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The Nature Center's stroller-friendly Cottonwood Trail will be lined with hundreds of lit jack-o-lanterns carved by local school children during this family-friendly Halloween event. Back at the building, enjoy refreshments inside and warm up by listening to stories up in the loft or sitting around the bonfire. Add to the fun by entering the pumpkin carving contest. Please phone for information on entering a pumpkin.
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BCAA 1500's contain 3 essential amino acids that make up approximately 35% of muscle protein. Each serving contains 1500mg of the amino acid L Leucine, 750mg of the amino acids L isoleucine and L Valine and 1.4 mg of Vitamin B6.
BCAAs are not like other amino acids as they are not metabolised in the stomach, and are instead metabolised directly in the muscle. As a source of vitamin B6, BCAA 1500's can contribute to immune system functioning, protein and glycogen metabolism and the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
BCAA 1500's contain the 2:1:1 ratio of L Leucine, L Isoleucine, and L Valine whilst also containing the synergistic ingredient Vitamin B6. BCAA 1500's are also free from artificial colours and preservatives, yeast, gluten, starch and lactose.
Generally, BCAA 1500's are taken by active individuals before and after a workout.
Take 2 tablets, 2-3 times per day.
Please note that the labelling on this product is provided in English as a minimum. French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Swedish and Finnish may also be present on a product by product basis.
Consume 2 tablets, 2-3 times daily.
Warning: Do not exceed the stated recommended daily dose. This product should not be used as a substitute for a varied, balanced diet. Keep in a cool dry place out of direct sunlight. Not suitable for vegetarians. Store out of the reach of young children.
L Leucine, L Isoleucine, L Valine, Bulking Agent (Microcrystalline Cellulose), Anti Caking Agent (Magnesium Stearate), Sodium Carboxymethylcellulose, Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone, Vitamin B6.
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Serving Size - 2 Tablets
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I almost finished one of these jars, I just came back to this site to buy another one because I noticed gains immediately. Not only size gains, but also recovery time. Now it's fine to have just one day of rest between sessions. Before bcaa I'd be knackered for a couple of days at least. But it's not easy to swallow 4 of those a day. They look like pieces of chalk. I'm sure you can give lectures using it. Goes Well With:Plenty of water
I'd read so many good reviews about BCAA's I decided to give these a try. I'm now on my second tub and I take them daily. It does tell you to take 2 tablets 2-3 times a day but as I'm quite small I only take 2 tablets once a day usually before my gym session or after. I've noticed definite gains since taking these and my DOMs isn't as severe either. Definitely recommend them for anyone trying to build muscle.
Well they are big buggers to swallow, but taken with hard gainer for two weeks and i have made some small gains to date.Goes Well With:whey
Using this supplement have quickly effected me in the gym. I have been using this for 2 weeks now and I have noticed a decrease in pain the day after a workout. This supplement invreases the repair of your muscle fibres and helps your muscle endurance. These tablets also give you a lot more energy before and after a workout. I take 2 pre workout and 2 post workout and I think this is the perfect dosage needed for this supplement, I would 100% recommend this!!!!!!Goes Well With:I use creatine with this for that little bit more of energy and repair in the gym and I am seeing amazing effects.
Hi , iv beening using bcaa 1500 for a few mounths now and can't falt them , always take direct arter work out , for maxim pump hold , works a treat , they hold your pump and shape for hard gainers like me 👍
Def helps recovery. I don't eat alot of meat and shakes just bloat me so theses are perfect and convenient. Size of pill is no issue for me. I think personally they bring an overall health benifit, especially if your not big into meat.
One of the best Bcaa ever i used. i take 3 pre workout 3 post workout and after 30 minutes i drink my protein shake with 2 scoops of impact whey and i dont feel pain next day even if i burn the muscle!!!!! exelentGoes Well With:Water
Very efficient product and good value for good price
Great product great results , it does help me train harder in the gym every day, and after one month I can see the results.Goes Well With:whey protein and creatine
Very useful for intermittent fasting or simply working out fasted in the morning, especially when on a lower carb diet, Also I have noticed it helps with recovery and muscle soreness.Goes Well With:Coconut oil, MCT oil
Bought these to partner the Hard Gainer Extreme. Quite large tablets, but easy enough to swallow with a drink. I'm hoping for results, but due to my age (65), I'm they'll be much slower to show than on a younger person. Delivery was very quick, so will definitely use My Protein again when I need more supplements.
Great tablets that are very effective. The only downside for me is the sheer size of them. I'm having to break them down into 3 bits. Maybe I've a small throat but they are difficult to swallow whole. Proceed with caution
One of the best bcaa products in 💊 l tred. Works very good for me.
The amino' that BCAA's provide are claimed to be essential for muscle repair and development, and, in all honesty, after a week of taking the pills (in conjunction with creatine) you can start to notice the increased endurance and ability to lift slightly heavier weight. Only drawback, they're quite a sizeable pill and sometimes hard to get down in one..... Not really a huge issue though
I have been using this for a while now and absolutely love it!
They do a great job but are extremely large tablets, making them very difficult to swallow.
Good quality product used for years now.
First of all I want to say I love the MyProtien products. However, approach these pills with caution as they're like 'horse pills' aka. bleeding huge! Nearly choked trying to put two down the hatch at once, not advised. I purchased the powder instead to mix in with a pre & post workout shake, suits me a lot better. Not a complaint, just a friendly word of advise for those purchasing in the future.
First of all I want to say I love the MyProtien products. However, approach these bills with caution as they're like 'horse pills' aka. bleeding huge! Nearly choked trying to put two down the hatch at once, no advised. I purchased the powder instead to mix in with a pre & port workout shake, suits me a lot better. Not a complaint, just a friendly word of advise for those purchasing in the future.
one of the purest product of the market, vey effective! Really happy
BCAA 1500 my long favourite BCAA supplements from Myprotein!! Good amount in the tub, no bad after taste and definitely noticeable pump and improved intensity during workouts!! If your training hard then you should be taking BCAA to maintain all your muscle gains! And BCAA 1500 is the one you need! 5 Stars from me! 💪Goes Well With:Impact whey protein! (Chocolate Smooth)
After a week have noticed a definite improvement in recovery from gym sessions. Pills are large but to be honest it's not difficult to gulp them down with water. Good stuff.Goes Well With:Water
Does exactly what it's supposed to do - keeps muscles firm while restricting calories, aids extremely well with recovery. Not being fussy here, but they could be smaller. It's like swallowing your thumb each time you have one. Still rating it five stars because the size has nothing to do with how effective it's been for me in barely two weeks of using it. Workout 5 days a week, take 2-2-2 spaced morning afternoon and evening, take 2-2 on my rest days. I feel my muscles remain firm through my rest days, but most importantly I feel very strong each time I go back to the gym and I'm able to give 100% each time. Can't fault them!
no pain next day after a workout on these, use to ache really bad but a thing of the past. plus getting more out of my workouts if you lift weights must buy
I have been using these tablets now for approx 7 months and would not be without them. In a workout day I take 3 pre workout & 3 post. None training days I just take the 3 on an empty stomach. If there are days (when at work) I'm too busy to eat, I use extra to save my body taking energy away from my muscles. These apparently help to keep my body in an anabolic state without muscle wastage.Goes Well With:Creatine (creature), zma, whey protein and caesin.
Does exactly what its meant to do. No issues with the tablets, very easy to wash down with a shakeGoes Well With:anything
Will certainly be buying more of these bad boys!!
Slightly more expensive than BCAA+, but worth the money. Slightly larger also. Easy to swallow. For those of you having difficulties... Place pill on tongue and back of mouth, few sips of water, head back and swallow job done. Will be buying againGoes Well With:Water
I started taking these as a 4 week pre-cut to just help my muscles on the path to being leaner before i do cut, however i get headaches when i take them unless i drink lots of water. I think this might be due to the sheer amount of tablets I take... 1 iron, 1 multi vitamin, 3 omega 3, 4 bcaa 1500, 1 magnesium tablet a day. I definitely feel they have improved my muscle shape as i have not been able to exercise over the last 2 weeks and before i took them my muscles were quite soft and easily squished, now they feel harder with no gym and just taking them, so I'm looking forward too, minus the headaches, taking these at gym and hopefully seeing even better results!Goes Well With:I swallow the tablets without water, they're really not that bad.
have only just purchased, tablets a little oversized but no usual amino acid taste in your mouth, mainly used for recovery
I moved into this one from the plus and is a great choice!
I take 2 after either a cardio or weight training session. Good for recovery and reducing muscle soreness the next day. Easy to swallow and no negative side effects. Good product.Goes Well With:Water, healthy diet & plenty of exercise.
Since using BCAA 1500 I have notice a big improvement in both my size and strength. It's a good product but with one major downfall. The size of each Tablet is ridiculously large and bulky. I found them impossible to swallow whole, and when halving them though made it slightly easier, but left jagged edges on the Tablet themselves.
This product is really effective. I have use it now only 2 weeks and I can tell that it really works.
Good product, increased muscle mass within 4 weeks, highly recommend it to anyone who is spectacle.Goes Well With:Water.
Very good product. I've had them 2 wks and have noticed a difference in repair and energy which enables me to train harder
Excellent product, really does help to preserve your hard earnt gains from being diminished due to a challenging diet.Goes Well With:Vitamins and omega 3 for all round health
Although very big, still easy to swallow very effective recovery after workout and gives ne what I need before a workout
I havent completd a month taking the pills, but so far so good. Thesr pills + my diet is helping me mass gain which for a person with high metabolism as me is great news. I have t lost the wight gained and my body is looking in better shape
I don't give a five stars only because the pills are so big and I have to cut them with my teeth. But they are excellent to protect your muscles
Just started taking these again, they really make a difference especially shredding and strength. I take them before, during and after. Tables are very difficult to take, they're huge. ***My Protein- make them in the dissolvable capsules for ease of swallowing!!!
I have tried many supplements and proteins over the years, but have not had the results that I'm having now after discovering MyProteins branched chain amino acid tablets. I have recommended to them to everyone in my gym. They have purchased this product and had the sand results. Quicker recovery, increased strength and stamina.
Reasonably priced, speedy delivery. I take these before and after workout and they seem to enhance strength and recovery. Quite large tablets but I have the knack of getting them down now without difficulty. Would recommend them.
Great quality product, good value and speedy delivery!
In the beginning I thought it sounded to good to be true. But I thought i would give it a try. Already after the first few times I could feel a big difference. I had more energy the day after, and normally i was sore for a few days after, now im only sore for 1 maximum 2 days. I would difficulty recommend this to everyone!!!!
Brought these having used other brand BCAA for a while. These are large as already stated by other reviews, but the content of aminos is far higher. Taking two of these compared to 6 of my other brand for equal BCAA content and they are the same price!!! I have found these to have improved recovery and i appear leaner. I will try with a higher dose and review again. I wanted to test the product against the other first, like for like. I take them before and after training, rest days i take them morning and night. As with all supplements they are more effective with good training and nutrition, i also use Total protein, again from MP. I have trained for 30 years (now 47) and began a new "heavy" programme after a 12 year lay off towards lighter and reps. My training buddy has also noticed gains in size and strength, he has started on them now. Top product and service to match.
Extra energy during workout and they are not big like everyone here is claiming.i take 4 tablets at once before tr and 4 after tr..will order again.
This product would have got 5 stars had it not been for a few broken tablets in the tub. The tablets themselves are quite large and fat but they are easy to swallow with a drink. I will be buying more once they run out and I would highly recommend this product.
These are perfect for cutting and bulking, I tested them out for my cutting phase as my overall weight always fluctuates. I was on a cardio and weights program and I also reduced my carb intake, I was taking these 3-4 times a day and at the end of the month I reduced my body fat and increased my overall body weight. So in conclusion these were a perfect investment didn't think it work well but it did. You have to have a good diet have lots of high in protein foods combined with weights and cardio you won't lose much muscle tissue, I didn't lose any but don't just trust the scale look in the mirror as well! Don't forget other foods do contain quality amounts of amino acids, so that combined with this product should help you to keep and possibly gain as much muscle mass as possible! #AllKindsOfGainzWereMade!!!
I litterally swear by these bad boys. Took them about 6 months ago and was flying in everything I did, lifting and cardio, little or no fatigue based on what was the norm. I then decided to take powders instead and saw a massive drop off in performance. Started taking these again and I feel great again. Coincidence? I wouldn't say so, I'll be making sure I have a stock of these continusoly these days


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So glad we took advantage of Cyber Monday specials! We needed Christmas decorations (centerpieces) for 80 tables. We had a very small budget and these Christmas trees were the perfect size and very stylish! They were a hit!
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When you go sailing you typically pack in duffel bags and don't have a lot of room on the boat or in your luggage. This little tree is perfect. It folds flat in the luggage and is big enough to be attractive once set up, but small enough to not overwhelm the cabin space. Along with a few strings of battery operated lights we will feel very merry even among the palms and waters of the Caribbean.
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thought they were adorable and was going to use them as centerpieces at an outdoor Christmas party with the theme of the party being Xmas Trees. Great idea but there was a little bit of wind and these blow over and collapse at the drop of a hat. Couldn't use them at all for the party. Very disappointed but not really the decoration's fault!
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We needed moderately priced centerpieces for our Holiday lunch at work. We purchased small ornaments to wire on the trees. We plan to have small gift boxes holding a few chocolates and a slip of paper with a 'lucky' number. Numbers will be drawn for someone to win a gift card and another to win the centerpiece. The centerpieces collapse completely flat so they will be very easy to transport. They are also very festive and shiney and the perfect height for a centerpiece. We plan to use a holiday beverage napkin with a 1/2 circle cut from the center corner for a tree skirt. These are sooooo perfect.
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During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson won more championships than any coach in the history of professional sports. Even more important, he succeeded in never wavering from coaching his way, from a place of deep values. Jackson was tagged as the "Zen master" half in jest by sportswriters, but the nickname speaks to an important truth: this is a coach who inspired, not goaded;… (more)
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parkarized or blued for rust prevention?
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> parkarized or blued for rust prevention?
January 18, 2008, 03:40 PM
This is for a new P3AT carry gun.
I spelled blued incorrectly in the poll and now I cant change it.
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January 18, 2008, 03:43 PM
January 18, 2008, 03:57 PM
Stoving, high quality epoxy paint over parkerizing.
January 18, 2008, 04:06 PM
My P32 is parkerized, and it is holding up so far. I wouldn't mind a hard chrome one though. Maybe for my second.
I don't think Kel-Tec makes stainless slides.
January 18, 2008, 04:11 PM
Blueing is a form of rust and offers no real rust protection. Parkerizing is a better finish but it is porous and must be oiled occasionally to seal the pores. Parkerizing with Duracoat over it is one of the best finishes as far as durability and corrosion resistance.
January 18, 2008, 04:16 PM
I don't think Kel-Tec makes stainless slides.
You are correct. I said stainless before the OP was edited to specify a Kel-Tec P3AT. Hard chrome it is...
January 18, 2008, 04:36 PM
I am having a hard time finding a P3AT with the hard chrome slide.
My dealer says he has never even had one come through and he has tride.
I have found a parkarized slide, OD green one.
All of my handguns are stainless because I have accidic persperation
and blued guns are alot of trouble for me.:uhoh:
I was just curious if parkarized was a better than blued.
January 18, 2008, 05:00 PM
I also have acidic sweat and can rust my parkerized 1911 in a day. Light rust that wipes off, but rust none-the-less...
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Ace looks upon this video, and declares it the raw material for Linda's next campaign ad:
...and I heartily agree. For those without video access, it's from a primary debate between Dick Blumenthal and Merrik Alpert. Alpert pointed out, in so many words, that under Dick's tenure as Attorney General Connecticut was one of two states* to have a net loss of jobs. And then Alpert proceeded to ask Dick how many jobs his lawsuits created. Dick's response was that his lawsuits created jobs because businesses love competition.
No, really, that's what he said. Presumably, Dick's argument is if he hadn't done all those lawsuits then Connecticut would have lost even more jobs. Or that it was only through Dick's regular sacrifices of marmosets to the Great Pumpkin every Roodmass that Connecticut has so far not been swept out to sea by a vengeful tsunami.
Look, it makes just as much sense as Dick's actual answer, OK?
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The Dallas Texans and Texans SC/DTH are the only other teams to win their first two games.
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GCompris, the high quality educational software suite comprising numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10 well known by parents and teachers all over the world, joined the KDE incubator.
GCompris was started in 2000 by Bruno Coudoin as a Free Software. Originally written in GTK+ the project decided in early 2014 to make a radical change and rewrite it in Qt Quick. The main motivation is the ability of the Qt platform to address the desktop and the tablet market from a single code base.
In order to get the great level of support from a strong developer community, GCompris joined the KDE incubator.
The rewrite is going on smoothly, 86 educational activities of the 140 have been ported to Qt Quick. A release on Android is planned for December 2014 with the help of the KDE translation teams to make sure it is properly localized. Other platforms will follow.
Currently the graphics are one of the weakest part of GCompris, as they were mostly done by the developers, using free graphics assets and sparse graphic artist contributions.
To address this problem, Timothée Giet, a talented graphics artist proposed himself to work on a complete graphics redesign. He is a long standing Free Software contributor, active member of the Krita team and so part of the KDE community. Making new graphics for more than 100 activities is a big work, so a fundraiser has been set up.
The project is not only about creating new background images but consists in a whole graphical rework. At first a graphics charter will be defined as none exists for now in GCompris. This will drive the project towards a unified style that it lacks today. An emphasis will be done on usability, making sure the children find their way easily in each activity.
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It's been quite some time since the Randa Meetings 2014 and even this year's edition of the KDE Community Summit called Akademy has already happened, but it's still nice to look back and see what was accomplished at this KDE Tech Summit in the middle of the Swiss Alps.
And before we tell you about the seven groups that participated in the meetings this year (and because of the different participating groups and thus a collection of several meetings under the same roof, the event is called "Randa Meetings" with a plural s ;-), we send a big thank you to all the supporters and people that made this gathering possible. It's because of you that we could work hard for a whole week and make the software you love even better. In the group picture you see KDE's diversity, and how this year some KDE contributors could bring their families and partners and thus didn't need to decide between either family holidays or hacking for KDE.
2014 Group picture, by Martin Klapetek (CC-BY-SA)
The KDE Edu group brings students and mentors together
From the KDE education group, we had people from Rocs, the graph tool, from Kig, KDE's geometry teaching tool, from Artikulate, the new language acoustic learning tool, from KStars, the KDE astronomy tool and of course from Marble, which doesn't need any explanation ;-). Two Google Summer of Code students for Marble saw their mentors for the first time in Randa and thus got a stronger bonding with our awesome community. I know of at least one of them who found another playground in KDE: GCompris.
GCompris is a new and still young (at least for the Qt version) member of the KDE family. Bruno Coudoin and his colleagues met in Randa to make great progress on porting the more than 140 activities in GCompris to Qt and KDE technologies. Their main focus is currently to finish a first version for Android and thus Smartphones and Tablets. Bruno even did some live user-testing (of course with kids!) during the lunch time. But beneath the normal hacking on KDE educational software, one other focus was the porting of the programs to KDE Frameworks 5 (KF5). Some of the applications will release a KF5-based version in December as part of the KDE Applications 14.12 release.
Different applications port to KDE Frameworks 5
Other applications that either started a port to KF5 or worked on it were KMyMoney, one of our finance tools. The developers also worked on their Windows port. Gwenview, which has since gained a new maintainer and Jungle, a fresh video player.
Porting to and working on KDE Frameworks was a general focus at this year's Randa Meetings. We tried to push forward Windows and Mac (unfortunately we weren't able to bring many KDE Mac people to Randa this year) variants and worked on a more coherent developer story and thus a KDE SDK. The port of Kate and KDevelop to KF5 made great progress and they even achieved making it start on Windows. Besides the porting work, this group also got some GSoC students together with their mentors and thus there was some integration of their work on CLang support and QML/JS.
Picture of the new Randa Konqi: with a white star and an Edelweiss like on the flag of Randa. Thanks a lot to the artist Tyson Tan!
The KDE Multimedia group worked on many different things
Alongside and integrated with all this work and groups some other teams participated at the meetings. They are almost part of the inventory of the Randa Meetings ;-). Amarok and the KDE Multimedia team worked on bug triage (cleaning up more than 200 bugs!), polishing their handbook and Phonon. During this intensive week we saw the release of the GStreamer Phonon backend. KMix, the KDE mixer application got another strong push forwards.
And another multimedia application found its way to Randa: Kdenlive, our great non-linear video editor. The project lacked some direction recently and so a face-to-face meeting of some old and some new contributors was a logical step to take. With Till Theato and Simon Eugster some oldsters of the project could help to document and explain the current code and state to the new maintainer Vincent Pinon. Interestingly enough we learned during the meetings that Vincent's wife Lucie is using Kdenlive in her professional work and as she was in Randa as well we took the opportunity to make a short interview with her (Thanks Françoise Wybrecht for doing the interview and Myriam Schweingruber for the translation. You can download the French version of the interview.
Lucie Robin lives in Voiron near Grenoble – France and works as a professional video maker with Kdenlive.
Lucie with her daughter and Konqi in the background
What brought you to open source?
Despite being an alien to the open source world, I discovered it through my Linux-using husband.
What pushed you to use free software?
As a video maker, I needed professional video software. Since most software in this field are over pricey, my husband suggested to try Kdenlive back in 2011.
After having used it for three years, what is your overall impression?
I got aware very quickly that Kdenlive is an answer to professional needs. But let's be honest, its use is full of pitfalls and inconsistencies, which could have discouraged me more than once. But luckily I discovered the philosophy behind free software which kept me going.
New energy for Kdenlive and a new KDE Book
The Kdenlive team spend most of their time discussing and setting the roadmap for the future. At the end of the meetings we decided to bring Kdenlive even closer to KDE and thus start an incubation process for them. And thanks to Françoise, Lucie and Kdenlive you can watch yourself how it looked at the Randa Meetings 2014.
Another group came to Randa to work on a new edition of our KDE Guide. After some problems with internet connectivity (ever heard of this problem at sprints or conferences? 😉 they decided to scratch the planned working process and to quickly develop a new one so they could work offline and integrate the new book directly with KDE source code and extract live snippets from it. They had a great start in Randa but it's not yet done. So if you're an expert in one of the KDE Frameworks, please help and submit a paragraph, short text or chapter.
In addition to these bigger groups were some smaller teams and single developers in Randa that worked on their projects. One of them is the Gluon group. As a way of creating and playing games, they worked on a KF5 port, and also had a lot of discussion of their future directions and plans. And QMLWeb, a JavaScript Library is currently a one man project with Anton working hard to improve the code and connect with new people.
An amazing time that should be repeated
Organization-wise we tried something new this year to connect the different groups participating at the Randa Meetings even better. During lunch and dinner one person of each group had to tell the others in a few sentences what they are currently working on. So everybody in Randa was more or less aware of what was discussed in the other groups and when they should connect and talk with them. But we learned something else too. Doing this talks two times a day was not necessary and so we plan to do it only once a day in 2015.
For even more information about the Randa Meetings 2014 and some personal views, see a list of blog posts and picture collections. It was an amazing time and we got great feedback for the organizational work and thus are looking forward to 2015 and more very productive, successful and inspiring meetings and sprints. So please support us!
PS: There is another great summary in Portuguese of what happened in Randa this year.
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KDE was one of about 50 exhibitors at the LISA (Large Installation System Administration) Conference November 12th and 13th in Seattle. The expo was part of the week-long conference for system administrators that has been held annually since 1986. Expo participants included big name tech companies and smaller niche organizations offering products and services to this audience of professional technical people. As we discovered, KDE is well known among this audience.
Visitors included people who have been "using KDE since version 1.0" and other long time users and supporters. Several people said that they have been contributing code and money for many years. We encouraged visitors to check out the year-end fundraising campaign.
The big KDE logo attracted people to the exhibit space where we covered KDE mentoring programs, answered questions and shared information about current KDE activities. The Krita demonstrations by Oscar Baechler generated a lot of fascinated attention too. It is obvious that Krita offers much more to real artists than GIMP or Inkscape. The large artwork of an Emperor Penguin done in Coast Salish style also drew admiring comments. People liked the tie-in between the Pacific Northwest aboriginal art and free/open technology.
We had intended to have a slide show featuring various aspects of KDE. It didn't work out as planned…fortunately. Instead, people had the opportunity to experiment with the latest KDE goodies—KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 running on a high performance machine. The system performed well. Several attendees were amazed at the story behind the story: a near complete re-do of the KDE Development Environment and the up-to-date Plasma Workspace. This was an audience that appreciated the effort, the professionalism and the results of KDE's innovations.
Andrew Lake of the KDE Visual Design Group put together a slide show for his big screen, featuring design principles and examples, along with a visual explanation of the technical structure of Frameworks and Plasma.
KDE excitement
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Some members of the Seattle KDE group discussed possibilities of more regional KDE outreach. Valorie Zimmerman and Andrew Lake are part of this group; the Meetup organizer, Aaron Peterson, was also in the booth space.
The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. Recognizing the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, the highly-curated 6-day program offers training, workshops, invited talks, panels, paper presentations, and networking opportunities around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics.
LISA was an excellent opportunity to connect with people who know KDE well, as well as people who appreciate KDE software and what the Community stands for.
Many thanks to USENIX for the generous support of KDE.
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KDE Connect is a tool which allows you integrate the KDE Plasma Workspace with your smartphone (Android only for now), via WiFi. With the help of KDE Connect Indicator, you can now use KDE Connect in desktops which support Ubuntu AppIndicators, such as Unity, Pantheon (elementary OS), Xfce (Xubuntu) and so on.For those who aren't familiar […]
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This is the first part of KDE & Freedom, a series of interviews with people who use and contribute to FOSS in their everyday lives. Please consider donating to the KDE End of Year 2014 Fundraiser. We need your help!
Franklin is a 39 year old FOSS activist based in Taipei. He has coordinated KDE's zh_TW translation team since 2006, and is the core developer of ezgo (Chinese), a compilation of educational software used by schools all over Taiwan. ezgo, which in its Linux installation uses KDE by default, blends more than 100 free software applications into one localized, easy to use package. [More information in a previous Dot article.]
Exchanging emails led to a voice conversation between The Dot and Franklin.
What is your motivation behind computer freedom?
Many people asked me the same question. My simple answer is because I like to be free.
Before the year 2000, when we wanted to install and run an open source application, we would download the code, then there would be a file called "INSTALL" telling us how to compile and install the application. If we followed all the steps there would be a 95% chance that the compilation will fail. But then we would still have clues to find out what the problem was. We didn't need to call the vendor and ask why it's not working and have him ignore us. I like the feeling of finding the answer, no matter if it is by myself or by discussing with others on the Internet.
In Taiwan there were many excellent people working on the i18n [internationalization] framework, which made localization a lot easier. I appreciated their contributions very much, and that's also what drove me to contribute more into the open source world.
What do you think of the situation of free software in Taiwan?
In my opinion it is far behind where it should be.
There are people working, contributing and promoting FOSS in Taiwan. But we still are under the control of many big international software vendors like Microsoft or Adobe.
All these years we tried to let people see the value of free software as a public resource, but people have gotten used to commercial software. One of the reasons, I think, is that there was a lot of software piracy several years ago. Now it is much better, but I think it could be one of the main reasons why we have difficulties promoting open source software.
"Contribute without thinking too much and opportunities will come to knock on your door."
You are the main developer of an educational platform. How can free software improve education?
Contributing. I told teachers and people that the strength behind the world of open source is the strength of contributing. So many people contribute without asking for any economic feedback. That's the most amazing strength in the world, and that should be what teachers should tell our kids while they're using FOSS.
It would help a lot if teachers could understand that FOSS is actually not only for computer classes, but for all kinds of subjects. There are so many educational FOSS and educational public domain resources!
The latest release of ezgo is based on Kubuntu 13.04 and has Linux 3.8.0 in its core.
And why did you start to collaborate on ezgo?
Before 2007 I just translated KDE and other applications and I sent them upstream. I started to be the coordinator of the KDE zh_TW l10n team in 2006 and then my partner Eric Sun sent me an email. He told me that he was running a project under the Ministry of Education in Taiwan promoting free and open software to elementary and high schools. ezgo it was one of their products, collecting many good FOSS applications in it. The target was to make it easier for people to understand and use FOSS.
So everything was started by your translation work?
When translating KDE I didn't think too much. I didn't expect to get any feedback or credit, I didn't expect to get any chance to be a part of any other communities.
That's also what I would tell young people. Contribute without thinking too much and opportunities will come to knock on your door.
My partner told me his thoughts and the value of ezgo. At that time I had two babies and I started to think about what I can do for education using FOSS. I joined his group, and at first I was just a consultant, helping them to solve problems. From ezgo X, I became the main developer.
"Open source and public domain are good for education."
In the beginning, ezgo had GNOME 2 by default, but since ezgo X you have used KDE. Why?
The main component of ezgo is the menu. It's categorized and sorted so people can easily understand and find out the applications. It's very important for us but when GNOME 3 was released it was gone. Then Ubuntu started to use Unity, which didn't have a menu either. So we had to decide if we should let people use GNOME 3, Unity, or any other desktop environment. Finally we decided to switch to KDE. The most important reason was that it kept the normal menu.
ezgo provides a huge selection of FOSS apps.
And what has been the response so far?
We have two different reactions. When we are promoting ezgo, we don't highlight what desktop we are using because we focus on the applications. So most people aren't aware that they're using KDE. It doesn't matter what OS, window manager or desktop we are using, we are always using the same applications. We collected more than 100 free software applications in ezgo, no matter if KDE apps or not. So for most people, it was okay to switch to KDE. However, there was another reaction—some people don't like KDE. They think that interfaces like Gnome 3 or Unity would be the correct way since mobile devices are more and more popular. They think that PCs will vanish one day.
What are the next steps for ezgo?
ezgo hasn't completed its mission. It's just like an auxiliary wheel on a bicycle. We still hope to let more and more people understand and enjoy the world of open source. From the aspect of education, we hope that more schools and teachers understand that open source and public domain are good for education. They don't need to rely only on commercial software. We're not against such software, but we want people to know that they have choices.
ezgo will complete its mission when people don't need ezgo anymore.
How do you imagine education in Taiwan in 20 years?
Though there are many problems in Taiwan's education system, there are many teachers and even students working to improve our education from the bottom to the top. I believe that it will be more open and more creative.
And technical education?
Technical education in Taiwan has never been an issue. There are so many teachers and government officers who like to play with new toys!
We hope that in 20 years kids and students will learn how to find resources and solve their problems, no matter if it is a public resource or commercial software. In Taiwan we're now hot on things like 'flip classroom' or 'mobile learning'. Some teachers believe that computer classrooms will vanish in a few years, replaced by tablets.
But I don't agree with them. Tablets are good for collecting information and for some learning. But there are many basic skills, concepts and fundamental knowledge that they can't satisfy. I'm not against these devices but I believe that all kinds of computers have their own role.
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There will be a KDE exhibit at the upcoming LISA (Large Installation System Administration) Conference. The full conference takes place November 9 ‒ 14 in Seattle; the expo is open on the 12th and 13th. There is no charge to attend the expo.
Several members of the KDE Community will be in the booth—presenting various aspects of KDE; answering questions; demonstrating applications (thanks especially to Krita and ogbog); recruiting contributors, users, companies and sponsors. All members of the KDE Community are welcome to visit, to jump in & represent KDE, or to just make contact with other KDE people. These small regional gatherings are necessary until we are financially self-sustaining enough to justify a national gathering such as Akademy. The Seattle KDE group is off to a great start.
This is also an opportunity for people who are curious, or interested in what the KDE Community is doing. Our governance, separation between development and administration, and strong mentoring programs are the foundation for an effective international community that is resilient and innovative. Just in the past few years, KDE developers have built a new development platform (KDE Frameworks 5), a fully redesigned desktop environment (Plasma 5) and a modern look-and-feel (Breeze)—demonstrating KDE's value to the broad technology industry.
The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. Recognizing the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, the highly-curated 6-day program offers training, workshops, invited talks, panels, paper presentations, and networking opportunities around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. Don't miss the chance to be a part of this unique career-building journey.
Many thanks to USENIX for the generous support of KDE.
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Season of KDE is a community outreach program, much like Google Summer of Code that has been hosted by the KDE community for six years straight.
Here is a unique way to give back to KDE allowing us to keep giving free software to humankind.
By participating in this fundraiser, you'll be part of the improvements we'll put into our educational software, so kids can have better tools for school; our office suite, so we have the best tools for the workplace; and our desktop so we can all experience a fun and productive experience when interacting with our computers.
Donating to KDE is not for you, it is for the entire world.
As a way to say thank you, starting with €30 we will send a KDE themed postcard to any given address. You will get an extra card for every additional €10 donation. Get cards for yourself and for your family and friends to show them you care for freedom. It's the perfect way to spread the festive cheer and donate to your favorite project at the same time.
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From August 27th to 30th, 2014, nearly sixteen KDE lovers met in the 2nd LaKademy – The KDE Latin America Summit. The sprint took place in the Free Software Competence Center (CCSL) at University of São Paulo (USP) in southeast Brazil.
A little bit of history
Since 2008, a bunch of initiatives have been taken towards the fostering and spreading of KDE community and technologies in Brazil and Latin America. Even though at a slow pace sometimes, such effort have yielded good results in disseminating the motivations and benefits of get involved in such a vibrant free software community, mainly in a region where the tradition of sprints is not yet fully consolidated.
In 2010 the 1st Akademy-BR (Brazilian KDE summit) took place at Praia do Forte, Bahia, northeast Brazil. Nearly 20 participants met in a three days meeting where some of current active Brazilian KDE contributors made their first steps in contributing with coding, translation, and promotion. Some people have come and gone, but some of them got vastly seduced by the idea of coming together in the pursuit of sharing knowledge and making world better with high quality free software. Those remain pushing KDE in their universities, companies, and in high visibility meetings such as FISL and Latinoware.
After Akademy-BR, we focused on trying to better integrate KDE people from other countries in Latin America. Some contributors from Peru and Argentina were invited to present their work at previous editions of Latinoware, meet the Brazilian fellows, and help deciding on actions to narrow KDE relationships in Latin America. Such an effort culminated in the 1st LaKademy, held in Porto Alegre, south Brazil, from April 27th to May 1st, 2012. Sixteen participants from Brazil, Argentina, and Peru were involved in artwork, translation, promotion, and development activities.
Two years have passed again until the time for the 2nd LaKademy, held at the Free Software Competence Center (CCSL) at University of São Paulo (USP) from August 27th to 30th, 2014. USP is one of the most important and prestigious universities in the world and CCSL is a two-storey building entirely devoted to free software projects, quite close to IME (Mathematics and Statistics Institute) – where Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics courses are offered. Motivated by an expected audience of potential KDE newcomers, we've decided on a schedule with KDE talks on the very first day, an introductory Qt short-course on the second day, and the usual contribution sprints happening in the last two days of LaKademy 2014. Sadly, the number of guests was lower than expected. In spite of that, the talks allowed us to better know each other's work in KDE and the Qt short-course was a place to clarify common doubts and providing an initial support for the KDE newcomers specially attending LaKademy 2014.
LaKademy 2014 Group Photo
What we have done ?
The first day of LaKademy 2014 began with the Lamarque's talk about Eduroam and Plasma Network Management. Afterwards, Rafael Gomes presented his KDE SysAdmin talk – which provided some interesting information about KDE infrastructure and all the work undertaken behind the scenes in order to support KDE technologies development and community communication. The next talk was about KDE Connect, presented by Ronny Yabar, where the most exciting features of KDE mobile-desktop integration were presented, followed by a brief discussion about its architecture. At the end of the day, Filipe Saraiva presented a talk about Qt and KDE applications on Android, with a special note to the GCompris case.
Rafael's talk about KDE SysAdmin
A Qt introductory short-course was presented by Sandro Andrade in the second day of LaKademy 2014. Given the limited time available, the focus was on the essential aspects underlying the Qt-ish way of developing cross-platform applications: signal/slots mechanism, (dynamic) properties, meta-objects, moc and uic compilers, event loops, and basic design of interfaces using QtWidgets and QML. In the audience: some newcomers invited to attend LaKademy, translators trying to get a grasp on programming, veterans helping to make some points clearer, and three guests from USP.
The third and fourth days were dedicated to hacking sessions and a BoF about KDE promo. Among the development outcomes, we managed to port Bovo to KF5 (pushed in 'frameworks' branch of bovo repository) and Filipe started porting Cantor to KF5. Ronny has also submitted some changes to review, regarding KDE Connect. Filipe also started the creation of a meta-package for KF5 in Mageia. Boaglio and Sandro (two old-school geeks with an inexplicable passion for MSX) started the development of QMSX – a GUI front-end for the openmsx emulator:
The QMSX frontend to openmsx
The BoF about KDE promo lasted about two hours and raised a number of questions, evaluation of strategies, and seventeen tasks were recorded in todo.kde.org ('KDE Brazil' project), including the development of promotional material, webinars, KDE presence on social networks, and financial aspects. Filipe helped in fixing the web bots for spreading news in Facebook e Twitter. The next LaKademy was also one of the exciting discussions during the KDE Promo BoF. In general, we agreed on having the 3rd LaKademy happening already in the first half of 2015. The venue is also almost confirmed.
As for the artwork outcomes, Adriana (who joined the group at the very last minute), Viviane, and Wagner produced some amazing stuff in those days. What about these new Konqi and LaKademy wallpapers ? A LaKademy commemorative KSplash theme was also developed.
Wallpapers developed during LaKademy 2014
Finally, Aracele, Camila, and Bianca were involved in translation activities. They focused on techbase translation, which got from 18% to 24% during those days. At the end of the third day, we had a beer-and-pizza lovely night at the Garoa Hacker Club, with a lot of lightening talks, KDE keyrings getting out of a 3D printer, and other nerdiness.
We would like to say a big 'thank you' to the KDE e.V. for the financial support, to the Free Software Competence Center for hosting LaKademy 2014, to Viviane Notato for the artwork support, and to Aracele and Filipe for the local arrangements. We hope to meet each other again soon, at LaKademy 2015, with a 4-5 days of sprints only. No talks, no short-courses :). After all, where can we get the most of fun from when contributing to KDE ?
This article first appeared on KDE-Brasil
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Built In Rogue Dildo - The stub where a hand or foot once resided that can be used for self pleasure. May at times dabble in rogue patterns.
Hey man, look at the guy with his BIRD up his anal cavity!
автор: gilios 17 сентября 2005
penis and/or testicles
John fell asleep on my couch, so I whipped my bird out and rubbed it all over his face before I woke him up.
автор: dcs5 13 июля 2005
some kid from niskayuna NY. he has toolish qualities along with an absurdness that never ceases to make you laugh. very strange and somewhat resembles an actual bird. AKA 'butters'
i think bird is gonna be there tonight. koren is probably with him. what a fucking tool.
автор: five speed 19 марта 2005
(n.)small winged creature that shits on my girlfriend's car to make her mad;
"Incoming! Ahh shit! *&!$ing bird!
автор: Chubbs 30 апреля 2004
I was a virgin until Bob mounted my bird.
автор: John R. 9 декабря 2003
Extending the middle finger and thumb. As in Top Gun
"You know, the bird. I'm sorry I hate it when it does that"
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Charlie Parker
Bird is the greatest saxophonist who ever lived.
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They were all business in the first half against the Arizona Cardinals, piling up the points and making big plays on both sides of the ball to build a 24-point halftime advantage. The Niners couldn't keep up that pace in the second half, but they still finished with a 38-28 victory that broke a first-place tie with the Cardinals and left San Francisco alone atop the division.
"It's nice to be out front," 49ers coach Steve Mariucci said after his team withstood Arizona's three-touchdown rally in the second half. "It was a battle for first place, and we'll take it. They (Arizona) were there for a reason."
The reason was the Cardinals have been good at staying close and winning relatively low-scoring affairs. They needed only 25 points combined to beat Carolina and Dallas the previous two weeks and climb into a first-place tie in the division after San Francisco lost at New Orleans on Oct. 20.
But that wasn't going to work Sunday against the Niners, who had 31 points on the scoreboard by halftime.
"As good a team as the 49ers are, we can't spot them 31 points, and that's basically what we did, we spotted them 31 points in the first half," Arizona coach Dave McGinnis said. "Give the 49ers credit. They won the football game, they took it when they had to take it."
The Niners were relentless on both sides of the ball in the first half, creating turnovers on defense and turning them into scores on offense. San Francisco scored on its first four possessions and five of its six in the first half – four of them ending in touchdowns.
But the tone was set on the defensive side of the ball.
On the game's first play from scrimmage, Niners defensive end Andre Carter raced around the right edge and sacked Arizona quarterback Jake Plummer, knocking the ball loose on the play. It was recovered by teammate Dana Stubblefield at the Arizona 33-yard line, and – with just 12 seconds elapsed in the first quarter – the game never again would be the same.
"That was a great feeling," Carter said. "That's what a defense has to do. Our main goal is to do that for all four quarters."
The Niners certainly didn't do that, surrendering 248 of Arizona's 420 total yards after halftime. But when the game was being decided in the opening 30 minutes, San Francisco's defense did what it had to do.
The Niners limited Arizona to just 23 net yards and one first down on the Cardinals' first four possessions. Two of those drives were stopped by turnovers – the second an interception of a deep pass by free safety Ronnie Heard.
After the Cardinals scored their lone first-half touchdown, they went 87 yards in 13 plays late in the second quarter and were on the doorstep of getting back in the game before Heard ended that drive with the second of his three interceptions on the afternoon.
This one came in the end zone with 56 seconds remaining before intermission, and it swung the momentum back to the 49ers for good.
"They had the momentum a few times, and we had to get it back," said Heard, who also stopped Arizona's final drive with an interception at the San Francisco 6-yard line with 5:25 to play. "We knew it was going to be a dogfight."
Thanks in part to Heard's interceptions, the game didn't appear to be a fair fight in the first half as the Niners led 17-0 at the end of the first quarter and had a dominating 31-7 advantage at halftime.
The back-breaker came after Heard's second interception. The Niners, with 80 yards to go and just 56 seconds on the clock, could have opted to sit on their 24-7 lead.
But they didn't. Boy, did they not.
After runs of 11 yards by Garrison Hearst and eight yards by Kevan Barlow moved the ball to the San Francisco 39, quarterback Jeff Garcia bounced out of the pocket and found Terrell Owens for a short pass over the middle.
Owens did the rest, bursting down the center of the field, then cutting to the left and breaking down the sideline to complete a stunning 61-yard play that gave the Niners all the points they would need to absorb Arizona's representative second-half challenge.
It was the second Garcia-to-Owens touchdown collaboration of the afternoon. Garcia also slipped out of the pocket to find Owens for a 21-yard score midway through the first period. On that play, Owens adjusted his route to come back to the football, then evaded two defenders to high-step into the end zone.
"I'm watching him in awe in a lot of ways," Garcia said. "He's capable of breaking the game open when you get him the ball."
Garcia also was responsible for the Niners pulling away early, keeping plays alive with his feet (he was sacked just once) and also throwing some deep strikes that for the most part have been missing from his repertoire this season.
Garcia did most of his damage in the first half, when he completed 11 of 17 for 194 yards and three touchdowns. He finished 18 of 28 for 252 yards and four touchdowns – his first four-touchdown game of the season.
Besides the two touchdowns to Owens, Garcia also threw scoring passes of 47 yards to Tai Streets and nine yards to Barlow. His passer rating for the game of 132.7 was his best this season.
"Coming in and playing a co-first-place team the way we did, there are a lot of positive things to pull out of this game," Garcia said. "It was an all-out team performance. It worked in every sort of direction. Everybody stepped up and did what they needed to do. I was disappointed about how we played in the second half, but we will correct that."


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Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) says there have been 10 incidents of Cook Strait ferries losing power in the Marlborough Sounds during the past five years.
The incidents are listed by ship, date, location, incident, and any notes, as supplied by MNZ:
Arahura, August 10, 2009, at sea, approaching Tory Channel entrance, propulsion failure. "On approach to Tory Channel from Cook Strait, the duty engineer advised the bridge team that they had a problem in the engine room and advised that they abort the approach to Tory Channel as a precaution. At this time Arahura was 3 miles off and the master turned to starboard away from the entrance while reducing propulsion power. Within 2-3 minutes, the vessel had turned 180 degrees and the chief engineer called to advise that the problem had been resolved and the passage could be resumed. The turn to starboard was continued until Tory Channel entrance was again ahead, propulsion power returned to full and the passage to Picton continued."
Aratere, August 21, 2010, Picton Harbour, equipment failure. "On arrival in Picton and just prior to berthing, Aratere's low pressure alarm activated a shutdown of the port propeller shaft. Aratere safely berthed on the remaining shaft."
Straitsman, June 16, 2011, at sea, Tory Channel, equipment failure. "Starboard main engine high exhaust temperatures required a power reduction of 50 per cent. Due to a cracked exhaust pipe elbow joint at the turbo charger. Vessel slow steamed to Wellington and berthed without assistance."
Straitsman, July 20, 2011, inshore waters, Tory Channel, propulsion failure. "Fuel pump seized on port engine at 2032 (hours). Vessel anchored in Tory Channel to effect repairs. Vessel resumed passage fully operational at 2210."
Straitsman, September 11, 2011, inshore waters, Tory Channel, equipment failure. "Exhaust bellows on the starboard main engine fractured resulting in increased exhaust valve temperatures. Starboard main engine reduced to 30 per cent power. Vessel berthed in Picton without incident. Temporary repair made. Starboard main engine max load limited to 55 per cent."
Aratere, October 27, 2011, between Arrowsmith and Heaphy Pt, Tory Channel, equipment failure. "Aratere was proceeding inwards to Picton and had just passed Arrowsmith Point when apparent loss of power on engines occurred. Vessel was able to keep steering although speed dropped off to about 4 knots. Control of engines changed to engine room control and vessel brought into Queen Charlotte Sound. Control given back to bridge and power increased. Seemed to be functioning normally. Tested astern. Vessel continued to Picton and berthed without further incident."
Aratere, October 31, 2011, approaching Tory Channel entrance, equipment failure. "Vessel was exiting Tory Channel and abeam of Scraggy Light when power suddenly reduced to one DG. Speed fell from approximately 18 knots. Enough steerage to complete exit from Tory Channel. When just clear of the entrance, the vessel blacked out completely. Vessel had enough way to keep moving and approximately 6 minutes later power was restored to port shaft and the vessel proceeded clear of land at about six knots. At 1955 hours, the fire alarm sounded and was attended by engine crew with deck crew standing by. A fault in the system meant that the alarm sounded in the passenger accommodation so passengers were informed there was no fire. At 2020 hours the starboard shaft was restarted and the vessel continued to Wellington. The tug Ngahue was engaged to meet Aratere at the outer buoy in Wellington and escort it to its berth. This occurred without further incident."
Kaitaki, June 24, 2012, Arrowsmith Pt, Tory Channel, electrical power failure. "Alternator failed causing blackout on board, however propulsion and steering retained. Backup generator started and voyage continued."
Kaitaki, July 20, 2012, east of Arrowsmith Pt, Marlborough Sounds, equipment failure. "GPS and navigation systems failed (note no loss of propulsion), system reset without incident."
Santa Regina, September 23, 2012, inshore waters, Tory Channel, equipment failure. "Vessel was on passage from Picton to Wellington. While the vessel was in Tory Channel the starboard main engine was shut down due to a fuel oil leak on the number two fuel pump. The vessel reversed its course intending to exit via the northern entrance. The leak was sourced to a pump barrel locking screw which was replaced. The starboard main engine was restarted and the vessel was turned to exit via Tory Channel entrance."
- The Marlborough Express
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A 56-year-old male is suffering from mild tinnitus and feels it is getting worse. He's tried ear candling, acupuncture and Ginkgo biloba, but has seen no improvement. What do readers recommend?
According to Judi, there are four main causes of tinnitus: a blow to the head, stress, noise damage and sinus problems/allergies. But whatever the cause, she reckons homeopathy can deal with the problem in about three months.
John reckons tinnitus can often be caused by dental amalgam fillings. There is no easy test to confirm this, he says, be he recommends that everyone with these fillings have them removed by a holistic dentist. In addition, he suggests taking vitamin and mineral supplements to assist in mercury elimination.
Another idea is to try self-hypnosis tapes. This method proved very effective for Mary. Apparently, tapes and CDs providing audio support are available from the British Tinnitus Association (www.tinnitus.org.uk).
Other methods that have worked for readers include chiropractic treatment, Reiki, Emotional Freedom Technique and, strangely, eliminating coffee. Eating a handful of sunflower seeds a day has also proved successful.
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