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The results below are final, based on 18 events through May 22,2016.
This is the complete end-season leader list. Winners are in bold.
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A fascinating but unevenly rambling fillip of story from Hungarian journalist, feuilletonist, and prosodist Gyula Krúdy, beloved of Hungarian letters but not readily amenable to translation. It took me a long time to get into the flow of his similes-on-similes-on-similes style, which is no doubt at least partly the fault of the translator trying to maintain sentence integrity at the expense of English convention; but while it's not exactly Major Literature in either the Naturalist or the Modernist canon (Krúdy is best known for his character Sindbad, a Hapsburg Arsène Lupin), it's a nostalgic reverie on such specific Hungarian countryside that by the end it was almost impossible not to get wrapped up in his densely referential maundering. The plot is a collection of fits and starts (I believe it was written and published serially, and only the ending really follows from what went before), more a cynical gesture toward romance (in the old-fashioned "adventure" sense) than the thing itself, but several images will stay with me for a long time. | 2019-04-21T20:23:45 | https://www.jonathanbogart.net/sunflower/ |
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STEP 2... “The Earthquake Step”. This breaks up the infrastructure of the bacterial biofilm (plaque). Once the toothpaste is on all of the teeth, moisten a Stim-U-Dent® and insert the pointed end between each tooth with the flat side next to the gum. Use a gentle but firm in/out motion, contacting the sides of each tooth and stimulating the gum tissue between the teeth. Do not force into tight spaces between the teeth. Trace around the gumline to the next interdental space. Dental floss misses the concave areas of the tooth, especially on the back teeth, which have multiple concave contours. If plaque and tartar (mineral deposits from your saliva, also called calculus) are present and gingivitis is the result, the gums will generally bleed when this thorough cleaning technique is employed for the first few times. As the causes of disease are removed, the bleeding will stop or become less each day and stop completely as the tissues heal. Normally, no bleeding will occur upon “Stim-U-Denting” after three to five days, except in extreme cases where professional treatment may be required to remove the disease-causing material from under the gums and between the teeth.
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When patpahootie asked me if I'd draw up the cover for his latest novel, I was just lost in that excitement where artist and fanboy meet :D I hardly expected this kind of honor, yet it came to me!
The novel is "GeneStorm: City in the Sky", and it's set in the world of the GeneStorm RPG. A lot of the equipment in this environment is scavenged or handcrafted, and the esthetic can be pretty anachronous! Here, the tigershark girl Snapper sits atop her mount surveying the country.
ah the ever illusive attack bird. | 2019-04-23T16:48:43 | https://inkbunny.net/s/1105390 |
Understanding how different investments work is the first step toward profitable investing. The second is making sure you—and your mutual fund manager—always maintain the correct wealth-building mindset.
To become the best possible investor you can, it is imperative to avoid the big mistakes. Behavioral finance researchers investigate how human beings study and act on investment information and how their findings can benefit investors.
Those who invest directly in stocks are particularly prone to making devastating mistakes, perhaps even experiencing Enron-style setbacks.
But mutual fund investors are not insulated against these mistakes. In fact, a fund manager can compound any mistakes made by fund owners—after all, professionals are human. Thus, it should come as no surprise that behavioral finance research makes a strong case for buying and holding low-cost, broadly diversified index funds.
Being oblivious to the corrosive impact of compounding costs on long-term returns.
A closer look at these mistakes and the impact they will have on your performance can help you identify your own susceptibility to error.
People typically are overconfident. For instance, research indicates that people overestimate their abilities as drivers. In addition, it’s common for a person to think of himself as being above-average. And gender matters: Men tend to exhibit more overconfidence than women.
Overconfidence also applies to investing acumen. Individuals feel confident of their abilities to pick sectors, superstar fund managers, or to properly time the market. Fund managers themselves often are overconfident in their skills of pick winning stocks and sectors, and to time the market.
A moderate amount of overconfidence is beneficial in many areas of life. People who have confidence tend to be happier and work harder. They also can better cope with life’s uncertainties.
Unfortunately, being overconfident about investments is dangerous because the stock market is highly effective at deflating overblown egos. Most people don’t realize how difficult it is to beat, let alone match, the S&P 500 index’s long-term average return of about 10% annually between 1928 and 2014.
Overconfidence often leads to overtrading. Investors’ fund trading proclivities are evident from the tens of millions of exchange-traded fund shares changing hands daily. A person might be buying and selling actively managed mutual funds in an effort to find the next Peter Lynch. The widely popular discount brokerage trading arenas allow impulsive individuals to jump from one fund family to the next with a quick phone call or a few mouse clicks. The overconfident investor may also make big bets by concentrating on a favorite fund or even margining a position.
Fund investors are not immune to mistakes, and fund managers can compound mistakes made by fund owners. One of the biggest mistakes is overconfidence, and the stock market is highly effective at deflating overblown egos.
Overconfidence tends to ebb and flow with the stock market cycle. A bull market is conducive to overconfidence because people attribute their investment successes to superior skill. Pride can boost confidence when the individual has had a string of successes. In reality, luck probably played a bigger role than skill.
But even if you hold onto the same stock fund for years, your investment results could be disappointing if your manager is too overconfident. Many managers exhibit overconfidence, as evidenced by their rapid-fire trading and consequent high portfolio turnover rates, which often exceeds 100%. In fact, evidence indicates that fund managers who have done exceptionally well during a particular year will trade more actively the following year. Thus, having success leads to more overconfidence and higher portfolio turnover.
A major problem with high turnover is that it translates into high transaction costs. These costs are not reflected in a fund’s expense ratio, which may already be high. Rather, the transaction costs accompanying high turnover diminish a fund’s total returns. This problem is much more serious at a time when pre-cost investment returns are low. For taxable account holders, high turnover also leads to larger taxable distributions and a higher tax bite, assuming a fund is profitable on average.
Everyone hates to lose. Many individuals will not part with a losing investment until they get “even,” which is usually considered to be their original purchase price. Locking in a loss really injures self-esteem. A loss appears larger to most people than a gain of equal absolute value. In fact, research indicates that individuals find the pain of a $10,000 loss to be about twice the magnitude of the pride associated with a $10,000 gain. Thus, people try to avoid the psychologically painful feeling of regret.
Being averse to loss certainly makes sense, but individuals do not always analyze it rationally. Ironically, losers often increase their risk in an attempt to eliminate a loss. Like gamblers, would-be investors often increase their bets when their luck sours to avoid finishing in the red. An impulsive individual might hastily double a position in a volatile sector fund that has recently plummeted 50% to “average down” its cost. But a recent low price can easily drift lower.
Professionals also are affected by loss aversion. Mutual fund managers may take greater risks to overcome a high expense ratio or a losing streak.
The get-even syndrome can be very detrimental to an investor’s financial well-being. If an investment slips into the red, individuals hold on steadfastly, hoping for a rebound. Individuals may avoid selling a fund that has gone down in order to avoid the regret of having made a bad investment. By selling, the loss is finalized; by not selling, some hope of a rebound remains. But don’t be too patient with a loser.
Let’s say you want to double your money in eight years. A moderate, 9.05% yearly return will do the job, assuming a reasonably favorable market climate. However, the more years you stick with a dud, the harder it is to “catch-up” to your initial target. A 25% slide in the value of your investment over a five-year horizon means you must garner 38.67% yearly over the remaining three years if your goal is to double your money in eight years. Even a zero-return investment hurts plenty if held too long. With a 0% return during the first five years, you must earn 25.99% per year during the remaining three years to double your money in eight years! Like the gambler struggling to recoup losses, investors often take on excessive risk as they scramble to catch up after selling a loser.
With investor psychology, a few “magic” words may work wonders. By using a positive frame of reference, an investor may be much more willing to part with a loser. Instead of thinking “by selling this dog I’d have to realize a huge, humiliating loss,” simply think “I’m going to ‘transfer my assets’ to a more productive use.” This frame can be particularly useful if you’re trying to convince someone else to abandon a loser.
On the flip side, abundant research indicates that people are too quick to take their gains. They don’t let their profits run far enough because they want to lock them in while they have a chance, fearing that their gains will revert to losses. Pride and regret play a role in their thinking.
For instance, suppose an investor sees a promising stock fund that he wants in his portfolio, but to invest in this fund he must sell another. The typical pride-seeking investor would sell a fund that’s in the black rather than one that’s in the red. By selling a fund showing a profit—even though it may be small—our investor experiences the feeling of pride. Regret is avoided (or postponed) by not selling the loser. With a taxable account, however, it makes better sense to sell the loser and realize a tax loss rather than pay taxes on a gain. In any event, losers often continue to underperform, particularly if they are saddled with high costs.
When a rebound occurs in a fund that was in the red, many investors exit too quickly—with little or no gain in hand. By cashing out, investors are eliminating any chance for making decent returns on their stock funds, which could conceivably reward them for the extended period of pain.
“Myopic loss aversion” is another term for investor shortsightedness, and it usually afflicts people with long time horizons. Shortsighted investors with long-term horizons tend to be too conservative with their asset allocations. This is common among people saving for retirement.
It’s a truism of equity investing that the route to long-term gains is punctuated with periods of short-term losses. Markets are extremely volatile, upsetting compulsive worriers. People who worry excessively may sell a good stock fund at the first sign of trouble.
An individual who suffers from myopic loss aversion may quickly sell out when the market averages plunge by 5% or 10% in a week or so. The person fears losing it all! The fact is that prices often rebound within a matter of days or weeks.
Suppose a 30-something individual is saving for retirement. Each year’s investment in equities can be viewed as an isolated gamble. Some people may hold less than their optimal equity allocation because they overemphasize the potential from losses in a single month, quarter or other brief period. Conversely, if investors focus on the potential outcome over several decades, they are more likely to hold the correct amount of equities. Unlike casino gambling, the expected long-run payoff for equity investing is positive, provided the individual maintains a sensibly diversified portfolio and can remain invested for many years.
Time diversification, or the law of averages, works well for the long-term investor. This assumes that the individual is not saddled with perennial losers—always weed out the clunkers, as explained above.
One rule of thumb for a moderately risk-tolerant individual is to allocate “110 minus your age” to equities. Thus, a 40-year-old might have 70% allocated to a mix of equity-oriented mutual funds. Investors with short time horizons might best be served with a very modest (if any) stake in equities.
People, particularly those who are not financially savvy, often treat small numbers as unimportant. Their bias toward big numbers may cause them to focus on those funds that generated the highest returns during the past year.
These same people will also ignore what may seem to be minor differences in small numbers, such as expense ratios. The reported net return earned on a fund equals its gross return minus its costs. Expense ratios of mutual funds range from less than 0.20% for low cost index funds to more than 2%.
The expense drag is far less with a broad-based domestic equity index fund. With a 0.20% expense ratio, the latter would cost an investor $31,775 in 40 years, a modest 7.02% of the future index value. Thus, the fund earns 92.98% of the return of the zero-cost index. Even lower expense ratios can be found on the lowest-cost index funds and the broad-based exchange-traded funds.
The expense ratio is not the only cost that mutual fund investors face. More funds—even some index funds—are imposing front-end loads these days. Furthermore, as discussed earlier, high portfolio turnover ratios in turn lead to high transaction costs.
Bid-asked spread: A stock held by a fund might be quoted at 25 bid and 25.50 asked. The difference between bid and asked prices affects investors when they buy at the asked and sell at the bid. This often occurs.
Price-impact cost: Buying a stock tends to bid up its price while selling tends to push it down. The larger the transaction, the higher the price-impact cost. Because mutual funds often trade stocks in large blocks, their price-impact costs can be high.
Opportunity cost: Mutual funds are often not able to complete a trade rapidly. It may take days or weeks to acquire or dispose of a block of stock in a particular company. In the meantime, the price can move against the fund manager, adversely impacting the results.
While difficult to quantify, trading costs of a large-cap domestic equity fund might consume 75 to 90 basis points of gross value yearly. Conversely, trading costs are minuscule with a broad-based domestic equity index fund.
The examples discussed above referred only to expense ratios. The impact of trading costs can be added in. An actively managed domestic equity fund could easily have expenses plus transaction costs that equal 2% yearly, causing it to consume a staggering 52% of future gross wealth in 40 years! Stated differently, that fund returns less than half of the market’s return in 40 years. This is most devastating to younger investors with multi-decade time horizons.
Studying the common mistakes of mutual fund investors reveals several important behavioral lessons.
Behavioral Lesson #1: Don’t try to beat the market.
Optimism can have an adverse effect on investment decisions when people set unrealistic expectations. Overconfident investors feel that their winners were due to skill and, thus, that they can continue to win. However, luck often plays the bigger part, and anyone’s good fortune can turn on a dime.
Overconfidence can lead to substantial losses when investors overestimate their ability to identify market-beating investments. Individuals and fund managers who try too hard to beat the stock market often find that the market will beat them. That’s because trying to beat the market can lead to overtrading and inadequate diversification.
The secret in making big money over long periods of time lies not in making the big gain; rather, it is to avoid the big setbacks.
Behavioral Lesson #2: Accept the fact that stock markets will fluctuate.
A shortsighted investor might view the stock market as akin to a gambling casino, overemphasizing the potential for (and harm caused by) near-term losses. These are the kinds of investors who might put all (or most) of their long-term assets in a money market fund to avoid losing principal.
Unfortunately, these people don’t realize that inflation’s long-term impact on wealth can be far more devastating than simply having to ride with the short-term ups and downs.
If you focus on the potential outcome over several decades, you are more likely to hold the correct amount of equities.
Behavioral Lesson #3: Build a well-balanced portfolio.
Keeping your asset-class balance is essential for being an emotionally successful investor. Elementary portfolio diversification is still the best way to guard against the risk of irreparable financial harm and its accompanying emotional consequences.
Build a well-designed portfolio based on factors such as your age, time horizon, earnings, net worth and risk tolerance.
Those who jump in and out of investments frequently don’t have a well-thought-out portfolio. Being overweight in a volatile fund or stock can cause an undue amount of emotional stress, which in turn can trigger indiscriminate selling.
A well-balanced portfolio is definitely easier on one’s emotional state.
Behavioral Lesson #4: Use low-cost, tax-efficient index funds.
Over time, small differences among expense ratios can add up to big costs. Compounding high expense ratios with rapid-fire portfolio turnover is the recipe for poor performance, particularly in a taxable account.
The way to escape the corrosive impact of high costs is to use broad-based index funds for your portfolio core—or your entire equity allocation. Favor index funds that target the S&P 500, Wilshire 5000, or Russell 3000.
Exchange-traded funds provide a low-cost option for disciplined investors following a buy-and-hold program.
Behavioral Lesson #5: Know when to sell (and when to stay put).
It’s often said that the sell decision is more difficult than the buy decision.
A disciplined program for selling is needed to avoid the financially debilitating mistakes of clinging to losers, selling winners too soon, overtrading and panic-driven selling during a market tumble. A pattern of unfocused selling year-after-year typically leads to disastrous investment results.
The first step to intelligent selling is to build a well-balanced portfolio. However, everyone experiences disappointments.
Don’t let the prospect of regret prevent you from selling a loser that could impede the performance of your portfolio. Humility can pay in this case.
This article was written by Albert J. Fredman for the May 2002 issue of the AAII Journal. At the time, Fredman was a professor of finance at California State University, Fullerton. Fredman is also the author of several mutual fund books. | 2019-04-20T15:23:30 | https://blog.aaii.com/fund-investors-biggest-mistakes-and-how-you-can-avoid-them/ |
Colin Woodard's 11 "American Nations."
People have been talking about America’s divisions since it was just a string of random, widely-separated colonies scattered along the eastern seaboard.
For all the things that connect us – a common language, a long history, a rich culture, a set of (largely) shared values – it’s the differences that have always fascinated politicians, journalists and academics. Talk of divided Americans always grows louder after hotly-fought elections, and we’re seeing a flurry of it as intellectuals try to grip with what happened to America in 2016.
“We’re suffering through a national identity crisis,” writes columnist David Brooks in the New York Times. Brooks, the kind of urbane, thoughtful conservative most appealing to liberals, might well be speaking of himself. Like the rest of the intellectual Right, Brooks never saw Trump coming and is still trying to figure out what it means.
Analyzing America’s divisions always begins with geography. There are political and cultural divides within states – northern vs. southern California, upstate vs. downstate in New York and Illinois, for instance – as well as between them. Redrawing maps better reflect their population’s politics has long been a popular parlor game.
In one such exercise, Colin Woodard’s “American Nations,” North America is described as 11 rival “nations,” each with a distinct character. Woodard gives them cute names – like Yankeedom, the Midlands, El Norte, Tidewater and the Left Coast – and argues that the attitudes of each region’s founders toward government, the outside world, freedom and citizenship have persisted in their cultural DNA for centuries.
Woodard contends that the United States has never been truly united, and that migrants, rather than changing the regions they move to, are molded by them. That’s why increased mobility and modern communications haven’t erased America’s differences.
In “The Big Sort,” journalist Bill Bishop offers another reason Americans are growing more divided. Using demographic data, Bishop argues that for at least the last three decades Americans have been moving to states, cities and neighborhoods where people share their ideological beliefs. Liberals cluster in cities and on the coasts, looking for diverse communities with excellent schools and vegetarian restaurants. Conservatives move the other direction, choosing to live where churches are at the heart of the community and people value guns, trucks and barbeque.
While some divide us by geography, others stress conflicting “narratives.” Brooks writes that until recently, the American identity was sustained by the “Exodus story:” We all came here from other countries intent on finding a better life for our families in a country more free and righteous than the places we left behind. That narrative is being forgotten, he contends, because schools teach more about American oppression than American exceptionalism. I’m not buying it, but it’s an interesting theory.
George Packer, whose “The Unwinding” is a masterful look at how America lost touch with its core, offered four conflicting narratives in a recent speech. As recounted by Brooks, Packer divides Americans into western-style libertarians who value freedom over obligation; Silicon Valley globalists who put their faith in disruption; multiculturalists more bound to their identity group than their country; and “America Firsters” fearful of contamination by foreigners and disdainful of elites.
Brooks offers two narratives competing for America’s future. The “mercantilist” vision sees the U.S. as a player in a zero-sum global game, and Americans as a tribe that must be protected from other tribes. The “talented community,” on the other hand, welcomes diversity, immigration and trade for the “dynamism” they unleash.
Brooks makes no secret which vision he prefers, which is the problem with these parlor games. In every description of this or that American sub-group hides value judgments and stereotypes. Intellectuals can’t help but sound condescending in such analyses, especially when they are talking about people they don’t know, like poor people, racial minorities and Trump voters.
I tend to take these analyses with a large portion of salt. But I can’t resist drawing my own dividing lines.
I see Americans divided by attitude. On one side are those who think we aren’t where we need to be, but we’re getting better; on the other are those who think things have been going downhill since the 1950s and keep getting worse. On one side are those who think government is the problem; on the other are those who think government is the solution. On one side are those who see globalization as a threat; on the other are those who see it as an opportunity.
But divisions like these are not fixed in stone, and certainly are not a fatal flaw. Diversity of opinion, like all the other kinds of diversity, is a feature in America’s operating system, not a bug. Americans are a sprawling, sometimes unruly and fractious family, but a family nonetheless. | 2019-04-19T14:20:09 | https://www.rickholmes.net/the-divided-states-of-america |
Roadwork continues in Madison Twp.
WEST POINT — Madison Township’s road crew continues its work on potholes and cleanup of trees following recent storms.
In his report last Wednesday to trustees, road foreman Gary Mitchell announced the road crew is currently in the middle of hot patching various roads throughout the township and will be continuing its efforts until entirely finished.
Mitchell reported one request for work for a culvert pipe cleanout on McDonald has been put on hold until the hot patching process is complete.
Due to recent storms, several trees have been reported down, including on Cream Ridge Road and throughout Bear Hollow. Mitchell said while the Cream Ridge tree has been cleaned up, additional work had to be done at Bear Hollow, resulting in the road being temporarily closed.
” … we had to shut down the road for one day before a power line and a telephone pole down there,” he explained.
Mitchell also said, due to mechanical problems with the mower, crews have not been able to continue mowing. He also stated loggers have been looking at property on Cannons Mill Road and will be there for a couple weeks. He said they may consider placing a bid on the property, but was not certain.
In addition, Mitchell requested the board approve purchases of limestone material which will be used for winter road clearing, along with ash which has been picked up recently. The board approved motions to purchase 500 tons of limestone material. The board, however, is waiting on winter salt after learning that it would cost $62 per ton.
— During public comment, Torma Road resident Todd Mays asked the board about the township’s electrical co-op program and inquired who is the electrical provider for the township following recent news of the bankruptcy and pending purchase of FirstEnergy.
Trustee Roger Walker said to his knowledge all contracts would be honored with the new company. Fiscal Officer Tiffany Chetock stated there was an opt-out program, but the township would need to look into the information.
Also in public comment, Skip Hamilton asked trustees about the switching plant for South Field Energy on state Route 45 in the township and whether or not the township will be able to receive any money from the plant. Chairman Wayne Chamberlain advised Hamilton the township will receive some of the tax money.
— Trustees approved a motion to create a separate emergency fund for any proceeds the West Point Fire Department may receive for fire damage and work. The motion was made at the request of the state auditor’s office, which recommended the township no longer place those funds in the General Fund and instead deposit them into a different fund.
Also related to finances, trustees approved the payment of the bills amounting to $25,762.65, along with seven purchase orders.
The next regular meeting is scheduled 6 p.m. Sept. 26 at the Madison Township Garage meeting room on state Route 45. | 2019-04-22T13:58:15 | http://www.reviewonline.com/news/local-news/2018/09/roadwork-continues-in-madison-twp/ |
As the popular song goes, it’s a “beautiful sight” walking in a winter wonderland. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case when it comes to driving in the winter time.
For many parts of the U.S. and Canada, January means winter weather is on full blast. For fleets (and their drivers) who spend a large part of their time on the roads, this translates to dangerous driving conditions and gridlock from snow and ice storms. This also can mean vehicle trouble related to harsh drops in the temperature.
Increasingly, fleets are turning to technology to alleviate some of the hassles that come with the colder temperatures and winter weather driving. By relying on the right solutions, you, too, can stay ahead of the weather and keep running safely and efficiently, regardless of what Mother Nature throws your way.
Snow and freezing rain can make for slippery and treacherous roadways. One of the most important ways fleets can prepare for winter weather is by knowing the real-time conditions of the roads they are operating on–both currently and further along down a driver’s route.
According to the most recent U.S. Department of Transportation study between 2005 and 2014, 22 percent of all vehicle crashes were weather-related. Of these crashes, 73 percent are caused by wet roadways. In addition, the Federal Highway Administration projects that weather-related delays add $3.4 million a year to freight costs.
To eliminate some of these delays, fleets are turning to solutions like PeopleNet’s myRoads. Launched earlier this year, myRoads is a weather alerting solution that provides drivers with information on current and forecasted road and weather conditions along their route.
Check out the video below to see how myRoads works to help provide fleets and their drivers with the information they need to either modify their driving or reroute to avoid hazardous weather altogether.
As anyone who has tried to start a car in brutally cold weather can attest to, extremely low temperatures can make it hard for the engine to turn over immediately. Commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) are no different.
Many fleets take precautionary measures like adding fuel additives to prevent common winter problems like diesel fuel gelling (when the paraffin typically present in the fuel begins to solidify). Unfortunately, the effects of winter weather go well beyond just impacting a truck’s fuel tank.
With PeopleNet’s wide range of remote diagnostics solutions, fleets can get better visibility into when a specific vehicle has a fault event, whether it is related specifically to cold weather or not. This knowledge allows them to proactively respond and schedule maintenance. Not only does this help to increase efficiencies but it also helps their drivers avoid breakdowns, a potentially dangerous situation should a driver be stranded in extreme temperatures while waiting for assistance.
All of the benefits of meticulous planning and preparation can go out the window when something unexpected happens. Even after adjusting your driving to tough winter conditions, accidents still can happen, especially because you cannot control how other drivers behave on the road.
If and when an accident happens, more and more fleets are turning to video to help them better understand the circumstances and get a neutral eyewitness to potentially exonerate their driver.
PeopleNet’s Video Intelligence provides fleets with a near 360-degree view around a truck, including left and right view cameras built into a truck’s spot mirrors and a wireless backup camera that livestreams in-cab video. The captured footage could be the evidence a driver needs to keep his or her job, save employers significant money, and help companies take preventative measures by improving driver performance and adopting safer company standards.
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The hassles of winter weather make these first few months of the year a challenging time on the roads. While you can’t make time go by any faster, you can begin to look at using technology to lessen winter’s impact on your fleet.
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Whom do I address this letter to, the boss? Or the hiring manager?
Do I write in the third or first person?
Do I include team achievements, or do I specifically mention my solo projects?
And suddenly, you end up with absolutely nothing but a blank page that you stare for hours in frustration. Not to worry, this is completely normal for every individual when trying to produce something creative. Our brain tends to overthink and ends up shutting down in the process.
Your best bet is to forget writing the letter, make a hot cup of cappuccino and take a nice long nap. Once you are back, you can take a few pointers from this page and write yourself a stunning cover letter and you will be able to better understand the guidelines for creating one.
The cover letter represents a piece of you that is converted into words. However, while most candidates are highly talented in their endeavors, they can be poor writers. Unfortunately, a poorly written cover letter can demonstrate your talents as average to the hiring manager. Avoid writing just about everything in your cover letter and come up with dissected sections.
Take a piece of paper and list the most important information that is required by the hiring firm. Skillsets, accomplishments, statistic-backed data, a portfolio, a personal website, etc. Now place the less important information such as your goals and hobbies further down the cover letter.
Ensure you place information starting with the most important and ending with the least relevant. This is one golden rule that can immediately make your cover letter stand out compared to your peers.
You don’t necessarily need to possess exceptional writing skills to put down things about you on paper. When in doubt, always maintain a simple style of writing without the use of fancy jargon to complicate your cover letter.
While using fancy words can be immensely tempting, it can also demonstrate your ignorance when you use a word you don’t fully understand.
Another thing to keep in mind is to always update yourself with samples of the latest cover letters. The cover letter format that worked 5-years ago may have had several modifications and employers tend to take notice of little things such as this.
Ensure you read up on the best cover letters listed by career experts on the internet and promote yourself in an efficient manner.
To showcase a genuine interest in the company it’s necessary to refer to the hiring company by name in your cover letter. It’s important to also direct your attention towards the company you are applying to and make fine points on why you would make a great employee.
To get a more detailed walkthrough on how to write a splendid cover letter, continue reading on.
The following information is mandatory when writing a cover letter, always maintain the same flow of information without omitting these critical sections.
If you are sending the cover letter by email, it’s necessary to add a subject line involving your application and the job you’ve applied to. To keep things simple, you should always put your “Full Name” and “Job Description” as your subject line.
If you’ve been provided with an appointment number, it’s necessary to quote the number in your subject and ensure the verification process is smoothly conducted. Never give a reason to complicate a simple procedure because you used the subject line to type out a sentence or phrase.
Your personal information — how else is the employer going to contact you if you made the cut? It’s vital to list e-mail, contact address, mail, phone number, website, etc. the more information you showcase, the more confidence the employer has in you.
Ensure your contact information is updated with your current residential address. Never goof up on your pin code, it’s the best way the post master can ensure the location of your area is right. Provide an alternate phone number for the company to contact you, in case you’ve got a bad reception, or your battery runs out on your primary number.
The body of your cover letter is where the magic happens, this is the portion that is read by employers over any other section. Hence, this is where you need to place the most emphasis while putting your professional achievements down.
Give yourself a good idea on the type of professional story you want to go with. Remember, this is an extremely crucial section. Employers usually skim every other detail to get to this part, hence, make it your best. The first paragraph must have extremely engaging content to grab their attention.
The ability to separate your sections into clear and concise paragraphs allows the reader to absorb information conveniently. If your cover letter were just giant blocks of texts, the employer may just stop reading midway and proceed to the next applicant. Don’t post irrelevant information that doesn’t concern your role in the company.
Any other information can be discussed during the face-to-face interview phrase. Strictly, maintain a short and concise cover letter explaining your role, your accomplishments, special projects, and what you can offer to the company.
If you must include details about yourself that aren’t relevant but play an important role in you getting selected, place it at the bottom of your cover letter.
If you’ve recently attended a workshop conducted by the employer of the company or if you’ve received a reference from a friend working in the company — present these details at the end as they play a very little role in your selection process.
Offer gratitude to your employer for taking time to read your cover letter and sign off with a professional tone.
Every professional must attest his signature to the bottom of the cover letter to show ownership. Include the date to ensure your cover letter stays relevant. Optionally, you can also create a 2-line disclaimer stating the cover letter has been written by you and is true to the best of your knowledge.
The disclaimer isn’t required but sometimes it can show the extra effort without being too obvious.
This phenomenal video by Aimee Bateman covers all the required information that you need to include in your cover letter to stand out among your peers.
There’s nothing more bother some for an employer to go through than a cover letter that’s put together by a 5-year old. If you have the necessary talent, then you need to showcase your skills through a perfect and error-free cover letter. Ensure you proofread your cover letter 4-5 times before you submit it to dig out any unnecessary vocabulary that might have slipped through while creating your first draft.
Ensure your paragraphs are simple and clutter-free. For a quick reading test, create your cover letter and hand it over to a friend and have him read it out to you. You can quickly find the hidden errors just by having an outside source read it out loud. Written words may seem fine on paper, it’s only when you read them that you begin to identify that something’s not right.
Never relist the same point frequently, this will make you sound desperate for the job. No hiring manager will tolerate a candidate that continues to talk about himself rather than explain how he can offer his expertise for the company.
Always write in a tone that matches the company’s profile. For example, if you are enlisting into a fashion company, it’s important to maintain a trendy tone to showcase your expertise in that field. Similarly, if you were to apply for a fitness job, then you need to bring your “A” game and present your ideologies on nutrition.
Treat your cover letter like your first interview except it isn’t a face-to-face interview. Your cover letter is like a part of you that communicates to your employer that you are interested in the job and you present your qualifications in fine writing.
It’s necessary to maintain a professional tone throughout and never switch to a personal tone unless requested so by the hiring manager.
Your cover letter should be phenomenal enough to capture your hiring manager’s attention. Start your cover letter with an enticing first sentence that immediately grabs their attention. Spend the first two lines introducing yourself and don’t try to overdress your cover letter with show words claiming to be a superhuman when clearly the hiring manager isn’t interested.
Present facts instead of bold claims, provide statistics over courageous statements, and grab you manager’s attention with your natural abilities instead of sounding arrogant and out of place. Don’t mess your cover letter with a list of skills, if two skills sound similar such as — great communication skills and motivational speaker. Choose one.
3. When in doubt, Research!
There are many well-written sample cover letters available on the internet if you ever require assistance. Go through as many cover letters as you can and pick out the top 5 cover letters that interests you. Next sort through the relevant sections and sub-sections that make the cover letter a success and implement it into your cover letter format.
By mixing and matching different cover letters, you will ultimately create your very own cover letter and you can add your own description to it. It’s important to get a second pair of eyes to offer judgment on whether the cover letter makes the cut or if it needs more modifying. Although it’s important to be the judge of your own creation, it’s never a bad idea to call upon a friend or family member to oversee your progress.
Provide suitable reasons for the employer to hire you and if you don’t know your strong points, it’s a good idea to surf the internet based on your job description. A quick search online with your job description will match you with results of career experts demonstrating the strongest abilities of your career. You can then choose to include these terms into your resume.
As a final rule, ensure you cover letter is fine tuned and tailored to meet your company’s standards. Don’t leak out information that isn’t required. If you feel you should include details that aren’t relevant to the topic, don’t write about it. Wait for the interview phase to discuss such matters.
It’s been proven that employers like to see some sort of figures to get a detailed understanding on the type of jobs you’ve completed. Statistics that can be proven can increase your job success rate. For example, if you’ve led a social media campaign, list the number of followers you’ve raised — such as 2 million followers.
Proven results are generally favored by employers looking to hire new talent over tall claims. A good idea is to strip down all your projects on a white piece of paper and build them back using numbers and statistics. Don’t use vague terms such as — a lot of, many, several, etc. You wouldn’t be satisfied if the employer were to give you a vague term when discussing your CTC now, would you?
Also demonstrate your strong qualities in replicating the same success to them. Once the hiring manager has confidence in your abilities and has seen your past performances, the choice is easy. You get the job!
Here’s a video walkthrough by ZipJob that compiles a set of tips to help job seekers land their dream job.
While writing a cover letter, maintain the following guidelines to ensure your reader is interested in your cover letter. By including these formatting rules, you can ensure that your employer will absorb the information even if he were to glance over your interview letter or spend about 10 seconds on it.
The right spacing can add aesthetic points to your cover letter. Ensure only a certain number of sentences make it to a single paragraph and they have a cut off limit. For example, it’s considered good standards to include about 4-5 sentences in a single paragraph before breaking into a new one.
Always write the cover letter as if your employer were giving you only 10 seconds to explain yourself. In those 10 seconds, what is it that you want your employer to know about you and your abilities? Write it down in a piece of paper and ensure you maintain adequate space while creating your very first paragraph.
Every cover letter you send out should be checked more than thrice to ensure you manually spell check. If you use the “Word” document to create your cover letter, turn the automatic spellchecker mode on to fish out the poor grammar.
There are plenty of other tools available on the internet that can assist you in identifying grammatical errors and other irregular terms. Stick to simple English and keep a clean cover letter free of jargons and idioms.
In the modern cover letter where every candidate looks to stand out from the other applicants, the humble font can add a pleasant makeover. Fonts can do wonders when cleverly modified to ensure your employer has a pleasant reading time.
By experimenting with different fonts, ensure the different viewing angles are tested. Use the font that is crispy clear even if you were to read it from a distance. Fonts that distinguish between alphabets are highly recommended. You don’t want your employer to re-read a specific sentence over again because the font isn’t expressing the letters in a meaningful manner.
Remember a cover letter represents your abilities and talents and is an important feature to landing your job interview. In fact, the cover letter is more critical than the face-to-face interview as it lists all your abilities in written form and you don’t have face any nervousness while writing a letter. Always come up with a detailed format and include all the guidelines mentioned in the above sections.
It’s alright to experiment as much as you want during your creative phase but when you reach your execution stage it’s important to keep a short yet informative cover letter that tells a story about you. Maintain a professional tone throughout your interview letter and you will certainly hope to impress your hiring manager. | 2019-04-25T01:55:55 | https://www.cleverism.com/3-cover-letter-rules/ |
Last week I hosted a workshop on Augmented Reality for the post-graduate students of Ravensbourne College. It was divided in three major parts; the definition of what is Augmented Reality and what is not, then the development of a couple of Augmented Reality applications based on the FLARManager software library and the last part was a brief examination of platform-specific Augmented Reality tools.
The workshop demos required only the Adobe Flash Builder, as the attendees had to bring their own laptops (Mac and PCs) and Adobe Flash is the only cross-platform Augmented Reality solution development-wise.
During the last academic year in the course MA Interactive Digital Media of Ravensbourne College I discovered my interest in innovative applications for museums, while at the same time I had the chance to explore a plethora of new technologies. After long hours of research and practise as well (i.e. programming, design and user testing) I found my exact subject of interest, which is Augmented Reality iPhone applications for museums and dedicated myself to it ever since. The video below is a demonstration of the largest part of my work.
For the installation of my project at the MA Major Project Exhibition which took place on the 12-16th of July at Ravensbourne College, I designed the following poster which summarises the concept and the functionality behind the prototype applications of the Augmented Reality Suite.
Now I am working on my dissertation which is a documentation of my major project and of the research that supported its concept and implementation. The approximately 10,000 words long essay will be uploaded here by September.
The previous post was an introduction to Augmented Reality explaining the basic terminology and the techniques while this one is focusing on applications of this technology that have been hosted or are still running in cultural institutions all over the world. To my surprise I found about 10 projects, the majority of which were either experimental or for seasonal exhibitions, while there are also some exceptional cases of projects which are still hosted in museums. The projects are sorted by time beginnning with the oldest one.
When I found this project I was actually amazed, because it clearly got the success factor for me: Not only it used state of the art technologies, like multi-touch tables and augmented reality, but it also made the best out of them, with a proper scenario and interaction design. For the complete journey visit the project’s site and click on the thumbnails to watch the videos.
The Seattle Art Museum and the University of Washington Human Interface Technology Laboratory recently completed a year-long collaboration to create a virtual archeological dig. The Virtual Dig ran from May 10, 2001, to August 12, 2001 as part of the Sichuan China artifact exhibit. During that time more than 25,000 people experienced this novel interactive experience.
The Virtual Dig combined HI-SPACE and ARToolKit interaction technologies along with 10 networked computers, 6 cameras, and 6 projectors. This page focuses on the interactions supported by the technologies. Each interaction is labeled as HI-SPACE or ARToolKit to identify which technology supported the specific interaction.
As a project it was more of a game, to increase attraction to cultural heritage institutions, offering a deeply engaging experience. Thus, it did not provide any additional material or information about the artefacts exhibited or about their context.
Very interesting concept and implementation to offer a museum visit online using three-dimensional graphics allowing the viewers to interact with the exhibits, however I do not think I would use this project more than once. For me most of those projects which show a virtual world, instead of making me feel thrilled like I was in there, they rather make me think “How much do I want to be there!!” feeling that what I experience using them, is a rather bad copy.
This project was running from 2002 to 2009 in the Deutsche Museum in Bonn, Germany. It uses optical-see through display to augment virtual objects in the real world, while with a large ring all around the users are able to rotate the object as it would happen with a real showcase. It is an exceptional AR project as it is both educational and viable as it has been used for years on a permanent exhibition.
We describe the Interactive Virtual Showcase, which was developed for the interactive presentation of mixed reality scenarios in museums. We suggest a rugged design and an intuitive interaction metaphor, which is based on a tangible interface. The system was installed at a museum and is running for more than one year without major problems. The reaction of the numerous museum visitors has been very positive, which is partially due to the fact that the technology is mostly hidden from the users.
That is the kind of projects I admire, those which are not only exceptional both in conceptual and in practical level, but are also implemented in a way that they will be viable and sustainable to serve a museum in the long-term.
This is another project which surprised me but for different reasons. I am not aware if it was ever hosted in the museum it is made for, but it is very interesting both the number as well as the quality of the applications which constitute this project. Throughout his website Kolsouzoglou’s research and experimentation around Augmented Reality and Augmented Virtuality can be found. A summarising essay is available here here.
Well, I did not spend a long time on that rather experimental project since all the concepts implemented there had occurred to me before so I was just stunned by the amount of work and effort using special equipment and cutting-edge technologies.
This one is a professional project done by the Louvre – DNP Museum Lab for Louvre and was actually running on a seasonal exhibition there on Islamic art. The technology used is a commercial product of Metaio named Unifeye SDK. The Tour Guide hosted information for the artefacts and also directions helping users to find their way in the exhibition. In addition to the actual AR Tour Guide, the Lab ran a survey and evaluation on the project’s efficiency.
Recent years have seen advances in many enabling Augmented Reality technologies. Furthermore, much research has been carried out on how Augmented Reality can be used to enhance existing applications. This paper describes our experiences with an AR-museum guide that combines some of the latest technologies. Amongst other technologies, markerless tracking, hybrid tracking, and an Ultra-Mobile-PC were used. Like existing audio guides, the AR-guide can be used by any museum visitor, during a six-month exhibition on Islamic art. We provide a detailed description of the museum’s motivation for using AR, of our experiences in developing the system, and the initial results of user surveys. Taking this information into account, we can derive possible system improvements.
A polished Augmented Reality application which shows the future of this technology in cultural institutions. The evaluation and the findings accompanying the project are also of much use. For me, however, the fact that it lasted for a seasonal exhibition only proves a possible weakness regarding sustainability. A last point, is that the project’s cost is rather high both hardware-wise (Ultra-Mobile PCs) and software-wise (Metaio license).
In the same sense with the previous project is the AR Guide for the Museum of Fine Arts in Rennes, France. Includes an Ultra-Mobile PC while for the paintings’ recognition ARToolkitPlus has been used. It also used a framework called MAGIC standing for Mobile Augmented Reality for Indoor Collections, which unfortunately cannot be found online. The concept here is that they did use marker-based tracking, but as markers they used the paintings themselves, avoiding any intervention to the actual exhibition.
Can Augmented Reality (AR) techniques inform the design and implementation of a mobile multimedia guide for the museum setting? Drawing from our experience both on previous mobile museum guides projects and in AR technology, we present a fully functional prototype of an AR-enabled mobile multimedia museum guide, designed and implemented for the Museum of Fine Arts in Rennes, France. We report on the life cycle of the prototype and the methodology employed for the AR approach as well as on the selected mixed method evaluation process; finally, the first results emerging from quantitative evaluation are discussed, supported by evidence and findings from the qualitative part of the assessment process. We conclude with lessons learned during the full circle of conception, implementation, testing and assessment of the guide.
The interface is a bit appalling for me but anyway that is rather subjective. I like the innovation of using the painting as a marker itself, although the users had to stand far enough, so that the whole painting is in the camera’s view and can be recognised. Regarding the evaluation, indeed it is very important but if you have to dress your users like troops as shown below well, I think this fact on its own affects their behaviour.
That is another project which used marker-based tracking for Augmented Reality applications. It was an attempt to create a tool which allows museums’ experts to develop AR experiences. The first concept implemented involves a user holding a camera-equipped mobile device and a marker next to each artwork. When the camera captures the marker the mobile device displays content relevant to the particular artwork and plays an audio narration. In addition, if the user had chosen a special audio trail, she was then given a marker and when her marker was placed next to the marker of an exhibit, a custom audio narration was triggered regarding the artefact based on the user’s preferences.
The second concept implemented involved an artwork of Kurt Schwitters and an installation constituted by a table a projector and a camera. When the users put markers on the table, these objects would appear literally on the painting as a part of the collage.
This is a systematic approach for making the AR technology more accessible to museum experts constituted by an iterative process of three phases. I really like the fact that from the very early stage of design until the very end of production and testing, the researchers worked closely with museums experts to evaluate the viability and sustainability of the product.
This is only a subset of the Augmented Reality projects that had taken place in (or were designed for) cultural institutions all over the world and that is because the particular technology encounters almost a decade of its existence. However, it has been just a couple of years since Augmented Reality became a trend mostly because the tools which enabling this technology have become much more accessible than they were let us say four years ago, due to the phenomenal commercial success of smartphones.
It has been a while, since I am interested in Augmented Reality (AR) and by now I was exploring more its practical side experimenting with ARToolkit. Now, I decided to do a more theoretical research in an attempt to, firstly, clear up in my head what Augmented Reality, Augmented Virtuality (AV) and Mixed Reality (MR) are and then document important AR projects for museums. The latter, as this post became 1000 words long, is going to be the next post.
Augmented Reality is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery.
Augmented Virtuality refers to the merging of real world objects into virtual worlds.
In other words: Mixed Reality is a superset of both Augmented Reality and Augmented Virtuality representing all the cases that the user sees real and digital objects co-existing; Augmented Reality is when the user sees as a background the real world with digital objects superimposed and Augmented Virtuality is the reverse situation when the viewer sees a virtual world with some real objects in it. I must admit, when I cleared those terms in my mind, I felt better, like Kyle from Southpark I said to myself “You see, I’ve learned something today!” The subject of this post however is Augmented Reality alone.
With the definitions given above Augmented Reality can also be considered any application that uses the camera feed as its background. In most cases, though, when Augmented Reality is referred, it is meant that the superimposed graphics and they way they appear depend on the tracking, the localisation of the position and orientation of real physical objects. For example, in the Figure 1, the green creature appears always on top of the black square card. If that card, a real world object, is moved or rotated, so will also do the creature. There are several tracking techniques but in this post we will focus on the two most popular approaches the Marker-based and the GPS/Compass tracking.
The superimposed graphics are designed according to that coordinate system thus every move of the marker affects subsequently the graphics.
The main advantage of marker-based tracking is the accuracy as well as the stability in terms that, as long as the marker is clear in the camera’s view, the scene is solid and positioned precisely. Portability is another feature, as there is no need to make any changes on the software for changing the real-world environment. However one major disadvantage I faced with marker-based tracking is the flickering of the superimposed graphics when the marker is “face-on”. I did try for optimisation and work-arounds to avoid it but nothing worked; I just should not point at the marker directly.
The GPS/Compass tracking lacks in terms of accuracy as the GPS has ±10 meters precision as well as of stability because its functionality depends on the GPS-reception of the area it is used. However it has the major advantage of being marker-less and thus it can be applied without any intervention to the real-world.
Apart from the tracking method Augmented Reality applications are also categorised by the display they use, between the optical see-through and the video see-through displays. An optical see-through display employs half-silver mirror technology to allow views of physical world to pass through the lens and graphical overlay information to be reflected into the user’s eyes (Wikipedia, § Augmented Reality). An optical see-through display is usually part of a Head Mounted Display (HMD) a RoboCop like thing, which allows to whom it is wearing it, to see the real world through his or her glasses but with computer-generated graphics superimposed. The video see-through display is when the real world and the virtual world are shown in one single video stream. The Nearest Tube shown above as well as any other AR application for handheld devices uses a video see-through display i.e. the smartphone’s screen.
There is a plethora of free tools that can be used to develop AR applications and an extended list of them can be found in Wikipedia. Below there are some of the libraries suggested.
ARToolKit A Cross-platform Library for the creation of augmented reality applications, developed by Hirokazu Kato in 1999. It is maintained as an opensource project hosted on SourceForge and its newer versions since 2007 can be bought from ARToolWorks.
ATOMIC Authoring Tool A Cross-platform Authoring Tool software, which is a front-end for the ARToolKit library. Was developed for non-programmers, to create small and simple, Augmented Reality applications, released under the GNU GPL License.
OSGART A combination of ARToolKit and OpenSceneGraph.
SSTT Core Marker-based tracking which markers are coloured, without thick black border.
ARKit Open-Source Augmented Reality library for iPhone.
mixare – Open-Source (GPLv3) Augmented Reality Engine for Android. It works as a completely autonomous application and is available as well for the development of own implementations.
NyARToolkit – an ARToolkit class library released for virtual machines, particularly those which host Java, C# and Android.
AndAR – A native port of ARToolkit to the Android platform.
FLARToolKit An ActionScript 3 port of ARToolKit for Flash 9 and later.
SLARToolkit A Silverlight port of NyARToolkit.
Well, I did learn something today..like that Android is a particularly AR-friendly platform. The next post is going to be on Applications of Augmented Reality for Museums. | 2019-04-20T22:29:28 | https://valeonti.com/tag/augmented-reality/ |
There are many enrichment opportunities at Bexhill College. You can do anything from join activities such as team sports, drama and music productions to adding extra short qualifications to your programme in areas such as First Aid or Sports Leadership.
All courses will also add their own special enrichment activities to make the subject more stimulating and rewarding. These vary from revision and study events, to language exchanges and visits to places such as Spain, New York and France.
Excursions take place throughout the year which are course based or just for fun. These are a great way of seeing more of the UK and meeting other students. Students have the opportunity to go to cities such as London and Brighton, as well as a trip to Canterbury and the Warner Brother Studio Tour in London for the Making of Harry Potter experience.
We run specialist sports academies in Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Cricket, Football (now in association with Chelsea FC Foundation), Golf, Gymnastics & Trampolining, Netball, Rugby, Table Tennis, Tennis and Swimming. We also have a Performing Arts Academy, a Science Academy and an extensive enrichment programme which is open to all students studying at Bexhill College. | 2019-04-18T16:56:04 | https://www.bexhillcollege.ac.uk/international/enrichment-opportunities.shtml |
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Paneless Home Services cleans windows, marble surfaces, hardwood floors, tile and grout, carpets, chandeliers, fans, and porch lamps. The company also offers screen replacement, gutter cleaning, power washing, and glass restoration.
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Since the company's founding in 1997, Paneless has been owned and operated by the husband-and-wife team of Ryan and Kim Harrington.
Paneless Home Services does not use subcontractors, and each of the company's jobs is managed by a seasoned crew leader with at least five years of experience. Employees of the company wear uniforms and drive marked vehicles. | 2019-04-19T22:57:05 | https://www.bestpickreports.com/window-cleaning-and-pressure-washing/dallas/paneless-home-services |
Erie Wildlife Rescue is a fully independent, registered charity. All expenses, such as medical treatment, housing, food and care of the wildlife, are covered through donations, memberships, bingos, sales, grants and other group fund raising activities; we receive no operating funds from the government.
We are always in need of your assistance and try to make it as easy as possible for you to help us. We realize that not everyone has free time or the means to make a donations, but there are many very simple ways that you can give a helping hand to us and our rescued animals. Please take a look at the following pages to see how the animals can benefit from your assistance.
There are several ways that your can make financial donations that will benefit the animals and the running of our not-for-profit organization.
There are many jobs here at EWR. Some of them only require a couple of hours a month. Whether or not you are in a professional trade, we are probably in need of your skills.
We are always in need of items to make our animals as comfortable as possible and assist in the operation of the Centre. Please view our Wish List and see if there is anything you can donate to make our operation function smoothly. | 2019-04-18T11:08:12 | http://eriewildliferescue.ca/help-out/ |
Los Angeles - Lindsay Lohan wants to guest star on The Only Way is Essex.
The Canyons actress - who was recently romantically linked with former TOWIE star Tom Kilbey - is said to be keen to land a cameo on the British reality show because she is a huge fan and watches every episode on YouTube.
A source said: "Lindsay's obsessed with all things Essex and she's watched every episode of TOWIE on YouTube.
"It's like her new fix. She's been telling anyone who'll listen that she'd love to guest star in a few episodes and has even asked her management to set up a meeting with the producers."
This comes after Lindsay - who is said to be keen to move to the English capital - has been spotted holding hands outside the Club Room at the Miabella Club in London with TOWIE newcomer Vas J. Morgan.
A show source told Now magazine: "We always ensure that everyone on the show has a genuine connection to Essex. As a friend of Vas, Lindsay might fit the bill, but there are no plans as yet."
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Council Contractor, Stateline Asphalt will be undertaking rehabilitation alongOswald St and Reginald St, Mosman. The works is scheduled to commence on Tuesday 12 December 2017 and are estimated to be completed within 2 days, weather permitting. Standard working hours will be from 7:00am to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday. Traffic and pedestrian control will be in effect and parking will be suspended at selected areas during the works. Please ensure that your vehicles are NOT parked within the ‘Work Zone’ areas and Council requests your cooperation to comply with the temporary traffic control measures. Council has advised the Contractor to minimise possible noise disturbance. However, due to the type of machinery used for these works, some noise impacts are unavoidable. For further information please contact Madhavi Borra 9978 4051. | 2019-04-21T22:41:19 | https://works.mosman.nsw.gov.au/363/road-works-at-oswald-st-and-reginald-st |
NEIRA CEBALLOS, Zoia et al. ECOLOGIC-CULTURAL SPACES OF A MAPUCHE TERRITORY IN THE ARAUCANIA REGION-CHILE. Chungará (Arica) [online]. 2012, vol.44, n.2, pp.313-323. ISSN 0717-7356. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-73562012000200008.
This is a qualitative study based on a participative action investigation that examines categories and meanings of Mapuche ecological and cultural spaces, in Boroa-Filulawen, Chile. The objectives are identification of ecological spaces and their cultural importance. Data were collected during 14 in depth interviews with Mapuche informants during field visits. The results indicate 14 cultural-ecological spaces of special meaning to the Mapuche. These spaces were valued because of their close relationship with Mapuche cultural cosmogony, landscape, vegetation, rivers and other water sources and their location. For the Mapuche, landscape means more than simply geographical and ecological characteristics; it involves spiritual forces, personifications of elements and mystical entities and beings within the landscape. From a biophysical perspective, the spaces more frequently described are those having adequate water supplies for the growth of vegetable species. These plants may supply foods, medicines, clothing, or be used for special religious or ceremonial occasions. This traditional Mapuche knowledge of ecological spaces is important to preserve the culture as well as to design conservation programs territorially pertinent.
Palabras clave : Ecologic-cultural spaces; ethnobotany; indigenous knowledge; Mapuche. | 2019-04-19T20:16:50 | https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0717-73562012000200008&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=en |
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There are numerous recognized and accredited photography schools in California. Photography classes teach subjects like portrait capture, exposure and composition, lighting, posing and unposing, and other photography fundamentals. Growing into a skilled photographer can pave the road to a lifelong hobby or a prosperous professional career. | 2019-04-25T22:48:13 | http://ephotographyclasses.com/photography-classes-in-seal-beach-ca.html |
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What does a penguin and a watermelon have in common?
They all come from Earth.
First you find a girl that likes you.
Then you realize no girl likes you. | 2019-04-25T10:32:12 | https://www.anti-joke.com/posts/60422-one-stop-shop |
Salsa is a national pastime in Puerto Rico; though it didn't originate on the island, it might as well have. For a sultry night of dancing, head to this tiny yet frenetic nightspot, tucked down an alleyway off an Old Town street. Every night, the live band plays a mix of salsa and jazz well into the morning, and open-mic poetry sessions give the wood-paneled hall a bohemian vibe. Tourists meld with friendly locals who are always willing to give novices a quick dancing tutorial. | 2019-04-19T04:29:00 | https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-guide/old-san-juan/things-to-do/nuyorican-caf |
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Different earnings and bills. Other income and bills are these gadgets that don’t happen during the normal course of business operation. For instance, a clothes maker would not usually earn revenue from rental property or interest on investments, so these earnings sources are accounted for individually. Curiosity expense on debt is also included in this class. A net figure is computed by subtracting other bills from different revenue.
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Jared Stroud came alive for the New York Red Bulls II. Against the RIchmond Kickers, Stroud scored his first three goals of the season in a big win.
The Red Bulls won their second straight match during a three game home stand. After falling down the standings with a string of bad results a few weeks ago, the Red Bulls needed to maximize points at home.
The Red Bulls opened the scoring in the second minute with a bizarre goal. Kickers goalkeeper Travis Worra attempted to play the clear the ball, but his attempt struck Jared Stroud in the face, deflecting into the net. It was Stroud’s first goal of the season, and the easiest goal he will ever score. It was a special night for the Red Bulls’ winger.
Stroud doubled his tally just 12 minutes later. Amando Moreno beat his defender down the left wing, and sent in a low cross. Stroud connected with the cross, sending his shot low to the left side of the goal. Stroud completed his perfect hat trick with a goal in the 68th minute. Following a corner kick, Worra failed to save a shot from Chris Lema, spilling the rebound directly to the onrushing Stroud.
Moreno would add a goal of his own in the 34th minute. Brian White received the ball at the top of the box and slipped the ball to Moreno. Moreno beat his defender with a burst of speed then fired the ball low to the right corner of the goal. For Moreno, it was his 8th goal of the season.
White kept the ball rolling for the Red Bulls, scoring in the 59th minute on a cross from Andrew Tinari. The goal helped to settle down a match that was becoming chippy. Again Richmond conceded thanks to poor defending from the right side of their defense. Tinari crossed low for White, and the striker finished first time past Worra.
Things took a turn for the Red Bulls in the 76th minute. First, Brian Shriver pulled a goal back for the Kickers, finishing into an open net. Two minutes later, Evan Louro was sent off for fouling Shriver at the top of the box as the last defender. The Red Bulls having used all of their subs were forced to play with striker Brian White as the goalkeeper for the final 13 minutes. Even down a man, the Red Bulls managed to see out the danger.
The win brought the Red Bulls, 8-5-7 , all the way up to third place in the Eastern conference. Despite the lofty position in the standings, the Red Bulls have played more games than any other team in the conference. Next up, they will face Bethlehem Steel FC next Wednesday night to finish up the home stand. | 2019-04-25T02:15:38 | https://rbnn.us/2018/07/13/stroud-takes-charge-in-big-win-over-kickers/ |
This is entertaining made easy and it’s extra tasty.
Heat the oil in a large pan or wok.
Add the curry paste, squash and lemongrass. Fry for 2-3 minutes on a medium heat.
Pour in the coconut milk, stir well and bring to the boil.
Allow to simmer for about 25 minutes. Add extra paste and coconut milk if sauce becomes too thick.
When the squash is almost done, cook the pasta according to packet instructions, then drain well.
Pour half the sauce from the pan into a big bowl and mix with the pasta.
Plate up and place remaining squash and fresh coriander on top.
Add siracha if you fancy some extra spice, which I always do. | 2019-04-23T02:10:15 | https://queervegan.com/2015/08/23/spiced-squash-pasta-a-thai-italian-fusion/ |
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All at FYP are delighted to announce a new project collaborating with Refugee Community Kitchen helping to feed over 2000 children & adults DAILY at the refugee camps in Calais and Dunkirk.
More information will follow soon but in the meantime if you want to support the kitchen feeding people over Christmas please donate through our ‘Donate’ page on this website.
We are of course also still supporting our children and adults in Kalinovka, Ukraine over Christmas and beyond! | 2019-04-20T21:15:52 | https://www.futureyouthproject.com/2015/12/ |
At The U.S. Olympic Trials, Mixed Opinions About Russian Doping Scandal : The Torch The Russian scandal is a hot topic at the U.S. track and field Olympic Trials. Some feel individual Russian athletes should be allowed to compete if they're clean, others support a blanket ban.
There will be a decision soon about whether some Russian track and field athletes can compete in the Olympics next month in Rio. This week, Russia filed an appeal after its track federation was banned because of state-sponsored doping. Despite efforts to stop it, doping is a persistent problem in track and field as NPR's Tom Goldman reports from the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore.
TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE: It didn't take long in Eugene - matter of fact the first day of the trials - a brilliant blue sky day. There was a reminder of the shadow of doping.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Medal ceremony. Shot put men.
GOLDMAN: A medal ceremony is a happy moment. The winner on this day smiled as he stood wearing a victory wreath on his head. But it was bittersweet, coming 12 years late.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Gold medalist and 2004 Olympic champion representing the USA, Adam Nelson.
GOLDMAN: Adam Nelson won a silver medal in the 2004 Olympic shot put competition. A few years ago, the gold medalist tested positive for a banned drug in retroactive testing, meaning Nelson was the winner. But then one of the most underwhelming victory moments ever - the gold medal was hand delivered to Nelson in 2013 in a food court at the Atlanta airport. Track officials in Eugene thought Nelson deserved better, so did the thousands of fans who cheered him last week at Hayward Field. Not long after those cheers, there were more reminders.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Gatlin and Bromell. Gatlin, Bromell.
GOLDMAN: America's best sprinter proved it again in Eugene. Justin Gatlin won the 100-meter final Sunday in 9.80 seconds. That's a world best time this year. But during the weekend, about 30 people at Hayward Field wore T-shirts with the slogan runners against doping. It was a targeted and quiet protest against Gatlin and fellow sprinter Tyson Gay. Both have served doping suspensions. Thirty-four-year-old Gatlin served two.
Doping is a charged issue for him, but in Eugene, Gatlin was willing to talk about the Russian scandal. I asked him whether some athletes who prove they're clean should be able to go to Rio, even though their track federation is banned.
JUSTIN GATLIN: At the end of the day, I mean, you got to think about fair is fair. You know, if an athlete has come and he's been tested or she's been tested, and they've passed a test, I don't think they should, you know, basically prosecuted or make a statement with other people who have done wrong.
GOLDMAN: Distance runner Stephanie Bruce is sponsored by Oiselle. That's the apparel company that organized the T-shirt protest. For Bruce, the situation is murkier with the Russian athletes who protest their innocence.
STEPHANIE BRUCE: How long have you been running in a culture like that and you don't know that it's going on and you haven't come forward? Like, you are totally oblivious that coaches or - you know what I mean? So that seems strange to me.
GOLDMAN: It's not surprising that Adam Nelson, the man in the belated ceremony, takes a hardest line. He's a long-time anti-doping Fair Play advocate, but he's also a victim of doping. He was quoted as saying this, the reality is you make a ban on a country and then you allow the athletes to compete. It sends a mixed message.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport is expected to decide by July 21 whether individual Russian athletes can compete in Rio. If the decision is no, it will be the first time that country isn't part of the Olympics' most prominent sport - track and field - since the former Soviet Union boycotted the 1984 LA Summer Games. Tom Goldman, NPR News. | 2019-04-22T07:11:54 | https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=485039019 |
Just about 2mo ago my ebrake light started staying on or comming on while driving, which I thought was due to the cable being a little looser now. About a month ago now it stays on all the time. I took the console off and messed with the switch and looked at the wiring but cant find a problem. It seems as though by the way it was wired that it would be off all the time if there was a problem with the switch and that the wire must be now grounded somewhere it isn't supposed to be. I cant find anything loose though. Anyone else had this problem?
try cleaning up the ground wire connecting point. if that doesnt work it maybe the switch it-self.
Your breaks could be worn and need replacing, or possibly your brake fluid could be low.
i forgot about the fluid. mine light turned on when my fluid went low. try that. If your brakes are worn you would hear a metal on metal scratching sound.
I 've had a similar problem with my light ever since I changed the stock stereo for my Sony Xplod head unit. It seems to come and go even though I adjusted the parking brake cable and changed my worn front pads. (I still have drums out back.) I've been so used to driving with the light on that I recently saw that It went away after I released the parking brake. Before it would stay on regardless. I think it might be a wiring problem or something or a conflict with the stereo wiring. I really havn't given it much thought since my brakes work just fine.
Just to clarify...since the e-brake only goes to the rears...changing your fronts isn't going to effect the e-brake light. Probably something wrong with the connections.
My light has come on twice other than pulling the e-brake. I've had it come on when my front brakes were worn beyond their life. Probably one more stop on them and it would have been metal to metal. I didn't hear the warning clip at all. Once I replaced my pads the light turned off. | 2019-04-22T20:45:22 | https://zx2ms.com/index.php/topic,1524.0.html |
Fancy yourself a real polymath (polymath=a person of wide-ranging knowledge, wisdom, or learning)? If only you'd lived in the 1600s, then you'd be in good company! Still, you enjoy spending your time tinkering in your shop, charting the stars, solving equations, and coding computer games (how modern). You love to build, design, play music, and post (expertly) on social media. It sounds to us like you're a guy who values knowledge for knowledge's sake. And we respect that quality in you!
Don't hide behind normal clothes for normal men; belt up this Men's Brown Renaissance Coat and prepare to share your wisdom with the world! Think about your great heros—thinkers and artists, inventors and scientists. They didn't do their work in a pair of flannel PJ pants and a hoodie, did they? No way! They had great garb like this ensemble to help set them apart from the rabble and establish them as seekers of knowledge and owners of their own fate!
Like all great things, this genius look starts with a simple idea: a perfect coat. This one is crafted from faux suede and reaches the knees, and it features an off-center closure with straps. The coordinated faux leather belt has antique brass-tone buckles, and the gauntlets lend this whole look an air of elite authority. Get a sword forged from a neighboring merchant, find a great pair of sturdy boots, and you'll be ready to make your mark on the modern world in a totally timeless way!
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The Travel Tour Expo organized by the Philippine Travel Agencies Association, Inc. (PTAA) will once again showcase the products and services of its members on February 13, 14 and 15, 2015 at the SMX Convention Center, Seashell Drive, Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City, Metro Manila in connection with the #VisitPhilippines2015 Tourism campaign by the Philippine Department of Tourism this year.
The Travel Tour Expo which was conceptualized by PTAA in 1994 is already on its 22nd year and considered to be the biggest and most awaited event for the travel and tourism industry in the Philippines.
Accordingly, the Travel Tour Expo 2015 will occupy the entire SMX exhibition halls; all four halls of the ground floor and the four function rooms on the second floor.
This year 2015 might be the biggest travel event in the Philippine Tourism as the Travel Tour Expo will showcase 257 exhibitors and 5 Sponsors/Media Sponsors within the Halls 1 to 4 of the Ground Floor and 1 to 4 Function Rooms. According to their official website, as of October 21st last year, there were 261 exhibitors occupying the 640 booths. There are 701 total number of booths being prepared for this event.
The total number of anticipated visitors for this year might double the last year's performance of 70,000 which includes Holiday Travelers, Incentive & Convention Planners, Government and Business Leaders and Direct Buyers and Investors. Last 2012, there were more than 65,000 travelers/visitors recorded which had 492 booths occupied by 255 firms. Additionally, as per TTE last year 2014, the total generated sales was P517,788,004.78 by all exhibitors.
Aside of the products and services offered by its members, accompanying events will also showcase such as raffles, entertainments, games, and even Exhibitors and Sponsors' Presentations. Even cultural presentations from different countries will add the spice to it.
What are you waiting for? Buy your tickets now and make your schedule today!
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This looks interesting. Though my husband has studied from Manila, I am yet to visit Philippines.
The space is spectacular and this venue is just what we needed for our event. It is the best place to have an event and we had an awesome experience here. Their event planner is excellent; they are so attentive to all of your needs. | 2019-04-19T13:02:53 | https://www.bestspotsph.com/2015/01/the-ptaas-22nd-travel-tour-expo-2015.html |
Blink to take pictures using the new Google Glass firmware?
Google Glass still hasn't been released to the masses and we're already getting word of a second version in the works. But back to the now and Google has come up with a firmware update for the model currently being used by Explorers. We can expect blink controls, more specific voice commands and music control.
The latest XE10 update, studied by Android Police, appears to offer some exciting blink control options. A "wink for photo" function is found in the new build as does the option to control something using a "double blink". While this sounds great it might still be held back by Google because of privacy concerns.
Music has also had an upgrade with a quick control command of "play music" added. This will likely be a way of accessing and controlling music from your phone. It also includes a layout for music items like album art, album name, track name and artist name. Also you should be able to control play, next, previous, pause and stop. A new radio icon has been added which could be used for Play Music's All Access radio channels.
App specific controls have also been added like "take note" to instantly record in Evernote, or "post update" to add to your Path account. Other controls include: "find a recipe", "check me in", "call me a car", "add a calendar event", "learn a song", "start a run", "translate this", and "tune an instrument". All very cool potential uses but whether these controls will have apps to support them anytime soon is another matter.
Perhaps the most exciting new control, which likely won't be usable for some time, is "create a 3D model". Imagine looking at an object and that being enough to create a file for 3D printing. The mind boggles.
The XE10 update will launch next month. | 2019-04-25T22:21:22 | https://www.pocket-lint.com/ar-vr/news/google/124438-blink-to-take-pictures-using-the-new-google-glass-firmware |
A letter to the editor published Oct. 16 supported U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint's recent comments on gay school teachers and referred to homosexuals as predatory.
I recently reviewed the issue of child sexual molestation by homosexuals for a course I am giving on homosexuality for Lifelong Learning of Hilton Head. Phallometric tests (measuring sexual arousal) of teenagers and adult men who molested male children showed them sexually uninterested in adult men, but responsive to adult women. Two peer-reviewed studies of convicted child molesters found that less than 1 percent in one study and zero percent in the other study were lesbian or gay.
To imply that homosexuals are child abusers is narrow-minded and uninformed. | 2019-04-22T03:11:31 | https://www.islandpacket.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article33396339.html |
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Ridge augmentation is a procedure performed to repair the natural structure of the soft tissue of the gums and the jaw following the extraction of a tooth.
There can be other reasons why Pacific Modern Dentistry needs to perform a ridge augmentation.
Why Do I Need a Ridge Augmentation?
When a tooth is extracted, the bone that surrounds the root in the jaw, known as the alveolar ridge, is gone, and an empty socket is left behind. Ideally, the socket heals on its own, and new bone is regenerated, but sometimes the bone breaks and cannot recover without help. If we don't treat this problem, the condition of the socket will continue to worsen.
Performing a ridge augmentation to fix this problem is not necessary, but it may be required if you are thinking of replacing the missing tooth with a dental implant because these devices need good bone structure to be viable.
Other reasons for ridge augmentation are periodontal disease, dentures, injury, and trauma.
Before going forward with the procedure, we will discuss the surgery in detail, including the source of the bone graft that we will use to repair the socket. Ridge augmentation consists of making an incision and lifting the gum in the empty socket to expose the damaged tissue. Our surgeon then fills the hole with bone graft from your body or a bank to build up the height. Once we place the graft and secure it in the socket, the incision is stitched. If you are getting dental implants, you will need to recover for up to six months so that new bone can develop to support the implant. Depending on your situation, we can sometimes place the implant at the same time as the ridge augmentation surgery.
Once the surgery is completed, and after we monitor you for several minutes, you will go home. You will feel sore and may experience swelling the day of the surgery, which is entirely normal after an invasive procedure.
We recommend you don't eat any solid food until the effects of the anesthesia wears off to prevent you from biting your cheeks or lips. You can take over-the-counter pain medication as indicated, but we don't recommend aspirin-based products. If we prescribed an antibiotic to prevent infection, continue taking it until all the medicine is gone.
We may send you home with a clear appliance that is placed on the roof of your mouth. Do not remove it under any circumstances for 24 hours.
Ice is very beneficial in reducing swelling and promoting healing. You can use an ice pack or a plastic bag with frozen peas, which are the ideal size for an ice pack for 20 minutes on and 20 minutes off during the first 24 to 48 hours.
We also recommend sitting up in a comfortable chair such as a recliner and sleeping with your head propped up by pillows or cushions. Take it easy and avoid any physical activity for a couple of days.
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Sample delicious soups from 20+ local restaurants & chefs and vote for your favorites. Bring a can of soup for the community food bank of NJ. The event will be benefiting ACS and the AC rescue mission and will have live music and a silent auction. Ticket prices are $20 for an adult, $10 for a student, and $5 for a child (ages 6-10). Tickets are available at the door, in the school office, or at acseht.org/bowls-of-hope/tickets . Sponsored by Sadia's Tea & Coffee Egg Harbor Township. This event will take place on Saturday, February 2, 2019 from 6:00-8:00 PM at the ACS Gym located at 391 Zion Road, Egg Harbor Township, NJ. | 2019-04-26T00:58:45 | https://catcountry1073.com/events-atlantic-city/bowls-of-hope-soup-cook-off/02-february-2019/ |
OneCommunity has received $18.7 million in stimulus money that it plans to use to help poor residents in Ohio and four other states get high-speed Internet access and learn to use it. The Cleveland-based nonprofit, which provides fiber-optic Internet service to government agencies and nonprofits in Northeast Ohio, will use $11.7 million of that money to increase broadband adoption in Cleveland, Akron and southeastern Ohio. The rest of the money for the “Connect Your Community” program will go to Detroit; Lexington, Ky.; Bradenton, Fla.; and Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss. The money, which came from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, will pay for Internet literacy training for participants, subsidies to help them afford Internet access and additional equipment for existing computer labs. Nonprofit groups organizing each of the regional efforts will hire a total of more than 100 staff members to train participants. Those hired will put special focus on teaching resident to use the web in productive ways, such as by applying for jobs, finding health and wellness resources, and enrolling in continuing education programs. They also will help residents figure out how they will attain affordable Internet access over the long term. The nonprofits also will provide nearly $5 million of free services as part of the program, said Andrea Castrovillari, director of development for OneCommunity. The Cleveland Housing Network, which is organizing the Cleveland effort, will receive $3.1 million and hire a staff of about 20, as will Accel, a Zanesville nonprofit that will cover southeastern Ohio. The Akron Urban League, leading the Akron effort, will receive $2 million and hire about 13 people. The program aims to serve 57,200 residents in all of the regions over two years. | 2019-04-20T04:32:38 | https://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20100303/FREE/100309952/onecommunity-to-use-18-7m-in-stimulus-money-to-open-internet-to-the |
A comfortable detached chalet with all amenities and next to the ski lift accessing both St Gervais and Megeve. Within easy walking distance of the town centre and only 45 minutes drive from Geneva airport.
If you're looking for the compelling combination of a luxurious base and possibly the perfect location, then Apartment Le L'Atalier is for you.
St. Martin de Belleville is possibly the best-kept secret in Les Trois Vallées region.St. Martin de Bellville boasts a new high-speed gondola that zips you straight to the action.
Ferme Maillet is a self catering holiday retreat for skiers, hikers, country lovers and active families. Rural location in a peaceful valley. The entirely renovated farm offers accomodation for up to 8 people.
Fantastic 'old world', 300 year old chalet in the heart of the World's largest linked ski area, Paradiski. Refurbished to a high standard with full en-suite, sauna, games room, wifi etc. Superb pricing for a 'chocolate box' style chalet.
Chalet Berrier is a new chalet built on three floors in the traditional style giving it a classic mountain look and feel. It will sleep upwards of 12 in 6 bedrooms and has central heating, with under floor heating on the ground and middle floors.
Chalet Tournette is a large (200m2) 10 person, luxury chalet in the heart of the Manigod valley - part of the La Clusaz / Grand Bornand ski area.
Apartment Glacon is a tastefully furnished, well equipped apartment in the picturesque village of Champagny en Vanoise.
The Mas de L'Elze is a rambling collection of old stone buildings, clinging to a sun-drenched, south facing slope on the edge of the Ardechois Cevennes. La Clede sleeps 4 people and is one of 3 gites on the property.
An extremely comfortable and spacious chalet, nestled on the edge of the piste in Montchavin, La Plagne. Both ski in, ski out and close to the village centre, it is practically on the doorstep of the local restaurants and bars.
Beautifully restored luxury farmhouse chalet.
As the name suggests, luxurious Chalet La Vieille Ferme is a traditional 'old farmhouse' that's been stylishly modernised, with great attention to detail, whilst retaining its alpine charm.
Detached ski in/ski out luxury Savoyard style chalet.
Chalet Le Cairn was completely renovated in 2010 to a very high standard in a traditional Savoyard style with brand new kitchen, modern appliances, all new bathrooms and new beds and mattresses to allow for the best nights rest.
A pair of almost identical, neighbouring chalets just ten metres apart, it means that large groups can be accommodated with everyone enjoying the same levels of space and comfort.
Family run catered chalet for winter, summer b & b with evening meal option!!
Our family run chalet offers you a home from home experience here in the Portes du Soleil and just 75 minutes from Geneva, tailoring holidays to suit you, great for groups, large families and solo travellers too!
Luxury Chalet Jamoo is a large, traditional farmhouse just 2 minutes walk away from the idyllic village of Entremont. | 2019-04-23T00:35:12 | https://www.alphaholidaylettings.com/France_holiday_rentals/Rhone_French_Alps/Haute_Savoie/Abondance/Bedrooms:1/Bathrooms:2 |
I have discovered a unique pet sitting/house sitting service called Trusted Housesitters. It really should be Trusted Pet Sitters because in my opinion pets come first. If I am looking for a pet sitter to stay in my home, I will be looking for a pet sitter, not a house sitter, but that’s just me. I have done some research on Trusted Housesitters and I’d like to share it with you.
Trusted Housesitters has been in business for 5 years. It has locations worldwide–including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
There are many benefits to using a pet sitter/house sitter as opposed to boarding your pet, having your pet stay at a pet sitter’s home, burdening friends or neighbors to check in on your pets or taking your pet along on your trip.
First, you can have multiple pets and/or hard to board pets and be able to travel!
Second, your pet will be happier. Pets are happy when they are in familiar and comfortable surroundings.
Third, your home will be occupied and cared for along with your pets. You don’t have to worry about burglars seeing your home as a potential target because no one is home. This is especially important if you are planning an extended getaway.
Fourth, the cost is often substantially less than boarding or off-site pet sitting and a better value for your money.
There is a money back guarantee, but it only applies if you post your request at least 1 month from the start of your trip and are unable to find a suitable pet sitter within the first 30 days of your membership. Then, you must request the refund between 30 and 40 days of the start of your membership.
Trusted Housesitters is a great option for pet owners–especially if you have multiple pets or pets that cannot be boarded easily–like ferrets! It’s very cost effective and an unusually good value. Your pets get to stay in their familiar surroundings with all the normal smells of home and family. Your home and your pets are looked after and you can specify any requirements or needs you have. There are many testimonials on the website giving positive reviews of their experiences with Trusted Housesitters.
I admit I decided not to go on holiday this year because I’d miss my pets too much 🙁 Thank you very much for this review, I might consider using this service in the future because it is so difficult getting friends and family to care for the animals properly. I also see that it is a worldwide website which is fantastic! Someone on youtube recently posted a video about a pet sitter which killed her Betta fish by over feeding while she was away 🙁 I’d be so worried that this would happen to me because once we came back from holiday to find that our cat had been run over by a car!!!
That’s terrible about your cat! That would make me afraid to go on vacation!Of course bad things can and do happen, but if we take all the necessary precautions–like checking references and writing down detailed instructions for the pet sitter, we can greatly lessen the chances of something going wrong while we are away. With Trusted Housesitters you choose the pet sitter and have access to client reviews and even a police background check!
Thanks for visiting David. Trusted Housesitters does have pet sitters world wide. I know they have pet sitters in Europe. I am not sure about Sweden, but click on the link in the post and check it out–you may be able to find one near you!
Wow, it looks amazing! Im from Italy and we don’t have yet this type of service, but it would be so useful! Me and my fiancee often leave for a 2-3 days trip every weekend, and we have 2 cats so it’s always a struggle to convince some of our friends to take our cats, and this type of thing would be so cool. Nice review, and if I was in the USA I would def use it!!
Thanks for visiting! Trusted Housesitters is not just in the US. They have pet sitters all over the world. I know they have pet sitters in Europe–not sure if they are in Italy. Click on the link in the post and check it out–hopefully they will have pet sitters there!
I like the idea of leaving your pet in the home where it lives while you are on vacation. One of my neighbors and I have been sharing pet sitting when we need to be away for a few days or just for an evening. I just go over and spend some time with her two dogs for a hour a few times a day. They eat where they normally eat and go outside and play in their own yard. This is less stressful on the pets and owners. This Trusted Housesitters sounds like a professional model of what we have been doing for over 10 years. It does work.
Thanks for you comment, John. It’s great when it works out that you have a friend, neighbor or relative that is close to your home and you can share pet sitting. But, that doesn’t always work out and can become a bit of an inconvenience if you are away for long periods. Trusted Housesitters is great because most of the pet sitters are happy to pet sit (and house sit) for free!
This is great information. I have a Green Cheeked Yellow-sided Conure that costs too much when we travel up north to see my husband’s family in Canada. Our first trip we left him with friends and while that was fine I do agree that having them in their own environment eases the stress for them and us. The fact you can check reviews of others that have used the program and also review each person who offers to sit your pet is good because you worry not just about your bird but the integrity of a stranger staying in your home. I am a very private person and would probably really think it over doing so but once you find that person you can rely on that would ease our pressure and stress when leaving our little boy Mango behind.
Yes, birds need special consideration. They often have a strong opinion of who they like and who they don’t like! The are especially sensitive tho their surroundings too, so if you when someone you and your Conure feel comfortable with, it will open up your travel options! | 2019-04-24T09:51:39 | https://ferretlover.com/trusted-pet-sitters-trusted-housesitters-review/ |
* Those awful "bumps" in driveways! The ones they put there to slow you down...What they really do is is jostle everything in your rig, and if you are like us, with levelers that hang down just a bit and/or exhaust extensions that hang down, then hit it and dent or bang it loose causing many, many dollars worth of damage!
* "Forgetting" to make reservations way ahead of time for holiday camping! Just because I'm retired and forget what day it is, and one day is the same as another, doesn't seem to be that way for the rest for others! Especially if you try and camp in popular tourist places!! Yikes!!
* Any "real" reason Southern Calif (San Diego in particular) HAS to charge 3 TIMES as much camping fees as anywhere else?? Ugh! Be prepared!!
* Watch out for your "slides"! I guess one can't really...it's just been very frustrating, as we sit here, not for the first time, waiting on a repairman, to come to our aid. You see, the gear keeps shearing off the bolts that hold the shaft together bring in the main slide. It really doesn't have anything to do with age, because the same thing happened to our friend's whose rig was only 18 months old. We've replaced the bolts, and even shortened the shaft to "temporarily" fix the problem. What we really have to do, is drive to Red Bay and have Tiffin replace the whole shaft. Ugh. Something to watch out for, that's for sure!
* Belonging to the "Full-Timer's Club. We joined at the FMCA Rally and I was thrilled to finally belong to a "group". Being a full-time RV'er, not having a home-base, means that there really isn't a group to go places with, to join in and have mini-rallies and follow along with to places, so when I saw this "Full-Timers" club, I thought "wow, finally a place for us!" Well, not really. They don't do anything except meet up to serve ice cream at the FMCA Rallies and send out a Newsletter that somehow "my news" never gets in, and all it really includes is where each other is, anyways. Boring. So, a waste of $$ and energy, for me, anyway.
* Mattress: When we first got our rig, we needed to purchase a new mattress. I thought we were only going to travel a year, so I didn't really want to invest $1000+ in a Select Comfort (air) mattress, which is what we had at home, and which, of course is what I really wanted (and need for my bad back), so we bought the next best thing at a little over half the cost. Good, but not great. Now, almost 3 years later, here we are, still going, and my back is paying the cost for it. Should have invested the money in the right mattress the first time. Bad choice.
* OK, it's been a year, and now I can honestly say, yes, we brought way to much stuff! We will be making a trip to our storage area and dropping some stuff off. Mostly, clothes. We do laundry every few days, and really, I found that T shirts, jeans & shorts were what I ended up wearing all of the time. All of the "blouses" rarely got worn because they got wrinkled and I didn't want to take the time to iron them! It is a must to have both cold weather and hot weather clothes because you never can tell how it's going to turn out - no matter what state you are visiting! Same goes for rain!
* Our little fan and heater did indeed come in handy. The fan when it was so humid I couldn't sleep without it pointed right on me; the heater when we discovered we ran out of propane on one of the coldest nights ever!
* Jack wished he would have brought his axe, more work gloves and more tie wraps, all of which we needed to purchase. We also bought a small grill, but most people know to bring that already.
* I brought way to much plastic ware, finding that you get plenty of it along the way, and baggies work better for spaces saving anyway. I ended up giving most of it to my son. Same with glassware & silverware. With the two of us, washing dishes after each use, you just don't need anymore than a set for 4.
* Health insurance - When you are a "full-time rv'er" finding health insurance to cover you no matter where you are and the fact that you really don't have a home base, it difficult, at best. Adding to that, we had Kaiser, covered by my employer. It didn't help that I decided to retire in December, when insurances were making their changes and the end of the year was looming! To make a very, very long story short, here it is the middle of February and we are still dealing with Social Security, Kaiser, Zoo HR and Humana! "What a mess" is putting it mildly! "if I had it to do all over again..." I would have gone to Social Security the first thing before leaving San Diego and made sure they had all their paperwork completed and correct. They are the base, and when it's faulty, everything else falls apart as well. Ugh.
* Tampa Fl - Very poor signage, especially in their downtown areas. Getting around is very difficult, even with a map! You would think that "historic" and "special" places would be highlighted with directional signs getting you there, but they are not in Tampa. We found things well "over-rated" in their brochures than in fact.
* Baker & Co. General Store, Tampa Fl - This was in AAA Guide Book as well as in several brochures, Visitor Centers etc. Turned out to be a run down, 2nd rate, over priced, ho-hum store - in a very run down part of town. A real disappointment.
* We were encouraged by several people to take the extra time, etc and go into Canada and see New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. We did, and we both agree, it wasn't really worth it, at least not to us. The Bay of Fundy was the most interesting, but all in all, we would have enjoyed spending that additional time and expense in the US.
* We learned 'the hard way' how important a walk-thru is before every departure. It seems so easy to remember all the various things you have to do before you set out, pulling up the stabilizers, bring in the sides, etc. but it's amazing how easy it is to forget one little thing that can really cost you! (like the hot spot still plugged into the outside socket). Same goes for periodically checking all your levels. The water & waste is easy, but remembering the battery water & propane is also something to think about too. Lists, seem silly, but not when you have forgotten something and now your mad at yourself!
* Memberships - Are good & bad, so you'll need to be the judge. My advise: don't buy or join in until you have been camping for awhile. Our biggest mistake was buying into a group at the very beginning, believing them when they told us that we would really have challenges both cost wise and availability during the summer months in New England etc. We should have passed and taken our chances. For us, Resort Parks International was a very wrong decision and a lot of money wasted. On the plus side, KOA, Passport America, Good Sam and Family Motor Coach Assoc. have been great and we used them often. The other "must" is the National Parks & Federal Recreational Lands Pass for Seniors. It only worked at a few parks, but no matter, it makes you feel good that your dollars are going to a good cause. It will really come in handy this year tho!
Nifty Nut House - Wichita KS - You have to know that when you make a special detour to go back again after a couple of years...it's got to be good! We stumbled across this store several years ago and were "wowed" by it, and never forgot it, so when were "close" to Wichita, we just had to turn in that direction! This store is HUGE, and has more nuts, seeds, and candies than you can possibly imagine...and all good! Yum!!
ParkAdvisor - Great for finding camping spots. It shows the ratings, locations, how many miles from your present location and of course you then can tap the balloon and see all the details. I've noticed it sometimes has more locations than others.
RV Parky - Pretty much the same as the above.
Passport America - Membership Campgrounds, well worth it, pays for itself after the first visit...unless you only camp during holidays, weekends and summer, then maybe it's not for you.
KOA - Another membership, but we like them because they are "dependable" and we know what to expect. You build up points with them, that you then can redeem towards your next stays, so it's not so bad.
Restaurant Finder - Great at finding places to eat, since all towns are "new to you and you don't know what's good", this has been a God's send" and has never let us down...love this app!
RVParkReviews - This one doesn't work as well on my phone, so I use it on my computer instead, religiously. I always check to see what other's have to say about a campground before I stay any length of time at a campground. I also send in my reviews (if I'm going to use them, I feel it's only right I submit as well). It's always subjective of course, but sure is helpful!
This is not like any museum you've ever visited! ...and if you have children, you REALLY need to go here!! If you've ever watched the movie "Willie Wonka", you'd think the creators saw that, got "high" then decided to build something even wilder for kids of all ages to be silly in! What a wild, wacky fun place! Go see for yourself and enjoy!
What a special place this is, and what a surprise too! It's natural to think that it would be a "real tourist trap", but boy, it is just what one would hope it would be...only better. The owners of the place have kept it up at their own cost just so people could enjoy using it "the old fashion way". We just happen to be there over Father's Day, and locals had come out with baseballs, bats, and picnic and were doing what people used to do back in the 1950's & 60's - enjoying "family time". No one was "collecting money" or trying to turn it into a commercial gig, it was just there to enjoy. The local Boy Scouts were selling popcorn and sodas, that was all. So nice. The owners have a story board with pictures etc about the movie, and you can buy a T shirt if you like, but that's all. There is a sign out on the road to tell you the field is here. Gotta love it.
As national parks go, this one doesn't get enough credit...you actually don't even hear much about it. But, I have to tell you, it's really worth going out of your way to visit it! It's really beautiful, and unlike most of our national parks, not very crowed either, which is nice too! Another added bonus is the surrounding area, it's also lovely with fun things to see and do...and peaceful too.
This is one of those "tourist visits" that you wonder if it's really worth your time and your money...well, yes, it is! If you have dinner, the trip up is free...and yes, have dinner! It's well wonderful! The view, the meal, it's all great!
This is a wonderful museum, that really takes a full day to visit. Even if you are not really into Dinosaurs, which I'm not so much, this place is fascinating. It's one of the largest, if not the largest one in North America and just filled to the brim with fossils and incredible history and finds. Really quite something to see.
We loved this park! It was off the beaten path, not very busy and not "touristy" at all! A packed-down dirt road with pull-outs, a wonderful deep-woods smell, one that made you feel that you were in a fairyland or in another world. Truly wonderful. Very different than the Natural Parks.
Probably the very best Farmer's Market we've been to in all of our travels across the country! A wonderful variety of already made food, fresh vegetables & fruit, merchandise, handmade wares, music, just about everything...and you just can't beat the beautiful location! We loved the coffee so much we have it shipped to us by the pound several times a year!
We like train rides, and this one is one of the nicest ones! Great campground right by the train depot too!
We had seen the hundreds of billboards, signs, ads, etc posted everywhere for this place for ages and had passed it up for a long, long time...and finally gave in. We were so gland we did! What a wonderful surprise! It really was as great as advertised! I kept thinking it was going to be this "hooky tourist trap", but it was really quite beautiful, and quite amazing what they created...and out in the middle of nowhere when they started it all! Well worth it, so don't let all the 'advertisements' keep you away!
What an interesting place! Had our cousin not told us about this place, I don't think we would ever have know to go there. They have 30 "nationality rooms" that are totally designed and decorated in that country's style. If you are into architecture, history, education, religion, art, etc. this is a must "go see"! Beautiful!
There are not many places to see them, and when you do, it's hard not to drop your jaw and just let out a great big "wow"... There's really nothing quite like them...and boy, are they ever BIG! It's just something everyone should see once in their life, honestly! The fact that they are clear out in the middle of nowhere also adds to the affect. Go there!
Who's not a fan of the "Peanuts" gang? This is such a wonderful museum and tribute to the life and times of Schulz's work. It's a must-see stop if you are anywhere near the area!
The annual Quartzsite RV Show, in Quartzsite AZ in January. This is something every RV'er should experience at least once in their lifetime...and maybe that's enough! ;-) Thousands of RV'ers and hundreds of vendors converge on this tiny spec of a town in the desert of Arizona just over the California border for this show. The month-long Gem Show is also going on, so you can combine your shopping experience! If you are into boondogging, there certainly lots and lots of places to do that, and they have trucks that will come to you to offer water, etc. If not, make your reservations for a campsite months out...you will be sandwiched into a gravel site with the basics...but it's the "experience" your after! Go with friends, if you can, that's the fun too! Expect dust, because there is lots and lots of it. Expect to walk a lot, and to park far away. Look around and around before you buy because there are several vendors selling the same thing, then you can bargain (we did). Don't expect to find everything your looking for tho...we did and was disappointed...but, we had a great time!
Lake Havasu Lighthouse Cruise, Lake Havasu AZ. We had been to Lake Havasu many times, but had never bothered with going "on" the lake before. This time we were with some friends, so we thought, "why not", so we did, and were glad we did! What a delightful cruise! All along the lake, they have faux lighthouses that a club has placed by various donors. Each, of course has a story and represents a real one somewhere in the US. The boat also takes you into some of the beautiful nooks and crannies of the lake that you can't see from the shores. If you take it at sunset, it's even prettier. If you are a photographer, it's even a bonus. Well worth the time.
Chapel of the Holy Cross, Sedona AZ. Once again, we had visited Sedona many times, but had never made it up to the Chapel. It's worth the visit! Very pretty, and the views are spectacular! A must stop if you are in the city.
Verde Canyon Railroad Wilderness Train. What a wonderful experience this is! If you like train trips at all, this one is great! We treated ourselves to the Valentines Special, and they went all out. Chocolates and goodies galore! We loved it and really recommend this trip. I did a whole blog on this trip that you can review.
Frontier Texas! Abilene Texas - What a wonderful museum! Very unusual. Not only informative, but entertaining. We spent hours there. They had several holograph images where the people talked to you about their experiences - being an India, being a frontier's woman alone, being a cowboy, etc. Great place, do take the time to visit this one!
Tohono O'odhama Indian Res & Mission San Xavier Del Bac, Tucson AZ - This was such a surprise! Way out in the middle of "nowhere"! Well worth the drive! Even if you are not a "church or mission" goer, this is something to see! An extra treat is the Native American Cemetery you pass along the way. I wrote a blog on these too.
V & T Railroad Train Trip, Carson City NV. We love train trips, and this was another fun one! The town at the end of it was a hoot and had fun places to visit too. The only drawback was that there just wasn't enough time to see everything there was to see there. Well worth the trip tho!
Vulcan Center, Birmingham AL- We only had a "few minutes" in Birmingham, so I had to choose what to see...so I chose to go see this monument. I wasn't disappointed, and I don't think you would be either! Wow, what a sight, and the views are pretty spectacular too! The museum is great as well. Great visit, well worth the stop.
Burrit Mansion & Museum, Huntsville AL - A fun visit if you have the time. Interesting and informative.
Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville TN - With so many choices and so many things to see and do, put this one on the top of your list! We ended up spending almost the whole day here! Be prepared to stand a lot tho!! No place to sit, anywhere, so you are sure ready to find a place afterward (Lunch!). Fantastic place with so much history, it's hard to take it all in. It probably would have been wise to just done it for the day, taken a break midway for lunch and come back...but we were short on time, and wanted to see other places so we didn't do that...but if you have the time, that's what I would suggest!
Johnny Cash Museum, Nashville TN - Although it's small, it's well worth the visit, especially if your at all a fan. Because it's small, it doesn't take to much time tho. You can "do it" in a couple of hours, at best (depending on how much time you want to spend listening to his videos & movies). Nicely done tho.
Jack Daniels Distillery, Lynchburg TN - This was a hoot, and so worth the drive! You get quite a lesson in how whiskey is made...but, since Lynchburg is in a "dry" county, you can't drink any there! Nor really buy any...well, kind of...they get around that by selling "special" bottles! So, of course we had to get one...with our names engraved on it! Unusual tour and worth the visit!
National Corvette Museum, Bowling Green KY - A must visit if you: like cars, like Corvettes, or are interested in "sink holes"! You would have to be living in a cave if you don't know about all three things here! ;-) The tour of the plant is interesting, different than other car tours (we even got to see someone pick up their new car, pretty cool); the museum across the street is where the sink hole happened, so that was interesting and the added bonus. It will be on display a long time. Great stop. You will need reservations for the plant tour.
The Hermitage Plantation, Nashville TN - This was Andrew Jackson's home in Nashville. Very interesting place; large, with lots of history and beauty. He and his wife are buried here as well. I loved it. If you like Presidential sites, you will really like this one, they do a great job. Well worth the visit and price.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway IN - We loved this tour! They take you all around in a small coach. You get out several times to go inside various buildings like the press boxes, etc. The guides are so informative and fun, eager to take your picture everywhere! What a really fun tour, I highly recommend it, even if you are not a race fan!
Audubon Museum, Henderson IN - We accidentally found this little museum, and we were so glad we did! What a treasure! Who's not a fan of his art? Who knew he spent many years growing up and living in Henderson Indiana? I sure didn't! A family friend saved and gathered many of his art and treasures of his and created this wonderful museum to honor is work, and did a spectacular job of it too! It is so worth a special trip just to go see it. It's connected to a lovely campground to stay at too. Go for it, you won't be disappointed!
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids MI - What a beautiful place! We've visited a lot of gardens along our travels, but this one is the tops! The sculptures is what it is really about, the gardens just gives it a place to be. Take the little bus tour first, the guide explains them for you, then you can go around on your own if you like as well. Take the time to go into the Children's Garden even if you don't have any, it's quite a delight. Spend the day, it's so worth it, whether you are a lover of art, flora, fauna or photography, you will love this place!
Agawa Canyon Tour Train, Ontario Canada - This is a day-long tour...and SO WORTH IT!! We loved this trip! It was a great way to "see Canada" without driving into the country, and seeing some the most beautiful parts of it too - not the highways, billboards, shopping malls, etc. but the beautiful lakes and countrysides instead. A nice long stop at the mid-point to allow you to take a nice hike, then back again. A gorgeous trip, so worth the time and money! I did a blog on this one too.
Upper Falls: Tahquamenon State Park, MI - Great fun stop, and so worth the drive! If you like waterfalls, these are beauties! Once you make the drive to them, it's just a short little walk from the parking lot, and you are rewarded with quite a view!
The National Train Museum, Green Bay WI - This had quite the display! It had one of the very rare "Big Boy" locomotives left in the world, so that in itself is worth the stop if you are a train lover. It's a huge museum, so allow plenty of time. They do an incredible job, covering all kinds of subjects - from art (graffiti) to the stories and history of the porters. Then outside they have dozens and dozens of cars from the Big Boy to the Eisenhower to lesser known ones. Well worth a visit...allow plenty of time here!
Mill City Museum, Minneapolis MN - What an interesting place! We learned so much here, about the mills, about the city, about history, even about culture of the people. I also loved learning about the Ad industry and "Betty Crocker" & "Bisquick", etc and how they came to be. Very interesting place. We learn so much from places like these...more than school ever could teach us!
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City OK - If you like cowboys at all, or western history, boy this is the place to see! It covered it all! They sure do a great job of it, everything from rodeo to the movies to art! Really nice museum, well worth a visit.
Oklahoma National Stockyards, Oklahoma City OK - What a great experience! You won't find another place like this - we tried, even in Texas, it doesn't exist. It's a dying breed (no pun intended). We chatted with the cowboys (do it, it's enlightening!) and learned a whole lot, then went inside to watch the auction, and learned even more. Absolutely fascinating experience.
National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame, Ft Worth TX - This place is unique in that it is only about women! Who knew so many "cowgirls" made so much difference? What a great museum! They do a wonderful job covering a great many subjects too, not just "rodeos" but farming, ranching, women in politics, "western" women in general. I was just disappointed they wouldn't let me take pictures! Great stop especially if you have "females" in your life!
Shoshone Falls ID - Beautiful falls, well worth the short little drive and visit to go see them!
* National Parks - We all love them, and we all try to visit them, however, as time and places limit us, we have to make choices...so far this year we have visited a number of them and my vote goes to two: The Grand Tetons and Glacier National Park. If you see no others, choose those two, you won't be disappointed! They out do the others in beauty, the number of animals you see, the care and quality of the campgrounds they offer and the less crowded they are. Beauty being number one tho, hands down.
* Dry Falls WA - What an interesting, lesser known area! Seems about 13,000 years ago during the ice age, glaciers blocked the Columbia River and forced it to find a new route. It and others in Idaho swelled and flooded and caused huge waterfalls; all this lasting only a few weeks. When it subsided, it scoured eastern Washington and left dry channels (coulees). The largest is Dry Falls, a 3 1/2 miles wide and over 400 ft tall group of scalloped cliffs, which at one time was the largest falls in the world. It was pretty impressive. There were not big billboards advertising it ahead on the roads, no brochures at visitor centers, we just happened upon it along Hwy 2. It had a nice sign with a great turn-off and a visitor's center and a food cart.
* Grand Coulee Dam, Grand Coulee WA - No America's largest hydroelectric powerplant (dam). US Bureau of Reclamation began construction in 1933 as the key structure in it's multipurpose Columbia Basin Project. It has since become the linchpin in harnessing the second largest river in the US. It took 9 years to build. Because of it, it has turned dry, almost useless farmland into one of the richest farmlands in the Pacific North West. They offer free 50 min. guided tours of the Pump-Generating Plant, and now have just opened the top of the Dam as well. There is a security metal-detector that you have to pass through and then are taken (buses in summer/vans off-season) to the Dam. They also have a great Visitor Center that you will want to visit (I'd allow at least 30++ min). A "must see" if you are in eastern WA!
* Kartchner Caverns State Park - We have and will be, visiting many parks and attractions but this one stands out, above and beyond the norm. It is so unusual, so beautiful, it's impossible to even try to describe. Just accept it's a MUST SEE.
* Watkins Glen Gorge, Watkins Glen NY - Every step of the trail showed different views. Tall waterfalls, short ones, ones like a wall of dripping water, ones we could walk behind,and on and on. The walls of the gorge are piles of slate stacked one on top of the other, with ferns and trees and flowers growing in between, on top of and in spite of the terrain. I took well over a hundred pictures and even with that, you just can't capture it's beauty. This is a must stop for anyone living or coming to this area of New York.
* CMOG, Corning NY - One of the most beautiful and detailed glass museums you could ever visit. They have mini educational talks throughout the museum scattered throughout the day, guided tours through the art gallery, as well as showing (& telling you) about every kind of glass, from beautiful pieces of art, to fiber optics, to functional pieces like stop lights and Fresnel lenses. Give yourself plenty of time on this one, you will want it!
* Fort Ligonier, Ligonier PA - A full-scale, on-site reconstruction of the 1758-1766 original fort. Eight acres of the original site of Fort Ligonier have been preserved, with the subsurface features restored and the above-ground elements reconstructed. It has all the buildings (officers’ mess, barracks, quartermaster, hospital, etc) fully equipped and with mannequins dressed in authentic clothing. Even on a week day, they had a docent there to explain and answer any questions. It was quite something to experience. Additionally they have an incredible museum that even has George Washington's original saddle pistols (he served here). Very nice.
* The Truman Library, Independence MO - Allow plenty of time for this. They did an incredible job of covering his whole career.
* Ringling, Barnum & Bailey Circus Museums & Ca' d'Zan Ringing Home - What an incredible place. Plan on spending a full day here. The museum is filled with circus wagons, costumes, posters, and the most incredible miniature circus you have ever seen! Their home is also part of the package and it is magnificent! Absolutely beautiful. They also have a great restaurant, so do yourself a favor and plan on lunch there, you won't regret it. Editable art, itself.
* The Natchez Trace - it's 444 miles through threes states and 10,000 years of history. As the US expanded westward in the late 1700s and early 1800s, growing numbers of travelers tramped the rough trail into a clearly marked path. Where the ground was relatively soft, walkers, riders and wagons wore down the "sunken" sections you see today. In 1801 President Thomas Jefferson designated the Trace a national post road for mail delivery between Nashville and Natchez. Today the Natchez Trace parkway creates a greenway from the southern Appalachian foothills of Tennessee to the bluffs of the lower Mississippi River. It's truly a beautiful drive, and if you ever get the chance to do it, even a part of it, take it!
* We visited a variety of factory tours, and all were great! Tabasco Factory, Avery Island LA, Mardi Gras World, New Orleans LA, Tiffin Motorhomes, World of Coca Cola, Atlanta GA, QVC, West Chester PA, Louisville Slugger, Louisville KY, Hallmark Visitor Center, Kansas City MO.
The Antlers Bar/Restaurant, 804 East Portage Rd, Sault Ste Marie, MI 49783 - To quote their menu: "in a state of suspended animation, that is, there is a prodigious amount of junk hanging from unseen wires above the occupants heads, like so many swords of Damocles, a veritable cloud of rifles , pawn-broker's signs, moose & birch bark canoe just swaying up there, denying gravity and the laws of physics." The truth be told tho, the food is outstanding! They have plenty of beef & seafood...but we had the venison meatloaf and boy was it outstanding! No "game" taste, just mouthwatering seasoning with the best gravy and mashed potatoes one could ask for! Wish we could have taken some home with us! Yum!
Old Town Pizza, 226 Nw Davis St, Portland OR 97209 - "It was in 1880 that two successful lumber barons built the Merchant Hotel on this block, catering to Portland's finest patrons. Old Town Pizza sits in the original hotel lobby. In fact, the window where you place your pizza order is the original hotel's reception desk. Underneath the fllor boards are the Shanghai Tunnels connecting Portland via underground pathways, then used to nab unsuspecting sailors and transport them to ships docked on the river, and can be viewed during private tours." That's the "history" - the "current" news is that they make GREAT pizza! We always go there when we visit Portland (and Powell's Bookstore!).
Szechuan Chinese Restaurant, 3425 South First St, Abilene, TX 79605 - Mandarin, Szechuan & Hunan and fantastic! Fresh, beautifully prepared and plentiful. A very large, very pretty restaurant that looks very expensive, but is not. It came recommended by the campground host, and what a wonderful find it was!
Tiny's Saloon & Steakhouse, 4900 W Ajo Hwy, Tucson AZ 85746 - It's nothing to look at, it's small, the menu is fairly small, burgers, a couple of steaks, a couple of salads, some fish choices, pretty big selection of sandwiches and apps, and the BEST fried chicken anywhere! It came with great coleslaw and a fresh big roll, and a large helping of French fries. It was 4 pieces (leg, wing,thigh and breast. We asked if we could have two breasts instead and she said "sure!". Service was wonderful! Super friendly and easy to change our orders to how we wanted them. Food was great and inexpensive. It was just down the road from the campground, so on a rainy night it sure made it nice! Wonderful "local" place!
North By Northwest Restaurant & Brewery, 5701 West Slaughter Lane, Austin Tx 78749 - We've discovered that we really like "brewery" food. 9 times out of 10, it turns out to be great, unique, upscale, good variety, good root beer (which Jack loves!), and some foods that you just don't find in other restaurants. This place was true to that belief. Fantastic food! We ate out every day in Austin, and this place was by far the very best!
* Mudshark Brewery & Restaurant - Lake Havasau AZ This was a great restaurant! (see my blog on Nothing Like a Great Burger). Incredible food, great service, need I say more?
* Knead the Dough, Ransomville NY - One of the best breakfast restaurants we've visited. All fresh ingredients with a great imagination. Best ever eggs Benedict and wonderful French toast (made from their homemade bread), pancakes, etc. Great place, worth going out of the way for!
* Blues City Cafe - Memphis TN, The BEST Barbecue in any state! Bobby Flay from the Food Network Channel did a segment on it, so we checked it out. We had the ribs; the meat fell off of the bone, but even more importantly, the seasoning was superb. I normally add sauce, but not this time! I didn't want to hide the wonderful flavor of this great meal.
Minervas - Sioux Falls SD - Terrific lunch here! Wonderful salad bar (if even had salmon!) and Jack said he had the BEST French Dip he's had in over two years!
Richard's RV Services, Mobile Repairs Las Cruces NM 575-532-8479. Richard was great. He was able to come out and fix our severed bolts that held our main slide-out together efficiently. Super to work with and fair. What a life savor!
Leale's RV Center, 2070 S 7th St, San Jose CA 95112, 408-286-5353. Savio has helped us twice with our jacks. We've had to replace two of them on two different times. They have always treated us great and done a super job.
Automotive Specialists, 11111 Golden Given Rd E, Tacoma WA 98445, 253-536-9029. We have them do our "annual maintenance & check up" each year and they always do a great job.
Adventureland RV Rental & Sales, 9331 W Kellogg, Wichita KS 67209, 800-333-8821. These guys ordered and installed our new awning for us and sure did a great job! Great guys to work with, but it's a small operation and because it took a couple of them to install it, we had to hang around a couple of extra days because he had trouble getting hold of his son to come in to help him! Small snag, but worth it in the long run!
Purcell Tire & Rubber Co, 3647 Gila Ridge Rd, Yuma AZ 85365, 928-317-0769. We had a concern about some loose lug nuts and these guys were great about checking them out. It didn't turn out to be a problem, but they were great about checking everything out...and didn't even charge us for their time!
- Washington, on the I 90, Exit Sprague Lake (west of Spokane). This is not only a beautiful, large rest stop, but it has a nice National Active & Retired Fed. Employees (NARFE) volunteer group that has a hot coffee and cookie station & welcome counter. They have a "donations" can for Alzheimer's.
- Texas, State Welcome Centers. They not only offer wonderful assistance, they offer free overnight parking with security. Their restrooms are not only kept unlocked for your use, but they are a tornado shelter. If a tornado is coming that way, the security officer will rap on your door and warn you! Now, that's a service! We ran into this in Amarillo and it's not something that they advertise, but if you ask them, they will volunteer the information, and are very friendly with it. We stayed the night and the security officer was also very friendly. We were on a "tornado watch", so when we went to dinner, we stopped and told him and asked if he would like us to bring him anything. He declined, but said if we wanted to give him our phone #, he would call us if he heard anything. Can't beat that!
- Texas, I have to say, the state itself has more rest stops (about every 75 miles or so), and what they call "safety stops" (which include tornado shelters) than almost any state we've run into. In between them, they even have pull-outs or picnic sites! They are the most highway/driver friendly state! Not just inter-state either, all the highways have them.
* Rand McNally TripMaker RVDN 5510 It's the best GPS System we've come across. You enter your RV information into the system (length, weight, how many propane tanks, etc) and it routes you accordingly. If a tunnel is to low, or you have to many propane tanks to legally go through it, it will route you around it. It also forewarns you of high winds, changes of speed limits, construction, rough roads, all kinds of great details that really help with an RV. I can't say enough great things about it!
Watch It Made In The USA - What a great book! We've had so much fun with this. If you like to go on factory tours and company museums, you will love this book too. Where ever we were headed, I would look up the cities & towns along the way and see if there were any tours we could take. This was my all time favorite book!
Casino Camping - A guide to rv friendly casinos. This was recommended to us, and seems pretty good, but we haven't really had an occasion to use it yet.
Woodall's RV Owner's Handbook - A self help, how to perform preventative maintenance and repairs on your RV. This has come in hand a number of times!
Choosing Your RV Home Base - Help in establishing a home base with information on taxes, cost of living, etc. I'm still working on this one!
RV Vacations for Dummies - Like all "Dummies" books, lots of practical advise, it was a good 'first book' to read. Should have read it long before we had the rig, it might of helped me pack better!
Off the Beaten Path: A Travel Guide to More Than 1000 Scenic and Interesting Places Still Uncrowded and Inviting - Another one of my favorites. Once again, when we determine the direction of travel, I pull this book open to that state and look to see what's in that pathway. We've re-routed ourselves a couple of times to see some areas we would never have known about if it were not for this book. Beautiful pictures and great descriptions. It's never lead us wrong.
1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die - My daughter sent us this one en route. It's been a fun one to 'mark off' as we do some of them! It's pack full of great ideas and really fun places and things to experience. A great "ideas" book to have.
French Quarter Music Festival - It's held the week before Easter each year, in New Orleans LA. It's one of the last fully FREE music festivals left, I think. It lasts 4 days: Thurs through Sun, with approx. 200+ bands, ranging from Cajun to Rock-a-Billy. Mostly Jazz, of course, but a lot of "everything in between as well. They also host a great "International Stage" that brings in bands from various countries like Japan, Germany, Switzerland, etc. that usually play really great traditional jazz! All they ask, is to "purchase food & drink from the local vendors" - which isn't hard because they sell great food at reasonable prices! People behave, mostly throw trash in the containers, dance and have a really good time. It's a wonderful experience, very unlike the crazy drunkenness of Mardi Gras or the high price of the Jazz Fest. Stay at the FQRV Park and walk in each day! It's an experience of a lifetime!
This was an unexpected beauty, smack dab in the middle of Florida! Beautiful trees, natural springs, trails, birds, the "whole works". So peaceful, we only wished we weren't on a tight schedule at the time, because we would have liked to stay at least a week there. They honor the Golden Pass too!
Watkins Glen NY KOA - This was another wonderful surprise. Now, we like KOAs in general. You pay a little more, we know, but you usually get a little better quality and you pretty much know what to expect. Then, sometimes, you even get more...like at this campground. This was not only beautiful, well maintained, with super friendly staff, but a place that we sure wished we had our grandchildren with us! They had every kind of activity and game, sport and playground you could possibly think of for every age group plus coordinators to help out! Wow! Plus, throw in the beautiful places to visit outside the place and you've got one great vacation right there for a week!
Kentucky Horse Park Campground (Lexington) - This place was huge, only 260 sites, but well spread out, that it felt like you were in a state park. Lots of trees, big sites, level, really pretty. You are in the heart "horse country" and part of the whole Kentucky Horse Park. Very nice.
Rusnik Family Campground (Salisbury MA) - We ended up here over the 4th of July, and it turned out to be one of the best we've enjoyed, even without fireworks. The place is "rustic", like a state park, lots of trees, winding roads, sites of all sizes tucked in here & there, some leveling needed, but the joy is the beautiful "outdoors" of it all. They had a small pond that once twilight started the fireflies came out and the frogs started singing, loudly! The owners were fantastic! You felt like you were one of the family, and as that, it was "come and join in on all the fun and games!" There was bingo and a mile long sundae that the kids made, and a pancake breakfast and I don't remember what else, but it was all fun. As you walked around people were like "old friends" greeting you, stopping to chat, same with the owners. Good people. Nice place.
Keenes Lake Family Campground (Calais ME) - It's not so much how great the campground is - it's more that it's the last stop before you enter Canada. With that said, the Keenes treat you like one of the family. They babysit your plants, or any other of your "special" belongings that you don't want confiscated at the border. They collect your mail and hold it for your return. When you return, even if you are gone for weeks, they are there waiting, with all your treasures and mail, happy to see you! Very nice, sweet, trust worthy people. Good place.
Tom Sawyer's RV Park (West Memphis AR) - Plain, simple campground, nothing fancy, and I don't think they even had a pool or anything - but what they did have was a great view, of the Mississippi River! They are right along the very edge of it. You can park yourself right there and watch the tug boats move the big boats up and down the river. Peaceful, pretty place. Different.
Stone Mountain Campground GA - Very nice campground, large and very spread out - but what was a "big wow" for us, was that before we stayed here, we had never even heard of "Stone Mountain" before! We were blown away when we went to visit it and saw what a very big deal it is. So, if you are planning on visiting it, of course this is the campground you would want to stay at...and if you are and uneducated as we were - trust me, if you plan on being anywhere near DeKalb County Georgia, DO come to Stone Mountain!! | 2019-04-18T13:23:01 | http://www.champagnewishesandrvdreams.com/p/snags-brags.html |
The Blue Hydrangea has become one of the most iconic botanical images of summer as its popularity continues to grow. Scott Potter has designed and created with this print and combines the finely handcut paper image under glass with many layers of gold gilding. The back is finished with a handmade paper and carefully sealed for handwashing. This jewel like piece may be used decoratively, as a small servingware bowl or for the desk or bureau to hold and organize small items. Hand signed by Scott Potter. Alternate background colorations in either silver or white may also be requested by contacting the Scott potter studio: (207) 775-3630. | 2019-04-18T17:24:03 | http://www.scottpotterthegildedhome.com/blue-hydrangeas-4-1-2-shallow-bowl-in-gold/ |
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‘Can I get a couple of rotis with my ravioli??’ A thought crossed my mind when I saw the plate of mushroom ravioli drowned in sauce!! This was at Sunnys, a lovely place with a great outdoor seating and it was running to its capacity on a Saturday afternoon.
We ended up at Sunnys by the virtue of having heard a lot of good about them. The outdoor was inviting even on an afternoon considering the Bengaluru weather. We wanted to start with a salad on a cool sunny afternoon and after browsing through their elaborate menu, we figured out one only to be very casually informed the server that they did not have arugula, we skipped salads as we had no choice, 3 or 4 salads had arugula in it. We chose from the appetizers, it offered options from Mediterranean to Thai to Chinese. The grilled fresh figs with balsamic vinaigrette were ordered, served warm on the reduced vinaigrette with a marmite like consistency, they were sweet, the salt crystals in the dressing balanced it. It all went the downhill from here with the aforementioned ravioli, it on social got named as Kofta, methi malai mutter etc. I really fail to understand as to what was the restaurant thinking, do people in Bengaluru like it ‘gravied’ !!!! But yes it seemed like a humongous portion and so did my friend’s spaghetti (he took penne) in saffroned onions, fennel and sun-dried tomatoes. Both dishes were average in taste.
Messy plating .. Tasted great!
We ended our meal with Pecan Pie; the staff happily cut it into half for us. Firstly the pecan and the pie were two distinct identities stacked on one other and the shortcrust snapped instead of crumbling, lastly it was served with a sloppy warm cream. I do understand restaurants can have bad days at times in terms of availability and service but you cannot get your basics wrong on food, it is the core!!!
Meal for 2: Rs 2000 … Go try it once and form your own opinion! | 2019-04-22T00:50:35 | https://indiangourmand.com/2014/11/11/sunnys-bengaluru-restaurant/ |
The USDA loan charges two fees: the upfront guarantee fee and the USDA monthly guarantee fee. Both fees help keep the USDA funded so they can continue to guarantee loans for low to moderate income buyers. The good news is that the monthly fee is being reduced from 0.5% to 0.35% as of October 1st of this year. Regardless of the amount of the fee, let’s look at how it is calculated.
The USDA monthly guarantee fee calculation is based on the average unpaid principal balance for the life of the loan. The fee is calculated every twelve months and billed accordingly. It starts off being calculated based on the loan amount on the mortgage note and continues to be charged for the life of the loan or until the loan is paid in full, whichever occurs first.
The average annual unpaid principal balance for each year can be found on your amortization schedule that you receive at the closing to help you figure out what you will have to pay. Typically in the first few years of the loan, your average annual unpaid principal balance will remain fairly stable as you typically pay a lot more interest than principal in the first few years of the loan. Because of that, you will not see a dramatic drop in the amount of the monthly guarantee fee that you must pay. As you make your way further into the loan, however, you will see a drop in the costs, saving you even more money on this loan program.
Let’s look at a $100,000 loan as an example. In that first year, you will only pay a small amount of principal, which will bring your average for the year at $99,443. This $99,443 amount is used to calculate your monthly guarantee fee. At 0.50%, you would pay $497 per year or $41.41 per month. As of October 1st, on the same loan, you would pay $348 per year or $29 per month.
As the years progress, your average outstanding balance will decrease and your payments will go down accordingly with each new billing. You can calculate the amount of your future payments based on your amortization schedule if you want to see how it would play out for your exact loan.
Of course, things could change throughout the course of your loan. The annual guarantee fee amount could change, as it does often or you could decide to refinance your loan. If you refinance, you are starting back at square one, where your monthly guarantee fees will be high again. They will decrease as you continue to pay the loan down, but just keep in mind that the amounts will increase when you start the loan all over again.
If you are strictly refinancing to lower your interest rate, as is possible with the USDA streamline refinance loan, you will likely not change the monthly guarantee fee by much since you are not taking out any additional principal, with the exception of any closing costs that you roll into the loan to make it more affordable to refinance.
The USDA monthly guarantee fee is not something that can be negotiated or worked around; you must pay it on every USDA loan. It is a fairly affordable charge that is less than any other loan program would charge, which helps to make this loan continually more affordable and attractive for first-time homebuyers as well as homebuyers that are within the low to moderate income categories. | 2019-04-21T02:41:53 | http://arizonamortgageteam.com/usda-monthly-guarantee-fee-calculated/ |
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Trying to find out if there is any value to my vintage Tandy. 1986 purchased. Tandy 1000 sx with internal hard drive, Dot matrix printer, color monitor cm-5.
Desk Mate, Multi Mate, Keep It, Quicken 4, D base, Lotus, Norton Utility, Dos version 3.3, Various Games.... Everything Works Perfectly. Everything looks brand new.. If someone could help with this, I would greatly appreciate it. I want to sell it, but I don't know what it is worth. Thank You for your help.
Its an 8088 with AT BEST 640k ram unless it has some weird expansion board installed.
The cm5 is a crappy monitor but cga is still pretty rare. I have bought a few similar systems for around 100 to 125 (without shipping.) May be worth a bit more id the hard drive is fully functional.
It would if be helpful if we knew your location.
He may have a 286 Express accelerator installed in the machine, which was marketed for the SX. A picture of the insides would reveal all.
Yeah I thought about that. Would be worth quite a bit mroe in that case.
Question: Do you plan on using/restoring your unit or selling the SX outright? I might be interested in your 286 card if you decide to part it out. | 2019-04-21T12:53:57 | http://www.vcfed.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-56911.html?s=fa5f245907db45585a0e65a6bd8899dc |
A functional and visually accurate manifestation of Dokk OS, a theoretical operating system featured in a popular video game. This app was developed by popular demand after wide success on other operating systems.
This app allows users to "page" (prompt an animation to play on receiving devices) nearby devices that also have the app open, safely simulating the function of Dokk OS for the purposes of: casual fun, competitive themed airsoft, cosplaying, making fan films, and any other similar activities.
Upon launch, the app automatically begins finding and connecting to nearby devices that also have the app open. These connections (if any) will be listed in the central area of the user interface.
When a user presses the "page" button (the tall one located on the righthand side), the user's device and all connected devices will open and play an animation until the screen is tapped three times quickly. The app will not connect to or communicate with other devices that do not also have the app installed and open.
Pressing the "cams" button (the other enabled button on the righthand side) will run another short animation only on that device.
The three switches are only for visual accuracy, and do not hold any relevance to the functionality of the app. | 2019-04-21T18:09:47 | https://appadvice.com/app/dokk-os/1422924517 |
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Surrogacy is a great achievement of modern science, which has given infertile couples the chance to enjoy fundamental rights of parenting children. It is an arrangement supported by legal agreement between the intended parents and a surrogate mother who agrees to become pregnant and carry the baby, give birth to the child and hand over the baby to the biological parents. Millions of couples across the world yearn for a child and when natural conception or conventional fertility treatment options like In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) fail, then surrogacy becomes the only last alternative. India has been a popular destination for surrogacy since 2002 also for foreigners due to flexible laws, highly specialized doctors and high success rates. Surrogacy centres in Kozhikode stands at the forefront of surrogacy services as they provide moral, emotional, ethical and most advanced technical support to couples who are trying out to find a solution to fulfill their dream of a family at affordable surrogacy cost.
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So, I am a certified obsessive cleaner. Hubs has been saying that since a year for now but I always used to take it for granted but yesterday I was reading this article on cleanliness which made me finally accept the accusations hurled against me!!
Anyways, leaving jokes apart, yes, the disorder and chaos and things thrown here and there do bother me! And, P specializes in it!! I think all guys are like that. They will do the things you specially forbid them to!
But, that is not what is on my mind. A few days back we went to a really good restaurant (where the crowd is generally the high end or well educated class) which is accessible by lift. Unfortunately, while coming back at 11 PM in the night, we find that the lift was littered with discarded mouth freshener packets. I had actually clicked the pics as well but they are in P’s mobile and forgot to transfer them!!
On one hand we are talking about Swacch Bharat Andolan or Clean India Movement and on the other hand we have the same kind of people doing the littering. Yes, it concerns me because if we do not share our responsibility, how do we think we will achieve an objective which is so huge.
Similarly, on Diwali, I noticed that all the burnt crackers and their packaging were lying around for the maids, sweepers and others to clean. We could at least make a heap of them in a corner for someone to pick up. That would make the things easy for someone else!
The irony of India is that you would find the litter at those places where there is No Littering, cars parked at No Parking and people peeing at No Pee zones! Encourage your children to not throw things around even in the house. Once they learn to keep their own bed and room clean, they follow the same principles everywhere.
We take regular road trips or train trips or bus trips or even in the flights and we have so many wrappers because we Indians love to eat. And, all these wrappers end up being thrown out of the bus windows or in the car back pockets.
Worse still, some people end up spilling more than eating and these days we have vacuum pressured air-conditioned buses which start stinking because of these spills. It is inconvenient and un-enjoyable in the longer run.
Carry an extra disposable bag in which you can store all the things to be thrown or anything which gets spilled. And, try to teach kids not to throw around the food.
We went to a small hill station nearby for this vacation and we found that there were no dustbins near the food stalls. Everyone was forced to throw the coffee and tea cups on the road. When asked, the vendors said the locals do not use the dustbins, only tourists ask for it.
Even after this bit of awareness, they did not realize the need for dustbins. And, how do we really make them aware of the need? Well, that is a difficult question to answer for me.
Just because we are paying them to clean does not give us the right to throw things around so that they will be cleared off the next morning. In fact, one good thing about my apartment is that we are not allowed to keep the garbage outside the house after 9 AM because the house keeping staff clears it at that time.
Apparently there is a fine if we are late but the whole point of this is to enforce the habit of keeping the apartment corridors clean, right?
Well, this is one of the simplest and best ideas I can give for all to recycle the biodegradable waste which we produce in our house which is the majority of our garbage, anyways! A community compost area is a good idea but we can always keep a separate one at our houses in small earthen pots.
All those pet owners, please train your pets to not use the roads or anywhere else as their toilets!!
I am so thankful that all things are coming together at the right time. Even Indian Top Blogs has started a campaign to promote the awareness of Clean India Initiative. And, I a glad to be a part of the pledge to help my bit to keep my surrounding, my house and my apartment clean.
So, what do you think about cleanliness? Are you a part of the Clean India Initiative? What ideas do you think can be implemented towards keeping or streets clean?
I could actually want the movie to be lost. Unless I am being too dumb or sarcastic, I am not one of the intelligent crowd for which the movie was made!! But, Dimple Kapadia stands out and the famous Pankaj Kapur painting of her was a hilarious and poignant sequence in the movie which deserves a mention.
Just now, I am watching it in the television. It has barely been a month since it has released and its already on the small screen.
Anyways, it has received many bad reviews but I really liked the movie. It is a cute small love story unless we sit and analyze the goods and bads.
Arjun Roy Kapoor stands out again, even better than Parineeti, and that was the USP of the film for me. And, loved the Meri Mannat tu song. I missed Khoobsurat.
Ummm…I am really not sure what to say about the movie. It was amazing. As usual Tabu, Kay Kay and Irfan Khan killed it!! Shahid was also good and loved how subtly the oedipus complex was depicted. But, I am still not sure of my own opinion about the movie. Though, the landscape and depiction of Kashmir is beyond words.
A medley of all the movies! Deepika looks hot in the Lovely song but no other words for it!!
Well, do not take my words for telugu movies because I do not connect with them and unless they are reallyy good.
I do not know why Naga Chaitanya even clicks. He is so unlike his father in terms of charm and looks but still whatever the case be, I was unimpressed with the movie. The heroine was made to look like Shruti Hassan which was sad.
It is a thriller and I would say a decent one at that!! Not a big star cast or a long film, it could have been more crisper with better editing.
How was your first car driving experience ALONE?
Read the first part of the story here and the previous part here.
Shekhar has found out the two terrorists and their prisoners as soon as they got down from the vehicle. He and his comrades had taken positions already and were ready to act on sight. Just after a half hour of wait, they spotted the headlights of a car and listened to a van turning in towards the stadium. As soon as Shekhar spotted Tara among them, his heart heaved a sigh of relief. As soon as all the hostages life were ensured, Shekhar ordered his team to take down the two men.
For extra safety, five of the Shekhar’s team started tailing the terrorists. They followed them to the locker room where the hostages were put in one corner and the terrorists were pacing up and down trying to call someone. “Huzoor is not picking up the phone. I do not understand what should we do. He said someone will meet us here. But, the stadium is damn empty. Should we kill these people and go away from here?”, said one of them. That other answered, “Let us wait for some time”.
Realizing that these people did not know much about the upcoming operation, the team of 5 decides they can be dispensed with. There fire at the head of one of the terrorists and he falls down. The other takes hold of Tara in bid to save himself. “Stay away from me or I will shoot her”. The team splits up and two of them step out of the shadows and put down their guns. The terrorist thinks himself safe and starts backing away along with Tara. Meanwhile, two of the other people tail him in the dark. As soon as they see his grip on Tara laxing, they shoot him in the heart to kill him instantly. The hostages are taken to safety and escorted out of the stadium.
And, now, it was a long wait for the mysterious mastermind. Shekhar already knew from Tara’s spy cam that there was someone who was controlling the entire situation. His comrades had informed him about the conversation between the terrorists. And, Shekhar wanted to be there to welcome him. Before killing this mastermind, he wanted to make sure that there were no more surprises hidden for Indian citizens and that too unsavoury ones.
In the meantime, the bomb squad had detected a nuclear bomb in a remote place of the stadium. They came running and the hackers got on to the job. They cracked the password but they could not make it work. Then, they understood it was probably a biometric or voice protected one. They needed the mastermind for it and alive, if possible, and soon. The timer was ticking down and there was only 60 minutes.
And, then, Shekhar sees someone stealthily entering the place and looking around. His team hides in a corner and the stranger goes straight to the bomb.
“Stop right there or I will shoot you”, boomed Shekhar’s voice in the silence of the pre-morning. That brought Aryan to a halt.
Just as he turned, he could see he was surrounded. “I know you would not hurt me, Mr. Dutta. You would need to diffuse this bomb and you need me for it.”, said Aryan.
Shekhar was unconcerned with all of this. He now realized that this mysterious mastermind had been his new neighbour for a couple of months. “So, you have been spying on my family. Anyways, I have no interest in all that because everything will come to an end with your death and I am pretty sure my hackers would be able to crack the password.”.
Shekhar’s mind was racing. Aryan was saying only he could direct it. What if it was protected by biometric access. He had to make him talk. The recording was already started at his command.
And, just as it is, Shekhar shoots Aryan in the head when he was impassioned with his speech, his obsession.
The hackers had the password. A simple concatenation of the individual words would crack the password. And, they did it. Finally, the recording was played and the timer stopped ticking. The bomb was deactivated. Everything was alright again.
Shekhar could see the light of dawn filtering through the mist of the pre-morning. A lot has happened today and it was time to go home, to Roohi and Tara.
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Preheat the oven to 350°F. Heat 1/2 cup of granulated sugar in a 10 1/2-inch cast-iron skillet. Cook until deep amber, about 5 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat. Add 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter, whisking vigorously. Spread caramel evenly to coat the bottom of the skillet, and sprinkle with dark-brown sugar. Arrange pineapple slices and almonds on top of sugar mixture.
In a bowl, cream softened butter, 2/3 cup granulated sugar and vanilla bean seeds. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition, then mix in sour cream. In another bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt together. Slowly add the flour mixture to the butter-sugar mixture, mixing until fluffy.
Pour batter into pineapple-lined skillet, spreading evenly. Bake for about 40 minutes, until the cake is deep golden and cake tester inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Run a knife around the edge of the cake, invert it onto a plate and remove the skillet. Replace any pineapple and almonds that may have stuck to the pan. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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This is the instructions to knit these 100% wool mitts , hand knitted fingerless gloves in Rowan's tweedy yarn. Incorporating both lace work and bobbles going up the centre of each glove. Pretty fashionable gloves.
Gauge: 18 sts and 28 rows = 10x10cm (4x4in) over stocking stitch using 3.75mm needles.
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Ginataang Kalabasa is one of my favorite dish. Kalabasa cooked thick in coconut milk, shrimp and malunggay leaves. Also known as Nilatik in Ilonggo.
See below related post on how to cook Ginataang Kalabasa.
Saute onions in cooking oil till caramelized. Add kalabasa cubes, stir and cook for few minutes.
Add water, fish sauce and ground pepper. Bring into a boil. Cook for 5 minutes or till kalabasa is almost fully cooked.
Add bagoong, shrimp and coconut milk. Stir well and simmer for 10 minutes in low heat.
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Managing treatment-related toxicities in cancer patients is an important aspect of oncology care. Historically, chemotherapy has been the foundation of therapy for the majority of cancers, and over time oncologists have become adept at identifying and treating these treatment-related adverse events. More recently, targeted therapies directed at inhibition of the MAPK pathway in melanoma have emerged with their own set of toxicities that require a different approach to management.
In the past 5 years, immunotherapies using immune checkpoint inhibitors have become another mainstay of therapy for patients with melanoma, and are becoming important tools in treatment of other solid and hematological malignancies. The challenge of administering immunotherapies safely has been in identifying and learning how to treat immune-mediated toxicities.
Early identification and treatment of toxicities leads to decreased patient morbidity. Studies describing the practice of experienced oncologists in the management of immune-mediated toxicities provide details about the approaches employed to date and their outcomes. What is encouraging is that immune-related toxicities and their treatment do not seem to affect the efficacy of the treatment. Continued evaluation of these patient cohorts will be necessary to determine if the approach to symptom management of immune-mediated toxicities affects long-term survival.
The immune-modulatory therapies are here to stay, and new combination treatments will be introduced -- with increased efficacy, but also with an increased risk of toxicities. Continued education on recognizing and treating these toxicities is needed in order to best serve our patients. Although initially it was feared that treating immune-related toxicities aggressively might lead to disease progression, that does not seem to be the case according to pooled analyses from multiple clinical trials of anti-PD1 therapy with nivolumab or pembrolizumab as well as the institutional experience of patients treated with ipilimumab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. These data are encouraging but require close monitoring for long-term outcomes.
When using immunotherapies and targeted therapies to treat melanoma, oncologists should educate their patients about the potential of adverse events, both specifically what they might be and when they are likely to occur.
"Adverse events are more likely than not to happen. Oncologists should expect adverse events and be prepared to treat them early on so patients can receive the maximum benefit from therapy," said Mario LaCouture, MD, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), in an interview.
Both targeted therapies with BRAF and MEK inhibitors and immunotherapies with checkpoint inhibitors can have an adverse impact on quality of life, although the impact will be lower than that observed with cytotoxic chemotherapy or older immunotherapies in melanoma, he said.
"The psychosocial impact is not considered significant since patients don't typically lose their hair or develop a rash on the face," although trametinib as a single agent does induce skin rashes. "It's more the functional impact. Targeted therapies, for example, can cause severe fatigue, and oncologists should use fatigue-reducing measures during treatment."
Management of adverse events due to targeted therapies should be tailored to the symptom. Patients taking BRAF inhibitors may develop dry, thick skin that needs frequent application of moisturizers containing an exfoliant, such as salicylic acid. "For diarrhea, use anti-motility agents and also provide counseling from a nutritionist or dietitian," LaCouture said.
For fatigue, exercise is important as well as a referral to a physical medicine or rehabilitation specialist. Oral corticosteroids and psychostimulants, such as methylphenidate, may also help.
With immunotherapies, the most common adverse events are cutaneous (rash, itching) and gastrointestinal (diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and liver enzyme elevations), as well as inflammation of the lungs and fatigue, and arthralgia.
Fatigue from immunotherapy may be treated with exercise, psychostimulants, or corticosteroids. For rash and pruritus, prescribe oral and topic corticosteroids and antihistamines. Patients with diarrhea or colitis first need an imaging study. "If a patient has abdominal pain or blood in the stool, rule out infections by doing a stool panel. Treat with oral steroids or tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) inhibitors, such as infliximab, for two cycles," LaCouture said, noting that prophylactic budesonide shows no benefit.
Patients with hepatitis should stop therapy and have an imaging study. "Give oral corticosteroids for more than three weeks, and mycophenolate mofetil if that doesn't work. Do not use infliximab for autoimmune hepatitis, because it also causes liver toxicity."
Pneumonitis may develop in melanoma patients at a higher incidence if they have lung cancer and take combination immunotherapies, he said. Perform imaging to exclude infections, and then provide oral corticosteroids, mycophenolate mofetil, infliximab, or cyclophosphamide. "These patients have a low threshold for hospitalization. They can decompensate quickly if their breathing is impaired," he said.
"Immunotherapy should be held for moderate to severe pneumonitis, or hepatitis, diarrhea, or colitis. These drugs have a long half-life. You need to control these events before re-administering the drugs."
Practitioners should be prepared to treat immune-related adverse events, LaCouture continued. A recent study of melanoma patients treated with ipilimumab at MSKCC found that about one-third needed systemic corticosteroids, and almost one-third of those required further immune suppression with anti-TNFα therapy.
The good news is that "new immunotherapies do not affect clinical outcome," he said. A pooled analysis of four ongoing trials of nivolumab in advanced melanoma found that nearly all drug-related grade 3-4 select adverse events (i.e., those of immune-related etiology) resolved with the use of immune-modulating agents, which did not appear to have an impact on tumor response.
Some adverse events correlate with outcome, he noted: Melanoma patients treated with nivolumab who develop rash and vitiligo may have increased survival. "Knowing that adverse events correlate with survival helps patients cope. Treating adverse events will not negatively affect outcome."
Adverse events will likely increase in the future with more use of combination immunotherapies. The silver lining is that two-thirds of patients who stop combination immunotherapy appear to respond to the drugs.
LaCouture emphasized that patients should know the timeline of adverse events. Typically, dermatologic adverse events occur after 5 weeks of therapy, gastrointestinal events at weeks 7 to 8, and pulmonary and endocrine events at week 10. "Tell patients honestly that these treatments are effective, but that they should expect to experience some adverse events. Knowing what to expect will make it easier to cope."
To not overwhelm patients, though, he suggests rationing information about when adverse events are likely to occur, near the timeline of an event rather than mentioning all the possible problems at once.
In conclusion, LaCouture said: "The earlier we treat adverse events, the better. Patients should be evaluated thoroughly at every visit. Both practitioners and patients should know when to expect events so they can be ready for them."
LaCouture disclosed relationships with Quintiles, Boehringer Ingelheim, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Dignitana, Genentech, Foamix, Janssen R&D, Michael's Mission, Novartis, Oncology Training International (OTI), RP Pharmaceuticals, Berg, Roche, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. | 2019-04-21T06:59:14 | https://amp.medpagetoday.com/reading-room/asco/melanoma/59080 |
“Rapture, Blister, Burn” runs from May 17 to June 9. Reservations for subscribers are now open. Tickets will on sale to the public on April 26.
This biting comedy about feminism, choices, and love was a Pulitzer Prize finalist that the New York Times called “intensely smart and immensely funny,” and caused Variety to hail the playwright as a “genius.” After grad school, Catherine and Gwen chose opposite paths. Catherine built a career as a rockstar academic, while Gwen built a home with her husband and children. Decades later, unfulfilled in polar opposite ways, each woman covets the other’s life, commencing a dangerous game of musical chairs – the prize being Gwen’s husband. With searing insight and trademark wit, this comedy is an unflinching look at gender politics in the wake of 20th-century feminist ideals. | 2019-04-20T04:33:23 | https://mctshows.org/ |
Naruto Character Creation Contest: This month is September and the theme " Split Personality Ninja"
Welcome to the Naruto Character of the Month Contest!!!!!!
This month's contest is based around characters with multiple personalities for example from Sakura to Juugo. Using a Wikipedia definition split personalities are "a person displays multiple distinct identities or personalities (known as alter egos or alters), each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment". Interpret this definition as you will as long as the interpretation isn't too abstract.
Well with that, I present the rules and regulations, and after reading, give it a good shot.
The winner of this contest will decide the theme for next months contest.
This thread is for submissions into the Character of the Month contest.
1. Every contest will have a theme. Each contestant must abide by the theme. Themes cannot be picked twice in a row.
2. Every Character Must be put in spoiler tags. This is to save space.
3. Contest submissions begin on the first day of each month. The entry period will last until two weeks from that date.
4. On the day after the submission date, a poll will open and it will last for one week. When the poll closes, the winner will be allowed to choose a theme for the next contest.
5. The next contest will not begin until the first of the month, when submissions are allowed once again.
6. Only one official submission per contestant. You may create as many character as you want, but you can only enter one official character. So please put “final or official entry in your post when your ready to turn in your finished character.
7. You are allowed to wait until the final day to turn in your entry. If you wish to keep your entry private until the day the poll opens you can request it in the submission thread or by private message to the organizer (me, Kyubi Jinchuuriki).
Entries can either be private messaged or posted in the submission thread. The submission thread can also be used to post works in progress to gather feedback from other posters. You do not have to post your entries in the thread if you don't wish to (for those who want to be private about what they are working on), until the last day of submissions. The whole idea is to promote quality entries but it's not required to submit early if you are confident in your entry but want to keep your submission secret until the due date.I will periodically update the thread to keep track of the names of all contestants and list those names here. Those who wish to keep entries private until the due date should still inform me they are entering so I can keep track of who is competing.
If anyone has any questions, feel free to post them here or private message me, I'll do my best to answer.
The due date ends at 11:59 (midnight basically) EST. The polling will be up one day later after 11:59 (again, midnight). I will try to be as lenient as I can with last minute submissions but only slightly.
It is up to you as a contestant to know what your time zone is in relation to EST. I cannot do this for you. Here is a site that can help you figure that out: " http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=179 "
* this format is the original work of Solace/Zaku Hyuga. I have merely edited it to fit this contest.
I'll be posting my entry later. For now, I want to give sort of a basic format for those who aren't sure, so no one has to go digging.
Add or subtract anything you like.
Location: Shady spaces and dark places, where animals fear to tread. . .
Sorry, my internet's been cut for awhile. I'm still gonna give it a shot, though. You just need to bear with me.
I realised I left the wrong link on the original post. Because of this instead of finishing in three hours as previously scheduled to closing time shall be in nineteen hours.
My first post here I would apriciate if someone can give me c&c? on this, to see if I did it right. Also can I change some of my post later on if I change my mind? Or is this final?
Clothing: The red cloak with black markings/symbols on it. Complete black pants and balck t-shirt with little gray color on it and black heals.
Bio: She is very smart and calculated person, also very manipulative. She knows what she wants and she'll do anything to get it. It is believed that she has a heart of stone. She is very good fighter, especially with her own sword that her father (who was a blacksmith) produced. She is a close range fighter and is very good with kunais, she never missed her target. She uses her appearance for seducing other man's, so far no one ever refused her, it's been said she can charm anyone. While her alter ego is nothing but a being of pure hatred and rage. Which will stop from nothing until she destroys all she sees. But she is not a mindless being, she posses a great intelegence. She just choses to attack everytning becauses in her mind she thinks it's more fun that way.
Jutsu: She uses fire/wind combo. She can do jutsus with only one hand, which helps her with her fire/wind style. She can also produce clones and uses them as diversion while she attack with her jutsus.
Kekkei Genkai: Ability to combine wind and fire, she can use this abilty to create what many calls ''phoenix inferno'' attack. Where she creates a tornado made out of wind and fire. Until now only her alter ego was able to use it.
Other weapons/attacks/whatever: She uses a double edged sword that her own father created. She knows many sword styles and even if she is still young many thinks of her as best sword master. She also good at taijutsu and she is average at genjutsu.
History and personal: She left her own vilage after the third great war, she sworn revenge against the Konaha's yelow flash who killed her parents. She was devastated after hearing of his death, but she later dicovored that he has a son. Since then she is trying to get her revenge by killing Naruto Uzumaki. She has a split personality because of the trauma of seeing her parents die. Her other self is only unleashed when Hitomi is under a lot of stress (very angry or in mortal danger) Eventually after she regains control of her own body Hitomi doesn't recall anything that happened while Phoenix was in the control.
Likes: She likes to read a lot. She likes to sit outside by the lake while sun sets out and think about her life. She loves honesty and hard working, she respects such people.Nature and animals also.
Her other self basically hates everything.
Last edited by milan kyuubi; 2010-09-18 at 14:07.
And, here he is. This is actually my first character, as I didn't really have enough time to start from scratch. I've posted him three times already, and I'm sure those that might remember him are already tired of him. I have a picture of him, but I don't have the time or patience to get the scanner to do its job.
And, enough blubbering. . .
Village: Originally from the Hidden Mist Village.
Clan details: This clan resided in the hidden mist, but is not as powerful as it once was, thanks to Keikyoku.
Clothing: Akatsuki-style cloak, but, in place of clouds, it is covered with lightning bolts. This is the typical attire of the rogue ninja that he is in alliance with. It symbolizes that the people who wear them are borne of the Akatsuki, but are more powerful.
Personality: Aloof and distant. He is unstable because the evil seed, that is present in everyone, has grown within him so much that it is almost a whole different person. This side is pure evil, and is the side that is much more powerful.
Likes: All sorts of plants.
Bloodline Limit Details: Special technique that gives the wielder unusually high control of their chakra. This allows them to do jutsu like Kuwashii Chikara no Jutsu and Kousei no Jutsu. The Tougyo has a 18 meter limit. This is a very special bloodline trait, because unlike normal kekkei genkai, this one is given to the shinobi of this clan by its elders when the shinobi reach the Age Of Wisdom. For most people the Age Of Wisdom isn't reached until they become a Jounin, but because Keikyoku was able to learn such powerful jutsu at such a young age, they made an exception. The jutsu to create this kekkei genkai is so complicated, that even people like Orochimaru would have a very difficult time trying to replicate it, meaning that it's not really useful to him.
Weapons/items: Thorn Staff- A staff that allows the user to combine water and earth chakra to make Mokuton (Wood Chakra). The Thorn Staff is useless if you can't create water and earth chakra. The vine that is wrapped around it can also be used as a thorn whip, when needed.
Fighting Style: It is unknown what kind of taijutsu he uses. He normally only uses ninjutsu, but he is believed to have some skill in this area. It is known as fact that he is very fast, because the few times he has used brute force, the attack came so fast that it caught his opponents off guard.
Specialties/Skills: He grows very rare plants and harvests their herbs for use in medicines and to try and find a cure for his "curse".
Description: Suiton: Suigadan is a ninjutsu technique utilizing the water element. The ninja does a string of hand seals to cause a nearby body of water to form a spinning drill.
Description: Suiton~ Suiryuudan no Jutsu is a ninjutsu technique utilizing the water element. The ninja performs a long string of hand seals which then causes a column of water in the form of a dragon to rise from the water and then strike their target.
Description: Doton • Iwa Yado Kuzushi is a Ninjutsu technique utilizing the Earth Element. This technique allows the ninja to control nearby stone and rock. This can be especially useful if in a cave or a stone lodging. The technique can loosen the rocks and cause them to come raining down on whomever is trapped inside.
Description: Doton~ Doro Gaeshi is a defensive ninjutsu technique utilizing the earth element . After striking the ground with their hands, a large wall of earth will rise into place as defense. The defense is not perfect though, a hard or drilling impact can puncture the wall.
Description: Moku Bunshin no Jutsu is a unique technique used only by Keikyoku and Yamato. Using his ability to utilize Mokuton (wood release) techniques, Keikyoku will form handseals and cause beams of wood to emerge from his body. This wood will morph and form a clone of Keikyoku, capable of utilizing all the same Mokuton techniques as the original.
Description: Ha Shuriken no Jutsu is a unique technique used only by Keikyoku. Using his ability to utilize Mokuton (wood release) techniques, Keikyoku will form handseals and cause the leaves from a nearby tree to fall off, harden, and become sharp. Keikyoku will then throw them at his target.
Description: Mahouteki Enmu no Jutsu is a technique utilized by Keikyoku, with the use of his Tougyo. As soon as he detects an enemies presence he releases a small but steady flow of chakra which mixes with the air to create a sort of mist covering an 18 meter radius around him. Then, as the enemies approach, the 'mist' slowly but surely drains their chakra, incorporating some of it into itself and dispersing the rest. A major drawback is the time it takes for the mist to grow strong enough to do major damage. It can only incorporate an enemies chakra a little at a time. But, if it goes unstopped, it can eventually build up enough strength to quickly incapacitate any foe still within it.
Description: Mokuton~ Hinsei Chikara no Jutsu is technique used only by Keikyoku. Using his ability to utilize Mokuton (wood release) techniques with the Thorn Staff, Keikyoku will form hand seals and extend his chakra to all plant life up to 25 meters away. This will allow him to take control of them and use them in any way he wishes. The main drawback to this jutsu is that it can require an extreme amount of chakra and concentration, which will usually force him to draw some chakra from the plants he is controlling. And if he is not careful and uses all of that chakra, not only will he lose control of the plants and become vulnerable, he would most likely die from the strain. This technique was forbidden because of the great risks of the technique and the strain it puts on younger ninja. He will normally only use this technique when he is being controlled by the dark side of his personality.
Description: Kuwashii Chikara no Jutsu is a secret technique utilized by Keikyoku by using his Tougyo. When activated, it spreads almost all of Keikyoku's chakra that is left in his reserves throughout his body. This not only makes him stronger and faster for a short time period, but it also increases how fast he thinks, the level in which he thinks, his stamina, and his reflexes. The side effect is, of course, after he uses it he is completely drained and the worst possible scenario is that he dies. He will normally only use this technique when he is being controlled by the dark side of his personality.
Description: Kousei no Jutsu is a ninjutsu technique Keikyoku has created, utilizing his Thorn Staff and Tougyo. This jutsu uses no chakra, but it allows the user to regenerate cells and chakra by absorbing the Natural Energy from any plants or minerals in the earth within a 200 yard radius, adding to his reserves and also increasing chakra production for a short time. The Thorn Staff and the fact that he hadn't learned this from any kind of summon lowers the risk of turning into a statue that would normally be associated with the technique, although it doesn't neutralize the risk. A major drawback is that, while this jutsu may regenerate his chakra and increase the speed of his cell's division, cells can only divide a certain amount of times, which means whenever he uses it he is actually shortening his life slightly. Also, if he absorbs energy to increase the production of chakra, his body cannot create chakra fast enough for a short time afterwards, and he will have to wait a few days until his body is able to produce chakra at a normal and healthy pace. And, there's always the chance that he'll turn into a statue from too much of it. He will normally only use this technique when he is being controlled by the dark side of his personality or if he is dying.
Background: When Keikyoku was born, his parents couldn't take care of him, so they gave him up to a distant relative of their's in the Hidden Mist Village. When he was 15 years old, his 'parents' finally told him that he was adopted. When they told him he was adopted, he suddenly started talking to himself, and yelling about how he was in control. This went on for only 10 minutes until something black started spreading across his face. The black "parasite" was the dark side of his personality and was originally very weak. But, this night it started to take him over. Soon, half of his face was pitch black, and he started to smile an evil smirk. Then, without warning, he attacked and killed his former father, and then he waited until his former mother returned home from the market. As soon as she walked in he grabbed her from the shadows and forced her to look at the horrible thing he had done, and, when he'd had his laughs, he killed her.
Keikyoku then woke up sleeping beside a creek, not a memory in his mind about what had happened after his dark side, now nicknamed Shade, had killed his former parents. Then he looked to the ground beside him and saw an arm with a special ring on it. A ring that only the leader of the Bakeyo clan wore. He found out later that he had only tore off the leaders arm. He then looked into the creek with the grim realization that rose petals were starting to grow around his head. Keikyoku then knew that he had to find his family so he could find out what was wrong with him. But, he could barely stand, so he had to rest at a nice shopkeepers home nearby.
After he felt better, he headed to the Village Hidden In the Grass, where he'd been told his parents were, but when he arrived he found that they'd had another child, Zetsuka, who was just about to start at the academy. After he found out that his parents had given him up, only to keep his younger brother he was crushed, but he still had questions so he asked his real dad if he knew why he was like this.
His father explained that when Keikyoku was a baby, the day before they took him to the Mist Village, Kartomaru (Keikyoku's father) was trying to find something for his family to eat, and, as he was looking around, he had seen a strange old man with a basket of fruits. Kartomaru had asked the man how much he wanted for them, but the strange man said that Kartomaru could pick out one and keep it for free. Kartomaru then carefully picked out a rose-shaped fruit. It turned out to be a Rosango fruit, a fruit that grows on a tree that has been cross-pollinated for many years and was a combination of many different plants.
The tree, it turns out, only produces one fruit and then it dies, and the difficulty and costs of cultivating were so great that there were only a handful of Rosango fruit on the planet! So, when Kartomaru had come back to his cottage, he'd sliced the fruit up and laid the pieces on a table. He gave Keikyoku the first slice, and turned arround to grab his water. When he turned back, all of the fruit was wilting and Keikyoku was the only one that had the chance to eat any of it.
Keikyoku was satisfied because he knew the cause. Now all he had to do is find a solution, so he decided to leave the village. As he was leaving, though, he met a young woman named Zaiga. She was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen, and the moment she saw him she came over and told him that she loved his rose petals.
Keikyoku and Zaiga had a happy relationship for a whole year before the trouble came. The shinobi of the Mist Village had been looking high and low for him, and they'd finally found him. The battle that followed the shinobi's arrival was brutal, and ended with Keikyoku drained and all the shinobi unconscious. But, not before one of them tried to hit Keikyoku with senbon that had been dipped in a very deadly poison.
But, Zaiga pushed Keikyoku out of the way, causing the poisoned needles to hit her instead. It didn't take long for her to pass away, but right before she died, she gave Keikyoku one final gift: A very special rose, one that she said contained very special properties. She told him it had taken her a long time to find the rose and that she had been saving it for someone special. Then, at the exact moment that she passed away, the rose that she had given him grew to the size of a staff, and a rose vine wrapped arround it. To this day, that thorn staff has never left his side.
Well I'm calling it. According to the clock it has just turned midnight in New York so the entry phase of this competition has officially closed. The voting thread will be up in the next 24 hours. Good luck to all entrants. | 2019-04-18T18:51:18 | https://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?s=214e56674080d7b16a52653092ab8fa9&p=3252210 |
This is the fourth Humsafar Express to be launched and it will cross the entire country from North to South.
Humsafar train is a fully Air Conditioned 3 AC service having facilities like GPS based Passenger Information System, Passenger announcement System, fire and smoke detection and suppression system, CCTVs, comfortable seats, mobile and laptop charging points, integrated Braille display, LCD display above compartment doors in the aisle, Fire retardant curtains, etc.
Antyodaya Express is a long-distance, fully unreserved, superfast train service, for the common man to be operated on dense routes. Antyodaya Express will have facilities like Cushioned luggage racks which can serve as seats Additional hand holds in doorway area, J-Hook near longitudinal luggage racks, Multiple Unit cables at both ends of the coach, Vestibuled ends for internal movement of the passengers, Potable Drinking water dispenser, Mobile charging points, Fire Extinguisher with anti-theft lock, FRP (Fibre Reinforced Plastic) Modular Toilets, Pleasing interior colour scheme, Toilet Occupation indication display board, LED Lights, SS Slip-free flooring at Doorway & Gangway, Anti-Graffiti coating for exterior painting, etc.
Tejas and UDAY Express Trains will be launched soon. | 2019-04-18T21:05:52 | https://www.bestcurrentaffairs.com/indias-first-antyodaya-express-train-launched/ |
Brand is not just a marketing ploy. It’s a way of identifying the quality of merchandise. When it comes to appliances its important to buy from a trusted brand. After all, you will be using it for several years.
Hoover has been around since 1908 when a part-time janitor invented the first carpet sweeper. Who better to invent than one who actually uses it on his job? And because they make quality products, it captured a large part of the European market and continued to invent new ones that are responsive to the needs of its customers. There are several models (Junior to The Convertible) to choose from and there is one for every price range.
People who are not in charge of cleaning usually do not see the virtues of owning a Hoover stick vacuum. While there are many ways you can use a cordless vacuum, there is one good reason why everyone should have one in their homes, and that is, it will make cleaning so much easier.
A few weeks ago, while browsing in an appliance store, I overheard a customer asking a salesman why anyone would need a stick vacuum. He pointed out that his wife already had a perfectly good upright vacuum cleaner so why would he need to plunk down more money for a stick that had limited power?
I rolled my eyes and thought to myself “typical man”. I took pity on his poor wife and went over to explain to the poor sap why every home should have one.
A stick vacuum is one of the handiest cleaning tools around. It can easily pick from the occasional dust, dirt, lint, small debris from the floor.
Most of the cordless ones are not meant for heavy cleaning, but are really great when you need to do some quick clean ups.
For families with kids, you can use it to clean the mess after meal times or when the baby throws his food around for fun.
If you are into craft, it can make it very easy to pick up the lint, thread or craft debris after a session.
Or when company is coming and you need a touch up to make your home look pristine, you won’t have to whip out the mop, dust pan and/or cleaning rags for every cleaning emergency. And because its lightweight, you can make quick work of cleaning messes. Best of all, you keep your hands clean.
The best time to clean is right after a mess happens. You don’t want dust and dirt to pile up before cleaning up. Use the cordless vacuum to do some in-between cleaning so that you spend less time during clean up day.
It’s so easy and fun to use, your kids will love to help. Just leave one in your teens room and he/she can use it whenever there’s a small mess that requires immediate attention. That’s one less room to clean up.
They’re very affordable that you can several of them at the same time without breaking the bank.
Stick vacuums are good companions on the road especially for clean freaks (like me). It can be used to clean the car after camping or a day at the beach.
Personally, I hate riding in a car that is riddled with dirt and sand. And when my husband is not looking, I give the cottage a quick once-over. Just remember to charge it before you leave (if it’s a cordless model) in case there is no available outlet where you are going.
But the more important question is, which stick vacuum should you buy? There are several to choose from. In my experience, there is nothing better than a good Hoover. | 2019-04-18T18:28:37 | http://www.homefloorexperts.com/hoover-stick-vacuum/ |
Smart and Final is an American based grocery chain of warehouse styled food and supply store. This grocery company has developed through mergers and expansions over time and they have been providing food and household market service to both consumers and food service professionals.
Smart and Final’s commitment to offer exceptional service in the grocery industry has made them stand tall in the very competitive food business.
Smart and Final Grocery stores follow a standard pattern for their opening and closing hours to ensure customer satisfaction.
What Time Does Smart and Final Open?
What Time Does Smart and Final Close?
They usually open at 6 a.m. throughout the week. This provides ample time for early risers to be able to satisfy their shopping needs before embarking on the activities for the day.
Smart & Final Hours for closing are easily and the same through the whole week. In general closing times for this store is at 10pm with a few exceptions like Smart & Final in Tempe with closing hours at 9 pm.
To find the nearest Smart and Final store for your convenience, you can make use of the “near me map” below so you do not experience any shopping difficulties.
When you find the nearest Smart and Final store for you, with just a click you would find a phone member dedicated to the store so you can receive any desired information. However, there is also a “GET DIRECTIONS” tab – once you tap it, it would provide you a Google map link that would provide directions from where you are to the Smart and Final Warehouse. Smart and Final Grocery chain is always committed to ensuring its customers experience convenience and quality.
Smart and Final at 8787 Elk Grove are open daily from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Smart and Final Stores in Elk Grove is a one stop store for the best discount prices, with no membership fee approach to individual shoppers. The store provides a combination of high quality fresh products from a farmer’s market; ensuring customers receive the best for less.
Small businesses, organizations and clubs also benefit from the quality service on offer from Smart and Final Stores in Elk Grove. In a bid to ensure these businesses are satisfied 100 percent of the time, Smart and Final Stores carries its items in small, convenient sizes, so you do not have to buy multi packs when next you are shopping.
Smart and Final store in Corona is located at 760 North Main Street in California. While arriving at the store should hardly be a problem, you can call their customer care line (951) 737-4151 for directions. Smart and Final Corona is a part of the Smart and Final grocery chain and just like each of their outlet, they provide the best quality for low prices in order to satisfy individual shoppers and small businesses.
Now, let’s think at this: Does a Restaurant benefit from having a Smart & Final Store nearby?
We believe: yes! Customers from Smart and Final Stores are positive spillover effects upon its neighbors. If you have a small restaurant, traffic generated will inevitably lead to an increase of costumers visiting your place.
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The Smart Advantage Application is available here. | 2019-04-22T02:53:39 | https://www.hoursopentoclose.com/smart-final-hours/ |
Cat Communication. Did you know that cats use their tails, their eyes, their fur, and sound to communicate?
Cat communication may not be able in English but they do have many other ways in which they can 'talk' to you. Cats are cognitive animals, they solve problems just like any other highly developed species. Cats can and will communicate with youif you allow them to express themselves, talk back to them and try to understand what they are saying.
Learn what your cat signals mean so that you and your cat can communicate regularly. This will not only improve the bond with your cat and keep your cat happy, but it will also allow you to better read your cat signals so you know when your cat wants to play or just wants to be left alone!
Tails are probably one of the best cat communication indicators that cats have. One can almost read every cats feelings and thoughts by looking at his/her tail.
your cat is scared or fearful and is ready to attack or defend itself. The bristling is instinctual as it makes the cat look larger.
your cat is angered, aggressive and ready to attack.
an unabashed greeting. This is what a mother cat does to her kitten to tell him/her to inspect her rear.
your cat is very interested and intrigued by something; your cat is happy and friendly.
our cat is very excited and interested in something.
your cat is very relaxed and content.
your cat is mildly irritated. Your cat may attack if the twitching becomes violent enough.
your cat is about to attack something, this is seen during fights and play time. This is not the same as tail wagging in dogs.
your cat is giving a sexual invitation (generally only females in heat do this).
your cat is intensely afraid.
your cat is showing his submission or defeat.
Cats ears are another way that a cat expresses his/her emotions.
your cat is relaxed and happy.
your cat is listening to something that is intriguing.
your cat is agitated and nervous.
your cat is frightened and may attack (this is instinctual as to protect the ears during a fight).
your cat is aggressive and may attack.
In general a cat's body fur remains fairly consistent; however, if you notice your cat arching his or her back and bristling you can rest assured that your cat is frightened and on the defensive. Your cat may attack at this point.
Cat's can make over 100 different vocal sounds (dogs can only make 10). These sounds encompasses a variety of meows, purrs, gurgles, and eeps which occur in a variety of tones and octaves and can mean a plethora of things. The more you talk to your cat, the more your cat will talk back and extend his/her 'vocabulary'. A good owner will learn over time what his/her catmeans by each of his/her vocal sounds. By listening to your cat and talking back, eventually you and your cat can start to 'talk' back and forth to each other with understanding. This will help the bond between you and your cat grow and entice yourcat to become even more expressive.
blood flow that is amplified by the diaphragm. Whatever the cause of purring, a cat purrs when he or she is generally happy; although, some cats are known to only purr when they are ill.
Most cat owners will attest to the fact that their cats only purr when the are content or happy.
Growling and or hissing means only one thing - your cat means business and wants you to back off. If your cat growls or hisses at you don't push the issue or you will be attacked.
A cats pupils, for the most part, change with the amount of the light in the room. However, if your cat becomes very aroused, excited or angered his/her pupils will become greatly enlarged regardless of the amount of light in the room.
your kitty is relaxed and ready for a cat nap! This can also mean your cat is ill if the eyes are like this on a consistent basis, even when awake.
your cat is napping, obviously.
a long slow blink means that your cat is content and relaxed.
your cat is letting you know that he/she totally trusts you as he/she is exposing the most vulnerable part of the body. This doesn't necessarily mean that your cat wants a belly rub, just that he/she is totally comfortable with you.
this stems from 'milk threading' that kittens do. Kittens knead their mother's belly to stimulate milk production. In doing this to you your cat is not only expressing his/her love for you as a mother-figure but also remembering the happy feelings that used to occur when the mother was kneaded.
if your cat snores when he/she sleeps he/she is totally relaxed!
cats sniff each other in the wild to say hello and get to know each other. If your cat sniffs your face consider it a greeting and a way of showing that your cat trusts and likes you. Many owners even get down on the floor (face level with their cats) and touch noses when they greet. | 2019-04-24T23:45:58 | https://www.naturally4pets.com/cat-communication.html |
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For parents of young children, parenting is an endless struggle with their toddlers. And, when they are at their most tired moments, they discover that they have to deal with toddler sleep problems. When kids reach a tender age of one to two years old, they develop a tendency to refuse to sleep . A big number of physicians agree that toddlers in the age of one to two years should be sleeping for ten and twelve hours each night . Most mothers who have to carry out their parenting duty of putting the toddler to bed do struggle with their toddlers when it comes to handling their sleepless toddlers.
When Do You Need a Twin Bed for Toddler? | 2019-04-24T18:54:41 | http://www.moms-pace.com/toddler-sleep-problems/ |
The way in which to set a tone in your home is down to subtle choices.
They are not only functional. They are decorative too. And their design can have a dramatic influence on the look of a room.
So in your endeavour to select a door that portrays your personal style, take this into consideration.
Don’t be scared to be outrageous. An eclectic mix and match of doors can create a dynamic sense of interior character. Just be sure to keep too scale. A big door can make a small room feel even tinier.
Don’t neglect the framing. You will simply spoil the charisma of the door. Trying to go too cheap is akin to paying peanuts and getting monkeys. Because quality comes at a cost. You get where I’m going with this, right?
Be sure you place the handles on the side of the door that you want it to swing. If you want a right-hand swing door, the handle needs to be placed on the right side of the door. And in choosing which side you want the door to swing, keep in mind the words of the gurus of interior; it is a no no for a door to open into a hall or corridor.
The choice of doors is endless. Sliding doors, panel doors, French doors or barn doors. Be daring. But make it you.
What the door is made of determine how much or how little sound passes through. STC – Sound Transmission Class. Read about it. Your ears may depend on it.
As in the type of door you choose, there also exists an infinite array of materials with which to construct it. Solid Core. Hollow Core. MDF. Solid Wood. Metal. Or glass. Each comes with its own characteristics. And cost. So invest wisely. | 2019-04-20T13:07:54 | https://www.ktimatagora.com/articles/articles-resources/making-an-entrance |
The Importance of Art in our lives and in our City.
I’m running for mayor of Portland and I want to make it clear that I’m the candidate that truly understands the importance of art in our lives as individuals and as a city.
Great talent does happen, but rarely. For the most part there are two ways art happens. The first way is that a person has all their needs met and because of that they can choose to become an artist. The second way is that a person does not have all their needs met and despite of this they choose to become an artist.
Great art can be created by both groups but it’s the second group that is the most important in Portland. The struggle of that group creates character. The struggle of that group creates camaraderie. If you take art and add character and camaraderie you have community.
The greatness of Portland comes from these communities that second group of artists created. Once it’s created others can join in, help form the community, help guide it. These artists, they create art in everything they do. They think differently. The chose their art over money so many have jobs in coffee houses, bars, bike shops, security companies, warehouses. They make enough money to get by, but that’s all they need. Money is not their motivation, but because art is in all they do this town went to the top of all the national top ten lists. People from all over moved here for the art, the character, the community. People flooded in and since the politicians we elected don’t understand the importance of the artist they care more about the money from the potential residents than the livability of the people who made Portland this incredible artistic community.
Now the people who made this city so amazing can’t afford to live in the city they made amazing. They either leave or they are forced to choose money over their art. Either way the character, camaraderie, and community disappears. I’ve been experiencing this firsthand on Alberta Street for the last seven years.
What role do the arts and culture play in our city and what do the arts personally mean to you and your family?
Art saved my life. Since I was a kid growing up in the trailer parks of the Cascade Mountains in poverty I always wrote, drew pictures, painted, acted. To get out of poverty I joined the military and spent a total of thirteen years in the service. All but two were Army infantry. After I left the service I had a hard time transitioning back to civilian life like many combat veterans. I became suicidal, but art saved my life. I started painting and writing again and from that I published my book The Wax Bullet War. I dedicated my life to helping other people who were in my situation with art. I facilitated art therapy with combat veterans and got six of them on stage for The Canticle of the Black Madonna, an opera about PTSD with the budget of $350,000 that was performed at the Newmark Theater downtown Portland. I helped produce the Portland segment of HUMAN the Movie by gathering combat veterans to speak on camera about what it means to be human. The movie premiered in the General Assembly room of the United Nations in New York. I was there. I facilitate a monthly poetry and prose discussion group at the American Legion Post 134 sponsored by the Oregon Humanities and I’ve been doing it for the last year. I volunteered as the post commander at the American Legion post and turned it into a hub for literary events. We host 4 monthly series now and we’ve had authors from all over the country read there. My family and I live in the Alberta Arts District. Art is a way to heal the soul both as an individual and a society. That’s what it means to me and my family.
How will you foster the growth of the creative economy in our region?
The easy answer is to pay our workers a living wage. It’s naive to believe that the problems Portlanders are having are not connected. In 2008, Development Services had 330 employees and within three years they had 160. These employees helped developers through the planning and development, permitting, and inspection stages of building houses. We never hired these employees back and we’re in a boom. Because of this building a new property takes over a year, maybe two. I propose to look through the city’s buildable land inventory and pick a few places to create temporary or even permanent housing for the houseless using the 20 million the city has set aside to fight houselessness. A part of the RFP (request for proposals) will be a special priority on this project. This will cut the time of planning, permitting, and inspecting. In this way the developers would make money. In return we are going to put a small cost attached to the projects. This cost will be dedicated to hiring more people in the Development Services Bureau. The more employees we have the faster the process is for other developers. Last year, with a limited staff at Bureau of Development Services we still built 15,000 units. Each single family unit makes the city approximately 20-30 thousand dollars. Multi family houses can make 40-50 thousand dollars. Imagine if Portland can create 30,000 units or 50,000 a year. The money we make with those additional units we dedicate to subsidizing small businesses for a $15 dollar an hour minimum wage. We need to do this because if we raise the minimum wage without the subsidies we may end up hurting small business because while big business can absorb the cost, small businesses cannot. If people complain about subsidizing small businesses I’d argue the alternative, having the small business money leave the local economy and paying unemployment would be more expensive than the subsidies by far. Once we are paying our workers a livable wage they will go back to creating art. That is all the artists want. When the art is being created the art economy will grow.
How will you enhance the delivery of and support for arts education in school and neighborhood settings?
We need to have accountability to where the money from the art tax is going and make sure that it is getting in the schools and to the artists in our communities. This way we can continue to hire more art and music teachers like the 70 that were hired in 2012, and promote art in our neighborhoods. Other than the money, we need to make art a priority in our city’s development. We need to hold art exhibits from different school districts in city buildings. We need to invite bands to play at City Hall. The mayor needs to hire back the art liaisons and go out to schools and speak about the importance of art. This is vital because when we put the motivation to create in our children, not only do their parents get more involved in our neighborhoods but they grow up to create communities people want to live in. When the city government celebrates the artists within our community, these artists become more invested in the future of our city.
What other public policies would you pursue to strengthen the creative capacity of our region?
I would bring back the Mayor’s Ball and make it a celebration of the arts. This would be an annual event to recognize art teachers, local artists of all mediums, and community leaders. I would like to make the mural process faster and less expensive, but maintain standards. I would also open up communication with our sister cities and invite them to show us their culture and art with physical works and video communication events. I would appoint a Poet Laureate, Resident Writer, and Resident Artist of Portland and that comes with grants and responsibilities to represent our city in national conferences and events. I would like to increase incentives for filming in our city and work with community leaders in film to create Studio 503.
Each year, you will have the opportunity to vote to approve a budget for arts funding through the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC). Do you commit to maintaining or increasing this budget allocation and funding level?
Honestly, this depends on the problems we’re having each year. We’ve been pretty steady at at around 3.6 billion dollars for our budget and half of that is dedicated money (your garbage bill goes to taking care of the garbage, sewage bill goes to maintaining the sewer system, et cetera), the other half is general funds and out of those funds come taxes to pave our roads which are in terrible disrepair, pay the salaries of our police which are completely overworked and undermanned. There will be some hard decisions reached very soon as we move toward they city we will become. So I can’t say that I will commit to maintaining or increasing RACC’s budget, but I will tell you again that art saved my life and art made Portland great. Art will always be a priority in my life no matter what profession I am in. I will do everything in my power to ensure RACC has a stable budget they can count on, but not at the expense of the artists.
My look changed often, or I just looked like a scrub. | 2019-04-18T16:18:41 | https://seandaviswriter.com/2016/02/22/the-importance-of-art-in-our-lives-and-in-our-city/ |
As noted in my original post on this topic, I promised I would keep members updated on an ongoing basis on EV penetration projections — to the extent the data has been publicized and is available. The spreadsheet below includes an update for the year 2018 and you can easily compare it to the data from 2017. I collected about 10 major analyses on EVs from the last year, shown in the graphic below. All of these studies are linked in the spreadsheet so that you can easily navigate to them. You can download this graphic, of course, or access it in the spreadsheet and then modify and use as you like in your own work.
The conservative view: IEA’s New Policies Scenario view on EVs and the JP Morgan analyst Michael Cembalest see a 10% penetration by 2030, a fairly conservative view, and one that I share.
A more progressive view: IEA’s EV30@30 scenario and JP Morgan’s corporate analysis are both at 30% penetration by 2030.
The oil view: ExxonMobil, BP and OPEC are fairly aligned at about a 15% penetration by 2040. Notably, if you compare 2017 v. 2018, you’ll see that BP, OPEC and Exxon raised their projections even though these organizations continue to take a conservative view.
The super progressive view: Not surprisingly, Bloomberg New Energy Finance is in this category with its 55% penetration rate by 2040. DNV’s is even more progressive though at 50% penetration by2033. IEA’s most progressive scenario, the Future Is Electric, is also in this category.
Also interesting to point out is that BEVs are expected to dominate over, for example, plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs); although, JP Morgan believes hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) will play a strong role in the market.
The largest markets generally are China, the EU, India and North America.
For the first time, several analyses are tackling the future of heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) as well as two- and three-wheelers, including DNV and IEA. I expect this is going to change in the next few years and we will see a lot more analyses on the future of electrification in the HDV fleet.
Last April, I wrote that the auto industry was planning to spend US$213 billion over the next few years to bring EVs to market. In an updated analysis based on data from Reuters, that number has now climbed to US$300 billion. About 45% of that investment is dedicated just to bringing EVs to market in China. The spreadsheet below includes information by automaker and retains the 2018 data for comparison.
I will continue to update this work as well. The figure below shows the investments by automaker, and includes specific battery investments as well for the few companies that have released that information.
Volkswagen alone represents about a third of the total global investment and is moving aggressively to gain a leadership position in the space as well as put the Dieselgate scandal behind it for good. Only Daimler comes close to its kind of spending, at US$72 billion. Note: I think the numbers for some companies, such as GM, are bound to be higher. | 2019-04-24T11:53:45 | http://futurefuelstrategies.com/2019/01/15/2018-ev-projections-analysis-and-update-on-automaker-investments/ |
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- Aluminum: Strong, lightweight, and durable, aluminum windows are considerably less expensive than their wood-framed cousins. The tradeoff between the two is not only one of style, but also of performance: Aluminum is prone to condensation, which can in some cases lead to mold.
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Valencia-based studio Ramon Esteve has designed the House in Monasterios.
Completed in 2008, this two story contemporary home is located somewhere in Spain.
The connecting space of this sequence of volumes is achieved by making an opening through the courtyards, in the central space of the house. Following a series of open courtyards, covered at its perimeter in the style of atriums, through which one advances in search of access to the interior and through which one obtains different perceptions of the house.
The views from any point are intersected and are never interrupted along the changing sequence, at the end of which, enclosed between walls of glass, is the lobby. Thus, there is an approach that exposes the most intimate and contained face of the house, once inside, to discover the distant view over the hillside to the sea. | 2019-04-18T13:13:59 | https://www.homedsgn.com/2012/02/21/house-in-monasterios-by-ramon-esteve/ |
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I was wondering if there are either any official answers or suggestions from anyone on attempting to simulate things like Tricks for a Huckster or Gifts for a Blessed from Classic in DLR?
I'm converting my players over, and I have one of each in my group who really liked those abilities and the way they worked (cantrip-like vs. actual spells) in Classic, and they are concerned about the loss of these abilities in the conversion.
Clint, or anyone else in the community - any thoughts? | 2019-04-24T02:35:25 | https://www.pegforum.com/forum/deadlands/official-answers-on-deadlands-rules/13451-classic-to-reloaded-huckster-tricks-blessed-gifts |
This surname is of Norman-French origin from Cussac in Guienne, an ancient province of south west France, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name "Cucius" or "Cussius?. Introduced into Ireland in the wake of the Anglo-Norman Invasion of 1169 - 1170, the name was first Anglicized as "de Cussac" and "de Cusack", and rendered "de Ciomhsog" in Irish. The first recorded Cusacks were granted lands in Counties Meath and Kildare. The name also appears in 14th Century records of Counties Clare and Roscommon, where it was Gaelicized as "Mac Iosog" and "? C?os?g?. One famous Cusack was Michael Cusack (Irish: M?che?l ? C?os?g) (20th September 1847 ? 27th November 1906) an Irish teacher and founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association. Cusack also became involved in the Irish language movement, founding The Celtic Times, a weekly newspaper which focused on 'native games' and Irish culture. The Clare GAA pitch in Ennis, and the Westmeath GAA pitch in Mullingar, are both named "Cusack Park" in his honour, as is the "Cusack Stand" in Croke Park, Dublin. Today the name is widespread throughout Ireland, especially in Munster, where it is Anglicized Cusack, Cusick, Cuseck, Cuseick, Kusick, and Kewzick. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Geoffrey and Andre de Cusack, who came to Ireland with King John, which was dated 1211, in "Medieval Records of the Pale", during the reign of King John, known as "Lackland".
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Click 'Invite' to connect with more members of the CUSACK tribe. | 2019-04-23T01:06:03 | https://www.wales101.com/tribe/CUSACK |
Sammy Song struck out swinging, out at first c to 1b.
BURDEN,Tyler homered to right field, RBI.
Taylor Fennewald doubled to left field.
Michael Orlowski reached first on an error by ss.
HARRELL JR., Marvin walked; NESTER,Jacob advanced to second.
HARRELL JR., Marvin advanced to second; NESTER,Jacob advanced to third on a wild pitch.
HARRELL JR., Marvin advanced to third, out at home ss to p; NESTER,Jacob scored on a passed ball,, unearned.
EURE,Blake doubled down the lf line.
Anthony Scaccia homered to left field, RBI.
Dallas Baldwin to p for Forrest Arnold.
HUX,Stephen reached first on a fielding error by 1b.
HUX,Stephen advanced to second on a wild pitch.
CROSS,Kyle singled up the middle, RBI; HUX,Stephen scored, unearned.
CROSS,Kyle walked; HUX,Stephen advanced to second; GURGANUS,Will advanced to third.
Matthew Prosser to p for Dallas Baldwin.
Michael Orlowski singled to left field; Bryson Conner advanced to third.
Michael Orlowski advanced to second; Bryson Conner scored on a passed ball, unearned.
Taylor Fennewald reached on catcher's interference; Tyler Osik advanced to second.
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MASON,Bobby to p for HART,Evan. | 2019-04-18T15:47:51 | https://thesac.com/sports/bsb/2014-15/boxscores/20150201_ge39.xml |
If you subscribe my Blog feed, you may noticed that the feed is not full content output anymore. Yes, I change the way feeds output.
Let me show you how to change it to excerpt in MovableType 5.04.
Then, click save and publish button.
After that, the feed you use is not full content, but excerpt only.
When you write the post, or entry, you can make your own Excerpt. If you leave the Excerpt blank, the program, MovableType will extract the first 40 words from your post as excerpt. | 2019-04-21T21:06:06 | https://www.yinfor.com/2011/01/change_feeds_output.html |
The “car chase” is another carryover from The Bourne Identity that Director Greengrass includes yet improves upon. Supremacy takes the cliché car chase, injects it with steroids, and chases it with a Red Bull. The climax is easily the best car chase on screen in ten years. It’s better than the The Matrix: Reloaded. Why? Supremacy isn't hindered by CGI. The chase is intense and real. When Bourne’s car spins out of control and is simultaneously blind-sided by another car, I dare you not to flinch.
As my wife has mentioned many times before, Matt Damon is a good looking man. She also mentions his lovely smile. Well, you won’t see Damon’s pearly whites in The Bourne Supremacy, but you will see why he’s one of the most talented actors of his generation. Forget about his buddy Ben Affleck, Damon knows how to capture the audience’s attention with his talent not his girlfriends.
When Paula Landy’s (Joan Allen) CIA sting ends terribly, the few clues left behind lead her to believe Jason Bourne (Damon) has ended his retirement. Her subsequent investigation of Bourne uncovers the closed Operation “Treadstone” and opens doors that others wish to remain sealed.
Hundreds of miles away, the real Jason Bourne enjoys a peaceful yet cautious life with Marie (Franka Potente). Unbeknownst to him, a Russian Kingpin and an American traitor plan on making Jason Bourne’s retirement, permanent. After the hired assassin Kirill (Karl Urban) attempts to kill him, a resulting tragedy propels Bourne back towards the mysterious life that haunts his nights.
Bourne Identity director Doug Lyman brought us a thriller that was restrained until action was warranted. When the action began, it was relentless, cold, and efficient much like Bourne himself. Lyman rescued the secret agent genre from Spy Kids and Agent Cody Banks with a thriller that while grounded in realism, explodes upon the screen with a fury that no silly kid movie can hope to match.
Lyman passed on directing The Bourne Supremacy, but thankfully Paul Greengrass took the helm and kept Supremacy faithful to Lyman’s vision. The major complaint one could find with Greengrass’ style is an overuse of hand-held camera shots used to represent the cloudy/jumbled bits of memory floating in Bourne’s head. I thought it worked well enough, however I can imagine some viewers finding it distracting.
The key to both movies is Matt Damon’s portrayal of Bourne. With minimal dialogue, Damon gives a complicated performance as a man who struggles to discover who he was while consciously trying to distance himself from his past. Bourne is an assassin who needs amnesia to discover who he really should have been. Only Damon’s talents could have shown us this. Do you really think his buddy Affleck could pull this off? What about Paul Walker or Vin Diesel? I don’t think so. Amongst his peers, Damon is in an acting class by himself.
Whether Lyman’s vision or the directing of Greengrass can claim responsibility for The Bourne Supremacy’s is open to debate. I don’t care. At the very least, Greengrass knew not to screw up a good thing. With Matt Damon establishing himself as a talented and bankable star, The Bourne Supremacy will reign supreme at the box office and in the action-thriller genre. | 2019-04-24T04:19:53 | https://www.cinemablend.com/reviews/Bourne-Supremacy-581.html |
SHAWNEE—Missions leaders from Southern Baptist and other global agencies gathered to honor the legacy of longtime outreach strategist Avery T. Willis Jr. during a banquet titled “Tribute to a Vision” March 4, at Oklahoma Baptist University. In greetings which arrived from around the globe, Willis’ peers stated that only eternity would reveal the impact his vision has had on the world.
“Many would recognize those of whom the world is not worthy, and that is the reflection I would have about your life,” said Jerry Rankin, president of the International Mission Board. “If anyone has walked with the Lord in obedience, you are the man,” Rankin said.
In early January, Willis, 76, announced he has been diagnosed with leukemia. In good spirits during the banquet, Willis announced that while his disease is in remission, it means his leukemia is “on the run,” but not yet cured. He asked all attending to pray for a cure.
“I hope the Lord doesn’t take too seriously what everyone has said about this world not being worthy of me—at least for awhile,” Willis said with levity, in reference to his health battles. Willis noted he hopes to continue his journey of faith, joining God at work.
Willis testified that, as a student on OBU’s Bison Hill campus, he roamed what then were nearby fields, in deep spiritual search of God’s plan for his life. He said he made an agreement with God: “I am so ordinary. If you do anything with my life, you will have to get all the credit.” God took Willis up on the agreement, directing him around the world to envision plans that would eventually lead countless people to faith in God, followed by deeper discipleship opportunities.
“Avery is, without question, the greatest visionary I have ever met,” said Tom Elliff, a fellow Southern Baptist leader who counts Willis as a close personal friend. Elliff, former pastor of Del City, First Southern, recently served as the International Mission Board’s senior vice president for spiritual nurture and church relations.
Willis, a native of Lepanto, Ark., graduated from OBU in 1956, and has maintained close ties to his alma mater. The university’s Global Outreach Center is named in his honor. He earned master of divinity and doctor of theology degrees from Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He has received honorary doctorates from OBU and Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo.
Willis and his wife, Shirley, served as Southern Baptist missionaries to Indonesia for 14 years before returning stateside in 1978. While Willis said he didn’t understand at the time why God brought him back to the United States from the mission field, in retrospect, his ability to visualize possibilities for expanding God’s Kingdom have reached far and wide. He served as director of discipleship programs for the Baptist Sunday School Board (now LifeWay Christian Resources), developing the MasterLife discipleship materials which have been translated into 50 languages and used in 100 countries around the world.
“As is always true in Avery’s life, he had the world in his eyes and in his heart,” said Jimmy Draper, retired president of LifeWay, pointing to Willis’ work both through discipleship materials and his move to an international missions endeavor.
In 1993, Willis became senior vice president for overseas operations at the International Mission Board, overseeing the work of the board’s entire missionary force around the world until his retirement in 2004. | 2019-04-24T07:47:39 | https://www.baptistmessenger.com/visionary-avery-willis-honored-by-global-missions-leaders/ |
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Sometimes I feel like rebutting by asking them why they spend their free time playing World of Warcraft or TiVo-ing whatever reality train wrecks they’re showing on TV these days, but I know it’s not really a fair comparison. Their hobbies don’t send them out into the slush and biting cold, splattered in grit and varying shades of bruises. Their hobbies don’t require wearing soggy clothing made of unnatural fabrics and coping with equipment that seems to be in a constant state of disrepair. My hobby defines me as quirky and a little bit crazy, and I find it impossible to explain my way out of that.
There are times, though, that I ask myself the same question. It usually crosses my mind in the midst of a rough ride or the conditions I dislike the most - the watered-down slush, the wind. The rain.
Today I stopped at the North Douglas boat launch to pour the water out of my shoes and wipe my Camelbak nozzle free of a solid layer of grit. Nobody was out in the monotone drizzle of a Monday afternoon, and the calm water reflected the silence. Luxurious, billowing clouds draped over tree tops and tumbled down the mountainside like stain fabric.
I live in a liquid world where everything is fleeting and nothing stays the same. The only thing I’m really certain of is the passing of time, the waves of good and bad that carry me forward. And the details - the possessions I acquire, the way that I look, the places I go, the people I meet, the people I love - are too often little more than glimmers of the present in a sea of memories. It's all too easy for me to drift away with the tide, become lost in that ocean, and forget that life is something that happens, not something I have.
What I really want is to live at the crest of every moment - every frightening, joyful, exhausting, brilliant, mundane moment - as they pass me by. And bicycling, in a way, is my means of staying afloat.
Golly Jill thats pretty well put!
That is indeed awfully well put. There's something about cycling that is so liberating.
I found your site through the 2007 voting going on. I love how you state your feelings. I love the pictures of your travels. I think it's very right for you to question others on their free-time activities. Theirs may not be as gritting and cold, but it's for them to figure out. It sounds like you LOVE your experiences on your bike.
I have never been one to bike but you make it sound thrilling. Please keep your posts going...you give such great descriptions it's like we are there with you!
People comment on how much they love your pictures....I like them to. But what keeps me coming back to your blog is your writing. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences in such a beautiful way.
"It's a 'this is the why?'" moment.
Because for every 10 rainy / icy / gritty days, there's one "this is the why?" day that makes them worthwhile.
For me, it's also about feeling a bit of fragility in a cotton-wool world and doing things the hard way so that when fate spits you out the other end still alive you can be proud.
hey jill, this is one of my favorite posts that you've written so far. i think most everyone i know up here can relate almost exactly to what you wrote. except we're mad about a different sport. and this winter has been for us like one long slushy, rainy, windy bike ride would be for you. no snow. none. 6 inches in the last month. warm, sunny days melting the little snow we do have. gives me too much time to think about what i'm doing with myself, and if revolving my life around skiing is really such a good idea.
I voted for your blog before reading this post. My vote was cast mostly out of bikey solidarity. But then I come back to find this beautiful, moving post and realize that you deserve it even without the tribal influence.
I would think one look at your pictures would answer most people's "why?". I guess we could ask the same of members of various Polar Bear Clubs, winter joggers, golfers, cross country skiers. It's something we love - so - we do it. It's not going to make sense to them, but it does to us. You remain an inspiration to me, and I'm sure many many others.
Now that I've buttered you up... I've got a favor to ask; I'm working on a review of balaclavas and wanted to ask you some questions about what you wear. If you get a spare moment can you e-mail me at warren_lee913 at yahoo dot com? I'd appreciate it.
Agreed. You so perfecly captured the passion that so many of us share. Thanks.
So, when do you plan on writing a book?
A friend sent me a link to your blog. Love it. What the rest of us can only be content to feel, you are successful at capturing in words. If ever anyone asks me the "why" question, now I have a website to direct them to.
Congratulations with you '06 Susitna finish. You have some solid mile behind you this time. It is very impressive. You are going to have fun this year. Start slow, eat often, avoid going into checkpoints (they are evil), and finish strong.
Like you I am a little obsessive about biking, although unlike you I might not necessarily be compulsive. To give this hypothesis a chance I am in the process of tyring a new training philosophy: "less is more". Here's the catchy slogan that goes with it: "why suffer now when you can suffer later".
This year I am going to McGrath on the Iditarod Trail Invitational, so I will miss my favorite race the Susitna100.
Enjoy the taper and have fun with the race.
If you're ever in Anchorage and looking to go for a little spin, or discuss nutrition or winter bike clothing ideas look me up.
Geoff, it is good to hear that some of my comments might have made a positive difference in somebody’s life. Very neat! Thanks for sharing that.
2005, though, there were times I was hoping I’d signed up on foot. That year I pushed 54 miles.
And pardon me for not remembering that conversation. It might have something to do with having been abandoned by my friends who were supposed to pick me up and the prospect of spending the night soaking wet with a sleeping bag in the same state.
Now that I think about it, that was good conditioning for what is in store for this year’s 350.
Geoff and Jill, I look forward to hearing stories from your adventures. Enjoy the moment.
You can not explain the pleasure you get from cycling to anybody who has not experienced the high from the level of total fitness that you have.
Every two years I pack my bike with 40 kilograms of camping and cooking gear and ride for 17 weeks every day over Alps and high passes for up to 12 - 14 hours per day. After 7 weeks I reach a plateau of never getting tired. After 4500 kilometers (and I have tested this over many many tours) I reach a state of euphoria and I can sprint all day for 120 kilometres never getting tired and sprinting at full strength even up mountains. The last 7 weeks of my tours are heaven where I sing and laugh and totally enjoy pain free sprinting all day. It means I am totally fit.
Nobody who has not ridden every day like you do and who goes through the pain barrier after only 20 minutes of hard sprinting (I force myself through the pain barrier as quickly as I can each morning) could possibly understand what it is like.
Most people who ride empty bikes for 1 - 2 hours never reach the pain barrier, never push themselves and therefore do not get the pleasure of the high.
I am coming to Alaska from May 2007 to September 2007 for a cycling tour starting in Anchorage. Could you please tell me what the rainjacket you use for riding in continuous rain. My current jacket lets water down the front of my neck and after a days riding in heavy continous rain I am wet down my shirtfront.
Keep riding as you find it a pleasure and don't bother trying to explain it just enjoy.
You're not crazy Jill, you're an adventurer. You make things happen. So many people don't do things because they believe they can't, but not you. You live life to the fullest - some people just watch it pass by. Lucky you, because of this you see and experience wonderful things that they never may. | 2019-04-21T07:19:04 | http://www.jilloutside.com/2007/01/liquid-gray-infinity.html |
So yesterday I posted this picture and asked everyone for their guesses as to what’s wrong with the bathroom.
For context, this picture was taken at the Grand Hyatt in NYC.
Even for a smaller person, rather tight fit sitting on the toilette.
I’m going to guess that the door to the bathroom was not able to be closed without having to step into the shower or atop the toilet – the Sheraton La Jolla replaced the pocket doors with swinging doors that went inward, would be difficult if you had a roommate.
The toilet is too close to the vanity!
Too close to the counter.
Seat is not on straight, which is typical.
No liner in trash can.
Toilet appears to be too low to be comfortable, but that could just be the photo angle.
There is no bidet next to it.
I hope that is your trash in the trash can…. or else the bathroom has not been cleaned.
And I agree with everyone else about the tight quarters, as it were. Obviously someone has banged themselves getting up… the edge of the vanity/towel/toilet paper place is marred. And if that triangle is the wall…. you must have to be a tiny tiny person to be able to use this room!
I think FreeTravelGuys is on the right track. I think on the left that’s a glass wall between the bathroom and the bedroom.
Depends. If the foggy glass on the left is next to the shower it’s fine. But if it’s right next to the bedroom then that’s the problem.
The location of the commode suggests to me that, even given my gender, there are many problems undertaking the functions one performs on/into a toilet.
The panel above the toilet probably has the button(s) for the flush. That’s where it is on some Toto tank-in-the wall toilets.
Submitted on 2015/11/04 at 8:40 pm | In reply to Karen H..
More on #6 – it looks like there is a perfectly good toilet paper-sized opening on the side of the vanity that the TP dispenser should have been mounted to, making it much more convenient (though still not terrific b/c you’d have to reach across your own body that you’ve somehow managed to wedge into that space).
4 – If that is indeed a counter or a door in the right hand corner, how the heck to you enter this bathroom?
6 – More on the TP – it would require a double-jointed elbow to reach the TP or some pre-planning.
The obvious problem would be how close the toilet is to the sink. So I guess you have to sit a little sideways. I guess then the problem becomes you have to make an acrobatic move to grab some TP. Stretching and exercise are important when traveling.
It looks like many things, but the first that comes to mind is, how do you flush the toilet?
It looks like you’d need some serious agility to get to the tp.
So the guesses are in and I was surprised at how many things people found. It was like one of those hidden picture games they have in Highlights magazine.
Some commenters mentioned there might be a problem for those with an “ample bottom”. In this case, I’d say it was anyone with a bottom.
Here’s a photo of the same space, but with me sitting on the toilet.
I’ve been aspiring to do travel blogging so that I could one day take a picture of me on a toilet. Hi, Mom!
Given where the sink is, and the size of the bowl, I could not literally sit forward on this toilet. And despite all the squats I do, a Kim Kardasian, I do not have.
So my rear did not fit on the toilet. And if I tried to fit it… what I needed to do did not, uh… aim properly into the toilet?
Unluckily, I had an aspiring consumer advocate on my side. Check out the Devil’s Advocate’s attempt to solve my case over here (definitely worth a read).
Yes, that is the corner of the door in the photo.
Yes, reaching the toilet paper took an advanced stage of yoga.
Yes, that was my own trash in the waste bin.
And the toilet did, in fact, flush.
I didn’t have that much time before I had to leave the room. And honestly, sitting sideways was unusual, but once I had a solution, I knew what I needed to do.
So I figured, why change when I knew how to roll with it?
If other people were in the room with me, of course I’d change so they didn’t have to. But for me, it was no big deal. But still, thanks to Devil’s advocate for, uh, successfully working on the situation.
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After doing some research, I found out why the split seat. And. You can slip socks on those “arms” so the seat isn’t cold!
Not so Grand after all….
After seeing your picture, I’m not sure that pot would be legal in Colorado! Not too impressed with the new head of Hyatt.
There’s a special layer of hell for people who design a bathroom layout like that!
Surprised this was at the Grsnd Hyatt NYC. Certainly doesn’t look as chic as any Hyatt I’ve stayed at. BTW the original conversion of the Vanderbilt Hotel (adjacent to Grand Central Station) into the Grand Hyatt was Donald Trump’s first major development project. One expects that he has learned something about bathroom design since then?
Julian’s writing is hilarious – thanks for suggesting and linking it.
No problem, I agree! I knew the story of what happened and what he did, but I still couldn’t stop laughing when I read it.
I am glad I am a guy. | 2019-04-21T12:42:56 | https://lechicgeek.boardingarea.com/what-was-actually-wrong-with-the-bathroom/ |
A street smart model who inherits a mysterious family heirloom that grants her the powers of the animal kingdom, Mari first met Green Arrow and the Flash during the debut season of her series, but fans won't have to wait until the second season of Vixen debuts to see her reunite with at least one half of that superheroic duo. Look for Vixen to appear in the Episode 15 of Arrow, which is entitled "Taken."
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In the meantime, check out the animated series that's been mercifully edited into one entire 30-minute episode. | 2019-04-19T15:01:57 | https://www.spartantown.net/2016/01/first-look-at-megalyn-echikunwoke-in.html |
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