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This is one of those books that once you read it, you never can forget it. And it will change your life and your perception of the world around you.
This is a story of a criminal psychologist, Finlay Logan, who is struggling with mental issues of his own due to the death of his beloved daughter. The book is written slightly in the future at a time when religious fanaticism is close to being determined to be a form of mental illness. Finlay must decide whether April Smith, a young woman who blew up a bus load of young atheists, is insane. Helping in his endeavor is Gabrielle Salmon, a scientist who has discovered a “process” whereby a patient can have a direct experience with God, thereby eliminating all guilt, shame and sorrow. Ms. Salmon not only claims to be able to connect Finlay and his patient to God but she also tells Finlay that she is in contact with his dead daughter, Flora.
This book raises so many questions about life and death and I think it gives a fascinating view of both. Examined are theories of alternate universes and that words create our reality. While the book is scientifically based, it is very readable and pulls you right into the story. I loved these characters, yes, even Finlay although his history with women certainly wasn’t the best. You have to feel compassion for this very human man with all his faults. There are two alternate endings to this book, which is just perfection due to the book’s theme.
Even if you’re not on a quest for spiritual enlightenment, this book is a delight just from a literary standpoint. It’s so beautifully written and I personally found it to be very uplifting and encouraging. Highly recommended. | 2019-04-21T22:49:40 | http://marjorie.booklikes.com/post/1376713/will-change-your-perception-of-the-world-around-you |
Spinning dog hair into yarn to make garments is an ancient tradition. Native Americans would historically spin dog hair along with the wool of the mountain goat and bark fibers to make blankets and clothing. Nowadays, dog lovers collect the brushed hair from their pets and have it spun into yarn to create beautiful, soft mementos of their pets. The hair of the husky is one of the best for spinning, as the dog has a soft undercoat that it sheds naturally each year.
Brush your husky regularly, using a slicker brush to remove the loose hair of the undercoat. Remove any coarse, outer hairs from the brush as these are hard and can be prickly if used in a garment. Save only the soft fur of the undercoat for making yarn.
Collect the fur in a box to prevent it from being compressed. Keep it safe until you have enough to make yarn.
Wash the fur as you would a fine wool garment. Use a mild, detergent-free dishwashing liquid or laundry soap for delicates, in hot water. Rinse it in clean water of the same temperature and dry by rolling it up in a towel to absorb the water and then drying it flat on a towel.
Card the fur. You can send it to a wool manufacturer for carding, or do it yourself using hand-held wooden carding paddles or metal dog brushes. This separates and straightens the fur ready for spinning.
Spin the fur, either by hand or using a spindle. Take the fur in one hand and twist a section of it with the other. Keep adding and twisting tufts of hair and you will create a length of yarn. You can also send the wool to a professional to have it spun, which will result in even more yarn.
Make a garment or keepsake from the yarn, knitting or crocheting it by hand. Combine it with woolen yarn to lighten the weight and density of it. This will result in an item that is not as warm as one made from pure dog hair. | 2019-04-19T10:33:15 | https://animals.mom.me/how-to-make-yarn-from-the-hair-of-a-husky-dog-12544667.html |
Adults and children can attend Sunday School at the Worship Center at 10 a.m. and noon. Young Adult Sunday School is held every Sunday at 10 a.m. at Worship Center in Room 2101-2102. An additional class is held, for adults only, at the Ministry Center on Sundays at 4:30 p.m. (on the fourth Sunday, this class is held at the Worship Center). | 2019-04-18T10:29:15 | http://fbcglenarden.org/inside-fbcg/sunday-school.html?siteversion=2 |
For nine innings, 101 pitches and 29 batters, a trio of Gwinnett Braves didn't allow a hit.
Rob Wooten, Matt Marksberry and Jose Ramirez combined to throw the second no-hitter in Triple-A Gwinnett's history as Atlanta's Triple-A affiliate topped Louisville, 3-0.
Wooten, making just his second career start and first of the season, threw 61 pitches and struck out eight as he navigated his way through the first six innings. Marksberry came on for a pair of innings and Ramirez finished the job with a 1-2-3 ninth.
"I just kept making pitches," Wooten told MiLB.com. "It was kind of a weird game, I mean I got three at-bats. I don't think I've had three at-bats in my whole career. Everything was weird, but I had full confidence and it wasn't anything new to me. The guys played great behind me and we got out of it. I have that reliever mentality where I just go out there to make pitches to get outs. It was extremely fun."
A fourth-inning wild pitch on a strikeout and an error by shortstop Sean Kazmar were the only plays that stood between Gwinnett and a perfect game. Instead, the Braves celebrated their first no-hitter since Todd Redmond threw one on May 28, 2010 -- also against Louisville. The Braves won that game, 4-0.
Wooten, 30, is in his first season with the Braves organization after several years with the Brewers. The right-hander most recently signed with the Braves on May 20 and had appeared in 16 games out of the bullpen. Gwinnett needed a spot starter Thursday and although Wooten hadn't started a game since Aug. 13, 2015, he stepped up and thrived.
With Wooten finished after six frames, Marksberry, whom the Braves drafted in the 15th round of the 2013 draft, was called upon to keep the no-no bid alive. Marksberry, whom the Braves optioned to Gwinnett on Wednesday, may have been the perfect man for the job as he's allowed just one hit in his last five Minor League appearances, a span of eight innings.
"I was aware that he didn't give up a hit," Marksberry said. "Kudos to Rob, he did his thing and got through six. We were just hoping to get four or five out of him, and he just came in there and dealt."
Then came 26-year-old right-hander Ramirez. The Mariners traded Ramirez to the Braves in December. In his first season with the organization, Ramirez has appeared in two games with the Major League club and 27 with Gwinnett. | 2019-04-20T12:55:03 | https://www.mlb.com/news/gwinnett-braves-pitchers-combine-to-toss-no-no/c-187214790 |
Hi! First of all, congratulations for your blog. I really would like to understand what you are talking about the the bot framework V4. The Microsoft reference is like talking Greek to me and I am struggling to find something that will not just conduct me into a step by step publishing bot process but mainly I would like to understand the logic and rationale between all classes and methods regarding the SDK V4. I am a complete beginner and discover that many (if all) the material available is a) directed to experienced developers or b) outdated (V3). Please, did you know some really friendly and updated book or any kind of material which can help me?
Hi Tom. Thanks. I would recommend you download https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples and work through them in their numbered order. However, I agree it can be a bit confusing. If there is something you’d like to know maybe I can write up a guide for you? | 2019-04-24T00:20:39 | https://pauliom.com/2018/11/12/prevent-promptvalidator-from-showing-a-prompt/ |
COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College men's basketball team fell to Pace University, 68-65, on Saturday in the Ross Sports Center during Northeast-10 Conference action. The Purple Knights are 5-12 overall and 2-10 in the league, while the Setters improved to 6-14 and 2-10.
Saint Michael's, which committed only eight turnovers while claiming an 18-2 advantage in points off of giveaways, saw its four-game series winning streak snapped in slipping to 12-7 all-time against Pace, with each loss by six points or less.
Junior Levi Holmes III (East Brunswick, N.J./Rutgers Prep) turned in his 11th 20-point game of the year, totaling 28 on 10-of-19 shooting, including 4-of-8 from three-point range, with four assists and two steals for the hosts. Sophomore Eli DiGrande (Essex Junction, Vt./Essex) added 12 points in 22 minutes off the bench, hitting two triples, while junior Derek Cheatom (Buffalo, N.Y./The Park School of Buffalo) had nine points, four rebounds and three steals.
Sophomore Thomas Jackson III (Middletown, Conn./Holderness School) posted eight points, five rebounds and four steals, while redshirt sophomore Stan Foster (Rochester, N.Y./Avon Old Farms School) collected seven rebounds, three blocks and two steals. Sophomore Jordan Guzman (Staten Island, N.Y./Xaverian) dished out a game-high five assists. During the game, Holmes passed Corey Crawford II '15, who buried 164 threes in 107 games, to take over 10th in program history with 167 triples through 68 contests. With 1,042 points, Holmes is now 39th at Saint Michael's in scoring.
First-year Austin Gilbertson scored 17 points to pace Pace, junior Greg Poleon shot 6-of-9 for 16 points and nine rebounds, while sophomore Peyton Wejnert added 13 points and six boards.
Pace scored the game's first eight points and led 14-5 on junior Luke McLaughlin's fastbreak lay-up before Saint Michael's used a 13-1 run to forge ahead, with Holmes completing a four-point play, Cheatom putting home a breakaway dunk and Jackson's lay-in knotting the contest before Foster blocked a shot on one end and dropped in the go-ahead bucket at the other at 7:14. Nineteen seconds later, Jackson's takeaway led to his fastbreak hoop, pushing the lead to three. The hosts twice led by four, including at 28-24 on Foster's triple with 3:04 to go, before Wejnert had four points in a 6-0 run that put the visitors back in front. However, DiGrande's dunk at 30 seconds after junior Jaylen Hall's (Chicago, Ill./Lincoln Park/Richard J. Daley) takeaway and assist sent the teams into halftime tied at 30.
The teams combined for four ties and four lead changes in the second stanza. Pace went up by as many as five at 39-34 on Gilbertson's three at 15:45 before Holmes and Jackson buried consecutive triples, and DiGrande's lay-up capped an 8-0 run. Holmes buckets twice more had the Purple Knights ahead by three, but Gilbertson scored the final five points of a 9-0 stretch to make it 53-47 in favor of the Setters.
Cheatom later scored five straight points to tie the game, and Holmes grabbed an offensive board before backing out to the three-point line and burying a go-ahead triple with 2:16 remaining, creating a 65-64 edge. After Poleon knocked down a baseline jumper with 58.4 seconds to go, the teams exchanged turnovers before the Purple Knights missed two go-ahead attempts in the final 10 seconds. First-year Brandon Jacobs added to the Pace lead with two free throws with 3.8 seconds remaining, and the hosts' ensuing inbounds pass was intercepted beyond midcourt.
The Purple Knights remain home to take on regionally-ranked Le Moyne College on Tuesday with a special 5:30 p.m. start time. The Dolphins are ranked third in the latest D2SIDA East Regional Poll. | 2019-04-21T07:04:05 | http://smcathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2017-18/releases/20180120tdqqn4 |
CELINA - Fireworks represent a celebration for some people, but for Barry Peel Jr. they are an art form. Peel's grandfather introduced him to fireworks at a young age, and he hasn't lost interest since, Peel said. While watc . . . | 2019-04-24T23:10:37 | http://www.dailystandard.com/archive/2017-07-03/stories/ |
Here's our little tree.....it was bigger in our littler house. Might have to get a bigger one after Christmas. But for now we are enjoying her all the same and I just love the wash tub she's sitting in!
Made some new ornaments this year....Mason jar lids with plaid material..
Been a crafting queen....I saw these cute penguins in a Anthropology catalog a few Christmas's back. Driving to Springfield I made my 1st one and now I make them for all my family. Here's my niece and nephews little penguins snowboarding and sledding. | 2019-04-20T21:03:59 | http://www.creativelittlehouse.com/2012/12/tree-trimed-in-tub.html |
Our Tasting Room is open by appointment only. The tasting fee is $25 per person and we pour a selection of 4-6 of our current release wines.
There is no minimum number of people; just give us a call. We do request that parties of 8 or more call ahead and guarantee the visit with a credit card.
We welcome the opportunity to meet and share the EDICT Wine experience with you! | 2019-04-19T10:56:01 | http://www.edictwines.com/experience/ |
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Zisserman-Brodsky, Dina. Constructing Ethnopolitics in the Soviet Union: Samizdat, Deprivation, and the Rise of Ethnic Nationalism. Palgrave. Israel. 2003. | 2019-04-26T04:21:52 | http://ajhs.org/aasjm-bibliography |
In the end of 1999 Arian van Zweden was reading in a magazine about a stunt competition at the Malory Park in the UK.
After visiting the competition he got infected with the stunt virus and went back for a stunt course at the same track.
The rest of the year he spend practicing stunts like wheelies, stoppies burnouts etc.
In 2000 he made his first show at the KicXstart street fighter day in Leiden Holland.
In this year he also traded his supermoto for a Suzuki Bandit.
After that he met the right people at the right moment and many shows followed.
To extend his program Arian employed some co-riders. After a few changes through the years he's riding together now with his girlfriend Petra.
The last decade the AvZ stunt team has performed at many places.
With highlights like the Moto GP Assen, Nacht van Assen, World Super Bikes, Motor Beurs Utrecht, Motor Rai, Frankfurt automotive show (Germany), Intermot Köln (germany), European bike week Faak am See (Austria) and many more.
Beside these Mega events AvZ also likes to do small events at bike shops, bike meetings or town parties.
AvZ stuntriding will be glad to perform at your event.
All they need is a smooth paved road from min. 4x60meters for a basic show till 6x 200meters (or more) for the maximum adrenalin rush.
If you have any questions about the team please contact them. | 2019-04-26T05:10:37 | https://sites.google.com/site/avzstuntriding/team |
I am celebrating one year with EverGreene Architectural Arts this September. Over the last 12 months, I have had the pleasure of celebrating the company’s 40th anniversary through a series of national events; am in process of developing a new website platform to upgrade our technology; and was part of the company’s first acquisition this past May. EverGreene welcomed Conservation Solutions Inc., based in the metro D.C. area, to strengthen our conservation services and become the official leader in architectural arts and artifact preservation across the U.S. | 2019-04-19T23:09:17 | http://nyrej.com/2018-wire-professional-services-katherine-demercurio-evergreene |
Just looked. Scares me. Not incremental jump. What can we expect next year?
I tried to buy my tickets on the site and it wouldn't work!
Spending more is never welcome. But, I have thought all along that the weekend tickets were priced too low compared to other venues and events. I will suffer the increase. | 2019-04-25T08:04:24 | http://beanfestforum.com/2019-tickets-now-on-sale_topic16170_post125243.html |
Interventions to prevent and treat corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis and prevent osteoporotic fractures in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2017 01 24;1:CD010899. Epub 2017 Jan 24.
Centre for Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Room 02.041, 2nd Floor, Mulhouse, Grosvenor Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, BT12 6BJ.
Steroid myopathy in patients with chronic respiratory diseases.
J Neurol Sci 2014 Mar 17;338(1-2):96-101. Epub 2013 Dec 17.
Principle Clinical Military Hospital, Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, Golitzyno, Petrovskoe shosse d.48, Odinzovskiy r-n, Moscow Region 143040, Russia.
Background: Corticosteroid-induced myopathy is a well known clinical entity, and experimental studies showed decreased rate of protein synthesis and increased rate of protein breakdown in muscles of chronically treated animals.
Objective: The present observational study was aimed to evaluate skeletal muscle functions in asthmatics and patients with other chronic respiratory diseases treated by inhaled or oral corticosteroids.
Coadministration of tacrolimus with corticosteroid accelerates recovery in refractory patients with polymyositis/ dermatomyositis: a retrospective study.
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2012 Nov 22;13:228. Epub 2012 Nov 22.
Background: To investigate whether or not coadministration of tacrolimus (TAC) with prednisolone (PSL) can produce a beneficial effect in the treatment of polymyositis/ dermatomyositis (PM/DM).
[Polymyositis-dermatomyositis recognized during the follow-up of a patient with type 2 diabetes].
Szent Borbála Kórház I. Belgyógyászat Tatabánya Dózsa György u.
Hypertension and other morbidities with Cushing's syndrome associated with corticosteroids: a review.
Integr Blood Press Control 2011 3;4:7-16. Epub 2011 Mar 3.
Gefitinib-induced interstitial lung disease-addition of intravenous cyclophosphamide to corticosteroids is a valuable treatment option: A case report.
Med Oncol 2010 Sep 4;27(3):753-5. Epub 2009 Aug 4.
Division of Respiratory Medicine, International Medical Center of Japan, 1-21-1, Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8655, Japan.
Linear hypopigmentation and cutaneous atrophy following intra-articular steroid injections for de Quervain's tendonitis.
Duke University Medical Center, Division of Dermatology, USA.
Effects of human amniotic fluid and membrane in the treatment of Achilles tendon ruptures in locally corticosteroid-induced Achilles tendinosis: an experimental study on rats.
Foot Ankle Surg 2009 31;15(1):22-7. Epub 2008 Jul 31.
Dokuz Eylül University, School of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Izmir, Turkey.
Background: To determine the effects of human amniotic fluid and membrane in the treatment of Achilles tendon ruptures, 72 tendons of 36 Wistar rats were injected with betamethasone sodium phosphate.
Corticosteroid induced psychosis in the pain management setting.
Millennium Pain Center, Bloomington, IL 61701, USA.
Background: Synthetic corticosteroids are commonly utilized in interventional pain management procedures. These substances have potential side-effects including psychological adverse events.
[Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis complicating paraneoplastic dermatomyositis].
Ann Dermatol Venereol 2008 Oct 24;135(10):668-71. Epub 2008 Jul 24.
Service de dermatologie 1 hôpital Saint-Louis, AP-HP, université Paris-7, 1 avenue Claude-Vellefaux, Paris, France.
Corticosteroid-induced myopathy mimicking therapy-resistant asthma.
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Corticosteroid-induced adverse events in adults: frequency, screening and prevention.
Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Saint Antoine, Paris, France.
Effects of chronic sepsis on the voltage-gated sodium channel in isolated rat muscle fibers.
Département d'Anesthésie Réanimation, University Hospital of Brest, Brest, France.
[Granulomatous myopathy in patients with sarcoidosis and myasthenia gravis].
Ustav patologie a molekulární mediciny UK 2. LF a FN Motol, Praha.
Creatine intake attenuates corticosteroid-induced impairment of voluntary running in hamsters.
Medical School of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Internal Medicine Department, Hospital das Clínicas de Ribeirão Preto, Avenida Bandeirantes 3900, CEP 14098-900, Brazil.
Creatine supplementation attenuates corticosteroid-induced muscle wasting and impairment of exercise performance in rats.
J Appl Physiol (1985) 2007 Feb 19;102(2):698-703. Epub 2006 Oct 19.
Dept. of Internal Medicine, Medical School of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada.
Objective: Reports of eye involvement in juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM), including significant retinopathy with visual loss, have led some to recommend routine formal ophthalmologic assessments for all patients with JDM at diagnosis. Our objective was to document the frequency and spectrum of eye involvement in patients followed in a single clinic caring for children with JDM.
Corticosteroid-induced myopathy in spinal cord injury patients: a role for anticatabolic agents?
Effect of hylan G-F 20 in Achilles' tendonitis: an experimental study in rats.
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Dokuz Eylül University, School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey.
Objective: To investigate the local effects of hylan G-F 20 on locally administered corticosteroid-induced experimental Achilles' tendonitis.
Chronic corticosteroid administration causes mitochondrial dysfunction in skeletal muscle.
First Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, The University of Tokushima, Kuramoto-3-18-15, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan.
Effect of heparin on tendon degeneration: an experimental study on rats.
Dokuz Eylül University, School of Medicine, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Izmir, Turkey.
Effects of treadmill exercise on muscle fibers in mice with steroid myopathy.
The First Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan.
College of Health and Human Performance, and College of Medicine (Division of Cardiology), University of Florida, Gainesville 32611, USA.
[Clinical investigation of diaphragmatic function. Relationships with the biology of muscle].
Service de Pneumologie et Immuno-Allergologie, Hôpital Calmette, CHRU de Lille.
Cyclical etidronate increases bone density in the spine and hip of postmenopausal women receiving long term corticosteroid treatment. A double blind, randomised placebo controlled study.
Objective: To study the effect of cyclic etidronate in secondary prevention of corticosteroid induced osteoporosis.
[The effect of corticotherapy on respiratory muscles].
Unité de recherche sur les muscles respiratoires, Hôpital Universitaire, Leuven, Belgique.
Salmon calcitonin nasal spray in the prevention of corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis.
St Joseph's Hospital, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
A randomized controlled trial of salmon calcitonin to prevent bone loss in corticosteroid-treated temporal arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica.
Cornell Multipurpose Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disease Center, Hospital For Special Surgery, New York, New York 10021, USA.
Cutaneous alternariosis: role of corticosteroid-induced cutaneous fragility.
Service de dermatologie, CHU Trousseau, Tours, France.
Corticosteroid-induced myopathy of the respiratory muscles.
Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Universital Hospital, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Phacoemulsification in the standing position with loupe magnification and headlamp illumination.
Department of Ophthalmology, UCLA School of Medicine.
Corticosteroid-induced myopathy involving respiratory muscles in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma.
Department of Medicine, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Myasthenia gravis and steroid-induced myopathy of the respiratory muscles.
Service de Réanimation Polyvalente, Hôpital B, CHRU, Lille, France.
Objective: We report a case of corticosteroid-induced myopathy with involvement of respiratory muscles observed in a myasthenic patient.
[Cortisone-induced osteoporosis: from physiopathology to treatment].
Service de Rhumatologie, CHRU Angers.
Clinical deterioration in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: causes and assessment.
Department of Medicine, National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, Colorado.
Corticosteroid-induced myopathy and the respiratory muscles. Report of two cases.
Respiratory Division, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium.
[The most frequent complications during long-term corticotherapy].
Fluoride treatment in corticosteroid induced osteoporosis.
Corticosteroid induced remission of oesophageal involvement in mixed connective tissue disease.
Ultrastructural observations in myopathy complicating Cushing's disease.
Some aspects of corticosteroid-induced cleft palate: a review.
Electron microscopic observations in thyrotoxic and corticosteroid-induced myopathies.
[Corticosteroid-induced myopathy. Clinical and electromyographic study]. | 2019-04-21T22:18:07 | https://www.pubfacts.com/search/Corticosteroid-Induced+Myopathy |
Accepted Offer with Contingencies. Amazing one story property in highly sought after South Corvallis area. Close proximity to parks, school and Hwy 34 for access to I5 or Hwy 99. The well laid out floor plan boasts large kitchen and family room. Don't miss the enormous garage at 660 Sq Ft! Your personal touches will bring this home to life. | 2019-04-18T22:29:22 | http://realestate.statesmanjournal.com/property/or/corvallis/97333-9266/-/447-se-villa-dr/5c92a2f6a78e924dcc00002f/ |
Over the weekend, the Texas Tech softball team finished the Lone Star Collegiate Classic with a perfect 5-0 record after defeating the Lamar Cardinals 3-1 on Sunday afternoon.
What do you do when you're undefeated and off to the best start since the 2011 season? You have all of the coaches jump into a freezing pool, of course.
After their big start to the season, the Red Raiders will travel to Auburn, Alabama for the Plainsman Invitational on Feb. 15-17. | 2019-04-20T08:27:50 | https://kkam.com/texas-tech-softball-coaches-take-polar-plunge-after-best-start-since-2011/ |
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We have a couple of bigger buildings in the 2mm range today. The Large Mediterranean Church is based on the one in Lourmarin, Provence – compare it with a photo of the real thing below. I’ll stump up a small prize if anyone can accurately paint all of the bars on the windows at 2mm scale !
The second model is a small hotel set in it’s own raised grounds. It would look good as the centre-piece of a village, maybe build into the side of a hill or even on a small island.
Been watching Porco Rosso again have we? | 2019-04-24T20:07:33 | http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/Blog/2013/08/new-mediterranean-releases/ |
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Robins Kitchen Stores specialize in providing customers the best quality of kitchenware for your homes. It also has some fantastic easy to do recipes. Stylish ideas are available online for friends and family. Items have very reasonable prices. | 2019-04-20T14:13:21 | https://top1promocodes.com/robins-kitchen-australia-promo-codes/ |
Millions of tons of natural resources go into processing, packaging and transporting our food. Processing is the work of cooking and assembling the product; adding coloring, additives, and preservatives.
What to we mean by whole food?
We can think of a whole food as one that is taken directly from its source, whether plant or animal, and contains all of its original nutrients. Whole foods include fresh fruit and vegetables, whole grains, whole meat parts, and whole milk. Whole foods don’t have any additives or preservatives. They also don’t have their nutrients removed.
What does it mean to be processed?
chopped into fine pieces from a whole apple. It still tastes like an apple, and although it does not look like an apple, you can imagine how it is made from whole apples. An apple pop tart has been processed further and contains many other ingredients besides apples. A pop-tart would be considered a highly processed food. You can see the complete ingredients list here by clicking on Ingredients.
What are my attitudes toward eating whole foods? Simple meals? Where do those attitudes come from? To what extent do they support or hinder my having a healthy diet?
Can I get along without packages, canned or convenience food? Why do I buy these foods? To what extent are my eating habits influenced by the media?
What role does fast food play in my eating habits? What need does fast food fulfill? Can I imagine other, healthier strategies that could also meet that need?
Describe your ideal mix of foods for daily meals.
On your own or with your family, using magazines and other images, create a collage of foods you feel would feed your body and soul and post it where you can see it daily.
Track your eating for two days. Note which items are whole and which are lightly and which heavily processed.
Identify at home or at the store 3 to 5 processed food items and make a list of the additives and preservative. Here is a suggested form to identify ingredients and additives.
Want to buy bulk food with less packaging and higher quality, but don't want to give up the convenience of a regular grocery store? There's no need to wait for your closest mega-chain supermarket to carry the good stuff. You can join a local food coop or create a neighborhood coop. Food cooperatives are worker or customer owned businesses that provide grocery items of the highest quality and best value to their members. Coops can take the shape of retail stores or buying clubs. All food coops are committed to consumer education, product quality, and member control, and usually support their local communities by selling produce grown locally by family farms.
body care products with organic ingredients and more (i.e. vegan, vegetarian, macrobiotic, kosher).
Packaging: For 5 days, place all the food related packing you use in a plastic bag. At the end of the 5 days, weigh the bag and guessimate its volume.
Discuss how you might reduce that waste over time.
Learn more about sweet drinks.
Learn more about sweet snacks. | 2019-04-22T00:16:03 | http://www.westtown.monthlymeeting.net/friendly-households/food/whole-versus-processed-food-2 |
I may be here for days.
as we hike up to the top.
For this blaze to stop.
as we hit and lick.
A dangerous job, no doubt. Have a blessed week ahead. | 2019-04-20T17:20:53 | http://thenuthousefive.blogspot.com/2017/09/sunday-truism.html |
In 2010 CANGO carried out a sub-project of the "Study on the Innovation and Development Mechanism of Scientific Social Organizations", under the Fund for Innovative Approaches assigned by the Ministry of Science and Technology. With strong support from the State Administration on Social Organizations and the Department of Society & Science Management of Chinese Association of Science and Technology, the research team of CANGO visited Nanjing, Wuxi and Taizhou of Jiangsu Province. Small workshops and interviews were held to carry out an in-depth survey on Scientific Social Organizations both at the municipal and provincial level. Nearly 40 Scientific social Organizations participated in the workshop and seven Scientific Social Organizations participated in the in-depth interviews. In addition, with assistance of the local Associations for Science and Technology, CANGO distributed 50 questionnaires to the Boards of Directors, the Secretariats and Members. After careful consultation on the returned questionnaires to find out that only 19 returned questionnaires were valid, with the return rate at 38%. After careful analysis of the data, the research team finally compiled five reports; the "Analysis Report on the Data of the Scientific Social Organizations’ Development", "Analysis Report of Questionnaires of Local Scientific Social Organizations", "Report on Jiangsu Provincial Scientific Social Organizations’ Innovation and Development", "Report on Wuxi Municipal Scientific Social Organizations’ Innovation and Development" and "Taizhou Municipal Scientific Social Organizations’ Innovation Development".
From September 2009 to March 2010, the research team made nationwide collected of the outstanding papers of research on working experience, success stories and development strategies of Scientific Social Organizations’ Innovation and Development. 44 papers were received for evaluation, of which 11 papers were from the Science and Technology organizations, 13 both from local and national Associations of Science and Technology, and 13 from higher education and research institutions as well as 7 from other organizations. On April 1st 2010, the meeting was held in Beijing for Appraising Best Research Papers on the Innovation and Development Mechanism of Scientific Social Organizations.
The evaluation experts scored based on academic value, policy value, shining points of policy recommendations, creativity, operational recommendations and the rationality of article structures, accuracy of illustration and preciseness. The ranking was made according to the average scores gave by the experts with the results produced as follows: absent for First Prize, three Second Prizes, four Third Prizes and eight Best papers.
On September 10th 2010, the Project Acceptance Meeting, hosted by the Administrative Center for China's Agenda 21, was held in Beijing. As the chief head responsible for the Project, Mr. Huang Haoming, Vice Chairman and Executive Director of CANGO, made a thorough report on the research methodologies, results, problems and policy recommendations, which attained common appreciations from the experts at the meeting. The project was passed successfully. | 2019-04-21T20:39:40 | http://cango.org/en/showResearch.aspx?id=32 |
Place of publication: Diehl, E. Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres. Berlin 1924-1931, repr. 1970; A.E. Gordon and J.S. Gordon. Album of Dated Latin Inscriptions (Berkeley and Los Angeles 1958-1965) no. 317. | 2019-04-19T04:55:57 | http://drc.ohiolink.edu/handle/2374.OX/185146 |
Take a look at these incredible style transformations.
Jonah Hill's fitness transformation has been the chatter of the internet this week. But it's more than just the actor's physique that's changed. The dude has come into his own when it comes to getting dressed. And Hill isn't the only famous guy whose style evolution played out right before our eyes—Hollywood has a long list of 'em. Here's a look back at some of the most iconic changes.
Beckham is an icon, period. This spiky hair, brown leather jacket, and ombre shades aren't exactly good, but they're just the beginning.
Behold, the personification of aging like a fine wine.
Pratt got crazy ripped and invested heavily in a great wardrobe (and, likely, a stylist). As you can see, it worked for him.
If we're being honest, Harry Styles wasn't ever really not stylish—even as a kid in 2012. His looks were just tame and boy-ish.
Fast forward to 2017, and Styles is one of the men changing the face of modern menswear. If only we could own as much Gucci as he does.
2001 cornrow Jared Leto is an inspirational one, for sure. Pair that with a red dress shirt, track pants, and some sort of thick blue shoe and you've got yourself an icon.
Another walking ad for Gucci, Leto has recently been game for any sort of long jacket and/or cape layer.
2006 Jonah did not follow the cardinal rule of poor fit: baggy clothes make you look bigger.
2017 Jonah still leans toward a laid-back style, but it's cleaned up this time with a fitted tank, Vans, and mid-calf socks.
2003 Justin Timberlake in a fedora, chain, and a puke-green shirt. Hard pass.
JT has one of the most impressive style evolutions of all time. For that, we are grateful.
At the 2003 ESPYs, Kevin Love showed up with a buzz cut, a goatee, Air Force 1s, and no clue about how his clothes should fit.
The NBA star got cut (he credits eliminating dairy from his diet, among other changes), and tightened up his looks. This 2015 ESPYs look was a great one.
IS THIS A ZOOT SUIT, 2004 LeBron?
And in 2016: a hundred million times better.
At the 2004 MTV Movie Awards, Shia wore what appears to be an "I Got Served" T-shirt, because why the hell not?
Modern day Shia is a menswear anomaly. He wears whatever he wants—like sweatpants tucked into his military boots and stained T-shirts—but does so in a smooth, purposeful way.
Here we have a 2003 Alexander Skarsgard wearing an abhorrent red shirt and a tie that isn't even close to being the right length.
Dude really found his style, though. His go-to look is a pair of slim-fit pants and boldly patterned short sleeve shirt.
Like Styles, Zac Efron's style evolution was really more about maturity. Like in 2008, when he thought a man scarf on the red carpet would be a good look.
A much better red carpet choice: a perfectly tailored suit and a great haircut. | 2019-04-22T22:10:21 | https://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/g3435/celebrity-men-style-transformation/ |
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The Roman conquest of Israel and Egypt in the last century BC brought many Jews into the Roman Empire (though many Jews lived in Babylon or elsewhere in the Parthian Empire as well). Many stayed in Israel, but others moved to Rome or other parts of the Roman Empire. Because they had a different religion and a different way of life, and because they refused to worship the Roman Emperor as a god, the Romans treated the Jews with some suspicion.
But the Romans, like the Persians, did allow the Jews to keep on practicing their religion. The Roman Emperor Caligula had an anti-Jewish policy, and in 40 AD tried to put his own statue in the great Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, but when there were riots about this by the Jews in Alexandria, in Egypt, Caligula’s successor Claudius allowed the Jews to practice their religion.
The Roman emperor Titus, Vespasian’s son. Doesn’t he look like his dad?
By 66 AD, however, in the reign of the Roman Emperor Nero, the Jews decided to revolt against Rome as they had under the Maccabees and try to get their independence back. Nero sent one of his minor generals, the future emperor Vespasian, to put down the revolt. When Vespasian became emperor in 69 AD, he left his son Titus to finish off the Jewish revolt.
Titus fought the Jews until he won. One of the last holdouts was the fortress of Masada, where a last group of Jews held out until the Romans built a great ramp up to the fortress and broke down the walls (the story that all the Jews then committed suicide is probably not true).
When Titus returned to Rome, his brother Domitian built a great big stone triumphal arch in his honor, and inside it there are carvings showing Titus carrying away the sacred things of the Jews, including a menorah.
Titus also, in 70 AD, destroyed the Second Temple of the Jews in Jerusalem, which has still not been rebuilt. Thanks to the Jewish writer Josephus, who wrote a history of the revolt, we know a lot about it.
Cite this page: Carr, K.E. First Jewish revolt – West Asian history. Quatr.us Study Guides, August 24, 2017. Web. April 21, 2019. | 2019-04-21T06:34:13 | https://quatr.us/history/first-jewish-revolt-west-asian-history.htm |
A Dave Boundy hat-trick catapulted Orange City into the box seat of their Orange District Cricket Association second grade clash with Centrals on the weekend, the former Western Zone swing king decimating the red and blacks’ top order. The Warriors had declared earlier in the day at 7-232 and in reply Centrals worked their way to 1-23, the red and blacks were looking to steady the ship after Dylan Caughlan snared Sean Kelly (0) straight away. The Boundy went to work. Hooping the ball around from a semi-long run-up, first Boundy trapped Brenton Anthony (6) in front with the fifth ball of his first over. MORE IN CRICKET: TEAM OF THE WEEK | Gurney goes ballistic as bowlers take big hauls Then, across the last two balls of his next over and the first of his third, he lured Tristan Moon (0) into a false shot before uprooting Mitch Stanley (0) and Roshan Eiseman’s (0) castles to snare a rare hat-trick, and leave Centrals reeling at 5-23. With Mick Evans producing a maiden in between those two, Boundy actually took 4-0 in the space of 13 balls. Brock Walker (18 not out) and Gareth Faul (0 not out) will resume at the crease on day two, their side needing another 210 for victory. In the other second grade clash CYMS look on track to down Cavaliers, although Matt Baker’s dismissal late on day one was somewhat untimely. After Cavaliers posted 206, Baker led his side to 1-110 with an unbeaten 61 but in the shadows of stumps he was trapped in front by Al Harper. The green and golds didn’t lose any more wickets and will resume at 2-113 though, with at least 80 overs left they remain firmly in the box seat. ALSO READ: Hot Coles breaks Wentworth’s drought to claim inaugural Steve Roach Memorial Trophy In third grade CYMS managed two victories over Kinross in as many days, the two sides faced off on Saturday before playing a catch-up game on Sunday too. Both were low-scoring, yet thrilling affairs. On Saturday CYMS skittled Kinross for 92 but the students fought back hard with the ball, it eventually took the green and golds 35 overs to edge home with just two wickets left in the bank. Sunday’s game played out much the same, but for a match-winnings innings from Ben McNiven. Kinross made 100 and McNiven came to the crease with his side reeling at 7-51, but played a composed innings to finish 42 not out and secure his side victory. Again, CYMS had two wickets in the bank. Waratahs (9-133) also defeated Orange City (9-132) in third grade, edging home by a single wicket, while the results of the other two games were not available at time of publication. In Centenary Cup Kinross Super Kings (9-157) defeated CYMS (69) and Orange City handed Kinross Blue their first defeat of the 2018-19 summer. Logan Buckley blasted 83 to lead the students to a defensible 9-168 but Jeremiah Murphy (72) and Darcy Climpson (57) once again combined well, inspiring their side’s five-wicket victory just seven days after doing something similar against CYMS.
A Dave Boundy hat-trick catapulted Orange City into the box seat of their Orange District Cricket Association second grade clash with Centrals on the weekend, the former Western Zone swing king decimating the red and blacks’ top order.
The Warriors had declared earlier in the day at 7-232 and in reply Centrals worked their way to 1-23, the red and blacks were looking to steady the ship after Dylan Caughlan snared Sean Kelly (0) straight away.
The Boundy went to work.
Hooping the ball around from a semi-long run-up, first Boundy trapped Brenton Anthony (6) in front with the fifth ball of his first over.
Then, across the last two balls of his next over and the first of his third, he lured Tristan Moon (0) into a false shot before uprooting Mitch Stanley (0) and Roshan Eiseman’s (0) castles to snare a rare hat-trick, and leave Centrals reeling at 5-23.
With Mick Evans producing a maiden in between those two, Boundy actually took 4-0 in the space of 13 balls.
Brock Walker (18 not out) and Gareth Faul (0 not out) will resume at the crease on day two, their side needing another 210 for victory.
In the other second grade clash CYMS look on track to down Cavaliers, although Matt Baker’s dismissal late on day one was somewhat untimely.
After Cavaliers posted 206, Baker led his side to 1-110 with an unbeaten 61 but in the shadows of stumps he was trapped in front by Al Harper.
The green and golds didn’t lose any more wickets and will resume at 2-113 though, with at least 80 overs left they remain firmly in the box seat.
In third grade CYMS managed two victories over Kinross in as many days, the two sides faced off on Saturday before playing a catch-up game on Sunday too.
Both were low-scoring, yet thrilling affairs.
On Saturday CYMS skittled Kinross for 92 but the students fought back hard with the ball, it eventually took the green and golds 35 overs to edge home with just two wickets left in the bank.
Sunday’s game played out much the same, but for a match-winnings innings from Ben McNiven.
Kinross made 100 and McNiven came to the crease with his side reeling at 7-51, but played a composed innings to finish 42 not out and secure his side victory. Again, CYMS had two wickets in the bank.
Waratahs (9-133) also defeated Orange City (9-132) in third grade, edging home by a single wicket, while the results of the other two games were not available at time of publication.
In Centenary Cup Kinross Super Kings (9-157) defeated CYMS (69) and Orange City handed Kinross Blue their first defeat of the 2018-19 summer.
Logan Buckley blasted 83 to lead the students to a defensible 9-168 but Jeremiah Murphy (72) and Darcy Climpson (57) once again combined well, inspiring their side’s five-wicket victory just seven days after doing something similar against CYMS.
Discuss "Big, bad Boundy bags hat-trick as Centrals buckle, CYMS bounce Kinross back-to-back | Photos" | 2019-04-21T12:32:06 | https://www.centralwesterndaily.com.au/story/5790423/big-bad-boundy-bags-hat-trick-as-centrals-buckle-cyms-bounce-kinross-back-to-back-photos/ |
The properties of car rental in Milos island are plenty. The visitor can rent / hire a car, scooter, bike, motorcycle or motorbike and explore the beauties of all the holiday destinations. The properties are illustrated with pictures and detailed description. | 2019-04-23T01:07:30 | http://www.atlasvisual.com/milos-car-rental |
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Electrical, conduit and install quality are often overlooked as part of the equipment integrity and value. It is easy to look and see the equipment, but do you look at the electrical? IPI takes pride in providing a good electrical system that will last, is easy to work on and is easily understandable by your maintenance personnel.
Rigid threaded conduits are used on the equipment. This gives us a raceway that can take abuse, while other conduits that have been used by other companies, like EMT, will not hold up or stay together.
The use of EMT is ok for building lighting, building receptacles and overhead pipe racks where the conduit will not see vibration or abuse.
The use of weld on poly clamps to secure conduit. These clamps come from the hydraulic industry. We find that conventional conduit clamps (one hole straps, Mini straps, Unistrut clamps) will not keep conduits secure with the vibration of any equipment.
The use of conventional conduit clamps is ok for building lighting, building receptacles and overhead pipe racks where the conduit will not see vibration or abuse.
IPI uses multiple conduits for circuits verse using a large conduit for many circuits. This helps in many ways.
Conduit overfill is a problem that causes too much heat and shortages.
It makes it easier to trace down a circuit by following the conduit.
It keeps down the "rats nest" in junction boxes.
Easier to add circuits in the future.
IPI routes conduit in ways to protect and keep out of the way.
Conduit routes are kept off the floor so that brooms can sweep under them.
Conduits that can only pass in an area where damage may occur are protected by added structural steel. | 2019-04-24T09:53:10 | http://www.industrialpowerinc.net/me/industrial-power-inc/electrical-13888.html |
Joining the likes of other white-hot emerging Nashville bands, COIN is capitalizing on their 90s childhoods (and obvious love of synth,) and stepping out onto the national stage with plenty of grassroots-feuled momentum.
The 4-piece crew released their debut self-titled album last month and have already climbed to #5 on our "Popular Locals" list. Their dynamic combination of pop and electrorock is infectious, with ridiculously catchy hooks and danceable tempos.
Fresh off a stint with Betty Who, the boys are hopping on tour with new wave chart-toppers Neon Trees, then indie dance rockers Walk the Moon.
COIN and Neon Trees, along with new romantic revivalists ,Fictionist, will be stopping by Cannery Ballroom on Tuesday, 7.14. Grab your tickets here before they're gone!
COIN Release New Single "Run"
Check out this brand spanking new single from indie-rock outfit COIN. The song was released in conjunction with their mini-tour supporting Grizfolk kicking off January 29th. "Run" is a bright, pop number about being young and bullheaded. Their debut album is due out this June; produced by Jay Joyce, it's sure to capture the synth-driven energy that has built COIN's reputation thus far. Keep up with the COIN crew at www.thisiscoin.com.
Yesterday electro-pop four-piece, COIN, released their newest single a day early as a gift to fans for getting the band to 1992 likes on Facebook, a numeric tribute to their new album, also titled 1992. "Atlas" marks the first release from the album and is, according to the band, a song about Y2k.
You can add "Atlas" as well as the rest of the songs from 1992 to your music library one week from today on May 2nd at 12th & Porter, where the band will host their album release show. The gig will be COIN's first live performance since February and marks our first chance to hear some of their newest songs live. | 2019-04-24T14:27:39 | http://nashville.thedelimagazine.com/category/bands/coin |
Dr. Biernat is a board certified Dermatologist and a fellowship trained Mohs Micrographic Skin Cancer surgeon. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Mohs Surgery.
Dr. Casey is a board certified Dermatologist and a fellowship trained Mohs Micrographic Skin Cancer surgeon. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology and a fellow of the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery.
Dr. Seline is a board certified Dermatologist and a fellowship trained Mohs Micrographic Skin Cancer surgeon. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, and a Fellow of the American College of Mohs Surgery. | 2019-04-24T03:51:48 | https://www.centerforsurgicaldermatology.com/Mohs-Surgeons |
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23 Apr the EU-LFS data. This article is part of a set of online articles on the EU-LFS. , Employment of disabled people. , Reconciliation. Reference ID, EGY_LFS__HD_V1. Year, Country, Egypt. Producer(s), Economic Research Forum Central Agency For Public Mobilization & Statistics. 23 Mar Component of Statistics Canada Catalogue no. X. Perspectives on Labour and Income. Labour Force Survey: year-end review.
In brief, starting with the release of LFS data for January (in February ), estimates will be based on the Census population counts; sub-provincial. 29 Feb During an average of 4 persons were employed. This is an increase of 96 persons compared to The number of. Labour Force Survey (Click on Icon Publications and go Labour Force Survey on icon annually and Labour Market); Outline of the Labour Force Survey 16 Jul Quality Report On Household Labour Force Survey (LFS). 2. In the first stage, a stratified random sample of areas, Primary Sampling. August 64% response rate at wave 1. - 10 years ago 75% in wave 1. • Key LFS estimates - sensitive to ethnicity, household type and nationality. | 2019-04-26T00:36:17 | http://acunorganizasyon.com/books-reference/lfs-2011.php |
My main role in this game jam was to be here to help communication between teammates and focus on the game. I wrote several summary and briefing of our design choices, a short design document for each of our phases and places. I’ve alsol design a short branching dialogs. Most of our work isn’t in the GGJ demo. You can find our attempt for this jam below.
A space and quiet odyssey. You’re leaving your homeworld after a cataclysm. Now it’s up to you to find a new place to settle through your journey.
I worked on 2 main projects for Smart Tale and write several game concepts and concept iterations for the studio. I was the main Game Designer of Smart Tale and in charge of managing the 2D Graphist and the main prototype development with two other developers. Both of the projects were on the pre-production/concept period.
Some documents are blurred out of respect for the studio and the concerned people.
This new entry to the series will have you racing along on more than 1800 miles (almost 3000km) of roads on mountainsides, through nature parks, in the middle of the desert, and along the coast. Featuring more than 250 races, including championships, missions and challenges, the game will allow to go behind the wheel of more than 50 licensed cars from the world’s most famous manufacturers, such as the Porsche 718 Boxster, 918 Spyder, 911 GT2RS, Dodge Viper, Lotus 3-Eleven or McLaren 720s.
I was the only Game Designer fully assigned to this project. I’ve participated in several meetings with producers and potential publishers, including a full presentation of the concept to a Millenial Esports team, visiting the French studio.
Each character should have its own, unique and easy-to-understand mechanic. You can use the four figurines at the same time.
Les Selenautes was made during the Inclus et Connectés workshop at the CNAM ENJMIN. The goal of the week was to make games adapted for people with disabilities. We chose to develop a tablet game with connected figurines we’ve specially made for this experience. The game is mentally handicapped children and Down syndrome friendly. Each of the 4 figurines has a unique effect. You can grab it, put it on the tablet and rotate it.
A rhythm n’ versus game, PC.
Project made with a small team of schoolmates during 2 months.
I came with the idea of a rhythm and versus game with the main programmer. With a composer and a graphist, we’ve made a first prototype for the Airconsole Developers Contest in less than a month. I set the main mechanics and the design of the game. On the 2017 summer, we add three more people to our project. For this desktop version, I was responsible for the general game design and the level design/mapping of the songs. I used a version of Editor on Fire (Custom Forge) to map the music.
Deadly Riff is a versus game taking its origins in the Arcade world. Each player embodies a guitarist, standing on a zodiac hold by a crowd. By keeping the rhythm and playing notes at the right timing, the player can attack his opponent and hope to make him fall of his zodiac raft.
Initially, the project was planned to be streamed on Twitch. Deadly Riff gives to the viewers the opportunity to take action during the game, like a real concert crowd, through keywords causing special actions (ex: flying beers, broken string for one of the player, etc).
The first version of the game was made for the Airconsole Developers Contest (2017).
As the original author of the project, I came with this strong idea of an audio-only game, inspiring by audio and radio fictions. During the 4 months of the project, I bring a whole sci-fi background to the project and its main character. I was responsible for the dialogs and audio logs (more than 100 replies and translated in French and English), the universe and the scenario. As a student project running for the Hits Playtime contest, we needed a strong communication about our game. I help in this communication campaign with the teaser and trailer, ideas to communicate on an imageless-game, etc.
You can find a record of a full session of the game (about 36 minutes) here in binaural 🎧.
Most of the game sessions last 45 minutes to 1 hour. As we were the one recording this walkthrough, we’re faster than a regular player.
Play as UGO, a small maintenance robot awaken in a distressed spaceship by its Commandant locked away in the flight deck. You are lost in the Koriavov, a drifting settlers-ship headed for a new exoplanet, with no way to send a distress call. Explore the almost abandoned ship, and find a way to call for help.
The day I met LAIA is a short audio-only experience where you are able to live a story, solve puzzles and enjoy the environments. We want to experiment an unusual technology for our game: the Cardboard and the Gear VR. All of our sounds were made for a binaural experience, and you can listen to our trailer in 5.1. The project is presented on June 12th and 13th at CNAM-ENJMIN and on June 24th in Paris for the end of the Hits Playtime contest.
A student project made during 4 months (CNAM ENJMIN).
As the second game designer of Hindrance, I worked with the other game designer on the core mechanics (gestures, obstacles) and the level design. I also set the background story of the character and wrote a dozen of fake newspaper articles for the game booth at its presentation.
Early schemes for the first two levels of the game.
In a poetic universe, guide a dancer step by step through this unusual mental journey, letting yourself be carried away by rhythm and hope.
The game is focused on dance and movement, developed by six ENJMIN students during 4 months as a school project. Animations were made both by motion capture and digital animation.
Hindrance booth where the jury can come to play the game, creating like a dancer’s dressing room before a performance.
Play a cute raccoon or a small squirrel addicted to nicotine and kill anything that moves to retrieve cigarettes. Pick up new weapons, beat the bosses and get cancer!
The project is a game jam made in one month on the theme “Shooter”. We chose to make an arena shooter based on an urban myth: in some parks, squirrels pick cigarette butts left by hikers. They get addicted to nicotine and start attack people to steal their cigarettes.
The two characters available and all the enemies and boss of the game.
The different aspect of the racoon character, the more you pick cigarets, drugs and candies, the more you are wrecked. | 2019-04-23T00:28:36 | https://charlottecouder.com/tag/game-design/ |
CHAMPIONS Prestatyn Town Reserves are within two points of Mackenzie Jones Clwyd League Premier Division leaders Mochdre Sports with four games in hand following Easter Monday's 3-0 victory at bottom side Halkyn.
CHAMPIONS Prestatyn Town Reserves are within two points of Mackenzie Jones Clwyd League Premier Division leaders Mochdre Sports with four games in hand following Easter Monday's 3-0 victory at bottom side Halkyn.
Second half goals from Tom Lloyd, Mark Hughes and a Ben Rowley penalty secured the spoils for Mark Boulton's side who are unbeaten all season in the league – a run of 20 matches.
Fellow title chasers Abergele Rovers were resounding 9-3 winners at Aston Park Rangers..
David Clayton fired four as Llandyrnog United Reserves ran out 7-0 winners over Brynford United on Monday, which followed a 7-1 win against Halkyn United Reserves in the second round of the Premier Cup thanks to a hat-trick from Ian Dunn.
Denbigh Town Reserves drew 0-0 on Monday at Flint Town, while Llansannan went down 1-0 at home to Penmaenmawr Phoenix.
Sion Burrows was on target for Rhuddlan Town in a 2-1 defeat at Sychdyn.
In Division One, Abergele Rovers Reserves shared a 3-3 draw with Point of Ayr, Brett Johns, Dale Adamson and John Terry for the Colliers, while Rhuddlan Town Reserves lost 2-1 at home to Aston Park Rangers Reserves.
A 1-0 win over St Asaph was enough to clinch the Division Two title for Mostyn Dragons last Saturday, but the Saints made up for their disappointment with a 5-1 home hammering of Bro Cernyw on Monday.
Adam Cassidy (2) Matthew Quinny, Warren Hughes and Steve Williams all fired for the home side. | 2019-04-22T20:25:38 | https://www.dailypost.co.uk/sport/other-sport/football-prestatyn-town-reserves-close-2791254 |
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With Virto Workflow Status Monitor, you can easily filter workflows by source list, source item, date, status and show number of workflow related reports.
Virto Workflow Status Monitor highlights SharePoint workflows with errors in red, so you can quickly reveal problems occurred. | 2019-04-20T02:35:07 | https://directory.collab365.community/listing/virto-sharepoint-workflow-status-monitor/ |
An effortless blend of traditional and contemporary design elements, this transitional sofa will bring comfort and style to your living room space. Attached back cushions remain plump and in order, and the nailhead trim detailing along the rolled arms completes the look of this piece.
The Olsberg Transitional Sofa with Nailhead Trim by Signature Design by Ashley at Zak's Home in the Tri-Cities, Johnson City, Tennessee area. Product availability may vary. Contact us for the most current availability on this product.
Tailoring All fabrics are pre-approved for wearability and durability against AHFA standards. Style features jumbo stitching.
Padding & Ergonomics Coil Seating features individually pocketed coils to create uniformed shape and consistency.
This beautiful upholstery collection features pieces that emphasize subtle design and comfort. From nailhead trim detailing seen throughout, to an abundance of versatile seating options, this collection will not disappoint.
The Olsberg collection is a great option if you are looking for Transitional Casual furniture in the Tri-Cities, Johnson City, Tennessee area.
Browse other items in the Olsberg collection from Zak's Home in the Tri-Cities, Johnson City, Tennessee area. | 2019-04-20T03:18:23 | https://www.zaksfurniture.com/item/olsberg-sofa/414627132 |
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This R2-D2 model was made using blueprints.
Some textures use the Architecture Edition, the most significant one is used in the brown wires. Despite that, the model would look accurate.
It also has been design to allow all the movements required, as head rotation and body inclination.
The textures used in the renders are also included. | 2019-04-22T04:17:31 | https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-r2-d2-model/792140 |
1 Now it happened in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. 3 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done. 4 He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan. 5 He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him. 6 For he joined with Yahweh; he didn't depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses. 7 Yahweh was with him; wherever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn't serve him. 8 He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. 9 It happened in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. 10 At the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11 The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 12 because they didn't obey the voice of Yahweh their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it. 13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. 14 Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, "I have offended; return from me. That which you put on me, I will bear." The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15 Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house. 16 At that time, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of Yahweh, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. 17 The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field. 18 When they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. 19 Rabshakeh said to them, "Say now to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, "What confidence is this in which you trust? 20 You say (but they are but vain words), 'There is counsel and strength for war.' Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? 21 Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him. 22 But if you tell me, 'We trust in Yahweh our God;' isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?' 23 Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. 24 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 25 Have I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, 'Go up against this land, and destroy it.'"'" 26 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it. Don't speak with us in the Jews' language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall." 27 But Rabshakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? Hasn't he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?" 28 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spoke, saying, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria. 29 Thus says the king, 'Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand. 30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." 31 Don't listen to Hezekiah.' For thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern; 32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Don't listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, "Yahweh will deliver us." 33 Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'" 36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, "Don't answer him." 37 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh. | 2019-04-20T12:43:46 | http://liquidbible.com/b/web/2_kings/18/ |
In recent years crime fighting technology has become increasingly progressive. We can use GPS to track the location of stolen objects, we can accurately take shoe print readings and there are even flashlights that can induce vomiting.
Despite these breakthroughs, there is still at least one traditional crime fighting method that is arguably still as relevant as it ever was, if not more relevant, and that is the use of guard dogs.
Metal theft has been one of the fastest growing crimes in the UK in the past few years and tackling the issue is a key problem, especially as it affects a wide range of commercial and domestic properties. Thefts have increased because scrap metal has become a valuable commodity: the price of copper has doubled to more than £ 5,000 a ton since 2009.
Camden Council in London recently informed that security is being stepped up at cemeteries in North London due to a space of recent metal thefts across graveyards in the borough. How are they doing this, you may ask? Why by using security dog patrols in London, of course.
This is not just a one-off, police and security services London are increasingly looking to use guard dogs as a method to deter and catch criminals. General purpose guard dogs have acutely trained senses and it becomes almost impossible for an intruder to pass by undetected when a dog is on watch. Guard dogs security services can even train a guard dog to attack even without a command.
Another well documented benefit of the dogs are their powerful noses. A dog has a sense of smell that is 2000 times more sensitive than that of humans, so they make excellent drug seekers. Dogs can pick up on a scent over long distances and means they're still a very effective way to track criminals.
Not only that but that nose can be trained to pick up on the smell of explosives and many dogs are involved in explosive searches. The dogs can be taught to detect and indicate the presence of a wide range of substances including: Semtex, C4, TNT, Ammonia Nitrate, Firearms and Ammunition, as well as a whole host of others.
Guard dogs security is important now as it ever was, as demonstrated by Camden Council's guard dogs London scheme. Police and security services are not forgetting about the relevancy of dog security, so you should not be either. | 2019-04-24T16:16:05 | http://www.thegaynewz.com/guard-dogs-why-theyre-still-mans-best-crime-fighting-friend/ |
One of my favorite events is coming up, the Fall New York Tabletop Market, which presents the best of new tableware. It brings me to think about my planning the table of my upcoming dinner next week in celebrating the New Year. 21 people are going to sit around the table and it will be a celebration of white tableware. Also known as whiteware, is it becoming increasingly sophisticated and interesting. Designers are exploring sculptural and unorthodox forms that revisit the entire notion of white tableware. The result is extraordinary dining possibilities. Setting a dining table is one of the most accessible ways to express one's personal taste. However, nothing dresses up a table like cutting edge, sophisticated whiteware to complement a contemporary lifestyle.
craft and industry. It was sold in 2007 at Sotheby’s sale of “‘Deutscher Werkbund to Bauhaus: An Important Collection of German Design,” for $361K, breaking the sale record for Brandt.
During the Depression years, American tableware manufacturers commissioned industrial designers to create affordable products of modern sleek style and new materials such as Bakelite, Formica, and chromium-plated metals. The Chase Brass and Copper Company commissioned Russel Wright and Walter von Nessen to create objects in chromium-plated metal and machine-age aesthetics to replace silver. The Fostoria Glass Company hired George Sakier to create modern glassware, which was affordable in the 30s, and is now sought-after by collectors.
I am delighted to finally open my small design store, a source for discovering beautiful, affordable, great design objects, all created by those designers I love and respect. Whenever I use one of these cheese boards at my dinner parties, I always get tons of complements, thus I have chosen to offer them at my design store. They are crafted by Yoav S. Liberman, a trained architect who has devoted his career to woodworking. He is writing about wood, teaching woodworking, and has developed a thorough philosophy, according to which wood is a renewable material. What I love about his handcrafted cheese boards is not only their unusual and stylish forms, but also the fact that each one is crafted of salvaged wood, of pieces of wood that otherwise would have found their way into the fireplace. Under Yoav’s talented and skillful hands, these boards are acquired a new life, each is distinguished, each is unique, and their forms are determined by the natural property of the wood. | 2019-04-21T07:12:46 | https://www.daniellaondesign.com/blog/category/tableware |
South Korean pop girl group f(x) member, Krystal, revealed a photo of herself that resembles foreigner.
In the photo, Krystal was wearing a blue plush coat with a shiny blond hair, the contrast of two colors is very strong, showing a different flavor.
In the High Kick 3 broadcast on January 4th, 2012, Krystal transformed as blonde, wearing a blue pupil to appear, and demonstrated her fluent English. She looks very similar to foreigner, causing audience to be surprised.
Netizens said, “Krystal is very suitable to dye blonde hair,” “English is so good, there are people who believes you’re foreigner,” “Be a blonde during f(x) activities,” and so on.
Krystal is now appearing in MBC sitcom High Kick! 3: Counterattack of The Short Legs,playing the role of naughty Ahn Soo Jung who is well loved by the audience. | 2019-04-21T18:25:52 | https://dramahaven.com/krystal-turns-blonde-foreigner/ |
Best video editor: online video editors or free video editing software?
"Leaving it on the editing room floor" used to be a practice but now it's nothing more than a saying. Eliminating film and film waste has lowered the cost barrier to moviemaking, allowing anyone to participate in this art form and industry. The remaining investment is the time it will take to develop the skill to create interesting projects. There are two free or very inexpensive ways to edit video; downloadable free video editing software or using online video editing services.
YouTube revolutionized how videos and media are shared online, but simply watching videos on YouTube only scratches the surface of what can be accomplished with Youtube. There are many websites and software programs that allow for videos to be downloaded from the site, allowing for the videos and content to be available online, shared on other websites, or even used it other projects. We have put together a guide on how to download from YouTube and the best programs to do it with.
Cheap video recording software: Snagit, Debut Video Capture, or Voila?
If you've ever wanted to create your own computer tutorials, show your software tips and tricks, or record and share your success at PC gaming, then making your own screencast is a practice to look into. In order to record your screen and produce a screencast, you need specialized software; below you'll find a short list of screencasting software that performs well and doesn't break your bank.
When it comes to getting the best graphics and quality display for you computer, you have to look beyond just upgrading the monitor. The graphics (video) card is an expansion that you can add to your computer to generate accelerated 3D and 2D graphics, and AMD's Radeon line has been a leader in producing the best quality display.
CCFL vs LED computer screen: which gives the best monitor display?
There is a misconception that LCD and LED are two competing types monitor displays when in reality LED-based monitors are still LCDs. Cold-cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) is LED's actual competition in producing the best LCD display. | 2019-04-20T00:33:43 | http://www.cheap-computer-video.com/ |
On October 21, Pew Research Center released findings that show the annual rate of firearm-related homicides in America declined by nearly 50 percent between 1993 and 2013.
That’s the same time period in which The Washington Post (WaPo) reported that firearm ownership doubled in the United States.
The WaPo did not put a figure on the number of privately owned guns in America. Rather, they estimated that that average gun owner went from owning 4.1 guns in 1994 to owning 8.1 in 2013. Breitbart News used Congressional Research Numbers to show that this means the 192 million guns owned privately in 1994 grew to 310 million or more in 2009 and to an estimated 350 million in 2013.
And PEW Research shows that this surge in privately owned guns did not correlate with an increase in firearm-related homicides but with a plunge in the annual firearm-related homicide rate, which fell from 7 per 1oo,ooo Americans in 1993 to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2013.
Complimenting this 20-year doubling of the number of guns owned by Americans is the fact that concealed carry permit holders nearly tripled between 2007 and now. According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, the “4.6 million” concealed permit holders of 2007 grew to over “12.8 million” permit holders in 2015. That means the last five years of the surge in gun ownership also coincided with a surge in carrying guns in public for self-defense.
Combining these findings and applying them to the times in which we live make clear that in the very year that gun control groups like Moms Demand Action and Gabby Giffords’ Americans for Responsible Solutions were founded to fight gun violence, Americans were embracing the freedom to buy approximately 150 million new guns and to carry many of those guns for self-defense. | 2019-04-20T17:17:09 | https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2015/10/24/pew-annual-firearm-related-homicides-nearly-50-percent-20-years-ago/ |
Purple, Jet Black, and Tan dominate the color composition of this new jewelry collection. Named for our beautiful new kitteness, Duchess! The rich amethyst gives a royal touch especially when offset with the jet black. New earrings designs include a cluster earring that i have been focusing a lot of attention on lately and many chandelier earrings have taken new wings also. Some of the new necklaces try to emphasize the unique shapes of the crystals and from a design standpoint, can come across more than influential than the colors. But you will find a bunch of different styles from long fringe necklaces with clusters of crystal wrapped in sterling silver to simple pendants of vintage colors strung on a simple and delicate sterling chain. | 2019-04-21T00:48:09 | https://www.karencurtis.com/the-duchess-collection/ |
This will be the fourth year I have participated in this challenge and it looks to be the most interesting yet. It is hosted by Book’d Out and involves having to read books in 12 different genres. This year there are a lot of genres that are completely new to me so that is exciting. I have some ideas about what to read for some of them but would welcome recommendations for any of the others. Below are the 12 genres. If you fancy having a go, follow the link above to sign up.
Delighted you are joining me again in 2016, good luck! | 2019-04-22T09:05:34 | https://kepagewriter.com/2015/12/29/eclectic-reader-challenge-2016/ |
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Ring in 2018 in grand style aboard the Spirit Cruises Luxurious Yacht!
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During this memorable cruise you will indulge in our gourmet buffet prepared to perfection by our skilful chef. Dance the night away while cruising Canada’s most scenic waterfront. Then after dark, you will enjoy the lights and sounds of the spectacular fireworks from the best seats in the house.
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Book soon for this New Years Eve Cruise! | 2019-04-26T06:25:16 | https://www.ievents.com/events/new-years-eve-traditional-dinner-cruise/ |
The Kalaydjian Foundation and the University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus (UCLan Cyprus) are pleased to announce their collaboration whereby the Kalaydjian Foundation will offer up to 5 scholarships every year to Armenian Cypriot students, covering 55% of their annual tuition fee. To be eligible to apply, the candidates must be graduates of the Narek elementary schools and satisfy UCLan's entry requirement criteria, i.e. an apolyterion grade of 16.5 or above with an English level of IELTS 5, IGCSE C or equivalent.
The successful candidates will be able to retain their scholarship provided they achieve an average grade of 70% in the subsequent years of their studies and 60% in each individual module. Given that the normal tuition fees at UCLan Cyprus are €9,950 per annum, the successful applicants for the Kalaydjian Foundation scholarship will be paying only €4,500 per annum.
UCLan Cyprus is located in Pyla, Larnaca, and is registered as one of the eight universities of the Republic of Cyprus. It is the only university in Cyprus to offer degrees accredited in both the UK and Cyprus, giving local and international students access to the highest quality British undergraduate and postgraduate education.
UCLan’s programmes of study are evaluated and recognised by the Ministry of Education & Culture in Cyprus through the Evaluation Committee of Private Universities, (ECPU). In addition, they meet the standards required by the UK Quality Assurance Agency (QAA).
For more information on this programme, contact the Kalaydjian Foundation.
For more information on UCLan Cyprus, go to www.uclancyprus.ac.cy.
The Kalaydjian Foundation is a non-profit benevolent organisation set up in 1984 with the purpose of helping disadvantaged and needy members of society, with a major focus being on the Armenian community in Cyprus. In addition to providing vital services to senior citizens and financial support to talented students, the Foundation also promotes and sponsors the development of culture and the arts in Cyprus. | 2019-04-21T12:37:29 | https://www.kalaydjianfoundation.org/default.aspx?tabId=news |
In what’s become article of an anniversary tradition, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has ratcheted up requirements for 2019 on its two affecting crashworthiness awards: Top Safety Pick and Top Safety Pick Plus. Added than 50 models now accommodated either bar in IIHS’ aboriginal appear annular of testing, but added are adequate to appear over the abutting 12 months. That compares to the 80-plus nameplates that becoming the designations for the 2018 awards.
Eight IIHS evaluations actuate accolade eligibility. With four accessible grades — good, acceptable, bordering or poor — bristles of them admeasurement structural crashworthiness, one measures whiplash aegis and addition measures caliginosity headlight effectiveness. The final analysis evaluates automated emergency braking systems, but its after-effects acquire a abstracted allocation scale: superior, advanced, basal or none.
To get a Top Safety Pick for 2019, a car needs adequate or adequate array in both the headlight appraisal and passenger-side small-overlap blast test; avant-garde or above grades for automated braking; and adequate array in the bristles actual tests. Last year, array for passenger-side baby overlap — IIHS’ newest test, which simulates a bang blow with an article on the front-passenger ancillary of the car — weren’t allotment of the Top Safety Pick award.
To get the college award, Top Safety Pick Plus, a car needs above or avant-garde grades in automated braking and adequate array on all added evaluations. A year ago, Top Safety Pick Plus cars could skate by with an adequate account in the passenger-side baby overlap test.
Cars can still accommodated the headlight and automated braking array with alternative accessories — and they generally do, area a top account requires a college trim akin or alternative amalgamation that analogously few examples have. Indeed, a Cars.com analysis in 2017 begin that out of about 100 cars that becoming Top Safety Pick or Top Safety Pick Plus designations, aloof 13 agitated the acumen beyond all trim levels.
That appears to be an abatement trend. IIHS acclaimed this year that best accolade winners still alone authorize with alternative systems to bolster their headlight or automated emergency braking scores, but best additionally now acquire standard automatic braking — a technology one abstraction found reduces injury-causing rear-end crashes by some 40 percent. The all-inclusive majority of automakers acquire pledged to accomplish such braking systems accepted by 2022.
Of the group, seven cars — the BMW X2, Genesis G70 and G90, Honda Insight and Pilot, Mercedes-Benz C-Class auto and Subaru Forester — get their corresponding awards with no strings attached. That is to say that alike their abject models acquire the accessories all-important to attain Top Safety Pick or Top Safety Pick Plus status.
IIHS stipulates that the awards administer to both amalgam and constituent amalgam versions of the Ioniq and Niro, as able-bodied as amalgam versions of the Honda Accord, Hyundai Sonata, Kia Optima and Lexus ES, and those of the Toyota Avalon, Camry and Highlander. For any awardees with plug-in hybrid versions — those actuality the Sonata and Optima, as able-bodied as the BMW 5 Series, Chrysler Pacifica, Mercedes C-Class and GLC-Class, Mitsubishi Outlander and Subaru Crosstrek — the ratings don’t alteration over. Unlike with hybrids, IIHS requires added affidavit from automakers to extend ratings to constituent amalgam variants, agent Russ Rader told Cars.com. The bureau is apprehension such advice on those cars. Rader added that ratings do not extend to absolutely electric versions of cars on the list, as in this case the Hyundai Kona Electric and Kia Soul EV.
Note, as well, that abstracted blast structures for anatomy appearance variants — like a auto nameplate with auto or convertible versions — beggarly IIHS awards don’t apply unless those variants are additionally evaluated and canyon muster, as was the case for the Impreza auto and hatchback.
Addition wrinkle: Some 2019 models — the Mini Cooper, for archetype — acquire Top Safety Pick or Top Safety Pick Plus designations for 2018 but not 2019, admitting the credible alignment in year. That’s because the agency’s awards go by calendar year, not archetypal year. IIHS evaluated several 2019 models for its 2018 awards, and the aforementioned is all-but-assured for aboriginal 2020 models evaluated over the abutting 12 months. A new 2020 archetypal ability get the 2019 award, but that doesn’t beggarly it will get the 2020 award.
Confused? We don’t accusation you. Rader accepted the timing could baffle some consumers.
“We accede that it can be confusing,” Rader declared in an email to Cars.com.
Stay acquainted for added evaluations and awards as the year progresses. | 2019-04-24T15:55:32 | https://schmedlap.com/seven-things-to-know-about-safety-cars-crash-test-ratings-safety-cars-crash-test-ratings/ |
On the surface, the internet seems to offer anything and everything you might need – on demand and for free. Children and teens especially enjoy the benefits of being able to download any song, film, book, computer program or app they want. However, even the internet has its limitations.
What children consider free, might actually come at the price of being bundled with adware, spyware or other nasty malware, often designed to remain unnoticed for as long as possible. The consequences of such an infection can range from annoying ads and popups, through stolen personal details, to losing access to all your important data. And this doesn’t only apply to personal computers and laptops, but also to mobile devices, as malicious applications continue to sneak into even official app stores.
So what can you do to help your children avoid the pitfalls of downloading?
Keep your operating system patched, and use a reliable internet security solution. Mobile devices running Android can be protected by a reputable mobile security solution. ESET will automatically run a scan on each downloaded file and block any malicious items, keeping your devices safe.
When your children want to download new programs, direct them towards the websites of the software’s original developer or to official online stores. When sticking to official sources, you won’t need to worry about accidentally downloading any unwanted extras that might be lurking in the background.
Teach your kids to stop and think before clicking on links and download buttons, as many can be deceptive, leading to scam or outright malicious websites.
“If something seems too good to be true, it most probably is” should be the golden rule of any download to desktop or mobile. A good example is third party apps claiming to offer attractive additional functions to existing games or online services, only to display ads, or worse, infect your device with malware.
Using a reputable parental control app will help keep an eye on your children’s downloading habits, and enable you to block potential problematic content. Parental control apps can also save you a considerable amount money that might otherwise be spent should your child accidentally make online purchases. | 2019-04-21T12:25:42 | https://www.saferkidsonline.info/2017/08/24/downloading/ |
A cyclist has now died after he collided with a jogger March 17 in Qualicum Beach.
QUALICUM BEACH — A cyclist who collided with a jogger on Rupert Road in Qualicum Beach March 17 at 6 a.m. has died of his injuries.
Oceanside RCMP report the man, 52, was placed on life support after being flown to hospital in Victoria. He had suffered a severe head injury and died two days after the incident.
Police were able to identify the man after family contacted them. Police are not releasing the man’s identity, as the family has not granted permission.
A 38-year-old female jogger was struck in the incident and was taken to hospital in Nanaimo wth facial injuries. She was later released.
In this incident, say the RCMP, the cyclist was not wearing a helmet. | 2019-04-26T06:48:20 | https://www.pqbnews.com/news/cyclist-dies-of-injuries-sustained-in-collision/ |
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W.A. Bentz Construction is a South Florida firm that specializes in building luxury custom homes and elite commercial projects. Over the past 40 years, William “Bill” A. Bentz, Founder and President, has propelled his business to the top, earning the trust of his clientele and the utmost respect of his team and industry peers.
When we give attention to the details, we give way to excellence. Details—even the small ones—support the bigger vision. And yet, in our industry, they often get overlooked or sacrificed for the sake of saving time. Bill decided long ago that details matter, and that putting in the extra effort to do the job right… is what makes it truly great.
It’s fun, first and foremost.
You’re building the custom home you have always wanted—with no detail left unnoticed. Having a dedicated team that delivers, on time and within budget, lets you focus on the experience. Walk-throughs with VR googles and weekly drone videos are just a few ways we engage with our clients. This is the way construction should be. We make the process seamless, so you can have some fun.
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Bill has spent the past four decades cultivating an unrivaled expertise in his industry. His secret? He approaches both business and life with the same philosophy. For this local entrepreneur, family man, sailboat racing enthusiast and world traveler, every experience can lead to knowledge. Every project is an opportunity for growth. And every client relationship is built on trust and transparency.
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A light-year is the distance that light (or any other form of electromagnetic radiation, such as radio waves) travels in a vacuum in one year. Since light travels at a velocity of 186,171.1 mi/s (299,792.5 km/s), one light-year equals 5,878,489,000,000 miles (9,460,530,000,000 km). The light-year is a convenient unit of measurement to use when discussing distances to the stars in the Milky Way galaxy and throughout the observable universe. When discussing distances within our solar system, the astronomical unit (the mean distance between Earth and the Sun) is commonly used. One light-year equals 63,239.7 astronomical units.
Since the distances between Earth and even the nearest stars are so enormous, a light-year can also be thought of as a measurement of time. Sirius, for example, is 8.57 light-years away. This means that when an observer on Earth looks at Sirius, they see light that left Sirius 8.57 years ago. The observer is therefore looking backward in time, seeing the star in the condition it was in more than eight years ago.
Alpha Centauri, the closest star to Earth, is 4.35 light-years distant. Among other stars, Barnard's star is 5.98 light-years away, 61 Cygni is 11.3 light-years away, and Antares is 400 light-years away. The center of the Milky Way galaxy is 27,000 light-years away, while the most distant clusters of galaxies are roughly estimated to be one million light-years away. | 2019-04-25T22:10:49 | https://science.jrank.org/pages/3930/Light-Year.html |
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Take the Ardrossan - Brodick ferry, run by Caledonian MacBrayne. Turn right out of the harbour and drive through Brodick on the A841 coastal road with the sea on your right. Just over 1 mile from the harbour, bear left on to the B880 (know locally as "The String"). In about 5 and half miles, take a right hand fork to Machrie. After about 2 and a half miles, rejoin the A841 coastal road, travelling north with the sea on your left. After 6 miles, the road leaves the coast as it goes up over Whitefarland Point. As it comes down the other side of the hill, you will see a cluster of four white houses. Willow Cottage is the last on the left.
Take the Claonaig - Lochranza car ferry to the north of the Island, motor south down the A841 coastal road. Whitefarland is about 1 mile after Pirnmill. As you reach Whitefarland Point, you will find a cluster of four houses just before the road temporarily leaves the coast. Willow Cottage is the first on the right.
Buses, run by Stagecoach, go to & from every (Ardrossan - Brodick) boat.
The North End buses pass by Willow Cottage. | 2019-04-25T04:25:34 | http://willowcottage-arran.co.uk/contactus.html |
1. You don’t need a visa to visit Taiwan.
For many countries, no special application process is required to visit Taiwan for trips of 30 (or even 90) days as a tourist. The visa to travel to the Chinese mainland is about $200 and a real pain to get.
2. There is no Great Firewall of China in Taiwan.
This is huge for the residents, but for the traveler, this means you can access anything on the Internet, which is really fast, as it is not filtered. Many things such as Facebook are totally blocked in China. You can also see CNN, BBC, and other programs on TV — all foreign networks are blocked in China. For a news junkie, this is important.
3. Religion is an integral component of life in Taiwan.
Christianity has an obvious presence — my granddaughter goes to a Christian school. Buddhist temples in China are largely filled with tourists. It was the crowds of real worshipers in the temples of Taiwan that struck me. The temples I saw in mainland China were more like sterile artifacts. In Taiwan I could observe the religion in action and began to gain a greater understanding of it. It is a shame that such a rich part of the Asian culture has been wiped away in modern China.
4. Taipei is so much cleaner.
Restrooms are very clean, having toilet paper and soap. (This is not necessarily the case on the mainland). Streets are clean- no one spits on the street and babies are not pooping and peeing (open crotch pants) everywhere. In fact the Taiwanese may even seem a little OCD-you see lots of people wearing surgical masks to keep from catching diseases.
5. The pollution is not any worse than any US city.
In Beijing the pollution is horrific. I have asthma, so I am like a canary in a coal mine. Each time I visited the mainland I got bronchitis. I brought antibiotics to Taipei anticipating the same, but was pleased that after two weeks I left without ever getting sick or even having to use my emergency inhalers.
6. More people seem to speak English here, and they are warmer to foreigners.
It is a highly educated population- parents expect their children to have advanced degrees. (China is catching up).
7. They are very used to foreigners. I am not an “exhibit” here.
On the mainland China, people always wanted a picture with me and my husband or granddaughter, and after a while this gets a bit bizarre. This is not an issue in Taiwan.
8. You can get a cab instantly.
Beijing cab drivers are often really mean. Many won’t take children or bags, and itt was not unusual for us to wait 30 minutes with scores of empty cabs passing us by. We got the first cab we hailed every time in Taipei. That was a huge relief.
9. People in Taipei obey traffic rules and seem to have a sense of order.
Cars actually stop at red lights. As a pedestrian, you feel like you can cross the street without having to bunch in a group to keep from being mowed down at any second.
10. I saw more ancient Chinese artifacts in Taiwan than in the Chinese mainland.
The Forbidden City and Summer Place were somehow disappointing – nothing but buildings — beautiful, but merely shells. All the good stuff appears to be in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Apparently this was because the KMT took it all, after China’s Communist Party (CCP) took over. Perhaps it was a good thing, considering the destruction of the many relics that occurred during the Cultural Revolution. It is a well worth a trip to see. You get a much stronger sense of the culture and history from seeing these relics.
1. There are not nearly as many foreigners in Taiwan-Everyone is going to China. Generally, I was the only blond anywhere we went. It did not bother me, but it might be a problem over time.
2. For young people, I have been told that there is not a vibrant expat scene (clubs) like in Beijing.
3. There are more job opportunities in China as it a growing so much.
4. You don’t see as much of the dramatic display of wealth in Taiwan as you do in China. Beijing and Shanghai are filled with expensive cars and upscale stores. I am not sure this is an advantage—more of an observation.
5. Food is wonderful both places but there are more varieties of Chinese regional foods in China. I love northwestern Chinese food and have not seen it in Taiwan.
6. Prices for food and goods appear to be about the same. But there are many more tourist-type things in China, such as the Silk Market in Beijing, which I love for gifts for those back home.
7. There are many sights in China, such as the Great Wall, which you cannot see anywhere else in the world. It is a spectacular country.
All-in-all, I would have to say people are wonderful in both places and the culture is fascinating. Both are well worth the trip!
Tapei 101 image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, CCTV building courtesy of Garrett Ziegler on Flickr. | 2019-04-24T04:08:52 | http://shanghaiist.com/2014/01/10/taipei-vs-beijing-a-travelers-perspective/ |
A lobster and green apple salad might sound fancy, but its actually very easy to make at home! Recipe for two people, great as a lunch.
TRIM the ends off the 3 slices of white bread. SLICE the middle part into cubes. HEAT up a dash of olive oil in the medium-sized skillet. COOK the diced bread golden-brown and crunchy. SEASON with a pinch of salt and pepper. This is the easiest way of preparing your own croutons.
MAKE a simple dressing using juice and grate from 1/2 a lemon. ADD about 50 ml olive oil into a small bowl while whisking the citrus juice. SEASON with a pinch of salt and pepper. WASH and dry the lettuce, if needed. WASH the cucumber, then use a vegetable peeler to create thin cucumber lints.
DIVIDE the lettuce over two plates, slice the lobster meat in smaller chunks. DIVIDE lobster meat over the two plates and roll up the cucumber lints. WASH the apple and slice into thin, long strips. THE reason why you should slice the apple last is to prevent discoloration.
DIVIDE the apple strips, croutons and citrus dressing over the lobster salad. Optionally garnish with the cress. | 2019-04-25T22:47:13 | https://ohmydish.com/recipe/lobster-and-green-apple-salad/ |
At first I wasn't sure if I could be bothered to cosplay, since Kitacon has always been one of those small "hang with friends" type of conventions, but after some thinking I decided to bring a costume – especially when Firith asked if I could do a pair cosplay with him. Firith was considering to bring Ayame Sohma from Furuba and asked if I could join in so that he wouldn't have to be lonely Ayame again; he even said that going solo in said cosplay had started to taste like wood. I can wholly understand, solo cosplaying is rarely as fun as group cosplaying when you get the chance. So of course, as the good friend I am, I decided to spare my pal from another wooden experience.
That's all for this quickie. Hatori makeup test coming soon so stay on the line! | 2019-04-26T02:54:03 | https://valkoinensamurai.blogspot.com/2016/10/kitacon-2016-cosplay-plans.html |
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The Traveler, written by John Twelve Hawks, is a sci-fi triller about a shadowy underworld of mysterious people doing battle for the future of humanity. Yes we've heard this one before. The Matrix is the best known of these stories, but there are many more.
The plot here is that there are special people called Travelers who can move between realms. Travelers are a bit mysterious and spiritual. Harlequins are those who protect the Travelers at all costs. The bad guys are the Tabula who seek to impose a strict order on the world. Human freedom is a bad thing and the Travelers are a great threat. There is much talk in the book about "The Grid". If you live "on the grid", you can easily be found by the Tabula. John Twelve Hawks has much to say about this and the point is made over and over again about the degree of personal privacy we have and to what measures the government will go to get that it needs. The Tabula controls much of the government in this story and, interestingly enough, the fight against terrorism is used as the justification for most of its more totalitarian means. Sounds familiar doesn't it? Despite its almost too much preaching about "the grid" and such, it's a good read and a fun story. It is part one of a three part series. | 2019-04-26T02:28:55 | https://www.davidajacobs.com/2006/05/book-review-the-traveler/ |
It has been another two weeks since I’ve written. I’ve fallen off the schedule. The new job has thrown me off kilter!
For the last two weeks, at least, I have been struggling through the school’s delivery program as everything is electronic. First I had the wrong shell. I only got the new shell on Wednesday evening. I have also ended up having two 12-hour days this week as I was attending professional development workshops. I was supposed to attend a third this afternoon but my back is soooooo sore (most of you know the history there so I won’t go into it) I just can’t fathom sitting there another three hours when all that will do is make it that much worse. The staff is great and don’t care if I stand but that wasn’t working so well on Tuesday and Thursday… obviously!
To add insult to injury, I ended up catching a cold! The last few days I have had a stuffy and runny nose. I woke this morning to that feeling of ‘my head is going to explode’!! So, I am officially sick. Another, and probably better, reason to not go this afternoon. That’s okay, I have a year to get four of them in. I think I can manage two in the next eleven months.
As for my writing, well, you know that I published Confessions on New Year’s Day. That’s the last I have done. I do want to get it up on Amazon but that will take a bit more time.
I had one of my past campers send me a manuscript to read through. I did manage to get through about 10 pages of the 79 she sent!! It’s a long story. Her concern is there is no plot.
As we know, every story has a plot or it couldn’t be told. It doesn’t necessarily mean the plot is thick and multi-faceted though. It could be very thin with very little happening outside the plot. We all have those in our closet. Most likely, my first few books are written that way. There’s not much to put into love stories though I have tried my best to put some small occurrence in that leaves everyone shocked.
A plot can’t work without characters but characters can’t work without a plot. Another great way to look at it is to look at your own life and all the bumps along the way. What is the plot of your life? We never know the ending. Do we want to know the ending? And don’t forget that among the main plot line are all kinds of little subplots. Maybe it’s drama from parents or siblings and maybe it’s drama at work. All those little things have a profound effect on the main plot of our lives. Eventually they will all get wrapped up in a neat little bow. It will just take time.
So I will finish off what I need to do for my classes and spend a bit of time checking out this plotless story and see what I can come up with… I bet it does have a plot!
Today was back to work after what was a busy weekend. I lost Friday night and then proceeded to have heart palpitations through not one, but two, very close baseball games! Fortunately the Jays won and will get a single chance at making it further into the postseason. I hope they do.
It’s fun when you’re passionate about something. I’m not into football, or hockey (yes, despite being Canadian), or any other sport. Just baseball… just the Toronto Blue Jays. It goes back to when I was in my late teens and they won the World Series back-to-back. There was so much excitement in our household and at my grandparent’s. Everyone was into the Jays then. I lost touch for a while after that but my dad never did. He’d talk about it but the numbers were so low it was impossible. A few years ago I really got back into it. It’s the one thing I get to share with my dad. Talking about the players, talking about strategy and talking about what moves need to made… how they need to play the game… hit the ball on the ground. Advance the players around the bases and score runs!
Does any of that ring any bells? It should. It’s the sports version of writing a novel! You have your characters, you have your goal and your plot is how you get the characters there. You develop wins and you develop losses. You develop hurtles that your readers will cheer for and against. You will have that one (or two, or three) antagonist that your readers will hate (for me it’s four because as passionately as I love the Jays, I loathe Boston, Tampa, Texas and New York (Yanks)) and love to hate.
But comparing baseball to writing was not actually where I was going with this. I’ve done that before, I realize. Where I was actually going is the passion for something, anything. For me, the passion to write is the same as sitting down and watching a Jays game. I have to do it! I can’t not do it. Sure, I can easily turn it off if they’re losing and have no way to get back but I’m with them every step of the way just like I’m with the characters I develop every step of the way through their challenges.
Find what you’re passionate about. Of course it can be another sport, it can be anything. Find the comparisons to how you feel about writing. No matter what else you’re passionate about, the passion should be the same!
Pain, Characters & Other Complaints!
For anyone who has read my blog in its entirety over the years knows that I live in constant pain. Short and sweet, I have a 6th lumbar vertebra where there should be 5. Basically the top popped off of the sacrum to create this. That means that the pelvis can’t attach properly creating instability and, therefore, pain. And lots of it! I get pain in my legs during bad weather; I can’t sit for extended periods of time because it makes it worse.
Today, it’s raining outside. My pain is nearly off the charts for me and, yet, I have to go to work shortly.
When we write characters, we often give them the opposite of what we have (or don’t have). I have never given my characters pain. I don’t think it’s fair to them to go through life with pain. And why not? Many of us live in pain! For me, it’s part of me. There are many things I can’t do and even more things I shouldn’t do but it’s hard when you’re in your early 40s to not do some things. And yet I don’t even want to go grocery shopping right now!
Confessions in the Mural is the first character I thought I would try to go with Rheumatoid Arthritis. No, I’m not trying to be cruel. It’s a disease that has many more treatments than it used to. It starts off gradually in most cases and it goes into remission here and there. I thought of it because they are going to struggle with the thought of having another baby meanwhile she just had a baby six weeks before the book begins. So timing becomes an issue. Could she and should she take the risk of getting pregnant again? Sometimes it’s fun being a nurse and a writer… I get to do this with very little research!
We don’t “give” our characters issues because reading is fantasy. People read to escape reality. When I write, I do the same thing. I don’t want to my reality. I live my reality every single day of my life. I don’t want to put that in my books because, as a reader, I know the world doesn’t want to read about that.
What things don’t you give your characters? Money problems? Pain?
Reminds me of that old song Love is in the Air by don’t-ask-me-who! Same tune going through my head.
I know I wrote last week about my emotional breakdown on the verge of my daughter starting college and that still holds true. How can we not be sad but happy about the milestones of life? They happen to each of us from when we are born and say our first words to taking our first steps. Then some of us go to preschool, others not, but then there is school. Kindergarten, grades one through eight, then we venture off to high school. We decide what we want to be (sometimes), we go on our first date. We often experience our first kiss and then we graduate. We move on to higher level education (sometimes) or full-time jobs.
All are milestones and all create the base for who we become.
Tomorrow my baby takes her first steps into that post-secondary education. I hope she likes it. I hope she enjoys what she’s learning and it comes easily to her. After last year, she deserves that! It’s going to be tough because she will be adjusting to that, she’ll be adjusting schedules so she can still see her pony and she’ll be needing part-time work–or a few more lesson hours. All of this in a very short time frame.
She’s going to meet new people and try to find the balance between her old friends, her barn friends and the new friends. I think that will be incredibly difficult for her because she has such a huge heart. She wants all these friends in her life. I didn’t have that really because my boyfriend was also friends with my high school best friend. The rest of my high school friends ended up going their separate ways. We are all connected now on Facebook but how many years did that take? My college friends were pretty well merely that.
So wherever you are and whether you have kids or not, know that tomorrow is a big day for hundreds of thousands of kids around the globe.
And if you feel like it, write a bit about your own milestones. What makes you the person you are today. Maybe you don’t want to but just think how awesome a backstory it would give one of your future characters!
I can only ask myself if I’m EVER going to get back into the full swing of blogging on Sunday mornings! I was doing so well for so long… how come it’s always something and once it’s broken there’s no repairing it?
I feel the same way about my writing… I get into a groove and then something steps in and stops that and the whole thing falls apart. I can’t get back to it. It’s almost impossible.
So tonight I went to Chapters. Needed to see if there were any new writing magazines on the rack and, sure enough, a new copy of The Writer is out. While I was looking at that and at the shelves for writing books, this kid started screaming!! Top of its lungs, blood-curdling, curl-your-toes screaming!!! Put-earplugs-in-and-run-for-the-door screaming!!!
It actually sends shivers down my spine thinking about it. I tried really hard to make my way to the back of the store anyway and as I neared it stopped… a hush fell over the store and I proceeded through the discount books… only to hear it start up again! I’d had enough. I had also managed to find a writing book that actually has a CD with it… I’m intrigued… and I went to check out.
Yes, I lodged my own form of a complaint. I said that I couldn’t take it any longer and was in need of leaving. That my daughter is now 18 (birthday yesterday!) and I don’t have to listen to that anymore. Also added a plug that perhaps the parent should consider leaving. My thought, though not spoken, was that a staff person should have been gently asking this person to remove their child. That this is a bookstore, similar to a library where loud noises are not acceptable.
There’s no way I’m muting my phone next time I go in there! Deal with the insignificant chimes indicating text messages!
Am I getting old? I always feel that way around my own birthday which is a mere eleven days after my daughter’s. In the New Year I become hopeful; around my birthday, I become nostalgic. I look back on what was and, despite not being able to change it, wish I could.
I’ve been talking a lot lately about characters and it makes me wonder why we don’t see a lot of middle-aged characters out there. Do you notice that? To write a novel about where we have been and how that shapes us moving forward might be frowned upon but publishers but maybe readers would like that.
We always want to re-evaluate where we’ve been and what we’ve done. We always want to move forward better and feel more meaning in our lives. We all want to make a difference. Some of us don’t want to be the next Stephen King but close! Maybe not a household name but an-every-other-household-name.
I’m glad I at least got this post together and posted. I am feeling the lack of writing time again. It’s coming out in the form of agitation… again.
Pain… how do we express in our characters?
When we read really great books, like Harry Potter, we not only see the character’s pain but we feel it. I am not referring to the physical kind of pain either. I’m talking about the emotional.
Three weeks ago my 16-year-old calico died… probably a stomach tumour combined with old age. It was half expected and I found her in the morning and had to put on a face for work. We buried her that evening and though I felt the tears, very few actually surfaced. I don’t want to say that I didn’t want to cry, I just didn’t want to cry then.
Fast forward to this week. Over the past couple of weeks there was major weight-loss noticed in one of the horses at the barn. Because we did chores for a year and my daughter rode this horse and taught lessons with him a few times we knew him well enough. He was a sweet big guy. The diagnoses were lymphoma and a few others such as a bad virus. It was confirmed to be lymphoma. He was put down on Monday. That too got the tears started.
Then Tuesday we were informed at work that a patient passed away. This wasn’t just any patient, she was also my neighbour. She would message me questions about her son. I gave her son shots at home… you get the idea. She had cancer. She was 44, only three years older than myself. This is the first time in a decade that I will be going to the funeral home.
I actually texted my mom yesterday and asked who was going to die because let’s face it, it might as well be three in three days.
But it did get me thinking about how I would define the pain, the grief that I’m feeling right now. How could I put it into words to express to my readers how my character is feeling? And get that across… that’s the key!
How do you describe the heaviness in the heart, the constant thoughts of these individuals going through your mind day and night, sleeping less, and then there is the need to cry but not the time or place.
As we age, we deal with grief differently and I know that I usually take death with a grain of salt, it’s for the best, etc. but this time, I hurt. This time my heart aches. For those who are now at peace, for those who have been left behind to grieve, to find that new path in life.
My other cat is now alone and he certainly demonstrates that. He is needier right now than he normally is. He is grieving too.
So how do you find those words?
As I approach another birthday and the start of much change I ask myself where has the time gone? The past month, after my vacation, my time away from the day job, has gone by in a flash. From births to deaths, from the zoo to a horse show, it has sped by and is now a mere memory.
Many of us are experiencing this increase in time passing and wish to have it slow down a bit. How come the summer months evaporate and the winter months never seem to pass? How, in a world where time is speeding by us, do we slow down and get done what we want to get done?
I finished the edits on Confessions in the Mural over a week ago. The document has sat open on my laptop at home and for several hours at work this past week and I have yet to enter anything. Just that, in itself, is depressing.
I am on vacation this coming week and I already see the end of it. Tomorrow I will get much of it to myself. Tuesday I have an appointment at 1:00. Wednesday is the barn at whatever time we choose and, with the heat, it might be earlier than later. Friday, again, is my daughter’s lesson. So every day but Thursday somebody is doing something. I’d love the opportunity to hop on the train and go to Toronto and once again snoop around Casa Loma and, this time, visit the Aquarium… IF my back could handle it because it too has been creating major issues!
Once in a while I step back and I think of whether this type of lifestyle would make a good character or bad character? Is this something that can be written into a character? Is it too blase or is it exciting? Is a life this busy worth reading about? I guess that is the ultimate question. And how do you fit that into a plot of some kind? A woman who is too busy, too busy, too busy suddenly finds herself ______________… fill in the blank!
I take vacation time to get out of the office and slow down. I don’t have to go somewhere. I’m quite happy at home being able to split my time between getting house work done and trying to catch up on writing projects.
How about you? What things are you up to this summer? Could they all be put into a book? Would your life be an exciting read?
I was thinking about my blog the other day as Hope Clark offers guest posts. I was trying to figure out how to describe what my blog is about. My Writing Path is all about MY writing path. The twists and turns, the frustrations and the joys of a writing career interspersed with a full-time job, being a full-time, single mom, and having other family obligations. I think that summarizes it nicely even if it doesn’t cover everything off. Perhaps one day soon I will ask her to guest blog!
Well, everyone, stay cool. I will likely be posting a couple of times this week, but if not, you will know that I got too busy.
So this week I’m on vacation… YAY!!
When you work full-time any time away from the office is heavenly because it gives you more time to do things you just can’t do when you’re working. This includes planning months in advance to run a kid’s summer writing camp to only have a single registration.
So I made an offer to this young girl and her parents… two mornings this week to do anything and everything writing. She emailed yesterday to ask if she could print off and bring along some work she’s been having trouble with!
“By all means!” was my excited reply! I can’t do that with regular camp. I can’t give what is really needed to them when there is more than one!
She brought it this morning and three hours flew by. We hardly touched what I had done up for her–Deepening Plot, The Dark Side of Characters–but we did get more of her storyline dealt with. We made a plot planner for her and we outlined her main plot and subplots as well as the characters and which ones belonged with which subplot!
I’m hoping she spends this afternoon, this evening and all day tomorrow just writing up a storm before we get to our session on Thursday morning. That way we can iron out any remaining issues before she’s suddenly gone.
I too have been trying to get at things. I had to spend three hours yesterday cleaning my house in order for this young person to come over. I spent some time reading about writing but went to bed with an agitated tummy because I didn’t spend any time writing. I’m on vacation, I should be writing!
Anyway, I did manage to do some writing this afternoon. Not nearly as much as I wanted to but I tackled some at least. And, of course, this post. I think I was more excited about sharing the joys of sharing writing with another than I was about sitting and writing.
The weather is beautiful–it’s sunny, it’s hot and it stays light forever! Soon it will all be another memory. That’s the unfairness of summer… it seems to only give us a whiff and then it disappears.
I hope that my young student this morning has more success than I at sitting down and getting writing done!
Now, I must take my leave and go out to my daughter and her horse… ho hum… soon my week will be over and I will be sighing, wishing it was longer. Wishing I had a few more days. There are never enough hours in a day!
Ha ha! My laptop is sooooo slow that Levels in the title actually came out Leels for a moment!
Well this week has not been fun… things just seem to be spiraling downward.
Do you even get told that you have to relax, that everything happens for a reason and that God only gives us as much as we can handle??? I’m past that!! I’ve gone WAY past that!
And now I just had a power failure which knocked out my internet! Luck? What is that?
Anyway, I’ve resigned to a few things at this stage and this little voice in the back of my head (or perhaps it’s on the right side of my brain) is telling me that it can all be food for a character’s background some day… when I’ve managed to get through it and over it.
It’s true too. And it doesn’t have to be a part of the character in that moment… the moment of the story… but it can be part of her history and be part of why she is the way she is.
I read the start of a rude argument against authors… that we use friends and family and their flaws against them in our books. That’s not true. We use pieces of those people. Perhaps we use only the flaws because the flaws are really good ones. If our friend has been as such long enough we know the reason why. So we use that background and the flaws in our characters but does that mean that the character automatically becomes the real-life person?
Anyway, I just thought, since we were on the topic of characters that I’d put that out there.
I’m starting to apply for more jobs… this past week I applied to the local college as an instructor for Health Office Administration… I taught the equivalent from 2002-2004 at a career college and loved it. Here’s hoping. | 2019-04-24T17:02:13 | https://writerspath.wordpress.com/tag/characters/ |
MARNIE Simpson has quit Geordie Shore after five years.
The reality star joined the MTV reality show in 2013 but now she has decided to step away from the show and take her career to the next level.
A source exclusively told The Sun Online: "Marnie has loved her time on Geordie Shore but it's time for her to move on.
"She will still be around for this series but that's it - she won't return for the next."
Marnie has had her ups and downs in the show, famously her romances with the likes of Aaron Chalmers and Scotty T.
She also made history as the first LGBT member of the cast after coming out as bisexual in 2016.
The insider added: "Marnie's got loads of exciting opportunities coming up including new TV shows so she won't be off screens for long.
"Her contact lens business is massively popular too.
"She's loved her time on Geordie Shore and it's given her an incredible platform, but now she wants to move on and start new chapter in her life."
Marnie appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in 2016, eventually coming fourth.
Outside of the show Marnie has recently moved in with boyfriend Casey Johnson.
The pair met on MTV show Single AF last year and have been together throughout Marnie's last series though she did previously admit how it was tough being apart. | 2019-04-23T02:41:28 | https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/5371588/geordie-shores-marnie-simpson-quits-the-show-after-five-years/ |
We may look at some French cuisine with shock and horror (the classic snail in garlic, anyone?) but one thing they cannot understand is our love of a big breakfast. Forget your Full English or a stack of American pancakes. The French go for a coffee, a “tartine” of bread and some simple but delicious butter. On special occasions, or if they’re at a café, they may upgrade to a croissant. But at home, simplicity is best. And the true sign of a French breakfast? Coffee is served in a bowl, not a cup, to make dunking your bread that much easier.
While we’re on the subject of coffee, you can wave au revoir to your skinny caramel macchiato with extra cream too. The French drink espressos or, at most, a latte. In some less-Westernized establishments, ordering “un café” will earn you a single shot of the good stuff, so don’t expect a regular cup of Joe. Bonus points if you’re a tourist and you ask for an espresso, serious kudos if you know to savor it, not knock it back like a shot. The French like it when you live by their rules (the best rules).
The French are sticklers for tradition and rules, to the point where some of their customs will seem old-fashioned/quaint. To them, they’re simply a sign of respect. When you enter a café or shop in France, always say bonjour to the first member of staff you see. Likewise, always say au revoir or bonjournée (have a nice day) when you leave. In their eyes, it doesn’t matter if you’re a tourist – good manners should be international.
One thing they will allow some concessions with is “la bise” – the cheek-kissing greeting that is as common as a handshake or hug. If you’re not from the European continent, they expect you get to wrong. To do it properly, offer you right cheek to your French friend or acquaintance and bump cheekbones whilst making a slight kissing sound, on both sides. No need for any actual lip action or embrace. Whether you’re a man or a woman, gay or straight, this is the proper French greeting, so don’t take it as a come-on.
The French know how to take time off. Not only do they get five weeks paid holiday a year, but once that Out of Office goes on, it genuinely means not a single email will be read, let alone replied to. The same goes on Sundays when a surprising number of shops and cafés will stay closed. Even during the week, some shops will close over lunch or randomly lock up their shutters when the owner decides they’ve had enough. This can be frustrating for foreigners, especially those coming from big 24/7 cities, but learning to take real time off isn’t a bad attitude to have.
Another attitude of the French that can take some getting used to is their persistent negativity. The French often come across as very morose and even rude; the best reaction you can hope for is “pas mal” (not bad). This stems from the French mentality that positivity is for the ignorant and that truly intelligent people take a much more realistic approach. So do not be offended if you encounter a grumpy Frenchman/woman, they are just trying to do their best, and don’t show too much enthusiasm if you want to blend in.
We’re back to food again. Despite being such a huge part of French culture, many will only eat twice or three times a day. Snacking is just not part of their routine (apart from espressos, obviously) making meals a much more important part of their day. Lunch and dinner should be eaten slowly, enjoyed with wine and, most importantly, bread. And in France, the only acceptable bread is a good, long crusty baguette. This staple is served with every meal, without fail, so if you are ever hosting French dinner guests, keep the bread basket well stocked. | 2019-04-26T02:16:00 | http://travelpride.org/how-to-be-french-or-at-least-act-like-you-are/ |
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I met up with my friend last week. We were talking about money when she said to me: "do you know you're meant to have 3 months pay saved for an emergency?" Yep. She was quite surprised that I knew that, she only knew cause someone had came to her work to speak to them. I told her I knew about it because I've spent a lot of time online finding tips to save. However, I haven't got an EF. I wish I had one so I could have said: "Yep and I've got one"
I tried to start one last year but it turned into Moving Out Fund. Well I spoke to hubby and told him we have to start one. So that's my new goal for 2011: start an EF.
Good luck on the emergency fund!
Hey, knowledge is power, right? You can implement it now and it will lead to being able to say "Yes, and we have one" next time! Having a well-stocked EF really is the best insurance against Murphy's Law, and a remarkable stress-diminisher. Good luck on yours! | 2019-04-18T19:00:16 | https://scottishgirl.savingadvice.com/2011/05/01/ef_68831/ |
Ten years ago this month the violence and suicide caused by SSRI antidepressants gained international recognition in headlines all over the world when it became known that one of the teen shooters at the Columbine massacre, Eric Harris, had taken Zoloft in the past and was on Luvox at the time of the murder-suicide spree.
A friend of Dylan Klebold, the other shooter, would later come forward to say she had been trying to help Dylan get off Paxil and Zoloft.
A total of 12 students and one teacher would be killed, and 24 others wounded on April 20, 1999, before the two teens ended the rampage by committing suicide.
Mark Taylor was a victim of Columbine. At age 13, he was hit with between six to thirteen bullets during the rampage. After realizing he’d been shot, Mark says he laid still and pretended to be dead until the shooting ended.
Mark had to endure three years of follow-up surgeries for the gunshot wounds. He has sued Solvay Pharmaceuticals, the maker of Luvox, and blames the drug for causing the murderous behavior of Eric Harris.
A rally is scheduled to mark the anniversary of Columbine in Denver next week led by Dr Ann Blake-Tracy, the Executive Director of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness, and the author of the book, “Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? – Our Serotonin Nightmare”.
Dr Tracy has served as a consultant in Mark’s lawsuit against Solvay.
“Discovery in lawsuits is where we get a lot of information,” she reports.
The International Coalition for Drug Awareness website has a link to the “SSRI Stories” and a collection of more than 2,900 stories, mostly on SSRI related violence and suicide, with links to full articles that have appeared in the media, scientific journals or were part of the testimony given at FDA hearings on antidepressants in 1991, 2004 and 2006.
The false denials of a link between SSRIs and violence and suicide by the Big Pharma funded MSM will likely pick up speed throughout the year because it looks like several lawsuits against the SSRI makers are finally going to make it to a jury in 2009. The first suicide trial is scheduled in early May against Paxil maker GlaxoSmithKline.
In the last SSRI lawsuit that made it to a jury in 2001, Houston attorney, Andy Vickery, won a multimillion dollar verdict against GlaxoSmithKline, in a case where a man shot his wife, daughter, and infant granddaughter in a matter of days after he started taking Paxil, before turning the gun on himself.
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Some law enforcement agencies use profiling as a means to identify an aggressor. According to the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Education’s report on Targeted Violence in Schools, there is a significant difference between “profiling†and identifying and measuring emerging aggression; “The use of profiles is not effective either for identifying students who may pose a risk for targeted violence at school or – once a student has been identified – for assessing the risk that a particular student may pose for school-based targeted violence.†It continues; “An inquiry should focus instead on a student’s behaviors and communications to determine if the student appears to be planning or preparing for an attack.†We can and must assess objective, culturally neutral, identifiable criteria of emerging aggression.
Sometimes police officers make mistakes, but your “sources” for your Columbine article notwithstanding, this is the most irresponsible and utterly false piece of journalism I have ever seen. Columbine, like almost every other school shooting, took place for one reason only and that is because of violence-inducing antidepressants or other dangerous psychotropic drugs.
I just noticed on the FRONT PAGE of Yahoo News the bogus piece of reporting you are publicizing. I don’t even have the patience to read the whole thing. Once I read that you claim that “police now say” the boys were not taking antidepressants, I can barely stand to look at the article. It sickens me to think that Yahoo News & USA Today would attempt to spread rumors and rewrite history. But I have seen this type of claim before and it’s obviously a desperate tactic taken when people start hearing the truth and the mental health industry is searching for some kind of foothold to convince people that the antidepressants didn’t play a role in someone’s death.
What really sickens me is the amount of absolute disregard for the lives of children it would take to publish these lies. Our schools and our children are put in greater danger now because your article will take hold and spread rumors that are completely false, and yet I have serious doubts that anyone at your paper would care. Next time we have a school shooting (hey, there’s probably one happening right now), maybe you should issue a preemptive press release stating that the shooter was not on antidepressants – before you even check to see if that’s true, because you feel that if he or she were, then it wouldn’t have happened.
I suppose you could then start reporting that Andrea Yates was not on a bunch of psych meds when she drowned her kids, that Kurt Cobain had not just been in the psych ward and escaped to kill himself while under the influence of psych drugs, that Phil Hartman’s wife Brynn was not on Zoloft when she shot him, or that Ernest Hemingway never got Electroshocked right before he killed himself. Maybe next you can claim that 9/11 never even happened, given the level of fiction you choose to report as fact.
Check the court records of the lawsuit referenced below concerning the victims suing the manufacturer of Luvox which Eric Harris was on. According to the accounts and records obtained about both Harris and Klebold, both boys took at least two antidepressants each. I urge you to print a correction immediately.
You don’t have to bother trying to convince me that they were not on the meds, or that meds don’t cause violence. I know the truth and will tell it. I have been on Zoloft myself and I know it causes homicidal urges becuase I lived it. The only thing I am left wondering about your paper is how much you were paid or who directed this article to be written. | 2019-04-21T09:20:13 | https://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/rally-in-denver-for-ten-year-anniversary-of-columbine.html |
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In order to comply with changes to CMS Conditions of Participation for hospitals regarding who may order respiratory services, The Joint Commission has implemented changes to its Provision of Care standards.
CMS issued a final rule change on August 16, 2010, for 42 CFR 482.56: Rehabilitation Services and 42 CFR 482.57: Respiratory Services. The rule allows a qualified, licensed practitioner who is responsible for the patient and acting within the scope of their practice to order respiratory or rehabilitation services.
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A recent assessment of Republican reproductive policy in developing countries found that the Mexico City policy, known outside the administration as the “global gag rule,” is essentially failing to prevent the spread of AIDS and blatantly ignoring the pressing healthcare needs of women and families in some of the world’s most impoverished nations.
The global gag rule requires any organization or clinic that provides reproductive services to sign an agreement stipulating that abortion will not be mentioned or discussed with patients. A recent study by Population Action International, Ipas, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America discovered just how debilitating that policy is to clinics in developing nations, where the policy sometimes caused the closure of the only available healthcare service within a day’s walk.
“‘In practice, that is what is happening. They are getting blackballed,’ said Wendy Turnbull, legislative policy analyst with Population Action International and one of the authors of the report. | 2019-04-20T18:31:35 | https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2003/09/bushs-gag-gift/ |
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Torremolinos is also known as the gay capital of the Costa del Sol, it is a sprawling tourist resort more commonly associated with cheap package holidays and dodgy places from the 1970’s. In the 21st century, nothing could be further from the truth.
Torremolinos is a modern resort/ town with a wide range of hotels and attractions for the whole family including the famous Crocodile Park (Parque de los Cocodrilos).
Torremolinos has plenty to offer for those wishing to visit the area, not only is it conveniently located for easy access to the airport, it is also a great point from where which you can discover and visit other points within the Costa del Sol, it is easily accessible by car either on the coastal road or the N340, the first thing you will greet you is the statue at the entrance, the monument to the tourist (Monuemento al Turista).
You may wish to use public transport such as buses or by train. The train will take you towards Plaza Mayor and Malaga or towards Benalmadena and Fuengirola on the other direction.
On the outskirts of Torremolinos, sandwiched between Malaga and Alhaurin de La Torre you will find the complex Plaza Mayor. This is a complex comprising of shops, restaurants of many different nationalities, a multi-screen cinema showing films in Spanish and some in English as well as a number of fast-food restaurants, bars and arcade games places.
There is plenty of free parking, however, due to its popularity, you will find that they are taken up very quickly. In recent years Plaza Mayor has expanded and so have its number of visitors, it’s a great location to chill out and do some people watching while enjoying the atmosphere as well as the surroundings. | 2019-04-22T06:35:21 | https://www.malagaairporttravel.com/places/torremolinos/ |
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This week begin my abandoned places/urban exploration theme week. Today, we explore abandoned sites associated with water.
Ever since I saw the movie "In Dreams" (awesome scary movie with Annette Bening and Robert Downey Jr) with a scene of divers diving in a lake where a town was underneath, swimming amongst headstones and a church, I have been fascinated with the idea of abandoned sunken ghost towns.
This island in the Chesapeake is lost to time. It is 3 miles long and 1 mile wide and at sea level. It's lost a good deal of its citizens to poor crabbing and fishing conditions. The graves are topped by heavy stones so when there's a high tide or flooding rains, the bodies don't wash away to sea. At the rate of shrinkage, the island will be gone by the end of this century.
Around the beginning of the 19th century, Sharps Island was a roughly 600-acre (240-hectare) farming and fishing community at the mouth of Maryland's Choptank River. At one time it boasted schools, a post office and a popular resort hotel, where vacationers from Baltimore and other locations would arrive by boat to while away the lazy summer days. But between 1850 and 1900, the island lost 80 percent of its land mass, and by 1960 it had been reduced to a shoal. Today it is entirely underwater, marked only by a partly submerged lighthouse.
Remember the movie "Deliverance?" Here's a dive to that town, Lake Jocassee, SC (go ahead and run the slider to closer to the end so you can see the dive if you don't want to hear the interview, but it is a nice story).
Loyston (Wikipedia) was a community in Union County, Tennessee, USA, that was inundated by the waters of Norris Lake after the completion of Norris Dam in 1935. Established in the early 19th century around a foundry built by its namesake, John Loy, over subsequent decades the community's location along State Highway 61 helped it grow into a trading center for local farmers. By the time the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) began making plans to build Norris Dam in the early 1930s, Loyston had a population of approximately 70 residents, and consisted of a post office and several small businesses. Prior to inundation, TVA conducted extensive sociological surveys of Loyston's residents, and the community was documented by photographer Lewis Hine. Most of Loyston's residents relocated elsewhere in the area, with many forming the community of New Loyston in the hills to the south.
Google Cookson, OK. That's a town that is a favorite for divers because of the rather clear water. | 2019-04-20T16:56:31 | http://www.ghosthuntingtheories.com/2013/03/abandoned-water-sites.html |
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People chase money and fame so they can live like Jimmy Buffett. Beaches, margaritas, cheeseburgers, sea captain hats. The thing is, as a new profile in the New York Times outlines, Buffett hasn’t been a card-carrying resident of Margaritaville in years. He has an apartment in New York City’s bustling Columbus Circle, finds refuge in shopping malls, quit smoking pot in favor of occasional vaping, and only consumes sugar on Sundays. He calls Warren Buffet “Uncle Warren”; not because they’re related, but because they’re friends and are very, very rich.
That’s not to call him a “sell-out” or any such thing. In Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s thorough profile, she paints Buffett as a workhorse devoted to maintaining the quality of a brand that, while built on a fantasy, has nearly spiraled out of control. Only Krusty The Clown surpasses Buffett in the sheer volume of their branded products.
And, god bless him, he’s really trying to uphold the vision of paradise his music (some of which, the piece points out, is actually quite sad) imparts to loyal Parrotheads. These days, that’s through his multi-million dollar Broadway musical, Escape to Margaritaville, which he likens more to Rocky Horror than he does a traditional musical.
And this exemplifies a struggle: Creating the illusion of leisure takes a shitload of work. If there’s one sentiment you’ll be left with after reading it’s that Buffett could really use a vacation. But you’ll also be left knowing he probably wouldn’t be able to enjoy it. | 2019-04-19T18:16:54 | https://www.avclub.com/jimmy-buffet-has-abandoned-the-margaritaville-lifestyle-1822839907 |
So on my most recent vacation, I went to Storybrooke. Er, Steveston and Ft Langley, BC.
Most of “Storybrooke” is located along Moncton and Bayview streets between Third Avenue and No 1 Road in Steveston. This quaint little Richmond area burg appears to have embraced its alternate identity (hey, tourist money!). Although filming had not yet started, some of the buildings retained their “Storybrooke” signage. Others were disconcertingly Steveston/Canadian.
Actually walking the street and seeing where everything is relative to everything else gives you a three-dimensional context when you go back to watch the show. In each new scene, you can orient yourself and say, “The characters are near X. Yep, there it is.” It also makes you notice how often the show uses shipping pallets stacked against walls to hide the Steveston signs.
Another thing you notice upon rewatch is when the same business is sometimes named one thing, sometimes named something else in different episodes. Perhaps the name changed in real life, or maybe they just didn’t bother covering up the real name in early episodes. On-screen and off-screen photos follow. Because I really am that geeky. Warning: Image heavy. All screencaps courtesy of screencapped.net.
It’s Posh boutique, Steveston. People in pic are OUAT crew scouting the location.
Nikka Fishing Marine, Steveston. Note lack of a clock tower. It is CGI’d into TV shots in post-production.
Moncton Street, Steveston. Another place they left in TV land.
Steveston Information/Tourist Office. Full of fun OUAT facts. And souvenirs.
Steveston Winemakers. I actually went in here looking for wine. Silly American. They just bottle it.
Episode 1.04, The Price of Gold. Store is on far right. Pretty sure it still says “Steveston” in the distance there.
Steveston Marina. Some yummy restaurants in this area. | 2019-04-19T01:20:43 | https://nancyeshaffer.com/2014/07/19/once-upon-a-time-geeking-pt-i-steveston-bc/ |
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I want to appear in UGC-NET Commerce exam. Please suggest me which books should i refer... and give me some tips regarding the same. Also I want revised syllabus of UGC-NET 2012 Commerce exam..
Only such candidates who obtain the minimum required marks in each Paper, separately, as mentioned above, will be considered for final preparation of result. All m.com books are useful for clearing UGC net commerce. If you want to clear UGC net you should daily all the topics of syllabus of UGC net commerce.
As per latest rules, all paper will be objective type but if you study past subjective questions, then it will be helpful for answering objective type questions. Your can study the answer of past questions relating to UGC NET Commerce at here.
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Plz give some tips to prepare ugc-net commerce dec 2012 & study material.
plz sir,will you tell when the form of net exam of commerce will come. I am very thankful u too.
when the form of net exam 2012 of commerce will come.
I read somewhere that advertisement of NET exams are usually published in the month of September.But not getting any info. even in the month of October.So,Sir please send an alert via email, if you get any info. on NET EXAM FOR COMMERCE for Dec'12.
plz tell me when the forms of ugc for commerce will come???????
Sir i want to appear in dec net exam 2012, but still i have not got any notification in the official website to appear in commerce. please help me out how to fill form for dec net exam for commerce.
Plz send me authors names to prepare ugc net commerce.
check the website of UGC Net, you will find the notification. 16th Nov. is the deadline for online application of UGC NET.
plz sir,will you tell when the form of net exam of commerce will come.
I am very thankful u too.
exam hall ticket when you issued.
Check your UGC NET Co-ordination Center's Website. On the website, you will find the location of your examination hall. | 2019-04-21T03:21:33 | https://www.svtuition.com/2012/09/ugc-net-commerce-exam-dec-2012.html |
Roger Federer is the reddest of red hot favourites as he takes on the German, Bjorn Phau, who is ranked at number 83. Put simply, Federer does not lose these matches. The last player from outside the top 30 to beat him at a Grand Slam was Luis Horna way back in 2003. Phau will chase down a lot of balls, but has no weapons that will make even a dent in Federer’s armour. In two prior meetings, Federer has not dropped a set and it would be a major surprise if he does in Flushing Meadows.
Second seed, Agnieszka Radwanska, has gone under the radar in the build-up to this tournament. She has been struggling with her fitness and injury problems, but hammered Nina Bratchikova in the first round, and Carla Suarez Navarro is unlikely really to cause her any stress. The Pole leads the head-to-head 2-0 without dropping a set, and she is a superior player now than she was in either of those matches.
Serena Williams is the strong favourite to lift the title and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez is unlikely to prove much of a test for the American. The bigger concern is that she appeared to twist her ankle during her doubles match yesterday and the most interesting aspect of this match is likely to be whether that seems to affect her movement at all.
Ana Ivanovic has an excellent opportunity to reach her first quarter-final since she lifted the French Open back in 2008. She came through her first round match with relative ease and the head-to-head would suggest that Sofia Arvidsson should not prove too difficult. Ivanovic leads 4-1 with Arvidsson’s only victory coming way back in 2003. Victory here will likely set up an intriguing third round encounter with Sloane Stephens.
Sara Errani has been one of the success stories of the year. A wonderful clay court season was the highlight, but she has successfully transferred her form to the hard courts with solid victories over Marion Bartoli and Daniella Hantuchova. She struggled through the first round, but Vera Dushevina, who has never passed the third round here, is unlikely to trouble the much improved Italian.
Milos Raonic has made great strides over the past two years, but he should have been eliminated in the first round by Santiago Giraldo. He was struggling with his serve and his ground strokes, and it was only a fourth set collapse from Giraldo that allowed him to continue. Paul-Henri Mathieu battled well to come from 2-0 down against Igor Andreev and he has the ability to trouble the young Canadian. Raonic should win this, but Mathieu is certainly not without a chance.
Roberta Vinci came into this tournament off the back of a title in Dallas, albeit against a poor field. However, her record in Flushing Meadows is very poor, having failed to pass the second round on all bar one visits. She faces the talent Kazakh, Yaroslava Shvedova, who is finding her best form against after injury. The head-to-head is 1-0 in favour of the Italian, but Shvedova is playing much better now, and she could cause a slight upset tomorrow.
The highlight of Day 4 is undoubtedly the final contest on Arthur Ashe as Angelique Kerber takes on Venus Williams. The German has had a stunning rise up the rankings over the past 12 months and comes into this event as the sixth seed. Her run to the final in Cincinnati saw her dispatch Venus’ sister and Kvitova and she is in excellent form. Despite the fact that Venus is down at number 46 in the rankings, she is always a threat as she showed in reaching the semi-final in Cincinnati. The two-time US Open champion is far from the force that she once was, but she will be hoping to roll back the years. They have played twice already this year with Kerber winning in straight sets on both occasions, but in front of her home crowd, Venus will be a different proposition.
Renowned tennis forecaster. If there is a tennis match happening Ian Dorward will have a view on the outcome. | 2019-04-20T20:50:20 | http://www.stevegtennis.com/2012/08/us-open-2012-match-predictions-day-4/ |
Britain's David Florence stormed to his third Canoe Slalom World Championships gold as he won the individual C1 on home water at Lee Valley.
The Scot, 33, who won the C1/C2 double at the 2013 Worlds, pipped Slovenia's Benjamin Savsek by just 0.04 seconds.
Fellow Briton Ryan Westley, the first man to go in the final, held on to take a superb bronze medal.
Kimberley Woods (fourth), Eilidh Gibson (fifth) and Mallory Franklin (seventh) narrowly missed out in the women's C1.
One mistake by Woods between the last two gates cost her after Czech Katerina Hoskova set the pace, Spaniard Nuria Vilarrubla pushing the Briton into third before Australia's defending champion Jessica Fox came down last to take gold, almost five seconds clear.
British trio Richard Hounslow, Bradley Forbes-Cryans and Joe Clarke all failed to reach the men's K1 final.
Double-Olympic silver medallist Florence won a team bronze on Saturday, but had to settle for fifth with partner Richard Hounslow in the C2.
"That was more like it," he said. "I was really pleased just to get to the final again as it is always a fight to get there, but once you get there that's your chance to deliver.
"I got into some real trouble to be honest around gates five, six and seven and lost a bit of an edge, tried to recover it and didn't quite manage. I thought I had recovered it, but was pushing the wrong way and eventually got back on line and just had to try and re-focus.
"The crowd were incredible, there was an absolute buzz. The rest of the course just went really well and it was enough to win by a very small margin - enough to become world champion again." | 2019-04-23T01:43:41 | https://www.bbc.com/sport/canoeing/34308499 |
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Rental tax is a privilege tax levied on the lessor of tangible personal property. The tax is on the gross receipts (including any tax invoiced) from the rental or leasing of any tangible personal property subject to the rental tax. The City of Alabaster general rental tax rate is 2%, and the automotive rate is ½%. The State of Alabama and Shelby County also levies a rental tax. | 2019-04-19T22:51:19 | http://cityofalabaster.com/307/Rental-Leasing-Tax |
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The Student-Athlete Center on the campus of Lindenwood University works to develop pride for the university, athletics department, and student-athletes. One of the goals for the building was to develop a resource for student-athletes to continue to excel in the classroom.
At Lindenwood University, the priority is providing students with an exceptional academic and cultural experience; however, athletics play an important role in the campus environment.
Lindenwood University transitioned to a Division II athletic program where the competition both on and off the field escalated. As a part of this transition, the university challenged itself to develop a first-class Student-Athlete Center that would not only benefit the student-athletes, but also the entire campus, alumni, supporters, and the St. Charles, MO, community. The challenge was to keep academics at the core, and prepare the students for game time… and life.
Nestled on 500 acres just west of St. Louis and serving 17,000 students, the Student-Athlete Center was a key part of the university’s long-term planning strategy. The three-story, 45,000-square-foot building is attached to the football stadium and gathers the outdoor sports teams into a central location. The building’s design is focused on being the hub for the football, soccer, lacrosse, and women’s field hockey teams.
It serves as a centralized facility that includes meeting spaces, locker rooms, study areas, athletic offices, and space for events. Plus, the building is home to the Academic Success Center which was developed to accommodate the hectic schedules of student-athletes of all sports, providing them with a convenient space to study or meet with a tutor close to where they practice, train, and play.
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Traffic has increased tremendously through the Center, and visitors and recruits are impressed by the facility’s attention to detail and quality. The impact of this building will endure for many years by creating a premiere academic and athletic experience for both current and future student-athletes.
Research on interior design and furnishings indicates that rooms and conditions therein are important in the teaching-learning dynamic; however, students felt that these play a much greater role than the faculty did. By providing furniture solutions with students in mind in the Student-Athlete Center, Lindenwood University has seen in increase in traffic in the facility, contributing to the Center’s goals to encourage academic success. | 2019-04-21T10:35:34 | https://webcpm.com/articles/2018/03/01/student-athlete-center.aspx |
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I'm writing a driver for a custom display which uses a menu system. I defining my text library I decided to use constant character arrays for my text. I then attempt to point to the individual characters for the printing of text. I am using version 3.129 of the compiler and am programming for a PIC18F6720. Here is what I am having problems with.
Now when I try to compile, the compiler stops when it gets to my function declaration, more specifically at the 'char' declaration and I get a message that says 'Expecting a , or )'. I've used this method with a couple other compilers and one being Microchips C17 and it worked fine. Is there a fix or some work around for this?
:=I'm writing a driver for a custom display which uses a menu system. I defining my text library I decided to use constant character arrays for my text. I then attempt to point to the individual characters for the printing of text.
CCS doesn't allow pointers to constant strings.
But you can still use constant strings.
output redirected to another function.
See the manual for info on this.
This compiler does not allow pointers to constants. You can use an addressing mode to send the characters. | 2019-04-23T20:06:33 | http://www.ccsinfo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=584&view=next |
Setting non-measurable Key Results: Remember John Doerr’s formula. Every Key Result has to be measurable.
Too many OKRs or Key Results: OKR is not a laundry list of everything you do. It is a representation of your top priorities. Less is more here.
Including tasks as Key Results: A Key Result is not something that you do. It is the successful outcome of what you did.
Setting OKRs top-down: OKRs do not cascade. Trust your team and help them understand how they can contribute.
Creating OKRs in silos: Teams have to talk to each other when setting OKRs, otherwise achieving alignment will be impossible.
“Set it and Forget it”: Don’t treat your OKRs as new year’s resolutions. OKR has to be part of the culture of your organization and has to be tracked at a regular cadence.
Including OKRs in a compensation formula: OKR is not an employee evaluation tool. OKR is a management tool.
Trying to copy Google blindly: There is not a single way to adopt OKR. Even inside Google different teams use OKR in a variety of ways. Understand the principles involved and adapt your implementation to your organization.
What are the main OKR benefits?
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Vickerman, Erin (2011) "Profile: Amtgard," Fresh Voices: Composition at Cal Poly: Vol. 4 : Iss. 1 , Article 18. | 2019-04-19T08:39:08 | https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/freshvoices/vol4/iss1/18/ |
The holiday season is synonymous with festivities, cheer, and mirth. It is also that “much-awaited time of the year” when flashy discount signs lure shopaholics with their special festive promotions and offer: the beginning of the “Sale Period”. While you can always save money while shopping online, you have to be careful and stay away from scams.
While excited shoppers get busy grabbing the hottest deals and bargains, holiday season shopping scams also become rampant. Beware of these ‘new age’ online and mobile shopping frauds to protect your assets and identity and to enjoy carefree holidays.
As more and more people now use Internet and mobile phones for faster and last minute purchases, our criminal heroes too wish to make some money when you shop online, etc. These scams not only rob naïve customers of their money but also pose a threat of identity theft.
Here are some of the most discreetly manipulative shopping season scams that you should beware of.
With the number of online shoppers burgeoning during the holiday season, the figures of fake websites, counterfeit gift cards, phony contests, SMS and digital scams shoot up too. Customers getting tricked into buying ‘designer products at throwaway prices’ or bagging amazing deals that turn out to be counterfeit products are common online shopping season scams. Entering social media contests to win a special holiday season gift hamper may land you in trouble too. It just takes one click on your end to have cyber criminals gain illegitimate access to your personal and financial information and use it in an illegal manner.
Shop responsibly. Transact on authentic e-commerce websites that are verified for customer safety and have secure payment gateways linked to legitimate banks and service providers.
Modern day cyber criminals are always on the prowl for naïve customers who do not completely understand all the aspects of mobile shopping. They create genuine-looking mobile websites and send promotional advertisements that look legitimate. They also add fake celebrity endorsements so as not to raise doubts. Such content, when accessed or downloaded on a smart phone, may intercept, modify and misuse all existing data, including contact information, bank details, and passwords pertaining to your identity and assets.
Solution: Review mobile websites and applications before downloading them on your mobile or tablet and read user reviews before shopping in a sprint.
Being generous during the holiday season is noble, but being blind to fake ‘emotional blackmail’ is unwise. Cyber criminals use authentic institution logos to create fake email campaigns and “move” you to make a donation through well-written and sensational pitches through dodgy online links. While you feel good about your ‘kind deed’, they gulp down your hard-earned money.
Solution: If you feel like making an underprivileged smile, conduct a thorough background research of the charity or foundation you wish to donate to. They always have legitimate contact information so that you can get in touch with them directly. Most importantly, never divulge your personal or bank details with any unknown entity.
Travel deals and links received through social media sites or emails may hoodwink you into submitting your personal information. Visiting malicious websites may infect your computer with virus and malware and give scamsters the opportunity to compel you into making a fake purchase.
Solution: Before you jump on a Euro Tour package offer for just $300, carry out a little research about the service provider’s credentials and authenticity. Read customer reviews to check if the company or the offer is legitimate and do not forget to run an anti-virus scan on your computer after any such online activity.
Read here about the most common Online and Email scams & frauds.
Thanks to e-cards, you can convey season’s greetings to your family and friends located miles away from you in a quick and convenient manner. But, some of them may also carry malware and may lead your loved ones to download a malicious virus on their systems when they click to open a link or download an email attachment.
Solution: Choose reputed service providers. Look for misspelled names and words in the attachment links. If you find any fallacies, simply hit the ‘Delete’ button, pick up the phone and give your family or friends a call. They would love it!
Don’t let these holiday season shopping scams ruin your festive spirit. Bear in mind the simple solutions to avoid online shopping scams and enjoy your holidays without being duped! Download this booklet from Microsoft. It talks about how to stay safe from online fraud. | 2019-04-23T06:38:50 | https://www.thewindowsclub.com/online-shopping-fraud-holiday-season-scams |
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Celebrate a place like no other in this Comfort Colors tee from Live Oak Brand! 100% cotton. | 2019-04-18T20:32:55 | http://store.wlu.edu/MerchList.aspx?ID=12278 |
The sheer diversity of landscapes in South America is shown by the stark contrast between the Caribbean coast in the far north and the icy southern peninsula that makes up Patagonia. In between there are the remnants of the Incas and Nazcas, the other-worldly landscapes of the Salt Flats and the Atacama Desert, as well as endless rainforests, beaches, pampas and mountains. And it's not just landscapes that are worth visiting either, the cities of South America are equally diverse and exciting with Rio de Janerio, Buenos Aires, Cartagena and Cusco, as just a few of our favourites. Explore our destination pages for more on where to go in South America.
Colombia is once more one of South America’s most vibrant countries, and soon to become one of its favourite luxury holiday destinations.
The secret is sneaking out, but Uruguay is still a hugely under-rated destination.
If you’re in Mendoza, the chances are it’s because you’ve enjoyed Argentinian wine and are keen to get to the source!
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...but one of the biggest things for me is the desktop itself. Even despite the problems mentioned above, quite frankly, I just don't like having to use the Windows desktop. I've come to really appreciate more minimal desktop environments like GNOME and Pantheon, and Windows desktop just feels overly complicated in a number of areas. For example, let's compare the Windows file explorer to elementary Files.
Windows' file explorer has a lot of buttons for actions you can take, and the above picture only shows one tab. I don't mean to say that having more options is inherently a bad thing, but that just looks like a mess to me.
elementary Files, on the other hand, is much cleaner. Your view options are covered in the header bar, with the option of an icon grid, a list view, or column view; you can open tabs just below that, with the + (tabs being a feature that Windows' file explorer lacks entirely); actions for files and folders themselves are handled contextually in the right-click menu. All in all, a much cleaner design that remains very functional and aesthetically-pleasing.
Again, I don't think that having more options is inherently bad, but presentation is important. In this case, less is more.
Oh, and one more thing I about the Windows file explorer: if it freezes up and you have to kill the process, it takes the rest of your desktop with it. That's not the case on any Linux desktop environment I've used.
That's a rough summary of why I don't use other platforms. So, why do I use Linux? Well, a lot of it goes hand in hand with why I use elementary OS, which, again, you can read about here.
Finally, and the most important to me: the freedom of choice, and control over your own computer. While I love and advocate for elementary OS, it isn't for everyone, but there are so many Linux distributions to choose from, as well as desktop environments. Do you like GTK, but hate GNOME? Cinnamon and MATE are great. Do you prefer rolling releases, but want a more curated experience? Go with Solus. Do you want a system that's precisely tailored to your exact liking? Arch is ready for you. With all of the options in the Linux world, there really is something for everyone. | 2019-04-26T00:17:32 | https://write.as/akzel/why-i-use-linux |
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