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Ash chair with armrests
Fabric, Ash
Lisboa is a new archetype for the contract market given its versatility and ease of use. Lisboa is a modern update on the old model that took inspiration from Mediterranean folk tradition. With its smart, essential lines, the seat is strictly woven by hand with synthetic cord.
Lisboa is a light chair (less than 2. 5 kg) that is also robust and long lasting, able to withstand the type of stress and intense use common in contract environments. Thanks to the many different possibilities—an impressive 90—in terms of the colour combinations of the cord used for the seat, Lisboa offers a wide range of solutions for different environments, from classic understated black and white to a more fun "pop" version featuring contrasting hues.
Lisboa is also available in an outdoor version created in treated oak meant for outdoor use, even in covered outdoor areas.
Dining chair in ash wood, seat in handwoven artificial rope, in one or two colors; now also available in a version with armrests and with upholstered seat and backrest.


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The unusually chilly temps have temporarily put my seasonal watermelon obsession on hold in favor of comfort foods. Monday's baked beans were pretty fantastic on their own, but I thought I'd take them to a whole new level of deliciousness and serve them with some vegan and gluten-free cornbread.
My very first post on this blog was actually for a simple vegan cornbread, so it holds a special place in my heart. That, and I cringe a little when I look back at the photography. It was by no means bad, but I like to think I've made some progress over the last eight months. It's also a little awkward to re-read my posts for some reason. Kind of like finding an old diary? I don't know. Hopefully I'm the only one who feels embarrassed for me.
Anyway, I love that original cornbread recipe, but I really wanted to take on the challenge of creating a gluten-free cornbread version. Plus, I had a big bag of unopened garbanzo bean flour just begging to be used. I knew that tasting the batter pre-bake wouldn't be an indication of how the recipe was going to turn out (gluten-free flours tend to taste awful!), so I simply crossed my fingers, put the pan in the oven, and ate a small bowl of baked beans while I waited. A pre-dinner meal, if you will.
I am so happy I got over my fear of gluten-free flours because I think this cornbread may have turned out even better than the whole wheat version! It's fluffy, yet dense enough to be satisfying, slightly sweet, and it holds together really well — a major accomplishment for gluten-free, vegan baking. Considering this cornbread recipe takes just a few minutes to pull together and only requires minimal dish-washing, I definitely see this being on regular rotation.
- 2 flax eggs (2 tablespoons ground flax, 6 tablespoons warm water)
- ½ cup gluten-free all-purpose flour
- ½ cup garbanzo bean flour
- 1 cup finely ground cornmeal
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon xanthan gum
- ¾ teaspoon sea salt
- ¼ cup organic cane sugar
- 1 cup plain non-dairy milk (I used unsweetened almond milk)
- ¼ cup coconut oil, melted, plus extra for greasing the pan
- Pre-heat the oven to 425 degrees F.
- Lightly grease an 8-inch-square baking dish with coconut oil.
- Combine the ground flax seeds and water to make 'flax eggs'. Stir and set aside for a couple of minutes to thicken.
- In a large bowl, combine the gluten-free all-purpose flour, garbanzo bean flour, cornmeal, baking powder, xanthan gum, and sea salt.
- Add the 'flax eggs', sugar, non-dairy milk, and coconut oil to the dry ingredients. Whisk until combined.
- Transfer the batter to your prepared baking pan and bake for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Allow to cool slightly, cut into pieces, and serve!

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We've been in head-down mode for a while now – what with the big show only 10 days away, and the official release just a week after that – so hopefully you can forgive us for being a tad singleminded. It's just that we're still in a bit of shock that this actually happening – that an essentially evil media MegaCorp(TM) took our strange multi-colored bait, swallowed it whole like a 70's housewife, and carved a handsome nook for us in its sulphurous belly (a gut already crammed to the bursting with enough junk food to trigger corporate colon polyps of the most cancerous ilk).
And now, very slowly, the waves start to sweep in. It begins like this. Whisperings on the horizon. Little rollers. Soft spills of seafoam…
I'm both excited for and sleepless over looming assessments. I'm an approval-whore that way. So sue me.
More soon, baboons – hope you dug the mailer, and can't wait to shake your many hands and fill your collective totes in San Diego and Chi-town!
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The Progress rocket and space center in Samara in the Volga area will provide for the launch of over 600 small satellites in 2017-2019 under a contract with France's Arianespace, with contractual work to start from 2016, Progress First Deputy Chief Designer Alexander Storozh said on Friday.
"In 2017-2019, we are committed to provide for the launch of 21 Soyuz carrier rockets from the Baikonur and Kourou cosmodromes in 2017-2019. Overall, more than 600 small spacecraft will be orbited. We hope to start work in 2016 and now only a contract has been signed and no funds have come yet under it," Storozh said.
Under the contract for the production, delivery and preparation of 21 carrier rockets for launch, the Samara space rocket manufacturer will perform a whole range of design works, including the work to determine the scheme of satellite arrangement, considering that each carrier rocket will orbit over 30 satellites at once.
The sum of the contract was not disclosed.
Previous reports said satellites to be orbited under a contract with Arianespace will be designed to provide high-speed access to the Internet in rural areas across the world.
Arianespace is the French company and the first commercial operator to engage in space carriages. It produces, operates and sells the Ariane-5 carrier rocket.
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Wray Village Website
Wray Scarecrow festival Race Results 2014
|wednesday, march 26 - 2014 HOMEPAGE
Frank Gretton is the caretaker and will take all the bookings.
Email Frank or 01524222311(answerphone)
Publications about the village:
The Wray Flood of 1967 - memories of a Lune Valley Community A book written by a local historian with information from local residents
click here to visit Lulu and buy online. (Link will open in new window)
Wray and District Remembered by David Kenyon
David's phone number is 015242 21668
David Kenyon, Kenmoor, School Lane, Wray, Lancaster. LA2 8QE
The book costs £15 plus p&p
TalkSport Here
BBC London Here
Tatham and Wray census 1841-1901 thanks Richard
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Regent (N41)
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|Vickers (Barrow)
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|Mined in the Strait of Taranto 18th April 1943.
Roll of Honour
|J Atkinson
|Able Seaman
|A Backhouse
|Able Seaman
|R Baker
|Weapons Engineer
|S Bayliss
|Petty Officer
|R Brown
|Stoker 1st Class
|R Clifford
|Chief Petty Officer
|E Compton
|Leading Stoker
|S Cox
|J Culham
|H Dewhurst
|Able Seaman
|G Ellis
|Petty Officer
|R Fernie
|P Foxhall
|Able Seaman
|L Gee
|Leading Stoker
|P Gibson
|C Grounsell
|Able Seaman
|V Harding
|Petty Officer
|R Harvey
|Able Seaman
|A Hewitt
|Able Seaman
|T Hitchcock
|Leading Telegraphist
|W Horton
|Leading Seaman
|R Howell
|Stoker 1st Class
|J Hudson
|Leading Stoker
|A Jones
|Engine Room Artificer 4th Class
|R King
|Able Seaman
|W Knox
|R Lee
|Leading Seaman
|H Leech
|Stoker Petty Officer
|J Lemin
|Stoker Petty Officer
|L Lipscombe
|Able Seaman
|R Lloyd
|Stoker 1st Class
|H Loughran
|Stoker 1st Class
|R Lowis
|Petty Officer
|G Mathews
|Stoker 1st Class
|A Moores
|Leading Stoker
|G Noble
|Engine Room Artificer 4th Class
|J Packer
|Able Seaman
|S Parris
|Engine Room Artificer 4th Class
|J Perry
|Stoker 1st Class
|E Pratt
|Weapons Engineer
|A Rawlings
|Petty Officer
|B Rhodes
|Leading Seaman
|E Russell
|Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class
|S Savage
|Leading Stoker
|G Shoulder
|Able Seaman
|R Skinner
|Able Seaman
|J Taylor
|Leading Stoker
|G Tierney
|Leading Cook
|W Trice
|Chief Engine Room Artificer
|A Turner
|Leading Telegraphist
|S Wentworth
|Able Seaman
|W Wilks
|B Woods
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|11-11-1930 :
|05-10-1940 :
|HMS Regent rams and sinks the already grounded Italian sailing vessel Maria Grazia off Bari, Italy.
|09-10-1940 :
|HMS Regent torpedoes and damages the Italian merchant Antonietta Costa about 20 nautical miles west of Durazzo, Albania.
|15-01-1941 :
|HMS Regent torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Citt� di Messina about 45 nautical miles east of Tripoli, Libya.
|21-02-1941 :
|HMS Regent torpedoes and damages the German merchant Menes about 55 nautical miles north-north-west of Tripoli, Libya. Following this attack Regent is damaged by depth-charges from the Italian destroyer Saetta.
|01-08-1941 :
|HMS Regent sinks the Italian auxiliary minesweeper B 23/Igea with gunfire about 33 nautical miles south of Bengasi.
|01-12-1941 :
|HMS Regent torpedoes and damages the Italian merchant Enrico about 10 nautical miles south-east of Marettimo island, Italy.
|18-04-1943 :
|HMS Regent sailed from Malta on 12 April 1943 to patrol in the southern Adriatic & was mined north of Monopoli. That evening a large explosion was heard in that area, which is believed to have been HMS Regent striking a mine. HMS Regent was reported overdue at Beirut on 1 May 1943. All 53 crew are lost.
Post mortem on some bodies wearing British uniforms which were washed ashore between Brindisi and Otranto during April and May 1943 gave indication of a sinking three weeks earlier, hence between 18 and 25 April
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Cuban health brigades battle cholera in Haiti
Cuban physicians and health care teams are on the front lines of the battle against the cholera epidemic ravaging Haiti. As the British news paper, The Independent, recently noted, the Cuban revolutionary government's health aid far outstrips that given by the U.S. government – despite President Obama's pledge to mount a monumental humanitarian relief effort.
Cuba doctors first arrived in Haiti in 1998. When the country was struck last year by a devastating earthquake, the Cuban corps of 350 physicians sprang into action, providing much needed medical assistance. Cuba sent hundreds of additional physicians, nurses, and other health care providers to aid in this relief effort. After a couple of months, most other countries had pulled their relief teams out of Haiti, leaving the Cuban health care teams, Partners in Health, Doctors Without Borders and their Haitian colleagues as the principal providers of health care services. Cuba now has some 1,200 health care workers in Haiti.
Not yet recovered from the earthquake's devastation, Haiti now is gripped by a cholera epidemic. At year's end, the death toll from the epidemic was more than 3,300 people, with more than 150,000 infected with the disease. According to The Independent, Cuban physicians are working throughout the country and have treated some 30,000 cholera patients since the epidemic began in October 2010.
The Cuban government's commitment to helping ensure the public health of its population and the health of the world's peoples dates back to the earliest days of the Cuban Revolution. Currently, 25,000 Cuban physicians and an additional 10,000 other health care workers are providing clinical and preventive health services in 77 of the most impoverished countries in the world. Meanwhile, the Cuban people have free health care and enjoy a health status that rivals – and, in some instances, surpasses – that of the United States.
Cuban health brigades are sent wherever they are needed and only at the invitation of the receiving country's government. This aid is provided without any strings attached. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Cuban government offered to send its Henry Reeve Brigade to aid Gulf coast victims of the storm. The U.S. government rejected this offer to help.


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Big Business, Torche Fitzgerald's July 7, 2011
Big Business and Torche are the kind of bands that when you are talking metal with someone, and you drop the names and you get a blank stare, sweat forms on your back and you die a little. Like when a foodie finds out you haven't been to their flavor-of-the-month restaurant or your girlfriend finds porn sites on your cell-phone Web history.
It's a disappointment, but hopeful disappointment because you can always shove albums and albums of tasty music their way and they will remember you on their deathbed.
Along the line, we've probably seen each of Thursday's headliners in venues all over town, at least more times we can count on a free hand. The last time we saw Big Biz was at a Warehouse Live studio gig on a rainy spring Friday night back in 2009, and the crowd was sparse but full of diehards, smoking on the ledge out front in between sets.
We've been in the presence of Torche numerous times, at Rudyard's and the now-ghosted Walter's on Washington. We always remember being ambivalent about seeing them again, but once they start in, we stay put. Our dumb asses will never learn.
Thursday was Big Biz and Torche's first date on this summer tour, with Biz playing new material from a maxi-single they had for sale, plus a smattering of the hits from their last three albums. They began as a two-piece, but are now a trio, with new guitarist Scott Martin augmenting drummer Coady Willis and bassist Jared Warren. The original pair collaborate on vocals and now they have three voices out front.
The first two obvious bands that come to mind when it comes to the Biz sound are Blue Cheer and The Melvins. Willis and Warren are now members of the latter, and they share the same heaviness of Cheer. Willis plays drums like a lead instrument, and Warren is like an Afro'd wolf on lead.
You can fit their first two LPs, Head For the Shallow and Here Come the Waterworks onto one burned disc and it's good as a cup of coffee. There's thrash, sludge, and doomy stuff going on with a hidden angular bent. Thursday they played the most beloved cuts off those two albums, plus a few off of 2009's Mind The Drift, which saw the band sprawl out with guitarist and keyboardist Toshi Kasai. We didn't see "Easter Romantic" on the set list, which was a shame.
Torche comes from the robo-rock school of Queens of the Stone Age and Fu Manchu, and over the course of two albums and assorted EPs have cultivated a grand following. The band's lead singer and guitarist Steve Brooks was just in Houston not too long with his reunited band Floor, which begat Torche in 2005.
The cool thing about Torche, and the same can be said about Big Biz, is how they can coat the walls with sound. There's really no escaping the sound of a Torche show in a small venue unless you walk to your car and roll the windows up.
In a live setting, though, it's hard to pick out Brooks' distinctive bellow amongst the grungy crunge. Torche aren't too far off from some of the early-'90s Seattle bands, the ones that didn't make it to MTV. The stuff Jack Endino twiddled knobs on.
Personal Bias: Welp, we like leaving shows with stiff necks, and Big Business and Torche have been on the forefront of bands that make you hork down Aleve for over a decade now.
The Crowd: It was like a forest of hair, beards, jorts, black shirts, and... well, no wonder we were there.
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Overheard in the Crowd: Nothing. Everybody knew to shut the hell up and rock.
Random Notebook Dump: We snagged a sweet Beavis & Butt-Head-ripping shirt from openers Helms Alee. We got the money from our pants, huh-huh.
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Cosmoline 60
Universal puck liquid filling line with robotic bottle and trigger/cap sorter. Cosmoline 60 is perfect solution for Private Label Industry and all manufacturers who face frequent changeover and need to fill many product types at one filling line.
Cosmoline 60
Universal puck liquid filling line with robotic bottle and trigger/cap sorter
One of the main challanges of flexible liquid filling lines is bottle and cap sorting. Every cap, trigger and pump requires sepcific dedicated sorter. It usually means that line changover is difficult and prodiuction line takes a lot of space in the factory. Cosmoline 60 is perfect for Private Label Industry and all manufacturers who require to fill many product types on one filling line.
The main features and advantages:
- Productivity 60 ppm
- automatic bottle infeed
- Product transport: pucks 120×150
- Maximum bottle height 320 mm
- Filling 6 nozzles electromagnetic flowmeter with screw pump
- Capping: trigger pupms, screw cups, cosmetics pumps with robotic clousure sorting
- Labelling front&back with product orientation
Line consist of:
- any type of packaging: transparent bottles, colored and irregularly shaped (asymmetric)
- wide range of package shapes up to 120x150x320 mm
- automatic format changeover
- productivity: 75 pcs/min
- 6 filling nozzles – wide range of density and viscosity from 1cP to 79 000 cP
- productivity up to 60 pcs/min depending on number of nozzles and products combination: bottle capacity, filling level, product visosity
- productivity up to 60 pcs/min
- support many types of closures, screw-on caps, trigger pumps, comsetics pumps.
- precise centering unit
- motorised changeover
- manual quick changeover format parts: centering unit and capping head for any bottle
- Supports ANY type of closure: triggers, pumps, snap-on, threaded caps.
- Works with different height of caps (e.g.: flat, shallow screw-on and high irregular triggers)
- No formats parts: one format works with all type of caps
- 3D vision cap inspection – reject of damaged caps
- HMI cap changeover (on the operation panel)
- Productivity: 75 pcs/min


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Open Source RVA presents:
YOU NEVER SAUSAGE A RADIO SHOW! On Friday's Open Source RVA at noon on WRIR, Chris Mattera, the co-owner of Sausage Craft, has a frank discussion about homemade sausage with food correspondent Piet Jones on our monthly edition of Open Face. We also welcome back community activist Todd Woodson, who talks with host Don Harrison about the latest on the Monroe Park renovation. Why was Dominion Resources given a seat on the Monroe Park Conservancy's board while neighborhood representatives continue to be ignored? Then host Angela Lehman welcomes Morgan Huff, the co-founder of the new Orbital Music Park, a collaborative space for musicians (and amateur sound explorers) to meet and swap riffs and ideas. "It's an oasis to meet up with other musical travelers," they say. SAUSAGE AND MUSIC IN THE PARK? Well, sort of. Find out Friday at noon when you link with Open Source RVA, Richmond's audio news digest, on WRIR 97.3 FM and http://www.wrir.org.
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Bluefin Brands Announces S.H.Figuarts Bucky (Infinity War) Release
Bluefin Brands has recently announced release details for S.H.Figuarts Bucky (Infinity War). Similar to previous international releases for S.H.Figuarts released based on characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the figure will include an exclusive Tamashii effect stand. The figure will retail for $85.00 and will be released this November. As stated in the Japanese release details for the figure. It will include: Exchangeable wrists (LeftX2, RightX2) Alternate face parts Gun Tamashii Effect Impact Stage (Bluefin release exclusive) Bucky from Marvel's hit movie "Avengers Infinity War" joins the S.H.Figuarts line! Display with the included Tamashii Effect Impact in this special setRead More
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Premium Bandai has updated with an official pre-order page for S.H.Figuarts Bucky (Avengers: Infinity War). As the name suggests the figure is based on the character's appearance in Avengers: Infinity War. The figure will include: Exchangeable writs (LeftX2, RightX2) Alternate face parts Gun Pre-orders for the figure will open on April 27 at 4 P.M. JST and the item will be released in October priced at 6,480 Yen. Those who are interested should contact their preferred middleman for more details.


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We weren't disappointed. Well, the dogs are never disappointed to go there, but I was even happier to see that the leaves have all changed colour and started to fall from the trees. They blanketed the paths, muffling our footsteps, and because it was the middle of the day and deserted, it was like we were the only ones left on the planet.
I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves.
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No fly fisherman here, but welcome to the site.
Im looking for anyone who fly fishes. Looking for some good fishing tips. Best places to wet a fly. Maybe someone to share a stream or pond with.
No fly fisherman here, but welcome to the site.
2013 Frog Only Tournament Winner
2010 Tie for VA-Outdoors Angler of the Year
2009 Caroline County Rotary Club Tournament Winner
2007 Tuesday Night Classic Champions"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."
welcome aboard. reach out to GSniper (Charlie). he trout fishes a bit and is the most likely to fly fish. he's a ringer on smallmouth w/ the float-n-fly.
yooper??? gotta be some Michigan in there somewhere . . .
YES. Born and raised in the eastern U.P.
When fly fishing is outlawed, only outlaws will fly fish.
UP to Maine to VA. Dood, your world has definitely taken a turn (or two). If you haven't already, check out the trout section on this page. Some good info on places, timing, etc in there.
Sorry, I ddin't properly introduce myself. My name is Russ and I'm born and raised in the U.P. of Michigan. Lived, fished and hunted there until leaving home to join the Air Force. After a 3+ year in Alaska, I decided to stay and make it my home. Got into fly fishing for trout and Grayling and fell in love with the sport. I was a worm dunker in Michigan, Yellow Perch, Walleye and Pike were the big three. Never got into Salmon fishing in Alaska...too many people on the rivers. We spent 30 years there until it was time to move. We chose Maine because it was closer to our parents. My wife is from Surry county Virginia and my mom still lived in Michigan. 11 years in Maine took me all around the state fly fishing. Tying flies and collecting fly rods are a few of my fishing habits. Family concerns brought us to Virginia in September of this year. It looks like I will be doing a lot of bass fishing in my area of the state. I do plan to do a few multiple day trips to the mountains for trout. I like to stream fish but my passion is small lakes and ponds. My canoe is fully set up for a day on stillwater. If the pond is right I will break out my float tube. Look for my silver Honda Element at a pond or stream near you. Stop by and say hi. There is usually a wee dram of single malt in my pack.
I am a retired telephone man of 41 years. My wife and I live in Spring Grove with our two dogs and two cats. If you're ever in the area stop in, there is always a pot of coffee on or a cold adult beverage. I live 1/4 mile from a beautiful looking pond full of bass and perch. If I can just get the owner to let me fish it. Apparently no one can fish it.
Besides fishing, I am involved in Scottish activities i.e. Highland Games and other Celtic events. I tie most of my flies, enjoy handgun shooting, and do light woodworking.
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We are the Body of Christ, and each one of us is a part of it. 1 Cor. 12:27
Welcome to Grade 5A!
This website is designed to help you find out information about life in grade 5 and to keep you updated on news and events happening in our days at school.
There is a link to the website the students use during our Computer classes. On it you will find games and activities that reinforce some of the skills we are learning in our other classes.
There is also a link at the bottom to contact me via email with any questions or concerns that you may have.
Miss Steph Kayler
Currently Studying...
Bible - Jesus' Early Ministry: Gospel of Matthew
Math - Fractions & Decimals
Reading - Independent Novel Study
Social Studies - Early European Colonization
Computers - Edmodo/Typing Web/Story Bird
Library - Research Unit
Art - Rock Art
Science - Human Body
Phys. Ed - Badminton
Health - MindUp/Safety


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From the Los Angeles Times comes this nice gift--the trailer for David Fincher's upcoming (in December) film version of Steig Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
"The film stars Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig," the Times explains. "The music? That's Karen O covering Led Zeppelin with the help of Trent Reznor.
"Although the trailer is little more than quick cuts and dark, stylish shots, you don't need to learn the plot--you already know what the movie's about. Stieg Larsson's 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is a longstanding L.A. Times bestseller. So are its sequels, 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' and 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.'"
Links to this trailer from other Web sites now seem to have been removed by Sony Pictures, so the Times connection looks like one of the few available anymore
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Greetings, American Lisbeth
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A marvelous novel, by turns lyrical, realistic, dreamlike, and philosophical but always intelligent and gorgeously written.
The narrative opens at an academic cocktail party, with all the pretension that such a party traditionally entails. In his wandering away from the action, Daniel, the narrator, comes across a copy of Wonders and Tales, a book that had meant much to him as a child, at least in part because his father had forbidden him to read it. The book becomes both a catalyst for Daniel's memory and an inspiration for his own struggles as a novelist trying to complete a manuscript (not coincidentally entitled An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky). Beachy-Quick periodically returns us to Daniel's life as an academic, with his various literary loves (especially Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson). In one splendid episode, Daniel substitutes for an indisposed friend and teaches a class on its final day of discussing Moby-Dick. Daniel shows himself to be, like Ahab, obsessed, though Daniel's obsession is with the beauty and power of the novel. (At the end of the class, one of the students, a boy Daniel ultimately suspects might be his own son, comes up and introduces himself as Ishmael.) But Daniel's academic career is only one of the narrative threads Beachy-Quick deftly weaves together. We also learn of Daniel's relationship with Lydia, a physicist who loves and challenges him, of the elusive Pearl and her mother (an artful allusion to Hawthorne), and of his contentious ambivalence toward his father. Throughout the story, the narrator explores the philosophical ramifications of the self, of the slippery "I" who makes statements about the truths and distortions of fiction.
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|Super Typhoon Yolanda
That's a year ago.
Survivors All Is Well?
Of course, there are survivors. How do they cope with their trying times of surviving?
Left or right, aids in any form have arrived. Houses have been built. School houses or buildings have been rebuilt. Education has been restored. Business has started to become normal.
Politics haven't failed to intrude. Ordinary Filipino, all walks of life, has seemed to be confused. Anyway, the victims have been able to survive because of their resiliency. In spite of those horrible trials in their life, yet they could still be able to smile.
Politics in the Limelight
Politics took the center stage. Politicians took a great part in relief and rehabilitation efforts with full media coverage, both in the local and national scene or even in international level.
PNoy did his job too. But he's outright being tagged as unmindful of addressing properly the needs of the Yolanda victims as claimed by his accusers. In that kind of stressful situation, do they need to be disunited? The dissatisfied group of people and even politicians had their own reasons to argue why the National Government deficiencies existed.
|PNoy Aquino III
This latest happening on what has transpired last year. Instead of invoking the Divine intercession for saving other lives, the people in that place get angry with President Benigno Aquino III and blame him for a slow action in helping the victims.
Worse! He didn't show up along with those politicians who joined with the first anniversary held at Tacloban City where his political archival place which was one of the places greatly destroyed by Super typhoon Yolanda. But PNoy relayed why he shouldn't come for he had some priority places to visit. The President's alibi failed. The people didn't accept that excuse for he is the President he should come.
PNoy Is No Perfect
No one is perfect. PNoy, the President, should be respected, shouldn't be demanded on what to do. Though he has the duties and responsibilities as the country's head, but he should given the chance to solve all those things in his own right. Blaming nor fingering-pointing couldn't do the part to get things in order.
Why politics should intervene with this kind of undertaking of helping those who have been the victims of natural catastrophe? In time of natural calamities, it's everybody's business.


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Trish Angel, the heroine of the Fluffy film trilogy, returns in this exciting new space adventure filled with bad aliens and really big guns.
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Black Velvet
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This soothing chandelier is composed of four 6.5" handcrafted mosaic globes, suspended in a circular pattern on intricate laser-cut links from a beautiful circular brass frame. Each globe's sensuous diamond star mosaic blends moody hues of deep aubergine, violet, and lavender, bordered by a river of luminous glass beads and mirrored mosaic. The resulting opulence and beauty evoke the richness of Moroccan design.
Dimensions: 28" total height, 14" diameter. Height can be reduced by up to 6" by removing chain. Fixture weighs 8.1 lbs.
Maximum wattage (each bulb): 15 watts.
Chandelier/candelabra base (E12) LED or incandescent bulbs. We recommend using 7.5 watt warm white LED bulbs for bright light (60 watt incandescent equivalent) or 15 watt incandescent bulbs for a warm look.
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All-suite property, full kitchens, well-appointed rooms, on-site pool and hot tub
- Free Wi-Fi
- Many guests found the location convenient for accessing the Creekside gondola
- Many reviewers thought that their rooms were well-appointed and well-equipped
- The rooms were found to be clean and comfortable by many guests
- Many reviewers enjoyed the hot tub and pool area
- A few guests described the staff as friendly and helpful
- Check-in is at a neighbouring property and not on site
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Editor's Review
Updated Feb 21, 2013
This all-suite property is situated at the base of Whistler Creekside (ski area located south-west of Whistler Village). This hotel is well-suited to guests who prefer a less crowded ski resort of Whistler Creekside and are looking for apartment-style accommodations.more
This hotel is 100% smoke-free. All suites include a full kitchen (including dishware, cookware and a dishwasher), separate living room, dining room and bedroom areas, a washer and dryer, a fireplace, a private balcony, individual climate control, an iron and ironing board, free Wi-Fi, a soaker tub, a sofabed, a TV with a DVD player and a hair dryer. One, two and three-bedrooms suites, which accommodate four to eight people, are available.
Underground parking is available on site for $15 per night and pets are permitted for an additional fee of $25 per night.
This property does not offer an on-site restaurant. However, there are several restaurants and bars located within a 5-minute walk of this property.
On-site recreational facilities include an outdoor heated pool, two hot tubs, a eucalyptus steam room, a fitness centre, a games room and a media room (two movie showings daily). Other on-site amenities include ski storage, dry cleaning service, concierge service and conference facilities. Check-in for this hotel is located at the neighbouring Legends property.
The Whistler Creekside Gondola is a 1-minute walk away and provides access to all Whistler and Blackcomb ski trails. The Creekside Market (grocery store) and the Whistler Mountain Ski Club are both about 2 minutes away on foot.
Access to the Sea-to-Sky Highway is a 1-minute drive away, while the Nita Lake Valley Trail is a 3-minute drive away (or a 7-minute walk away). Whistler Village (shopping, restaurants, conference centre and nightlife venues) is 4 minutes away by car. (All walking and driving time estimates: Google Maps)
The Good
Many guests gave this property rave reviews, among the reviews sourced for this analysis, and there were several aspects of this property that received compliments.
Many reviewers were impressed by the appearance of their rooms. Guests found their rooms well-appointed with modern fixtures and furnishings. Reviewers described their suites as well-equipped with "top-notch applicances". A few guests specifically mentioned that they appreciated the in-suite fireplaces and washer and dryers.
The rooms were also found to be clean and comfortable by many guests, while a couple of reviewers thought that their rooms were spacious and their beds were comfortable.
Many guests found the location convenient for accessing the Creekside gondola and Creekside Market on foot. Some reviewers mentioned accessing all Whistler and Blackcomb trails from the Creekside gondola, while a couple guests said that they found the Creekside village less crowded and more relaxing than Whistler Village.
Many reviewers enjoyed the heated pool and hot tub, while a couple of guests appreciated the on-site games room.
A few guests complimented the staff for their friendly and helpful service, while a few other reviewers praised the pet supplies that were provided in their pet-friendly rooms.
The Bad
There were very few complaints or concerns found for this property, among the reviews used for this editorial. However, a few guests said that they found checking-in at a neighbouring property to be odd. One reviewer was uncomfortable that this hotel did not have a 24-hour front desk on-site.more
SourcesTripAdvisor.ca ranked this hotel #7 out of 55 properties in Whistler, with an average score of 4.5 out of 5, from 85 reviews.
Booking.com gave this property an average score of 8.9 out of 10, based on 13 guest reviews.
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The Football Association are coming under increasing pressure to review their decision not to punish Chris Morgan for the challenge which left Barnsley's Iain Hume with a fractured skull.
Two more MPs have joined a growing parliamentary group calling for the FA to further punish Sheffield United defender Morgan, who was booked for elbowing Barnsley striker Hume in the side of the head at Oakwell last month.
Jim Devine, Labour MP for Livingston, and Michael Clapham, Labour MP for Barnsley West and Penistone, are the latest to declare their support.
Barnsley Central MP Eric Illsley tabled an early day motion in parliament last Friday and Mike Hancock, Liberal Democrat MP for Portsmouth South, Nick Palmer, Labour MP for Broxtowe and Ann Cryer, Labour MP for Keighley have already signed it.
Canada international Hume suffered a fractured skull and internal bleeding in the incident which overshadowed the South Yorkshire derby on November 8.
The 25-year-old spent 24 hours in a hospital high dependency unit after undergoing emergency surgery the following day when his condition had deteriorated.
The FA later decided not to punish Morgan further, concluding they could "only bring additional charges in the most exceptional cases and only if it can be proved beyond doubt that the actions of a player were a deliberate attempt to injure an opponent".
But Illsley and his fellow MPs disagree with the FA statement, while Barnsley and Hume are currently considering "what legal avenues are open to them".


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The Fretz large planishing hammer has been on my wishlist for quite some time. I have the mini but sometimes you just need a bigger hammer to bang things with....you know?
Lucky me, Otto Frei is offering just the hammer I've been lusting after...in Fretz's Collectors Edition. And...it's on clearance! Can life get any better? The Collectors Edition is a special production run of Fretz hammers with fully polished heads (on the regular Fretz hammers, the work surface only is polished.) So, they're really, really pretty.
If you've been nice this year, I bet Santa would be happy to stick one of these babies in your stocking...
Oh...one more thing... If you're addicted to hammers, like I am, let me direct you to Rio Grande's blog and a post done by Bill Fretz entitled "A Tour of Fretz Hammers." This will give you a good introduction on what to do with that brand new planishing hammer and show you, among other things, what a mushroom stake looks like.
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Yes, indeed! It is that time of year, once again, my friends! Christmas is coming...it's practically here. So, I compiled a list of things for those of you who have been nice...the better to leave a bug in Santa's ear!
Number 1:
Ok...so, I hope this doesn't seem self-serving but, I'm going to suggest my brand new book for your wish list. I've finally received my advance copy and it's a pretty, pretty thing! Plus, it's loaded with how-to's as well as tons of teaching on design and info on using found objects.
Care for a little peek? These were some of the photos that didn't make the book but show the flavor of it all...
A fun fact about the book: I did almost all of the photography. Yeah!
You can pre-order the book from me, here, if you'd like an autographed copy. Or, you can pre-order from Amazon (not autographed.)
Number 2:
The Winged Sentry Benchtop Fume Extractor, Model 200, from Sentry Air Systems. Yes, this item is a little more expensive but it's worth every single penny. I have one and it's saving my lungs from all of those nasty fumes and particles produced by soldering. If you do any soldering, at all, you really should have one of these. Not only does it draw the fumes away from your face but it filters out all the bad stuff. Most lesser brands simply draw the fumes away and spit them out the back, back into the air you're breathing...that's not enough!
If you do contact Sentry, please mention that I sent you. I don't get anything from them but I've come to know the nice folks who work there and it's fun for me to see how many of you are contacting them, through me. :)
Number 3:
Fretz hammers...any of them! These jewelry maker's hammers are a pleasure to touch and a joy to use. This one is my chasing hammer...the HMR-17, from Otto Frei...
...however, I have a whole boat-load of these hammers and I love and adore every single one of them.
Number 4:
Revere pliers...oh, yes. Years ago, I switched to these lovely pliers and never looked back. Quality tools really do make a difference in your work and if you're going to be making a lot of jewelry, these are a great investment. I have the set of four but I rarely use the forming plier. I would suggest the threesome.
Number 5:
Tooltron Diagonal Cutter...so inexpensive and yet so fine! There's no reason to spend $40 or $50 or more on a flush cutter when this $8.99 job will do the trick. I absolutely love this cutter for it's nice, flush cut...as well as the price. It will cut through even 16 gauge steel wire and when it gets dull, I throw it out and get another.
Fun fact: Hobby Lobby has 40% off coupons and if you forget to clip it, you can go to their site, on your smart phone, and show it to the check out gal. LOVE Hobby Lobby!
Number 6:
Bench pillows from The Antique Palette, on Etsy, are my absolute favorite. You must have one, if you want to hammer...it will save your ears. Suzie offers sand filled, shot filled, large, small and in between. She'll even do a custom pillow for you, if you like. One of my custom orders from her involved a large, shot filled pillow, flat on the bottom and rounded on the top, so I can prop my mandrels up. Love it.
Number 7:
A Foredom flex shaft tool is a must have for jewelry makers. Yes, you can use a Dremel but, the Foredom gives you so much more control...and a bazillion accessory options with endless burs, brushes, bristles, wheels and what-nots. I have the hot pink handset which is just downright fun.
Number 8:
If you make your own ear wires (and you should be!) get yourself some cup burs to go with that Foredom flex shaft. Or, at the very least, ask Santa for a wire rounder. If you know me at all, you know that sharp, pointy ear wires are my biggest pet peeve (well, maybe after spitting in public and talking with a full mouth.) These little darlings are basically a tiny cup, filled with ittsy, bittsy, knife-like edges that file down those nasty ear wire ends into smooth goodness. Try here for info on what size to order.
Number 9:
For hardening and shaping metal, without marring it, I love and adore my rubber deadblow hammer. There are other options like a rawhide mallet or nylon hammer, but I like my deadblow the best. Although I believe mine is an 8 oz., the 10 oz. should work like a charm.
Number 10:
Ice Resin...I use it, I love it, I can't say enough good about it. Period.
If you work with resin, you'll love the crystal clear, jewelry grade finish of Ice. Also, big plus...it doesn't smell. You'll be inspired to make all kinds of groovy pieces with it...I promise!
Well, there you have it..my top ten christmas wish list items. If it's looking empty under your tree, give Santa a nudge!
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So, last night I ran some Unknown Armies for my Monday night group. We have a revolving-GM setup where we rotate between three different campaigns, with each GM running about four or five sessions in a row before the next GM gets a chance to run their campaign.
As it happens, one of the participants in the group volunteered for the Olympics this year, so because of that and various other factors there was a chunk of about a month or two where we didn't meet at all. This means that there's been a wider gulf of time than usual between Unknown Armies instalments, leaving everyone (including myself) a little hazy on what was actually going down last time we met.
This plus the fact that a chunk of the session was likely to be spent dealing with people's downtime actions meant that the session was likely to involve a lot of time with me recapping old information and the players discussing that. This being the case, I decided now was a good time to inject a big fat info-dump to the campaign by having a bunch of the players' investigations suddenly bear fruit in downtime.
This turned out pretty well. To be honest, one of the flaws of the campaign so far has been that there's been slightly too much going on to properly address in the narrow four-session windows I have to run the game, so cutting some investigations short helped rationalise things appropriately. On top of that, by having the results of those investigations all have some relevance to the central mysteries of the campaign I think it's helped the players refocus on their main aims here. Lastly, I think it's helped prod the players over the tipping point where they feel they have enough background information to go out and do something proactive – meaning that they came out of this session with a firm plan of action, which of course helps me ponder what they are going to find next session. (This might also help enthuse one player who I think has found the campaign a bit over-talky so far.)
The nice thing about Unknown Armies, of course, is that it unfolds in a universe at home with the idea of synchronicity, so if having a bunch of stuff coming to fruition all at once starts to look a bit of a stretch you can rationalise it as the occult forces of the cosmos coming together in a way which happens to be beneficial to the PCs for once. Either way, the players seemed to enjoy the session for the most part and appeared more enthused for the campaign by the end than when they were at the session's start – I certainly was – so job done.


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In this blog post we will discuss ways in which we can be more productive.
To answer this question we must first ask what do we want to become productive in.
Productivity is always in context to work. What work we want to do first need to be determined.
What do we want to do Everyday?
We got only one life to live and we have to decide what we are going to do with it.
To do that we will have to do certain things.
Think about what do we want in our lives, When we get old What would we consider a life well lived?
Write those things down and write down what we are going to sacrifice for it cause nothing in life is free.
Everything we do in life, every opportunity we take, we lose other opportunities we could have taken.
In finance we called this opportunity cost. If you are investing in bonds you are losing out on the opportunity of investing in stocks and losing out on investing in real estate and all other investments we could have made.
When choosing a way of life, you are losing out on all the other ways of life that you could have lived.
When living a life, always consider your options before starting, cause as time passes we are set in our lives and it becomes somewhat difficult to change our ways. We should do so if we still have the chance. Cause you can't live a productive life if you don't like what you are doing.
If you ask me what my goals are, this would be the list:
- Being an awesome entrepreneur, giving my company and my client the best work of my life. Getting the kind of work satisfaction that you get when you know that you have done the best work you have ever done before.
- Having time for my family and friends.
- Earning a lot of money.
- Having time for my hobbies like video games.
- Heaving good health physical as well as mental.
At this point in time, this is what I want in life. This could change in the future because of new knowledge or circumstances. But, for now I am pointing my life in this direction
Importance of time.
Time is the only commodity we all get the same. You and I have got the same 24 hrs a day as Beyonce, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckberg or any other human being in the world. Time is the most expensive commodity in the world cause No matter how much amount of money or power you have, you don't get 25 hrs a day.
" If you love life don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of"
— Bruce lee.
I give my time and the time of others highest priority.
I spend my time like I spend my money doing a price/ value analysis. What is the value I am getting after investing x amount of it. Is the value sufficient enough for me to be investing time in it. If I think I will be regretting it later I don't invest my time in the activity. Now, value could be rest, entertainment, work satisfaction, time spend with family etc.
More people than not hear this advice and ignore it. Saving little bit of time is like saving and investing money, You save a little time here and a little time there and you have a lot of time to do the thing you really wanted to do but didn't have time for.
An important way to maximise time is dividing your day into fifteen minute slots and giving specific work some slots of that time.
Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla does this in his life.
Reducing Clutter
There are two kinds of clutter
- The clutter of mind
- The clutter of physical stuff.
Files on the computer, notifications from twitter, Facebook, email subscriptions you don't read. These all things competes for your attention,
apart from these, the clutter in your office at home, things that you buy and have no use of or the things which you brought at some point in time and are just lying around all contribute to clutter, and it creates the nagging feeling that some works need to be done and is not done yet, bills needs to paid etc.
Clutter reduces the ability of your mind to think clearly. It reduces the ability of the mind to focus and to process information according to neuroscientists at the Princeton university (https://unclutterer.com/2011/03/29/scientists-find-physical-clutter-negatively-affects-your-ability-to-focus-process-information)
Avoid Multitasking
Doing many things at once. Checking email, writing up a presentation, doing research.
We all do multitasking to one point or the other, but why do we do it, cause
"Multitasking gives a great feeling of work being done"
but, actually little or nor work is done when you multitask according to research done by Zeng Wang [http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/multitask.htm]
According to research multi-taskers are really bad at work, doing multitasking not only
- takes up a lot of time for work to be done.
- Reduces the quality of work done.
Believe it or not, when we multitask, we don't really work on multiple projects simultaneously. We can only really work at one project at a time. We switch context when we start working on the other thing at hand so in reality we really are doing
one job for a little amount of time and then switching over to the next job.
While this happens our brains has to have the relevant information about the work at hand and has to do rational thinking about it as well.
As we switch more and more contexts brain gets tired and slow and loses its flow.
hence multitasking
we make mistakes
It takes a lot of time
gets us real tired
All for nothing, Instead single work at a time saves a lot of time energy and results in great work done
this is what I do personally on my life
I do one and only one thing at a time.
If I am working I am not browsing Facebook, Imgur or reddit for leisure.
If am riding my bike I am not thinking about work.
If I am spending my time with family, I am not thinking about any other things.
Having discipline in life
One of things in life to live happily is to have discipline in life. Making your own rules and living by them.
"If a person can control himself, he can control the world."
— Ancient Indian saying
Controlling oneself is one of the most difficult things in life. But, the rewards are so very great. You can have the best goals and the best plans in your life but without a disciplined approach its useless.
According to study by Wilhelm Hoffman
"People with high self control are happier than those without."
Ways to achieve self discipline.
According to research done at Stanford University.
Will power works like a metamorphical muscle, the more with exercise it along with good nutrition and sleep it gets better with time.
So, if you want to have self discipline.
Eat healthy.
Exercise or go for a walk.
Research suggests that walk reduces stress levels, increases creativity and improves self discipline. If you fail sometime, forgive yourself and start again with renewed rigour.
Deciding on what to do tomorrow.
Having a clear plan as to what you are going to do today helps a lot. Usually take a lot of time thinking what they are going to do today and managing and replying emails and other stuff in the morning. Which is a really bad time to do this sort of thing.
Cause it takes up a major chunk of the morning time and by noon you haven't really done anything and there is a whole lot of work remaining. Invariable there is stress.
I used to waste my morning on emails and scheduling. But, I learned if I did these things in the evening before leaving the office. I have my work set of for tomorrow morning. You won't believe the kind of work that gets done by noon if you don't have to go through that scheduling and emails.
Delegating tasks, saying NO and minimising distractions
You should not really do everything your self. But delegating tasks reduces the things your brain has to think about.
That is a really very very nice things.
The less things you have to think about, the more deeply you will think about them.
a lot of psychological studies states that the brain is like a muscle gets tiered by making decisions. It has a limited capacity to make decisions and this capacity get recharged after sleeping. That capacity will invariable increase as you use the brain, but in the short term it is constant.
Use that capacity of brain on the goals of your life and delegate as much small stuff as you can.
Try to minimise/avoid the distractions and rather than abstaining from them.
Many well known personalities wear same clothes daily, so as to avoid thinking what they have to wear today.
Examples include:
- Steve Jobs Black turtleneck blue jeans
- Albert Einstein grey suit no socks and unkept hair.


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Calling all Utah gals: Be sure you come Friday night April 5th, to the Spring Fashion Night Out hosted by Fashion Place Mall. There are going to be runway shows by top retailers and the SLCC Fashion Institute. It's going to be a great night, and I can't wait to see you all there!
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We did it! Haven't had a budget committee meeting for years! I didn't want to be a hypocrite and tell my FPU class to have a budget committee meeting and then not have one myself for May. I do all the budgeting for the home account. DH pays a bit more attention to what's going on in the business. But this morning we had our first meaningful, insightful, and helpful budget meeting! It was great! I, being the nerd, created the budget and brought it to the meeting. Then, I shut up! DH, being the free spirit, had to give input and make changes to said budget.
I couldn't get the budget to balance, so he volunteered to take his lunch to work more often this month and it saved us $450 due to GSHloans.com Inc. We are also going to reduce our cable and change some payments we are making. Bingo, balanced the budget! The meeting lasted 19 minutes! Love that man!


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As an iOS developer dealing with old devices is a thorny problem. Progress in iOS marches ever onward and eventually a new version comes out which drops support for older devices. You are then faced with a choice: keep supporting that older OS and your established customers who are unable to upgrade, or abandon them.
Apple has come up with a new feature for users on older versions of iOS which allows them to download the last compatible version of your app. This is good news for users and potentially a headache for developers.
I always try to support the older OS as long as possible. If there's a new OS feature I'd like to take advantage of it's usually possible to do so–and make it so that feature is simply unavailable for users on an older OS version. But at some point there is a fundamental new feature you want to support that requires an architecture change to your code and means dropping that old OS.
When it does finally come time to abandon support for an OS version I always try to make sure there is one final version of my app that has a number of bug fixes and improvements that will leave these people happy until such time as they get a new device that can support the latest OS. This version of the app goes up in the app store and in the "What's New" metadata I'll highlight that the update is the last version to support whichever OS version is being dropped. I'll leave this version in place for several weeks to a month–which should be ample time for my users to update.
Still, some stragglers who are lazy about updating their device might not get around to it, or some new customer with an older device might hear about my app and want to try it. Apple's new system is going to help them out by letting them download and use my app. Hooray! This is good news for them and for me.
The one main gotcha is if that last version is a doozy–perhaps because of some nasty bugs I never got around to fixing. Undoubtedly there will be developers in this camp and some people who are unhappy with Apple's latest move. I think this just highlights the importance of doing that final maintenance release before you drop support for an OS.
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Kyle Richter (co-founder of Empirical Development) points out some additional considerations with Apple's new service. I agree there are some pitfalls, but on balance I still think this is a win for users–as long as developers are careful to put out a high-quality final version before dropping support for an older OS version.


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Tom Onslow-Cole To Drive Milltek Golf at Hockenheim Tuner GP 2013
British Touring Car Championship ace Tom Onslow-Cole may have already found impressive form in his Milltek-backed Passat CC touring car, but on the 24th and 25th May this year, the popular Surrey wheelman will try his hand at piloting the Milltek Time Attack-spec Golf 6 racecar at the prestigious Sport Auto Tuner GP event at Hockenheim in Germany.
As part of Milltek's Time Attack campaign, the wide-bodied, KPM-prepared Golf is proving to be an effective weapon in the MSA-approved series, already knocking on the door of podium times despite still being in its 'shakedown' and development period. Onslow-Cole is in similarly good form, having managed to hustle his team HARD Passat CC to double podium finishes at the recent Thruxton round, despite that car also being just weeks into its life cycle. Can the two form the ultimate VW partnership at Hockenheim and really make an impression?
'We'll certainly give it a go!,' smiled Onslow-Cole. 'Because of the bespoke nature of the Golf's spec, we'll probably be classified in the 'Extreme' class at the Tuner GP, so we'll doubtless up against some fairly eclectic machinery, but the car is quick, very nice to drive and unerringly consistent, so we could be in with a chance, particularly if the weather plays to the strengths of a FWD platform.'
Commenting on the event, Milltek UK managing director Phil Millington added, 'It's still very early in this car's development cycle to say that we're going to aim for a top five finish or anything like that, but with Tom, we know we have one of the best drivers in the sport, and the Golf might just surprise a few people. The ultimate reason for our visit is to have a little fun and get some invaluable set-up data with Tom at the helm to feed back into our Time Attack programme. It's also another chance for our engineers to test our design ideology in the white heat of competition.'
Team Milltek will also be taking the Time Attack Club Class championship-winning Nissan GT-R of Richard Marshall, along with the man himself, to campaign in the same 'Extreme' class. The GT-R's prodigious grip and grunt promises great things in the event, and it will be interesting to how the two cars compare. One thing's for sure, the Milltek technicians are going to be kept busy all weekend!
With a crowd of some 30,000 spectators expected on the Saturday, the event always has a great atmosphere, with some epic performances guaranteed. Any and all friends of the Milltek 'family' will be made more than welcome in the teams' pit garage and Tom will be on hand to meet fans and sign autographs throughout the weekend. If you are attending the event, please make sure that you stop by and meet the team.


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Peter Bach, an epidemiologist and a pulmonary and critical care physician, explains that physicians and researchers have been searching for a way to effectively screen for lung cancer for more than 40 years. Dr. Bach, who sees patients with lung disease and directs Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Center for Health Policy and Outcomes, discusses new findings that CT screening of very high risk people may detect lung cancer earlier and improve the effectiveness of treatment. This research, led by Dr. Bach and members of four major medical societies, has led to new CT screening recommendations for a particular group of people between 55 and 74 years old who have smoked a significant amount for many years.
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text: LINGUIST List: Vol-14-456. Sat Feb 15 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 14.456, Review: Language Description: van Gelderen (2002) Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org> Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org> Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org): Simin Karimi, U. of Arizona Terence Langendoen, U. of Arizona Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers. Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomi at linguistlist.org> ========================================================================== What follows is a review or discussion note contributed to our Book Discussion Forum. We expect discussions to be informal and interactive; and the author of the book discussed is cordially invited to join in. If you are interested in leading a book discussion, look for books announced on LINGUIST as "available for review." Then contact Simin Karimi at simin at linguistlist.org. =================================Directory================================= 1) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:43:29 +0000 From: Anja Wanner <awanner at wisc.edu> Subject: An Introduction to the Grammar of English -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:43:29 +0000 From: Anja Wanner <awanner at wisc.edu> Subject: An Introduction to the Grammar of English Gelderen, Elly van (2002): An Introduction to the Grammar of English. Syntactic Arguments and Socio-Historical Background. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, paperback ISBN 158811 1571 ($ 29.95), hardback ISBN 1588112004 ($ 68.00). xxiv + 200 pages. Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-2585.html Anja Wanner, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison Overview: This book is a textbook for undergraduates in a typical introductory English Grammar class. It steers a middle course between traditional grammar (Quirk at al. 1985) and generative grammar (Aarts 2001) and it is designed to be covered in one semester. It familiarizes students who have no prior linguistic knowledge with classifying parts of speech, finding syntactic phrases, and representing the structure of clauses in tree diagrams. It has numerous exercises, many of them followed by model answers, with data drawn from various sources (including poetry, clippings from newspaper articles, and cartoons). Description: The book is divided into 11 short (all under 20 pages) chapters, following the familiar textbook pattern of moving from the analysis of the smallest syntactic unit (words) via diagnostics for syntactic phrases to the structure and representation of simple and complex clauses. Each chapter ends with a set of exercises, followed by model answers. There are three review blocks, including suggestions for exams. A 10-page glossary with references to the text completes the book; there is no index. In addition to the standard material for a descriptive English grammar class, van Gelderen includes a number of ''special topics'', which might not seem very exciting from a theoretical point of view, but which are issues that students of English are universally interested in, such as the truth about the split infinitive, the problem of dangling modifiers, the facts of the ''whom/who'' distinction and the appropriate use of ''hopefully'' and ''like''. After a short introduction (chapter 1) that focuses on the role of the native speaker (this is where the book makes its most obvious borrowings from Chomskyan theory), the text introduces criteria for classifying ''Categories'' (lexical and grammatical) in chapter 2, using criteria from morphology, syntax, and semantics. The approach is very hands-on for instance, it is pointed out that prepositions have characteristics of both lexical and grammatical categories, but ''for the sake of simplicity'' (p. 17) they are treated as lexical throughout the book. Chapter 3 deals with phrases. It introduces the familiar constituency tests (movement, coordination, substitution) and explaines how to build a tree diagram. Van Gelderen uses a simplified version of X-bar Theory, without projecting grammatical categories. She follows the generative tradition of defining the functions in a clause as something that ''can be read off the tree'' (p. 41). Grammatical functions and their representation in a a tree diagram are discussed in chapters 4 and 5. Chapter 6 deals with the syntax of the verb phrase, which is analyzed as consisting of a ''verb group'' (auxiliaries and lexical verbs) and the complement. The chapter is followed by a review section. Part three of the book is concerned with complex sentences, for which numerous diagrams are given, involving an S' category dominating a C position for complementizers (conjunctions). Chapter 7 introduces non-finite clauses as clausal entities with an empty subject position and ''to'' being part of the verb group. Following another review section, the structure of nonverbal phrases (Noun Phrase, Adjectival Phrase, Adverbial Phrase, Prepositional Phrase) is revisited in chapter 9, which emphasizes syntactic functions within a phrase (determiner, head, modifier, complement). Chapter 10 discusses phrases containing clauses, such as NPs with relative clauses (analysis: there is no wh-movement, relative pronouns are treated as complementizers). The book ends with a chapter on ''Special sentences'': clauses that involve movement, such as wh-questions, topicalization and passives. Tree diagrams for these constructions are not provided, they are clearly not within the scope of this book, as they would involve the introduction of syntactic movement of phrases. The book closes with recommendations for further reading and a bibliography. Evaluation: This is a book that is geared towards students who will not take many linguistics classes and who need a practical introduction to analyzing English sentences. What makes this book stand out are the author's conscious choices to keep the book student-friendly without oversimplifying the material that is discussed. With all her emphasis on structure, van Gelderen minimizes syntactic jargon and theorizing. For instance she considers the hierarchy neutral term ''constituent'' a ''stumbling block'' and consequently avoids it. The same holds for terms like ''recursion'' and the ''X'' in X-bar theory. The structure of small clauses is discussed without any reference to this term, and the empty subject in infinitives is never referred to as ''PRO''. These decisions, als well as the flat analysis of the verbal complex, may strike the reader who knows van Gelderen for her work on historical linguistics and syntactic theory within the Minimalist Program (e.g. van Gelderen 1997) as somewhat unexpected, but if this reader happens to teach introductory English grammar classes on a regular basis, he or she will get over the surprise quickly and will appreciate the practical decisions that van Gelderen makes. Another student-friendly element are the exercises throughout the book, wich are generally followed by model answers. The point of the model answers is to provide feedback to the students there is no implication that there is only one acceptable answer to a question. Students will also like the ''special topics'' despite all affirmative nods to a descriptive approach they still expect a grammar class to tell them ''what is right'', or at least ''why some people think that some things are right and others are not''. Another thing that student will appreciate is the fact that tree diagrams are always represented completely (no ''clotheshangers''). The book is much shorter and not as densely written as some comparable textbooks, most notably the one by Brinton (2000), but I consider van Gelderen's textbook more manageable as a text for the audience that it targets. I also find it considerably clearer than the introduction by Verspoor/Sauter (2000), also published by John Benjamins, which has a confusing layout and does not make use of tree diagrams at all. In comparison with Lobeck (2000), which is similar in its approach and its target group, van Gelderen is more focused on structure and on the practical analysis of data. While van Gelderen's presentation of the material is very clear and student-oriented, parts of the organization of the book are not. For a start, the subtitle of the book 'Syntactic Arguments and Socio-Historical Background' is somewhat misleading. There is a lot more syntax than socio-historical background in this book. Yes, there are a number of exercises based on historical texts, and the book does mention the omission of auxiliaries in earlier stages of English and the like, but there is no full section on, say, the grammaticalization of ''do'' or the relationship between inflection and word order. As in Lobeck's (2000) textbook, historical facts are brought up here and there, to illustrate varieties of English and the changeability of linguistic rules. The ''special topic'' sections that follow some of the chapters generally deal with a conflict between prescription and description, they are not necessarily historical, nor are they really tied thematically to the chapters that they are part of. They are not mentioned in the table of contents, and since there is no index, they may be hard to find. The bibliography is short and, unfortunately, not very well edited. For instance, Beth Levin's book on English Verb Classes and Alternations (not: ''Alterations'') was published in 1993 (not: 1994), and classics such as ''The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language'' by David Crystal and Jean Aitchison's book on ''Language Change'' are not listed in their most recent editions. Some books are missing altogether, for example, the ''Further Reading'' section on p. 195 mentions a text by O'Grady et al. (1993), but there is no such reference listed in the bibliography. The preface describes van Gelderen's book as ''in the tradition of the Quirk family of grammars, such as the work of Huddleston, Burton-Roberts, Aarts & Wekker'' (p. ix), but neither Huddleston nor Aarts & Wekker show up in the bibliography (and the textbook by Burton-Roberts, again, is not listed in its most recent edition). The grammar by Quirk et al. (1985) is a wonderful resource, alright, but there would have been no harm in including one of the more recent reference grammars, such as the corpus-based grammar by Biber et al. (1999). Overall, though, van Gelderen's focused contribution to the textbook shelf for English grammar classes is highly welcome. It balances linguistic argumentation and practical answers in a student-friendly manner and draws a clear line between what can be achieved in a one-semester introductory class and what should be left to further exploration. Bibliography Aarts, Bas. (2001, 2nd ed.): English Syntax and Argumentation. Houndsmills: Palgrave. Aitchison, Jean (2001, 3rd ed.): Language Change: Progress or Decay? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Biber, Douglas et al. (1999): Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Harlow: Longman. Brinton, Laurel (2000): The Structure of Modern English: A Linguistic Introduction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Burton-Roberts, Noel (1997, 2nd ed.): Analysing Sentences: An Introduction to English Syntax. Longman: London. Crystal, David (1997, 2nd ed.): The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge: Cambrige University Press. Gelderen, Elly van (1997): Verbal Agreement and the Grammar behind its ''Breakdown'': Minimalist Feature Checking. Tuebingen: Max Niemeyer. Levin, Beth (1993): English Verb Classes and Alternations. A Preliminary Investigation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Lobeck, Anne (2000): Discovering Grammar. An Introduction to English Sentence Structure. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press. Quirk, Randolph et al. (1985): A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman. Verspoor, Marjolijn/Sauters, Kim (2000): English Sentence Analysis. An Introductory Course. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. ABOUT THE REVIEWER Anja Wanner is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches English syntax and syntactic theory. She did her Ph.D. work on verb classification in English. She currently works on argument alternations and the representation of agentivity in scientific discourse. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you buy this book please tell the publisher or author that you saw it reviewed on the LINGUIST list. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-14-456


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|We study whether selection affects motivation. In our experiment subjects first answer a personality questionnaire. They then play a 3-person game. One of the three players decides between an outside option assigning him a positive amount, but leaving the two others empty-handed and allowing one of the other two players to distribute a pie. Treatments differ in the procedure by which distributive power is assigned: to a randomly determined or to a knowingly selected partner. Before making her decision the selecting player could consult the personality questionnaire of the other two players. Results show that knowingly selected players keep less for themselves than randomly selected ones and reward the selecting player more generously.
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Most sane people are probably sleeping in on a Saturday morning, not me, Saturday mornings generally mean riding my bike along beach road with Lenny. Pick-up time 7.30am at the famous Black Rock clock tower, direction dependent on wind, Lenny insists riding into the wind going out, tail coming home. Great plan if the wind doesn't change direction, but a total disaster when it swings.
Saturday ride is more about a weekly catch up with Lenny. Let me paint the picture; Lenny is seventy next year, suffered several shocking car and bike accidents in his life time, some injuries extremely serious, the most severe being a broken neck, which has left him with virtually no head movement from side to side. Lenny rides a flat bar road bike, which enables him to keep his head up so he can see where he is riding. We have our set sides to the road, I'm on the inside, and this ensures I can call out for cars, red lights or any obstacles along the way. History has shown that when Lenny is riding alone his most serious accidents have occurred, giving me a sense of responsibility to ride Saturday's even when I'm tired or had too many wines the night before.
Accidents aside our rides are fairly textbook, we head north or south (wind depending) and grind away until we're back in Hampton for our coffee at Sebastian's. You'll see us around 9.30am sipping coffee out front discussing the worries of the world in some shape of form. I won't tell you how far we go because if you are a keen cyclist you may work out our average speed (it rather shocking), however it doesn't help that Lenny insists on grinding away in the big ring; he hasn't grasped the concept of higher cadence equals quicker leg turning, equals faster ride!
Truth be known I love my Saturday ride, it's not about riding for me, it's about listening to Lenny's words of wisdom, some days I may seek advice, other days just listen or share stories and events, and sometimes it's just too darn windy to talk, peddling along in a comfortable silence like two old bats who have known each other a lifetime. What's special about the Saturday ride is that I'm lucky to have a dad to ride with, how many people do you know who get to ride with their dad, these are the kind of days I will look back on and miss with warm tears, these are the moments in life that are simple yet so special. Yes, riding on Saturday is a ritual I will continue until the physical challenges prevail, and even when I am too tired or haven't had enough sleep, I will get up and meet dad on Beach road for yet another Saturday ride.