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Word of the Day - Learn one new word everyday on Dictionary.com ... A state or condition of fitness or order; state of mind; spirits -- often used in the phrase "in fine fettle." ... Aside from the problems with her voice . . . Miss Garland was in fine fettle last night.
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dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2002/08/2...
dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2002/08/20.html
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Where does 'fettle' come from? ... [Q] From Pat Cagle: I do, indeed, feel in fine fettle today. However, a young friend asked where the word fettle came from as she had never heard of it. It seems fettle is always used with fine and I realize now I have never heard it expressed in any other way.
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www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-fet1.htm
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(Geordie, Cumbrian) A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst. Whats yer fettle marra? ... in fine fettle ... to fettle (third-person singular simple present fettles, present participle fettling, simple past and past participle fettled)
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en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fettle
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fettle
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And so to ETSI*, the august telecommunication standards body in Sophia Antipolis. I was kindly invited to by BT's Keith Dickerson and ETSI's Margot Dor to present during a board meeting session entitled "Hell's Kitchen: IMS and Web 2 ... For those innocent in the ways of the telco, I'd position ETSI as a place where large...
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blog.whatfettle.com/
blog.whatfettle.com/
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And so to ETSI*, the august telecommunication standards body in Sophia Antipolis. ... For those innocent in the ways of the telco, I'd position ETSI as a place where large companies, operators, vendors and regulators coalesce, ... Recently a significant part of ETSI's focus has been on something called IMS. I'm willing to...
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blog.whatfettle.com/2009/06/22/etsi-2-0/
blog.whatfettle.com/2009/06/22/etsi-2-0/
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Fettle: Proper or sound condition. ... noun Mental or emotional state; spirits: was in fine fettle. ... He hospitably urged Mr. Donald to eat heartily, though there was no special need of urging him, for Martha's good cooking and dainty serving were proving a sufficient invitation Mr. Perkins was in fine fettle,
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www.wordnik.com/words/fettle
www.wordnik.com/words/fettle
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With the release of three intelligent British movies, Charles Spencer asks if this is the start of a renaissance in our film industry. ... With Nowhere Boy, Sam Taylor-Wood’s highly-touted new movie about the young John Lennon on release next month, British cinema has rarely seemed in finer fettle.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/charlesspenc...
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/charlesspencer/6560742/British-cinema-has-rarely-seemed-in-finer-fettle.html
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textorizer - textorize a picture ... image: jpeg, png, gif, or xpm file less than 128K in length.; text: ... ; each line of text is used in turn.; strokes: number of lines of text to write.; threshold: controls the edge-detection.; width: output SVG width in pixels.; height: output SVG height in pixels.;
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textorizer.whatfettle.com/
textorizer.whatfettle.com/
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Textorizer takes a raster image in a format such as png, jpeg or gif, detects edges using a Sobel convolution filter and replaces them with supplied lines of text. ... The output from textorizer is in SVG, ... There is a pool on flickr to which you may post your results and discuss bugs and ideas for textorizer.
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textorizer.whatfettle.com/about
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