG), Irene Kush (RudeBoi OG), as well as some more current hype Cultivars like Forum Girl Scout Cookies (Samoas), OG Kush Breath (Dosidos), Ghost OG (Casper OG), Sour Diesel (Sour Face) to name a few.
The goal in all these crosses is to use the finest heirloom genetics and best new age genetics to create a line that offers the best of both worlds and helps preserve the classics. We have always been about the flavor and effects and we're always looking for unique profiles and high THC strains. The goal is to open the door to new varieties and flavors instead of remaking things already in existence.
How does the selection process work at Archive?
The selection process comes with a lot of smoking of female cultivars used, rigorous stress testing and flowering of the males. Once the desired attributes are found, then the crosses are made and tested before release.
The Face Off males tend to help stabilize some of the more unique and unstable varieties along with adding some of the desired growth traits for commercial operations.
How do you see the breeding world changing with Cannabis legalization?
We see seeds as the future of Cannabis. Breeding for consistent varieties that can be grown from seed. The vigor and sterile start of a seed plant is hard to compete with on a commercial level. We will continue to push the bar to create unique cultivars looking for every flavor and smell imaginable.
Why is DosiDos the favorite inhouse strain?
The DosiDos is a plant that has it all. Looks, smell, flavor and potency. It is a homerun and we have heard from many people that it has effects that are unmatched in its potency and ability to not have a tolerance build-up to its specific profile. The new line of DosiDos crosses is an amazing chance to once again take old classics with varying viability and turn up the modern day bag appeal, potency, flavor and commercial viability.


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By David Joel Miller, MS, Licensed Therapist & Licensed Counselor.
Don't let regrets about the past ruin the present and future.
Do you have regrets? Maybe they are small ones; you wish you bought the other color or model. Maybe your regrets are big ones, actions that caused you or others pain, things you wish you could go back and change. But you can't change the past. Almost everyone has regrets, some small, some large, a few even gigantic. So, what to do with those regrets? How do you get past the pains of your past?
Fix the things you can.
You can repair some things. You said or did something that damaged a relationship. Sometimes you can apologize, say you're sorry. If you owe somebody money you can pay it. Sometimes an apology is not enough. Maybe you need to do something to make it right, to make your amends to the person you have injured.
Undo yes and no decisions.
You can undo some decisions. You said yes to a job or attending a party and now you wish you hadn't said yes. You're entitled to change your mind. Call that person, send them an email. Maybe you said no to something or someone, and now you wish you had said yes. Check it out; sometimes it's possible to change your mind.
Pick a new alternative from life's menu.
Sometimes changing your decision is no longer a possibility. For example, you wanted to attend a concert but didn't buy the tickets in time. Look for other options. Maybe the person or group you wanted to hear is performing somewhere else nearby. Maybe there's some other event you would enjoy instead. Don't stay stuck in regret over the relationship that didn't work out, maybe it's time to meet someone new.
Only take responsibility for your part of the problem.
A lot of life's regrets are about relationships. Maybe it was an argument with a family member or friend, that conflict cost you a relationship. Take responsibility for your part of the conflict. You can't take responsibility for what the other person did or said. If you can fix it do so, but not at the cost of ignoring the other person's part in the problem.
Reevaluate the alternatives. You may have picked the best alternative you had.
Sometimes you must pick between two bad choices. Don't be so hard on yourself. You may have made the best choice you could under the circumstances. Be careful of hindsight. If you would have had the information you have now back then, you might have made a different decision. But you didn't have that information, and you had to choose. Don't spend the rest of your life stuck in regret.
Learn from your mistakes.
Don't be one of those people with tons of regret who keeps doing the same things over and over. Stop piling up new regrets by learning from your mistakes and making improved decisions in the present.
Practice extreme acceptance.
Staying stuck in regrets can use up a lot of energy. Practice accepting that what happened is in the past. Avoid ruminating and allowing your mind to enlarge the pain. Shift your focus from regrets about the past to opportunities for better future.
Stop looking over your shoulder at the past.
The past is gone. Don't keep looking back at the things that can't be altered. When the thought of that regret comes up, practice shifting your focus to the future. As long as your alive there will be more events ahead on the road of life. Look forward to making your future the best it can be. If you only look for the bad in life, you will find it. It's quite possible that all around you are opportunities for happiness here in the present and in the future.
Do some psychological repair.
Make healing from life's regrets a priority. Sometimes you will have a close friend with whom you can talk it through. You may need to be careful about who you tell what. Telling family or friends about things you regret may damage your relationship. If you are not sure how someone will react to hearing about your regrets, that person may not be the one to talk with. Once you tell that secret, it can't be untold. Some people find it useful to journal, write out how they feel in a document meant for only them to see.
If you're having trouble processing and dealing with regrets, you may need to seek professional counseling help. Don't stay stuck in a life dominated by regrets. Use some of these approaches to change what you can, and accept what you cannot change.
You find more about this topic under Regret.
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Portland State Alumna Tracy Puhl '09 is only a few years older than the company she owns. GladRags, an eco-friendly menstrual product company, celebrated its 20th birthday on Tuesday, July 30 at Holocene. GladRags was founded by Brenda Mallory (pictured at left with Puhl at the GladRags birthday bash) and has grown from a home-based business to its own space in inner SE Portland that distributes cloth pads to women all over the world. Last year, GladRags became a Certified Benefit Corporation, which means that they meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. As a values-driven business, it was important to Puhl that her business become certified by the nonprofit B Lab to show support for this new global movement in business beyond the bottom line.
Recently named Portland's Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the Small Business Association, Tracy also serves on the board of Women Entrepreneurs of Oregon and volunteers at the local chapter of Dress for Success. Winning the award was really exciting to Tracy, because, she says, "I had taken ownership of the company after being there only a few years, and had no business training whatsoever. It was great validation that with hard work (and a love of being constantly challenged!), anyone can own a business."
Originally Tracy had planned to become a social worker, and earned her BA in Social Science from Portland State in 2009. However, she says that while it does not seem like it would be particularly useful in business, "understanding how people think and what motivates them can be pretty powerful!" Having also focused on Women Studies and Gender Studies in her studies also played a big role in her success with GladRags. "Overall," she says, "I think PSU helped me develop critical thinking and analysis skills that have served me well."
Born and raised in Portland, PSU was a great fit for Puhl who did not want to leave the city when she began college. She had taken a year off after high school and was used to working. "I liked that I was able to work throughout school because there were so many night/weekend courses."
Going from a customer service representative to owner of the business in only a few years is quite an achievement. Tracy's advice for success in a small company? "Always look for extra ways to help. If you have a coworker struggling with a project, or your boss is stressing about something, ask how you can help them out. You'll learn way more about other parts of the company this way. Also - be proactive. Actively look for ways to improve the processes in your workplace (look for redundancies, wasted time or energy, etc.). Don't just point out that something isn't working; have a potential solution (or two!)."
What about those interested in one day owning their own business? "Ask for help! There are people and organizations out there who want to help you, and who have the knowledge (and sometimes funding!) to be powerful assets to your growing business. Find them, ask questions, and never stop learning."


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University of Arkansas. Cooperative Extension Service.
The collection of digital images is provided as a service to Arkansas agriculture. These images represent symptoms of both pathological (infectious) and non-pathological (physiological/environmental) disorders of agronomic row crops and horticultural crops that grow in Arkansas. These photos are useful as an identification tool to growers of the crops listed.


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NY Met Museum: David Hockney
I was so happy to be able to visit this major retrospective of David Hockney's work at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. I was familiar with his work and have always admired his color sense and his moody, enigmatic portraits. Most of his work is very large, so I knew that seeing his art in person would be a totally different experience from seeing it on the computer or in a book. I also wanted to get a sense of the artistic progression throughout his long career (he's now 80), and to understand his different influences and styles.
This iconic Hockney painting is one of his best known. In person it is bold and powerful. I love how he gave the feeling of water by simplifying shapes and colors. The light colors, dark shadows, and powerful reflected light create a scene shimmering in strong California sunlight.
This is the first of Hockney's double portrait series, which often showed couples in intense, emotionally ambiguous poses set in their homes.
Later Hockney switched to oil paint and created intensely colored landscapes of his native Yorkshire, England.
The artist often created very large paintings made up of many medium sized canvases, each taken from a slightly different perspective, as if one were to turn a bit to look to each side or up and down to see each individual view.
This painting, like many in his later years, plays with perspective. For instance, here the deck seems to both advance and recede at the same time.
Hockney was an early adapter of drawing on the iPhone and later the iPad. For years he has created small daily sketches of views from his house and of household still lifes and posted them to friends.
My New Year Tradition
No one would ever call me a party animal. Ever. So it's no surprise that my favorite New Year's tradition has nothing to do with the festivities on New Year's Eve. Instead I'm all about the new beginnings of New Year's Day. My tradition is to create a vision board which I use to inspire me about my goals and the possibilities of the coming year.
I'm sharing my vision boards from the last several years with you in the hope that they inspire you, too. I have erased some of the text because, well, some goals are personal. :-)
I was introduced to the idea of a vision board by a friend at her New Year's day brunch seven years ago. She explained to her guests that a vision board is a collection of images of things that you would like to become part of your life. It's a way of focusing on these ideas and enjoying the feeling of already having them.
So in this case, the images were to be of our visions for the next year. Our friend provided us with stacks of old magazines, poster board, glue, and markers, and we had a great time. When I got home, I posted my collage on the wall in my studio.
Over the next year I enjoyed looking the goals on my vision board. I didn't worry about accomplishing them, I just glanced at it a few times a month and was able to think positively about my priorities and about what I might do next.
I enjoyed my vision board so much that I've made it a personal tradition to start a new one each year on New Year's Day. (Sometimes it doesn't get finished until February, but that's OK.) Of course, because I'm an artist, the final product must be visually attractive as well as inspirational.
I start by deciding on my main goals for the year, both personal and professional. I find it works best for me if I don't make the goals too specific; I can do that elsewhere if needed. Then I make labels of the ideas and begin gathering images that suggest each goal, from the internet and magazines – this is a great excuse to buy a handful of my favorites! I also include some images of my artwork. Lastly, I arrange it all in a pleasing composition.
Right now I'm working on my vision board for 2018. I've got lots of good ideas and I can't wait to see what it looks like when it's all put together! So now it's your turn. What do you want your 2018 to look like?
Best wishes for the Happiest of New Years,
I'm Linda Hugues and I paint cityscapes of everyday happiness from my travels in Europe and my home in Florida. Here on my monthly blog I write about everything related to my art life, in and out of the studio. Enjoy!
July 2020


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I feel a bit over-whelmed again. I get over stimulated from seeing people, going back to the city, driving. So I bought a caravan a few years ago and stuck it on a 52 week site not too far from home so I could go and chill whenever I felt the need. It kept me sane until I could get out of the city.
We moved to a very secluded village back in April, and its quieter here than at the caravan park, so when my contract was up (last weekend) I moved my lovely old caravan onto the drive here. She is right down the drive, cant see her from the house. And I have just "packed a bag" of goodies - DVD, chocolate, crisps, milk for a cuppa, cat milk for the slinky ones, and I'm off to spend a few hours in my caravan down the drive!
Men have sheds, I have a 22 year old caravan
How do you chill out?


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"Arm Electronics" streamers
These streamers attach to your body tube in order to give you an obvious visual indication that you still need to arm your electronics that are being used with your rocket. This is an adjustable version that can accomodate a wide variety of body tube sizes and has the text imprinted onto the streamer itself.
|Arm Electronics streamer- adjustable
This is a vinyl band that wraps around your rocket in order to remind you to arm your electronics- whether it's an altimeter or Jolly Logic Chute Release. The band gets secured with Vecro and has a nylon streamer hangiing from it. This streamer...


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We are called to worship God in all that we do. One way that we can do this is through music. At First Baptist Church Alma, we offer a Worship time on Sunday morning, as well as Sunday and Wednesday evenings with Bible Study and Prayer Meetings. Below is a description of our Sunday morning worship gathering:
10:30 AM Service (Blended)
In this service, we sing songs of different styles. We may have our Praise Band lead a couple of songs or just the piano and/or guitar by itself lead a song or two. This is a way for us to blend (hence the name) together a variety of different songs, styles, etc. in order to connect with all generations to worship God together! No matter what, the songs we sing in this service align with Scripture and exalt Christ!


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The photos in the masthead are (left to right): Rachel Ophelia Black at the age of 8 months, Rachel as an infant with her father (Harry Jay Black) and her mother (Gertrude May Black nee Chamberlain), Rachel on her pony, Lady (c. 1927), Rachel in her 1932 Model A Ford coupe, Rachel at college (about 1927), Rachel as a bride with her groom, Harold Arthur Misegades (Daddy), in 1935.
Your arms were always open when I needed a hug.
Your heart understood when I needed a friend.
Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson.
Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly.
[Sarah Malin]
This photo of my mama (Rachel Misegades, 1906–2001) was taken sometime in the 1950s.
Mama was a hand weaver, knitter, crocheter, leather tooler, book binder, teacher…. I thought she could do almost anything. The thing she did best was problem solve. She did what seemed the most sensible to her even when she didn't like the choice. Then she adapted her attitude to what she'd decided to do. I remember when she decided to quit driving and she sold her car. Later, she rented a place at a senior-living center, sorted her belongings, sold her house and moved. I ask her how she made all of those hard choices and kept a positive attitude. She replied that she asked herself what her mother would do. Isn't that ironic. That is exactly what I do.
In her later years, Mama recorded her childhood memories on six audio tapes. A friend of mine, Janet Newell of Trilobite Media, recently transcribed the stories and digitized the audio files for me. I'm sharing mama's stories on this weblog in Mama's words.
Best Regards,


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Cougar Arts
Creativity is at the heart of invention. Tomorrow's jobs require not just technical skills, but also great creativity, communication and design to make a user experience complete. Our Arts department provides a wide-lens for our students to expose them to the many ways the arts contribute to our daily lives in ways we don't always recognize. Read more from our Head of School in her blog post on "The Importance of Creativity".
Visual, Graphic & Decorative Arts
You've just got to see our beautiful Fine Arts Building. From watercolors to oils, from clay to kiln, from mixed-media sculpting to designing multi-media animation through Adobe® Creative Suite — Clariden is equipped with a dream arts department. We are fortunate enough to have a full-time arts educator on staff to incorporate the arts into all of our students' days. Curriculum is tailored to each grade level and combines art history, theory, culture, technique, expression and above all CREATIVITY. In addition, the arts department leads our community in
- Graphic design, marketing and branding for our STEAM and competitive projects
- Year book photography, layout, design and publishing
- Set design for all school productions
- Cinematography training for our annual student film festival
- Annual art show and auction
Performing Arts
Music & Voice
From the ringtones on our phones, to the action sounds with the apps we use, music is an integrated part of our everyday existence. Understanding sound, movement, notes, and creating music are all a priority at Clariden. We understand the significance of music in enhancing creativity and learning. Students participate in music instruction from Cougar Prep through High School. Our music program enables students to explore the many aspects of music including how to read and write music, how to understand the science behind how sounds are created, and of course, how to use one's voice. Our incredibly gifted music educator leads our students in creating the:
- Clariden Winter Concert
- Annual Spring Talent Show
- Musical mixing and editing for STEAM projects
- Musical scoring assistance for our student film festival
- Musical performances for our theatrical productions and special events
Movement & Dance
Movement and motion are a core part of our music education. We also offer Dance as an elective exercise class in addition to a traditional Physical Education class. Students taking this class get a cardio workout and learn a variety of styles of dance. In addition, our Music and Dance educator contributes to:
- Halloween Dance Choreography Competition
- Clariden Winter Concert Choreography
- Choreography for theatrical performances
From our student-made films to our annual theater productions, Clariden students have the opportunity to participate in a number of theatrical experiences. There are roles at the sound board, behind the curtain, front and center stage, and in set design. There's something to match students' interests and innate talents. Theater is an elective class available to students in 6th through 12th grades. In addition to weekly class time, there is also an after-school component to this elective for practice, building, rehearsals, etc. Clariden puts on 2 theatrical performances per year, one in the winter and one in the Spring.


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On a journalistic quest, I once visited Jaffa looking for the childhood home of Sabri al-Banna — a k a Abu Nidal, the most infamous of Palestinian terrorists. Stymied in my search, I stopped into Fakhri Geday's pharmacy. The aging proprietor had grown up in Jaffa before 1948, when most Arab residents of "the Bride of Palestine" fled during the Jewish conquest. Geday politely gave me directions to the old al-Banna mansion, now an Israeli military courthouse. It was a diorama of displacement.
Reading Adam LeBor's "City of Oranges," I once again met Fakhri Geday, along with much displacement. LeBor writes Jaffa's past as a sprawling family saga. At its center are a half-dozen or so clans, Jewish and Arab, whose lives intertwine from the 19th century till today, as the Mediterranean port flowers and then is torn apart by conflict.
The Gedays, a Christian Arab family in Jaffa for generations, are one thread in the chronicle. Unlike other wealthy Arabs, Fakhri's father, Youssef, refused to sell land to the Jews who poured into British-ruled Palestine. Unlike his neighbors, he also rejected panic and flight when Menachem Begin's right-wing Irgun underground overran Jaffa in April and May 1948.
Young Fakhri, then a pharmacy student in Beirut, prowled the Lebanese port as boatloads of Jaffa's disinherited arrived. Eventually, he learned his parents had stayed put, and he was allowed to go home under an Israeli family unification program. But in the 1950s, the Israeli government expropriated his family's land for the new Jewish town of Bat Yam. It didn't help that Youssef Geday shouted in court that "Abu-Khaled" — as the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser was nicknamed — would come and give him back his holdings. Fakhri shared his father's faith in Nasser. When war broke out in 1967, the pharmacist looked forward to Egyptian troops entering Jaffa and neighboring Tel Aviv. As an old man, he defiantly tells LeBor, "This is our country and I don't believe that God promised it to anyone else."
That's one side of the Jaffa story. Another is that of the Chelouche clan, among the first Jews in modern Jaffa, who arrived from Algeria in 1838. For LeBor, the Arabic-speaking Chelouches embody a lost era when Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together, did business and attended one another's weddings. That era ended in 1921, when tension between Arab nationalists and Zionists erupted into riots in Jaffa. By then, the Chelouches had helped found Tel Aviv. The riots sparked an exodus by many of Jaffa's Jews to the new city.
After 1948, a Chelouche was briefly the military governor of Jaffa. The town was annexed to Tel Aviv and settled by Jewish immigrants. Exiled Jaffa Palestinians like the Hammami family — who reached Beirut, then scattered across the globe — polished memories of their lost home. One member of that clan, Said Hammami, was the P.L.O. ambassador to London in 1973, when he published a pioneering article calling for a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, alongside Israel. For that heresy, he was murdered — by a gunman sent by Abu Nidal.
"City of Oranges" is an engaging, well-constructed book, even if its characters are more colorful than complex. But LeBor shows chutzpah in claiming that his is the first account "focused primarily on the human story" in the Israeli-Arab conflict. His own sources include Tom Segev's more penetrating and poetic "One Palestine, Complete." And Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre's classic chronicle of the 1948 war, "O Jerusalem!," is superbly woven out of the personal stories of those who fought.
LeBor's actual innovation is viewing the conflict from Jaffa rather than Jerusalem. Jaffa and its sister, Tel Aviv, are secular cities, devoted to commerce, more enamored of beaches and nightlife than of sanctity. They do not awe visitors, but many a Westerner feels more at home in them.
The shift from Jerusalem to Jaffa is also political. Collins and Lapierre portrayed Arabs sympathetically, but Jerusalem lent itself to a pro-Israeli narrative: The city symbolized Jews' ancient connection to the country; the siege of Jewish Jerusalem stood for Israel's success against Arab force; and ethnic cleansing swept Jews as well as Arabs from their homes.
LeBor, in turn, describes Jews sympathetically, but Jaffa suits his pro-Palestinian telling: In his account, ancient Arab Jaffa accepted Middle Eastern Jews. But modern Zionism imposed the "colony" of Tel Aviv, an out-of-place European city whose residents eventually conquered Jaffa, displaced most of its Palestinians and constrained the rest to minority status. This story of the colonial Jew and displaced Palestinian fits current fashion — particularly in Britain, where this book first appeared — and is no less fragmentary than the other.
LeBor describes Jaffa's past as "idyllic." His vision of the future includes the "de-Zionization" of Israel, intermarriage between Jews and Palestinians, and a fading of nationalism. It's a picture of a comfortable, gentrified Middle East. But it underestimates how deeply both Jews and Palestinians experience nationality as intrinsic to identity. The Palestinian diplomat Said Hammami, murdered by his fellow Jaffa exile, was more realistic, and more daring.


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The new Row Pattern Matching functionality in Oracle Database 12c enables SQL developers to quickly solve new problems - and old problems in much more efficient and scalable ways.
This session will summarize the MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause, then present general-purpose SQL techniques for bin fitting problems, hierarchical summaries, temporal validity queries and joining or summarizing data by ranges. By decreasing CPU use, these techniques run 50 to 500 times faster than existing solutions and complement the advantages of Exadata or the In-Memory option.
The pattern matching features of the most recent version will be presented.
This session is geared primarily to SQL practitioners who are willing to unleash the full power of SQL in the Oracle database. They will learn how to apply row pattern matching concepts to different categories of problems, and will observe these concepts applied to typical situations using repeatable techniques.
Some prior acquaintance with the MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause is desirable.


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Pro-Tech Knives, LLC is a family owned knife company that has been building high quality American Made knives since 1999.
Each Pro-Tech knife is a blend of the finest materials available and a commitment to craftsmanship. Our knives are built with the most current high tech manufacturing processes that include; CNC Machining, Wire EDM, Laser Cutting, etc. The high tech components are assembled and hand fit by dedicated and caring craftsmen here in our factory.


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"As an investor, the most important thing for me is the strength of the currency where my yields are coming from. We have Canadian bonds in my bond fund. If I'm a bond investor, it's the only thing that matters really. I'm not worried about Canada defaulting. But I would be worried about Canada inflating. When you're a bond investor, you want purchasing power. … I have to make sure the currency that I own [for clients] is going to deliver that purchasing power in the future. So the currency value is paramount." - in www.theglobeandmail.com
Related: Canadian Dollar, CurrencyShares Canadian Dollar Trust (NYSE:FXC)
Peter Schiff`s comments on the economy, stock markets, politics and gold. Schiff is the renowned writer of the bestseller Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse.


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Tuesday, April 24, 2018
1000th POST ♥ The Kindness of strangers = A Blog giveaway!
Earlier this year I was contacted by a lovely woman who was wanting to downsize some of her books and mixed media items. She had met me at a craft fair, and continues to see what I'm up to on this blog and very generously gave me some beautiful items. I was very excited to receive some books that I have borrowed from the library in the past that now can live happily on my own bookshelf and am sooooo happy that I will be able to make use of these gorgeous indian printing blocks
HERE. Although published a while ago, it remains a regular source of inspiration and if you are new to mixed media or it's just missed your radar, I highly recommend it.
Beryl Taylor inspired my Indian Wall Hanging. If you click on that link it links in turn to all my blogposts about the techniques used to make this.
my FB Artist page telling me why you'd like to win and I'll do a random draw a week from now - next Tuesday night (New Zealand time).
I look forward to sharing the love. Good luck.
Congratulations to Cally who left a comment on my FB artist page. She's going to share the book with a friend when they have play days ♥
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Congrats on hitting the 1,000 blog post, Lynette, that's quite a feat. As you say, a great record for yourself, but very interest8ng for your followers too.ReplyDelete
Your wallhanging is beautiful- I'm off to read up on it. Nice to share your books- quite understand that it needs to stay local due to postage. I'm like you- still blogging and ejoy it. But it seems as if lots go to Instagram. I have an account, but don't use it much. Still prefer the documentation of the blog.ReplyDelete
Hi, I am a Rose City quilter, not a mixed media artist, so you can leave me out of the draw but I wanted to let you know of something I saw that might interest you at a second hand shop. The place on Russel St has batik tools and some stamps, metal and wooden. Not many, but good quality. That place is like a museum, so is worth freeing up some time since it is school holidays to go have a look see. And congratulations on your thousand post anniversary!ReplyDelete
I'm glad you still visit, Marina. Hoping to start another quilt soon :-)ReplyDelete
Thanks Nancy - With both Instagram and FB, I don't feel it gives me enough room to tell the whole story! I know I scroll back through the blog when I want to remember how I did something so for that alone it's valuable. So very cool to get the comments from you and know that someone else is enjoying it too 😊ReplyDelete
Tawa - thanks so much for the tip. I might have to go for a wee visit tomorrow ♥ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for leaving a comment. I will always respond to you so check back here in a couple of days.


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29th - 30th July 1988
Following on from Operation Forough Javidan, the Iranians counter attack against the invasion of Mujahadeen-e-Khalq forces with Operation Mersad.
The Mujahadeen-e-Khalq forces have over extended themselves into Iranian territory and are out of range for Iraqi air support. The Iranians then insert paratropper units to cut of their retreat and attack the lines of units along the Kermanshah highway with air and helicopter strikes and also encircle them with Iranian army forces and Revolutionary Guard units from Khuzestan to the south.
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Touchscreen pad computer
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Flash version: 8, ActionScript 2.0.
Touchscreen pad computer.
Simply click on the computer to switch it on/off.
Just put your own image or animation inside the flash. Computer is 100% vector, so will look good if resized or if on different background.
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