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The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn-Midtown — 6000 Middle Fiskville Rd, Austin, TX 78752
**Please note, no refunds will be processed after Wednesday, March 9, 2016**
TAPT is an approved CEU provider for APT (98-043), LPC (461), Social Work (1674) and MFT (865)
Friday, April 8: Pre-Conference
Registration 7:30a-8:30a / Sessions: 8:30a-6:15p / Lunch: 12:00p-1:30p
Morning Break-Out Sessions — 2 Options: One 3 hour session OR Two 1.5 hour session
"A" Sessions:
3 Hour Presentation
8:30a - 12:00p
(with 30 minute break)
Meets qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education for Registered Play Therapy Supervisors. An additional 3 hours offered during our post conference workshop.
Session 1A: Help me, Supervisor!: A guide to supervisees with difficult clients
Presenter: Ryan Holliman, Ph.D, LPC-S, RPT
Level: Intermediate
Overview: Play therapists frequently come to supervision feeling challenged and stuck with particular clients. Participants will be provided with an overview of supervision approaches; information about the signs of being stuck, and play therapy supervision techniques to address being stuck.
"A" Sessions:
3 Hour Presentation
8:30a - 12:00p
(with 30 minute break)
Session 2A: Body, Breath, and Play Therapy: Incorporating Body-Centered Practices into Play Therapy
Presenter: Renee Turner, Ph.D, LPC-S, RPT-ST
Level: Advanced
Overview: Identify how to incorporate mindfulness into play therapy sessions. During this experiential presentation, attendees will gain basic information and skills on incorporating the breath and body into the play therapy session. Body-centered techniques are effective for traumatized children and those with impulsivity and attention issues. Current research presented.
"B" Sessions:
1.5 Hour Presentations
8:30a - 10:00a
Session 1B: The Evidence-Base for Play Therapy: Does it Exist---And, if it Does, How do I Use It?
Presenter: Sue Bratton, Ph.D, LPC-S, RPT-S / Damian McClintock, MA / Eric Dafoe, M.Ed, LPC-Intern
Level: Intermediate
Overview: Establishing and promoting the evidence-base for play therapy is critical to its future, yet practitioners often struggle to interpret and use research. Participants will explore research partnerships and be provided access to a concise, research data base to facilitate dissemination.
"B" Sessions:
1.5 Hour Presentations
8:30a - 10:00a
Session 2B: Partnering with Parents in Play Therapy: Creative Use of Metaphor
Presenter: Pam Dyson, MA, LPC-S, RPT-S
Level: Beginner
Overview: Working with parents is a vital part of the play therapy process. This workshop will introduce the creative use of metaphors in identifying parenting strengths and challenges as an adjunct to parent consultation and will introduce two playful techniques that creatively use metaphors in identifying parenting strengths and challenges as an adjunct to parent consultation.
"C" Sessions:
1.5 Hour Presentation
10:30a - 12:00p
Session 1C: Extraordinarily Normal: Developmental Principles in Play Therapy
Presenter: Dee Ray, Ph.D, LPC-S, RPT-S, NCC / Emily Reader, MS, LPC-Intern / Kirsten Davenport, MS, LPC-Intern
Level: Beginner
Overview: Through presentation of developmental characteristics for 3-10 year olds, presenters will demonstrate how development is assessed and used to measure progress and identify play themes. Presenters will address using developmental knowledge to tailor parent consultations for children of different ages.
"C" Sessions:
1.5 Hour Presentation
10:30a - 12:00p
Session 2C: Integration of EMDR and Play Therapy
Presenter: Karen Sullivan, LCSW, RPT-S, Certified EMDR Therapist / Gael Thompson, LPC, Certified EMDR Therapist
Level: Intermediate
Overview: Presentation will cover the basic concepts of EMDR Therapy, an evidenced based therapeutic protocol, and the AIP Model. Speakers will discuss how Play Therapy can be integrated with EMDR Therapy to more effectively address trauma with children and adolescents.
Afternoon Break-Out Sessions — 2 Options: One 3 hour session OR Two 1.5 hour session
"D" Sessions:
3 Hour Presentation
1:30p - 5:00p
(with 30 minute break)
Session 1D: Ethics Surrounding Psychiatric Hospitalization and Aftercare of Children: Issues that Affect the Child, Play Therapist and the Family.
Presenter: Scott Pelking, LPC-S, LPCC, CTRTC, RPT-S
Level: Beginner
Overview: This presentation will address a number of legal and ethical issues facing the play therapist regarding psychiatric hospitalization. The information will address concerns about referral, diagnosis, medication, parental expectations, and aftercare. We will also discuss some of the common stressors that are contributing to the rise in psychiatric disorders in children.
"D" Sessions:
3 Hour Presentation
1:30p - 5:00p
(with 30 minute break)
Session 2D: Play Therapy with Families of At-Risk Youth: Re-Connecting Families through Play-Based and Expressive Interventions
Presenter: Quinn Smelser, MA, LPC / Ragan Aaron, MA, LPC-Intern
Level: Intermediate
Overview: Research suggests family therapy to be most effective when working with at-risk youth, but finding play therapy techniques that work can be tricky! This experiential workshop presents 3 play and art based activities geared towards re-connecting members of a family system.
"E" Sessions:
1.5 Hour Presentation
1:30p - 3:00p
Session 1E: Connecting with the Disconnected and Misunderstood:Child-Centered Play Therapy for Children with Autism
Presenter: Jennifer Balch, Ph.D, LPC-S, RPT-S / Dee Ray, Ph.D, LPC-S, RPT-S, NCC
Level: Advanced
Overview: The presentation will focus on understanding the characteristics of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their unique mental health needs. Participants will learn about most current diagnostic criteria for ASD in the DSM-5 and leave with a detailed and comprehensive understanding of ASD. The presenters will identify the basic tenants of play therapy and explain how play therapy can be used to address the mental health needs of children with ASD. More specifically, the presenters to help participants understand how child-centered play therapy can benefit children with ASD. Additionally, the presenters will provide modifications within play therapy to help meet the specific needs of this population.
"E" Sessions:
1.5 Hour Presentation
1:30p - 3:00p
Session 2E: Play Therapy with Gender Non-conforming Children
Presenter: Mandi Melendez, LMFT-A, LPC-Intern
Level: Intermediate
Overview: Learn the fundamentals of gender-nonconformity in children and the essentials of play therapy with this special population. This interactive and experiential workshop will prepare you to support gender-nonconforming children and their families with creative, playful and effective interventions.
"F" Sessions:
1.5 Hour Presentation
3:30p - 5:00p
Session 1F: Recent Research Developments in Play Therapy
Presenter: Multiple Ph.D and Masters level presenters
Level: Beginner
Overview: This presentation will offer participants the most recent research in our field related to children, adolescents, parents, teachers and play therapy.
"F" Sessions:
1.5 Hour Presentation
3:30p - 5:00p
Session 2F: Helping Children Through Trauma Using TF-CBT and Play Therapy
Presenter: Velma Schmidt, LPC-S, RPT-S
Level: Intermediate
Overview: Childhood trauma can have a severe impact on a child's overall functioning. In this workshop, participants will learn the components of Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and how to incorporate Play Therapy interventions throughout the protocol.
Closing Keynote
5:15p - 6:15p
Followed by a networking reception
Presenter: Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S
Level: Intermediate
Overview: We all know that play therapy works, but do we really know how it works? Do we really understand what is happening in the child's mind and biology that leads to his or her transformation and healing? Come explore the "How" behind the magic that we all know takes place in the play room.
Saturday, April 9: Conference
Registration 7:30a-8:30a / Keynote Presentation: 8:30a-5:00p / Lunch: 12:00p-1:30p
Keynote Presentation
Lunch: 12:00p-1:30p
Aggression and Death in the Playroom: A Neurobiological Approach to Integrating Extremes in Play Therapy
Presenters: Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S
Overview: Are your play therapy sessions filled with swords fights, battles, babies dying, handcuffs, you dying, explosions, or other highly intense play? Are you often set up to watch or be a part of play that leaves you feeling nervous, unsafe, overwhelmed, confused or just wanting to run away and hide? If so, you are not alone.
Although aggression and death are a common part of the play therapy process, many therapists don't have a clear understanding of what to do and how to facilitate the intensity when it enters the playroom during play. The result can lead to inadvertently promoting aggression and increasing low brain disorganization. It can also lead to the therapist feeling beat up, exhausted and hyper-aroused themselves, which can over time significantly impact their longevity in the field, as well as their ability to stay attuned and present to a child in the play room.
This 6 hour workshop is designed to help play therapists understand aggression and death play from a neuro-biological perspective and a Synergetic Play Therapy lense. With the help of neuroscience, therapists will learn how to effectively work with this type of play in a way that supports nervous system regulation, reorganization of the child's lower centers of the brain and decreases compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.
This fun experiential workshop will take you to new possibilities as we explore a science based process for working with children at the deepest, most profound levels while staying safe and sane. You will learn the art of sword fighting, gun play, bop bag play, and more while understanding what it takes to maximize growth and integration for your clients and for you as the therapist.
Objectives: This workshop is designed to help participants:
- Understand the link between a child's dys-regulated states of their nervous system and their play
- Understand the significance of authenticity and authentic expression in the play therapy process
- Understand how our own "windows of tolerance" can impact the healing process..
- Understand how to facilitate aggressive play in the play therapy process without increasing or promoting aggression
- Learn how to keep yourself regulated in the midst of intense play/trauma play and death in the play room
Sunday, April 10: Post-Conference
Keynote Presentation
Meets qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education for Registered Play Therapy Supervisors
Supervision requires a "SUPER VISION": Learning hands-on and playful techniques to supervise from a proactive vs reactive state of mind
Presenters: Toni Scalise Borowczak, M.Ed., LPC-S, RPT-S
Overview: What is the role of a clinical play-therapy supervisor? You might be hard-pressed to have just one answer because supervisors play many different roles throughout the supervision process. It can be challenging to plan supervision sessions that meet the many needs of play therapy supervises. At times, we need to be more reactive and follow the supervisee's lead. Other times, it is valuable to bring something into the session that may help the supervisee gain insight. Often times, we can get stuck in a pattern of reacting to what the supervisee brings to the session and abandon our creative interventions. As a play therapy supervisor, you have so much to offer that may be untapped.
As a play therapist, you have many tools and mediums that you use with clients. Learn how to bring those techniques into supervision and use them to proactively assist supervisees in gaining insight and further helping their clients.
Objectives: This workshop is designed to help participants:
- Understand the definition and components of supervision
- Evaluate and recognize areas that may need an upgrade in your own approach
- Learn ways to approach supervision proactively and playfully through hands-on and experiential activities
- Collaborate with colleagues to share and acquire new ideas in supervision
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Bakari came to us with his two sisters Suri and Jillian at the age of 4 weeks. We were contacted by the only big cat sanctuary in Louisiana. Due to overcrowding in their facility they were unable to keep the cubs. Lions Tigers & Bears stepped in and accepted all three lion cubs.
Bakari is definitely the "boy" of the litter. He is really laid back and lets his two sisters do all the work. He is definitely bigger than the "girls" when it come to size. He is also much darker and you can almost start to make out what will someday become the distinctive markings of a male lion.
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Joseph Félix Henri Auvray, was a French historical painter.
Auvray was born at Cambrai in 1800. He was a pupil of Momal in Valenciennes, and afterwards of Antoine-Jean Gros in Paris. In 1824 he exhibited St. Louis a Prisoner, and in 1827, Gautier de Châtillon defending St. Louis against the Saracens, now in the Museum of Cambrai, and St. Paul at Athens. He died at Cambrai in 1833.
This article incorporates text from the article "AUVRAY, Joseph Félix Henri" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.
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Albany Engineering Limited has established a high reputation throughout the world as a manufacturer of Rotary Gear and Centrifugal Pumps. We have concentrated on developing and refining a wide range of products which include many specialist gear pump applications. Gear and twin screw pumps for all fluids, for the oil and gas and engineering industries worldwide. Flows to 500m3/hr, supplied in all materials.
About Us
Albany Pumps makes standard, customised and special positive displacement pumps from 5L/min to 500 M3/hr. We manufacture external gear pumps, twin screw pumps and rotary lobe pumps. We supply large OEMs and direct to users, last year exporting to more than 40 countries. Notable is the new range of twin screw pumps manufactured by Albany and developed from the well respected Stothert & Pitt range, which sold around the world. Albany supply spares and exact replacements for Stothert and Pitt pumps using all their original records, dating back to the 1930s. Albany also support pumps from five other brands which the company has taken over. When you buy a pump from Albany you are drawing on more than 100 years of experience and capability – we think you've found the right place for PD pumps.
History of Albany Pumps
The Albany pump was born in 1902 in the Old Kent Road area of South London in a small workshop controlled by R. White & Co. Mineral Water Manufacturers. This workshop and associated brass foundry had already existed for about 10 years. In 1904 a patent (No. 25,222) was obtained and through the years various improvements to gear pump design have led to other patents and product features.
Albany was located in London until the factory was destroyed on the third day of the Blitz in 1940. The firm's wartime wanderings included five years in farm buildings in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, before settling in the present 2 acre site at Lydney in Gloucestershires Forest of Dean (England) in 1946.
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Seen here is a photo of a 1910 fire engine for export to Calcutta with an Albany rotary water pump fitted. Contrast this with Albany's foam concentrate pump sets, diesel driven, for export to Qatar delivered in June 2010, below.
The foam pump delivers 1460 l/min and is fitted with an in-built relief valve. ASA 150 lb flanges and gunmetal casing. Albany makes a range of foam pumps to over 3000 l/m using rotary gear and twin screw pump designs. Water turbine driven foam pumps for up to 1200 l/m are an Albany pump speciality.
Historical note: The Calcutta pump was part of a range of external bearing gear pumps designed in 1908. Water pumping was a regular solution from London based Albany at the time. In today's fire industry this low pressure pump has been replaced by high speed centrifugal pumps, operating at three to four times the pressure – if not more.
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The Albany AP & HD ranges are a versatile general purpose gear pump capable of handling the widest variety of viscous liquids. These pumps feature a simple robust design, ensuring ease of maintenance.
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Full in-house & certain on-site repair work can be carried out on all Albany pumps as well as other manufacturers pumps. Larger pumps in particular are best repaired at our facility. We will typically carry out an inspection where the pump is stripped and assessed, after which repair options will be quoted. This might vary from simply replacement of seals to a complete rebuild of a screw pump, including rebore and manufacture of new bespoke ...
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Robin on Tour (USA and Canada) 2016 – Making Contact!!November 12, 2015
Hi everyone. Robin will be on tour again in 2016 in the USA and Canada with dates from April through September 2016. April has him in the Virginia/ West Virginia area. In May he will be closer to the mid west. Come late June into most of July he'll be around the Western New York state and Ontario, Canada with dates proposed for parts of Pennsylvania as well. He'll round up a long summer of events in September with events in North Carolina and other locations. A number of dates are already agreed. So… if you would be interested in hosting a concert event or conference in 2016 involving Robin with or without his Belfast Band (different conditions apply) then email us on the contact page with and we'll send out the Preliminary Booking Document with all the info you need to decide whether you wish to go ahead.
No obligation whatsoever on your part! If you have already made contact and Robin and his team have replied, then no need to email again, unless you want to be sure!!
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Concert Dates, New album early stages, and plans for 2016 toursNovember 2, 2015
Hi Everyone. Looks like that now we're in November , we are basically heading for Christmas again!!!! (First huge Christmas TV ad hit our screen last night! – ) . Of course the shops have been stocking up for weeks. So I think its time to bring you up to date on our plans.
Merry Christmas from Belfast!!! (There, I was first!!…..anyway,
I've started putting the songs together for my new album which, if all goes well, should be available around Spring 2016 (I'm sort of slow but intentional!) We've got at least 3 local concerts at home here in Northern Ireland. . Definite are Bangor Elim on January 16th and The Millennium Forum in Derry/Londonderry on February 20th. Got other possibilities on the go as well. We'll keep you posted.
Looks like we'll be back in the US at various times from April, May, til September 2016
Requests have come in already and some dates are already gone, but if you'd like to host me, with or without the band, email using the contact tab and we'll send you all the details you need. Let me know if there are any particular dates, even months, that suit you, or any dates that are totally unsuitable!
I'll try to keep you posted as things develop.
Love and BLessings
Robin Mark
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Download Exclusive Track and Help Syrian RefugeesNovember 24, 2014
Hi Everyone. A similar post to this has been up on our Facebook and Twitter sites for a few weeks. Here it is now on the website!! Robin and his band along with the New Irish Orchestra recorded a live version of his song Revival from a packed Grand Opera House in Belfast. All the proceeds (after taxes and fees) from any download of this totally exclusive track will go to the charity 'Tear Fund' who are working in the field in Syria providing shelter and relief for literally millions of people (mainly women and children) who are trapped in refugee camps. You can even listen to the entire 9 minute track on Facebook before deciding to buy! Options to buy include iTunes US (the following link should also connect to the ITunes store in the UK if you are based there), and BandCamp which gives you the option of increasing the amount you wish to pay for the track. Whilst the basic cost is subject to some deductions for web fees and taxes etc. please note that the entire amount you give above the basic $1 price on BandCamp site will go direct to the charity as no taxes or site fees apply above that sum.The basic sum is as low as we can get it at around a US Dollar.
So you get an exclusive track and the knowledge that you are helping to fulfil the mandate that God placed on us to 'Take Care of Widows and Orphans, Free the Oppressed and Release The Captives. Here are the links. ENJOY!!:
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All:Check out the Bid now.Surprise Surprise Surprise.You can now sell at .0145 Thatsif your lucky !!!!!!!!!!!This POS is heading lower and lower and lower.Whiz
With what I have seen stocks do over the past year, I am hoping to see this around .50 or higher. I think they have something special brewing, I really do.I am 550K and buying more daily. Want to have a million soon.
Are you just starting to buy in, or, do you have a sizable position? Sizable for this stock would be more than 500K shares. The reason I am asking is I am wondering if this is a short term or long term play for you. IE: Do you think the stock has the potiential to be a 20X or larger bagger this next year.
Bought 25k more today!
bid you can bid whatever you want, it means nothing
Whiz,You must be way upside down on this stock. That must be the case.You lost alot of cash here and are very bitter.
Not much selling, maybe trying to shake out some shares or your bitter.
All:One does not lose until they sell.Many post on this site about the stock hitting 5 cents by the end of the year. Also unrealistic targets of 10 cents and then complete jokes of a dollar target.Many post here about the secrets that are coming out and all the wonderfull things this company is doing.Since this summers release,(a head fake) the stock has done nothing but go down. If there were positives the stock would be rising not falling.The best thing for this stock and company would be a buy out next year, before the price is 0. Completely worthless.Whiz


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OSHA News Release - (Archived) Table of Contents
OSHA News Release – Region 4
U.S. Department of Labor
Region 4 News Release: USDOL: 02-59
Wed., April 10, 2002
Contact: Lorette Post
Phone: (404) 562-2078
Clyde Payne
(601) 965-4606 ext. 0
OSHA Supports Campaign To Protect Highway Workers
JACKSON, Miss. -- Near Greenwood, Miss., a highway worker was killed in a recent accident when a car struck him after skidding on an ice patch. Accidents like this one grow more and more familiar to Mississippi residents as highway construction activity increases.
Monday, April 8, marked the beginning of the third annual National Highway Work Zone Safety Week which honors those who have lost their lives in highway work zones and calls for increased awareness of safe driving in roadway work areas.
Deaths and injuries among highway workers and others in construction work zones on U.S. highways represent a growing problem, according to the Federal Highway Administration. In 2000, there were an estimated 1,093 fatalities in work zones around the country.
"Here in Mississippi, we're responding to the growing problem of highway work zone accidents and fatalities with a special local emphasis program," said Clyde Payne, OSHA's Jackson area director.
To prevent crashes, motorists are urged to remain alert and pay careful attention, minimize distractions, avoid changing lanes, keep up with the traffic flow, turn on headlights, avoid tailgating and speeding, expect the unexpected, and be patient.
The Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Program began in December 1999 when a joint cooperative effort was formed to highlight the dangers that both workers and motorists face within highway work zones. That effort includes OSHA, the Federal Highway Administration, the American Traffic Safety Services Association, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the Association of General Contractors, the American Road and Transportation Builders, and more than twenty other groups.
A fact sheet and additional materials on the national work zone safety campaign can be accessed from the Federal Highway Administration's Safety Page. The campaign is also listed on OSHA's website on the Events Page.
U.S. Labor Department news releases are accessible on the Internet at www.dol.gov. The information in this release will be made available in alternative format upon request (large print, Braille, audio tape or disc) from the COAST office. Please specify which news release when placing your request. Call 202-693-7773 or TTY 202-693-7755.
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The driver of the F-150 then merged into the inside lane, causing the Chevy to hit the driver's side of the F-150 and cross the center median before driving into the westbound lanes, he said.
The woman who was driving the F-150 was transported to a hospital with a head injury. Jones said she appeared to be OK but was disoriented.
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Dani Pedrosa underwent yet another shoulder surgery today, this time to fix a loose bone fragment that had become dislodged during the Spaniard's recuperation from the broken collarbone he suffered from his crash at Le Mans during the French GP. How this complication with his shoulder occurred is a subject of much contention in the MotoGP paddock, as the Spanish press is adamant that Pedrosa re-injured his shoulder in a supermoto crash. HRC however denies this rumor, though the Japanese company has not offered a counter-explanation for Pedrosa's current situation. The fact remains though that Dani Pedrosa's healing process has been pushed back further, and Repsol Honda is not sure that Dani will be fit enough to participate in the upcoming Dutch TT.
Dani Pedrosa Has Shoulder Surgery…Yet Again
Dani Pedrosa on his blog today announced that he would not compete in the British GP at Silverstone next weekend, instead opting to heal his collarbone further, which he broke a the French GP several weeks ago. Though Pedrosa was on the fence about competing in the Catalan GP, it comes as no surprise that the Spanish rider will sit out Silverstone, now having missed his home race in Barcelona.
What does come as surprising though is the very credible rumors that Pedrosa has re-injured his shoulder while doing some Supermoto training, and because of this incident, may sit out the rest of the season (which may have prompted the blog post itself). Boom goes the dynamite.
MotoGP: Crashes Shake-Up Qualifying at Jerez
Qualifying for the Spanish GP got underway today under the sunny, but windy skies of Jerez, Spain. Unsurprising to just about anyone, the Repsol Hondas of Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa were on the top of the time sheets, with local Jorge Lorenzo completing the front row and only 0.16 seconds off the qualifying pace. While the rank and order surprises few, all eyes will be on the latter stages of tomorrow's race to see how Dani Pedrosa can manage with his ailing shoulder, which the Spaniard will have operated on immediately after the GP
The qualifying session saw a total of six riders hitting the tarmac and gravel traps, with many blaming the wind as a contributing factor. The list of riders crashing includes Valentino Rossi, Ben Spies, Colin Edwards, Randy de Puniet, Karel Abraham, and Hiroshi Aoyama. Thankfully no one was injured, but in the case of Rossi, it meant trashing his preferred bike for the session, causing him to qualify on his other machine, and landing 12th on the starting grid.
He'll be joined on the fourth row by teammate Nicky Hayden, who has been having a miserable season thus far on the Desmosedici GP11, and once again Randy de Puniet proved himself to be the fastest Ducati, qualifying seventh. Honorable mentions go out to John Hopkins, who continued his progress filling in for the injured Alvaro Bautista this weekend with a fourteenth grid position for tomorrow's race. With a good start we could see a mid-pack finish for Hopper, who has shown marked improvement with each session on the Suzuki GSV-R.
With the rain very likely to make an appearance for tomorrow's race, all bets are off for how the Spanish GP will shape-up.
Chapter 1: Your Cheat Sheet to the Qatar GP
Just in case you've been hiding under a rock this week, the 2011 MotoGP Championship is about to kick off today. Asphalt & Rubber has made the trek out to the Middle East, coming to you straight from the Losail International Circuit located just outside of Doha, Qatar. The weather has been favorable here in Qatar, with the heat down during the day, the skies clear but at times hazy, and the humidity staying down during the evening sessions. Hosting a two-day testing session before the Qatar GP, the riders have been here in Doha for almost 10 days now.
While you enjoy the return of MotoGP racing action to your online feeds and television screens, we've put together a cheat sheet to the Qatar GP to fill you in with the off-season happenings, as well as what's been going on in the paddock while we've been here at Losail. Hold on race fans, prototype motorcycle racing is coming at you very, very, very soon.
How serious is Honda about winning the 2011 MotoGP World Championship? At Team Gresini's MotoGP launch at Monza today, it was quietly confirmed that the San Carlo Honda Gresini squad has been given the keys to the candy store, turning the team into a factory-backed effort. While Marco Simoncelli was already assured factory support from Honda for the 2011 season, the move adds Hiroshi Aoyama to the factory rider list, and likely makes Gresini's life infinitely less complex by not having to manage between a factory and non-factory split garage.
"Veni, Vidi, Vici" might as well be stenciled on the four factory Honda RC212V race bikes of Stoner, Pedrosa, Dovizioso, and Simoncelli, as the foursome has dominated the Malaysian track over the past three days of MotoGP testing. Casey Stoner takes the top prize though, climbing once again to the top of the time sheets, with Dani Pedrosa right behind him as the only other man to crack under the two minute barrier at Sepang. While these results aren't too surprising to those following the off-season closely, the time sheets speak an interesting story for the rest of the field.
The Top 13 riders are clumped by manufacturer, and who leads each group is a bit surprising. Ben Spies bested teammate Jorge Lorenzo, who also found himself behind Colin Edwards from the satellite Monster Yamaha Tech3 squad. In the Ducati camp, it was Hector Barbera who had the fastest time, ahead of Hayden and Rossi who both shared a best lap of 2:01.469 in Day Three. Even Alvaro Bautista's Suzuki made a surprisingly quick journey around the track at Sepang, as the Spanish rider was 8th fastest overall for the day.
Casey Stoner Leads MotoGP Testing at Sepang
Casey Stoner set the pace today at MotoGP's second off-season test at Sepang. The Australian, and the rest of the four factory Honda riders, proved to be very impressive on the Malaysian track, as the 2011 Honda RC212V seems to be hitting its stride just before the season opener in Qatar in a few weeks.
The Honda riders don't have things all sewn up though, as the Yamaha of Jorge Lorenzo was looking very fast, as were Americans Ben Spies and Colin Edwards. Earlier in the day, nine-time World Champion Valentino Rossi even cracked into the Top 5 on the standings, and despite finishing the day just over a second behind Stoner, the Italian was upbeat about the team's progress and his physical condition.
Official: Loris Capirossi to Pramac Ducati
Finally official after months of speculation, Pramac Ducati has announced the addition of MotoGP veteran Loris Capirossi to its quasi-satellite Ducati team. Signing a one-year contract, Capirex has already been released from his post-season duties with Suzuki, and will ride the green and white Pramac Ducati during the Valencian test in two week's time.
Suzuki is not expected to replace Capirossi, and has instead forged a deal with Dorna that sees the Japanese company staying involved in GP racing through 2013. There is however some speculation that Hirosihi Aoyama could land on a satellite Suzuki, but that idea seems to be more wishful thinking, then a well formulated plan (the factory Suzuki had a hard enough time keeping up with the satellite squads, so how would a satellite Suzuki fare?).
It's a bit of irony that Casey Stoner was the first MotoGP alien to to make his move in the 2010 silly season, yet is the last MotoGP alien whose fate we know completely. Signing with Honda it was assumed that Stoner would be a part of a three-man team within Repsol Honda, with HRC saying as much during its press announcement with the Australian rider. When the budget necessary to field a three-man team failed to materialize from Repsol, HRC began looking for other options, with the most prominent being a single-man team (likely with Casey Stoner), possibly sponsored by Red Bull. Unable to get the energy drink company to foot the bill, HRC then turned to satellite squad Gresini, where Marco Simoncelli, another HRC contracted rider, currently resides.
Andrea Dovizioso seemingly drew the short-straw in that arrangement, with HRC pressuring the Italian to move into Gresini with the promise of factory support being made for both riders. Dovizioso is reported as having a performance clause in his contract that guarantees him a seat in a factory team should he meet certain criteria. With Dovi honoring his end of the agreement, he looked to HRC to honor its side of the contract, and a Honda Gresini ride is not what the Italian had in mind. Making matters worse is HRC's history of not honoring support agreements to riders once they leave the folds of the factory team. As such Dovizioso held his ground, and rightfully so.
With the 2011 season likely to see four factory-backed Honda riders, something had to give, and that something seems to be Repsol Honda. According to MotoWorld, Repsol Honda agreed at the Australian GP to up its MotoGP funding from €10 million to €15 million, and support a three-man Repsol Honda factory team. With Stoner, Pedrosa, and Dovizioso tucked away under one tent for the 2011 season, and Marco Simoncelli staying in Gresini Honda, that leaves a vacancy in the quasi-satellite team that will surely be filled by Hiroshi Aoyama.


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The Seattle Wine and Food Experience (SWFE) weekend returns February 24-26. The epicurean weekend kicks off with the 3rd Annual Pop! Bubbles & Seafood event on Friday night at the elegant McCaw Hall. Pop! features the Pacific Northwest's bounty of seafood paired with sparkling wines, Champagne, craft beer, cider and seafood-friendly white wines.
The weekend continues on Sunday with the 9th Annual Grand Tasting; a deluxe showcase for wine, beverage, food and lifestyle in the Northwest. Wines from the Northwest and beyond are featured along with local and regional beer, cider and spirits. Food is a major highlight and includes top culinary talent and tastemakers serving up their latest creations. Guests stroll through the event as they taste through diverse wines and learn first hand directly from the producers. Other features include artisan food purveyors, sensory experiences, educational elements and more. This popular sell-out weekend attracts 2,700 enthusiasts including trade and media.
Save the date: February 24-26, 2017
Pop! Bubbles & Seafood
Friday, February 24, 2017
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Grand Tasting
Sunday, February 26, 2017
VIP 12 – 5 pm (includes an extra hour to taste, VIP swag bag and more!)
General Admission 1 – 5 pm
Seattle Center Exhibition Hall
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The Seattle Wine and Food Experience is proud to Benefit Les Dames d'Escoffier, Seattle:
The event benefits Les Dames d'Escoffier Seattle, a 501c3 non-profit organization of women leaders in food, beverage and hospitality whose mission is education, advocacy, and philanthropy. Les Dames d'Escoffier Seattle focuses on raising funds for scholarships for women in the culinary, beverage, and hospitality industries, and also supports community-outreach programs and sustainable-agriculture projects based in Washington state.
Hotel Partner: The Maxwell Hotel
Book a stay at our hotel partner and extend the fun at Seattle Wine and Food Experience! Use code WFE when booking your stay here: www.themaxwellhotel.com.


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What materials did you use? variety of flowers, clearance shopping and starts from our previous home garden.
What are you most proud of? I love the stone pathway that cuts through our garden and now surrounds the back of the pond. It's nice to walk through and I can view the garden from a number of different angles. Each week the garden changes with new blooms on a variety of different flowers.
What advice would you give someone starting this project? Enjoy your garden it doesn't have to be designed with perfection like a commerical one. Plant what you like and check out the clearance sections, if like me, your on a tight budget. Many of these plants just need a little TLC and they will bounce back. Water... Water... Water. Always follow the planting instuctions regarding shade and sunlight, the right amount of sun is is necessary for growth. Enjoy!
Great to see a fellow garden lover who has a space to grow animals as well!
Mason loves his yard. He is the only one of our cats that loves the garden. It's his special place.
Just love the cat. Mine (Jazzmine P. Cat) is a mouser and a very beautiful tabby/calico who even the neighbors court. They see her as the areas' best mouser. I see her as my gardening companion. Hope your cat is as well loved! Carole
love the cat and the garden my cat follows me and inpects all my garden and never leaves my side a real lap cat
Isn't that great? Love letting them enjoy the outside without having to worry about them.
my cat is a ginger her name is honey
So cute!!! Love your garden buddy -- aren't they the best!! Shasta, my kitty loves to keep me company as well :) Love your fresh looking yard!!
He's really special to us. Bottle fed and loves the dogs. Right now he is spooning with our dog on the couch.


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Lavie Tidhar's 'Osama,' 'The Weird' anthology win World Fantasy Awards
Lavie Tidhar's 'Osama' was voted the year's best fantasy novel this weekend at the World Fantasy Convention in Toronto. It won over stiff, worth competition that include Jo Walton's "Among Others," which had already won this year's Hugo and Nebula Awards; George R.R. Martin's "A Dance With Dragons," the latest installment in his "A Song of Fire and Ice" series; and Stephen King's "11/22/63," a popular and bestselling Kennedy assassination time-travel tale.
Tidhar is an Israeli-born writer who now lives in London. i09.com's Charlie Jane Anders described his novel as "a strange pulp-oriented alt history about Osama Bin Laden." »Read Full Blog Post(1)
In Tandem's 'Burying the Bones' needs more flesh
When the lights come up on M.E.H. Lewis' "Burying the Bones," which opened Friday night at In Tandem Theatre under Chris Flieller's direction, a young woman is sleeping peacefully. Her husband comes into the room and lovingly stands over her. The soft light suggests another dawn for a couple who surely have a bright future ahead of them.
Guess again. »Read Full Article
Milwaukee Film Festival picks: Day Ten
Rain and movies go together like ... well, you pick the metaphor. But you don't need bad weather to attend the Milwaukee Film Festival Saturday. Here are reasons to do so.
- "Sign Painters" (4:30 p.m., Oriental Theatre) Documentary directed by Faythe Levine and Sam Macon that Art City writer Mary Louise Schumacher calls "a dive into the toolboxes and tricks of the sign painters" who "change the urban landscape with their own hands and who defy the kind of washed-out sameness that has crept into American cities."
- "The Angels' Share" (4 p.m., Fox-Bay Cinema Grill) Cannes Festival Jury prize-winning comedy by the usually dour Ken Loach about a troubled youth who discovers he has a nose for quality whisky and hatches a scheme to steal a rare spirit. Watch the trailer below.
- "Spinning Plates" (4 p.m., Oriental) Documentary about a struggling Mexican restaurant, a family-style community landmark and the nouvelle cuisine of Chicago's Alinea whose chef was stricken with a cancer that threatened his senses of taste and smell. What starts out as a foodie film ends up a portrait of struggle, perseverance and triumph. Watch the trailer below.
- "An Evening With Paul Attanasio" (7:30 p.m., Oriental) Paul Attanasio, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of "Donnie Brasco" and "Quiz Show," executive producer of "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "House, and brother of Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio, appears at a career retrospective conducted by Jonathan Jackson, the festival's artistic and executive director.


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29 December 1999
Alitalia flight 440 MXP-MUC (Munich)
Scheduled departure: 4h10pm
Pre-assigned seat: 12A
Departure from terminal A, gate 4
For once, our departure to MUC from MXP was on time. The AZ boarding process
is non-existant. A gate agents informs pax that it is time to board and
simply a line makes do for the boarding process. Right before stepping on the
plane, there are newspapers (journalis!) on a nice rack offered to
passengers. The f/a's then go through the cabin to offer the newspapers once
more just in case. Boarding is fast and efficient. Though, we need to sit a
few minutes before we are cleared by ATC that there is a path in the sky for
us to fly through to MUC. Automated voice informs pax that we are about to
depart and all the same old information. We push at 4h35pm and lift at 4h50pm.
Inside the plane, the configuation is quite interesting. From row 1 to row
20, the configuration is 2x2 with green business-type seats. At row 21, the
configuration is 2x3, like on all MD-80s in the United States. I was
impressed I was able to sit in seat 12 and experience a comfortable flight to
MUC. In flight, we are served a quick snack, which in the United States would
be considered a full meal.
Here is a little break down of "international" domestic vs. USA domestic:
AZ domestic: (AZ M80 133 seats) CO
domestic: (CO M80 141 seats)
•4 flight attendants and 2 carts
•3 flight attendants and 1 cart
for a configuration of 2x2 and 2x3
for a configuration of 3x3
(overall less pax)
(save for first class)
•substantial snack of cheese sandwich, •1 bag of
pretzels and one drink
salad, fruit cup, water, and dessert
as well as other beverage service
•complimentary wine/beer
•big choice of major international daily
•separate coffee/tea service (after meal)
Note the difference here. The four f/a's were able to serve the "snack" and
clean up within 50 minutes. It was a very nice treat to experience AZ
domestic and based on that one flight, AZ's domestic is much better over
their international service.
Touchdown in MUC in snow at 5h41pm. The MUC airport is IMMACULATE. It is so
spacious, the lighting is comfortable, and everything is so easy to get to.
Our walk to the baggage claim was not more than 2 minutes. The baggage claim
is spacious as well. There isn't even any customs! It is amazing that I have
flown in to two countries (France and Germany) and my bags were not checked
in either country, nor was my passport stamped. (My passport was stamped in
Milan, however, both ways.)
On a side trip:
While in Bad Tölz, Germany, I was also able to make a very easy two hour
train ride up to MUC for some spotting. The train drops off underground at
the main terminal. Once inside, I made my way upstairs and outside of part A
of the VERY LONG terminal. (I swear, the terminal must be 3 miles long.)
Inside, it is spotless and the gift shops are stock full of excellent gifts
from chocolate (yum!) to those awesome Schback planes (figures). I should
have bought some. Once outside, I tried to find a nice spot to catch as much
traffic as I could, but almost every spot is blocked by immensely tall
fences. I didn't want to go to the observation tower because it was too far
from the planes. I was also on foot, so I could not drive around the
perimeter of the airport either to do some exploring. I found a spot at the
end of part A of the terminal, however, and cought some LH 321's, 320's,
73's, Deutsche BA's, and some Russian plane that I have no idea what it is.
I'll ask for some help once it gets scanned. I was really only able to get
traffic that was departing to the runway. I stayed at MUC for about two
hours, running around, trying to catch as much traffic as I could. It then
began to snow and get really really cold, so I made my journey back. The
train system was pretty efficient and easy to use as well.
Again, thanks so much for reading. I hope you enjoyed it. My trip report for
MXP-JFK is somewhat interesting, so I hope you read that one too!
Happy spotting!


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Ramon Sessions said that he'll be looking for a team that will give him the opportunity to start as an unrestricted free agent this season.
Ramon Sessions scored 22 points with six assists, four boards, one steal and three 3-pointers in a 109-98 win vs. the Hawks on Wednesday.
Ramon Sessions posted team-highs 21 points and 12 assists during a 120-111 win over the Nets on Monday, adding three rebounds and two steals.
Ramon Sessions scored 15 points on 6-of-13 shooting Sunday, to go with 11 assists, five boards, one 3-pointer, one steal and one turnover in 36 minutes.
Ramon Sessions scored 12 points with one rebound, six assists, one steal and two turnovers in 32 minutes against the Pistons on Friday.
Ramon Sessions was terrific in the starting lineup against the Nets on Wednesday, scoring 18 points with three rebounds, 13 assists and two 3-pointers in 29 minutes.
Ramon Sessions will start for John Wall (knee) on Wednesday against the Nets.
Ramon Sessions chipped in 13 points, six assists and five rebounds in 23 minutes off the Wizards' bench on Sunday.
Ramon Sessions scored 21 points off the bench on Tuesday vs. the Blazers, adding five assists, four boards and one 3-pointer in 34 minutes.
Ramon Sessions scored 16 points in 19 minutes off Washington's bench vs. the Bulls, hitting 6-of-11 FGs and 3-of-4 FTs.
Ramon Sessions played just 12 minutes and had seven points, two rebounds and one assist on Tuesday.
Ramon Sessions chipped in 15 points and five assists in 22 minutes vs. the Bucks on Wednesday, making 6-of-11 field goals with one 3-pointer.
Ramon Sessions led Washington's second unit with 16 points during Wednesday's home win, making 5-of-11 FGs and 5-of-6 FTs in 30 minutes.
Ramon Sessions scored 14 against the Grizzlies on Monday with one rebound, three assists, one steal and three turnovers in 26 minutes.


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Mean hourly compensation costs in selected countries, 1975 and 2007
July 14, 2010
Employer compensation costs for production workers in manufacturing increased between 1975 and 2007 in all countries included in a recent BLS study.
Because these compensation cost measures are nominal—not adjusted for inflation—the steady increase over time is attributed primarily to a rise in the overall price level.
Although nominal labor costs in U.S. dollars have risen across the board over the long term, trends in growth rates have varied considerably from country to country. The mean hourly compensation cost quadrupled in the United States, from $6.24 in 1975 to $25.27 in 2007, an average increase of 4.5 percent per year.
South Korea showed the largest percentage change in hourly compensation costs, increasing from $0.31 in 1975 to $16.02 in 2007—an average increase of approximately 13 percent per year. Conversely, compensation cost growth in Mexico was sluggish over the long term; the mean cost increased from $1.43 in 1975 to only $2.92 just over 30 years later—an average annual increase of 2.3 percent.
These data are from the International Labor Comparisons program. To learn more, see Compensation costs in manufacturing across industries and countries, 1975–2007 (PDF), in the June 2010 issue of the Monthly Labor Review. Production workers generally include those employees who are engaged in fabricating, assembly, and related activities.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Mean hourly compensation costs in selected countries, 1975 and 2007 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2010/ted_20100714.htm (visited September 30, 2016).
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You will see offering plates similar to these all over the island of Bali in Indonesia. These offering plates are a central part of Balinese Hinduism and and placed in front of every house and business every day. These offering plates were sitting on the beach.
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Reflections on Papua New Guinea
- I feel bad about how I approached going to PNG. There is so much bad press given to the country that I think it influenced my plans for visiting. The Top 10 Hells on Earth list that came out is, in hindsight, pretty absurd. Anything which puts Oklahoma City as worse than Baghdad or Chernobyl should be rejected at face. Port Moresby is a dump, there is no doubt about that. But Port Moresby isn't a reflection of PNG anymore than Detroit is a reflection of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I spoke with several ex-pats who have been living in PNG for decades about the bad press which Port Moresby has gotten and some of the things I've read. They all thought it was silly. You should be alert when visiting Port Moresby, but you don't have to be under armed guard at all times. Everyone I met was very nice, even when they had to cancel a flight I had leaving Kimbe.
- Hotel rooms in Port Moresby are expensive. Very expensive for what you get. You can expect to pay over $200 a night for a simple hotel room. Rooms in the city are booked full almost every night. The high commodity prices right now have spurred a boom in commodity prices. My flights in and out were packed mostly with Australian and Chinese businessmen.
- PNG is poor. Of that there is no doubt, however no one seems to be going hungry. PNG is mostly a rural country. Outside of Port Moresby, there are no really big cities in the country (and Port Moresby isn't really that big). Unlike many of the Pacific countries I've visited, PNG is self sufficient in food. This is due to having plenty of arable land unlike most Pacific countries, and the fact that agriculture has been practiced in PNG for thousands of years. (When Europeans arrived in PNG they found the locals growing sweet potatos, which are native to South America. They have no idea how they got there.)
- I've noticed a big difference between poor countries. Many of the places in the Pacific I've see you see lots of idle people. People sitting around doing nothing. I saw lots of idleness in PNG. In places like the Philippines or Indonesia, you can see poverty, but you don't see as much idleness. People are doing stuff, hustling and trying to get by. Mostly this happens when people move from the country to the city and there is nothing for them to do. There are no jobs and there is no land to farm. This is the reason behind so many of the problems in Port Moresby. Idle hands really are the devils playground.
- I have been to many places in the Pacific where WWII battles took place: Guadalcanal, Guam, Saipan. However, the history was probably more palpable in New Britain than it was anywhere else. I saw a sunken Japanese Zero while I was diving. Pretty much every airport and landing strip in the country was originally built during the war. I've been told it isn't too hard to find planes and other artifacts out in the forest. The Papua New Guinea campaign looms much larger in Australian history than in US history, even though most of the heavy lifting was done by American troops. I learned quite a bit by listening to some locals tell stories during dinner.
- The water in Kimbe Bay, where I went diving, was very warm. Not only is the bay naturally warm, but it is in the middle of an El Nino. When I dove, my dive computer showed the water temperature around 30C (about 85F). The only evidence of coral bleaching I've seen on my trip was in Kimbe Bay. There wasn't a lot, but there was some.
- One of the most spectacular things I've seen on my trip so far was a tree on a palm oil plantation on New Britain. The tree was filled with lightening bugs, and all the lightening bugs were blinking in unison. There were so many bugs in the tree that it looked like the kind of trees you see in mall parking lots during Christmas filled with white lights…. except these were blinking. I'm not sure I could have taken a photo of it that did it justice even if I had my camera with me.
- Just a week after I left New Britian, the volcano near Rabaul erupted. Rabaul was covered with several feet of ash in 1994. The entire city had to be moved. All of Kimbe Bay was ringed with cinder cones. I've never seen a place with so many. If you were out on the bay and looked around, you could see a dozen small volcanoes.
- There are over 800 active, living languages in PNG. This is not an exaggeration. I asked the locals I met what languages they spoke, and they all spoke their village language, pidgin, and English. Pidgin is more widespread than English and some remote villages have very few pidgin speakers. Literally, villages just a few miles apart can speak languages intelligible to each other. I met some Americans at the airport who have lived in PNG for 10 years with an organization trying to translate the bible into every language in PNG. Personally, I'd just translate it into pidgin and teach everyone pidgin. Seems a lot simpler. I've encountered people who work, worked, or had parents who worked for such organization who try to translate the bible into ever smaller languages. I guess they are trying to complete the set.
- I very much want to go back to PNG. Almost every place I've been I have a list of things I'd go see if I ever returned. I think the list for PNG is the biggest one I have. I very much would like to go back to see the highlands, which is a culture which seems very different from what I saw on New Britain. If anyone in the future who is thinking of visiting PNG should read this article, don't be afraid. Avoid Port Moresby, but there isn't anything to see or do there anyhow.
Daily Travel Photo – Vigan, Philippines
Bells in the tower of Saint Augustine's Church, Vigan, Philippines.
Feeling like 953,988 bucks*
My cold is over. My stomach ache is gone, I got a haircut and I feel a lot better. Tomorrow I'm leaving Perth and taking a bus/train combo down to the town of Margaret River. Margaret River is about as far South West as you can possible get in Australia. In Margaret River, I will be as far from home as I will probably ever be on my trip; about 10,750 miles (17,200km) from Minneapolis. The antipodal point of Minneapolis is in the Indian Ocean, so this is the closest piece of inhabited land to it.
My trip to Margaret River is for a particular purpose, of which I've determined that come hell or high water I am going to accomplish. The podcast has changed some of the priorities of what I see and do while traveling. Much of my travels have been your typical run of the mill "go to X and see Y" variety. I've done a lot of things from bungee jumping to swimming with whale sharks, but I haven't gone out of my way to meet particular people or see particular events. I'm going to start to do that and I'm going to start with this trip to Margaret River. If all goes well, you'll see the results in a week or two.
I should also make note of the new video by "Where The Hell Is Matt". He's the guy who put the video on YouTube of him dancing all over the world. He has a new video up which he has spent the last 14 months working on. I subscribe to his blog and it seems like much of his last year has been traveling for the purpose of making the video, rather than his original video which was just a side project of his travels. I found it interesting because I've been to some of the exact spots which he danced. (In particular, the spot in Tonga where he got hit by waves. This is a photo I took at the Tonga blowholes). I get a lot of reactions from people in the vein of "oh, just like that dancing guy", so I figured I should let everyone know about it.
*The US equivalent of $1m Australian dollars at current exchange rates
Daily Travel Photo – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Most of the growth and development of Australia occurred during the reign of Queen Victoria in the 19th Century. Given the length of her rule, there are an abnormal number of things in Australia named after her. There are two states (Victoria and Queensland), rivers, mountains, lakes, and almost anything which be named after a person has been affixed with "Victoria" or "Queen". This statue is in the botanical gardens in Melbourne.
Still in Perth
I'm still in Perth. The last week I haven't given much attention to the website. The change in temperature here has caused me to come down with a very bad cold. Also, I've had a horrible stomach ache over the last few days. I have three posts ready to go which have been sitting, ready to go, but I just haven't done the last finishing bits on them.
I finally got my podcast up on iTunes. If you have iTunes on your computer, you can subscribe to the podcast by clicking here. When it becomes available, it will automatically be in your iTunes player.
I'm going to be moving south a bit before I head to Uluru. I'm going to take the bus tomorrow and go visit the Margaret River Valley south of Perth. They have a species of Eucalyptus here, which is second only to the ones found in Tasmania. They also have a very large forest walk up in the canopy of the trees. I will also visit some of the wineries in the area.
I think I'm suffering from Australia fatigue. I'm wanting to move quickly through the remaining parts of the country. When all is said and done, I can honestly say I've explored the hell out of this country. I'm ready and anxious to move on to SE Asia.
Daily Travel Photo – Easter Island
This is Ahu Tongariki on Easter Island. This ahu (the name of the platform of the maoi, or statues) was rebuilt by a Japanese television crew in 1992. All of the ahu on Easter Island had been toppled by the start of the 20th Century. All the photos you see of standing maoi were either reconstructed in the last 50 years or were never taken out of the quarry.
Daily Travel Photo – Great Barrier Reef, Australia
A giant clam in the Great Barrier Reef. This is of the genus Tridacna. I'm not sure of the species, but I think it was a gigas. It was about the size of my torso.


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BEAVERTON, Ore. — The recruitment of Torrance Gibson is close to reaching its finality.
At 6-feet-4, 204 pounds, the American Heritage (Fla.) High School standout has ample ability to play a number of positions and excel. However, his skill set makes him a weapon at quarterback and makes sure the playmaker touches the ball at every snap, which is why he's one of the most coveted prospect in the nation for the 2015 signing class and a Scout five-star.
The left-handed triggerman has already logged quite a bit of time this calendar year familiarizing himself with the top schools on his list of favorites. Gibson has three official visits in mind and intends to take all five of the allotment "just to build the relationship. 'I don't want to talk about football. Let's talk about something else.'"
One school the Plantation, Fla., native says will get one of those officials is Tennessee. A major reason why the Volunteers are in the hunt to get Gibson's signed National Letter of Intent is second-year coach Butch Jones.
"He's a great coach, man, no doubt about it," said Gibson, who is being recruited as a quarterback by the Orange & White.
Tennessee lost a quarterback this spring due to transfer, Justin Worley graduates after the 2014 season. The goal is to have ample talent at the most important position in team sports.
"I think everyone believes in (Jones) plan," Gibson said.
"I feel comfortable with him. I feel comfortable talking with him. I can talk about anything around him. I really feel comfortable with coach Jones."
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4K Ultra HD telly sales grow
Doing better than HD TV's did
Despite having limited content, 4K Ultra HD televisions are expected to double sales to 15 million units in the US in 2016.
Nvidia could be updating its Shield
FCC filing appears
Nvidia might be getting ready to launch a new Shield Android TV console later this year.
How Apple killed its own TV product
The Ramsey Bolton approach does not work any more
Fruity cargo cult Apple killed its own TV product because it honestly believed that Big Content would do what it told them and played the roll of Game of Thrones's Ramsay Bolton even after its castle wall had been breached.
Samsung makes 95 per cent of OLED market
While the rest of the world is talking about OLED displays, it seems that 95 per cent of the displays made by Samsung.
Samsung will remain ahead in the telly market
Been the leader since 2011
Samsung is pretty sure it can keep its title of the world's top flat-screen television manufacturer for a sixth consecutive year.
Sony to release 4K streaming
Ultra good to go
Sony is launching its 4K movie streaming service which will mean consumers of its tellies can buy movies from the service, and stream to supported Sony 4K TV sets.
TV companies about to shoot themselves in the foot
Plan to hold back programmes from web distribution for years
In a move which is almost certain to kill off television for good, the top TV companies are planning to declare war on web-distribution companies buy delaying the release of television programmes to them.
New Year's resolution for monitors
Different sizes too
AU Optronics ,LG and Samung are planning to bring out more panels with different resolutions and specifications this year.
MediaTek shows world's first Android TV 6.0
Cortex A53 Quad with Mali T860 GPU
MediaTek has showed us a quad core Cortex A53 based MT5596 running Android TV 6.0 nearly a year after Fudzilla saw Sony's Android TV 5.0 at CES 2015.
LG to triple OLED telly sales
Ramping up manufacturing
LG has told the world that it will be ramping up production of OLED TV sets this year in a move which should establish the technology in the market place and drive down cost.