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- Click if it bothers you that the 'D' isn't capitalized in the name.
- If you come early, grab a drink at the bar.
- Love the feta spread. Delicious
- The selection. The atmosphere. The service.
- Brussel sprouts are awesome but everything is good.
- The food is good. The service is decent. The liquor selection is bad.
- Ask for Penny and go with her recommendations! Incredible experience!
- 2 words, Tenderloin Tips
- Absolutely delicious, but note 21+, which does make a great atmosphere and fun.
- Awesome place. First of many visits.
- The atmosphere is the reason to visit, and the tapas experience. However, the service was among worst of all times. Waited 20 min at table w/o even a server greeting & no recovery effort made.
- Food is always great but prices are increasing with the popularity.
- Awesome small plates. Try the corn creme brle and ask for Amy or Michelle to be your waitress!
- Try the pimento puffs and sassy sangria
- Tapas are hit or miss. Some hits: pimento puffs, potato hash, creme brle, and a carafe of Sweet Pablo. Don't get the chocolate mousse unless you have a SALT addiction.
- Have the waiter make recommendations and just enjoy until you're full!
- The goat cheese cakes are delightful!
- Eat the pork fat app...lovely!
- Whipped Feta, Olive Oil & Cucumbers
- The chicken salad sandwich w the vegetable bisque is great
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The FIWARE community is growing and reaching far in Mexico. Beginning of September 2016, the two international EU-Mexico collaboration projects FIWARE Mexico and SmartSDK have been successfully kicked-off in Mexico City.
Hosted by the Tecnológico de Monterrey, partners from Europe and Mexico worked together 3 days to discuss strategies and bootstrap plans for promoting the growth of a FIWARE-driven innovation ecosystem in Mexico. This shall strengthen the collaboration between Europe and Mexico within the overall ICT landscape and open up new directions for future collaborations.
The great hospitality of our Mexican partners and the enthusiasm of all organisations involved in the two projects have been core ingredients to animate productive discussions and define a comprehensive set of activities that will be geared, especially within the next couple of months, at creating awareness and visibility about FIWARE-driven efforts both in Europe and in Mexico. This will facilitate know-how transfer and effective collaborations to be developed in a forward-looking perspective. Targeted workshops, seminars and training sessions will be organised and broadly advertised soon via all SmartSDK, FIWARE Mexico and FIWARE media channels.
While the European partners are opening up access to the already established FIWARE community and help it growing, the involvement of top-notch partners on the Mexican side is key to ensure effective engagement of relevant Mexican stakeholders.
The FIWARE Mexico initiative aims to enhance FIWARE-driven collaboration between Europe and Mexico, based on the adoption, deployment and improvement of FIWARE in Mexico as a framework that will open up new horizons for future cooperation in the ICT domain.
As result of the negotiations between the European Commission and the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT), together with the ICT Research and Innovation Centre (INFOTEC) and Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), a FIWARE Lab node was created in Mexico in 2014. The Mexican FIWARE Lab node operated by INFOTEC is part of the FIWARE infrastructure, which facilitates the use of the FIWARE platform for local innovative players.
However, to move beyond the Lab context and create a truly accessible FIWARE-centered ecosystem for all innovative Mexican stakeholders and ensure a sustainable collaborative environment between Europe and Mexico, it is necessary to develop and implement the proper interaction, collaboration and communication tools, processes and activities. This is where the FIWARE Mexico project comes in.
A highly qualified and dynamic team of competent and expert partners both from Mexico and Europe gathered together within the FIWARE Mexico consortium: the ICT Research and Innovation Centre (INFOTEC), the Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) and the Corporacion Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet (CUDI) from Mexico, Inmark Europa and Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo from Spain, Martel Innovate from Switzerland, and Create-Net from Italy.
FIWARE Mexico in action!
FIWARE Mexico is establishing Working Groups to engage innovators from the industry, research communities and end users, such as Smart Cities players, in the FIWARE ecosystem. In parallel, dedicated FIWARE technology’ training programmes are being implemented for developers, integrators and contributors, embracing the whole open source community, which will facilitate the adoption of FIWARE technologies and the development of applications to be commercialized in Mexico and Europe. Moreover, synergies between the European and worldwide FIWARE community will be fostered via close cooperation, coordinated promotional/communication efforts and via know-how transfer about success stories and good practices guidelines for increased stakeholders’ engagement.
Together with the SmartSDK project, FIWARE Mexico contributed to organize a first workshop in Mexico City on 7th September gathering more than 80 participants: Developers, Researchers, Entrepreneurs, Technology Transfer officers, Policy makers, Investors, Regulators, Academics, International representatives interested in cooperation between Mexico and Europe on Research and Innovation in ICT.
“This first appointment has been a great success” says Professor Miguel Gonzalez Mendoza from ITESM that hosted the workshop. “The level of interest raised by this first FIWARE workshop among key players in the Mexican R&I scene indicates great potential for the growth and uptake of FIWARE in and for Mexico. This appointment is the first of a series of events, so stay tuned on all our communication channels!”
Since the kick-off, FIWARE Mexico is at work to roll down the rich program of activities planned within the project scope, which include, among others:
- The “Train the trainers” program, to create a Mexican FIWARE Generic Enablers expert community, who will be then involved in the trainings to students, developers and SMEs in Mexico;
- A rich schedule of events with two Open FIWARE Camps (one in Europe in 2017 and one in Mexico in 2018) as the key highlight appointment;
- A wide range of actions aiming to facilitate the knowledge transfer and the analysis of the key success factor learned within the FIWARE community towards the emerging Mexican innovation ecosystem;
- A continuous effort to establish durable and strong relationships between the Mexican and the European key Next Generation Internet players.
Join the FIWARE Community
We launched our website www.fiwaremexico.org and Twitter account @fiware_mexico, which will keep the broad audience and overall FIWARE community constantly updated about the FIWARE activities in Mexico. Events, trainings and workshops will be promptly advertised through these channels so as to promote EU-Mexico cooperation in FIWARE. At the same time, we are supporting networking and knowledge sharing across the whole FIWARE ecosystem by promoting the FIWARE social media channels such as FIWARE Facebook page, FIWARE Community and FIWARE LinkedIn Group.
Visit our website, follow our Tweeter account to stay tuned with all the FIWARE activities between Europe and Mexico.
Media Contact : firstname.lastname@example.org
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Despite denials by Milwaukee Brewers general manager Doug Melvin and managing prospect Bobby Valentine, our source says Valentine and Melvin have been discussing the Brewers managerial position and have talked money.
Major League Baseball has a gag order on teams from discussing such issues during the World Series, although it’s possible something could come on an off day.
But going to Doug Melvin and/or Bobby Valentine on the first day of the World Series, with a gag order in place, isn’t likely to produce results. Just because the Brewers General Manager didn’t reveal anything when asked about the Brewers interest in Valentine, doesn’t mean discussions haven’t taken place.
My source, a person inside the organization, says talks have taken place and the two sides were close to a deal. That person also says the $10-million figure over 3-years is a figure that Valentine is seeking.
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HOUGHTON - Houghton's chance for an upset got away from them after halftime, as Northland Pines outscored the Gremlins 42-8 in the second half and 55-16 for the game in a WestPAC victory.
Houghton cut the gap to four points on Thomas Schmidt's 13-yard touchdown run and following two-point conversion with 3:05 remaining in the third quarter. NP's Bailey Ramesh rumbled in from 77 yards out on the first Eagle play from scrimmage, the Gremlins fumbled the ensuing kickoff and Ryan Ozalie barged in from a yard out to make it 35-16 just 1:31 after Ramesh's score.
Pines tacked on three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to reach the final total.
Ben Collaer ran for 102 yards and a first-half touchdown on 26 carries, while Schmidt added 96 yards on 15 carries and scored twice.
Ramesh ran for 183 yards on just nine attempts for the league-leading Eagles. Ozalie had 149.
Houghton (3-3, 2-3 WestPAC) plays Saturday at Lake Linden-Hubbell, while Pines (6-1, 4-0 WestPAC) faces a Saturday showdown at West Iron County that will all but decide the league.
Pines 7 6 22 20 - 55
Houghton 0 8 8 0 - 16
NP - John Puffer, 1-yard run (Josh Lacko kick), 7:56
HOU - Ben Collaer, 1-yard run (Thomas Schmidt run), 11:16
NP - Bailey Ramesh, 3-yard run (kick blocked), 3:40
NP - Ryan Ozalie, 17-yard run (Lacko kick), 8:02
HOU - Schmidt, 13-yard run (Schmidt run), 3:05
NP - Ramesh, 77-yard run (Ramesh run), 2:48
NP - Ozalie, 1-yard run (Lacko kick), 1:17
NP - Joe Roach, 1-yard run (Lacko kick), 9:43
NP - Ozalie, 67-yard run (Lacko kick), 6:14
NP - Ramesh, 55-yard run (conversion conceded), 2:58
First downs - NP 13, HOU 15; Rushing - NP, Ramesh 9-183 3 TDs; Ozalie 13-149, Cooper Kerner 11-94; HOU, Collaer 26-102 1 TD; Schmidt 15-96 1 TD. Passing - NP, Kerner 3-7-16; HOU, Collaer 3-15-28-1 INT.
L'Anse 41, Ironwood 13
L'ANSE - A pair of big runs from Ryan Beauprey broke open a surprisingly competitive game Friday at Meadowbrook Field, as L'Anse moved to within a game of playoff qualification by dismissing Ironwood in WestPAC play.
"I thought we stepped up there and we had a good spurt there where we were able to open the game up," L'Anse coach Mark Leaf said.
The winless Red Devils (0-6, 0-4 WestPAC) pulled to within eight on Denver Sharrow's 18-yard run late in the third quarter, but Beauprey busted a 70-yard run just 18 seconds later for a 28-13 edge. Less than three minutes later, he got into the clear again for a 56-yard score and an insurmountable 35-13 edge after three quarters.
Beauprey finished with 165 yards on eight carries and might have had even more had another long run been negated by a holding penalty.
"The line did a nice thing getting some holes for him, and Ryan's got some good speed and he was able to break them," Leaf said.
Brandon Kemppainen had a pair of first-quarter TD runs for the Purple Hornets and added 79 yards.
"We had good balance in our rushing game, we were really able to spread it out tonight," Leaf said.
Ryan LaBerge hit five extra points and connected with Jimmy Veker for a TD pass.
L'Anse (5-1, 3-1 WestPAC) can clinch an automatic playoff berth next week vs. Calumet.
Ironwood 0 7 6 0 - 13
L'Anse14 7 14 6 - 41
LAN - Brandon Kemppainen, 1-yard run (LaBerge kick), 6:33
LAN - Kemppainen, 37-yard (LaBerge kick), 2:21
IWD - Adam Mackey, 6-yard run (Brody Stefonich kick), 3:12
LAN - Jimmy Veker, 13-yard pass from LaBerge (LaBerge kick), 1:21
IWD - Denver Sharrow, 18-yard run (kick failed), 3:51
LAN - Ryan Beauprey, 70-yard run (LaBerge kick), 3:33
LAN - Beauprey, 56-yard run (LaBerge kick), :43
LAN - Drake Sullivan, 7-yard run (kick aborted), 1:44
Total offense - IWD 320 (211 rush, 109 pass) LAN 426 (369 rush, 57 pass); First downs - IWD 9, LAN 16; Rushing - IWD, Sharrow 15-132 1 TD, Mackey 13-61; LAN, Beauprey 8-165 2 TDs; Kemppainen 11-79 3 TDs, Veker 7-54; Passing - IWD, Mackey 7-13-109 1 INT; LAN - LaBerge 4-7-57 1 TD; Receiving - IWD, Jake Digiorgio 3-48; LAN, Magaraggia 3-44, Veker 1-13.
West Iron County 41, Calumet 0
IRON RIVER - Alec Schmelebeck rushed for 199 yards and three touchdowns and West Iron clinched a playoff berth with a 41-0 win over Calumet in WestPAC football Friday.
Coach Mike Berutti's Wykons (6-0, 4-0), playing through a light mist at Nelson Field, piled up 426 yards of offense - only 13 through the air.
"The offensive and defensive lines played well," Berutti said. "The backs ran hard and protected the ball."
Schmelebeck ripped off a 71-yard touchdown dash in the second quarter. A one-yard scoring run by Andrew Peterson - his second TD of the night - gave the Wykons a 35-0 halftime cushion. Tylor Capadagli completed the scoring with a one-yard dive in the fourth.
Calumet (0-6, 0-4) managed 153 yards of offense.
Brandon Olson and Ryan Rogers had interceptions for the Wykons.
West Iron hosts Northland Pines on Saturday.
Calumet 0 0 0 0 - 0
West Iron 19 16 0 6 - 41
WI - Andrew Peterson, 6-yd. run (Ryan Rogers kick).
WI - Alec Schmelebeck, 6-yd. run (kick failed).
WI - Schmelebeck, 1-yd. run (run failed).
WI - Schmelebeck, 71-yd. run (Peterson run).
WI - Peterson, 1-yd. run (Nick Helgemo run).
WI - Capadagli, 1-yd. run (run failed).
Total offense: Calumet, 153 yards (101 rushing, 52 passing). West Iron, 426 yards (413 rushing, 13 passing).
Rushing: Calumet, 23-101. West Iron, 46-413 (Schmelebeck, 14-199).
Passing: Calumet, 6-14, 52 yds., 2 ints.; West Iron (Peterson), 1-2, 13 yds.
Munising 48, Ontonagon 20
ONTONAGON - Six touchdowns from Garrett Blank made for a rare calm finish for the Munising Mustangs on the road Friday at Ontonagon.
The Mustangs went 2-3 in their first five games, decided by a combined 19 points.
This one was not as competitive, but Ontonagon did score a season high for points thanks to a trio of Tony Soumis touchdown runs.
After Cody Hayes ran one in and Blank caught a touchdown pass to give Munising a 16-0 first-quarter lead, Soumis cut the gap in half with a 3-yard run followed by the two-point conversion.
Blank's first rushing touchdown made it 22-8 at half and his second extended the game to 29-8.
Soumis and Blank then dueled five TDs in a five-minute span of the fourth quarter.
Soumis finished with 71 rush yards on 29 attempts.
The Gladiators fall to 0-6 and will play the Gogebic Miners in Wakefield next Saturday.
Munising 14 67 21 - 48
Ontonagon 0 8 0 12 - 20
Mun - Cody Hayes 12 run (Andy Cooper kick), 7:06
Mun - Garrett Blank 36 pass from Austin Kelto (Cooper kick), 4:59
Ont - Tony Soumis 3 run (Soumis run), 7:06
Mun - Blank 38 run (kick failed), 2:56
Mun - Blank 5 run (Cooper kick) 6:12
Ont - Soumis 4 run (pass failed), 8:58
Mun - Blank 5 run (Cooper kick), 6:54
Ont - Soumis 6 run (pass failed), 5:28
Mun - Blank 4 run (Cooper kick), 4:36
Mun - Blank 13 run (Cooper kick), 3:51
Rushing - Ontonagon, Tony Soumis, 29-71, Drew Morris 5-19, Noel Jenney, 10-19, David Pollard 1-2.
Passing - Ontonagon, Tony Soumis 9-13-125-1.
Receiving - Ontonagon, Drew Morris 4-41, David Pollard 2-56.
Hurley, Wis. 52,
BARAGA - Dillon Hueckstadt grabbed a first-half touchdown run but the Hurley Midgets spoiled Homecoming for Baraga Friday.
The Midgets scored 38 first-half points, with Mark Saari and Roman Lupino notching a pair of touchdowns apiece.
Hueckstadt converted on an 11-yard run 4:50 into the game to make it 14-6, then hit Austin Smith with a two-point conversion pass, but Hurley's machine kept rolling, triggering running time in the second half.
Three Hurley players ran for 89 yards or more, led by Saari's 125 on 10 carries.
Eddie Ling racked up 125 yards for the Vikings on 14 attempts, while Hueckstaedt completed 4-of-10 passes for 30 yards.
The Vikings (0-6, 0-3 Great Western) face Forest Park at home next Friday night.
Hurley 26 12 7 7 - 52
Baraga 8 0 0 0 - 8
Hur - Mark Saari 55 run (Jordan Moore kick) , 11:42
Hur - Saari 2 run (Moore kick), 8:45
Bar - Dillon Hueckstaedt 11 run (Austin Smith pass from Hueckstaedt), 7:10
Hur - Jared Wendt 48 pass from James Sukanen (kick failed), 4:32
Hur - Michael Brannigan 49 run (kick failed), :45
Hur - Roman Lupino 5 run (kick failed), 2:49
Hur - Lupino 32 pass from Sukanen (kick failed), :51
Hur - Jake Tenlen 6 run (Moore kick), 4:59
Hur - Nick Fink 18 run (Moore kick), 5:01
Total offense - HUR 454 (364 rush, 90 pass), BAR 162 (132 rush, 30 pass); First downs - HUR 12, BAR 7. Rushing - Hurley, Mark Saari 10-125, Roman Lupino 7-95, Michael Brannigan 6-89, Nick Fink 2-27, James Sukanen 2-12, Cole Huotari 2-10, Jake Tenlen 2-6. Baraga, Eddie Ling 14-125, Dillon Hueckstaedt 16-26, Corbin Crittendon 7-minus 10, Michael Turunen 3-minus 6, Austin Smith 1-minus 3. Passing - Hurley, James Sukanen 3-6-90-0. Baraga, Dillon Hueckstaedt 4-10-30-1, Michael Turunen 0-1-0-0. Receiving - Hurley, Jared Wendt 1-48, Roman Lupino 1-42, Mark Saari 1-10. Baraga, Corbin Crittendon 2-22, Michael Turunen 1-7, Austin Smith 1-1.
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It often surprises people, especially bloggers, that niche sites can make money.
Niche sites are simple sites. There is usually not too much to them and they don’t have all the bells and whistles that are found on blogs. They are usually small, stick to their niche and don’t have anything extra.
But they can still make lots of money.
If you want to optimise your earnings (who doesn’t!), it’s important that your site looks trustworthy. You might still sell some products if it doesn’t, but you will sell more if people coming to your site trust what you have to say.
Remember, the reason that niche sites work is because you are targeting an audience that is at a certain point of the buying cycle. It’s those people who have already decided they want to buy a certain product but just need a gentle nudge to the right choice. When these people land on your niche site, you want to help them choose the right item so they click on your link to Amazon and buy straight away.
If they don’t trust your advice, they will click back to Google and go to another site.
This doesn’t just mean that you lose out on a commission, but it can also hurt your search engine rankings. And we don’t want that!
The good news is that it’s not hard to make your sites look trustworthy. In fact, it doesn’t take much time at all. Below, I will show you how I ensure this.
You will learn...
- What to do to make your site look trustworthy
- How to give your site a personality
- Why you should give your niche site some branding
- Why you need to keep the site updated
1. What to do to make your site look trustworthy
There are several elements to making a site look trustworthy. Some of the most important of these are described below around giving your site a personality, branding it and keeping it updated. Here, I will describe some other aspects to consider.
First of all, your site must have great English (or whatever language you write in). No one is going to blame you for the very occasional error but you should do your best to avoid these.
It’s also important that you write in the right version of the language for the country you are targeting. For example, I write in American English for US sites. Many niche sites don’t do this (most I come across are in obvious Indian English), so you are winning straight away if you ensure you are using the correct version.
This can mean that it’s worth getting the site proofread by someone from the target country, especially if you are not writing in your first language. I found even as a native English speaker, I needed help with some of my American terminology. It’s amazing how many things have a different name in the States versus in Australia. I had no idea until I started developing niche sites.
It’s also important that your articles are well researched and thorough. If someone reading your site notices a factual error, they are not going to trust your advice. You also need to answer any questions a potential buyer of the product might have so that they feel like they have all the answers they need by the end of your buying guide meaning they buy on Amazon with your links instead of clicking back to Google to read someone else’s guide.
Make sure you sound like you know what you are talking about.
If you guide is well researched, this will be easy.
2. How to give your site a personality
It’s important that your niche site has a personality – and one that people trust. This can either be about yourself or a made up person. It doesn’t really matter. The main thing is that you create a personality for the site.
The way I do this is:
- About page. It’s very important to have an about page. On this page, you should include:
- The name of the author
- A photo of the author (can be a stock photo)
- Some personal details about the author
- Why they started this site
- Sidebar widgit. I like to use a sidebar widgit to do a short summary of the About page. This often has a photo as well but at least says the author’s name and why they built the site. For example, Welcome to my site! My name is Stephanie and I am obsessed with juicing! I am so obsessed that I have used (and own!) most of the juicers out there. I started this site to help you pick the best juicer for your needs.
- Giving first person opinions in reviews. I add personal touches to reviews by saying things like: I particularly like this juicer because it’s sleek and easy to store. I just wish it was slightly quieter.
3. Why you should give your niche site some branding
A website looks more legitimate if it has some type of branding and looks like some care has gone into the site. Thankfully, this is quite easy with WordPress and Canva.
I recommend installing a theme on your niche site that helps to make it look more professional. I prefer themes that have review functionality built in. You can read more about picking a theme here.
Once you have your theme installed, it’s time to make a logo. A site looks much better with a logo and it’s very easy to make one in Canva. I recommend installing the theme first as different themes have different logo size requirements. You will need to look in your theme settings and work it out.
The logo doesn’t have to be professional quality or brilliant. It just needs to be readable, look nice and help give the site some personality.
4. Why you need to keep the site updated
Apart from seeing terrible English, the next worst thing is out of date information and links that don’t work.
It might surprise you how often things change in the product world. I have an annual job to update any guides that have gone out of date. Some niches stay fairly constant and this is an easy job, some change a lot. It will depend on your niche.
I also recommend checking all your links at least every 6 months. More often if you have a niche where things change often. You can use a broken link checker to check for broken links but it’s important that your links don’t just work but go where you expect them to. For example, you don’t want your Amazon links pointing to an old version of the product.
Checking (and updating) all the links is a great job for a VA. If they do it regularly, it doesn’t take long.
It’s not difficult to make a trustworthy niche site and it doesn’t take long. It should, however, be an integral part of your set up process. And now that I have outlined what to do, you have no excuse!
How do you make your sites look trustworthy?
You can also find more posts on my other case studies and niche sites here.
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That girl who always looks drop dead goregous. The girl who models for fun. That genuinely nice person you really want to be friends with.
Did you see Marlowe? She's looking super hot today.
by Wolfe1234 May 29, 2012
Someone who is extremely competitive and hates to lose.
The Angels had one good play, and the Marlowes threw a party.
by George Sabastian July 03, 2008
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Everything that a beginner origami artist needs to create paper hats, pinwheels, animals, birds and much more!
- 3 x Starter Origami Books
- 54 x Traditional Paper Sheets
- 3 each of 18 colours
- 24 x Rainbow Paper Sheets
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- 2 each of 9 foil colours
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- Club members pay £9.89
- £5.99 P&P
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Self Catering in Strathclyde - Lochawe
Awe View Railway Cottage
01244 352 197
Sleeps a maximum of: 4
Pricing From: £365.00
This semi-detached cottage sits near the village of Taynuilt in Argyll and Bute and can sleep four people in two bedrooms.
2 Railway Cottages is a stone cottage near the Scottish village of Taynuilt. It comes set with two bedrooms including a king-size and a double, there is also a bathroom, the property can sleep four people. Also inside, you will find a kitchen and a living/dining room with a gas fire.
Externally, there is off-road parking for two cars as well as front and rear decking with furniture, and an outdoor utility building. 2 Railway Cottages is a charming, secluded retreat just perfect for escaping with your loved ones.
LPG central heating
Gas oven and hob, microwave, fridge, freezer, washing machine, tumble dryer, dishwasher, TV with Freesat, DVD, Wi-Fi (streaming not guaranteed), landline phone for local calls only, selection of books, games and DVDs
Fuel, power and starter pack for woodburning stove inc in rent
Bed linen and towels inc in rent
Travel cot and highchair available on request
Off-road parking for two cars
Lockable bike storage
Decked area at front and rear with grill and furniture
Two well-behaved dogs welcome
Sorry, no smoking but there is a outside smoking area available
Shop and pub 3 miles
Note: Mobile phone reception can be variable at this property, mobile over Wi-Fi is best, and a landline is available for local calls
Note: There can be some road noise when at the front of this property
Note: The Oban railway line runs near to this property and guests can expect the occasional train (100 yards)
Get an Ordnance Survey map covering the Lochawe area.
Nearest AttractionsHeritage Rated from 1- 5 (low-exceptional) on historic interest
St Conan's Kirk - 0.7 miles (Historic Church)
Kilchurn Castle - 1.9 miles (Castle)
Loch Awe - 5.3 miles (Countryside)
Bonawe Iron Furnace - 6.9 miles (Historic Building)
Ardchattan Priory - 9.9 miles (Abbey)
Inveraray Castle - 10.6 miles (Historic House)
Ardkinglas Woodland Garden - 10.9 miles (Garden)
Inveraray Maritime Museum - 11.1 miles (Museum)
Inveraray Jail - 11.1 miles (Museum)
Dunstaffnage Castle - 14.9 miles (Castle)
Nearest Alternative Cottages
Details of facilities are believed correct at time of publication, but may be subject to change by the cottage proprietor. Up-to-the-minute facility listings will be always presented during the booking process for your approval.
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As virus spreads, Fire trains for Florida tourney
Raphael Wicky is putting his faith in Major League Soccer.
Even as the number of COVID-19 cases in Florida soar, the Chicago Fire and the rest of the MLS teams are preparing to travel to Orlando for the MLS is Back tournament. Teams can arrive in Orlando beginning June 24, with the tournament starting July 8.
"We trust the league that the league is doing the best to have and keep us safe," said Wicky, the Fire's first-year coach. "Should the league think that, OK, this is going to be unsafe, then we trust them that they will react to that. It's out of our hands."
The pandemic that forced MLS to suspend its season in March is just one of the issues facing teams and the league ahead of this unusual, World Cup-style tournament.
The Fire got a favorable draw in the tournament. It will play both expansion teams, Nashville SC and Inter Miami, plus New York City FC. But it also is in the only six-team group in the tournament, Group A.
It's an awkward and unavoidable issue.
"It is a fact that it is probably a little bit more difficult to qualify in a group of six than a group of four," Wicky said in a video media conference call Tuesday. "It's a fact. But it's out of our hands."
Each team will play three games in group play, with eight teams in each conference advancing to the Round of 16 for single-elimination play. The games will count toward the regular-season standings.
The regular season is expected to start after the tournament ends in August, if all goes well.
The Fire played two games in March before the 2020 season was suspended, losing one and earning a draw in the other.
Teams will be allowed five substitutions per game, more than the standard three, because of the unusual circumstances regarding player fitness.
Wicky said it's likely he won't use all five subs.
"Sometimes as a coach you don't want to change too much. That's just how it is. If you feel the energy level is fine, don't change too much," he said.
The Fire has resumed full team training at SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, and Wicky is happy with the players' fitness level. Still, there will be an adjustment period as they try to get match fit again.
"It's completely different than what they have done for the last three months," Wicky said. "That's just a fact. It's different physically."
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Recently, the talk of Disney’s acquisition of television and film assets of heated back up after rumblings from Deadline and then a full article from the Wall Street Street that talks had been resumed, along with Comcast reportedly a secondary party.
Today, CNBC reports that they believe a deal is “closing in” and could be announced as early as next week. However, they’re not saying this is 100%.
Disney and Twenty-First Century Fox are closing in on a deal, and it could come as soon as next week, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The deal contemplates the sale of Fox’s A&E, Star, regional sports networks, movie studios and stakes in Sky and Hulu, among other properties. What would remain at Fox includes its news and business news divisions, broadcast network and Fox Sports.
The enterprise value of the Fox assets in the Disney deal is seen as above $60 billion, according to sources. Current Fox shareholders would get one share of the Fox company that remains after the movie and television assets are sold plus shares of Disney in a fixed exchange ratio.
A lot of people are worried what this could be for R-rated projects at Fox, but a reminder that Disney used to release R-rated projects via Touchstone and Miramax. The assumption is that the purchase is to give Disney access to the adult feature and television markets, as they tend to make projects for families and children. They’re not about to spend billions (likely dozens) only to shut down the profitable corner of the assets they are buying which are valued as they are because of those R-rated films.
Fans are seemingly only focused on the X-Men (Fantastic Four rights aren’t at Fox, Disney would only be able to distribute future movies) joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it also means Disney lands access to Planet of The Apes, Avatar, Alien, Predator, Kingsman, The Simpsons, and other Fox franchises. They’d also gain access to the original and unaltered versions of the first Star Wars trilogy. Then again, 20th Century Fox is only a drop in the bucket as they’d land the studio infrastructure and other companies, this isn’t a move to get a couple Marvel characters it’s about Disney expanding their film and television empire.
Disney would also add Fox Searchlight to their family, an awards-caliber distributor that could see Disney start landing Oscar wins for things other than animated features.
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Naturally, Lisa Adams was worried when she found out her twin infant sons, Nathan and Paul, were born with moderate hearing loss. She became even more concerned when her children’s audiologist, Amal Awdeh, AuD, explained how poor hearing during such a critical time in development could severely impact their budding language skills.
But Adams was quickly comforted when Awdeh explained how far hearing aid technology had come in recent years—with the right equipment, medical and educational teams supporting them—the twins’ speech would most likely develop just fine.
Paul and Nathan were fitted with hearing aids on loan from Boston Children’s Hospital, a practice that allows doctors to find the perfect match of hearing aid to patient before anything permanent is obtained and fitted.
(Click here to support the Caroline Bass Fund at Boston Children’s, which helps fund our loaner hearing aid project. Please write Caroline Bass Fund in the ‘designation’ section.)
After a year Paul and Nathan’s growth was consistent, and doctors were pleased with the progress they were making with the loaner aids, so Adams took her sons to be fitted for their own hearing aids. The visit went well, right up until it was time to process payment.
“We were ready to leave when the woman behind the desk asked for my credit card,” remembers Adams. “I gave her my insurance card assuming she misspoke. Unfortunately, she hadn’t.”
It was then that Adams first learned that most Massachusetts insurance providers didn’t cover hearing aid costs, even for children.
Paul and Nathan’s hearing aids cost $2,500 apiece, suddenly leaving Adams and her husband with a $5,000 bill. And considering the average hearing aid only has a shelf life of three to five years, the couple quickly realized they’d be spending that sum every few years, a tremendous added cost for family with three young children. (Nathan and Paul have an older brother Philip, born just 19 months ahead of them.) She was worried not only about the burden buying hearing aids would have her family, but on every family in Massachusetts that had a child with hearing loss.
“Raising young kids is expensive,” Lisa says. “Having so many extra costs thrust on you in an instant could be overwhelming for anybody.”
But Lisa Adams is not the type of woman to be overwhelmed for long. Rather than accept what she saw as an injustice, the former lawyer began researching states with laws requiring insurance providers to cover hearing aids. She met with lawmakers, medical professionals from Boston Children’s and parents. Armed with reams of information Adams helped draft a bill requiring local insurance providers to cover hearing aids.
Despite all her work, the bill failed to gather enough support to pass the State House committee to which the bill was first assigned for review. Adams realized that if she were to get her bill passed, she’d need more help. She made flyers asking parents if they’d like to join her cause and hung them in the offices of nearby audiologists and speech-language therapists, as well as schools and hospitals.
In a week’s time seven mothers answered the call, and held their first meeting in the back of Panera Bread restaurant in Burlington, Ma. That evening the Massachusetts Hearing Aids for Children Coalition (MassHAFCC) was born.
Each woman brought a unique set of talents to the table, and the effort to raise support for a new bill focusing on children, grew exponentially. The second bill was drafted but again failed to pass. But this time Adams felt empowered by the support of the other MassHAFCC members, making her more determined than ever.
“Working with so many talented and dedicated people kept me going,” Adams says. “Not only were we rallying around this great cause, we were rallying around each other.”
The coalition regrouped, and decided they needed a stronger online presence to gather the full support their bill needed. In addition to near weekly meetings Adams was attending at the State House with fellow coalition members, the MassHAFCC launched a blog, Facebook page and strengthened their connection to parents’ groups online. The response was the extra kick the group needed.
“The ramped up online presence was huge,” Adams says. “At first we were dispersed throughout the state, but when we engaged social media we connected with parents from all over. It quickly led to increased support inside the State House.”
The team at Boston Children’s Audiology Program, which treats the children of all the coalition members, provided invaluable help throughout the process. Aside from emotional support, the team presented data at the State House proving that children with untreated hearing loss cost school districts thousands of dollars a year in support services, and identified the ways untreated hearing loss negatively impacts quality of life for children.
Brian Fligor, ScD, Director of the Diagnostic Audiology Program at Boston Children’s Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement Department, even simulated the hearing loss, and benefit from using hearing aids, for five of the children of MassHAFCC parents —Paul, Nathan, and three children of Coalition member Michelle Dardeno—which he played for lawmakers to demonstrate how the children’s hearing is affected when they don’t have access to hearing aids.
Use the following links to hear Fligor’s simulation.
|Click here to listen to how someone with typical hearing hears a sentence.|
|Now click here to hear how Paul and Nathan hear the same sentence, without their hearing aids.|
|Click here to listen to how Paul and Nathan hear that same sentence with their hearing aid.|
Thanks to the impactful testimony of coalition members and Fligor’s simulation, the bill passed the Senate in August of 2012, and was ceremoniously signed into law by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick on September 27, 2012.
“Dr. Neault, Dr. Kenna and Dr. Fligor were hugely supportive,” Adams says. “Having our providers stand behind us like that meant everything. The data they provided, and legwork they did convincing legislators this bill was important was extremely impactful. We couldn’t have done it without them.”
At the signing, Pamela O’Brien, a young mother whose infant daughter requires the use of hearing aids, thanked the Governor, MassHAFCC and the team from Boston Children’s for their help, the emotion echoing clearly in her voice. O’Brien was laid off while pregnant with her daughter Avery, and learned about her baby’s hearing loss on the same day she received her last paycheck. Under the new law Avery’s hearing aids will be covered by insurance starting this January, just weeks before the contract on her loaner aid is set to expire.
“When we found out that Avery had a hearing loss and how much the hearing aids would cost, we were completely overwhelmed,” O’Brien said as she fought back tears of gratitude. “I knew it was going to be a lot of hard work to get her the heading aids, but I can’t thank you enough because you did the work for us.”
In response Adams says she and the other coalition members are just glad that that going forward families will no longer have to face the fear and financial uncertainty they did.
“Seeing the Governor sign the bill was thrilling,” she says. “But knowing that people in Massachusetts no longer have to do without just so their children can hear is what really makes all the work worth it.”
To speak with a member of our Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement team, please call: 617-355-6460
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You raise a good question get_real. He could be a plant because in this day and age you can't trust anybody. The only problem with this is that why would the powers that be fund a guy that puts out so much anti-nwo material? videos, books, his website etc etc. Some would say that since he is such a threat to them the nwo would have gotten rid of alex jones a long time ago if he wasn't a plant.
I have 2 theories
1. The conspiracy is so advanced that the nwo doesn't care. They know they can't keep the information from people and they know that 99.9% of the worlds population doesn't know any of this stuff, and when shown information they think you're a lunatic. They know that they can't be stopped. Like I always say, it will take divine intervention to stop the nwo. They are too powerful and the conspiracy is too advanced.
2. Alex Jones is a plant, and the reason for him being out there is that the nwo wants to know all the people that gets his videos, goes to his site, so that when the nwo takes control in a global police state all the 'troublemakers' the people that know what's going on can be wiped out. All those that read anything about the nwo will be taken out.
Hello, Helen here. I agree with both 1 & 2, plus most of the Elite/Illumed see us as nothing more than being hungry for anything related to gossip, conspiracy, pain and suffering (when it's not up close and personal, somewhere else!), exploitation,etc. They see us NOT doing anything about it. No one bans together to snuff out these things. So they can tell us EVERYTHING, they don't have to worry. Who are we?? Therefore everything is thrown in our face.
What does that say about us???????
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If you want to keep fit, you’re probably on the lookout for the best equipment for smart fitness training. Every gym needs to have at least a single piece of cardio fitness equipment. A treadmill is the logical choice for most people. A recent research ranked treadmills as the number one fitness machines in the United States. Treadmills may be a big investment, but they definitely pay off in the long run.
We can all agree that there’s nothing as disturbing and annoying as noise while working out. Everyone normally looks forward to a quiet workout session where you can put all your focus and concentration to shaping your body and keeping fit. Earphones and workout music may help to some extent, but you may need more than that to stay focused.
What is a Smart Treadmill?
Enter smart treadmills. Smart treadmills represent an outdoor surface and will provide you with an unrealistic running experience. Besides keeping the amount of noise it produces to a minimum, a smart treadmill has a running deck that absorbs the impact of a run. Thanks to interactive programs, reliable mobile-app connectivity and built-in screens, you will also enjoy extra features such as running along with a virtual partner, tracking stats or watching multimedia files as you run.
Before you purchase a treadmill, you should consider factors such as ease of use, ergonomics, brand, user safety, functionality, extra features and your budget. As a general rule of the thumb, the more cash you spend on a treadmill, the more technologically advanced it is. The best smart treadmills sit at the peak of the budgetary scale, but that doesn’t mean that there are no excellent choices to suit less extravagant tastes.
What we aim for at the end of this article is to give you a new perception of smart treadmills by offering in-depth reviews of 4 of our top bestselling, highest rated treadmills in multiple price tiers. With breath-taking designs, superior quality and fancy features available, you will love these treadmills.
4 Best Smart Treadmills for 2019
We present to you the best smart treadmills for 2019.
Sole Fitness F80 Folding Treadmill
Power is the first thing that comes in mind when the Sole Fitness F80 Treadmill is mentioned. This is evident through its silent 3.5 CHP, DC type duty motor that provides a running speed of 12mph with an inclination of up to 15 percent for intensive workouts. It sits at an impressive position #37 at the Amazon Best Sellers Rank in the Sports and Outdoors category – another indication of its prodigy in the game. The treadmill comes in a rack-and-pinion gear design, in addition to a 2-ply belt, pulse grip, and a chest strap to monitor the heartbeat rate.
Let not its powerful motor fool you. This treadmill is super comfy and enjoyable. It is equipped with a reversible deck whose purpose is to reduce the impact on the joints, and it successfully does this by 40 percent when compared to outdoor training services. Setting up the treadmill should be no trouble. All you need to do is knuckle it down, and you should be able to walk, jog and run at your desired pace. It is worth mentioning that the treadmill comes with a Backlit LCD Console, iPod, and MP3 Compatible System to provide entertainment. Workouts don’t have to be boring. Upbeat music can spice up the environment as you run towards that decent shape. Also, there is a Bluetooth feature that allows you to transfer workout data to your smartphone or any other device and monitor your progress.
In addition, the treadmill comes with its workout programs: six standard programs, two custom programs, and two heart programs. Lastly, its warranties against defects are irresistible: lifetime on frame, deck, and motor, five years on electronics and two on labor.
LifeSpan Fitness TR3OOOi Folding Treadmill
- Simple to use Touch Display with full-color Touchscreen Console. Displays 3 Different Dashboards. Still Includes Console Buttons for easy changes for speed and incline.
- Now with 38 Fitness-Inspiring Workouts and Built-In Bluetooth for Data Transfer. Compatible with Apple Health & Google Fit
- Quiet and lightweight manual fold for space saving and storable purposes in your office or home. Console tracks time, calories, distance, speed, and more.
- includes lifetime on frame and motor; 5 years on equipment parts; 1 year on labor.
Customers describe this treadmill as a simple, quiet, durable, reliable and well-built machine. Well, we can’t argue with users who have first-hand experience with this treadmill. We can describe it as a perfect machine that gives you second thoughts about going to the gym. It comes with a quiet 2.75 CHP duty motor and its lifetime warranty should assure you that it will maintain its performance for decades. It has a speed of up to 12mph with an inclination range of 15 percent that provides a high-intensity workout. Beginners could start with a speed of 0.5 mph with pros shooting up for the highest rate. The machine has an iPod/MP3 Compatible System that keeps you pumped up while working out. A Backlit LCD is also present to monitor your workout data. There is also an option of transferring this data to your smartphone, laptop or any other device through a USB Connectivity option.
We must give a thumbs-up to the LifeSpan Fitness TR3000i Folding Treadmill’s programs. Their topics vary and teach users on various issues, inclusive of how to monitor your heart rate, healthy living, losing weight and sports training among others. Finally, the treadmill contains a three-speed fan that cools and keeps you going without feeling the heat effect.
LifeSpan TR1200-DT5 Treadmill Desk
- The tr1200-dt5 treadmill desk workstation is a combination of LifeSpan's under desk treadmill base and manual height adjustable standing desk.
- The compact and motorized running machine measures 68.5" x 28.5" (L x W) with a large desktop surface area of 38" x 29" (W x D), providing an ergonomic boost to computer and laptop work.
- High capacity and quiet 2.25 HP electric motor with a 20-by-50-inch walking surface. Portable wheels for lightweight mobility providing space saving and storable versatility.
- Console readouts include: distance traveled, calories burned, walk and run time, step count and adjustable belt speed of 0.4 to 4 MPH.
- Bluetooth capability allows you to sync your activity data to an iPhone or Android using LifeSpan's free Active Trac app to track your progress over time.
For computer nerds and work addicts who spend hours behind the screen, a treadmill specifically designed for you is finally here. It comes in a design with a desktop area allowing you to exercise and work simultaneously. The treadmill works with minimal noise to ensure it doesn’t disrupt co-workers and also improve your focus. This explains why it lacks a Compatible Music System – to keep noise down. The treadmill comes with a 2.25 HP duty motor which gears up a speed of up to 4 mph. Another cool feature that you’ll love is that it has two front wheels that allows for easy maneuverability.
When it comes to transferring data and monitoring your progress, each treadmill tries to outdo competition by coming up with something new. LifeSpan TR120-DT5 Treadmill Desk hasn’t been left out on this. This treadmill comes with Bluetooth integration which allows you to connect it to an App, the Active Trac App. A lot is achievable with this app. The Active Trac App will enable you to monitor your progress and gives a graphical output of aspects such as speed, distance covered, steps made, calories burnt among others. The App is also connected to Facebook and Twitter and lets you share your progress with your friends.
Horizon Fitness Elite T7-02 Treadmill
- Feather light folding frame saves you space
- Extended 60" x 20" cushioned running surface
- Powerful 3.0 chp motor with Lifetime Warranty
- Built in speakers
- Comes with free polar chest strap
Just as the name suggests, the Horizon Fitness Elite T7-02 Treadmill is one of the most elite treadmills in the game. By elite, we mean superior design, quality, and features as compared to its competitors. What are you settling for with this treadmill? Let’s have a look. The treadmill comes with a blue LCD console that displays your progress as you work out. Secondly, the machine comes with a 2.75 CHP Motor having a maximum speed of 12mph and an inclination range of up to 15%. This enhances your metabolic rate and assists to build your muscles. Furthermore, the treadmill is equipped with 40 work-out programs specifically targeting your rate of burning calories and performance.
The Horizon Treadmill has shown its competitors dust when it comes to entertainment. Where others use Bluetooth, USB Cables and Apps to connect and transfer data to smartphones and laptops, this has gone a mile forward in respect to this. The treadmill features a passport video which allows you to connect your treadmill to a TV screen over Wi-Fi. The video is of super quality that enables you to view beautiful images and sceneries. The video is programmed with the treadmill to change as you continue running. The images change and give you a virtual feeling that you are running in those places.
Another selling point of this treadmill is its accessories. It ships with 2 large speakers and a music port that supports MP3 and iPod. The treadmill comes at a reasonable price, and we assure you that every dime spent on it is worth it!
There we go, those are our top 4 choices for smart treadmills. Your safety should come first when using these machines, that’s we only included the crème de la crème. All the treadmills in our list are available on Amazon.com for purchase and shipping. Start your fitness journey today by purchasing a smart treadmill that addresses your needs!
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Yesterday, history was made. Mountain Guy and I submitted an audition video to the Amazing Race; a show in which contestants race around the globe, looking for clues and taking on various challenges, all in hopes of winning a million dollars.
What's that you say? Oh yes, and Barak Obama was re-elected to the presidency for a second term. But that doesn't change yesterday much from the day before.
I would like to go on record as saying it was not my idea to go on a reality TV show with my ex-boyfriend, and I still think it might be a terrible idea, but then again, why not? We make the rules here.
So, we spent the weekend taping interviews and attempting various silly tasks like walking a slack line, taking Keeper the dog out for coffee, and shaping ourselves into a human box in the park. Thankfully, neither of us are gainfully employed at present, unless by 'gainfully' you mean acquiring lots of ridiculous experience in general goofiness. Ah well, such is the life of an artist.
Then we spent a day editing the footage into a semi-presentable two and half minute sound byte of our relationship (or un-relationship as the case may be). Apparently we just can't let go. Some couples have a baby to save a relationship, others apply to be on TV––both cheaper, and probably less successful, than going to therapy I suppose.
Are we gonna be accepted? Who knows. Could there have been a better use of our time? I highly doubt it. I mean when do you have an excuse to do this over the age of thirty?
Actually, in my world, the excuses are endless.
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In this article I review some choice statistics about shopping cart abandonment rates from a talk by Anne Holland of MakretingSherpa, Etail Speech Take II: Three Ways to Lower Shopping Cart Abandons Based on MarketingSherpa Research.
Anne's talk is data from the Ecommerce Benchmark Survey, January 2007 – a survey with 1,923 respondents. Across all those respondents, average shopping cart abandonment rates were 52.1% in 2006 (i.e. 52.1% of customers who entered the shopping cart system never made it to the checkout). This was an improvement on 59.8% in 2005. As usual, the average of these things is not much of a benchmark in itself - the results for 2006 fell into a normal curve where the high end of the normal range was 80% abandoned carts and the low end was 12.5%. This presumably reflects the fact that we are not always in the industry of "businesses who sell things using the Internet" - sometimes we are, but there are a lot of concerns specific to a particular sector: buying a car or a computer from a website may not be the same thing as buying a book or CD. To give a practical example, if you are concerned with a site that has a 50% abandonment rate, you don't necessarily know whether you are doing well against your competitors with their 80% rate, or are a real slouch against their 12% rate.
The survey respondents were asked what new improvements they were trying and what worked best. A top tactic for big sites was to introduce a "bill me later" feature - 17% of big ecommerce sites had done this in 2006. MarketingSherpa have a case study with Newegg which in various "bill me later" features were taken up by 10% of customers. But these customers were the big spenders, with much bigger shopping carts than average.
The next way to improve was (once again, as in the 2006 report) by testing the shopping cart. Once again, this was the thing that most respondents reported as being most effective to get a return on ROI. Apparently small or subtle changes, such as changes to the text on buttons could turn out to be important. Coming second and third (again as in 2005) were improving internal search, and improving site copy. So these look like good areas to review in a shopping cart improvement project.
Tactic number 3 was to send email(s) to customers who had abandoned carts (of course you can only do this if you have their email addresses and the relevant permission to use it). 73% of respondents said this was an effective improvement. A case study with Limoges Jewelry showed that the technique could be effective even if the emails were a simple generic one (rather than a customized text): Limoges found this got a 28.77% conversion (though this was only reached after a few months)
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Augustus. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek: René Seindal)
Gaius (Julius Caesar) Octavi(an)us: born 23 September 63 BC in Rome, son of Gaius Octavius and Atia, niece of Julius Caesar, who adopted him as his heir. Consul 43, 33, 31 - 23 BC. Effectively became emperor in 27 BC, with extended powers in 23 BC. Married Claudia; Scribonia (one daughter, Julia); Livia Drusilla, mother of Tiberius. Died at Nola, 19 August AD 14. Deified 17 September AD 14. Click here for a family tree:
Caesar, in his will, named his great-nephew Gaius Octavius (later Augustus) his son by adoption and his principal heir. Gold aureus of Octavian, 43 - 31 BC, with his head on the obverse (top) and on the reverse a deified Julius Caesar. (VRoma: Pergamon Museum, Berlin: Barbara McManus)
Octavian was in Epirus, pursuing his military studies, when he heard of his great-uncle’s murder, and that Caesar had named him not only his son by adoption, but also his principal heir. It was late April when he got back to Rome, by which time Marcus Antonius (c. 83 - 30 BC) - Mark Antony - and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (c. 90 - 13 BC), who had been Caesar’s chief assistants, had assumed control of the state, and Brutus and the other conspirators had, at the prompting of Cicero, been granted an amnesty by the senate.
Bust believed to be that of Mark Antony. (VRoma: Museo Montemartini: Ann Raia)
A confused series of battles and comings and goings resulted in Octavian being elected consul, at the age of 19, and forcing through a motion to the effect that he, Antony, and Lepidus should formally be recognized as the ruling triumvirate for five years. Their first act was to revive the fearful Sullan policy of proscription.
Cicero was one of the first to die. Too ill to escape his murderers, he was bundled into a litter by his slaves. He was tracked down and killed by a swordcut to the neck. His head and hands were cut off and sent to Rome where, on the orders of Antony, they were nailed up in the forum. (Vatican Museums, Rome: René Seindal)
While the triumvirate formally remained in power beyond its statutory term, the twelve years until 31 BC were almost entirely taken up with wars between its members, and against other fellow Romans. Brutus and Cassius were defeated in two battles at Philippi in Macedonia in 42 BC, and committed suicide. Sextus Pompey (son of Pompey the Great and his third wife), having obtained a large fleet and taken possession of Sicily, was finally murdered by his own troops in 35 BC. Antony’s long-standing affair with Cleopatra, and his preference for her company and Alexandria over that of his wife Octavia (Octavian’s sister) and Rome, culminated in Octavian’s victory over the Egyptian fleet at the battle of Actium in 31 BC, and the subsequent suicides of the lovers.
Gold aureus of Mark Antony (c. 36 - 35 BC) with Antony on the obverse (top) and his wife Octavia on the reverse. (VRoma: Pergamon Museum, Berlin: Barbara McManus)
Silver tetradrachm with striking image of Cleopatra, minted at Askalon in 50/49 BC, shortly before she met Julius Caesar. (VRoma: British Musem: Barbara McManus)
With Lepidus now a back number and Caesarion murdered, Octavian was in charge of the Roman world. He needed to assemble his powers into an acceptable constitutional form, avoiding any suggestion of a return to the monarchy or even to a dictatorship, which had caused so much trouble in the past. He achieved this gradually over a number of years, and in a manner which did not appear to undermine the authority of the senate, at least as a consultative body. While continuing to hold successive consulships, in 27 BC he formally resigned all the special powers he had been granted, but accepted in return for ten years the strategic provinces of Cilicia, Cyprus, Gaul, Spain, and Syria, for which troops were required, together with his confirmation as divine successor to the pharaohs in Egypt.
In addition he renounced the name of Octavian in favour of the more dignified Augustus. In 23 BC, because of illness, he gave up his apparent claim to hold the office of consul for life. This was diplomatically a sound move which opened up to others an additional chance of honour if not much responsibility; especially as in its place he was granted the privileges of a tribune of the people, with powers to apply a veto at will and to take matters direct to the popular assemblies.
Gold aureus of Augustus sitting on a curule chair, denoting high office. The inscription is, LEGES ET IURA P. R. RESTITUIT, “He restored the laws and rights of the Roman people”. (VRoma: British Museum: Barbara McManus)
That particular illness proved to be only a minor set-back in a rule that lasted over forty years and gave to the western world the term “Augustan” to denote an age of glittering literary achievement. Though the boundaries of the Roman empire had not yet reached their widest extent, Augustus consolidated them by strengthening the army and removing it from Italy to patrol the provinces. He remodelled the civil service and largely rebuilt parts of Rome itself, appointing 3500 firemen under a chief fire officer to guard against conflagrations.
Imperial Rome. (Illustration by John Pittaway from Picture Reference Ancient Romans, Brockhampton Press 1970). Click on the drawing for a larger version with a key to identify the buildings.
Augustus died in the family house at Nola, in Campania, at the age of 76. He was married three times, but his only child was a daughter by his second wife. He had, however, after several attempts to do so had been aborted by deaths, nominated a successor, his stepson Tiberius.
Denarius of Augustus 13 BC, referred to (top) as Divi F[ilius] (son of a god). Bottom: His daughter Julia is flanked by her sons Gaius and Lucius, both of whom died before AD 4. (VRoma: National Museums, Rome: Barbara McManus)
The Roman empire in AD 14 at the death of Augustus: imperial provinces are in roman capital letters, senatorial provinces in italic capital lettters. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group.
Caesar's heir soon establishes himself, despite his extreme youth. After the defeat of Julius Caesar's murderers, and then Antony and Cleopatra, Octavian has unchallenged power. He takes the name of Augustus, and plays down the military nature of his rule, preferring to be thought of as tribune, the people's representative. His long reign is marked by ambitious building programmes, and the creation of a civil service. After problems with his successor, only Tiberius, his stepson, is left to take over when he dies in AD 14.
On Octavian’s name
Octavian (later the emperor Augustus) was born Gaius Octavius. An adopted son took his new father’s full name, to which he might add a further name derived from his original second name, with -ianus at the end. He would thus have become Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, and it is as Octavian that we usually refer to him, until, as emperor, he took the title of Augustus. In the event, he never himself used the name Octavianus, and preferred to be called Gaius Caesar, son of Caesar; or even better, as Divi filius - son of the god, after the deification of his adoptive father. He was given the name Augustus by the senate in 27 BC "as being something slightly greater than a normal man". (Cassius Dio 53.16).
Pen Portait of Augustus
“He was of distinguished and extremely handsome appearance for the whole of his life, though for himself he did not care what he looked like. He would have several barbers working feverishly on him simultaneously, and while he was being shaved or having his hair clipped (it was all the same to him) he read or even carried on with his writing. . . . He had bad teeth, small and widely set apart; his hair was fair and wavy; his eyebrows met in the middle of his forehead; his ears were of average size; his nose jutted out at the top and then bent downwards.” (Suetonius, Augustus 79)
The first wife of Octavian, whom he married to celebrate the establishment of the ruling triumvirate, was Mark Antony’s 13-year-old stepdaughter Claudia; she was the daughter of Antony’s present wife, Fulvia, and her first husband, Publius Clodius the agitator. The marriage was probably never consummated, and soon ended in divorce.
There was a further dynastic marriage in 40 BC, when the widowed Octavia, Octavian’s elder sister, was, after the death of Fulvia, married to Mark Antony. After the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, she brought up her own three children by her first husband, her two daughters with Antony, and his surviving children with Cleopatra and Fulvia.
Three of the children of Mark Antony had imperial connections. His elder son with Fulvia, Antyllus, was betrothed to Julia, daughter of Octavian, who had him killed in 30 BC, after Antony’s death. Of Antony’s two daughters with Octavia, Antonia (major) was the grandmother of Nero, and Antonia (minor) the mother of Claudius.
After Antony committed suicide, Cleopatra, having tried, and failed, to vamp Octavian, also killed herself. Her son Caesarion was murdered by Octavian. She had three children with Antony: the twins, Cleopatra, who became queen of Numidia, and Alexander, and a further son, Ptolemy.
(Drawings by Jennifer Campbell. From Julius Caesar: a Life by Antony Kamm Routledge 2006)
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|Developer(s)||University of California, Berkeley|
|Initial release||May 17, 1999|
|Stable release||SETI@home v8：8.00 / December 30, 2015
April 23, 2015
|Development status||In hibernation|
|Project goal(s)||Discovery of radio evidence of extraterrestrial life|
|Funding||Public funding and private donations|
|Operating system||Microsoft Windows, Linux, Android, macOS, Solaris,|
IBM AIX, FreeBSD, DragonflyBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Tru64 Unix, OS/2 Warp, eComStation
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|Total users||1,803,163 (March 2020)|
|Active hosts||144,779 (March 2020)|
|Total hosts||165,178 (March 2020)|
SETI@home ("SETI at home") is a project of the Berkeley SETI Research Center to analyze radio signals, searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Until March 2020, it was run as an Internet-based public volunteer computing project that employed the BOINC software platform. It is hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, and is one of many activities undertaken as part of the worldwide SETI effort.
SETI@home software was released to the public on May 17, 1999, making it the third large-scale use of distributed computing over the Internet for research purposes, after Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) was launched in 1996 and distributed.net in 1997. Along with MilkyWay@home and Einstein@home, it is the third major computing project of this type that has the investigation of phenomena in interstellar space as its primary purpose.
In March 2020, the project stopped sending out new work to SETI@home users, bringing the crowdsourced computing aspect of the project to an indefinite hiatus. At the time, the team intended to shift focus onto the analysis and interpretation of the 20 years' worth of accumulated data. However, the team left open the possibility of eventually resuming volunteer computing using data from other radio telescopes, such as MeerKAT and FAST.
The two original goals of SETI@home were:
The second of these goals is considered to have succeeded completely. The current BOINC environment, a development of the original SETI@home, is providing support for many computationally intensive projects in a wide range of disciplines.
The first of these goals has to date yielded no conclusive results: no evidence for ETI signals has been shown via SETI@home. However, the ongoing continuation is predicated on the assumption that the observational analysis is not "ill-posed." The remainder of this article deals specifically with the original SETI@home observations/analysis. The vast majority of the sky (over 98%) has yet to be surveyed, and each point in the sky must be surveyed many times to exclude even a subset of possibilities.
SETI@home searches for possible evidence of radio transmissions from extraterrestrial intelligence using observational data from the Arecibo radio telescope and the Green Bank Telescope. The data is taken "piggyback" or "passively" while the telescope is used for other scientific programs. The data is digitized, stored, and sent to the SETI@home facility. The data are then parsed into small chunks in frequency and time, and analyzed, using software, to search for any signals—that is, variations which cannot be ascribed to noise, and hence contain information. Using distributed computing, SETI@home sends the millions of chunks of data to be analyzed off-site by home computers, and then have those computers report the results. Thus what appears a difficult problem in data analysis is reduced to a reasonable one by aid from a large, Internet-based community of borrowed computer resources.
The software searches for five types of signals that distinguish them from noise:
There are many variations on how an ETI signal may be affected by the interstellar medium, and by the relative motion of its origin compared to Earth. The potential "signal" is thus processed in many ways (although not testing all detection methods nor scenarios) to ensure the highest likelihood of distinguishing it from the scintillating noise already present in all directions of outer space. For instance, another planet is very likely to be moving at a speed and acceleration with respect to Earth, and that will shift the frequency, over time, of the potential "signal." Checking for this through processing is done, to an extent, in the SETI@home software.
The process is somewhat like tuning a radio to various channels, and looking at the signal strength meter. If the strength of the signal goes up, that gets attention. More technically, it involves a lot of digital signal processing, mostly discrete Fourier transforms at various chirp rates and durations.
To date, the project has not confirmed the detection of any ETI signals. However, it has identified several candidate targets (sky positions), where the spike in intensity is not easily explained as noisespots, for further analysis. The most significant candidate signal to date was announced on September 1, 2004, named Radio source SHGb02+14a.
While the project has not reached the stated primary goal of finding extraterrestrial intelligence, it has proved to the scientific community that distributed computing projects using Internet-connected computers can succeed as a viable analysis tool, and even beat the largest supercomputers.[failed verification] However, it has not been demonstrated that the order of magnitude excess in computers used, many outside the home (the original intent was to use 50,000–100,000 "home" computers), has benefited the project scientifically. (For more on this, see § Challenges to the project below.)
Astronomer Seth Shostak stated in 2004 that he expects to get a conclusive signal and proof of alien contact between 2020 and 2025, based on the Drake equation. This implies that a prolonged effort may benefit SETI@home, despite its (present) twenty-year run without success in ETI detection.
Anybody with an at least intermittently Internet-connected computer was able to participate in SETI@home by running a free program that downloaded and analyzed radio telescope data.
Observational data were recorded on 2-terabyte SATA hard disk drives fed from the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico, each holding about 2.5 days of observations, which were then sent to Berkeley. Arecibo does not have a broadband Internet connection, so data must go by postal mail to Berkeley. Once there, it is divided in both time and frequency domains work units of 107 seconds of data, or approximately 0.35 megabytes (350 kilobytes or 350,000 bytes), which overlap in time but not in frequency. These work units are then sent from the SETI@home server over the Internet to personal computers around the world to analyze.
Data was merged into a database using SETI@home computers in Berkeley. Interference was rejected, and various pattern-detection algorithms were applied to search for the most interesting signals.
The project used CUDA for GPU processing starting in 2015.
In 2016 SETI@home began processing data from the Breakthrough Listen project.
The SETI@home distributed computing software ran either as a screensaver or continuously while a user worked, making use of processor time that would otherwise be unused.
The initial software platform, now referred to as "SETI@home Classic," ran from May 17, 1999, to December 15, 2005. This program was only capable of running SETI@home; it was replaced by Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC), which also allows users to contribute to other distributed computing projects at the same time as running SETI@home. The BOINC platform also allowed testing for more types of signals.
The discontinuation of the SETI@home Classic platform rendered older Macintosh computers running the classic Mac OS (pre December, 2001) unsuitable for participating in the project.
SETI@home was available for the Sony PlayStation 3 console.
On May 3, 2006, new work units for a new version of SETI@home called "SETI@home Enhanced" started distribution. Since computers had the power for more computationally intensive work than when the project began, this new version was more sensitive by a factor of two concerning Gaussian signals and to some kinds of pulsed signals than the original SETI@home (BOINC) software. This new application had been optimized to the point where it would run faster on some work units than earlier versions. However, some work units (the best work units, scientifically speaking) would take significantly longer.
In addition, some distributions of the SETI@home applications were been optimized for a particular type of CPU. They were referred to as "optimized executables", and had been found to run faster on systems specific for that CPU. As of 2007[update], most of these applications were optimized for Intel processors and their corresponding instruction sets.
The results of the data processing were normally automatically transmitted when the computer was next connected to the Internet; it could also be instructed to connect to the Internet as needed.
With over 5.2 million participants worldwide, the project was the distributed computing project with the most participants to date[when?]. The original intent of SETI@home was to utilize 50,000–100,000 home computers. Since its launch on May 17, 1999, the project has logged over two million years of aggregate computing time.[as of?] On September 26, 2001, SETI@home had performed a total of 1021 floating point operations. It was acknowledged by the 2008 edition of the Guinness World Records as the largest computation in history. With over 145,000 active computers in the system (1.4 million total) in 233 countries, as of 23 June 2013[update], SETI@home had the ability to compute over 668 teraFLOPS. For comparison, the Tianhe-2 computer, which as of 23 June 2013[update] was the world's fastest supercomputer, was able to compute 33.86 petaFLOPS (approximately 50 times greater).
There were plans to get data from the Parkes Observatory in Australia to analyze the southern hemisphere. However, as of 3 June 2018[update], these plans were not mentioned in the project's website. Other plans include a Multi-Beam Data Recorder, a Near Time Persistency Checker and Astropulse (an application that uses coherent dedispersion to search for pulsed signals). Astropulse will team with the original SETI@home to detect other sources, such as rapidly rotating pulsars, exploding primordial black holes, or as-yet unknown astrophysical phenomena. Beta testing of the final public release version of Astropulse was completed in July 2008, and the distribution of work units to higher spec machines capable of processing the more CPU intensive work units started in mid-July 2008.
On March 31, 2020, UC Berkeley stopped sending out new data for SETI@Home clients to process, ending the effort for the time being. The program stated they were at a point of "diminishing returns" with the distributed processing and needed to put the effort into hibernation while they processed the results.
SETI@home users quickly started to compete with one another to process the maximum number of work units. Teams were formed to combine the efforts of individual users. The competition continued and grew larger with the introduction of BOINC.
As with any competition, attempts have been made to "cheat" the system and claim credit for work that has not been performed. To combat cheats, the SETI@home system sends every work unit to multiple computers, a value known as "initial replication" (currently 2). Credit is only granted for each returned work unit once a minimum number of results have been returned and the results agree, a value known as "minimum quorum" (currently 2). If, due to computation errors or cheating by submitting false data, not enough results agree, more identical work units are sent out until the minimum quorum can be reached. The final credit granted to all machines which returned the correct result is the same and is the lowest of the values claimed by each machine.
Some users have installed and run SETI@home on computers at their workplaces – an act known as "Borging", after the assimilation-driven Borg of Star Trek. In some cases, SETI@home users have misused company resources to gain work-unit results – with at least two individuals getting fired for running SETI@home on an enterprise production system. There is a thread in the newsgroup alt.sci.seti which bears the title "Anyone fired for SETI screensaver" and ran starting as early as September 14, 1999.
Other users collect large quantities of equipment together at home to create "SETI farms", which typically consist of a number of computers consisting of only a motherboard, CPU, RAM and power supply that are arranged on shelves as diskless workstations running either Linux or old versions of Microsoft Windows "headless" (without a monitor).
Until 2020, SETI@home procured its data from the Arecibo Observatory facility that was operated by the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center and administered by SRI International.
The decreasing operating budget for the observatory has created a shortfall of funds which has not been made up from other sources such as private donors, NASA, other foreign research institutions, nor private non-profit organizations such as SETI@home.
However, in the overall long-term views held by many involved with the SETI project, any usable radio telescope could take over from Arecibo (which partially collapsed in December 2020) , as all the SETI systems are portable and relocatable.
In one documented case, an individual was fired for explicitly importing and using the SETI@home software on computers used for the U.S. state of Ohio. In another incident a school IT director resigned after his installation allegedly cost his school district $1 million in removal costs; however, other reasons for this firing included lack of communication with his superiors, not installing firewall software and alleged theft of computer equipment, leading a ZDNet editor to comment that "the distributed computing nonsense was simply the best and most obvious excuse the district had to terminate his contract with cause".
As of 16 October 2005[update], approximately one-third of the processing for the non-BOINC version of the software was performed on work or school based machines. As many of these computers will give reduced privileges to ordinary users, it is possible that much of this has been done by network administrators.
To some extent, this may be offset by better connectivity to home machines and increasing performance of home computers, especially those with GPUs, which have also benefited other distributed computing projects such as Folding@Home. The spread of mobile computing devices provides another large resource for distributed computing. For example, in 2012, Piotr Luszczek (a former doctoral student of Jack Dongarra), presented results showing that an iPad 2 matched the historical performance of a Cray-2 (the fastest computer in the world in 1985) on an embedded LINPACK benchmark.
There is currently no government funding for SETI research, and private funding is always limited. Berkeley Space Science Lab has found ways of working with small budgets, and the project has received donations allowing it to go well beyond its original planned duration, but it still has to compete for limited funds with other SETI projects and other space sciences projects.
In a December 16, 2007 plea for donations, SETI@home stated its present modest state and urged donations of $476,000 needed for continuation into 2008.
A number of individuals and companies made unofficial changes to the distributed part of the software to try to produce faster results, but this compromised the integrity of all the results. As a result, the software had to be updated to make it easier to detect such changes, and discover unreliable clients. BOINC will run on unofficial clients; however, clients that return different and therefore incorrect data are not allowed, so corrupting the result database is avoided. BOINC relies on cross-checking to validate data but unreliable clients need to be identified, to avoid situations when two of these report the same invalid data and therefore corrupt the database. A very popular unofficial client (lunatic) allows users to take advantage of the special features provided by their processor(s) such as SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, and AVX to allow for faster processing.
SETI@home is a test bed for further development not only of BOINC but of other hardware and software (database) technology. Under SETI@home processing loads, these experimental technologies can be more challenging than expected, as SETI databases do not have typical accounting and business data or relational structures. The non-traditional database uses often do incur greater processing overheads and risk of database corruption and outright database failure. Hardware, software and database failures can (and do) cause dips in project participation.
The project has had to shut down several times to change over to new databases capable of handling more massive datasets. Hardware failure has proven to be a substantial source of project shutdowns, as hardware failure is often coupled with database corruption.
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Uber Hacked: The Public Relations Disaster Continues
Uber Hacked; The Public Relations Disaster Continues
In 2016 rideshare Company Uber has concealed a hack, one that affected 57 million customers and drivers Uber has confirmed this.
Uber hid the breach by paying hackers $100,000 to delete the hacked data.
Former CEO Travis Kalanick was aware of the breach a year ago Bloomberg stated when they first published the story.
So what was stolen? 57 million names, email addresses and mobile phone numbers of Uber users and drivers, Uber said.
600,000 drivers were exposed by name and even their license details.
At least Uber had one good thing to do regarding the hack which offers free credit monitoring to their drivers, however, customers will not have that small security.
Uber Changes After Hack Exposed
After the hack was exposed Uber’s chief security officer Joe Sullivan left Uber. Uber’s new chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi met Mike Brown, who influences the Transport for London after London banned the ride-sharing service saying Uber has a record of not reporting criminal offenses and not providing and requiring background checks.
He said there was no indication that hackers pilfered especially sensitive information like Social Security numbers, location history or bank account and credit card numbers. Nevertheless, Mr. Khosrowshahi said, “None of this should have happened”.
After Travis Kalanick left the company, Sadiq Khan says Uber could be free to operate in capital for years “We are changing the way we do business,” he said. “None of this should have happened”. Chief
Security Officer Joe Sullivan and another person involved in hiding the breach lost their obs. Bloomberg claimed the paid the hackers $100,000 in total.
Will they really change the way operate as they say, or will they continue to make bad PR stunts like this? If they don’t turn around quick they may lose their business to Lyft.
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Today was a HUGE day!! We received an email from the NACRD (National Association of Certified Race Distances) that our proposal for a new race length was approved!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
We have been in communications with them for over a year trying to get a new distance certified half way between the half marathon and marathon distance. As a running group for women we see the need for “baby steps” in race distances and it seemed that there wasn’t much race-wise between a half and a full. It started as an idea for a virtual race then I figured – why not see if we can make it OFFICIAL!! It’s been a loooooooong process… lots of waiting… a little negative feedback…. of course some positive…. but the good new is:
The new distance of 19.65 was FINALLY approved and we are THRILLED!!!! Check out the email we received (insert girly squeal here!!!!!!)
Dear Mrs. Burrus,
Thank you for your patience with us over the past year. As you can imagine this has presented itself to be quite the hot topic among the NACRD. We are, however, excited to announce that we have approved your suggested race distance of 19.65 miles and would like to invite you to run the distance with our team. I know we have been in discussion with each other on the official name for the distance – and we will need this by Monday April 8, 2013. As I’ve worked with you over the past year I’ve grown attached to this idea of a new distance and was so thrilled to see it approved. I look forward to hearing the name you select to represent the 19.65! Congratulations!
Thomas F. Oolery, Jr.
Director of Certification – NACRD
So….. The next step is naming it. We have simply been calling it the 19.65 in communications, but now that it’s approved we have a week to come up with a name for it – and that’s where you come into play!! We are asking YOU what your thoughts are? The only thing we can come up with is the “Three-Quarterthon” but that just sounds weird….. so HELP US!!
Put on your thinking caps and help us come up with a name and you will help be a part of history!!! Comment below or post on our facebook page!!
Now – if you made it through all that and have already started coming up with names……. no need to continue. APRIL FOOLS!!!!! Gotcha ;)
UPDATE: We had so many asking when this distance would be available at races so we figured we’d just be the first to host one!!! Click here: http://momsrunthistown.com/new-race-virtual/ to sign up for the first ever 19.65 virtual race! Complete the distance in a week or a day – your call! (this is for real though)
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The United States has joined in the world's 2014 FIFA World Cup insanity when Waffle House gets in on the game. But that's exactly what has happened now that the restaurant chain has officially banned Belgian waffles from its menus. "We support a boycott on Belgian Waffles," a representative for the restaurant chain says. "We support America. We don't support Belgian Waffles."
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What is the best way to use Howlite for sleeping?
Thank you for your question.
There are several ways in which you can use Howlite for a good night's sleep. You can carry it with you throughout the day to create a peaceful energy in you and around you; you can put it under your pillow at night to relax you as you sleep; or you can energize your water with it using the indirect method (click here to see how). Any of these ways, or all of them combined, may assist, unless there are some external factors contributing to the lack of sleep, such as strong EMF fields (from computer or other electronics in the bedroom), pressing problems that need to be resolved, external noise, etc.
Additionally, creating a quiet and a relaxing time about an hour before going to bed may also assist.
If Howlite does not help, you may try the following stones: White Agate, Lepidolite, Bronzite, Seraphinite or Amethyst.
Please make sure to cleanse your crystals regularly, every day if you wear them daily, using one of the methods outlined here.
I hope that these recommendations can be of assistance and that crystals grace your journey with love and light.
We look forward to hearing from you and please feel free to contact us with any questions.
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Yusuf Aslam, a 7-year-old boy from Luton, England has finished memorising the Qur’an aged 7. He follows in the footsteps of his older sister Maariya who also memorised the Qur’an two years ago at the same age.
It took him just over two years to memorise all 114 chapters of the book of Allah.
IlmFeed got in touch with his mother who shared a few insights into Yusuf’s journey.
How did it feel when he completed memorising the Qur’an?
(It felt) like being in a dream. I never ever dreamt I could achieve this. Allah (swt) has truly blessed us to be able to go through this journey. Allah says I will make it easy for you if you try, and He did. It’s a feeling of contentment knowing you’ve done the best you can for your akhirah – InShaAllah.
Did Maariya Help?
Maariya has stepped in at times when I’m busy. Maariya’s hifz ability is exceptional and she has been a constant source of support whenever required. They like to test one another which is always fun to watch. Maariya had many other commitments during Yusuf’s hifz which have only recently diminished, so she hasn’t been heavily involved; but has still assisted along the way. The plan is for them is be ‘revision buddies’. I’m sure I’ll be heavily supervising before they finally grasp the level it needs to get to. Yusuf is very lucky to have Hafiza Maariya as a sister.
Did you face any difficulties?
The whole journey wasn’t without it’s challenges. Hifz, in my opinion, is a lifestyle changer. For about 2 years you hardly have a social life. I literally live, breathe, discuss hifz with most people I end up meeting because, quite simply, it’s been my focus for so long now.
Alhamdulillah, Yusuf transitioned easily into the hifz routine as he had seen his sister follow that path and he always loved listening to Qur’an at bedtime. I knew he was keen to learn it, even though he didn’t know how much commitment it really requires. I’ve given up my career to educate my children; both in the Islamic upbringing and educationally. As a parent I’m blessed to have children who cooperate and have a good work ethic/ free time balance. I found it easier second time around.
How did you motivate your son to become a hafiz?
Alhamdulillah, there hasn’t been a day where he has said that he just doesn’t want to do it. He wanted to become a Hafiz. After just knowing a small section of the Qur’an, he wanted to know why he wasn’t called hafiz like his sister. I explained he had to know all of it first.
Also, he was gifted regular rewards. He has been promised a large party and he knows he can ask for anything and he will be gifted it at some point. His main prize will be a trip to Umrah InShaAllah, in the coming December holidays – hopefully it’s not too late to book!
Do you have any advice for other parents?
Lots of parents are worried how their children will cope. Children adapt very easily, so after a month at the most, your child will be used to a hifz routine.
All parents should learn or know tajweed enough to help their children. This is an absolute must if you want to be involved. There’s a great sense of satisfaction listening to your child recite the words of Allah swt, but the whole learning for your child will take a more positive stance and even though it’s not a race, you will see results a lot quicker, than if you weren’t involved. Qur’an teachers at a mosque/maktab can only give your child about 5 mins in a class, so they can’t move your child forward until they are satisfied with each line and page – practise with them daily at home before they go back the next day.
Also, I have comfort knowing that if Yusuf can memorise the Qur’an, he will InShaAllah sail through most exams as has been the case with his sister. Parents often worry about the academic effect hifz has. My children were both between the ages of 5 to 7 when they were taught hifz. I took the view that school work wasn’t going to suffer immensely whilst we went on this journey. I’m 100% of the opinion that hifz only improves the child’s ability to learn and recollect facts. Maariya has proven herself academically by being in the ‘highly superior’ IQ group and has gone on to pass grammar school exams. She has gained the highest band possible at England’s number one grammar school. Allah (swt) blesses these children and in return they must maintain and live by the Qur’an. I don’t doubt that Yusuf will excel academically also and he will go on to do public speeches and InShaAllah also be a world-renowned scholar, but with a profession also.
Finally, make the intention and some changes. I’ll say this again, if I can do this, then anyone can.
Yusuf’s mother has helped hundreds of parents who message her for advice on her Facebook page. Follow the page here.
What is demonstrated by these two young children shows the miraculous nature of the Qur’an and how Allah preserves His book in the hearts of His servants. May Allah bless the family.
“Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur’an and indeed, We will be its guardian” 15:9
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What says “summer” more than a perfectly ripe, homegrown tomato from your own backyard garden?…
This weekend at North Haven Gardens, our Summer Edible Festival will get you in the mood!
Is fresh, organic, local food high on your list of priorities? If so, why not give vegetable gardening a try? There is nothing more satisfying than cooking with fresh food just picked from your own backyard. Growing your own is healthier for you and better for the environment!
If you’re just getting started with edibles, there are many simple options. Most edibles can be grown in simple patio planters. If you have a bit of sunny yard space available, an easy-to-assemble raised bed kit can get you growing in no time at all.
If you love to cook then culinary herbs are a great place to start. Fresh herbs add more than just flavor to kitchen recipes, they can also be infused into cocktails and popped into cut flower arrangements. From heat tolerant lavender to cold hardy cilantro, there is an herb to plant each season throughout the year!
Right now we’re planting basil for summer pesto, lemon verbena to add to iced tea and mint in containers for use in homemade mojitos. Most herbs are great for container plantings or mixing into your flowering landscape beds. Pop Up Classes: Take a tour of Herbs Saturday at 10am. At 4pm learn to make herbal drinks.
Here in Texas, we like it hot! From our weather to our peppers, the heat is where we thrive. If you’ve never grown vegetables before, peppers are a great place to start. They’re easy to grow, can be grown in containers on a patio or even tucked into a sunny ornamental garden.
Plus, they don’t mind the heat of summer or drying out a bit between waterings. We love adding hot peppers to fresh homemade salsas (of course) but we also love adding fresh jalepenos to a bloody Mary mix or a non-traditional pesto sauce. This season, try the newest habanero variety called ‘Peach’. It’s beautiful and tasty! Pop Up Class: What Vegetables to Plant Now on Sunday at 3:30.
The best tomatoes are always ones you grow yourself. Did you know that we have two seasons for growing tomatoes here in North Texas? Plant your spring crop in March, but don’t miss planting window for fall harvest tomatoes. We have transplants available now and they can be planted through mid-July.
You’ll have fresh tomatoes ripening in October and November! Be sure to stop by for tasty varieties like ‘Sungold Select II’ in quarts, plus heat tolerant favorites such as ‘Solar Fire’ and ‘Sun Sugar’ in 4-inch pots. Learn all the best tips to Grow your Own Tomato Harvest Saturday at 2pm.
Once you get growing, you’ll find that harvesting your own fresh produce is one of the most rewarding gardening endeavors.
Our full list of programs is on our website. Plus, show off your skills by entering our popular Salsa Contest on Saturday or the Pesto contest on Sunday. www.nhg.com
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By Nibu Thomas, President, STC India Chapter 2017
Greetings from the STC India Admin Council – 2017!
I’m delighted to be writing to you on behalf of STC India for the first edition of Indus – 2017. The team is charged up and you can be sure that they will churn out some insightful articles as the year progresses.
The team alone can do very little without your contributions. So one of the first things I’d want to do is to encourage you to put your thoughts and ideas and send it to us as articles. What do you see when you look around at different people around you? I see people with ideas, people who articulate well, people with energy, people asking the golden question. Let’s show the world how it’s done!
I take this opportunity to introduce to you the new admin council. As you can see, I’ve chosen to give them new titles. 😉 You’ll immediately notice how balanced the team is. Because our focus should never be on merely creating content. It should be about having fun while creating better products. The future is happening where people are having fun!
- Nibu Thomas – STC – President aka Vin Petrol (Diesel as you can see, is already taken) (firstname.lastname@example.org)
- Mugdha – STC – Vice President aka short fuse (email@example.com)
- Kiran – STC Treasurer aka the matchstick (firstname.lastname@example.org)
- Padmaja – STC Secretary aka Water – (email@example.com)
- Mak – STC Immediate Past President – aka the only Fellow in STC India with a fire extinguisher (firstname.lastname@example.org)
I’m sure you’ve seen the call for volunteers and city reps. I’m glad to report that we’ve had quite some interest this time. In fact, we’ve decided to start a mentoring program for city reps. There will be one rep for a city and he/she will be closely working with a shadow. The shadow will be groomed to become the rep for the next year.
Indus will continue to have two editors like before. But each editor will work on a subsequent edition. Thus they have larger time frame to seek, screen, edit and publish each edition. The editors will also continue till the next set of editors are ready to take over. So continuity is not lost. I’m hoping you’ll like the first edition!
When we took over, one of the first things we tried to do, is to identify what ails the community. Is it a lack of information? Is it opportunity? Or is it passion? Well, it’s not a single factor. Maybe, it’s all of them. And Indus will in its own way try to address each issue. (Excuse the pun!)
We want Indus to be more appealing, come out at an increased frequency and reach a larger audience. We have some ideas on how to go about this. But more ideas are always welcome. So do write to us. We promise a pair of ears (actually several pairs!) that will listen and also the will power to convert the feasible – into actions.
Sangeeta and Suyog have taken the lead to publish Indus for 2017. If you have an ‘aha’ moment, and would like to share it with the world, reach out to them. There’s no better place to start. And there’s no better place to continue. You can write to them at email@example.com or Suyog.Ketkar@gmail.com.
I’m sure several of you are awaiting the video recordings of the just concluded STC India Annual Conference in Hyderabad. If there are sessions you missed, you can catch up on these shortly. All this is possible because of the wonderful work done by Padmaja and team.
I want to thank Mugdha, Kiran, Padmaja and Mak for their excellent ideas and support. All of what you see above are their ideas. I’m just Vin Petrol.
Which is why I can confidently tell you this – expect greater things …
Fire in the hole!
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Eldest : The Inheritance Cycle, Book 2
The beginning of the story is set in the middle of a war Belatona where Saphira gets almost killed by the Dauthdaert Niemen, which is a spear that originated from Du Fyrn Skulblaka, crafted as a weapon against dragons that could kill them. Eragon and Arya set out to find Lord Bradburn to contain him; and reigning over the city. As a result, werecats offer them assistance which they did not refuse. When night came, Elaine gives birth and names the baby Hope, who has a cleft lip, and Eragon starts singing through the night to heal it.
Roran gets sent to Aroughs, and is spared from the 2 wars that are coming. He is able to come up with a plan to enter the city and the keep. While he is executing his plan, his friend Carn who is a magician gets killed. Roran chooses the city before rejoining the Varden at Dras-Leona where a plan is made to take on the city. Jeod gathers references to lead him to an unfinished sewer system beneath the city and Eragon becomes a leader to a group in entering the city so the Varden gates are opened. After the soldiers discover them, Wyrden falls into a trap and gets killed. Eragen and Arya get captured by the Helgrind priests to be consumed by their Ra’zac eggs. They get rescued by Angela and Solembum, while Angela reveals that she has the sharpest blade that ever existed. Albitr kills most of the priests. Murtagh and Thorn are defeated by Eragon by using the energy contained in the ring, and Aren and Varden control the city. The Varden camp gets attacked by Murtagh and Thorn, taking Nasuada with them to be held as their prisoner, which was almost insignificant. While Nasuada is gone, Eragon gets appointed to be the leader of Varden while they make their way to Urubaen.
Eragon is a great story of adventure, friendship, and trust that you should continue to read about because you will learn a lot. This audiobook will allow you to listen to the story from anywhere.
List book in the series
- Eragon: The Inheritance Cycle, Book 1
- Eldest: The Inheritance Cycle, Book 2
- Brisingr: The Inheritance Cycle, Book 3
- Inheritance: The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4
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Robert Duvall Chats With Zazza & Julie About New Film “A Night In Old Mexico”
May 19, 2014 11:09 AM
This morning, we got the honor of chatting with the legendary Robert Duvall. He’s promoting his new movie “A Night In Old Mexico,” which had its US premiere at SXSW in March.
Check out our interview with him from this morning!
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Ok, I've seen the interviews and footage of Grace that's on You Tube and some other websites, but does anyone have anything else? Meaning, does anyone know of websites that have other, unseen (by me) interviews of Grace?
I've been to this website, IMBD or something, that lists all her appearances on the various talk shows over the years, and also some other interesting-sounding shows (something about political debates, some other types of shows I've never heard of before, being in Australia especially), and I cannot find anything anywhere online of any actual footage of these shows. Did anyone anywhere tape any of these? I REALLY WANT TO SEE THEM!!!!!
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Tabletalk: Ka Shing has Eastern Promise
A Wicklow Street Chinese restaurant was once a much-loved haunt of Lucinda O'Sullivan in her student days. But the 21st-Century incarnation, aka the new, 'poshed-up' Ka Shing, offers so much more
Published 12/01/2014 | 02:30
I'd never before sat in a Chinese restaurant in Ireland and been the only European in the place. And it wasn't a simple, tucked-away venue in some backstreet of what is, euphemistically, called our Chinese quarter -- around Parnell Street and Capel Street -- but smack in the middle of Dublin 2, in Wicklow Street, across the road from Brown Thomas.
You're not going to miss this place -- it has a red neon advertising board on one side of its front window. On the other side of the window is a faux waterfall.
Inside is every bit as bling, with crescendos of chandeliers worthy of the Forbidden City hanging above marble tables, and large, ornate dining chairs, complete with carved fish on the backs, upholstered in a bronze-and-gold leather.
Interestingly, Ka Shing's location is where I, and many a curly headed, be-jumpered student of yore, downed quantities of yellow curries with peas and large chunks of onion. This was many moons ago, in the then-legendary Universal Chinese Restaurant, which was in a back room, accessed down a long side passage.
It was subsequently the Imperial Chinese Restaurant, incorporating the shop to the front, until a year or two ago.
Curiosity made me walk straight through the restaurant where, lo and behold, I was in the back room of yore -- only it had been 'poshed' up.
Initially, we were brought a laminated menu that sported a large selection of all the familiar stalwarts, from chicken satay skewers and BBQ spare ribs to spicy Thai scallops, steamed king prawn with black bean sauce, and a curry and fried rice selection, written in both English and Chinese.
I was kind of wishing the menu was a bit more exotic, when my friend, Paul, asked for the dim sum menu. Then we were in business. Not only had it a large range of dim sum, but it also had a selection of traditional delicacies that had to be ordered in advance.
Dim sum, at €4-€8 per selection, was great value, but we chickened out, if you can forgive the pun, at Balyun-style pickled chicken feet when the waiter told us, pointedly, that they were bony. We squeamish westerners have no guts!
A quartet of shell-shaped shrimp har gow dumplings in translucent rice paper were more in our line -- and they were heavenly, as were four open-topped, perky bags of pork siu mai -- minced pork and mushrooms.
I was beginning to get bogged down by the time we had Chinese cabbage and pork dumplings -- our fault, as they were too similar to the first pork -- but I did like stuffed bean curd rolls.
The seafood selection offered lobster at a seasonal price, on top of interesting dishes, such as braised dried scallop, abalone slice and nostoc at €38, which had to be pre-booked.
Whole, crispy suckling pig (pre-book) can be had at €168, or €90 for a half pig, or €20 a portion. Shark fin soup, the waiter told us, is also available to order.
Marinated, sliced pork hock with shredded jellyfish sounded alluring, but the traditional-delicacies section of the menu proffered sticky, brown minced prawn, stuffed pepper, tofu and aubergine in black bean sauce (€13.80), which was plentiful while, at the same time, different.
A substantial portion of Malay king prawn salad (€18) was draped in a very mild sauce that tasted a bit like a cross between mayonnaise and white sauce.
The more familiar spicy Singapore vermicelli (€16) with prawns, pork and vegetables was ace.
It would take a year to go through all the interesting dishes at Ka Shing, and it was clear to me why there were so many Chinese people there who knew what they were ordering.
The Chinese New Year, the Year of the Horse, begins on January 31, which is a great opportunity to pay a visit.
With a bottle of Maui sauvignon blanc (€25) and attentive service, our bill came to €103.30.
12A Wicklow Street,
Tel: (01) 677-2580
THREE TO TRY: ORIENTAL EATS
China Sichuan Restaurant
Sandyford Industrial Estate,
Tel: (01) 293-5100
Kevin Hui's contemporary restaurant is destination dining for aficionados of top-notch Chinese food. The choices range from salt-and-chilli soft-shell crab to pan-fried rabbit, through Haozan black sole, to Sichuan spicy beef. Check out their Chinese New Year banquet
Mains, €12-€35, Early bird 2/3-course, €20/€24.50
Sichuan camphor-tea- smoked duck
YUAN MING YUAN
17 Princes Street,
Tel: (021) 425-4969
This eatery offers a totally exotic decor and an interesting menu, which includes dim sum and other stalwarts, but also 'emperor's feast' specialities of abalone, lobster and turbot (seasonal prices apply and 24 hours' notice is required for these). There's an authentic Chinese menu also -- in Chinese!
Mains, €12.80-€17.95, Early bird two-course, €16.80
Oyster tofu hotpot
Asian Tea House
Tel: (091) 563-749
This restaurant is said to offer the biggest range of Chinese teas in Ireland. The excellent menu includes fu chuk rolls; bok choy crab claws; aromatic duck; and siu yuk roasted pork belly
Jiong zeng sea bass -- steamed sea bass, served with a spicy yellow bean sauce, garnished with coriander and scallion
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A recent survey’s found Australian employers are less likely to hire graduates without permanent residence. But Meld’s Kaili Ding spoke to industry insiders, and she’s discovered there may still be hope yet.
Do a quick search on any job site, and chances are you’ll find countless numbers of ads stipulating only citizens and permanent residents need apply. It’s no surprise then that many newly-graduated international students worry their visa status could be a barrier to them landing a job. Now, a recent graduate outlook survey may have confirmed their fears.
The Graduate Careers Australia’s Graduate Outlook Survey report for 2011 found that more than 70 per cent of government, defence and health employers surveyed cited lack of permanent residence as the main reason why they did not recruit international graduates. Forty percent of those surveyed from the accounting and finance industry cited the same reason, followed by 29.6 per cent of mining and engineering employers and 16.7 per cent of employers in the legal sector.
However, hope is not entirely lost as the report did show signs that Australian employers’ demand for international graduates in 2011 had increased by levels not seen since the Global Financial Crisis in 2008.
The executive director of Graduate Careers Australia (GCA), Dr Noel Edge, said this is encouraging for international students studying in Australia.
“There appears to be more employment opportunities for international graduates and we hope to see this grow into the future,” he said.
Victorian Employers’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI) Chief Executive, Mark Stone told Meld VECCI has long been a strong supporter of international education in Victoria and recognises that the state is sustained and rejuvenated by those who choose to come here as students and working professionals.
VECCI said it had partnered with the Committee for Melbourne to launch the “Welcome to Victoria” initiative in late 2011, which aims to create safe and welcoming workplaces for employees from overseas and interstate.
Some employers told Meld they were willing to hire international student graduates because of the skills these graduates bring to the job.
Claire Strik, graduate recruitment manager of KPMG, said her company hired international graduates because the diversity of experience, skills and backgrounds that they bring directly influences the quality of business outcomes KMPG can offer to their clients.
“Opening our applications to international students is just another way of attracting the best bright minds to work at KPMG,” she said.
But Robert Fortescue, the Victorian general manager for Candle, a specialist IT recruiting firm, said it was becoming more difficult to secure a role in IT without the relevant visa, as companies were reluctant to offer sponsorship when they had a steady flow of graduates with citizenship or PR.
However, he conceded employment prospects still existed for international students.
“I wouldn’t necessarily agree that the chances [of securing a job] are minimal as there is a growing demand for skilled IT workers with niche skills,” Mr Fortescue said.
Maximising job prospects
So how can international students maximise their chances of being employed after, and even before, graduation? One suggestion is to make sure you have applied for a visa that gives you full working rights such as a Temporary Skilled Graduate (subclass 485) visa.
“It can help, there are more companies taking people on board on fixed term contracts now,” said Mr Fortescue. “So if a student had a temporary 485 visa for 18 months they can work in a contract position or positions for that period. This enables the visa holder to gain work experience to allow them to then apply for PR if they accumulate enough points.”
However, for those looking to better their employment prospects while still studying , the highly-anticipated outcome of the Knight Review may be more relevant.
A spokesperson from the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations said the Government’s response to the review included changes to work opportunities for international students from March 26 2012 including
- allowing students to spread out work shifts over 40 hours per fortnight during course time as opposed to strictly 20 hours per week
- no limits on work hours for Higher Degree by Research students.
“These changes provide flexibility for students and employers and enable students to gain work experience which could assist in gaining full employment on graduation,” the spokesperson told Meld.
In addition to more working hours, the Australian government will also be offering a new post-study work visa to international graduates.
“International students who applied for visas after November 5, 2011 and complete at least two academic years study in Australia will be eligible for post study work visas of two years for Bachelor and Masters by coursework, three years for masters by research and four years for Doctoral degrees,” the spokesperson said.
However, this means international students who applied for visas before November 5, 2011 will miss out on this visa.
In employers’ hands?
The Knight Review could potentially open up new doors for international graduates, but how the changes are received by the employers will ultimately determine the fate of these graduates.
“Employment decisions are matters for individual employers and depend on applicants having the skills that the employer is seeking,” said the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations spokesman when queried about this.
Ultimately, this indicates the future job prospects of international student are in the hands of Australian employers. Only time will tell if the government’s visa reforms will be relevant and if the employability of international graduates will remain a concern.
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Milwaukee's best bar for celebrating a 21st birthday, 2011: Safe House
"Bar Month" at OnMilwaukee.com is back for another round! The whole month of February, we're serving up intoxicatingly fun articles on bars and clubs -- including guides, the latest trends, bartender profiles and more. Grab a designated driver and dive in!
The votes are in and the winners have been selected for OnMilwaukee's Best: Bars & Clubs, 2011. Find readers' results in 50 categories, including an editors' pick, in this series of articles that run daily in the Bars and Clubs section of OnMilwaukee.com.
For some, it's a 21st birthday party. For others, it's a burning of the fake ID celebratory ritual. Either way, the blessed occasion is one to mark with a cocktail or six, and OnMilwaukee.com readers think the Safe House is the best place in town to do this.
The spy-themed bar allows you to -- clandestinely or not -- ring in your right to legally drink with a signature cocktail like the Spy's Demise or a simple bottle of something local. As long as you know the password, of course, and you don't touch the wooden heart over Burt Reynold's junk in the women's bathroom. But if you do, we warned you.
If you are planning a 21st birthday party for a friend, consider calling ahead and arranging for the "Hail to the Chief" (if your freshly-legal friend is a male) or "Her Majesty's Secret Service" (for a female's 21st-birthday) which is an embarrassing and bizarre experience that includes a kidnapping of the birthday boy or girl and their eventual return via a fighter jet pilot's chair that emerges from the basement through the floor of the bar. It's $25, includes a mammoth cocktail and is, clearly, something one must see to be able to fully comprehend.
OnMilwaukee.com editors' pick: Buckhead Salon
2. Buckhead Salon
3. Rosie's Waterworks
4. Leff's Lucky Town
6. Landmark Lanes
7. La Fuente
11. La Perla
13. Whiskey River Saloon
15. Village Pub
absolutely the best place for any birthday. Oh and the heart is metal not wood.....
Wow, pretty subjective list. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Not the selections I would have made.
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Colchicine is a potent drug that influences body response to uric acid crystals which is responsible for the reduction of pain and swelling. Colcrys under the brand of Colchicine helps with the therapy and prevention of gout in adults, for adults’ cure of Familial Mediterranean Fever and children from 4 years old upward. Mitigate under the brand of Colchicine helps with the prevention of adults’ gout flares condition
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Super cool vintage earrings By Moschino. Half dome cabochons adorned with matte gold strs affix at the ear, with a large ball dangling from each. Deep midnight blue with golden glitter infused within. Signed, clip on backside.
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Ben & Emily. During the ceremony, the pastor joked that the first Ben came to Portland, he came to see his cousins. The next thing you know he moved there. He fell in love. He fell in love with sweet Emily. And it was sooooo easy! You see, Emily is the kindest, sweetest and happiest girl I’ve ever met. I’m sure it was love at first sight for Ben.
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The versatile Xinomavro variety is the most widespread one in the cold Amyndeo region and Christos Boskos, the experienced oe- nologist, with Gewurztraminer and Riesling, makes the difference with this sparkling wine from a tank. Dry, beautiful aromas of trop- ical fruit, sharp finish.
Amyndeo, western Macedonia
Xinomavro - Gewürztraminer - Riesling
€ 14,00 inc. VAT
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REMENSNYDER, rem'en-snai"der, JUNIUS BENJAMIN: Lutheran; b. at Staunton, Va., Feb. 24, 1843. He was graduated from Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa. (B.A., 1861), and the Gettysburg Theological Seminary (1865). He served in the 131st Pennsylvania Volunteers in 1862-63, and, after his ordination in 1865 held pastorates at St. John's, Lewistown, Pa. (1865-67), St. Luke's, Philadelphia (1867-74), Church of the Ascension, Savannah, Ga. (1874-80), and St. James', New York City, of which he has been the head since 1881. In theology he is conservative and is opposed to rationalism, favoring progressive and constructive, not destructive, criticism; he advocates educational rather than emotional methods in religion and in worship holds to the historic liturgies. He has written Heavenward: or, The Race for the Crown of Life (Philadelphia, 1874, new ed., 1908); Doom Eternal: The Bible and Church Doctrine of Everlasting Punishment (1880); The Work and Personality of Luther (New York, 1882); Lutheran Literature: Its Distinctive Traits and Excellencies (1883); The Six Days of Creation: Lectures on the Mosaic Account of the Creation, Fall, and Deluge (1886); The Real Presence (1890); The Lutheran Manual (1892); The Atonement and Modern Thought (Philadelphia, 1905); and Mysticism: Psychology, History, and Relation to Scripture, Church, and Christian Life (1909).
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Jan 9-12, 2020
Waterloo Ringette Association is hosting its 43rd annual Winterfest Tournament in January.
The tournament registration/withdrawl deadline is November 1, 2019.
We aim to run all divisions at each age level.
Provincial divisions are assigned teams by Ringette Ontario (RO), and we may not run a division with no assigned teams.
Younger Regional divisions are scheduled with an effort to minimize missed school time. Provincial divisions will play 2 games Friday.
Games take place at Albert McCormick, Moses Springer, and RIM Park arenas.
Waterloo Ringette uses Score2Stats for schedule and standings information. You will be required to register your team roster at Score2Stats so that we have accurate rosters for printing game sheets and maintaining player stats. Confirmation emails will be sent once your registration fee and TRF has been received.
For out of province registrants, please take note that Ontario Ringette rules apply to all teams participating in the tournament. It is advised that you take a moment to fully review the tournament rules, especially the "FULLY SERVED PENALTIES" rule.
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Paul Gascoigne has becoming addicted to casual title Angry Birds, according to The Sun.
The tabloid claims the Geordie football star bought an Apple device purely to play the smash hit game, though he also plays arcade hits Pacman and Tetris.
A pal (apparently) said: "Gazza is hooked on Angry Birds. He downloaded it for free but paid for the add-on so he could try the extra levels."
Image courtesy of the Sun.
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COLUMBIA COUNTY, Ga. (WJBF) – An investigation is underway after three people were shot in Columbia County.
According the the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, it happened around 10:30 Tuesday night on Fairfield Way. That’s in the Halifax North subdivision in Martinez.
All the victims were taken to the hospital for treatment.
Investigators say their injuries do not appear to be life-threatening.
We’re told that though a Columbia County deputy did shoot when they arrived on scene, nobody was struck.
The identity of the shooter is unknown, but we’re told they did commit suicide.
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Before forming the Byrds, Roger McGuinn backed up Bobby Darin, the “Dream Lover” who let “Mack the Knife” swing. The Bronx-born rock and roll legend was adding folk and protest music into his live shows and saw McGuinn playing guitar and making faces behind the Chad Mitchell Trio when they were opening for Lenny Bruce at the Crescendo night club on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip. By the time The Beatles hit, McGuinn played, sang harmonies and trained as a professional songwriter under the rock and roll innovator. After the British Invasion, McGuinn consolidated the folk rock sound, first by playing Beatles’ songs on solo guitar in folk clubs and then by plugging a 12-string guitar onto a Bob Dylan song. Andrew Slater’s loving documentary Echo in the Canyon recounts the musical progression of the Laurel Canyon sound, and begins the first frame with that magical instrument.
Tom Petty gave his last film interview in Santa Monica’s Truetone music store with a 12-string Rickenbacker in his hands. Talking with Bob Dylan’s son Jakob Dylan, Petty demonstrates the bright trebly vibrato that brought the folk rock sound, and a community together. Echo in the Canyon captures Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys reminiscing about echoes, and Michelle Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas invoking romance. Stephen Stills of Buffalo Springfield remembers intimidating David Crosby of The Byrds with stage presence. The Beatles’ beatkeeper Ringo Starr happily confirms all the stories.
Echo in the Canyon celebrates the music of Los Angeles’s Laurel Canyon from 1965 to 1967 as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound. The film was inspired by the 1968 movie Model Shop, which starred Gary Lockwood who played astronaut Frank Poole in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell in the Star Trek pilot episode “Where No Man Has Gone Before.” The film music was done by the band Spirit, produced by Lou Adler, whose studio is showcased, which captured the sound and feel of the area.
Echo in the Canyon is writer/director Andrew Slater’s first film. The former Rolling Stone, Billboard, and People rock journalist and music manager is best known for his work as a producer. Slater produced records for Warren Zevon and the Wallflowers, and recorded Fiona Apple and Macy Gray’s debut albums. The former President and CEO of Capitol Records spoke with Den of Geek about the cross pollination of music between British and American artists and the endless summer of a picturesque enclave in LA.
Den of Geek: The concept of the perfect echo goes back to tales of doo-wop groups, and your documentary even lets Brian Wilson mention the echo in Sunset Studios. So, before we walk inside this studio, does Laurel Canyon have a natural echo?
Andrew Slater: I don’t think so. I think the unfortunate thing is that technology has eliminated that by all of the cars, and the Uber drivers, and the Lyft drivers, driving up and down the canyon. So, if there is an echo, you would not be able to hear it.
So it wouldn’t be a natural amphitheater.
I like that you have picked up on that. For me the film is probably more about the echo than it is about the canyon, in the sense that it covers the echo of people’s ideas, passing back between each other. But also, as you pointed out, the echo is the thing that gives the human voice depth and character sometimes, and the records that were made in that period from 65-67 were made in these rooms, where each of these rooms have echo chambers and have a different sound and all of that has contributed greatly to the development of record making. I hope that the buildings that we recorded in and paid homage to, will still be there in 10 years, because with the development of Sunset and Hollywood, a single-story building on Sunset Boulevard is not long for this world because of the property values.
Early in the film you showcase an original recording setup amidst the new studio technology. Did you get to record on the vintage equipment of the area’s studios?
I think Lou [Adler] was in that scene. He was pointing to, I think it may have been an 1176. I’m trying to remember what piece of gear he was playing. It was probably a compressor. In that room, you are able to use [the equipment]. In all of those rooms, depending on which one you are in, you have all sorts of gear in there. Obviously, a Studer tape machine, and mic pre’s, and EQs, and all of that stuff goes into making a record.
You film includes Tom Petty’s last interview. Do you remember the first thing he played when his fingers hit the strings the vintage Rickenbacker?
I don’t remember. I think the first thing he plays is what he plays in the film.
I never heard the story about George Harrison getting the 12-string from Rickenbacker because he happened to be alone in the Beatles Hotel. I want to know a little bit about the importance of the Beatles and the Rickenbacker on those early recordings and how that helped shape the sound.
Well, there is a reason that the Rickenbacker is on the poster for the film. It really begins with that 12-string guitar that probably exercised the most pronounced influence over anything in folk-rock, in the last 50 years. Roger McGuinn sees a Hard Day’s Night, sees George playing a Rickenbacker, has to go get a Rickenbacker. He records the first Byrds album. George hears that, he writes, “If I Needed Someone,” which is based on a riff of “Bells of Rhymney” on that first record, that goes on Rubber Soul. Brian Wilson hears Rubber Soul, he writes Pet Sounds, as you know. The Beatles hear Pet Sounds, they write Sgt. Pepper.
I think all of it, has its beginnings with the electrification of folk music. Maybe that is something that would not have happened in New York because of their rigidity to the folk scene. The thing about The Byrds and the Rickenbacker and the echo of the ideas that went from California to London and back, I think L.A. represents a kind of sense of freedom that anything goes. I think the ability for those guys to experiment with the 12-string and their harmonies, gave way to their ideas echoing across the ocean to the Beatles.
Have you been to Abbey Road Studios?
I know the artists at the time were recording with the engineers in lab coats, but is there a different feel in the sonics of the actual studio?
Every room sounds different to me. If you clap your hands in the tracking room of any studio, it’s going to have a different reverberation of sound. Abbey Road has its charm and also it has all sorts of other gear. It’s not just the room, it’s the person who is playing in the room and what being in that room inspires them to do. Obviously, rooms where you know greatness has been accomplished is inspiring to any creative person.
When you spoke to McGuinn and Tom Petty, they had an instrument in their hand. Is it different when you are talking to a musician when they have the instrument in their hand?
You know, that’s an interesting question. It’s probably something to ask a musician, if they feel different. For someone asking questions or trying to capture that moment, you know they have two voices to communicate with you. Their human voice and then they have their voice through their instrument, so, your chances of getting a good answer are twice as good perhaps.
Michelle Phillips talks about the romance of the area. How does that play into the music and the community?
I just think it was a time of innocence. It was before big business, and super stardom had taken over. I think all of these bands were just emulating the Beatles in a sense. They saw how fun it was in A Hard Day’s Night, and they all wanted to be in that experience of being in a gang, and playing music, and traveling around. You know, at the same time, if you recall, it was the beginning of the cultural revolution and the sexual revolution. So, depending on how you were raised, I would imagine that would inform how your behavior would be in terms of what you choose to do personally. Living close together, I would imagine that made it easy for people to become personally involved.
The picture of Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra made me smile. So, I was wondering if the pre-Beatle generations of singers got caught up in the Laurel Canyon sound?
I can’t find anything in Ray Charles’s music that echoes what harmony groups were doing at that time, but I love Ray Charles and everything that he was doing was transcendent to the sound.
I love the Stephen Stills party story, so I want to know how come more busts didn’t happen in that artist’s enclave?
You would have to ask the Los Angeles Police Department.
How did the film Model Shop influence Echoes in the Canyon?
The film is the genesis for the idea of going back and examining this period of music. Even though the film doesn’t contain the music of The Byrds, The Beach Boys, The Mamas and Papas, the Buffalo Springfield, it contains images of Los Angeles in ’67. What Jacob and I saw when we watched this film just randomly, was the place that we live, that we love, and it sent us on a journey back to that time to discover and look at the music that made me come here and was part of Jacob’s generation of looking back, on the foundation of it.
So, Gary Lockwood’s character’s journey in the film, he’s just sort of on his own mission of discovery and in some ways in the film, mirrors that. Going back and forth in time, in a sense. There’s a great moment in the film where he says, “I was standing up in this canyon and I was looking out, and people say it’s an ugly city, but it’s really a beautiful city. It made me want to create something.” Using that as the center of the film was just a way of expressing the idea behind the inspiring aspect of life at the edge of loneliness in the canyons of Los Angeles.
As a director, how is the documentary similar and different to your work as a music journalist?
Well, the only thing that is similar is that you’re able to take the quotes of the people you interview and use them to be the part of your story. So, it was not unfamiliar for me to look at a transcript and start pulling quotes together to illustrate the story that I wanted to tell. Luckily, I had some experience writing the synopsis, or writing a paragraph, other than a snappy text. That’s what my writing has been diminished by. So, those two things were really helpful in getting to make this.
One of the things that struck me was some of the nonmusical people who were in the area. My favorites were Houdini and Boris Karloff. So, I would like to know a little bit about the magic of the place and if there was another kind of mysticism going on?
That’s not something we explore in the film so I think that’s for somebody else. The narrative that I am following is just about the idea of being in a band and coming to L.A. and chasing the dream of the Beatles, and why that doesn’t last. In the film you hear from various people. Michelle tells you why the Mamas and the Papas had tension. David Crosby tells you why the Byrds had tension. Stephen Stills tells you what multiple singers and multiple writers do to a band when they diverge in directions. That leads you to the end of the film where you see the singer/songwriter standing alone, playing guitar.
I just felt like there’s three distinct periods in Laurel Canyon. There’s the period where everybody comes to be in a band, there’s the period of psychedelia that changes everything, and then there’s the era of the singer/songwriter in the search for the individual. That’s why, in the late ’60s the band is called Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and Joni Mitchell shows up and that is the year that is most closely associated with Laurel Canyon.
I also think that David Crosby and Neil Young’s exits from Buffalo Springfield and The Byrds are great bad-ass rockstar stories. Leaving the night before being on Johnny Carson is just classic.
What is happening in the area of the Laurel Canyon area now? Who is making the most noise?
I think in Los Angeles there is creativity happening all over, in Echo Park, in Silver Lake, in Eagle Rock, in Topanga Canyon, and in Laurel Canyon. It’s happening everywhere.
Echo in the Canyon opens in theaters on May 31.
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I'd like to ask for some clarification if its okay. You are having issues within metasploit if I understand correctly? This happened after you did an update to metasploit. From the looks of it your wifi card is responding normally. Also you are running BackTrack R2, not R3?
May I suggest updating to R3? As for metasploit did you update using git or msfupdate? Sorry I haven't been much help yet.
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Synthesia is an video artificial intelligence generator which allows users to create videos that look realistic with artificial intelligence technology. This is especially useful for companies that wish to produce videos without having an entire production team as they can rapidly and easily produce professional-quality videos in a matter of minutes. In this article we will look at how Synthesia works, as well as the advantages of making use of video AI generators such as Synthesia.
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This product was created to use as extension activities to the book, Testing the Ice by Sharon Robinson, the daughter of Jackie Robinson. The story is told from the daughter's point of view about Jackie Robinson being a father to his children throughout the story.
I included activities in Math, Reading, Writing, Social Studies, and Science. Science also includes some STEM activities. Story Map included. 20Comprehension questions included in task card like format. 7 Math activities plus a page of Extras
The activities can be adapted to fit your teaching area. The activities can not all be completed in one day. These activities can stretch for 5 days or choose some for a follow up to a read aloud or independent reading. Can also be used as a day's lesson as a Book Study Day.
I intended for this product to be a review of skills learned, practice skills or introduction of skills to use during the school year.
There are several activities that can be used as informal assessment.
Some activities are created to be projected on a white board if you want to go paperless.
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The flag of the Republic of Cyprus and of the EU is raised outside Theatro Technis as part of Cyprus Week 2007.
View video of the flag-raising event in 2008
Presented by Theatro Technis in association with the "National Federation of Cypriots in Great Britain" to coincide with the 34th Anniversary of the Greek Junta Coup and the Turkish Invasion, the Ethnic cleansing of 200,000 Greek Cypriots and occupation of 37% the Republic of Cyprus.
Monday 14th July 2008:
"Raising of the flag of the Republic of Cyprus at Theatro Technis"
Tuesday 15th July 2008:
"Building on the Foundations" - Theatro Technis documentary and archives project
Wednesday 16th July 2008:
Lobby for Cyprus Seminar - "The Genocide in the Turkish Occupied north of Cyprus."
Thursday 17th - Saturday 19th July 2008:
"Il filo e le ombre" by Alexandra Zambà. Presented by the Italian Association “NIMA”.
The play (bilingual in Cypriot and Italian) tales of Caterina Cornaro Queen of Cyprus's exalting story.
Sunday 20th July 2008:
National Federation of Cypriots in Great Britain"Rally for Cyprus" - Demonstration from Turkish Embassy to Trafalgar Square
© 2008 Theatro Techinics. All Rights Reserved.
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Down in your large intestine live trillions and trillions of helpful bacteria and other microscopic creatures, collectively known as your gut microbiome. These critters help digest your food, keep you in good health, and — according to new research — influence your thoughts.
A study published in Psychosomatic Medicine: Journal of Behavioral Medicine has appeared to identify a link between the gut microbiome and human behaviour and emotion for the first time.
A University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) research team profiled 40 women, taking MRI scans of their brains as they viewed images designed to provoke emotional responses, and also collecting poo samples from all of them (a gross but necessary step to map the gut microbiome).
More than three-quarters of the women had more of a bacterium called Bacteroides, and the remainder had more of a bacteria called Prevotella.
Bacteroides and Prevotella are the two “enterotypes” — a very broad way of categorising people based on the composition of their gut bacteria, which appears to be influenced primarily by your diet. (The Bacteroides type is linked to protein and animal fat; Provotella to carbs.)
Intriguingly, there appeared to be a link between the women’s enterotype and the structure of the their brains, and how they reacted to the images.
The Bacteroides ladies’ brains were thicker in the frontal cortex and insula, regions involved with complex information processing, and bigger in the hippocampus, which oversees memory processing.
All the Prevotella ladies (put ya hands up!) had stronger connections between the emotional, attentional and sensory regions of the brain, and less volume in the hippocampus and other areas.
The Prevotella group’s hippocampuses turned out to be less active while they viewed negative images, and they also rated higher levels of anxiety, distress and irritability after looking at such photos.
That suggests there’s a connection between the gut and the brain, although it’s not yet clear if gut bacteria influences brain development and activity, or if brain development and activity influences gut bacteria.
“Both possibilities, however, could lead to important changes in how one thinks about human emotions,” concludes a UCLA statement about the research.
Past research out of UCLA determined that probiotics, aka the beneficial bacteria in the food you eat — in, say, a tub of yoghurt — impacts how your brain functions and responds to stimulus.
“Our findings indicate that some of the contents of yogurt may actually change the way our brain responds to the environment,” said Dr Kirsten Tillisch, the lead author of the new UCLA study, in 2013.
“When we consider the implications of this work, the old sayings ‘you are what you eat’ and ‘gut feelings’ take on new meaning.”
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Hepatitis C Drugs Approved for Children
This article represents the opinions, thoughts, and experiences of the author; none of this content has been paid for by any advertiser. The HepatitisC.net team does not recommend or endorse any products or treatments discussed herein. Learn more about how we maintain editorial integrity here.
- FDA approves two hepatitis C drugs for pediatric patients. April 7, 2017. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Accessed at: https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm551407.htm
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An idea grew in my head recently for a proof of concept project that would be an excellent example of evolutionary programming and that evolved concept would lead to an equally interesting robotics project. I think this idea would make for a great senior thesis for a comp. sci., or engineering major.
The basic concept is having a robot draw a picture. Continue reading
Well here we go again. I tried once before with blogspot http://aranhia.blogspot.com to start writing and posting updates. That field proved too narrow and after completing the work related to it (flash games) I didn’t have a reason to keep up to speed. This time I am writing on whatever I feel needs saying and I am just lazy enough to use a pre-fab wordpress blog for it. Continue reading
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Los Gatos, California: April 17, 2018: Infogain, a leading provider of technology solutions and services, has appointed Ayan Mukerji as President and Chief Operating Officer, responsible for Sales, Solutions and Operations. Reporting to CEO Sunil Bhatia, he will support and execute on Infogain’s vision of becoming a new age digital engineering services leader and its motto to “Engineer Business Outcomes” for its customers.
With almost a decade in various senior executive leadership positions at Wipro, Mukerji is widely sought after for his views and expertise in the technology sector. As Chief Executive of Media and Telecom & Product Engineering at Wipro, he had P&L responsibility of $1.7 billion. Mukerji built Wipro’s product engineering business to make them a global leader. During his stint as Chief Executive for European Operations, his leadership helped Wipro to significantly expand the company’s footprint across the region.
Most recently, Mukerji served as President and Board Member at Zinnov, a research and consulting company. He consulted with both Fortune 500 companies and Top 20 global system integrators to help them understand the impact of digitalization on their customers, their competition and their organizational strategy for Product Engineering and IoT.
Infogain’s CEO, Mr. Sunil Bhatia said, “While at Zinnov, Ayan collaborated with Infogain on many client service engagements. His deep understanding and involvement with Infogain make him a natural fit for this new position.”
Bhatia continued, “Ayan is a seasoned and capable leader with deep expertise in tech services industry. He will engage with clients and lead our teams as we provide innovative digital engineering services and engineer business outcomes for our customers.”
Mukerji is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). He serves on various boards in Silicon Valley.
Infogain (www.infogain.com) provides front-end, customer-facing technologies, processes and applications that lead to a more efficient and streamlined customer experience for enterprises in the US, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and India. Offering solutions for the high-tech, retail, insurance, healthcare and travel & hospitality verticals, Infogain specializes in areas such as software product engineering, digital service automation, cloud, mobility, testing and business intelligence & analytics. The company has 9 delivery centers and close to 4000 employees globally. Infogain has a customer retention rate of 90%+ over a five-year period.
For more information, contact:
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I am not creating a poll because i simply can't list all the office suites here - too many.
My favourite one at the moment is office xp. ANd i love its dictation and voice command functions.
By the way do you know of any other office packages that have these functions? Anyway jus list your favourite office suite below, regardless of the platform.
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This afternoon, Montgomery College President DeRionne P. Pollard sent a memo to all MC employees…
Federal Judge to Speak at Montgomery College, November 4
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Jane R. Roth to Address “Peace and Justice and the Law”
Judge Jane R. Roth, U. S. Court of Appeals judge for the Third Circuit, will speak at Montgomery College’s Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus on Wednesday, November 4, at 11 a.m. Co-sponsored by the College’s Paul Peck Institute for American Culture and Civic Engagement and the First-Year Experience initiative, the event is free and open to the public and will take place in the main theatre of the campus’ new Performing Arts Center, located at Georgia Avenue and Route 410 in Silver Spring. Her topic will be “Peace and Justice and the Law.”
Judge Roth was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in July 1991. Prior to that, from 1985 to 1991, she served on the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. Educated at Smith College and Harvard University Law School, she has received honorary degrees from Widener University School of Law and the University of Delaware.
Judge Roth began her legal career as a member of the firm of Richards, Layton & Finger practicing general law with emphasis on civil litigation and defense of medical malpractice cases. From 1956 to 1962, as an administrative assistant with the U.S. Foreign Service, she was stationed in Tehran, Iran; Salisbury, Rhodesia; and Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.
To request further information or a campus map and parking information, please contact Dr. Francine Jamin, director of the Paul Peck Institute for American Culture and Civic Engagement, at 240-567-1385 or firstname.lastname@example.org. Anyone requesting accommodation for a disability is asked to be in touch with Dr. Jamin at least two weeks prior to the event.
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Dragon Fantasy: The Black Tome of Ice, essentially a director’s cut of the humorous turn-based RPG Dragon Fantasy: Book II, will bring bug fixes, retuned combat, and a more streamlined story to PS4 on March 22.
This edition of the game, which comes free to owners of the original version of the SNES RPG-inspired experience, comes with a few new tweaks and features to bring players back to it. The game now features a difficulty slider for players who wish to make things harder or easier, an in-game bestiary to track captured and fought monsters, and added thieves guilds to every town to speed up rewards from bounty hunts.
Dragon Fantasy: The Black Tome Of Ice is the second part of aging hero Ogden’s adventures. It does away with random encounters, placing enemies on the map that players must touch to initiate combat. The game also features monster recruitment, where monster can be captured during a fight and added to your party.
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Oberleutnant zur See (Crew XII/39)
No ships sunk or damaged.
|Born ||27 Mar 1922|| ||Berlin-Schöneberg|
|Died ||11 Feb 1944||(21)||North Atlantic|
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|1 Dec 1939|| ||Offiziersanwärter|
|1 Nov 1940|| ||Fähnrich zur See|
|1 Nov 1941|| ||Oberfähnrich zur See|
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|U-283 ||16 Aug 1943 ||11 Feb 1944 (+)|| 1 patrol (30 days) |
Oblt. Günter Ney was one of the youngest U-boat commanders during WWII when he left for his patrol with U-283 from Kiel. He was little under 22 years old at the time. He died along with his entire crew when the boat was sunk 30 days later (Niestlé, 1998).
Busch, R. and Röll, H-J. (1999). German U-boat commanders of World War II.
Busch, R. and Röll, H-J. (1997). Der U-Bootkrieg 1939-1945 (Band 2).
Niestlé, A. (1998). German U-boat losses during World War II.
Patrol info for Günter Ney
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||11 Feb 1944 ||Sunk
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About ranks and decorations
Ranks shown in italics are our database inserts based on the rank dates of his crew comrades. The officers of each crew would normally have progressed through the lower ranks at the same rate.
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NEWARK, N.J. – Michael Fisher (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley (Pepperdine)) had 17 kills and Jeff Hogan (Northern Cambria, Pa./Northern Cambria) recorded 15 kills and added 12 digs, but the Saint Francis men's volleyball team lost if five sets to NJIT in an EIVA matchup on Saturday night at Fleisher Athletic Center. The Highlanders won 25-22, 18-25, 25-22, 25-18 and 15-11.
Saint Francis drops to 4-8 overall and 0-3 in the EIVA, while NJIT improves to 5-5 and 1-1 in the EIVA.
Fisher finished with a match-high 17 kills. Hogan recorded 15 kills and a match-high 12 digs, while Daniel Ford (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North) registered 42 assists.
A Keith Kegerries kill made it 7-5 NJIT in the fifth and deciding set. The Highlanders would lead the rest of the way and would take the set, 15-11.
After NJIT scored the first point of the match, SFU rattled off five unanswered points to take a 5-1 lead. NJIT would response with a 4-0 run to even the set up at 7-7. SFU would trim the NJIT lead to 13-12, but three straight Highlander points would make the score 16-13, and Saint Francis could not overcome the deficit.
The beginning of the second set started with both teams trading points. SFU broke open a 9-9 tie with a 3-0 run to take a 12-9 advantage and never looked back in the match. SFU would takes its largest lead of the set at 20-12. A Fisher kill closed out the set for the Flash, 25-18.
SFU would jump out to a 10-6 lead in the third set, but NJIT raced back to go on a 6-1 run to hold a 17-16 advantage. The set would remain a back-and-fourth battle but SFU would end the set on a 3-0 run to win 25-22.
The Highlanders led wire-to-wire in the fourth set to tie the match at 2-2.
Saint Francis hosts Penn State on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
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So rain is done for a couple of days. It is cool out but still good for gardening. When the sun shines the gardeners will come. When the gardeners come they will see lots of color on the flower racks. Large variety of color and selection of plants. "Largest selection in North Iowa one gardener told me." I will take pictures of the color on the racks, but a pictures can't tell it all. Come and have a look.
Hi! My name is Becky and I am a master gardener. I own Becky's Greenhouse in Dougherty, Iowa.
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HSBC is the first big bank to commit to going carbon neutral as it seeks to reduce its environmental impact.
The ice caps are under threat from climate change
Starting in 2005, it will plant trees, reduce energy use, buy green electricity and trade carbon credits to cut carbon dioxode flows.
HSBC chief executive Stephen Green said: "In 2003, HSBC's CO2 emissions...were more than 550,000 tonnes. We need to act now."
The move will cost up to $7m (£3.6m) in 2005, less in future years.
This represents 0.004% of the bank's market value of £99,331m.
The bank, which has 10,000 offices in 76 countries, made the announcement in Buenos Aires at the Tenth Convention of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
It is concerned about the contribution its carbon dioxide emissions from electricity, natural gas, fuel oil and business travel have on the environment.
"It is our judgement that climate change represents the largest single environmental challenge this century," said the bank's chairman Sir John Bond.
Environment experts welcomed the move. "It is good to see a major bank taking a lead on climate change," said Peter Knight, director of Context, a London-based corporate responsibility consultancy.
"But HSBC is restricting its actions to its own carbon emissions from buildings and executive travel. Its real environmental impact is the result of loans it makes to big projects, such as dams, oil exploration and mines.
"Let's hope its next step will be to deal with its indirect impacts as creatively as it is tackling its own housekeeping."
In addition to the carbon-neutral plan, the bank is investing £650,000 in environment research at two UK universities and developing a range of socially responsible investment funds.
HSBC hopes to send a signal to its peers in the City that climate change should be taken seriously. Until recently financial markets treated the possibility that carbon dioxide emissions were contributing to global warming with some scepticism.
"HSBC's decision sets a new benchmark for the financial services sector," said Steve Howard, chief executive of The Climate Group, a non-profit coalition of organisations committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, of which HSBC is a member.
"They will gain a deeper insight into the emerging low carbon economy."
However, Greenpeace sounded a note of caution on HSBC's tree planting plans. "Becoming carbon neutral is great and we thoroughly support many of the steps HSBC is taking, " said Doug Parr, Greenpeace's chief scientist in the UK.
"But planting trees is of questionable benefit: what if there is a forest fire?"
He said: "Many organisations opt to plant trees because on paper it seems cheaper but scientific bodies like the Royal Society are starting to question whether this is really the best way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions."
The only other big financial institution apart from HSBC to make a similar carbon-neutral pledge is Swiss Re, the insurers.
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Date(s) - 13/12/2017
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Mint Music Yonge & Dundas
The most effective method to learn how to play an instrument is through playing songs. In this Strumming and Song Repertoire Class we will play great songs such as: Ben, E King – Stand by me, The Cranberries – Zombie, Bob Dylan – Knocking On Heaven’s Door, Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight, U2 – With or Without You, CCR – Have You Ever Seen The Rain and more.
– Songs / Chord Sequences
– Learn how to make bar chords
– Learn finger-picking technique and play in any chord.
– How to tune the guitar by ear.
– CAGED system
Able to read tab and chord boxes. Able to strum in a basic and rhythmic way. Can change easily between G, Em, C, D , A, Am and E.
“Music is a more potent instrument for education than any other.” – Plato
Toronto Guitar School Instructor: Glen Alan
Class 1: Wednesday, October 18th, 8-9 PM
Class 2: Wednesday, November 1st, 8-9 PM
Class 3: Wednesday, November 8th, 8-9 PM
Class 4: Wednesday, November 15th, 8-9 PM
Class 5: Wednesday, November 22nd, 8-9 PM
Class 6: Wednesday, November 29th, 8-9 PM
Class 7: Wednesday, December 6th, 8-9 PM
Class 8: Wednesday, December 13th, 8-9 PM
Class 9: Wednesday, December 14th, 8-9 PM
Class 10: Wednesday, December 20th, 8-9 PM
Pre-pay for this guitar course before July 11th and SAVE Over $112.50!*
You will Receive:
• $50 off the regular course cost of $250
• 50% discount on 1-hour private music lessons (Savings of $37.50)**
• AND one FREE additional guitar class**
Bonus: Those enrolled in our guitar courses ALWAYS receive the discounted rate on all of our classes and courses.
* This offer may not be combined with any other special offers or discounts
** Must be redeemed before the course ends
Payments can also be made in person at the Toronto Guitar School’s Yonge and Dundas location (116 Bond Street) by appointment only. Cheque or cash are the accepted methods of payment at this location.
Payment must be received prior the the prepayment deadline to receive the discounted price otherwise the regular course rate of $250 applies. If you would like to join the class as a drop-in student the fee is $25 per class. Drop-ins will not be allowed past the 3rd class. Feel free to email us at email@example.com or phone 416-707-1077 if you have any further questions.
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He was attending his MBA lecture on ‘ethics of business innovation.’ His benchmark for judging the morality of any business decision was the utilitarian principle of ‘greatest good for most number of people.’ But this lecture challenged him by introducing the principle of ‘informed consent’ through a case story of Henrietta Lacks.
In 1951, Henrietta was diagnosed with cervical cancer by doctors at Johns Hopkins. During her biopsy, cell samples were taken and given to a researcher who had been working on the problem of trying to grow human cells. Henrietta’s cancer spread wildly, and she was dead within a year. But her cells turned out to be an incredible discovery because they continued growing at a very fast rate. The HeLa cells would be crucial for confirming that the polio vaccine worked and soon companies were created to grow and ship them to researchers around the world.
Unfortunately, no one ever asked Henrietta’s permission and her family knew nothing about the important role her cells played in medicine for decades. Poor and with little formal education, Henrietta’s children were confused by what was actually done to their mother.
The story felt personal. He felt bad for Henrietta’s family. They were denied the basic tenet of humanity – the freedom of choice.
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Ellen Page Speaks About the Film
Now there is no stopping me with updates!
Just kidding. We had a couple false starts here to get this up and running.
As I type this, George and I are in Topanga (where he lives and keeps our hives) making some last finishing touches with the b-roll. Those are the images one lays over synchronous footage so that a documentary doesn't just consist of talking heads. The film is looking good!
Thank you for your support and for those who upped your pledges. Please pass this around!
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For immediate release.
Prague - August 23th, 2010 - 2nd Rytmik Contest - 50 000 Nintendo Points in total prizes!
2nd Rytmik Contest
50 000 Nintendo Points in total prizes!
Download Rytmik to your Nintendo DSi
Create your own music or cover version of your favorite song Post a video Response to this on Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsUlyZ35OYo
Get votes for your song (via Like Button on youtube)
Contest deadline is Thursday September 30th 2010
1st Place 30 000 Nintendo Points
2nd Place 9 000 Nintendo Points
3rd Place 6 000 Nintendo Points
4th Place 3 000 Nintendo Points
5th Place 2 000 Nintendo Points
Please do not submit songs from 1st Rytmik Contest!
Connect With Us on Facebook. Became a fan of Rytmik (DSiWare).
Rytmik is not only for playing with sounds; in the hands of a skillful musician it can become a serious musical instrument– surprisingly powerful pocket music station. For the best musical experience we recommend connecting headphones or quality speaker system. You’ll become the king of the Friday party in no time…
Cinemax is a leading independent Czech game-development company and well known for our commitment to quality and excellence. Visit http://games.cinemax.cz for more info.
Trademarks are property of their respective owners. Nintendo trademarks used under licence. DSiWare is available only through the Nintendo DSi system.
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Last year, we were working with Chef Suzanne Goin on a story for Williams-Sonoma when she introduced us to an organization that’s become incredibly special to us: Alex’s Lemonade Stand. The foundation has been raising funds and awareness for childhood cancer research ever since its founding in 2000 by a young girl named Alex, who was fighting cancer herself. She decided to hold a lemonade stand to help doctors find a cure for the disease. True to her word, she did just that, raising $2,000 that year. In 2004 Alex passed away at the age of eight, having reached her goal of raising more than $1 million through her annual lemonade stands.
“It was so incredible and powerful to think about a child who could see through her own pain and look to do something greater,” Goin told us. “It was incredibly inspiring.”
Goin invited our Brand Marketing Director Jean Armstrong to an event she was hosting in support of the organization, L.A. Loves Alex’s Lemonade. “I thought the story of this four-year-old girl was so powerful,” said Armstrong. “Alex’s parents attend all of the events, and there are lots of children running around — it’s really a celebration of life. Out of the tragedy, this foundation has made something so powerful happen.”
Williams-Sonoma was eager to get involved. We build a lemonade stand in our corporate cafe and raised $2,000 for Alex’s Lemonade Stand. We also went on to sponsor three of the charity’s events in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, which feature top chefs and mixologists from across the country holding food and cocktail tastings, along with live music, celebrity guests and silent auctions.
“The program is connected closely to the chef community, and their level of commitment is wonderful,” Armstrong added. “We want to support the chefs and their passion, too.”
Our food team even developed a product to support the foundation: a lemonade concentrate, of which 20% of proceeds go to Alex’s Lemonade Stand.
“We wanted to make a basic but outstanding version of lemonade, which was easy to make but still all-natural,” said our Food Development lead Travis Rea. “It reminds us of childhood and lemonade stands. We’re hoping to bring awareness to the organization and inspire people to contribute to research — regardless of whether you buy the product.”
We hope you’ll also be inspired by Alex’s story to gather family, friends and community, hold your own lemonade stand, and make a difference in the lives of children with cancer.
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Literacy for ME:
Maine's Comprehensive State Literacy Plan
Literacy for ME unifies the efforts of several state agencies and community groups as well as Maine’s public schools to provide direction and support to improve literacy achievement. Increasing demands for a variety of literacy skills and rapidly changing technology that affects how we work and how we communicate have combined to highlight the need to modify our perceptions of literacy, literacy instruction and the role of literacy in our daily lives.
This is a one minute video that provides an overview of the Literacy for ME initiative and its importance to Maine’s well-being.
- Navigate the plan index with links to all sections
- View or download the complete plan (PDF, 343KB)
- View or download a summary of the plan (PDF, 48KB)
Literacy for ME Community Webinar Series 2013-14
In an effort to support the ongoing planning work of community literacy teams, the Maine Department of Education will be providing a series of webinars focused on various aspects of community literacy planning. Learn more.
- Learn more about establishing a literacy team in your community.
- Literacy for ME Toolkit
- Watch a video recording of the Literacy for ME launch in Lewiston*
- View or download a transcript from the event. (PDF, 45KB)
- Find more on the Literacy for ME Resources page
For more information, contact Lee Anne Larsen, Literacy Specialist for the Maine DOE.
*This presentation is in Flash format. In order to view the presentation, you will need to have the Adobe Flash Player loaded on your computer. Most PCs are already equipped with this program; if your computer does not have the Flash Player, or you wish to upgrade, you can download the program for free. This is a fast and safe download directly from Adobe.
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ucs-cmds.el can help.
It provides a macro,
ucsc-make-commands, for quickly creating a set of commands that insert Unicode characters. You provide a regexp to it, which is matched against all Unicode character names (in
ucs-names). An insertion
command is created for each of the characters whose name matches. (The command names are essentially the same as the char names - see below.)
Sample command creations:
(ucsc-make-commands "^math") ; Math symbols
(ucsc-make-commands "latin") ; Latin alphabet characters
(ucsc-make-commands "^cjk") ; Chinese, Japanese, Korean characters
(ucsc-make-commands "^box drawings ")
(ucsc-make-commands "^greek [a-z]+ letter") ; Greek characters
(ucsc-make-commands "\\(^hangul\\|^circled hangul\\|^parenthesized hangul\\)")
This is the doc string:
ucsc-make-commands is a Lisp macro in `ucs-cmds.el'.
Create commands to insert Unicode characters whose names match REGEXP.
Letter case is ignored for matching.
The set of char names used is taken from `ucs-names'. There are
*many* such chars, so consider using a tighter regexp to limit the
number of commands created.
The commands created have the same names as the chars they insert,
except that `SPC' chars in the character names are replaced by
hyphens (`-'), and the command names are lowercase.
If you wanted to bind the commands you create to keys in a systematic way, then you could easily create a macro based on the code of
ucsc-make-commands that both creates the commands you want and binds them. Macro
ucsc-make-commands just iterates over all of the Unicode cars and creates commands for those whose names match the
During an iteration you have access to the character name and its code point. Figure out a convenient regular mapping of either code points or char names to keys, and your macro can add the appropriate
define-keys in addition to the command
The library also provides a command,
ucsc-insert, that can replace vanilla command
insert-char. The behavior and code of
ucsc-insert are identical to those of
insert-char except for what happens when you use a negative prefix argument:
It acts as if the prefix-arg value was positive. So a value of
-3 inserts three copies of the character, just as 3 does.
In addition to inserting the character, it defines a command
that you can use thereafter to insert that character. You can
use a prefix argument with that command to insert multiple
copies of the given character.
This gives you a command that is tailor-made to insert a given
Unicode character. You can then bind the command to a key
sequence, effectively adding Unicode characters to your keyboard.
insert-char does anything (it does nothing for a
negative prefix arg),
ucsc-insert does the same thing. Because
of this, you can bind
C-x 8 RET as
a replacement for
(define-key global-map [remap insert-char] 'ucsc-insert)
If you need only a few such commands for inserting particular
Unicode characters, then using
ucsc-insert to define them is
sufficiently convenient. If you need a lot of such commands then macro
ucsc-make-commands is your friend.
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Ami Amour Amant (track) by Jean-Louis Murat
Ami Amour Amant appears on the following album(s) by Jean-Louis Murat:
Muragostang (this album) (2000).
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This festive season, DIOR portrayed in video form, the focus of the House's creation for Christmas 2018.
An ornamental motif adored by Christian Dior: toile de Jour from as early as 1947, this great French classic originating in the 18th century, the couturier's beloved era, upholstered the interior of his "Colifichets" boutique, realized in conjunction with the decorator Victor Grandpierre following the advice of the artist Christian Berard.
Its reinterpretation by Maria Grazia Chiuri for the cruise 2019 collection sees it enriched with a series of wild animals.
Surrounded by lush vegetation, creatures including deer, monkeys, snakes and lions populate the surface of the Lady Dior, Dior Book Tote and Saddle bags, along with a number of accessories.
Also featured are two Baby Dior stuffed toys and Dior Maison items (plates, cushions, sundries trays, etc.) designed by Cordelia de Castellane.
In addition, precious jewels, including the essential Dior Tribales asymmetrical earrings, are revealed in several poetic scenes.
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Jin-Won Kim, Ph.D.
Department of Tourism, Recreation & Sport Management
- Ph.D. in Sustainable Tourism and Protected Area Mgt,Michigan St University (2015)
- M.S. in Tourism Management, Kyunghee University (2006)
- B.S. in Geography, Kyunghee University (2002)
- Curriculum Vitae
|Address:||P.O. Box 118208, Gainesville, FL 32611-8208|
Jin-Won Kim, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management at the University of Florida, USA. The overall goal of his research is to identify the role of tourism, recreation and parks in the creation of active, vibrant, sustainable and resilient communities. Dr. Kim’s research has focused on four areas: (1) water-based recreation and tourism planning (2) environmental justice issues, including the accessibility and equity of recreation opportunities (3) recreation and public health policy and (4) applications of GIS and spatial technologies in tourism/recreation planning, development and management. As a tourism/recreation geographer, Dr. Kim is especially interested in applying geospatial concepts and analytical methodologies to problems that recreation or tourism managers face in their everyday decision making. His academic papers have been published in top-tier tourism and leisure journals, including Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research, Leisure Sciences and Journal of Leisure Research.
- Community recreation planning and development, including environmental justice, community health, quality of life and community resilience
- Water-based recreation and tourism
- Visitors’ spatial behavior in parks and recreation areas
- Geospatial analytics in recreation, park and tourism.
- LEI 6557: Sustainable Coastal Tourism
- LEI 5188: Trends in Tourism and Recreation Management
- LEI 5121: Outdoor Recreation and Park Management
- LEI 4880: Research Method
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Elegant urns filled with agaves, splashing lion's-head fountains, slate countertops: Although these could be details from a lavish Tuscan villa, they're actually in Kimberly Chamberlain's Italianate garden, designed by Terry Broussard.
Every inch of the pie-shaped lot is designed with outdoor living and entertaining in mind, with one twist: The garden is wheelchair-accessible. Chamberlain, who loves to garden, cook, swim, and entertain, has easy access to all outside areas, thanks to Broussard's creative design. "It's a remarkable use of an odd-shaped space," noted a juror.
In the back garden, a slate-tiled lap pool, raised for easy entry, is also a dramatic fountain and focal point. The stucco sides of a raised vegetable bed have a smooth top for more comfortable gardening. An elegant, vine-covered pergola and concrete paths link sections of the garden. A built-in barbecue, copper table, and outdoor shower make the garden unique.
DESIGNER: Terry Broussard, Broussard Associates Landscape Architects, Clovis, CA (559/325-7284)
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NSO Developer Days Is Heading to Asia Pacific
Join Cisco Network Service Orchestrator developer advocate, Jason Belk, on March 3rd for a guided tour through free resources, talk about the roadmap, and what we've done to improve your learning path.
A simpler way to move data from the network’s edge to Amazon Web Services
Cisco IoT and AWS extend collaboration with Cisco's Edge Intelligence offering.
Read-Only YANG Leaves: Where Does the Data Come From?
DevNet's Hank Preston digs into another user's question related to model driven programmability. Do you have a question about network automation? You can Ask Hank!
A New Year Calls for a New DevNet Partner Specialization
With evolution comes growth and our inherent desire to find ways to improve and evolve our business. Read more about specific ways being DevNet Specialized has helped our partners Natilik and Comtec in 2021.
Native, IETF, OpenConfig… Why so many YANG models?
Which YANG model to use for your project? Ask Hank takes a look at your options, and how model driven programmability is a foundational technology for the automation engineer.
How can I automate a MAC address interface report?
Hank's back to answer another question from the community. This time we use automation to associate ARP data, MAC addresses, and network interfaces.
Software Skills Give Network Pros Super Powers
Add software skills to your networking teams' toolkits to help them solve your most important challenges.
Cisco DevNet Community 2020
Cisco DevNet is your home for everything programmability with Cisco. Join the global developer community, working with Cisco APIs, to drive innovation.
Putting time to good use as we stay at home: Cisco employees’ stories
We caught up with a few of our Customer Zero employees to find out what they’ve been doing during the lockdown, and how they used Cisco's Time2Give paid time off program to volunteer and make a positive impact in their communities.
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SEIZED HIGH-LIFT JACK
THERE’S not a lot that can go wrong with high-lift jacks. Knock-off imports can struggle with binding due to the standard (the spine) bending and binding on the runner. If that happens you’re generally out of luck. Short of that there’s very little to go wrong, so it makes for a simple bush repair.
In 90 per cent of situations binding in the up or down direction is a case of the two climbing pins being either clogged with contaminants from use or catching on rust. Cleaning before and after use with a fresh squirt of silicone spray will prevent this, but if it happens in the bush a squirt with degreaser is often enough to get things moving freely.
High-lift jacks can be overloaded and will fail. To prevent them from crashing down there’s a sheer pin in the handle that will fail before the climbing pins. They act as the fuse, so if that blows replace it and reconsider your loads. Using a stronger bolt will make the climbing pins the weak point, which could have deadly results.
High-lift jacks are simple. If the standard is straight, the pins cleaned and lubed, and the cross pins and springs working, it will work.
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Latin name: Cinnamomum camphora
Other name: Cemphire
A Remedy For
Blood pressure problems
In Asia, Camphor is also used for
asthma, indigestion, inflammations, and
What It Is; Why It Works
Camphor is an active ingredient in
such familiar over-the-counter remedies
as Vicks VapoRub and Mentholatum
ointment. Rubbed on the skin,
Camphor stimulates circulation. Its
inhaled vapors reduce bronchial
secretions. When taken internally,
it combats bronchial spasms, improves
breathing, and promotes circulation.
In years past, cakes of Camphor were
used as a moth-repellent. It was
once popular as a remedy for stomach
and bowel complaints, but fell out
of favor due to the danger of
overdose, which can easily prove fatal. It was once believed to prevent infectious
disease, a fallacy that probably sprang
from its strong odor.
Camphor is an import from Japan and
Taiwan, where it's distilled from the
wood of the camphor tree, a large
There are no medical conditions that
preclude the use of Camphor by
adults, but Camphor salves should
not be used on infants.
External application of Camphor can
cause skin irritation and even lead to
poisoning through inhalation. Eczema
(a skin inflammation) occasionally
appears after application of oily
salves containing camphor.
Possible Drug Interactions
No interactions have been reported.
Special Information If You Are
Pregnant or Breastfeeding
No harmful effects are known.
How To Prepare
Camphor is used primarily in salves.
However, solid and liquid preparations
can be used for inhalation or taken
For external use, concentrations of
Camphor in salves should not exceed
25% for adults and 5% for children.
When taken internally, the usual daily
dosage is 30 to 300 milligrams.
As little as 1 gram can be lethal
for a child. In adults, a dose of 20 grams can prove fatal. Symptoms of
overdose, particularly in children, include intoxication, delirium, spasms, and
breathing disturbances. If you suspect
an overdose, seek medical attention
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It’s June 5th 2012, the transit of Venus is today!
I’ve been looking forward to this rare event for a long time and I’ve made my preparations accordingly. The only thing I left to chance is the weather, a fact that has come to haunt me these last few days. I should have just bought a ticket to the cloudless deserts of Australia, but instead I left myself tied to the foggy shores of Newfoundland:
Above you can see the disappointing view in St. John’s this morning. There is little chance this thick fog will lift in time for tonight’s show, I fear that St. John’s will not see the transit of Venus in 2012.
Marije and I will still try to find a place to observe the transit, a place somewhere in Newfoundland with a cloudless view towards the sunset. If we do find such a place, I will update this post.
Update 1: pre-transit
The weather is still bad. For those with similar viewing conditions, here’s a website where you can see the transit of Venus: Transit of Venus on APOD.
Update 2: post-transit
Marije and I chased the transit around the Avalon; we drove down to the southern shore where the skies were only partly clouded, the best weather on the Avalon today. We even saw the sun a few times, but about an hour before the actual transit began, even the southern shore was fogged in.
In the end, we missed the entire transit, we saw only clouds. This 400 km trip through fog and darkness wasn’t made for nothing though, we saw a caribou, 2 moose, some whales and a seal that thought he was a whale. We had a good time.
A week after the transit, I’ve seen many great photos of the transit. Here’s a great movie from NASA, set to music: Transit of Venus from NASA / SDO.
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Book III: On Inceptions is based largely on Dorotheus and focuses on inception charts taken broadly: elections, thought-interpretation and analysis, event charts, and even proto-horary questions. In addition to lengthy instructions on crafting strong elections, typical inceptions include forming business deals, getting married, finding lost property, founding cities, farming, asking for favors, travel, surgery and medical treatment, and even the astrological reading of entrails. Event charts include analyzing the truth of rumors, the return of missing spouses, and more. Hephaistion also includes thought-interpretation techniques, using twelfth-parts and other methods.
Book III is also the most important source of authentic Greek verses of Dorotheus, complementing the Arabic translation by ‘Umar al-Tabari. This edition includes numerous Dorothean Excerpts and Fragments identified by Pingree and others, which supplement and enhance the material in Hephaistion. Along with Choices & Inceptions: Traditional Electional Astrology (2012), Hephaistion’s Book III provides the most complete picture of Hellenistic and medieval inceptional astrology. (206 pages)
EDUARDO GRAMAGLIA is an award-winning translator of Greek and professor of musical analysis in Argentina. He has translated Paul of Alexandria, Serapio, and other Hellenistic astrologers into Spanish, and is co-Principal of the Collegium Astrologicum. For more, see www.astrologicum.com.ar.
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“Houdini’s Sister” by Christine Hamm
There’s always the girl who understands locks and a bone-toothed comb, the one who crawls under the table, crams into the mouse hole, the one who gives the witch the wrong directions. There’s always the girl who knows the language of rabbits and convinces one to let her ride astride, the girl who can live on breadcrumbs and fog, who clings to the giant’s boot until he gets tired of stumbling around the kitchen, looking for a cooking pot, and falls asleep. There’s always one left, the one who cuts off her hair to make a rope (if that’s what it takes), the one who talks the blue-bellied salmon into carrying her across the river, the one who takes the diamonds of her tears and sells them for a good pair of boots.
|Christine Hamm is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Drew University. She won the MiPoesias First Annual Chapbook Competition with her manuscript, Children Having Trouble with Meat. Her poetry has been published in Orbis, Pebble Lake Review, Lodestar Quarterly, Poetry Midwest, Rattle, Dark Sky, and many others. She has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize, and she teaches English at CUNY. Echo Park, her third book of poems, came out from Blazevox this fall. Christine was a runner-up to the Poet Laureate of Queens.|
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i don't think i've ever seen a lambo advert before... sales a bit slow?
it's cool though!
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10 Coolest nail art designs EVER (PHOTOS)
If there's one thing that I WISH I had the patience for, it would be to sit down at the end of the day and paint my nails a new, cool design. I've always loved to do my own nails and, although I really love getting a professional manicure, I'll often try to fix them up myself but rarely do I have time for a full-on nail art design.
To be honest, some of them seem SO ridiculous to be--but that's why I love them! The I really want right now is OPI's new "black spotted" nail polish (kind of like that crackle stuff), but it's not available in the U.S. yet. In the meantime, I've been collecting some super amazing nail art design ideas on Pinterest. Seriously, these are the coolest ones out there. Check them out!
Read more ¿Qué más? 10 ways to save your curls this summer
What's your favorite inspiration from Pinterest? Do you LOVE nail art? Share with us in the comments below!
Image via Fashionista
Well, how could I NOT include an Olympics-inspired nail design? Although there have been a few out there, I think this one (with the oh-so-delicate rings) is my favorite.
Check them out on bearspace gallery/Pinterest!
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College roundup: Williams men's basketball falls to Oneonta State
ONEONTA, N.Y. — The Williams College men's basketball team hit the road on Wednesday, and had to travel back to Williamstown as a 75-62 loser against Oneonta State.
Oneonta's Ian Schupp hit a three with just under a minute remaining to ice the game for the 4-2 Dragons.
The Ephs (5-2) trailed for the entire second half after falling behind by 10 at the break. The team struggled from behind the 3-point line, shooting just 4 of 18.
Dan Aronowitz and Kyle Scadlock led Williams with 16 points each, and Bobby Casey chipped in 14. No other Eph topped five points in the game. Aronowitz tied for the game-high in rebounds with seven, and Casey added three assists.
Oneonta was led by Mike McElroy's game-high 19 points.
Williams is back in action on Saturday at home against Springfield College.
WILLIAMS 65, SMITH 54
In Williamstown, the Williams College women's basketball team picked up a 65-54 win over Smith College.
The Ephs, now 7-0 on the season and ranked No. 17 in the d3hoops.com poll, opened up an eight-point lead after a quarter and a 12-point lead at halftime. The team was led by a balanced effort, as four starters hit double digits.
Katie Litman and Amanni Fernandez led everyone with 14 points each, Lauren McCall added 13 and Devon Caveney had 10. Fernandez added nine assists to just miss out on a double double, and Kristin Fechtelkotter had 11 rebounds and four points off the bench.
Smith was led by Paige Marquez, who scored 12 points in just 14 minutes of play.
Williams is back in action on Saturday at Wesleyan.
Cotton earns ECAC honor
On Wednesday, the Eastern College Athletic Conference named Williams College senior Colin Cotton the ECAC New England DIII Athlete of the Week.
Cotton broke the Williams school record in the indoor 5k with his run at the Smith College Invitational. Cotton's new mark is now 14 minutes, 17 seconds. Cotton took the record from classmate Bijan Mazaheri, who ran a 14:27 last year.
Cotton and the Ephs race next on Jan. 16 at the Little Three Championship, being hosted by Wesleyan.
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By the end of the year 2021, you will get to hear that Microsoft will have widely accessible distinct versions of Windows, including Windows 365 Cloud PC, Windows 11, and Azure Virtual Desktop. This demand for cloud-based solutions has skyrocketed in the last year.
In a hybrid world, businesses and institutions must swiftly adjust to remote employment and distance learning.
Keep in mind that Azure Virtual Desktop and Microsoft’s Windows 365 Cloud PC enable your IT department to seamlessly support user accessibility on any device, from anywhere, by deploying remote desktops and apps through the cloud.
But, what exactly is Windows 365 Cloud PC, and how does it differ from Azure Virtual Desktop? These three examples demonstrate why Windows 365 is a better choice than Azure.
- Less than ten desktop computers
If the IT infrastructure has a modest number of computers, Windows 365 Business is the best option. It does not have any prerequisites like AVD. For example, no Active Directory configuration or storage location is required for FSLogix containers. As a result, in terms of management, deployment, and cost-effectiveness, Windows 365 Business is a clear winner.
- There is no existing or planned Azure footprint
Some businesses have basic, cloud-only IT setups with Microsoft 365 and other SaaS products, with no infrastructure footprint on Azure and no plans to build any such equipment. Windows 365 Business is a fantastic solution in this circumstance since it is simple to allocate PCs to users and has minimal administrative overhead for IT administrators.
- No prior experience with desktop virtualization
Today, only a tiny percentage of Windows devices are virtualized using technologies such as AVD. Desktop virtualization is a sophisticated technology that needs specialist knowledge. Many firms do not have such a skill set and do not intend to develop it.
In this case, Windows 365 Enterprise is an excellent choice. It does not need knowledge of profile encapsulation, auto-scaling, multi-session administration, or other advanced AVD ideas. Instead, it simplifies the deployment and management of Cloud PCs alongside existing physical PCs.
What is the difference between Windows 365 cloud pc and Azure virtual desktop?
Both options provide the most recent cloud technologies, including built-in security, a superior remote work experience, and flexibility—all at an affordable price.
Azure Virtual Desktop is again a cloud-based VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) that allows you to fully configure your customer’s architecture and control the resources that support it.
Windows 365 Cloud PC is a fully managed Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution that provides the same wonderful desktop experience as Windows without the complexity of infrastructure management.
Storage in the cloud
Windows 365 offers fully managed storage with a fixed price while focusing on the simplicity of use and setup. The lack of admin access to the VMs can make backup difficult, but with Microsoft controlling it, the aim is that it will not be necessary.
With OS Disks, FSLogix profiles, and the ability to simply backup storage and VMs, AVD is all about versatility.
Windows 365 Enterprise has entirely customer-managed networking, including customizable routing, IP addresses, and security. Meanwhile, Windows 365 Business will continue to be entirely governed by Microsoft, with no freedom. Networking flexibility is required for Azure Virtual Desktop, and no Microsoft management is offered.
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FRAME Annual Lecture 2013
Speaker Dr Jarrod Bailey discussed his work reviewing drug testing on dogs and evidence that their use in predicting human safety is little better than chance.
Dr Bailey, science adviser to the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) has just completed a project with Michelle Thew, also of the BUAV, and Professor Michael Balls, FRAME's Life President. They looked at data from 2,366 publicly-available toxicological studies that used dogs, and asked whether the use of dogs contributes significant weight to the evidence predicting the toxicity of potetial new drugs in humans. Their findings show that canine models are highly inconsistent predictors of toxic responses in humans.
It is argued by many, based on robust science, that a comprehensive suite of more reliable alternative methods is available to drug development. Combined with considerable public concern over the use of dogs in science, the high ethical costs of using dogs, the sensitive nature of dogs, and the desire—expressed within the industry—for the use of dogs as a second species in drug testing to have a scientific, rather than a habitual, basis, we conclude that preclinical testing of pharmaceuticals in dogs cannot currently be justified on scientific or ethical grounds.
For the paper, click here.
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What does Savita mean?
The meaning of Savita is "sun".
Savita is generally used as a girl's name.
It consists of 6 letters and 3 syllables and is pronounced Sa-vi-ta.
The Given Name Savita
Savita is a daring and memorable name.
Want to make this name more unique? Try spell it backwards.
A sweet name that will enchant parents.
Savita falls into the celestial name category.
In contrast, the year before less than 5 girls were given the name. Less than 5 boys were given the name.
Want to see how Savita sizes up? How it compares to some other names? Then check out the Savita Name Popularity Page.
Savita Related Names
Savita Name Fun
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“ Brand: Travelpro / Type: Hand Luggage / Style: Holdall / Duffle Bag „
I bought the travelpro tpro lite xtreme expandable duffel in june to hold all my luggage for my weeks holiday in france. I wanted a fancy case but money was tight. After searching amazon uk i decided to buy this because it was at a bargain price reduced from £29.99 to just £14.99 so snapped it up straight away however i wished i hadn't.
I never learn when i see items reduced heavily from the rrp price i automatically think its a great buy instead of thinking it could be cheap because its rubbish well this is how i feel with this luggage bag.
When the bag came it was wrapped in clear plastic. There is no other colour choice blue only. The bag is a good size measuring 32 inches long and can hold 65 litres.
The travelpro tpro lite xtreme is made from thin nylon, it has a pocket on the side of the bag with zips, a handy place for storing flip flops etc. The top of the bag has a zip going around the middle in an oblong shape, this does not open the top of the bag right up but enough room to pack clothes in it.
On one end of the bag are a set of wheels made from plastic and hollow these are really small and at the opposite end of the bag is a zip compartment that unzips to give you a pull out handle for pulling the bag along the ground. If its not to heavy you can use the carry handles attached to the top of the bag.
Inside the bag is a long piece of plastic lining the bottom of the bag, the edges of this plastic is sharp and i cut my finger on it.
So i managed to pack my clothes and went on holiday for the week. My bag went on the plane from london and one hour or so later come of in france and as i pulled the handle out to roll it the handle snapped right off.
After i got back from my holiday there was also lots of little tears on both side of the bag and one of the wheels had split.
I never over packed as i travel light as possible so this was a real disappointment. Needless to say i let the company know how poorly made the bag is, its so cheap and tacky looking and didn't ever survive one trip, i did get a refund but i recommend you all avoid buying this product.
I do not recommend the travelpro tpro lite xtreme expandable duffel.
Two way zip main compartment
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The Department of Behavioral Neuroscience is one of six basic science departments in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University. It was originally established in 1957 under the leadership of Joseph D. Matarazzo, Ph.D. (CV), as a freestanding medical school division (Division of Medical Psychology) affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry. Four years later (1961), the school's Executive faculty unanimously recommended conversion of the division into a basic science department, thus completing the process of establishing the first Department of Medical Psychology within a medical school in the United States (see Matarazzo, 1994).
From the outset, the department assumed the responsibilities of a basic science department, emphasizing its role in teaching, research and research training, in addition to providing clinical services. The appointment of several experimental-physiological psychologists in the early 1960s fostered the initial development of a Ph.D. program in biopsychology. These faculty included Drs. Richard F. Thompson, Judson S. Brown, Robert D. Fitzgerald, David S. Phillips, Robert W. Goy, Charles H. Phoenix, and F. Robert Brush. The department admitted its first doctoral students in 1964 and these initial students were awarded their Ph.D. degrees in 1968 and 1969. Since that time, the department's graduate training program has continued to grow and develop while maintaining a strong focus in areas of research that fall under the broad heading of behavioral neuroscience. To date, the program has awarded 59 M.S. degrees and 103 Ph.D. degrees. The majority of these students have gone on to pursue successful academic and research careers.
The department's faculty has been quite successful in obtaining external support for its research and research training programs. Of particular significance is the fact that the department has had continuous federal research training grant support from one or more of the institutes affiliated with the NIH for more than 30 years. At present, the department administers three such training programs. One program (Biological Bases of Alcoholism), funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), is currently in its 27nd year. The second program (Biological Bases of Drug Seeking Behavior), funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), is currently in its 23rd year. The most recently funded program (Neuroscience of Aging), funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), is currently in its 9th year. These grants provide stipend and other support for a total of 9 postdoctoral fellows and 15 graduate students affiliated with the graduate program in Behavioral Neuroscience or the interdepartmental Neuroscience graduate program. Another significant factor in the department's overall research effort is the presence of the Portland Alcohol Research Center (PARC) funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) as well as the Methamphetamine Abuse Research Center (MARC). These Centers, directed by John Crabbe, Ph.D. and Aaron Janowsky, Ph.D., involves about 20 faculty investigators working at OHSU, Portland State University and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center . Many of these individuals have faculty appointments in the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience. The support provided by the Center grants is approximately $10 million. The department faculty has also been notably successful in obtaining support for individual research grants from a variety of sources, although most funds come from either the NIH or Veteran's Administration. In 2008, the total number of research and research training dollars awarded to the department's faculty exceeded $10.9 million. The research supported by these funds provides an outstanding context for the research training of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
After a formal internal review process, the Faculty Council of the School of Medicine reaffirmed the strong basic science role played by the department's faculty by approving a recommendation to reorganize (and rename) the department as "Behavioral Neuroscience" in March, 1996. This reorganization involved an increased focus on the department's role in teaching, research training and basic research, with the gradual elimination of its role in clinical training and clinical service. The department's new name quite accurately reflects its unique commitment within the medical school to teach and conduct research in an effort to improve our understanding of the neurobiological bases of behavior. Dr. Christopher Cunningham served as the Interim Department Chair between 1996 and 2000. Dr. Robert Hitzemann was appointed Department Chair in 2000. More information about the department's current programs can be found on other pages at this web site.
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Want to see where I work?
Newly-launched Katha Magazine featured my creative space in their second issue released November 3rd. Have you seen Katha yet? It’s a bi-monthly creative resource for and about Filipino creatives and is filled with interesting articles, awesome photos and art direction, and great creative styling! I’m honored and flattered to be asked to be part of their second issue to share pictures of where I work 🙂
I work from home, and home is my parents’ house in Paranaque (in Filipino/some Asian cultures, children typically still live with their parents until they get married). I can’t believe I’ve been working from home for five years already. Almost two years working from home fulltime and on night shift for an American company, and the rest as a freelancer.
Working from home is not for everyone. I’ve always been a homebody and an introvert (bordering on anti-social!) even at a young age so working from home suits me. I’ve tried working in coffee shops (when I’m hit with a bout of cabin fever) but I don’t do that very often as I get distracted by people coming and going, coffee, and lemon squares. I far prefer working from home. It can get very isolated though especially with a “shut-in” career like illustration, so if you crave social interaction, or don’t have the discipline to work from home (“Oh, look! A bed! I’m just going to– zzzzz”), working in an office setting might be better.
Read the Katha article here
I am very grateful I get to do my work from the comforts of home, especially when I get on Facebook and see people on my feed complaining about how they’re sitting in horrible traffic on the way to/from work, or how they had a hard time getting a ride home because it was raining and “walang masakyan.” I am most especially grateful that I’m in an industry where working from home is practically the norm (talk to other illustrators. Notice how we’re all socially awkward and aloof? That’s what very minimal social interaction does to ya!).
In collaboration with Katha Magazine, I’m giving away a set of Wedgienet loot! Woot, woot!
Katha’s second issue is all about celebrating the spirit of giving and receiving. I’ve been blessed with a life and a career I love, and I think that shines through in my work– cheerful, bright, happy. And I’m passing on my work to one reader who can answer the following question: WHAT IS YOUR IDEAL WORKSPACE LIKE?
Send in your answers here: http://bit.ly/katha-regsilva-giveaway . The deadline is on December 15th, 2013. I will only be able to check and see the answers after the deadline. Please note that this giveaway is open for Philippine residents only (aww!), but international readers (all two of you), don’t worry as I have another giveaway later this month that’s open to everyone 🙂
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VoluMill™ within GibbsCAM offers expanded milling solutions for cutting methods that maximize material removal rates by building toolpaths that optimally control tool cutting factors. The process automatically takes into account the best option for milling pockets, including the speed of a tool plunging into the material and material removal rates. Variation in tool load is smoothed, allowing the machine to use much higher speeds and feeds.
VoluMill for GibbsCAM is only available through authorized GibbsCAM resellers. To locate your local GibbsCAM reseller, please go to the GibbsCAM website, contact GibbsCAM Sales, or call 1-800-654-9399.
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peggys place boutique
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When it comes to fashion and trends, it is our policy to update ourselves to the latest version. Peggys Place Boutique offers you its latest and trendy collection.
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Market analysts have conducted recent researches, help segment leading online sites of beauty and personal responsibility in Europe, namely three countries, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. The global online giant, Amazon is among, if not, the favorite online site catering to various needs of online beauty and personal care needs by 22 percent of the shoppers in the United Kingdom and approximately 25 percent of the shoppers in Germany. In the West, Amazon has a large fan base, an estimate of 73 percent of shoppers in the United States consider Amazon as their favorite site to go to for cosmetic product and help. In France, Amazon has a very minimal score among the shoppers at 17 percent and falls in second place behind Yvesrocher.fr. Amazon is evaluating their success rate among different nations and is quickly adapting in an attempt to satisfy various changing customer needs to achieve the first place among shoppers. Amazon has been making changes by adding the feature of automatic replenishment of products while enabling the customer to choose at the desired frequency.
There are other sites than concentrating on Amazon. In the nation of Germany, online shops are becoming increasingly competitive such as beauty products like perfume and cosmetics retailers such as Douglas, drugstore chains Rossman and dm and established and branded outlets such as Nivea.de. In the United Kingdom, after Amazon, shoppers favor the drugstore chain, Boots. Boots is the United Kingdom’s third most crucial brand for meeting beauty and cosmetic needs.
In the United Kingdom, shoppers seek and browse online for specific deals and promotion much more than for lower prices available. Majority of the shoppers believe in finding the exact same promotions online as available in stores and shops.
The Germans persist to the preference of major brands despite rising in private labels at large drugstore chains. Rossman and dm are precisely the two leading drugstore chains and favored among as the top five favorite online shops for beauty and personal care. However, Amazon is still number one preferred online portal for beauty stoppers of the nation with Douglas.de as second place and Nivea.de coming up in ranks.
In France however, the nation is dominated by online shops and local brands. France is the only nation among the three-nation study that does not consider Amazon has its favorite online stop. In France, it is Yveshrocher.fr in first place and Amazon in second. To persist the maintenance of lead in online shops, Yveshrocher.fr along with other local French sites offer more of what customers need such as virtual try-outs, online beauty communities, and inspiration for new beauty ideas.
Ulta Beauty has a constant flow of new arrivals which is to be checked every day. Although Ulta Beauty does not have many discounts, it holds two yearly 21 days of beauty sales where products will be offered at prices at half the rate. Gorgeous hair event held in October and May provide deals on hair care products while in January it offers deals on skin care products. Ulta has reward programs which entail special offers to members on the products and service they love. It has a return policy as well where if the product bought is unsatisfied, you are given the right to return it within 60 days.
This site is continuously updated each time you visit it. Every July hosts the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale which is renowned for its incredible offers and limited edition deals. Nordstrom has half-yearly sales each spring and fall that offers great deals on beauty. Nordstrom leads with its price-matching policy which states the store will meet at a fellow competitors pricing when an item is provided in the same color, size while being available at a similar retailer. Reward programs involve great offers and a point for every dollar spent through membership or possessing a Nordstrom card.
Target is known for always running some sale and is always displayed on its homepage. You can save at Target by paying through your REDcard where you can save 5 percent every time you shop. Buying through Target Subscriptions will earn you 5 percent. Installing the Cartwheel which is the Target’s couponing app will make you discounts anywhere from 5 percent to 50 percent. The return policy of 90 days is available if you possess a receipt.
This retailer features limited-time offers and rewards members with early access to its seasonal sales. The brand’s rewards program is known as N.dulge and offers members one point for every dollar spent. You will be the first to know about exclusive offers on cosmetic products and new product launches.
Birchbox has stock updates once a week. Birchbox hosts customer appreciation day typically on September 15 which offers special discounts. It has a reward program of providing one point for every dollar spent, and Birchbox Ace members earn special discounts on hair and skin care products with free shipping.
The beauty products giant offers the amazing Beauty Insider Program where points are earned for every dollar spent and get free birthday gifts as well. Insiders benefit from exclusive offers, invitations and are even called to attend beauty care classes. Depending on how much you spend, you can get first access to products, an invitation to private events and unrestricted access to Sephora Beauty Studio.
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Inspiration and thoughts behind the making of 'Keep The Orange Sun'
The idea of collaborating started in Summer 2020. I have been a fan of awakened souls music and both James & Cynthia's individual projects (James Bernard, marine eyes) for quite some time. I still remember the first time I heard their song ‘paint the sky’ on their album ‘how we heal’ released on Stereoscenic. It blew my mind and filled my heart. That song was on repeat for weeks at home. We started talking on social media and we noticed that we were both fans of each other's music with many shared influences. At that time awakened souls was planning a beautiful release with 36 (The Other Side Of Darkness) on PITP so we ended up talking more and more. It became obvious to us that we needed to make music together.
KTOS - A new band:
We slowly started to share tracks in Fall 2020. The first track we worked on is the track ‘Rise’ and we felt something was happening. A magical moment was when we shared the first draft of the tracks ‘Any of Those Lies’ and ‘Keep The Orange Sun’. We instantly knew this collaboration would go somewhere beyond a collaboration. The music was traveling to many territories with diverse influences that worked great together. It was one of the first times I could hear Cynthia’s amazing vocals more upfront in the mix and each of us bringing our unique colors and instruments to the songs. Everything was natural and it felt like we were working as a band dreaming of playing these songs live. James' experience and talent allowed us to free ourselves from our insecurities, to let go. We all really became close friends working on that album and I am really thankful for that.
When the album was finished, we thought it would be interesting to hear a few tracks reworked by friends and artists that we love. When we heard the reworks we received from r beny, zakè & City of Dawn, 36, Innesti, Taylor Deupree, and Patricia Wolf we were blown away. They each managed to bring the tracks to some other dimensions, other solar systems! Everything fits so well together. The Reworks album is the perfect companion to extend the ‘Keep The Orange Sun’ journey. More than that, it feels like an album by itself. I am so grateful to everyone involved. Hope you will enjoy the albums as much as we do. We are excited to see what comes next for us as Keep The Orange Sun!
Each collaboration brings out a new musical side to me and turns into a way to grow. Kévin’s dedication and attention to detail (and lists) helped give us the blueprint as we were exploring how all of the songs would turn into an album. The way we started was very unique as the beginning tracks were free-form guitar ideas from Kévin and it was fun to unlock the puzzle of where to begin with them.
IDM has been a genre that is close to my heart since my first IDM-style release as Influx on Isophlux records back in 1997. I was tapping into my love for IDM when working on percussion for ‘Any Of Those Lies’, revisiting my love of UK future bass music. I used the Elektron Model Cycles for the whole percussion portion of the song, then chopped it up and processed it in Ableton.
The song that I had the most fun programming and arranging was, Keep The Orange Sun. I have always had a love for shoegaze and it was nice to do something different that was a mutual passion for all three of us as well.
I love how each song has its own unique starting point. I can usually think back to what inspired the beginning, what kind of day I was having, what lesson I may have been learning, and usually what the sky looked like too. We all have a few songs that started with one of us on KTOS. Release-Adapt is one of the two songs on the album that began with me. I started it soon after the 'The Other Side of Darkness' sessions and was having a hard day seeing some of our kids go through self-doubt (also, the theme of Any of Those Lies). I struggled with accepting myself for a long time in my youth and young adulthood and feel like many of the words on this album and song titles were equally a letter to my kids and a letter to nurture those past parts of me. Another amazing origin story on the album is Passing Dreams, as it began when James and I had a few rare days alone in a snowy cabin in Idyllwild, California. We had just gone on one of the most magical snowy hikes of our life and then came back to the cabin and wanted to capture what that hike felt like. The guitar parts Kévin added took the song to another level and we love how it turned out focusing on guitar, 303, and voice.
Science of Gratitude:
Keep The Orange Sun started as a lo-fi indie song idea of mine from many years ago. I have always had the words floating around but never felt the right time to complete the song. Earlier this year when the kids were still schooling from home, we would take drives to pretty places a few times a week to get out of the house and switch things up. We drove to a beach near Ventura and watched the sunset and it was especially orange and beautiful that night. I am in love with sunrises, sunsets, the moon, and the sky and was excitedly taking photos of the moment when I realized I needed to pause and soak it in too. I wanted to hold onto that sunset in my memory and imprint it as something I could go back to. I have read a lot of Dr. Rick Hanson, who specializes in gratitude and he mentions that if we hold onto moments we love with presence for 10 seconds longer than we are inclined, it can help train our brains to hold onto the beauty that matters to us. I ended up writing the main guitar part and recording vocals that same night and James dove in right away as well.
I can’t talk about KTOS without mentioning that as the album was being made, so was our friendship with Kévin. We talk to him pretty much every single day of our lives and had an amazing chance to meet in person in June when he and his equally creative wife, Claire visited California. We had already finished writing the album by that point and it was so special to get to share a few meals together and be together in nature. While writing the album, we all helped each other grow and of course, James encouraged both Kévin and me to fully embrace being ourselves. Creating music with people you love is incredibly heart-opening, vulnerable and something I cherish. Also, receiving reworks from many artists/friends I look up to was such a special feeling. I'm excited to make more music as Keep The Orange Sun in the future and appreciate everyone who has supported the album already!
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We return, after our summer sojourn, to find North Carolina matters about where we left them. Johnny Edwards is still wandering in the desert of presidential politicking. Mike Easley has come out boldly for "Andy Griffith." And the Wake Republicans, unaccustomed as they are to actually running anything, are upset that the schools cost money--they didn't sign up for that when they got elected county commissioners!
And in Raleigh, city officials continue to flail away at the issue of student housing in older neighborhoods, now calcified as the Neighborhood Preservation Task Force. We dropped in last week as the (Has No) Force heard from an expert--a guy with a briefcase from out of town--and found a working majority of the City Council there to listen. Mayor Charles Meeker and Councilors Janet Cowell, Neal Hunt and James West were in the audience. At the head of table was Councilor Benson Kirkman, whose District D is the one under direct fire from N.C. State.
Kirkman, reminding us he is council liaison to the (Alleged) Force, said it would be making "some serious proposals" in about a month. Council elections are in six weeks, so we're not holding our breath.
The expert, Eric Kelly, a city planner and Ball State University prof who specializes in this issue of how to keep Behemoth U. from despoiling the neighborhoods around it, had one useful thing to say. If nothing in his presentation was new, he began, "Then you just gotta deal." Meaning, if you already know what to do, why aren't you doing it?
Nothing Kelly went on to say was new, but there were some choice moments. Ames, Iowa (population: 50,700), home to the University of Iowa, has a staff of six inspectors assigned exclusively to the housing beat, Kelly said, enforcing strict standards of maintenance and conduct. "Raleigh's housing code is very limited," he added dryly.
It brought to mind something Meeker said when he ran in 1999. Outgoing Mayor Tom Fetzer had starved city agencies, Meeker complained. Why, there were only four people in the whole inspections department doing everything from housing to store signs!
Up at the table, Raleigh inspections chief Larry Strickland was asked how many people he had now. Four, Strickland answered. For a city of 350,000. But hey, Meeker wasn't elected in '99. It took him until '01. So it's not like he hasn't done anything for four years. Just two.
Earlier, Kelly'd heard from N.C. State junior Meagan Langdon, a (So-Called) Force member, that the going rate for student housing is down this year to around $300 a room. What? That's amazingly low, he said. Now he knew why. "You're not paying the full cost of that rental unit," Kelly told her. "Your neighbors are paying part of it in lost property values" from the slummy conditions the city is tolerating around them.
That's it in a nutshell. That's why the Avent West neighborhood is up in arms, and why last year they were pushing for the city to change the definition of "family" for zoning purposes so that no more than two unrelated people--down from four--could rent a house or half of a duplex together. It's a big reason architect Thomas Crowder, a planning commission member who lives in Avent West, jumped into the District D race against Kirkman.
Langdon, by the way, lives in an apartment complex, not a rental house. Good, Kelly said. Apartments were designed for tenants--and their cars--and have professional property management. They're not the problem. The problem is "amateurs" who've watched the late-night infomercials and read the books ("Dormitory Dollars" is his particular bete noir) about how to buy a little house near Behemoth U. for $100,000 and rent it to four students for $450 a month each.
Hefty profits await you, Kelly said. That is, unless the unexpected happens, and your city doesn't step in--it was only reasonable to assume it would--to stop the stampede before it gets out of hand. When the city doesn't act, a glut in the market may result and the price-per-student sag. This year, add in the spiffy new Wolf Creek apartment complex, just $540 a month for all the amenities the modern State student desires, and that $450 a month you were hoping for starts dropping.
No wonder the "Dormitory Dollars" crowd is screaming at the idea that they might have to have a parking space, and a bedroom, for every paying customer. Kelly's do-list: License rental houses. Use the fees to pay inspectors. Require parking spaces, and not all on the front lawn. (Curbs help.) If the neighborhood asks, put a limit on the number of rental houses per block. Distinguish between houses that are being used for tenants and those rented only until Aunt Tilly's estate is settled.
It's not complicated. You just gotta deal.
Let Johnny Run.
There is no reason whatever why Sen. Edwards can't run for president in the early caucus and primary states and, if he doesn't get anywhere, come back and run for re-election to the Senate. Next March will be time enough for Erkine Bowles and Dan Blue to start running if Edwards stays in the presidential race, or for Edwards to start a Senate campaign if he doesn't.
If there's a chair of the (So-Called) Force, contact Bob Geary at firstname.lastname@example.org or 412-5051.
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The Pentagon is dependent upon contractors in the Afghanistan war. But many of the security companies are undermining – or even working against the US war effort.
On the job: A US contractor turned away as a helicopter departed a combat outpost in Kandahar, Afghanistan, July 19. The US seeks new guidelines for the Defense Department’s private employees. Rodrigo Abd/ AP/ FILE
By Anna Mulrine, Staff writer / October 21, 2010
Since its Revolutionary days, the American military has been no stranger to the use of paid help – from carpenters to ditch diggers – to wage war. By 1965 in Vietnam, the practice of relying on private defense companies became widespread enough within the Pentagon that Business Week dubbed it a “war by contract.”
In Afghanistan, the use of private contractors has reached record levels. A 2010 Congressional Research Service report found that they now make up 60 percent of the Defense Department’s workforce. With fewer US soldiers than contractors throughout the war-torn country, the Pentagon is more dependent on private defense contractors than ever in its history.
Contractors bring in fuel and food for American soldiers in Afghanistan along what many consider to be one of the most complex and treacherous supply chains in the history of modern warfare. They keep installations running, guard key NATO bases, and train Afghan police.
Yet there is a growing chorus of warnings from both within the US military and on Capitol Hill that the Pentagon’s dependence on contractors is undermining its own war efforts. A Senate Armed Services Committee investigation this month further concluded that the widespread use of contractors puts at risk the US exit strategy of training Afghan security forces – Afghan soldiers and police routinely leave the service to take more lucrative jobs with private defense companies.
The Senate investigation also turned up mounting evidence to suggest that largely unmonitored Pentagon contracts with private security companies – half of which are Afghan-owned – may also be lining the pockets of Taliban insurgents who agree not to attack convoys in exchange for cash.
“If you want to know the driving force of corruption in Afghanistan, it’s not Afghan culture,” warns Anthony Cordesman, a security specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “It’s American contracting.”
The Pentagon is beginning to grapple with the complexity of fixing what many now recognize as a deeply broken system. Though reforms are difficult to implement and come with their own risks, a failure to act now, say some US officials, may risk the entire US mission in Afghanistan.
Some contracting problems have long been apparent to US officials. One of them is that some Defense Department contract money goes to warlords who run classic pay-for-protection rackets with their own private militias. What is also clear is that the attrition rate for legitimate Afghan security forces remains as high as 130 percent in some units.
“We get them trained up and certified, and the contractors hire them for more money,” says T.X. Hammes, a retired Marine Corps colonel who served in Iraq and is now a fellow with the Center for Strategic Research at the National Defense University.
The delay in addressing a lack of oversight surrounding contractors who may also have ties to the Taliban has had consequences, Mr. Cordesman argues. The recent Senate Armed Services Committee report, for example, reflects concerns “that are seven or eight years old.” Efforts to address them have been “extraordinarily slow” to take hold, he adds. “Time and again you have created risk to American soldiers. You have almost certainly caused Americans to be killed or wounded – and you have essentially strengthened the enemy.”
Without greater controls on contracting dollars, “you have created a threat that is almost as great as the insurgency,” he says. “And that is a government that has so many forces corrupting it that it can’t win the support of the people.”
The Pentagon is increasingly aware of this point and has begun to take a particularly hard look at its reliance on private security firms, which account for roughly 16 percent of all contractors, totaling more than 26,000 personnel operating in Afghanistan.
“We have absolutely no quality control of the people we’re putting in these jobs,” says Mr. Hammes, who recently completed a study on the strategic impact of contractors in war zones. “And we’re authorizing them to use deadly force in the name of the United States.”
Citing precisely this point, Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced in August that he wants many private security companies – including Blackwater – out of the country by year’s end. But the enforcement of this decree remains unclear.
US officials, who continue to negotiate the matter behind the scenes, publicly say that while they agree with the spirit of the decree, the time line is unrealistic. Critics charge that it is an effort by Mr. Karzai tap into the profits of these lucrative companies by consolidating government control over them – a charge Karzai denies.
For his part, Gen. David Petraeus, commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has recently issued a set of guidelines in an effort to improve the contracting process, recommending that the US military use its intelligence resources to investigate Afghan companies vying for Defense Department contracts.
US military officials have also increased pay for Afghan security force trainees in an effort to compete with private security companies. Now they are wrestling with how to more effectively distribute troops to improve security along the highways. “You wouldn’t spend the money to hire security along some of these roads if you didn’t have to,” says one senior US military official in Kabul who is not authorized to speak to the press. “That’s one of the things we’re looking at.”
The Pentagon has also begun relaxing “double dipping” prohibitions – in which Pentagon officials earning pensions after 20 years of service must give the pensions up in order to return to work – in hopes of deploying more contracting specialists to Afghanistan.
“At a time when there’s a real deficit of these guys in the theater, it could induce them to come to work,” says Richard Fontaine, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. “It’s eminently sensible.”
More difficult will be making tough choices about which paid contractors pose long-term threats to the US mission. “I mean, paying the Taliban is a really bad idea, but if you stop paying them tomorrow, you put convoys at greater risk,” says Mr. Fontaine.
One widespread suggestion is to have senior US military officials making the decisions about which private security companies should be hired to do the jobs, rather than junior troops in charge of contracting. “It’s one thing to say we shouldn’t pay these guys protection money,” Fontaine adds, “but the implications are something only someone at a high level can determine.”
“Let’s not be childish about this – it’s impossible to eliminate corruption,” adds Cordesman. “But it is possible to put more pressure on warlords to be more effective and less corrupt.” This might involve “shifting money to rivals to put pressure on them,” he says. “Money is a tremendous tool as well as a corrupting force if you use it properly.”
Ultimately cutting off warlords may actually be feasible, given time. For now, that might mean having more patience with less-connected contractors. “You may not get the same speed of reaction you do if you contract with the enemy,” says Cordesman, “but the lasting impact is to build up exactly the capabilities we want at the local level.”
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The CP 343-1 module (6GK7343-1EX11-0XE0) is now available with
the new firmware version V2.1.
The new firmware version V2.1 can be downloaded from the Internet
for existing modules. Firmware version V2.1 succeeds version V 2.0
and contains a number of error corrections.
With the update the CP remains
functionally compatible with the earlier version. It can therefore
be configured with the same STEP 7 / NCM version (select
6GK7343-1EX11-0XE0, V2.0, in HW-Config). Upgrading of
STEP7 or NCM is not necessary if the
compatible functions are used.
The following applies in the case of a spare part replacement:
An existing CP can be replaced without a PG, by
simply replacing the module (data are saved on the CPU)!
It is not necessary to use the latest version of STEP
Earlier CPs, e.g. 6GK7343-1EX00-0XE0 or predecessor, or IT CPs
(6GK7343-1GX00-0XE0) cannot be upgraded with this firmware.
- ARP to itself upon module startup. In the case of a replacement
of the module this will inform possible routers of the MAC
- Double IP addresses in the LAN (CP to other network nodes) are
identified and documented with a diagnostic buffer entry.
Important: Despite this new function, double
addressing is not permitted and can lead to communication problems!
The double address must definitely be eliminated.
- The configured default router address can be temporarily
switched by means of an ICMP Redirect Message. The new feature is
that the default router address is restored after 30 seconds. The
display in STEP7/NCM diagnostics has been suitably expanded. The
configured and the the currently used router address are now
- After a factory reset coming from the NCM diagnostics the
event is now documented in the diagnostic buffer.
1.) Dynamic switching of the router used after reception of an
ICMP Redirect Message.
2.) Parameterization of the LAN controller at 10 Mbit/s full duplex
is now processed correctly.
3.) Diagnostic buffer entry (low diagnostic level) and preventive
software workaround against
malfunction of the LAN controller (only 100 Mbit/s full
4.) Correction of the Keep Alive message frame. The connection to
various UNIX variants and
WINDOWS operating systems is now processed correctly in all
5.) Suppression of the ICMP Router Solicitation Message (from CP to
6.) Problems with the establishment of RFC 1006 connections after
7.) In the case of fetch jobs the correct contents and data lengths
are now returned in the target
area TIMER or COUNTER.
8.) The communication of UDP Multicast will no longer be disturbed
if an ICMP message
Destination Unreachable is received.
9.) The Lifelist on Ethernet will now be displayed correctly in all
10.) In the case of TCP connections the attempt at establishing a
connection will be
acknowledged negatively within the Frozen Time.
Please get in touch with your SIMATIC contact at your local Siemens
office if you have any further questions.
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I'm not sure what it is about watching dogs skateboard or idiots hurt themselves or one another but interoperability with the video sharing site YouTube appears to be the biggest 'feature' addition to any mobile product of the moment.
Sony is the latest to demonstrate its love for this mildly entertaining if wildly over hyped service coming up with the 'Net-sharing CAM' (really, that is its name!) – a weird hybrid camcorder.
This portable (141g) oddball shoots in a web friendly Mpeg4 format at either VGA 30fps or QVGA 15fps and is pre-loaded with software to automatically load and tag videos onto PCs or display it on TVs. Content is recorded directly into whatever size card you stuff into its Memory Stick expansion slot and, rather impressively, stills can be shot at up to five megapixels.
“People who upload videos frequently are looking for solutions to easily get their personal content online in a few simple steps, so we developed the Net-Sharing CAM to be intuitive,” said Kelly Davis, director of product marketing at Sony Electronics. “It can be used as an everyday communication device, which can also be personalized to quickly share short video clips and photos online.”
A proportionately large 2.4in screen should make shooting whatever triviality it is you're planning to upload to YouTube rather painless (unlike the clip itself?) and battery life is good for 90 minutes but please don't take that as a cue to plague us with one hour thirty minute videos of your cat sitting on the couch or philosophy 101 thoughts on the day).
Available for a worryingly affordable $200, the Net-sharing CAM hits retailers in September. Expect the quality on YouTube content to nosedive to a new - even deeper - low on its arrival...
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2017-01-23T15:19:36Z
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| 0.935442 | 375 |
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Friends Reunion on Jimmy Kimmel Live — WATCH VIDEO HERE!
By Shari Weiss | 12:31 am, August 28th, 2014VIDEO
“Jimmy Kimmel Live” hosted an amazing “Friends” reunion on Wednesday.
The late-night host told guest Jennifer Aniston that he was a big fan of the beloved show, and even wrote fan fiction back in the day inserting himself into the storylines — as Ross.
Kimmel even recreated the “Friends” set!
Aniston, however, drew the line with wearing a “Rachel” wig.
A good part of the script was the women discussing “how good” Ross is at “making love.”
And it came just hours after it was revealed there will be a real-life Central Perk pop-up coffee shop in New York City this fall.
What a day!
Earlier on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Aniston confessed to drinking the talk show host’s wife’s breast milk.
Yes, you read that correctly.
Check out the videos below, and tell us what you think!
“Friends” Reunion On Kimmel
Aniston Discussing Drinking Kimmel’s Wife’s Breast Milk
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2015-03-06T12:37:20Z
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| 0.911403 | 265 |
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