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(Incandescent, #3)
Sylvie Parizeau
(Incandescent, #3)
Publication date: November 22nd 2017
Genres: New Adult, Romance
PHILIPPE-OLIVIER TISSEROT's caffeine addiction is about to land him in uncharted territory and one hell of a ride. One that's about to go viral.
Current status: Computer whiz to hacker to penpal.
Upgrade status: Lover.
Well, I'm still working on the lover part.
I'm just a computer geek studying at MIT. And now I'm in two places at once – the geek and the lover battling it out to get the girl.
The only problem is, my dream girl doesn't know she knows me in either one of them.
Now I have to win her in both.
Please wait. Upgrade in progress.
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This book three in this magical series, this time it was P.O. As we know if you have read any of the books in series, when one of the guys meet their woman they know immediately in an almost a spiritual experience.
P.O can't believe the beautiful girl he sees from the tables outside the coffee shop. They began to communicate by their computers and mobile phone.as he goes back to Boston to finish he's his double degrees at MIT. Very soon Aurele decided to write to Olivier as she did not want Olivier to find out she was deaf.
This is an enjoyable book. As we know it always nice to catch up with guys and their women and family. This is a delightful slice of this magical interlude. It was great to see Olivier get his HEA.
Author Bio:
A paralegal by day and incurable romantic by night, Sylvie is a cross-genre, and she takes Happily Ever After very seriously. The End just isn't in her vocabulary.
An incorrigible daydreamer, she now feeds her obsession with epilogues by concocting stories in which heroes deal with the happy from the get-go. Ready, or not. And she confesses under oath to loving every minute of it.
Sylvie lives her own Happily Ever After in the beautiful mountains of Les Laurentides in Northern Quebec, alongside her whole set of characters.
In between treks in their backyard wilderness, you can find them hanging out at http://www.sylvieparizeau.com


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BakerDays: Personalised 5'' Letterbox Gift Cake Review + Giveaway
I wanted to do this since long. A personalised Ferrari themed cake for the special one on his birthday. In this post, I will share my experience with the BakerDays personalised 5 inch letterbox gift cake and a giveaway for you lovely people, so make sure to read till the end!
About BakerDays:
My Experience:
The vanilla sponge cake I tried costs £14.99, while there is an additional charge for the other flavours. The cakes are posted through the Royal Mail and an additional postage charge applies depending on how urgent you need the cake to be delivered. For all the details, you can check on the BakerDays website.
Although it's meant to be a letterbox cake, your house may have a different sized letterbox like mine which may not enable the post-man to keep the box in your letterbox. In that case, if he rings the bell and you receive it, it's well and good. However, if the postman leaves a note for collection or re-delivery, you might not be very happy about that.
Therefore, I would just advice you to inform the BakerDays team to convey to the Royal Mail to deliver the parcel at the neighbour's in case you're not around rather than leaving a note.
I haven't forgotten the GIVEAWAY.
So HERE it is! Now this calls for all the excitement? You just have to ENTER the Rafflecopter and I'll select a random winner and announce/contact the lucky reader on social media. So make sure you following me there!
Done? Now enter the giveaway. Good luck! :)
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There were 1078 in all and HERE is the WINNER! Congratulations to Barbara Daniels of UK. Well done!


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10 Proven Methods To Get More Happiness With Less Stress
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motivasi bahagia1. No Act Rule. Don't react so quickly to things, especially negative circumstances. Sometimes we stress ourselves out by acting too fast and regretting it later. The negative email response we send out, the emotional yelling at an argument, etc. Some things are better left to be thought about and some reactions are better to be delayed. Give yourself some cooling off time.
2. Fact Only (No Interpretations). See things in terms of facts, not your interpretation. Your friend didn't call you like he promised. Fact: He didn't call you. Interpretation: He's forgotten about you. Just react on the facts. Your interpretations may be wrong and they're just going to give you unneccesary stress.
3. No Emotion. Try to live life with less or no emotion. Emotions are fleeting and they make our states go UP and DOWN. When it's up, it's great! But when it's down, we feel stressed. Try to flatten your emotion. Everything is just IS.
4. Focus on Solution, not the Problem. Look for solutions in your challenges. Dwelling on the problem and how bad your life is won't help. Focusing on solutions unleashes your resources.
5. Know What You Want. Motivate yourself forward by having clear goals. Visualize them clearly and you will have the drive to go through the challenges necessary to achieve them.
6. Set Some Rules to Achieve Your Goals. Now that you've got a goal, what are the rules you must obey to achieve them? For him, it was a more balanced and healthier life. So Rule #1: No Work on Weekends. Set it, obey it… and your life will change.
7. Change Your Environment. Find people that will support your rules. Change your environment, friends, work if necessary. The #1 person in your life is YOU.
8. Say YES!! Yes to opportunities, fun things, new people, and anything that will get you to where you want to go.
9. What Other People Think is Not Important. You can spend your life trying to be "acceptable" to everyone and it willl never be achieved. Just set your goals and be true to yourself. You are a beautiful creation.
10. Remember the Law of Diminishing Returns. Something that may work well will also diminish in effectiveness over time. Always learn something new so that you will have new ideas and strategies to sustain the peace and happiness in your life.
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I know she was real. I have pictures, words, and memories of her pressed into my soul. But even as I write these words she seems like a dream…
Born to a Baptist preacher on a sharecropping farm during the Great Depression, she was the oldest of 14 children and her grandparents were slaves. My grandmother. She was my second chance at having a mother and I was her opportunity to leave behind all the wisdom and love that wasn't possible when she was a parent the first time around. When I arrived at her doorstep broken and marred by the crossfire of my parents' pain, she had over 50 years of life in the kiln to assist me while I was yet a lump of clay forming on the potter's wheel. Life hardened her and left her with a strong enough foundation for the both of us to stand on.
Our relationship was a delicate dance that forced our egos into submission. We tamed each other. Her hardness thickened my skin and my tender heart softened hers. I was her disciple and spent 15 years soaking at her feet. She taught me to love God and information. And how to find and express each of these things. She placed great importance on thinking and speaking…and learning the art of self-control. She taught me never to argue or yell to communicate a point because life and death each begin with words. Clear communication and confident presentation was enough to speak life and truth into every situation.
When I was teased and bullied at school, I looked for her to want revenge and to give me permission to hate but she never let me be the victim. "Always be sure of yourself even when you're not and being liked is not important." She said, "People will either like you or not like you but never let anyone make you less than who you are. Act in accordance with who you are. You are a child of God and that means something." She re-created me. She said that there was value in everything and everybody and to never believe that I was above or beneath anyone.
She didn't scream at me, use me as a punching bag, or throw things like my mom did. And she didn't use substances and excuses to escape life like my dad. Everything was done for a purpose or with one, and it would all work together for good one day. There were no accidents or coincidences with my grandmother and you didn't want to let her catch you slipping! You work hard for what you want even when you don't feel like it. She didn't feel like walking the miles and miles to school as a kid but she turned down the option to quit school for a life on the farm because she knew what she wanted. You paint a picture of what you want with your mind and you move toward it continually. She talked to me and helped me to understand the rules of life. "You don't make it from the pit to the palace like Joseph did without a firm foundation."
"Even if all we have is one good pair of pants, or if we don't have a lot of food, we still have lots to be thankful for because we still have something…we have life!" I'd hear my friends tell stories of going to cabins or summer camp, and I'd eye the latest gadgets they brought to school after Christmas break, and every time I came home the least bit envious she'd remind me of how she grew up in the fields of Arkansas with even less than what we had. And she made it. We make it work and we do the best with what we have. The years we re-wrapped things around the house and placed them under the Christmas tree; the times when we'd travel to the brewery and fill up buckets of water so we could bathe; when she'd make my clothes; or when all we had for the week's groceries was $20. She never missed a beat. She was everything that everyone needed her to be and she crucified her flesh well enough to hide it from me. She never let me complain and she showed me the importance of dignity and grace.
I marvelled at her strength and begged her to share her wisdom with me. How can she be happy, how can this be good enough, how is she not angry, how does she keep moving forward? My questions were always answered with scriptures and vivid images that painted a picture of servanthood. She helped me to understand the beauty in even the smallest things. She showed me that happiness did not come from things and that there was no price tag associated with a higher quality of life. We had lengthy debates about everything, and she let me shadow her on almost every church engagement and professional development opportunity she attended. She showed me how doing everything from scrubbing a toilet with a toothbrush to creating a Sunday School curriculum could all be done with a smile. She taught me to be grateful. "You are alive…and that is a good enough reason to be happy. Everyday and every moment is an opportunity to bless God and the world with your life!" When she died, all she had was a $5,000 insurance policy and a lifetime of memories…but to her she was rich because she lived well. "As long as we have faith, the size of a mustard seed", she often exclaimed, "we can move mountains!"
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Sterling notes: Wild Card weekend
What a weekend of games? On Wild Card weekend there always seems to be at least one game that you can't believe is taking place in the playoffs. Last year it was Jacksonville beating Buffalo (this really happened) 10-3. It was a tight game at halftime, when it was tied 3-3, but the Jags broke it open in the 3rd quarter with a touch down that apparently put the game out of reach. Were they wearing leather helmets? Did they disallow the forward pass? Did a hologram of Woody Hayes coach both teams?
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By Mike DeVito Special Teams & Field Position The New England offense will arguably face its greatest test of the year this week against Baltimore. With Gronk and Amendola out and Martellus Bennett banged up, the Pats O can use all the help they can get. Special teams can play a major role […]


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Govt. owned Authentic scheme 45 MDA Ideal location to invest or build house in near future Cost of Land Fully Paid File Very Low price can get a high increase in prices any time Development work already started The Scheme encompasses all the land uses, amenities and facilities that any small city or a large town should posses, with especial focus on wide roads and alleys dividing various planned residential, commercial and amenities blocks and sectors; a huge battery of reservoirs for water supply, treatment plants for treating the waste effluent, with especial consideration for waste water recycling and water harvesting, and spaces for power supply grid stations, with emphases on parks and play grounds providing a healthy environment for the residents. The Karachi Northern Bypass (M-10) a 4-lane highway passes through the Taiser Town commencing from the end of the Jinnah Avenue / M M Alam Road, near the junction of the M9, runs for 57 Km with 38 Km through the Taiser Town area. An urban commercial corridor with land astride Karachi Northern By-Pass (KNB) measuring 300 meters on either side has been planned for high-rise and high-end land uses of international standards for national and international investors. It would be a high density highly commercial corridor with some land reserved for mixed uses including residential land uses and some for industrial based commercial activities. The commercial buildings shall be 12 story tall buildings with one or two basement floors for parking, as appropriate and as needed for the planned land uses. 140 feet wide major roads have been planned to run along the KNB ROW with service roads towards the corridor. Also about 180 to 200 feet strip has been planned for high end land uses. Where the proposed activities are of low height, all such activities have been segregated from the high end high rise land uses by providing appropriate roads in between, with excess to all such activities through 120 feet wide major roads with service road towards the Corridor. These 120 feet wide roads shall separate the Corridor from the adjacent Taiser Town Scheme on either side. In future, KNB Corridor would prove to be another economic base and growth pole of Karachi Metropolitan City will make the township another Metropolitan Center of Karachi District, relieving pressure on the existing CBD and other inner city areas.
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Hi Crew and thanx again for the support in 2017. We're off for the year now and heading to Hawaii for some much earned Research & Development as well as laying under some palm trees.The shed will be closed from the 24th of December and reopening on the 22nd of January. 2018 will see developed some new logos for Webster Surfboards and a yet to be named small wave shooter.
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A return home for Titans RB Chris Brown has been shot down after Chicago missed out again, this time to Houston, in trying to obtain the former Colorado standout. Will the team now shift their attention and focus on getting Kevin Jones (Lions) to shore up their rushing attack? Is Rashard Mendenhall the Bears top target to be their 1st round pick and a potential RB of the future?
He Wasn't The Answer: The Naperville North alum and unrestricted free-agent had garnered some attraction from the Bears, a source close to the player reported. Brown, who played with Tennessee this past season, signed with the Titans in June after talking with the Bears, signing a one-year, $1.8 million deal, and now he's heading south to play with Matt Schaub, Andre Johnson, and Co.
Brown signed with the Texans, a team that was in more of a "dire" need for a starting RB.
Moving On: Brown's role was limited in 2007. He finished with 102 rushes for 462 yards and five touchdowns while playing behind LenDale White. Brown did have the Titans' longest rush of the season, a 42-yard scamper in Week 1, in which he started out the gate with a dominate 175-yard performance. Brown shined brighter than "Jacob the Jeweler" in the opener, as the 6-foot 3, 220-pound bruiser lead the way to a grinding 13-10 road victory against a tough Jacksonville defense. Brown at times lead the punchless, yet consistent ground attack of Tennessee and proved he still can be a legitimate starting running back in this league.
The Bears need help at running back, with the often-injured Cedric Benson still an "unknown" product and with Adrian Peterson being more of a third-down specialist. With Detroit releasing Kevin Jones, I believe GM Jerry Angelo will give him a long look and bring him into Halas Hall. 3 Reasons Why To Sign Jones and Why Not To:
1. Would start right because he possesses the traits of a successful ballcarrier: breakaway speed (electrifying in the open field), power runner (5'11", 228) and pass catching abilities (142 career receptions, 1008 yards and 3 TD's) – three attributes that the Bears are looking for and the team doesn't have anyone with his type of skill at RB
2. Still is young (turning 25 in Aug.) and has a chip on his shoulder, which would enhance his performance. Also he's used to the NFC North.
3. Nothing better then to stick it to a division rival by picking up Jones, a former Detroit Lion.
- Injury liability – Bears don't have room on their roster for another player with durability issues, especially at RB, a key position where the team needs consistency and reliablity. The team needs a RB that can offer what Thomas Jones brought every Sunday. Jones was not only a leader, but he got the job done by running inside the tackles with power, and he stayed healthy.
- Production has dropped off the past three seasons for Jones, who is only averaging 3.7 yards per carry, losing 1 yard since his rookie year (2004, 4.7).
- Never has been considered a legitimate starter or "The Man" since coming into the league out of Virginia Tech. His play can be described as "hokie, bursting for big gains en route to outstanding games, while only to fall the next week with a less than stellar performance.
Address RB At Draft: The route the Bears are likely to enter to find themselves an everydown back that is durable, would be via the draft with the 14th pick, hence Rashard Mendenhall as the only candidate to be considered worthy of the honors with Oregon's Jonathan Stewart (Mel Kiper Jr.) expected to miss 4-6 months with toe surgery. The back Chicago needs at this point has to be consistent, balanced, and reliable with Benson's durability issues still a major concern, so look for them to draft a RB in the 1st round, with the Illini's finest (Mendenhall) likely to be left (high atop Bears draft list) waiting with his hometown team on the clock mauling a decision while he prepares to hear his name called from the podium by Commissioner Goodell. Rashard has shown his "A-Game" at one of the highest stages in College Football (Rose Bowl) against a powerhouse (USC) team, impressing scouts/experts with the ability that will make him a star, being able to take the role as a starting RB right away with his game-changing skills and breakaway speed that allows him to be a threat to take it to the house anytime he gets the rock. Ideally the Bears see Mendenhall, not Peterson (or any other back on their roster), as the answer to their questions at RB, with the Fighting Illini standout being more of a long-term solution, while Peterson on the other hand being a short-term fill-in that could fit into the Bears gameplan with the power rushing attack they are trying to implement towards being a consistent point seeking offensive stability. Is Mendenhall ready to deliver on the NFL level and should we believe the "HYPE"?
Pro's/Con's For Mendenhall And Drafting The Illinois Product @ 14:
1. Playmaker with track speed (See: Rose Bowl), National Spotlight does not faze nor bother him (See: Rose Bowl)
2. No OL is worthy of the 14th pick besides Clady and Long, who are both projected to be selected in the Top 5.
3. Does not shy away from contact, makes something out of nothing, and we haven't seen his "best" just yet.
- Offensive Line is this team's greatest need.
- Rashard played in a spread offense in the Big Ten that played to his advantages.
- Team's RB Draft History: When was the last time a 1st round RB chosen by Chicago was successful/not a bust? (1986: Neal Anderson, Florida)
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ACCIONA, a world leader group in sustainable infrastructure solutions and renewable energy projects, and Surfing Australia will create a better tomorrow through surfing as part of a new partnership officially launched at the Surfing Australia High Performance Centre (HPC) today.
The ACCIONA 'Feeling Swell' Program will activate and anchor the partnership with a purpose of creating communities that are physically active, environmentally proactive and inclusive.
ACCIONA becomes a major support partner of key Surfing Australia program, the nudie Australian Boardriders Battle, Australia's biggest grassroots boardriders event series involving over $100,000 prize money across eight state events and a large-scale National Final.
ACCIONA will be visible at the National Final in Newcastle on February 15-16, 2020 with the 'ACCIONA Recycle Station' powered by Envirobank with funds raised from the station to go to carbon offsets for the event series.
"ACCIONA is delighted to partner with Surfing Australia and believe it is a perfect fit for our brand in Australia, given the synergies between the two companies, said ACCIONA Geotech Managing Director Bede Noonan.
"Together we will raise awareness of climate change and water pollution, inspire and encourage diversity, and support Surfing Australia to become an emission-free organisation. We are particularly excited to be the support partner to Surfing Australia's new women's program this Summer, which will provide women of all ages with the opportunity to get in, on and around the ocean, with this program perfectly aligned with our 2020 program to increase the number of female workers in the construction industry. We are also extremely proud to have Isabella Nichols as our ambassador, given everything she represents in the sport and the fact that she is studying Engineering."
Adding to the high stakes of the nudie Australian Boardriders Battle National Final in Newcastle will be the ACCIONA Women in Waves Breakfast which will be hosted by Surfing Australia TV host Sam Squiers and will be an opportunity to engage women in surfing and encourage and inspire their growth and development through surfing leadership.
The brand will be a support partner to Surfing Australia's new women's program this Summer which will provide women both young and old with the opportunity to get moving; in, on and around the ocean on Australian beaches. Through two membership offerings and a teen program, women and girls will receive the collective benefits of physical movement, mental vitality and social connectivity from every session- all amidst the incredible setting that is the Australian shoreline. 14 locations around the country will be bringing the program to life this coming summer with further expansion planned through 2020.
Surfing Australia CEO Chris Mater said, "ACCIONA's core values align perfectly with Surfing Australia's and we couldn't be happier about the new partnership that is set to create a better tomorrow through surfing."
"We look forward to feeling ACCIONA's presence on beach during the nudie Australian Boardriders Battle series and can't wait to see the women's program roll out with their help."
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Not everyone likes to work with the young kid. Do you want a brain surgeon fresh out of school and that looks like they are 15 years old? Do you want a dentist yanking on your teeth that looks younger than your own kids? Do you want a marriage counselor who is late 20's, has a Phd and has been married for 4 years only?
Transitioning to receive from the next generation isn't easy.
Nor is it to release the next generation knowing that they maybe they can't do things as good as you can.
What I appreciate about Paul is that he always he had in mind the forward motion of the gospel and that means always training up the next generation. And in many ways he could've been stopped early if his heart had been bitter.
Mark, the cousin of Barnabas accompanied Paul on his first missionary journey. We don't know the details but when they were just part-way in he abandon them and went back home. It was very painful not only that he left, but painful as it caused heartache between Paul and Barnabas. When they decided to go back on a second missionary journey, Barnabas wanted to take Mark again but Paul did not want a repeat. It caused such a sharp disagreement with them that they agreed to go on different missionary trips (Acts 15:36-41). It didn't mean Paul and Barnabas weren't speaking to one another, but it meant that for ministry purposes they had different values competing with one another. Later on there was reconciliation and Mark proved himself even with Paul, becoming a valuable member of his work (2 Tim 4:11).
Had Paul let this harden his heart against the next generation, he might not have taken under his wing the young man named Timothy. Timothy was very unusual in his love and commitment for the Lord. Paul says he served alongside him "as a son to his father" (Php 2:22) and that he did not abandon ship when things got hard – "Timothy has proved himself" (2:22).
In the same way that Timothy was a godly young man, Paul made sure to release him, trust him and respect him in ministry. He gave him weighty responsibilities in the church in Ephesus and Philippi. Paul did not hover or micromanage but gave him great responsibility. Timothy rose to the occasion.
At times just like here he had to publicly affirm his confidence in Timothy for the sake of the churches. And he reminded Timothy to be confident and "not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching" (1 Tim 4:12-13).
Today there are many a church body shutting down because there has not been investment in the next generation. There's oftentimes not been flexibility or releasing and respecting of young people. It's tough to see. Even in my own area churches are closing mainly because people have literally died out.
We have a responsibility for the sake of the gospel to train up the next generation and also to release them, even in all their mistakes. In fact, it's something we should always be doing. We must release them and not hover over them, but give them guidance and discipleship. Paul is a fantastic example here for us with Timothy.


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Stephen King is a pretty well established and famous writer now, but back when 'Salem's Lot was first released, he had just finished well received Carrie. So the genre jump from demonic children with psychic powers to vampires is something new. Yet despite that, a lot of people ended up loving this second book, and for good reason too: King manages to target two different types of readers in this one single story. The most basic kind of person who likes this book are those who will find the first half tame and boring, but the latter half exciting and fun (since we get to see vampires and humans fighting). The other kind of reader who appreciates this are those who have fond memories of growing up in small towns.
Writer Comes to Childhood Town, Finds Vampires
Ben Mears comes back to his old home town of Jerusalem. As a published writer, Ben is hoping that this trip will give him the inspiration to write his new book. While it never specifically states what Mears writes about, it appears that his subject material can get graphic (based on the comments on some of the townspeople about his works), as for the novel he intends to write, the only he says is that it has something to do with the recurrence of evil.
Mears learns that the Marsten House -a haunted house looking place that he hated as a child, has been purchased by two strange men from Austria. It is said that the two plan on opening an antique shop, though it seems rather odd to open one in a town that is likely to not need it. The latest news in town is the death of a boy and the disappearance of his younger borther. While this has caught the attention of the local sheriff, no one else seems to care much about it. For the most part, the locals would rather gossip about their own lives and are too caught up in their small town world.
Eventually, Danny, the boy who died, returns as a vampire and starts turning other people into vampires too. The book suddenly shifts its focus to Ben and the few friends he made since his return and their effort to fight back against the growing vampire forces.
Meet Jerusalem
The town of Jerusalem's Lot is a character in itself. It is as generic as a small old town can be so it is something that a lot of American readers would find as familiar, or even nostalgic. Stephen King himself admits to have drawn out a lot of love of such towns when conceptualizing 'Salem and it shows in the way the story unfolds. Many fans, who have already read this book long ago when they were younger, only remember the enjoyment of and thrill of the more exciting later half of the story. But upon re-reading the book as an older adult, they start to appreciate the earlier part a lot more. The way that King is able to bring out a sense of familiarity to a location is done masterfully, and when the vampires start tearing the place up, one cannot help but feel sympathy for the town itself.
Beyond the Town
Since the book opens with a flash forward (or maybe the events in the book are narrated as a giant flashback), it is not surprising to know which characters survive up till the very end. But level of excitement in the later part of the book is also due to Stephen King's lack of inhibition from killing off major characters in this narrative so easily. It's a tough balance that is threaded by the story from beginning to end. Still, the epilogue at the very end of the book remains as a lead in to another story -after defeating the main vampire (but still leaving a lot of other vampires alive), Ben (and whoever survives) manage to leave the town. They come back a year later in order to finally wipe out the remaining vampires, and the book ends with Ben initiating the attack by starting a massive fire -it is stated that his plan involves burning down the whole town. Sadly, King has decided to not make a sequel.


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10 years ago, Google debuted its first TV ad during the Super Bowl. "Parisian Love" was a beautiful and sweet spot that was lauded as among the decade's best commercials. Now, Google is back with another beautiful and sweet ad for the Super Bowl, and this one is definitely a tearjerker. We follow an old man who is trying not to forget his late wife, Loretta. Through the Google Assistant's search and voice features, we see an emotional journey through a lifelong romance. The music is an instrumental version of A Great Big World's equally tearjerking song "Say Something." Aww. Here's more about the ad.


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Hey guys, today, let us take a look at these strange golden artifacts in Colombia, which look like modern day airplanes. Yes, these are ancient artifacts created around 1000 years ago, and it is impossible not to think of airplanes when you see this. Not just one or two, there are seventeen strange artifacts which look like flying machines, displayed at the Gold Museum in Colombia. Remember many ancient texts around the world talk about aircraft and spacecraft, ancient Indian texts call them Vimanas. I have shown you several similarities between India and Colombia in my previous videos, even about the God of Gold. But What do mainstream archeologists say about these gold airplanes?
Archeologists claim that all these artifacts represent birds. But there is a not a single species of bird which has wings attached to its bottom. In all birds, wings are always attached at the top. So these are not birds. But in modern airplanes, we can see something spectacular – see how the wings are attached at the bottom? See how similar this design is, to the golden airplanes. . If you compare them side by side, the design is uncannily similar to one another. Another important difference is the tail. Look at the tails of these gold artifacts. These have vertical tails, pointing up, like modern aircraft. No bird has vertical tail like this, all birds have horizontal tails, which point sideways.
Even more important, biologists agree that there are no animals or birds which look like this. Some experts claim that these were just rudimentary models of birds, with errors in details, because ancient Colombians would not have paid attention to details. But I found that this is not true at all, because the most important detail is found in the Gold Museum itself. There are actual figurines of birds found in the same museum, created by the same ancient people. This is how they look. You can tell immediately that they are birds, they have eyes, they have beaks and they have actual curvy wings and horizontal tails. So to pretend that the ancient Colombian people were just making these rudimentary bird models is a false argument. Here is another bird and see how it looks. Notice how the details clearly show the wing is attached at the top of its body and its tail is pointing sideways, sharply contrasted to the airplanes. This is why most people call them 'Quimbaya Airplanes' because these were found in an ancient civilization called Quimbaya.
But do these quimbaya airplanes merely look aerodynamic? Or can they actually fly? About 20 years ago, 2 engineers made a bigger model of these planes and put some controls inside, and it flew like a regular airplane.
This is conclusive evidence that ancient Colombians were making models of flying machines, more than a thousand years ago. even though we read that wright brothers invented airplanes just a 100 years ago.
But how is such technology possible in ancient times? All historians and archeologists maintain that Ancient Colombians were primitive people without advanced technology. If flying machines existed in ancient Colombia, then shouldn't there be more evidences of advanced technology? How about this object in the same museum? It shows multiple wheels within a larger wheel, looking very similar to a modern gear system. There are concentric wheels, just like what we use today. These look like small scale models of various gear systems. There are wheels in the gold museum, even though experts maintained that ancient people of Colombia did not use wheels. Mainstream experts believe there are just fancy ornaments. There are gears, there are spindles with teeth and without teeth. Some of them look like coils, just like the coils we use for electricity in modern times. And not just one or two, there are many of them displayed. Some of them do not even look beautiful, which is the main purpose of any ornament. Rather they look like parts of a technical gadget. Is it possible that ancient Colombians were using advanced technology?
So is it possible that these are models of ancient airplanes? Did aircraft and spacecraft exist during ancient times? Or is this all a mere coincidence?


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A University of California study dismisses the popular idea that Native Americans draw their genetic heritage from Polynesians or European peoples. It says the first humans to reach the Americas came from Siberia in a single group some 23,000 years ago, at the height of the last Ice Age. On their way to Alaska, they hung around in the northern regions for a few thousands of years before moving deeper into North and South America.
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There are a number of interesting announcements and
innovations coming out of the ISC
High Performance 2018 show this week in Frankfurt, Germany, and one
of the exhibitors, Univa, a provider of on-premises and hybrid cloud workload
management solutions for enterprise HPC customers, is showing how it's leveraged
AWS to deploy more than one million cores in a single Univa Grid Engine cluster
to showcase the advantages of running large-scale electronic design automation
(EDA) workloads in the cloud. To find out more, I caught up with Rob Lalonde,
vice president and general manager of Navops at Univa.
What are you demonstrating at the show?
Rob Lalonde: Univa is focusing on extreme scale automation by deploying
1,015,022 cores in a single Univa Grid Engine cluster to showcase the
advantages of running large-scale workloads in the cloud. The cluster was built
in approximately 2.5 hours using Navops Launch automation and comprised more
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VMblog: This
is an interesting use of AWS for HPC, what is the significance?
Lalonde: It's not a surprise that many large organizations have an
insatiable appetite for computing power. Yet with large clusters, the challenge
is not just building the cluster, but rather it is building it quickly and
reliably using full automation. Our Navops Launch solution can provision and
manage both virtual and bare-metal environments and includes a cloud-specific
adapter for Amazon EC2. Likewise, Navops Launch policy automation allows
organizations to dynamically create, scale, and tear-down cloud-based
infrastructure in response to changing workload demand.
Are million core clusters something unique to the HPC industry?
Lalonde: Million core clusters are not entirely unique to the
industry but a cluster of this scale that runs with a single cluster master,
this is a first. There are only four clusters on the global Top500 that feature
more than 1,000,000 cores, and all of these owe their large core counts to GPUs
or many-core processor designs. To give you some perspective, the recently
announced ORNL Summit Supercomputer (regarded as the world's largest) has
202,750 Power9 cores (excluding cores on the Nvidia Volta GPUs). Conventional
processor core counts are more representative of the scale of the provisioning
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for such compute-intensive workloads?
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There is a scale of introvert/ extraversion, few people are one extreme or the other. An extravert is energised when spending time with people, where the introvert loses energy and is happy on their own. The more extravert somebody is the less they tend to imagine why someone would need to be alone. Extroverts often don't understand introversion, always assuming company (especially theirs) is always better than no company. Is an being an extrovert narcissist? Is being an extreme extrovert, the same as being a narcissist as many people have suggested to me?
Narcissism: A trait linked with extraversion?
Narcissism is a trait, often linked with high extraversion. However, an extravert is no more a narcissist than all introverts are shy. Many people assume the two ideas are linked as narcissists crave recognition and admiration, which some see as part of extraversion. Narcissists also tend to assertive (bordering on aggressive?) in promoting their own interests (note: their interests, often not the same as the business interests). Sounds like an extravert so far!
Narcissists are highly competitive and put down rivals, with responses tending to be more personal than business oriented.
Narcissists often respond in an over the top manner to perceived slights and aggressively to insults. This can make it hard to work for a narcissistic manager, unless you're happy to always let them know how wonderful they are.
Wanting others to like you
Narcissists know they're special and want others to know it too. We might all want others to like us, but narcissists go beyond this, actively seeking admiration (they'll call it the respect they're due). Differentiating a narcissist can get more complicated in business when one overlays a need to market oneself (either to get business, or promotion). All business owners should be looking to market their skills and using the testimony of others ('admiration') to do so, but those who take it to extreme can alienate others.
Psychology Today discusses the 'interpersonal circumplex' model which looks at two dimensions of interpersonal behaviour:
- agency (getting ahead and attaining social status)
- communion (getting along with others and maintaining warm relationships).
Narcissists tend to be high in agency and low in communion (Furnham, Richards, & Paulhus, 2013). Going further most definitions of narcissism include phrases like (arrogant, self-centered, manipulative, need for admiration and demanding).
Introversion, extraversion and narcissism?
An extreme extrovert is not the same as a narcissist, in the same way as shyness is not the same as introversion. In fact, it's possible to be an introverted narcissist; wanting to get ahead and attain social status (high agency), plus not good at maintaining warm relationships (low communion) could be linked with a preference to think internally and not being keen to socialise.
Reminder for small business owners
This article started in response to several business owners asking about extrovert narcissism. Perhaps an issue for some business owners is not conflate social status with getting ahead (growing ones' business) and to remember that networking is high in communion.


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Fred Evans hosts the latest episode of Montgomery Week in Review. Guests include Charlotte Davis, Jennifer Grinnell, Dr. Bruce Fowler, and Brett Meyers.
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I finally got around to playing "Halo 4", which I've had sitting around since not long after it came out. This game sees the return of Master Chief, which is good, because I rather missed him in "Halo: Reach". Never leave me again, Chief. The game starts with Cortana waking the Chief up from cryosleep on the Forward Unto Dawn, which seems to be abandoned. Except for some Covenant, of course. Forgot why they're there, but whatever. I needed something to shoot. Ahem, after some action, the ship crashes onto a strange planet, and the Chief's and Cortana's adventure begin. The Chief will have to fight more Covenant and a new enemy, the Prometheans, while Cortana is suffering from rampancy, as AI's can only survive seven years before degrading (and she's eight, oh, sorry, shouldn't reveal a girl's age, should I?).
This turned out to be yet another epic "Halo" game. Due to the lack of subtitles and the fact that I am easily distracted, I often am not able to keep up with the stories of "Halo" games. (I just get through by following the little arrows everywhere. Or I'm reminded of my current task when Cortana nags at me. Leave me alone, the Chief is busy looking at the pretty scenery!) This time, I paid attention, and while I still got confused, what I remember and understand of the story was interesting. And I've always liked the relationship between Cortana and the Chief, and it was fun to see more of it in this game. And there also seemed to be more of them going about on their own, too, which I liked. And I liked seeing the Chief's concern about Cortana's rampancy. It gave the game a bit more of an emotional aspect to it, which I liked. And it made me like the Chief more, too. Now I feel a bit more sad watching him die time and time again. Oh, he just re-spawned, I'm cool with it now.
Anyway, this was an amazing game. Not only does it have the same usual awesomeness that the series has always had, but it has new stuff. Like I said, there is a new set of enemies, which means a new set of weapons. Hooray! (These new weapons even include a gun that incinerated the Chief, to my absolute horror, then, when I finally managed to grab one, it indeed was called the Incineration Cannon. I feel…so powerful. I will reduce you to ash! Bahahahaha *hack hack* hahaha!!!)
There are also a couple new vehicles, the Mantis and the Mammoth. They liked M words the days they thought these up, I suppose. The Mantis is pretty awesome and isn't so much a vehicle as a robotic suit (kind of like the thing Ripley uses to kill the alien queen at the end of "Aliens", but with more armor and guns). And the Mammoth looks to me like the most ridiculous monster truck you've ever seen. It's seriously and absolutely absurd. (And I agree with Cortana. Someone was indeed overcompensating for something….) I did have fun riding on it, though. Weeee!!
Anyway, shortly into the game, after pressing every button on the controller until I was once again familiar with what they did, I was reminded why I buy XBox consoles. I love "Halo", and it's the main reason I get Xboxes. And that's saying something, too, because I don't usually play M-rated games. But, buying a console just for one series seems a bit silly (even though I did buy a PS3 mainly just for "Ratchet and Clank", shut up, leave me alone, don't judge me!), and I was thinking recently that I wouldn't buy the next XBox console. I still am unsure what I'm going to do, but after playing this game, I realize it would be hard not to be able to continue with the "Halo" series. But, I don't know if I can justify paying that amount of money just for a couple "Halo" games, and then I have yet another console to find a place for, and so on and so forth. I suppose we'll see.
But, I do like the "Halo" games quite a bit. I'm just impressed by them. And not quite in the way you'd expect. Yes, they are great games, with great stories and graphics and gameplay. But, I'm also impressed to find an M-rated game without much of anything other than violence. The women actually get to be fully clothed (Cortana doesn't count, she's an AI). There is minimal swearing. There is no…naughtyness. Just violence. And even so, that doesn't seem terrible to me, either. Yeah, I shot an alien, and there was some blue blood. My goodness. I've seen more gore from falling off my scooter. Now that was rated M. I'm just impressed with a series that has such a rating, but doesn't then feel the need to cram in every bad thing they can just because of the rating. I enjoy getting to play a series that is more realistic (well, if enhanced soldiers fighting aliens is realistic, but you get what I mean, right?), without all the nasty stuff. It's nice. I like playing as Mario and jumping on flying turtles and eating red and white 'shrooms, but sometimes I just want to get a gun and shoot some aliens. (Bad aliens. I have no quarrel with good aliens.) But, such high-rated games can often be too raunchy for the duck. Well, "Halo" lets me get my alien-shooting fix. Because they clearly care.
So anyway, anyone who reads this post, just get the game. It's awesome. I don't even care if you don't have an XBox 360. Just buy it to simply have its glorious presence in your home. Then, buy a 360 because, seriously, having a game for a console you don't even have is just plain silly. What's wrong with you? I just wish the update that came with the game didn't completely change my 360's start-up screen. The old one was better, and it took me a long time to find where they hid my achievements. I shall mourn its loss.
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56 Days and 10,000 km Across Africa: A Review of Oasis Overland
Over the course of the last two months in Africa, I've received a bunch of emails and messages asking about my trip with Oasis Overland. Why I chose them, what is the company like, would I do things differently next time, etc, etc, etc. Instead of answering each question individually, I decided to cover all of them, and more, in a couple of recaps of my Africa overland trip.
In part one, I covered why I chose to do an overland trip and why I chose to do it with Oasis Overland. Now, for part two, I'll review Oasis as well as give a final recap of the trip. First off, here are the details of the trip for those unfamiliar with my blog:
Trip details:
- We signed up for Oasis Overland's Nairobi to Cape Town 56-Day Coast to Coast Trip.
- Trip left on January 4th and ended on February 28th.
- We visited eight countries on the trip, in order: Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, then South Africa. (nine if you include an hour in Zambia after bungee-jumping)
- If you are new to this blog, I think it would be helpful to know a bit about me.
Review: Oasis Overland
How do I possibly sum up a 56-day trip into one article? For one, this trip marked our first time being on the continent of Africa, so I really have very little to compare this trip to. Two, before this trip I had camped a total of one time (not counting tents at music festivals), so just sleeping in a tent for 50+ nights is enough for me to write an entire series of articles about me finding myself in Africa (gross). So, to make this article more useful for potential 'overlanders' and people interested in Oasis, I decided to break this review down into six major takeaways from the trip:
1. The Oasis crowd
I'd love to be able to tell you that I'm such a good 'traveler' that I can enjoy a trip like this no matter who I'm with. That just isn't true. Certain types of people annoy me, and I usually annoy them back. So we were a little nervous to see what types of people we would be forced to spend the next two months on a truck with. Would they try to talk to me while I'm trying to read my Kindle with headphones in? Would they smell? Would they hate my constant sneezing? Would they eat loud? Would they wrinkle plastic potato chip bags loudly while I'm trying to sleep. The unknowns were vast.
I'm happy to report that I was pretty relieved when I met my fellow Oasis passengers, or what I'll call "the crowd" from now on. The Oasis passengers' age range skews younger compared to other overland companies. Our youngest passenger was early 20's, and our oldest was early 70's. However, the early 70's guy, Jim, is the exception not the rule in overlanding. Besides Jim (more on him in a future article), I don't think we met one other overlander on any truck older than mid-50's, and the majority were in their 20's. So it's safe to say overlanding in general tends to be a 35 and under crowd and the Oasis trucks seem to be even younger.
There were a fair share of solo travelers on board, and Oasis seems like a great company to book if you are traveling alone and looking to meet people. The Oasis trucks are the only ones that have seating that faces inwards, allowing the whole crowd to socialize as a group rather than be separated in rows.
The group did like to drink and party, but from what I hear we were actually tamer than the usual Oasis crowd. It actually was a good balance for us in terms of partying nights and quieter nights. The group seemed to naturally know when to take it easy and when to get after it. Three nights we all pooled money together to make a big batch of rum punch and those nights made me feel like I was back in college.
2. The Oasis crew
My second concern after "the crowd" was "the crew". I was worried our driver might be a 19-year-old guy without a license who moved to Africa to find himself on the road, or that our that our tour leader might enjoy sleeping-in more than arriving in new cities on time. In reality, my concerns really didn't even come close to being necessary. Our driver was a professional truck driver with 20+ years of experience on the road, and our tour leader was a genuine traveler who worked tirelessly to ensure everyone onboard was having the time of their lives. For more details on these two , I wrote a couple of articles about just how good our driver and tour leader were: On the Road in Africa, A Typical Day Onboard Woxy, and This is Africa: Stuck in the Mud
3. Wildlife experiences of a lifetime
This should actually be point number one since the wildlife that we saw on this tour was by far the best part of the trip. It's hard to put into words how great these experiences with so many of Africa's amazing animals really were. From seeing the Great Migration in the Serengeti, to watching lions hunting in Zimbabwe, to sneaking up on rhinos in Botswana, to petting cheetah's in Namibia, we were just constantly being left in awe. I will forever be tainted, and can no longer visit a zoo without being those jerks that say "this isn't as cool as the real thing." It's true though. If national parks like these were located in areas of the world that were easier to travel to, they would be too crowded to even visit (actually, all the animals would probably be dead already, but I won't be that guy right now). The fact that these national parks are located where they are is what makes them so special. Sure, we saw other tourists while on safari, but within minutes we would find our truck alone among thousands of animals.
There more great photos of the wildlife we saw in the album at the bottom of this article.
4. Experiencing culture
I think the biggest difference I notice when traveling in a group is that I find it harder to interact with local culture. When traveling alone, I really have no choice but to begin interacting with locals in order to learn my way around each new city. However, once I was with a group of 20 other foreigners, it was simply too easy to just stay in my comfort zone and only hang around with them. This took away from the usual experiences I have, like simply wandering around a village, or eating at a local restaurant.
This really isn't fair to Oasis to put this comment in the review, since it isn't there fault. For one, the tour is mostly based on experiencing the wildlife in Africa, which just leaves less time to do cultural tours. Plus, they gave us plenty of chances to see local cultures, take cultural tours, eat local food, etc. I mean, what isn't cultural about receiving a candy bar instead of money as change at a supermarket in Zimbabwe!?
Oasis simply leaves it up to each passenger to experience as much of the local culture as they want to. I look at it this way: When you travel alone it's easy to meet locals, but you need to put forward extra effort to meet other travelers. Likewise, when you're already traveling with a group, you now need to put that extra effort towards meeting locals instead.
On overland trips, it's too easy to get comfortable with your group at the local campsite bar instead of deciding to head out into the town and interact with local people. I noticed this about halfway through the trip, and decided to make a better effort to interact more with locals. For example, the township tour I took in Namibia was one of my favorite days of the trip.
5. Just us and the stars
One of the things that sets Oasis apart from the countless other overland companies is that they still camp in the middle of nowhere, AKA bush camping. 'Bush camping' was a new term for me on this trip, and it refers to when you camp without any facilities. No running water, no electricity, no bathrooms, no showers, and NO WIFI. Just us and the bush.
I didn't know this until the night before our first bush camp. I would be lying if I wasn't a little annoyed when I was told about it. Having never camped at all, I was already nervous about how I would handle 50 days of campsites. Now I was being told ten or so of those nights wouldn't even be at campsites, but in the middle of nowhere. Then again, this is why we travel, right? To experience things we've never done before.
The bush camping nights ended up being some of the best nights on the trip. The complete silence and serenity of being in the Malawian wilderness(pictured above) or the Namib Desert (pictured on the right) is something that just can't be experienced at traditional African overland campsites. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want to camp like this every night, but the Oasis trip spreads the bush camp nights out perfectly. We are never a day or two away from a shower, and it was always nice to get a break from campsites that had other overland trucks at them.
From what I could tell, Oasis is the only overland company that still does bush camping. The other companies that used to operate like Oasis have either been bought up or gone out of business. I was actually surprised to see that the other companies seem to put such a small emphasis on the camping part. I mentioned in my "Why We Chose Oasis" article that Oasis does the trip from Nairobi to Cape Town in 56 days, while other companies do it in between 40-50 days. The other companies basically skip the bush camps and drive longer on many of the days. I once saw a competitor's truck pull into our campsite late at night, watched them all head into upgraded hotel rooms, and by the time I was awake in my tent at 6:30am the next morning the truck was already gone. Our group arrived at 4pm that same day, cooked a nice camp dinner, stayed an additional day and night, then left the next morning around 8am. That full extra day gave us time to explore a local village in Tanzania. Hotel room or not, I just don't think I would enjoy the 40-day tour as much.
6. Part of the team
Every time I'm in a part of the world where I have some sort of housekeeper or 'help', I always feel uncomfortable. There's been plenty of times where I'll be in a kitchen washing a dish, and the owner will tell me to leave it, their person will come clean it later. It's not that I'm against people having housekeepers, it's just that I always prefer to do those things myself, and don't enjoy feeling like I need assistants. On an Oasis truck, there is no one to set up our tents for us, no cook, no clean-up crew, just the passengers. Once our tour leader showed us the ropes, we began relying on ourselves to do everything except drive (although I tried to do that too.) This style of trip may not sound appealing to everyone, but honestly it made it more enjoyable.
I can only go by what I saw other trucks doing. For example, I saw one truck pull up at a campsite with six passengers and four employees. The employees set up the tents, cooked, and cleaned, all while the six passengers just sat around looking bored. To contrast that, when our truck pulled up, it was bustling with activity, conversation, laughter, and energy as we all set up our tents, got dinner going, and cleaned the truck. By the time dinner was ready, our group was having a great time. When I looked over at the other group, they were still just sitting in a circle quietly. Their crew was now cleaning their dishes for them. Not only is it nearly half the price to travel what I now call "Oasis-style", it also creates a much more fun group of people who feel like they're part of the trip, not just on the trip. I can't stress this difference enough, as it really makes Oasis unique.
Final thoughts
After 56 days, I can really say that I made the right choice booking my trip with Oasis. I'm always a little uneasy choosing the least-expensive option, but in this case it worked out great. Towards the middle of the trip, I almost forgot we were on a guided tour, and it felt more like it was a truck that 20 of us had rented and decided to drive across Africa. Oasis doesn't sign big contracts with campsites, meaning their tour leaders have the flexibility to change campsites at the last minute, or stay an extra day in a cool place, etc. It all just felt perfect for travelers like me. I wanted to do Africa on my own but just didn't have the car knowledge to do it, which made Oasis's trip style the answer. If you are the type of traveler who likes hotel rooms, personal chefs, and a tour guide telling you what to do, then Oasis is not for you.
Oh, one more thing. If you aren't prepared to help a truck get out of the mud, it's best not to go overlanding at all! See that guy on the far right in the photo below? That's Jim, our oldest passenger on the trip. He is about to jump down in that mud pit and start pushing:
Oasis cost structure tips
One more thing to add based on the comments I received. If you are currently researching Oasis trips, you've probably already noticed that the base price for their trips are usually half the price than the other companies. This is because Oasis keeps many of the excursions on their trips optional, allowing each passenger to customize their own trip. In my part one article, I did a price comparison that showed that even when you add in these additional costs to an Oasis trip, they still end up being $1,000 less than the other companies.
To help you plan on what you would spend, here are some rules of thumb:
– If the optional activity lasts more than one day, consider it mandatory. That doesn't mean Oasis won't force you to go, but it means those days where everyone else heads off to Zanzibar or on a safari, you will be just hanging out at a campsite. Everyone on our trip went on all the multi-day optional excursions, and for the one-day optional excursions I would say about 50% went each time.
– Plan on spending about $10-20 of your own money per day. Some days you'll spend $0, but other days you'll be required to buy your own lunch or dinner. So just prepare and have spending money.
– If you want to save money, cut out scuba-diving, horse back riding, and sky-diving. There's $500-$600 saved right away!
– Each Oasis itinerary is a bit different, but on this 56-day trip, we spent a little over $1,000 EACH on optional activities and about another $350 each on snacks and meals.
– Like I mentioned above, even with the optional activities factored in, Oasis is by far the most affordable overland company in Africa (probably everywhere).
In case you missed it | Part 1: To Overland or Not to Overland
Also, here are the best photos from our trip:
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Hey guys! That looks amazing! We are definitely considering doing an overland trip and Oasis seems to be at the top of the list. I was just wondering if you were planning on doing a budget wrap up of the trip because that seems to be the hardest part to nail down given all the things you can add/subtract..
I've been looking forward to reading your recap, thanks for all of the information. I guess I didn't realize what bush camping was either! Like the commenter above, I am wondering if you would be willing to share what the total cost of the trip was for you including all of the optional activities you did?
Great, thanks for updating. I have one more quick question if you don't mind:
In the 'before you go' section on their website, Oasis Overland says to budget 100-145GBP per week to cover meals, drinks, beers, email, souvenirs and general spending. You said that you spent about $250 on snacks and meals during the whole trip. Would you say Oasis Overland way over estimates this type of general spending?
We are trying to put together a budget for this trip and keeping snacks and meals closer to $250 total would help open up room for some optional activities, versus what Oasis is suggesting. Thanks!
I have travelled with a couple of overland companies, my first trip was with Oasis, as you say, a first trip is a bit daunting, you just dont know who or what you are going to get or be with
I find myself returning to Oasis again, I found the driver and guide are just willing to join in on most everything, usually they have tales of previous trips, little snippets of things to make life a little better, a better picture, I havent been disappointed with any of them I have travelled with (they all have the offer of a bed if they are in the UK)
I followed your blog while you were doing your trip with them
You were impressed with the truck in Africa, the one in Sth America is a lot better, its better laid out and you can still play musical seats 🙂
Anyway, Thanks for all the blog updates, its been interesting,
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Hi everyone,
If you are looking for more info on optional activity prices and budgeting help please refer to the Oasis website. If you click on the trip you are interested in then click on the "Before you go" and "optional activities" tabs you will get all the info you need.
Great wrap up Dan, I'm sure it will prove very helpful to a lot of people when considering a trip to Africa.
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Hi Dan,
Great recap! I'm considering a similar tour with Oasis, but am curious how you handled the cash situation coming into the country from a place other than the US. In the Oasis pre-trip notes they mention needing to bring in cash (USD preferred) for the LP and other spending money. I'll be traveling in Asia prior to Africa, so I was curious how you handled getting your cash and if it was a problem obtaining a significant amount of US cash for this trip prior to arriving in Africa?
Seems like a simple question, but I'd hate to get there and then not have the necessary funds available that are required. It sounds like ATMs may be available along the way, but the initial amount is what concerns me most. Any help would be great, thanks!
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Hi Dan, Thanks for sharing your awesome trip details. I am also planning to do the similar or probably the same trip. I have few queries though. What were the temperatures like through your trip across different countries? Was Jan/Feb the best time to do this trip in terms of wild life watching, migration, weather etc? I am thinking about doing it between Nov and Jan. Did you do the gorilla trekking as well?
Hey Dan, I am doing the same trip from November this year and I was wondering what sort of anti-malarials you opted for ?


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