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Newton’s Nook – Gift Wrapping

Welcome back everyone! Today is my final entry into the current Inky Paws Challenge with Newton’s Nook. It’s a sketch challenge this time and I’m having a blast with it! These are my absolute favorite type of challenge.

This is the format we are challenged to mimic. I kept things pretty much exact to the sketch this time but used some fun products while doing it.

To make this card I stamped one of the girls from Christmas Trimmings and die cut it, then set it aside. Next, I took a white panel and used champagne mist metallix gel over the Snowfall stencil. Once it was dry I die cut it from the largest of the Framework dies. I glued that panel to a green card base and moved on to the other pieces of the sketch. The green square is popped up with foam squares, the banner glued directly to that and then the pool colored square is popped up as well. Finally the stamped image is popped up with foam squares.

Finishing touches for this card were very simple – just white gel pen accents and then Wink of Stella glitter brush pen on the girl’s hair bow and shoes and the dots on the wrapping paper.

I love the non-traditional colors for this Christmas card. It made me realize that this image really could be used year round for fun birthday cards too!

I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!

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  1. Somebody was busy with this challenge again! We always enjoy seeing your sweet cards. Thank you for sharing your talents with us in the Inky Paws Challenge.

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Japanese cinema has certainly not lacked interesting films about the trials and tribulations of late childhood and adolescence, but none of them have been quite as startling as Ryohei Watanabe’s Shady. Playing out like a juvenile version of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (complete with several ‘what’s for dinner?’ style tense situations) only much less camp and frighteningly realistic, Watanabe’s film has far more to say than its synopsis might suggest. Touching on loneliness, neglect, bullying, duplicitous adulthood and abusive relationships, Shady is a taught psychological thriller handled with remarkable assurance for a first time director.

Misa Kumada is a lonely teenager who’s constantly mocked by her schoolmates. As her surname contains the Japanese word for bear and she happens to be a little thicker set than the other girls, they’ve taken to calling her ‘Pooh’, and very much not in an affectionate way. She mostly skirts around the edges of the school, trying to not catch the mean girls’ eyes. That is until another girl, Izumi, unexpectedly tries to help her out and seems to want to become friends. Izumi is prettier and seemingly someone who ought to run with the popular crowd, but confesses to Misa that she’s lonely too as she doesn’t have any friends either. What follows is just as you might expect - two lonely, sort of strange girls become friends and manage to overcome the strains of high school life through their shared friendship. Just pause there for a second because things are about to get very dark. The friendship becomes extremely intense - Izumi is the possessive sort of friend who doesn’t like her ‘pet’ to have any other sources of affection. She also, as it turns out, is a master manipulator who isn’t afraid to exploit any visible weakness for her own gain. A more serious matter is the fate of a classmate who has gone missing and hasn’t been seen in days.

There’s nothing that can really prepare you for the detour this film takes in its final third. What started off as a sweet coming of age style story about high school friendship quite quickly descends into a hellish cycle of abuse and torture. Hana and Alice this isn’t! Misa is a shy girl who’s more at home with animals than humans while Izumi is a pretty and confident young woman who is unafraid to make use of her precocious sexuality. Normally, they aren’t the sort of girls that would have very much to do with each other and the very fact that their ‘friendship’ exists is a little strange in itself. Older eyes can see there’s something a little dangerous about Izumi, but Misa is so excited to have found a friend at long last that she can’t see what she’s getting into. Izumi may very well have picked Misa specifically because she’d be easy to manipulate, and its certainly true that Misa finds it difficult to face the prospect of losing her new-found friendship even when she begins to suspect Izumi may be capable of some truly terrible things.

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A truly disturbing film on many different levels, Shady has to be seen to be believed. It has one of the most shocking codas and an even bolder post credits sequence (make sure you stick around for that!) of any recent film. Probing deep into the nature of friendship and the effect of loneliness, Shady has much more profound ramifications than a superficial reading would suggest. Shocking but equally gripping, this film is technologically assured debut from an exciting new director who will hopefully build on this early success in years to come.

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Within an hour of taking Office, Trump's administration suspended this insurance cut.

Trump and Carson's change has been attacked by critics

This repeal should come as no surprise. #Donald trump's choice for the lead of HUD, Ben Carson, didn't seem enthusiastic about it. He announced a few hours before the Inauguration that the cut would be suspended.

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Trump's team were not briefed about the premium cuts

But suspensions of recent regulation changes are par for the course of any newly-inaugurated President. The Administration will want time to evaluate the policies that the previous Administration have attempted to force them to enact – and it's worth noting that the Obama Administration announced the premium cuts just days before Trump took office, and did so without briefing Trump's team.

The premium cut was something the Obama Administration did on its way out the door, possibly in an attempt to force the next Administration's hand. Critics also suggested it represented little change: it would save an average of $500 a year for borrowers – good, but not an amount worth singing about.

Could Trump's action help the economy?

There are two sides to this coin. Home ownership does introduce stability that can help people grow their wealth. But people borrowing money that they can't afford to pay back is harmful to the economy at large. In terms of mortgages, it's what eventually results in repossessions and foreclosures.

Something to remember is that the premium cut was a pending change that has now been suspended. This wasn't a privilege that people were already using that Trump has now taken away. It's unlikely to affect any upward trend in the housing market, so immediate harm to the economy is highly unlikely.

How will Trump help the working class into home ownership?

FHA premiums have been the subject of a lot of change and speculation over the last two years – and it's worth noting that Obama's administration made their fair share of changes that hurt prospective homeowners, as recently as last February with their life-of-the-loan policy.

Still, there's no denying that this change makes it slightly more difficult for people with bad credit to get on the housing ladder. Big loans despite bad credit, however, was a big cause of the 2008 financial crash – so there is that to remember.

It's difficult to say just yet how good or bad this change will be.

The housing market has seen a boom this past year, and it certainly would be nice to see the working class benefit from this. Perhaps these proposed premium cuts could have helped. But maybe there's another way: increasing wealth so more people can buy homes without premium cuts. Will Trump be able to achieve this?

In any case, it's worth remembering that a suspension could merely be a delay – not a reversal.

Regardless, it seems that mortgage interest rates – not the premiums – are the housing costs to worry about. They've been steadily rising – which means more monthly expense for homeowners.


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New routes in Norfolk

Following a day visiting the lights of Suffolk on Sunday, it’s was Norfolk’s turn yesterday. It’s another area I’ve been to a few times but covered very few of them in detail on here.

Gorleston-on-Sea was first up and I was happy to return to this one. On my 2012 tour I was in the habit of parking in any old car park and then walking to the lighthouse rather than parking as close as I could to it. That meant I spent a little longer wandering the streets of Gorleston that time.

Gorleston lighthouse

This time I spent a little more time seeking different angles and approaches rather than just close-ups of the tower. This theme continued for much of the day, but more on that later. I made a point of walking around the back of the tower this time and then strolling out along the pier, noticing the beach on the other side, which I’d not realised was there before.

Gorleston lighthouse from behind

Joe the Drone had a bit of a fly around and captured some excellent pictures as usual.

Gorleston lighthouse with the beach in the distance
Gorleston harbour from above

Northwards we went to Winterton-on-Sea. Last time I was there I got the feeling that visitors weren’t massively welcome with lots of private road signs in the area. So I then settled for a view above the houses in nearby roads. This time though we went for a different approach, this time from the beach and sand dunes.

Winterton-on-Sea lighthouse across the dunes

I’m glad we did as it’s a much more enjoyable approach. While Bob flew Joe about over me like I was in some sort of action film, I wandered as close as I could get to the lighthouse, which wasn’t that close, but I found some higher ground and got some nice views from there.

Winterton lighthouse from the coast

Joe had got some great views too.

Winterton lighthouse from above, looking north
Winterton lighthouse from above, looking south
Winterton lighthouse from the east

Bob then suggested we try approaching from the nearby holiday camp area so we set off back over the dunes. This turned out to be a good idea as, although we still couldn’t get close enough to touch the lighthouse we got much closer than I’d been before. So I was happy with that – and it was nice to see the tower behind the coloured little houses too! Winterton lighthouse is actually available as a holiday let and Lighthouse Accommodation can provide more details about this.

Winterton lighthouse from the neighbouring holiday accommodation

On the subject of Lighthouse Accommodation, which is written and compiled by my lovely friend Joy, our next stop was Happisburgh lighthouse where Joy is a very active volunteer. As we arrived at the lighthouse the clouds cleared and blue sky and sunshine came out. It’s always been nice weather when I’ve visited Happisburgh.

Happisburgh lighthouse
Approaching Happisburgh lighthouse

It was also nice and calm there today so the walk along the track to the lighthouse was very enjoyable as was the stroll around the wall. The lighthouse is currently closed because of the pandemic, but I would highly recommend going there once it opens again. It’s such a special place and you can see why the community work so hard to keep it running.

Happisburgh lighthouse from the entrance
Happisburgh lighthouse from the east

One more stop of the day and that was Cromer. The lighthouse here is at the end of a private road and the cottages here are let out by Rural Retreats. On other occasions we may have been tempted to drive up the road, but with Bob wanting to be there long enough to fly the drone I suggested we take the coastal route by walking from the town centre. It’s a great walk, although initially we weaved our way through the people in the town to ensure we kept our distance. Once we started walking along the promenade it was a bit easier and the views opened up. We reached the row of beach huts and Bob, who was in his usual position in front of me, spotted the steps leading up the cliff.

The sign that marks the start of the steps

I knew there would be quite a few steps and they were pretty tiring, but thankfully they changed direction enough to keep them a bit more interesting. Once at the top we took a left turn and followed the various paths along the coast. It wasn’t long before the lighthouse came into view, which is always encouraging! Bob, off in front again, found a narrow track leading from the path up to the lighthouse which went from a fair little path to quite a steep final section, but once at the top I was there and could enjoy views all around.

Cromer lighthouse comes into view

There was a perfectly positioned helipad for Joe the Drone to borrow for take off.

Cromer lighthouse
Cromer lighthouse from the north
Cromer lighthouse from the west

I imagine Cromer lighthouse would probably have been quite a popular station to serve at as it looks fairly spacious judging by the size of the associated buildings and the width of the lighthouse. It was great to see the light on too. That’s always an added bonus.

Cromer lighthouse in action

On the walk back I enjoyed the occasional look back to the lighthouse as I took a slightly different route along the paths. The views down to the beach and pier were wonderful too with people’s reflections in the water.

Cromer beach and pier

Rather than taking the steps back down to the beach huts we followed the path down and came out in the town. More weaving between people ensued and we were soon back at the car.

A great day and I’m so glad I took the opportunity of suggesting the alternative routes at both Winterton and Cromer. The coastal route is near enough always more enjoyable. 🙂


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Precinct-Fortress becomes operational

-Arbitrator Mordechai founds his Arbitrator Precinct-Fortress inside large asteroid  known as Sphaera Imperator habitat at Peniteus Balteus asteroid belt. Thus making habitat local center of Imperial bureaucracy, sector-wide astropathic communication and pilgrim site of Mechanicum.

The Arbitrators operate out of massive Precinct-fortresses, located within capital cities in close proximity to the Planetary Governor of major Imperial worlds. Sprawling hive cities may also have their own Courthouse Precinct to aid in large scale monitoring. Remote planets of little importance may have just a single fortified Precinct House for the single Arbitrator stationed there. Whatever their number on a world, or relative size and importance, every Precinct Fortress is broadly similar. They are severe, utilitarian buildings with black armored walls as thick as a military bunker. Their towering shapes exude an air of menace, frowning down on the other buildings nearby and the citizens who hurry fearfully past. Though each Precinct varies based on the needs of the world it is built on, many include the same basic elements: billets for the Arbitrators, an extensive armory to ensure they are well-equipped for the job at hand, secure cells in which to detain suspects ready for questioning or trial, and a court of judgement where guilt and punishment is determined.

These resources can vary greatly, as a Precinct with only a single Arbitrator may have limited ability to hold the guilty until the time of their punishment, and summary execution may be the Arbitrator’s only viable course of action. Monitoring arrays allow the users to listen in on local communications and heavy calibre automated weapon turrets track passing vehicles. Larger precincts may contain additional facilities at the discretion of the High Marshal or Judge such as specialised interrogation rooms fitted out with all manner of devices for extracting information from those who find themselves strapped to the table, medicae centres containing automated equipment and Surgeon-Servitors to treat the wounds of injured agents, and Astropathica shrines where pleas for aid can be transmitted to other planets and incoming messages painstakingly decoded.

precinct fortress sphaera imperatorThe Ultima Tectum  courthouse at Sphaera Imperator is equipped to be self-sufficient with independent life sustainer and to support a complete Arbites troops. It consist of armory (+10 acquisition of weapons, ammo), cells(+10 prolonged interrogation, 5 cells), barracks (up to 500 troops), firing range (+morale for executions), scriptorium (+5 Imperial bureaucracy), data-vault(+5 prolonged scrutiny, logic), warehouse (+20 acquisition of gear and tools), kitchen (bonus vs poisoning)?, gymnasium (bonus vs aging)? and garage (+5 mechanical repair).

precinct-fortress-laajaAdditional components:
Reserve plasma banks Pow: +10
Arboretum (doubles the time Precinct-Fortress can sustain blockade), Pillars of law (+5 command at courtroom), 5 spaces of empty areas for future development of fortress.

Located outside of Precinct-Fortress:
Techno-Shrine of the Machine God?? (+5 to scholastic lore, +5 to Forbidden lore: Archaotech, Mechanicus only)
Medicae deck (+20 medicae, IBx3 patients)

Located on surface of the asteroid:
Astropathic Choir(+10% Focus Power Test for Astro-Telepathy; Increase Psychic Powers by 5VU’s)
Warp Gate map (+20 navigate the warp to locate)

Courthouses are sometimes a world’s only connection with the rest of the Imperium. Planetary Governors often resent the Imperial oversight represented by the Precinct Fortresses on their world. However, in the event of widespread civil unrest and rebellion, they can provide sanctuary from the raging mobs and form the base from which the uprising will be crushed. In the case of a hostile invasion, the Arbites may well be the only ones with the means to send for Imperial reinforcements, and their armored fortresses often become a rallying point and central hub of the resistance. Assistance rarely arrives quickly enough to save the population, but behind their thick walls and heavy doors, it is the Arbitrators’ duty to hold out for as long as possible, until the last scrap of food is gone and the last round of ammunition has been fired.

-Within half year habitat is expanded through Imperial Tax factor investments with  Astropathic Choir conducted by Astropath Martün Underberg, and Techno-Shrine of Omnisiah operated by Specialist Gödel,  Arboretum, Hydroponics Deck, Medicae Deck, Warp Gate Map and Reserve Plasma Banks. Hades Breaching Drill is filling up the garage of the precinct-fortress.

-Arbitrator Mordechai releases small Terran STC rodent found from terraformed forest of Gravis Major to the arboretum. Ptera-Squirrel happily climbs to lush canopy in search of nuts.

-As the guardian of a Techno-Shrine of the Machine God Specialist Gödel’s rank among Mechanicum is promoted to Corpus Illuminator (rank 2/6).

-Astropath Martün promotes adept to be his acolyte: pupil Teresa, promising psyker, extra range telepathy, void born physiology, cool under pressure, cultured, unfathomable.

-Pilgrims of the Machine God come to pay their respects and alms for it’s glorious shrine. That gives Specialist Gödel tax profit (+3) and regular right of use to archaotech items donated to the shrine.

-This great construction operation and accumulation of Imperial infrastructure increases habitats profits greatly. Luxury quarters is commissioned by Spokesman Memillius.

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-Chorda dynasty Legatus Lady Percy and Winterscale dynasty Legatus Morton move permanently to Sphaera Imperator to be able to send and receive astropathic messages to their associates without delay.

-While calibrating his astropathic choir Martün notices weird dissonance in the flow of the warp. He follows his feeling and it leads to the way-shrine of Sphaera Imperator. As he touches sacred adamantium nugget to his horror he finds out that large xeno crystal is hidden inside the relic.

-Astropath Martün reveals xeno origin of revered adamantium nugget of way-shrine of Sphaera Imperator to Arbtrator Mordechai. Arbitrator Mordechai estimates value of that size of adamantium nugget to be around 4 TF.

-Astropath Martün connects to astropathic choir and opens himself to signals echoing through the warp.

Psychic signals located at Ultima Tectum system

Near distance (system):
Martün Underberg
, Imperial Astropathic choir, Penitus Balteus
Herkel 1, Imperial Astropathic choir, Semis
Ragozine 2, Imperial Astropathic relay, Winterscale, Star vessel
Metxer 3 , Imperial astropath, Bleeding feedback loop signal, Calling for maintenance, Sensory deprivation, High insanity, Unintentional signal, Cauldron area
Blue giant star 4, Echoes from Blue giant of Ultima Tectum, Warp rift located inside of the sun.
Stryxis 5, Warp disruptor against Eldar
Unknown 6, Nimbus Extern, Unsanctioned psyker, Occult signs, Warded location, Warded personality, Divination signs, Midwife for mother birthing twins.
Nytram Red Handed 7, Moral threat, resides in the warp

Mid distance (Accursed Demesne sub-sector):
Xaore 8, Imperial Astropathic choir, Imperial navy, Stationary
Kalliope 9, Imperial navy, “Gorgon’s eye” Imperial cruiser, Asropathic relay
Hecuba 10, Imperial, Astropathic relay, “Orlov Principle”, Inquisitor Black ship
Mouth of blasphemy 11, Located direction, Stationary, Chaos source
Unknown 12, Eldar Craftworld
Unknown 13, Slaanesh source, Star vessel, Constant tactical maneuvering, Constant sacrifice
Hecaton rift, Warp storm
The Cauldron, Warp storm

Far distance: (Koronus expanse)
Montak , Imperial Astropathic choir, Footfall system, High insanity, Link to Calixis Sector
Heldron 15, Imperial Overcharged Astropathic choir, Winterscale realm system, Link to Calixis Sector
Unknown 16, Stationary, Xeno source,
Unknown 17, Khorne source
Unknown 18, Echoes of the Waagh
Screaming Vortex Warp storm

Extremely far distance:
Holy Astronomican Terra

-Arbitrator Mordechai becomes aware of bounties announced at the system and scribes them them to The Black Book of Justice.

-Barracks component is acquired by burning 1 Tax Factor and installed to Sphaera Imperator habitat outside Precinct-Fortress.

-Ash urn of late Acolyte Adminstrator Börn is delivered to Precinct-Fortress. Young acolyte was sent by Ordo Adminstratum to Ultima Tectum by request of Arbitrator Mordechai. It seems that acolyte Börn unfortunately died from sudden sickness during his star voyage.

Year 1 Imperial reports from the system:
Brother-Militant Makbae, Gravis Major,  Location of two other major religious centers located (arctic continent, desert continent), Native temple has not been destroyed, its weaponry and defenses too strong for fighter attack. Possible continuity: Assault squad or torpedo bombardment?

Mayor Usindra, Gravis Major, Problems caused by low power has been solved with additional plasmareactor, colony is thriving, luxury quarters, prominent figurehead and promenade has been authorized. Common sentences: Theft, fraud, public indecency

Commander Embeh, Vellum, Blockade successful, Imperial guards stationed at the planet has been rationed during blockade, Native archaotech vehicle destruction unsuccessful, powerful void shield and rapid firing laser battery. Loss of three fighters. Further engagement avoided.

Enforcer, Thurio, Sphaera Imperator. Population normal, because of continued disuse of the cell it has been converted to emergency infirmary for void miners recovering from injuries. Common sentences: Theft, Public intoxication

Prison warden Vladir, Nothus. Underused capacity, More prisoners needed to bring up tax profit of the penal colony. Penal colony has 250 conscripts over the minimum required by Imperial Navy.

Enginseer Morcurator, Nothus. Underused core capacity, Abundant exotic minerals, Athmosphere anomaly, No power fluctuation. Statistically high amounts of minor illnesses.

Conciliatrix Arviragus, Canor Sol. Construction of space peer facility almost functional, HLF saboteurs have slowed down the construction. Unusually high amounts of minor illnesses. Common sentences: Sabotage, fraud, customs violation,

Conciliatrix Boltazar, Avaritas. Trade profit of space station affected by blockade of Gravis Major. Medical service facilities fully functional after quarantine. Common sentences: Agitation, smuggling, public intoxication

Enforcer Solomon, Pauperpolis.  Xeno trinket trade has been cleaned from station, Distribution of unauthorized drugs has been cleaned from the station but continues somewhere else at Nimbus Extern. Disbanding cult meeting, execution of cult leader. Common sentences: Sale and possession of Xeno item, sale and possession of illegal narcotics, murder,

Formal Imperial Requests:
For ending of Gravis Major blockade pending from Mayor Usindra, Nurse Aletha, Baroness Isolte, Conciliatrix Simion, Arch-Diocese Humer, Conciliatrix Boltazar, Headmaster Idiomus.

-Arbitrator Mordechai requests additional information about execution of heretic at Pauperpolis by Solomon. Pict-cordings reveal perpetrator to be identical with malefic scholar Radulf, “Prophet of alkaline spring”, who was executed year ago by arbitrator Mordechai at PC-278, Nothus.

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Photo: Colin Stetson, who performs in Ann Arbor on April, 18, 2018. Photo by Scott Irvine.

It begins with a deep breath, followed by resonant palpitations underlying the emergence of whistles, screeches, honks, and warbles that are progressively arranged and hoisted into a creature of dazzling, dizzying complexity. At each moment in this evolution of sound—highlighted by its spiraling melody and blistering ostinati—collapse feels imminent, and chaos, inevitable.

This specimen, “And It Thought to Escape,” exemplifies the unpredictable long-form sonic structures created by the saxophonist Colin Stetson. “And It Thought to Escape” clocks in at over eight minutes, and yet this song seems to fly by, as do others by Stetson, whose gradual and fitful development of melody is surprising and mesmerizing.

“And It Thought to Escape”

A sweat-flecked, lung-wringing feat

Avant-garde, jazz, and indie music scenes are frothing over with innovative and talented musicians whose songs explore dissonance, repetition, and non-traditional forms, especially through the use of digital effects and loops. What distinguishes Stetson from the masses is his virtuoso technique on saxophone—including alto, tenor, baritone, and the formidable bass—clarinet, and French horn.

He’s a master of circular breathing—the method of using stored air in the cheeks to continue playing while inhaling through the nose, in order to produce a seamless sound—which allows him to perform and record his long solos live and in a single take, without overdubbing or loops. Stetson has honed his circular breathing for twenty years; he learned it at age fifteen, from a music instructor who told Stetson that the technique would help him interpret classical string music without having to pause and take breaths.

While the method is somewhat tricky to learn, its use isn’t rare among wind instrumentalists. Stetson’s use of circular breathing is remarkable, though, given the extreme intensity and duration of his songs, such as the leviathan “To See More Light,” a fifteen minute song from his latest solo album, New History Warfare, Volume 3: To See More Light. The song opens with disconnected blares of the saxophone and passes through tonal states of frenzy, delirium, and grim weariness, before arriving at a warm and vaulted unity.

There’s a raw physicality to Stetson’s music. It howls. It heaves and churns. Watch Stetson perform live and a song becomes more than a song but a sweat-flecked, lung-wringing feat of musicianship requiring tremendous stamina. In many songs we hear his breathing: it’s a faint breeze in “To See More Light,” and a steady gust filling the interstices between lightning-fast synth-sounding trills in “Nobu Take” on New History Warfare, Volume 1. “This all originates in breath. It’s all tied to breath, it’s all tied to my body,” said Stetson about his music in a 2011 interview with Jian Ghomeshi, host of the CBC talk program Q. Stetson discussed his reason for avoiding digital gadgetry, explaining that his music, from the moment of its composition, is inexplicably bound with the physical process of its creation. “The parameters that I had set up for myself, initially, [were] just that everything that could be captured in the moment, physically, by me with the instrument, was fair game, but no additions, no effects, no electronics or anything like that.”

“Nobu Take”

From digital to otherworldly

It’s clear that Stetson’s parameters have been more liberating than limiting. He has undertaken a serious exploration into the sonic-making capabilities of the saxophone. Not only is he adept at creating densely layered music, but he does so with a variety of sounds, rhythms, and textures not commonly found in solo saxophone music. The music is deeply human, but its sound can range from digital to otherworldly. In “Tiger Tiger Crane” on New History of Warfare, Volume 1, Stetson uses the saxophone keys to tap out a ghostly hip-hop rhythm. There are trenchant, wordless vocals that frequently surface out of fuzz and static on the albums New History Warfare, Volume 2: Judges and To See More Light.

While recording the songs for Judges, Stetson used up to twenty-four microphones—in the studio and attached to his sax and himself, including a dog-collar microphone over his vocal chords—in order to capture the full spectrum of sounds he was producing. The song “Judges” is an excellent example of Stetson’s polyphonic abilities: he lays down an irresistible rhythm and bass line and then adds a lacerating wail as fierce as rock music’s most scorched-earth vocals. In the first video below, Stetson performs  “Awake on Foreign Shores” and “Judges.” In the second video, he dissects the different sounds that comprise “Judges.”

On “A Takeaway Show”

Colin Stetson breaks down “Judges”

Stetson is an Ann Arbor native who studied at the University of Michigan. Older jazz lovers might remember him as a member of the popular avant-garde jazz-funk group Transmission, which performed around Ann Arbor and Detroit during the latter half of the ‘90s. Younger music fans are sure to recognize the groups and artists he’s performed, recorded, or toured with, including the Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, TV on the Radio, Tom Waits, David Byrne, The National, Laurie Anderson, Antibalas, Lou Reed, among many others. All music enthusiasts are sure to find something to enjoy in his solo work, which he began focusing on in 2003 while living in New York City.

In 2008, Stetson released his debut solo album, New History Warfare, Volume 1, followed by 2011’s Judges and 2013’s To See More Light. Each album in this conceptual trilogy is unique; when considered as a whole, they reveal an emotional, physical, and mental deepening of Stetson’s craft. Each album balances long, epic songs with short pieces that span just a minute or two in length and which serve as heightened meditations on a discrete phrase or rhythm. There is some over-dubbing of guest vocals: Laurie Anderson supplies ominous spoken word pieces to Judges, and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon lends his distinctive, soaring voice to songs on To See More Light, including “Who The Waves Are Roaring For.”

“Who The Waves Are Roaring For”

I’ve resisted labeling Stetson’s music as one genre or the other, because it’s something that Stetson refuses to do. And for good reason: his musical aesthetic, while at one time rooted in free jazz, is so healthy and permeable that it has allowed many different styles and genres to enrich it, without being stunted or saturated by one in particular. There’s jazz, pop, hip-hop, metal, post-rock, drone, minimalism, folk, electronic, and more. Whether your record collection contains Evan Parker or Sonic Youth, it’s easy to find something to enjoy in Stetson’s impressive and groundbreaking body of solo saxophone works. To return to Jian Ghomeshi’s interview with Stetson, Ghomeshi at one point asked Stetson to comment on the fact that his music doesn’t resemble most saxophone music, that Stetson was “creating music that isn’t even identifiable as sax.”

“It will be identifiable as sax,” Stetson responded. “Everything that I use is stuff that has really been utilized for decades in the free jazz and free improvisation traditions. I’m just re-contextualizing. I’m telling my own story with it.”

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Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon told the UN Security Council on Monday that he was left speechless when he saw the bloody photos of the slaughter of three members of the Salomon family in Halamish, Samaria, during their Shabbat dinner. He showed those photos to the assembled.

The terrorist will now receive $3,000 a month for life, the ambassador stated.

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I believe that my life is governed by a Divine Law.  I believe that this Law is the way God acts in my experience.  I know that I can use this Law to demonstrate any good thing.  All of God’s Ideas are available to me, and I now accept them, and give them to the Law of Mind to demonstrate.  I use this Law rightly, because I give it only ideas of good.

I know that what I think and feel, I bring forth into my experience.  I think rightly and lovingly this day, and the Law produces this in my affairs.  My “earth” is my world in which I live.  My “heaven” is my consciousness, when it is thinking rightly.  The Law of Mind is the link between my thinking and my experiencing.  Always, I demonstrate my thoughts, because the Law never fails.  No treatment is ever lost; no God-given Idea which I assimilate will ever fail to materialize.

Divine Mind and Its Ideas are my heaven, and I am a transmitter for Them. I turn my every experience into a heavenly one.  I look within and behold God’s Truth offering Itself to me.  I make heaven happen through my right thinking.  My heaven demonstrated shows other people the way to theirs.

“The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof” and the Kingdom of heaven is within me.  Linking these two great ideas together assures me of heaven in earth today.  I deliberately think of Good.  I deliberately discipline my emotions to that which is Godlike.  I have faith in the Law, and my prosperity this day is assured.

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One unknown author describes love this way: It is keeping silent when your words would hurt; it is patience when your neighbor is curt; it is deafness when a scandal flows; it is thoughtfulness for others’ woes; it is promptness when duty calls; it is courage when misfortune falls.” Now here is what the Apostle Paul said about love, found in 1 Corinthians CH. 13, “If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing. Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.” Of course, our challenge is not merely to know what love is. Our challenge is to practice it day in and day out. We do that best by yielding ourselves to the Spirit of God, and let him love others through us.

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I don’t know that I ever understood who Olivia Pope was outside of a fixer/handler/help who wears the “White hat” quivers in the presence of power, aka Fitz and hires people to kill people but is shocked when she realizes her intimate proximity to killers. If Joe Morton, who plays her father had not joined the cast when he did, I doubt I could have continued to watch the show, particularly after they killed off Harrison and gave him that wack ass funeral. If Poppa Pope hadn’t already been around by then, I just don’t see what other reason there would have been for me to stick around. Don’t get me wrong. I do enjoy the other story lines. But Olivia’s is meant to be the one we watch for and frankly it’s making me nauseous.

Look. I realize that interracial relationships happen. I’ve been in a few myself. But I look around on television and all I see is white couple TV shows and in Shondaland where Black women are the main characters of two hit shows, for some reason, they can’t be seen with a positively portrayed Black man! WTF?

My good friend at Life as I Know It and I were having our Court Street Car chat last weekend after attending a lecture at the Brooklyn Museum about unpacking the definition of the Diva. We were discussing the reasons why we felt Olivia and Annalise were not only in exclusive relationships with white men but the fact that the little bit of Black men in both shows have been portrayed as either untrustworthy, dead or monstrous. All the powerful white men in Scandal are evil, murderous and selfish but it’s clear that whoever has Olivia’s heart is the hero. And it ain’t her daddy. I can’t get into “How to Get Away with Murder” right now but that story line is starting to go downhill for me as well. She’s doing everything she can for her asshole husband while the only Black man we’ve seen her with is running around in the shadows trying to avenge himself against her.

Let’s  talk about Olivia’s father, Rowan, played expertly by veteran actor, Joe Morton. Every time he starts talking, I’m on the edge of my seat.  I need to know why, when they write for Rowan, the language he uses clearly subverts a truth about race relations that is never fully brought to light in the racial dynamics of the rest of the show.

“Those people are not your people.”

“Don’t you ever leave me for one of them.”

“Twice as good as them to get half of what they have.”

“Those boys..”

I could go on.

And I know he’s supposed to be an asshole but I need Olivia to give a shit about her family. I need her to put family before these dudes no matter how dysfunctional it is. Why is it that the obvious dysfunction, crime and perversion that is inherent in both Jake and Fitz is seen as the lesser evil for Olivia when compared with her father?  It’s hard for me to believe that she was actually going to sit across from her father at dinner and while “those people” blew his head off. I wasn’t feeling her method of betrayal at all. To pretend she actually believed what her father was telling her to lure him into a trap rather than understand that what he was saying was the God’s truth. Now I don’t know where Shonda is trying to take this, but if it doesn’t pan out or make any sense to me, I can’t continue to watch “Scandal” any longer. I don’t understand why it’s such a big deal to have a Black man and woman in a couple on tv who are loving and supportive of one another, but it’s starting to bug me that this is what stands in for someone’s idea of progress or a “post racial” reality. I mean I could see if we had just experienced decades of positive Black images in relationships and families and influential figures in film and television and THEN Scandal came along. MAYBE.  But that hasn’t happened.

I remember that before it was cancelled, my husband used to watch the show “Happy Endings,” a comedy with an all white cast of couples and friends except for Damon Wayons Jr. whose character was married to a white woman. I peeped just enough of it when he watched to see that the show was funny and well written but I refused to watch it. I am not familiar with this reality. What world is that they were living in? No one outside of that circle ever addressed the situation of Damon’s character being the only Black person in his social circle with any seriousness, I’m assuming because it was a comedy? I couldn’t get past it. I couldn’t accept it, because there was never any equal or opposing representation to compare it with.

What television has done effectively is to say, forget about seeing Black people together and loving one another! Lets just skip to situations where they are represented in the minority again! Let’s get over all this racism stuff! There’s not racism anymore! There’s also not one single new show on prime time television (besides “Black-Ish”) where loving, supportive couples, relationships and or families are played by BLACK PEOPLE!

Erm….but we’re so over race right? We’re all equally represented right?

In addition to myself, I know Black people who are married to, dating and in relationships with other Black people and people of color. But I have NEVER seen this reflected on television in any but the most occasional and exceptional of ways. The Cosby Show was great but can we move on?

My main concern is with the message that audiences of color are being fed. I can’t be bothered with what white people may or may not think and I can’t say that I really care. All I know is, I finally get why a lot of Black men hate both of Shonda’s shows. They can’t see themselves portrayed in them in any but a negative light. They continue to be either made to look like terrible people who are violent and manipulative in ways that do not earn them either status, power or love or they are removed altogether, as if they were never important, never needed and never remembered.

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Bridges play a key role in our lives by connecting our communities, promoting commerce travels, and contributing to our country’s economic development. But who designs these bridges and what does a bridge engineer do?

Bridge Engineers

Bridge Engineers are civil engineers responsible for designing and building bridges and other highway-related structures. Typical tasks for bridge engineers include designing and maintaining bridge structures, minimizing environmental impact, and supervising the fabrication process. As well as completing site investigations, data collection, identifying environmental risks, analyzing manufacturing processes, supervising construction, and more.

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Designing and maintaining a bridge is no easy task. That’s why bridge engineers are required to have skills such as analytical thinking, leadership, supervisory skills, organization, and creativity. Not to mention, time management and budgeting skills which are essential for projects with restricted time or resources.

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Meetings & Details

Naturally, the first part of any construction project is understanding the full scope. This meeting typically covers topics and details such as bridge series and styles, special enhancements or treatments, railing criteria, etc. This will help the bridge engineer to draw up some preliminary sketches of the bridge’s general framing plan, bridge geometry, and basic construction.

These designs help illustrate the bridge and prepare the project for its next step.

Digital Renderings

One of the most powerful tools for bridge engineers to utilize is technology. Bridge engineers will often use computers to create virtual models to assist in visualizing a project. This helps the team picture the visual impacts of the bridge to any given site as well as the aesthetic qualities. Our bridge engineers are able to model your proposed bridge over a digital terrain model or incorporate it into photos of your existing site.

This aspect is extremely useful, especially if a construction project requires models to help stakeholders buy-in or make a sale.

Final Process

Once a commitment has been made, the design process officially begins and a team is assigned. The project engineer analyzes the proposed bridge including the specified design loads and appropriate load factors, along with applying numerous code checks. Eventually, the bridge engineer begins to sketch the design details and information for the designer. These sketches convey all the information previously discussed and finalized.

The engineer will also markup the general notes and list the design assumptions and pertinent bridge data onto the title sheet.

Part of this process involves reviewing the design calculations and construction plans to verify the scope and specifications. Also checked is the plan content to ensure it reflects the engineer’s design intent and that no conflicts exist and that no omissions have occurred. The final step before submittal is usually the application of the Professional Engineer’s seal and signature.

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At the start of any construction project, you have to ask what materials and method would best accomplish your goal. You’ve probably come across modular bridge construction and you’ve wondered what is it and should you consider it.

We’ve created a brief introduction to modular construction and its benefits to bridge design.

Modular Construction

Modular construction is any construction that is built in a controlled environment, typically a factory, and later installed on-site. The popularity of modular construction is increasingly rising due to its various advantages such as speed, flexibility, and customization.

Modular construction, sometimes known as prefabricated construction, is built with the same materials and similar methods as regular construction, but often comes with additional features unique to prefabrication. For example, since they are manufactured in a controlled environment modular construction has the advantage of ensured quality.

In addition, because it takes place simultaneously in a factory and on-site, modular construction can be completed in half the time of traditional construction. This rapid construction phase and versatility allow them to be used in various situations.

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Modular bridges are relatively modern and thus have many misconceptions. Despite popular belief, modular bridges do not require the use of already premade sections of limited sizing and options. The great thing about modular bridges is their customization and flexibility.

Every modular bridge is specifically designed custom to your project and design. This customization process makes it a preferred and sometimes even, required option for some bridge projects.

Not to mention, since most of the bridge is premade in a safe environment, the likelihood of weather delays or traffic disruption is significantly decreased. Additionally, it provides workers with safer and more comfortable working conditions. Thus modular bridges offer easy and effective project management. It’s an ideal option for any construction project with time or budget constraints.

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It’s no surprise that construction has a huge impact on the environment. Although many structures can not be built sustainably today, we should still try to reduce our environmental footprint for tomorrow. However, you may be surprised to find how easy it is to reduce the environmental impact of construction, especially bridge construction!

Here are some ways bridge construction can reduce environmental impact, and ways U.S. Bridge aims to build sustainable, eco-friendly bridges.

Use Sustainable Materials

Steel Bridge

This easily adaptable material is a popular choice for many bridges due to its affordability, strength, and positive environmental impact. The great thing about steel is that it is both lightweight and incredibly durable. Its lightweight means that often, no cranes or large machinery is needed for steel construction — thus less invasion on surrounding environments.

Steel’s enduring nature guarantees it can withstand large amounts of weight which is why it can be used for any construction project. And as added bonus, the weight of steel makes installation easier by keeping road disruption at a minimum.

Steel’s Environmental Benefits

One of the best parts about steel is that it is the most recyclable material in the world.

Almost all steel construction incorporates recycled steel, which has proven its strength as equivalent to virgin steel. Its popularity and eco-friendly status are often why steel is considered affordable for many project builders. Additionally, builders save money on maintenance and repair due to steel’s long life span, as it does not degrade over time as quickly as other materials.

Plastic Bridges

Many countries around the world are striving to reduce their environmental impact within their industry. From this idea, construction companies are testing the effectiveness of using recycled plastic to construct a bridge.

Located in Scotland, the Easter Dawyck Bridge is the longest in the world built using recycled plastic. This completely recyclable bridge was constructed by recycling over 100,00 lbs. of waste and can hold the weight of vehicles up to 88,000 lbs.

The Easter Dawyck Bridge wielded great results as the recycled material is both light and extremely durable. Reports indicate that it does not corrode, does not rust, does not require painting nor any form of treatment or maintenance.

There are many benefits to using recycled plastics in road applications such as reduced energy consumption, reduced waste to landfills, and alleviating the need for use of creating new materials for future projects. However, there is still much uncertainty about the performance and long-term durability of recycled plastic bridges with different traffic loading and environmental conditions.

So why don’t we see more recycled bridges? Its biggest obstacle is the high price tag that comes with making it. That’s why U.S. Bridge sticks with steel.

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Just using sustainable materials isn’t enough. Take the step further and ensure that you are incorporating environmentally-friendly methods in bridge construction processes.

Develop a green design that considers the long-term impact of the bridge, along with the economic aspects, to ensure that the positive benefits can be maintained over the long term. This means that you should consider the environmental issues and conditions that can arise during its lifespan, construction phase, and maintenance.

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An easy way to reduce your environmental impact in bridge construction is with accelerated bridge construction. The installation and construction process of a bridge consumes large amounts of fuel, increases exhaust emissions, incurs traffic delays, and affects pavement performance. Using accelerated bridge kits to quickly build a safe and dependable bridge will significantly cut the environmental footprint of the project. Not to mention, it saves builders time during the installation phase of construction.

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Steel Is The Best Galvanized Metal

Naturally, everyone wants to use the best material available when building something that will last for decades. That’s why more people are choosing galvanized steel for construction. Steel is the best galvanized metal for construction, and there are many reasons why.

Galvanized steel has all of the advantages that steel construction already has, plus the added benefit of protection from the galvanization process. Today, we’ll breakdown some of the main reasons to use galvanized steel in bridge construction.

What is Galvanized Metal?

What exactly is a galvanized metal? Galvanization is a process that protects metal by submerging it in molten zinc, thus adding a protective layer. The first benefit of galvanized metal is its known attribute of preventing future corrosion and thus ensuring less future maintenance.

As such, in the long run, businesses and governments are saving money by keeping their steel galvanized and protected. In addition, the galvanization process is environmentally-friendly and resistant to weather conditions. It’s beneficial for long-term durability and versatility.

Repairing worn-out bridges is time-consuming, expensive, and a hassle. However, galvanizing metal before installing the bridge helps to avoid this issue, especially if the metal is steel.

The Best Galvanized Metal for Construction is Steel

Any metal can be used for galvanization, though iron and steel are the most common. However, for construction, the best material is steel. Galvanized steel construction comes with all the natural benefits of steel, plus the added advantages of a galvanized material.

Steel is an effective material used frequently in construction due to its affordability, durability, and sustainability.

Affordability: Steel provides builders some expense cuts for their project budget. Its lightweight nature means less use of heavyweight equipment and lifts. Additionally, builders save money on maintenance and repair due to steel’s long life span and durability.

Durability: Although steel isn’t as heavy as other materials, such as concrete, it by no means diminishes its strength. Lightweight steel proves time and time again that it can handle a multitude of weight. That’s why it is often used in construction for railroads, bridges, and other infrastructure.

Sustainability: Steel is one of the most recyclable materials in the world. Very often the materials used for steel construction will come from recycled steel. However, this does not make it any less durable. Recycled steel’s strength and resilience is equivalent to new steel products.

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We are in the early process of creating a mail client that would send out email campaigns to thousands of users (Mailchimp would be a similar product to compare) There are ideas and opinions, and one of them is adding an undo options to the mailing.

The owner of this approach convinced that this would raise the confidence level of the users, I'm defending an opposing idea which is adding an extra step that would review the mail content and recipients and ask for final approval.

While my solution adding extra friction to the flow, it also adds a higher level of confidence to the user's activities.

Now everything above is assumptions and we will test these with users but I would like to hear more about the subject, especially the personal opinions.

I use Gmail every day and personally seeing that undo functionality adding more stress in my life. It happened once or twice that I undo the email and edited a few details, but if I couldn't it wouldn't be a disaster either.

On the other hand, I think, when a user sends a bulk mail, the user needs a better understanding of what are she/she about to do.

What are your thoughts? Are there other alternatives?

PS: I read already this question about the same functionality, while I understand the assumptions here I would like to hear more.

Your users are not just sending an email to someone they know, they are sending a message to an entire list of people (possibly on behalf of a whole company). This raises the bar on how careful those sending the message need to be.

Canceling implies that you have already started an action, but there is time to stop it. Conversely, undo implies that the action is not final and can be easily reversed.

With that in mind, I think a better approach is to do the review/confirmation, but also offer the option to cancel for a few minutes.

Mail chimp uses a confirmation page, but does not allow cancellation.

Undo feature can help the users to proofread the content if they forgot as per my understating this feature works when you sent an email to 2-3 recipients.

If I want to send an email to more then 1000 recipients, I never take a risk to send an email without proofreading, and at that time, I will do the proofread at least 2-3 times. It will be a better option if the product is showing the preview of the campaign before I send it.

The main problem I see with offering an UNDO features, especially where bulk-mailing is concerned, is that users may come to rely on it beyond the point that it will still work.

Just about every UNDO feature I've ever seen has a point when it will stop working. Even if this "cutoff point" is fairly well defined (exiting a text-editor that offers UNDO usually throws away the UNDO information; deleting a third email in quick succession on my Android phone's email client prevents UNDOing the deletion of the first email), users may not always appreciate exactly when the cutoff will be reached.

Relying on being able to UNDO will be dangerous if either the cutoff-point is not well defined, or there is a chance users don't appreciate when the cutoff-point occurs.

In the case of a bulk mailer, the only "natural" UNDO period I can think of is if a particular mail-shot has to sit at the back of a queue of other mail-shots, waiting to be processed. The problem here is that you don't know how long the wait will be, and therefore how long an opportunity you have for a final "proof-read" before the ability to UNDO the mail-shot disappears. In the extreme case, there may be no other mail-shots ahead of yours, and processing starts immediately.

One option would be to introduce an artificial delay: guarantee that once the "GO" button on a mail-shot is hit, nothing will happen for at least ten minutes. The problem here is that users who rely on this 10-minute "grace period" in which to perform a final proof-read will get caught out if, for instance, they get called into a meeting, or there's a fire-drill.

Far better, in my opinion, would be to introduce an explicit extra step: the preparer of the mail-shot does all that they need to do and hits "GO". This puts it in a "needs approval" state where it is guaranteed that nothing will be processed until someone (perhaps the preparer; ideally someone different) has had a chance to do a final proof-read and confirmed that everything is, indeed, OK. Only at this point will it be added to any queue of mail-shots awaiting processing.

(It might still be useful to be able to CANCEL a mail-shot that has gone through approval and is still waiting on the queue, but this should be seen as an "exceptional" action to take, and not something to be relied-on).

rethinking redo and undo

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  • Thank you Saptarshi I have this book at home somewhere will check it out :) – Deniz Erdal Dec 2 '19 at 9:45
  • It's not enough IMHO to just sharing the book's itself as an answer or solely sharing resources since the enquirer needs an opinion or a solution to bringing to this issue specifically. – Erhan Yaşar Dec 3 '19 at 12:14
  • unfortunately you are right its not, but I'm just presenting the dilemma that undo and redo have always been at odds with users mental models and is well captured, its hard to provide a solution without seeing the actual interface UX flow but the it can be tackled in many ways and some critical knowledge behind the dilemma helps.. – mastablasta Dec 4 '19 at 9:15

I worked with a similar SaaS product and I think the properties undo and review completely different things to consider. As well as I'm with the idea of giving users ability to undo their actions, I'll cover the topic of my experience with former clients with review feature.

Working as a both designer and developer, I talked with many clients whom using the product for years and that was actually the point they come up with their demand.

Briefly, while bulk mailing process, there was a single button giving the user ability to reach and display review of the mail. Users were also able to get these reviews and summaries mailed to their accounts (Strange but were used probably since because they can't display it while they're sending their mails).

Since many of the users wanted to see this review page as a last screen before submitting their mails, I presented another layout letting users being able to display the review as a main component on the page besides summary details.

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