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Analysis: With left shifting right, world finally catches up with Israel

In this May 23, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at the Israel museum in Jerusalem.
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Analysts say that the left in Europe and elsewhere has failed to adjust to new, changing reality

Back in the old good days, the political scene in Israel was clear: the right was right, the left was left. Each camp had a leader and when they spoke, there was no room for confusion. The right was defined as “national camp”; the left as "peace camp.” Simple.

Not anymore. And a twist on the left last week made politics in Israel even more confusing when Avi Gabbay, the newly elected head of Labor party and the great hope of the "peace camp", made a surprising public declaration that he sees “no need to evacuate settlements in the West Bank if there is a peace deal.”

This is exactly what right wing leaders have been preaching for decades, and now Gabbay, officially leader of the left, seems to be speaking perfect rightist language.

Two days later, Zehava Galon, the undisputed icon of the left-wing Meretz party, resigned from the Knesset. Officially, this drastic move is supposed to facilitate an internal election in Meretz to make room for a greater diversity of voters. But political analysts say it might have the opposite effect.

Meretz is both the smallest party in the Knesset, and the only Zionist leftist party. In other words – Meretz may completely disappear in the next elections if it is unable to reach a higher electoral threshold.

If this is the case, Israel's political horizon will spread from center-right to far right only. In that sense, if not in any other, Israel is an average state these days.

Almost all over Europe and certainly in America, the left (while defined differently by each state) is either weakened or obsolete. The era of fear is also the era of the right-wing strongman leader who has stepped in spreading enough testosterone to calm that fear. There is Putin, there is Trump, and there is Netanyahu.

Experts warn this is certainly not the right time for politicians to use liberal terminology associated with the left. It projects weakness. The left has become something between "traitorous" to "ridiculous" or just plain irrelevant.

The left has certainly not been cast as the type to confront either real or perceived dangers and enemies lurking across the world. According to recent research conducted by Israel's Institute for Democracy, the left in Europe is at an all-time low. And so it is in Israel.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, leftist socialist parties have been practically wiped out in five European countries and are hardly surviving even in the traditionally liberal Scandinavian nations.

The process in Israel started even earlier where the term “left-wing” has an entirely different connotation, associated mainly with the vision of future territorial agreement with Palestinians – or lack of it.

Some sociologists, such as Tel Aviv University's Prof. Yehouda Shenhav, claim that true left never existed in Israel; it was a liberal party of human rights at best. Now, Shenhav says, even this terminology has been hijacked and distorted.

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And finally, the world has caught up with Israel. In Europe the catalyst has not been about territory, as in Israel, but more so about migration. In both places, the common denominator is fear.

Analysts claim that the left has failed to adjust to new, changing world. It now competes with Sebastian Kurz, an-anti immigration millennial Chancellor in Austria, a right-wing nationalistic government in Poland, an even more radical right-wing in Hungary, and the first far-right party in Germany's Bundestag since WWII.

And it seems there is no end in sight. The Czech Republic on Saturday elected anti-establishment billionaire Andrej Babis, called "The Czech Trump", as Prime Minister, joining the club of leaders better adjusted to a fearful new world.

Babis' rhetoric closely mimics Trump's, with heavy anti-immigration themes in a country that has to date only accepted 12 of the over 2,500 refugees it had been assigned under a quota system introduced to deal with Europe's migrant crisis and with the fear of terrorism vastly greater than the actual threat of terrorism in the country. Sounds familiar. This is exactly what Poland's populist PIS ruling party played on, and it is only growing stronger day by day.

Xenophobia needs no strangers to thrive, just as anti-Semitism needs no Jews. This is not a fertile ground for the liberal left to grow. Neither is the soil of Israel.

The analogy already spills over from present to the future.

In Poland, for instance, 30 percent of voters aged 18 to 30 would vote PIS again, according to a poll conducted in September 2017. This is an even larger margin than voted for the party in the last 2015 election.

According to a in depth poll conducted earlier this year by the Israel chapter of the Friedrich Ebert political foundation, 67 percent of young Israelis aged 15 to 24 years old identified as politically "right-wing". Just like in Europe, Israel's left-oriented youth camp is shrinking, having failed to persuade them that they offer any true alternative to what the right is offering.

Like in Europe and America, Israel has its own “others” to be afraid of. From Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic State, to African migrants and foreign workers. Israeli youth are growing up in a climate of real and imaginary fear, just as in Europe and America.

The biggest hope of the left everywhere, is actually the right. Only the future campaigns of the right can turn Israel's Labor party leader Avi Gabbay into dangerous leftist, or Meretz to a "radical Arab loving party". And that could work in the favor of the left, to a limited extent, by making it relevant simply by repeating how "dangerous" it is.

Lily Galili is a feature writer, analyst of Israeli society and expert on immigration from the former Soviet Union. She is the co-author of "The Million that Changed the Middle East."

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

working with documents in IBM BPM

Document upload and download is one of the import use case in the BPM processing. In this post let us look at how to upload a document from the process instance during the process and retrieve the documents corresponding to a given process instance in a standalone human service? What is mechanism used to store the documents in IBM BPM.

In IBM BPM documents are stored using a document store (Out of Box ECM) provided by IBM BPM. It is also possible to connect to an external ECM from IBM BPM. IBPM suite provides a toolkit out of box called Content Management Toolkit which contain some predefined services and coach view to upload and access the documents to and from the IBM BPM document store. The coach view Document List can be used to upload the documents to IBPM document store or for that matter to any External ECM system which is CMIS compliant. In this post let us look at how to upload the documents to IBPM document store from process instance and associate those documents with some unique parameters such as process instance Id and retrieve them in a standalone screen based on the document parameter ( In this case let us use instance Id as document parameter). Below image shows the image of Document List Coach View from Content Management Toolkit.

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Confirmation Dialog on Click of a Button in IBM BPM

In most of the UI applications, display of confirmation dialog when trying to delete some data or cancel the current operation is a very common use case. In this post, let see how to create a coach view with a button which will do this. Below Image shows the confirmation dialog on click of the Delete button.

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Welcome Kinda, Philadelphia

The City of Brotherly Love knows it has a reputation. As the 2017 NFL Draft arrives at the Ben Franklin Parkway, Philly fans also know they have some amends to make. And they’re sorry, kinda. Enter possibly the greatest tongue-in-cheek humor marketing campaign of the decade, “Welcome Kinda“. From apologies for running over an opposing team’s corn hole game (oops!) to “accidentally” spilling drinks on fans from other teams (our bad, really!), Welcome Kinda embraces and exemplifies the fervor and ferocity that Philly fans exude.

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I love fashion and lifestyle blogs. I want to get that out in the open in the front of this post because my points here might feel a bit critical.  If you’ve got a substantial blog, or are thinking of taking up blogging in the fashion or lifestyle sphere in the future, you’ll at some point probably want to grow your blog and reach more readers. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a great way to do that, but if you don’t have a background in digital marketing, you might be doing some serious damage to your site without realizing it. As a blogger myself and a reader of dozens outside my niche areas, I’ve seen some of the same mistakes over and over. I’ve listed the most common one below to get you started:

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Two Weeks In Antigua and Barbuda

Note that just for the record, this is part one in a two-part series.

Why Travel to Antigua and Barbuda

Perhaps we need a geography refresher first. As I was explaining this upcoming trip, I had so many people say “you mean Anguilla?” Or “you mean Barbados?” Ha, but no. Antigua and Barbuda is actually one country comprised of two sister islands floating in the no-mans-land between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Technically in the West Indies, and not a part of either the US or British Virgin Islands, it’s a real gem that often gets overlooked or undervalued in the world of Caribbean travel. Having spent the last 7 days here with a few more to go, here’s my take so far.

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Re: [802.3_4PPOE] Your proposal for Single-signature definition in

Hi Lennart,
1. Please see in my mail below that I say the the current injection method will not work if we are looking for non 25K signature. I know that voffset will be change but the problem is that nobody checks for this or care about it especially when PSE is testing for valid signature i.e. 25K YES OR NO since we are doing differential test in which Vofsset is canceled.
2. As for using it (Voffset ) for the PD definition it may be possible if it was defined clearly that this is the intent and a clear pass/fail criteria was define which is not the case. That is why the proposed text for current will not work.
3. We still working on the text (me and Mike) to fix this.

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From: Lennart Yseboodt [mailto:lennartyseboodt@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 6:11 PM
To: Yair Darshan <YDarshan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; STDS-802-3-4PPOE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [802.3_4PPOE] Your proposal for Single-signature definition in

Hi Yair,

But it does work...

If a voltage is applied to the corrupting pairset, a single-signature PD will "not show a valid detection signature" because Rdetect will be outside the limits of Table 145-21.

If a current is applied to the corrupting pairset, a single-signature PD will "not show a valid detection signature" because Voffset will be outside of the limits of Table 145-21.

Both corrupting methods are viable.

Kind regards,

On Mon, 2017-11-06 at 15:02 +0000, Yair Darshan wrote:
> Hi David,
> I have reviewed your proposal and I see that the current injection
> method may not work if you are looking for invalid signature i.e.
> 25K.
> The reason is that when you inject two current levels in mode A (I1,
> I2 and e.g. I1>I2) and find valid signature (25K) on that mode while
> the current on mode B is 0, and then you inject new current level I3
> on mode B while you keep I2 in mode A, you will get valid slope of 25K
> (I am ignoring the offset voltage for now) which means it shows a
> valid signature (25k) while I supposed to get invalid signature (in
> terms of resistance and no other parameters that defines invalid
> signature).
> In general, any current you inject on mode B when mode A is conducting
> will just generate offset voltage across Rsig but will not change the
> slope of Rsig=25K. The reason for it is that detection is done always
> in differential way (two values of current or voltage) which cancel
> offsets.
> The best approach to define single-signature PD is to use the voltage
> concept. It will always work. Please remember that the way we define
> the PD is it single-signature or not should not imply and doesn’t not
> imply how we implement connection check. Moreover, I am also
> suggesting adding a text that say it explicitly.
> To summarize:
> I prefer the following definition:
> A single-signature PD shall present a valid detection signature, as
> defined in Table 145-21, on a given Mode when no voltage or current is
> applied on the other Mode, and shall present an invalid not present a
> valid detection signature on that Mode when any voltage between 10.1V
> and 57V at least one voltage between 3.7V and 57V is applied to the
> other Mode or any current greater than 124μA is applied to the other
> Mode. These requirements apply to both Mode A and Mode B.
> This definition doesn’t imply on the way how connection check is
> implemented weather using voltage or injecting current.”
> NOTE—A valid detection signature meets every requirement in Table
> 145-21 across all specified conditions. A failure under any allowed
> conditions of Table 145-21 is considered “not a valid signature while
> “invalid signature” is when the requirements of Table 145-22 are met.
> Darshan Yair
> Chief R&D Engineer
> Analog Mixed Signal Group
> Microsemi Corporation
> 1 Hanagar St., P.O. Box 7220
> Neve Ne'eman Industrial Zone
> Hod Hasharon 45421, Israel
> Tel:  +972-9-775-5100, EXT 210.
> Cell: +972-54-4893019
> Fax: +972-9-775-5111
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1,500-Year-Old Church Discovered Along Israeli Highway

During excavations to upgrade and widen the highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, a large Byzantine-period road-side station was discovered. This 1,500-year-old site included a Christian church, and many artifacts from long-ago visitors were still there.

The site lies next to a seep spring known as 'Ain Naqa'a, located on the outskirts of Moshav Bet Neqofa. The current excavation season uncovered a church measuring about 16 m in length. The church includes a side chapel 6.5 m long and 3.5 m wide and a white mosaic floor. A baptismal font (bapisterium) in the form of a four-leafed clover (symbolizing the cross) was installed in the chapel’s northeast corner.

Fragments of red-colored plaster found in the rubble strewn throughout the building showed that the church walls had been decorated with frescoes. To the west of the church were rooms that were probably used as dwelling quarters and for storage. One of them contained a large quantity of pottery tiles. The excavations yielded numerous different finds, testifying to intensive activity at the site. These included oil lamps, coins, special glass vessels, marble fragments, and mother-of-pearl shells.

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Hitman: Contracts

Moody, dark and brilliantly stealthy, Contracts doesn't raise the bar, it just holds it steady.

With everyone's focus on implementing online functionality and making games bigger and more movie-like, the once-burgeoning stealth sub-genre has become a little more than a footnote in today's games. Sure, it's mentioned, as in, "Uh yes, we have stealth, yes we do. You can um, sneak around stuff. Just after the flame-thrower and rocket launcher levels you can tip-toe out of the nuclear reactor-hailstorm nail-gun-cyborg monster boss throwdown. &#Array;You got the part about flame-throwers, right?"

If hurling millions of bullets per second at aliens has got you down lately, and you're bored of first-person Vietnam war games, than IO Interactive's new Hitman: Contracts will be like a cool breeze on a hot summer day. By that, I mean a cool summer breeze with a Garrote around your throat, but you get the picture. Hitman: Contracts, the third game in Eidos' series, is by no means a revolutionary step in the stealth genre, in fact, it's only a little more than a basic upgrade from Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. But the pure exploration of stealth gameplay is relatively unmatched in any game on any system. IO has once again created a strategic game of ploys, guises and choices, tailor made with a genuinely brilliant sense of pacing, intelligently designed levels, each layered with dozens of ways to beat them, and enormous sense of style and delivery.

IO Interactive's title is a vaguely named game for a reason. I'm not certain how good that reason ends up being, but thought was put behind it. When I first heard the name, I thought it was going to be a collection of random levels, like a "best of" game. It turns out that's not far from the truth. The story begins with Agent 47 limping into an apartment with a serious body wound and need of a doctor. During this period of pain and suffering, Agent 47 flashes back to missions he once completed, and you get to play them out. Some of them are indeed levels you have played before, or close to them, anyway, including the first level wherein our bald killer escapes from the hospital in which he's just murdered his maker. A little Biblical, perhaps. The level is from Hitman 1 and players must get out of the complex before getting caught. Seems like a well disguised repackaging of goods, no?

The answer is not all that simple. Agent 47's flashbacks, and his pain, grow more and more intense, and each one transforms into a former mission, predominantly ones you've never played before. The story is told in this scattered, hazy fashion with a concrete sense of pacing and logic, but also with a purposely hidden motive, which brings Agent 47 back into the present and progresses into the future. I'll spare you the story, but the story, it turns out, doesn't really play that big a role in this effort. I had figured IO would dig deeper with this Hitman, but that's not the case.

That's the distinct feeling I get from Hitman: Contracts. I figured after two years, Contracts would be this massive improvement in every manner, the way that Hitman 2: Silent Assassin made a distinct leap from the first Hitman. But I was wrong. IO Interactive has remained focused on what it does extremely well, which is to design fantastically elaborate levels, giving players countless ways to beat a level. And the rest is an all about enhancement. The developer has added new weapons (pillows, syringes, shovels, meat hooks, etc.), and new ways to kill, especially with regard to close combat attacks. It's also embalmed the whole game in this dark, disturbingly moody haze, giving gamers a distinct look at the seedier side of life, whether it's messed up biker gangs, genuinely sick meat-packing people, or deranged hunters looking for a more humanistic thrill.


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Download – Budget Spreadsheet With Video Tutorial

Welcome to iHeartBudgets! First thing’s first, if you haven’t already, grab your FREE copy of our budget template so you can start on your journey to financial freedom! You’ll get a copy of the spreadsheet we use, as well as access to our exclusive iHeartBudgets newsletter for tips and trick son managing your money and keeping more of it!

Budget Spreadsheet Tutorial

Tons of you have recently downloaded this spreadsheet, and I have received a few questions on how to use it. Instead of emailing everyone back individually, I decided to put together a video tutorial walking through each section of the budget and how to use it most effectively. Check it out below:

To use this budget most effectively, make sure you read through the Budgeting Basics Series. This will help set your money mindset and get your started on the right path.

Please USE THIS VIDEO. Don’t just watch it and do nothing. Watch it and TAKE ACTION THIS WEEK! Plan on sitting down and going through this budgeting exercise so that you can start “telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went!” – Dave Ramsey.

Thanks for watching, and please let me know if you have any questions or run into any issues.

Comments: Have any of your out there used this spreadsheet already? Would love to hear from you! And if you haven’t, what are you currently using for your monthly budget? I want to hear about your favorite ways to manage money!

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  1. Nice video! You’re getting really fancy over here.
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  2. OK, here I go! I have never done a formal budget before but we need it now. I am the saver and my husband is oblivious to his spending habits. I think this will help us have some crucial conversations about money without making him feel like I am ganging up on him. We both need to fully understand where our money is going and how we can maintain some control. I messed up my first attempt at the spreadsheet but I reviewed the video again, know what I did wrong, and will start over with my ideas. You’re right, it will probably take a few months before patterns start to emerge.

    • Victoria, this is going to be something you look back on and say “how did we live without this?!” 😀

      Getting on a budget AND STICKING TO IT is not easy, but worth it.

      I recommend getting the spreadsheet filled out, but make sure it’s realistic. For example, don’t cut your food budget in half to see if you can do it. Start by finding out how much you actually spend first (download credit card and bank statements, list all spending into categories to see where the money is typically spent). Once you have a baseline, then build the budget and find one or two areas you can cut down or cut out. Slowly ratchet it down as you feel comfortable.

      Remember, financial health is a marathon, not a sprint.

      You got this! 🙂

      For a more detailed plan, check out my Budgeting Basic HERE

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One of two suspects in Bennett Bridge chase pleads guilty

One of the two men arrested on William Bennett Bridge following a dramatic police chase in January has pleaded guilty to 4 of 7 charges from the incident.

33-year-old Ryan Regan plead guilty to flight from a peace officer, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, and assault with a weapon in a Kelowna courtroom on Thursday. His lawyer expects 4 other charges will be stayed.

On January 12, 2016 Regan and another man were arrested on William Bennett Bridge after fleeing from mounties during a traffic stop in Penticton. The incident shut down eastbound traffic on the bridge for over an hour.

Regan will remain in custody until a pre-sentence report is prepared for May 11.

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Newfoundland and Labrador's Brad Gushue takes first Brier title

When Brad Gushue was a youngster, he wrote his 10 goals in curling on a sheet of Bristol board.

He had achieved nine of them at the start of the Tim Hortons Brier. Gushue delivered when it counted Sunday night and can finally tick the national men's curling championship off his list.

Gushue came through with a draw just inside the top of the eight-foot ring with his final throw for a dramatic 7-6 win over Canada's Kevin Koe.

"I knew we had it," Gushue said. "I was somewhat celebrating from the hogline in because I felt it was going to be a little closer to the button. But anyway it turned out (well), it doesn't matter.

"Ten from years now you're never going to know what shot you had to win. It's just the matter that you won."

The raucous sellout crowd at Mile One Centre fell silent as Gushue settled into the hack for his last shot.

The throw looked a little light at the start but his teammates delivered a killer sweep to get it just past the Canada stone for the victory.

Gushue threw his broom in the air in celebration as the 6,471 spectators in attendance roared their approval.

"I've been close so many times and we as a team have been close," Gushue said. "To finally win it, and win it at home, you couldn't ask for a better story. It's awesome."

This was Gushue's 14th career Brier appearance and third trip to the final. He's the first Newfoundland skip to hoist the Brier Tankard since Jack MacDuff in 1976.

"To stand here in our hometown, in our home province, as Brier champions is just unbelievable," said vice-skip Mark Nichols.

Gushue, who won Olympic gold in 2006, lost in last year's final to Koe and fell to Ontario's Glenn Howard in the 2007 final.

The Newfoundland and Labrador team will represent Canada at the Ford world men's curling championship next month in Edmonton.

Koe, meanwhile, was looking for his fourth career Brier crown. He also won in 2010 and 2014.

"I'm proud of the guys, we fought back and made a game of it," he said. "It probably makes it a little more disappointing."

After an opening blank, the local favourites took advantage after Canada second Brent Laing flashed a stone. With Newfoundland and Labrador sitting three, Koe took one opposition stone out with his last throw but Gushue followed with a draw for a 3-0 lead.

The St. John's side battled some injuries throughout the competition. Gushue has been somewhat limited all season due to a hip/groin issue and lead Geoff Walker is nursing a shoulder injury.

Nichols frequently helped Walker and second Brett Gallant with sweeping duties. Nichols was also in form with his shooting, delivering a nice double takeout to force Koe to settle for a blank in the third end.

Koe rubbed a guard with his final throw but still scored one in the fourth. Gushue had a draw for a pair in the fifth and his rink took a 5-1 lead into the break.

The electric atmosphere in the building was muted somewhat after Koe's triple takeout in the sixth end made it a one-point game. Gushue attempted a double takeout in the seventh but a Canada stone caught just enough of the eight-foot for a steal.

Koe forced Gushue to hit a takeout for a single in the eighth end. In the ninth, Gushue picked out a Canada stone to lay three, forcing Koe to draw for one.

Earlier in the day, Manitoba's Mike McEwen defeated Northern Ontario's Brad Jacobs 7-5 in an extra end to win bronze.

McEwen, who lost the semifinal to Koe on Saturday, used his final throw to hit the Northern Ontario stone off the button for the win.

"As much as we were hurting pretty bad and weren't playing for the colour of medal we wanted to be playing for, we still gave it our all and it mattered," McEwen said.

The afternoon showdown was a rematch of last year's bronze-medal game.

Jacobs defeated McEwen 7-6 in an extra end at the 2016 Brier in Ottawa. Koe and his team of Laing, lead Ben Hebert and third Marc Kennedy defeated Gushue 9-5 in last year's gold-medal game.

This was the first time the Brier has been played in St. John's since 1972. Overall attendance for the 2017 event was 122,592.

Gushue's team receives a base payout of $71,000 in prize money, cresting and funding. A minimum of $30,000 will also be awarded for additional cresting and promotional appearances and Sport Canada will award funding of $144,000 over two years.

Koe's team earns $45,000 in prize money for winning silver. The McEwen team gets $35,000 and the Jacobs rink receives $25,000.

Gushue can secure a berth in the Dec. 2-10 Olympic Trials in Ottawa if he reaches the podium at the world championship. Koe has already locked up a spot at the Trials.

Ottawa's Rachel Homan won the Scotties Tournament of Hearts last month in St. Catharines, Ont. Her team will represent Canada at the women's world championship March 18-26 in Beijing.


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Looks like Vibe’s favorite white boy and the amazing Ms Mary J Blige are about to head out on tour this fall. The duo will be hitting up cities all over the country on their LOVE SOUL tour which kicks off next week in Virginia. Performing along side Mary and Robin Thicke is the debut artist off the Queen of Hip-Hop/Soul’s Matriarch label Dave Young whose premier album will be available in early 2009. “I am so excited about going out with Mary again,” said Young “I went out with her on the Breakthrough tour and I learned so much from watching her, how she would sing to her fans, connect with them and include them.”

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Friday, September 19                 Virginia Beach, VA          Virginia Beach Pavilion
Saturday, September 20             Washington, DC             DC/Nissan Pavilion
Sunday, September 21                Raleigh, NC                   MJBTime Warner Music Cable Pavilion

Friday, September 26                 Philly/Camden, NJ          Susquehanna Bank Center
Saturday, September 27             Charlotte, NC                 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Sunday, September 28                Detroit, MI                    DTE Energy Music Theatre
Thursday, October 2                   New York City                Radio City Music Hall
Friday, October 3                       New York City                Radio City Music Hall
Wednesday, October 8               Baltimore, MD                1st Mariner Arena
Friday, October 10                     Ft. Lauderdale, FL          Bank Atlantic Center
Saturday, October 11                 Tampa, FL                      Ford Amphitheater
Sunday, October 12                    Atlanta, GA                    Hi-Fi Amphitheatre
Tuesday, October 14                  Chicago, IL                     Arie Crown Theater
Wednesday, October 15             Omaha, NE                     Qwest Convention Center
Friday, October 17                     Las Vegas, NV                Pearl Theatre
Saturday, October 18                 Oakland, CA                   Sleep Train Pavilion at Concord
Sunday, October 19                    Los Angeles, CA             Gibson Amphitheatre


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UP wants a Govt. whose work, performance can set examples: Satyapal Singh

New Delhi [India], Feb. 15 (ANI): Claiming that the Bharatiya Janata Party was ahead of its rivals in the first phase of polling and were on the road to form government in the politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, Baghpat MP Satyapal Singh on Wednesday said the party has emerged as a good alternative because it can bring development in state and provide security to the people.
Showing confidence that the people of Uttar Pradesh will go in large numbers to vote for the party in the second phase also, Singh told ANI people now want a government whose work and performance can set an example.
"Every party tries to show that they have people's mandate during election but the truth is that people are tired of these 15 years of miss-governance. Be it Samajwadi party of Bahujan Samaj Party, people of Uttar Pradesh are upset. People now want a government whose work and performance can be an example. Who can end corruption, who can bring law and order, who can give jobs to youth, who can help the farmers. This is why people can only see one party who can do all this and that is the Bharatiya Janata Party," he added.
Meanwhile, elaborate security arrangements have been made for polling for single-phase Assembly elections in Uttarakhand and second phase in Uttar Pradesh.
In Uttar Pradesh, polling for the second phase will be held in 67 constituencies spread over 11 districts. Election for the Alapur constituency, which was postponed following SP candidate Chandrashekhar's death, will also be held on the 9th of next month.
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Voting will begin at 7.00 a.m. and continue till five in the evening. There are 721 candidates including 82 women and one third gender in the fray in this phase. The fate of these candidates will be decided by 2 crore 28 lakhs voters.
14 thousand 771 polling centers and 23 thousand 693 polling stations have been erected in this phase.
Meanwhile, campaigning has intensified in areas going to polls in remaining 5 phases of 7-phase polls in the state.
Today was also the last date for filing of nominations for the sixth phase, in which 49 constituencies will go to polls on the 4th of next month. Uttar Pradesh has a 403-member Assembly.
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In the month of February there was a technical fest organized by BITS-Goa, in order to take part in that fest I had to visit Goa, in fact it was my first visit to Goa. I had already heard about Goa beach and the beauty of Goa. Unfortunately the college couldn’t provide accommodation for me, which made me to stay in the Hotel Nova Goa. It is located in Panjim, one of the finest places of Goa and is known for all kinds of water sports activity. It is also a famous shopping area.

We were group of 3 members who stayed in that hotel. It is one of the best hotels in that area with all the facilities available. It had a vast spread garden in front of the resort and is stretched up to the beach which attracts everyone. There is also a good Swimming Pool and an Aurvedic Massage Parlor inside the resort. The Transport facility to the resort is very good by Bus, Air, and by train also.

It is one of the popular hotels in Goa which consisted of 81 rooms. This hotel is classy, lavishness and comfortable for all kinds of facilities served for their guest. It was a great delight to be in the hotel. The grand look of the hotel right from the parking area to the rooms everything was simply super. The parking place was huge and there are adequate people to guide you. It consisted of a gand conference hall which was well equipped with the latest technology and the arrangements were outstanding.

The Poolside restaurant serving Goan and Indian cuisine is really good with tasty and mouth watering food. People who are fond of eating will surely enjoy this tasty food. The resort has a multi cuisine restaurant named Combos Gourmet which provides good services to its customers. The various dishes are available including South Indian, Chinese and also the local cuisines also. Tandoori dishes and sea fishes is also available here. They also served with variety of Soft drinks.

The additional services includes Doctor on call, Laundry, Money changer, Banking, Safe deposit, Baby sitting, Health Club, Sauna, Swimming Pool, etc. They offer a large area where you can jog in the morning and evening time. You can view flora and fauna while jogging and you will just like it. The gym is also fully equipped with sauna, Jacuzzi and steam bath. They have a shopping arcade too where you can enjoy shopping various thing including exquisite antiques, carpets, handicrafts, leather and jewelry, perfumes, etc. Overall, the hotel is world class in style & services too.

A true world class hotel which provides all the facilities at a very reasonable rate. The room rates are in the range of Rs 2500 to Rs 5000 per day. If you have a plan to visit to Goa then stay in Hotel Nova.

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No More Hi-Fi, a nice, big label sampler from the proudly lo-fi Galant Records label, gets a recommendation from me.  Indie pop is a great genre, and Norway is without doubt one of its hotbeds - I can't see how anyone could pass on this tremendously catchy, endlessly fun beast of a compilation.

Despite some less inspired moments, there are some really, really good tunes here.  Tom Cruise Control's "Wouldn't You Know" is pure, carefree indie pop.  I Is Lars' "She Cooks My Dinner" sounds like a more hooky Strokes tune.  Stereo 21's "No. 12" is amazingly pretty, melody-laden dream pop, somewhat influenced by Belle & Sebastian.  And that's just within the first six songs.  Other highlights come courtesy of peppy popster Professor Pez, lo-fi hometaper Ahlsen, and noise pop master Hotel Charme.

No More Hi-Fi is a terrific overview of the Norway indie pop scene.  Though some of the disc's later songs are a tad low on hooky melody, there's still plenty to enjoy in these twenty tunes.  If you get the chance to buy this, don't pass it up.

Fun Fact: The word 'galant' refers to an particular style of music from the eighteenth century.  According to the Collins English Dictionary, the genre was "characterized by homophony and elaborate ornamentation."  Read into that as you will.

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Chapter 25

Chapter 25 is still being written, and I only have two and a half months left to fill the pages of this number, but so far I only beam excitement for what more lies ahead. Today I say farewell to my East Coast life and make the big move to Los Angeles, CA. I did not wake up one day and suddenly decide that today will be the day I pick up my entire life and move across the country to a city that I hardly know on the opposite coast of NYC. I always said that I would eventually do it. Eventually is now.

New York City has been and always will be my home. In fact, for the last 25 years, I never left it and I never moved away from it. It is where I was raised, where I learned how to walk and talk, where I navigated an unreliable transit system, met some of the strongest and most influential people, got my bachelor's degree, landed my first job straight out of college, and it will always be the city that allowed me to dream as big as possible.

Leaving behind everything you know is the toughest part, and though this has just begun, I already know what an impact this decision will have on the rest of my life. Whenever I thought about leaving NYC, I always thought of all the reasons for me to stay behind. They weren't excuses at the time because they were reasons within comfort. It is exactly this moment that I feel comfortable stepping out of it, too. I am very fortunate that the time to leave now is entirely my decision unhindered.

Have you ever had that feeling where everything leading up to this moment felt exactly right? Well, this move feels exactly that way, where every bone in my body knows it is good for me. It feels right and I can't look back. LA might not be what I imagine it to be, but I will never know the answer to my "what if," if I do not take this chance, this opportunity, and move there.

I don't know what lies ahead, and I don't know who I will meet, what I will encounter, who I will become, but I head there knowing that I will latch on to what I believe in and overcome any obstacles that come my way. This is where two roads diverge, and I choose the one headed west.


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Innovation Economy Column (and Video): Davids Competing with Goliaths

Today's Innovation Economy column in the Globe looks at two mapping start-ups based in Massachusetts, EveryScape and Povo. EveryScape is working to create photo-realistic, three-dimensional maps of the world, and Povo is an interesting amalgam of Google Maps, Wikipedia, and Yelp, with a neighborly twist.

One idea I wanted to explore was how small companies like these can, if they're successful, either become acquisition targets for the big guys (in this case, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo) or find themselves competing head-to-head.

I had a short chat with MIT instructor/VC/analyst Howard Anderson on that topic that was quite enlightening -- but which didn't make it into the finished column. Some notes from conversation that are below the video clip, which takes you along for a ride in EveryScape's mapping-mobile.

(For a more basic explanation of what EveryScape aims to do, check out this New England Cable News clip.)

Anderson had some great perspective on the relationship between start-ups and big companies:

    - Start-ups often awaken giants to the potential of a market. If the start-up doesn't move fast, "you get rolled over," Anderson says. "There is a pregnant period of time when you have to become the de facto standard. If not, and only the lunatic fringe likes your product," then you don't matter as a competitor (or potential acquisition) to the big players.

    - "It's easy to compete against the big guy. They're always a little muscle-bound. They take a long time to recognize a new market. What you really have to worry about are the other small companies in the same space. I used to love backing companies that competed against AT&T and IBM. But when you had eight [start-up] companies, so much alike that their mothers couldn't tell them apart, then you never got traction."

    - In meetings with big companies about potential partnerships, start-ups can often be induced by the power differential ("They're Google, who the hell are we?") to say a little too much about what they're doing. "You should talk about your vision, but if you're foolish enough to tell them everything, and show the innards of your product, then you can save them a great amount of time," Anderson says.

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New England Web 2.0 Companies Attract More Funding Than Their SiliValley Counterparts

'Boston is the new Silicon Valley,' declares From Paul La Monica's piece:

    According to a report released Monday, venture capitalists invested $464.2 million in 101 so-called Web 2.0 companies during the first half of 2007, a 7 percent increase from the same period a year ago and new record high. But less than 20 percent of this cash was invested in Bay Area firms.

    “Investors are looking to diversify their Web 2.0 portfolios so they are looking at new regions,” said Valerie Foo, research manager at Dow Jones VentureOne.

    So what’s hotter than the Valley? New England. This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise since the Boston area, with all its colleges and universities, has always been a training ground for engineering talent.

    While there were many more deals involving Bay Area companies in the first half of the year– only 10 New England Web 2.0 firms received a round of financing compared to 25 in the Bay Area — the New England firms received $102 million to the Bay Area’s $91 million. The big reason for New England’s surge to the top of the VC money list was due to a $30 million investment in Cambridge, Mass.-based enterprise software developer n2N Commerce.

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Nearly 30 companies and organisations from Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie in Northern France will take part in the upcoming InnoTrans trade show, which takes place in Berlin from 21 to 24 September 2010.

The biennial trade show is a key international event for the rail sector. The Northern France Rail cluster, which represents about 40% of the French railway construction and manufacturing sector, will be taking part. Its companies and research organisations will be showcasing their products, services and innovations on a 360 m² stand.

Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie, which are located at the geographic and economic heart of Europe, constitute an important region for the rail sector, benefiting from industry know-how and a reputation for research and development. The Northern France Rail Cluster comprises multidisciplinary teams which work in cooperation with several European countries, and has extensive testing means in the field of surface transport. For example, the only French rail-testing facility that can test equipment in the field is situated in this region.

The Northern France Rail Cluster includes over 150 companies and organisations from Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie, which employ 13,000 workers. Bringing together the resources of a competitiveness cluster (i-Trans), a strong network of companies (AIF), as well as a rail-testing centre and R&D laboratories, Northern France Rail generates and speeds up innovations.

The i-Trans cluster brings together manufacturers, R&D laboratories and training centres, in order to support collaborative and innovative projects which meet the demands of competitive and environmentally friendly transport. In order to promote innovation among Northern France Rail Cluster’s members, test platforms for rolling stock, infrastructures, electrical-current collection and energy storage have been developed. This, in turn, provides the European rail sector's scientific and industrial community with unique tools to validate ideas and models, to test solutions and to speed up market launches.

The exhibitors at the Northern France stand cover a wide range of rail-sector activities: AIF is the Regional Association of the Railway Industry; NFX is a publicly funded development agency for Northern France; Certifer is a railway certifying agency; finally, I-Trans is a competitiveness cluster located in the north of France.

On the manufacturing and design side, Borlex Cafac Bajolet is a rubber and polyurethane manufacturer, and Devismes focuses on the design and manufacturing of locks. Cimes is a design and engineering firm which specialises in digital simulation, while Inforges offers die-stamping, machining and assembly (brass, copper and aluminium). For its part, Sculfort handles the design and installation of wheel-profiling machines for railway maintenance. As for Stratiforme, it is a manufacturer of composite parts.

Trioplast manufactures train parcel shelves, partitions and waste bins, and Stratime Composites Systèmes handles the study and manufacturing of composite metal parts. Dufot manufactures non-woven industrial fabrics, while Sogema offers equipment for railway workshops. Somepic Technologie, for its part, handles precision mechanical machining. Stratime Composites handles the study and manufacturing of composite metal part, and Techni Metal Systemes manufactures special handling equipment for railways and tunnels. As for Amesco, it is a specialist in the design and production of impeller wear rings.

Exhibitors will come from across the railway sector. Banc National d’Epreuve focuses on impact strength tests on materials, while Deny Fontaine offers access-control solutions. Deprecq handles fine sheet-metal work, with GSDI dealing with film supply and fitting. IDMS produces passenger information systems, while Sopaval is an environmental test laboratory. For their part, Technifrance specialises in engineering services, and Visionor focuses on remote-display technology.

There will also be a number of foundries exhibiting: Davergne Fonderie is an aluminium-bronze foundry, while Société Industrielle des Fontes is a cast-iron foundry.

About the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picadie regions of Northern France

Situated in the north of the country and bordering Belgium, Nord-Pas-de-Calais is one of the 22 regions of mainland France. The region has benefited from recent and sustained investment in the rail sector. Nord-Pas-de-Calais is home to a number of small and medium-size businesses involved in the railway industry, including manufacturers, suppliers and contractors.

Picardie is situated at an important intersection for European trade, just north of the Ile-de-France region (i.e. Paris and its region).

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The Highlander is a composite maternal breed developed by Focus Genetics to deliver improvements in production and performance. The Highlander is available in the UK exclusively through Innovis.

The Highlander is bred for:

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An ideal closed flock option and will suit you if you want:

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Spooky or Sparky? A message for Halloween.

With Halloween coming up the TV schedules are filled with seasonal offerings. They expect us to want to be scared at this time of year! I don’t know about you, but I’m not a great fan of horror movies. I get frightened too easily. I still remember the time I went to see the zombie classic Night of the Living Dead as a student…and actually fell of my seat as I jumped at one particularly scary bit. And as I went I threw my popcorn into the air, showering those around me! No, I don’t like horror movies.

But I’m in a minority it seems. There is something of a zombie revival in the Uk…if that’s the right word. There’s the constant stream of new zombie films; even Brad Pitt is getting in on the act, with World War Z. And then there are the computer games; if you have or if you know any teenage children then you’ll know all about these! And then last weekend around 3,000 people dressed as zombies and took to the streets of Brighton. It’s still not clear to me why, but when they were asked they replied they were doing it for fun. It’s the latest proof, if any was needed, that the undead are really on the march – culturally at least.

This is such a pervasive phenomenon that serious people are beginning to ask what it tells us about our society. It’s often been argued that the boom in sci-fi films and books of alien attack in America in the 50s and 60s was some sort of expression of the fear of Soviet invasion. So, what fear or feeling is driving the current zombie craze?

Academics and commentators are trying to explain it. The University of Winchester will soon become the first university in the UK to offer a study module devoted entirely to zombies. Their specialist lecturer said “We’re living through the hardest economic times in most young people’s memories. Maybe zombies speak to austerity Britain in a way other monsters don’t.” And the left-leaning think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research agrees. Their director said “Even before the global economic crisis we saw young, unskilled young men finding it much harder to get a foothold in the labour market and since the crisis we’ve seen a rocketing of youth unemployment. There is something in the idea that if you can’t see a future, if you don’t have a sense of progress for yourself personally, then you are stuck in the present tense, and this would lend itself to the notion of a kind of recurrent nightmare of repeatedly being a living-dead.”

It seems that the current obsession with zombies somehow reflects the pointlessness and emptiness of modern lives for many people. They feel like the walking dead.

And yet…..I suppose the saints we celebrate on All Saints day really ARE the living dead. They died and are now alive. Just as Jesus died and rose from the grave. But not as a zombie! The accounts in the gospels of what happened when Jesus came back to life after the crucifixion are important, because they tell us the pattern for our resurrection life too. Jesus talked to his friends, they could recognise him, he ate with them, he cooked for them. So OK he appeared through locked doors, but he was still Jesus. Not a ghost, and certainly not a zombie.

The resurrection life is as far away from zombie-ville as we could possibly imagine. The great multitude described in our reading from Revelation are truly alive. Not living a grey half life. The life they have is a reward for going through the hard times in this world; they’ve suffered, they’ve come through and they find ….well they find heaven.

This is what Jesus described as life in its fullness. And it’s not just for the future. It’s that sort of life that our zombie fans are missing out on now. What both they and we agree on is that life is not just confined to the physical life of this body. There is life beyond the grave. But because of what they experience now they assume that life beyond death is as bad as that. Whereas because of what we experience now in and through Jesus we are very optimistic about life beyond death. Our present feeds our expectations for the future. It will be great.

But it seems to work the other way round too. CS Lewis writes about how eternity feeds back into our lives now. In the great divorce, which is about heaven and hell he writes from the heavenly side;

‘The good man’s past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven: the bad man’s past already conforms to his badness and is filled only with dreariness. And that is why, at the end of all things, when the sun rises here and the twilight turns to blackness down there, the Blessed will say ‘We have never lived anywhere except Heaven,’ and the Lost, ‘We were always in Hell.’ And both will speak truly.’

If CS Lewis is right, and I think he is, then we are surrounded by people who are already in Hell. We can do something about that! If ever there was a time for good news, now is it. In Jesus people find the meaning and purpose and hope they can’t find anywhere else. And that reminds me of spiritual bottom lines. If you run a business check here to find out about quadruple bottom lines. If you don’t, then start considering what your own spiritual bottom line might look like. Think carbon footprint but with eternal consequences!

This week will see both Halloween and All Saints Day. Which are you? Spooky or sparky? The living dead or eternally living?

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Can I use Gorilla Tape to Mend a Pool Liner?

I've found the tear....finally...but now I need to fix it. Right now the water is down below the rip so it's dry. Does anyone know if Gorilla Tape will hold or is there something better?? I've used Gorilla Tape to mend my Bean boot in the winter....that's tough stuff!!

rickharris8 years ago
Maybe is it water proof. A propper pool repair kit is the answer.
iPodGuy8 years ago
You could give it a shot, but if it were me, I'd run to the pool supply store and get a hole repair kit.


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Introduction: Doomsday Steampunk Machine

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This my first Instructable. I was inspired by the A-35 Doomsday device by ewout. I am really enjoying the Steampunk themed projects that i see here and thought I would create my own Steampunk inspired doomsday device. My starting idea was a weather control device based of the idea of a butterfly wings flapping would result in rain instead of sun on the other side of the world. So I build a imaginary machine around that idea.

Step 1: Steampunk Needs Some Guages

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Starting with a wooden box from a local craft store and some electrical fittings from the hardware store, I started with display gauges to measure the etherical forces i would be generating to control the weather. I do not have a picture, but the gauges has a motor mounted on the back of the box to drive an arm with magnets. Each of the gauges also had a small magnet. The movement of the magnets drive the needles.

Step 2: Buttons.. Lots of Buttons and Knobs

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The 2nd control box has an arrangement of buttons made from ball point click pens mounted in another wooden box from the craft store. A small hold drilled in the end of the pin allowed me to add a button on the end. Knobs are actually caps off some applesauce squeeze containers, painted and glued to a few extra potentiometers I had. At the bottom is a key hole. A hold is drilled in the back of a box were I mounted turn knob switch that can be reached with a skeleton key. A three position switch will turn on the light in the "power supply" at the bottom of the machine and the motor to run the gauges.

Step 3: Power Supply

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thanks to How to make the Sorcerer's Stone by SoccerChic923 I made some "material X" to power my device it is mounted in the reaction chamber were the butterfly lives. This is a purchase from my local garden decoration section. It is a motorized monarch butterfly. I considered using a different jar but was unable to find one the worked or looked any better. I kept the demo switch for the butterfly attached and just glued it out of sight at the top of the jar.

Step 4: Pieces and Parts

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Other parts were 3/4" pvc tube, 1/4" threaded rod, The round disks are trivets from the local kitchen suppy store, and a yard light for the top. 6" width of pvc pipe to mount boxes and switch and various odds and ends to decorate.

Step 5: Where to Put the Batteries... in a Battery

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The whole thing runs off 2 3v circuits. One to power the light at the bottom and the motor for the gauges and a 2nd to power the leds at the top. I did not want to put the batteries inside as they would be difficult to access and there is not much room. I made a fake battery instead from a cardboard tube and some pictures of antique batteries. The 2 battery packs fit in the cardboard tube for easy access.

Step 6: Putting It All Together

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Sorry for the clutter in the background. The switch for the light on the top is a drawer pull that looks like outdoor faucet knob. After a little Rub n Buff and a lot of hot glue, everything when together fairly easy and now i am ready to create some weather related havoc at my local Scifi convention.

andy.knote (author)2014-12-17

Nice build, great aesthetics. Good use of common materials. Good Instructable, Nice Work!

Looks really cool!

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Introduction: Fire Roasted Tomatoes (al Dente)

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I'm making a roasted veggie salad for a party tonight, and I didn't know what to do with the tomatoes, so I devised a plan to fire roast them, with a little smoke. Since they were to be used in a salad (more like bruschetta), I did not want to taint they texture too much, so I just barely roasted them.

Step 1: Char-Coal!! FIRE FIRE, Hehe, FIRE!

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I've never owned a gas grill, and frankly never want to. Charcoal takes a bit more skill, and provides with a much better, campfire, flavor. Recently I've been using the 'real wood' charcoal instead of the briquettes. Remember!!! Use as little lighter fluid as possible, and fan the embers to get it burning faster.

Let the charcoal burn up for at least 30 minutes so there is no flavor from the fluids left, and to maximize the heat.

Step 2: Prep the Tomatoes, and Hydrate Your Wood.

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Score the BOTTOM of the tomatoes with a knife by slicing 2 directions, like an X. This will help you to remove the skins after it's all complete. I also used a skewer to poke many holes in the tomato to get maximum smoke penetration. The scoring and the holes need to be no deeper than an 1/8 of an inch.

I chose to leave the core/stem because I am going to roast them upside down and didn't want the moisture to escape. I guess you could do it either way.

Also, if you want some smokey flavor, you should get your favorite wood of choice and hydrate them in warm water for at least 20 minutes. This prevents them from just burning up. I used oak chips that are typically used for wine, but it's all I had laying around.

Step 3: Almost Time to Burn 'em Up.

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When your charcoal is blazing hot, and white as shown above, it's time to put the tomatoes on. I considered dropping them right on the charcoal but then found my Veggie grill rack thing-a-ma-bob.

Place the tomatoes stem side down on your rack and cover with foil. Only cover the top as you are trying to trap the heat and smoke inside. If you cover the bottom where the grates are then you'll be doing nothing more than what you could do in the oven.

Go ahead and move the charcoals around so you have an even flat space to put the rack on.

Step 4: Time to Burn 'em Up.

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Once everything is in place, strain your wood chips and throw them on the charcoals directly under where you plan on placing the rack. Put the rack on the burning embers and put the lid on.

Be sure to close all vents of your grill. You wouldn't wanna lose any of that smoke now "wood" ya. :P

Step 5: Shock and Timing

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While the 'maters are on the barbie (cross-culture dialog), prepare an ice bath for shocking. Plan on using a large enough vessel to hold ALOT of ice, water, and the tomatoes. Don't forget the law of buoyancy.

As I mentioned in the intro, I'm using the tomatoes for a salad of sorts, so I only burned them up for about 10 minutes. If you would like to use the tomatoes in a coulis or soup, feel free to let them go longer. I wouldn't recommend any longer than 20-30 minutes either way though.

When your happy with how the tomatoes look / feel (yes, feel, squeeze them to see how much they've cooked) remove them from the grill and RUN RUN RUN to the ice bath. Drop all the tomatoes into the water... BECAREFUL, THEY ARE HOT. Use two forks to protect your girly hands.

Let them rest in the ice bath for 10 or 15 minutes, or until cold.

Step 6: Peel and Seed...

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After the ice bath, remove the tomatoes and you should notice that the skins slide right off without a problem. Remove all the skins, and slice the tomato in 1/2 horizontally. Grab a half, and gently squeeze over a sink and the majority of seeds and pulp will fall out.

That's all folks! Do whatever you want to with your fire roasted / smoked tomatoes.

Pics from the finished salad will appear tomorrow.

canida (author)2008-08-19

They look good! How did the veggie salad turn out?

mintee (author)canida2008-08-19

Turned out great. I wasn't able to get any pics of the salad after it was finished though.

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Introduction: Forge a Drawknife

In this video, I overview the rather simple yet labor-intensive task of making a drawknife. Drawknives have been used for centuries for woodworking, and are still used today for a variety of tasks, whether it is drawing down a square into a tapered peg, debarking logs, or carving a stock. The video is easy enough to follow, but feel free to leave comments on the video or on Instructables if you have any questions. I will be sure to reply quickly.

mcogan (author)2014-08-05

very useful tool. nice job!

pfred2 (author)2014-06-05

I have a few draw knives. Mostly I use them for removing bark, like you say. I've bought all of the straight draw knives I have for next to nothing. 25 cents, up to 75 cents. Most folks have no idea what they are when they have them, and just want to get rid of them. Some kids I bought one off of said to me, it is for cutting tall grass, I was like, yeah, sure. Just hand over the steel and everything will be OK.

I did pay a fair amount for a special draw knife I have though. A curved draw knife that is called a scorp. They are much rarer than straight draw knives, so I paid heavy for it when I finally came across one. When I got it it looked like the last thing someone did with it was strip paint.

The sad life that poor old tools lead. My garage is like a rescue shelter for them.

Right on, brother! Same thing here; buy tools for cheap, wirebrush and oil, and put them to good use. Doesn't matter what tool it is, I enjoy restoring all sorts of stuff. Check out my YouTube channel; just restored a lathe.

I watched your video. Good for you! I wish I could come across a decent metal lathe for a reasonable price. There's nothing where I'm at now though. There never was anything here. Which is kind of what I like about the place.

But it does have its downside when it comes to trying to find anything. For what I mainly do needing a lathe doesn't come up for me all that often. I suppose if I had one I'd find uses for it though. I just used my wood lathe to make myself some phenolic bushings for a mandrel grinder that I made a frame for, and a tool rest. I'm sure those bushings would have come out much better if I had a metal lathe to make them on.

Lathes are tricky machines to run for being so simple conceptually. Do some reading about them so you can get good use out of yours. At the very least you need to know about your tool angle, and the surface speed of work. Once you have that down the rest you should be able to figure out, except maybe for threading. There is a bit to threading on a lathe to know too.

I am far from a lathe expert but I think you should turn between centers as much as you can. Supporting your work is just mechanically a more sound thing to do. It is easier on everything all around.

hjjusa (author)2014-06-04

How come no temper?

The reason why I went without a temper is because I wanted an extremely sharp edge, and don't mind it being brittle. With a draw knife, there isn't a whole lot of banging or flexing, whereas there would be on something like a chisel, or a knife. As long as you work just wood, the extra hardness should work out for you just fine.

emtsevilla (author)2014-06-04

me too, man. i can't see the vid. i'm using the app though, lemme try the browser version...

rimar2000 (author)2014-06-04

Excellent work, thanks for sharing it.

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Introduction: How to Laser Cut a Token Box for Your Custom Game Tokens

In this tutorial I show how to design a game token box using Adobe Illustrator, how to laser cut it and how to assemble it.

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Introduction: How to Make a Teeterboard | Springboard

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What is up guy, In this instructable I will share with you how I made a wooden teeterboard mainly used for doing tricks, flips and acrobatic elements.

I devided the whole tutorial in 4 video tutorial parts, so you are welcome to watch them aswell.

Let's get started! -->

Step 1: 3D Design / Modeling

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I will be using Europenan larch for this projects due to its excelent elastic properties and springness.

The point of every teeterboard is to have a strong and rigit board with just enough flex to suppres main forces and deliver them directly to the secong guy.

The board itself will be made from 3 layers of larch, each different lenght connected with neck bolts and washers.

In the middle I have used a 12 mm shaft that is gonna be welded directly to a steel plate in the middle and then lockede axialy with bearings.

Now, the frame is gonna be made from 40x40 mm square pipes. Most of them will have a 30° cut on both sides, and then of course plenty of welding and grinding.

Also, each leg will have a rubbery material on the bottom, to prevent teeterboard from sliding back and forth.

I will be using ball bearing, which already come with housing and shaft lock screws.

Step 2: Making the Base

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For the base, I start with cutting down the square still pipes to a needed length.

I made all cuts with a common angle grinter and I must say that pieces came out pretty good for further welding.

With my arc welder set on 50A I have connected all pipes together and grind of any badlooking welds.

So, after the frame was complete I drilled 4 holes for our bearings and the base is finished.

Step 3: Making the Board

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I firstly, cut down to size these long larch planks to a 3, 2, and 1 m boards.

The edges were a bit rough, so I use my electric planer to make them perfectly straight.

I also use a vibrating sanding machine to smooth front and back surface of each board to kindly look a bit more cleaner and to get rid of any unwanted wood chips.

From the renderings in part 1 you can see that the teeterboard is gonna be made from 2 parrallel 20cm planks on each side, so I decided to connect them with flat steel bars.

I cut every piece at 20 cm and later drill 3x 8mm holes in each piece. In total that was 48 holes and half of them I need to file so the rectangular screw head could fit in.

Just that took me probably more time than making the whole teeterboard together, so yea it was quite a bit furstrating job.

Next, I welded shaft to one of steel bars and the only thing left to do was to drill holes in wood planks and connect everyone of them together.

At the end I secure the boards to the base with 4 M12 screws and our teeterboard is finished.

Step 4: Testing the Teeterboard

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In the beginning we have spent so many time on improving the perfect techique and slowly we were getting better and better but There was still something that didnt allow us to jump higher so I remove the bottom two board and the whole teeterboard became a lot more flexible. From that point we knew this thing is gonna be so friking awesome!

Thank you all for reading and watching this instructable. If you have any questions and ideas please comment down below.

1gr81 (author)2017-05-14

I am thrilled to have found this Instructable! It has been in the back of my mind, forever. Thanks for posting!

I was wondering if there was other wood (more readily available wood) that you could suggest? It seems like I saw where others had used Apple wood (??) or maybe even ash. I'm not sure which woods wood have both spring and strength.

Thanks, in advance, for any help you can give me. :)

ChristineT72 (author)2017-04-16

Be advised: As someone who works in the industry, I would not recommend this at all for amateurs. I've seen some horrendous accidents in many years.

That is true, thanks. The higher you go and the more advance stuff you perform the higher is risk. So far we didn't have any serious injury but keep in mind that is not a toy for sure.

DIY Hacks and How Tos (author)2017-04-14

Awesome! My kids would have endless hours of fun with one of these.

I am pretty sure they will ;) But remember, you can get some serious injuries if not using it correctly.

erenn (author)2017-04-16

Awesome! If anyone is interested in making this in Seattle please let me know.

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Introduction: Make Use of CD's As a Pencil Holder

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Do you have cd markers and CDs all over the floor? Well, I have a solution for you. Let's make a cd marker holder out of CDs!

Step 1: Gathering Materials

This time we will need five CDs, and soldering iron.

Step 2: Making the Holder

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It's pretty simple to make. Take two CDs. Then you have to place the cd's at 90 degree angle, and then you have to make little holes between them using hot soldering iron. Now if the "standing" cd won't fall, add a CD on opposite side of the base CD. If the both CDs are standing, now we have to place two CDs between (just like on the photo of ready thing). If the placement of CDs is good, make holes (with soldering iron) again to stick them to standing cd's and central hole of the base (we cannot stick them to hole so just to border of it ;). If you are ready and the thing doesn't pretend to collapse in a minute, you can put your pens/pencils/markers etc. on it ;) Thanks for reading my instructable, and remember to check my other ones ;)

Charthage (author)2009-04-08

Not Bad.

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Introduction: Making a Handwritten Sign Practice Board

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The best way to prepare for creating a handwritten sign is to practice the lettering using the actual final material with a variety of hand written fonts. When making handwritten signs you will develop the best style with practice. For example writing the final text while practicing at least 2 dozen times will make the actual final lettering look most fluid.

Remember to breath while hand lettering and keep your lines smooth and sharp.

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Step 1: Practice on Final Material and Select Best of 24 Practice Words

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When starting out with your practice to hand letter a sign consider experimenting with a few ideas until you get to the style that looks best. Use the second practice column to improve your selected best "practice word" from column 1.

Note that this example is of a handwritten sign using freestyle lettering without letter guides or pre-written letter outlines. It is always important to use a straight edge guide either on the final sign or by placing a long ruler at the top and bottom as temporary guides. I made it at Techshop

Step 2: Test Different Markers, Paints, and Pens

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Once your basic style is selected test more than one pen. paint, or marker to get a good idea of options for the final hand lettered sign. In this image I tested an orange marker (pantone 16) that wrote well but is not dark enough for use on the final sign.

Step 3: Consider Outlining the Letters

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After you have selected you materials and practiced your basic text consider the following.The best final result will be achieved after your selected word is a constant style, height, and width. Notice how the first line is not as consistent as the 3rd and 5th lines which are highlighted with an outline in black to show the best examples in that column.

Step 4: Test Different Font Widths - Practice Your Best Style a Few More Times

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Before reaching the end of your practice test out a few more font styles to regain a fluid motion when writing that will make your final hand lettered sign look the best. In this example you can see the first line where I tested a double marker style to determine a best final look. While practicing I selected the best lettered example for a black outline to show progress toward a final style.

Step 5: Hand Lettering Consistency

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Now that your practice is improving and your are able to achieve a consistent look and style with you hand letters on the selected surface slow down your writing and attempt to gain a "professional" consistency of the look, feel, width, height, curves, and individual letter thickness (from constant selected pen width). In this example the 3rd and 4th line show the best promise.

Note: when outlining letters always go from left to right to keep the earlier letters "on top" of later letters. Some great styles can be created by letter outline overlapping techniques.

Step 6: Final Practice Board: Hand Lettering "San Francisco" Sign

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Ideally a practice board should be the actual final material that you are going to use for your sign. I advise practicing writing the final wording at least 2 dozen times to be able to test out different techniques and to make the best final product.  This examples shows a practice board using more than 6 similar but different lettering techniques while choosing the best final look.

After competing your practice board it is a good idea to take a 5-10 minute break before doing the final hand written sign to achieve the best look. (Optional: leave one column blank and do that practice right before the final sign)

FYI: If you are constantly getting ink or paint on your writing hand realize that this is an indicator that you can improve your form as smudging the letters with your writing hand does not make for a great hand lettered sign unless you are going for the distressed lettering look.

practice, practice, practice and make great hand lettered signs.

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