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The latest smart phone in the iPhone line is expected to unveil at the end of this year, and most likely it will be called iPhone 5 or the "new iPhone" if it follows the same naming convention as the iPad. For the latest iPhone, people are expecting a smart phone that is much thinner than its predecessors are and preferably with a large 4-inch screen and a smaller dock connector. However, according to some rumors, it is not just the iPhone that is getting all these qualities. As these rumors go, the latest iPod touch may have the same features as well, that is a larger screen and a thinner body.
According to a Japanese blog, Macotakara, Apple plans to give the iPod touch the very same 4 inch display that it is going to be putting in the latest iPhone, which will not only match their looks, but give a completely new look to the iPod touch as well. As for the internals of both of these devices, they are much different. Since, the iPod is not a smart phone, so it will most probably have the A5 processor from iPhone 4S as its debut in the media device. As for the back side of the iPod touch, it is going to be a new as well. How new to be exact? Well, it is said that the new iPod touch will have aluminum back, which will be available in two front casing choices of black and white.
The images that are popping up for the iPod have an extra hole in the back of the device. So far, no one knows what it is meant for, so people are welcome to share their guesses with us. Since, both iPhone 5 and the iPod touch will have the same display and the same resolution, it will be helpful in giving people a consistent experience of both apps and iOS regardless of which device you are using. Moreover, giving both devices the same display also means that it will be easier to manufacture one single type of display rather than two different ones. With the same size, it also means that the manufacturing of the device's components will also be easier, which eventually results in greater manufacturing output, since there will be only one type to be produced.
Giving the iPod touch the A5 processor from the iPhone 4S is another clever move by Apple because the production line is already producing A5 processors for the iPhone 4S. So, no changes required on the production line in order to give the iPod touch its processing power.
The launch date of iPod touch is this fall, according to Macotakara. Apple is going to launch iPhone 5 before the launch of iPod touch, or may be both of these devices will be launched on the same date, as both will look very similar. However, we cannot be sure about the launch date of both of these devices; so far, we will have to wait until some official news comes about these two devices.


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Today marks one year since the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 was signed into law.
One year since Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and former Senator Chris Dodd (R-CT) chose to ignore our concerns that this bill would stifle the recovery, harm job creation and crush Main Street America.
One year since the former Speaker Pelosi- and Leader Reid-controlled Congress rammed this bill through the House and Senate with almost no Republican support, unleashing a tidal wave of new regulations on an economy already buckling under overregulation.
Unfortunately, one year later, the promises that this legislation would help restore our fiscal stability and confidence and grow our economy remain largely unfulfilled and many of our worst fears have come true.
The few effective provisions of Dodd-Frank are masked by its many flaws; flaws that have been and will continue to be detrimental to the American economy and our financial future if not reversed. As Chairman of the House Committee on Small Business, I am particularly concerned about the impact these flaws will have on small firms across America. Small companies are the cornerstone of the American economy and are our most effective job creators. On average, seven of every ten new jobs are created by small businesses.


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Four days in Cusco, Peru
Where'd we leave off?
That long, local bus ride from Puno. If you haven't read the post about Lake Titicaca, let me fill you in: we were pressed for time. Like, really pressed for time. But we were also hell bent on seeing both sides of the lake despite the fact that it meant we'd only have a measly 14 hours to spend in Puno (over half of which were spent sleeping) and would likely miss the early-morning (and very convenient) tourist bus. Well, we did miss that bus. And everyone - from the owner of the hotel we stayed at to the agent at the bus terminal - tried talking us into waiting for the tourist bus the next morning (it makes fewer stops, is more comfortable, and is generally more safe for foreign travelers), but we were having none of it. We needed to be in Cusco by a certain time and, at that point, a local bus was our only option. So we bought our tickets and got on the damn bus, and spent the next 10 (or 11) hours packed like sardines in a vessel - without air conditioning - that smelled a little too much like week old bologna.
We made our first stop a couple hours in and were warned (no one else, just us) not to get of the bus because the area is known for its violent ways - especially toward foreigners. So we waited around for 30 minutes then carried on for a few more hours before arriving at our second stop. We got the green light to get off the bus so Thom went to look for oranges (Peruvian oranges are some of the best I've ever had) while I stayed with our belongings. Eventually the bus pulled away and I assumed - like the first stop - that it was just pulling around to the other side of the station. But within a minute or two, with my nose buried deep in a Milan Kundera novel (probably The Unbearable Lightness of Being for the 1,983rd time), I noticed the guy from across the aisle turbulently waving his hands at me and it was then that I realized OH SHIT THE BUS IS ACTUALLY LEAVING AND MY HUSBAND IS BACK AT THE BUS STATION LOOKING FOR ORANGES.
My immediate reaction was something straight out of Home Alone, followed by an urge to grab all of our bags and run to the front of the bus. So I did. My buddy from across the aisle followed me and explained the situation to our bus driver, and I jumped off the bus (which was still slowly moving at that point) and came to the awful realization that we were going to spend the night on the floor of a bus station.. in the middle of nowhere. And just as that hit me I looked up and saw Thom, about a quarter mile away, running like mad toward the bus and its massive dust cloud. I poked my head inside and updated our buddy (un minuto, por favor!), and next thing I knew Thom was two feet away from me, sweaty and out of breath and grabbing for his belongings. We hopped back on the bus and were greeted with some serious side eye from the driver (can you blame him?) but claps and big smiles from the other riders, who were relieved to see that one half of the gringos on board didn't get left behind.
Eventually, sometime just before midnight, we made it to Cusco. We checked in to our B&B and called it a night, then woke up early the next morning to wander around the place I kept referring to as, "a little slice of Eastern European heaven.. in Peru." And between the convoluted, cobblestone pathways and charm that oozed from every nook and cranny, Cusco won my heart. In fact, we had zero intention of spending more than a day in the 2+ mile high city, but after wrapping up our trek to Machu Picchu, we decided to scrap a trip to Arequipa or Pisco and spend a few more days laying low and exploring at our leisure.. and avoiding long bus rides (even if they were going to be on the tourist route).
- A cab ride from the bus station to the city center shouldn't cost more than five soles, but damn near every driver will try to charge you 15.
- If you haven't spent much time at altitude and are planning on trekking to Machu Picchu, make sure you arrive to Cusco a few days before the start of your trek so you can acclimate.
- Make sure you drink a boatload of water. If that doesn't keep the symptoms of altitude sickness at bay, coca tea will help with the adjustment. Or you can say fuck the tea and chew on the leaves (it's what I did).
- If you want textiles, get them in Cusco. I got two beautiful rugs for less than $40/each (!) and a bunch of other vibrant tapestries.
- If you're heading to the local markets, try your hand at bargaining (though be respectful about it).
- Let the locals guide you. I always say they know best but, in Cusco, they really know best.
More from our South American honeymoon: Lomas de Arena Regional Park, La Paz, Bolivia, Salar de Uyuni, and Lake Titicaca.
Greens organic - A delicious restaurant that serves up both organic and local grub. A bit on the pricey side (for Cusco), but absolutely worth it.
The Meeting Place - Great place to grab breakfast. Top notch (not vegan) milkshakes and pour over coffee. Even better? 100% of profits go to local charities and projects.
Mr. Soup - Giant bowls of soup (AND BREAD!) with options for vegans and meat eaters, alike. Granja Heidi - Fantastic food and atmosphere. Owner is a delight.
Jack's Cafe - All day breakfast and other tasty things.
Viva - Healthy vegan Peruvian fare.
Selesonia's Mesa - Traditional Peruvian that came highly recommended from a fellow traveler.
The Sepia Club - A few items can be made 'vegano', you've just gotta ask.
Green Point Vegan - Opens at 8am and offers a hearty breakfast menu. Salad bar served with lunch and dinner.
Pachapapa - Dinner on the patio at dusk is divine. Go for a wood-fired pizza.
Tantaqwasi - This bakery was two doors from our Airbnb and it was outta-this-world good.
Panaderia Qosqo Maki - Employs at risk youth and bakes up some mean pastries.
Cafe Ayllu - The only good coffee shop we visited in Cusco.
Cocoliso - Funky cafe that serves up boozy drinks, delicious juices, and small bites.
Paddy's - A traditional (and super cozy) Irish pub. Great for watching football (err, soccer).
The Cross Keys - An English pub with a number of imported beers and huge portions of papas fritas.
Mercado Central de San Pedro - A jam-packed local market with everything from fresh produce and chocolate to kitchen gadgets and textiles. A lot of resources say the vendors ignore tourists but that couldn't have been further from the truth. We left with an assortment of dried fruits, a couple of wooden utensils from a darling man named Cesar, and bars of Peruvian chocolate.
Saksaywaman - Inca ruins, just a 10-15 minute walk from the heart of Cusco.
San Blas - A historic neighborhood with a small market that pops up on the regular.
We wound up staying at a dreamy B&B that was a couple of blocks from the center of town. Aside from the fantastic location, the hosts were incredibly generous (they received us late at night, arranged laundry service, helped us book our plane tickets to Lima, etc.) and we met a lot of kickass travelers (one of whom was an OLC reader) (SMALL WORLD). While breakfast wasn't worth writing home about, there was a spread of coffee, fruit, and fresh-baked bread from the bakery down the street.


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Kindred Winecoff has a post up regarding a post by Matt Yglesias on the level of partisanship in American politics. I've some thoughts on the issue. I should also stipulate that I'm coming at this from a strictly foreign policy-oriented perspective. Some of this bleeds over into domestic politics, but I'm sure there's a lot that I'm not covering by approaching the topic from this point of view.
Basically, I agree with what Kindred has to say, and I don't know as though I'm adding anything substantive, but just reaffirming what's been put out there by others already. I would argue that the Truman and late Roosevelt administrations marked the high point for bipartisanship. Truman inherited several of Roosevelt's Republican appointees and continued to work with many of them under his own administration. Eisenhower, however, made some pretty important changes. Ben Fordham has some work that discusses how Republicans and Democrats differed over the allocation of military capabilities—even during the very early years of the Cold War when "bipartisanship" was arguably at its highest. In an effort to keep costs down the Eisenhower administration pushed for less emphasis on ground forces and more on nuclear weaponry as a means of ensuring America's commitments around the world. If there's an area where we should expect to find partisan harmony, it's probably most likely to come in national security policy.
McCarthyism is also running rampant during this time period, and this was not just isolated to Joe McCarthy himself. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, was pretty aggressive when it came to seeking out and purging those suspected of holding communist sympathies from the ranks of the executive branch. Often this just meant Democrats and liberal Republicans. My reading of this is that Dulles was enthusiastic in his own right when it came to this sort of house cleaning. Eisenhower, for his part, was pretty quiet initially and was reluctant to openly oppose McCarthy. The bottom line? Party politics and ideology were pretty fierce even during the early years of the Cold War.
There's been some recent work done by Charles Kupchan and Peter Trubowitz (there's much more than these two pieces out there) that deals with this notion of the centrist/bipartisan base of American foreign policy diminishing. Basically, they argue that the sort of bipartisanship/centrism underpinning American foreign policy since the beginning of the Cold War began to seriously break down around Vietnam, but that it took a major hit shortly after the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Much of this, they argue, has to do with shifts in how different regions have fared as a result of their integration into and exposure to the global economy. Trubowtiz's Defining the National Interest is a good take on this process and how such changes have shaped perceptions of the national interest over time. I would also add that this is also the period where US integration into the global economy in terms of trade and FDI really starts to take off (FDI maybe kicked in a little later?). Since I haven't used a picture in a while, I'll add one now. (I made this a while ago, so if something seems grossly off base please let me know.)
This is not adjusted for inflation, but the point here being that the era in question saw an pretty dramatic increase in the rate at which peoples' personal fortunes and circumstances were changing. It just seems difficult to think of such a dramatic change in economic circumstances and expect that it will somehow not be associated with changes in political conditions (not that they're really separate, mind you). I haven't read it yet, but I think this is along the lines of McCarty, Poole, and Rosenthal's book.
Ultimately I think the takeaway is that this emphasis on bipartisanship is really a moot point. Bipartisanship was essentially a transient result of circumstance. Partisan divisions, economic interests, and a world war produced the conditions necessary for Republicans and Democrats to come together to shape foreign affairs. And even then there remained a large element of the Republican party that was opposed to the internationalist agenda that the other half supported. Frankly, while it's an interesting national myth, I'm coming more and more to believe that this question of bipartisanship is the wrong question. If you buy the arguments that folks like Kupchan and Trubowitz are advancing, it's really the reallignment of social and economic cleavages with party ID that are really driving increased partisanship. Particular emphasis on the economic cleavages. If today's political environment seems more combative with respect to party lines, it's probably because it is. But this doesn't mean that American politics in general is any more combative than it has been in the past. Basically, this sort of conflict has always been there, but it may have been more readily identifiable on regional divides rather than party divides. As Kindred remarks, discussing party in this context is really just talking about the window dressing.


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So how do the American kids differ from their peers?
I think it all comes down to some messiness, some scruffiness around the edges.
Sure, my kids' closet is filled with stylish and adorable clothing. If I picked out their clothing every day, they would look so cute... coordinated... put-together. The colors would all match, they'd have hair accessories that compliment their clothes, and they'd wear a wide variety of outfits--not the same thing over and over again.
I think the same could be said for most of the other American kids in the elementary school, too.
So why are our kids dressed the way they are?
Because they dress themselves. They pick out their own outfits. (They also help to choose their clothing when I initially purchase it, so you'd think it wouldn't be an issue--but they then insist on coming up with their own ways of wearing it once we're back in Moscow). They fiercely assert their independence, sharing their own senses of style. They know what's comfortable. They also want to brush their own hair and do their own pony tails.
And we let them.
In my case, it's simply not a battle worth fighting. There are other areas of contention that are way more important and I choose to spend my nagging/discipline time on those. If I also harped on about their clothing, they would only hear the "wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah" drone of the teacher from the Peanuts cartoon.
I think there's also more to it... I let them put together those sometimes dreadful combinations in part because I value their need for independence. Their need to take on individual responsibility is more important to me as a mother than others' perceptions of their grooming. Granted, they must be clean and decent--but I'm not to going to sweat the small stuff.
The more I think about, children's independence/individual identity is a common theme throughout American children's literature, television and film. Eloise. Nancy Drew. Harriet the Spy. Ramona. Tom Sawyer. Nim's Island. Freaky Friday. Ratatouille. Finding Nemo. I could go on and on.
I just can't think of Russian equivalents... The Russian stories and films my kids are most commonly exposed to tend to emphasize the family as a whole or groups of friends/characters. Cheburashka is an individual, but she's not a person... She's an unknown type of cuddly animal... Pippi Longstocking and Carlson (Astrid Lindgren) are very popular here, but they're Swedish...
Anyone care to share his or her two cents/2 kopeks?


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Ready! Set! Let's go!
Going to the beach with friends is something we've been doing for more than 15 years. After so many trips to the beach, I think we've got it down to a science.
In our group we divide up the breakfasts and dinners to be eaten at the beach [each family brings lunch food for their family or we go out to eat]. We assign meals in advance so no one person is stuck with preparing food too often. Each family shops for their assigned meal plus they bring a portion of the "household items" that we've found helpful to bring from home. The list has varied over the years, but with rental houses you're never quite sure the household supplies will be provided. I'll share the list we've formulated over the years for things we like to bring on a beach trip.
- Each family brings their own bathroom soaps and a few rolls of toilet paper
- Dish-washing liquid
- Dishwasher soap
- Laundry soap
- Paper towels
- Paper napkins
- Paper plates
- Coffee filters
- Plastic wrap
- Aluminum Foil
- Ziploc bags, gallon and quart
- Trash bags
- Dish towels
- Sponge
Since we have 4 families in our group, each of us only needs to bring about 3 items from the household list.
In our car, I also make sure to pack stuff for beach fun – kites are a huge amount of fun on the beach, bubbles, sand buckets and shovels, beach umbrella, beach towels, sand chairs
I also pack stuff for fun out of the sun – board games (Apples to Apples is great for a wide range of ages, Monopoly, Chinese checkers…) cards, Legos. Origami instruction books and paper keep us all entertained for hours. Paper lunch sacks and markers can turn into puppets for impromptu puppet shows. I try to make sure the craft items are easy to do and easy to clean so that we don't damage the property we are renting, of course.
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There are 55 Million Internet Users in Mexico (Monitor Economico, 10/24/12)
Distrito Federal - 55 million Internet users in Mexico, place it among the 12 countries with the highest number of populations on the web. This was revealed in a study on habits of internet users in Mexico by the Technological Institute of Higher Studies in Monterrey (ITESM) and the 2012 World Internet Project (WPI).
The study showed that in the Federal District and its metropolitan area, Internet penetration reaches 55% of the population, which represents 11 million users, said Fernando Gutiérrez, general coordinator of the Internet project of the ITESM.
The next region in importance with 46% is the North, then Northwest with 45%. More than 7 million users are less than 11 years of age, known as digital natives. By sex, 51% of Internet users are men and 49% are women who are increasingly using the Internet, since the number increased two percentage points since last year.
Also climbing is Internet access via cell phones, where 22 hours of navigation are invested on average. In relation to the electoral process in July 2 six of every ten users were said to have followed the campaigns on various media sources via the Internet.
It is worth mentioning that the majority followed candidate activities on Facebook (56%), 32% on You tube, 24% by electronic mail, 19% by Twitter and 17% in blogs. http://monitoreconomico.org/noticias/2012/oct/24/en-mexico-hay-55-millones-de-usuarios-con-internet-itesm/
Carnival of Ensenada Venue Change Considered (Monitor Economico, 10/24/12)
Ensenada, BC - Since sellers registered to participate in Carnival of Ensenada festivities in the Municipal Beach area do not recover their investment, is possible for the 2013 event to again have a change of venue and take place in the Civic Plaza de la Patria.
Merchants who requested anonymity provided this information, but it was not confirmed by the President of the Board of Celebrations (Pafest), Ramón Insunza Ramos. The complainants noted that being far away from the tourist zone results in the consequence of citizens not attending and thus they have economic losses.
In this regard the Chairman the Cámara Nacional de Comercio (Canaco), Alfredo Rico Bravo, mentioned that although nothing is official, formal merchants in the downtown area agreed to return the festivities to the Civic Plaza, since it affects the sector in different ways.
"For us the best place is Playa Hermosa on the expansion of the coastal Boulevard", he noted, as national Chamber of Commerce representative. "If this becomes the official change of venue, we will take a stance against it, so Carnival can continue at the Municipal Beach". http://monitoreconomico.org/noticias/2012/oct/24/cambiaria-sede-central-del-carnaval-de-ensenada-para-2013/


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I will have my best friend pick a ticket out of a hat
This will start once 40 tickets have been bought and at least five people have bought tickets
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I don't know about you, but it's always refreshing to hear the word 'tropic'. Add this to any property name and picture the cool breeze, lush gardens and trees, and serenity. SP Setia, the developers for other successful condominiums such as Araville, has developed a property that is aptly called Duta Tropika.
Located opposite of Solaris Dutamas on Jalan Dutamas 1, the Duta Tropika consists of link houses and semi-detached houses built on freehold land. Its link houses consist of three storeys. The property is guarded with infrared sensors that surround its peripheral fencing, as well as a home alarm system, intercom, and CCTV cameras.
What You'll Get
The concept of Duta Tropika, as its name suggests, revolves around resort-like living through a tropical setting. Facilities are also at par with five-star hotels, plus the environment is beautiful and invites tranquility and privacy. Its semi-detached houses and link houses are elegant to look at. The link houses are called Courtyard Villas. They measure at 3,774 square feet. Garden Villas or semi-detached houses come with three storeys, and has a built-up size of 4,020 square feet.
High-end facilities and pleasures await residents of the Duta Tropika. It boasts of a Jacuzzi, a fully-equipped gymnasium, function rooms, a swimming pool, and a wading pool. A reading room is also offered for its residents. Broadband internet access is available. There is also a children's playground, changing room and toilets, and parking bays exclusively for its residents.
Just Next To Publika!
The property is conveniently located just in front of Solaris Dutamas, a powerhouse shopping mall that is made up of 400 retail shops, boutiques, and specialty stores. Other malls that are only within minutes from Duta Tropika are Plaza Mont Kiara, and Solaris Mont Kiara. For activities, Jalan Dutamas 1 is also nearby sports complexes. Tennis Complex Tun Razak, National Squash Centre, and Duta Hockey Stadium are all within driving distance from the property.
All About the Ringgit
Introductory sale prices for Duta Tropika were listed at a rather pricey RM700 PSF back in April 2005. This price eventually soared and soared throughout the years, and hit its (unverified) transacted sale price of around RM1,400 per square feet in late 2010. This may be doubtful, but is useful as something to cross-check with; the completion of Solaris Dutamas in 2010 may have contributed to this. We could, however confirm that in 2013, units here at Duta Tropika have been selling for RM4 million – up from RM3.5 million back in 2010.
Currently, asking prices for the property units are listed at an estimated RM850 square feet. The neighbouring Duta Nusantara also commands similar prices, and useful as a "comp" if you want to estimate the fair value for this property. For an easy valuation method click here to download the guide.
The chart below shows Duta Tropika's asking prices for the past couple of months –
Our Analysis
There's always something homey and relaxing about the Duta Tropika�s ambiance �and probably this is one of the reasons why the property has a lot of satisfied investors and residents. It's easy to fall in love with its theme – a tropical enclave that invite serenity and calm, as well as boast of resort-like amenities and facilities to make life even better.
Jalan Dutamas is still an area that is building its reputation as a great place to invest property on. However, as expected that the area has become a bustling location with Solaris Dutamas (where Publika is) getting more popular. Adding to the roster of developments in the area include Naza Metropolis and Kenny Heights. These developments might invite potential developers to consider building condominiums in the area to further satisfy the demand of people who would like to buy, own, or rent a house or a condominium in the Jalan Dutamas area.
SP Setia seems to be steering clear from the Mont Kiara / Dutamas area for some reason; Duta Tropika may be its only project in this area (we could be wrong). While known for its more bread-and-butter properties, SP Setia does foray into upmarket properties – notably Setia Sky Residences off Jalan Tun Razak and Araville in Bangsar.
Additionally, landed properties in the Dutamas and Mont Kiara area are scarce, and this will be a driving factor behind the capital appreciation of these types of properties in the coming years. Now as these are semi-d units at more than 3,500 square feet, traction for these may be slow at times. However, if you'd like us to find a good agent to help you, then leave us a message below. 🙂
Finally, as prices are getting elevated by the day, it's important to establish the property's Fair Market Value (FMV) so that you do not pay more than necessary. As any smart investor would tell you, property investment is all about ROI and not the net price!


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Tragically, we've lost sight of the strengths that exist in low-income communities and have often failed to invest in human capital and relationships that lead to lasting change.
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Here's how you can keep your Christmas tree once the gifts are opened
Q. We would like to buy an evergreen tree with the ball of soil and roots to place in our yard after Christmas. What should we do to prepare for this?
K. H. of Collinsville
A. First, purchase at least one bale of straw to spread over the soil where you want to plant your new evergreen tree to keep the soil from freezing before the planting takes place. Or, dig the hole now if you know how big it will be, then fill it with straw to prevent freezing in the hole.
Take the soil you removed and cover it with straw and then another covering to keep it dry.
If you plan to keep this tree indoors for the Christmas holidays, don't keep it there more than five days. Plus, before planting, you need to acclimate the tree that's been indoors to a cooler-weather area, such as a porch or in an unheated garage, for a couple of days. Then after planting, water it thoroughly and mulch it heavily to help it through the rest of winter.
Q. Is it too late for fertilizing the lawn?
D. W. of Glen Carbon
A. No, in fact usually the day after Thanksgiving is one of the best for doing this. Just make sure the fertilizer is low in nitrogen but high in amounts of phosphorus and potassium. This mix will help to harden off the grass to tolerate the adverse winter conditions. This is especially helpful if you also fertilized the lawn in October and it is lush and soft going into winter.
This late application should not exceed 1 pound of actual nitrogen per 1,000 square feet. This will ensure the roots and rhizomes of your lawn will continue to grow below the surface of the soil. Secondary tillers will develop from the crown of the lawn plants as long as the soil has not frozen or is covered with snow.
The added benefit to your health is working off some calories from your Thanksgiving Day meal.
Q. I planted several tulip poplar trees this spring. Now, my best-growing tree has broken off and is laying at a 90-degree angle with just a small amount of tissue connected. What should I do to save it?
L.W. of Freeburg
A. Prune off the rest of the remaining plant tissue so that the tree will not tear any more of the bark tissue down any lower on the stem.
Next spring, watch for the latent buds that will sprout out from the remaining trunk. Choose the best-looking stem — and hopefully the tallest — and stake it upward so that it will become the new upright central leader. Prune off the other buds which may develop.
In the spring, with all the roots below supplying nutrients, water this newly trained stem and it will grow very quickly. You will have to brace one stem sit it will develop into your desired vertical new trunk. Don't be surprised by the amount of growth that will take place this next spring.
Do not give up on this new branch; be patient with it. You may still end up with this tree being your best tree as time goes on.
Charles Giedeman is a local contributing writer. Send your gardening questions to Suzanne Boyle, Belleville News-Democrat, P.O. Box 427, 120 S. Illinois St., Belleville, IL 62222-0427, or email them to email@example.com.


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Winter Musings
It's early winter here in the Virginia piedmont, and the fall drought has finally ended. Our streams are flowing again, and they beckon to expectant fisherman. Unfortunately, most of our larger streams are managed in ways that make them dependent upon stocking. Thus, they won't have any fish in them for several weeks, that is, until visited by the trout laden VDGIF trucks. So I ventured up one of our small, native-trout streams a few days ago. To no surprise, I caught only a few one and two year old fish, that is, 3-5 inch brookies. All the older, larger fish had been victims of the long drought.
So what is a trout fisherman to do in such circumstances, travel to distant lands, tie flies, make fly rods, read about fly fishing, or drink a lot of bourbon? Well, I don't have the funds to travel south of the equator this year, the passion to tie flies all day long, the skills to make a fly rod, or a sufficient supply of bourbon to get me through the winter doldrums. That leaves reading about fly fishing.
We all read with different objectives, and therefore, a list of one person's favorite reads may prove of interest to some fellow fly fishers, but certainly not all. With this disclaimer, rather than succumb to the effects of bourbon, I thought it would be fun for me, and hopefully helpful to others, to provide a short list of my favorite fly-fishing books and authors. I will try to convey a sense of why I like them, what they offer to the reader, and their contribution to the fly-fishing literature.
"Trout", by Ernest Schwiebert
I will begin with my favorite author, Ernest Schwiebert. He began fly-fishing at the age of eight, and during his lifetime he fished with most all the famous Catskill fly fishermen, who regarded him as a pre-eminent colleague. He authored five books on fly fishing, three of which I have read, including "Matching the Hatch" (1955, http://amzn.to/1nZUMnI), the classic "Nymphs" (1973, http://amzn.to/1nZVotB), and the monumental, two volume "Trout" (1978, http://amzn.to/1R8j8r4). I regard the latter as the best, all-around book(s) yet written on the sport of fly-fishing. The author had an encyclopedic knowledge of our sport (died 2005), and an engaging writing style. An architect by trade, he richly illustrated all his works himself.
In "Trout", he begins with a history of fly-fishing, then covers the American trout species, the tools of our trade, casting, fishing strategies and techniques, and finishes with a few thoughts about the etiquette to be followed while fishing a trout stream. A few samples-
"Fish behavior is completely rational. Both food and survival are primary instinctual drives, and understanding this from the trout's point of view is basic in reading water correctly. The fish seek out optimal temperatures, oxygenation, shelter from predators, and adequate supplies of food. Their world is continually hostile, and a fish that is insufficiently wary will not survive. It is also a world in which calories ingested by feeding are continually spent in survival, growth, and movement."
"The primary habitat consists of both holding lies, where the fish seek shelter and concealment, and their principal feeding lies. Big trout sometimes feed once or twice a week, but feed heavily when the mood strikes them. During the nonfeeding cycles, big fish move into their favorite holding places, which offer them maximum concealment. Hunger brings them out into the shallows and current tongues that offer optimal feeding opportunities, particularly at night."
"Downstream from the brooding hemlock ledges on a river in Pennsylvania, the murky currents flowed smoothly over the dark winter-scoured stones, and the April sunlight danced weakly on the riffles. It had been a dour, almost bitter spring. There were still few buds on the trees except for the bright reddish swamp maples, and even the willows had only the faintest olive cast. There were no flies hatching, although the sunlight reached the riffle gravel, stirring its ripening early-season nymphs. "
"The typical odyssey we travel in learning to fish is a gradual and satisfying journey. It is a slow evolution from beginner to expert, and it involves a subtle metamorphosis from fisherman into angler. However, it is not merely the refinements of fishing and our fish-catching skills that occupy this transformation. It is also a remarkable evolution in attitudes. The full metamorphosis is complete when a man realizes that his fishing skills have been so developed that he can deplete his own sport. It is a singular milestone of self-knowledge."
"Nymph Fishing for Larger Trout", by Charles Brooks
Another of my favorite author's is Charles E. Brooks. He also hales from an earlier era, and wrote several books, two of which I have read, "The Trout and the Stream" (1974, http://amzn.to/22wSuMv), and "Nymph Fishing for Larger Trout" (1976, http://amzn.to/1nZVHVc). They are illustrated by Dave Whitlock, and are more concise than the works of Schwiebert. However, I feel that his book on nymph fishing provides the best summary in the literature of the various methods of nymphing employed up to that time. In addition, fishing the fast, deep runs of the Madison River in Montana, he developed the technique of fishing with weighted lines and nymphs to get and keep the nymphs down where the larger fish are feeding. An excerpt describing the "Brooks Method"–
"When a trout in such currents darts from behind his boulder, or lifts up from a bottom depression to seize a nymph, he is instantly slammed with the full force of what actually amounts to a moving wall of water. That water will be moving, in some cases, at twelve or more feet per second. It will thrust the trout downstream several feet in the half second or so it takes him to reach and grab the nymph speeding by. The instant he has secured the nymph, the trout will whirl sharply upstream to swim back to the protection of his lie. It is then, if his line is under control, that the angler will feel the strike, a hard, fierce, jerk. The answering strike must also be fast, and hard or you will not hook your fish".
"Thus the basis of the method is getting a large artificial down deep enough for the trout to see it and want to take it, and under enough control to be able to feel and hook the fish if he does take it."
And his thoughts about the learning process in fly fishing, and nymph fishing in particular-
"The stream is a book with an endless number of pages; no matter how well one reads or how long, he will always be coming on new and exciting chapters. There is a never-ending fascination beneath the surface of a stream and the happy reader knows that he will never in his lifetime be finished with this lovely book."
"Dynamic Nymphing", by George Daniel
If reading to expand your knowledge of fly-fishing techniques, another book that I would recommend is "Dynamic Nymphing" by George Daniel (2012, http://amzn.to/1Ueabzf). He has been a captain of the American international fly-fishing team, and wrote this book following his experiences abroad. It is richly illustrated with both photographs and line drawings. I think that it nicely builds upon the works of Schwiebert and Brooks, covering recent advances in nymphing, especially those developed by our European counterparts.
European trout waters run low and clear, and fly fishermen there have had to develop new techniques to fish them productively. Each country of course claims that its technique is unique, and bears their respective country's name, but in reality they are quite similar. The European techniques are based on the use of floating lines and longer rods, generally 10 feet in length, and very long leaders, 14-16 feet in length, with additional tippet to which is attached multiple, weighted flies. No float or suspender is used; rather, a short piece of colored, nylon tippet is incorporated into the leader. European fly fishers have dominated the international competitions in recent years, and it unfortunately seems that due to recurrent droughts, we are increasingly faced with similar water conditions here in the states. It is a read well worth the time and a technique to consider adopting.
"The Fishing in Print, A Guided Tour Through Five Centuries of Angling Literature", by Arnold Gingrich
As you may have surmised by now, I really enjoy reading the older fly-fishing literature. If you share this interest, I would suggest that you read Arnold Gingrich's "The Fishing in Print, A Guided Tour Through Five Centuries of Angling Literature" (1974, http://amzn.to/1R8jNZI. This work in no way resembles a catalogue; rather it is a very readable history of fly- fishing. Gingrich has divided the five hundred years of fly-fishing literature into sixteen eras, each notable for new techniques or thoughts that came to dominate or change the sport. He provides the historical context, and weaves the authors and their works into his discussion, highlighting their contributions. An example for the era "Halford and Purism"-
"Although the first reference to dry-fly fishing in the sense that we know it today came in the 1851 third edition of G.P.R. Pulman's "Vade Mecum of Fly-Fishing for Trout", there had been frequent mentions of the taking of trout with flies on top of the water going back over nearly two centuries to the time of Col. Robert Venables. But most of these citations of surface-takes of flies by trout were either as phenomena or desiderata, rather than to a recognized and purposive practice. But by the time of the Pulman mention that's what it had become. And by the time of Halford it had become the common but not yet universal practice. Hills (John Waller Hills, "A History of Fly Fishing for Trout", 1921, http://amzn.to/22wTksz) is clear, that Halford systematized the dry fly, and is the historian of the dry fly. He did for it what Stewart did for upstream fishing. Neither were pioneers, for both described what they did not invent; but both, by practice and writing, made an unanswerable case for the system they advocated".
Gingrich also provides many rich excerpts from the books that he considers to have been most influential. Based upon my impressions while reading his work, I have purchased a number of books to add to my personal library and have yet to be disappointed in choosing to do so.
Enough musings; it's time to tie a few more flies, in hopes that January will provide some better days to fish, and grist for my next article. Otherwise, it may have to be more musings!
Article written by Allan G. Simpson, December 2014


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Russell is a wildlife filmmaker and photographer by profession, a wildlife conservationist and naturalist at heart. He has an extensive knowledge and passion for African fauna and flora. Over the years Russell has filmed numerous documentaries for National Geographic and Animal Planet among other channels and his award winning images have graced the covers and pages of numerous international publications.
Growing up in the bush in South Africa, Russell MacLaughlin has always had a passion for wildlife and has developed his enthusiasm into a successful career having worked as a videographer on a number of documentaries. Not only is he an exceptional videographer, his still images are also award-winning and have graced the covers of publications worldwide.
Of course, being South African, he has a love of all things Africa and has extensive knowledge of the continent's landscapes, eco-systems and wildlife. However, he has also travelled considerably in Asia and more recently the high Arctic! Despite having numerous close encounters with wildlife - and some dangerous occasions – Russ never takes these experiences for granted and appreciates every intimate moment he spends with wild animals.
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In December I wrote an article entitled How Mexico Elections Could Affect Portfolios. The general theme at that time was to maintain a very cautious approach to holding or buying Mexican assets due to the probability that a populist candidate with potentially unfriendly market policies would be elected president. That July 1 election date is fast approaching and an update is warranted.
There are three main candidates in the race; Jose Antonio Meade (PRI), Ricardo Anaya (PAN), and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (MORENA). Lopez Obrador, or AMLO as he is known, has narrowly lost the last two elections with cries of fraud causing violence and protest. As polls show currently, he is a strong favorite with polling numbers in the high 40s and a 20 point lead on Anaya. The most positive outcome, currently, is that somehow Meade or Anaya win. However, with the lead so large and using history as a guide, even that scenario seems likely to end up with negative outcomes due to the serious protests and disruptions that are likely to ensue.
The more probable scenario is that AMLO wins and the markets have to deal with the fallout. Of course, it is not known what that fallout would be precisely, but this candidate runs a highly populist campaign with a platform that could include renationalizing the energy sector, turning his back on NAFTA and other US-linked agreements, while pursuing fiscal and social policies that would definitely upset the business class and status quo. His proponents are trying to paint him in a more friendly light, but there is considerable doubt that he will be anything other than hostile towards business and markets. Where he fits relative to Chavez or the perception of Lula during his 2002 campaign is not yet known, but he is on the spectrum; so there is risk to financial markets.
Someone on the Accuvest team is in Mexico several times a month consulting and advising on the financial markets. Many of the political conversations we have include commentary that borders on hyperbolic. Often times that kind of embellishment makes us think that the risk is fully priced in to the market. However, there is still too much uncertainty about what kind of policy outcomes we might see. Also, unfortunately, it is a little difficult to see much upside in any kind of scenario; expectations of a bounce or reversal seem unrewarding.
The best long-term scenario is that someone other than AMLO wins the election. Many of our conversations with political strategists focus on the undecided voters, which still represent a fairly large number, so perhaps a legitimate win for Anaya is still possible. As we have heard many times, these voters and others who may have expressed an opinion in a poll, will all line up for whichever candidate is in 2nd place going into July 1; an 'anyone buy AMLO' voting bloc. Simplistic math can support that thesis, but it would take everything falling into place. And we are late in the campaign; debates have come and gone with no real changes in the polls. Gaffes that may have doomed AMLO in previous elections do not seem likely at this point. So, again, best case scenario – he somehow loses which would undoubtedly bring chaos.
Accuvest is in the portfolio management business, so having an implementable view on every market in the ACWI is required. Our far-from-rosy outlook needs a bottom line recommendation for this article be meaningful. As mentioned in December, we were not going to be long Mexican assets any time prior to the elections.
Accuvest Country Rankings – June 2018
Source: Accuvest Global Advisors
For a brief time the peso did strengthen to levels that seemed extreme and for certain portfolios we actually initiated a short position on the currency. The weakening of the peso in the past month has been fairly dramatic in time and magnitude. We are likely to cover half the position prior to the election as negative sentiment is certainly not a secret and is in the price that has rewarded us nicely. A lot of the NAFTA rhetoric has also been negative and is baked in to the current price.
Mexican Peso (Price of 1USD in MXN)
Source: Bloomberg
Another point made in the December piece was that in the past Mexico has had fairly significant declines in asset values in times of crisis. In all cases, those were buying opportunities. Our attitude is to assume that such a crisis could unfold after the elections; hopefully not, and maybe it's a low probability. We will look to take advantage of this opportunity. If nothing so severe comes to pass, the opportunity cost is low given Mexico's small weight in the ACWI. Accordingly, this is a time to be attentive and patient.


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I know some of you have bought one of these so I though I'd share this YouTube link with you. It's pretty damning to say the least.https://youtu.be/8EbeBveRgms
The shim insertion weakness
Quote from: Sergeant Pluck on April 14, 2018, 07:45:37 pmThe shim insertion weakness I don't think there is a problem. In the video the ratchet blade has failed to lock in place, which is why he is able to withdraw the line.
Shockingly poor QC, or just unlucky with one batch, may be reseller not paying attention.
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We are proud to be apart of The Grocery Gathering over at BeCentsAble, posting for Albertsons stores in Oregon & SW Washington.
There are three double coupons in the weekly ad that are valid through Saturday (3/20). Make sure you check out the gift card offer running this week: Buy a $250 Albertsons gift card, Get $20 gift card; Buy $300 Albertsons gift card, Get $30 gift card. May be worth it if you have the cash and shop Albertsons regularly (Thanks, Heidi!).
Read all about the Post Cereal Deal running through Saturday.
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For Grade 11 Manufacturing
Read the following article: http://planetsave.com/2013/06/21/10-companies-with-eco-conscious-production-processes/
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3. Describe some potential challenges of environmentally sensitive manufacturing.
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New Zealand 243 for 2 (Mason 81, McGlashan 97*) England 240 for 3 (Taylor 110*, Edwards 95) by eight wickets
New Zealand are closing in on a series win after an emphatic eight-wicket victory against England under the lights at Derby. Aimee Mason (81) and Sara McGlashan, who made an unbeaten 97, were the chief destroyers as they chased down their target of 241 with more than 12 overs to spare.
Mason and Suzie Bates built a rock-solid platform with an opening stand of 42 inside five overs, and then Mason trowelled on further runs with McGlashan cementing a second-wicket partnership of 161. McGlashan and Haidee Tiffen (19*) then saw them home.
They now have a 2-0 lead heading into the fourth of six matches leaving England in need of winning the next one, at Blackpool this Saturday, to stay in the series.
On a flat pitch with no seam movement or spin runs were there for the taking, but then so were some early chances in New Zealand's innings. Dropped catches - allied to some poor bowling - cost England dearly, although nothing could really be taken away from the performance of an assured New Zealand.
Claire Taylor's century and Charlotte Edwards's unbeaten 95 weren't enough for England. The old firm put on a third-wicket stand of 177, brushing aside the early losses of the openers Sarah Taylor (1) and Jenny Gunn (11), to reach 240 for 3.
Edwards' return from injury showed England just what they had been missing and, after choosing to bat, she just missed out on her fifth one-day century - scoring all round the wicket - as the overs ticked out.
Taylor's 110, her sixth one-day ton, came from 133 balls and included 12 fours. She scored strongly through the off-side and also cut and pulled once she settled. She eventually fell to the part-time medium pace of Haidee Tiffen, who had shuffled her pack before finally bringing herself on as the eighth bowler in the bid to break the deadlock. It worked.
New Zealand's confidence will be ever growing in line with their momentum, but England can take some heart from their batting and Edwards's return. But they will need even more spirit at Blackpool.


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We will be partnering with Ollie's Studio to bring you our second Calligraphy & Wine tasting afternoon! This workshop will combine a beginners modern calligraphy course with a wine tasting session in our private room. Every attendee will be treated to cheese & meats, great wine, and writing and flourishing beautifully by the end of the day.
The first one was a real blast and we cannot wait for the second. Wine and Calligraphy is just a match made in artistic heaven. This is the perfect event for getting together with some friends, whether it be a birthday or just a get together it's a fantastic afternoon.
Ofe of Ollie's Studio will explore the basics of modern calligraphy with you, while one of our very own wine experts takes you through your paces with a gorgeous wine selection.
All calligraphy materials will be supplied and are yours to keep.
Tickets are £70 and include all of the above so come and learn about (and drink) some wine we are really excited about at the moment whilst honing a new skill in Calligraphy. All in one afternoon!
Click the button to buy a ticket via Ollie's Studio and we will see you there!


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Nepal brings some very vivid images to mind, most of which are mountain views. And this tour is full of incredible mountain views of some of the highest snowcapped peaks in the world.
But there is more than just mountains. There are great waterfalls, ancient temples; monasteries filled with incense and wonderful mountain lakes. There are UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Kathmandu Valley before moving on to Pokhara. You will pass through narrow canyons and gorges as raging mountain rivers accompany you along the way.
There are great views of the mountains all through the trip. When we arrive at Pokhara, we will be staying next to the beautiful blue waters of Phewa Lake in the shadow of the incredible Annapurna Mountains. Pokhara is an incredible city of beauty that leaves every traveler wanting to return.
You can see Annapurna I (the 10th highest mountain in the world), Machhapuchhre (Fishtail Mountain) that looks like a fish upended, and many other snowcapped mountain peaks. Sunrise over the Annapurna Mountains is especially enjoyable and a great way to start off the day.
The Kathmandu Pokhara Standard Tour is probably our most popular trip. It combines six nights, seven days of sightseeing in the Kathmandu Valley as well as in Pokhara. There are breathtaking views as well as an opportunity to see and experience the local culture and history. Swiss Nepal Family Trekking & Expeditionis pleased to be able to offer this exciting tour of the two most popular areas of Nepal.
DAY 1 – Arrival in Kathmandu, transfer to hotel
DAY 2 – Full Day of Sightseeing in Kathmandu Valley
DAY 3 – Sightseeing in Patan and Bhaktapur
DAY 4 – Drive to Pokhara, see Devi's Falls and Shiva Cave
DAY 5 – Full Day sightseeing with Sarangkot Sunrise
DAY 6 – Drive to Kathmandu
DAY 7 – Departure
DAY 1 – Arrival: Arrive in Kathmandu where you will be met by your representative of Swiss Nepal Family Trekking & Expedition. You will be taken to your hotel where you can relax before your evening meal. There will be an orientation session in the evening. If time allows, we will take a trip to Swayambhu, one of the seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Kathmandu Valley which offers an incredible view of the Valley as well as the oldest religious site in the city.
DAY 2 – Sightseeing in Kathmandu Valley: We are off to see three to four of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites today. We begin with Kathmandu's Durbar Square, the place of where the medieval kings ruled for centuries. There are almost 60 different temples here, some even with erotic carvings from the Kama Sutra. Then it is off to Boudhanath to see Nepal's largest stupa (3rd largest in the world.) This is the center of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan refugees in Nepal. Besides this impressively large stupa, there are around 50 monasteries in the area. Nearby is Pashupatinath, the most holy Hindu shrine in Nepal, and a pilgrimage site for Hindus from around the world. If we were unable to visit Swayambhu (a/k/a Monkey Temple), we will journey to this holy place as well. This is one of the oldest holy sites in the Kathmandu Valley, dating back over 2000 years. We will spend the night in our Three Star Hotel in Kathmandu.
DAY 3 – Sightseeing of Patan and Bhaktapur: We move outside of Kathmandu and to the cities of Patan and Bhaktapur. Both of these places were once their own kingdom, and you will see palaces and temples as these are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Patan is known as the city of art; Bhaktapur the city of Devotees. Both are incredible places to enjoy as we will spend the day touring these important places in the Kathmandu Valley. In the evening, we return to our Three Star Hotel.
DAY 4 – Drive to Pokhara, Sightseeing: We leave early morning on a first-class, luxury bus to the fabled lakeside city of Pokhara. The journey is around six hours, as the bus crests the pass of the Kathmandu Valley, then drops down into canyons and gorges to follow fast flowing mountain rivers as the journey continues on toward Pokhara. There are plenty of views of the mountains from various vantage points. Pokhara will offer great views of the mighty Annapurna Mountains which are so close to the city that they dwarf everything before it. Pokhara is the region of many mountain lakes; the biggest is Phewa Lake. Today we will visit Devi's Falls, an impressive waterfall that rushes into a narrow gorge before disappearing into an underground river. We will visit Gufa Cave (also known as Shiva Gufa) and begin some of our initial sightseeing in Pokhara. We will check into our Three Star Hotel and then enjoy an evening at Lakeside which is a fun place to visit in Pokhara.
DAY 5 – Sightseeing and Sunrise over the Mountains: We are up early as we make our way to the top of Sarangkot Hill for a fantastic sunrise over the Annapurna Mountains. We come before dawn to watch from the view tower the sun rise over the mountains. Breakfast follows, and there is time to walk along Phewa Lake, the second largest lake in Nepal. We will take a boat ride on the lake, and from there walk to the top of the World Peace Pagoda for a magnificent view of the city, the lake and the mountains as they reflect in its beautiful blue waters. During the day, we will visit Seti Gorge, Bindhabasini Temple, and the pet god of Pokhara along with many other cultural and natural landscapes. We will overnight at our hotel in Pokhara.
DAY 6 – Return to Kathmandu: We sadly have to leave Pokhara in the morning, returning by luxury bus to Kathmandu. Once we return to the city, we will enjoy some free time before our evening farewell dinner with a cultural show. We will stay at a Three Star Hotel for the night.
Day 7 – Departure: All good things must come to an end, and this short trip is no exception. Your representative at Swiss Nepal Family Trekking & Expedition will escort you by private vehicle to the airport to see you off to your next destination. Before leaving, why not discuss a return trip to Nepal to explore other parts of this great nation. Your representative at Swiss Nepal Family Trekking & Expedition can put together all kinds of vacation packages for your next holiday.
While traveling with Swiss Nepal Family Trekking & Expedition, your all around safety and satisfaction is of our paramount concern. Please note that the Trip Leader has the authority to cancel or amend any part of this itinerary if it is necessary due to any safety concerns. We leave no stone unturned to keep the itinerary mentioned above, but as this adventure does include traveling in the Himalayas, we can't guarantee that it will not be necessary to make changes if conditions so warrant. Some of these factors include extreme weather conditions, unexpected natural disaster, health conditions of any of our group members, etc, can all be contributing factors necessitating changes. Swiss Nepal Family Trekking & Expedition's Trip Leader will try to ensure that the trip runs as per plan, but we kindly request that you be flexible if need be.
All accommodations for the Kathmandu to Pokhara Standard Tour are on a twin sharing basis with inclusive trip costs. The Three Star Hotels have been checked out personally by our staff and they offer a high degree of hygiene as well as high standard of service. If you are a solo traveler, we will share a room. If you would prefer a single room that is a possibility by paying an additional fee. However, please understand that with some of the remote places; a single room might not be possible, depending upon location and tour. Be sure to talk to your representative at Swiss Nepal Family Trekking & Expedition about the single room option.
During the tour, we can enjoy typical Nepali food as well as some different ethnic cuisine. Some places may even offer some international foods (Tibetan, Continental, Italian, Indian, etc.) ranging from pizza to finger chips (French Fries). Many places will offer a variety of soft and hard drinks and snacks. We will have lunch on the trail, ranging from a picnic lunch to local accommodations, depending upon the tour area. A farewell dinner with cultural show and breakfast will be served when in Pokhara and Kathmandu.
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All you Eastern and Midwestern Beemerphiles, me included, that want to go west and not pass through Chicago will have a great opportunity next year to ride the new Lake Express Ferry which will make the crossing from Muskegon, MI to Milwaukee, WS in 2 1/2 hours as opposed to the five hour crossing on the Badger from Ludington to Manitowoc. I for one plan on taking it to the Wisconsin Dells Rally in September.
Read all about it here.


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I made a few changes to a recipe I found here: http://dessert.food.com/recipe/peach-cobbler-31901
Namely, I used Quince from our tree that I peeled and then sliced and simmered in a shallow pan until soft like peaches. They simmered with two cinnamon sticks and some brown sugar.
The recipe called for 1 cup of flour, 1 cup of sugar and 2 tsp baking powder mixed together, with 2/3rds of a cup of milk and one egg added. Once this was all stirred together it didn't look near enough to cover my 9×13, I added a wee bit more flour (1/4 cup) and bit more sugar, and a smidge more milk – 2 tbsp. While that was all going on, the 1/2 cup of butter was melting in the baking dish in the oven. I poured the batter onto the melted butter (no mixing) and then spooned the quince mixture on top. I used about 5 quince, sliced. They have a large center pithy area that is unusable so 5 isn't as much as it sounds like. I tossed a few berries on for fun as well. It was bloody good.
And we still have sooo many more to use up!


text: A painter who played an essential role in the Color Field discourse of the 1960s and 1970s, Larry Zox is best known for his intensely and brilliantly colored geometric abstractions, which question and violate symmetry. Zox stated in 1965: "Being contrary is the only way I can get at anything." To Zox, this position was not necessarily arbitrary, but instead meant "responding to something in an examination of it [such as] using a mechanical format with X number of possibilities." What he sought was to "get at the specific character and quality of each painting in and for itself," as James Monte stated in his introductory essay in the catalogue for Zox's 1973–74 solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Zox also at times used a freer, more intuitive method, while maintaining coloristic autonomy, which became increasingly important to him in his later career. Zox began to receive attention in the 1960s, when he was included in several groundbreaking exhibitions of Color Field and Minimalist art, including Shape and Structure (1965), organized by Henry Geldzahler and Frank Stella for Tibor de Nagy, New York, and Systemic Painting (1966), organized by Lawrence Alloway for the Guggenheim Museum. In 1973–74, the Whitney's solo exhibition of Zox's work gave recognition to his significance in the art scene of the preceding decade. In the following year, he was represented in the inaugural exhibition of the Hirshhorn Museum, which acquired fourteen of his works. Zox was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He attended the University of Oklahoma and Drake University, and then studied under George Grosz at the Des Moines Art Center. In 1958, Zox moved to New York, joining the downtown art scene. His studio on 20th Street became a gathering place for artists, jazz musicians, bikers, and boxers. He occasionally sparred with visiting fighters. He later established a studio in East Hampton, a former black smithy used previously by Jackson Pollock. Zox's earliest works were collages consisting of pieces of painted paper stapled onto sheets of plywood. He then produced paintings that were illusions of collages, including both torn- and trued-edged forms, to which he added a wide range of strong hues that created ambiguous surfaces. Next, he omitted the collage aspect of his work and applied flat color areas to create more complete statements of pure color and shape. He then replaced these torn and expressive edges with clean and impersonal lines that would define his work for the next decade.From 1962 to 1965, he produced his Rotation series, at first creating plywood and Plexiglas reliefs, which turned squares into dynamic polygons. He used these shapes in his paintings as well, employing white as a foil between colors to produce negative spaces that suggest that the colored shapes had only been cut out and laid down instead of painted. The New York Times noted in 1964: "The artist is hip, cool, adventurous, not content to stay with the mere exercise of sensibility that one sees in smaller works." In 1965, he began the Scissors Jack series, in which he arranged opposing triangular shapes with inverted Vs of bare canvas at their centers that threaten to split their compositions apart. In several works from this series, Zox was inspired by ancient Chinese water vessels. With a mathematical precision and a poetic license, Zox flattened the three dimensional object onto graph paper, and later translated his interpretation of vessel's lines onto canvas with masking tape, forming the structure of the painting. The Diamond Cut and Diamond Drill paintings followed. In these, he used regularized formats as a means of revealing how color can change our perception of shape. In a single work he often combined industrial epoxy paints with acrylic to set up tensions between colors that would not exist otherwise. At the time, Peter Schjeldahl observed in the New York Times: Zox "is one painter who shows an ability to play by the rules without cramping at all an essentially romantic and exuberant sensibility." In an essay for an exhibition at Dartmouth College Schjeldahl elaborated: "Zox has clearly adapted Post-Painterly procedures and Minimal pictorial conventions to the demands of a free-wheeling, lyrical sensibility." His art of the period was equated with that of Frank Stella and Kenneth Noland. In the late 1960s, Zox's paintings, such as in his Gemini series, became brushier; he often incorporated powdered mica into his paints to increase their visual effect. He explored a variety of new means of applying paint early in the following decade, including using squeegees and other large tools. With these means, he moved away from preconception, while introducing a drawing procedure in which the outside limits of a painting were determined by cutting or cropping the canvas. In the mid-1970s, Zox created a series of paintings in which he explored lateral tensions, leaving the centers of his works blank. He continued to stretch Color Field limits in the 1980s, combining the detachment of paint staining with gestural brushwork balanced between intuition and intentionality. He created more fluid yet still rigorous paintings in the early 2000s that were receiving critical praise when he died in 2006 from cancer. Zox taught at the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1967–68, 1977, and 1980. He was artist in residence or guest artist at many universities such as Yale, Syracuse, Cornell, and Dartmouth. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship (1967) and awards from the National Council of the Arts (1969) and the Adolph Gottlieb Foundation (1985). Throughout his career, Zox had annual solo shows in galleries in New York City and elsewhere. In addition to the Whitney exhibition of 1973–74, he had solo shows at the Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (1970), the Akron Art Institute (1971), the Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (1974), and the Marsh Gallery, University of Richmond, Virginia (1993). He participated in many notable museum and college gallery exhibitions at venues including the Whitney; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York; the Palm Springs Desert Museum; the Guggenheim; the Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Iowa; the Des Moines Art Center; the Blanden Memorial Art Museum; and the Muscatine Art Center, Iowa. Zox is represented in over one hundred museum collections. In addition to the Hirshhorn, his work is included in the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Neues Museum, Bremen, Germany; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.


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NZ artist Kate McIntosh – based in Brussels – presents her participatory solo at BATS theatre.
For All Ears McIntosh sets up the stage as an improvised ad-hoc laboratory for a series of unusual recordings and acoustic experiments, using everyday objects and materials. At the heart of the piece – in the silence between the sounds recorded, at the centre of the listening crowd – are questions about who we are alone and how we are together, about what it might take to change a culture and what we could be missing in the push for individual self-sufficiency.