If you've ever used a traditional desktop bookmaking software program, including MyPublisher's, you'll recall the dizzying number of intricate adjustments that can be made to any photo, layout, design or background pattern.

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Thin, white threads are obtained from the core of fresh aloe leaves and woven into a net or other pattern on a cardboard background.

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This pattern of digging for information, background and colour went on till late each evening.

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Passengers vetted via background checks would have a biometric identifier, such as their fingerprint or iris pattern, in their passport or other travel document.

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The security veterans' recent critiques fit into the same pattern, and they may boost the political aspirations of newcomer Yair Lapid, whose background is in media rather than the battlefield.

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