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The Caribbbean island of St Vincent
The small ship with big charm, Adonia goes where none of her sisters can. In winter 2018/19, our discovery ship will travel south to take guests 500 miles up the Amazon River to Santarem. Here, beyond the bustling harbour, you can unleash your inner explorer in the Tapajós National Forest by foot or on the emerald-blue waters of the Tapajós River by boat on one of the shore excursions we offer, accompanied by the soundtrack of exotic jungle life.
Adonia will also embark on new round-trip Caribbean cruises from Barbados, including some lesser-known ports of call. Virgin Gorda, for example, is one of the British Virgin Islands' beauties, bursting with pristine beaches and brimming with billionaires and movie stars – but free from crowds. A highlight is The Baths, where huge granite boulders form secret rock pools along the shore. It's ideal for swimming and snorkelling, and can be visited easily on one of several shore excursions.
She'll also call at Bequia, which boasts the Caribbean's most protected natural harbour, Admiralty Bay, and a charming, villagey capital. Plus, on a special shore excursion you can visit the Old Hegg Turtle Sanctuary, where young Hawksbill turtles are cared for from birth until they can be tagged and returned to the ocean.
Another unique stop for Adonia is Mayreau, which is home to just 200 people – somewhere you really can call unspoilt. And then there's Saint Barthelemy – or St Barts – whose dramatic cliffs, undulating hills and turquoise bays also make it a hotspot for the rich and famous. Expect opulent hotels, fine dining and boutique shopping, but also a gorgeous yacht-filled harbour and plenty of kitesurfing, diving and snorkelling.
The Amazon rainforest in Brazil
A more intimate affair
Travelling on Adonia is quite a different experience to our other ships. She's exclusively for adults and the smallest in our fleet, carrying just 710 guests – so faces will soon become familiar. Inside, beautifully crafted wood panelling, traditional décor and a gorgeous grand staircase give Adonia a truly timeless feel, while her recently updated soft furnishings add a lighter, brighter look to her cabins.
Despite her small size, you'll still find an impressive choice of places to eat on board – from world-class dining in the Pacific Restaurant, Marco Pierre White's Ocean Grill or Olly Smith's The Glass House (a new addition), to the more relaxed Conservatory Buffet or outdoor Lido Café. There's also Raffles, the hub of Adonia, which serves fresh coffee and snacks during the day and delicious cocktails in the evening, expertly prepared by our friendly bartenders.
You'll also be spoilt for choice in terms of entertainment. As on all our fleet, Adonia boasts a fully equipped gym, with helpful instructors and a range of fitness classes, as well as a packed agenda of quizzes, sports events, dance classes, talks and demonstrations. Or, of course, you can just sit and watch the clouds go by with a cool G&T in Anderson's or The Crow's Nest – or even by the pool, as we'll gladly bring your drink to your sun lounger by the Crystal Pool.
In the evening, head to the Curzon Lounge for live music and dancing, while Adonia's impressive card room is the perfect setting for games night and day. The Library, complete with fireplace and comfy chairs, contains everything you could possibly want, from the latest fiction to travel books and atlases. And there's also a brand-new outdoor cinema on the Lido deck, which shows new and classic films.
Finally, for retail therapy choose between Mayfair for designer clothes and holiday gifts, or the Emporium for that little something you forgot to pack.
Everything you need you'll find on board, so just sit back, relax, and let Adonia take you on an adventure…
Book your cruise holiday on Adonia now >
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We also process personal data about job applicants, current and former employees, service providers, travel agents and other groups of individuals in the course of employment and business operations, and this data is subject to our internal privacy policies.
We collect personal data you provide to us when you enquire, book or sail with us, for example:
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Your interactions with us will result in personal data being created and stored by us. Examples include:
We analyse the personal data we hold in order to improve the effectiveness of our direct marketing communications or to deliver our loyalty programmes. This can, in turn, generate personal data; for example, helping us to decide which marketing communications are likely to be of interest to you, or to determine your loyalty status.
We receive personal data from other individuals or third party organisations. For example, when making a booking we will receive details of all members of the booking party from the guest making the booking. We receive personal data from third party organisations including travel agents processing bookings on a guest's behalf, from competitions or promotions where personal data has been provided as part of the competition or promotion, or from social media where personal data has been posted on our social media pages. We use publicly accessible data sources such as data brokers to maintain the accuracy of our enquirer and guest records, and from time to time use external sources to help us to resolve disputes or recover unpaid accounts.
We do not process sensitive personal data about you except where there is a legal reason to do so. Sensitive personal data can include:
We process personal data about children to provide services when they are guests on our ships, but do not seek to collect personal data about children for any other purpose.
From time to time we are asked to process personal data relating to criminal history of individuals, for example if we receive a request from law enforcement authorities, or when investigating security matters that might relate to criminal or civil offences.
We use personal data with your consent, or where it is necessary in order to:
We will only use personal data about you for the purpose(s) it was collected for or closely related purposes, and will inform you or seek your consent if we need to use it for other purposes.
If you enquire about our services, or engage in competitions or other promotional activities that we or our partners provide, we will ask your consent to provide you with news and offers about our services that you may find of interest. Depending upon your preferences, our communications with you may include:
You are free to withdraw or amend your consent to receive news and offers at any time.
When you make a booking either directly or through a travel agent, we will collect personal data about you and other travellers in your group to effect the booking, including your names, genders, dates of birth, home addresses, phone, email, details of any medical, care or dietary requirements, specific preferences relating to the booking you have selected, and your payment details. We need this data to enter into a contract with you.
If you provide us with personal data about any other individuals included in a booking, you must have the authority of those individuals to provide their personal data to us for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, and will remain accountable for the information provided. It is the responsibility of the booking leader to ensure that personal data about the group members is accurate and up to date.
If you commence a booking through our website and provide your contact details as part of the booking process, but do not complete that booking, we may send you up to three reminder emails to help you to complete the booking. This will not affect any preferences you have registered with us.
After you book a cruise, you will be invited by email to access our online Cruise Personaliser service where you will need to provide additional personal data about you and your travel party. This additional mandatory personal data including passport, insurance and emergency contact details for you and your booking group is necessary to complete your booking.
You may optionally book or purchase on-board products and services, excursions and other activities. Depending on the product or service selected, you may be required to provide further personal data to provide these to you, and we may have to share your personal data with other companies such as spa operators or travel operators in order to provide these to you.
Within Cruise Personaliser, data about a group of individuals in a booking, including personal data, bookings and purchases, loyalty number and status will be visible to all members of that booking group.
Before your cruise, you will receive information about your booking by post or email.
We will use personal data about you for the purposes of carrying out security checks. Where we are required to do so, personal data about you will be shared with recognised law enforcement agencies prior to boarding, during your cruise, or after disembarkation, for security and immigration purposes. Where we are required to do so, personal data will also be shared with these agencies in order to prevent and detect crime as well as to safeguard children and vulnerable adults. These purposes may involve sending personal data between different countries, including countries outside the European Union where controls on data protection may not be as strong as the legal requirements within the European Union.
For the safety and security of each ship and its guests, and to maintain health and safety, we operate closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras on board our ships, including at all access points and throughout the public areas. These are recording continually with footage being retained and stored for a set period. Where necessary, images taken from these cameras will be used internally for identification purposes and to assist with investigation of safety or security related matters. Images will also be shared with law enforcement agencies (in any jurisdiction) in order to detect or prevent criminal activity or to assist in the apprehension and prosecution of offenders.
Please be aware that there are photographers and camera crew on board the ship taking photographs and making films for guests to purchase at the end of your cruise or for our own promotional use. They are happy to take reasonable steps to avoid filming or photographing you where you indicate that this is your preference, but you may be included unless you tell us otherwise and we are unable to guarantee that you will not be included on an incidental basis.
Some on-board products and services, excursions and other activities, are provided by other companies. We may share sufficient personal data with these partners before, during and after your cruise to provide a seamless service to our guests, such as the ability to charge purchases to guests' onboard accounts.
Casinos on our ships are operated by Ocean Players Club, a division of Carnival Corporation based in the United States of America. Our legal and technical controls safeguarding this relationship are described in 'Transferring personal data to third countries'. Limited personal data about you is transferred to Ocean Players Club for the purpose of preparing a casino account should you wish to use their facilities, and to prevent and detect fraud. For further information on how Ocean Players Club will process personal data, please view their privacy notice.
In the unlikely event that you are involved in an accident or require medical treatment on our ships, we will use personal data already provided to us, or obtained from you, to deliver your treatment. We will share that personal data with third party healthcare providers with your consent, or where it is in your vital interests, or in the public interest to do so, and we will retain a record of treatment provided for billing and obligatory record-keeping purposes.
Upon completion of your cruise, we will contact you to seek feedback on your experience to understand your satisfaction level so that we can improve the quality of services we offer, and to assess the performance of our on-board staff and their associated rewards. For UK guests, we will provide your email address to a contracted third party review service for the purpose of managing your feedback.
We operate loyalty programmes that allow you to benefit from your time spent on our ships, through future offers that may include discounts, upgrades, early booking, competitions, gifts and other rewards. For this reason, we retain a basic record of cruises you have taken including your name, contact details, cruise numbers and dates, and any loyalty offers that you have redeemed with us. If you believe we hold incorrect historical cruise details, you can contact us with evidence of those cruises to correct your record.
We will contact you with details of our loyalty programme when you book your first cruise, and if you join you will receive further communications thereafter including details of your loyalty status and subsequent benefits. In order to calculate these benefits we need to profile the time and money you spend with us. You may opt out of the loyalty programme and programme-related communications at any time. We use external data providers to help us to maintain the accuracy of your loyalty programme contact data.
When you are on board our ships, you may be offered the opportunity to purchase future cruise credits. If you hold future cruise credits, we will contact you with offers related to the use of those credits up to their expiry date. If you booked your cruise through a travel agency partner, then we will inform the travel agency of your future cruise credits and they may choose to contact you with offers to ensure the timely use of those credits.
Should you have queries before, during or after your cruise, then we will use information related to your cruise such as travel details, billing, on-board communications and other information we have on record or which you or third parties may provide to us, to resolve your query.
We may also contact you with information following the cruise you have taken, or if there are queries relating to your payment or the services you have received.
The personal data you provide to us or which we obtain through your dealings with us will be analysed for the following purposes:
We conduct identifiable and anonymous market research to provide longer-term insight into the effectiveness of our services and marketing, and to support our service planning and delivery.
We process personal data about enquirers and guests in the UK and on board our ships worldwide. Enquiries and bookings are processed in the European Union, where our systems may be accessed by Carnival group staff and suppliers from outside of the European Union subject to strict security controls.
We contract other companies and individuals to perform certain activities on our behalf. Examples include:
These contractors have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but are not permitted to use it for other purposes.
If you make a booking we will pass your personal information on to other relevant suppliers of your travel arrangements such as airlines, hotels and transport companies. Where necessary, your personal information will also be passed to travel agents, security and credit checking companies, credit and charge card companies. We are required to co-operate with government and law enforcement agencies and the public authorities of any country in your itinerary, including customs and immigration authorities.
We collect and process personal data in the European Union (EU). We process your personal data worldwide, including on board our ships, depending upon the destinations you travel to with us, for example if we have to provide personal data to immigration authorities, port agents or excursion operators in destination countries. This will involve sending your personal information between different countries, including countries outside the EU where controls on data protection may not be as strong as the legal requirements in the EU.
From time to time personal data must be shared with other Carnival companies outside of the EU, or accessed by Carnival companies from outside of the EU, in order to provide the services you request from us. We use legal mechanisms ('standard contractual clauses') and technical and procedural controls to safeguard personal data.
You have rights over how we use personal data about you, and can exercise those rights by contacting our Data Protection Officer using the contact details below. Our ability to uphold these rights for you depends upon our obligations to process personal data for security, safety, fraud prevention reasons, or because processing is necessary to deliver the services you have requested. Where this is the case, we will inform you of our obligations in response to your specific request.
Where we have obtained your consent to process personal data about you, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Where we process personal data about you in ways for which your consent is not required, for example to record your cruise history, you may have a limited right to ask us to cease processing of that personal data, or restrict the nature of the processing, if you wish.
You may request a copy of personal data we hold about you, subject to a small number of exemptions set out in law. This includes obtaining personal data about you in electronic form to provide to a third party should you wish to do so.
We will update or amend personal data we hold about you if you inform us of inaccuracies. We will use external data sources to maintain the accuracy of our enquirer, guest and loyalty records.
We retain personal data for the period required for processing, and where we are under an obligation to do so, for example billing data is retained in accordance with anti-money laundering and financial records keeping requirements.
We retain a basic record of guests' cruise history (name and contact details, booking/cruise number, nights on board, class of travel) indefinitely for the purpose of maintaining our loyalty scheme.
We will delete personal data we hold about you if you ask us to do so, as required by data protection law.
If you have a concern or complaint about our processing of personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer see the contact details below.
If you are not satisfied with how we have responded to your complaint about the processing of personal data, or following our response you believe our processing of personal data is not in accordance with the law, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) by calling +44 (0)303 123 1113, or visiting https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
We take the security of your personal data seriously, and use a number of technical and organisational controls and ongoing training to safeguard the personal data we process from improper access, use, alteration, destruction and loss.
Where we share your personal data with other companies as described above, we require those companies to process your personal data to an equivalent level of security.
You can find out how our websites process personal data about you here.
We use cookies and similar tools on our website to improve its performance and enhance your user experience. You can find out more about how we use cookies here.
Cunard and P&O Cruises are trading names of Carnival plc. Carnival plc is registered in England & Wales number 04039524, and is registered as a data controller with the Information Commissioner's Office number Z8383204.
All enquiries relating to data protection, including communications with our Data Protection Officer, should be sent to: Data Protection Officer, Privacy & Data Protection Team, Carnival House, 100 Harbour Parade, Southampton, SO15 1ST, or call 0344 338 8650, or email email@example.com.
This policy was last updated on 19th September 2018. When changes are made to this policy, we will publish the changed policy on our websites with details of the changes.


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Steeped in history and set amidst spectacular wooded countryside, Launcells Barton is a family run wedding & events venue near Bude in northern Cornwall. With the rustic glamour of the Mill barn and the elegant romance of the Georgian house, you and your guests will enjoy every precious moment of your celebration.
Pricing & Availability
Get in touch with Launcells Barton to find out pricing and availability.
Information about the services provided by Launcells Barton are outlined below
Accommodation Onsite
Accommodation for 14 within our Georgian house.
2 fully stocked and staffed bars.
Bridal Suite
Private, large bridal suite.
Ceremony Capacity
160 seated guests inside our historic Mill barn or outside within our beautiful walled Garden.
Exclusive Use
Licensed For Marriage
Reception Capacity
200 guests within our purpose built reception barn.
Use External Suppliers
We do have our recommended supplier list to help couples, but you are free to use who you want.
Church / Chapel
Glamping & Camping
Every bride dreams up the perfect wedding day and looking back, that is just what we had! There isn't one thing I would change about our special day, and so much of that comes down to the venue and incredible atmosphere set by Matt, Lara, and the team at Launcells. Despite living in London and organising guests from all over the world, the planning was made easy and fun as we partnered with Matt and Lara, who became instant friends.
Alli Paget
We didn't make it out the car before we made our minds up; it was perfect. Rustic but not too rustic, wedding appropriate but not just another 'wedding barn', secluded without being too remote. Then we met Lara and Matt and the deal was done. So helpful without being pushy, relaxed while meticulously organised. Our wedding day was such fun. We didn't want anything too traditional or formal. We wanted something personal and unique to us; Launcell's Barton was the perfect venue to do just that.
We fell in love with Launcells Barton at our first viewing. Matthew and Lara, have put so much love and effort into creating the most perfect of wedding venues. Relaxed, yet efficient, they put you at ease with their willingness to please and friendly can-do attitude. Nothing is too much trouble and they are on hand to help and advise from the day you book, right up to your wedding day. Throughout the day, they made sure that all aspects ran smoothly with no disruption to ourselves or our guests.

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Vacation Home Specials and Packages
Monkey Lala 25% off!!
Jan 3rd - March 2nd 2019
Due to a cancelled trip the owners of Monkey Lala are offering their upper level beach home with 25% off for selected dates! Take advantage of this offer and book today! Click this Monkey Lala link to book!
Casa Tortuga Summer Special
September 1st - December 15th 2018
Enjoy the sounds of the sea next to the white sands of beautiful West Bay Beach. This 2-bed, 2-bath home features ocean views from the second floor balcony, living room and kitchen areas. Casa Tortuga is the most recent home to be built in the charming 8-home private community of West Bay Village. This home is newly remodeled and includes a modern kitchen, high-speed Google Wi-Fi, 55" LG television with cable service, air-conditioning and ceiling fans throughout. West Bay Village sits right on the best snorkeling beach in all of Roatan not sea grass like many other beaches. All stays include drinking water and 24-hour private security for West Bay Village. Come stay with us at Casa Tortuga and book your holiday today!
Click on the link below & use the offer/promo code CT15 to receive the 15% discount.
Casa Tortuga
Click on the link below & use the offer/promo code CT15 to receive the 15% discount.
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Soothing Superfood Anti-inflammatory Moisturizer
Gaining a knowledge of what goes on your skin is just as important as being mindful of what you eat. Your skin is your largest organ and anything you put on it will be absorbed. To my dismay, I have a food sensitivity to coconut. It is obvious that if you are allergic to something internally, you shouldn't use it externally. I think I was purposefully ignorant that this also applied to food sensitivities. For a food sensitivity, you need to remove it for at least 90 days before systematically reintroducing it into your diet. This helps you determine if it is something that needs to be avoided forever, or if it can be reintroduced eventually. If you want to read more about food sensitivities and testing, check out this post.
Many natural and holistic skin care products contain some form of coconut. Coconut is an amazing plant and has so many healing properties, so it should be used by many. For those of us who need to avoid it, there aren't a lot of products out there to use. I did my research of what oils would be best for my skin. I have relatively "normal" skin and what I mean by that is it couldn't be classified as "oily" or "dry" or "mature" (yet). I tend to have some redness in my skin which can be aggravated by unhealthy and inflammatory food choices or the wrong skin care. Sometimes I have blackheads or break out on my T-zone. In the winter, my cheeks tend to get dry, but heavy oils are too much. I need something that will sink in and absorb well.
Argan oil is easily absorbed and non-greasy. Check! It is also high in vitamin E and it hydrates and softens the skin (and hair). It is non-irritating and gentle so most skin types can benefit.
Raw cacao butter is a superfood that can be used to make delicious chocolates, can be added to a matcha latte, and of course, can go on your skin! It prevents dryness and peeling. It is highly recommended for eczema or dermatitis and is anti-inflammatory. It is possibly anti-aging as well, and that's always a crowd pleaser.
Lavender is gentle and relaxing and acts as a gentle astringent. I love the smell of lavender. I also like the taste, so I use it often in my dishes. More on that later.
Patchouli is not everyone's favorite smell. My mother associates it with teenagers covering up the smell of marijuana in the 1960's. I personally love the smell and it pairs well with the gentle scent of pure lavender. Patchouli is also anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, and an astringent. Patchouli for everyone!
This moisturizer recipe can be used by all skin types and is gentle enough for every day use. It is non-irritating for sensitive skin. Can be saturated for problem areas like if you suffer from wedding ring dermatitis or patches of eczema.
Soothing Superfood Anti-inflammatory Moisturizer (for all skin types)
1 1/2 Tablespoons raw organic cacao butter
1 Tablespoon organic argan oil
6 drops organic lavender essential oil
5 drops organic patchouli essential oil
Slowly melt the cacao butter in a sauce pan or double boiler. Remove from the heat and stir in the argan oil and essential oils. Pour into a small mason jar or jelly jar and seal with a tight fitting lid. Allow to solidify at room temperature. Label with the date made. Will be best within 1-2 months.


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Process Lab: Defect-coupled diffusion
09 Oct 2006 | Tools | Contributor(s): Shuqing (Victor) Cao, Yang Liu, Peter Griffin
This tool simulates dopant diffusion coupled with point defects.
Process Lab: Concentration-Dependent Diffusion
This modules simulates both the standard diffusion and concentration-dependent diffusion.
Process Lab: Oxidation Flux
This module simulates the oxidation flux.
Process Lab:Oxidation
Integrated Circuit Fabrication Process Simulation
Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET-Lab Exercise 2
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Companion exercises for "Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET".
Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET-Lab Exercise 1
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Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET-Part II: PDE Systems
20 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Yang Liu, Robert Dutton
Part II uses examples toillustrate how to build user-defined PDE systems in PROPHET.
Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET
These two lectures are aimed to give a practical guide to the use of ageneral device simulator (PROPHET) available on nanoHUB. PROPHETis a partial differential equation (PDE) solver that offers usersthe flexibility of integrating new models and equations for theirnano-device simulations. The...
Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET-Part I: Basics
Part I covers the basics of PROPHET,including the set-up of simulation structures and parameters based onpre-defined PDE systems.


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I do it because of passion. I do it for fun. I do it because it is a lifestyle. I do it for the challenge. I look to it for reward. I find it in everything I do. I feel it every time I move. I see it as it posts. I cry when it hurts the most. I hear it when there is failure but even more during success. I see it in their eyes, feel it in their hearts and hear the call of triumph. I am a coach, an athlete, a spectator... I not only do CrossFit, I LIVE it... day in and day out. Why do you do it?
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Strength Work:
Back Squat 2x10
Snatch Balance 5-5-5-5-5
These three could probably take on any workout CrossFit decides to throw out there!! Awesome video!
"Nasty Girls"
3 rounds of:
50 air squats
7 muscle-ups
10 hang cleans (135,95)
Post time.
Can't do a muscle-up, Substitute 3 ring dips and 3 ring pull-ups per muscle-up
Can't do those? then 4 parallette or seated dips and 4 jumping pull-ups
Check out this article from Men's Fitness about this workout:
Men's Fitness Article on Nasty Girls
Courtesy of the Navy Seals
"The Twelve Gifts of Christmas"
12 squats
11 Sit ups
10 Wallballs 20lb
9 Kettlebell swings 55lb
8 Burpees
7 Box Jumps
6 Deadlift 95lb
5 Hang Clean 95lb
4 Thruster 95lb
3 Racked Lunge 95lb
2 Front Squat 95lb
1 Mile Run
Begin with your 12 squats, then go back to the top and do 12 squats, and 11 sit-ups. Then back to top and do 12 squats, 11 situps, 10 wallballs...and so on until you get to the 2 front squat. Then you do the whole thing one last time and run 1 mile at end to FINEX. For Rx do all body-weight reps in unbroken sets, and do not put bar down between 95lb weighted sets.


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Looking for a reliable plumber in Stevenage? You are in the right place! Here at Gas Heating & Plumbing Solutions we specialise a wide range of plumbing services some of which include the following:
- Boiler Installations & Repairs
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We are fully qualified plumbers and have many years of experience within the industry so can source affordable products meaning we can pass on our knowledge and savings to you. We are highly rated and are happy to show our customer testimonials which we are very proud of. To see more visit our feedback page.
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We are based locally so know Hertford well which means we can respond quickly to any emergency work that is required whether that be leaking water or you just want your job completing quickly we are the plumbers to call.
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Unlike many of our competitors we provide a 24 hour service and are the first point of call for many landlords and home owners who require a reliable plumber at times when most plumbers are closed.
General & In-depth Plumbing work in Stevenage
We can carry out general plumbing works such as works to WC's, sinks, taps, showers, pipe work, waste disposal units, water tanks, water heaters, immersion heaters, vented and unvented water cylinders and thermostats and radiators as well as complete overhauls and replacements of plumbing systems if required. Water purification and filtration systems and lime scales reducers can also be installed.
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ECE Co-sponsors Workshop on Vehicular Cybersecurity
Professor Gang Qu (ECE/ISR/MC2) is organizing a workshop on cyber-security and dependability for next generation vehicular systems. The one-and-half-day workshop will be held in the Robert H. Smith School of Business in the University of Maryland, College Park on November 8 and 9.
The goal of this workshop is to discuss, identify and address the challenges related to achieving real-time safety, dependability, availability, and security for forthcoming generations of CyberVehicle systems. The workshop brings together experts from industry, government, defense, and research domains to highlight the standing challenges in this area and discuss the various approaches/initiatives needed for addressing these challenges. The sessions will cover security threats and attacks; car (embedded) security systems; car (embedded) components security; and the industry perspective on safety and dependability.
The workshop is free, but on invitation only. If you are interested in attending the workshop, please contact Dr. Qu (firstname.lastname@example.com). The workshop is funded by Army Research Laboratory and supported by multiple units on the campus (ECE, ISR, MC2, Smith School of Business). For more information, please visit http://www.cybervehicle.umd.edu/index.php
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A mobile app to anonymously report sexual harassment and assault on Wits University campuses has been created by two students.
The two final-year electrical engineering students, Refilwe Semenya and Ngoako Monyebodi, chose to do their final-year project creating the app, named Khwezi, because of the high incidents of sexual assault cases in universities across the country.
The app allows the victim to report the incident and describe or name the offender. This will allow for the university to be able to identify hotspots and repeat offenders. "The name Khwezi was chosen by us and our professor because of her story. Everyone knows who Khwezi is," Semenya said.
Semenya, 22, said it was important for men to be a part of creating a space for women and girls to be safe.
Monyebodi, 23, added: "Men and boys must realise that there are other men who want to fight against this. We need to show women that there are men who care."
The young men said the app was created to respect the victim's privacy. "Some people do not feel comfortable to immediately report what happened to them. In this instance, they can be anonymous but the university can be aware this has happened," Semenya said.
Monyebodi said Khwezi would ensure students are able to access counselling from the gender equity office at Wits.
Wits gender equity office director Crystal Dicks said the app was a collaboration between the students and the office and would be implemented fully last year. The information received from the app will be kept anonymously by the office, and if or when the students decide to open a case and will assist to draft a statement.
First-year students who spoke to Sowetan on Monday responded positively to the app. Lesego Mashego, 19, said: "It will help us a lot. If it's anonymous then it will allow me to be brave because no one can judge me. Even if I won't lay a case, the university will be aware that this happened."
Kutlwanwo Malekutu, 20, said it would help to know where the hotspots for sexual assaults are to remain vigilant.
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Perhaps some of you have heard about the word 'investment'. Especially today that we have more and more investment products offered. You also might have heard often: 'let's save some money for investment', yet you don't know how to start, when the right time is and how much you might need to spend on investment.
However, before investing, there are few things need to be done for the investment to reach its maximum. As investment is intended for a long-term, you better not invest with an intention to maximize your cash when you still have plenty of other needs to pay. As when it happens you might need to liquidate your investment in a wrong time in order to cover those needs, and you might lose.
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Discipline yourself in making a monthly budget, in order to make your cashflow to be positive and efficient. If the cash flow is still minus/deficit then look further which post hasn't been done correctly and efficiently and make an action in order to fix it. Any expenses that can be categorized as 'primary needs' have to be prioritized before doing other expense that have less importance. By making monthly budget, you will know precisely how much you will have to spend every month and therefore becoming more discipline by only purchasing those on the budget.
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What means by debt here is consumptive debt that usually come with high interest, such as credit card debt and 'Kredit Tanpa Agunan'. Pay with full amount those debt every month is the best way to avoid the high interest, as the minimum payment does not cover the high interest.
3) Building emergency fund
Emergency fund is needed in the case of emergency: sickness, job termination, accident, death, natural disaster, etc. A family with children has to prepare at least 6 times their expenses. A family with 3 children has to prepare at least 9 to 12 times their expenses.
For a single mother, the emergency fund that is need to be prepared is bigger, minimum about 9 x expenses for 1 child, and 12 x her expenses for 2 children.
Do not invest before the emergency fund is 1/3 from the amount that needs to be prepared. Emergency fund has to be liquid, such as cash and deposit. In certain cases it can also be placed in money market mutual funds and also by purchasing Gold (Logam Mulia). This fund needs to be quickly accessible, so that it can be liquidate in case of emergency. Therefore, property and stocks is not recommended.
4) Having protection
If you have a family, it is a must to have a protection in case of something that does not allow you to support your family members anymore. However, many of us do not know how much is the value needed. The amount of Insurance coverage is the amount we need until the dependent children can have their financial independence. If currently your child is 5 years old, and will be financially independent at around 23 years old, then you have to have a protection that supports your child's 18 years of life. Insurance is a protection, not an investment; therefore it is best to separate between insurance product and investment product. Investment is to be done separately with insurance; it has lower cost and bigger return.
5) Understanding Investment
After completing the above mentioned 4 steps, you can start investing. As the cost of living is increasing every year including the cost of education for the children, therefore saving is not enough to cover the high inflation. Investment will be a mediation to fulfill your financial needs in the future. Choose investment products by considering the following points:
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By the time of your retirement, how comfortable will it be if you are still be able to live the lifestyle you've had when you were still earning monthly income/salary, and when your retirement is not your children's burden. These are the targets you need to think of from now, for you to have the guidance when taking financial steps to make your family secured and have comfortable life. Every step you're taking now can affect the life of the people you love the most: your family, for a brighter and comfortable future.
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The trader and fabricator live in centers that we call cities.
Would a symbolist then signify a fabricator of masterpieces?
Smith's versatility as a fabricator seems to give him a leading place in that respect in the record of mankind.
What puzzled Philip was that this fabricator of "stories" for the newspaper should call himself a "realist."
Her character, whether drawn by herself or some fabricator who wrote in her name, comes out clearly in the correspondence.
The man is great in his own eyes—this scrutinizer of Majesty and fabricator of heresies.
But a naturalist of the highest order, the famous Cuvier, has perhaps done an act of justice to this fabricator of animals.
Nevertheless, there was something taking, to my imagination, in the notion of being the fabricator of my own fortune.
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During the early history of Virginia, Yorktown was a place of much commercial importance, and there are again anticipations of a magnificent future for this dilapidated and desolated village.
Madeline had gone to bed that Sunday night after her meeting with Ted in the woods, full of the happiest kind of anticipations and shy, foolish, impossible dreams.
Prof.A. C. Seward discuss Prichard's "anticipations" in _More Letters of C.arles Darwin_, Vol. _I. _ p. 43, and come to the conclusion that the evolutionary passages are entirely neutralised by others of an opposite trend.
In truth he was so afraid of assumptions and "anticipations" and prejudices -- his great bugbear was so much the "_intellectus sibi permissus_" the mind given liberty to guess and imagine and theorise, instead of, as it ought, absolutely and servilely submitting itself to the control of facts -- that he missed the true place of the rational and formative element in his account of Induction.
"I am glad you find them so," continued Tom; "but your anticipations are a little too rapid, and your imagination rather too vivid for my proceeding; however, there is no knowing what we may come to; life is a labyrinth full of turnings and windings.
Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)
"anticipations" for the institute was the concern that the members of the institute would not exactly "gel" very well.
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And when you listen to the Eighth and the Ninth, you hear anticipations of Alban Berg and further things that you will find again in Stravinsky and in Messaien, and which you also find again in John Adams.
The inclosed account will show you that the advances we have made were not warranted by the sale, & that the demand has not been equal to our anticipations.
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Over the past couple of weeks, my heart rate has been on permanent high… running from meeting to meeting, fingers crossed, wishing and hoping…
I'm full of nervous energy with one more big transition to come, but within it… I'm also beginning to eek out a sliver of peace.
I hesitate to say it out loud… but I can almost feel us beginning to turn a corner. One that's been just out of reach for a very long time.
2014 was a very hard year for us. In some ways, it was the most rewarding year we've had, but it was also a struggle.
After a year of what ifs and maybes, I'm so ready for that corner and the wide world ahead that it hurts. Just that sliver of peace on its own is much more than I've had in some time.
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We find №4 near the start of Lavrushinsky pereulok on the even-numbered side – adorned with a portico. It's a mansion building from the early C19th. Within the courtyard here, tucked away behind some fencing, we get a glimpse of some ancient white-coloured two-storeyed chambers. These days they are used as store-rooms for the Tretyakov Gallery. In fact the Tretyakov owns all the buildings on the even-numbered side of Lavrushinsky pereulok.
Behind the spruce tree on the opposite side of the street here we see a red-brick building with large arched windows.
Historians suggest that these ancient chambers on Lavrushkinsky pereulok were built during the time of the Streltsy, or Sharpshooter Uprising in the 1680-90s – when many locals had fled the area. In the latter C18th some wine-merchant named Andronov. Members of the First Guild of Merchants, used the chambers as wine-cellars, and considerably expanded the premises. The two-storey mansion with a four-columned Tuscan portico was built in 1821. The chambers have been used since 1994 as the premises of the Security Guard service of the Tretyakov Gallery.
The territories of historical district Zamoskvorechye lie on the right (southern) bank of the Moskva River. They joined Moscow in the 14th century when Russian lands used to suffer from the Golden Horde raids. The settlers mainly were soldiers, handicraftsmen and merchants. Their life was organized in a patchwork sloboda system. In 1591-1592 during the reign of Feodor I the fortified wall on the site of the present-day Garden Ring was built. Even now, one can easily understand from the street names what occupation the residents had centuries ago. For example, royal garden attendants (садовники, sadovniki) settled in the beginning of present-day Sadovnicheskaya Street from 1495 until the fire of 1701; tanners specializing in sheepskin (oвчинники, ovchinniki) gave their name to Ovchinnikovsky Lanes; royal mint workers (монетчики, monetchiki) – to Monetchikovsky Lanes, Court translators (толмачи, tolmachi) to Tolmachevsky Lanes. Bolshaya Ordynka Street was named after Orda, was the road to the Golden Horde, and was initially home to the Tatar community.
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There is also the house and museum of another famous Russian businessman and patron of art - Bakhrushin museum of theater, built in 1896.
Famous Russian writer Alexander Ostrovsky also lived in Zamoskvorechye, in Malaya Ordynka street. If you like his works you can visit his house-museum.
Zamoskvorechye is famous for its churches: Church of St. Sophia Of God's Wisdom on Gardener's Island and its belfry, Church of St. George the Victorious in Endova, The Church of the Ikon "the Joy of All Who Suffer", The Church of St Nicholas at Pyzhakh, etc. Each of them has its own history and mystery.
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There's a Go Red For Women event at the Queen Ka`ahumanu Center this Friday, Feb. 3. It's presented by American Heart Association's Maui Go Red For Women crew and all attendees are urged to wear red as part of "National Wear Red Day." Help raise awareness of women and heart disease during American Heart Month. There'll also be entertainment, speakers and a chance to win a $50 QKC gift basket. Free. 6pm. Queen Ka`ahumanu Center, (275 W. Ka`ahumanu Ave., Kahului); 808-877-3369; Queenkaahumanucenter.com
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It was supposed to be as secure as a bank vault: a cryptographic algorithm that would make documents unintelligible to prying eyes for the foreseeable future. But two cryptographers say the vault, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), has a hole in it. Although some of their colleagues are skeptical, the cryptographic community is on edge, wondering whether the new cipher can withstand a future assault.
Two years ago, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) held a competition to select a replacement for the aging Digital Encryption Standard, the national standard for a quarter-century, and arguably the most widely used encryption algorithm in the world. Rijndael, an elegant algorithm created by two Belgians, Vincent Rijmen of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Joan Daemen of Proton World International, a company that makes smart cards, won the contest and became the AES (ScienceNOW, 3 October 2000).
Now, attacks aimed at the heart of Rijndael and other algorithms point to a possible weakness. Cryptographers Nicolas Courtois, who works for technology corporation SchlumbergerSema in Louveciennes, France, and Josef Pieprzyk of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, rewrote crucial elements of AES with small systems of equations. This and other simplifications allowed Courtois and Pieprzyk, they believe, to generate an attack on AES of order 2100: That is, it takes roughly 2100 operations to crack the cipher, significantly less than the 2128 to 2256 operations needed to try every combination. They will present their latest findings in December at the Asiacrypt 2002 conference.
"It's nerve-wracking for me that this stuff is going on," says William Burr, the manager of the Security Technology group at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland. However, it might take cryptographers years to determine whether an attack would succeed--Don Coppersmith, a cryptographer with IBM in Yorktown, New York, and one of the designers of DES, claims to have found a flaw in the analysis, though Courtois says the criticism does not apply to the latest version of the attack. The only way to prove that the new algorithm works, Courtois says, is to use it to crack AES--and computers aren't up to the job yet.
Related sites
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Week #11 has arrived with this Winter anime season. What's in store this week?!
As always I'm live reacting (though typing it out to be posted later) to each episode I watch and going over what happens in each episode with the occasional quip and joke here and there. So for those trying to avoid spoilers, this entire article is full of them!
Electric Mayo has a big concert coming up and the three girls are all psyched for it. It's a part of a huge festival in Akibahara. It appears someone is ruining everything they can claiming Electric Mayo is behind it. The vigilantes come and arrest them all for whatever crimes they've totally done. They manage to "barely" get out of it and claim to be off to catch the fakes that actually did this. They find the fakes at the concert stage littering it up and they start fighting, Matome having the most trouble, the fake her slashing most of her clothes off. But the two defeat theirs and help Matome until she disappears and it's revealed she does look exactly like Matome. Now on the day of the festival and it's concert time! But it's shut down before it starts, the festival cancelled because politicians once again want to destroy otaku culture. Later, Tamotsu gets what I'm sure is a fake call from Matome to lure him away. She suddenly kisses him upon arrival, draining his power and leaves him to die in the river below.
- Two Matomes? I'm in heaven!
- A enemy that actually has power and can beat them? Only goes to show how pointless the episodic villains have been
Episode Score: 3.5/5
The girls and Tetsuo organize a meeting on the weekend to try and figure out how specifically Hikari and Yuki can get through the hot summer as both of them struggle as it is in the spring. The vice-principal approaches him however, reminding him that he's to take care of human students too. Two boys stick up for him, but the fuckhead ain't having any of it, claiming he's trying too hard and causing the girls to rely on him too much, to the point there's a risk of him being the only one they'll ever approach. But the one boy is convinced that even if they stopped relying on him, not many would help them. Then with the two bullies from the beginning of the season, talks about discrimination begin. Great, we're getting serious talk now. Though she has a point in that why would the girls go to anyone else when Tetsuo treats them like demis, whereas the students are treating them like humans, in a way almost discriminatory to them, because they're not thinking about the unique traits these demi girls have. So in fact, it might not be that Tetsuo is trying too hard, he's not trying at all, because he's not focusing on anything other than helping them. But the talk really got to him and he tries to brush the girls off when they ask about their summer plan. Yuki wonders if they've maybe been taking advantage of him a little too often. So the girls turn to Sakie to see if she knows anything. Along the way though, she hears from one of the boys about what happened with Tetsuo and the VP. The girls intend to stick to their guns though and help Tetsuo cheer up. Speaking of, because he's in that train of thought, he wonders if maybe he's messed up by not allowing the girls to learn on their own. He gets a video sent to his phone where the girls thank him and tell him what they've done for him. Hikari catches him crying after watching the video and tells him in person how she feels, since she doesn't in the video. He talks with the VP the next day and he's told everything should be back to normal. Why? The girls are finally talking with others, through Tetsuo's efforts.
- A real interesting, thought-provoking episode that went a little bit into racism and discrimination
- The video section was way too long
Episode Score: 4/5
All right, let the frustration begins with the emotional episode. Koyuki senses something is wrong, but Yuu is keeping this very close to himself. The remaining members get together and reveal that for them, this was more of an escape than anything else. Kazuya's out and super pissed off at Yuu. Speaking of pissed off, Fuuka's starting her new solo career. Sara is now suddenly taking the chance of subbing for a band and Makoto is planning on returning home. That just leaves Yuu, who gets a visit from Koyuki. She knows something's happened and that's when the truth comes out. But then Koyuki pushes forward, wanting him to play with her now and she makes her move on him, but it's clear that he doesn't love her in that way and that it must be Fuuka he loves, even if he doesn't know it. But seriously, is it really goodbye between the two of them? Childhood friends, my ass! This suddenly kickstarts Yuu and it appears he's writing music. The next day, everyone's doing their own thing now, but Yuu's around wanting to get everyone back together, but it appears it's too late. However he leaves them all with a CD of a song he wrote, hoping it'll change their minds, but we're left to assume it's not changing anything and he's just making it harder. Naturally, this just leaves Fuuka, but she doesn't answer, just leaving the CD in her mail, while she's standing right there behind the door. He requested they all listen and if they changed their minds, to join him on Saturday in the place they always were at together. Sara arrives first. Makoto is second. Kazuya is third. So that of course leaves a certain girl. She doesn't show, but they practice, waiting for the day she does. He meets Koyuki later on, so it appears they're not completely gone from each other, but it seems she's at least come to terms with things now.
- The ecchi was on point this week, holy shit!
- Other than that, this episode pissed me off, I never get into this emotional episodes, they're very boring and illogical
- Fuuka is behaving like a child, Koyuki just went from childhood friend to a tad bit slutty and everyone else in one fell swoop just gave up…how am I supposed to like these characters?
Episode Score: 3/5
Oh no! Satania's enemy stray dog got picked up for the pound. Apparently she doesn't totally hate him and runs after the truck and rescues him. However there's a problem still, the dog can't stay at her apartment. She goes on her own to find a place for the dog to live and it appears she and the dog are actually getting along. The girls (well, minus Gabriel) show up to stop her when Satania suddenly gets the call from the apartment owner about letting pets stay there now. Turns out the cafe owner also owns the apartment and Gabriel convinced him to allow Satania's dog to stay. Meanwhile we see Tapris is back, returning to the human world when her school is on vacation. She tries to learn computers and the internet to help Tenma finish playing faster so she can clean and cook. She goes real, real dumb trying to teach herself, to the point she knows how to code more than using an actual computer. When the other girls come over, Tapris is still very uneasy around Vignette. They're having a takoyaki party. It actually goes without a hitch, even after Satania shows up. Wow.
- D'awww! Satania's got a friend!
- Tapris was freaking adorable this week
- Nothing to report, nothing too special about this episode either though.
Episode Score: 4/5
It's Christmas time and the people are asking Tohru to put on a show for everyone. The others want to help, but Kobayashi is busy. Well Fafnir is never impressed and Elma's a tough sell when it involves Tohru. Riko ends up suggesting a play and that's what they go with. Fafnir's directing and it fails, so Lucoa tries. And by tries, I mean an excuse to dress up Shouta like a girl, so that failed. Elma takes a chance now and suggests Kanna take the lead, which Riko naturally likes the idea of it. Because it's Christmas, Kanna hears things from Riko about Santa Claus and the questions begin. Naturally, once they start writing the script, it gets way out of hand. Come show time, it's of course beyond out of control for an elderly audience, with magical girls, literal fire, ronin and a half-dragon Tohru. But everyone seems to enjoy it, so Kobayashi calms down and let's it be. They party afterwards to celebrate and yes Kobayashi gets drunk again.
- Another super cute episode
- Got a little more interest into Elma this week, which I sorely needed
- The play was ridiculous and I loved it
- Nothing to complain about
Episode Score: 4.5/5
The group is running away from the Axis mob and try to escape into the church, but they're not being allowed in, so they use Lalatina and her family lineage to get in, being a lord's daughter and all. Sure enough though, the water actually is being contaminated and that angry guy from the last couple episodes is there, he's the one poisoning the springs and Wiz recognizes him as Hans, calling him a deadly poison slime. It's inevitable, a battle with a third member of the Devil King's army will take place. Once he understands how serious it is, he runs and the others follow. However, the mob is in the other direction too, they're in real trouble now. However, upon going back, Wiz's "treaty" with the Devil King and his army is broken when Hans reveals he ate and killed the overseer of the Axis church, the only part of the treaty being that so long as no one in the Devil King's army killed non-combatants, she wouldn't interfere. So it's okay for her to utterly destroy him and she changes completely and so does the slime. Darkness is in love. The followers see the truth and try to help Aqua while she tries to purify the springs. Needing to make him smaller for Wiz to freeze, Kazuma hatches a plan. He sacrifices himself (for death number…I don't know anymore…) in a gorge to trap him, Megumin blows him to pieces with Explosion and Wiz freezes what is left. But it's not over, a tiny bit of slimes remains…for Aqua to very angrily finish off with a legitimately pissed off God Blow and Requiem. Hilariously, it purifies all the hot springs, so technically the Devil King won by cutting off the Axis' income. So they return home.
- Wiz was a badass here!
- A fun final battle
- I'm really pissed off this show's only 10 episodes again this season, it ends so suddenly and had room to go a little further
Episode Score: 3.5/5
So the battle begins for Aki's affection, without her permission. Tae is taking this so seriously to the point she's driving Kojuurou away. He runs into Neko after escaping from rehearsal. Wait…THE BIG DAY'S TOMORROW?!!! Also, the anime points to Kojuurou falling for Neko now, good for him, now everyone can dream about the two scissoring. Gasou continues to make his way closer with her and then we learn the truth, he isn't a childhood friend, he was mistaken for the real Masamune and is using this as his chance at wealth, as his family is poor. The day of the festival arrive and Masamune has a cold, so matters are even worse for his class. He tries to rest before his show, but Neko gets a hold of him, however it's to help him rest because she sensed he was sick. It seems Aki's friends plan to sabotage things with Masamune while Gasou is being lead away by someone in the old lady costume. Are they actually going to have Kojuurou and Aki do this together?! But first, he has the chance to talk with Neko again and try to be a man. They both go to see Masamune after and he's vanished, kidnapped and locked in a room with the kendo girl. However, Gasou is also gone and it's obvious Yoshino got involved. Back with Masamune, kendo girl reveals her motivations for protecting Aki, that being she idolizes Aki for having the courage to say no to men. Masamune turns things around on her however before anything comes of it, the main girl calls, wanting a truce, but he's not playing with them now. She attacks him after finding out about Gasou but fails miserably. So he escapes and finds out they're doing the play anyway without Gasou.
- Kendo girl (Kikuon) is awesome!
- I don't know how they're going to wrap this up in one episode, there's no way without there being a second season
Episode Score: 3.5/5
With Ruka now taking things seriously, Trois and Honey understand what's going on and tells Jyugo and Uno to get out of there. But Jyugo comes back in his dark form and the fight shifts to him and Ruka. Even crazier, he takes the wind of Ruka's attacks and is able to infuse it into the blade, seemingly destroying Ruka. Meanwhile it appears Enki is preparing to kill Jyugo, as he keeps referring to a monster and we know that name belongs to one person. Then out of nowhere, we finally see Hajime with Samon after being gone for a while! They're just talking. Back with the boys, those two guards are back to normal and back to guard attitudes, not listening to the inmates. Once again, Trois and Honey take the front and the other two run, but Uno gets chained by a returning Ruka. Now Jyugo is going down to the final floor on his own. The three together now plan to escape and rescue Kiji along the way.
- Finally getting Hajime back, albeit for five seconds
- The episode was nowhere near as exciting as last week AND I'm pretty sure it was buggy on Crunchyroll, kept freezing every minute, so man was it a pain to get through
Episode Score: 3.5/5
The mission continues as the Empire draws the Republic forces into their trap. However the politicians are believing that everything that's happening is killing them, however the generals are keeping their trap mission close to the chest until it's revealed to be a success, much to Tanya's happiness. Now all that's left is to deal with the soldiers remaining…so they bomb them with a fuckload of TNT underneath the ground. Another day, Tanya's forces are on a submarine when they hear the news about the success. They truly believe the war is nearly over now, but with Being X still watching over Tanya, you have to wonder. Their final mission yet though is a horrifying success and Tanya's group have orders to just clear out the stragglers that managed to survive. Tanya is anticipating peace, but knows it's not over yet and upon that thought they have orders to deal with an unknown force…and it's the one if I'm remembering correctly is headed by Viktoriya's father.
- More horrific imagery from a wartime setting
- Another episode that just didn't do anything for me, 20 minutes of success and 1 minute of not success isn't all that interesting
Episode Score: 3/5


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''[[Jack and the Beanstalk]]'' is an old English fairy tale, often dramatized.
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Jack and the Beanstalk is an old English fairy tale, often dramatized.
The original story
Adaptations for the stage
English versions
A South African version by Michelle Botha and Thomas Barlow. One-act. Cast: mixed (for Children).
Done in South Africa by Children's Theatre in 1984, with Michael Brunner, **.
Other versions done in South Africa include a pantomime by Janice Honeyman and Ralph Trewhela and a production written and directed by Glynn Day, performed in the Baxter Studio in 1986, starring John Dennison, Pippa Duffy, Joey Wishnia and Patrick Walton. (Chad Abrahams, James Plaatjies, Annette Hamilton, Liana Collet, Bronwyn van Graan, Matthew Roberts??).
Peter Noble as Jack 26.6.1992 (NELM:[Collection: FLETCHER, Jill]: 2005. 75. 19. 49).
A puppet play version by Teatro Dei Piccolo ('Theatre of the Little People') and Keith Anderson.
Another version was staged by the People's Theatre in June 1999 as their first production in the new Thabong Theatre at The Civic, directed by Jill Girard and Keith Smith, with Isadora Verwey, Francois Theron, Izak Taljaard, Vicky Friedman, Rochelle Palm, Grete Lochner, Warren Arends and Hinor Shushan.
Staged in December 2003 in the Nelson Mandela Theatre at The Civic as a pantomime, written and directed by Janice Honeyman, with Francois Schreuder, Val Donald Bell, Tobie Cronjé, Basil Appollis, Tessa Denton, Bronwyn Evans, Philip Godawa, Jeffrey Sebogodi, Byron-Lee Olivato and James van Helsdingen.
Afrikaans translations
Jan en die Boontjierank("Jack and the beanstalk") by Janice Honeyman. Afrikaans translation by Nerina Ferreira. Pantomime. Cast: mixed. Another version by Michelle Botha and Thomas Barlow. One-act. Children's play.
Jan en die Boontjierank, text by Francois Toerien, 2006.
Performance history in South Africa
Francois Swart's pantomime for PACT, 1991, with Antoinette Kellermann and Henriëtta Gryffenberg.
Francois Toerien's text presented by the University of Stellenbosch Drama Department, directed by Toerien, starring Roeline Daneel, Mbulelo Ntlanga, Philip Lotz, Andrea Winckler and others, 2006.
Translations and adaptations
Jan en die Boontjierank (poppespel). An Afrikaans arrangement by Tine Balder from the English nursery-tale as written down by Joseph Jacobs, and directed by her for UTS in 1967 and then for SUKOVS, opening on 29 June 1968 at the Stadskouburg in Bloemfontein. Cast: Paul Eilers, Rentia Human, Johan Botha, Mees Xteen, Maryann Johnston.
Teater SA, 1(1), 1968.
PACT Info, (1) and (2), 1992.
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Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987.
The Citizen, 23 June 1999.
The Citizen, 11 November 2003.
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Closed 9 years ago
#1415 closed task (fixed (in v4))
Create OF_GOOD to distinguish high-level wearables
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We've been struggling for years with the fact that a small number of armours and weapons are in a different class from most base items. These include DSMs, Blades of Chaos, Scythes of Slicing, Maces of Disruption, and Elven Cloaks.
The proposal is to give these items OF_GOOD in object.txt, enabling us to test for this flag elsewhere in the code (e.g. squelching).
Change History (6)
comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by magnate
- Milestone changed from Triage to Future
- Status changed from new to confirmed
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by magnate
This ticket also includes removing the hackish kind_is_good() in obj-make.c
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by magnate
- Milestone changed from Future to 3.4.0
- Owner set to magnate
- Status changed from confirmed to pending
These are all done (or at least underway) in http://github.com/magnate/angband/tree/affixes.
comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by magnate
- Keywords items,affixes added; items removed
This ticket is addressed in (or enabled by) https://github.com/angband/angband/pull/94
comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by magnate
- Milestone changed from 3.4.0 to 4.0
Initial assignment to v4 per http://trac.rephial.org/roadmap
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Forty-five students from 2nd and 3rd year of the Senior High School of 1 Bandung, Indonesia, visited Japan on a "Culture Mission". The Indonesian Embassy invited them to come to our Ikebukuro Campus on the 12th March.
During the visit, we presented ISI Japanese Language School in English to them and one of our Indonesian students from Takadanobaba Campus made a presentation in Indonesian about his experience in Japan as an international student. After learning, also in English, about one of our vocational schools, TBL, all the students had lunch together at the Ikebukuro Campus.
The students paid attention carefully to the presentations and made a lot of questions regarding ISI Group. During lunch time, they also had the chance to enjoy their time talking with our Indonesian student in Indonesian. Furthermore, we received a very special present from the teachers at Bandung as a souvenir from their visit.
We also took a chance to present our Summer Course 2018 held in our Kyoto Campus as well as guidance of short-term and long-term courses applications. We were very happy to see and hear the interest they showed. We are sure we will see them very soon and we parted ways after high-fiving.
We look forward to seeing them again at ISI Japanese Language School in the near future!


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One of the most elusive and sought after coral is the Sun Coral (Tubastrea). This splendid life form is very sought after by reef enthusiasts throughout the world, and is one of the most popular corals within the LPS (Large Polyp Stony Coral) category, which also includes Favites, Dendrophyllia and Goniopora Coral.
In the wild, the Tubastrea Coral is found on reef ledges or steep reef slopes. It is a colonial coral with a rich sunny yellow coloration when open and its central skeleton is round with tubes branching off in all directions.
The Sun Coral has an uncanny resemblance to its popular cousin, the Dendro Coral, but it is important to note that the Sun Coral and the Dendro Coral are totally different species. There are three key differences between the Sun and the Dendro Coral, which are:
1. The Dendro's tentacle/ polyps are more often than not extended during the day while the Sun Coral's are not.
2. The Sun Corals polyp size is significant smaller than that of the Dendro Coral.
3. The two different species of corals have very diverse colony growth patterns.
The Sun Coral comes in a variety of colorful shades of orange and yellow, making it a visual delight. This coral does not have any symbiotic algae residing within its tissue therefore it is 100% dependent upon direct target feeding. It is important to feed your Sun Coral 3 to 4 times a day and provide a delicate diet mixture of mysis shrimp (just the liquid from the shrimp) no actual shrimp, fish eggs and sea food morsels. Ideally, one should defrost the mysis shrimp in saltwater and then using a turkey baster gently blow the liquid around the Sun Coral. By providing your Sun Coral a consistent diet, you should see your coral thriving in no time.
The Sun Coral is a stunning daisy-bright beauty, that tenderly swaying its polyps back and forth in a trance like motion, captivating and calming the sense. This makes this coral an ideal LPS coral for the deepest zones of your reef aquarium.


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Sixteen year-old Gabby Douglas has become a worldwide star since winning the Olympic all-around title in London, the first African-American gymnast to claim gymnastics' biggest prize. And now she has earned another honor. Douglas was selected The Associated Press' female athlete of the year, edging out swimmer Missy Franklin in a vote by U.S. editors and news directors that was announced Friday.
"I didn't realize how much of an impact I made," said Douglas, who turns 17 on Dec. 31.
In a year filled with standout performances by female athletes, those Douglas shined brightest. Douglas received 48 of 157 votes, seven more than Franklin, who won four gold medals and a bronze in London. Serena Williams, who won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open two years after her career was nearly derailed by a series of health problems, was third (24).
Britney Griner, who led Baylor to a 40-0 record and the NCAA title, and skier Lindsey Vonn each got 18 votes. Sprinter Allyson Felix, who won three gold medals in London, and Carli Lloyd, who scored both U.S. goals in the Americans' 2-1 victory over Japan in the gold-medal game, also received votes.
Douglas is the fourth gymnast to win one of the AP's annual awards, which began in 1931, and first since Mary Lou Retton in 1984. She also finished 15th in voting for the AP sports story of the year.
What a difference a year makes. Douglas wasn't even in the conversation for the Olympic title at the beginning of the year. That all changed in March when she upstaged reigning world champion and teammate Jordyn Wieber at the American Cup in New York, showing off a new vault, an ungraded uneven bars routine and a dazzling personality.
By the time the Americans got to London, Douglas had emerged as the most consistent gymnast on what was arguably the best team the U.S. has ever had.
She posted the team's highest score on all but one event in qualifying. She was the only gymnast to compete in all four events during team finals, when the Americans beat the Russians in a rout for their second Olympic title, and first since 1996. Two nights later, Douglas claimed the grandest prize of all, joining Retton, Carly Patterson and Nastia Liukin as what Bela Karolyi likes to call the "Queen of Gymnastics."
But while plenty of other athletes won gold medals in London, none captivated the public quite like Gabby.
Fans ask for hugs in addition to photographs and autographs, and people have left restaurants and cars upon spotting her. She made Barbara Walters' list of "10 Most Fascinating People," and Forbes recently named her one of its "30 Under 30." She has deals with Nike, Kellogg Co. and AT&T, and agent Sheryl Shade said Douglas has drawn interest from companies that don't traditionally partner with Olympians or athletes.
Douglas' story is both heartwarming and inspiring, its message applicable those young or old, male or female, active or couch potato. She was just 14 when she convinced her mother to let her leave their Virginia Beach, Va., home and move to West Des Moines, Iowa, to train with Liang Chow, Shawn Johnson's coach. Though her host parents, Travis and Missy Parton, treated Douglas as if she was their fifth daughter, Douglas was so homesick she considered quitting gymnastics.
She's also been open about her family's financial struggles, hoping she can be a role model for lower income children.
"I want people to think, `Gabby can do it, I can do it,"' Douglas said. "Set that bar. If you're going through struggles or injuries, don't let it stop you from what you want to accomplish."
The grace she showed under pressure – both on and off the floor – added to her appeal. When some fans criticized the way she wore her hair during the Olympics, Douglas simply laughed it off.
"They can say whatever they want. We all have a voice," she said. "I'm not going to focus on it. I'm not really going to focus on the negative."
Besides, she's having far too much fun.
Her autobiography, "Grace, Gold and Glory," is No. 4 on the New York Times' young adult list. She, Wieber and Fierce Five teammates Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney recently wrapped up a 40-city gymnastics tour. She met President Barack Obama last month with the rest of the Fierce Five, and left the White House with a souvenir.
Though her busy schedule hasn't left time to train, Douglas insists she still intends to compete through the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016.
No female Olympic champion has gone on to compete at the next Summer Games since Nadia Comaneci. But Douglas is still a relative newcomer to the elite scene – she'd done all of four international events before the Olympics – and Chow has said she hasn't come close to reaching her full potential. She keeps up with Chow through email and text messages, and plans to return to Iowa after her schedule clears up in the spring.
Of course, plenty of other athletes have said similar things and never made it back to the gym. But Douglas is determined, and she gets giddy just talking about getting a new floor routine.
"I think there's even higher bars to set," she said.
Because while being an Olympic champion may have changed her life, it hasn't changed her.
"I may be meeting cool celebrities and I'm getting amazing opportunities," she said. "But I'm still the same Gabby."
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