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Our big summer event has arrived!
Whether your children like to sing, soar, sail, or splash, PGL offers the very best adventure holidays to keep them entertained during the school holidays. There's no one else that matches us for sheer variety.
The school holidays are made for adventure and to celebrate, we're offering you an incredible bring a friend for £49* offer. Our brand new summer event includes offers on an amazing choice of holidays from all five holiday categories in our line-up, so there's something to suit every taste, child, date and budget this summer!
What's more, we've even included 7 night October holidays too!
Offers ends 7th June 2019.
Offer 1 - Bring a friend for £49!*
Bring a friend for £49* on holidays during summer and October!
Bring a friend for £49* on all 7 night Multi Activity holidays and selected Specialist holidays shown below (excluding any specific dates and centres shown below).
*Offer applies to holidays where PGL insurance is also purchased at an additional charge - see terms and conditions.
Offer code: BSP59
- 7 night Multi Activity holidays
(exc. Liddington, Marchants Hill & Osmington Bay 13/07)
- 7 night Multi Activity First Timer holidays
- Adrenaline Adventure (exc. Boreatton Park 20/07)
- Treasure Quest
- Mission Spy
- Motorsports (exc. Caythorpe Court 03/08, Osmington Bay 20/07, 27/07)
- Video Games Workshop
Offer 2 - SAVE £125 per child!*
SAVE £125 per child on selected Multi Activity, Specialist and overseas holidays this summer!
Save £125 per child* when you book a 7 night Multi Activity, Specialist or overseas holiday listed below (excluding any specific dates and centres shown below).
*Offer applies to holidays where PGL insurance is also purchased at an additional charge - see terms and conditions.
Offer code: BSP69
- 7 night Multi Activity holidays
(exc. Liddington, Marchants Hill and Osmington Bay 13/07)
- 7 night Multi Activity First Timer holidays
- Adrenaline Adventure (exc. Boreatton Park 20/07)
- Treasure Quest
- Mission Spy
- Motorsports (exc. Caythorpe Court 03/08, Osmington Bay 20/07, 27/07)
- Wet & Wild (exc. Little Canada 20/07, 27/07)
- Xtreme Adventure (exc. Osmington Bay 20/07, 27/07)
- Cook's Academy
- Surfing (exc. Beam House 20/07, 27/07)
- Dance
- Horse Riding (exc. Boreatton Park 20/07, 27/07, 24/08, Windmill Hill 10/08)
- Horse Riding Pro (exc. Llwyn Filly 27/07)
- Learner Driver (exc. Boreatton Park 20/07, 27/07, 03/08, 10/08, 17/08)
- Film Making (exc. Boreatton Park 27/07, 03/08)
- Music Studio
- Photography Adventure (exc. Boreatton Park)
- Video Games Workshop
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*Terms and Conditions – All passengers must take PGL insurance to qualify for UK holiday offers, see prices below. Offer 1 requires a minimum of two children per booking and can also be applied for each additional multiple of two children on the same booking. When using the book one, get one free offer, the free place applies to the cheapest holiday. For technical reasons the total discount will be split across both passengers. Prices vary according to date. Escorted travel, excursions or any other optional extras, including travel supplements for French Holidays from Manchester (£56) and Birmingham (£45) will be charged at the full rate for each passenger. All offers are subject to availability. Offers apply to the holidays shown in the lists above. Offers may not be used in conjunction with any other offer or discount and cannot be applied retrospectively to existing bookings. Discounts are offered in conjunction with the general terms and conditions in the PGL Adventure Holidays brochure 2019. Payment must be made in full with either credit or debit card at time of booking. Closing date is the 7th June 2019. 2019 Insurance prices UK holidays (7 nights) - £37 UK residents, £49 EU residents, £63 outside EU. 2018 Insurance Prices French holidays £44 UK residents, £58 EU residents, £62 outside EU.
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Throughout the history of the Indianapolis 500 and Indy Racing League (IRL), there have, of course, been regular upgrades of the car designs. Over the decades, the overall design has gradually evolved from classic early-20th-century roadsters to small, light cars that are so aerodynamic that they're practically airplanes. Indeed, the main job of the spoilers and trim on an Indy car is to keep the car from literally flying off the track!
Well, it's time for another design upgrade. Officially, the following new design concept is called the Delta Wing. However, most racing enthusiasts are referring to the design as the Batmobile. It's not hard to see why!
Problem is, the concept car is close-wheeled, and Indy cars are traditionally open-wheeled. So, there's also an artist mockup showing the Delta Wing "Batmobile" with open wheels:
The new design is being proposed for the 2012 racing season. I hope they DO go with this design because -- OMG -- an Indy 500 race with BATMOBILES? That's -- THAT'S -- THAT'S a Hoosier geek's dream come true! Heck, Batman himself probably wouldn't mind the idea.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
BATMOBILES in the Indy 500??
Posted by Sea-of-Green at 9:00 AM
4 comments:
- MetFanMac said...
Bruce would probably park the Bat-Racecar next to the Bat-Coupe and Bat-Roadster :)
- March 4, 2010 at 11:06 AM
- SallyP said...
My God, that's...that's gorgeous.
- March 4, 2010 at 3:54 PM
- Maxo said...
"An Indy 500 race with Batmobiles" is the greatest thing I've ever heard.
- March 5, 2010 at 11:08 AM
- Sea-of-Green said...
Ain't it, though? Heck, I wanna DRIVE one of these things!
- March 5, 2010 at 11:15 AM
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As I mentioned before, I did my Week In The Life two weeks early because I wanted to capture our summer instead of a week during the school year since I just did that last October. If you would like to learn more about Week In The Life click over to Ali Edwards blog here. Here is a look at our Monday which was actually August 3.
I always open the kitchen window first thing in the morning if it isn't too hot or humid outside. I love having that fresh air flowing in. It's my favorite way to start the day.
Harper got right down to playing. She usually does.
My morning coffee in my favorite Goodwill mug. Archer Farms coffee with vanilla Coffeemate creamer.
I went outside to take my weekly garden photos and found that one of the zinnias finally bloomed. Very exciting for me.
I took the kids out front to play with chalk and ride bikes before the heat set in. We were out there for about an hour. Then they got hot and thirsty and wanted to go inside for drinks.
I left the kids at home to play (since Jeremy works for home and didn't have any meetings) while I went on a quick Target run to grab a few things before lunch time.
I came home to find Hudson playing the Super Nintendo. My parents gave it to us a few weeks ago and he is loving Mario Kart and Super Mario World.
Lunch today was a chicken sandwich, chips and watermelon. Oh it was really good watermelon too. I usually try to read a bit while I eat my lunch. Today it was Poser.
The kids like to eat their lunch in the living room while they watch cartoons, which is fine with me because that's really the only time during the day that they get to watch anything.
I got an email saying that a book I put on hold at the library was ready, so I ran to get it quick. The library is super close to our house. I also grabbed some movies while I was there. I love the library.
I started to prep dinner a little early because I had lots of chopping to do for salads. And I had to toast the pecans.
Jeremy finished with work around 5 and came upstairs. I put him to work grilling the chicken for our salads.
We had one of our favorites. It's a blueberry chicken salad with goat cheese and toasted pecans. Delicious. I realized after I took the photos and we started eating it that I had forgotten to add the goat cheese.
We decided to treat the kids to Dairy Queen for dessert. They were excited. We had to eat it in the car so it wouldn't melt too fast.
Jeremy taking out the trash just like every other Monday evening.
Reading bedtime stories. I forgot to take photos of the bedtime routine tonight, so I did more of that the next few days. I typically read to Harper and Jeremy reads to Hudson. The boys have a little routine that they like to do. Sometimes we switch it up though.
I didn't take any more photos the rest of the night. I was super tired and ready to relax so I ended up in bed early just watching tv. Then Jeremy came out of Hudson's room and joined me. Monday nights are always pretty lazy.


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When shooting, you can try to take the original photo with the ROT in mind, but I am not good at all with that. And my kids move too fast. So sometimes I get it right in the camera. However, being that I am more of a 'take lots of photos and hope something turns out' type of person, lots of times I need to crop.
So if you have a program to edit photo, then you will need that. I use Lightroom but that isn't free. A free program that might work for you guys is PicMonkey. I haven't played with it much but from what I can see it will at least crop your photos!
So, as you saw in the I Heart Faces link, you can crop so that you have your focal points at the intersection points. Most of the time I crop as a 4x6 since that is how I will print most pictures. I can't always get it to be PERFECTLY lined up with ROT but I get it as close as I can and call it a day.
However, you can also crop as a square crop. This is good for symmetrical photos. For example, this one of Thomas is a square crop because it symmetric down the middle vertically. (Do you remember your geometry?!)
I also cropped this one that Allison took of the cousins as a square crop because the leading lines of the railings made it seem more symmetrical to me.
Remember that just because you took the picture horizontally, or in landscape, doesn't mean the crop has to stay that way. You can crop it vertically and see if you like that version better. For example, I cropped this image of the three boys three ways:
I like the horizontal one best and almost hate the vertical crop (unless I was super awesome at photoshop and could take out the other boys' chopped arms and even then I don't think I would like it). So know you have options even if they don't all look great. :)
The last thing to remember is not to awkwardly crop off body parts. If you have a full body photo then be sure not to crop off toes, finger tips, etc. Here is a diagram of acceptable crop lines (green) and lines to avoid (red). (via PetaPixel)
Of course after you know the 'rules', then you are free to break them. I have seen lots of photographers who like to center their subjects or crop at 'unacceptable' locations. That is cool, too. I just think it is important to practice a bit of the ROT and cropping, then decide what you like better later for your own personal style.
YOUR challenge now is to take pictures keeping the ROT in mind. Then play with cropping to see if your photo looks better with a horizontal crop, vertical crop, or a square crop.
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The Circulation software program is an industry solution for conducting management accounting, budgeting and exchequer operations in the fitness centers.
The software program gives opportunity of obtaining summary reports on cash flow, investments, debts on planned payments, cash operations. By means of the software program the summary turnover sheet on all legal entities of the enterprise is formed. The software program allows to receive statistical reports on key indicators of overall performance of fitness department and a sales department of fitness centers. This decision is integrated with A&A Club registration software and 1C-accounting software.
For informing fitness club management on the current financial results (the remains, arrival expense, implementation of the plan on cash flow from operations, investing, financing), iPhone appendix is used for time reports obtaining.
The Fitness Holding company carries out delivery, control and support of the Circulation software program in Russia.
Main modules of system:
• Articles Cash Flow Statement, types of operations of the turnover sheet.


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Lord Tanlaw is urging a three-year trial of "double summertime", claiming it would mean lighter evenings and be of huge benefit to road safety.
His Lighter Evenings Experiment Bill, which goes before the Lords on Friday, is backed by safety campaigners.
Clocks go forward at 0100GMT on Sunday, marking the official end of winter.
'Write to MPs'
Lord Tanlaw's system would mean clocks no longer reverted to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) in October, but would stay one hour ahead until March. Another hour would then be added until the following October.
The changes would give an extra hour of evening daylight throughout the year.
But opponents warn of the longer hours of darkness on winter mornings, especially in Scotland, the north of England and Northern Ireland.
This, they say, might lead to an increase in road accidents
However, Lord Tanlaw, who wants people to write to their MP in support of his proposals, says the scheme could save 100 lives a year and 300 injuries.
"The reason for doing this is to improve the quality of life for the majority of people and also to reduce the number of road accidents per year," he said.
"Some 18% of accident involving school children occur in the mornings and 84% in the dark evenings after school.
"Even if it saves one life a year, I think this bill will have been worth it."
The lighter evenings would also help tourism and business and have the "added bonus" of bringing the UK into line with much of Europe, he said.
Government opposed?
It could lead to safer streets as most street crime occurs after dark and would save energy as electric lights would not be on as long.
"Lighter evenings will also allow school children time to boot a ball about before going down the chippie or slumping in front of the family TV," he said.
A poll of more than 1,500 politicians, including MPs, peers, MEPs, MSPs and Welsh Assembly men and women, suggests a majority in support of the bill, he said.
But last year Science Minister Lord Sainsbury signalled his rejection of the bill, which receives its second reading on Friday.
He said the plan had been tried between 1968 and 1971 and abandoned.
However, Lord Tanlaw, a crossbencher, who is also a proprietor of a railway engineering group, a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Horological Institute, says he wants to see evidence that the plan would not work now.
Roger Vincent, from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), backs the measure, saying it is a campaign the group has been behind for years.
"If you have lighter evenings all year round it's better in terms of road safety," he said.
"It will be better for school children and older people, who will be able to return home from the shops in daylight."
Olympic bid
The move is also backed by BALPPA, which represents Britain's leading leisure parks, seaside piers and visitor attractions.
Chief executive Colin Dawson said: "An extra hour on the clocks in summer would create the opportunity for British tourism to operate an extra hour a day.
"In addition, the government is naturally anxious that Britain performs well in the Olympic medal tables in 2012, and longer evenings will enable many athletes to train longer.
"Just consider the benefit to the Olympics themselves in having an extra hour of daylight in which to hold the events."


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AQUALIBRIUM – new to the Burgess Sales and Charter fleets
Burgess are delighted to announce our appointment as Central Agents for both the sale and charter of the custom built 40m CRN Ancona AQUALIBRIUM.
Created and designed for a seasoned yacht owner, AQUALIBRIUM was built to exacting standards with a keen attention to detail ensuring that she provides the ultimate in comfort and relaxation.
Designer Walter Franchini's voluminous interior is elegantly adorned with exquisite marble, alabaster, and curved Italian wood panelling while large windows allow for radiant natural lighting and spectacular ocean views. Enjoy the breathtaking scenery in the main salon where sophisticated furnishings can be easily arranged to accommodate any occasion from casual cocktails and conversation to formal dining for 10 guests. AQUALIBRIUM offers a range of other entertaining spaces whether you are in the mood to dine al fresco on the shaded aft deck, enjoy a gourmet meal in the upper deck dining salon, stay cool with a refreshing drink on the sun deck, or take to the open water with an easily accessible swim platform and an extensive list of water toys.
Accommodation is provided for 10 guests in 5 staterooms. The Master Cabin is located forward on the main deck and includes his and hers bathrooms with panoramic views, two walk-in wardrobes, and bedside control panels for window shades and lighting. The lower deck holds four luxuriously decorated guest staterooms including one full beam VIP cabin with an ensuite bathroom complete with Jacuzzi tub and shower, one double, and two twin cabins with ensuite shower rooms. One of the twin cabins comes equipped with retractable Pullman berths making it the perfect place to convert to an exercise room.
Asking Price – USD 7,450,000
Please enquire for charter rates.
Not for sale or charter to US residents while in US waters.
For more information on the sale or charter of AQUALIBRIUM contact a Burgess sales broker.


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It's been over a week now, that I've been waiting for some people at work to get back to me on something. (Sorry to be so vague, but I really can't reveal much more about this, than that, at this stage.) It is important to me that this gets done soon, because it impacts my future. Which is why I keep looking for a sign that somebody somewhere has decided something and we can now move to the next step. Frankly, I don't care what they decide - I just want them to do it within a reasonable time frame. I am ready with action plans for each possible outcome for all the conceivable outcomes I could think of (including 'nothing'), given my intrinsically worrisome nature (which, according to someone I know who has a penchant for hyperbole, sometimes borders on paranoia) compounded by many years of dealing with bullshit artists of all kinds (ranging from the wildly exotic spiritual tripper to your plain old garden variety overambitious and highly political overachiever) that have taught me to expect the unexpected, and further exacerbated by a fairly vivid imagination that can conjure up the bizarre from scratch - right 'out of the box'. And by now I am equally detached, emotionally speaking, from all of them (well, ok, almost). So it really doesn't matter to me which way the cookie crumbles. I write this, then, not out of pain but out of ... something akin to amusement, actually, if you ignore my slightly disparaging tone.
Some people just can't make a decision. Or take one. So they do nothing. Some others can't act on decisions already arrived at, so they do nothing too. Quite often it turns out, in let's say 3 out of 5 cases, problems go away (or so it seems) even when nothing is done. So the wise among the foolish say "See? It went away without us having to do anything". Years of practice leading to mastery of this approach towards dealing with problems, gave birth to the wonderful art of Management By Doing Nothing (MBDN) - a proven methodology that saves time energy and money spent on thinking (valuable benefit for those are intellectually challenged), especially thinking about complex things that really matter (valuable benefit for those who don't know what those things are and are scared by complexity), then arriving at decisions (valuable benefit for those who are accountable for decisions but shudder at the very thought of making them) and then acting upon those decisions (valuable benefit for those who don't feel empowered to implement any decision unless it has been agreed to by all members of the Security Council and ratified by majority vote in the General Assembly) and still .... a methodology that delivers ... (drum roll) .... at least 60% of the time!
Strangely and paradoxically, what the ancient Chinese (Taoists) called 'wei wu wei' (which literally means 'action without action' or 'effortless doing') is indeed a profound philosophy, also involving a very different way of conducting one's life. (More on this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wu_wei if you're interested.) When I used to practice T'ai Ch'i Ch'uan, I understood this as the minimal action required to bring about desired results. In a lot of cases that involved doing nothing. This is not like the MBDN methodology at all. This 'doing nothing' has a conscious decisiveness underlying it ... and an action involving non-action. A decision to act by not acting. To act by letting happen. To intervene when necessary and that too only to the extent required. This involves a profound understanding of, and deep insights into, situations. And a fine appreciation of the concept of causality and its manifestations in the sometimes deterministic, often probabilistic (if not stochastic) and usually chaotic world in which those situations occur. Apparently these ancient folks understood chaos theory far better than most of us do today.
For those familiar with the 'butterfly effect' ... sometimes all you have to do to save a whole world is to not trample on a butterfly. For those not familiar with the butterfly effect - go figure!
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Zen and the Art of Management By Doing Nothing
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In the silence of the mountains,
Snow caps high when up above,
As we climb we're getting higher,
Doing what we all do love.
Then as we get to certain heights,
You know there'll be a lot of frights,
Ropes could fray feet get cold,
A sign that you are getting old.
Yet climbing is exciting,
Whatever be your age,
The world can be your oyster,
Within this life of rage.
Suddenly we're on a ridge,
And thought our eyes were funny,
We saw a woman nearly nude,
Her hair was long and funny.
We realised it was a ghost,
Of the woman,
Of the mountains,
Guarding and protecting.


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A modern, tense reimagining of classic platforming action games, with a deep storyline and tactical combat. Help us finish it!
A modern, tense reimagining of classic platforming action games, with a deep storyline and tactical combat. Help us finish it!
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Here is the first of the two updates we promised last week!
We have spent a lot talking about the game, and how it's put together, and what people can expect of gameplay. It's time to focus a little on the story, and one of the game's two main characters.
In this video, the Companion tells his story up to and including the moment of the Ensign's awakening, when the player picks up the reins of the game. It's an insight into some of the events that lead up to the Endeavour's current, ruined state.
We'll be posting a special update for our backers later in the day, so stay tuned for a little thank you for your support so far!
Violence never truly solves problems. It may shatter them to pieces, or riddle them with holes, or disintegrate them at a quantum level so that they no longer are in your way, but it does not solve anything.
Dark Matter's story is nuanced enough to allow for the catharsis of truly understanding and addressing the socioeconomic roots of the Scavenger race's aggressive nature. On the other hand, rockets.
Weapons, alas, win the day again, and we gave the Ensign an arsenal varied enough that while she may not always come to a satisfying conclusion of her argument with the Seekers and Angels, she will certainly have the means to tear into them with spectacular results. Let's take a look at some of Dark Matter's tools of destruction.
The first weapon in the game is the 25mm Pacifier Handgun. This standard issue sidearm draws matter from the atmosphere to manufacture its own ammunition, and will be a trusty companion in dark times. On the other hand, it's not going to make much of an impression on the bigger Scavengers, and will eventually become a last stand resort.
Next up is the Combat Shotgun. This brutal short range weapon will make fast work of most lower class scavengers, and when properly powered up with either extra damage or a faster firing rate, will put a serious dent in the bigger ones too. Shot by shot, this is the most devastating weapon in the game.
At the other hand of the combat spectrum is the Assault Rifle. This long range, fast firing weapon is ideal for delivering massive nano damage to enemies far and near. Lovely as the firing rate is, the assault rifle goes through a magazine in seconds, and can be costly to keep stocked up.
Nothing screams 'get off my ship' like a detonation, and the Ensign is well provided on that front, with the Grenade and Rocket Launchers. Grenades deal less damage per explosion, but can be fired faster, and do bounce off walls and ceilings, to reach those cunning Scavengers lying in ambush for you. Rockets instead just go boom, and do so spectacularly well.
We don't know much about the last weapon. During their attack, the Angels ignored most human technology, but scorched the laboratories that housed the Energy Caster prototypes. No information about this device survives, and that may just be enough of a hint that it's worth going after.
Seekers are the deadliest enemies you will encounter in the world of Dark Matter. They are not the most armoured, nor are they the largest aliens in the game. Seekers don't fly, and they don't even have a ranged attack. What makes them a formidable enemy is that unlike the other members of the Scavenger hive, Seekers were infused with all the cunning necessary to track and destroy the hardiest species in known space.
One of the Seeker's favourite ploys is playing possum. Scavenger hordes are not known for their neatness, and often leave a trail of dismembered carcasses in their wake. Since funeral rites don't feature in their culture, many of those carcasses are their own fallen comrades. Look carefully at the bodies you see strewn on the floor, for one of them may be a Seeker lying in wait for its prey.
Few creatures survive a surprise attack from the Seeker's fearsome claws, and players who find themselves caught in its beastly flurry of slashing attacks better have a store of medkits handy.
When fired upon, the Seeker often guards itself with its claws, turning them to catch incoming fire. Grown by early infusion of the rarest metals, a Seeker's claws can deflect most attacks, and the creature just lies in wait for the first chance to rush its prey, and slice into its flesh.
Terrible as its savagery and cunning make it, the Seeker's true weapon is its tenacity. Unbound by territory and other Scavenger caste limitations, once a Seeker latches on, it will track its target to the very end, be that its own death or its enemy's. Should a frontal assault prove too difficult to carry out, the Seeker will even retreat, circle back, and attack the player from behind.
While other Scavengers can be circumvented, once a Seeker comes after you only death will stop it. Its unpredictable nature will have you listening to its dry rattle, trying to guess where the next attack will come from. Only quick reflexes and good aim will save you from oblivion.
Big Cousins hold many a record in Dark Matter. To start with, they wield the first ranged attack players have to deal with, in the form of a Scavenger acid projectile that sticks to the surfaces it hits. Even when a Cousin misses, its projectile creates a deadly pool of acid, sizzling in expectation of your unwary foot.
If that's not enough, Big Cousins fly. Well, float. Their tough, fibrous spongy bodies are inflated with decomposition gases, and they propel themselves gently, quietly through the larger areas of the Endeavour, waiting for lone survivors to land their deadly barrages on.
There is more to Big Cousins than raining death from above as well – they are a mobile healing unit for smaller scavengers, and the presence of a Big Cousin can turn a simple crawler into a self-healing machine of destruction. Take Big Cousins down as fast as you can, because they can turn an insignificant group of tiny crawlers into your next lesson in how to die painfully.
Big Cousins are filled with gas and acid production glands – there isn't a lot of space left for brains, and enterprising players may find out that the Cousin won't fire unless it's at a minimum safe distance from the player. Hounding them into a corner is a good attack strategy, but watch out their irritation colour – they tend to explode when backed into a corner.
In spite of all these thorny sides, players will be happy to run into Cousins, as they are the first and easiest source of Amber in the game. Amber is required to craft all nano ammo and weapon upgrades, and every other amber yielding creature is far more attached to its hide than the slow-witted, floaty Big Cousin.


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Glenn Lewis, Mayor of Moore, Oklahoma, USA
About us
In 2015
Mayor of Seoul, South Korea (04/2015)
Mayor of Rotterdam, Netherlands (03/2015)
Mayor of Houston, USA, (02/2015)
Mayor of Pristina, Kosovo (01/2015)
In 2014
Mayor of Warsaw, Poland, (12/2014)
Governor of Tokyo, Japan, (11/2014)
Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand (10/2014)
Mayor of Sucre, Miranda, Venezuela (09/2014)
Mayor of Vienna, Austria (08/2014)
Mayor of Lampedusa (07/2014)
Mayor of Ghent, Belgium (06/2014)
Mayor of Montería, Colombia (05/2014)
Mayor of Liverpool, UK (04/2014)
Mayor of Pittsford Village, NY, USA (03/2014)
Mayor of Surabaya, Indonesia (02/2014)
Mayor of Santiago, Chile (01/2014)
In 2013
Mayor of Soda, India (12/2013)
Mayor of Zaragoza, Spain (11/2013)
Mayor of Marseille, France (10/2013)
Mayor of Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany (09/2013)
Mayor of Detroit, USA (08/2013)
Mayor of Moore, USA (07/2013)
Mayor of Mexico City, Mexico (06/2013)
Mayor of Cape Town, South Africa (05/2013)
Mayor of Lima, Peru (04/2013)
Mayor of Salerno, Italy (03/2013)
Governor of Jakarta, Inbdonesia (02/2013)
Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (01/2013)
In 2012
Mayor of Izmir, Turkey (12/2012)
Mayor of San Antonio, USA (11/2012)
Mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece (10/2012)
Mayor of London, UK (09/2012)
Mayor of New York, USA (08/2012)
Mayor of Bilbao, Spain (07/2012)
Mayor of Bogotá, Columbia (06/2012)
Mayor of Perth, Australia (05/2012)
Mayor of Mazatlán, Mexico (04/2012)
Mayor of Tel Aviv, Israel (03/2012)
Mayor of Surrey, Canada (02/2012)
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A tornado, which has become known as the 2013 Moore tornado, struck the City of Moore, on the southern outskirts of Oklahoma City, mid-afternoon of 20 May. The tornado was part of a larger weather system, which had produced several other tornadoes over the previous two days. It stayed on the ground for 37 minutes and covered a path of 27 km. At its peak, the Moore tornado was more than two kilometers wide and travelled through a heavy populated part of Moore. According to Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, the tornado caused the death 24 people and injured 324 others.
Despite the 2013 tornado following almost the same track as an even deadlier one in 1999, very few homes in Moore and neither of the two stricken schools had purpose-built storm shelters.
The Oklahoma center of the US National Weather Service warned of severe weather on 20 May as early as 15 May. The most intense severe weather activity was expected across the southern Great Plains, specifically central Oklahoma, during the afternoon hours. The Storm Prediction Center issued a moderate risk of severe thunderstorms during the early morning hours of May 20 from southeastern Missouri to north-central Texas. A tornado watch was issued at 1:10 pm early that afternoon for the eastern two-thirds of Oklahoma, northwestern Arkansas and portions of north-central Texas. At 2:40 pm a tornado warning was issued for the storm as it approached the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. Fifteen minutes later the tornado touched down. A tornado emergency was declared for southern Oklahoma and the city of Moore. The tornado crossed mainly rural areas - some 80 horses were killed on a farm that took a direct hit - before it struck the residential areas of the town.
Among the hardest hit areas of Moore were the two public schools: Briarwood Elementary School and Plaza Towers Elementary School. At the latter school, 75 children and staff were present when the tornado struck. Seven children died at Plaza Towers Elementary School. Moore Medical Center was heavily damaged, but no injuries were caused. Staff had to relocate 30 patients to a hospital in Norman and another hospital. Part of Interstate 35 was shut down due to debris that had been thrown onto the freeway. On 21 May, Moore still did not have running water. There were more than 61,500 power outages related to the tornado. More than 100 people were rescued from the rubble on 20 May 20.
Moore, with a population of just over 55,000, was damaged by significant tornadoes in October 1998, May 1999, May 2003, May 2010 and again in May 2013. Moore is located in Tornado Alley, a colloquial term for the area of the United States where tornadoes are most frequent. About 20 tornadoes occurred in the immediate vicinity of Moore from 1890 to 2013. The deadliest one was in 1999.


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For any organization to be successful, stability in its workforce, management and philosophy is essential. This is true whether it's a business, a sports team or a school. A blend of new ideas and past experiences allows an organization to make smooth transitions and achieve its objectives.
I have never taken a business class and I'm sure there are some in the corporate world who will disagree, but to me it is common sense that stability is crucial to an organization. For a clear example, look at the records of the Giants and the Jets.
A March 2013 study by the Research Alliance for New York City Schools — "Who Stays and Who Leaves?" — focuses on this pivotal issue. It analyzes teacher turnover in New York City middle schools, looks at where teachers go when they leave and examines the factors in their work environment that cause them to leave. Among its findings:
- More than half of middle school teachers who entered their school during the past decade left that school within three years.
- Middle school teachers leave their schools at higher rates than elementary and high school teachers.
- Only about one in 10 departing middle school teachers leave for another New York City middle school. The majority exit the city's public school system, with most of the remainder moving to elementary or high schools.
What was interesting is that there was little variation in these phenomena among schools across the city. Indeed, the majority of New York City middle schools are losing similarly high numbers of teachers, on average, over time.
The study also found that teachers are more likely to leave their school if they entered teaching through alternative routes or are teaching a new subject for the first time.
Not surprisingly, the study revealed that teachers are more likely to stay in schools that are perceived to have strong principal leadership, high levels of order and teacher collegiality. Out of 14 different factors for leaving, the three most important were: 1. lack of student discipline; 2. lack of support from administrators; and 3. wanting to have more influence over school policies.
There have been middle school task forces, reports and initiatives over the years — too many to count — all seeking to address the lack of progress and the shortcomings of our middle schools.
If middle schools are unstable and impersonal, students may find it even more difficult to manage the critical middle school years. And as the report states, this becomes a vicious cycle. As a veteran teacher explained, "It's hard to turn around a bad school when you constantly have to improve a new staff. It's very difficult."
The report concludes by recommending a policy initiative to support and provide incentives to teachers who specialize in working with early adolescents and who commit to doing so for an extended period of time. It is difficult to believe that stable and effective middle schools will become prevalent in our city without directly addressing teacher turnover.
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Just as road conditions began to improve and officials toyed with the idea of repopulating New Orleans, the threat of Hurricane Rita stymied road improvements in the Gulf States.
Although road conditions throughout the Gulf States are improving, Mayor Ray Nagin, citing a threat from fast-approaching Rita, put re-entry into New Orleans on hold.
Nagin had earlier made the decision to allow the public to begin entering the city this past weekend, which was met with controversy from federal, state and local officials who questioned the safety of such a move.
Meanwhile, in Alabama, the only road that remains closed is Alabama Highway 44 east of U.S. 78, which was shut down due to a landslide. However, a number of roads in Mobile, Sumter, Choctaw, Marengo, Tuscaloosa, Washington, Clarke, Baldwin and Marion counties remain under advisories as debris cleanup and roadway repair continues.
In southern Mississippi, road conditions have improved dramatically. With the exception of U.S. 90, which runs through the state from Alabama to Louisiana, all roadways are open in the state. However, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety is still urging caution as hurricane cleanup carries on throughout the area.
Repairs on two of the area's roadways most damaged by the storm are also under way. On Sept. 12, work began on the Interstate 10 Twinspan Bridge in New Orleans, which was severely damaged in the storm and subsequent flooding.
"Restoring this critical eastward link for New Orleans will speed recovery of the city and the entire Gulf region," U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta said in a press release. "Every day we're getting road work started to reconnect the region and help people rebuild."
According to the press release, the work was contracted to New Orleans-based Boh Bros. Construction Co. Under the contract, the bridges must be finished within 45 days. There is a $50,000-per-day incentive to finish the work ahead of schedule.
At least 100 miles of U.S. 90 in Louisiana were "basically wiped out," Mineta told The Associated Press. A temporary roadway will be completed within 90 days while the permanent highway is reconstructed, the Department of Transportation press release said.
In an interview with The AP on Sept. 4, Mineta said repairs to Interstate 10 and U.S. 90 alone would cost at least $1.5 billion.
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and state Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Johnny B. Bradberry announced that the Twinspan Bridge over Lake Pontchartrain will be repaired and functional within 45 days, thanks to more than $30 million in emergency repair funding, the Lafayette Daily Advertiser reported Sept. 12.
The following is the complete list of roadways that remain closed or are set up with checkpoints throughout Louisiana as of Wednesday morning, Sept. 21:
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I've been wanting to type and publish this post since the end of last week but I just haven't had the time. On Friday morning a lovely letter landed on our doorstep. We are always cc'd in to letters that Great Ormond Street Hospital send our GP following an appointment. If you read the post I published when we got home from London at the beginning of June you'll know that in all the excitement I didn't remember word for word
everything we were told that day, which is not like me at all.
As I want this blog to serve as a record for Martha of her journey I thought I'd fill in the bits I missed in the "Happy Dance" post.
The letter is from Dr Georgi Christov, I'm not going to re-type the whole letter as it's too long and to be honest I'm not 100% sure if that's even legal - but I'll pick out bits that I think is important or interesting for other Heart Parents.
It's starts off with " I was delighted to see this patient in Dr Sullivan's Outpatient Cardiology Clinic. We know her very well from her long-term stay with us following the repair in November last year." Now this made me laugh.
He say's that "On examination, height 67.4cm, weight 6.22Kg, heart rate 105/min, oxygen saturations 100%. She is looking perfect and she is normally developed. There is no heart failure. Respirations are symmetric and normal. Liver is palpable at 0.5cm below the right costal margin. Spleen not palpable. There is no peripheral oedema. Heart rate is with regular beats. Heart sounds are normal. There is systolic murmur grade 3/6 but there is no precordial or suprasternal thrill. There is normal pulse on the right radial artery. I did not attempt palpation on the femoral ateries."
"Echocardiography was performed by ****** ****. It confirmed excellent outcome. There is mild subaortic stenosis with acceleration not exceeding 3m/sec. The residual supravalvar aortic stenosis is minimal if any. The aortic repair is excellent without any coarctation. There is no stenosis at the site of the previous pulmonary artery banding. Pulmonary artery branches are normal. There is mild tricuspid regurgitation with velocity varying between 2.8 and 3.1m/sec confirming near normal pressures in the right ventricle. The residual ventricular septal defect is minimal and the measure velocity of 3.3m/sec must be an under estimate of the expected higher velocity as there is no suspicion of pulmonary hypertension. The right ventricular hypertrophy is decreased and so has the left ventricular hypertrophy. There is a small patent foramen ovale with minimal bidirectional flow across it."
The next paragraph now is my favourite. "In conclusion, this is excellent outcome after complicated postoperative period without current significant findings. There is no residual supravalvar aortic stenosis. The subaortic stenosis is mild. Ventricular hypertrophy and diastolic function is less pronounced but still present. There is no pulmonary hypertension and the residual ventricular septal defect is minimal without significance."
Of the pacemaker "Pacemaker showed good function of the battery and the leads with some initial increase of the ventricular lead threshold requiring higher output voltage suggestive of some initial fibrosis at the insertion site."
So I ended up typing more that I had planned. But for anyone about to embark on a similar journey with their child, this is the level of detail you should expect to receive about your appointment. I know it's a lot of medical jargon; but heaven forbid you should spend as long as we did in Intensive Care - you will be able to understand at least 90% without needing a Dr to translate for you.
Today is also a significant day for us. Tuesday 9th July 2013 I was 32 weeks pregnant with Martha Grace and we went to visit the team at Great Ormond Street and UCLH for the last time; to discuss her treatment, to have a tour of Flamingo and Bear Ward and to arrange my induction date. On that day we had no idea what lay ahead for us. I would never have let myself believe I'd get a letter like this one in the post a year later. But if all Martha needed was time, if she really needed to put us all through hell for 10 weeks - it was totally worth it to have a letter like this in the post.


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You know it when you hear it, even if you don't know its name. It's a somber bugle cry of a mere 24 notes customary at military funerals and remembrance ceremonies. The somber song is called "Taps" and it was composed in 1862 at Berkeley Plantation in Charles City, Virginia.
General George McClellan's Union troops occupied Berkeley Plantation during the Civil War, and it was in July 1862 that General Daniel Butterfield composed "Taps" as a "lights out" call to the soldiers. The first bugler of "Taps" was Oliver Willcox Norton.
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the composition, Berkeley Plantation is hosting a weekend-long event beginning this Friday, June 22 and concluding Sunday, June 24.
This weekend, visitors to Berkeley can expect to walk into a living history environment, including a re-creation of the aftermath of the Seven Days' Battles, President Abraham Lincoln reviewing the troops, a re-creation of the birth of "Taps", and a rededication of the "Taps" monument.
The "Taps" commemoration event is free, but visitors who wish to tour the 1726 mansion will pay $11/adult, $6/child aged 6-12, and $7.50/student aged 13-16. Also be sure to visit and tour the Civil War 150 HistoryMobile which will be on site for the duration of the event.
Berkeley Plantation is Virginia's most historic plantation. Its legacy includes being the site of the first official Thanksgiving in 1619. Berkeley is also the birthplace of Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and fifth Governor of Virginia, and William Henry Harrison, the ninth President of the United States whose grandson, Benjamin, became the 23rd President of the United States.
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Florida + Summer = LOTS of rain.
Daily downpours have really cut into our walking time. We were able to take a short walk in between showers and I snapped this picture of Jedi.
Along with the rain comes some pretty oppressive humidity. This reminds me of a poem that a friend sent to me years ago. I don't know if she wrote it or just passed it along, but it went something like this:
As another heat wave approaches
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Gerry Strauss of Channel Guide Magazine is featuring an interview with TNA President Dixie Carter where she talks about becoming more of a character on TNA television.
"From the beginning, I think people just assumed I would step in and become a character, and I did resist it for a long period of time. This year they came to me and said, 'We feel if we could tie some of our younger, newer talent to you [on the show] that it would really, really help them.' It was something that I didn't jump at. I really was a little concerned about being able to pull it off, honestly. I'm becoming more and more comfortable with it as time goes by."
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This week Part-Time Characters goes back in time to review some classic horror/supernatural movies. We did our best to keep a brave face. It's another special episode of Retro Reviews, where we each pick a movie we haven't seen but we have been meaning to watch for quite some time.
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Tess Maynard is coming apart. At home with her three young children in her husband's Georgia hometown, people keep asking if she's depressed, if she and John are okay.
Secretly, she's becoming obsessed with the war on terror—an ISIS beheading video in particular. Something about the victims' captivity on the computer screen resonates with her. Something inside of her demands endless prayers for a world gone mad.
The carefully constructed life of her husband is likewise beginning to unravel. Now a college counselor, John's former life bears persistently into the present. Once a contractor at a CIA black site that interrogated suspected terrorists—and one innocent civilian—he is given a choice by the Justice Department: either help with a problem in the homeland, or they investigate.
Forced by an old colleague to spy on a new one, John's experiences abroad come home to roost in Georgia. For his wife, for his family, he goes along with the game. But just as he and Tess work to salvage their life together, the world comes between them in the form of a young man slowly being radicalized by the professor John is reporting on.
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Luther Redding lost his job and almost lost his wife, Pamela, and teenaged daughters, Katie and Lucy, when the real estate bubble burst in Florida. Now he pilots a Reaper drone over the mountains of Afghanistan from a command center in the bowels of Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base, studying a target's pattern of life and awaiting the command to end that life. Meanwhile Booby Rosen has returned home from his tours in Iraq to a broken marriage and an estranged son, his promising military career cut short in a moment of terrible violence in a a Sadr City marketplace. As the tales of Luther and Bobby unfold, Mark Powell masterfully engages with the vexing, bifurcated lives of combatants in the global war on terror, those who are simultaneously here and there and thus never fully freed from the life-and-death chaos of the battlefield.
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A troubled Episcopal priest and would-be activist, Malcolm Walker has failed twice over--first in an effort to shock his New England congregants out of their complacency and second in an attempts at suicide. Haunted by images of the Iraq War and Abu Ghraib, he heads home to the mountains of northwestern South Carolina, the state's "dark corner," where a gathering of storm of private grief and public rage awaits him."
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Set in the South Carolina foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the late summer of 1970, Blood Kin tells the story of the Burden family and the community of outcasts that surrounds them. James Burden is the eldest son in the Burden family. A Korean War veteran and former prisoner-of-war, he struggles with inner demons and drug addiction. He has returned home after almost two decades of absence to find his family members consumed with struggles all their own.
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In the late summer of 1944, fifteen-year-old Ernest Cobb flees into the dense forests of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Behind him, in his South Carolina hometown, the girl he thought he had impregnated is being buried. Her shooting death was not Ernest's doing, but Ernest fears that he will be implicated in it anyway. With little sense of where he is going or how he might survive, the boy makes his way northward.
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Thunderbirds a blast for Westside Boys & Girls Club
Representatives of the Air Force Thunderbirds flying team visited the Boys & Girls Club's El Pomar Unit on the Westside June
Capt. Todd Randolph, the team's executive officer; and Staff Sgt. Anthony Lagred, an enlisted team member, gave a roughly 45-minute presentation about the Thunderbirds and answered numerous questions from more than 100 youngsters seated on chairs in the club's gym.
The visit was an offshoot of Air Force Academy efforts to get closer to community leaders, according to James Sullivan, executive director of the Boys & Girls Club of the Pikes Peak Region. He said he was pleased at the opportunity because the Thunderbirds provide "strong, positive role models."
Later in the day, the kids went to Peterson Field in hopes of catching the scheduled Thunderbirds air show, but bad weather kept the jets on the ground. The result wasn't all bad: The team's pilots came out and signed autographs.
"They were so good with them," said Kiersten Shoup, director of finance and administration for the club. "So it worked out. It was exciting for the kids."
In his talk at the club that morning, Randolph strongly encouraged the youngsters to stay in school. "It's all about choices," he said. "It's your choice to if you study hard or you don't, or if you listen to your mom and dad instead of some guy on the street corner. Making good choices leads to great opportunities and a good life."
His audience included boys and girls from the two Colorado Springs clubs, as well as a club at Fort Carson.
Asked by one child how the Thunder-bird activities support the war effort, Ran-dolph drew applause when he said that the actions of everyone serving in the military supports that effort.
Known as the local club's "El Pomar Unit," the Westside Boys & Girls Club is located off Manitou Boulevard at 805 Pradeira Ave. During the school year, the club provides activities for kids after school, and during the summer it is open all day.
The Thunderbirds squadron is an Air Combat Command unit comprised of eight pilots, four support officers, approximately 120 Active-duty, Air National Guard and Reserve enlisted people, and four civilians.
Featuring the F-16 jet, a Thunderbirds air demonstration lasts about an hour and involves six aircraft, performing about 40 maneuvers while flying in formation or solo.
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Joe Goodwin recently retired as assistant director of the Ball State University Career Center.
Education and Accomplishments: Joseph P. Goodwin earned a BA in English at the University of Alabama and an MA and a PhD in folklore at Indiana University. He has been a member of the AFS Executive Board, the board of the National Association for Job-Search Training, the Assembly of the Midwest Association of Colleges and Employers, and the Ball State University Senate. He has been editor of the journal of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research and was Linda Dégh's graduate assistant, which included being assistant editor of Indiana Folklore. He is the author of numerous journal articles and encyclopedia entries as well as More Man than You'll Ever Be: Gay Folklore and Acculturation in Middle America (Indiana University Press, 1989). He was a member of the editorial board of the Qualia Encyclopedia of Gay People and has been a manuscript reviewer of books for several presses. Several years ago Qualia honored Polly Stewart and Joe by creating the "PoJo" awards for students' research on Gay folklore. He was cofounder of the AFS LGBTQA Section, which he served as convenor or co-convenor for many years, and is also a member of the Women's Folklore Section; the Politics, Folklore, and Social Justice Section; the Independent Folklorists Section; and the Newfolk Section. He was the second male croned by the Women's Section. He recently retired as assistant director emeritus of the Ball State Career Center after 23 years, during which time he wrote a careers column for the AFS Newsletter.
Question: What is the greatest challenge or opportunity facing the field of folklore studies and how, as a Nominating Committee member, would you respond to it?
Response: I believe our field's greatest challenge is employment for folklorists. My years of work in career planning and development can help our members learn to apply their skills beyond the academy. For example, I've long been the career coach for social workers and teachers, which could be valuable to folklorists seeking employment outside of or within a limited university job market. Folklore helps us understand cultural issues and human behavior in ways that we can contribute to many fields. It is important that we remember our history, that we be able to explain to others what folklore is and what folklorists do, and that we never forget our ethical responsibilities to the tradition bearers and their communities with whom we work. Part of that commitment is being able to identify our specialized skills and knowing how we can use them to benefit those who share their cultures with us. As one who bridges women's, academic, public, independent, and LGBTQ folklore, I would seek to close the gaps among these communities. I bring experience as an educator, which can contribute to these efforts, as can my extensive background in editing and publishing. I hope to help our members understand the logistical and financial problems of last-minute venue changes for our meetings and the educational value of addressing political and social issues as we did in Denver in 1975 and Eugene in 1982.
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However interesting that book could have been, the man was thinking about his younger lover's cock and about his younger lover's cock only. The two, tired from their previous escapades, tried staying away from each other for a while, but hey, who were they trying to fool? Another spark between them, and seconds later the older lover was already getting long hard thrusts from the boy as he embraced his shaft with his lips. The boy demanded more and the man was more than happy to offer his hole for some plowing. And his face for a cumshot, too!
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It has been a very long time that I wrote anything here. Not that I haven't had anything to write about - I have been doing so many different things - but I am lazy. This entry is motivated from some questions some folks had about the row counter I use when knitting.
Liz Upitis in her book about Latvian mittens talks about using a loop of yarn that is tied into subloops. Each time you knit a round, you slip your needle into the next loop down. Say you need to cross a cable every 8 rows. You create an 8 loop counter. After going through all 8 loops, you do the cable cross and start over. Recently I saw a blog post that shows doing the same thing with locking stitch markers.
As a forester I often had to lay out boundary and cruising plot lines
using a handcompass and pacing. To keep track of my paces I used either
a clicker (much like the clickers knitters use) or pacing beads. Pacing
beads consist of two cords linked together on a loop or carabiner. One
cord carries 9 or 10 beads and the other usually about 5 beads. You
slide one of ten beads to the end of the cord each time you have paced a
certain distance (every 20 meters, every 50 meters - whatever). After
counting ten of these, you slide one of the five bead set to the end of
these cords. Then you start over with the 10 count. That way you can
count at least 50 - technically 60 - such distances.
The Upitis method got me to thinking that I could make a mini pacing bead set and accomplish the same thing. Additionally you could use them to count 2 different things - like decreasing every 3 round while cabling every 8 rounds, etc.
I use a split ring that works with the needle size. Cotton crochet thread doubled works well with the small beads - they slide only when you want them to. Split rings also work well as stitch makers. They are thinner than standard stitch markers and don't mess with your gauge as I have found the fat plastic ones do.
Anyway, try it and let me know if you like it!


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Jessica VanderKolk, Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.)
Bailey Hoff doesn't like "buttery stuff" on her sandwiches, so she wasn't a huge fan of the SunButter spread she taste-tested in Jeffrey Mudry's first-grade classroom at Bellefonte Elementary on Friday morning."I do like peanut butter better," she said, but added, "It's always good to try." Food service workers are "spreading the sunshine," the slogan on the SunButter website, by using the sunflower seed spread in place of peanut butter for those elementary students with peanut allergies, making seed butter and jelly sandwiches for lunches. Barbara Eckley, Bellefonte's food services director, said the discussion about trying the new product started at Benner Elementary because there were siblings with food allergies. Now, peanut butter is only used for head start students who eat snacks and some meals at Bellefonte Elementary. Peanut butter is sometimes still served at the middle school, and the packaged peanut butter and jelly sandwiches called Uncrustables, from Smucker's, are served at the high school. "We don't make peanut butter cookies anymore," Eckley said, and they don't use peanut butter icing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 4 to 6 percent of U.S. children under 18 have food allergies, and peanut allergies are one of the eight foods accounting for 90 percent of reactions. Eckley has documented 20 cases of peanut allergies at the elementary level, and a few at the secondary level. The schools register allergies in their computer systems, and food restrictions pop up in red when students arrive at the cafeteria cash register. She said most kids know what they can't have, but the electronic reminder can help. Students also have allergies to red dye, sweet potatoes, Styrofoam and gluten, though Eckley said most parents pack lunches for their gluten-free children. The elementary and middle schools also still have peanut-free tables in their cafeterias, where students with allergies can sit with friends who aren't eating peanut products. The State College Area School District's eight elementary schools also have peanut-free cafeteria tables, but any student who bought a school lunch can sit there. Food Services Director Megan Schaper said the district hasn't served peanut butter or other nut products for many years. That decision was made as food allergies became more prevalent. "People were requesting peanut-free buildings, and you cannot guarantee a peanut-free building," she said, noting a delivery worker could enter the building after eating a peanut butter sandwich for lunch. "We can assure if a child gets a lunch, it's going to be safe." Schaper said her district also uses SunButter, but just as another entree choice, since there's no peanut butter to replace. As Eckley carried a tray of sandwich quarters into Mudry's classroom for a taste test Friday, she explained the new sandwiches will be available in the cafeteria before they leave for Christmas break. SunButter and jelly is a weekly menu choice for young students. It was offered last week and is planned again for the week of Dec. 17. As she receives more feedback from students, Eckley said it could become a daily offering, as was previously done with peanut butter and jelly. "Student comments have been positive so far and our counts were pretty good the first time around," she said. "I will continue to monitor participation." Bellefonte schools are using their U.S. Department of Agriculture allocation, given each year as part of the National School Lunch Program, to purchase the SunButter. Because it's more expensive than peanut butter, Eckley said that helps the schools provide it. Despite that, Eckley said Superintendent Cheryl Potteiger previously worked in another district that used SunButter, and supported its use here. "As the years go on, it's definitely used more often," Eckley said of the alternative spread, after her talks with other food service workers across the state. "The superintendent made it clear that price was no concern." Jessica VanderKolk can be reached at 235-3910. Follow her on Twitter @jVanReporter. (c)2012 the Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.) Visit the Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.) at www.centredaily.com Distributed by MCT Information Services


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Sunday, April 8, 2012
[b]FUC 63 - Philosophy Of Knives - Violent Death To Rapist Scum C15[/b]
Grindnoise/Power Electronics brought to you by Nyodene D. Attack on the male dominated society. Sloppy drums, sloppy bass, regurgitated vocals. The way grind should sound. Material repeats on both sides.
Sample: [url]http://soundcloud.com/jimharas/phil-of-knives-sample[/url]
[b]FUC 66 - Cremation Lily - Leather Satchel C15[/b]
Cold-synth/junk noise, instrumental power electronics from the UK. Newcomer, but surely doing things right. Perfect atmosphere from birth to death. Cover illustration by Sophie Penrose.
Sample: [url]http://soundcloud.com/jimharas/cremation-lily-sample[/url]
[b]FUC 67 - Swarm Survival - Heavy Losses C20[/b]
Piercing high end power electronics/harsh noise. New no-coaster from my neck of the woods. Based on locust plagues.
Sample: [url]http://soundcloud.com/jimharas/swarm-survival-sample[/url]
[b]FUC 70 - Winters In Osaka/Hodr - Split C47[/b]
Winters continues on the creepy harsh drone path with 5 tracks. Hodr compliments WiO with 3 creepy dark ambient tracks using synths and samples.
WiO Sample: [url]http://soundcloud.com/jimharas/winters-in-osaka-sample[/url]
Hodr Sample: [url]http://soundcloud.com/jimharas/hodr-sample[/url]
Each tape: $6/9 PPD US/World
All 4: $18/$27
4 tape deal applies to all previously released tapes also (double tapes count as 2)
email: jimharas [at] yahoo [dot] com
Paypal: nick_haras [at] yahoo [dot] com
FUC 48 - The Blackmoor Strangler - Il Ragno
FUC 54 - Ascities - Leak Test
FUC 64 - DWABFFRB/Hocksteader - Split
FUC 65 - Skin Graft/Deterge - Neglectronics split 12"
FUC 68 - Death Axis - Utter Disgust
FUC 69 - Urine Cop - Lean Hard 7"
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Sunshine Bay has been in business for quite sometime apparently they have shifted from the opposite of the road to now a bigger premise on same row with the Post Office of Tanjung Bungah. In most cases when the business gets bigger the food quality tends to drop but not so so in Sunshine Bay. So check it out if you are looking for seafood at Tanjung Bungah.
We were there in a big group as big as 4 tables and we ordered in an extravagant way until we could hardly finish the good food....
|Crabs fried with yellow noodle it is watery but a delicious gravy indeed.
|Chicken marinated with Guinness Stout sauce seems the favourite dish. Juicy and awesome.
|Fried Tofu with minced meat topping garnished with spring onions.
|A clay pot of herbal chicken.
|Bitter gourd fried with watery eggs...it's so soothing and nice.
|Grouper fish steamed with light soy sauce.
|Fresh prawns with light chilli sauce served in bamboo pole.
|Sweet potato leaves fried with Belacan & prawns.
The group of cycling buddies having a wonderful meal at Sunshine Bay..
|A night of plentiful food for a good occasion and tomorrow was going to be a big day for Go & Well. Let's eat, drink & be merry!!!
Sunshine Bay Seafood Restaurant
584-B Jalan Tanjung Bungah
11200 Penang
Tel : 012 4737276 & 016 4689168


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Hello Folks,
Just got back from Tobacco Rd and thought I'd post a few pictures of their smoking lounge.
The nice leather chairs have provided me with a comfortable seating arrangement that's allowed me hours of reading/smoking time.
As for selection, they offer the following:
Ashton (including one of the VSG sizes)
Romeo y Julieta Habano Reserve, Reserve Real and 1875
Arturo Fuente (including the Short Story)
H. Upman
Casa Magna
Partagas Black
Sancho Panza
Joya De Nicaragua
Rocky Patel 12 year Vintage
RP EDGE (robusto size 5X48 I think)
Oliva V, O and G series
Hoyo De Monterrey (Excalibur)
And a cuban seed house blend robusto and torpedo. The robusto is available in EMS or Maduor and I like the maduro bettter. It's better constructed, not as strong but still a sweet, tasty maduro.
I'm not sure which NUB she'll be bringing in but she'll have those too. I've had those and they're pretty good.
Most of the prices are lower than SF and I wonder if that's due to taxes. The shop itself has to overcome ridding itself of the ghetto element so I understand they may be phasing out cigarette sales and some of the more less lucrative products that tend to attract the element as I call them, but Kathrine is determiend to give cigar smokers a place to call home.
She'll be installing a TV soon in the lounge. I've been allowed to bring in alcohol under the "don't act a fool" rule. My question is, once she rotates some of the stock out, what would you like to see in the humidor?
I'd like to see Padron, Cuesta Rey, Tatuaje, Punch Uppercut, along with an expansion of the RP line. How about you?
The shop is located at 14th and Franklin, close to 12th St. BART station. Come on down and enjoy a smoke!


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The Lord of the Rings meets Moneyball in this unique and authoritative book on Dungeons & Dragons —from the game's origins through its rise to cultural prominence, and its ripple effect on popular culture today.
Even if you've never played Dungeons & Dragons, you probably know someone who has (whether or not they're willing to admit it). Released in 1974 —decades before video games and the Internet took over the gaming world— Dungeons & Dragons became one of the original nerd subcultures, and is still revered by over thirty million fans today. Now journalist David M. Ewalt explores the rich history of the game, revealing the magic that enlivened his youth, and has since re-entered his adult life in a whole new way.
From its roots on the battlefields of ancient Europe, through the hysteria that linked it to satanic rituals and teen suicides, and to its apotheosis as father of the modern video game industry, Of Dice and Men recounts the development of a game played by some of most fascinating people in the world. Chronicling the surprising history of D&D's origins (one largely unknown even to hardcore players) while examining the game's profound impact, Ewalt weaves laser-sharp cultural analysis with his own present-day gaming experiences.
An enticing blend of history, journalism, narrative and memoir, Of Dice and Men sheds light on America's most popular (and widely misunderstood) form of collaborative entertainment.
Please contact Kyle Radler for review copies or publicity requests.


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Keil, Roger H
York Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies
Staatsexamen Dr.Phil. (Political Science)
, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität
Global suburbanisms: Governance, land, and infrastructure in the 21st century
(PI for SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative 2010-17; 46 researchers; 17 partners).
Comparing Metropolitan Governance in Transatlantic Perspective: Toronto, Montreal, Paris and Frankfurt
Roger Keil (PI), Stefan Kipfer, Julie-Anne Boudreau (CNRS), Pierre Hamel (UdM), SSHRC Standard Research Grant 2007-2011.
In-Between Infrastructure: Urban Connectivity in an Age of Vulnerability with Infrastructure Canada
Infrastructure Canada Research Studies Program 2006-2010.
SARS and the Global City: The Case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Toronto
SARS and the Global City: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto (co-PI with Harris Ali) SSHRC Standard Research Grant 2004-2008.
- York Research Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies
- York President's Research Excellence Award
Selected Publications
2015 (ed. with P Hamel) Suburban Governance: A Global View. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2013 (ed.) Suburban Constellations: Governance, Land and Infrastructure in the 21st Century. Berlin: Jovis Verlag.
2011 (ed. with Douglas Young and Patricia B. Wood) In-Between Infrastructure: Urban Connectivity in an Age of Vulnerability. Kelowna, BC: Praxis(e) Press.
2009 (ed. with Rianne Mahon) Leviathan Undone? Towards a Political Economy of Scale. Vancouver: UBC Press.
2009 (with Julie-Anne Boudreau and Douglas Young) Changing Toronto: Governing Urban Neoliberalism. Toronto: UTP.
2008 (ed. with Harris Ali) Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Studies in Urban and Social Change Series.
2006 (ed. with N. Brenner) The Global Cities Reader. Routledge.
2004 (with G. Desfor) Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, Nature and Society Series).
Chapters in books
2015 Canadian Suburbanization (with JP Addie and R. Fiedler) In Pierre Filion, Tara Vinodrai, Ryan Walker and Markus Moos (eds.) Canadian Cities in Transition. 5th edtn. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
2014 Frankfurt. Platz, Ort, Raum der U-Topie. In Christoph Siegl, Anne Rudolf, Oliver Müller (eds.) Kleinöde: Ein Bildband zur Idee und Praxis städtischer Plätze in Frankfurt am Main. Norderstedt: BoD Books.
2014 (with D. Young) In-Between Mobility in Toronto's New (Sub)Urban Neighbourhoods, In Paul Watt and Peer Smets, (eds.) Neighbourhoods, Mobilities and Belonging in the City and Suburb. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
2014 Diseased, In Peter Adey, David Bissell, Kevin Hannam, Peter Merriman and Mimi Sheller, The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities, London and New York, Routledge, 388-397.
2013 Welcome to the suburban revolution, In: Roger Keil (ed.) Suburban Constellations. Berlin: Jovis, 8-15.
2013 Escape from the burbs, In: Roger Keil (ed.) Suburban Constellations. Berlin: Jovis, 200.
2013 (with S. Hertel) Making them talk, then act together: The Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group, In: Roger Keil (ed.) Suburban Constellations. Berlin: Jovis, 130-136.
2013 (with R. Shields) Suburban boundaries: beyond greenbelts and edges, In: Roger Keil (ed.) Suburban Constellations. Berlin: Jovis, 71-78.
2012 "Probleme der Metropolenentwicklung: Rhein- Main im internationalen Vergleich", In Jochen Monstadt, Karsten Zimmermann, Tobias Robischon, Barbara Schönig (eds) Die diskutierte Region: Probleme und Planungsansätze der Metropolregion Rhein-Main, 63-80.
2012 (with M. Whitehead) "Cities and the Politics of Sustainability", In Karen Mossberger, Susan E. Clarke and Peter John (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics. Oxford University Press.
2012 "Los Angeles", In Mark Juergensmeyer and Helmut K. Anheier (eds.), Encyclopedia of Global Studies. Sage Publications.
2011 "Suburbanization and Global Cities", In Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Peter J. Taylor, and Frank Witlox (eds.), International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities. London: Edward Elgar.
2011 (with S.H. Ali) "Global Cities and Infectious Disease", In Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Peter J. Taylor, and Frank Witlox (eds.), International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities. London: Edward Elgar.
2011 (with D. Young) "Post-Suburbia and City Region Politics", In Nick Phelps and Fulong Wu (eds.), International Perspectives on Suburbanization: A Post-Suburban World? Palgrave-MacMillan: 54-78.
2011 "Global Cities: Connectivity, Vulnerability and Resilience", In Barbara Hahn and Meike Zwingenberger (eds.), Global Cities. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter.
2011 (with C. Major) "SARS and Service Work: Infectious Disease and Racialization in Toronto" In Andrew Baldwin, Laura Cameron, Audrey Kobayashi (eds.) Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature and Geographies of Whiteness in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press.
2011 (with D. Young)"In-Between Canada: The Emergence of the New Urban Middle", In Roger Keil, Douglas Young and Patricia Wood (eds.), In-Between Infrastructure: Urban Connectivity in an Age of Vulnerability. Kelowna, BC: Praxis(e) Press: 1-18.
2011 (with D. Young and P. B. Wood) "Conclusion: From Critique to Politics and Planning" In Roger Keil, Douglas Young and Patricia Wood (eds.), In-Between Infrastructure: Urban Connectivity in an Age of Vulnerability. Kelowna, BC: Praxis(e) Press: 249-260.
2011 (with S.H. Ali) "The Urban Political Pathology of Emerging Infectious Disease in the Age of the Global City", In Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward (eds.), Assembling Urbanism: Mobilizing Knowledge and Shaping Cities in the Global Context. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: 123-145.
2011 (with N. Brenner) "From Global Cities to Globalized Urbanization", In Richard LeGates and Frederick Stout, The City Reader. 5th Ed. London and New York: Routledge.
2011"Transnational Urban Political Ecology: Health, Environment and Infrastructure in the Unbounded City", In Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (eds.), The New Companion to the City. 2nd Ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
2010 (with A. Allahwala and J-A. Boudreau) Urban Governance in Canada, In Trudi Bunting, Pierre Filion and Ryan Walker (eds.) Canadian Cities in Transition, 4th ed.
2009 (with S.H. Ali) "Securitizing Networked Flows: Infectious Diseases and Airports", Steven Graham (ed.) Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails. London and New York: Routledge: 97-110.
2009 (with R. Mahon) Introduction and Conclusion, In Roger Keil and Riann Mahon (eds.) Leviathan Undone? Towards a Political Economy of Scale. Vancouver: UBC Press.
2009 (with A. Allahwala) "Immigrant City: Stadt, Alltagsleben und Beschäftigungspolitik in Toronto," In Frank Gesemann and Roland Roth (eds.) Lokale Integrationspolitik in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft – Migration und Integration als Herausforderung von Kommunen, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
2009 "Hin zur Region? Toronto seit den langen 90er Jahren," In Ludger Basten (ed.) Metropolregionen – Restrukturierung und Governance. Deutsche und internationale Fallstudien. Dortmund: Verlag Dorothea Rohn: 83-94.
2009 (with H. Ali) Public Health and the Political Economy of Scale: Implications for Understanding the Response to the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Outbreak in Toronto, In R. Keil and R. Mahon (eds.) Leviathan Undone? The Political Economy of Scale. Vancouver: UBC Press: 195-208.
2009 (with Melissa Ollevier and Erica Tsang) Why is there no environmental justice in Toronto? Or is there? In Julian Agyeman, Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Peter Cole, Patricia O'Riley (eds.) Speaking for Ourselves: Environmental Justice in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press.
2008 Entries on city, global city, urbanism, urbanization, urban fringe, urban nature in The Dictionary of Human Geography, R.J. Johnston, Derek Gregory, Geraldine Pratt, and Michael Watts (eds.) Dictionary of Human Geography, 5th Edition, Cambridge, Mass. and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Articles in refereed journal
2015 (with JP Addie) Real existing regionalism: The region between talk, territory and technology, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 39,2 (March)
2015 (with JP Addie and K. Olds) "Beyond town and gown": Higher education institutions, territoriality and the mobilization of new urban structures, Territory, Politics, Governance, 3,1: 27-50.
2014 (with D. Young) Locating the urban in-between: Tracking the urban politics of infrastructure in Toronto, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38,5 (September): 1589-1608.
2013 "At one remove?" Warren Magnusson sees like a city and finds the world, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37,2: 793-797.
2012 (with S. Macdonald) The Ontario Greenbelt: Shifting the Scales of the Sustainability Fix? The Professional Geographer, 64(2), 1–21.
2011 The global city comes home: Internalized globalization in Frankfurt am Main, Urban Studies 48, 12 (September), 2495-2518.
2010 (with Stefan Kipfer and Ute Lehrer) Reurbanization in Toronto: Condominium boom and social housing revitalization, DISP: The Planning Review 180: 81-90
2009 (with Douglas Young) Reconnecting the Disconnected: The Politics of Infrastructure in the In-Between City, Cities, 27, 2, April, Pages 87-95.
2009 (with Douglas Young) Fringe Explosions: Risk and Vulnerability in Canada's New In-Between Urban Landscape, The Canadian Geographer 53,3: 374-386.
2009 The Urban Politics of Roll-With-It Neoliberalization, City: Analysis of Urban Trends 13, 2-3 (June-September): 231-245.
2008 (with Douglas Young) Transportation: The Bottleneck of Regional Competitiveness in Toronto, Environment and Planning C 26, 4 (August): 728-751.
2007 (with S. Harris Ali) Governing the Sick City: Urban Governance in the Age of Emerging Infectious Disease. Antipode 39, 5 (November): 846-873.
2007 (with S. Harris Ali) Contagious Cities, Geography Compass, 1, 5: 1207-1226.
2007 Empire and the Global City, Studies in Political Economy 79 (Spring): 167-192.
2007 (with Julie-Anne Boudreau, Pierre Hamel and Bernard Jouve) New State Spaces in Canada: Metropolitanization in Montreal and Toronto Compared, Urban Geography 28, 1 (January), pp.30-53.
2006 (with S. Harris Ali) Multiculturalism, Racism and Infectious Disease in the Global City: The Experience of the 2003 SARS Outbreak in Toronto, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Number 16, Fall, 23-49.
2006 (with Julie-Anne Boudreau, Pierre Hamel and Bernard Jouve) Comparing metropolitan governance: the cases of Montreal and Toronto. Progress in Planning.
2006 (with Julie-Anne Boudreau) Le discours sur la démocratie locale et la compétitivité métropolitaine: Le cas de Toronto, Politique et Sociétés.
2006 (with S. Harris Ali, Claire Major, Estair Van Wagner) "Pandemics, place, and planning: Learning from SARS", Plan Canada (September).
2006 (with Harris Ali) The Avian Flu: The Lessons Learned from the 2003 SARS Outbreak in Toronto, Area, 38, 1.
2006 (with Harris Ali) "Global Cities and the Spread of Infectious Disease: The Case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto, Canada", Urban Studies, 43, 3 (March).
2006 (with G. Desfor, S. Kipfer and G. Wekerle) "From Surf to Turf: No Limits to Growth in Toronto?" Studies in Political Economy 77, Spring, 131-156.