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The Casio Exilim Pro EX-P700 follows in the midrange enthusiast footsteps of the company's well-received P600, sporting a new black chassis and a seventh megapixel. Otherwise, and to the P700's credit, the two cameras are largely similar; they have the same extensive feature set, they capture equally pleasing images, and both feature the surprisingly pocketable design that made the P600 a joy to take with you.
However, though its performance is quite comparable to that of other 7-megapixel models in its class, the P700 doesn't quite match the sprightly response of its predecessor. In addition, Casio still hasn't addressed the P600's subpar video capabilities.
Aside from the cool, black colour scheme, the P700's external design is identical to that of the P600. You're getting the same metallic body, accessible control layout, and 4x zoom lens that you'd find on its forebear. Though larger than some of Casio's ultracompact Exilim cameras, the 224g P700 is still small enough to fit in a trouser pocket, though you won't be able to fit much else in with it.
As with the P600, the P700's Exilim menu system is a delight to use. Pressing the Set button while adjusting any manual feature brings up a helpful explanatory interface that illustrates the results of shunting, say, lens aperture up or down. One minor but notable change is that the P700's live histogram is no longer buried within the love-it-or-hate-it EX Finder mode as it was on the P600. The EX Finder mode is still available and, indeed, comes in handy when you want to tweak certain settings on-screen, but if you only want the histogram, you can now enable it without the clutter.
Featurewise, the P700 matches the P600 blow for blow, and that's a very good thing. Simply put, short of the advanced metering options offered by higher-end cameras, there isn't much that the P700 can't do. Shutter, aperture and fully manual priority modes are readily accessible, and the P700 also boasts an extensive array of bracketing options for exposure, focus and white balance.
The P700's flash is far enough away from its lens to avoid red-eye in most situations. A preset flash white-balance setting helps avoid the washed-out colours that sometimes result from indoor shooting. If that isn't enough, it also supports the connection of an external flash unit. The included optical viewfinder is serviceable in the sense that it's reasonably large and you don't have to squint in order to look through it, but it covers only about 85 percent of the frame; the 51mm (2-inch) LCD covers about 100 percent.
As with the P600, video capabilities remain a shortcoming of this camera; it's capable of capturing only 320x200 movies at a paltry 15fps, far short of the 30fps VGA (640x480) movies that we're seeing on newer models.
Performance is one area where the P700 slips a bit from the perch of its predecessor. Though the P700's wake-up time of 3.3 seconds still rates highly among midrange and semipro cameras, it lags behind the P600's time of 2.7 seconds. Furthermore, where the P600 managed a respectable shot-to-shot time of 1.8 seconds, the P700's typical shot-to-shot time was a less-impressive 2.9 seconds. With the flash enabled, this score slipped to 4.1 seconds.
To its credit, the P700 captures TIFF files more quickly than its 6-megapixel cousin, though in truth, waiting 40 seconds between photos can hardly be considered quick. In terms of shutter lag, the P700's 0.5 seconds under bright conditions and 0.6 seconds in dim light both trail the P600's scores by a few key tenths of a second. The P700 sports both a high-speed and normal-speed burst mode; at full resolution, we captured a respectable 5 frames in just over 2 seconds (2.3fps) using the former, and 14 frames in 26 seconds (0.5fps) using the latter.


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National Bevrijdingsmuseum
A visit to the National Liberation Museum 1944 - 1945 is well worth the time.
We stopped here as part of our three day tour of Operation Market Garden.
The museum was pretty quiet when we arrived and we were given a short introductory explanation, in English, by one of the tour guides as to what the museum represents.
It was very interesting to see, as you walked through the exhibits, the changes that the Dutch people had to go through in the years of German occupation in WWII. There was one section which dealt with the issues arising from being part of the resistance and on how you would react yourself if put under the same pressures as were part of every day life during those times. There are no easy answers to the questions that were asked about what the differences were between collaboration and having to make the best of what seemed a permanent situation of occupation.
There was a spectacular exhibit showing a bird's-eye overview of Operation market Garden, although at the time there was only a Dutch commentary. There is also a twenty minute film, which can be shown in English, of the history of the time.
Also there is a Honorary Dome with a Roll of Honour, containing the names of the Allied soldiers who died between D-Day 6 June 1944 and 8 May 1945- Museum Visits
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Church Groesbeek - De Horst
Interior of the church. Notice the paneled ceiling. It does look very Byzantine, doesn't it? Made us wonder why and when this church was constructed after the Byzantine fashion. Well, we know for sure it wasn't erected during the Byzantine Era ;-)
We came here to attend a concert by the choir 'Poco Piu', that's Italian for A Little More. What struck me most were not the vocal qualities of the choir, but a fact I learned from their booklet: that all their sopranos had last names or family names ending with letters A to K (Arink to Kusters), names that are confined to the first part of the alphabet. Hey, I'm a librarian, remember? After pondering on that bewildering fact for a while, I came to the conclusion that they probably had a surplus of sopranos, but needed only a limited number for this concert. They decided that selecting them in alphabetical order would be a fair solution to the problem. So maybe next time we'll be able to listen to the choir with an alltogether different 'set' of sopranos!- Architecture
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Church Groesbeek - De Horst
Church of the Divine Heart of Jesus. Their Stations of the Cross are reproductions. The original works of art, which we recognized as work done by Dutch artist Jan Toorop, are at St Bernulphus' Church in Oosterbeek near Arnhem. I borrowed this picture from a website as there wasn't enough light in the church in Groesbeek to make good pictures ...
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Two monuments ,one up front and one in the back.
There are two Monuments/Memorials in this picture ,up front in the cemetery,and the other tall one with the cross is in the rear of the cementery. Both are very impressive
This whole cemetery is very well kept ,and the grass and gardens are beautiful.
Just wonderful almost 60 years after WW2. -
Commenwealth war casualties are commemorated.
Commonwealth war casualties are commemorated here , there are 20 unidentified soldiers here.
Also 8 foreign Nationals are commemorated here. In this Cemetery stands the Groesbeek Memorial ,which commemorates those who died in the final stages of the war,and who have no known grave. I think it is this memorial shown in this picture ,but I am not 100% sure of that. -
The Groesbeek WW2 Canadian War Cemetery.
The majority of men buried in this cemetery
were Canadians ,and many of them lost their lives in the Battle of the Rhineland,when the 2nd and 3rd Canadian Infantry
Divisions,and the 4th Canadian Armoured Division took part in the drive
southwards from Nijmegen to clear the territory between the '' Maas and the '' Rhine ''.
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Canadian commemorating cemetry
It's not often mentioned in the records, but for the Northern Dutch, the Canadian forces are the most important within the allied army. They eventually liberated our country and thankful for that we are. To those who paid the highest price for our liberation, in Groesbeek there is a commemorative cemetry. The sight is chilling, so many stones, so many names on the walls that state the ones that have never been identified. A place of great importance, which might be seen in the way it is kept very very proper and clean.
The liberation museum of The Netherlands
The Netherlands were the country that was more or less left besides the march on Berlin. Especially after Montgomery's plan Market Garden became a huge tragedy at the battle of Arnhem, the crazyness who would be first in Berlin started. Only the South of The Netherlands was liberated in oktober 1944, while the North (over the rivers) went into the fierce hunger-winter of 44-45 (which resulted in more casualties then the four years of occupation and war before!). Eventually the Canadians got the marching orders towards Amsterdam and were the ones that liberated the Northern provinces. The Nazi's surrenders on the 5th of May 1945, only three days before the general surrender of the Nazi's in Europe. In the Liberation Museum in Groesbeek one can see everything of the liberation of The Netherlands.
Visitted the Canadian War Cemtery in Groesbeek
My name is Michel Janssen out Nijmegen. I have live from 1963 to 1993 in the beautiful village Groesbeek. This village is a beautiful tourist village where you can to vacation.- Arts and Culture
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Church Groesbeek - De Horst
St Mary's Chapel at the Church of the Divine Heart of Jesus, Groesbeek - De Horst. January 15, 2006.
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Interior of the Church of Groesbeek - De Horst, Church of the Divine Heart of Jesus. Choir with wall painting of the Last Supper that looks almost Byzantine.
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The organ of the church. We didn't have a close look, but Jennie thought that most of the pipes were probably fake ones anyway. Adding fake organ pipes is a common practice, by the way.
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The Groesbeek Cemetery Register.
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A view of many grave stones of fallen soldiers.
Another picture of the Gravestones of these fallen soldiers
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Health Technol Assess 2010;14(14):1–236
Multicentre randomised controlled trial of the clinical and cost-effectiveness of a bypass-surgery-first versus a balloon-angioplasty-first revascularisation strategy for severe limb ischaemia due to infrainguinal disease. The Bypass versus Angioplasty in Severe Ischaemia of the Leg (BASIL) trial
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AW Bradbury,1* DJ Adam,1 J Bell,2 JF Forbes,3 FGR Fowkes,3 I Gillespie,4 G Raab5 and CV Ruckley3
1College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham and Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
2University of Birmingham, UK
3University of Edinburgh, UK
4Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, UK
5School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Care, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
*Corresponding author
The numbers of patients requiring lower limb revascularisation for severe limb ischaemia (SLI) are likely to increase significantly worldwide as a result of ageing populations, the increasing prevalence of diabetes, and the failure so far to significantly reduce global tobacco consumption. The two principal treatment alternatives – bypass surgery and balloon angioplasty – have generally been considered to have a number of possible relative advantages and disadvantages. Previous studies that have attempted to compare them have all had serious methodological limitations. The resulting absence of evidence means controversy continues as to which is associated with a better clinical outcome and is a more effective use of health-care resources.
The Bypass versus Angioplasty in Severe Ischaemia of the Leg (BASIL) trial compared for the first time, in a multicentre randomised controlled trial (RCT), a 'bypass-surgery-first' with a 'balloon-angioplasty-first' revascularisation strategy in patients with SLI due to infrainguinal disease who required immediate/early revascularisation. The main outcomes were amputation-free survival (AFS), overall survival (OS), health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and the cost-effective use of hospital resources.
Before the trial we undertook a Delphi consensus study of vascular surgeons' and interventional radiologists' views on the treatment of SLI. Between August 1999 and June 2004 we randomised 228 patients to a bypass-surgery-first and 224 to balloon-angioplasty-first revascularisation strategy in 27 UK hospitals. We scored preintervention angiograms using the Bollinger and Transatlantic Society Consensus (TASC) II methods; undertook an audit to assess trial generalisability; measured self-reported generic and disease-specific HRQoL out to 36 months; and obtained patient-specific data on hospital resource use and costs. The trial received ethical approval and was registered with the National Research Register (NRR) and the International Standard Randomised Controlled Trials Number Scheme (ISRCTN45398889). All patients provided written informed consent. Follow-up data were obtained from dedicated research nurses; the Information and Statistics Division of the NHS in Scotland using record linkage to Scottish Morbidity Records and the General Registrar Office (Scotland); the Office of National Statistics in England; paper and electronic hospital records; and general practitioners.
The Delphi studies revealed substantial disagreement between and among vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists with regard to the appropriateness of bypass surgery or balloon angioplasty for SLI due to infrainguinal disease. Half of patients presenting to the top six recruiting centres with SLI underwent immediate/early revascularisation. Of these, approximately 30% were eligible for randomisation in that they were considered suitable for bypass and angioplasty within the 'grey area of clinical equipoise' and c. 70% of these entered the trial. Trial patients were well matched in terms of baseline clinical characteristics, angiographic severity and extent of disease. Over 40% of patients had diabetes; over a third were still smoking; three-quarters had tissue loss; over a half had a highest ankle pressure < 50 mmHg; a quarter had bilateral SLI; and most were elderly with a significant cardiovascular past medical history. Despite this, at the time of referral to vascular services, a third of patients were not receiving an antiplatelet agent and only a third of patients were receiving a statin. A quarter of bypasses involved prosthetic material; 90% of vein grafts were constructed using the great saphenous vein; and the distal anastomoses were fashioned in approximately equal numbers at the above-knee popliteal, below-knee popliteal, and crural arteries. With regard to angioplasty, in c. 70% of patients interventional radiologists attempted to treat a single length of disease; in the remainder, attempts were made to treat several (up to four) separate disease lengths. The numbers of transluminal and subintimal angioplasties were approximately equal with just over 10% being reported as mixed. Approximately 80% of the angioplasty patients underwent treatment of the superficial femoral artery either alone (c. 40%) or in combination with the popliteal artery (c. 40%) and crural arteries (c. 20%). Most of the remaining patients underwent treatment of the popliteal segments either alone or more usually in combination with crural arteries; the number of isolated crural artery balloon angioplasties was small.
Interim intention-to-treat analysis – 2005
Following randomisation, 195/228 (86%) bypass surgery and 216/224 (96%) balloon angioplasty patients underwent an attempt at their allocated treatment at a median (interquartile range) of 6 (3–16) and 6 (2–20) days respectively. Surgery was associated with significantly lower immediate failure (3% versus 20%), higher 30-day morbidity (57% versus 41%) and lower 12-month reintervention (18% versus 26%) rates than angioplasty. The 30-day mortality was similar (surgery 5%, angioplasty 3%). By 2005, 99% of patients had been followed up for 1 year and 48% for 3 years; 248 (55%) patients were alive with their trial leg intact; 38 (8%) were alive with their trial leg amputated; 36 (8%) had died subsequent to amputation; and 130 (29%) had died with their trial leg intact. Overall AFS at 1 and 3 years was not significantly different; 68% and 57% for bypass surgery and 71% and 52% for balloon angioplasty. However, a post-hoc analysis found a significantly reduced hazard in terms of AFS [adjusted hazard ratio (HR) 0.37; 95% CI 0.17 to 0.77; p = 0.008] and OS (adjusted HR 0.34; 95% CI 0.17 to 0.71; p = 0.004) for surgery relative to angioplasty beyond 2 years from randomisation.
Final intention-to-treat analysis – 2008
For the 2008 analysis, apart from four participants lost to follow-up, 100% of patients had been followed for 3 years and 54% for more than 5 years; the longest follow-up was over 7 years; 250 patients (56%) were dead; 168 (38%) were alive without amputation; and 30 (7%) were alive with amputation. Considering the follow-up period as a whole, AFS and OS did not differ between randomised treatments. However, for those patients surviving beyond 2 years from randomisation, bypass surgery was associated with a reduced HR for subsequent AFS (HR 0.85; 95% CI 0.5 to 1.07; p = 0.108) and for subsequent OS (HR 0.61; 95% CI 0.50 to 0.75; p = 0.009) in an adjusted, time-dependent Cox proportional hazards model. This equates to an increase in subsequent restricted mean OS of 7.3 months (95% CI 1.2 months to 13.4 months; p = 0.02) and an increase in restricted mean AFS of 5.9 months (95% CI 0.2 months to 12.0 months, p = 0.06) during the subsequent mean (range) follow-up of 3.1 years (1 to 5.7 years). Vein bypasses performed better than prosthetic bypasses (p < 0.01 for AFS, p = 0.11 for OS, log-rank tests). There were no differences between transluminal and subintimal angioplasty. Prosthetic bypass performed worse than angioplasty. Patients who underwent bypass surgery after failed angioplasty fared significantly worse than those who underwent bypass surgery as their first treatment. A prognostic model based on age; presence of tissue loss; smoking; a history of angina, myocardial infarction, stroke or transient ischaemic attack; serum creatinine; below-knee Bollinger angiogram score; body mass index; number of recordable ankle pressures; and highest ankle pressure was highly predictive of survival beyond 2 years from randomisation. HRQoL was non-significantly better in the surgery group before and after randomisation. Amputation was associated with a significant reduction in HRQoL. Over the first year, hospital costs in patients randomised to surgery (£22,002 total, £18,369 hospital stay, £3635 procedure) were significantly higher (difference £5420; 95% CI £1547 to £9294) than those (£16,582 total, £14,468 hospital stay, £2115 procedure) for patients randomised to angioplasty. This decreased to £3533 (£29,006 surgery versus £25,472 angioplasty, not significant) by the end of year 3 and to £2310 (£33,539 surgery versus £31,228 angioplasty, not significant) by the end of year 7. After 3 years, procedure costs accounted for 9% and 14% of total costs in the angioplasty and surgery groups respectively; most of these were incurred in the first year. The average number of hospital stays for both groups was four and average length of stay was just over 2 months (71 days). On average, BASIL patients spent 5–6 weeks of their first post-randomisation year in hospital and then 2–3 weeks per year thereafter. Most of this was in the wards and not in high-dependency units (HDUs) or intensive-therapy units (ITUs). Patients randomised to surgery used around a half day more of HDU and a few more hours of ITU than those randomised to angioplasty. A 7-year (non-quality-adjusted) perspective shows that patients randomised to surgery live, on average, 29 days longer (41 days longer with their trial leg intact) at an additional average cost of £2310. This equates to £29,095 per additional year of OS and £20,579 per additional year of AFS. A 36-month quality-adjusted perspective generates a mean quality-adjusted life time of 442 days for angioplasty and 452 days for surgery (mean difference 10 days; 95% CI – 48 days to 68 days; not significant) at an estimated additional average hospital cost of £3533. The 3-year point estimate for the cost-effectiveness of surgery compared with angioplasty [cost per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY)] is therefore estimated at £125,499. The cost-effectiveness acceptability curve for AFS is relatively flat beyond the point estimate (£20,579), indicating a substantial possibility that surgery may be cost-ineffective at broadly accepted willingness-to-pay thresholds.
Implications for practice
The greatest gains in SLI lie in early diagnosis, best medical therapy and prompt referral. Most BASIL patients had developed SLI slowly over months, often years. Despite this, and being at exceptionally high overall cardiovascular risk, many patients:
- had never received 'best medical therapy' for their multisystem atherosclerotic disease
- were referred (too) late to vascular services for (successful) revascularisation
- were far from medically optimised at the time of referral.
It seems likely, therefore, that public-health and primary- and secondary-care measures aimed at:
- detecting lower limb arterial disease at an earlier stage (before it becomes life and limb threatening)
- ensuring that all such patients are offered evidenced-based 'best medical therapy'
- encouraging prompt referral to vascular services for specialist care
would significantly diminish the burden imposed by SLI on the health of the nation.
Multidisciplinary team working
BASIL strongly suggests that the best outcomes for SLI are achieved when vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists work closely together with other professionals as part of a multidisciplinary team in specialist, high-volume centres (www.vascularsociety.org.uk/).
Treatment recommendations based on BASIL trial results
The findings of our study suggest that in patients with SLI due to infrainguinal disease the decision whether to perform bypass surgery or balloon angioplasty first appears to depend upon life expectancy. Patients expected to live less than 2 years should usually be offered balloon angioplasty first as it is associated with less morbidity and cost, and such patients are unlikely to enjoy the longer-term benefits of surgery. By contrast, those patients expected to live beyond 2 years should usually be offered bypass surgery first, especially where a vein is available as a conduit.
Role of prosthetic bypass in the management of SLI
Many patients who could not undergo a vein bypass would probably have been better served by a first attempt at balloon angioplasty than prosthetic bypass. Surgeons should make every effort to use vein and should view prosthetic material as a last resort.
Role of balloon angioplasty in the management of SLI
The immediate technical and early clinical failure rate of angioplasty in SLI is high (c. 25%) and patients who underwent bypass surgery after failed angioplasty fared significantly worse than those who underwent surgery as their first procedure. So, angioplasty does not appear to be a 'free shot' as has often been claimed. Whether failed angioplasty selects patients who were going to do badly whatever treatment they received, or whether angioplasty per se reduces the chances of successful surgical revascularisation, these data should be borne in mind when considering treatment options.
The role of amputation and the care of vascular amputees
In retrospect, the interests of a significant proportion of BASIL patients would have been best served by primary amputation, followed by high-quality rehabilitation, rather than often repeated and ultimately unsuccessful attempts at revascularisation. Amputees tended to spend long periods on acute surgical wards where they consumed expensive acute resources while not receiving the rehabilitation they required. There would seem to be a need to rethink services for vascular amputees so that the available resources can be used in a more clinically and cost-effective manner.
Summary of research recommendations
We suggest that further research is required to:
- repeat the Delphi studies to determine whether there has been any convergence of views as to the relative merits of bypass surgery and balloon angioplasty in SLI
- confirm or refute the BASIL findings and recommendations in further RCTs (we suggest that it is not in the public interest that responsibility for such trials should be left entirely with the private sector where research is understandably driven by commercial interests)
- validate the BASIL trial survival prediction model in a separate cohort of SLI patients
- examine the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of new endovascular techniques and devices (such as stents and stent-grafts) in the management of SLI
- compare, within the confines of an RCT, revascularisation versus primary amputation versus best medical and nursing care only in those SLI patients with the poorest prospects.
Trial registration
This trial is registered as ISRCTN45398889.
Bradbury AW, Adam DJ, Bell J, Forbes JF, Fowkes FGR, Gillespie I, et al. Multicentre randomised controlled trial of the clinical and cost-effectiveness of a bypass-surgery-first versus a balloon-angioplasty-first revascularisation strategy for severe limb ischaemia due to infrainguinal disease. The Bypass versus Angioplasty in Severe Ischaemia of the Leg (BASIL) trial. Health Technol Assess 2010;14(14).
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The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme, part of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), was set up in 1993. It produces high-quality research information on the effectiveness, costs and broader impact of health technologies for those who use, manage and provide care in the NHS. 'Health technologies' are broadly defined as all interventions used to promote health, prevent and treat disease, and improve rehabilitation and long-term care.
The research findings from the HTA programme directly influence decision-making bodies such as the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the National Screening Committee (NSC). HTA findings also help to improve the quality of clinical practice in the NHS indirectly in that they form a key component of the 'National Knowledge Service'.
The HTA programme is needs led in that it fills gaps in the evidence needed by the NHS. There are three routes to the start of projects.
First is the commissioned route. Suggestions for research are actively sought from people working in the NHS, from the public and consumer groups and from professional bodies such as royal colleges and NHS trusts. These suggestions are carefully prioritised by panels of independent experts (including NHS service users). The HTA programme then commissions the research by competitive tender.
Second, the HTA programme provides grants for clinical trials for researchers who identify research questions. These are assessed for importance to patients and the NHS, and scientific rigour.
Third, through its Technology Assessment Report (TAR) call-off contract, the HTA programme commissions bespoke reports, principally for NICE, but also for other policy-makers. TARs bring together evidence on the value of specific technologies.
Some HTA research projects, including TARs, may take only months, others need several years. They can cost from as little as £40,000 to over £1 million, and may involve synthesising existing evidence, undertaking a trial, or other research collecting new data to answer a research problem.
The final reports from HTA projects are peer reviewed by a number of independent expert referees before publication in the widely read journal series Health Technology Assessment.
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Reports are published in the HTA journal series if (1) they have resulted from work for the HTA programme, and (2) they are of a sufficiently high scientific quality as assessed by the referees and editors.
Reviews in Health Technology Assessment are termed 'systematic' when the account of the search, appraisal and synthesis methods (to minimise biases and random errors) would, in theory, permit the replication of the review by others.
The research reported in this issue of the journal was commissioned by the HTA programme as project number 96/05/01. The contractual start date was in March 1999. The draft report began editorial review in August 2008 and was accepted for publication in July 2009. As the funder, by devising a commissioning brief, the HTA programme specified the research question and study design. The authors have been wholly responsible for all data collection, analysis and interpretation, and for writing up their work. The HTA editors and publisher have tried to ensure the accuracy of the authors' report and would like to thank the referees for their constructive comments on the draft document. However, they do not accept liability for damages or losses arising from material published in this report.
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There are lots of population genetics simulators available as both standalone programs and online offerings. However, I decided that I wanted to make my own. So here is my Fisher-Wright model
basic population genetics simulator. I thought it might be a fun way to try out a new package
called "shiny". Shiny is a package from
the developers of RStudio. It provides
an easy way to create interactive web pages that draw on R for generating the
displayed content. These can be run
locally by anyone that has the Shiny package installed or you can set up a
shiny server and host them as webpages that will use an instance of R on the
server to generate the displayed content.
So here is what it looks like in action:
This isn't on the CRAN version of evobiR yet but if you want to play with it you can get it by installing through GitHub.
install_github("evobir", username='coleoguy')
Here are links to some other useful simulation software:
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'American Idol': Naima Adedapo's Tina Turner cover falls flat
As Randy himself said, "The vocals were a mess." A tough call for one of Jackson's favorites. Jennifer Lopez (herself sporting a fabulously massive mane that had us wondering how Randy and Steven managed to fit at the judges' table) seconded the emotion, getting booed for calling Naima on yet another pitchy performance.
"I'm gonna get my pitch together," said Naimi backstage after the performance. "That's all I can do."
What did you think of Naima top 12 performance?
I think the judges put her in the top 13 based on her backstory, look, and likability more than for her singing. It's too bad she is struggling now..I don't like to see it, but I can't say I am all that surprised.
I completely agree. It was not good. She is making baaaad song choices and arrangements - fast, dance hit versions. She auditioned with Donny Hathaway and has a beautiful voice for that style of music - crooner, blues, but NOT what she is doing. She should stop trying to be a triple threat and get singing down pat first. I am afraid this is it for her :(
reggae princess, i like the way she sing....
Ugh! I know this lady from Milwaukee- and was surprised to find out that she made the top 24. She always tries TOO hard. If she'd relax and not think too much of herself- maybe we'd see her true talent- YIKES!
Still, I've never thought her vocals were stellar!
Love this girl. I hope she stays. VIVA NAIMA ! ! !
I support her efforts but must agree that she needs to choose her songs more carefully. She gives chill bumps when she croons. These dance song numbers seem misfitting for her, awkward. I want to see her win! Please quiet your spirit Naima and wisely choose.


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Detectives responded to a domestic battery call at North Florida Regional Medical Center.
The 11-year old boy told them that Astrid Medina-Martinez punched him in the face during an altercation.
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She told him to stop playing and then shoved his head repeatedly.
A small scuffle followed resulting in the punch.
The boy's mother saw the incident from another room.
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Cons Can't keep time! Loses up to nine minutes almost every day. Was sent a replacement unit; it has the same problem. Broadcast signal very good, so not a broadcast issue. Complained to CM for 3 months, but no remedy. on by pungod | Read full review
Cons I'm on my third and last(new)unit, I've had it with this device.
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China spending helps lift farm aid from record low - OECD
* Share of subsidies in farm income rose slightly in 2012
* Gain driven by China spending, dip in commodity prices
* OECD says long-term trend in subsidies remains downward
BRUSSELS, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Agricultural subsidies as a share of farm income bounced back in 2012 from a record low the previous year, thanks to a dip in commodity prices and increased farm spending by China and others, the OECD said on Wednesday.
Public support for producers in 47 countries amounted to 17 percent of gross farm receipts, up from an all-time low of 15 percent in 2011, the annual assessment by the Paris-based think tank showed.
Despite the increase, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said the long-term trend in support levels remained downward.
"This short-term change is partly related to developments in world prices for agricultural commodities, as opposed to explicit policy changes," the report found.
Last year, the prices of commodities such as cereals and sugar fell back from their 2011 peaks, ensuring that public subsidies accounted for a higher relative share of farm incomes despite remaining stable in absolute terms in many countries.
But the total was also boosted by a jump in subsidy levels in non-OECD countries such as China and Indonesia - included in the report for the first time - where support as a share of overall income rose by 4 and 6.5 percentage points respectively.
China's farm subsidies rose by almost $50 billion in 2012 to reach $165 billion, the report showed. The sharp increase means the share of subsidies in Chinese farm receipts is now approaching the OECD average.
"Growing minimum purchase prices for rice and wheat and an increasing range of other commodities covered by market interventions are major factors behind mounting transfers from consumers," the report said.
Rising Chinese subsidies are a result of the government's self-sufficiency policies, which can prove costly.
"Narrow self-sufficiency targets often push countries towards high border protection and market price support, effectively taxing consumers and decreasing food affordability at least in the short term," they said.
Levels of agricultural support vary widely. Subsidies as a share of farm income were less than 4 percent in New Zealand, Australia and Chile, compared with more than 50 percent in Japan, South Korea and Switzerland, the report showed.
In the European Union, support to producers rose slightly last year to 19 percent of total receipts, while in the United States the share fell to 7 percent, from 8 percent in 2011.
The OECD is a club of the world's wealthiest 34 countries but frequently conducts research into the wider global economy.
(Reporting by Charlie Dunmore; Editing by Dale Hudson)


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Colorado began the day as one of five teams separated by just two points who are battling for the final two playoff positions in the Western Conference.
Semyon Varlamov gave up a game-tying goal to Edmonton's Taylor Hall with 4:43 left in regulation but he was perfect in the shootout against Jordan Eberle and Sam Gagner.
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1989 ols looses power when i acselerate
August 15, 2011.
August 15, 2011.
Could be caused by one of the following below
Oxygen sensor.
Catalytic converter.
Fuel injectors dirty/sticking.
Mass airflow sensor/Airflow meter.
Throttle position sensor.
Crankshaft position sensor
Knock sensor
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OT: bengals and browns, are you serious?
The gresham fumble does it not look like he purposely drop the ball? on the replay he just lets go of the ball. and the browns, it almost look like the browns purposely wiffed on the tackle, 3 guys around the ball and they all miss the tackle.
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We can only control what we can control and we couldn't control the Browns or the Jets. End rant.
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The escalating fight over TV sports rights reaches its biggest battlefield next week, as NBCUniversal pushes to extend its track record of Olympic broadcasting wins, and ESPN and Fox aim to spoil it.
WSJ's Jessica Vascellaro previews U.S. TV networks poised to open their wallets next week and bid for upcoming Olympics broadcast rights. Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
Next Monday and Tuesday, the TV broadcasters will bid for exclusive U.S. television rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games, one of the few spectacles guaranteed to draw big, live TV audiences at a time when consumers are spreading their attention across a growing number of TV channels and online video sites.
The bidding, which is expected to be tighter than in years past, also marks an effort by the International Olympic Committee and its TV broadcasters to find a way to make televising the Games profitable again. The old model of focusing coverage on one flagship broadcast channel has been broken by the steep increases in rights fees, which have risen faster than advertising rates.
The media companies are each sending fleets of executives to Switzerland to make their pitches. And each is taking a different approach. NBCUniversal, which came under the control of Comcast Corp. CMCSK -0.95% Comcast Corp. Cl A Special U.S.: Nasdaq $50.22 -0.48 -0.95% March 7, 2014 5:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3.00M AFTER HOURS $50.33 +0.11 +0.21% March 7, 2014 4:10 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 250,300 P/E Ratio 19.32 Market Cap $133.79 Billion Dividend Yield 1.79% Rev. per Employee $475,419 More quote details and news » in January and is now without its longtime sports chief Dick Ebersol, is drawing from the same playbook it used to win rights to televise eight of the past 10 Olympics, according to people familiar with the matter. That playbook emphasizes its Olympics legacy and devotion to storytelling, which the network says brings in women viewers.
But the network also plans to highlight the Comcast side of the house, with its suite of cable channels and video-on-demand technology. And that makes the bid the first big test for the new NBCU regime led by chief executive Steve Burke, who is making sports one of his top priorities.
Walt Disney Co. DIS -1.36% Walt Disney Co. U.S.: NYSE $82.21 -1.13 -1.36% March 7, 2014 5:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 7.46M AFTER HOURS $82.49 +0.28 +0.34% March 7, 2014 7:58 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 23,101 P/E Ratio 22.34 Market Cap $144.04 Billion Dividend Yield 1.05% Rev. per Employee $262,674 03/10/14 The People's Money: Chinese De... 03/07/14 By the Numbers: Happy Birthday... 03/06/14 Corrections & Amplifications More quote details and news » 's ESPN is planning to pitch the idea of showing more events live and will play up its appeal among young men, according to people familiar with the matter. The cable network plans to point to its coverage of the FIFA World Cup last year as evidence of the attention it can command from U.S. fans, these people said.
ESPN also believes it can keep the Games more relevant during non-Olympic years by broadcasting competitions in Olympic sports and promoting these events on SportsCenter, its ubiquitous highlight show, these people said.
Fox, the most popular network in prime time among U.S. viewers age 18-49, is planning to play up its appeal among younger Americans, according to a person familiar with the matter. Fox is owned by News Corp., NWSA -2.02% News Corp Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq $17.91 -0.37 -2.02% March 7, 2014 5:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2.49M AFTER HOURS $17.91 +0.00 +0.02% March 7, 2014 4:21 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 10,062 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $10.30 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $367,000 03/05/14 Javelin Raises $1.5M to Bring ... 03/03/14 Phone-Hacking Trial: Brooks Te... 02/28/14 Pearson Issues Profit Warning ... More quote details and news » which also owns The Wall Street Journal.
Yet all that pitching probably won't matter as much as the key deciding fact: Who is willing to pay the most. The IOC is seeking around $2 billion for the rights. The networks aren't revealing any clues about their bidding intentions.
And for all their grandeur, the Games remain a risky business proposition. During the last bidding in 2003, ESPN proposed a profit-sharing deal with no cash upfront. Fox trailed NBCUniversal's $2 billion bid by around $700 million. NBC lost $223 million on the 2010 Vancouver Games, and is projecting a $250 million loss for London next year. NBCU's new chief executive Mr. Burke has said the network aims to do deals that make money.
The Games remain a high-profile prize, and attaining the rights is a unique process of brinksmanship. Traditional back and forth negotiations are almost non-existent. Company executives make their pitches and submit blind bids with no promise of an opportunity to raise their offers. The IOC could announce the winner as soon as Tuesday.
This year's pitches are expected to highlight the ascendancy of cable television, which has for years struggled to land the same caliber of content as broadcast networks which draw bigger audiences.
ESPN will pitch the appeal of its cable networks the hardest, with a plan to make its cable sports channel a main hub for the games, although it won't ignore ABC.
"We've got a lot of platforms and we plan to use all of them," said ESPN's chief spokesman, Chris LaPlaca.
Fox and NBCU also plan to discuss putting more Olympic events on their cable channels, which are helping insulate media companies from economic challenges in their broadcast businesses.
A person with knowledge of NBCU's strategy said the company has already negotiated surcharges for its channels with some distributors if it secures the rights to Games beyond 2012.
The Olympic contest is the most anticipated among a series of recent clashes among media companies over sports television rights. Some 214 million viewers watched the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, making it the most-watched event in television history.
Competition is driving up prices, since sports, along with news, are now essentially the only DVR-proof programming and networks are desperate for the few properties that can still attract mass audiences.
Neal Pilson, the former president of CBS Sports and a former media adviser to the IOC, said the Olympics are more important to NBC and Comcast than the other bidders, given NBC's historic investment in the franchise. "The Olympics can serve as an important validator of the NBC-Comcast merger," he said.
That said, Mr. Pilson said given the steep losses NBC has sustained under its current deal, the bidding should be far tighter.
NBCU is pulling out the stops, sending an array of executives including Comcast chief executive Brian Roberts, Comcast chief financial officer Michael Angelakis and Mr. Burke to its Tuesday presentation.
Disney CEO Robert Iger and ESPN chief George Bodenheimer will lead the ESPN contingent.
Fox is sending Fox Sports Chairman David Hill and executives Randy Freer and Larry Jones.
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In a sign that the IOC is trying to adapt to the financial challenges media companies are facing, the committee has said it is willing to entertain bids for the next four Olympics, including the 2018 and 2020 games, whose locations have yet to be determined.
The move may make higher bids easier for media companies to stomach by allowing them to spread their payments and leverage their association with the Olympic brand over a longer period.
One executive involved in the bidding said bids for four Games would average 5%-10% higher on a per-Games basis than bids for just the 2014 and 2016 Games.
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It can be difficult marketing your business on a platform like MySpace, especially when you aren't involved in the music or creative niches. But that doesn't mean you can't use the platform as a community site, and to gain lead traffic to your sales pages! Today, I'm showing you how to sell on MySpace.
Creating Your Awesome MySpace Page
Every business owner belongs to a certain niche, or perhaps several niches – depending on your career. The best way to sell on MySpace is to use a set niche to leverage your products and create buzz for your brand. I'm going to use a clock-maker as an example.
Now, clock-makers don't have the most 'in-demand' product, like many small businesses out there. They also have to compete with just about every other clothing or retail store, selling cheap imported watches for next to nothing. For this business to survive it needs a creative MySpace campaign. One that will result in lots of fans and even more sales.
Brands are allowed on MySpace, but people tend to get more responses. This is especially true if the small business owner doing the posting, spends a decent amount of time listening to music, commenting and sharing on MySpace already.
Here's how to streamline your PERSONAL profile and transform it into a promotional tool:
• Do some keyword research around your core products. For clocks, some keywords that pop up are – time, wasting time, clocking out and in the nick of time.
• Your page's theme is going to be clocks. You sell them, and you ARE your brand. Create a nice profile pic for yourself and feature one of your best clocks in this image.
• Similarly, create a brilliant and sharable clock background, showcasing your love of clocks.
• In the 'tell us about yourself' section, mention that you're a creative clock-maker, and add in a witty, short saying about time.
• Add your business URL to the website URL space that MySpace provides.
• If you want some extra exposure for your website or a certain sales page – then include your URL in the 'about us' section. It will display on your homepage.
• There are only 3 account types that allow you to upload podcasts, these are 'comedian,' 'DJ' and 'musician.' If you want to create and share dynamic marketing podcasts, then choose one of these accounts instead.
• Otherwise, you can still upload VIDEOS to your personal MySpace account. A good video strategy can get you lots of sales on MySpace. Simply add some of your existing YouTube materials to the platform, or create new 'music-based' videos for your feed. Choose songs related to time and clocks, then brand them with your logo and URL afterwards.
• Post 2-4 updates daily, including links to articles you've written, images you've created, your sales sites, your Amazon pages or other social media content.
• Finally, search for songs that complement your themed topic. Become the best 'songs about time' account on MySpace, and your community will grow.
You can use this basic strategy to begin selling from your MySpace page. It works well enough in many niches – pet food, restaurants, doctor's rooms, graphic designers, web designers – the list really goes on. Don't be afraid to leverage music and video on MySpace to improve your monthly sales. They can be significant!
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Fins and Fluke, founded in 2012, is an organization dedicated to educating our local communities about marine species and ocean conservation. We are based in Texas, but our team is spread all throughout the United States. This position is for a social media intern and is a telecommute position.http://finsandfluke.org/
-Moderate Facebook and Twitter pages 1-5 hours a day, make occasional posts, interact with others, represent the organization-Create and edit newsletters
-Occasionally participate in conference calls
-A degree in biology, environmental studies, marine biology, journalism, or other similar fields would be helpful but is not required-Strong social media skills (Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, Google+) Experience being a Facebook page admin is preferable
-Must display a passion for ocean conservation
-Must display the utmost professionalism
-Must have access to a computer and internet
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Rod Blagojevich found guilty on 17 counts. Is it a turning point for Illinois?
In a retrial, Rod Blagojevich is convicted of corruption stemming from the sale of President Obama's seat in the US Senate. The former Illinois governor says he's 'stunned.'
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"People talked about the retrial wasting taxpayer money and I'm curious to see if that persists in the light of this verdict," she says.
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The second trial, like the first, exposed the tribal nature of Chicago and Illinois state politics. On wiretapped recordings, Blagojevich was heard trying to both ingratiate himself with state and federal lawmakers and also lashing out against them. In testimony on the stand, Blagojevich apologized to jurors for his language and appeared to portray himself as a humble public servant whose schemes were aimed at appeasing his political enemies.
In his testimony, Blagojevich outlined what he said was his true intent for Obama's Senate seat: that it would go to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, the daughter of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, Blagojevich's chief political nemesis. According to Blagojevich, he wanted to award Ms. Madigan the seat so her father would support his legislative agenda that was deemed unpopular at the time.
Reform advocates say that Blagojevich's strategy in showing that horse-trading is just part of the political culture here is insufficient and Monday's verdict should impact others who are conditioned to pay-for-play politics.
"The message that needs to be delivered to voters, to candidates, and to people that work for candidates [is] that corruption … is not business as usual. All these people who say 'I was just doing what everybody was doing' should go to jail," says David Morrison, deputy director of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, a nonprofit public interest group in Chicago. "I am always hopeful that this is the one [trial] that will sink in and convince people to stop."
Blagojevich is the second Illinois governor in a row convicted of corruption. Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan currently sits in federal prison serving a 6 1/2-year sentence.
US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who led the case against Blagojevich, referenced the Ryan case Monday to reporters, saying it should have been a signal that public tolerance for corrupt officials had eroded. Blagojevich "did not get that message," Mr. Fitzgerald said.
Although Illinois political history is thick with sordid tales of graft and other wrongdoing, the Blagojevich case will likely be perceived as a turning point that will make public officials think twice before cutting deals without thinking the public is watching, says David Hoffman, a former Chicago Inspector General.
Mounting public resentment and digital media advancements are collectively getting the edge over public officials who may believe their illicit actions may have no consequences nor may see the light of day, says Mr. Hoffman.
"For too long, there has been this myth that we in Illinois are so beaten down by the state's history of corruption that people are tolerant of public officials who act in a very blatant way to advance their private interests," he says. "Anyone who has grown up with the Internet knows that it makes no sense to believe that government will not become transparent over time. It will make it harder for officials to engage in widespread corruption schemes. Combine that with public anger with these types of cases and I'm actually optimistic that [the Blagojevich case] is something that will not be forgotten."


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The successive term of office of the Kielce University of Technology
governing bodies will last from 2012 to 2016. The University, which
has existed for almost five decades, is an academic institution with
established tradition. During the previous term of office, the 45th
anniversary of the founding of the University was celebrated. It was
established in 1965 as Kielce-Radom Evening Higher Engineering
School and transformed into the Kielce University of Technology in
1974. The University sees itself as the bearer of the traditions
passed down by the first technical higher school in Poland, namely
the Mining Academy founded by Stanisław Staszic in 1816 and seated
in the Cracow Bishops' Palace in Kielce.
In a broader context, the University is an heir to the Świętokrzyski Region traditions, an area of a high economic potential. The milestones of the Region's development include a prehistoric mine of striped flintstone in Krzemionki Opatowskie, ancient smelting furnaces called Dymarki, Old Polish Industrial Zone and Central Industrial Region. In recent years, metal, machine and construction industries have robustly developed in the Region. Tourism, a relatively new branch of industry in the area, has also played an important role in the Region's economy. The last period of economic growth has undoubtedly contributed to the development of a technical school of higher education. The Polish name of the University (Politechnika Świętokrzyska) forms associations with the Region which has remained a bastion of Polish culture and traditions throughout the country's tumultuous history. For over forty seven years of its operation, the University being the only institution of technical higher education in the Region, has provided instruction to students making them highly qualified engineering staff employed mainly by local enterprises. Many of the University accomplished alumni founded or were employed by a lot of production and services companies recognisable in the country and abroad. The University graduates have undoubtedly been successful, which is also regarded as a success of our institution. The quality of the academic instruction students receive is also confirmed by high place the University holds in the rankings of Perspektywy monthly and Rzeczpospolita daily, among others. The high ranking of the University results from diversified areas of instruction offered to students. Those comprise sixteen fields of study, including four new ones which are of key importance to institutions of technical higher learning, namely architecture and town planning, automation and robotics, economics, electronics and telecommunications. In addition to teaching, the University conducts research geared towards collaboration with various sectors of the national economy, and also facilitates the development of the research staff. The University's successful policy is confirmed by the fact that it is authorised to confer a Doctor's degree of technical sciences in seven disciplines and a degree of Doctor habilitated in three disciplines, i.e. machine building and operation, civil engineering and electrical engineering. That makes it possible for the University to conduct doctoral studies providing basis for the development of young research personnel. Obtained in 2008, the sixth authorisation to confer a Doctor's degree of technical sciences in the discipline of automation and robotics, and seventh authorisation to confer a Doctor's degree of technical sciences in the discipline of production engineering (2011) are, in compliance with the Polish legal regulations, necessary to retain the Polish name and status of "Politechnika". In the future it will be possible to convert our institution into a technical university. A step leading to such a conversion is the authorisation obtained in 2010 by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics and Computer Science to confer a degree of Doctor habilitated in the discipline of electrical engineering. The Kielce University of Technology has secured a position in the international university community owing to collaboration with foreign, mainly European, academic institutions, with which longterm agreements on joint research, improvements in teaching, staff and students exchange have been concluded. International programmes, which make it possible to partly finance student grants (SOCRATES/ERASMUS – presently LLP/ERASMUS), to exchange students, doctoral students and research personnel and to conduct joint research projects (CEEPUS) as well as scienceresearch projects (FITNET, ILTOF), have greatly contributed to the University collaboration with other academic institutions. Investment projects, mainly based on financial means obtained through EU funding, constitute another major factor contributing to the University development. Investments have made it possible to modernise the existing buildings and construct new teaching and research units. The laboratories backup facilities have been upgraded to ensure the highest standards. Due to investments we anticipate new developments in research and teaching. Contact personal |
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... off again, unfortunately this only got us going for about ten minutes before making a desperate attempt to get off the motorway near a town to have a closer look.
With engine dangerously hot we coasts down hill into a town and pulled up in a petrol station, now properly broken down. We bought some water and when we put it in it came straight back out of the by pass house. I went on the hunt and managed to ...
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... of the castle for a while I headed back to Old Town Square to have a bite to eat and watch the street performers. On the way I stopped at the Charles Bridge Tower and decided to hike up and check out the view. It was a lot of stairs, but completely worth it. The view was insane, with a 360 degree view of Prague from high up I could see all of it's beauty at once. I could have stayed up there for hours. But I had to head back to the hostel, so I had to force myself to look ...
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... it got dark at 3pm every day we would venture out into the Christmas markets and enjoy the atmosphere of Pest at Christmas time! Mulled wine was had, aimless wandering was beautiful considering everything was lit up and we got a feel for another country's culture around this time of year – absolutely lovely!
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The Beginning
... and loved ones, selling my car and getting packed. We've had loads of questions about how we'll pack for almost 6 months on the move across a range of different climates. We thought we'd it all worked out until we started packing so in the few hours before our taxi came we were still playing tetris with our gear. With all finally sorted and feeling relieved that we could actually lift our backpacks we managed to get about 2 hours sleep before the ...
Czech Delight
... they had back when the construction was taking place, the king put out a request for eggs to be sent in from all over the kingdom (apparently eggs, when hardened, made for a stronger bind). In addition to the request for eggs, wine was also incorporated into the mortar, making for a rather intriguing blend of resources to complete a project. Our guide told us the Czech people were quirky and weird, now I believe her.
Moving across the water once more, we were back in the ...
- Swimming pool
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