Promise cards

This went on and on so I decided to stop. I signed a card promising that should I need a customs broker it would be this man. Indeed he was very nice and helpful. 

There are a variety of systems for direct Identification (labelling) of the tubes and other vessels used to hold samples. The Eppendorf labelling system is based on reflection marks Imprinted on the process vessels, which are read automatically by the machine they are supplemented by visual characters so that visual checking by the operator is possible at any time. The marks can be printed on labels or punched Into perforated cards. Bar codes are a recent alternative now in widespread use. They offer a series of advantages such as the simplicity and rapidity of the reading or Identification (based on laser technology). Even more recent and promising are optical character rec-... 

PANI-NFA 2O5 is promising nanocomposite material for utilization as a cathode for ion-Li batteries [292,293]. PANI-NFs have been used as a cathode material for rechargeable Li-polymer cells assembled with a gel polymer electrolyte [152], and in an aqueous PANI-Zn rechargeable battery [261]. Dispersions of dedoped PANI-NFs in poly(vinyhdene fluoride-hexafluoropropylene)-based gel polymers can be used as electrolyte membranes for rechargeable Li batteries [513]. PANI-NF and PANI-NT arrays, which show superior electrochemical properties to the bulk counterpart, can be applied to Li-polymer thin-film batteries, which are shape-flexible and specifically suitable for powering integrated circuit cards and microelectromechanical systems [514,515]. 

She sounded somewhat surprised and said I had made her day. I then asked to talk to her supervisor. When I told the supervisor I wanted to talk to her about Sandra Brown, she answered with some trepidation. My message to her was that she should value Sandra as an employee and that her demeanor and the way she handled my situation reflected positively on the company. The supervisor was also surprised and thankful. I asked her to put something in Sandra s personnel file and she agreed. Two weeks later I received a thank you card from Sandra, in which she promised to continue trying to do a good job. 

A participant in one of my seminars noted that his big fear is that someone in the audience will know more than he does about some aspect of the topic. Very likely— one of the purposes of speaking, and the subsequent discussion, is to learn—and that includes you Perhaps one of your fears is not knowing all the answers. Who does Your responsibility as the speaker, during the post-presentation discussion is to help find the answers. If you do not know the answer, ask if someone in the audience does. Your audience may include relevant experts. Or promise to find the answer and get back to the questioner. Ask for the asker s business card. The subsequent exchange could lead to some mutually-beneficial results. 

The final chapter in this section focuses on that quintessential plastic object of economic exchange the credit card. Joe Deville charts the rise of the credit card, and maps the practices and campaigns whereby credit cards became more prevalent as a medium of exchange, and indeed enabled more plastic or fluid modes of credit and consumption. Deville considers the extent to which the plasticity of the credit card is a key part of its circulation, and extends this analysis to contemporary examples of debt and default. In these cases, the material presence of the credit card may become a site where the promise of credit is revoked through the demand that credit cards be cut up or returned, or it may become a site of protest, where credit card users refuse to comply... 

Both the experimental and anecdotal evidence points towards these new plastic credit cards acting as lures for feeling (Whitehead 1978 88 see also Fraser 2009 Halewood 2003 Stengers 2008). By virtue of their very material presence in the homes and lives of so many Americans, they exerted a pull on them a nagging draw towards the possibilities that credit, with its ability to shift economic value forward in time, promises. They thus became, to return to the terms outlined at the start of this chapter, indispensable devices for market attachment. These cards were, and continue to be, lively entities of their own, reaching out to the user as the user might reach out to them. As we... 

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