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I left school when I was 16 years old. I had few qualifications behind me; and no idea of what I would have liked to do for a living; or what kind of work I would be eligible to obtain. I had made an off-the-cuff preference to my teacher – my school attempted to place all students in work as they left, when they left at 16 years. My preference was to work in the open air.
Thus I ended up at East London in a vast 25 acre timber yard; a piece of real estate worth madness figures even then, let alone today. The timber yard was run by a family; at at the time I was unaware that the family were Christians and that they were a family whose Christian values they applied in as far as they were able to in running their timber business.
I remember there was a smaller offshoot company in Nigeria; which when I learned of gave me a mad idea to write to a company in Sierra Leone and enquire after a job with them in timber. Thankfully they never replied.
The work in East London proceeded and indeed was open air. My work was to measure boards of timber after they had been craned from a lighter at a dockside on a river and onto the quayside and there stacked into 'sets' by labouring employees. I was considered, like all the host of other lads doing similar work, to be office staff; possibly because I held a pen and a paper and a clipboard and some crayon which we referred to as 'chalk'. The crayon was used to write on each board I measured the square footage of it in what was termed 'foot run'. From this 'foot run' was calculated; by one knowing the standard thickness of boards in any given 'set', the cubic footage of any lighterful of timber as landed on the quayside.
Ships would come in from Africa, USA, Japan, and Eastern Europe, South America; the Far East; Borneo; Indonesia; Philippines; Russia; Scandinavia; and bring in hardwoods and softwoods to the London Docks down river in the east of the City of London. In those days there were still Tilbury; Gravesend; Leman Street; and at other places on The Thames massive oceangoing ship docks where huge quantities of goods were yet being loaded onto ships and off ships almost higgledy piggledy fashion. Containerisation was an incoming feature which occurred over the first few years of my employment.
The ships unloaded timber onto lighters, smaller non-motored vessels, pulled in trains of up to about five or six maximum, up river by tugs. A tug would caused a wide and powerful wake as it pulled cargoes up river; and these constant wakes eroded the river banks where banks were not reinforced by iron girders piled into their shorelines vertically. Over time, like the timber trade itself; tugs became a cause of great loss to and destruction of their environments.
My first day at the timber yard and I met a young guy named Mike, who knew the ropes and was going to show me some of them so as to get me begun as a useful employee. Mike took me to 32 shed. Every shed which sheltered 'sets' of timber, to keep them dry from rainshowers and protect them from hot sunshine, had a name or a number of its own in the 25 acre yard. There were perhaps thirty or forty huge sheds in all, some with roads running through them and sideloaders and forklifts using these roads as thoroughfares, and to shift timber by and load onto articulated lorries which carried timber deliveries all over the UK. No railways were ever used, funnily enough – although this has only just struck me as a fact and as an anomaly.
32 shed was the home of some exotic imported, and home-grown wood species in the shape of sawn boards. I remember there were Japanese Oak boards; none greater than 12 feet long since the Japanese variety was relatively small compared to an English or an American oak tree. 12 feet was a very long board for Japanese Oak. There was English Ash; a lovely white and beautifully grained hardwood; scarce and used sparingly by those who could afford to buy it. Little British timber other than softwoods was ever seen at the timber yard; native hardwoods were just too depleted historically in the UK and so used rarely consequently for logging purposes. There were some few other exotic woods there in 32 shed; and the first wood species whose board I ever measured; learned to measure upon; and had labouring men stack into an 'order' for a customer on the roadside to be picked up for a lorry by a sideloader: the first species was American Black Walnut.
American Black Walnut is an amazing wood. It is very dark, and very heavy, and when sawn but not yet planed it shows itself as a rough and dusty unattractive heavy board. It is however quite aromatic; and in fact many woods were so, and one could be identify them close up by their odours alone. No one who has smelt it ever forgets the smell of wet Afrormosia.
The boards of American Black Walnut I measured and moved that first day at that first job were few; the customer order required only ten or twenty square foot of timber; and boards say 2 inches thick soon mounted to twenty square foot. I did notice a few boards which had stayed unexposed to the sun and wind and lying beneath the top layers of the 'set' we were working from; that they had retained their freshness far better and showed almost as they had been when they had first been sawn at the sawmill in the United States before shipping. These few boards held in their grain along the length of them a beautiful purply-blue sheen, a feathered and figured grain I believe is the proper terminology. The boards were shimmering as one turned one this way and then that way, shifting it from its stack to the customer order pile. Later I was to see just how this American Black Walnut looked when planed and polished and put to use as a decorative feature in quite expensive furniture. There is nothing quite like it; excepting of course for a number of other beautiful and stunning woods I came across in my time at the yard.
Coming from a developed nation, The United States, American Black Walnut was of a course a scarce wood and was in those days highly prized and highly expensive to buy. American Black Walnut had been logged heavily for over a century before I got to see it for the first time in the yard.
Now I move on in time a little. Having acquired in my time at the timber yard a strangely abiding affection for woods, I have during my lifetime taken perhaps more notice of woods in use in homelife and in business than the average joe has? As I have got older and into retirement I have occupied myself among other things with collecting together a small, but for myself, a valued library of books about woods. One such book which I came across just a week or so ago and which was offered at an astonishingly good deal of less than £5, I bought; and when it arrived in the post soon after I saw there was an entry init for American Black Walnut. The book in question was: A Field book of American Trees and Shrubs : A Concise Description of the Character and Color of Species Common throughout the United States, together with Maps showing their General Distribution by Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938
Here next is the entry I saw for American Black Walnut:
Black Walnut: A tall, handsome tree 50—75 and some times 150 feet high, with a trunk diameter of 3-4 feet , and not infrequently 8 feet in the Ohio Valley ; the trunk straight with stout branches nearly horizontal below, and at a Sharp angle with the stem above , forming a symmetrical round-headed tree. Bark warm medium brown, or dark (sepia) brown, very rough, with deep , short perpendicular furrows, and rounded confluent ridges. The inner bark yellow after exposure; the twigs stout , very gray-downy or ruddy tan and smooth. Leaves compound, with 11-17, sometimes 23 ovate lance-shaped leaflets , often a trifle heart-shaped at the base, and taper-pointed ; they are thin, bright yellow green above, somewhat downy and paler beneath, and turn yellow in autumn; the long stem 1-2 feet long, without the horse-hoof-shaped base . Flowers similar to those of J. cineria , the catkins thinner. Blooming in May. Fruit almost spherical, large, 1.1/3-3 inches or more in diameter ; the husk rough-dotted dull green, the shell thick, rough-ridged, dark sepia brown ; the meat sweet, rich flavored, oily ,two-lobed above, four-lobed below the middle. The Black Walnut is distributed through rich woodlands in the eastern United States from Mass. south to Fla., and west to southern Mich. Wis. Minn. Neb. Kan. and the San Antonio River, Tex. It is not native in Me. N. H. and Vt .; in Mass. it is very rare east of the Connecticut River and only occasional west of it; it is rare in R. I. and also in Conn., though more frequent and probably native at North Canaan. The tree is practically destroyed for further lumbering purposes. It has been almost exterminated in the Mississippi Valley and in the forests directly west of the Alleghany Mts. Certainly not less than 80 years are required for it to attain sufficient size for valuable timber, and during the lapse of nearly 40 years since it began to grow scarce little if anything has been done to increase the supply; on the contrary, the cutting has proceeded without regard for existing conditions. In the year 1899, over 38 million board feet were cut, and seven years later about 48 million, an increase of 24. 5 per cent . The wood is deep brown, aromatic , hard , heavy, rather brittle and coarse-grained; it is used in cabinet work, gun stocks, boat building, etc. Weight 38 lbs. to the cubic foot .
I just love the way these guys and girls take such loving and precious care to detail precisely and clearly the foremost traits and qualities of items to which they have devoted a lifetime of study. Not just in woods as here; but the booklists on Amazon and eBay are crowded with books by these great yet unsung, unknown, obscure dedicated souls.
I do not mean the academic persons in the main, although a few of these academic persons I would include in my general praise and admiration. I mean the ordinary joe or jill here and there, who is not out for reputation; not up for a prize; not seeking for herself; but is wholly immersed in and self-denying in their pursuit of their chosen field for mining out truth.
The fact and witness that so many persons have been satisfied to live and die in such humble but dedicated lives is available for allcomers to take note of; one need not even purchase many of their books; but if you are low on funds or else unwilling to buy; many of these masterworks of care and dedication are available online gratis via Gutenberg Project; Hathi Trust; Google Play; and archive.org; and onlinebooks.library – these seem to me to hold the largest collections but there are yet several other more specialised online libraries which offer items free of charge
You might want to donate a small thankyou voluntarily now and then though?
Such persons who have laboured obscurely in the vineyards of scholarship are a band of persons who inspire me with hope and gratitude; hope for the future of a love generating a truly disinterested interest in humanity; and gratitude that these persons stand as models of lives well-spent for my money.
The entry above of American Black Walnut was published first in 1899; some 120 years ago. Yet the story of the Black Walnut tree and its forests has all to sadly a very contemporary ring to it. Regarding the tree's severe depletion to a point of scarcity; a tree which was able to sustain in its former days millions of foot run of its timbers being harvested annually; at least for a decade or two; has not by human rapacity and disregard been brought extremely low in the world from its former glories across the USA. That such a turn of events souls have been observable and prevalent at the turn of the century 100 years ago is for me; and I hope for you; a shocking and a fearful thing to be learned of today; that we as a species have been on an industrial scale systematically ravaging the planet for over a century now. Is it a wonder that our sins are presently being found out and visited upon our heads? Is this visitation anything more or less than to have been expected in the longer view? Even in 1899? Does it look to be the case, as it seems to me to have been, that the generation of 1890 and thereabouts was content to grab what it was able to in the present and leave the future to be mopped up in some way by following generations?
And is this not the case with every generation, perhaps even before but certainly since; and is it not the case in our own generation still for many who do business by raping the earth and go hang the consequences? And is it not going to be the case for future generations for many who exploit without a thought of giving something back to nature in return for its bounty?
The conclusion seems to be that concerning the persons who take and do not give anything back that the animal urge to aggregate and to accumulate and to empire build and be a somebody during their lifetimes; all this is like a sickness in men (and sometimes in women), which pouts far too much emphasis on the present, on the life they themselves are living, on the material and the suppose 'good things' to be had of secular material life. Are these persons no other than the land grabbers of the past; the empire builders of the past; the petty Alexanders who aimed to accumulate so far that they would weep for having no more worlds to conquer.
And are not these sorts of persons very often the very antithesis of that group of persons who are and have been happy to write detailed loves stories to their interests and life-passions as a gift to posterity of their diligence and dedication? Is not one sort, the accumulator, the person who is all about now and nothing about any other time in their lives or in the past or future? Whereas the chronicler and the cataloguer and the person who aims to bring understanding and order and good sense to bear on earth's properties and treasures; is this type not all about the legacy which s/he aims to leave posterity as a resource?
Perhaps it is that very fact of the gifter to posterity being contented and satisfied with an obscure and often a lowly place in the secular scheme of things which allows those who would land grab and deplete ores and mines a free-hand to spread their wills out across continents and dragoon into service thousands tens of thousands of people at their biddings? Certainly those amongst the logger barons of American Black Walnut during the 19th century didn't seem to have bothered reading the entry copied in above and written about their disastrous activities.
On the American plains the buffalo and all over the Native American, the State of Nevada, and in Russian (when USSR) The Caspian Sea; The Northern Tundras; the seaports on the Jutland strip; in Australia the Native Peoples; and the iron mountains; in South America the rain forests; the precious metal mines; the timbers here and all over the world are all disaster areas in the present day; and all as a result of the hand of man; and almost ubiquitously at the hand of economic man.
In the timber yard I would measure up and shepherd into the 25 acre yard up to two or three shiploads – that's around fifty lighters filled with timber unloaded and measured and set and stored away to season before going out to customers, or to the sawmill ot the kilns or to the moulding specialists. This was in the late 1960s. The yard itself at any one time probably had hundreds of thousands of tons of wood stored in it. Maybe millions.
This was one yard out of in London about five or six main timber dealers along the river from East inner London out as far as Enfield and Cheshunt; say a distance of ten or twenty miles. Most timbers, other than softwoods, which are conifers and which are much more easily made to be sustainable woods to produce; came from Africa; sub Saharan and east and west but not deep south. Nigeria. Ghana; Sierra Leone; Ivory Coast. During my time there these African woods were becoming less popular with customers, who used them mainly for making furniture, household and industrial. Their resource was becoming damaged and their price hence was steadily increasing. In their place arose a trade with the Far East where great forests of Meranti and Keruing grew; and of course the lovely Teak of India and Burma; the fragrant and beautiful Rosewoods of India and of the 'Malayan' peninsula; there was also Ramin from Indonesia and several other up and coming woods; nowhere near as desirable as African Walnut or Sapele or Utile or Agba; but far less expensive and more plentiful.
I was in the timber yard working for six years; and in that short space of time the drift of change due to depletions of timber resources had been palpable. Such was the scale of depredation.
My employers were good people and looking back I now see how generous and kind they were towards me and many persons. They went out of their way to employ a good amount of West Indian immigrants newly settled in Britain; and in a place like East London where at that time prejudice was not uncommon towards this class of immigrant; this action of theirs was highly commendable. A few persons with mental disabilities and persons with little hope of holding a job elsewhere found a niche there. I do not believe the Company was full aware of the calamity which was happening in some part at its hands.
A few more interesting bits and pieces before I close this one. Most softwoods came from Scandinavia; and were being farmed there,as they are yet today, responsibly and sustainably. We would occasionally get Cedar wood come in, and Cedar wood is another aromatic wood and one which is again superb and lovely. Not just to smell but when planed its grain was perpendicular to the length of the boards and decoratively mellow tan and figured as stripes of thinner dark tan lines and wider lighter coloured tan areas between the lines.
Cedar cam from Canada mostly; often not by lighter but by road. From the USA as a softwood came Douglas Fir. Now this was a sterling wood but not so decorative for furniture rather it is used as a building construction rafter etc. Some pieces of Douglas Fir came in which were 12 inches by 12 inches by 24 foot long – enormous items; and I knew even back then that one does not get many of those out of a single tree. It was impressive to see them but also a bit sad to think a complete tree of some staggering size and height had been the provider of such wares.
There was a hardwood known as Opepe; which was bright sunshine yellow when cut from its log. Now and them there would be seen in the inner heartwood running the length of the bole bright red blood coloured streaks in the yellow. And again sometimes Opepe would suffer what were termed thundershakes; a condition which harmed the commercial value of the timber and which at that time I believe the cause of the condition was not certainly known.
Thundershakes when the length of a log cut open showed the timber as having been almost perforated by some shock or by some catastrophe. These perforations ran at rightangles to the length of the tree; thus causing severely weak areas in the length of any timbers cut from such a tree. Along these perforations boards cut from a log of Opepe would give way quite easily. Opepe was in use for water jobs, like docksides and outdoor woodworks. It was very heavy very hard and very durable. But one bad thundershake could ruin a whole bole commercially. Opepe's uses demanded great strength and resilience from it, and a shake of this kind could not be allowed to pass unnoted.
Thundershakes had various theories about their cause. One was that the tree had been struck by lightening. Another was that the shake occurred when the felled tree hit the ground. There were several other projections as to cause but I never have discovered a definitive answer to the question.
When Opepe was wet it stank quite pungently. Ah, memories!
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End of Cllr Dean's Mayoral Year
Having the good fortune to be the Mayor of Knutsford for a year is a real life-enhancing experience. As many have mentioned before, the real effects of attending events to which you are invited as Mayor over the year are education about the town in which you live, allied to a humbling realisation of just how much work is done in Knutsford for the benefit of the community, mostly by volunteers who are always unpaid and often unsung.
This town has more than its fair share of volunteers, and they make their presence known every single day. They run the Knutsford First Responders, the Heritage Centre, the Hampers of Hope organisation, most of the Church's works, the Hosts, the Lions, Community Spirit and many, many more charitable and community organisations around the town. If you cold capture all the work, the good spirit, all the imagination and innovation produced by these groups in just one year you'd have the basis of an answer to most of the world's problems, right there! Seeing all this in action was the humbling bit.
It's also worth noting just how much of this work is invisible to many residents. I have lived here for nearly 21 years now, and thought I had a good handle on what went on in the town, but actually I knew about 10% – the often referred to 'tip of the iceberg'. How many people in this town are aware of the work done by the Gymfinity organisation in training chidden in gymnastics three times a week at Egerton Youth Club, for example, or the Knutsford Fire Brigade's work with difficult teenagers from St. John's School every year? Coming across previously unseen community works for the first time this year was the educational bit for me.
Of course, it's not only volunteers who apply themselves to doing good works for our community, there is also the semi-hidden work done by business people in the town to help make a success of events like the Pumpkin Path at Halloween, the Bunny Hop at Easter and the lights switch-on at Christmas time. The local private businesses also put their heart and hours of work into making this town an even more special place at Royal Horticultural Show time and again at Christmas, when they glam up their shop windows and shop fronts to match those seasonal themes. The Town council also plays its part here, by awarding prizes to those businesses which the Mayor and Deputy Mayor think have produced the most attractive and imaginative results at these times.
A special mention here just has to go to Peter Murray of Pulse of Perfumery, he seems to have taken our community to heart and puts a great deal of time and effort into the year's events in the town. I'm not sure I'll forgive him, though, for disappointing every child in the town by encouraging a rumour that Harry Stiles was making a surprise appearance at the closing ceremony of the Pumpkin Path at Halloween, so they all turned out to see the black cloak whipped off the mystery guest – ME! I can still hear the sighs of disappointment today.
One of the difficult things to do before you start your year is to choose your Mayoral charity, or charities, for whom you are going to raise money by organising events throughout the year. I chose the Knutsford District Scouts and the local Salvation Army group. I used to be a Scout, and have always admired the way they have continued to stay relevant to young people from the days of Baden-Powell through to today. They do a lot for their members in raising life-skill levels and confidence, and their benefit to society as a whole is immeasurable.
Throughout my life I've always admired the Salvation Army for opting to help the people who have fallen the furthest, into addictions, homelessness and hopelessness. They also tend to deal with people at the other end of the age scale to the Scouts, so I thought the two charities were a well balanced and deserving choice. By organising a party, a golf day, a concert, a quiz night and a Ball at different times of the year, I'm pleased to say we raised £11,155.28, and along with £1000 in match funding from Barclays we were able to present The Scouts and The Salvation Army cheques for £6077.64 each.
Many people have contributed to the fundraising over the year, but I would like to recognise here the extra special efforts of Steve and Alison Moss who held the first charity event, a garden party, at their house, Heyrose Golf Club for giving us a good deal for the Golf Day, Gordon Roberts and the Mancunian Singers for the wonderful concert, and the Mere Golf Resort for giving us a deal on the Charity Ball. All of these were enjoyable and successful events.
The year was not all about the money we raised, however, it was also about representing Knutsford in a good light both within the town and outside. I would therefore like to draw towards a conclusion by thanking the four people who worked alongside me all year, for all types of event. Firstly, I'd like to thank Revd. Rob Cotton for being a sound, dependable and always cheerful Mayoral chaplain this year. Secondly, I must thank my three musketeers, Clare Stuart-West, my PA who organised everything so well for me, my wife Gill, the Mayoress, for being so good at the role, and Sgt. Nancy Nuttall from Knutsford's ATC, my Mayoral Cadet, who accompanied us on many occasions and was a massive credit to her unit, her school and her family all year.
Thanks to all of you, and I wish Jan Nicholson, the new Mayor, and her team an enjoyable and successful year ahead.

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Afternoon all
Well April arrived with a blaze of sunshine! At least it wasn't entirely full of showers so that is something. Means we are to have a longish summer lets hope. As you may be aware I went to several conferences and large networking events this month and I took my trusty note pad and pen everywhere with me! I am happy to share what I have learnt with you. If you would like me to go through something specific, then please do just pop me an email and I will endeavour to answer any queries you may have in next months round up. Enjoy....
I got reading an article by Justin Pot earlier in the month called Unfriend, Unfollow, Unlike that got me thinking. I do this automatically with my newsfeed and at times recommend it to my clients but it is really something we should all do to be strategic and successful with our Facebook Business Pages. There is roughly 15,000 stories in our newsfeed at any one time we go to look at it. That poor algorithm has to have something to work with, may as well have quality post/stories. So remove the chaff from your wheat and get baked, quality bread...(??)
Larry Kim (@larrykim) brought a really interesting article to his Twitter account this month entitled Goodbye, Google+: Social Network Broken Into Streams and Photos Products. I think this could well mean a significant change happening in the coming months, but for now I personally will still continue to post and use my account as the results are skewed in favour of Google+ products in a Google search.
Andrea Vahl put up a blog post this month on How to Use Facebook Organic Post Targeting, I can vouch for the fact that most people don't even know this facility is available - visit her page and find out just how simple it is to do. This is a very comprehensive, analytical post but stick at it, it will make sense and be very useful.
I was at a talk with Noel Davidson of QED Training earlier this month and he mentioned a website that can help start up businesses get a website of their own up and running with valuable support. If you would be interested in getting help setting up a website please visit Getting Irish Business Online. I can also recommend checking out the Online Trading Voucher Scheme with your Local Enterprise Office. You need to meet certain criteria namely Export outside of Southern Ireland (so to Northern would suffice), or even import to Southern Ireland, trade online (e-commerce, shop) and only be trading for a year or more and be Tax Compliant. A full list of criteria can be found at the website.
Wicklow LEO will be closing their voucher scheme off on the 11th May, so you need to apply by 3pm on that day to stand a chance of getting up to €5,000 towards a website and Social Media Strategy support (I can help with that!). Where ever you are based in Ireland, there is a LEO, so visit yours and establish when they are doing the next round of vouchers and take advantage of this.
I was at the Smart Business Show at the RDS last week and and was introduced to this FREE online tool that can tell you if you qualify for any financial support from the State. It is from the Local Enterprise Office and be found here. There are over 80 agencies that can potentially help you, please check it out and I would love to hear how you get on. I will be repeating this each month as it is a VERY useful tool :)
Mari Smith, an authority in Facebook Marketing reported very recently about the changes that have had happened to the algorithm on Facebook. These changes will sadly mean even less organic reach for business pages! Find the Scoop here!
Katerina Petropoulou of Twittercounter.com posted a useful article two weeks ago entitled "7 Tools for Social Media Management...." well worth a read and useful to people who are relatively new to Twitter, so you won't be bamboozled by the jargon.
Do you know exactly what type of Followers you have on Twitter? A small percentage could be fake and inactive and there are several FREE 3rd party apps that you can slap your handle into and find out. Make sure you check the handles and confirm for yourself that are fake and remove! I use Fakers.StatusPeople.com every now and then, you might find it useful.
Marketer Urban Renstrom recently posted his latest blog Facebook Marketing 5 Steps and Turn Fans into Customers. A regular contributor to the my Round Up, thanks Urban :)
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With increasing commodity prices, and issues with the nations of the distributor, the imbalance amongst provide and demand, it is inevitable expertise for motorists to begin contemplating the use of fuel effective cars popular superhero counterparts. If you do not make the sale, make positive you have the title and that all documentation is gathered so you can finish the sale. I purchased a 2009 Fully Loaded Corolla LEX last year…and I completely enjoy my auto…it's fantastic on gas…great price tag…rides smooth on the interstate and is secure for me and my infant girl!! Ihave owned many cars altho they have been all american produced and named The 1 I liked the most were the Buick Lesabre and the Buick Park Avenue When they Stoped creating the Lesabra I was Sick That was a big error of Basic Motors. Making use of the exact same engine and gear ratios as the Skoda and Seat, this daddy of the small VAG vehicles is a stunner.
Afterwards, since the hybrid vehicles hit the industry in the U.S, the significant automakers such as Honda, Rolls Royce, Chevrolet and Ferrari have or have announced a plan for creating hybrid autos. If you have a large network of pals on Facebook, advertising your auto by sending out a message is a very good way to get the word out about your vehicle sale. There weren't a lot of of these automobiles made but they are nonetheless fairly low-cost, specially compared to their Ford V8 powered brother, the Sunbeam Tiger. The Dacia Duster is one of the UK's least expensive new automobiles – and it happens to be an SUV, so it is excellent for anybody who can't afford a Land Rover model.
Even if you only get 20mpg, if there are four of you sharing the bill, it will be significantly much more economical and your nevertheless taking three vehicles off the road. I have observed total project automobiles sell for much less than $500 and decent drivers typically hover around $2500 – $4500 depending on the market you are in. For most men and women, even though, an SUV will remain firmly on tarmac – so it's excellent news that most of the newest vehicles are just as good to drive as their hatchback and saloon cousins. Keep in mind, the funds that you get from the sale is taxable so make sure to deduct some tax from your compensation. Perhaps you know you want a minivan to accommodate your youngsters and their buddies, a diesel SUV so you can save some money on gas mileage, or a manual convertible so you can have some entertaining on the open road. When you appear at models like Creta, it wouldn't be incorrect to say that SUVs in India have evolved in terms of design.
I consider if governements are going to consider subsidys for hybrids, they will have to group all alternative fuel automobiles with each other, simply because Honda had their Hydrogen fuel cells, and there's a whole load of electrics due out this year. The issue with car listings are that they do not offer adequate variety of vehicles that are becoming sold simply because there are several used vehicle owners that are promoting their automobiles but do not realize the impact that not posting their advertisement on a automobile site is costing them.
You've noticed the automobiles above so you know specifically what i imply when it comes to ugly automobiles! Supplying generous space inside, the SUV comes packed with some of the important features. On the other hand, if you locate oneself not eligible for owning a hybrid vehicle, you may possibly as properly select a common gasoline- or diesel-engine car that gets a great mileage and can save you on fuel consumption.


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Rocket from Russia Episode July 26, 2007
Broadcast on 26-Jul-2007
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OOOPS. sorry, i forgot to post this podacast on thursday. im busy. you know how it is. who really downloads these podcasts anyways?
Track Listing:
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Tim Armstrong · a poets life
Alma blackWell
The Tranzmitors · S/T
weapon of choice
black rebel motorcycle club · baby 81
over you
the dwarves · come clean
trash flavoured trash
blood brothers · crimes
rolling with the punches
gallows · orchestra of wolves
Move To Press
Wednesday Night Heroes · Guilty Pleasures
abracadabra holmes
daggermouth · turf wars
ghosts of memory
tiger army · music from regions beyond
Later Is Better
Living With Lions · Dude Manor
clorox girls · jaime les filles
kissing a memory
lawrence arms · shady view terrace
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This ring is actually a flexible tube, hand crocheted with a small hook from fine silver wire whose ends have been attached to each other and flattened for more comfort.
Spirals of tiny black and green onyx and even tinier light green peridot beads wind all around the silver tube for a unique look.
It's 19.5 mm or a US size 9.5, but can also slightly be stretched if necessary.
Due to the flexibility of the ring it's very comfortable to wear in spite of its bold, big look.
In my opinion it looks best worn on the middle finger without any other rings.


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by Zbigniew
The limits of Vancouver's arts and culture were in plain view at Vision Vancouver's one-night-only production of Protecting Vancouver's Cultural Spaces. (Fox Cabaret, April 28, 2014).
From a preposterous narrative that asks us to believe the incumbent party on City Council has the interest or capacity to save space for anything other that branded lifestyle residential units and No Frills outlets, to the thin performances by the leads –Geoff Meggs and Heather Deal, as "Smart Councillor" and "Happy Councillor," respectively- this show was a dog, of the poodle sculpture variety: expensive, of questionable aesthetic merit, and "why am I looking at this?"
Okay: redeeming elements. Some genuinely warm performances. Kate Armstrong, Ernesto Gomez and Esther Rauschenberg –all clearly ad-libbing- broke out of the dialogue straightjacket to bring some life to the proceedings.
Otherwise, some pretty strange ideas arose from the clunky, clichéd-ridden morass. The need to negotiate harder –much harder- with The Organization -a kind of collective ego and a vortex of destructive energy- definitely peaked my curiousity. At any moment I expected Bob Rennie, dressed as Jupiter and hurling lightning bolts, to descend from the rafters for a Battle Royale. I was mightily disappointed.
And confused, too. "Art carts?" "Digital spaces?" Does the future lie in crevasses and virtual space?
Or: What's there to negotiate when you take their money?
The production's ultimate failure -its pointlessness- lies in its inability to acknowledge and explore such fundamental questions.
These inconsistencies seem to have been lost on the mostly simpatico sold out crowd. But clearly a soft crowd, intensely papered. How would it have stood up to a more discerning audience? Yet another question to go unanswered.


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Newly elected National Rifle Association president Jim Porter said that "revenge is what is motivating" President Obama's second-term push to for new gun control regulations.
Porter, an attorney from Alabama, made his remarks at the annual NRA leadership conference in Houston, Texas, on Saturday.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx4xypQWw34
"Last fall just before the elections, as community organizer-in-chief, President Obama demanded that his followers extract [sic] revenge. I can't remember a president ever publicly using that word against fellow Americans," Porter said. "And revenge is what is motivating the president's unremitting attacks on gun owners today."
"Just look at his reaction to his defeat in the U.S. Senate, with his step-at-a-time gun owner registration under the guise of universal background checks," Porter said, referring to the president's inability to get the Manchin-Toomey background checks bill past a Republican filibuster in the Democrat-controlled Senate last month.
"He is now threatening Democratic senators who are friends of NRA. He will destroy them if he can," Porter said.
"Obama is meeting and plotting with the who's who of the gun-ban movement, scheming to create gun control by bureaucracy," Porter said.
The Daily Caller reported in April that anti-gun New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition switched-out ads attacking Republican Pat Toomey in his home state of Pennsylvania with a positive ad after the senator announced his support for background checks.
The pro-Obama messaging group Organizing for Action (OFA), meanwhile, sent an email Saturday urging supporters to sign a petition featured on my.barackobama.com to pressure congressmen to support background checks.
"We have to keep the pressure on Congress to move on background checks — and only you can hold your members of Congress accountable," OFA national organizing director Sara El-Amine wrote in the email. "It's a make-or-break moment for our movement — a real test of our commitment to keep fighting, even when it gets hard, for the things we believe in."


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The Toronto Marlies' seven-week playoff run did not pay off in a title, but did buy the boys plenty of battlefield experience and a shorter summer.
In two months, they'll be back at work, trying to beat out some incumbent Maple Leafs, most of whom didn't play after April 7.
"I want our guys to understand what an amazing season they had," coach Dallas Eakins said in the wake of a Calder Cup final sweep by the Norfolk Admirals.
"They fought through adversity, they bonded, they leaned on each other to have the expectation to win. I think we fostered an expectation to win here that I hope rubs off on our organization.
"It was ebb and flow. You saw guys really step up their game and saw a few fall off and try to get it back. Even for the guys who got into just a couple of games, I think the improvement in a short amount of time was amazing."
Here's a look at how certain Marlies fared in the AHL playoffs and how it could impact their chances of starting 2012-13 with the Leafs:
G Ben Scrivens
Erase Saturday's
Game 4 blowout and his playoff record was 11-4-1 with a 1.73 goals-against average and a .941 save percentage. He helped the Marlies to the league's team best GAA.
"He's made it interesting," Leaf general manager Brian Burke told Leafs TV on Saturday. "He's in the hunt as a guy who might be able to play in the NHL as early as next year. He's given us more to think about, more to worry about."
Don't expect Burke to stop looking for a veteran, but an emergency tandem of a healthy James Reimer and Scrivens looks less risky now.
D Korbinian Holzer
D Mark Fraser
Holzer is a player Eakins has been pushing the Leafs to use for a long time. He has a mean streak and partnered Fraser as the Marlies' shutdown pairing, but the question is how effective they'll be of separated. And defence is the one area where the big club is crowded, at least before Burke looks at salary cap and trades. With Dion Phaneuf, Luke Schenn, John-Michael Liles, Jake Gardiner, Cody Franson, Carl Gunnarsson and Mike Komisarek, there is no room to play Holzer or ex-Devil Fraser regularly right now.
D Jake Gardiner
A busy season saw Gardiner play 92 games with the Leafs and Marlies, quite the test for a player fresh out of college. Though he had fewer 'wow' moments on the rush, he learned some defence and will benefit from the long year when he gets back to the ACC.
RW Matt Frattin
He ended the playoffs as Toronto's leading scorer with 10 goals, the last one an empty net train wreck that ended his season with knee surgery. But it wasn't just that he scored — often on the fly by crossing to his opposite side — he showed a rogue physical side that delighted management. He must bring that in September. On a parent team crying out for scoring help, Frattin has put himself right in the mix.
C Nazem Kadri
The debate about whether he's ready for prime time won't end soon. After a streak of eight points in five playoff games, it's a pity that an upper body injury took him out of the conference final and the Calder Cup. Once more, it will be his defensive play that dictates how long he stays a Leaf.
C Joe Colborne
Any criticism of his offensive struggles in the playoffs have to be qualified by how he played through a shattered finger that hampered him on faceoffs. But by his own admission, he must get bigger and play bigger if he hopes to take one of the jobs on what is now a wide-open battle at centre on the Leafs.
LW Jerry D'Amigo
Had eight goals and 12 points in playoffs and was a team-best plus-12. But the bearded wonder was marginalized in the final with other Toronto snipers by physical checking. With the right centre, he could have an impact at camp.
C Philippe Dupuis
Free agent should be brought back after atoning for his early season struggles with the Leafs by playing a vital role on the farm. Regular wingers Nicolas Deschamps and Marcel Mueller would miss him, as their own chances to get promoted could be helped by Dupuis staying a Marlie and a reserve with the Leafs.
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The Ebury Way around Rickmansworth and Watford
Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 BST 2009
- Start: Near the Canal Centre, Batchworth Lock, Rickmansworth
- End: Riverside Park, Watford
- Country: England
- County: Hertfordshire
- Type: Country
- Nearest pub:
- Ordnance Survey: OS Explorer 172
- Difficulty: Easy
The Ebury Way is the perfect option for a day out visiting some of the natural sites between Rickmansworth and Watford
THE Ebury Way is a 3.5-mile traffic-free path for walkers and cyclists along the route of a former railway line linking Watford and Rickmansworth. By bike it is a 30-minute easy ride, though for the more adventurous it forms part of route 61 of the National Cycle Network which
runs west to Uxbridge and Windsor and beyond, and from Watford
Route 6 goes from London to the Lake District.
The surface has been designed to be easy going for all users including wheelchairs, with many accessible entry points along the way. Acting as a 'green corridor' for wildlife and well away from the bustle of nearby towns and traffic the route passes through a variety of habitats, including open moor, scrubby wood, wetlands and water. Crossing the three rivers - Colne, Chess and Gade - and the Grand Union Canal, there is plenty to see along the way.
The Ebury Way links the Rickmansworth Aquadrome, Croxley Common Moor and the Withey Beds Local Nature Reserve.
Rickmansworth Aquadrome
The Aquadrome south west of Rickmansworth is an extensive area of lakes formed by gravel extraction, most notably used in the construction of Wembley Stadium in the early 1920s, and is a popular open space for walking, fishing, watersports and observing wildlife.
Croxley Common Moor
This 100-acre nature reserve and SSSI provides a wonderful habitat for wildflowers and many bird species including the green woodpecker. A stroll across the moor, which commonly provides grazing for cattle, brings you to the banks of the tranquil River Gade where kingfishers are
a common sight. Look out for ant hills in the grass - a sign that most of the moor has never been ploughed or fertilized.
The Withey Beds
This area of wetlands is almost unique in west Hertfordshire because of improved drainage and flood relief schemes elsewhere supporting a wide range of habitats and wildlife.
Walking for health
A health walk route from Croxley Green is lead by volunteers on alternate Fridays. The Health Walk Route starts from the Harvester Pub, Baldwins Lane, Croxley Green. Cross the road at the pedestrian crossing and turn onto the tow path before you cross the canal. Follow this for about a mile. Turn left onto the Ebury Way for half a mile then turn left to cross Croxley Common Moor and follow the path on the south side of the canal to join Blackmoor Lane and then back up to the Rickmansworth Road. The route is 6km or 3.75miles and should take about 90 minutes.
Start Near the Canal Centre, Batchworth Lock, Rickmansworth
Finish Riverside Park, Watford
Distance 3.5 miles
Time 1.5 hours
Rating Easy, a traffic free route
for pedestrians and cyclists
Transport Buses: Traveline 0870 608 2608; Trains: national rail enq. 08457 484950
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Growing up in California, I only knew the geography of the New York City boroughs because of what I learned from Hip-Hop music. I knew about Queens because of Nas, Brooklyn because of Jay-Z, the Bronx because of Big Pun, Staten Island because of Wu-Tang and Manhattan/Harlem because of Camron and Mase.
What folks may not know about where I'm from is that it's akin to a place like NYC — the Bay Area doesn't just consist of San Francisco and Oakland, and being that so much attention is on the area this week becasue of SF Beer Week, confusion is likely to abound. However, if you think about craft beer geography in the kind of way I thought about 90s East Coast Hip-Hop, then you might be able to visualize what beer lovers are about to embark on for the next week in Northern Cali.
Let me break it down.
The most recognized city in the Bay Area and home to world renown breweries like Cellarmaker, Anchor, 21st Amendment and Barebottle, San Francisco without a doubt is the reason why SF Beer Week is even a thing.
Oakland, Berkeley and Richmond arc together to create one hell of a thriving beer scene with the likes of Fieldwork, Rare Barrel, Temescal and Drakes. This part of the Bay Area deserves acolades all on its own, which is one of the reasons I'm so proud to call it my home.
Petaluma and Santa Rosa in the North Bay are home to several foundational layers of the California and American craft beer revolutions, being the birthplace of both Russian River and Lagunitas.
Being the station of San Jose and Palo Alto, this tech booming area lacks the brewery name recognition compared to other cities in the Bay Area, but similar to how New York adopted Long Island and Yonkers rappers Rakim and Dmx, the South Bay has added to our craft beer family with Central Coast breweries like Sante Adarius and Alvarado Street.
Being that I just laid it out for you the way I did, we're going to move forward with calling SF Beer Week "Bay Area Beer Week." If you feel at any point that you shouldn't concede, I'll just ask you to remember that there are around 800 craft beer events happening throughout the Bay Area during this glorious time.
There are so many events, bottle and can releases happening that it will be hard to keep up. If you're like me, you will have to decide between them, as sad as that may be. Bay Area Beer Week events are happening everywhere from San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose to smaller cities with equally amazing plans, such as Alameda, Berkeley and Santa Rosa.
This is your official Allthingsbeer510 guide to an extremely dope week for lovers of all things beer. Enjoy the dankness and drink plenty of water.


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Tutor profile: Isabella C.
Subject: Writing
I am writing a paper in my English class about applying for a job and would like some help proofreading. ... You have to know how to spell well in order to get a job. It is critical that employers see you as competent and intelligent too. In a perfect world, your resume and cover letter wouldn't have any mistakes in grammar or spelling. ...
I would try to avoid the use of the word you unless your teacher specified that it is ok. Try reworking your sentences to remove the need for 'you'. Your first sentence could be rewritten as the simple statement: 'Spelling is important in order to get a job.' You can always change 'you' to 'one' where it appears in your paper, just make sure to change the verb tenses to match. However, I suggest only replacing 'you' with 'one' when completely necessary and trying your best to rework the sentences first. Your second sentence is a bit awkward. It ends with a proposition which is grammatically incorrect, and you also used the wrong form of the word 'to'. Too is the spelling which means as well. You could streamline your second sentence by simply saying 'competent and intelligent' and ending the sentence there. In your last sentence, you begin with the clunky phrase 'In a perfect world'. When possible try to get your point across as clearly and concisely as possible. This can be accomplished by replacing long explanations or phrases with fewer words that convey the same message and even by simply rearranging some of the words in the original sentence. In this case 'in a perfect world' could be replaced with 'ideally' and the same idea would be conveyed. As a minor example, you could also streamline by rearranging 'mistakes in grammar or spelling' to say 'grammar or spelling mistakes' eliminating the 'is'. I also suggest avoiding the use of contractions. Instead of 'wouldn't' write out 'would not'.
Subject: Calculus
How do I find the second derivative of the equation y=3x^3 + 4x^2 - 5x + 7?
The simplest way to find the derivative of an equation is to remember that the derivative of a simple polynomial equation follows this rule: f(x) = ax^y, then f'(x) = ayx^y-1. Written out this means that the derivative is equal to the variable's exponent times the variable's constant and the variable's new exponent is one less than it was before. Also, remember that the derivative of a constant (not attached to a variable) is zero. So, to solve for the derivative of the first term 3x^3, you multiply the constant 3, by the exponent 3, to get 9 and then subtract 1 from the exponent 3 to get 2. This results in 9x^2. You then repeat the same process for the remaining terms. When you put them together, keep the signs between the terms the same. The first derivative should be f'(x)=9x^2 + 8x - 5 + 0 or 9x^2 + 8x - 5. In order to solve for the second derivative, you follow the same process of multiplying constants and exponents and subtracting one from the exponent, just with the new, first derivative equation. Here, the result should be f''(x) = 18x + 8 - 0 or 18x +8.
Subject: Algebra
How do I solve for x in the equation: 2x + 3 = 13
When solving an equation for x, the goal is to isolate x on one side of the equation, keeping in mind that whatever you do to one side of the equation, you must also do to the other side. In order to isolate the x, you want to begin by getting rid of any numbers on the x side of the equation that is not attached to a variable (x). In this case, you would start with three. In order to eliminate the three, you have to reverse its operation, meaning if it is added on the x side of the equation, you have to subtract it from both sides of the equation. So, you get 3-3=0 on the x side, and 13-3=10 on the other side. The new equation reads 2x=10. Now, in order to get the x by itself and solve the equation, you have to reverse the operation of the 2. Here, x is being multiplied by 2, so to isolate x, you have to divide both sides of the equation by 2. Now you have your answer x=5.
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Toying With Success: Work by Leslie Frierman Grunditz (shown: 'Secrets') is part of Quicksilver Mine Co.'s first show.
Dropping Anchor
Quicksilver Mine Co. makes the move to Forestville
By M. V. Wood
Khysie Horn is somewhat mystified by this whole concept of actually owning a parking lot.
She scrunches her nose a bit, slowly shakes her head and says, "Owning parking of all things, it's so . . . bizarre, don't you think?" She shakes her head a few more seconds and then continues on with the tour.
She's showing me around her building on Forestville's main road, to which she is relocating the Quicksilver Mine Co. from Sebastopol. The store, which carried some art in addition to all kinds of other products made exclusively in Sonoma County, will now be exclusively an art gallery. The grand opening celebration is Sunday, Aug. 24, 4pm to 7pm. The party also serves as the opening reception for the inaugural exhibit "Icons, Totems, and Fetishes," which features work from 37 regional artists.
Although owning six parking spaces out back confounds Horn, she seems oddly nonplussed by the thought of owning this 1,400-square-foot gallery space. Her easy demeanor is especially surprising, considering that she never really set out to become a gallery owner in the first place.
There's a time to ask what we want out of life, and there's a time to accept what life wants out of us. Running an art gallery seems to be something Horn drifted into--something, perhaps, that life wanted out of her.
Horn's original dreams were more civic-minded--at least more directly civic-minded. For a while, she was going to graduate from school with a master's degree in higher education and social change. But the social changes that most readily sprang to mind had to do with local economy.
Horn tries to explain why it's a good idea for neighbor to buy from neighbor instead of buying from large corporations. She gives examples of how we end up paying a huge price in order to spend less money. But as with any complex issue that's given much thought, one concept flows to the next, and soon the words "money" and "freedom" and "responsibility" and "creativity" and "community" end up in the same pool of ideas.
"All of it is so intertwined that it's hard to explain," Horn finally says. "I guess I just find it important that communities help support their local artists, artisans, growers. And I would rather spend a little extra money and have something that has a story behind it, instead of buying something from a [big] box store."
So with those ideas in mind, Horn opened the first incarnation of the Quicksilver Mine Co. in Guerneville in 1983, selling only products that were made within the borders of Sonoma County. There were handmade items, local wines, clothes, and since artists are a part of the Sonoma County community, Horn started carrying some of their works as well.
When Quicksilver relocated to Sebastopol from Guerneville, Horn dedicated half of that space to showing the works of Sonoma County artists. In that capacity, she started meeting more and more artists, introducing them to each other, helping them find buyers and holding shows. She also spearheaded the popular Sebastopol Art Walk. In the process, she became one of the leading figures within the local arts community.
Horn had no formal arts education or training, but little by little she started picking up on the basics. Then some of the area's most respected artists, such as Don de Viveiros, Horst Trave, and Micah Schwaberow, among many others, took Horn under their wing and served as her mentors. Often when artists speak of gallery owners, it's with the same mix of respect and derision that many use when speaking of employers. Whenever I've heard artists talk about Horn, it's with the tone and words one uses to speak of a friend.
Slowly, the current of life led Horn to the decision to run a gallery. "When it came down to it, the part of the business I really enjoyed was my work with the artists," she says. "And I figured if I spent all that time and energy I was using on the shop and I put it toward the arts instead, well then maybe owning a gallery could really work."
If the career decision was something Horn drifted into, then the actual creation of the gallery was a goal that needed plenty of determination and drive.
Horn bought the Forestville building back in 2000, and the gallery is just now opening. It's been a tough few years. There were county permits to be acquired, grading problems to be solved, walls to be built, windows to be made. "My office in Sebastopol didn't have any windows," Horn mentions, "so I made sure that this time around I had plenty of natural light."
The end of my tour takes us out back to the garden in which Horn will display some outdoor art. "During the opening reception, we're going to have the Ben Hill Jazz Quartet playing out here," she says, nodding toward the garden.
Along with live music, oodles of art, and lots of interesting, artsy guests, there will be catered food and, if tradition holds, plenty of drink. Everyone knows that Khysie Horn knows how to throw a party. Well, everyone except for Khysie Horn.
"Oh God, the party part--that's the worst," she says rolling her eyes toward the heavens. "It's still hard for me. I get nervous days in advance of any reception. Afterwards, I have to be alone for quite some time just to recoup."
Horn, who relishes a sense of community, had spent a good deal of her life without it.
As an only child, Horn and her parents went on a long sailing voyage from the East Coast through the Panama Canal, and up through Tahiti, Fiji, New Zealand, and numerous ports along the way. Sometimes her parents would dock and her father would take odd jobs to support the next leg of their journey. But soon enough, the family would move on again. The trip ended up taking five years, from the time Horn was six until she was 11.
Horn remembers those five years as an interesting time, but somewhat lonely. At age 11, her family sailed back to the States, and Horn started sixth grade. "I was completely socially inept," she says. "I just didn't get it. On my first day of school, it took everything my dad had just to get a pair of shoes on me."
Horn grew up on the East Coast, and after visiting some friends who moved to Sonoma County, she decided to give the West Coast a chance. "I figured I'd stay here for a year," she says, "and see if I liked it." She did. The current eventually led to the Russian River and Guerneville, then Sebastopol. And now, through a rather meandering route, she's here in Forestville, the owner of an art gallery.
As the tour draws to an end, Horn turns away from her garden. "Well, here it is, my very own parking lot," she says.
As I pull out and drive away, I wave back at Horn, who's standing out on her parking lot, by her gallery, on her very own plot of solid ground.
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An interphasic scanner, or simply IP scanner, was a sensor device used aboard Starfleet vessels in the 24th century, for use in detecting objects which existed in a state outside normal visual and sensor acuity.
In 2370, Doctor Beverly Crusher used a handheld IP scanner to reveal an infestation of interphasic organisms aboard the USS Enterprise-D. Later, Lieutenant Worf used an IP scanner to inspect the area around the Enterprise in an attempt to find more evidence of the organisms. (TNG: "Phantasms")
The same prop later appeared as an engineering tool in the episodes "The Next Phase", "Eye of the Beholder" and "Bloodlines".
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Spending time aboard a boat means travelling with the people you choose and in complete privacy. Your programme will include friendliness, relaxation, and even thrills.
Setting sail means choosing a different way of discovering new destinations: let yourself be lulled by the thousands of stories told by each country's coast.
Leave your everyday life behind; it's time for a holiday. The ebb and flow of the sea and the changing skies are the only risks for navigators.
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In Forex Trading, you can either benefit by appreciation of exchange or by its depreciation.
There is a plenty of strategies to work in the forex market, but, in fact, they all boil down to two methods, based on the rise and fall of the course.
For greater clarity, let us consider technology transactions with decreasing and increasing rate by an example.
Let's say you open a trading account in the company and deposited 2000 USD on it, chose EURUS as a financial instrument D and decided that the euro will soon go down.
Step 1: Open an order to sell of EURUSD lot 1at the price, for example, 1.4338. In view of a leverage of 1: 100 the deal took 1433,8 USD of your own funds.
Step 2: Wait until the price drops enough, for example, to the level of 1.3864.
Step 3: Close the position by buying back 1 lot of EUR, but at the price of 1.3864. In view of a leverage of 1: 100 the deal took 1386,4 USD of trading account.
Step 4: Calculate your profit. Trader Income is the difference between buying and selling prices. Thus, your income amounted to 4740 USD.
Imagine the opposite situation: you open a trading account with a deposit of USD 2000 and select EURUSD as a financial instrument, decide that the euro will go up soon.
Step 1: Open a buy position of 1 lot at the price of 1.3864, spending 1286,4 USD.
Step 2: Wait until the price will rise, for example, to the level of 1.4062.
Step 3: Open a position to sell EUR USD lot 1at the new price.
Step 4: Calculate your profit. The difference between the total cost of 1 lot at the price of 1.3864 and 1.4062 for the price is 1980 USD.
Practical trading with Forex
It is important to remember that the basic idea of how to make money on the forex market, does not guarantee a high profit from the first trading day. The key factors determining the success or failure of the trader is his ability to predict the price movement with the tools of technical and fundamental analysis of the market, as well as the experience and ability to control emotions. However, it is a full understanding of profit technologies in a falling and a rising market, that serves as a starting point of your successful trading and investment activities.


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How to keep that mountain biker in your life happy this Christmas!
Wondering what to buy that Mountain Bike enthusiast member of the family for Christmas? Fear not, we're here to help you. Whether it's your husband, son, daughter, father, wife, or great auntie, here's our top guide to mountain bike Christmas shopping…
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You can't go wrong with a gift voucher! A range of our mountain bike centres across Wales offer vouchers to spend on all those things mountain biking including uplift days, bike hire, bikes, parts and accessories. How about an uplift day voucher for BikePark Wales or Antur Stiniog or a voucher for Oneplanet Adventure to spend on a skills course?
Shop in our local bike shops
MBWales.com lists a number of bike shops under our facilities page. Buying local you'll not only support a local company but also benefit from the expertise of the staff on hand to help you. Head to our facilities page to find your nearest shop.
If your loved one wants to explore a new area or is new to mountain biking how about booking a day's guiding from one of the guiding companies listed on our website. You'll receive some well-deserved brownie points we're sure.
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A mountain bike holiday in Wales. Let MBWales.com help you find some great mountain bike accommodation, and Christmas day will be one of happiness and excitement thinking of that planned trip in 2017.
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Drunk Elephant is an American skin care line developed by Tiffany Masterson. The name "Drunk Elephant" comes from the myth that elephants get drunk from eating the fruit of marula trees. Drunk Elephant is rare among skin care companies because it does NOT include alcohol, parabens, phthalates, hydroquinone, synthetic fragrances, SLS, formaldehyde and other nasty ingredients in its products.
One of the star products of Drunk Elephant is, not surprisingly, Marula Oil. I have been using three Drunk Elephant products (two serums and the marula oil) for several weeks and the results have been excellent.
Drunk Elephant C-Firma Day Serum review
This is a Vitamin C serum that contains 15 percent Vitamin C and it is formulated with ferulic acid. The airless pump container ensures minimal exposure to light and air. Packaging is critical when you are buying a Vitamin C product because Vitamin C oxidizes and loses its potency when exposed to air and light. Vitamin C has been shown by independent scientific studies to reduce the appearance of sun damage (brown spots), fade acne marks, reduce the appearance of fine lines and increase collagen production.
How to use: every day after cleansing (please make sure you apply sunscreen on top of this product). This is a thin orange-y liquid – not at all thick and goopy; easy to spread around the face, not greasy.
Results after 4 weeks of use on face, hands, neck and shins: Dark brown spots on my cheeks have become less brown and show signs of fading. The most dramatic result is on my shins where I suffer from uneven pigmentation. Within one week, the skin looks so much more uniform in tone and smoother. The skin on my hands and neck look much better: less wrinkled, more even pigmentation.
Ingredients of C-Firma Day Serum:
Water, Ethoxydiglycol, Ascorbic Acid, Glycerin, Laureth-23, Lactobacillus/Pumpkin Ferment Extract, Sclerocarya Birrea (Marula) Seed Oil, Ferulic Acid, Sodium Hyaluronate, Algae Extract, Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract, Lactobacillus/Punica Granatum (Pomegranate) Fruit Ferment Extract, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Juice Extract, Phyllanthus Emblica (Indian Gooseberry) Fruit Extract, Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Tocopherol, Caprylhydroxamic Acid, Acetyl Glucosamine, Hydrolyzed Quinoa, Glutamylamidoethyl Imidazole, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Tetrahydro Curcuminoids, Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Glycine, Sucrose, Maltodextrin, Propanediol, Caprylyl Glycol, Sodium Hydroxide, Phenoxyethanol, Xanthan gum, Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Isohexadecane, Polysorbate 60.
Drunk Elephant T.L.C Framboos Glycolic Night Serum review
This is a 12 percent glycolic acid serum that includes lactic, tartaric, and citric acids (these are together referred to as alpha hydroxy acids or AHAs). The purpose is to exfoliate the skin (remove dead skin cells) and reduce the appearance of fine lines and hyperpigmentation. What's important to know about any AHA serum you use is the pH level: it has to be under pH 4 to be effective). This product has a pH level of 3.8 to 4. Moreover, the product packaging is a pump bottle which protects it from air and light. It also contains salicylic acid (which is a beta hydroxy acid or BHA and is good for reducing blackheads and blocked pores). Caution: Because of the high concentration (12 percent) of AHA, some people may find this to be too irritating and harsh. Therefore, it's best to use it one night, then wait a day or two to see how your skin reacts.
How to use: every night after cleansing; this is a thin clear fluid, not greasy at all, easy to spread around the face. You need to use some kind of oil or moisturizer after the product has absorbed, if you have drier skin.
Results after 2 weeks of use: I noticed my pores looked tighter and my skin looked more even. There was a slight tingling in the first 2 days of use, but it went away.
Water (Aqua), Glycolic Acid, Salicylic Acid, Butylene Glycol, Citric Acid, Lactic Acid, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Aesculus Hippocastanum (Horse Chestnut) Seed Extract, Arctostaphylos Uva-Ursi Leaf Extract, Camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) Leaf Extract, Rubus Idaeus (Raspberry) Fruit Extract, Buddleja Davidii Meristem Cell Culture, Saccharomyces Cerevisiae (Yeast) Extract, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Juice Extract, Opuntia Ficus-Indica (Cactus) Extract, Sclerocarya Birrea (Marula) Seed Oil, Allantoin, Sodium Hyaluronate Crosspolymer, Propanediol, Xanthan Gum, Galactoarabinan, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Disodium EDTA, Hexylene Glycol, Caprylyl Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Sodium Hydroxide (pH adjustor), Phenoxyethanol.
Drunk Elephant Virgin Marula Luxury Facial Oil review
This is a facial oil that contains antioxidants (tocopherol (Vitamin E), tochotrienol, phenolic compounds and flavinoids) and Omegas 6 and 9. It is nourishing and hydrating. No fragrance. This is a pure Marula oil product – nothing else in it!
How to use: On face, hands, neck, anywhere you need a good dose of hydration.
Results after 2 weeks of use: I got a small tube of Marula Oil as part of a set that included the glycolic serum and I use it every night after applying the glycolic serum. I use it also during the day before moisturizer. It's not as greasy as other oils and it does absorb quickly. My face feels very soft after using it.
Ingredients: 100% Unrefined Sclerocarya Birrea (Marula) Kernel Oil.
I am impressed with Drunk Elephant skin care products. The founder formulated the serums taking into account recent scientific research: potent Vitamin C (12 percent), pH level of AHA below 4, lots of antioxidants, absence of fragrance and natural oils (some of which actually damage the skin!). The pump packaging does not expose active ingredients to light and air; it protects the ingredients from oxidation and loss of potency. Moreover, it is travel-friendly.
The one drawback to these products is that they are expensive. However, if you are going to spend a lot of money on serums and oils, better to spend it on Drunk Elephant's serums and Marula oil than on a big name brand that uses jar packaging, fragrances and tiny concentrations of potent ingredients.
Where to buy Drunk Elephant: Sephora or on the Drunk Elephant website.


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Imagine Indiana Jones designing a coffee shop. The result would be Cafe Bassam: an intimate setting [literally, with tables bunched together so closely that maneuvering through them is a challenge in itself] with random antique clocks, rifles, and other vintage trinkets on the walls. On one side, rows of tea line the window. On the other, a hiding place under the wall of rifles. Almost anywhere you turn, some interesting treasure waits to be discovered.
Cafe Bassam
3088 5th Ave
San Diego, CA 92103
(619) 557-0173
Let's just agree here: life without coffee = sad times. I've attempted to beat my addiction three or four times at least, opting for the healthier alternative of tea..but nothing can replace the richness and depth of a good mug of steaming black coffee.
Cafe Bassam is one of the most unique coffee shops I've visited. Its decor is interesting, the ambience inviting. While the actual coffee isn't the best, it's definitely a place I'd recommend stopping by, just to enjoy the laid-back atmosphere. For those who like getting some work done outside the house, there are little tables aplenty, both inside and out [I mean, if you enjoy being elbow-to-elbow with your neighbor].
I normally don't do iced coffees, but I had to make an exception on this day [thanks, San Diego heat wave]. Perhaps if I had ordered my normal black coffee, I'd have come to a different conclusion about the coffee quality. Who knows? As it was, my drink turned out to be a watery not-quite-coffee..thing. Michael had an overly sweet Thai iced tea. Meh.
Conclusion: As mentioned, the best thing about Cafe Bassam would have to be the decor and feel. It's a great place to hang out. The coffee left a lot to be desired, so I would sadly be unlikely to make a return visit unless I'm actually in the area.
- Parking is atrocious, so be forewarned. There is only metered street parking, which can be hard to find on busier days.
- Trying to get work done here may not be for you if you happen to be claustrophobic. The tables barely have enough space between them to get through, but you could end up like me and chance upon a little, more isolated corner. Hehe.


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