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18.07.2019
Building on the five-year vision of Addressing Europe’s Unfinished Business, Tools For Changemakers strengthens its training component while embarking on a three-year journey of exploration of the link between personal and collective identities in Europe, the rise of populism and nationalism in different European regions, the need to belong for old and new community members, unaddressed collective traumas, and the urgency to work with these issues in order to build more trust and cohesion in Europe.
www.iofc.ch/experience-caux-forum/main-events/tools-chang...
Photo: Paula Mariane
Mounted on top of the steering knuckle is a coil spring over shock dampening system housed inside a "shock tower." To compress the spring for removal I built this compressor tool following the drawing in John Jensen's excellent Isetta Restoration book.
18.07.2019
Building on the five-year vision of Addressing Europe’s Unfinished Business, Tools For Changemakers strengthens its training component while embarking on a three-year journey of exploration of the link between personal and collective identities in Europe, the rise of populism and nationalism in different European regions, the need to belong for old and new community members, unaddressed collective traumas, and the urgency to work with these issues in order to build more trust and cohesion in Europe.
www.iofc.ch/experience-caux-forum/main-events/tools-chang...
Photo: Paula Mariane
We took a look at the Brompton toolkit to see exactly what it's all about. We found it has an array of excellent tools useful in repairing your Brompton bicycle.
Tool my chiropractor is using to try to break up scar tissue on nerves in my back. After a lubricant is applied to my back, the longer, curved edges of this tool are used to vigorously scrape along the nerves that run alongside the spine, and then cross over to my hip.
I've been able to feel a lumpy, bumpyness to those areas for several years, and just thought the bumps were bone spurs. But apparently, they're built up scar tissue, which is impeding the proper circulation of blood around my nerves.
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Marked: MADE BY HENRY SQUIRE AND SONS
WILLENHALL, STAFFS, ENGLAND.
BUCKLE PROOF BLUE BLADE
The blade is marked: Hardened Sheffield knife steel 10S
As part of its commitment to supporting the agricultural industry, Trelleborg has launched its Tire Selector, an intuitive online tool specifically designed to help farming professionals select the right tires for individual applications including agriculture, forestry, agro-industrial and light service.
I have been collaborating recently with the multitalented, ethically conscious, conceptual artist Elana Langer who’s brand What I Live By or WILBy creates consciousness raising ethical sweatshops to educate us on our buying habits and a plethora of other interesting goodies that promote living a better life, embracing ourselves and treating the world better.
The project that we have been working on is about the Tools of Life, a concept inspired by her grandmother. Elana writes:
My grandmother was a real lady. I don’t remember a time when her hair and nails weren’t done and she wasn’t dressed impeccably. In the last year of her life she, like many others in her condition, lost the ability to walk without support. And although she had a strong will to live, the idea of using a walker in public seemed unbearable to her. The force of her vanity had come up against the limit of the body. Life compromised didn’t seem as worthwhile living.
My cousins and I were in her kitchen about to have lunch while I suggested going out to her favorite restaurant right across from her home. She refused. We all looked at the walker.
"We can bedazzle it!" I exclaimed. "We can make you the most beautiful walker in the whole city."
My cousins laughed. My grandmother didn’t. In fact this brought on the first and only fight I ever had with her.
"You are making fun." She stared at me coldly.
"True, I am trying to make this situation more fun. What’s the big deal with a walker? And think of how many other people are like you. We could make a whole business. This would make it something to be proud of like jewelry. We can make walkers for weddings, special occasions, one to match each outfit…you can be our model."
My grandmother didn’t laugh. She didn’t see the condition of necessity as something to be played with.
I never made the bedazzled walker for her and I never stopped thinking it was a good idea. We need to have fun within these places that cause social discomfort. To be able to embrace and play with our desire to adorn and enhance ourselves in both actual necessity (like a walker) and chosen necessity (like make-up, nails, hair, clothing…).
These items and pictures are the result of that. One tool of enhancement, like clothing or jewelry, doesn’t have to compromise another tool of enhancement like the ability to hear or walk with greater ease. Both are enriching our experiences in the world and both are admitting that we need and want help with the conditions that exist within us at any given moment. When used to enhance joy and enjoyment, these are all equally and differently tools of life and living well.
I loved my grandmother deeply and I miss her in this world and I hope these pictures would make her smile.
This is one of the Spiers planes designed to flatten wood in preperation for joining operations. (1/3 scale)
(This explanation written after jcoterhals wrote his comment).
I was attending a two day workshop on how to conduct team reviews after companies have ran its development dialogues. Then my colleague Thomas suggested to use a simple tool for feedback on the quality of the training. The tool works fine in brief meetings as well.
1. Ask all meeting participants reflect for 30 seconds on the quality of the meeting.
2. Participants must choose one or two of the fingers' topics.
3. Take the round.
There are five fingers to choose from (suprise!):
Thumb: What was good? What did you find really useful?
Index finger: What was mind provoking, making you reflect or see things from a different point of view?
Middle finger: What did you not like? (as in "sod off")
Ring finger: What kind of new network or relations to people did you gain from this meeting that you value?
Little finger: What was you hoping for in this meeting that you didn't get?
Result: The person having chaired the meeting takes out at least some impression of the value of the meeting as experienced by those attending.
Ruined and forgotten in the middle of a housing estate in north Leeds, is the Corn mill, Horsforth's oldest mill.
Built between 1772 and 1787 by William Wright out of the local sandstone, it would originally have been water powered by Oil Mill Beck. Like much of north Leeds, the land was used for agriculture, and this place would have played an important role in the milling of corn from the nearby fields.
By the 1980's however, the mill had long ceased to be used for its original purpose, and was used for storage for Dickinson's Auto Spares, an island in a sea of scrapped cars and rusting metal, something that continued until 2002. Much of one part of the mill has been carefully dismantled, each stone being numbered and labeled, leaving behind the remains of a wonderful stone flagged floor and ornate cast iron pillars.
Inside is dark and shadowy, scaffolding poles shore up the building from inside, and the floor is littered with the remains of its days as an storage for scrap: windsreen wipers, and a petrol cap lie part buried in the dirt.
The building is Grade II listed, and is a very rare example of a corn mill of this period. It is believed that some parts could even date back as far as the 14th century and have been built by the monks of Kirkstall Abbey, a mile or so South East.
Today it stands as a ruin, contrasted by the new housing development that has grown up around it, waiting to be rebuilt, block by block and bought back to life.