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I have a friend who has a Hyundai Santa Fe - two years old - that she has told me has live traffic updates in it's inbuilt satnav.
I think she said it is a subscription based system, though...but it is free for her for now.
I agree though that, in general, most satnav units aren't that sophiticated so aren't going to help with live traffic updates.
My three year old Mazda3 supposedly has live traffic on the native satnav but it's useless because the internet connectivity via my phone doesn't work. It's one of a few things that has made me gradually get increasingly annoyed with the vehicle over the time that I have owned it.
I don't intend to pay $600 to have CarPlay retrofitted to this vehicle, but I will make sure that my next vehicle has it because on rare occasions when I need maps I would much rather have them from my phone than the vehicle's satnav. At this stage the Hyundai Ioniq hybrid is looking like my preferred option for an eventual replacement.
Australia is way behind NZ for EVs and chargers. I've been over there a lot the past year.....and it's like 5 years ago in NZ for EVs other than Tesla. You can't buy them. You couldn't import them used (though that is changing now).
You are so right....it is AMAZING how far behind OZ is in adopting EVs.
Doubly amazing that, given they have SO MUCH sunshine, they could be charging their cars for free quite easily.
Plus, most OZ households can get subsidies to install renewable energy systems (as well as small businesses), I believe.
You'd like to think that that would be incentive enought to buy an EV...but, as you say, pretty much the only EVs you can buy there are Teslas which aren't as "cheap" as other EV options available in the rest of the world (and here in NZ).
Are you referring to the EV or hybrid variant? We have the Ioniq EV at work and I am quite impressed with it but it wouldn't be suitable for me as I only do long distance driving.
The hybrid looks good for my needs but I am wondering about its highway performance, particularly for overtaking and hill work. I know that the 'combined system output' offers about 100kw and 265Nm but I'm guessing it can only sustain that for a certain period of time until the battery is depleted.
THe golden days of PV subsidies in OZ are long gone, and there are all sorts of calls to speed up the phase outs..
I only drove the EV variant....it was really good!
But, as you need longer range, the hybrid sounds best for you....maybe plug-in hybrid to keep as green/clean as you can?
By the looks of that article, our OZ neighbours still have until 2021 (2+ years) to take advantage of some form of renewable energy subsidy?
I wish we had subsidies here....plus better encouragements to buy EVs too.
The incentive is not paying fuel taxes. For people who can afford EVs that's probably enough.
It's not a bad idea. It's only $7k more than the standard hybrid so even with the minimal amount of urban driving I do it would probably still break even financially.
The only prerequisite would be getting the body corporate to allow me to install a charger in my car park as discussed earlier in this thread.
If you own your home within the Body Corporate, you could install a charger that is locked to only you and your carpark, maybe?
"It's still unlikely that the IONIQ's and Kona Electric's currently in the country will be able to be retroactively upgraded with these maps as the headunits use European firmware.
Once the IONIQ and Kona Electric become available in 'Australian' specification we will be able to order vehicles with local firmware and map software."
This is where the reference to 'Australian' specification came from.
"Update. I just contacted Hyundai head office in Korea to explain situation and seek their assistance."
"Navigation is currently unavailable. Please check the SD card."
Is it odd/unusual that Hyundai use headunits that are not able to be updated? That their firmware is specific to global regions?
If so, I wonder why they (and other manufacturers?) do that.
An EV will generally kick a dino-burner's arse to the verge on hills and for acceleration. Especially at altitude like in the Southern Alps where EVs not needing any air to operate is a real benefit.
As for the Ioniq EV, you'd only need to stop for 20 minutes every two hours or so.......and that's called safe driving.
As for distances....I drive my Nissan LEAF Auckland to Opotiki every 10 days or so. That's 320km each way.....for about $12 in charging each way with ChargeNet. Once you get used to it, it's great. I recently drove a BMW i3 from Christchurch to Kaikoura (via Culverden) and back (via Amberley). This was after work in the evening. Home by bed time.
I don't mind the stopping - I just need to be confident that I can access a charger when I need one. I think the Ioniq has a stated range of 200km but that could realistically mean 170km if you have ancillaries running, and you only get 80% of that range on a fast charger so would give you 136km of range at a worst case scenario.
The North Island looks well covered for that range but the South Island has big gaps around Murchison/St Arnaud/Westport/Springs Junction/Hanmer Springs. It would be good to see the charging infrastructure improved in that area.
Out of interest, do you ever encounter chargers that you can't use because they're out of order, or idiots have parked combustion engine vehicles in front of the charger? How often do you have to queue to use a charger? One of my biggest reservations is having a near-flat battery and not being able to use the nearest charger for these reasons.
It's a shame they don't make a 300km variant of the Ioniq. There is a big gap in both driving range and price between the Ioniq and Kona EVs and there must be a captive market for something in between.
"Also asked (Hyundai) if they have sorted the navigation for Aussie and NZ and they replied that these Kona's are assembled in Czech Republic and they have a hardware incompatibility with Australasian software options for the navigation system, they did not say they had an answer for this or that it was fixed."
This posting also reported that there was a delay in delivering their Kona Elite EV and that it won't now be delivered until March 2019. Hyundai said this was because they were having trouble getting batteries.
The posting also said that another reason may be that Norway has 20,000 cars on order with only 1,000 delivered!
Thank you for posting this info from Facebook (I am not a member of Facebook and, having held out this long, reckon I will never join...I certainly don't want to with all their data leaks etc haha).
I did not know the Irish-specced Kona's we are getting here are built in the Czech Republic! I have also been told there is some sort of hardware/firmware problem that means the units will not be able to be converted to NZ maps. I will see how often it bugs me not to have in-built satnav...Apple CarPlay will be good, but it does require me to always have my phone plugged in which I am not inclined to do, currently).
When they started taking orders in Norway, there was an instant rush to get a Kona. I'm sure most of the world's Kona EVs will be going to Norway as it is such a great place to own one with a fantastic charging network PLUS many incentives to buy an EV instead of an ICE. | 2019-04-21T09:11:46 | https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?ForumId=162&TopicId=233665&page_no=21 |
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Kingdom Hearts 3, the latest and 12th game in the Kingdom Hearts series, was finally released this year to fervent anticipation and wide acclaim. Our reviewer gives a deep-dive overview for those new to Sora and his gang, in preparation for tackling the new game.
by Guest Blogger Sally Jacka Like most children of the late ’80s/early ’90s, the Disney Afternoon was a huge part of my childhood. I’d race home from school every day to watch my favorite cartoons in a convenient block of television featuring songs that I can still sing to this day. I was pretty obsessed! … Continue reading "REVIEW: The Disney Afternoon Collection"
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In this week’s digital news roundup we’re talking about Wetherspoons ditching social media, a new Google project honouring landmarks, Snapchat’s new face filters, and the latest in Facebook’s long line of woes.
Some have called it a publicity stunt, others have hailed it as a breath of fresh air – but one thing’s for certain, the founder of JD Wetherspoon is backing his decision to close all of the chain’s social media accounts.
Some have theorised that perhaps the impact on the pub giant will be minimal due to what was a semi unimpressive following, with 44,000 followers on Twitter and 100,000 on Facebook, according to The Guardian. Perhaps it will in fact protect them from the flurry of negative reviews that they receive – or, perhaps it will alienate the brand from the young, digitally-minded crowd that frequent its pubs.
Our in-house social media master, Ben Hawkes, said there are lessons to be learned through using social – rather than abandoning it. “Many would say that the scales between business advertising and personal connectivity have tipped in favour of businesses – and this needs addressing. Despite this, when handled organically and creatively, social media offers huge opportunities for reaching and winning over customers, promoting creativity and giving users a way to interact and connect with their favourite brands. Social media is an exciting place to be a business,” he said.
Google Arts & Culture has announced a groundbreaking partnership with CyArk this week, creating a ‘permanent, three-dimensional archive of Earth’s greatest monuments – even if they no longer exist.
The project works thanks to a ‘hodgepodge of tech’, including the use of drones fitted with DSLRs, a laser-mapping system used by self-driving cars, and photogrammetry – a way to stitch photos together into a 3D model. The incredible tech has meant that sites ravaged by natural disasters, like the Ananda Ok Kyaung temple in Myanmar, are now visible in their full glory; this temple was fortunately scanned before a 2016 earthquake caused the spire and masonry to collapse.
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New Snapchat news has come hot off the press, with the announcement that the developer platform is expanding to allow the creation of face filters for the first time. This follows shortly after the introduction of the Lens Studio platform, which saw more than 30,000 lenses being created in the first two months – totalling more than 1 billion views.
As well as the templates, the Lens Studio platform will also now be getting Giphy integration, meaning that animated GIFs can feature in lenses as well snaps. This comes after the feature was re-added to Snapchat following a racist GIF blunder back in March; as big fans of using GIFs in all ways, shapes and forms, we’re happy to see them back.
“Video is the biggest priority for B2B marketers this year”, according to a study by LinkedIn based on 200 industry figures in the UK and Ireland. The facts and figures, released this week, showed that 62% place video as the most important content format, followed by email (48%) and social media creative (36%).
The study also showed how important people find video when it comes to storytelling and creativity, with 62% saying it helps to build brand awareness. The top three video formats were found to be product videos (48%), how-to videos (40%) and explainer videos (38%).
Head of Content at gyro UK, Oliver Barter, was quoted in Net Imperative as saying that content has to be engaging to be successful. “As video gives more freedom for storytelling and creativity than ever before, it’s great to see B2B marketers turning to it in their droves to engage with professional audiences. I’m excited to see how brands experiment more with their video content in the future,” he explained.
SGM’s resident video guru, Rob Gibbs, agreed, saying that advances in tech now mean that everyone has the chance to get involved and share their story in a way that’s easier than ever before. “The reason that video is so successful is because it engages on all levels – both visually, and through sound and emotions. It’s no wonder video is such an ever growing success,” he explains.
As Facebook continues to reel from its array of privacy and data scandals, it looks like the company’s woes are far from over. Now, a judge in the US has decided Facebook is to face a class action lawsuit over a different issue – following claims that it was using facial recognition on people’s photos without their permission.
The lawsuit is based around allegations that laws were violated by Facebook’s facial recognition features, which store biometric data without user consent. This is centred around the platforms Tag Suggestions tool, which suggests people to tag in photos that have been uploaded.
According to The Verge, Facebook now has a more upfront way of alerting people to its facial recognition tech, but, unfortunately for them, these charges pre-date that updated policy. Now, sources say the platform could be facing billions of dollars in fines.
Is this just another step in the ongoing distrust mounting against online mega-brands? If so, we could see a lot more of these lawsuits appearing – particularly if the group are successful. Check out our previous news roundups to read more on Facebook’s recent woes, or find out more about Tag Suggestions.
Are we about to see a new free Spotify?
Rumours have been circulating in the digital sphere that Spotify is set to update its free platform – and now certain users appears to be seeing UI changes ahead of the company’s event next week.
We know that the event, on the 24th April, will discuss mods to Spotify mobile, and this new UI seems to show that it could in fact make free accounts more like Premium accounts. New features like listening to certain playlists on demand, rather than having to play them in shuffle mode, alongside a slick redesign and updated nav could mean changes to the way people feel about paying for the service.
We previously polled the GIANTs on how they feel about paying for content, and found that 88% pay for content on a regular basis. Of this, the top two types of paid platforms were Movie/TV streaming services, like Netflix, and music streaming services, like Spotify.
If the free version is set to see such improvements, would you be tempted to stop paying? Or are ads so off-putting that it’s still worth parting with your hard-earned cash? Only time will tell! Find out more on the updates at The Verge.
And just like that, the weekend is upon us! Check back in next week to catch up on another dose of digital news. For now, Happy Friday!
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The Airbus 320 plane that went down in the French Alps is a workhorse of modern aviation. Similar to the Boeing 737, the single-aisle, twin-engine jet is used to connect cities that are between one and five hours apart. Worldwide, 3,606 A320s are in operation, according to Airbus, which also makes the smaller but near-identical A318 and A319 and the stretched A321. An additional 2,486 of those jets are flying.
The Germanwings A320 crashed Tuesday crashed in the south of the Alps while flying from Barcelona to Duesseldorf in Germany. No survivors are expected.
The CEO of Lufthansa, the parent company of Germanwings, says he doesn't yet have any information about what happened to its flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf that French officials say has crashed in the Alps.
"My deepest sympathy is with all the relatives and friends of our passengers and crew on 4U 9525," Carsten Spohr was cited in a tweet by Lufthansa as saying. "If our fears are confirmed, this is a dark day for Lufthansa. We hope to find survivors."
Antonio San Jose, spokesman for Spanish airport authority AENA, told the Onda Cero radio station that authorities do not yet know how many Spaniards were on the jet but that the authority's best information is that 147 people were aboard the plane.
"It would be a miracle if there were survivors but hopefully there will be. We do not know the causes, simply that it lost contact," San Jose said.
French President Francois Hollande has spoken briefly with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to express solidarity following the crash of a Germanwings plane in southern France.
The German ambassador is leaving imminently with Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve for the area of the crash.
The Airbus A320 crashed in the south of the Alps while flying from Barcelona to Duesseldorf in Germany. Holland says no survivors are expected.
Spanish King Felipe and his wife are in France on a previously scheduled visit and are currently meeting Hollande.
French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet says debris from the crash of an Airbus A320 has been located and the plane crashed at 2,000 meters altitude in the Alps.
Brandet told BFM television that he expected "an extremely long and extremely difficult" search and rescue operation because of the area's remoteness.
The airplane sent out a distress signal at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, Brandet said.
He said the passenger manifest is being verified. | 2019-04-20T02:30:30 | https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/the-latest-a320-that-crashed-in-france-has-good-safety-record-thousands-fly-worldwide |
Visualise someone leaping upwards fifty feet into the air carrying a twenty-five pound weight. That is the equivalent of a female Zanzibar red colobus monkey travelling upwards with her clinging baby. These colourful and friendly primates are Old World semi-brachiators, moving through the trees with a combination of leaping and brachiation. They are also quadrupedal, and can scamper on all fours across the top of the branches. Above all, they are very athletic. And, they are very endangered.
Zanzibar red colobus have pale-grey undersides with reddish-brown on the head and lower back. They wear a mantle of black across the shoulders extending down the arms as a stripe. They have black faces with white chins and foreheads. Their legs have darker grey patches and their tails are brown. Both male and female share these colours. They are also very similar in size.
They do, however, have two notable features which single them out from other primates. Firstly, their tails are used as a balancing tool, whereas in other species the tail is used as an additional limb to aid forward movement. Secondly, they lack opposable thumbs (colobus, is derived from the Greek word ekolobóse, meaning cut short). Instead, they have four very long fingers which wrap around the branches enabling them to swing through the canopy with consummate ease. On average, they weigh just under six kilos for males and five and a half kilos for females. The mean length is twenty-two inches. Their tails are almost two feet long.
Within groups there is always a dominant male, determined by levels of aggression. The hierarchy dictates the higher members of the group receive a larger distribution of food, social activities such as grooming, and females. Groups can consist of as many as eighty individuals, though some are much less. Females are usually more numerous within the groups.
There is no specific breeding season for the Zanzibar red colobus. They mate throughout the year, but the inter-birth interval can be up to three years or more. When the female falls pregnant, the gestation period lasts between five and six months, after which only one baby will be born. The babies are born altricial and will be nursed for about eighteen months if female, and three to four years if male (often males continue to nurse until they reach maturity).
The red colobus has a somewhat unusual predator in the chimpanzee. Chimpanzees occasionally form large hunting parties and go on a killing spree for a few weeks. They seem particularly fond of the red colobus. When the marauding monkeys descend upon them, the red colobus males form a defence group, while the females collect their offspring ready to flee. Sadly, the chimps manage to kill quite a lot of their fellow primates when on these missions and have been credited with contributing to the declining numbers. The purpose is not solely to feed themselves, but also to acquire a nutritionally valuable item of trade. With it, the chimpanzees are also able to show off their prowess to other males and their dependability to females.
Gallery forest, scrub forest growing on coral rag and mangrove swamps.
Leaves, leaf buds, flowers and unripe fruit. On the ground, they eat charcoal to aid their digestive system.
Habitat destruction by way of logging, charcoal production, agricultural clearance and bush-burning. They are sometimes shot for food, sport or as crop pests by the locals, though these practice are now in decline and tourism is recognised as a valuable option. Illegal pet traders target the babies and will kill those around it who try to protect it. This can be a lot of monkeys. Deaths on the roads happen from time to time. Last of all, they fall prey to chimpanzees. Those adorable little monkeys will eat meat, if given the chance, and are said to be responsible for killing up to one hundred red colobus every year. | 2019-04-25T08:16:50 | https://mungaiandthegoaconstrictor.wordpress.com/tag/tanzania/ |
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ACTOR REMEMBERED:AUTHOR AND actor Robert Shaw - best-known for playing the boat- owner Quint in Jaws- lived in the Gaeltacht village of Tourmakeady, Co Mayo, for seven years. He died there 30 years ago, at the age of 51. On Saturday, a stone memorial to him was unveiled there in his honour.
His third wife Virginia, sons Colin and Tom, his daughter Penny, his nephew Chris and their families came back to the village for the unveiling.
"He was a wonderful person. He was fun, generous, naughty, drank too much and loved his children," Virginia said.
"He just wanted to be himself. He wanted real life. Tourmakeady gave him that. He didn't like the razzmatazz of Hollywood," she added. He was living in Drimbawn House when he started filming Jaws in 1974.
Shaw had 10 children. He acted in more than 40 films, including The Sting, Jaws, The Dam Busters, From Russia with Love, The Taking of Pelham One Two Threeand A Man for All Seasons. | 2019-04-22T12:06:55 | https://www.irishtimes.com/news/robert-shaw-memorial-unveiled-in-mayo-village-1.928584 |
Julian Clary is an English comedian hailing from Surbiton, Surrey. Born in 1959, he has gone on to become one of the UK's most beloved celebrities, renowned for his camp and eccentric style as well as his jokes.
Julian Clary will be performing 2 events in Cardiff between Sunday 5th May 2019 and Sunday 2nd June 2019 at the Clwb Ifor Bach.
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Clwb Ifor Bach is one of Cardiff's longest-running nightclubs and live music venues. Opened in 1983, it was originally used as a meeting place and hang-out for those who speak Welsh; today, though the staff are required to speak Welsh, it is used by students and clubbers alike, regardless of language. Clwb is a common fixture on any up and coming indie, rock, metal, and alternative bands' tours of the UK, while it also owes some of its longevity to the ever-popular dance music scene, drum and bass in particular. | 2019-04-21T01:01:54 | https://www.stereoboard.com/julian-clary-tickets/cardiff |
America Chavez is the latest incarnation of Miss America. She is a Latin-American LGBTQ teenager, and she has her own comic-book series titled America.
Instead of wearing all black like Beyoncé, America is decked out in stars and stripes.
America comes out in March 2017. | 2019-04-23T18:22:08 | https://hornet.com/stories/comic-book-cover-inspired-beyonce/ |
The staff were from The George Hotel in Huntingdon owned by Greene King.
The Coach House in St Neots has lots of Christmas decoration.
Punters were left gobsmacked after seeing staff at a Huntingdon pub dressed in Santa hats over the sweltering August bank holiday.
The staff at The George Hotel in Huntingdon, owned by Greene King, had to sweat into their Santa hats all day on Sunday (August 27).
Although Christmas often feels like it gets closer every year some pub lovers felt the pub had taken things too far.
As well as the Santa hats there is a giant Santa in the lobby of the hotel, an advent calender and even a letter box to send your wish list to Santa.
Dave Fleet, who noticed the festive display while out with friends, said: "I stopped with friends and a member of staff stopped to talk, she told us they had been forced to wear Santa hats all day at work the day before.
"The people I was with last night were not happy about it still being summer and having to see that, nor are local friends.
"I don't think we can be the only ones."
Christian Payne added: "After asking the staff about Christmas stuff they complained that they'd been forced to sweat into Santa hats."
The early Christmas bug seems to be spreading across the Greene King franchise with The Coach House in St Neots also covered in Christmas paraphanalia.
What is happening with the travellers at Papworth?
One window has been painted into a winter wonderland scene complete with snow, trees and candles.
Mr Fleet added: "It's August, it's cynical marketing, I'm not against religion, I'm against this hijacking of something purely for gain."
A Greene King spokesman said: "Christmas is a big event for us and our customers and like our competitors we are now taking bookings for the festive period.
"We ask our pubs to make guests aware of this in an appropriate manner.
"Many people want to get organised and book their Christmas celebrations early, especially when they are organising large groups." | 2019-04-19T18:38:03 | https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/pub-staff-made-wear-christmas-13545331 |
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When you hear the name Jeff Gordon, you probably think of going around in circles while being assaulted by the smell of burning rubber mixed with gasoline. The thought of wine, no less good wine, probably never comes into your mind. I’m about to change that, and talk about not only Jeff Gordon’s passion for good wine, but tell you why this delicious red wine is a perfect choice around the holidays.
After winning his first championship in his sport’s premier series in 1995, Jeff Gordon went to London and wanted to celebrate. Jeff ordered a Joseph Drouhin Batard-Montrachet, and says it was then that his passion for fine wine began. He had never seen a white wine decanted, and upon tasting it, declared the white Burgundy wine “liquid gold.” Jeff went on to launch the Jeff Gordon Collection of wines in the fall of 2005 with a 2004 Carneros Chardonnay, working with winemaking legend August “Joe” Briggs, owner of Briggs & Sons Winemaking Co. Jeff said when he decided to start a wine line, he asked around for a great winemaker, and Briggs name came up over and over. The two met and starting working together, releasing a Napa Valley Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and their flagship wine Joie de Vivre, a red wine blend.
I was skeptical when asked to join the virtual wine tasting with Jeff Gordon Wine on Twitter. I had just written a post about celebrity endorsed wine, and many of you shared my views; it’s more gimmick than good. And, I knew nothing about Gordon or his wine line, other than they were asking me to sip on what I figured would be $61 worth of gasoline to power his NASCAR ride. Luckily, I couldn’t have been more wrong. The Jeff Gordon Joie de Vivre 2008 red wine delivered amazing flavors that made every sip worth the price.
The 2008 Joie de Vivre is a blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot and 10% Syrah. Most of the fruit is sourced from Napa, with Cabernet Sauvignon coming from Corbett Vineyards (Spring Mountain), the Merlot from Solari Vineyard (Calistoga) and the Syrah from Page Nord Vineyard (Yountville). There is 15% Sonoma Valley Cabernet Sauvignon from Monte Rosso in the blend. The wine is aged 20 months in a mixture of French and American oak, of which about 30% is new, the rest 2 to 3 year old barrels. It’s 14.5% ABV, alcohol by volume, not a “small” wine, but not big by California standards. The alcohol may be approaching the high side, but that doesn’t show up in the palate, at all.
Like most big, tannic red wines, this wine needs to breathe. I decanted it for about an hour, but honestly think it could sit for two hours and open up even more. The bouquet of the Joie de Vivre is sweet red fruit, reminiscent of chocolate covered cherries. My initial tasting notes were a BIG big palate, dark cherry with big spices on the finish, and it being very dry (tannic). However, with just thirty minutes more air, decanting for an hour and a half, the palate smoothed out considerably, with warm Christmas spice well integrated with the round dark cherry fruit. The complexity continued to unfold, with notes of leather being intertwined with the fruit and spice. I was sad that the wine was gone before the wine sat in the decanter for 2 hours. I think it evolved quite nicely.
While I paired this red wine with dried salami and cheddar cheese, I think it’s a perfect holiday or Christmas wine. Though there is no rule you can’t have white wine in December, I tend to prefer heavier red wines, especially with the foods that are typically on a holiday table. Our family celebrates Hanukkah and Christmas, and red meat seems to be served for both holidays. With Hanukkah, we often serve a brisket of beef, usually in a tomato based gravy, while with Christmas we often have a delicious Prime Rib, usually coated with herbs and garlic. The Jeff Gordon Wines Joie de Vivre would pair nicely with either dish, as well as lamb or even goose.
There are only 254 cases of this great red wine produced, and the distribution is quite limited, mainly in restaurants. You can of course order Joie de Vivre direct from Jeff Gordon Wine online.I was fortunate enough to receive this wine as a sample, but my opinions are based on the high quality of the product, not the fact that it was free.
Now that I’ve told you this celeb wine will rock your socks off, how likely are you to try it, or other celeb endorsed wines? Let me know below! | 2019-04-20T11:05:41 | http://agoodtimewithwine.com/2012/12/11/jeff-gordon-joie-de-vivre-2008-red-wine-blend |
“We exist as a part of a process of eternal continuity of life and death, a process which has been continuing for an overwhelmingly long time. It is hard for us, however, to sense this in our everyday life. It was when we were wandering through the woods that we realized the shapes of those giant rocks, caves and forests, that have been formed over an infinite amount of time, are the continuous cycle of life itself. By applying digital art to this unique environment, the exhibition celebrates a massive chunk of life that nests on such continuity. In Mifuneyama Rakuen, we got lost in the ambiguous border of garden and forest, and finally, we have come to realise we exist on the borderless continuity between nature and humans.” – teamLab.
Japanese collective teamLab brings together practitioners from across the digital arts, working alongside programmers, mathematicians, CGI animators and web designers, with the avowed intention being to achieve a new kind of balance between art, science, technology and creativity. The group refer to themselves as “ultra-technologists.” For their latest project, A Forest Where Gods Live, they aim to execute a project where non-material digital art can turn into nature without harming its surroundings.
Created in 1845, the Mifuneyama Rakuen park is home to a 3,000 year-old Okusu tree, embodying a Takeo shrine and a symbol of cultural spirituality. There is another 300-year-old tree at the hear of the garden, as well as a Mifuenyama mountain and a wild forest led by an ambiguous trail. Colossal in its size, 500,000 square metres, the location represents an age-old respect for organic life, and a pulsing dialogue between humanity and preserved life. Incorporating technological elements into the space, teamLab create a tapestry of organic and digital threads, and a glance to the future of synonymous life.
A Forest Where Gods Live runs until 9 October at Mifuneyama Rakuen Saga, Japan. For more information: www.teamlab.art.
1. A Forest Where Gods Live. Courtesy of Vimeo and TeamLab.
Charlotte Colbert’s works come to Gazelli Art House, London, this July. Colbert creates visual narratives using the familiar emojis of instant communication. | 2019-04-20T16:51:48 | http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/digitalised-heritage/ |
It’s famously triangular and sold in almost every duty-free shop, but did you know that Toblerone is only made in Bern? Every single one of the seven billion triangles produced annually comes from the factory just outside the Swiss capital. Its creator was Theodor Tobler, hence the name – a contraction of his surname and torrone, an Italian nougat – and its shape was inspired by a pyramid of dancers at the Folies Bergère. The Matterhorn had nothing to do with it, only later being added to the packet, replacing first an eagle then a bear as the logo. But looks closely and you’ll see the bear still there, hidden in the rock formation of the mountain. By the way, it’s pronounced Tobleron-e, with a short ‘eh’ at the end. I still have the urge to say Tobler-own, as most English people do. Sadly, what is probably the most instantly recognisable Swiss chocolate isn’t actually Swiss any more; since 1990 the company has been part of US food giant Kraft.
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Janie, it is still made in Switzerland – every single chunk is produced here in Bern. It’s just the company is no longer Swiss. It was bought by Kraft in the 1990s.
I can’t remember where, but I saw once that Toblerone, was for Tobler number one (Tobler 1), but no Swiss in this time could pronunce “one” in the english way, so it becames “one”, like “ohne” in german. Is this true?
I don’t think so. The name is apprently a contraction of Tobler and torrone, Italian for nougat, which is pronounced to-rro-ne. I think it’s only English speakers who say Tobler-own without pronouncing the -e at the end! | 2019-04-21T02:17:26 | http://www.dicconbewes.com/2010/08/28/swiss-watching-trivia-no-28-toblerone/ |
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Exciting to buy shoes online that live up to the youtube commercial I saw. Loving walking on a waterproof cloud.
I like them so far. Comfortable and I tried them in a puddle of water and it worked! The one thing I would change is the lacing and add more different colors.
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Came across by accident just looking for a drink. Went to the rooftop with fantastic views. Very pleased with the service from a young man from Athens who was polite and friendly. Cocktails superb. Can definitely recommend.
BEST BAR IN LINDOS!! Been her 4 years no and still can't find a better place to party. Fantastic staff and music is on point. Fancy dress is a massive bonus. Lambis makes all welcome.
fantastic bar with excellent cocktail selection, lovely roof top terrace with excellent views over Lindos. staff very friendly and helpful, music and entertainment can get a bit lively after the hours of darkness. enjoyed every minute, looking forward to our return.
i love the roof top terrace at Dreams! Great views over to the Acropolis! The cocktail menu is varied and not too expensive! The only downside is if you drink too many it's quite tricky getting down from the roof terrace!!
In the nightlife of Lindos the is a bar with great atmosphere, friendly staff and beautiful view of Lindos. Enjoy a relaxing drink in one of our rooftop gardens with panoramic views of Lindos from every angle! Suitable for wedding receptions or any celebrate occasion. | 2019-04-21T08:09:59 | http://www.dreamsbar.gr/ |
With Node-RED, you can create a web dashboard that instructs a Raspberry Pi to set the rudder position on a toy sailboat.
My daughters and I have built a number of toy boat projects with an assortment of Arduino, ESP8266 (WiFi), Bluetooth, and radio frequency interference (RFI) components, but the version we created for this article using a Raspberry Pi and Node-RED offers one of the simplest solutions. The sailboat uses a basic catamaran design with a Raspberry Pi mounting inside a waterproof container. With Node-RED dashboards, you can control the sailboat's rudder from a smartphone. The complete Node-RED logic comprises only six nodes.
Of the many different building materials from which you could choose, K'Nex construction pieces are lighter than either Lego or Meccano, and they allow you to create reasonably large structures with a minimum number of pieces. If you do not have access to K'Nex pieces, popsicle sticks and cardboard would offer a good low-cost solution.
The base of the sailboat was a rectangular structure with 16 water-facing K'Nex pieces that allowed plastic bottles to be duct-taped in place (Figure 1). A few K'Nex pieces created a compartment for the servo, and wire secured the servo in place. A rudder was built by screwing a small piece of wood into the servo arm (Figure 2). A garbage bag was cut to the required size and taped to the mast to form a sail. The boom had a swivel connection to the mast and guide ropes connected to both the boom and mast (Figure 3).
Figure 2: Servo and rudder mounting.
Figure 3: Sailboat top view.
Only very low torque servos can be connected directly to Raspberry Pi GPIO pins (Figure 4). An example of a low-torque servo would be the TowerPro SG90 ($4), which has a torque of 25 oz/in (1.80 kg/cm). If you have servos with greater torque, you will need to use either a custom Raspberry Pi servo hat (there are some good ones on the market) or a separate power and ground circuit for the servo.
Figure 4: Raspberry Pi Zero W servo circuit.
The gpio pwm commands are not persistent after a reboot. A simple solution for this problem is to put the above commands in the Pi user login file $HOME/.bash_login.
The Node-RED web interface for configuration is accessed at http://localhost:1880 or http://<pi_ip_address>:1880. Selecting View | Dashboard brings up the options button on the far right (Figure 6), where you can define and change the web dashboard layout. To create logic, nodes are selected from the left node panel and dragged and dropped onto the center flow panel. Logic flow is then created by clicking and joining together the inputs and outputs on the nodes . When a dashboard node is dropped onto the flow panel, it is added to the default web dashboard.
Figure 6: Node-RED dashboard layout.
To call the gpio -g pwm command, use the exec node (Figure 7). The button dashboard node will pass the defined payload value (e.g., a 260 is passed when the Hard Left button is pushed). The button's payload value is appended to the exec command to make a complete servo position command.
Once you have completed your logic setup, press the Deploy button on the top right to make your configuration live and ready to test.
We show you how to control devices connected to Rasp Pi GPIO pins with text messages from an Android phone.
The ASV Roboat has made a name for itself in many robotic sailboat competitions, and now a real research project is in store for the Linux-powered vessel. | 2019-04-18T10:58:38 | http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/index.php/Issues/2018/215/RaspPi-Controlled-Toy-Sailboat |
The following speakers represent only a small selection of the broad range of nationally acclaimed artists, authors and lecturers who visited campus and interacted with Whitman students this fall.
After graduating from Whitman in 1980, Trustee Bill Way went on to become C.O.O. of MicroCredit Enterprises, a company that has funded more than 126,000 micro-entrepreneurs in 20 different countries. In this Sava and Danica Andjelkovic endowed lecture, Way shared his expertise on entrepreneurship with a younger generation of Whitties. He told impactful stories about business around the world that have utilized asset building strategies to share new ideas and products with their communities, and he encouraged students to share their interests and talents by engaging professionally with mission-based organizations.
Spencer Wells is both an explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society and director of The Genographic Project. For this year’s Arthur G. Rempel Lecture, Wells shared how his project is using DNA from indigenous peoples to document and create the first-ever map of human migration, which will show how humans came to populate the planet after leaving the cradle of Africa 60,000 years ago. National Geographic has called The Genographic Project the most ambitious research project the society has embarked upon in its 125-year history.
Green Party 2012 Vice Presidential Nominee and founder of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union Cheri Honkala has organized hundreds of demonstrations against poverty. In 2011, she was the first woman to run for sheriff of Philadelphia on a “zero foreclosure” platform. Having experienced poverty herself, Honkala shared insightful and personal stories about striving to aid other families in poverty and about ultimately leading a poor people’s social movement. She also discussed practical strategies with the audience, so that they could help create social change. | 2019-04-19T06:42:10 | https://www.whitman.edu/newsroom/whitman-magazine/2013/march-2013/campus-news/fall-2012-lecture-scene |
At least the Nationwide is a mutual with a decent reputation but I am bitterly disappointed that the Government did not do more to keep the Dunfermline Building Society an independent Scottish mutual especially as the Government is partly responsible for its difficulties.
One hundred and thirty years of trusted mutual tradition in Scotland doesn't seem to be valued enough by the Treasury.
My concern now turns to jobs, branches and the HQ.
If the Government was to force the sale of the Dunfermline Building Society it would be a betrayel of 130 years of mutual borrowing and saving tradition - and of the hundreds of people who work for the society.
The Government has contributed to the difficulties at the society, through the 7.2m pounds compensation levy and excessive capital requirements, and therefore must accept some responsibility to save it.
There is an offer on the table from the UK's building societies which would inject finance into the society so keeping mutual and independent.
This is Gordon Brown's building society. He should step in.
A solution to the problems at Dunfermline Building Society should involve a partnership between the mutual sector and the Government. And it must involve keeping the Society as an independent Scottish mutual.
It would be unacceptable for the society to be merged with another society, to be taken over by the government or to to be sold off to a private buyer. It's important that we do everything to defend Scotland's biggest mutual.
I can't believe that the Government thinks its argument against an immediate inquiry into the Iraq war has a shred of credibility. It's two years since the USA undertook their Baker-Hamilton inquiry and a year since our Prime Minister promised one - in the future.
I've just left the debate on the subject in the Chamber. The Foreign Secretary praised our brave and professional troops but then proceeded to inform the House that they would be distracted by an inquiry. Indeed they are professional and wouldn't be so easily distracted.
Something to hide? I think so.
The mutual building societies have always been seen as safe and sometime boring institutions. Yet the government and its regulator seem intent on treating them the same as the more risky banks.
For example, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme is a finance industry scheme to compensate customers in the event of an institution becoming insolvent.
Because of the difficulties at the London Scottish, Bradford and Bingley and the Icelandic banks – all banks – the mutual building societies have been required to stump up £millions. Dunfermline Building Society’s share is £7.2m. This is not an insignificant sum especially during the current economic crisis and it has contributed to the difficulties at the Society.
Why should the Dunfermline be paying for someone else’s difficulties when they’ve got plenty of their own to deal with?
It’s perplexing that one of Scotland’s most trusted financial institutions is the subject of extensive reports about it's future. It’s clear that the Dunfermline Building Society is having difficulties but the Society is refusing to or can’t say what the extent of it is. My objective is to keep the Society as an independent Scottish mutual. I met with the Scotland Office Minister today and Ming Campbell and I are planning more meetings next week.
“Paying through our nose to lose our freedoms” was the line of our Scottish conference in Perth. Tavish, of course, was referring to the introduction of the government’s ID card scheme which is a waste of money especially during a recession. His ‘up and at ‘em’ approach to politics was in abundance during his first leader’s speech to the main conference.
We had a buoyant weekend as we celebrated our coming of age. Twenty years since the merger it’s hard to believe how far we have come. It was great to hear from Bob Maclennan, our joint party leader in ’88, who made well composed speech spiced with the regal and passionate.
But we also celebrated Vince Cable’s stunning performance throughout the recession. Vince has an incredible ability, in his measured style, to encapsulate the issue in a single phrase. Referring to RBS and Scottish independence he said it would be like a bank with a country attached such were the relative sizes of the two.
All in all a good effort which will set us up well for George Lyon’s Euro Election in June.
Yesterday I joined Ann Cryer, MP for Keighley and Ilkley, in calling for a a reduction in the charges imposed on building societies by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. Because of the failure of Northern Rock and other high risk banks, the scheme has increased its charges to cover the cost of their failure. But because building societies, like the Dunfermline Building Society, have a lot of savers they have been charged a disproportionate fee. The scheme puts far too much weight on the value of the deposits than on the risk nature of the organisation.
My mother and father, who are in their seventies, receive a discount on their insurance because they are deemed safe drivers and those who are deemed a higher risk, those who have frequent accidents, have to pay higher premiums. It's about time this sensible logic was applied to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
Why has it taken fifteen months for the MOD to decide that the Nimrod aircraft are not safe to fly after all? The Defence Secretary in December 07 announced the findings of the RAF board of inquiry but allowed the Nimrod to continue to fly.
In fact why has it taken two and a half years since the crash which cost the lives of fourteen servicemen for that to be determined?
These aircraft were unsafe to fly with aviation fuel washing over a hot pipe but because of the pressure to support the troops on the ground with air surveillance the planes were flown.
It's about time the MOD realised that they should not turn the can-do ethos of the armed forces into make-do.
Turn in or look out?
Turnout in European elections has been traditionally very low but with the five yearly polls only three months away this time they have an added significance on two fronts.
Firstly, people are angry about Labour’s recession. They’re likely to take this opportunity to send a message to my constituent about this mess. With Vince Cable providing sound leadership on economic issues I would suspect that many will choose us as a vehicle to send that message.
Secondly, there is a strategic decision to be made about the future direction of the nation. While the country is in recession do we turn in or look out to seek solutions? The Tories and SNP are clearly on the isolationist side of the debate and whilst outward looking Labour have preferred to blame other countries rather than work with them.
I usually love elections but June 4th I suspect I will especially enjoy.
Even though it has been a rocky road from within weeks of his elevation, my constituent (that's code for the PM) has shown this week why he's on his way out of office.
The Labour Party, him included, have been devoting considerable effort to the punishment of bankers, especially Sir Fred Goodwin. They’re right as their poor judgement has partly led to this economic crisis - and his pension is an insult. Yet many have rightly detected that the comrades' actions were diversionary in nature to avoid the spotlight being shone on the contributory role of my constituent.
However, the spotlight has shifted and it is shining directly into the eyes of my constituent. Yet unlike Sir Fred he's not even said sorry. He stumbled, looked left, then right and snatched a t an apology over the 10p tax rate fiasco - something which has nothing to do with the economic crisis.
I'm not sure why my constituent believes it is right to blame the rest of the world for all the problems on his doorstep but refuse to accept any responsibility himself. He used to boast that he was leader of the fourth largest economy with great influence and power yet now we learn he is the victim of a global bully.
If only he had listened to Vince. | 2019-04-22T04:35:35 | http://whatoorwilliedidnext.blogspot.com/2009/03/ |
Today the Bank of Canada launched a digital database with more than 30 years of past staff economic projections of the Canadian economy. These projections serve as a key starting point for Governing Council’s quarterly Monetary Policy Report (MPR) forecasts and their policy interest rate decisions.
“By making this data available, the Bank is taking another step in its open data and transparency efforts, and providing an important source of information for researchers,” said Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn A. Wilkins.
Each quarter, our staff conduct an in-depth analysis of the Canadian and international economies and present it to Governing Council. The projections combine real-time data and forecasts for key macroeconomic indicators, such as real GDP and its components, consumer price inflation, the output gap, the unemployment rate and the implied policy rate path running through the staff projection. Governing Council take these projections, apply their own judgment and adjust them, and ultimately develop their own consensus forecast for the Canadian and global economies, as depicted in the MPR.
The series in this database are published with a five-year lag, with annual updates to follow. The date range available as of today covers some important economic milestones, including the Bank’s move to inflation targeting in 1991 and several severe recessions. To learn more about the staff economic projections data, read the staff working paper.
Ms. Wilkins made this announcement at the Bank’s Annual Economic Conference, which brings together academics, policy-makers, private sector economists and representatives from policy think tanks. This year’s theme is inflation targeting and select sessions will be webcast on the Bank’s website this afternoon. | 2019-04-23T20:37:08 | https://central-banks.economicblogs.org/boc/2018/egan-bank-canada-publishes-staff-economic-projections |
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Often, individuals who are not high profile don’t feel it is particularly necessary to invest in a high level of data security because they don’t feel they have anything to protect. Ironically, that makes them perfect targets. If you so much as have a reasonable credit score or simply the ability to open accounts or make purchases based on your credit score, you have something to protect. If you own a computer, you have something valuable to protect against viruses.
1. Secure your wireless network.
Change the name on your router and the pre-generated password. First, you don’t want people to know what your network is so change the name to something that has nothing to do with you. For example, don’t name your network “Smith Home” if your last name is Smith. Secondly, hackers know the default passwords on a number of different types and brands of routers, so if you don’t change yours, hacking into your network is a breeze. Use a network firewall and WPA2 access. A firewall will block intruders from your individual machine and WPA2 offers the strongest level of protection available for most commercial routers.
2. Install anti-virus software from a reputable provider.
There is no limit to the number of sources through which a virus can be introduced into your system. Some individuals do this just for a sick thrill, some for revenge, and some will choose to hold your computer hostage until you pay a fee to have it unlocked. Anti-virus software will protect you from a wide variety of virus sources.
Internet providers and software developers react quickly when new threats occur to release updates to protect against them. This doesn’t do you any good, however, if you don’t get the updates installed quickly.
4. Back up all of your data regularly.
One of the best ways to deal with a virus is to wipe your hard drive (or SSD) and reinstall everything. But don’t wait to backup your data after you have a virus. You are just backing up your virus along with all your important information. There are a number of options available that will backup your devices wirelessly and store several days or weeks worth of backups for you. You can “set it and forget it” and if you need to wipe your drive and reinstall, you can retrieve a backup that was made before you got a virus. | 2019-04-23T10:12:51 | http://emmanuelventouris.net/the-best-security-measures-against-hackers-and-viruses/ |
Whether if you are looking to buy or rent, Icon Bay is waiting for you! This luxury building is located in Downtown Biscayne Bay waterfront, just moments from Miami’s future, because there are a number of other developments coming on the horizon: the new Museum Park, the new permanent home of the Miami Art Museum, the proposed Resorts World Miami, a $3 billion, 10 million square foot casino, convention center, hotel, and more. This area is experiencing a long-term growth and now is the best time to invest on it.
Icon Bay is an exclusive 43-story concrete and glass structure with an undulating façade, inspired by the rippling waves of the bay, which reflects the artistic nature of Miami with sleek style.
All residences offer complete flow-through floor plans, breathtaking views from the floor to ceiling windows of every unit, private elevator access, spacious outdoor terraces, gourmet European kitchens and luxurious bath experience.
The sale price for a one-bedroom unit starts at $588,000. For other condos with two or three bedrooms it could go from $849,000 to $1,250,000. Rental rates start at about $2,800 for a one-bedroom, about $3,500 two-bedrooms and $4,600 three-bedrooms. | 2019-04-20T22:18:56 | http://blog.miamiriches.com/2016/05/luxury-waterfront-residences.html |
Aron Dale has the same build, features, mannerisms, curly hair and smile as Harry Styles which makes him the perfect Harry Styles Lookalike. He also has the same dress sense ie: Converse, Chinos, Blazers and to complete the picture the same cheeky personality, accent and tone of voice.
He likes to keep in good shape by swimming, running and playing football is outgoing and likes to socialise and meet new people and is confident, polite and flexible in conversation.
With Harry Styles from One Direction being one of the most popular pop stars and celebrities in the world, this Harry Style Lookalike is an essential lookalike at any party or event. | 2019-04-23T16:38:13 | https://www.costelloentertainments.co.uk/artist/harry-styles-lookalike/ |
Atlético Madrid were dismantled two weeks ago in Dortmund. Between the 73′ and the 89′ minute, Dortmund scored three unanswered goals to win the match 4-0. Nonetheless, Atletico Madrid midfielder Koke would later claim that the result was a fluke.
“What happened a few days ago was a fluke result,” he said to Movistar+.”If you see the game it’s clear that it wasn’t a 4-0 match, they were more effective than us,” Koke said.
The midfielder is not entirely wrong. Dortmund were up 1-0 going into halftime and from the 45′ minute to Dortmund’s second goal Atlético were pressing hard for the equaliser. But Dortmund stood their ground and, like Koke suggested, were ruthless on the counter.
In fairness, however, despite that 15-minute spell in the second half Atlético were second winners in every area of the field. Going back Atlético showed some surprising weaknesses, and while the result was perhaps a bit too high, it was also deserved.
Dortmund, therefore, have nine points having won every game; Atlético are three points further back in second place and hold a five-point cushion over both Club Brugge and Monaco. Dortmund will, therefore, be through as group winners with victory while Atlético will be through, in tandem with Dortmund, with a win if the game between Monaco and Club Brugge is drawn.
It is a brilliant opportunity for the Yellow and Blacks in the Spanish capital. But the coaching staff and management have been somewhat cautious heading to Spain. “Atlético are motivated and will do everything to turn around the result from the first match,” the director of licence players Sebastian Kehl told the media ahead of the match.
Dortmund also have to find the balance between the game in Madrid and Saturday’s top match against Bayern München. Dortmund are first in the Bundesliga at the moment, four points ahead of third-placed Bayern, and a win on the weekend would put them in the driver’s seat for the Bundesliga title.
Hence, it will be all about finding the right balance for head coach Lucien Favre against Atlético. For Dortmund, the good news are that Lukasz Piszczek and Manuel Akanji will be back in the lineup. But another astonishing triumph over Atlético seems unlikely, yet Dortmund have enough to get something out of the game.
The talk has been all about super striker Paco Alcacer this season. The Spaniard has been scoring for fun in all competitions and added another goal this weekend. But Dortmund’s key reason for the fabulous start has been captain Marco Reus. The attacking midfielder has collected nine goals and seven assists in the 1294 minutes he has been on the pitch this season. Finally, healthy the 29-year-old captain is Dortmund’s most important player. “He has become older and more experienced and carries the team,” Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke told kicker. The key has been new head coach Lucien Favre, who “discovered” Reus during his time at Borussia Mönchengladbach. The two have a close relationship, and the Swiss head coach gives Reus the freedom to create on the pitch, which in turn has led to perhaps his best start to a season since he joined Dortmund in 2012.
The defeat in Dortmund ended Atlético’s five-match winning run in European games and was only their second defeat in their last 17 matches in continental competition (W11 D4).
Atlético won only one of their three home games in last season’s group stage and had their 11-match unbeaten home European run (W9 D2) ended by a 2-1 loss against Chelsea on matchday two – the Spanish club’s first continental game at their new Estadio Metropolitano home.
Atlético are on an eight-match unbeaten run at home to German clubs (W6 D2), dating back to the 1-0 defeat by Dortmund in the 1996/97 group stage.
Before this season, Dortmund had won only one of their last 11 UEFA Champions League fixtures (D3 L7); they have now won three in a row, their best run since autumn 2016.
Dortmund have won just once in 14 previous visits to Spain (D5 L8) and were beaten 3-2 at Real Madrid on matchday six last season, their last visit. The solitary success was that 1-0 victory at Atlético in the 1996/97 group stage, courtesy of a Stefan Reuter goal.
Before matchday three, BVB’s last eight games against Spanish sides had all pitted them against Real Madrid; they won only two of those contests. The defeat of Atlético ended a four-match run without a victory against Liga opposition (D2 L2). | 2019-04-24T08:22:50 | http://fussballstadt.com/atletico-madrid-vs-dortmund-champions-league/ |
Dr. Evans is the medical director of Behavioral Health Services at Emerson. He is a hospital-based psychiatrist who treats adult hospitalized patients only and does not have a private office practice. Learn how Dr. Evans is helping to bring mental health care into the primary care setting, as well as some of the behavioral health initiatives being developed at Emerson in "Get to Know: James Evans, MD". | 2019-04-24T10:09:45 | https://www.emersonhospital.org/find-a-doctor/james-evans |
AFS Malaysia are pleased to announce the shortlisted candidates for AFS Intensive Program to various countries as per the list furnished below. Please be informed that we will update the list from time to time and make series of announcement until the end of October 2017 for this program. For any further inquiries, you may contact us at the office number: 0378876866 during office hours. | 2019-04-20T00:11:10 | https://www.afsmas.org/shortlisted-namelist-for-intensive-program-20172018/ |
where kids get a chance to get behind the wheel and rub elbows with their hometown heroes. Come and climb on and explore dozens of your favorite vehicles including big rigs, fire engines, police cars and construction trucks.
Please join us for an awesome family-friendly afternoon while supporting our efforts to fund pediatric cancer research for neuroblastoma, the cancer that Max battled for four of his seven short years.
or at the entrance on the day of the event.
Cash or check only please at the event.
To download a flyer to help us spread the word about this awesome event, click here. Post it in your local coffee shop, community boards, pass it out at your school!
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Stormtroopers? Jedi? Darth Vader? We never know who'll show up!
This sounds like a great event, for a great cause! I hope it is wildly successful. :) Thanks for stopping at my blog.
Hope it goes well! Just wanted to post a quick note to tell you that Ring of Fire came on while I was driving the other and I immediately thought of Max and his brilliant smile. | 2019-04-25T20:38:10 | https://www.maxmikulak.com/2009/05/touch-truck.html |
inviting mortal danger -- from time to time."
hadn't we better just go our separate ways home?"
several glass doors and come into their own room are they alone.
or behind the window curtains, or into the garden arbor?"
hollow or as far as Paris, if that's where you want to go.
pockets, as he sadly goes his way along the left-hand street.
opens the door while I say: Good evening.
lean your cheek against the latch of the casement.
eclipsed by the shadow of the man behind overtaking her.
alleys, or on the divans of a brothel.
providence that has so clearly favored me.
window wide and hear music still playing in a garden.
even if someone chases yelling at his heels, but you let him run on.
perhaps they are night birds, perhaps the first man is armed.
wine? You're thankful that the second man is now long out of sight.
keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?
you think it over, winning a race is nothing to sigh for.
away as you pass and prefer to look along the stands. | 2019-04-19T05:04:06 | http://www.rasteredge.com/gallery/c18/1598/ |
AirAsia's 'Big Sale' offer is valid on travel from November 1, 2018 till August 13, 2019 and bookings are open till May 27, 2018.
AirAsia is offering discounted tickets on flights flying to Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
AirAsia is offering overseas flight tickets at a starting all-inclusive price of Rs 999 on select routes under a new promotional sale. AirAsia's 'Big Sale' offer is valid on travel from November 1, 2018 till August 13, 2019 and bookings are open till May 27, 2018, according to the airline's website (airasia.com). Under this 'Big Sale scheme, AirAsia is offering discounted tickets on flights flying to Asia, Australia and New Zealand, as mentioned on the official website of AirAsia- airasia.com.
Some of the other discounted all-inclusive fares offered under AirAsia's sale are on flights from Visakhapatnam to Kuala Lumpur (starting at Rs 1,999), from Kochi to Kuala Lumpur (starting at Rs 3,399), from Goa to Kuala Lumpur (starting at Rs 5,514), from Hyderabad to Kuala Lumpur (starting at Rs 4,999), from Jaipur to Kuala Lumpur ( starting at Rs 3,590), from New Delhi to Kuala Lumpur (starting at Rs 4,290), among others.
AirAsia is also offering connecting flights overseas from India through Kuala Lumpur. These flights include Bhubaneswar-Kuala Lumpur -Jakarta (starting at Rs 2,255), Bhubaneswar -Kuala Lumpur -Yogyakarta (starting at Rs 3,341), Kochi-Kuala Lumpur-Brunei (starting at Rs 4,649), Kolkata-Bangkok --Don Mueang -Phuket (starting at Rs 5405), Hyderabad-Kuala Lumpur-Penang ( starting at Rs 6,613), Jaipur-Kuala Lumpur -Krabi ( starting at Rs 5,701), and many more.
1. AirAsia's promotional sale requires flyers to make advance bookings, AirAsia added on its website.
2. The discounted tickets are available only for online bookings at www.airasia.com.
3. A non-refundable processing fee is applicable for payments via credit, debit or charge card, according to AirAsia.
4. Ticket fares include airport taxes (except for selected airports where airport tax is collected at the point of departure).
5. Seats are limited and may not be available on all flights.
Under 'Big Sale' scheme, AirAsia India is also offering domestic flight tickets starting at Rs 999. | 2019-04-25T02:06:25 | https://www.ndtv.com/business/airasia-big-sale-offer-international-flight-tickets-under-rs-1-000-schedule-routes-here-1855417 |
Discussion in 'Mac mini' started by efegue, Nov 20, 2014.
- Turn on mac mini with only the upper HDD connected, it detects it and works fine.
Any ideas you guys might have? I've bought two new Samsung M9T 2TB drives for my server and now it's really unstable, sometimes it takes 2/3 days without crashing, sometimes it's some hours, it's pretty random.
Did you check the cable?
Well, the cable looks fine, but I don't have any other cable to try.
I'm sure OWC sells the cables, essentially the same as the cables in their Data Doubler kits. That said, the board connections would be the fist place I'd check, and they're readily accessible from the bottom of the machine.
okay did this issue happen with the older hdds?
or did it start with the samsung install?
I can't remember for sure because one of the older HDD's was faulty. I was using the mac with only 1 hdd for a long time.
and take a look at their hard drive testing download. It's long but they describe what's called an intermittent generic fault which can be a problem with almost any type of connection in the system, hence the word "generic" in the name. You may want to look at the write ups on how these problems get worse and better with heating and cooling. It might be worth a shot. | 2019-04-24T22:00:38 | https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mini-server-losing-connectivity-to-the-upper-hdd.1821004/ |
Like the Gravenstein Trail, The Apple Blossom Trail starts where the Joe Rodota Trail ends. The Apple Blossom Trail goes west to the opposite side of town, winds through Ives Park, crosses Jewell Ave. at the reconfigured park corner, crosses several private properties following Calder Creek to Leland, then travels past St. Steven’s Church, Gold Ridge Farm, the cemetery, and more private properties to the Valley View neighborhood at the far side of town.
Once the City Council “adopts” this trail, the County can take over to extend the trail to Apple Blossom School through the beautiful Atascadero Valley along Atascadero Creek. It all starts with the Council “adopting” this trail. | 2019-04-21T18:50:20 | http://www.sebastopoltrailmakers.org/apple-blossom-trail.html |
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address resolution protocol(arp) is used before a network transmission. the purpose is to discover whether the two machines can communicate with each other, plus to determine the media access control(mac) address of the remote network card.
some nic cards have the mac printed on them or written on by a former owner. with all systems you could view the remote arp table (arp -a) of a machine you have just communicated with or capture some of the machines network traffic.
mac addresses of some nics can be changed, but remember they were made to be unique for a reason and that some mac addresses are used for broadcasting. two machines of the same mac cannot communicate with each other. other errors may occur with duplicate+ macs.
string value: "networkaddress"="%new_mac_address%" if the card supports mac changes this key will probably already be there as: 000000000000 - change to new one and reboot for possible update.
open device manager, view the properties of the network card from network adaptors. switch to the advanced tab, select network address in the properties list (if available). check the upper radio button and enter a new mac address, fun example: f00baac0ffee - click ok. the mac should be updated, no reboot required.
suppose desktop wants to communicate directly with server. to build packets it needs an ip address, which it probably already has through netbios broadcasts, and a mac address. although the remote machine's mac is used in broadcasts, netbios does not read at that level. first it would check its own arp table to see if the machine's ip is present, matched with a mac address. if there is no entry, an arp request is broadcast to the network.
the broadcast is recieved by all machines on the network, all of which checkout the packet - can they communicate using the protocol specified and is their ip the one stated in the packet? if not, the packet is discarded. if the receiving machines ip and protocol match, the details of the requesting machine will be added to its arp table and a reply sent back with the unknowns added. note: all windows systems will respond to both hardware type = 00,01 (ethernet 10mb) and 00,06 (ieee 802 networks) with hardware type = 00,01.
once desktop has recieved this packet the information will be added to its arp table and the two machines can now start to communicate directly with each other. if desktop does not receive this reply, any prior initiated network traffic will timeout and fail.
arp is also used at startup, to check for ip conflicts. an arp request is broadcast with the target and sender's protocol address set to the ip that the machine is hoping to be. if there is no reply the machine uses that address. if there is a reply the machine will disable its outgoing network traffic for that ip. the remote machine will then do a similar broadcast, probably to check that the new conflicting machine has not used its ip. a message will be displayed on both the machine booting and the machine that the conflict has occured with.
the section in is not displayed on the machine already using the conflicting ip. the nt error message varies slightly. nt also writes an entry to the event log. 9x and nt4 all display this message fairly promptly, however 2k and xp wait about a minute after logon.
nt will arp request 3 times at startup (nt4 may only arp twice) and wait alittle longer before starting netbios traffic. the gap between the arp requests is ~1sec.
the waiting time could be used to determine more accurately what the remote os is, however due to variations in machine speed and other process running this probably would not be practical unless benchmarks were done on machines of similar spec.
waiting times in 2k and xp booting into safe mode with network support cause varations, ~7secs on 2k and ~10secs in xp. me, 2k and xp system can detect when the network connection is lost, all show a significantly reduced waiting times. me ~0.410secs, 2k ~1.010secs and xp ~2.090secs on reconnection.
arp tables are stored in the ram and are lost at restart/shutdown, but not logoff.
there are two types of entry in an arp table, dynamic and static. when an arp request or arp reply is recieved the information is added to the table. if no further network traffic occurs between the two machines the entry will be automatically removed after 2 minutes. each time a packet is built/sent, the system checks the arp table, if the required ip is present the packet is built/send using the stored mac and the two minute timeout is refreshed at that point. this is true on all windows systems 95a - xp. entries added manually (arp -s) are static and do not timeout. if the network connection is lost on a me/2k/xp system, all dynamic and static arp entries are deleted about 8/9 seconds after disconnection.
arp is a very trusting protocol. spoofed arp packets will update arp tables. if laptop sent an arp request to desktop with the senders ip set to server's and a phoney mac address, desktop would not be able to communicate with server for a minumum of 2 minutes (unless the entry was manually deleted) such an attack/prank could run through all the ips of the internal network updating the arp entry of a central resource causing it to be inaccessable. spoofed packets would need to be sent with a gap of less than 2 minutes to prevent arp table timeouts. spoofed replies could also be sent to booting systems, effectively disabling their networking. finding the origins of the spoofed packets will probably be difficult as the source mac address can be spoofed also and the packets staggered to prevent "busy" hub lights.
in defense you could: use dhcp to stop spoofed ip conflicts. use a rule based firewall, set to block arp and run a batch file with static arp entries in. problems here would be getting the entries loaded before login if authenticating against a remote system. also some(most?) firewalls do not load quick enough to stop a spoofed ip conflict packet, visnetic by deerfield has an option to block all network traffic when firewall is not running. remember all the machines that you want to communicate with would also have to add static arp entries. unsure about physical protection such as lowlevel firewalls or a decent switch.
another addition to arp is inverse address resolution protocol. similar to rarp, but intended to find the remote protocol address from a system of a known mac address. ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2390.txt this rfc also mentions some the security issues of arp in general, but does not offer a solution.
note: as with arp, information learned via inarp may be aged or invalidated under certain circumstances. | 2019-04-23T06:05:20 | http://beginningtoseethelight.org/arp/index.htm |
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Andrea Brill in Relish from Winston-Salem Journal, May 5, 2011.
Robert Brewer interviews me on Poetic Asides, January 26, 2010.
Jane Crown’s Poetry Radio January 3, 2010. Audio.
David Ford WFDD 88.5 November 3, 2009. Audio.
Nic Sebastian of Very Like a Whale interviews me.
Helen, I just finished listening to your hour long reading and discussion with Jane Crown. As I have mentioned previously, I am quite fond of your poetry–it is beautiful and moving. Love to hear your voice as you read.
Congratulations on your talent and your successes. | 2019-04-20T06:36:27 | https://helenl.wordpress.com/interviews/ |
While I sometimes complain about Chinese food in the U.S., there are certain foods and restaurants I love and miss. One such place is a tiny kosher restaurant near Boston that serves unabashedly Americanized Chinese food. The food was good in the low-brow indulgent way that Kewpie mayonnaise and powdered Milo on ice cream are good. And given the depressing state of "authentic" Chinese food in the Boston area, I ended up eating there about every other week during my college career.
Taam China was close to my very Jewish university, so it seems that everyone who patronized the restaurant either attended or graduated from the same school. I was frequently the only Asian face there other than the staff's, which probably lent the place a tiny whiff of authenticity for the duration of my meal.
No matter. I formed an addiction to their deep-fried dishes like sesame chicken,"General Gau's", and sweet and sour chicken. The deep-fried dishes, despite being take-out mainstays across the U.S., had the perfect crunch-to-meat ratio few other establishments could master. Everything came with a side of crisp steamed broccoli, that very un-Chinese vegetable. (To this day, even when cooking in China, I subconsciously serve broccoli with my meat dishes much more often than, say, bok choy.) I don't recall if alcohol was on the menu, but afterwards we would aid digestion with a pint from a local pub, or some Manischewitz back in someone's dorm.
Today I made a nostalgia-inspired orange sesame chicken dish, a hybrid of orange chicken and sesame chicken, two of my favorite Taam China "Chef Specialties". I tried to keep the sauce a bit lighter, and portions smaller, as healthy as one can possibly make a deep-fried Americanized Chinese dish without taking away flavor. I have to admit my chicken was not as crispy as Taam's. But it's good enough for a cook who doesn't deep-fry every day of the week except Shabbat Friday.
Since I don't have a rabbi overseeing my kitchen, this dish was not made in a completely kosher fashion. But I can guarantee the recipe is 100% MSG free, if that's any consolation.
Combine the ingredients for the marinade. Add chicken and marinate for 15 to 20 minutes.
In a separate bowl, mix together the sauce ingredients: orange juice, chicken stock, sugar, soy sauce, salt, and sesame oil. In a small to medium sized pot, heat up a few teaspoons oil and sauté minced garlic until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add apple cider vinegar, then the combined sauce ingredients. Simmer until liquid is reduced by three fourths, about 15 minutes. Stir in cornstarch and water mixture until sauce thickens, then season with salt to taste. Set sauce aside and keep warm.
(Update: Seems I missed a step! Fixed.) Drip excess marinade off the chicken, and toss cubes in the 1 cup cornstarch. Shake off excess cornstarch before frying.
Meanwhile, heat up the 3 cups oil in a wok. When oil just begins to smoke, add the first batch ofchicken cubes and deep-fry until cooked through, about 4 to 5 minutes. Remove chicken with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Repeat with the rest of the chicken.
Reheat orange sauce and add drained chicken cubes. Mix until well-coated. Plate and sprinkle sesame seeds on top. Serve with side of white rice and, of course, steamed broccoli. | 2019-04-21T23:07:15 | http://appetiteforchina.com/recipes/recipes/orange-sesame-chicken-kosher-chinese |
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Converting MHT to TXT format will make the information much more compact in size that is perfect for minimizing the size of data storage on a server or computer memory. Such feature can be easily programmed basing on MHT to text SDK tool called Total HTML ConverterX. Basically it is a server web pages converter that features all possible options for handy and efficient conversion. Any of its features can be easily ported into your application.
Each target format has its own settings that user can manipulate via command line. As for convert MHT to text command line parameters, users can only set conversion of all MHT source files into one TXT document. As TXT implies no formatting, it's impossible to setup the layout of future copies. Take into account that all graphic content will be lost during conversion. Only text data will be exported. As for converting MHT to text no GUI is provided, all conversion requests are sent to server via command line. You create an interface for more comfortable use or integrate conversion options into some application using ActiveX.
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The Dubai Cares Project under Idara e Taleem o Agahi aims to �improving Learning outcomes, enrolment and transition from Early Childhood Education (ECE) to Primary Education especially for girls and vulnerable groups in Pakistan? The project, designed in four phases from January 2008 till December 2016 supports multiple components of Early Childhood Education, Learning for Access, Teachers without Frontiers, Learning Assessments, Children�s Literature Festival and Advocacy.
Evidence Based Delivery Mechanisms of the project components are established through our vast network of Policy Planning Officials, Managers, Researchers, Coordinators, District Officers, Para Teachers, Master Trainers/Mentors and School Management Committees. We continuously strive towards providing quality alternatives committed to educational excellence in a global setting.
Phase-III of Dubai Cares focuses on �Improving learning outcomes, enrolment and transitions from Early Childhood Education (ECE) to primary education for especially girls and vulnerable groups in Pakistan? in 10 districts across 3 provinces (Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab) in Pakistan. This project essentially targets Early Childhood Education (ECE), enrollments and retention, learning levels of the in-school children (ISC) and out of school children (OOSC) and consequently mainstreaming the OOSC in schools. The project is designed to benefit directly 520 schools and 35000 children of age up to 14 years by December 2016 through its Whole School Improvement program.
The ongoing Phase-IV of Dubai Cares Project concentrates a unique intervention in Bahawalpur District of Southern Punjab. To provide experiential learning opportunities for successful transition of ECE children to primary level, 26 Early Childhood Centers were established in which 1000 students were enrolled. Several trainings were also conducted for government and Para teachers to enhance and develop their concept on different dimensions of the ECE component.
and to shed a light on what is ECE and what is the role and responsibilities of teachers, Brain Development in early years, Developmental Domains & Developmental milestones and why it is important. 26 accelerated learning camps were also conducted to cater to 1050 out of school children aged 6-14. After successful completion and improvement in the learning levels these students were mainstreamed in the schools.
Dubai Cares works to improve children�s access to quality primary education in developing countries. The UAE-based philanthropic organization�s programs are currently reaching over 7 million beneficiaries in 28 developing countries with the highest gap in primary education. Dubai Cares expresses the UAE�s commitment to the global community�s development goals - namely, United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UN MDG) 2 and 3, of guaranteeing universal primary education and promoting gender equality, respectively. Dubai Cares is also helping to forge a global partnership for development, as indicated by UN Millennium Development Goals. | 2019-04-21T16:33:02 | http://itacec.org/itadc/index.php |
← What a Year for Real Estate!
You wake up in the morning and out of habit, grab your smartphone next to your bed to check your emails. In the evening, you clean up dinner, put the kids to bed, and then settle in with your laptop to get another hour or two of work done. The weekend rolls around and your spouse and kids keep chastising you for checking your phone for work emails, or even worse…taking work calls.
So I ask the question: How much time OFF will you take this year?
Let’s begin by defining a “day off”. I define this as the time from when you wake up to the time you go to sleep. It means an entire day of no work activity, no checking work emails, and answering work-related calls, reading work-related materials, and even no writing down that genius idea you just had.
With this definition in mind, decide now how many days off you will take this year. Here’s a hint: if you actually took the entire weekend off, that would add up to 104 days typically. Assuming you have two weeks of paid vacation you take, and you commit to making it a true vacation and not simply “working remotely”, that might add another 10 days. This gets you to 114. But figure out your number now, and write it down.
First, rejuvenation. I want to retrain you on how to view time off from work. Taking time off is no longer a reward for killing yourself the prior five days, five weeks, or five months. Taking time off is a requirement to be at your best when you are at work AND when you are at home.
With this definition in mind, you owe it to your co-workers, your boss, and most importantly, your family. Taking a full weekend off, or a week of vacation somewhere, with absolutely no work, will rejuvenate you and help you show up to work rested and creative…ready to solve those difficult problems and be much more productive.
Speaking of productivity, let’s move on to the second reason taking real time off is so important. Look at your number of days off you wrote down. For the sake of this lesson, let’s assume you wrote down 114. This means you have 251 days left in the year to accomplish all of your work-related goals. Suddenly your mind realized you don’t have as much time as you thought and that you’d better get a move on. No more excuses for wasted days. No more time for not maximizing every day you’re at work, getting the most out of each day and from each teammate or employee you supervise.
We all know that we are most productive the days leading up to a vacation. When time is scarce, it’s amazing how productive we become. On the other hand, when we know we have all day or all week to get something done, we are automatically less focused and less determined, and more open to allowing interruptions and distractions into our day.
By first committing to taking “X” number of days off, you’ve now tricked your mind into realizing you have no choice but to get more done at work in less time. And it works. Now you’re more productive at work, which then frees you up to actually take more time off! | 2019-04-20T00:26:51 | https://borrowsmartrepaysmart.com/2017/03/06/how-much-time-off-will-you-take-this-year/ |
Autumn is almost here! As the temperatures cool and the leaves start to change we’ve tried to reflect the cool tones of nature and embrace the coming of a new season. These are some of our favorite picks for cooler weather that will be here soon. | 2019-04-25T06:50:59 | https://karmapharmaorganics.com/collections/frontpage |
Information Fluency: It's Elementary! Beta Testers needed!
Carl Heine is developing a series of online learning games to teach elementary ages the essentials of search. We're looking for feedback and suggestions as we begin the development cycle.
Here's link to a launch page for two question to query games.
These are not yet polished. If you want to start over, just refresh the page.
Please post your feedback here?
Good concept...so little is available for the younger ages on searching...how about a quick automatic game session that has the computer making all the choices, selecting words & moving into box, moving some words out, and finally scoring well? That would visually explain the mechanics. It took a few minutes for me to discover the exact mechanics of the site...then it was cool! Also, love the speed racer & buffalo, but how about something for the gentler users? butterfly?
Something on butterflies is a good idea--will try to incorporate that in the next one. Maybe I should include a little animation about dragging and dropping the words in the box--might clear up some of the confusion as to what to do to play (an introduction that may be skipped).
I'm curious if you see a session where the computer makes the choices (essentially a movie) as directions vs a game that requires player interaction. I think I could see the computer making choices and then having the student predict (e.g., click the appropriate button) whether it's going to be a good search or not.
I have used the Modules for junior high students and only wish that other search engines would be used Google is the only way to go - even thought I have introduced other search engines, metasearch engines, and directories. They want everything easy and fast regardless of the returns.
A simulation that demonstrates a couple of Keyword Searches and the reasoning behind the 'right' choices certainly can be done. It's not a game, but more like a guided tour of turning a question into a query. Might be good to introduce the Keyword Challenges or resort to if one isn't have much luck with one of the games.
Google doesn't have to be the only choice, although it has advantages over other commercial search engines. In order to open a different search engine in a browser window, there would either have to be multiple buttons (choose a search engine) or leave the one button and link it to Yahoo (for example) instead of Google.
Here's a sample demo based on your comments. Let me know how it meets the need you are describing. There is no opportunity to score points--other than watch the Wizard get a perfect score. But perhaps this combines directions for using the Keyword Challenge games and shows how a good searcher thinking about searching.
First I played did the 3 examples (because I picked up the post in my feed reader, and it was at the top!) then I clicked through to read the rest of the thread, and found the example. I really like that! The addition of audio explanation would be superb, so that each user could work at an individual pace. The "silent" version would be fine for a whole class exercise with beamer (projector), with the teacher reading out the text. I'll use it with my classes, and let you know what the kids think.
Carl, I love the tutorial. I think Kathy's suggestion of an audio track makes sense as well. I'm not sure we could sink the audio with the video. As each sentence types it's way across the page the eye naturally tracks the wording. I can imagine an optional audio track that plays all the text, similar to what we do on the MicroModules.
When the time comes, I can do the narrations. Would stereo high quality MP3's make sense as the standard file type?
Audio would work fine, although it will make the file larger, possibly creating a longer download time. There may be ways to call the audio from files outside the demo. If you want to record it, make the recording as you watch the demo play--that's about the only way to sync them at this point. I'd explore the smallest compressions you can use and still have clear sound.
I was looking for easier ways to make the text unfold (I did it the hard way), but haven't figured out how to retain different formats using a coded typewriter effect. Plus, the typewriter coding is a little choppy. I may experiment with that effect on the last frame, where all the text suggestions just appear at once.
I was also thinking about a version where the Wizard's Apprentice creates the query. The Apprentice, not being as clever as the Wizard, could make poor choices and learn from them. That style of demo would be longer, but may be more instructive--and we could turn it into more of a game format: If you think the Apprentice chose all the powerful words, click here. Etc.
Thanks for posting this. I will definitely use this in my elementary school. I am always searching for quick and easy ways to get ideas across to 5th graders.
Karen, let us know how it goes? We're very interested in field reports!
Yesterday I presented a workshop at the Illinois School Library Media Association entitled, Information Fluency: It's Elementary! I invited everyone in attendance to join this ning and participate by trying out the new activities and reporting back, or chiming in with their 2 cent's worth about bringing search, evaluation and ethical use into the elementary grades.
You'll find instructional activities at three levels: readiness (most of these don't even use a computer, but prepare learners for the concepts they need to become searchers and investigators), practice using games and online tutorials and finally, going online and searching. There are five areas which I feel are essential for elementary students to understand before middle school: ways to search, using keywords, finding better keywords, evaluating the results and citing the information. You'll find lots more in the workshop materials.
I hope to use this ning as a development site for using and improving these resources. We may also spin this off into an online course for CPDUs or grad credit--if that happens, you'll get to author and be the first to test a new generation of materials. That could be exciting and highly useful. | 2019-04-25T16:12:47 | https://teacherlibrarian.org/group/informationfluency/forum/topic/show?id=672799%3ATopic%3A59255 |
DoremiSoft MPG to 3GP Converter - Software Informer. DoremiSoft MPG to 3GP Converter is a free video converter.
DoremiSoft MPG to 3GP Converter is a free video converter. The application supports only MPG input files and 3GP output files. There aren't any quality or conversion settings, other than the selection of the file that you want to convert and the name and path of the converted file. The fact that this converter is so plain could be an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on your point of view. I think it is a disadvantage because of the lack of quality settings. But some people might think differently.
In terms of performance, the conversion process went smoothly for me. The resulting file was of equal quality with the original file. The audio didn't play, though.
I noticed a little problem when you have more than one DoremiSoft converter installed on your system. I had installed the AVI to FLV converter before installing this converter. After I finished the installation of MPG to 3GP Converter, the shortcut on the desktop opened the AVI to FLV converter, instead of this one. I had to uninstall both applications and install this one again to gain access to this converter. | 2019-04-19T08:50:09 | https://doremisoft-mpg-to-3gp-converter.software.informer.com/ |
Today I’m sharing 30 incredible book series for kids (boy and girls ages 8-12). If you have a reluctant reader, a really great series is like magic! If you can find one your child likes, chances are he or she will want to start on the next one as soon as they’ve finished the first. My older boys LOVE series because they go through books so quickly, it’s nice to have three of four more to read. My boys helped me compile this list, which includes some of their very favorite book series from elementary school. As always, if you have any great recommendations for this age group, please leave a comment letting us all know!
NOTE: all photos in this post are linked to Amazon so you can easily find these books if you’d like to buy them (affiliate). But don’t forget to check for these books at your local library. Many libraries have summer reading programs to encourage kids to keep reading.
The Princess Tales (3 book series). Each book in this series is a compilation of fairy tale retellings by Gail Carson Levine, author of Ella Enchanted. Readers can expect fun and funny new twists on familiar princess tales. Grades 3-5.
The Penderwicks (4 book series). A charming modern classic about four motherless sisters, their absentminded professor father, and their exploits and misadventures. This is one of my favorite kids book series because it’s lighthearted, warm, and just plain fun. Grades 3-6.
The Great Brain (8 book series). J.D.’s older brother Tom is known as “The Great Brain” around town because he’s always conning the other kids into doing his chores or giving them his prized possessions. Set in Utah in the early 1900’s, this book series is full of adventure and mischief and is so much fun! Grades 3-6.
Inkeart (3 book series). Meggie’s father can make books come to life–literally. When he reads aloud from a book called Inkheart the villains appear in his world, while Meggie’s mother gets trapped in theirs. Great book series for kids. Grades 3-7.
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (4 book series). On his 13th birthday Alcatraz receives a bag of sand from his long lost parents, and on the next day his grandfather arrives to tell him why the sand is important and how it will help him defeat the evil librarians, who have taken over society. Great book series for Grades 3-7.
Spirit Animals (8 book series). In the world of Erdas, each 11 year old child must discover if he or she has a spirit animal, a bond between human and beast that brings great power. Four children and their animals must work together to save the world. Grades 3-7.
The Chronicles of Narnia (7 book series). Four bored children stumble through an old wardrobe into a magical land in the midst of an eternal winter. Can they save the friends they make their from the witch who rules the land? This classic series hasn’t lost any of it’s appeal. Grades 4-8.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (5 book series). Percy’s always had trouble at school, but now that his algebra teacher’s turned into a monster and is trying to kill him things are just getting worse. Soon Percy finds out who he really is and sets out on a quest to the Underworld to prevent a war between the gods. One of the more popular book series for kids to come out in the past 20 years. Grades 4-8.
Ranger’s Apprentice (12 book series). When 15 year old Will is chosen as an apprentice to the mysterious rangers, he doesn’t realize they protect the entire kingdom. And the biggest battle of all is about to arrive. Grade 5-8.
A Wrinkle in Time (5 book series). Meg’s father disappears while doing secret work for the government, and a mysterious strange appears with information for Meg. She travels through space and time with the help of her little brother Charles Wallace and new friend Calvin to try to save her father. Grades 5-8.
Peter and the Starcatchers (5 book series). This fast paced pirate adventure tells the story before the story of Peter Pan, filling in all the questions you never knew you had: where did pixie dust come from and how did Peter get to Neverland in the first place? Lots of swashbuckling action, humor, and a great story. Grades 5-8.
The House with a Clock in it’s Walls (and at least 10 other John Bellairs mysteries). All the Bellairs mysteries are deliciously creepy adventures set in places like haunted castles or mansions with secret passageways, and feature evil wizards, mummies, and more. Spooky and fun! Grades 6-8.
Tripods (3 book series). Huge three legged machines control the earth and nearly everyone on it. 13 year old Will Parker never thought he’d be the one to start the revolution, but that’s what he’s about to do. Grades 6-8.
The Last Apprentice / The Wardstone Chronicles (serie) : the story of a young boy that is chosen to became apprentice of an old man, whose job is to catch every evil creature around (ghosts, witches…) to protect people. Very well writen, very good illustrations (like stamped).
Children are found of this serie, but adults to ! I’m a big fan !
Yea, how about Harry potter? That’s like, an epic series.
Absolutely, and it’s one of our favorite series EVER! The only reason I didn’t include it is that I figured most people have already heard about it already.
Please give Diana Wynne Jones a try. Her books are excellent. The Chrestomanci series (7 books) is about an eccentric enchanter; a kind of Minister of Magic. Howl’s Moving Castle and the two following books are fairy-tale turn-arounds. There are stand alone books too (my favourite of these is Archer’s Goon). Also Eva Ibbotson’s books are truly something special. She writes realistic, historical fiction (like Journey to the River Sea), and magical mayhem (I love ‘Not Just a Witch).
I love the chronicles of Narnia. They are very fin and enjoyable to read,I highly recommend them!
I LOVE the ‘Song of the Lioness’ Quartet by Tamora Pierce.
There is actually a new book in the Princess Academy series! Yay! Love those. . .
The Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull is perfect for this age group. A brother and sister go to visit their grandparents and discover that they are the caretakers of a nature preserve for magical creatures, both good and evil. They discover that someone is trying to loose the evil creatures and take over the world. Can they work together to keep the evil from overtaking the good?
The Young Wizards series by Diane Duane (9 books).
I teach fifth grade and these series rock, bi put most of my students are struggling readers and wouldn’t be able to read these series by themselves.
The Land of Stories series is great for this age and I believe struggling readers (though the books are large) will love them enough to read themselves if a parent reads the first 3 chapters to them. We read together & take turns with every other page.
YES! My daughter loves them!
I want to thank you for these posts. My 4th grade son is a voracious reader, and your list has helped me so much to keep up with his reading habits. Thank you!!!
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I suggest Susan Cooper’s “The Dark is Rising” series. The plots are riveting, and the addition of time travel is appealing to this grade level.
Thanks for this great list! I would add to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians set the other series by Rick Riordan: The Kane Chronicles, Heroes of Olympus, and Magnus Chase. My 4th grade son has learned so much about mythology (Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Norse) and just loved all those books. Other favorites are the Keeper of the Lost Cities series by Shannon Messenger and The Five Kingdoms series by Fablehaven author Brandon Mull.
Check out the database at this website. It is the collection of books curated by the AFrican American girl in search of 1,000 books about black girls. You can check the books based on reading level, and more.
Also my daughters and i have enjoyed books by Jacqueline Woodson, Rita Williams-Garcia, Patricia McKissak, The Pinkneys, Sharon Flake, just to name a few Af-Am authors. I can’t recommend authors of other ethnicities but will be on the lookout for them.
check out hornbook.com and search the blog. I found lists of POC books, especially in Blogs about Black History Month.
How about The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron? This is a 3 book series.
My third grade loves the Frog Princess series. We read together every night and I enjoy them as much as she does.
My 10 year old son loves the Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan. He loved them more than the Percy Jackson and he liked that series.
My fifth grader loved the Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children series. There are 3. There are also 2 other series by the same author that wrote Warriors. One is called Seekers, the other is Survivors. My son loved all of them, but Seekers was his favorite.
The Wednesday Tales (3 Book Series) by Jon Berkeley.
I taught 4th grade for many years and 2 series that they always loved were The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket and My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (the boys especially loved this one). Thanks for all the great suggestions!!
Yes — my kid loves those. He also loves Story Thieves by James Riley.
I was looking for someone else who would suggest this series. One of our favorites! And if you haven’t, I HIGHLY recommend listening to the audiobooks. David Pittu narrates the entire series and does an absolute PHENOMENAL job!!! I can’t say enough about this series!
I suggest the Merits of Mischief series by T.R. Burns. My son who does not like reading, could not put these down. He also enjoyed the Spy School serie by Stuart Gibbs and the Candy Shop wars series by Brandon Mull. He read these all in grade 6. Age 11.
Thanks for the great list. Lots there I don’t know, I must check them out. I would include the Alex rider series, the witch baby series(very funny) and how to train your dragon series too.
Fablehaven series (5 book series). By Brandon Mull. Author of the Spirit Animal Series you listed. Totally awesome!!!! I read them first and am sharing them with my kids now! They love them! What I love is that at the end of the books there are discussion questions you can ask your kids. We’ve had some really good discussions from those questions provided by the author.
The Five Kingdom Series (4 books so far one yet to come). Also by Brandon Mull. Super awesome!!! Dare I say even better than Fablehaven??!!! Dunno but your kids will love them.
I really enjoyed the Beyonders series by Brandon Mull as well. There was one character that freaked me out a little. Ferrin was his name. Totally brilliant and cool concept for a character! But you should find him and read about his particular abilities and judge if you are ok with letting your kid read it.
You definitely have to add Percy Jackson Heros of Olympus (5 books) by Rick Riordin!!! They are even better than the first series of books. It ties in the Roman personas of the Greek Gods and introduces you to another camp of Roman demigods. Of corse Percy and Annabeth are still major players. Awesome!!!!
Kane Chronicals (3 books I believe) by Rick RiordinRiordin as well. About the Egyptian Gods told by a brother and sister who are always making snarky remarks while the other is speaking. Totally hilarious banter. The storyline is amazing.
Basically you can’t go wrong with Brandon Mull or Rick Riordin!!!!
The Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley is a hilariously entertaining series! I also enjoyed the Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull and the rest of Rick Riordan’s books like several others have suggested.
When my mother bought me the Charlie Bone series, she also got Artemis Fowl. I love them both! Artemis is a brilliant, rich criminal mastermind, but he may be in over his head when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These fairies are armed and dangerous.
My fourth grader loves the Harry Potter series.
My fourth grader loves the Harry Potter series. She says that it’s amazing.
Anything by Stuart Gibbs! We loved the Spy School series, Space Case series & the Last Musketeer series!!
yes, we love these too~ and also the Wingfeather Saga (four books). I have read many of the ones you listed Autumn and loved them as well. Thanks for this list!
These are all wonderful series! One other I think you should add is the Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull. Next to Harry Potter they are mine and my kids favorites!
My fourth grader read 18 books in the Warriors series. She LOVES that series.
The Pendragon series is a big hit in my sixth grade classroom!
Savvy, Scumble and Switch by Ingrid Law are some of our favorites. It’s about the Beaumont family who have a magical secret. When each member of the family turns 13, they get their “savvy”, their own special supernatural power. The main character in the first book is Mibs Beaumont, is about to turn 13, and with a grandpa who can move mountains, and older brothers who can create storms and spark electricity, she is anxiously awaiting her birthday. The second and third novels are about different members of their extended families. Both my son and daughter enjoyed this series, and we all hope there will be more to come.
The Spiderwick Chronicles is another great series!!!
kids really feels interesting to read..
The ascendance trilogy by Jennifer A. Nielsen is by far a favorite!
My son loves reading and is starting the 2nd grade. We are already running out of ideas for books to read that are not really scary but are at his reading and interest level. We have read Narnia over the summer so this is a great list of what we can read next!!! YEAH!!!
Bet your son would LOVE the Muzz series, by Jonathan E. Pope. Not too scary and a lot of fun.
My daughter started reading the Wings of Fire series by Tui T. Sutherland in 4th grade and it is her very favorite set of books!
The very best book is Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins! My 3rd grader through high schoolers love them. I did too!
Gregor the Overlander is brilliantly written by Suzanne Collins! Perfect for any age! I enjoyed them as much as my 4th grader and high schooler! Adventure story!
Wildwood and A Series of Unfortunate Events are favorites at our house!
If dinosaurs and adventure are what your kids are looking for have them try Edge of Extinction – The Ark Plan by Laura Martin. It has action from the first page. The sequel comes out May 30, 2017.
The Redwsll series by Brian Jacques. Thumping good reads. My grandsons have enjoyed the Little House books so far. Especially Farmer Boy.
I can tell by your list that you will really enjoy these!
I would like to see the Alchemyst series added. A very good series about two twin teenagers who must save the world, or destroy it with the help of wizard Nicholas Flamel.
Save it with Nicholas, or destroy it on accident.
The Unwanteds by Lisa Mcmann is a 7 book must read series!
I also agree with other readers’ suggestions of anything by Brandon Mull or Rick Riordan.
Wings of Fire by Tui Sutherland.
Land of Eyon by Patrick Carman.
Oh, and there’s a new 4th book in the Tuesdays in the Castle series!
I just turned thirteen, but when I was twelve I read a book series called Eragon. It is(after Harry Potter) my favorite.
The Land Of Stories is an awesome series that I personally guarantee you will LOVE. I absolutely love the series and wish there were more like it. This is a great read so don’t forget to read it. If you think it sounds boring or something I am positive you will love it. My friend said I should read it so I did. Absolutely a great series and if anyone knows a series like it please inform me so I can read it. The best thing about the Land Of Stories is that it is awesome for all ages no matter if you are in 8th grade or in 3rd grade. I think you will love it! Thanks for reading! I know it was long!
My grandson and I have enjoyed the Unwanted series( 7 books).
Its a cross between Hunger Games and Harry Potter….great books to read.
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I survived series by Lauren Tarshis. Read every book with my 3rd grader. Have real history with a fictional story. Highly recommend for younger readers.
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We stumbled upon the Muzz Series, and my kids (10 and 8yo) absolutely loved them. They are space scavenger hunt stories that the author describes as “Star Wars meets The DiVinci Code… for kids.” Only a two book series so far but I think a 3rd book is in the works. It’s by a new self-published author so not a ton of reviews yet. Anyway, we LOVED them and I think others would, too.
My son is 11 and in 5th grade. I bought him a book that is called “the last kids on earth” and he read it in three days and I bought him the next book. He has NEVER been into reading. Only reads for 30 minutes a day because he has too. I’ve never seen him so excited to read a book. I’m am so excited that he finally found something that he likes.
My 4th grader picked up a Pegasus book, the first one in the series. She was kinda freaked out so I read some. It was very graphic in parts. Like blood splattered on the chandelier described. Definitely not what I would recommend for 8 to 10 which were the recommended ages on the book.
The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson is amazing! My 10 year old son insisted I read it, and I wasn’t disappointed.
Also, the sixth Incorrigible book just came out last month. I devoured that series, and I am 36. =) It’s hilarious. There’s a lot of clever humor that children might not pick up on their first reading, but that comes out beautifully to an adult.
Oh, also the Smells Like Dog (Smells like treasure, Smells like pirates) series. Also written by that author is the Imaginary Veterinarians.
If you were to ask people to name the most popular book series of the recent years, most of them will surely name Harry Potter.
Well, I have noted all the book series for my kid.
Well, I have noted all the books.
THis is good to know about such things.
thank you for the awesome book recommendations! I’m a fifth grader and i love to read! Even though i saw this in 2018 i haven’t heard about most the series in the list. thank you again for the AWESOME book series. I plan on reading them ALL!
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I love that you’ve included Ranger’s Apprentice, Percy Jackson, and Charlie Bone. Those and many more on this list were big parts of my childhood. Really great selection here!
dork diaries I don’t really like them but my friend absolutely adores those books and she can’t get on this website so I’m doing it for her.
You should put in more book series about dragons and mythical creatures. | 2019-04-23T00:37:14 | https://www.itsalwaysautumn.com/30-great-book-series-kids-ages-8-12.html |
As Enterprise Tech Buying Habits Change, Are You Ready?
Thomas Saueressig, SAP SE’s 32-year-old chief information officer, looks for commitment when evaluating vendor pitches. Technology firms that get his attention are those “with which I feel confident I can build a long-term strategic partnership,” Mr. Saueressig, one of the corporate world’s youngest CIOs, told CIO Journal's Angus Loten in an email.
That kind of brand loyalty is far less important to older IT buyers, according to new research by Spiceworks Inc., a networking platform for IT professionals, which identified key generational differences in how enterprise IT buyers find and engage with technology vendors. At the end of 2016, the number of millennials in the U.S.
We'd like to apologize in advance for the dramatic headline of this post, especially the evolve or die part but there is a communications transformation taking place in companies around the globe and unless you're paying attention, you're likely to fall behind.
A huge shift is taking place - starting with our homes. No doubt, your residence has noticed the shift. Consider, out of the nine top-selling products in the Electronics category on Amazon, six of them or 2/3 are Alexa-enabled!
The way our customers want to interact with technology has changed dramatically.
Yet, IVR systems were initially deployed not for the customer but for the bottom line.
Few people have heard of Lumavate but at the conclusion of this post you'll be convinced that they likely point to the future of at least one segment of the IoT market.
Before we get into the company, lets delve into the company's latest news. Don Brown has led a $2 million dollar seed investment.
The reason this matters has to do with integration.
Dr. Don Brown is someone who gets a fraction of the press he deserves. If he lived in Silicon Valley, the tech media would worship him 24x7. Because his last company was located in Indiana, he flew somewhat under the radar of the general media while revolutionizing the way trillions of dollars were spent in the call center market.
I first met Don when he launched Interactive Intelligence around 1995.
WhatsApp revolutionized consumer texting. Slack did it for business. Tunnel wants to do it for call centers.
There is no shortage of vendors who will allow your call center to send text messages via an API.
Communications is often sold as a commodity. What once cost dollars a minute is often free today but everyone knows that if you can find a way to take a commodity product and alter it – even slightly, you can charge more and become very profitable. Starbucks is a great example and so are the numerous frozen yogurt chains around the country able to charge more per customer than analysts ever thought was possible.
In a recent conversation with 8x8 CEO Vik Verma, he explained his vision for the hosted voice company and the market as a whole.
One of the biggest challenges developers have to deal with relate to managing all the programming interfaces from various systems and solutions. Getting sales and back office systems to communicate effectively with CRM and accounting are just a few of a challenges many organizations perpetually face. Another is getting the on-premise and cloud systems to communicate effectively – we are going to be in a hybrid world for some time after all.
Scribe Software is one of the companies looking to help developers make short work of these challenges.
With predictions about IoT devices numbering in the billions and revolutionizing every market from medical to industrial, a simple question remains. How will all these devices and solutions get sold? Who will deploy them, connect them, harness the data they emit in order to allow businesses to become more productive and efficient?
Consider that estimates put the number of public and private companies in the US at more than 27 million and over 115 million worldwide.
Intro: Gupshup is a smart messaging platform that offers advanced developer tools for messaging - handling over 4 billion messages per month. It enables developers to build bots for SMS, Twitter, Slack, WeChat, Teamchat and messaging apps with a unified API. It also enables developers to embed smart messaging into their app or website for a seamlessly integrated user-experience. Over 30,000 business use the solution according to the company. | 2019-04-20T04:31:37 | http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/call-center/crm/index.html?page=2 |
Advanced Payment is an amount payable upfront to a dealer in addition to the weekly mobility allowance. The mobility allowance may not cover the cost for some larger or more expensive cars. In these cases, cars are allocated with an Advance Payment which represents the difference between the amount your allowance covers over the three-year agreement period and the overall cost of the car you choose.
The Advance Payment is a fixed amount, but should not be confused with a deposit, it is non-refundable. The allowance is then paid directly via the Department for Work and Pensions or Service Personnel and Veterans Agency, and you cannot alter the amount of the weekly payments. | 2019-04-20T05:23:42 | https://vindisgroup.com/motability/advance-payments |
Best P-38 for keychain, carabiner, or pocket due to blade lock. If packed tight in a container, blade lock is unnecessary.
The most common P-38 can openers have about a 50% defect rate. The corner by the hole isn't rounded enough and it digs into your hand. You can easily see this in photos that show a bunch of them together.
Another manufacturer leaves a pointy piece of metal by the hole in EVERY P-38 I checked (many) and opening the blade the first time by hand is pretty much impossible. Major quality control problems. The ones with the blade lock don't have these problems. Hopefully there won't be knockoffs that reintroduce those problems.
If you look at the pictures on Amazon you'll see how to position the blade lock so it doesn't get in the way when opening a can. Otherwise you could accidentally bend it (but it could be bent back) or it could get in the way.
Welcome to Trailspace, Barry! Thanks for the helpful review.
The P-38 Can Opener with Blade Lock is not available from the stores we monitor. | 2019-04-19T12:15:50 | https://www.trailspace.com/gear/other/p-38-can-opener-with-blade-lock/?review=38615 |
Mike and Jenny Maugeri were on their way to the hospital for Jenny to give birth to their fourth child. Miles Carson couldn't wait. He made his entrance into the world along Interstate 64 in the family's minivan.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A couple from Virginia Beach delivered their baby on the side of Interstate 64 Thursday morning!
Around 5 a.m., Jenny Maugeri was having contractions and she started preparing to head to the hospital. She woke up her husband, Mike, and they waited around for a babysitter. Mike even made lunch for their three other children.
The Maugeris assumed they had plenty of time before making the 45-minute drive from their home in Virginia Beach's Strawbridge area to DePaul Medical Center.
By the time they started driving, Jenny's contractions were a lot stronger.
Mike pulled over the Toyota Sienna minivan on I-64 near the Northhampton Boulevard, and in a few minutes, their baby was born.
Mike talked with an emergency dispatcher on the phone during the baby boy's birth. He used his shoelace to cut the cord, and he wrapped the baby in the t-shirt off his back.
The 7-pound, 10-ounce baby was named Miles Carson after the exciting start to his life. | 2019-04-24T20:07:21 | https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/mycity/virginia-beach/virginia-beach-mom-gives-birth-on-side-of-i-64/291-29f05654-5643-4405-a996-569df5698f11 |
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GHS File - What is it and how do I open it?
Having problems opening a GHS file?
We have programs that open, view or play your GHS files.
Did your computer fail to open a GHS file? We explain what GHS files are and recommend software that we know can open or convert your GHS files.
What is a GHS file?
While we do not yet have a description of the GHS file format and what it is normally used for, we do know which programs are known to open these files. See the list of programs recommended by our users below.
We are constantly working on adding more file type descriptions to the site - the current count exceeds thousand by far, and more information about GHS files will hopefully be added soon. | 2019-04-19T21:09:11 | https://file.org/extension/GHS |
A non-essential amino acid that occurs naturally in the body.
A safe, natural product protector that is anti-microbial and has anti-oxidants.
A small shrub or tree, native to Peru and is used as a natural thickening agent.
A nutrient that helps the body turn fat into energy. It is produced by the body in the liver and kidneys and stored in the skeletal muscles, heart and brain.
A natural gloss agent, pigment wetter and dispersant, plasticizer and emollient.
An all-natural medium chain fatty acid that is highly purified, a refined waxy ester and helps with joint inflammation.
A sour organic acid derived from citrus fruits that causes a reaction when combined with the baking soda.
Loaded with omega-3 and omega-6 and helps improve cardiovascular function, increase circulation and strengthen the immune system. Essential fatty acids can not be synthesized by the body. Cranberry oil’s naturally occurring tocopherols and highly unsaturated profile provide nourishment to the skin and superior moisturizing qualities. | 2019-04-18T16:37:58 | https://www.hyalogic.com/about-ha/ingredients-with-integrity/glossary-ingredients-b-c/ |
Outstanding post by Cristian Mihai. I thought you guys would be interested.
I usually try to avoid three things: controversial subjects, shameless marketing, and bar fights. And most of the time I’m lucky.
But today I feel like making a stand. Yeah, it’s late and the USB ports on my laptop stopped working, but I want to tell you my honest opinion about self-publishers and all the people who have been criticizing them.
Great piece. I’d always been told one must go the traditional route to be a “real” writer…I see more and more self publishing. As I am getting closer to my goal, I’m thinking of self publishing rather than go through all the trouble of publishing companies. They accuse self publishers of being lazy; however, it takes a lot of work to get your words ready for digital publishing as well.
It used to be that there was a lot of stigmatism attached to self-publishing and the so-called “vanity” publishing (i.e. paying someone else to publish you). As the world becomes more and more computer-oriented, online and POD (pay on demand) self-publishing are entering into their own. I’m glad…and glad you liked the post, suzi. | 2019-04-19T20:13:13 | https://fantasyfic.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/1281/ |
These are our standard Basic and Advanced courses as described under our "Course Descriptions" page.
- $1,200/student (see course schedule below).
- Courses are scheduled at our CA and OH offices.
DENSO robot system from DENSO Products and Services Americas, Inc.
- Credit(s) expire one year after delivery.
- Partner company training programs are eligible for these pre-scheduled courses only, with a nominal fee.
- Additional classes may be added on-demand; 2 student minimum; credits and discounts do not apply. Contact us for details!
Maintenance courses: Courses are subject to availability.
We offer two levels of maintenance training. Our Basic is our Maintenance (4 or 6 axes) course as described under our "Course Descriptions" page. Our Advanced is specific to each robot model - contact us for details.
- $2,250-$3,000/student for the Advanced 3-4 day maintenance course per robot. This course includes the basic maintenance content. Contact us for details on this course specific to your robot model!
- Scheduled at our OH office.
- Minimum 2 students to create a class.
- Credits/discounts/training-agreements do not apply.
- Additional classes (both Basic or Advanced) may be added on-demand; 2 student minimum; credits and discounts do not apply. Contact us for details!
Custom and Legacy courses: Courses are subject to availability.
These courses are for topics not covered in the RC8 Basic or Advanced courses.
- These courses are scheduled as-needed. Please contact us to set up one of these classes!
- Credits/discounts/training agreements do not apply.
Onsite courses: Courses are subject to availability.
Operator course: Courses are subject to availability.
These courses cover select portions of our "Basic" course. The class is designed for machine operators, and has a heavy Teach Pendant and operation focus, with limited programming.
RC7 & RC8 Spare Robot & Controller Swap Out Training: Courses are subject to availability.
- Our basic class is a prerequisite for this course. This course is recommended for Programmers, Machine Builders, and System Integrators.
To obtain contact information for our Partner companies that provide onsite training, contact the DENSO training center closest to you.
Once a course has been scheduled, cancellations must be made and a cancellation confirmation received 5 working days before the first day of the course. If a student does not attend a scheduled course or cancels less than 5 working days before the first day of the course, DENSO will charge a cancelation fee of 1/2 the price of that particular course.
DENSO schedules new classes every 6 months. DENSO reserves the right to cancel and/or reschedule courses whenever necessary and will make every effort to notify enrolled students as early as possible before the starting date of the course. | 2019-04-18T15:13:07 | http://densorobotics.com/training/costs |
Dr. Dre helped make Death Row Records a household name in the early 1990s, but left the label amid some controversy to form his own. Now, the producer and business mogul is suing his former recording home for $3 million.
Radar Online got an exclusive peek at the court records filed early last December by Dr. Dre, born Andrew Young, against Marion “Suge” Knight’s label. In total, the good doctor is seeking just a shade over $3 million in unpaid royalties and digital sales. Radar Online has more.
In legal docs, the Compton native, 48, also alludes to a discrepancy in the payments he received from the company, as he said they have yet to honor a bonus that would jump his revenues from Death Row Album sales from 18 percent to 20.
Knigh, who lost the rap label in 2006 due to bankruptcy, is currently embroiled in other legal struggle, this after he allegedly threatened an employee at a medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Hit the jump to see the court documents Dr. Dre filed against Death Row Records. | 2019-04-26T15:39:02 | https://hiphopwired.com/282838/dr-dre-sues-death-row-records-3-million-back-royalties/ |
Stenciling tools, stencil brushes for DIY project. Foam roller for wall stencils.
This Stencil Essentials Kit contains all 3 necessary tools for your DIY stenciling project. Save 10% off the price if purchased separately!
Dense Foam Roller. The easiest and fastest way to apply a stenciled image to a wall. Perfect for wall stencils, allover patterns such as damask and scroll, faux frescoes and mural stencils.
Natural 5/8" White Bristle Stencil Brush. Good quality stencil brush with soft white natural bristle, perfect for finishing edges and corners, and for shading and smooth color blending.
Our Innovative Clip-on Stencil Level. Clips to the edge of your stencil and eliminates the need for bulky bubble levels and string plum-bobs. Huge time-saver! Get perfectly leveled stencil pattern every time. Great for geometric stencil patterns, damask stencils, stencil borders, stripe stencils, French panels and any stencil ornament that needs to be level. | 2019-04-19T01:01:50 | https://www.cuttingedgestencils.com/stencil-tools-kit.html |
We’re always pushing our innovation further—in how our products perform and how they impact the environment. Responding to the increasing demand for environmentally responsible products, OrthoLite® Hybrid™ is a true game-changing technology. Combining recycled rubber, waste foam and our open-cell foam, it goes the distance and retains all the performance attributes OrthoLite® is known for—with less impact on the environment. OrthoLite® Hybrid™ means using less petroleum and less energy, while adding less to landfills. And it means all the comfort your consumers expect—with the eco-friendly features they demand.
OrthoLite® Hybrid™ can now be applied to all OrthoLite® formulations.
Ideal for a wide range of applications, OrthoLite® Hybrid™ provides cushioning and performance critical in insole, strobel and upper applications. The hybrid formulation creates a cooler, drier environment inside the footwear, so consumers can feel and perform their best. It also supports your brand’s sustainability goals—giving you a great opportunity to tell your consumers why you’ve chosen OrthoLite®.
OrthoLite® Hybrid™ is created with 5% recycled rubber and 15% production waste foam. | 2019-04-23T08:06:57 | https://www.ortholite.com/technology/hybrid/ |
As Dan Meek, a founder of the Independent Party, notes in the comments below, Republican Chris Dudley picked up 294 of the 314 write-in votes. Would he have had a chance to snag the nomination if he competed for it?
, which conducted the state’s first political primary over the Internet.
Kitzhaber won handily after Chris Dudley, his Republican opponent in the governor’s race, decided not to compete for the minor party’s recognition.
Under a new state law, candidates in the general election are allowed to list the nominations of as many as three political parties. The Independent nomination was particularly sought after by major-party candidates who thought being labeled as an independent would appeal to many voters.
Independent voters also chose two Republican challengers in congressional races over Democratic incumbents who competed for the party’s endorsement.
Scott Bruun, a state representative from West Linn, narrowly defeated U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader, 237-211. And Art Robinson, a scientist and global warming skeptic, defeated U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, 418-288.
All told, the Independent Party said that 2,290 votes were cast, representing about a 4 percent turnout of its nearly 56,000 voters. The Independent Party now has more registered voters than the combined total of voters in the state’s five other recognized minor parties.
The only other congressional contest was in the Third Congressional District, where Libertarian Jeffrey Lawrence defeated Green Party candidate Michael Meo. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Portland, and Republican Delia Lopez did not seek the nomination.
In the legislative races, Independent Party voters veered between Democratic and Republican candidates in several contests.
Senate Majority Leader Richard Devlin, D-Tualatin, narrowly defeated Republican challenger Mary Kremer in Senate District 19 by a vote of 49 to 44. And state Rep. Chuck Riley, D-Hillsboro, who is challenging Sen. Bruce Starr, R-Hillsboro, also won a close race. Riley received 33 votes to 29 for Starr.
In Bend, Republican Jason Conger easily defeated Democratic Rep. Judy Stiegler by a vote of 57 to 28. In the open Senate District 26 seat, Republican Chuck Thomsen, a Hood River County commissioner, defeated Rep. Brent Barton, D-Clackamas, by a vote of 50 to 31.
Republican Marvin Sannes defeated Rep. Brian Clem, D-Salem, 12 to 10 in House District 21. Republican Gordon Fiddes also narrowly beat Rep. Margaret Doherty, D-Tigard, 14 to 12. And Republican Rob Wheeler beat Sen. Rod Monroe, D-Portland, by a vote of 19 to 10.
In Senate District 8, Sen. Frank Morse, R-Albany, defeated Democrat Dan Rayfield, 86 to 67. | 2019-04-19T02:19:07 | https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2010/07/kitzhaber_adds_independent_par.html |
Ancient, sacred Vulcan monastery. The 3,000-year-old P'Jem served as a sanctuary for meditation and the ritual purging of emotion known as the "Kolinahr." Andorian commandos took control of the temple in 2151, searching for a hidden sensor array. Captain Archer and the Enterprise NX-01 crew were taken hostage during the incident. The P'Jem monks insisted that there was no sensor array, but one was eventually discovered deep in the monastery's catacombs — a direct violation of the Vulcans' treaty with the Andorians. After Enterprise left the region, the Andorians gave the monks three hours to evacuate, then destroyed the temple. | 2019-04-22T14:52:04 | https://www.startrek.com/database_article/pjem |
Rider stores a couple of settings related to evaluation license in its configuration files. If these config files are corrupted for some reason, evaluation check is not passed, resulting in this error.
On Windows: delete "C:\Users\<USERNAME>\.Rider2017.1" folder from disk.
On Mac OS: delete "~/Library/Preferences/Rider2017.1" folder from disk.
On Linux: delete "~/.Rider2017.1" folder from disk.
I'm running OSX Yosemite (10.10.5) & there's no directory `~/Library/Preferences/.Rider2017.1`.
Removing this directory & restarting fixed the problem (though I had to invalidate caches & restart once).
If you have settings you want to keep, like fonts, colours, inspections, etc, you wan to keep. Goto File > Export Settings and save the settings.jar to your desktop. Delete the folder as above. Then once Rider has restarted you can import your settings, File > Import Settings.
Following these instruction on a mac broke my debugging. My F# projects will no longer debug. I confirmed it was due to this by restoring my Library/Preferences/Rider2017.1 folder.
Had the same issue this morning, removed/uninstalled previous Rider version (2017.1 RC) and then was able to use 30-day evaluation on the latest version (Rider 2017.1).
Still having the problem after deleting the folder, uninstalling / re-installing Rider, I'm supposed to have an evaluation until September 3rd.
Why don’t you use the native open dialog when opening a project?
How do I stop Rider reloading the last project when reopening? | 2019-04-25T07:46:38 | https://rider-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001129070--Your-evaluation-license-has-expired-error-message-after-1st-Rider-launch?sort_by=created_at |
Solange. Photo: Courtesy of Columbia Records.
Here to save Black History Month from the demons formed against it, Solange has emerged from wherever she’s taken refuge just in the nick of time. Her fourth album, When I Get Home, has arrived mere days after she gave any inclination that it even existed and is streaming now on all services. It features contributions from Pharrell, Dev Hynes, Sampha, Gucci Mane, Earl Sweatshirt, Cassie, Tyler the Creator, Playboi Carti, The-Dream, Panda Bear, and more. It also samples Houston legends Debbie Allen, Phylicia Rashad, Pat Parker, and Scarface.
Solange previously said of the project that it’ll be “jazz to the core,” but also contain elements of electronic and hip-hop drum and bass because she intends on it “making your trunk rattle.” She also gave fans the heads-up then that the album would be a complete surprise, saying it’d be “in progress until the very end.” At last, the time has come! Go forth and nourish your souls!
Update, 5:00 p.m. ET: Solange has pulled a Knowles and also announced a companion film for her new album will drop on Apple Music tonight at 7 p.m. ET. If these sisters never rest, neither can we!
“When I Get Home” the film coming out 4pm PT/7pm ET on @applemusic and i couldn’t be more proud ! Link in the bio 🖤🖤 y’all so damn much! | 2019-04-24T02:41:59 | https://www.vulture.com/2019/03/stream-solanges-new-album-when-i-get-home-right-now.html |
Perched on a high bluff overlooking a spectacular bay of Puget Sound, Chambers Bay Golf Course chose a Whitley Evergreen building to serve as its temporary club house, a temporary building elegant enough to host prestigous tournaments and the sophisticated people the tournaments...and the view...attract.
Government often faces needs that exceed budgets. Washington state government has a reputation for environmental stewardship and fiscal prudence, so they turned to Whitley for a "green" building that would not anger taxpayers.
Can a modern, modular building system produce a Neo-Palladian style required by this historic landmark? The Visitor's Center at Riversdale proves that it can. Furthermore, the accelerated construction process allowed the structure to reach completion in a fraction of the time.
The volunteer fire company faced a set of unusual challenges, as well as the usual problems of cash and time. Instead, however, of turning to modular in a pinch, they worked for over a year with Axis Modular Systems to design a building that would exactly fit their needs...on budget and in plenty of time. | 2019-04-23T22:35:29 | http://whitleyman.com/casestudies/Clubhouses |
For the last couple of weeks, cruel person that I am, I’ve more or less banned myself from reading. Ivory Terrors needed finishing, and then more recently, I needed to prepare for the launch – May 1st, this coming Thursday, in case anyone is in danger of forgetting. It’s surprising how much time doing the final read-through and formatting, requesting reviews, and organising a blog tour takes up. When I’m actually writing, other people’s books inspire and motivate me. When I just need to get my head down and get everything perfected and organised, they risk getting in the way. I decided I needed my imagination firmly inside The Cavaliers, and not in someone else’s world.
This self-imposed denial was made rather easier by the fact that my beloved Kindle broke a month or two ago. It’s much simpler to resist the lure of an intriguing novel when getting it involves either leaving the house or waiting a few days for it to be delivered.
But then, my well-intentioned plans were thwarted. Because I realised that Dreams of Gods and Monsters (Daughter of Smoke and Bone No.3) was going to be released on 16th April. And having loved the first two books in the series, and having been waiting for it for ages, and having considered it to be my second most eagerly anticipated book of the year (No. 1 is Ruin is Rising), there was simply no way I wasn’t going to buy it on release day. Conveniently, release day pretty much coincided with the long Easter weekend, so I thought I’d be justified in losing myself in a book. And purchasing myself a shiny new Kindle Paperwhite.
The review is below. In short, it was good, which is lucky, as it’s so long that reading it took up a good proportion of that weekend!
I hugely enjoyed the first two books in this trilogy. If you’re reading this review, I bet you did too, and I bet nothing I could say could put you off buying it. I absolutely couldn’t wait to read it, and on the whole, this final book doesn’t disappoint.
All the old characters make a return, along with some interesting new ones, and both the war-focussed and the romantic plotlines are satisfyingly resolved. This is an extremely long book (I read it on my kindle, but the hardcopy must be around 600 pages), but between the intriguing plot, engaging characters, and strong writing style, it never dragged – though I found it to be slightly less of a page-turner than the previous instalment.
This series has always trod a strange line between YA paranormal romance/urban fantasy, and the sort of full-blown high fantasy that George R Martin would be proud of.For me, the first book fell more into the former category, especially towards the end, while the second book prioritised war and history over forbidden love. This instalment falls somewhere in-between, combining scenes of relatively normal life on earth with full-scale battles in another world.
I enjoy both of those genres, but I prefer this series when it focusses on the latter, and gives the reader strange creatures and conspiracies in other worlds rather than concentrating on the romance between an angel and a (more or less) human girl. For some reason, the relationship between Karou and Akiva doesn’t do much for me. He doesn’t capture my imagination, and they never seem to have much chemistry. Things were better in Book Two, when there was real tension and distance between them and I started to warm to their story, but here, the author seemed to be manufacturing reasons to keep them apart, and it didn’t really capture my imagination. It’s odd, because the relationship between the two supporting characters, Mik and Zuzana, is always both touching and funny, and a new cross-species love affair that sprung up in this book really touched me too.
The more fantastical side of things continued to be very well done. We get more history, more folklore and more of the ongoing war between chimera and angels, along with lots of internal conflicts within the two sides. We finally get to see the Stelians, a different race of angels with a totally different culture and history and different powers. There are all sorts of revelations and drama. With the new ruler of the angels “off-screen” for 95% of the time and the White Wolf dead, it sometimes felt like we were lacking an immediately loathable villain. The latter really made the second book for me, so though I couldn’t regret his well-deserved death, I did miss his effect on the plot. That said, Ziri’s attempts to portray him to keep the army under control and the internal struggles it causes him were some of the highlights of the book. Generally, I really couldn’t fault the fantasy side of things.
From reading some other reviews, I suspect I’m in a minority here, but one of my very favourite aspects was the completely new plot involving a genetics PHD student who has terrifying, literally heart-stopping dreams about the end of the world, in which the apocalypse is her fault, and who is hiding some initially undisclosed secret about herself and her family. The “what on earth is going on here” aspect of this reminded me of the sense of mystery I loved so much in the first book, when you didn’t know why Karou was collecting teeth for monsters. And when the answers were finally revealed, the backstory and revelations it led to were amazing.
Overall, not quite a perfect book, due mainly to the sometimes lacklustre romance, but a really fantastic one all the same, and absolutely worth a read. A fitting end to a great series.
It’s been far too long since I’ve taken part in Top Ten Tuesday, (see http://www.brokeandbookish.com/p/top-ten-tuesday-other-features.html) but I’m excited to have such a good subject to work with this week. I suppose unique books is a little ambiguous, but I’m mainly thinking in terms of structure and style rather than plot. If there’s one thing I really and truly love, it’s books that are written in an unusual way, be it a non-linear narrative, multiple points of view, or something even stranger. Many of my all-time favourite books fall into this category. Of course, if it doesn’t quite work, the result can be awful, but I still respect authors who give it a go.
1) Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell – Five short stories (each written in a wildly different style and genre, and spanning centuries) are interrupted halfway through by the next story. Each protagonist is reading the previous text, may or may not be the reincarnation of the previous hero or heroine, and is interrupted at the same point as the reader. In the second half, the protagonists resume their adventures an their reading, and we work our way back through time and through the story. In between all the cleverness of the mindbending structure is some seriously good writing and several engaging plots. As regular readers may have picked up, if I was forced to pick a favourite book, it’d probably be this one.
2) The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood – Parts of this story is the first person narrative of the eighty-something narrator. Other parts are her reminiscing about her childhood, the famous author sister who killed herself the day WW2 ended, and her unpleasant industrialist husband. Newspaper articles and other documents from the time about the three of them are interspersed. And every few chapters, we get The Blind Assassin itself – the science fiction novel that made the heroine’s sister’s name, which is itself a book within a book. The four (at least – it depends how you count them) aspects work together to tell the full story, and it results in a brilliant mash-up of contemporary, historical and sci-fi literature.
3) Sarum – Edward Rutherford – Sets out to tell the story of 10 000 years of human history via lots of interwoven stories featuring the same families and the same area (Salisbury Plain) over centuries. The scope is jawdropping, and somehow, the author makes you care about almost everyone of the cast of (probably literally) thousands.
4) What a Carve Up – Jonathan Coe – The hero is employed to write a history of the Winshaw Family, a clan of borderline evil aristocrats, by one of their members. Chapters alternate between modern day (well, early nineties) scenes of him researching, writing, obsessing over the eponymous film and being let down by the Government; some flashbacks to his younger years, and the story of each member of the family, told through diary entries, newspapers articles, and various other forms. And then from about two thirds in, the hero and the family meet, and things get very strange. It’s as laugh out loud hilarious, cleverly plotted, and viciously political.
5) Before I Go to Sleep – AJ Watson – I reviewed this only a few weeks ago. The main character wakes up each morning with no memory of the last few decades or real understanding of who she is. The story is told through the diary she has secretly begun to keep, and the fact that she (and therefore the reader) has no idea what is or isn’t true makes for a disorientating experience.
6) Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn – Obviously, this book has been wildly popular recently. For me, it’s not so much the (really rather far-fetched) plot that made me enjoy it, but the clever structure (and some great prose and killer lines). Chapters alternate between Nick’s (the husband) narration, starting with the day of his wife’s disappearance, and Amy’s (the wife) diary entries, dating back from the day the two first met years before, and gradually working up to a few days before her mysterious disappearance. The two storylines didn’t quite mesh, showing what a different perspective two people can have on the same event and keeping me guessing about what was really going on in the main characters’ relationship and what had happened on the day of Amy’s disappearance.
7a) Behind the Scenes at the Museum – Kate Atkinson – A chronological story of a girl growing up in Yorkshire in the sixties and seventies is interspersed with stories of her extended family stretching back to about 1900, and told out of order, so that the full picture only gradually becomes clear.
7b) Life after Life – Kate Atkinson – The above author’s latest book was a bit of a let down to me, though it’s received rave reviews from many people and is certainly both unique and ambitious. The heroine is born, and dies moments later, choked by her umbilical cord. She is born again, and lives for a few months. The book endlessly returns to the scene of the baby being born, and to numerous scenes of her death – as a baby, a toddler, a teen, an adult. From smallpox, accidents, violence, war. It’s never quite clear whether these are reincarnations, parallel lives, or something in between.
8) A Visit From the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan – It may have won the Pulitzer Prize, but I just couldn’t fall in love with this. Certainly written in an unusual way though. It consists of several stories, spanning about fifty years, and each centring around a different character, although each of them have links to some of the others, and one seems to be the key connecting link. The stories are told out of chronological order, which makes for some thought provoking moments, and uses different styles, perhaps most noteworthily, the story told in PowerPoint slide format!
9) Room – Emma Donughue – Not one of my favourites, but certainly unique and memorable. It’s narrated by a five year old boy, who has been imprisoned in a single room ever since he was born to his kidnapped and raped mother. The fact that he believes the room to be the whole world, that he has his own names for things, and that he is utterly innocent about the horrors that are really going on makes for a truly unusual voice.
10) The Lovely Bones – the heroine dies (horribly) in the first chapter, and then narrates the rest of the novel from heaven. A little mawkish in parts, but a pretty clever concept.
It’s once again time for that great Oxford tradition – the Varsity Boat Race. I think I said pretty much everything I wanted to say on the subject last year, but I can’t let the event pass unnoticed on my blog, so here’s last year’s entry again (slightly edited to reflect it not being Easter and there being a different team etc) in all its glory. And now I’m off to the river. Go Oxford!
There’s lots to admire about the Boat Race. It’s one of the few genuinely big ticket amateur sporting events left. Although in practice both teams nowadays often contain a good few people who row for their country and are doing slightly suspect post-grad degrees, in theory I love the idea of normal students training so incredibly hard for their moment of glory, and you still always get a few rowers who genuinely fit that mould. Looking at last year’s Oxford squad, one is a doctor and one is a vicar – in what other sporting event would that happen?
Despite all this, when it comes down to it, what I really love is the tribalism. I want Oxford to win to an extent that borders on the irrational. And that’s just the way I like my sport. As a rule, I love sport, but generally only if I have some personal interest in the outcome. Growing up in Sheffield, everyone was into football. You supported either Sheffield Wednesday or Sheffield United, and you did it wholeheartedly. I was (and indeed still am) firmly in the former camp, because supporting Wednesday was what my family did, going back several generations. On Steel City Derby Days (when the two teams play each other) the city wass like a ghost town. Everyone was watching, at the stadium, in a pub or at home on TV. There is no logical reason to love one group of footballers based in your home town and hate another group of them based in the same place, but there’s something oddly satisfying about doing so. It creates a real sense of belonging. Occasionally, in London, in the middle of a busy street or train, I’ve spotted someone in a Wednesday shirt and I’ve just had to go over and speak to them.
In Sheffield, even the condiments come in team colours!
So a few days ago, I announced that Ivory Terrors is now finished and will be published on the 1st May. As a little celebration, I’ve posted the first chapter (not including the prolgoue, which I’ll explain more about in a few days time) below. Enjoy!
Harriet listened groggily to the voices around her. George’s aristocratic drawl and her mother’s clipped voice were unmistakable, though she struggled to understand what the latter had to do with George’s kidnap attempt. The other voice reminded her of her uncle’s broad Yorkshire tones, but that would make no sense at all.
She tried to force herself into full wakefulness, but couldn’t quite make her eyes open.
Harriet managed to open her eyes for a split second, long enough to tell that she lay in a narrow bed, with George leaning over her. She tried to speak, but George put his finger to her lip then touched his forehead to hers. A blast of mesmerism radiated through her and she blacked out again.
“How long do you think it will be until Augustine realises we’re gone?” In the time that Harriet had been asleep, her mother’s tone had become more panicky.
“From the alarms at the Party, I think he realised before we even made it to Richard’s jet. But don’t worry about that. Another hour and we’ll be at his stronghold, and even Augustine can’t reach us there.” Despite his reassuring words, George sounded faintly hysterical.
Harriet tried to think logically about the situation. She’d been mesmerised into attending the Summer Party against her will. Nick had been turned and had tried to drain her, but she’d turned his mesmerism back on him. Then Rupert had forced her to wake Nick up by threatening Catherine and Katie, at which point, he’d killed Julia.
Beyond that, things got hazier. George had lured her into the woods, and offered her revenge on both the Cavaliers and the Roundheads. She’d thought she could resist him, but when he kissed her, she’d let her guard down, and then he’d mentally knocked her out.
She had no idea what George was planning or where he was taking her. She should have known better than to trust him even for a moment. But why was her mother involved? And who was the third person? She’d never heard a vampire speak like him before.
Harriet understood the individual words, but the context barely made sense. His daughter? Augustine had claimed to be her father, but in her view, she only had one dad, and he’d been dead for years. Yet in her head, he always spoke like the stranger.
Once more she tried to force her eyes open, desperate to see whether the stranger looked like the man pictured in her locket.
“What do you know about this?” Augustine said.
On the surface, the leader of the Cavaliers seemed to be as poised as ever, but Tom could sense the interior breakdown taking place under his calm facade.
Rupert sprawled in a chair, pinned there not by ropes but by the sheer force of Augustine’s will.
Caroline’s turn in the chair came next. One moment, she was clinging to Ben for dear life. The next minute, she sat in the hot seat. Vampires could only be mesmerised by their makers, but in this, as in so many things, the rules clearly didn’t apply to Augustine.
Caroline, usually always so self-assured, started to cry before Augustine even began his interrogation.
With a shrug, he released Caroline and she fell into Ben’s arms. Ben’s willingness to support Caroline after her weeks of absence made Tom smile even through his pain. In his experience, a crisis tended to reunite a couple like nothing else could.
The wood, with all its torches and fairy-lights, blurred for a moment, and then Tom found himself in the chair. Augustine’s powers never failed to astonish him.
“Do you know anything about this?” Far from tiring him, each interrogation seemed to increase the force of Augustine’s power.
Katie dragged her shaking body out of bed. She wanted to sleep for a hundred years, but she had to get up and face the day. She resisted the temptation to run out onto the street, screaming about what she’d seen. The brain that had always plotted for the most prestigious internships and eligible men knew that that would be counterproductive. Go to the police with her hair wild, her make-up undone and her breath smelling of alcohol, and her story would sound like the ramblings of a madwoman. But have a shower, brush her teeth, put on her best interview suit and a subtle string of pearls, and maybe someone would listen.
She forced herself through the old familiar routine of washing and preening, trying to get her story straight in a head that just wanted to break down. She wouldn’t use the term vampires, she wouldn’t. No one would buy that.
She tried to think of the most rational way to put it. She’d been at a party. Some of the guests had bitten some of the others. Some of them had died. She’d been bitten herself, but she’d survived. Julia Jenkinson had died. Sofia Calvinos. She wasn’t sure of the other names.
She downed a strong black coffee that did nothing to quell the tremors that had overtaken her, and then strode out of the door before she could change her mind. In the quad, she hesitated. It would be better if she had someone who could collaborate her story, but who could she ask? Caroline had stood there watching it all. Harriet had all but ordered Julia’s death. And her darling William, the nicest man she’d ever met, had plunged his teeth into her neck. No. She had to do this alone.
The twenty minute walk to the police station seemed to take hours. Aside from the mental trauma, the blood loss had left her physically weak. Once she’d dealt with the police, she might just have to visit the hospital.
When she finally made it, the young desk sergeant gave her a friendly welcome. Between her pretty face, her imposing voice and her obvious wealth, Katie generally expected people to treat her with that sort of respect, but today, his politeness hugely relieved her.
The sergeant’s mouth fell open. He’d clearly been expecting her to report a stolen purse.
Katie nodded and followed him in silence, still debating how to make her story sound sane. Someone fixed her a cup of tea, and then the man from the desk left. He returned a few minutes later with his superior in tow.
“So you say you want to report four murders?” the senior officer asked, staring at her through narrowed eyes as though she were the criminal.
Katie desperately tried to engage the young sergeant in conversation, but he wouldn’t look at her. After a few minutes, the other officer returned, accompanied by a severe middle-aged man, who waved the other two out.
Josh stared at the news website, barely able to comprehend the words his eyes were seeing.
The words swam on the page. His eyes couldn’t focus on anything but the picture of Julia the BBC had selected to accompany the news story. He recognised it as one that he’d taken the previous summer at the ball. They must have copied it from Facebook. She looked beautiful and fragile in equal measure.
He wanted to close the page and pretend that none of this was happening. Instead, he clicked on the video news story.
The presenter’s solemn words drifted over him. He reached into the top drawer of his desk and drew out a letter. When he’d found it in his pigeonhole a few days earlier, he’d considered it as a cry for help from a girl who seriously needed the support he so desperately wanted to give her. Now, it seemed all too prescient.
He forced his attention back to the screen. A striking middle-aged woman with red hair, easily identifiable as Julia’s mother even without the caption underneath, tried her best to answer an interviewer’s questions through her tears.
“It must at least be a comfort to you that she died saving someone else,” the newscaster said.
The camera diplomatically panned away.
Josh looked back and forth between the letter and the computer screen, unsure what to believe. The news report sounded a thousand times more likely than a gang of vampires. And yet, what were the chances of Julia predicting that she’d be murdered on a certain night and then dying in an unrelated incident? Besides, her strange behaviour over the last few weeks took some explaining.
The news report went on and on, almost as if someone wanted to ensure no one had any questions in their mind about how Julia had died.
Rupert appeared on the screen and Josh looked away. At best, Rupert had stolen Julia from him, at worst he’d done something terrible to her mind and probably been responsible for her death. He’d never wanted to hit someone so badly. Rupert looked artfully distressed, his stupid posh face arranged into a tragic frown. His stuck-up voice stumbled over some words as though he could barely control his distress.
Josh had hoped that the filming was live, so he could see Rupert standing in the morning’s bright sunlight, and put aside the ridiculous idea of him being a vampire. There was no such luck. The news crew had clearly filmed his segment last night, soon after Julia’s death.
Josh had seen enough. He slammed down the lid of his laptop before he put a fist through it. He read the last line of the letter for the hundredth time.
Since he’d first heard the news, Josh had been too shocked to cry, but now the tears fell freely. He wanted to crawl into bed and never get back up, but that would be the ultimate betrayal. He’d do what Julia had wanted. He’d speak to Harriet, make her tell him the truth, and then get revenge.
Good news! After a year and a half of frenzied planning, writing, editing, and proofing, I’ve finally finished Ivory Terrors, the third and final instalment of the Cavaliers Series.
It’s 135 000 words long – nearly twice the length of Oxford Blood. And at it’s longest, it was closer to 160 000. I’ve had to do some really quite brutal cutting to make it readable.
Never again will I attack my favourite authors for what I’ve always regarded as cardinal sins – taking ages to produce a sequel or writing a self-indulgently long volume. Because my goodness, it’s tempting. Knowing I will never write another full Cavaliers book (although one thing I’m considering as a future project is a book of historical short stories about different members in different time periods), I wanted to get in all the backstories, all the revelations, and wrap everything up nicely. And I hope that when you read it, you’ll agree that I’ve succeeded.
I was always absolutely clear that the Cavaliers Series was meant to be a trilogy, and one thing I hate above all others is when authors drag series out beyond their intended duration. There may have been some twists along the route, but nearly everything that happens at the end of Ivory Terrors was meant to happen from the start of Oxford Blood – the reviews that wondered why Stephanie couldn’t be mesmerised in the prologue might finally get their answer.
In particular, I’ve really gone to town on Augustine. It started out as a prologue about his turning, and ended up at something like 20 000 words giving most of his life story, across a variety of centuries. As a history graduate, I’ve always tried to infuse the series with a historical flavour, but this is the first time I’ve gone full historical, and I hugely enjoyed it. It was also fun to take a character who has always been a bit of a cipher – almighty leader of the vampires – and imbue him with a personality and a past.
Anyway, I’m now planning to publish the book on May 1st – as readers might remember, May Day is hugely important in Oxford, so it seemed fitting. I’m in the process of setting up a blog tour and some advance reviews – if you have a blog, have read the earlier book, and would like to get involved, please drop me a line.
Finally, thanks to the surprisingly large number of people who’ve emailed me over the last few months to ask when Ivory Terrors would be ready. You’ve simultaneously made me feel horribly guilty that it’s going to be about five months later than originally promised, and yet so utterly happy that there are people who want to read my books that you’ve really inspired me to get it finished.
Now I’ve finally finished, I’m hoping to be able to dedicate more time to my sadly neglected blog. So keep your eyes peeled over the next few weeks for soundtracks, a mini-series on the inspiration for my characters, and some Ivory Terrors extracts. And now, despite the fact that its Tuesday and I have work in the morning, I’m off for a Harriet-style glass of midweek champagne.
Blurb below. Put May 1st in your literary diary, and treat yourself to a copy of the most ambitious thing I’ve ever written. | 2019-04-26T03:38:47 | https://georgianaderwent.com/2014/04/ |
“Risky” is definitely not a one-size-fits-all concept. It’s not just that we aren’t all at the same level of every risk. Our tolerance of risk-taking in different situations can be wildly different, too.
Our judgments about our own vulnerability and how we feel about what we might gain or lose can make a risk loom large – or seem triflingly insignificant.
We can have such a strongly fixed perspective about a particular balance of risks and benefits, that new information would have to be truly overwhelming to even make an impression. While on other issues, our perspectives can move quickly in response to incoming data.
And when it comes to risks, boy is there is a lot of incoming data! An unrelenting stream of numbers, and an explosion of visualizations and infographics, too. I don’t think this means we’re getting more objective and consistent about information and life’s choices, though.
It might even be getting harder.
We don’t have time to think and research everything through, and come to the perfect balance of knowledge for every little thing – and not even for every big thing that matters to us a lot. We need to take some cognitive shortcuts, but they leave us vulnerable to seeing what we want to see or being led astray when risks are being exaggerated or minimized. Here are my favorite 5 shortcuts to avoid the things that trip me up.
1. Watch out for risk’s magnifying glass – and cut your risk of being tripped up by 82%!
Whenever you see something tripling – or halving – a risk, take a moment before you let the fear or optimism sink in.
Relative risks are critically important statistics. They help us work out how much we might benefit (or be harmed) by something. But it all depends on knowing your own baseline risk – your risks to start with.
2. Just because one risk is “guilty,” doesn’t mean they all are.
The data on headaches, though? Yes, 8% had them, that’s true enough: but it was about the same in the comparison group, too – just because 8% had headaches, it doesn’t mean the treatment causes headaches.
The same thing happens when context isn’t revealed in other circumstances. Someone says, “people who do X have a 2% risk of dying in the next 10 years.” When a 2% chance of dying in the next 10 years might be completely normal for that group of people, whether or not they do X.
3. Keep a sharp eye out for double standards on risks and benefits.
Once someone is convinced about something – including scientists reporting on their research – one of the hardest-to-resist spin techniques for them is to over-emphasize the upside (or the downside, if they’re opposed to something).
There are lots of ways to frame things so that one side seems smaller than the other. So watch out for any lopsided treatment. Relative risks used only for benefits not harms, for example.
The language could shift, too, with adjectives like “important” versus “trivial” masking things that you might think are anything but if you saw the numbers and full descriptions.
4. Read the fine print when there’s data shape-shifting…slowly.
We skim and scan a lot, and this makes us particularly vulnerable to getting a false impression. This can happen really quickly when we absorb the impact of a graph without reading its fine print. Or when some of the measures in text come in percentages, and other numbers are per 1000, 10000, or 100000.
Most of us need to be careful to get things into proportion when risk communications jump from “1 in 7” to “3 out of 8” and so on, too. The people writing are trying to make numbers easier to digest for people – but that can backfire.
The best thing is to seek out the actual numbers carefully if you can find them. Because especially when people start to draw a picture to describe numbers – whether that’s with words or an image – all sorts of biases (and errors) come into play.
5. Don’t fall in trust at first sight with data visualization.
But data visualization is also at risk of losing numbers’ objectivity. When colors, shapes and visual perspectives are added, they can distort – often even more than they clarify. Some techniques add optical illusions – 3D pie charts are a classic example.
And data visualization can accumulate all the problems in a distortion snowball. Unreliable data can be selectively picked out, all the data that explains the uncertainty stripped away, and then presented in a series of shape-shifting images that break all the rules and press all the buttons.
It’s tough to communicate risks clearly and fairly in a community where many have at least some number phobia or number fatigue. It’s tough to be rational about risk, too.
We might pay more attention to data that shores up our beliefs and rationalize away numbers that contradict what we want to believe. This risk is too small to bother with, we might convince ourselves – even though we’re very concerned about other risks in our lives that are in fact far, far smaller. We might convince ourselves that we’re uniquely invulnerable: because of personal luck or “good” behavior, that particular risk simply doesn’t apply to us.
Tolerance of risk and uncertainty are essential to a good life, too.
Browse through my posts on risk-related themes (including the fear and attraction of risky winter sports).
To read more about techniques on presenting data in graphs and visualizations, this Wikipedia page is a good introduction to the ground covered in classics like Darrell Huff’s How to Lie With Statistics (free online) and Edward Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
The cartoons (and Excel sheets) are my own (Creative Commons License): more at Statistically Funny. | 2019-04-19T17:12:39 | https://blogs.plos.org/absolutely-maybe/2014/10/13/5-shortcuts-to-keep-data-on-risks-in-perspective/ |
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Some people are truly afraid of solitude. They think that they’ll be unhappy and that they need someone in their life. Others are quite suited to being single, but because of their social status or (sometimes imperceptible) pressure from their family, they convince themselves that they have to be in a relationship.
Still others prefer to stay with a partner, even if they don’t make them happy anymore, for fear of loneliness. When we leave someone, we know what we’re losing – but it’s difficult to know what we’ll find after. Be careful with this kind of reasoning: our motto at Love Intelligence is that love exists to make us happy.
Read Dr. Margaret Paul’s article on What Your Fear of Loneliness Is Really About in The Huffington Post.
If you’re in a relationship, ask yourself if you still get even a drop of satisfaction from sharing your life with your current significant other. Unless you’re totally hooked on the person, think for a moment and ask yourself the right question: Would I be happier alone, after all? Do I manage to feel balanced in the life I share with him or her? Am I doing everything on my end to achieve this balance?
As for you singles out there: maybe you’ve recently been given the boot by an ex. See this recent change of status as a stroke of luck that life has given you, and face the problem head on. So, why not understand who can make you happy in love. Don’t waste any more time with people that can’t truly fulfull you.
LEARN HOW TO BE HAPPY ON YOUR OWN! This is the way to acquire the tools to live life as a couple, since your expectations will become more constructive.
In order to be ready to welcome someone into your life, you shouldn’t put all your eggs in one basket, so to speak. At the end of the day, you are the only person you should count on. You must kick off an introspective process, meaning that it may be better for a period of time to focus on yourself, instead of putting your energy into looking for the perfect partner. Like Florence Escaravage, creator of Love Intelligence and of the Love Intelligence method, always tells her clients, you must understand what makes you unique, and what therefore comprises your individual worth. Once you understand what makes you a true individual, unique and apart, you’ll have taken the first step in attracting the people who are right for you in every aspect of your life. Everything is explained in the booklets. No one person can be the only source of your happiness, since happiness is not a reaction aroused by an exterior person, but by your own state of mind.
"It's always better to be in a relationship than to be single"
"I don't know if I'm really happy in my relationship..." | 2019-04-23T10:05:01 | http://www.love-intelligence.com/articles-_-28.php |
A rare opportunity to experience the majesty of the Borneo rainforest and its wealth of fascinating species, this project allows volunteers to take part as a family, working towards the conservation of this section of the rainforest which has been destroyed due to mass deforestation. Working alongside the local tribespeople, families will take part in tasks that benefit the natural environment and the species that can be found within it, including orangutan and elephant. With the stunning scenery of the ‘corridor of life’ as a backdrop, this is truly a life-changing experience that can now be enjoyed as a family.
The main part of the program is spent in the beautiful Sukau village, working on activities conducted in this area, or along the mystical Kinabatangan River. Volunteers have the chance to live among the wonderfully friendly Orang Sungai or “People of the River”, the indigenous community that call this village home. Every evening, volunteers and villagers eat together in a local home, which provides the perfect opportunity to learn first-hand about the indigenous culture .Families also spend one afternoon assisting in community projects at the local school.
As volunteers on this project you will have a positive and constructive impact on the surrounding environment, by restoring destroyed habitats around the village, thus contributing towards the reforestation of the Corridor of Life. This is mainly achieved by planting trees to preserve the remaining wildlife and biodiversity in these sanctuaries, and clearing areas of forest destruction. The project facilitator is always at hand throughout the project to help you better understand the local threats regarding orangutans, pygmy elephants and other animals and to answer any questions you may have.
The final part of this project includes a trip to the world famous Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre for you and your family. Whilst on the project you hope to see wild pygmy elephants and orangutans, your visit to Sepilok will offer a great opportunity to see them up close and understand how different conservation efforts are working to ensure critically endangered orangutans have a future in Borneo.
There is no visa required for most nationalities to enter Malaysia, which requires purchase prior to arrival. A tourist visa is provided upon arrival at the airport for a period of 90 days, however, please check the Malaysian Immigration website for detailed information.
We are often asked whether or not volunteers will have the chance to touch or play with the orangutans whilst on this project. Our answer to this question is, and will always be no, and this is for good reason.
Orangutans are highly susceptible to human diseases and something as minor as the common cold can prove fatal to these Great Apes. An orangutan is also around 7 times stronger than an adult male human so a no contact policy is just as crucial for your wellbeing as orangutan welfare.
That is not to say that as a volunteer you will have no interaction with the orangutans, it simply means that you will have no direct contact with them. You will still hope to observe them whilst in the corridor of life and see them at Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre.
The minimum age for the children to take part in this project is 8 years old.
Day 1: You will arrive into Sandakan International Airport where you will be met by the project facilitator and take a private transfer to your first nights accommodation. This will be in a longhouse style accommodation in Sepilok with unobstructed views of the surrounding forest. You will spend the night learning about the Corridor of Life and the project's aims. This is also where you will enjoy a welcome dinner with your project facilitator.
This entails cruising in a boat along the river and its tributaries along the 'corridor of life', to observe the endangered wildlife roaming the forest along the river banks. On these trips you will always be on constant look out for pygmy elephants and orangutans.
The magical tropical rainforest of Borneo is the perfect setting for a family trek. The trek you will join involves an introduction to the flora and fauna of the rainforest and to what the rainforest traditionally offers the inhabitants in terms of medicine, food and survival. This is a great chance to ask questions and learn from an extremely experienced local guide.
As a family you will spend half a day with local school children working on conservation issues that the children deal with on a daily basis. You will be provided with a framework and the project facilitator will guide you in the planning of this session. The idea is to share information about conservation activities, both in Borneo and in your home country and also to give the local school children and yours a chance to interact and understand different cultures.
Living and contributing to the Sukau community is a big part of this project. As most lunches and dinners will be served in the homes of individual villagers and local families you may get to hear about their daily lives, chat with the children, learn their family structure and see how the Orang Sungai have been living off the rivers and jungles for centuries.
This involves the development of a continuous project, working with the community of the local village. This offers another fun way to interact with the community on various levels whilst working on a conservation project.
Day 6: After saying goodbye to the local people of the Orang Sungai whom by now you will all know well you will travel from the project site at Sukau to the Rainforest Discovery Center for a chance to put your recently acquired knowledge to the test before travelling to Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Center. This will be an incredible chance to see orangutans up close and a truly once in a lifetime opportunity. Your final evening can be spent resting and relaxing in a comfortable city hotel in the heart of Sandakan.
Day 7: This will be your last day on the project and so you will take a private transfer from your hotel in the city to Sandakan Airport for your return flight, or to commence your independent travel plans.
This project takes place on the 11th of every month, excluding December. Please contact us to find out whether your preferred start date is available.
In your free time you will often join local families to cook and eat with them. The tour itself involves a lot of trekking and physical activity as it is. Also you will be able to do Yoga with locals if you please.
There are also no specific skills required in order to join – all that we ask is that you come with a willingness to get your hands dirty!
All program fees are charged directly by The Great Projects.
The Great Projects (your host organization) provides consulting and is keen to answer all your questions. Once you reserved your spot, you will receive the contact details of your volunteer project.
You will need to arrive into Sandakan International Airport before 4pm on the start date of your project. You will be met by a project representative in the arrivals hall and transferred by road to your first night's accommodation. The next day you will travel to the project site at Sukau.
On your final day please book your departing flight for after 11am.
Sepilok (first night): For your first night in the rainforest you will stay in a traditional longhouse with shared facilities. At approximately 18:00 you will enjoy a welcome dinner and project introduction from your facilitator.
Sukau (project days): During the project, you and your family will stay in a comfortable and authentically Bornean, village-run B&B within walking distance of the centre of the village and the village jetty. Bedrooms have attached toilet blocks and cold-water showers. Everyday breakfast is served in a common area overlooking the river.
At Sandakan (final night): For your final night, you will stay in a comfortable hotel room in the equivalent of a 3 star hotel in Sandakan town. The hotel is within walking distance of the Promenade and many quaint little shops and eateries. The town has internet cafes, a supermarket, restaurants and food stalls serving local and western foods. There is also a beautiful rooftop restaurant and bar nearby.
All meals are included and during your time in Sukau on the project they will be prepared and eaten in the homes of village locals. There are always vegetarian options available and any extra drinks and snacks you would like can be purchased in the nearby towns.
The nearest airport is Sandakan Airport (SDK) in Sandakan. We assist you to find cheap flights to Malaysia.
Going abroad is an adventure and it is always best to be prepared. Sudden illness or injury, cancellation or theft - a travel insurance for Malaysia provides security and is a plus to have.
If you are intending to volunteer in Malaysia you should seek medical advice before starting your social journey. Check your required vaccinations for Malaysia.
You can volunteer at the project site in Sabah/Malaysia between 1 week and 1 week. Please note that the above shown program fees are estimated and subject to exchange rate fluctuations. The Great Projects will let you know about the final price during your application process.
Generally, volunteering abroad involves certain costs. In case you need financial support, we will assist you to fundraise your volunteer program in Malaysia.
Your final payment will be agreed with The Great Projects during the application process. Common solutions are either via bank transfer or a cash payment at the project site.
Help to take care of wildlife rescued animals from illegal traffickers in Bolivia as a conservation volunteer! Our animals are happy for every helping hand.
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Play a vital role in the education on environmental protection of underprivileged children in South Africa.
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Last week was the best week of the off-season. The players tested in the gym and the energy at practice was fantastic.
We had two Hard Hat Award recipients and they both have a lot in common; they are both in first year, they are lineman, they are naturally quiet and lead by example, they are terrific students and they both had over 400lb squats on testing day.
The Hard Hat Award winners last week are offensive lineman James Leach from John F. Ross in Guelph and defensive lineman John O’Reilly from Corpus Christi in Burlington.
Photos from the weight room and Practice #8 can be found here.
Another great week recruiting with some more talented commits, which include DB Nico McCarthy, LB Adam Caron, WR Josiah McKoy, and DB Ayo Ajayi. | 2019-04-25T19:49:23 | https://laurierfootball.com/2018/03/09/laurier-football-weekly-update-102/ |
Losing a loved one can evoke feelings of grief and loss. If you are charged with helping to make funeral arrangements for your deceased loved one at a place like Morris Nilsen Funeral Chapel, then you know how difficult it can be to plan during a period of mourning. Successful funeral arrangements allow everyone who loved and cared for your deceased family member to pay their last respects.
Thanks to advancements in technology, total inclusion is becoming a reality. Here are two high-tech options you should incorporate into the planning process when making funeral arrangements for a loved one.
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Having the guest book online allows individuals who are unable to travel to the viewing or funeral to leave a special message, and it also allows more than one person to access to these messages at any given time so that multiple family members can read the thoughts and prayers left by loved ones whenever they need some added comfort while grieving.
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Loona is a masterpiece of modern Punjabi poetry. A verse-play, published in 1965, Loona is based on the legend of Puran Bhagat. King of Sialkot marries a young girl Loona. She falls for his son (from 1st wife) Puran who is of her age.
He declines her advances; she complains abt him; he’s punished (hands/feet amputated and thrown into a well). A guru rescues him; he gets well and becomes a Bhagat. Years later, Loona still childless comes to “the Bhagat”. The truth comes out; she admits her mistake; he forgives them and wishes a child, Rasalu. That’s how the legend of Puran Bhagar has been told in Punjab for nearly two thousand years.
But that’s not how Shiv tells is. For Shiv, it’s the legend of Loona: a girl of lower caste, married against her wishes, falls in love with a man of her age. So what? he asks and retells the legend and makes it about Loona, not the prince-turned-bhagat. A masterpiece at the age of 28! That’s called a great poet. Below is the selections from Loona sung by Bhupinder & Mitali.
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Older people -- United States -- Social conditions.
Older people -- Mississippi -- Social conditions.
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As part of the RSA’s commitment to bringing road safety into all communities, it has set up a Nationwide Road Safety Education Service. A team of road safety educators are available to travel to your pre-school, school, college, community, place of work, sporting organisation etc and deliver established and effective programmes to everyone which tackle all elements of road safety including walking, cycling, travel by public transport, being a passenger, urban rural transport issues and the practicing of safe road behaviour in general.
‘Play it Safe’ was developed by the RSA in association with the FAI, IRFU, GAA and Cycling Ireland. It presents information on organising sporting events with road safety in mind by encouraging the use of high visibility clothing, safe driving practices etc. Through the provision of these guidelines the RSA will assist all relevant personnel in sporting organisations with information on how to be road safety aware when organising sporting activities or travelling to and from sporting events.
‘Seatbelt Sheriff’ is aimed at children in 1st class. The children become Seatbelt Sheriffs by taking a pledge to always wear their safety belt and to make sure that everyone else in the car is buckled up. They are given a sheriff’s badge and a certificate, which gives them the power to instruct passengers and drivers to ‘Buckle Up’ in any vehicle they are travelling in. This message of always wearing your safety belt can be encouraged through trainers and coaches in a sporting context.
‘Hi-Glo Silver’ was introduced to help Seatbelt Sheriff’ with his duties. He is the Seatbelt Sheriff’s horse and his message is one of visibility. He encourages children to remind their parents that they should wear their high-visibility jackets or belts when they are out walking. Hi-Glo Silver will be sent to children in 2nd who have received the Seatbelt Sheriff’s message the previous year. He brings the message of high visibility through a number of fun educational messages including a free high visibility armband for each child. This message of always wearing high visibility clothing when out walking can be reinforced by parents, coaches and trainers in a sporting context throughout the year.
This is an activity based interactive resource for the Junior Certificate Programme as part of CSPE. Streetwise is designed in a lesson plan format so that a teacher can pick up the resource and immediately start the programme. It is an easy to follow resource and students are involved in each lesson. This message can be reinforce by sporting organisations regarding young people travelling to and from sporting events.
‘Wrecked.ie’ is both an online and offline computer based programme which target at the high risk 17-24 year old age group as they are three times more likely to be killed in a collision on Irish roads compared to the rest of the population. It features a series of vodcast which illustrated with high tech animation the key points in each speaker’s testimony. ‘Wrecked.ie is accompanied by a ‘discussion guide’ that includes additional exercises for each topic. This provides an opportunity for participants to look at themselves and their behaviour in relation to road safety. The vodcasts focus in the themes such as driver distraction, drug driving, road user impairment, living with the effects of spinal or brain injury, buying and using company car, driving without insurance, overcrowding in a car, modified cars, driving when using a mobile phone and driver fatigue. The Road Safety Authority run free ‘train the trainer’ sessions on how to deliver this programme.
If you would like to take part in this training programme, please email [email protected] Training lasts two hours.
f pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and drivers. Core topics covered include: Speed and speeding, Road user impairment, Unsafe behaviour towards and by vulnerable road users, safety belts, child restraints and safety on buses and the emergency services.
Each topic is presented as a thirty minute ‘session plan’ which can be delivered to the community groups. Sessions are highly interactive and activity based. A purpose built DVD has been designed to accompany the programme.
If you would like to take part in this training programme, please email [email protected]. The training (5 hours) usually takes places over two evenings to facilitate volunteers but other arrangements can be made for individual cases.
Mobility Matters is an awareness programme on road safety for older people which is made up of a resource pack and an accompanying DVD. The programme deals with the following topics of information buying a car, driving safety: knowing what is happening around you, bus safety, pedestrian safety, cycle safety, safety belts and child restraints, medicines, driver fatigue etc.
This programme is developed over a 2 hour workshop. Sessions are highly interactive and activity based.
The RSA can run a free ‘train the trainer’ session for trainers involved in older groups in the community.
If you would like to take part in this training programme, email [email protected]. | 2019-04-24T02:49:17 | https://www.corksports.ie/index.cfm/page/rsa-road-safety-promotion |
Two projects received Buffalo Planning Board support that will bring new life to two Main Street buildings.
Ellicott Development is renovating a one-story building at 1269 Main Street for office space. William Paladino, Ellicott Development CEO, says the columned building’s façade will be renovated and new windows installed. A medical-services tenant has agreed to lease space in the building.
The building is part of the former home of Hein Publishing complex stretching from 1261-1285 Main Street that Ellicott Development purchased last May for $2.1 million. Nineteen new apartments are under construction on the third floor of 1285 Main Street next door.
In University Heights, the Planning Board recommended that the City Council approve David Carr’s plans to convert the former Third Base bar at 3264 Main Street into Nickel City Craft House. Carr says the restaurant will have a “modern beer garden style” and will showcase local craft beers.
Nickel City expects to open this fall. | 2019-04-24T16:06:25 | https://www.buffalorising.com/2014/07/main-street-happenings-windows-and-craft-beer-on-the-way/ |
If you can choose from 18 sports and 150 clubs, you have more chances to excel.
Last week, the Justice Department announced it was prosecuting a handful of wealthy parents who allegedly paid enormous sums to fraudulently get their children admitted to elite colleges. The idea that wealth can buy slots in the “meritocracy” offended many. But behind that overt cheating is a plethora of less obvious ways the college admissions system unfairly favors the children of the well-off. Most notably, college athletics scholarships are rigged in favor of kids from wealthy backgrounds — even if they don’t cheat.
Here are some rough facts: Approximately two million high school graduates apply to college each year. A handful of institutions — namely the Ivy League schools of Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University, as well as Caltech, Stanford University, MIT, University of Chicago, Duke University and Northwestern University — are the most elite gatekeepers for the meritocracy. They collectively accept a little over 20,000 students. Thus, about 1 percent of the nation’s students attend these most elite private schools.
These schools accept a substantial number of athletes. Princeton has 990 varsity athletes, nearly as many as the University of Michigan with 1,011 — even though Princeton’s student population is five times smaller. Harvard, with a student population of 6,800, has 1,200 athletes. Demonstrated achievement in athletics, therefore, provides a significant route into elite schools and so do exceptional talent in music, theater and science. Participation in international piano competitions, winning a national science competition or captaining a champion debate team makes an applicant more desirable to elite schools.
It’s obvious why elite schools want high achievers. These schools want students who will remake and improve the world. Past achievement is likely a good predictor of future success. A young man who can run a mile in 4 minutes and 10 seconds, or a young woman who can row 2,000 meters on a rowing machine in 6 minutes 45 seconds demonstrates a combination of natural ability and willingness to work hard. The same can be said of a champion juggler or Rubik’s cube solver. If those applicants scored 1500 on the SAT, they become attractive candidates for admission.
However, wealthy school districts — private and public — offer far more sports and extracurricular activities than do poorer schools. Consider New Trier, an elite public school north of Chicago, which offers 18 varsity sports — including fencing and bass fishing — along with more than 150 clubs. Students at New Trier can take dance, compete in forensics, row on a crew team or participate in model U.N. Similarly, Harvard-Westlake, a private prep school in a wealthy area of Los Angeles, offers 15 sports and more than 50 clubs. In contrast, students at Romulus High School in the Detroit metropolitan area choose from among only nine sports and fewer than 20 extracurricular activities. New Trier High is located in Winnetka, which has a per capita income of $105,000 and a median home price of just under $2 million. Romulus has a per capital income of less than $45,000 and a median home value of just over $100,000.
With these extra opportunities, students from elite schools have a far higher chance of showing exceptional abilities than students from poorer schools. That’s not because the students from elite schools have more talent; rather, they have more opportunities to exhibit and develop their talents.
And this influences their chances of getting into a highly selective college.
In a recent working paper, Uma Jayakumar and I identify three causes of bias in favor of students in well-off areas. First, a student who tries four times as many sports and activities will be four times as likely to show exceptional results. We call that an “opportunity effect”: more opportunities increase the likelihood of success. Thus, the New Trier student or Harvard Westlake student, who has the opportunity to try more sports, has a higher likelihood of showing exceptional abilities.
Second, students at wealthy schools have the chance to try elite sports — which results in a “specialization effect.” Becoming a college-level water polo player requires having the opportunity to play water polo — which is available to approximately 22,000 high school boys. By comparison, more than a million boys play football; more than a half million play basketball; and another half-million run track. If Princeton has roughly the same numbers of admissions slots for each sport, then the water polo player is more than 40 times more as likely to become a Princeton athlete.
Third, students at elite schools have access to better coaching, better facilities and more family support — which offers them what we call a “support effect.” With more support, they are more likely to excel.
These three effects combine to produce a substantial advantage. Our crude initial estimate suggests that kids from advantaged schools may be 10 to 20 times more likely to show the exceptional talent desired by elite colleges. Once we undertake a more nuanced and careful analysis, that range will probably tighten. We expect to find huge advantages in particular sports like fencing, skiing, and crew.
Yes, William Singer — the college admissions adviser at the center of the current fraud scandal — claims to have altered the test scores of potentially hundreds of students per year. But that focus on overt cheating and fraud may distract attention away from a much broader bias toward wealthy families: the emphasis on exceptionalism in elite college admissions.
Wealth cannot purchase innate talent. But it can provide access to elite — and less competitive — sports and activities like fencing, water polo, crew, classical music, debate and dance. It can provide better coaching, counseling, stronger familial support. As a result, students from wealthy families are much more likely to get into elite colleges — not through cheating, but through the selective back door available primarily to those from wealth.
Scott E. Page (@Scott_E_Page), author of “The Model Thinker” (Basic Books, 2018), is the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at The University of Michigan and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. | 2019-04-23T17:06:49 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/21/real-college-admissions-scandal-isnt-bribes-cheating-its-how-wealth-tilts-playing-field/ |
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Everyone knows who Salad Fingers is – the guy (?) was pretty much the first ever internet meme – but we’ve faced a long long wait since the last episode of the phenomenon with the previous instalment coming almost five years ago.
The wait is over though with creator David Firth premiering the latest episode on YouTube. We’re pleased to say that it’s vintage Salad Fingers with the titular character ripping up some finger puppets and then being tormented by a ghostly mirror version of himself.
Well that was worth the wait wasn’t it? Just as weird as ever and I haven’t really got any clue what was going on with it, but I absolutely loved it again. Strange how something that’s so off kilter can be so popular isn’t it?
Hopefully we don’t have to wait another five years for another episode, but even in the past there’s been a fairly lengthy wait between them so it’s safe to say we won’t be seeing the strange dude for some time. Savour it while you can.
For more of the same, check out this recent Salad Fingers short. Not really the same but you know, you take what you can get. | 2019-04-21T06:50:03 | https://www.sickchirpse.com/brand-new-salad-fingers-cartoon-messed-up/ |
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Klug is a male denizen of Primp Town. He is known to be stuck up and rude, and is commonly perceived as a geek or nerd, or a "goody two shoes". The book he is always seen carrying is actually from the library, and he continues to keep it through renewal. Although a genius mage, he idolizes Lemres, and aspires to be powerful and famous like him. This strong affinity for Lemres causes him to be on bad blood with Feli.
Klug has green eyes and wears a pair of round glasses in every game along with a graduation cap, a pink pocketwatch around his neck, and a light blue bowtie. His hair is dark brown and styled in a bowl-cut. In all games he carries the Record of Sealing in his hands.
Klug's outfit changes from game to game, though his outfits are all purple in color.
Klug is referred to as a "Mr. Goody Two-Shoes" by Raffina, and for good reason, as he's the most studious in the Primp Magic School. Though he is snobbish, prideful, rude, and has a tendency to overestimate his own abilities. Klug is very studious and considers himself a genius. He is, however, also easily flustered, not taking comebacks to his insults well, and is quick to kiss up to authorities like Ms. Accord or his idol, Lemres.
Alongside that, he's also a bit of a coward and not quick to admit his mistakes due to his pride. Klug is also a hasty decision maker, doing anything that he believes will gain him more magical prowess, abilities, or approval from his friends or from Lemres.
Klug's magic stems largely from Latin astronomical terms, though his spells change from game to game. His spells include Nebula, Ignis, Lacteus Orbis, Nebula Macula, Vis Attrahendi/Gravity Strike, Crinis, Prominence, Ursa Major, Labores Solis, Fossa/Crater, Tectonic, Stella Inerrans/Starlight, and Defectio Lunae/Lunar Eclipse. In the English version of Puyo Puyo Tetris, Klug speaks only English.
Aside from his magical abilities, he is also very intelligent.
Klug is classmates with Amitie as seen in the first Fever! games, despite her kindness Klug does not refuse to poke fun at her ditzy personality or her lack of skill with magic.
Klug is on a less friendlier basis with Raffina, as he tends to be more cutting with her due to their prideful personalities. While they're seen to be friends, Raffina thinks of him as an annoying and stuck up bookworm.
Klug is friends with Sig, though he does not understand the latter's spaced-out personality and fascination with bugs, and has a tendency to make fun of him.
Klug admires Lemres, with his ultimate goal to be a powerful and famous wizard just like him. However this admiration for Lemres sometimes borders on obsession, to the point where Klug apparently dreams about Lemres, as revealed in flavor text for Puyo Puyo!! Quest. It's unknown if there is deeper meaning to Klug's interest with Lemres. Notably, Klug talking to Lemres is one of the rare cases where Klug doesn't act mean like normally.
Klug admiring Lemres naturally makes him a target for Feli. Feli naturally hates Klug for trying to be like Lemres and trying to get close to Lemres, seeing his actions as a threat to Feli trying to fall in love with Lemres. Klug in response tends to be terrified or angry of Feli because of this.
In Puyo Puyo Fever Klug is found in the Crystal Cave, in which he boasts to Amitie or Raffina about how he has located Ms. Accord's flying cane and just needs to go collect it, he offers to tell them, and presumably does so when he is defeated.
In Puyo Puyo Fever 2, Klug finds the three items listen in the Record of Sealing and uses them to unleash his book's full power, which possessed him and became Strange Klug. He is fought in his normal state by Amitie (HaraHara), Raffina (HaraHara), and Sig (RunRun).
In Puyo Puyo 7, a space warp floods Ringo's school with Puyos, as well as teleporting many characters from their world, including Klug. At the end of Act 2, Ringo, Amitie and Lemres run into Klug. Klug offers to explain how to close the space warp, but only after a puyo match. Beating him at a match of Puyo Puyo makes him explain how to close the space warp, though he is simply repeating what Arle had said to him.
Klug encounters Witch, and after defeating her, drinks a potion that has significant after effects on him, including mood swings. He is cured of this state at the end of his story by Ms. Accord.
Klug is one of 3 characters with a unique henshin animation in Puyo Puyo 7. However, this is merely due to using recycled art, rather than drawing new art to fit the animation in question. This makes the animation appear more like the earlier Puyo Puyo Fever animations, since there are no moving parts.
His birthday is September 29th, the same day as Onion Pixy's.
His name in German means clever.
The name "Klug" is known to be used in real life, albeit as a surname.
He appears to be a spiritual successor to Schezo Wegey from the original Puyo Puyo series as the two have similar bases in dark magic and awkward personalities.
Chain 1 さあ Saa! There!
Chain 2 回れ Maware! Gather! Come to me now!
Chain 3 銀の月 Gin-no tsuki! Silver moon! Golden sunlight!
Chain 4 金の太陽 Kin-no taiyou! Golden sun! Silver moon!
Chain 5 漆黒の空 Shikkoku no sora! Jet-black cosmos!
Repeater 我に力を！ Ware-ni chikara o! Give me power! Gimme your power!
Spell 5 ウヒャハハハァ Uhyahyahyahya! Hahahahaha!
Heavy ぎゃふんっ Gyafun! Gah! Oh no!
Entered 計算通りさ。 Keisan doori sa! As calculated! Just as planned.
Succeed へへーんっ Hehen! Heh heh. So easy.
Failed バカな… Baka-na! It can't be! The sun was in my eyes.
Character Select 手は抜かないよ Te-wa nukanai yo. I won't hold back.
Win ま、実力だね。 Ma, jitsuryoku da ne. Well, it's the skill. It's a gift.
Chain 2 回れ Maware! Gather!
Chain 3 銀の月 Gin-no tsuki! Silver moon!
Chain 4 金の太陽 Kin-no taiyou! Golden sun!
Repeater 我に力を！ Ware-ni chikara o! Give me power!
Entered 計算通りさ。 Keisan doori sa! As calculated!
Failed バカな… Baka-na! It can't be!
Win ま、実力だね。 Ma, jitsuryoku da ne. Well, it's the skill.
Chain 1 回れ Maware! Gather!
Chain 2 銀の月 Gin-no tsuki! Silver moon!
Chain 3 金の太陽 Kin-no taiyou! Golden sun!
Chain 4 漆黒の空 Shikkoku no sora! Jet-black cosmos!
Chain A うひゃひゃひゃひゃ！ Uhyahyahyahya! Hahahaha!
Chain B うっひゃひゃひゃひゃー！ UHYAHYAHYAHYA! HAHAHAHA!
いい ぞ！ Ī zo! Thumbs up!
Chain 1 集まれ Atsumare! Gather!
Chain 2 宇宙の惑星 Sora-no hoshi! Cosmic stars!
Chain 4 銀河となれ！ Ginga-to nare! ...into a galaxy!
Character Select 相手になってやるさ。 Aite-ni natte yaru sa. I can be your opponent.
Win 思い知ったかい？ Omoishitta kai? Have you learned?
Pair Life Lost 本気を出すぞ Honki-o dasu zo! Let's get serious!
Pair Life Gone ボクのせい…？ Boku-no sei...? Is it my fault...?
Chain 2 眠る星 Nemuru hoshi! Slumbering stars! Planet's power!
Chain 3 輝け Kagayake! Brighten... Gathering stars!
Chain 4 星座となれ！ Seiza-to nare! ...into a constellation! Galaxy time!
Tetris Line Clear テトリス完成 Tetorisu kansei. Tetris complete.
Light いたた… Itata... Ouch! Yi-ouchie!
Heavy うきゃー！ Ukyaa! Gah! EEK?!
Character Select ボクとやろうっていうのかい？ Boku-to yarou-tte iu no kai? You challenging me?
Win やっぱりボクの勝利だね Yappari boku-no shouri da ne. I knew I'd win.
Lose そそ、そんな… So, so, sonna... N-no way... Impossible!
Entered 見せてやるさ Misete yaru sa. I'll show you.
Succeed うひゃひゃひゃひゃーっ Uhyahyahyahya! Hahahahaha! Nailed it!
Failed なんで！？ Nande!? Why!? Drats!
Big Bang 覚悟はいいかい？ Kakugo-wa ii kai. Are you prepared? I hope you're prepared!
Light Attack いっけー！ Ike! Go!
Severe Attack 決めてやる！ Kimete yaru! I'll made it!
Win 計算通りさ。 Keisan doori sa! As calculated!
Light Damage むぎゃ～！ Mugya! Gah!
Severe Damage ちょっと待って！ Chotto matte! Wait a minute!
Swapped 計算通り Keisan doori! As calculated!
Swapped when losing ヒヤッとしたよ Hiya-tto shita yo. My blood froze.
Use the power-up items フフンッ Fufun! Heh heh! Hoof!
Use the obstruct items うっひゃっひゃー！ Uhyahya! Hahaha! Hee hee!
Getting the two items とっておきだ！ Totteoki da! Trump card!
Piled Up 本気を出すぞ Honki-o dasu zo! Let's get serious!
Win ナンバーワンはボクなのさ！ Nanbaa wan-wa boku nano sa! I am number one! I knew I was the best.
Be a Runner-Up まぁ、こんなものかな Maa, konna mono kana. Well, this about does it. Not too bad a result.
Lose こんなはずじゃ… Konna hazu ja... Not how I planned it!
Chain after Puyo crushed 一気にいく！ Ikki-ni iku! Finish it off! I'm lucky!
Chain 2 眠る星 Nemuru hoshi! Slumbering stars!
(Alternate voice) やっぱりボクの勝利じゃないか Yappari boku-no shouri ja-nai ka.
Big Bang 覚悟はいいかい？ Kakugo-wa ii kai. Are you prepared?
Due to the large number of images for Klug, the gallery is moved to a separate page. See Klug/Gallery.
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Garner, Thomas (1839–1906). English Gothic Revival architect. He was a pupil of the elder Scott. In partnership (1869–98) with G. F. Bodley, he made a major contribution to the work of the firm, notably at St Augustine, Pendlebury, Manchester (1870–4), and the exquisite Holy Angels, Hoar Cross, Staffs. (1872–6). After the partnership was dissolved, Garner carried out works at Yarnton Manor, Oxon., and Moreton House, Hampstead, among other commissions. Bentley considered him a designer of genius, and there is certainly a warmth in the buildings he erected in collaboration with Bodley that is lacking when the latter worked on his own. He wrote The Domestic Architecture of England during the Tudor Period (1908–11), with Arthur James Stratton (1872–1955). Garner (who became an RC) designed the chancel at Downside Abbey, Som. (1901–5), as fine a work of liturgiological and ecclesiological scholarship as may be found in England.
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