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Lately I've been obsessed with cake decorating. It's all over my Instagram feed and on my Facebook feed. I just can't stop watching videos of the process. Somehow, watching people make such smooth lines in their icing without using fondant is mesmerizing to me. Also, I find it oddly relaxing. But seriously, it is an art that I'm in awe of and super jealous of.

And then I started really thinking about cake decorating. I thought to myself, "Why can't I do this?" I've seen people spend hundreds of dollars on cakes that are baked and decorated at a local bakery when they can easily make one for themselves.

I knew all I needed were the right tools, and that I could easily (or at least try to) make a rocking cake that not only tasted good, but looked amazing. Here's how to do it.

For decorating a cake, you'll need a few essential items:

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First of all, you need a turn table to put your cake on. Having a turn table makes it easier to make smooth lines because you simply put your scraper on the cake, spin the table, and your work is done for you!

Unfortunately, I didn't have access to a turn table. But I took the plate out of my microwave (you know, the one that you see rotating your pumpkin spice latte every am). It works just as well, and is super cheap.

You'll also need a spatula to put the icing on your cake. The spatula is to help you put a lot of icing on your cake so that when it comes to scraping, you're left with the perfect amount. Then of course you have the scraper, which is used to make those smooth lines on your cake. And lastly you have the piping bag and your tip, which is what will give you your awesome design.

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Frost the the first layer of cake. It is important to make sure there is a good amount of icing on this layer because it serves as the support for the second layer of cake you will add.

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Using the spatula, apply a lot of icing to the cake. It's better to have too much than too little.

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Hold the scraper at a 45 degree angle and turn your turn table. Scrape until your sides look smooth and even.

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Put your piping tip in the bag. These bags typically have a hole in them, so it's super easy to push the piping tip in and have the tip coming out of the hole in the bag.

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Start piping away. Depending on which tip you use, you may want to time out how long you squeeze the icing to make sure the size of each design is about the same.

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Start having fun with your piping. Add some chocolate chips or sprinkles to give it some color. You can also switch tips to add different textures and patterns.

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For my first attempt at cake decorating, I feel this cake turned out pretty well. I wish I had not added the extra chocolate chips around the rim and the top of the cake, but I felt I needed to hide some poor scraping skills.

I learned how important a turn table is, and that it's probably not the best idea to put a paper towel underneath it since the scraper can easily get caught on it.

But I had a lot of fun decorating this cake, and I can't wait to get better at decorating. So start baking, and start piping.


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With Thanksgiving just around the corner I'm sure you are already thinking of the insane amounts of food you are about to consume. When you think about turkey day, I guarantee there's one specific Thanksgiving side dish that comes to your mind. We all have our favorites, but what yours say about you and your personality?

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If you reach for the roasted vegetables first when you sit down for your Thanksgiving dinner you are certainly health conscious. You keep up with the food trends and know everything about all of the new trendy restaurants in your area.

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Reaching for a biscuit or a piece of bread first says a lot about your personality. You definitely don't  take life too seriously and if it were up to you, you'd even eat dessert first. Starting your meal with something substantial is not that important to you. You are just happy to be with the people you love and ready to have some fun.

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The second you take a spoonful of green bean casserole, you are showing everyone at your Thanksgiving table that you love to have fun. You are a thrill seeker who never says no to a spontaneous adventure and never backs down from a challenge. You are definitely the loudest one at the table and spend the majority of Thanksgiving dinner trying to make your friends and family laugh.

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Asking for a scoop of stuffing on your plate the second you sit down for Thanksgiving dinner shows everyone at the table that you are stable. Just like stuffing is an integral part of the Thanksgiving dinner, you are integral to the relationships you have with your friends and family.

You are always there to listen and give great advice.

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Pulling the dish of sweet potatoes close to you shows your friends and family that you are super sweet. Although this may be obvious of your choice of the sweetest dish on the table, you are always there for your friends and family and love the time you get to spend to them. You would never hurt anyone, not even a fly.

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Thanksgiving is the kickoff to the holiday season and almost everyone's favorite day of the year. It is the one day that families and friends reunite away from the hectic parts of life. When families finally gather around the table for Thanksgiving, it is a time to bond and make memories that will last a lifetime.

This Thanksgiving, pay attention to what you and others at your table reach for. You might learn something new about yourself or your friends and family!

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Indian Railway issues guidelines to prevent incidents of Crime against women in trains and in railway premises

The guidelines include action plan, preventive measures, sensitization, surveillance over the identified vulnerable area, notice for passengers and special measures

Guidelines also advise Zonal Railways and Production Units that acting proactively they may implement various other mechanisms to ensure safety of women depending upon local conditions and circumstances

Twenty three (23) million passengers travel through the Indian Railways everyday out of which 20% i.e. about 4.6 million are women. In the recent past, the incidents of crime against women in trains and railway premises has been a major area of concern. Therefore, the following steps as part of a focused effort across Indian Railways to collectively strive for safety of women passengers and to mitigate atrocities against women in railways:

 Guidelines issued by Indian Railways to All Zonal Railways and Production Units to prevent incidents of crime against women in trains and in railway premises includes the following areas:

 Action plan:

The action plan should be classified in Short Term & Long Term Plan. Short Term plan should be implemented immediately from the existing resources on priority without any delay. It may include keeping watch on suspects, regular visit to vulnerable spots by duty officers & staff during their rounds. However, Long Term Plan which may include improvement of Basis Infrastructure, CCTV, Light Masts, etc. which may take a reasonable time, should be chased with concerned authorities on regular basis and till such time it is completed, focus should be kept on temporary minor works that can be effective in improving the situation, which may be worked out and got implemented with bare minimum expenditure or with available resources.

 Preventive measures to be adopted:

1. Proper lighting arrangements should be ensured covering all vulnerable places identified in Railway Stations, Circulating area, Parking, FOBs, approach roads, ends of platforms, Yards, Washing lines, DEMU / EMU Car sheds, Saloon Sidings, Maintenance depots, etc.

2. Abandoned structures in platforms/yards, abandoned quarters, buildings at isolated places which  remain unguarded/ unattended should be demolished immediately in consultation with engineering department. Till such time that they are demolished, they should be regularly checked as part of the beat of on duty staff especially during night time or period when the presence of people is minimal.

3. Unauthorized entries/ exits should be closed.

4. Yards / pits/ nearby railway area of stations must be kept clean of unwanted vegetation which may provide cover for concealment. View cutters such as these may offer opportunity to offenders to  commit crime.

5. Waiting rooms should not remain unattended and persons should be allowed to enter the waiting rooms after proper entry, particularly in nights and at times when there is minimum presence of passengers. It should be cross checked by the duty officer at odd hours.

6. Proper Police Verification and Identity Cards of staff engaged on contractual basis engaged in services related to passengers should be ensured as per SOP & GCC. No staff without Identity Cards may be allowed in trains and railway premises.

7. No unauthorized person may be allowed to move in Yard and coaching depots where the coaches are stabled. There should be controlled entry system.

8. Before the empty rakes are moved to washing lines, it should be ensured that the coaches have been checked properly by the C&W and Electrical staff and locked. The condemned coaches kept in yards/ sick lines must be kept locked and checked from time to time.

9. After cleaning & other activities pertaining to maintenance of coaches, again it should be checked properly and locked in the washing line and brought to the platform in locked condition.

10.Proper basic security arrangement should be ensured in coaching yards & depots.

11. Surveillance system should also be enforced in coaching depots & yards.

12. Encroachments particularly in/ near passenger area should be removed on priority following legal process and unauthorized entries to railway premises should be closed.

13. Railway is providing free internet services to the passengers. It should be ensured in coordination with the service providers that the porn sites are not accessible through this service.

14. Unwanted /Unauthorized persons in the railway premises should be rounded and prosecuted and railway station, yards & trains should be kept free from unwanted 8s unsocial elements.

15. Special drives may be launched to apprehend and prosecute persons consuming alcohol in railway stations and trains

16. Exemplary action should be taken against railway staff involved in such offences.

17. The cases of crime against women must be followed up till their logical conclusion.

1. Sensitization of all railway employees and contractual staff may be done. Staff engaged in checking of rolling stocks, porters and hawkers/vendors should be encouraged to report the incident without loss of time to Police/ RPF or the Station Master. Help of NGOs may also be obtained for this purpose.

2. It has been noticed that generally cases of eve teasing, if remain unattended, lead to increase in incidents of molestation or assault on women. As a measure to prevent such crimes, GRP/RPF officials shall promptly take necessary action on receiving complaints regarding any type of ‘Crime against women'.

3. Regular briefing of staff at mounting and debriefing at the time of dismounting should   be ensured by the Post Commander/Duty Officers/ Shift In-charge.

4. All Zonal railways may utilize cultural troupes for Nukkad Nataks etc to sensitize railway passengers towards cleanliness, respect for women, legal provisions for security of women and children and penal provisions for violation of these laws.

5. Railway personnel across all departments should be sensitized regarding their duty towards women and children through soft skill and gender sensitization training in various training institutes. They should be trained to identify women in distress or children in need of care and protection and respond properly. Special sensitization programs should be arranged in ZTI/Training Centers where Railway Employee or RPF undergoes initial/periodical trainings.

6. Sensitization sessions may be conducted for women to come forward and report incidents of misbehavior against them.

 Surveillance over the identified vulnerable area:

1. CCTV surveillance system should be used effectively. Time to time audit of the cameras installed and the area covered by them should be done. It should be ensured that all the  persons visiting the Railway Platform/ Passenger area are caught on the cameras.

2. The vulnerable places identified for such crime should mandatorily be covered under the CCTV surveillance. While planning for location/ relocation of CCTV it should be kept in mind.

3. The position of women’s coaches should be fixed at the platform and CCTV camera to be especially installed on the platform at that point so as to provide adequate coverage of these coaches.

4. CCTV feed should be monitored by officers regularly.

5. Crime Intelligence Branch & Special Intelligence Branch should be utilized to ensure surveillance of the area identified to be vulnerable for rape and other heinous crime related to human body (women) in addition to being done regularly by concerned RPF executive staff.

6. Use of National Database on Sexual Offenders (NDSO) may be made for keeping surveillance of offenders residing in that area.

Special measures to be adopted for prevention of such crime in trains:

1. Escort parties to be briefed properly about the steps to eradicate chances of such heinous crime in train. They should be extra cautious during the night.

2. Toilets are the most common place where the incidents have been reported in past. As such any gathering of persons near the toilets should be removed.

3. Usually Coach attendants/AC Mechanic remains at their allotted seats near the entry/exit gates which can be helpful to have surveillance over the space. Escort  party should ensure briefing of these staff and pantry car staff who are moving in the trains, taking them in  confidence to report any suspected activities or probabilities of such crime to them and the escort staff should act on it properly.

4. Proper care should be taken for Security of lady passengers traveling alone or with small children by focusing on proper implementation of Meri Saheli initiative.

5. Escorting staff should be briefed to be courteous with passengers especially with ladies passengers.

6. Train Captain/ Suptd. should be asked to cross check the identity cards of all out sourced staff working in the train. PCSCs/ Sr.DCC should coordinate with their counter parts of Commercial, Electrical, S&T and Mechanical dept. counterparts to ensure good coordination between all staff on board and ensure that all the outsourced staff bears Identity Card issued after proper Police Verification. Cross checking should be ensured by these departments also.

7. It should be ensured that the CCTV cameras and Emergency Response System installed in the coaches are in working condition and are attended properly.

8. Usually, ladies coaches are near/with the train Guard in the tail end of trains which at many places remains outside the Platform area. Escort parties and station RPF/ GRP staff should ensure that they are attended properly at the halting stations.

9. Staff deployed in train escort & in yards should be careful when the train approaches or leaves the station where the speed of train is restricted and criminals usually jump out from the running train. They must ensure that the persons jumping from the trains are apprehended and questioned for further necessary action.

 Notice for passengers:

1. Though, the details of helpline numbers are printed on the reverse of train tickets, helpline numbers provided by railways should be widely publicized.

2. People should be made aware of Pan India Emergency Response System and other important forum and calling facilities available for reporting offences and particularly offences against women in that area.

3. People should be made aware of “One Stop Centre (OSC) which is exclusively designed to provide integrated services such medical aid, police assistance, legal counseling/court   case management, psychological, social counseling and temporary shelter to women  affected by violence under one roof.

4. Proper advertisements educating the passengers should be published in various print, electronic and social media platforms.

 Guidelines issued by Indian Railways advised All Zonal Railways and Production Units that these instructions are merely indicative and not exhaustive and acting proactively, field units may implement various other mechanisms to ensure safety of women depending upon local conditions and circumstances.

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An improved process to determine eligibility for surgical abortion at a community-based clinic
  1. Alice Abernathy1,
  2. Michelle Strong2,
  3. Rie Maurer3,
  4. Elizabeth Janiak1,
  5. Laurent Delli-Bovi4,
  6. Deborah Bartz1
  1. 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  2. 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
  3. 3Center for Clinical Investigation, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  4. 4Women's Health Services, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Deborah Bartz, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; dbartz{at}

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Private, independent clinics provide 59% of US abortions annually, and 60% are surgical procedures.1 Access to timely abortion is important, especially for people with medical conditions at increased risk for pregnancy-related physiological changes that exacerbate chronic conditions and morbidity and mortality associated with pregnancy.2 There are preexisting conditions that render community-based surgical abortion unsafe; however, referral to hospital-based care results in delay, increased risk, stigma, and cost at later gestations.3 Patients with stigmatised medical conditions like obesity and substance use disorder may be over-referred for hospital-based care due to provider bias, rather than increased risk of procedural complication.2

In our independent abortion clinic, eligibility screening for community-based procedures is conducted by telephone at time of appointment request for abortion up to 23 weeks 6 days’ gestation. We excluded medical abortion in this report. The Medical Director rules patients as eligible or ineligible for abortion. Staff place referrals to a hospital near the clinic for patients deemed ineligible for community-based abortion.

To improve our screening and referral process we conducted a retrospective audit by reviewing the screening forms for patients referred out of our clinic from 2012 to 2018. To understand our ineligibility criteria patterns we categorised the reasons for referral as: (1) obesity, (2) substance use, (3) bleeding risk (eg, reported anaemia or bleeding dycrasias), (4) gestational age, (5) other (eg, heart disease, venous thromboembolism/stroke, epilepsy, moderate or severe asthma, diabetes, liver disease, hypertension) or (6) unclear reason. We performed descriptive statistics to characterise the reasons for referral and employed the Cochran–Armitage trend test to assess referral indications over time.

A total of 14 516 patients sought surgical abortion over the study period. We placed referrals to hospital-based, third-trimester abortion or prenatal care for 516 (3.5%) patients.

The abortion rate declined in our state in this period, in parallel with a nationwide drop in abortions simultaneous with a rise in use of highly effective contraception.4 Despite this trend, there was a statistically significant decline over the study period in the total number of patients referred elsewhere (p<0.0001) (figure 1). Analysis of our complications over the same study period was reported previously5 and our relaxed eligibility criteria did not negatively affect our complication rate.

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Number of patients referred elsewhere for specific ineligibility criteria by year (n=516).

Prior to 2012, all patients with a body mass index (BMI) over 35 kg/m2 and patients with substance use disorder not on maintenance therapy were referred for hospital-based care. As obesity and substance use disorder became more common in our community, we redrafted our eligibility guidelines to be more patient-centred for a greater proportion of our population. We deliberately changed our protocols so that obesity alone at any BMI was not disqualifying for care. Furthermore, we provided abortion to patients who reported substance use with a negative urine toxicology on the day of their appointment. Increased comfort among gynaecology and anaesthesia staff with patients with complex medical conditions resulted in fewer referrals to hospital-based care.

It is critical that community-based abortion remains accessible for medically complex patients, as referral to hospital-based care raises cost and incurs delay, which increases procedure risk. We encourage other community-based abortion providers to understand population frequencies of common medical conditions within their catchment area and reconsider protocols that may be unnecessarily strict. We would like to emphasise the importance of review of criteria for referral to hospital-based care, especially for stigmatised diseases like obesity and substance use disorder, which have the potential to be over-referred for hospital-based care due to provider bias.2

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  • Contributors AA collected and reviewed data and authored the manuscript; MS collected data and secured funding for the project; RM conducted statistical analysis of the data; EJ supervised data analysis and edited the work; LD-B provided clinical data; DB was the primary investigator and editor and secured funding for the project.

  • Funding This research was supported by a departmental grant from Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

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  • Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of this research.

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Totally Techniques - Bouncing Brayer

Wow! When I blink I lose time. . . does that happen to anyone else? It seems like yesterday that I was blog hopping with my Totally Techniques Team and BOOM! its that time again already!

This month's technique as you may have gathered is Bouncing Brayer.

The step by step "how to" do this technique is available on every YouTube channel so I am not going to bore you with the details. . . jumpin' straight in. . . Here is my card:
This is a great technique but difficult to match with a lot of the stamp sets in our current catalogue and mini catalogues. . . I ended up opting to use Beautiful Ride and That Thing You Did. I kind of channeled tie-dying as my theme for a retro-groovy feel.

It's a 6"x 6" square card - base card is Pool Party. Mounted on that is a square of Bermuda Bay and a minimally smaller square of Tangelo Twist. The stamped cardstock (what I like to call my stamping canvas) is Whisper White although you possibly don't believe me on that lol.

I did the "bouncing brayer" technique on the left hand side of the card  using a brayer and the following inks in named order Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo and Daffodil Delight. I followed the YouTube video by Kelly Acheson. Whilst  the technique was easy I was overwhelmed with how bright the colours were because you will have worked out I am not a brights chick.
I then brayered the remaining white area of the stamping canvas (the right hand side) in Pool Party in the standard brayering manner. I masked off the starburst bouncing brayered area with post it notes to avoid mixing the colours too much. You will see that I graduated the colour from intense down to minimal at the bottom.
My goal was to balance all that colour in the background! The little VW beetle is heat embossed in white with the image from Beautiful Ride on Bermuda Bay cardstock and I fussy cut the border.

I needed to bring down the colour of the background a little more so opted for some clouds punched from Vellum Cardstock using the Tree Builder Punch and scattered a few Bermuda Bay Sequins to tie in the colour scheme and pop the beetle.

The sentiment "you're so Vintage" from That Thing You Did is heat embossed in black to overcome the bright background.
Finally to tie in the colours a little more and to complement the theme of groovy, vintage and free love I punched out some hearts using the Confetti Hearts Border Punch in Pacific Point, Bermuda Bay and Tangelo Twist - these are glued down using the precision tip glue which I adore!

I hope that you find some inspiration and love for my groovy card and enjoy the balance of the blog hop.

Next stop is the incredibly talented Nadine Weiner
I hope you have enjoyed the hop and look forward to seeing you again soon. . .

Peace out dudes
Shanni xx

Order of Bloggers this month

  1. Awesome card Shannean! The vintage sentiment is just perfect with the tie-dye look that you created. Love it!

  2. wow, Love your card SHannean, I'm a bright girl myself, so I LOVE that big ol splash of colour on your card!.....but I also like that you toned it down with the blues, very beautifully put together

  3. Your card is "out of this world baby" - just groovy! Love it so much! Takes me back to the 70's with the colours and the VW beetle!

  4. I am not usually a brights girl either BUT I LOVE your card ;-) very funky.

  5. Fabulous!!! Love all the hearts atop the "Bug"......Great colors and and very happy creation.

  6. You may not call yourself a brights girl Shannean but you've done a fantastic retro job on this card. Awesome

  7. your card turned out very well! Xx Erna

  8. This is Fabulous Shannean! That half circle is awesome!!!!

Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. I am always excited to hear from visitors and take inspiration and joy from the messsages left.


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Marshal Mech Body is a body part mech component which can be crafted using salvaged materials found in space encounters. The crafting recipe is automatically taught to Novakid players after completing the quest Advanced Test Drive.

It's a visual and stat upgrade to the default Novakid mech-body piece Marshal-00 Mech Body.

Once learned it can be assembled using a Mech Part Crafting Table and equipped using a Mech Assembly Station.

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Monitoring Temperature on The Raspberry Pi – CloudSavvy IT

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Is your Raspberry Pi operating scorching? The Raspberry Pi runs an ideal factory-default temperature when idle, however while you use it extensively in a heated workplace, does it run too scorching? Discover out with just a few easy steps.

Monitoring Temperature on The Pi

We are going to assume that you have already got setup your Raspberry Pi, are utilizing Raspbian, and that you’ll be able to entry a console immediate – both through SSH or through a desktop based mostly login.

In case you occur to have a model new Ubuntu set up in your Pi as an alternative, checkout vcgencmd for Ubuntu 20.04 aarch64 on RPi 4B by Hamid Elaosta.

As soon as you’re on the terminal immediate, you’ll first need to examine that the vcgencmd utility is accessible to you. It’ll doubtless be current in case you are utilizing Raspbian. Let’s examine:

whereis vcgencmd

whereis vcgencmd output

In case you obtained output, which had extra info then a number one vcgencmd:, then you’re good to go.

Testing Temperature on the Pi Manually

Go forward and execute the next command:

vcgencmd measure_temp

It’s best to obtain output just like the next:

Observe that the temperature in your Pi could also be larger, for instance 45 levels Celsius. Mine (a Raspberry Pi 4) runs in a good metallic enclosure (the armour twin fan aluminum radiator housing) with a single cooling fan operating, and it’s fairly cool right here tonight. I’ve one other Raspberry Pi 3 with a plastic shell, a few warmth sinks and no fan, and that one is operating at 44.4 Levels Celsius at present.

How A lot is Too A lot?

Good query. The Raspberry Pi basis recommends to maintain your Raspberry Pi under 85 levels Celsius. That’s an higher restrict, and you need to word that there might some chips on the Raspberry mainboard that are solely certified to go as much as 70 Levels Celsius. Basically, if you happen to can run at 50 levels Celsius or much less, it appears you need to be within the inexperienced zone.

Even if you happen to ought to go above it, you might be able to add a little bit fan, some cooling sinks, and shortly drive down the temperature. The atmosphere/room temperature is off significance too. In case your atmosphere will get hotter (summer season climate and so on.) count on your Raspberry Pi to go up in temperature additionally.

And it’s good to remember that the Raspberry Pi will typically throttle (i.e. decelerate) when the temperature reaches a sure level. Except you’re doing one thing non-default like overclocking, or altering settings.

There may be additionally quite a bit to be mentioned about which case you select in your Raspberry Pi 4. Varied decisions will result in both a lot better or a lot worse cooling outcomes. For a strong overview on circumstances, see Raspberry Pi 4 Cases, Temperature and CPU Throttling Under Load by Martin Rowan.

Scripting Temperature and Extra

The vcgencmd command is sort of versatile. You’ll be able to learn extra about it on the vcgencmd manual page. Let’s create a small script with just a few of probably the most helpful instructions, which we retailer as ~/

vcgencmd measure_temp
vcgencmd get_throttled
vcgencmd measure_volts
vcgencmd get_mem arm
vcgencmd get_mem gpu

Measuring more with vcgencmd

Right here, we checked the temperature, the throttle standing (see the web site hyperlink above for more information), a Volts readout and the reminiscence out there to the GPU and to the ARM processor. Observe that your complete reminiscence could also be bigger than what reveals out there to ARM. You’ll be able to see your complete reminiscence by utilizing a software like htop (sudo apt set up htop && htop), or just by operating free -mh on the command line (first end result, prime left, is your complete reminiscence measurement).

Wrapping up

Preserving your Raspberry Pi Cool is unquestionably one vital side of operating your Pi properly. Put money into a case which optimizes temperature, add one or two followers, and most significantly, monitor the temperature efficiency of the system usually, together with below load. Benefit from the multitude of knowledge vcgencmd can give you, and keep watch over that temperature!

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Advent Devotions

Tuesday, December 15

Psalm 80:1-3

Read over the psalm again. Hear the pleading in the psalmist’s voice: Give ear, O Shepherd! Stir up your might and come save us!

The psalmist remembers the days when security seemed easy to come by. All it took was carrying the ark of the covenant and the people of Israel were safe.

The ark of the covenant was a great gold chest topped by two gleaming angels, their wings outstretched to meet each other, marking the space where God dwelled. It housed the Ten Commandments—the covenant between God and Israel. It was not to be touched.

When they traveled through the wilderness, the ark went first, carried on poles by priests. The two cherubim perched upon the ark, indicating God’s presence and protecting God’s people. When the priests carrying the ark stepped into the Jordan River, the river’s current ceased and the people crossed on dry ground (Joshua 3). When Israel’s priests and warriors marched around the city of Jericho with the ark in their midst, the walls collapsed, and Israel captured the city (Joshua 6).

The psalmist cries out to God: You who are enthroned upon the cherubim! Where have you gone? Can you hear us? Do what you used to do: come save us!

Maybe you sense that void in your own life—the God who once seemed so near, who used to go before you and make your future secure, who protected you through your childhood and early adulthood, has seemed to disappear. You feel that you’re on your own.

Follow the psalmist’s lead. Turn to God and ask God to turn to you. Beg him. Seek him.

Prayer: O Shepherd, I’m losing hope. You used to guide me like a sheep from your flock. You used to go before me and smooth my path. Where have you gone? Listen to my cries! Muster up your power and save me! Restore me. Let your face shine.

The Advent devotions follow the Common Lectionary texts. You may use the devotions in a number of ways, but you are encouraged to do the following:

  1. Read the passage through at least once. (Each devotion includes a link to the Scripture passage for the day.)
  2. Reflect on the passage and pay attention to how God might be using it to speak to you.
  3. Read and consider the devotion.
  4. End in prayer. You may begin with the prayer offered at the end of each devotion or pray your own prayer.

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David is our most recent addition to the Stealthcraft Artist Series. He’s a fellow Michigander. We have more projects in the works with him and can’t wait to unveil them soon. Below is a bit about Dave and a link to his website.

David Ruimveld is a self-taught artist, from Michigan. Ruimveld works closely with acrylic paints, using many washes to create stunning images of Angling, Sporting, and Wildlife Art.  With a myriad of watercolor artwork and various fly-fishing paintings for sale, the studio offers something for any style.

Ruimveld’s paintings and prints are available for sale through many galleries, fly fishing shops, sporting outfitters, and private collections.  While he is well known for his paintings of the “Famous Rivers” series, he also enjoys creating images of bird dogs and upland game.

Born and raised in Michigan, he has spent a good measure of time in the rivers and woods in pursuit of big and small game. Traditional values and ethics were instilled in him by a family of fishing and hunting enthusiasts.  He now enjoys traveling with his wife Ginny and their two daughters, Kasey & Jenna, to various rivers to pass on those family traditions while researching for new paintings.


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By working with Stellar Flood Damage Restoration you can take advantage of one of the best and most favored flood services in Ellinbank. We employ simply the cleverest, most brilliant and experienced flood restoration specialists who are able to deliver exceptional solutions to help restore your flooded commercial venues or home. Our water restoration specialists in Ellinbank are entirely local, meaning that we are able to instantly respond and assign a trained team to your location in an instant.

Floods are unexpected scenarios and demand an immediate response. Our primary objective is to stop the water from causing further damage to your corporate or personal space by ruining your furniture, items, flooring, and more. We can preserve and restore the ruined charm of our affected carpets, wooden areas, plastered walls, and are able to help with expert mould elimination. Our flood experts can also be of help with sewage cleanup and full flood restoration.

Stellar Flood Damage Restoration is the most trusted and dependable companies for water extraction and drying in Ellinbank 3821 and there are so many reasons why. You can count on a tailored approach taking into consideration your needs, delivering timely solutions, superb customer service, and competitive prices.

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Before we can start our floor damage restoration in Ellinbank, our specialists will carry out a full inspection of the property once they’ve arrived at our location. This will enable us to understand the level of damage and design a custom plan. Our starting step post-inspection is to eliminate any present water from the area with the help of industrial fans, pumps, wet vacuums, air movers, and other relevant new-age instruments.

At this point, your walls and floors are likely to look saved yet chances are that they are still damp, exposing your living or working space at risk of mold formation and spread. We’ll dry and dehydrate the area using temperature-manipulating technology and supervisory equipment to stay in control of the performance. Our experts then use top-notch steam cleaners and additional tools to clean and remove any nasty {odours|scents||smells} from the flood and dirty water. Lastly, we’ll replicate our inspection steps to register the outcomes of the solution.

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New Frontiers for Stepping Stones

Stepping Stones is pleased to have had Johan Vink recently complete his first “Short-term Placement Assignment” in Wuxi, China. Johan worked as an English teacher in Wuxi from May 30th until June 8th. While he was there not only did he leave a lasting impression on the students and teachers at his school, but they in turn also left an impression on him. After his placement in Wuxi, Johan remarked that “the kids and teachers at… [the]migrant school are wonderful,” and went on to stress that although teaching English in China can be an uphill battle, the “students are absolutely teachable, the teachers absolutely teaching, and the school is very viable!”

After leaving Wuxi, Johan certainly came away with a deeper insight into how difficult it can be to get a good English education in China. From his experience in the classroom, Johan said “In terms of English education, the big challenge is pronunciation, both for the students and teachers. Teachers desperately need professional development particularly in terms of pronunciation,” and that the migrant schools greatly need to “encourage the students to use oral language and to think outside the box and beyond the script.”

One way for both teachers and children to work on their pronunciation is to practice their English with volunteers, like Johan, from Stepping Stones. Research has shown that rural students in China are at the greatest disadvantage in terms of English language learning, due to lower quality of education in schools and lack of parental or tutorial support when they are out of school. The children in these village schools are mostly “left-behind children,” living apart from their parents, who have migrated to cities for work.

For these reasons Stepping Stones has created the “Short- and Long-term Placement” program. Short and Long-term placements allow for volunteers with strong English capabilities to teach in partnered schools not immediately in the Shanghai vicinity. Stepping Stones has these opportunities in Henan, Hunan, Gansu, Guizhou, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Anhui. Volunteer assignments can be as short as one week, but the longer the better!

For more information about becoming a Short- and Long-Term volunteer with Stepping Stones, please visit our website at to learn more or email Morgan Banaszek,, about how you can get involved and make a difference in the lives of rural Chinese children today.

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Angle experiments

I have had a lovely time playing with Dresdens in my craft room over the last weekend. I have learnt a lot and made some pretty things.I am very much an experimenter when it comes to my crafting and am trying to expand my techniques. I never like to follow patterns or ideas directly and prefer using these as basis for a bit of creativity.

This is why I have ended up with such a variety of sizes, rather than actually following any instructions I just kept thinking, ‘what if I do this….?’

Which explains the giant Dresden, this measures 17 inches across and is a result of seeing what happens when you use the other end of the new Dresden ruler! I am not sure what this is going to be, was thinking bag but maybe a cushion cover with a large crochet piece in the centre from my stash and even a few Suffolk Puffs!

Large pink Dresden 1

This is the first one, the blades are 3 inches in length with the narrow end of my new ruler, worked out that you need 20 of these to complete the design so just kept adding fabric.

Medium Pink Dresden 1

Medium Pink Dresden 2

And this one is the, ‘what if I make it wider at the top’, experiment. done with a 2 length inch blade but wider at the top so only 12 were needed. I am not sure about the linen blades here, loved them but have now decided to applique this onto a linen pouch so may need to swap them out for a contrast fabric.

Doesn’t it look lovely with a bit of my vintage crochet in the centre?

Small Pink Dresden 1

One of the reasons I have been able to just play and add blades as needed is that I have been very naughty and bought new fabric, sush don’t tell the kids 😉

I bought two beautiful packs from a new supplier of ditsy florals that I found a while ago, Always Knitting and Sewing.

At the time I posted this wish list pic from the web site, and though I didn’t realise it when I ordered this it mostly what I bought.

bundle-10-fat-quarters-cream-floral-Always Knitting and Sewing

They came as two bundles, with ten 10 inch squares of beautiful quality fabric in each bundle,  very good value at £5.99 each. There is lots of choice of other colours as well. I ordered one cream and one pink bundle which has given me lots of beautiful things to play with. Aren’t they just absolutely gorgeous 🙂

This is one of my very favourite ones and as I need a new make up bag and have some more linen coming think I will save this for me!

Dresen Rose and Hubble fabrics 5

Most of their stock seems to be Rose and Hubble and Moda and I love all of it. I am very tempted by this beautiful colourway.

Red fabrics - wish list

I have also started another Sew Illustrated project, this one using one of the sewing motifs from the book and one of my favourite sayings, ‘Sew many projects, sew little time!’ This will be a pouch, again either for me to keep or a gift.

Sew Ilustrated spool pouch 1

Love using up my Liberty scraps on these and hope that they do look like spools.

Sew Ilustrated spool pouch 4

I do really love this time of year! I am able to go to work and come home in the light, the rhododendrons are just about to bloom and it is nearly time to go to Spain again 🙂

Also with my new role most of my teaching finishes next week, that means lots of marking for the next couple of months but that can mostly be done from the comfort of my sofa.

Then I have to do some serious work on my doctorate over the summer, but that still leaves plenty of time for crafting in the late afternoons, so along with the plan for my doctorate I have written a crafting plan for the summer.

So I am a very happy bunny. Hope that you are all having a nice Spring (or Autumn), take care and thanks for visiting.

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    • Thanks, I love everything on the fabric shop site and am definitely going to have to treat myself to more things soon.
      Alison x

    • Thank you, have just finished embroidering them tonight and am very happy with the way they look, think I am going to keep this pouch for me!
      Alison x

    • Yes really looking forward to it, always am happy at this time of year but especially so after the challenges of the new role.It has been an interesting year, enjoyed it but has been quite stressful at times so need lots of fabric therapy!

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The Kinks - Word Of Mouth

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180 Gram Vinyl Record

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180 Gram LP

180-gram pink/white swirl vinyl

1984 album from the British Rock institution. The rich, warm production is perfectly suited to some of Ray Davies' finest songs, 'Good Day' and 'Summer's Gone', while 'Too Hot' would have sounded right at home on Muswell Hilbillies. 'Sold Me Out' out-Stones the Rolling Stones. For anyone skeptical about The Kinks post-'70s output, this album will be a revelation.

Side A
1. Do It Again
2. Word Of Mouth
3. Good Day
4. Living On A Thin Line
5. Sold Me Out

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Publication Date: April 14, 1995

Industry: Energy & Natural Resources

Industry: Manufacturing

Source: Harvard Business School

MG Corp., a U.S. subsidiary of Germany's international conglomerate, Metallgesellschaft, engaged in a disastrous hedging strategy that nearly dragged the entire enterprise into bankruptcy. This case explores issues of responsibility and accountability among the relevant boards. In doing so, it highlights the German two-tier board system of governance.

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In Koya Rift, the player must enter a hostile planet and destroy an alien race so the planet can be colonized. Each game, the player is dropped off at the surface and must venture into procedurally generated caves, earning upgrades and buying units as he goes along.
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Koya Rift is an action-packed platform shooter that is built around circular, adaptive gameplay that emphasizes replay value by challenging the player with procedural content tuned to their skill level. In Koya Rift, the player must enter a hostile planet and destroy an alien race so the planet can be colonized. Each game, the player is dropped off at the surface and must venture into procedurally generated caves, earning upgrades and buying units as he goes along. The difficulty adjusts precisely to the skill of the player over time, providing them with a consistent challenge. The goal of the game is to provide a challenging, yet casual experience that’s easy to pick up and put down.

A game of Koya Rift is pretty straightforward – you find yourself above ground standing in front of one of the delivery pods from the mercenary mothership. Your minimap hides the area below ground – and you have no idea what awaits you. The terrain of each level is procedurally generated (meaning it uses advanced algorithms to make itself different every time, providing nearly endless possibilities). Below ground lies a web of tunnels and caverns that is different every single time you play. It’s impossible to know what awaits you behind every corner. Procedural generation isn't just in the level – all of your enemies will seem different too. Their size, speed, color, health, damage, and weapon behavior will be unique for each one you fight. Your own weapons are generated the same way – the Lances you bring along with you to levels are generated out of endless possibilities. One gun may fire large, single shot energy blasts that slow down and weaken all enemies in a large radius, where another gun will shoot bursts of many bullets that curve in every direction with a waving motion, another gun that fires several shots at once but can pierce through walls and home after enemies, and another that heals and enhances your allies.

You have to venture down into the unfamiliar cave system and eliminate all of the Phantom Crystals (Where the enemy soldiers are grown). Unfortunately the Phantoms are hunting you the whole time, while their crystals evolve and grow. If you manage to destroy all the enemy crystals, you win the level.

Don’t get too proud though – if you beat it too easily the game will know and will be sure to adjust the difficulty for next time. Game difficulty in Koya Rift is complex – it’s not a simple modification to the amount of health you have, and it isn't a simple easy-normal-hard scale. Difficulty is a very precise unit of measurement that expands near-infinitely in either direction in this game. If you beat your last couple of levels easily it will slightly increase, if you keep getting beaten down without a fight it will decrease to help you out. Difficulty adjustments affect almost everything in game – from the reaction speed of the Phantoms, to the speed at which they grow and evolve, to the cost of your allies, the experience they need to level up, the accuracy, size, fire rate, and density of your energy weapons, the rate of health recovery, the effects of special weapons, the size of the levels you play on, the health and damage of your enemies, the speed and fragility of your allies, the cash value of killing an opponent, the swiftness and force of enemy attacks, and even more. There are so many values that change, and when they do change, they change with such subtlety that you will not be able to pick out exactly why this next game seems like more of a challenge for you than last, or why you’re finally able to beat that one level that you were stuck on for so long.

These items combine to create an excellent formula for expandable gameplay – in the end you have a game that you can always come back to and find something different, and always be challenged regardless of your ability.

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Conversation and Community, Second Edition

by Anne Gentle

Anne Gentle’s Conversation and Community, now in its second edition, has become the go-to reference for social media and technical communication. Her clear-eyed survey of the social media landscape has been adopted by many universities and is widely used by technical communicators.

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The ebook edition of Anne Gentle’s book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation, is now available for free on this site. The print edition is being taken out of print, but may remain available through used-book sellers.

The book is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, which is available at While not technically an open source license as defined by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) (, the intention for choosing a Creative Commons license is to share and share alike.

In plain language, that license means that anyone can copy or adapt, and even distribute text from the book as long as the redistribution gives appropriate credit and does not charge for any adaptations created. This license choice means that people can reuse it in workshops, in classrooms, and even pull out parts of it for reuse in other works. You can even take a BY-NC original work and adapt it and release under a new license, BY-NC-ND (Non-Noncommercial, No Derivatives) or BY-NC-SA (Non-Noncommercial, Share Alike).

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Anne Gentle’s Conversation and Community, has become the go-to reference for social media and technical communication. Her clear-eyed survey of the social media landscape has been adopted by many universities and is widely used by technical communicators.

The second edition contains new chapters on building a content strategy, analyzing web techniques, and developing an open source strategy. Along with a greatly expanded bibliography and updates throughout, there are more interviews and more case studies, making this ground-breaking book even more useful.

  1. Towards the Future of Documentation
    • How people communicate about technical topics today
    • The changing roles of writers
    • Defining conversation
    • Agile development
    • Why move content to the social web?
    • Social media, social networking, and now the social web
  2. Defining a Writer’s Role with the Social Web
    • Challenges and opportunities
    • Building a strategy
    • The documentation environment
  3. Community and Documentation
    • What is a community?
    • Motivations for writers and online communities
    • Real-world events
    • Book sprints
  4. Commenting and Connecting with Users
    • Monitoring conversations
    • Starting and maintaining a blog
    • Customer blog infrastructure
    • Integrating user content into user assistance
    • Moderating or participating in online forums
    • Instant messaging and responses
    • Writing reviews
    • Integrating social tagging
    • Sharing photos and videos for explanation or assistance
  5. Wikis as Documentation Systems
    • Wikis for projects
    • Starting or reinvigorating a wiki
    • Inheriting a large wiki
    • Working in a wiki
    • Wiki round tripping
    • Single-sourcing and repurposing
    • Understanding wiki patterns and wiki structures
    • Alternatives when a wiki is not the right match
    • Talking with writers of wikis
    • Wiki examples
    • Wiki wrap up
  6. Finding Your Voice
    • Style guidelines
    • Publishing strategies
    • Idea generation
    • Living and working with conversation and community
  7. Content Strategy for Community Documentation — NEW Chapter
    • Listen and monitor first
    • Find the business goals
    • Community and content audits
    • Case Study: Community Content Strategy at Autodesk
  8. Analyzing and Measuring Web Techniques — NEW Chapter
    • Managing community methods
    • Measuring effectiveness
    • Fitting into the community
    • Encouraging grassroots efforts
    • Measuring documentation as conversation
  9. Open Source Documentation — NEW Chapter
    • Open source, how does it work?
    • Open documentation community strategies
    • Open source starting points
    • Licensing considerations
    • Not about tools
    • Community content strategist
  10. Appendix A: Concepts and Tools of the Social Web
    • New media content categories
    • Social web techniques
    • Learning about social media
  11. Appendix B: Easter Seals Internet Public Discourse Policy
  12. Appendix C: A Case Study from Smart Content in the Enterprise — NEW Case Study
    • Managing Content for Continuous Learning at Autodesk: When DITA Flows into a Social Web Platform
  13. Glossary
  14. Bibliography — Expanded
  15. Index

About the Author

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Anne Gentle is an industry-recognized author whose books promote collaboration among developers, writers, and other stakeholders within open source and enterprise communities. She works as a product manager at Cisco, supporting the Metacloud product based on OpenStack. She supports open source tools for API design, documentation, and developer support. In addition to Conversation and Community, she wrote the book Docs Like Code to share tested tools and techniques with all who want to provide helpful, accurate technical information to the world. Anne writes about trends and shifts in technology and information at, where she has been engaging readers since 2005.

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“Could be best TC read of the decade”

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“I was an early adopter of wikis, but had reached a saturation point after Linkedin and before Facebook. As a result, I was vague on what a lot of these social things are, so Chapter 2 has been useful.”

— David Cramer

“I have felt for a while that this is where I wanted to go as a technical writer, but I wasn’t sure where to start or if it was even possible. Your book is giving me the confirmation that I’m on the right track and all the amazing links in it are helping me develop the knowledge I need to get there. You have no idea how excited I am:)”

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Coronavirus Update (24/3/2020) – From our Rector

In the light of the Prime minister’s broadcast tonight, the church will no longer be open for prayer. We will all be praying hard at home. I feel that the spirit of the very urgent need for isolation is best served by not continuing to open the church. We take this action with a heavy heart but also believing it right. I pray for all the vulnerable people and those medical professionals who will care for them. May our loving God bless us and keep us. I will keep in touch and will share a brief biblical message (via email) from time to time.

Alan Howe


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Talvar (2015)

India Reliance Blu-ray

The Great Irrfan Khan on the cover

Text below written 2016-03-19

Talvar is one of 2 films that in 2014-2015 has been made about the in India very famous Aarushi Talwar double
murder case in 2008
when a young girl was found murdered at home in her bed with her throat cut, and close by
also the servant Hemraj. The Investigation was hampered by a sloppily done CSI and the police had to make 3
different turns at it before reaching a decision - a decision that .... No, that would be a spoiler.
But, the trial went on for years before the sentence came in November 2013, life in prison for the double murder.
This indie crime-drama is tautly made, well acted (especially by Super Actor Irrfan Khan) and full of suspense,
even though it mostly takes place after the murders and depicts the police investigation of the case. But, there's
"false" flashbacks illuminating the different murder theories and some grisly scenes of throat-cutting.

The "Other" film about this famous murder case is Rahasya, but this film takes some liberties and add some murders
to the pot and tells a slightly different story. Even though this, the relatives to Aarushi Talwar tried to stop the film
Rahasya due to similarities and the Court decided the film could be shown in January 2016.
Also Rahasya is Very Good and also has a Bollywood Super Actor in it, the amazing Kay Kay Menon.

The Story of Talvar:

The Tandon Family, that's Doctor Ramesh (Neeraj Kabi) and his wife Nutan (Konkona Sen Sharma) and their
14 year old teenage daughter Shruti (Ayesha Parveen).
One morning Shruti is found dead in her bed with her throat cut and first the male servant Chetan, who's disappeared,
is suspected, but is later found dead with his throat cut in some locked room in the vicinities.
A smug and betel chewing slapstick cop, Dhaniram (Gajrao Rao) is leading the CSI and he makes a mess of it, but
they arrest the parents suspected for the double murder and the motive would be a honor killing, due to the fact that
the servant may have been found in the bed of the daughter by the perps.

Now, time for the Spanish Inquisi ..... sorry, seen to many Monty Python scetches lately .... for the CID, The Central
Investigation Department to step in (what's the difference between CID and CBI, i've no idea?) in the shape of
Ashwin Kumar (Irrfan Khan) and he and his assistant has to re-do the investigation from scratch and there are some
different murder scenarios shown in "false" flashbacks.
Finally, there's a 3rd investigation going and this time led by prosecutor Paul (Atul Kumar) and the big question is -
who's the suspect ? Will there be enough evidences gathered for a prosecution and a trial ?

anamorphic widescreen, hindi DTS HD or DD 5.1 audio with english subs, script and great music by Vishal Bhardwaj
(the director of classic Maqbool) and Making Of featurette (8 minutes without subs) and infographic trailer.
The nice song Shaam Ka Saaye is sung by Arijit Singh during the credits and with lyrics by Gulzar and the fabulous
and legendary actress Tabu is making a guest performance as Ashwin's ex-wife Reema. What a MILF she is ...
- and with that male chauvinist pig statement i ended this text, i'm sorry, i'm un-correctable

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Procurement: Ready For Prime Time

May 22, 2020: While Western nations establish “Space Force” commands for their military, Iran has been more practical and realistic. In 2017 Iran established a “Drone Division” in its IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) to handle UAV development, production, distribution and training. An IRGC colonel, a veteran in the UAV field, was appointed to run the Drone Division. Colonel Akbar Karimloo was even allowed to give media interviews about his operation and its accomplishments. Unlike much else with the IRGC and the Iranian military in general, Karimloo had some recent and very real accomplishments to discuss. Not all of them, some of these operations were merely implied because they were officially denied. One of these was the successful use of over twenty armed drones in late 2019 to attack Saudi oil production facilities. Iran attributed this to Shia rebels in Yemen that have substantial, but unofficial, Iran backing. This enables Iran to deny responsibility for the 2019 attack because that would have been an act of war and had some very real and very destructive repercussions for Iran. Instead Iran claimed that the attack was carried out by the Yemeni Shia rebels.

The Saudis were able to collect fragments of the several UAVs involved and reconstruct them. It was obvious that most of these UAVs did not have to range to travel from Yemen to northeast Saudi Arabia. The only other launch area was in nearby Iran. Most of the UAVs involved had been around for a while and were known to be reliable and made in Iran. There are a lot of UAVs developed and manufactured in Iran because UAVs are basically low tech devices using widely available manufacturing techniques and components. UAVs are not high-tech vehicles but assembling those common components correctly can be difficult. To get around that Iran has got a large collection of foreign UAVs that have crashed or been shot down in Iran, or nations that Iran has control over (Syria, Iraq, Yemen and parts of Yemen.) Iran is also a very active buyer in the black market for weapons wreckage. Islamic terrorist and rebel groups worldwide know about this black market and go after this wreckage before the owners can recover or completely destroy it. Israeli and American stuff is particularly valuable. Such wreckage has kept hundreds of skilled Iranians employed over the decades as they pick apart the wreckage to determine what the system contained and how it was put together. This usually results in an accurate appearing mockup and, less frequently, a working copy that can be put to use.

For decades Iran has regularly announced new weapons that were designed and produced in Iran. Over the last decade a growing proportion of these announcements involve UAVs. For example back in 2011 Iran revealed a UAV described as a cruise missile with a 200 kilometer range. It was several years before this new UAV was actually available to use. If you go back and look at the many Iranian announcements of newly developed, high tech, weapons, all you find is a photo op for a prototype. Production versions of these weapons rarely shows up right away, if ever. It’s all feel-good propaganda for the religious dictatorship that runs Iran, and its supporters.

But Iran has managed to develop some locally made weapons since the 1980s despite a growing list of sanctions making it difficult to legally import UAV components. As a result Iran likes to recycle older, all the way back to the 1950s military tech. For example, in 2010 Iran announced that it had developed an armed UAV, the Karar (or Karrar) with a range of 1,000 kilometers. Pictures of this new weapon showed what appeared to be a copy of 1950s era American cruise missile, or target drone. These, in turn, were based on a similar weapon, the German V-1 "buzz bomb" that was used extensively in World War II to bomb London. The Iranian Karar had the benefit of more efficient jet engines, more effective flight control hardware and software, and GPS navigation. Karar was not a wonder weapon, but the Iranians are depending on a clueless international mass media, and their own citizens, to believe it is. The Karar effort was not wasted because it was proof that Iran has teams of scientists, engineers and technicians working on UAV tech for a long time. Although touted as an armed cruise missile, Karar has been most often used as a target drone for testing air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles. Target drones were designed for that and that keeps target drones rather more expensive than actual cruise missiles. So while Iran touts Karar as a cruise missile, Iran also found that Karar was one its few UAVs that could perform well as a target drone.

In the last few years Iran has announced many similar weapons, many of them originally conceived in the 1950s. There was, for example, a UAV with a range of 2,000 kilometers. This was announced a decade ago and is now said to be in service as the Fotros. This design is based on several successful Israeli UAV models. These UAVs use simpler, slower and cheaper propeller-driven tech. While the Israeli UAV designs are simple tech, putting all those components together so that you have a capable and reliable UAV is difficult. The Americans managed to emulate the older Israeli designs to produce Predator and Reaper. A decade late China began copying Predator and Reaper and in the last five years Chinese UAVs have dominated the export market. No one gives that manufacturing knowledge away and Iran has had to figure it out. They apparently did that with Fotros, which first flew in 2013 but was not reliable enough for actual service until 2020.

One tech that makes long-range UAVS so useful still eludes Iran. This is satellite control capability, which most American UAVs have. With satellites based control operators can watch what UAVs do in real-time and make critical decisions about where to go and whether to use weapons. The Iranian long-range UAVs use GPS type guidance and are preprogrammed for a specific mission, like take photos and return or carry explosives on a one-way mission. For longer range UAV operations Iran has learned how to use some UAVs as airborne relays. In addition the IRGC can use ground-bases relay stations in areas it controls. In this way operators back in Iran can control some of these long-range operations.

For Iran the primary target for their long-range weapons has been Israel and the United States. American troops operating near Iran have learned to deal with the growing number of Iranian UAVs, often with help from Israel which has a lot more practical experience with Iranian recon and attack UAVs. These low-tech and inexpensive systems are not wonder weapons but they can be a threat if you do not develop ways to deal with them. Israel and the Americans have, Saudi Arabia, until late 2019, had downplayed the threat. No more and this is another reason why the Saudis are getting so chummy with Israel.

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Identity + Refuge - Silk foulard jacket

Studio Orta - 0446

Date: 1995
Ref: 0446
Materials: Suede and silk carré
Catalogued: Lucy Orta, Phaidon Press, 2002, pp 8-15
Exhibition history: 2010 CCANW, UK; 2008 Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art,Japan; 2009 Plymouth Arts Centre, UK; 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Australia; 1996 Dietch Projects New York, USA ; 1995 Salvation Army Paris, France
Courtesy: Lucy + Jorge Orta

Identity + Refuge is a co-creation workshop conducted together with residents of the Cité de Refuge, Salvation Army homeless shelter in Paris. The shelter’s storeroom housed a surplus of clothing and accessories, which Lucy Orta chose as a raw material to transform into new garments. Her initial idea was to co-create a tailor-made wardrobe for residents who otherwise had no choice but to salvage second-hand clothing for their own use. Over the course of the months, the workshop changed course and they began making clothes for imaginary wearers, with the help of fashion students. The workshop concluded with a public fashion show in the thrift store of the Cité de Refuge, mobilising all the staff and residents.

One of the aims of the Identity + Refuge workshop was to give residents the means to reclaim their self-esteem through the items they wore, giving them the capacity to create a wardrobe that they regarded as comfortable, appropriate and even fashionable. Through the analysis of the morphology of an abandoned garment, through to its transformation into something useful, Orta encouraged the residents to reconsider their appearance and their individual roles in society, which she hoped would boost their self-esteem and help shape personal identity. The collective task also transmitted a message about human creativity: the reclained garments made by the residents resulted from their own creative inspiration that they may not have realized existed previously. Performed with the tools and materials at hand rather than through mechanized production, the task of making the garments also constituted the sort of work-oriented creativity that Lévi-Strauss identified as ‘bricolage'.

"Bricolage identifies the “events” that result when basic materials are transformed into more refined products, which in this case proved to be both the workshop established to convert rags into beautiful clothing and the self-awareness created among the residents. Lévi-Strauss argued that “to understand a real object in its totality we always tend to work from its parts,” identifying art in the spaces between creative production and technical skill. The concept of “art in the spaces” is a perfect metaphor for Orta’s interventions, which in this context revealed parallels between the new lease of life given to the abandoned clothing and the new lease of hope experienced by the residents. These recycled objects are unique in their capacity to reveal much about the social conditions that necessitated their production in the first place." Bradley Quinn