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Royal Precision Portable - Custom
This like new Royal Precision Portable is a beautiful example of the later Royals. Its sleek lines belie the fact that underneath is a heritage that stretches back over the years through many renditions of the same theme: Quality.
I have this model in three colors to choose from, Green, Red and Blue as shown here.
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Gavin Wanganeen is helping the Power in its attempts to lure Paddy Ryder to the club.
Grand Final teams: We analyse the four key matchups that will decide Saturday's game
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Port Adelaide premiership-winning player Gavin Wanganeen is helping the club in its attempts to lure Paddy Ryder to the Power.
Port are reportedly battling the Brisbane Lions for Ryder, who has requested a trade from the Bombers.
Wanganeen crossed from Essendon to Port Adelaide in 1997, but says when he first spoke to Ryder he wanted to make sure the ruckman was certain he wanted to leave the Bombers.
"I said that to Paddy out of my respect for Essendon," Wanganeen told the Adelaide Advertiser.
"My first reaction to Paddy was to say, 'Stay at Essendon'. But if he is gone (from Essendon) mentally – and there is no turning back, I want him to know about Port Adelaide."
Brisbane are believed to still be in the hunt for Ryder, however Wanganeen says the 26-year-old would be a valued man at Alberton.
"If Paddy was thinking of Brisbane, I wanted him to give Port Adelaide the opportunity to chat to him," Wanganeen said.
"That's where I came in with my telephone call to Paddy.
"I wanted Paddy to at least give Port Adelaide a go. I wanted him to know how Port Adelaide is placed – and how he would be a valuable player to the Power. Also, he should know how great the indigenous culture is at Port Adelaide.
"My message was the Port Adelaide Football Club is going places. If Paddy values a premiership, Port Adelaide is the club to be at.
"But my first advice to Paddy was not to walk away from Essendon unless he was 100 per cent sure there is no turning back."


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It's a lot of fun....they have to take out some of the stuffing and put it in canopic jars, sprinkle salt in the body and wrap the body in toilet paper, etc.Good Luck!!
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Picture a Country: Egypt by Henry Pluckrose -- Nice easy photo book format
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Module 1: Locating for place quality
This module will help you gain a better understanding of the Place Principle and how a place based approach to housing and the quality of place. Poor quality places aren't just bad for those living there. Over time they can lead to significant costs for the public sector, struggle to tackle big issues like climate change or inequalities. To succeed, everyone needs to work together to agree shared ambitions and this module works through key themes within this topic.
PSCF2020: world cafe sessions
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PSCF2020: Ben Twist and Jim MacDonald discussion
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PSCF2020: designing for a changing climate
A selection of online resources from the Public Sector Client Forum event 'Climate, health and place' including presentations, interviews and more.
Place Standard
Working together to improve the quality of places across Scotland.
Scotland + Venice
Learn about Scotland's participation at the Biennale Architettura over the years.
Public Sector Client Forum: rural futures
Catch up on our rural futures Public Sector Client Forum and hear from organisations helping to create thriving countryside communities.
Planning performance framework report 2019-20
This report highlights how we supported the delivery of better outcomes through the planning system in 2019-20.
LAUDF 15: Designing for net zero – event report
Explore all the learning from our first online Local Authority Urban Design Forum event on 1 March 2022.
Furniture, fixtures and equipment: toolkit and tips
Use our practical guide for furnishing and equipping spaces and settings to deliver better learning environments.
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Alva Pathfinder toolkit
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Alva Pathfinder: application of the Place Standard tool
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2021 Annual Review: a reflection of our work
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Learning points: a blue-green strategy for Kilmarnock
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Andy MacMillan Memorial Lecture 2021 – Dr Jos Boys
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Despite the challenges of lockdown and the closure of our offices, we have continued to deliver high quality and important work.
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Place skills for housing: locating for place quality
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Gaston celebrates old-timey Christmas
People gathered at the Dallas Park off Dallas Cherryville Highway on Saturday to commemorate holiday traditions from a century ago.
The 1890s Heritage Village Christmas Celebration featured carolers, an open blacksmith shop, a chapel with stained glass windows and several structures including a cotton farmer's home.
The free event displayed what typical Gaston County mill houses looked like during the Christmas season in the 1890s.
Lucy Penegar, vice president of the Gaston County Historic Preservation Commission, stood on the porch at the chapel and welcomed visitors. The commission partnered with the Gaston County Museum and Gaston County Parks and Recreation to make the event happen.
"We're in the country. This is the cotton farmer's life, what it would've been like for him," Penegar said. "So it's a little bit sparse compared to uptown Dallas because that's the big city. We have on our country clothes."
Penegar said probably what visitors to the chapel like best are the windows, which came from an old Presbyterian church.
Nearby, children roasted marshmallows and a blacksmith made metal decorative items.
"In the little cotton farmer's house we've got a real wood cook stove in there and its going and heating up the hot chocolate and hot cider," Penegar said.
Inside another building at the Dallas Park, men played guitars.
"That's pretty typical of what they might've had on the farm to get together and sing and have fun," she said.
In the 1890s in Gaston County, mill homes featured handmade decorations at Christmas like strings of popcorn and dried apples, as opposed to red bows and modern tinsel.
Gazette reporter Wade Allen can be reached at 704-869-1828; twitter.com/gazettewade.


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We're excited to announce we will be digitally releasing the upcoming EP from Chicago band Sushi Backpack. The bedroom project is fronted by songwriter and guitarist Ben Austin who is joined by Gooey Fame on drums, Nikki Geslani on bass and vocals and Jen Lee on keyboards, for recording and playing live, with additional long-distance vocal support from Leanne Butkovic. Sushi Backpack draws inspiration from bands such as Rocketship, Die Fünf Freunde and Citrus, but the first band you might think of when you hear them is Tullycraft.
A version of Sushi Backpack's song "Saku" was featured last year on the Fallen Love Records compilation "Secret Gardens" and will also be on the upcoming EP. In an interview with Fallen Love, Ben talks about the song:
For a few years I had an office job that allowed me to listen to music the whole day and, through extensive YouTube sleuthing and recommendations from the Indiepop Digest, I discovered a lot of great music from Japan. Last spring, after finding some cheap plane tickets and using all my paid time off, I booked a trip to Tokyo and planned to see a show every night! I met a girl over there (we hung out at a Kiichibiru show) and we stayed in touch after I returned home. So this song is sort of about that trip and that girl and whether or not we would feel the same way about each other the next time we met. She didn't but I left that out of the song…
Check out "Saku" below and stay tuned for more information about Sushi Backpack.


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Entrepreneurship and Business Dynamism
Here is the video of my panel at the Cato Conference on Growth (other videos at the link). John Haltiwanger leads off with a very good talk summarizing some of his work on declining business dynamism (see also his important paper with Decker, Jarmin and Miranda.) Amar Bhide follows with some skepticism about productivity statistics. My talk begins at 50:26. I discuss regulation and dynamism, why less-developed economies are more entrepreneurial than the United States, Japan's Ise Grand Shrine and its lessons for entrepreneurship, how Zara is internalizing creative destruction and more.


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Overproduction in the Chinese government owned steel industry is causing a global oversupply and driving out otherwise competitive US producers. Obama administration and GOP leadership refuse to do anything about it, but rather fast forward on the same field trip trade policy.
[Reposted from Zacks | January 22, 2015]
The new year does not appear to be happy for some U.S. Steel (X – Analyst Report) workers. The steel giant said yesterday that it would temporarily shutter plants in Illinois and Indiana, laying off 545 more people starting Mar 2015.
Amid a difficult operating environment, U.S. Steel is aggressively pursuing actions to improve its cost structure and boost revenues on a sustainable basis through its "Carnegie Way" program. As part of this initiative, the company is realigning its three business segments and establishing a new management structure. CEO Mario Longhi said that the move will help the company to create a closer bond with its customers by catering to their market demands, thus strengthening its position globally.
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Preaching austerity, Egypt president rolls out 2.5-mile-long red carpet
CAIRO - Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is facing criticism after a massive red carpet was laid over public roads for his motorcade during a trip to open a social housing project in a Cairo
CAIRO - Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is facing criticism after a massive red carpet was laid over public roads for his motorcade during a trip to open a social housing project in a Cairo suburb, where he preached austerity.
Images of the giant red carpet prompted a wave of ridicule on social media, with a hashtag mocking the carpet trending in Arabic. A local newspaper devoted much of its front page Monday to the incident.
"How is the president asking us to tighten our belts while the 4 kilometer (2.5 mile) red carpet says otherwise?" read a headline in Al-Maqal newspaper, whose editor-in-chief, Ibrahim Eissa, is one of Egypt's most prominent TV commentators.
El-Sissi, who as military chief led the overthrow of an elected Islamist leader in 2013, has staked his legitimacy on reviving the economy after years of unrest, including by trimming costly state subsidies, a theme he touched upon at Saturday's event.
He said the state spends around 40 million pounds ($5.1 million) a day to provide clean water, with only part of the cost passed on to consumers.
"One (cubic) meter of water that reaches you costs me this much, and you are taking it by that much, and the state is unable to continue this way," el-Sissi said in a televised conference.
The military provided a rare public response to the furor over the carpet. Brig. Gen. Ehab el-Ahwagy explained on several talk shows Sunday night that the carpet was not purchased by el-Sissi's administration and had been used for more than three years on similar occasions.
"It gives a kind of joy and assurance to the Egyptian citizen that our people and our land and our armed forces are always capable of organizing anything in a proper manner," el-Ahwagy told prominent TV talk show host Amr Adeeb.
"It is laid out in a way to beautify the general area, so it gives a good impression of the celebration that is being broadcast to the whole world."
El-Sissi's promises to bring stability have come amid heavy clampdown on dissent.Thousands of Islamists and a number of prominent secular activists have been imprisoned and sentenced to death. Unauthorized protests have been banned.
On Monday, hundreds of soccer fans nevertheless held a rally inside a Cairo park to commemorate the deaths of 22 people killed in clashes last year between the police and fans of the Zamalek football club. The fans set off firecrackers and waved banners as large numbers of security forces were deployed outside the park.
The rally came one week after a similar gathering by fans of Egypt's top football club, Al-Ahly, commemorating the 74 people killed in a soccer riot in 2012 in the Suez Canal city of Port Said.
Egypt's hardcore soccer fans, known as ultras, played a major role in the protests that roiled the country during and after the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak.


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No, Obamacare Is Not President Obama's Vietnam
Well, I thought I'd heard some bad similes when the botched HealthCare.gov rollout was likened to Hurricane Katrina or the Iraq War. (Those were nicely rebutted by the likes of Ezra Klein and Jon Stewart.) But Slate Editor David Plotz has topped them all. Here he is on the most recent Slate Political Gabfest:
I wonder if this is going to have a similar kind of effect the Vietnam War and the Pentagon Papers did. You have these government bureaucrats, government leaders who claim to be so smart, claim to be so capable, so on top of it, to have a strategy. And then suddenly the curtain is pulled back on the Vietnam War, and then you realize it's all a sham.... This is a similar thing, which is that so many people, and I count myself one of the suckers among them, thought, Well, Obama is a very smart, analytical guy, he clearly is capable of using technology very effectively, at least as a political campaigner, of course this is going to be taken care of. And the fact that they botched it so badly makes you think that no institution can be trusted, that government really can't do the job.
Let's just get this out of the way: No, this is not like the Vietnam War. One was a tragedy that lasted over a decade, killed more than 50,000 Americans and likely millions of Vietnamese and wounded many more, created class and racial rifts in this country that persist to this day, served up a humiliating defeat for the United States in the midst of the Cold War, and revealed several presidential administrations willing to sacrifice substantial blood and treasure to avoid admitting that they didn't know what they were doing. The other is a crappy website. A crappy website that somewhat delays people's ability to sign up forhealth insurance (rather than, say, die in a foreign jungle), and a crappy website that is being repaired as you read this and is apparently functioning more or less as advertised now. (In fairness, Plotz did express concern that his own metaphor was a strained one.)
Ensuring that millions of people obtain access to health insurance is not an easy job. If it were, it would have been done by now.
OK, so the hyperbole is clearly unwarranted. But what about Plotz's larger point? Will this botched rollout damage people's beliefs in the power of government to solve problems? No, it probably won't. Nor should it, any more than the iPhone 4's antenna problem undermined people's beliefs that Apple could build a cell phone, or that the private sector could produce working electronics products.
For one thing, people's beliefs over whether government works is a deeply ideological question and is often divorced from empirical reality. When the financial sector collapsed in the fall of 2008 and the economy appeared to be in free-fall, actions by the federal government, economists broadly believe, helped stabilize the situation, saving the financial sector, limiting the rise in unemployment, and keeping a large recession from turning into another depression. The feds stepped in when the private sector was ailing and arguably saved the day. Did the government get credit for that? No. If anything, people's faith in government to do the right thing went down during that time.
Given how ideological the question of government effectiveness is, people will generally resort to their predispositions when evaluating HealthCare.gov. Conservatives will point to the website as evidence that the federal government can't solve big problems well and shouldn't try. Liberals will point to the military, Social Security, and Medicare to point out that the federal government actually can go big very effectively, and that we shouldn't judge this new endeavor based on a weak website rollout. Few minds will be changed.
For another thing, we should keep in mind that the federal government always gets the dirty jobs. It's not like large swathes of the public are sitting around dreaming up things for the feds to do. Rather, people turn to the federal government as the problem-solver of last resort. The free market, even operating at its best, will still fail to produce some needed goods, such as systems of education, health care, housing, and transportation that meet the needs of all the citizens. State governments often have limited resources and can't run deficits or print money. So people turn to the federal government when something has to be done but no one else will do it.
All this is to say that ensuring that millions of people obtain access to health insurance is not an easy job. If it were, it would have been done by now. No, the website didn't need to be as bad as it was—California's health exchange system seems to be functioning fairly well and serves a population more than a tenth the size of the United States, showing that this sort of thing can actually be done. So, certainly, those responsible for HealthCare.gov thus far deserve all the criticism coming their way. But we might keep in mind that the federal government is still just in the initial phases of addressing a problem that's been vexing Americans for decades before we start organizing campus protests, putting together another Woodstock concert, or filming a new generation of Rambo pictures.


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Press Release
Nurses Endorse Kevin de León for U.S. Senate
RNs Praise Senate Leader's Fight for Medicare for All
Praising his outspoken advocacy for Medicare for all, including the California single payer legislation SB 562, National Nurses United, including its California affiliate the California Nurses Association, today endorsed Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León in the 2018 U.S. Senate race.
"At a time when 15 million Californians still have no health coverage, or pay for premiums and still can't afford to get the medical care they need, Kevin de León demonstrated outstanding political courage and leadership in shepherding passage of SB 562 in the California Senate," said Malinda Markowitz, RN, co-president of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United.
"Last year, as leader of the California State Senate I voted to pass single-payer legislation because our representatives in Washington, D.C. have wavered on this issue for far too long," said de León about the endorsement.
"Hard working people throughout the nation are depending on California to bring our fight against dysfunctional establishment politics to the floor of the United States Senate. Now is the time to reject business as usual; the lives of millions of Americans depend on it," de León said
"With escalating attacks on existing health care programs, evidenced just today in the disgraceful Trump administration proposed budget cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and other critical safety net programs, we need a fighter in the Senate. We know Kevin de León will not only stand up to these attacks, but be an strong advocate for a permanent solution to our broken healthcare system through an improved and expanded Medicare for all."
"Californians have enough politicians who claim to favor 'universal coverage' or even 'single payer', but when a real proposal becomes actual legislation, such as SB 562, they will abet the insurance industry and other corporate giants in attacking it," Markowitz continued.
"Kevin de León proved he would stand up to the heat, and do what is right for California – working to advance the legislation, rather than looking for ways to appeal to corporate donors. That's exactly what we need in the Senate, especially in the age of Trump."
CNA also strongly concurs with de León's platform to work for real action on the threats posed by the climate crisis and for comprehensive immigration reform, Markowitz said.


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Cesar is evaluating whether or not Missy is an aggressive dog with the help of his dog Junior.(02:16)
Dog owner, Takis, refuses to admit that his dogs are out of control, forcing Cesar to intervene.(02:09)
Cesar Millan working hard to train not only the dogs, but the owners as well.
Check out some of the dogs that Cesar Millan is working hard to rehabilitate.
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Building for the future.
People, past and present.
A unique insight into the natural world.


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FoundersCard + Deal for Acquire Readers
FoundersCard is an impressive new members-only perks program that gives its members access to a number of deals and discounts from brands such as W Hotels, Mondrian Soho, Apple, FedEx, Ritz Carlton, and American Airlines. Its a roster of brands and services that any burgeoning entrepreneur would most definitely appreciate.
Memberships are $495, but the kind folks over at FoundersCard were nice enough to extend a 50% off discount ($249) to Acquire readers. Just use the code "FCACQUIRE11" and you will be eligible for a $249 lifetime guaranteed annual rate.


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Here's What's Next on Project C10
Episode 21 – Classic Auto's Drew Yagodnik and Project C10's Rick Drewry are on location around Indianapolis, Indiana with noted photographer Anthony Ross Tyler, who's snapping outrageous pictures of our good-looking 1965 Chevy C10 restomod. Even though Mother Nature decides to rain on us, Ross uses his brilliant technique to tell the story of this 54-year-old truck with a renewed lease on life surrounded by classic, iconic imagery.
Episode 21 – Video Transcript
Drew Yagodnik: This is Drew with Project C10. I'm here with our guy, Rick Drewry, and we're here on location doing a photo shoot with Ross Tyler. And so, we're here a little bit outside of Indianapolis on just an amazing property. I mean, this was built for this photo shoot, I think.
Rick Drewry: Yeah. We like it.
Drew: So, a good friend of ours said, 'You need to come here and shoot.' And this garage is just fantastic. So, Rick brought the truck. We're in the testing mode, you know, trying to work out some of the bugs from being done for a few weeks, and we've already, honestly, discovered a few things within literally 10 minutes of getting it off the trailer.
Rick: We've got just a small coolant leak coming out from the lower radiator hose where it mounts to the water pump. It's an easy fix.
Protect Paint Job Inside the Engine Block
Rick: We actually have a very small brake line leak where it's attached to the master cell. And the only bad part about that part was it dripped down onto the paint on the inner fender and its bubbling the paint. So, I'm going to have to actually do a little spot job paint on the inner fender. Not a big deal. Might even put some Chip Guard, or something like it, there on the insides -any way to protect from the heat. So, it's little things that you go through, especially when you've got more than one hand in there. So, you've got a bunch of hands in there and double checking, triple checking everything. It'll all work out.
Chip Guard is an acrylic coating that protects lower panels from impact, chipping and abrasion. Made by 71-year-old American company SEM, it's part of a product line that helps reduce repair times and waster while offering best-in-class protection for the automotive, aerospace, marine and industrial markets.
More Amazing Indiana Photo Shoot Locations
Drew: We're super excited. So, you know, the photo shoot, we're going to probably use these images for a lot of our marketing going forward, social media calendars, that type of thing. So, we're off to another location after this that we think is going to be super cool background with the truck. And so, we got definitely more to come. Stay tuned.
Drew: All right. We're back here with Project C10. We just finished up on location at our first property for the truck photo shoot with Ross Tyler. And in a couple of minutes we're going to head to the next one, which we think is going to be really another fantastic photo. I mean, it's the oldest barn in this county. A sweet backdrop. So, stay tuned.
How The Photo Shoot Comes Together
Ross Tyler: I'm Anthony Ross Tyler, everybody calls me Ross. And this is Pavel, and I never say your last name right.
Pavel Dimitrov: Dimitrov.
Ross: Dimitrov. There we go. Pavel came down from Chicago. He's a light assistant and I'm a photographer. And so, we're shooting this Classic Auto Insurance C10, and the challenge was to tell a story with a truck, not just to shoot it in an environment where the truck was just kind of sold out.
So, we did some shots yesterday in an empty warehouse, but this C10 needed something a bit more particular. And Mother Nature decided instead of giving us a great sunset day that she was going to rain today. And so, we were in a bit of a of a rush to try and make that happen. And using lighting creatively, we're able to actually underexpose the shots and light the vehicle, light the environment, actually using one of the lights to hide behind the trees to cause the leaves in the tree to illuminate, and the truck, and so forth, to give us the sense of light coming from location. And we're able to edit a shot in post by using … I guess it would probably be somewhere in the range of, in this case, 20 to maybe 25 different exposures with different lighting setups, different cameras set-ups that you then blend together with Frankenstein and Photoshop, to create what that final image will feel like. All the shots are going to feel dark and kind of stormy to a degree, but they're gonna light up and that truck's going to have this … old truck with a new spin in old environments. And that really will tell a story, not just be a photo.
Drew: All right. So, we're at final location of the photo shoot with Ross Tyler, and as you can kind of tell, we ran into rain, and we were rushing, rushing, rushing. And so, we had to drive a few miles to get to this location, which is super awesome. And Ross and his crew, they were moving, you know? We knew that this weather wasn't gonna stop, but I think you're gonna see some really awesome photos at the end of this, so stay tuned. Appreciate it.
The Work of Anthony Ross Tyler
Ross is a noted commercial and fine art automotive photographer, video/film creator and colorist based in Nashville, Tennessee. "I shoot for commercial clients, my portfolio, private clients and their rides," he says. For the past two years Ross has teamed up with the folks at Artomobilia Weekend to create a series of ultra-high-quality images any automotive enthusiast would love to have hanging in their garages that illustrate the unique lineage of the Ford GT and the Lamborghini V-12's.
Legacy of Classic Auto Insurance
Classic Automobile Insurance Agency is a family business built on a love of classic cars. We take every opportunity to give back to fellow classic and collector car enthusiasts by sponsoring events such as Carmel Artomobilia and Fuelicious, attending classic car events throughout the Midwest to document owners' stories of their dream cars, partnering with like-minded companies and organizations to better serve our customers and bringing you unique learning opportunities like Project C10, powered by American Modern. Having owned a variety of collectibles ourselves, we understand your unique needs as the owner of a prized vehicle. Its age, rarity, value, unique features, limited use, availability of parts and services and popularity across generations require special protection. Whether you bought it at auction, drove it off the lot or restored it to perfection in your garage, we will build you a personal auto insurance program designed specifically for owners of collectible cars, and provide support when claim time comes. Call 888-901-1338 or get an instant quote online and see how we can help safeguard your dream car.


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How much does America need to see? Donald Trump cares about one thing: Donald Trump.
If anyone thinks otherwise, they are smoking something.
Trump has made it crystal clear, he cares about himself and nobody else. He is the exact wrong person to be the president of the United States.
Wake up sheeple.


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The Problem With "Infrastructurism"
Have you ever heard someone say that building a new transit line will increase ridership by so many thousands of riders?
Jarrett Walker at Human Transit calls folks who subscribe to that idea "infrastructurists," and he says it's a mistake to attribute too much importance to physical infrastructure. In the end, it's service — which can be facilitated by new infrastructure — that influences ridership.
The "infrastructurist" mentality was on display, Walker says, in a recent study published by the Transportation Research Board, which Streetsblog covered in July. The authors examined why some transit lines attract more riders than others.
Based on the transit lines they studied, the authors did not find that speed, frequency, and reliability "individually had a statistically significant effect on ridership." But Walker says there's plenty of evidence demonstrating the effect of service quality on ridership:
While this dataset of new infrastructure projects is too small and noisy to capture the relationship of speed, frequency, and reliability to ridership, the vastly larger dataset of the experience of transit service knows these factors to be overwhelming. What's more, we can describe the mechanism of the relationship, instead of just observing correlations: Speed, frequency, and reliability are the main measures of whether you reach your destination on time. Given this, the burden of proof should certainly be on those who suggest that ridership is possibly unrelated to whether a service is useful for that purpose.
Note the word choice: To the infrastructurist, speed, frequency and reliability are dismissed as operational, whereas I would call them fundamental. To the transit customer who wants to get where she's going, these "operational" variables are the ones that determine whether, or when, she'll get there. It doesn't matter whether the line is at-grade or underground; it matters whether the service achieves a certain speed and reliability, and those design features are one small element in what determines that.
Walker has some additional critiques of the study that he says arise from the "infrastructurist" point of view. It's an easy trap to fall into, he says.
Elsewhere on the Network today: The Political Environment explains the psychology behind Wisconsin's rush to spend big money to reduce the "rush minute" — the suburban Milwaukee car commuter's version of rush hour. Pedestrian Observations discusses the pluses and minuses of locating rail alongside a road right-of-way. And Better Institutions says U.S. DOT's pronunciations about recovering driving levels are misleading.


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Update & Goals
Finished a cleanup pass on "One Ahead #1" on Wednesday/Thursday, and got to work on "One Ahead #2." I decided on Thursday that I wanted to get 2500 words done on it by the end of today. Four days, 2500 words. Not a problem! Unfortunately, I was a bit brain-fogged Friday and Saturday. As of right now, I have 1500 done, but am in good position to write another 1000 today. As long as I stay focused…
Goal for the coming week: 5000 more on "One Ahead #2"
The Publishing End
Moved three of our books to KDP Select. Two are suffering from price change lag, but I'm sure they'll catch up. Discovered what was behind Lucinda's download spike using a service called Mention. It seems that a couple free ebook site listed it. Alas, Mention is too pricey for me to continue to use after the trial is up.
Goal for the week: Keep an eye on the prices on our KDP Select books and get things started regarding what promo channels we're going to use. Next Saturday: Promo for The Martian Engineer's Notebook, Volume #2. It'll be free next weekend if you'd like to pick up some info about the science in The Martian.
Week Two of "Python Data Structures" involves installing Python on my computer, which I did during the first class. No assignment, but I'll probably review since I'm rusty at doing things from the command line. Week Two of "Intro to HTML" has a quiz of 29 questions.
Monday: "The Cask of Amontillado" review Tuesday: Motherless Child review Friday: Peril on the Screen #2 – Peril in SPAAACE!
- Saturday: Deal Me In – "The Trial Horse" by Clark Howard <– Brain fog prevents reading too! Might get it done today.
Sunday: ROW#80 post
- Monday: "The Fall of the House of Usher" review.
- Tuesday: A review of something I haven't finished yet! Or, if I'm lame, my Deal Me In catch-up.
- Friday: Review of Deadlands: Ghostwalkers
- Saturday: Deal Me In
- Sunday: Some sort of writing update post.
Round 3 Wrap-Up
Round 3 is nearly over! Since I don't usually post on Wednesdays, I'll wrap today.
On the writing/publishing front, it's been a quiet, but rocky summer. Eric's been writing a lot. I've been drifting along. My pie-in-the-sky goal was to get "One Ahead #1" published. We're close. I survived our July travels and "One Ahead #1" is in the can. We had just added Eric's Martain Engineer series to KDP Select back in July and obviously we're happy enough with what's going on to add other titles.
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How a monk who has money cannot stay in the monastery.
And so having money to provide for his wanderings, with the assistance of which he has fitted himself as it were with wings, and now being quite ready for his move, he answers impertinently to all commands, and behaves himself like a stranger and a visitor, and whatever he sees needing improvement, he despises and treats with contempt. And though he has a supply of money secretly hidden, yet he complains that he has neither shoes nor clothes, and is indignant that they are given out to him so slowly. And if it happens that through the management of the superior some of these are given first to one who is known to have nothing whatever, he is still more inflamed with burning rage, and thinks that he is despised as a stranger; nor is he contented to turn his hand to any work, but finds fault with everything which the needs of the monastery require to be done. Then of set purpose he looks out for opportunities of being offended and angry, lest he might seem to have gone forth from the discipline of the monastery for a trivial reason. And not content to take his departure by himself alone, lest it should be thought that he has left as it were from his own fault, he never stops corrupting as many as he can by clandestine conferences. But if the severity of the weather interferes with his journey and travels, he remains all the time in suspense and anxiety of heart, and never stops sowing and exciting discontent; as he thinks that he will only find consolation for his departure and an excuse for his fickleness in the bad character and defects of the monastery.
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Hello, comedy enthusiasts!
What makes for a good 'Pub comic? Well, it comes together in steps…
Step 1: The ideas.
I carry around a notebook in my front pocket to quickly jot down entertaining thoughts. This makes for good comic ideas, but also makes me look distinguished, and distracts from my surely ugly features, which all web comic aspiritors are known to have before people start reading their comics.
Right now i'm rated 'No George Clooney'.
Step 2: Storyline an idea.
Unless it's physical comedy, such as the comic I put up at Malphas' request (See 'This is Madness!', comic page 2), your mockerisms will need a buildup on intrigue followed by a shocking revelation, and possibly an entertaining reaction.
I get some feedback from a few friends, talking ideas over with them. I only skip this step if I am confident that the comic will fetch the reactions of dentistry gasses.
Remember, if you laugh at it and nobody else does, you may as well save the paper and keep it in your brain, stumpy.
Step 3: Lights, camera, ROFLSCREENSHOT!
After this is done, I assign the roles required for the comic to the most entertaining choices, and then act them out into positions. This is the hardest part… if I don't get a good enough shot and it looks shoddy when I enter editing, I'd have to restart step 3.
I take 3 shots for each panel from a slightly different angle and centering to be certain, allowing at least 2 different speech bubble positions.
After this, all the comic actors and I snort some sweet alabama jimmyshine and have a sexy party with benny hill music. Boomkins optional.
Step 5: WTF! What happened to step 4?
The comic now has some photoshopped speech bubbles, some nice bordering, and is ready for posting. I now show it to the actors, who I don't tell the comic's joke to before the final product, we all have a giggle, and I post it on a seperate site for public viewing by my friends. After sufficient feedback to make sure it doesn't suck a golfball through a garden hose, I post it.
Prepare to be amazed at the comic relatively not-suckiness! Tremble before my 5ish step program of fear imbibing awesomeness!
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The steps behind the creation of a Pub of Bourbon comic.
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Macedonia – Thessaloniki And Its Surroundings 1915-1917
[sws_blue_box box_size="630″] Salonika (Thessaloniki), Macedonia, Greece during World War One. [/sws_blue_box]
People stroll in park next to harbour, large houses in background. Another view with ancient fortress in background. Shot of a few young men standing beneath large arch, pan up to show top of arch. Another huge arch straddling a street, electric tram and various pedestrians. Unidentified soldiers (uniforms similar to French but with fez), they march down narrow street.
Busy street scene with many pedestrians including soldiers of Greek army. Shot of wider street showing houses of the rich, large & white behind fences, soldier on bike and a few pedestrians walk up it. More shots urban working class area: low angled shot crooked cobblestone street, upper stories of buildings hang over street, children and soldiers walk past in foreground.
Panning shot from buildings in foreground to a large structure looming behind – maybe a church / mosque. Serbian Army soldiers and civilian men in arcade of shops with arched roof. Many men & boys in market street, one man carrying large bundle. MS 2 French soldiers at market stall, also Greek men & boys. Shot of interior market. Residential street, working class, woman & child hurry past, men walking. Outside town, wide shot panning of ancient wall surrounding open area with a few buildings inside.
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Once you get a real taste of the bitch at work, there's only one thing you're gonna be able to see, and that's fuel.
Only the Brave
(SPOILERS) This firefighter movie, based on the 2013 Granite Mountain Hotshots tragedy (Only the Brave was originally called Granite Mountain, which is more memorable and much less generic than what we got) is a curiously ungainly affair. The main body of it, the "assemble the team, train the team" wouldn't look out of place in your averagely formulaic Jerry Bruckheimer flick, while the event itself is rather perfunctory, in the sense that it rather suddenly overtakes the men; there's little of the build-up that one might expect. Indeed, one wonders if the makers seriously considered the story's cinematic potential beforehand.
You can certainly see why Joseph Kosinski was handed the keys to Top Gun: Maverick (aside from being pals with the Cruiser, that is), since the trainee section of that picture will doubtless cover similar tropes. Including Miles Teller, here as the ex-junkie who proves his worth and by luck is the only one to get out alive; he plays Goose's son in the Top Gun sequel. Teller is standard Teller, good at playing someone difficult (dislikable), less resonant when trying to mine for sympathy.
The rest of the players are serviceable as stock types; Josh Brolin as the experienced super trying to get his crew certified as hotshots, with the support of Jeff Bridges' city fire chief. The latter, besides playing the guitar in one scene, is a very straight authority figure type; while he has little to get his teeth into, he makes the necessary adjustments. However, it's interesting to see the pair together, as they do seem like they've known each other forever (True Grit wasn't perhaps the best vehicle to study their rapport). James Badge Dale is, as usual, really solid in an underwritten part. Taylor Kitsch plays a bit of a dick. Most of them have moustaches. Jennifer Connelly doesn't, but lends conviction to some hackneyed partner/family/"When will you come safely home?" beats as Brolin's wife, and Andie MacDowell is there. Just about.
Firefighting movies have a patchy history. The most prominent, Backdraft, had the benefit of lots of burning buildings to run out of, but even with a daft Hannibal Lecter serial arsonist plotline couldn't really sustain interest. Kosinski and writers Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down and Transformers: The Last Knight, both of which should ring alarm bells) and Eric Warren Singer (The International, American Hustle, Top Gun 2) – basing their work on a GQ article –arguably do the necessaries showing the discipline and camaraderie between these men, but it isn't like we haven't seen it done before, or the underdog needing to prove himself, and much better. It's notable too that there's relatively little actual firefighting here, which isn't a Backdraft style visceral viewing experience anyway; movies like this usually build to the rookies-in-action moment, but in this one, when they come, the nature of their discipline tends to work against standard dramatics.
As for the portrayal of real tragedy, there's a danger it can be used as a ploy to garner instant respect and reverence, when it's the writing and characterisation that should be doing that. Most of what we see here concerns real men being real men and rhetorical statements like "If this ain't the greatest job in the world, I don't know what is". I'm a fan of Kosinski's other movies (the guy gets a lot of stick, but he's a great visualist), but he probably wasn't the best choice if the makers wanted to get under the ensemble's skins and elicit emotional resonance.
Agree? Disagree? Mildly or vehemently? Let me know in the comments below.


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Robert and I have fallen into a pretty steadfast routine of dining out every Friday and Saturday and cooking meals at home Sunday through Wednesday. Thursday has always been our "do your own thing" night. Leftovers, frozen dinners, whatever random collection of edible items you can scrounge together are yours for the taking. As much as I enjoy cooking and dining out, I secretly look forward to Thursdays since it is sort of a night off for me. Since I'm not a fan of frozen dinners and I tend to save leftovers for lunch, I usually still end up doing some cooking. The key is finding meals that can be prepared in 20 minutes or less with minimal effort. My favorite Thursday meal is frozen potato pierogies with a side of sautéed cabbage and onions. It's healthy-ish and quick to make. I can't eat this every Thursday so I'm always on the lookout for new quick dinners. Enter Doenjang Jjigae.
Doenjang jjigae is a Korean tofu stew made using fermented bean paste. It may not be as well known in this country as bulgogi and bi bim bap, but doenjang jjigae is a staple everyday dish in many Korean homes. The primary ingredient in doenjang jjigae is doenjang paste, a fermented soybean paste similar to miso although with a much coarser texture. In addition jjigae, doenjang paste is used as a general condiment and to make ssamjang, a sauce for Korean lettuce wraps. It is quite pungent and salty and may not be to everyone's liking. If you love stinky, fermented foods like I do, you will probably enjoy this. Doenjang paste is sold in plastic tubs in Asian markets.
Few people follow a strict recipe for doenjang jjigae—there are as many different ways to make it as there are cooks. The general procedure is simple. You start by making a broth. Koreans usually make their broth by boiling dried anchovies and kelp in water—a small handful of anchovies should be enough to flavor 2 to 3 cups of water. While the broth is going, portion out a spoonful of doenjang paste into a bowl. Start with a small amount and work your way up—it is quite salty so you don't want to overdo it. If you like, you can also add a dollop of the spicy red chili paste known as gochujang to the bowl along with the doenjang. After the broth has cooked for 10 minutes or so, strain out the anchovies and kelp. Add a small amount of the hot broth to the bowl and mash the doenjang paste with a fork to break it up. Add that mixture back to the pot along with whatever vegetables and proteins you are using and boil until done!
This is such an easy dish to prepare, and it's so versatile. Most recipes call for potato, onion, zucchini and tofu, but I use this dish as a way to use up whatever ingredients I have leftover in the fridge that week. Doenjang jjigae can be made with anything from shrimp and corn and jalapeños to beef and shiitake mushrooms. I've tried it using a broth made from bonito flakes instead of anchovies—it was good but didn't have the same pungent aroma (much to Robert's delight, I'm sure). Doenjang jjigae isn't meant to be served spicy, but I've been known to throw in some cayenne pepper when I'm craving something hot. The one ingredient I do always try to include is the tofu just to keep things somewhat traditional and because tofu is so good for you. For a while now, I've been saying that Korean food will be the next big thing. Once people discover doenjang jjigae, it's only a matter of time. This quick, adaptable, comforting dish is perfect for my Thursday night meals!


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'Cloak & Dagger': Olivia Holt & Aubrey Joseph on Their Marvel-ous New Roles (VIDEO)
Let's get this straight outside the gate: In the new Freeform series, Marvel's Cloak & Dagger, she's dagger and he's cloak.
The "she" is Olivia Holt, who plays the troubled Tandy Bowen, a teen with daggers come out of her hands when danger is near. The he? Aubrey Joseph as Tyrone Johnson, a teen with his own set of problems — including being able to teleport.
Based on the Marvel comic characters of the same name, the world we'll see in the series, premiering Wednesday at 8/7c, shares the same universe as Marvel films and series. However, Cloak & Dagger is also a world unto itself with adult situations like substance abuse, murder, sexual assault and more, which makes this a world with a darker side.
'Marvel's Cloak & Dagger' Series Premiere: EP Teases Actors' 'Undeniable' Chemistry
Holt and Joseph recently stopped by our NYC offices to chat with West Coast Bureau Chief Jim Halterman about the series. After the interview, of course, we also had to do a round of fun quickfire questions with the young actors. Check out both here:
Cloak & Dagger, Thursdays, 8/7c, Freeform.


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Of the twelve million immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954 four million were Italian and my grandmother, Colomba Cordani, was one of them. She left her small Northern Italian village of Ponte del Olio near Piacenza and arrived in New York on April 27, 1909 aboard the French Line steamship Chicago. The ship departed from LeHarvre two weeks earlier and the spring passage was rough. There were 1,250 steerage passengers and many, including my grandmother, were sea sick the entire voyage. When the Chicago arrived in New York I can only imagine the thrill she and the other passengers felt when they sailed past the Statue of liberty. Steerage passengers were only allowed on deck once a day when the upper class passengers were eating lunch but that day the captain gave them special permission to come on deck to see Miss Liberty welcoming them to the United States.
My grandmother never spoke English but I like to imagine someone translated the words on the base of the statue for her;
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed to me, I lift up my lamp beside the golden door.
The post card I'm sharing today is one of my favorites. It depicts the pier at Ellis Island covered with the suitcases and trunks of newly arrived immigrants who can be seen aboard the ferry boat. The transatlantic steamers would dock at the piers on the Hudson or East rivers where the upper class passengers would disembark first. After that, the steerage passengers would get off and be immediately brought to Ellis Island by a fleet of ferries to be processed. Ellis Island averaged over 5,000 passengers per day who had to be processed so the scene was chaotic. The Italians called Ellis Island L'Isola dell Lagrime, the Island of Tears, because so many were denied admission and sent back.
Almost unique among early immigrants, Italians returned to their homeland often and in remarkable numbers. I have read that 70% of Italians returned to Italy at one time or another and as many as 30% permanently. My grandmother had an uncle, Carlo with whom she lived when she first came to the North End. Carlo and his wife had a small grocery store on the corner of Endicott and Stillman Streets. When their children were grown Carlo and his wife returned to Italy bringing their beautiful cast iron coal burning stove with them. Unlike other immigrants, Italians preferred the rustic life of the Italian countryside to the cold, unforgiving American cities. Jews risked being killed by the Tsar's soldiers if they returned to Russia and the Irish had no reason to return to a country ravaged by famine. Italians returned home for many reasons, some to visit their families, others to help with the harvest or attend a wedding or funeral. But there was another, more important reason which is largely undiscussed and almost forgotten.
Italians came to l'America for one specific reason and that was to make money. They weren't fleeing murdering Cossacks or famine nor were they seeking religious freedom. America was the land of opportunity where jobs and money were available to anyone willing to work. Once they had accumulated money they used it in an unusual way, they remitted tremendous amounts of it back to Italy.
Growing up in the North End I always wondered why such a supposedly poor neighborhood had so many banks and travel agencies all of which offered money transfer services. Italian immigrants were generally uneducated and many were illiterate but they weren't stupid. They had that peasant cleverness bred of centuries of subjugation and desperation. They quickly realized that the value of American dollars was much greater in Italy than here in the States. Unlike Italy, America was still on the gold standard, our paper money was backed by precious metal and the US Treasury couldn't just keep printing more money to cover its debts. Dollar bills were called "silver certificates" and could be exchanged for real silver coins. This was a bonanza for savvy Italian immigrants. They could live in the North End in the most austere way possible and work like dogs just to accumulate cash which they then remitted back to Italy. Few records were kept but it is estimated that Italians remitted between ten and thirty million dollars per year to Italy, an enormous sum at that time. The fact that the Treasury issued large denomination notes of up to $10,000 and cross Atlantic fares could be as low as $20.00 made this carry trade possible and very lucrative.
The Protestant American aristocracy was appalled at this and considered it un-American and even seditious. They called these Italians "Birds of Passage" because they returned to Italy so often. This transfer of money out of the country was destabilizing the currency and increased the risk of deflation. What they didn't understand was that mild deflation was the poor man's friend while inflation is the enemy of the poor.
The money that was remitted back to Italy was used for different things. Some was sent to help families pay debts and taxes or to buy farm land or vineyards but a substantial amount was used to buy Italian products to sell in America. Fulton Street was lined with packing companies, businesses that imported Italian products in bulk, repackaged them under their own labels and sold them through a web of Italian grocery stores. One prominent North End family made a small fortune by obtaining the last shipment of real olive oil just before the shipping lanes were closed by World War II. They sold it throughout the war at a premium.
These remittances are still occurring today but with different ethnic groups. Records are not kept because the individual amounts are small but it is thought that more money leaves the country through remittances every year than is given in foreign aid.
The country that welcomed my grandparents is now welcoming different ethnic groups who want to work and accumulate wealth. They come here because we have freedom and we value the rule of law. The words carved into the base of the Statue of Liberty were an inspiration for generations of immigrants. Let's not forget that.
Nicholas Dello Russo is a lifelong North Ender and columnist. Often using vintage photographs, Nick tells the stories of growing up in the North End along with its culture and traditions. It was a time when the apartments were so small that residents were always on the streets enjoying "Life on the Corner." Read more of Nick's columns.
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As a monumental City of Art and History with over 80 classified historical buildings, Nîmes doesn't go about things half way. As the largest city in the Gard area, it is a treasure trove of ancient history unique in France with its Arènes and Maison Carrée in the lead. But it's also famed for gems of modern architecture such as Sir Norman Foster's Carré d'Art or the Nemausus apartment complex designed by Jean Nouvel. Little by little, you'll find out how to tame Nîmes on foot, an intriguing but easy adventure since the historical centre is relatively compact. With your head in the air and your nose to the wind, in the little alleys shaded from the hot sun, you'll learn to know the lovely lady better.
It's quite likely that your steps will lead you to Jean-Jaurès boulevard, fully revamped, with family-beloved trees and fountains. There on market day, Fridays, you'll delight in the fine wares provided by local producers and fill your picnic basket to the brim with brandade, Nîmes strawberries, olive oil and Costières de Nîmes wines. Right on hand you can choose to stroll through the sumptuous Jardins de la Fontaine or even climb up to the Tour Magne, a remnant of the Roman ramparts overlooking the town. To finish up in style, visit one of the city's six major museums and then give in to the temptation of one of the many Nîmes night life spots.
Outside the city gates, it's all garrigue scrub lands. Visit the romantic quarries of Junas, the Nages pre-Roman hill-fort, Calvisson with its Languedoc boutis needlework, the Villevielle castle – there are countless getaway choices. One of the most charming is most likely the jaunt to medieval Sommières, so festive with lively public squares and narrow shopping streets. And what if we jumped on our bikes, heading out on the Voie Verte path ?
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From Sommières to Caveirac, right besides Nîmes, a former railroad line has been turned into a charming voie verte for all walkers, bikers, roller-bladers...
This pathway maps out a perfect and safe promenade of all shapes and forms. It's actually a free entertainment space criss-crossing the landscapes and villages of the Pays de Sommières and Vaunage areas.
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A new Los Angeles-based company called FreeHand launched a line of dog foods, and for each bag of food purchased the company will donate an equivalent amount of food to a rescue organization or shelter, FreeHand reported today.
The company's line of foods are currently available in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Southern California and Indianapolis markets through independent retail stores, veterinarians and ancillary services such as dog groomers, daycare, sitters and walkers. The company's products, Engage, Enrich, Empower and Energize dog foods, are produced by Texas Farm Products of Nacogdoches, Texas.
Similar to how Toms Shoes donates a pair of shoes to a needy child for each pair purchased at retail, FreeHand donates a pound of dog food to a local rescue group or shelter of the reseller's choice for each pound of FreeHand dog food purchased at retail. FreeHand screens the rescue groups and shelters before approving them, and consumers purchasing the products online can select from a list of pre-approved rescue groups and shelters for their donations.
The company does not plan to spend excessively on traditional marketing, according to managing director Tom Bagamane, but instead is generating buzz through social media and a membership group called the FreeHand Corps, which receives rewards, such as bandanas, t-shirts and dog products, for spreading the word about the brand.
FreeHand was founded by a Santa Monica, Calif.-based private equity firm co-founded by Bagamane, founder of Integrated Pet Solutions and a former director with The Kong Co. FreeHand will have its products on display in September 2012 at SuperZoo (Booth 3627) in Las Vegas.


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Our mission is simple, bring people together by sharing experiences, products, and gear that makes us successful on the water or in the field. We want to share reviews of products and gear that have been tested by our own pinche people, with our own pinche money. Using innovative products with the most efficient practicality enable us to do what we love the most, fishing, hunting and being outdoors. Whether you are a beginner or a professional, our mission is to even the playing field by sharing quality products that will allow all outdoor enthusiasts to achieve the experience they are aiming for.
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Two technical gear junkies that spend all day and night casting for trout from a skinny water boat, chasing bass on a yak, covered in camo in the fields hunting dove, working upland retrieving dogs, outfitting vehicles, boats, kayaks, & sups. In our spare time we research what we love which inspired us to make this company. A company that sold quality American made and sourced products that would last forever and be able to stand up to what an outdoorsman has to endure to get the job done.


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Wing, left
Register 1: angel holding a vessel.
Register 2: saint Mary Magdalene with ointment pot.
Centre panel
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Entombment.
Wing, right
Register 1: angel holding an object.
Register 2: saint John the Evangelist (or unidentified female saint?) holding a martyr's palm and book.
Incised trefoil in the gable.
Collection of Mikhail Petrovich Botkin (b. 1839, d. 1914).
O. von Falke, 'Das Tristankästchen der Eremitage', in Pantheon (February 1928), pp. 75-80, fig. 7.
Conway Library © Courtauld Institute of Art.
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GSMA Innovation Fund for Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains 2019 (Grants up to £220,000)
Deadline: July 31, 2019
Applications are open for the GSMA Innovation Fund for Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains 2019. The Fund for Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains aims to scale digital solutions for the agricultural last mile and improve smallholders' financial inclusion, livelihood and climate resilience.
The Fund prioritises enterprise services targeted at organisations (e.g. agribusiness, cooperatives, etc.) procuring from smallholders with the focus on those living on less than USD 2 per day.
All eligible applicants at Concept Note stage, irrespective of whether they ultimately receive a grant under this Innovation Fund, will be invited to join the GSMA AgriTech Priority Learning Partners Initiative, where they will gain access to a number of knowledge sharing resources and events, including webinars on the topic of enterprise solutions for the last mile.
Grants are available across two categories of application:
- Mobile Money Driven Category
- Data Driven Category
- Up to eight grants of £220,000 each are being made available to support projects of 24 months duration
- In addition, the GSMA will provide in-kind support and consultancy to assist the development of business plans, and service implementation through market research, user-centric design, business intelligence, user-testing with agribusiness staff and smallholders
Mobile Money Driven Category: Open to mobile money providers in partnership with AgriTech vendors who are developing, implementing, launching and/or scaling enterprise services (B2B2C) which digitise the agricultural last mile procurement and communication with smallholders.
The proposed development or evolution of an enterprise service must include the following primary use-cases:
- Digitising procurement records and smallholder farmer profiles (static and dynamic information);
- Digitising payments to smallholder farmers via mobile money;
- Digitising communication and providing advisory services for smallholder farmers.
Data Driven Category: Open to AgriTech organisations who have already scaled a last mile agriculture digitisation service and established a model for generating digital farmer records and explored linking farmer records with financial service providers.
The proposed evolution of these services must include the following primary use-cases:
- Digitising procurement records and smallholder farmer profiles (static and dynamic information) at a scale of at least 50,000 farmers in the proposed market;
- Using existing deployment data and digital records of smallholder farmers to provide financial inclusion services through partnerships with third-party organisations;
- Digitising communication and providing advisory services for smallholder farmers.
Applications for funding are assessed through a two-stage application process.
- Concept Note: The first step will be to submit a Concept Note, which outlines the project objectives, lists proposed partners, demonstrates the consortium's capacity to deliver the project and explains how the project fits within wider strategy of the business owner.
- Business Plan: A short-list of applicants whose Concepts Notes meet the objectives and eligibility requirements of the Fund will be notified in August 2019 and invited to develop a Business Plan. This will further outline the strategy for implementing and scaling the service; provide a budget projection with an indication of how the grant is to be spent, and a workplan for the 24 month implementation period. The deadline for the Business Plan submission will be 31 October 2019.
For more information, see FAQs or visit GSMA Innovation Fund.