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Mechanical engineering degrees typically take four to five years to complete, and result in a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Bachelor of Science (BSc or BS), or Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (BME). In the US, most undergraduate mechanical engineering programs are accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Mechanical engineering programs include courses on composites, thermodynamics, engine design, fluid dynamics, control theory, robotics, and computer-aided design (CAD). In addition to the core mechanical engineering curriculum, many mechanical engineering programs offer more specialized programs and classes, such as control systems, fuel cell technology, and biomechanics.
Many mechanical engineering companies have begun to incorporate computer-aided engineering (CAE) programs into their existing processes, including 2D and 3D solid modeling computer-aided design (CAD), enabling faster and more exhaustive visualization of products. Other CAE programs commonly used by mechanical engineers include product lifecycle management (PLM), and analysis tools such as finite element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM). Further, automation in the form of industrial robots allow businesses to save money on manufacturing costs, and ensure precision quality control. The median annual income of mechanical engineers in the US workforce was $80,580, highest when working for the government ($92,030), and lowest in education ($57,090). Beyond major requirements within the physics department, you may consider Wilmington University architecture courses online as an adjunct to your primary course of study.
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Hannah Duston (Dustin, Dustan, and Durstan) (born Hannah Emerson, December 23, 1657 – c. 1737) was a colonial Massachusetts Puritan mother of nine who was taken captive by Abenaki Native Americans during King William's War, with her newborn daughter, during the Raid on Haverhill (1697), in which 27 colonists were killed. While detained on an island in the Merrimack River in present-day Boscawen, New Hampshire, she killed and scalped 10 of the Native American family members holding them hostage, with the assistance of two other captives.
Duston's captivity narrative became famous more than 100 years after she died. Duston is believed to be the first American woman honored with a statue. During the 19th century, she was referred to as "a folk hero" and the "mother of the American tradition of scalp hunting". Some scholars assert Duston's story only became legend in the 19th century because America used her story to define its violence against Native Americans as innocent, defensive, and virtuous.
Hannah Emerson was the oldest of the 15 children. At age 20, she married Thomas Duston, a farmer and brick-maker. The Emerson family had previously been the subject of attention when Elizabeth Emerson, Hannah's younger sister, was hanged for infanticide.
During King William's War, Hannah, her husband Thomas, and their eight children were residents of Haverhill, Massachusetts. In March 1687, the town was attacked by a group of Abenaki Native American from Quebec. (In this attack, 27 colonists were killed, and 13 were taken captive to be either adopted or held as hostages for the French.) When their farm was attacked, Thomas fled with eight children, but Hannah, her newborn daughter Martha, and her nurse Mary Neff (nee Corliss) were captured and forced to march into the wilderness. According to the account of Cotton Mather (who interviewed Hannah), along the way the Native Americans killed the six-day-old Martha by smashing her against a tree.
Hannah and Mary were assigned to a Native American family group of 12 persons and taken north. The group included Samuel Lennardson, a 14-year-old captured in Worcester, Massachusetts the year before.
Six weeks later, at an island in the Merrimack River at the mouth of the Contoocook River, near what is now Penacook, New Hampshire, Hannah led Mary and Samuel in a revolt. Hannah used a tomahawk to attack the sleeping Native Americans, killing one of the two grown men (Lennardson killed the second), two adult women, and six children. One severely wounded Native American woman and a young boy managed to escape the attack.
The former captives immediately left in a canoe, but not before taking scalps from the dead as proof of the incident and to collect a bounty. They traveled down river, only during the night, and after several days reached Haverhill. The Massachusetts General Court later gave them a reward for killing Native Americans; Hannah Duston received 25 pounds, and Neff and Lennardson split another 25 pounds (various accounts say 50 or 25 pounds, and some accounts mention only Duston's receiving an award).
Hannah lived for nearly 40 more years.
The event became well known, due in part to Cotton Mather's account in Magnalia Christi Americana: The Ecclesiastical History of New England (1702). Duston became more famous in the 19th century as her story was retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier and Henry David Thoreau.
There are six Memorials to Hannah Duston.
The campaign to build the first monument in Haverhill, Massachusetts began in 1852, at a time when building public monuments was still a somewhat rare occurrence. The monument chosen was a simple marble column that would cost about $1,350, and by 1861 the necessary funds had been raised. The monument was erected in June 1861, at the site of Duston's capture, but it was never fully paid for. After successfully suing the association, the builders removed the monument in August 1865, erased the inscription, engraved a new one, and resold it to the town of Barre, Massachusetts, where it stands to this day as a memorial to that town's Civil War soldiers.
The first Duston memorial actually executed was sculpted by William Andrews, a marble worker from Lowell, Massachusetts. It was erected in 1874 on the island in Boscawen, New Hampshire, where Duston killed her captors. Huge crowds overwhelmed the island on the day of its dedication, with speeches presented all day long. It was the first publicly funded statue in New Hampshire.
In 1879, a bronze statue of Hannah Duston grasping a tomahawk was created by Calvin H. Weeks (1834–1907) in Haverhill town square (now Grand Army Park), where it still stands. The monument stands on the site of the Second Church, of which Hannah Duston became a member in 1724.
The third memorial was created in 1908, when an inscription was placed on a boulder in memorial to both Hannah and Martha. The boulder was placed on the site of Hannah's son Jonathan's home, where Hannah lived her final years. Hannah Duston died at this location circa 1736 or 1737.
A mill stone was placed on the shores of the Merrimack River where Hannah, Mary, and Samuel beached their canoe upon their return to Haverhill.
A memorial has been placed at the site of James Lovewell's Home, in Nashua, New Hampshire, where Hannah, Mary, and Samuel rested on their way home from captivity.
The original small axe or hatchet held by Hannah Duston can be found today in the Haverhill Historical Society. The Duston hatchet is not a tomahawk; it is usually called a Biscayan or biscayenne, a common trade item of the late seventeenth-century New England frontier.
Other commemorations include:
Today, Hannah Duston's actions in freeing herself from captivity - such as killing the Abanaki family she was staying with - are considered controversial. Some Americans celebrate her as a hero, while others are more tempered in their commemoration of her given her killing of other Americans. Some commentators have said her legend is racist and glorifies violence.

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Well, here is another card with this fantastic Stamp set called "Enjoy Every Moment" from Close to my Heart. I love flowers and these highly detailed images are the greatest.
For this card, I used a wonderful sketch from Mojo Monday. I turned it 45 ° to accomodate my image better.
The designer papers are from Basic Grey.
The Buttons, Ribbon, cardstock, and half pearls are from CTMH.
The Hand Stitching was done with matching Embroidery Floss.
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Gorgeous Nancy! I love this image, I may need to browse the catalog, I haven't made a CTMH order in forever!
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Such a beautiful card. Love the way you have added the buttons.
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Australians: Now a good time to buy and sell
When you discuss the Australian property market now, all you seem to hear about is rising property prices. And fair enough: The rising cost of real estate is a pressing issue for buyers, and knowing how to get around them is key to entering the current market. But is that all there is to discuss when it comes to buying property in Burpengary?
Take the recent results from the CoreLogic RP Data Nine Rewards Consumer sentiment survey, released on 24 July. Despite the rise in value of housing in the capital cities over the last three years, most Australians (60 per cent) still agree that now is a good time to buy property.
Unsurprisingly, Brisbane and regional Queensland were two of the areas where respondents were most positive about the prospect of buying a house. Looking at the figures it's not easy to see why. According to the CoreLogic RP Data Home Value Index for 30 June, Sydney and Melbourne have median prices upward of $700,000, while Brisbane's is still only at $529,000. At the same time, Brisbane has seen a solid 3.51 per cent rise in price over the last year, showing good potential for further capital gains.
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Sixty-five per cent of respondents believed now was a good time to sell, the highest figure recorded by the survey since it began at the start of 2013. This was obviously largely driven by Sydney and Melbourne, but with Brisbane on the upswing, it does indicate anyone holding property currently could be in a good position going forward.
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Rocket League has stormed onto the gaming scene from seemingly out of nowhere. The question I've been asked the most is whats all the hype about and is it any good? In short yes its good. As a matter of fact its even better than good. Two of the most popular things in the world Football (aka Soccer in the US) and cars have been morphed into a demolition derby , football, adult bumper cars frenzy. I get more of an adrenaline rush playing Rocket League than playing other major titles.
Sorry X Box One, Rocket League is only available on PS4 and Steam for PC, and allows users of both systems to play against and with each other. Although you cant pre make your team with the other systems players yet (PC users can only pre make teams with Steam Friends, and PS4 users can only premake teams with other PS4 users); developers say that a system to do just that is in the works.
Rocket League : Hype or not?
At first glance, it seems like a silly game but it has some real power under the hood and has something for a lot of different gamers. The UI is clean,precise and navigation is a breeze. . The training feature is sweet, simple and to the point. It gives you the opportunity to get used to the controls (especially if your using a controller on the PC) before unleashing you on the other game modes. If you wish to not go through the training you can do so and get on with the other game modes.
The rush is real as games can go either way from beginning to end. As a rookie you will be involved in a lot of one sided blowouts. Once you get to semi – pro there will be more overtime games and close games than anything else. I expect the pro games to be similar if not even more hard fought.
There are a lot of ways to customize your cars from the car type, paint scheme, decals , antennas, car tops (think hats), rims and turbo boost trails. You'll have a lot of fun unlocking them all and then trying to decide what to use.
There are Exhibition, Season and Online game modes.
Exhibition is just for practicing against the AI (or not) in a one game match with settings of your choosing.
The season mode allows you to play an entire season that you get to customize. Its the equivalent to a campaign in other games. You can select the length of the season, the number of playoff games and you get to pick your team colors, logo and teammates. I suggest going through the rookie season as it gives you points for each game that allows you to rank up. The ranks I have seen thus far are rookie, semi-pro and pro and they are used in the online matchmaking portion to put you in games with players of similar skill and experience level.
The Rookie Season is easy to get through as you can see in the video below. Just use your boost on kickoff to score when you can and when you cant, just play defense until you can take it to the opponents goal. One thing I found is that your AI partners will score on your own goal if they get the ball facing the wrong direction, so cut them off!
Online play allows you to play in matches you set up or regular pvp matches against other players and if you have friends online you can team up at the main menu before heading in to face others online. The online play seemed very stable and even though pings can vary widely, there didn't seem to be an advantage either way if you had a great or a poor ping.
In the online mode there are two features, regular and ranked play. You can choose to play unranked matches that have 1 v 1 up to 4 v 4 or you can play the ranked matches that assign skill rankings for the leaderboards. Casual gamers need not apply to that one but theres plenty others to have fun with.
All in all this is a truly an oustanding gem and will be enjoying it for some time to come, and at $20 on steam it is a steal of a deal.


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Find info concerning John Wood Community College ecology, and registering for discussion sections. Which college degrees give you the best chances of finding employment after graduation? Nursing is one of the fastest-growing job areas, and for good reason. As the population ages, medical care will continue to expand rapidly. Concentrating on John Wood Community College ecology, for example, you may gain an advantage in job recruiting on-campus. Check with the environment department for course registration deadlines, and ecology program requirements. Please use the form above to request admissions info for John Wood Community College.
Biology is one of the original natural sciences, even reaching back as far as the study of anatomy in ancient Egypt, where evidence has been found of surgery, forensics, and anatomical knowledge of both organ structure and function. Biology in general is the study of life and living organisms, with specific attention to function, growth, evolution, identification and taxonomy. Modern biology is becoming an interdisciplinary field, overlapping with biomedical engineering, molecular chemistry, and genetics. The biological sciences recognize the cell as the basic unit of life, and DNA as the basic unit of heredity. Moreover, all organisms survive by consuming and transforming energy via respiration or photosynthesis, and by regulating their internal environment via homeostasis.
The life sciences are defined by the scale at which organisms are studied, in that biochemistry focuses on chemical processes of life while molecular biology involves molecules and protein synthesis. Cellular biology may be broken down further into a structural analysis of cell organelles and lipid membrane boundries, such as in skin tissue or alveolar sacs in the lungs. In the field of genetic engineering, DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) may be spliced together from different organisms, in an attempt to transfer hereditary traits that may increase crop yields, create a supply of stem-cells, or even clone sheep. Beyond major requirements within the environment department, you may consider University of Vermont Extension immunology as a complementary elective to your primary course of study.
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Dr. Ralph Serin
Dr. Serin received his PhD from Queen's University in 1988 and has been registered with the Ontario College of Psychologists since 1990. He worked in federal corrections from 1975 to 2003 in various capacities and is now a Professor at Carleton University where he is Director of the Criminal Justice Decision Making Laboratory and member of the Forensic Psychology Research Center.
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The point of this argument is really to deflate what consciousness is, and to deflate other ideas that are usually tied to the power of human consciousness, such as reasoning, creativity, free will, and moral decisions. In this argument I assume a given conscious property of humans, but I take a more non-existent stance on consciousness, or claim that it is better spoken of in representational and information processing terms. That is, "consciousness" is a representational state, or some mix of world/self modeling, perceptual information and emotion/feeling/bodily structures. For a fuller expression of these ideas see previous posts on subjectivity and Michael Graziano.
One further note, and you should be able to intuit something like this, I recently read Ray Kurzweil's book How to Make a Mind and he makes some of these similar arguments. I thought the book was lacking in depth and coherence on some of these core issues, though he lays out the general problems well. It was also a fairly enjoyable, fast paced read.
An argument against free will, consciousness, and intentionality.
A) Watson and Deep Blue (machines) process information (reason, intentionalize*, choose courses of action) in a competitively useful way that matches their human opponents' processing of information as regards the games of Jeopardy! and chess.
B) Assuming that the human processing of information has conscious elements and the computers don't, whatever structures and functions consciousness grants human beings during this type of information processing (reasoning, intentionality, decisions) is not special**. That is, whatever properties or functions adhere to human consciousness in this decision making can be duplicated or outdone by non-conscious structures, as it has been outdone in these games.
B-2) Other processing of information in different games or language use is of similar structure as that in these games.
C) There is no reason to believe that the processing of information during moral and social decisions is of a different structure (or is benefited by a different structure) than the processing of information during Chess games or Jeopardy.
D) Whatever properties and functions make up consciousness they are not special, that is, they do not grant us capacities different than that of non-free-willed***, non-conscious, behaviorally determined entities that process information and make decisions based solely on whatever their internal state is at that time, the environmental inputs, and whatever algorithmic procedure incurs.
Consciousness and free will play no useful, functional or structural role during Chess or Jeopardy decisions that could not be equally structured non-consciously. Consciousness and 'free will' add nothing to moral and social decision making as well.
*By intentionality here I mean the relational status in the processing between, say, thinking about "Paris" and the actual Paris. I follow Dennett and Rosenberg (among others) in saying that original intentionality never coheres and that the intentional state is a functional representational state that provides a brain or computer with appropriate structural formation and behavioral responses. The "appropriate structural formation" being that there is a correlation in the structure of, say, the real geographic relationship between Paris to Lyon or between two sides of a triangle and the brain/mind representation and perceptual models of the relationship between Paris and Lyon or between two sides of a triangle. This structural formation of brain/mind, whether human or computer, thus grants "appropriate" or shared behavioral repertoires. As was shown, consciousness does not grant us greater (more useful) intentional structures as we play Chess or Jeopardy. In other instances of human intentionality, say about a moral decision, the intentional structures that adheres to human information processing (including consciousness's role) is of a similar intentional structure as to what Watson and humans do when they are processing information about "Paris," and we have to assume that such grants us no behavioral or processing capabilities that could not be granted non-consciously.
**Conscious creatures may be "special" in the sense that there is "nothing else it is like to be that thing," but such specialness is probably blown out of proportion by our yearning to be special (not to mention that any complex representational system is unique in the relational qualities it is representing). That is, the things that truly make human beings special, our complex societies, projects, imagining of a great many worlds and how we can respond and build different ones, is not granted to us because of consciousness: those abilities could have been and can be produced through other non-conscious means. Though, evolutionarily speaking, that beings like us would be conscious may have been the most likely outcome.
***On free will, we can, of course, take the compatibilist route and say that both Deep Blue and Deep Blue's opponent (a human) had "free will" and were making "free choices," and that moral and social decisions are "freely chosen" in the same way. I am taking free will in the incompatibilist sense, but also hope to push the idea that the compatibilist notion makes us nothing better than complex computers, which hopefully drives a wedge into the multitude of connotations that compatibilists sneak in when they claim, baldly, that "free will" is real. Such claims of free will often sneaks in the idea that we do something substantially different in decision making and choice making than Deep Blue or Watson or some other machine when they make choices. Again, though consciousness may make a description of human choice making more complex, there will not be some strong dynamic that makes our decision making radically, functionally superior than a non-conscious computer's choice making. At least that has to be our tentative conclusion.


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How to make a call from Cloud-registered H.323 endpoints
Using H.323 endpointsLast updated August 14, 2017
This article describes how to call from a third-party H.323 or SIP endpoint registered to the StarLeaf Cloud. Refer to How to call between H.323 / SIP and StarLeaf endpoints for calling StarLeaf endpoints from a non-registered H.323 or SIP endpoint.
When a third-party H.323 or SIP endpoint has been registered to the StarLeaf Cloud:
- You can dial a number: Simply dial the number
- You can dial an extension: Dial the four-digit extension number
- You can dial into a conference: Dial the seven-digit meeting ID for a StarLeaf conference or use the dialing details for any other conferencing service
- You can dial a video address that might be a series of letters, numbers or symbols
Dialing a number or extension
You can simply dial a number. You can also dial an extension number for a user in your organization, and make PSTN calls, if your organization is configured to allow this.
You might have been given a prefix to use when you want to dial out onto the public telephone network. For example, in some companies you are told to "dial 9 for an outside line". Connection from your StarLeaf endpoints to the public telephone network is an optional extra. For more information, contact your StarLeaf representative.
Dialing into a conference
When a StarLeaf conference is scheduled, a seven-digit meeting ID is created for this meeting. Dial this meeting ID from your Cloud-registered endpoint to dial into the conference. If the scheduled meeting isn't a StarLeaf conference, use the dialing details for that conferencing service to access the meeting from your endpoint.
If a conference has been scheduled with people outside of your organization, a guest invite is sent to them. All dialing information for how to dial into the conference, regardless of which endpoint they are dialing from, is also provided for the guest. This means that a guest can dial from existing video conferencing equipment if they prefer.
Dialing addresses that include letters or symbols
You might need to dial someone who has a video address that includes letters or numbers and symbols. This might be known as a URI or it might be an IP address.
Who can you call?
You can call:
- anyone in your company who has a StarLeaf endpoint (either the Breeze software or a hardware endpoint)
- anyone outside your company who has a StarLeaf endpoint; just dial their email address
- anyone else. If someone does not have a StarLeaf endpoint, you can still have a video call with them. If they already have video conferencing equipment, they can call you using your external video address (or you can call them if you know their video address or URI)
- any conference using either the seven digit meeting ID or dialing details for that conferencing service
An external video address is the one that can be used by people outside your organization who are using H.323 devices or SIP devices, or Skype for Business clients that are routable on the Internet. You can log into the StarLeaf Portal and navigate to
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Spaces We Love: Transformation to Vibrant Office Environment
Star Hughes-Gorup on September 13, 2017
It's hard to imagine that less than a year ago this 92,000 square foot space was a maze of small offices and dark workrooms, but in no time, this space was beautifully transformed into a vibrant creative office. In order to make this happen, all walls, ceilings and utilities were demolished. Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects (RNT) designed this modern space with the goal of increasing employee satisfaction and retention of this utility client's 700 member work force.Read More
Spaces We Love: Bumble Bee Seafoods' Historic Headquarters in Downtown San Diego
Spaces We Love: Pluralsight's Colorfully Inspiring Office
Spaces We Love: CPC Strategy's Bright and Modern Workspace
Spaces We Love: NoonanLance's Industrial Chic Office
Spaces We Love: Back's Construction's Creatively Industrial Headquarters
Spaces We Love: Smashtech's San Diego HQ
Spaces We Love: LoanHero's Eclectic Headquarters
Spaces We Love: Riot Games' West LA Headquarters
Spaces We Love: IDEO
Workspace Trends: Stand Up Desks, Treadmill Desks, and Surf-in-Place Desks
Spaces We Love: Intesa Communications' Urban Tree House
Spaces We Love: Lululemon's Vancouver Headquarters
Commercial Landlords: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Star Hughes-Gorup
Star Hughes-Gorup is a senior vice president and director at Hughes Marino, an award-winning commercial real estate firm with offices in San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Seattle. Star is a key member of Hughes Marino's San Diego brokerage team, where she specializes in tenant representation and building purchases. Star also makes frequent media appearances to speak on business issues from a millennial perspective, and blogs about life as a woman in a male-dominated industry at starhughesgorup.com. Contact Star at 1-844-NO-CONFLICT, or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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It takes a whole ten minutes after landing on Lady Musgrave Island for me to embarrass myself. My embarrassment becomes more acute the longer I stay on the island and become familiar with its inhabitants. Instinctive and well-intentioned, nevertheless I feel a fool. The 'water taxi' deposits campers and their gear on the eastern shore beach which requires a short hike across the island to the west coast campsite. Heady with the screeches and smells of gazillion seabirds, we pass through a shady pisonia forest. Glimpsing a distressed noddy near the path with a tangled mess of sticky twigs caught up in its wings I try to untangle his feathers. Roping in another new camper straight off the boat, eventually we give up and watch him limp away, most likely to die amongst the forest floor rubble. Oblivious to the poop dropping onto my back, later on I'm thankful that I'm wearing a hat.
Standing up I take a look around and realise my error immediately. The forest floor is actually littered with bird carcasses in various states of decomposition. There's also a sign that I missed earlier which advises visitors that what we are seeing is a common occurrence and that "interference is unwelcome however distressing it may be to witness." Guiltily I feel chastised.
Continuing through the forest the number of birds in various distressing stages of entanglement is obvious. I try not to look at them.
Emerging from the forest it doesn't take long though before this tiny speck of sand barely rising above the Coral Sea has charmed the pants off me. Metaphorically not literally. Sure, we might be bunkering down on an uninhabited cay 60 km off the Queensland coast but civilised conventions still apply. There are other campers here after all. Jim Buck, who acts as camp host with his wife Annie, but whose real purpose in life is turtle research, greets us with friendly eyes, a warm smile and a firm handshake. A fresh dollop of bird poop has settled on his chest which distracts me as he shows us the available campsites, most of which are shaded by pisonia forest. I soon learn that bird poop is an integral part of the Lady Musgrave Island experience. Though I do eventually get used to sloppy droppings dripping down the tent, dollops landing in my shoes and congealing in my hair if I'm foolish enough to forget my hat, I'm not entirely thrilled about such close encounters. There is also a strong guano odour within the campsite.
But it's easy to forgive these difficulties by simply walking a dozen or so paces past coastal sheoaks and pandanus palms onto what must surely be one of the prettiest beaches on the planet. At high tide, powder-soft sand kissed by turquoise water wraps around the point near the campground, broken intermittently by lifeless tree trunks wedged into the sand. Plopped on a smooth trunk above liquefied aqua in the shallows I never tire of gazing at the intense 'blue-ness' of the water. Mesmerised by saltwater beauty, I'm rewarded with gasping turtles breaking the surface but so too a pirouetting ray rising out of the sea like a graceful albatross before quickly disappearing again.
Beyond the reef a couple of bumps signify Fairfax Islands, otherwise the entire horizon is consumed by monotonous sea. At low tide the seascape changes as the fringing reef pops above the surface. A vast kidney shaped lagoon, unseen at high tide but visible at low tide is one of the main attractions for both humans and wildlife. For boat owners, the lagoon offers one of the few coral cays with a navigable anchorage. But the real attraction is the marine and bird life that thrives in this self-sustaining ecosystem. The island and lagoon are a significant rookery for green and loggerhead turtles, but so too for seabirds that annually migrate to the Torres Strait islands and beyond.
If you were in a hurry you could walk around the entire cay in around 30 minutes. But what would be the point of that? There's no reason to shift beyond first gear on this castaway-like coral kingdom. Much better to dawdle, poking around the high tide mark, checking out turtle nesting tracks, watching oyster catchers and shearwaters, wading in the shallows or snorkelling over coral gardens in the lagoon, allowing the magic of this coral cay with a colourful history to work its charm.
The original Lady Musgrave was the wife of Sir Anthony, Governor of Queensland in the late 1880's. Lady Jeannie Lucinda was rather fond of hosting lavish soirees on Brisbane's Government House lawns, presumably the perfect hostess playing a support role in her husband's stellar career. Strongly opposed to the women's vote, after the death of Sir Anthony she moved to England in the early 1900's, becoming president of the local Suffrage League. I wonder what she would have made of two women travelling unaccompanied on a girls getaway to the island that bears her name. I suspect she would not approve.
It's not known if she had any inkling of the destruction reaped on the island bearing her name while she was abroad suppressing women's independence. Guano (concentrated, aged bird poop) miners harvested the islands bounty from the early 1900's, abandoning their goats when they moved on, purportedly for the benefit of shipwrecked sailors. The goats quickly stripped the island of undergrowth, having a massive impact on the delicate ecosystem.
Later, a couple of simple cabins became rather grandly known as a resort, which attracted the rich and famous before closing permanently before WWII stymied such indulgent pleasures. American author Zane Grey was surely inspired by the island as he penned his adventure novels. Multi-millionaire bookworm and financier behind what eventually became the New York Public Library, George Vanderbilt also visited.
With a couple of days to do nothing but chill out in this wildly remote paradise, I've a desire to bury my own nose in a good book but there are surprisingly several distractions. Our first dinner is interrupted when Jim alerts us to a turtle making her way up the beach near the camping area. Beneath the sheoak trees a metre long loggerhead is flinging sand into the air as she digs a pit with her rear flippers. We watch as she patiently deposits a clutch of a hundred or so eggs before using her flippers cleverly to protect and conceal her nest. It's a moving experience that leaves me feeling humbled and extraordinarily privileged as she drags her cumbersome body back to the sea. An endangered species, Jim tells us she'll be back in another two weeks to repeat the performance.
Jim and his dedicated volunteers record every turtle that comes ashore,, providing valuable data that will assist the long term survival of these magnificent creatures. He and Annie have been committed to the island and its wildlife for twenty years and seem to have an intimate knowledge of each species behaviour. They return to the mainland after a month on the island on the same boat that my friend and I depart on. Helping load and unload their copious amount of gear, my own ignorance on arrival remains a secret I dare not confess.
Getting there
Lady Musgrave Cruises takes day trippers ($180pp) as well as campers ($340pp) to the island from Town of 1770 daily, taking 75 minutes each way. Campers gear is carried at no extra charge (within reason). Additional charges apply for kayaks, inflatable boats and the like. Campsites and boat transfers should be booked well in advance.
Where to camp
The campsite is located on the western side of the island with capacity for a maximum 40 people. Most sites are shaded, though you'd be wise to take a large tarp that can be strung above your camp to avoid dropping bird poop.
Campers need to be entirely self-sufficient and provision for the possibility of staying longer than planned if bad weather postpones the daily boat from 1770. The only facilities are three composing toilets and an emergency VHF radio. Take in all food, water and supplies and remove all rubbish on departure. Mobile phone coverage is a slight possibility if conditions are perfect (and you hold your tongue in the right position…)
When to go
The island is closed to campers from Australia Day weekend through to Easter to avoid interference with nesting wildlife. The best time to go is April or May when it's not too hot and the water has not yet cooled to winter temperatures.
Turtle nesting and hatchling season is generally between November and April
Further information
Lady Musgrave Cruises Ph 1800 63 1770
Qld Parks and Wildlife
Qld Holidays
Fiona Harper was a guest of Tourism Queensland and Lady Musgrave Cruises. This article first appeared in Go Camping magazine.
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The u-drill is a trailed seed drill combination available in 3.0m, 4.0m rigid and 6.0m folding working width to carry out seedbed preparation, levelling, reconsolidation, seeding and pressing in one pass.The focus in design has been especially given to high speed operation (10-18km/h) whilst ensuring a perfect seed placement.
The hopper can easily be filled using big bags and a front loader or telescopic handler. For the 6m version a filling auger is available. The hopper has a capacity of 3,000l (3/4m) respectively 4,350l (6m).
The u-drill is extremely user-friendly: Being of course fully ISOBUS compatible, the driver is in full control of all data. The u-drill is ready for GEOCONTROL in order to control application rate and half-width shut-off. In addition, only one double-acting valve ensures the fully automatic controlled head-land-management.
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The intensity can be set via the stepless pressure adjustment and at three different angles. To prevent damage to the harrow when reversing, it is equipped with an effective reversing device.


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Work has been busy the past two months, but we're just about back up to full staff, which is a tremendous relief. Not exactly out of the woods, but definitely out of the thicket, and the trees hereabouts are starting to get spaced out a bit further, with occasional bits of actual daylight sneaking through the small interstices of the canopy. (Wow, I can really beat on a metaphor until it bleeds.) We're in full summer swing now, and it's been hot. And rainy. My son is learning words left and right. Kind of freaky how I can come home from work, and he'll have a new word to show off. But really, it's fantastic.
Writing: A story scrawled halfway, sorta-kinda. Not exactly the worst, roughest draft of anything I've ever done. But, you know, kinda close. One story revised. So many stories currently banging on the inside of my brain-pan right now, that I need to start letting them out before they do some permanent damage. I know I need to wrap up some of these other revisions too, but I have to get a few more of the new ideas out onto paper, before they storm off in a huff.
Oh yeah, last month, my story "Sucker Kiss" came out in the GSHW Anthology: Dark Territories.
Submissions: One story out the door this month.
Conventions: (New category) Went to my first SF convention in....16 years? Readercon. Still jazzed up from it. Quite a good time there, and I intend to go back, as often as I can manage/afford. Met cool people. Had cool conversations. Heard lots of interesting panels. Laughed hysterically at the bad prose contest.
Editing: No editorial duties this month.
Reading: One book read this month.
Dust, by Elizabeth Bear: This is the first SF novel of hers that I've read. Quite a far future SF novel, where the technology extrapolation borders on the magical. I think when you get out that far from modern day technology, its nigh impossible to not approach that limit. I'm not certain if I'd classify this as a Space Opera, though it contains many of the tropes: swords, armor, "princesses" knights. Even angels, and basilisks. Yet the author has managed to give us these tropes, much more in the fantasy vein than stock science fiction, in a way that you feel you can understand. Over time, the generation ship, that has had some kind of catastrophe, and is now stranded in space, is no longer fully functional. And the society, which it seems was never meant to be a full fledged permanent society, has also degraded with the environment, even as it has continued to evolve forward. Which was something quite interesting, to see a society simultaneously falling back to older social forms, and drifting forward into new evolutions of structure, of society, of gender, even physical form. In fact, one of the main characters is a woman who was an angel, with engineered wings. Beyond all the trappings, the neat tech, the interesting situation, the multi-leveled intrigue between factions of both people, and beings that are beyond human, what holds the story together is the characters. Rein and Perceval. These are people who are each in their way broken at the start of the novel, and frankly, I'm not sure their lot improves over its length, except perhaps for finding each other. But somehow, that struggle feels right, all the more interesting because its both personal, and by the end of the novel, a struggle for society itself. Some bits left me a bit disappointed: I wasn't particularly fond of the unblades, and I couldn't quite understand why Perceval seemed to be the only knight errant character, and more to the point, the only such character with wings. This seemed to get muddied further with the whole Angel/system concept, and never really came around for me. But these were, in the end, rather minor problems in an otherwise enjoyable book.


text: First I've heard about winning anything, but sounds great! I was admiring the Marcoliani socks - great style. Norcal, congrats on the hat. You should post a pic when you get it. I was not at Asprey on Saturday; holding out as much as possible for the PS sale. Too bad I peeled off from the group at the Mansion. It sounds like a good time was had by all. The ever patient wife awaited downtown--we went to the Warehouse sale, which was a bust. Have orange trousers replaced the previous SF code?


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Freeman must be more consistent
Every week, the experts of FOX NFL Sunday reveal their observations and opinions as they prepare for football's top-rated pregame telecast — seen each Sunday at noon ET/9 a.m. PT.
We'll share some of the highlights from Curt, Terry, Howie, Jimmy and Michael grabbed from their weekly conference call with insider John Czarnecki.
Czar: Like the AFC West, the NFC South is really tight at the top. Who do you like in the Bucs-Saints rematch this Sunday?
Michael Strahan: I still think the Saints are better than the Bucs. Even though they have been up and down, the Saints just have to be a little more consistent in the sense that I think they have to have more faith in what they can do. I still look at the Bucs as a younger team still trying to find their way. The Saints are just a better overall team.
Jimmy Johnson: Not having LeGarrette Blount for a couple games has hurt the Bucs, but Josh Freeman has become an inconsistent player in my eyes. He has not had a good year.
Terry Bradshaw: But when the Bucs beat them a couple weeks ago, Freeman was awesome. Two touchdown passes and no picks. It was one of his two 300-yard passing games in his career. The big key with the Saints is that they aren't forcing turnovers on defense like they did during their Super Bowl season.
Howie Long: If you are in New Orleans and you look down, there is Tampa Bay. The Bucs are the NFL's youngest team at 25 years old across the board. The Bucs invested heavily in their defensive front and they won't be disappearing from view for a long, long time. I think Freeman has a chance to be great and Atlanta with Matt Ryan isn't going anywhere and now Cam Newton has come onto the scene in a big-time way. Suddenly, this division is very, very good. And it should be for a long time.
Czar: We're at the halfway mark of the season. Is there anything that stands out?
HL: The one aspect heading into the season was that we all thought some of these new head coaches were going to struggle without the offseason, and how would these young quarterbacks do? Well, for the most part the quarterbacks have been pretty amazing.
TB: Some of the new coaches have struggled, like John Fox in Denver and Ron Rivera in Carolina, but Jim Harbaugh has the 49ers in first place and they look like a playoff team. At the rate they are going, they could clinch the NFC West by Thanksgiving. Andy Dalton and Cam Newton have been sensational at quarterback, and even Christian Ponder shows a lot of promise in Minnesota. This might be one of the best quarterback classes in a long, long time. It's kind of special that rookies can come into this league and play so well.
Czar: Everybody thinks the Cowboys will bounce back and beat Seattle on Sunday. But the Eagles made them look pretty bad last Sunday night.
JJ: Well, Andy Reid has shown this before. The Eagles were extremely prepared for all those blitzes that Rob Ryan and Cowboys threw at Michael Vick. Dallas couldn't do anything against them. Every time they ran a blitz, the Eagles were ready for it. LeSean McCoy also had a great ballgame. They couldn't stop him or tackle him. The Eagles got on a roll and once a team gets on a roll like that there's no way to turn it around. I mean, it was 24-0 early in the second quarter.
TB: The Cowboys still have a long way to go. Yes, they beat the 49ers, but they have struggled against all the other good teams that they've played. I still can't figure out what they are doing on offense. But that game got ugly fast and the Cowboys didn't respond right away, either.
JJ: But that can happen in the NFL. The Eagles had two weeks to prepare and Reid is now 13-0 after the bye week. I mean, a lopsided win in the NFL can be truly misleading. Those two teams could play again in Dallas in two weeks or so and the Cowboys could win. I've always believed that once a team gets on a roll like that, especially at home, a night ballgame and with the crowd all pumped up, the score simply gets out of control. Now, I'm not giving excuses for Dallas because they do have problems. I'm just saying that in the NFL those things happen.
TB: The rematch is on Christmas Eve.
Czar: Does anybody think that San Diego has a chance hosting the unbeaten Packers on Sunday?
MS: All I know is if San Diego hadn't fumbled that snap and kicked that field goal I would have been 3-1 with my picks last week. What was so funny, I was ready to text Howie and Jimmy and tell you both that I was having a special day when they were driving down the field for the winning field goal.
TB: Philip Rivers not having his hands right for that snap doesn't make any sense. I know the Chargers are really beat up and have so many guys not practicing that it has thrown Rivers and the passing game off. Vincent Jackson and Antonio Gates have been hurting all year and Ryan Mathews simply can't stay healthy in games. I don't know how they stop the Packers because nobody else has. Aaron Rodgers is having an MVP season.


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I initially wanted to hold off on posting this article in order to not inundate the blog with Justice Scalia posts back-to-back (see Abercrombie case) but I got to thinking—Could there ever be too much Scalia? I don't think so.
Regardless of whether you agree with his decisions or not, it is simply indisputable that Justice Scalia is a genius and, quite frankly, incredibly entertaining. I had the opportunity to hear him speak a couple weeks ago when he was in Phoenix, and thought I would pass along some gems* from the event:
First, the seriously-let's-get-some-perspective part of the event. Scalia started off the luncheon by discussing what makes us the free-ist (is that a word? I think I just made it one) country in the world. You know, just another ice-breaker that deals with the heart and soul of our democracy. You might be thinking it's the Bill of Rights but, not the case, said Justice Scalia. The Bill of Rights is just words on paper. Meaningless. What prevents the centralization of power is actually gridlock. That is the source of liberties. Only good legislation with solid support will get through.
Justice Scalia also reminded the audience not to over-estimate the importance of his court. Federal law is a small part of the laws that govern our society. Murder – that's a state crime (unless it goes haywire and crosses state borders, I guess). There are state laws of contract. Automobile accidents. That's state law. Family court. It's all state law. Scalia reminded the audience that the most important court should be our State Supreme Court.
Don't exaggerate the value of my court in your life.
Soon, we transitioned to the audience Q&A portion of the luncheon. When asked about his "favorite dissent" Justice Scalia provided the light-hearted sentiment that "the most important element of a good dissent is a really stupid majority." The example he gave was, ironically, a case that I had sitting on my desk–PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin. His dissent is actually a good read – if you haven't read it, read it here. And you, too, can feel the weight of "the solemn duty of the Supreme Court of the United States, laid upon it by Congress in pursuance of the Federal Government's power '[t]o regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States,' U.S. Const., Art. I, §8, cl. 3, to decide What Is Golf."
Justice Scalia pointed out that he is not a strict textualist. And he recommends that everyone read The Federalist Papers.
Scalia commented that international law has no relevance to the American constitution. Basically if you think your job is to think about what should the world be, then international law might have relevance, he commented.
Law schools. They are a frequent hot topic discussion point of what is great and what can be improved in this world—depending on who you ask. He said that he does not think that law schools should be reduced from three to two years. Scalia thinks that we need to cut out the courses like "Law on Marbles" (I would love to know what would be taught in that course) and make sure the curriculum is designed to train lawyers.
My favorite quote of the day? I don't even feel the need to explain it.
More damage has been done by stupidity than [good by] benevolence over mankind.
Some closing remarks are that it is not the job for the judge to write the law. (Spoiler alert: Justice Scalia believes that's Congress's job). Justice Scalia commented that sometimes he has to produce "awful" results. "If given a stupid statute, then I am bound by oath to produce a stupid result." He also reminded the crowd that questions during oral argument are opportunity and not an interruption. "For skillful counsel, a cold bench is terrible."
And, for those who know me well–YES, I got my copy of Justice Scalia's book autographed and added it to my Supreme Court Justice Collection. Send me a message if you hear of any other Justices coming to Phoenix…
*Full disclosure. I wrote my notes as fast as my hand can write, but I have poor handwriting and, actually, don't often use primitive tools like pens and paper anymore. Combine that *obstacle* with the fact that I was also trying to eat my Ritz Carlton lunch while listening to the Justice–and herein lies my problem. There were a lot of amazing discussion points that I just couldn't cover here.


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Schriftenlese. Works by Hans Burkardt and Andreas Spengler
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Hannover
26 April – 29 July 2017
In this largely digital age, calligraphy – the art of handwriting – is increasingly being replaced by digitised forms of writing. Hans Burkardt, an important protagonist in the field, has not only practised this art for decades, but has also taught it at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences. "Calligraphy can stimulate and promote intuitive thinking. It becomes the source of creative and flexible intelligence," said Burkhardt in 2012 when his work was entrusted to the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library. Now, together with Andreas Spengler's art, the library is showcasing his work at its premises until July 2017. Since 2008, the psychiatrist and psychotherapist Andreas Spengler, whose creative energy used to find expression in his work as a scientific illustrator, has redirected this energy to become a part-time artist. Spengler creates collages and sculptures out of used blotting paper. United by the effect of ink on paper, the works by the two artists enter a lively dialogue with each other.
On 29 April 2017 Spengler will conduct a guided tour of the exhibition.


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Looking for a quick loan? Is your credit trashed due to bankruptcy or foreclosure? Luckily, there are options out there. small business cash advances are good if you can't get money anywhere else. This article contains helpful advice for your small business loan search.
In order to avoid excessive fees, shop around before taking out a small business loan. There may be several businesses in your area that offer small business advances, and some of those companies may offer better interest rates than others. By checking around, you may be able to save money when it is time to repay the loan.
Business loans can be helpful in an emergency, but understand that you could be charged finance charges that can equate to almost 50 percent interest. This huge interest rate can make paying back these loans impossible. The money will be deducted right from your paycheck and can force you right back into the small commercial loan office for more money.
Make sure you carefully check out the fees and interest rates on your small business loan. Thus, you can understand the true cost of the loan. Lots of regulations on interest rates exist in order to protect you. Loan companies will charge multiple fees to bypass these regulations. This can significantly increase the amount of money you owe. This can help you decide if the loan is right for you.
A great tip for those looking to take out a commercial loan, is to avoid applying for multiple loans at once. Not only will this make it harder for you to pay them all back by your next paycheck, but other companies will know if you have applied for other loans.
How much you can borrow from a small business lender depends on a variety of factors. Generally, what you make each month at your job is the determining factor. Lenders will calculate the amount of money that you earn and set a maximum amount that you qualify for. If you need a business loan, this is an important fact to consider.
If the funds are not available when your payment is due, you may be able to request a small extension from your lender. You can often get a one or two day extension with little hassle from the company. Do bear in mind that these extensions often cost extra in fees.
If you have applied for a business loan and have not heard back from them yet with an approval, do not wait for an answer. A delay in approval in the Internet age usually indicates that they will not. This means you need to be on the hunt for another solution to your temporary financial emergency.
Compile a list of every single debt you have when getting a business loan. This includes your medical bills, credit card bills, mortgage payments, and more. With this list, you can determine your monthly expenses. Compare them to your monthly income. This will help you ensure that you make the best possible decision for repaying your debt.
Locate a lender that will work with you if you endure hardship when you have to pay back the loan. Some lenders will give you an added extension if you are unable to pay back the loan on time.
Know what fees the financing lenders charge before doing business with them. As an example, you may get a loan for two hundred dollars and there is a lender fee also attached for thirty dollars. This is equal to 400% annual interest. If you should happen to miss paying them back when it is due, you're looking at even higher fees.
This article makes it clear that you can get your financial needs met via a small business loan. You do not really need good credit and you can, most of the time, get money fast. Take the information you have learned here and use it to get the funds you need to ease your financial burden.


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Does it matter if your colleagues like you?
3 June 2014
We cannot like everyone we work with but how serious is it if colleagues do not get on and what can employers do to address a hostile environment?
Unfortunately, nearly half (49 per cent) of Australian employees in large businesses (250 or more employees) admit that they dislike their colleagues, according to research conducted by global workplace provider Regus. This is a troubling result as animosity between employees can often lead to conflict and may even escalate to workplace bullying or harassment.
The study, released on 26 May, identified several key reasons why employees may find it difficult to like their co-workers. The most common response was the belief that the colleague had a poor work ethic (31 per cent).
Employees who are unable to do their job properly received 19 per cent of their disgruntled co-workers' hostility, followed by those who act in an overpowering and controlling way (18 per cent) and individuals who believe they are "too good to work hard" (11 per cent).
The survey respondents believed the best way to handle the co-workers they disliked would be to manage their performance until they improve their work ethic and abilities (53 per cent). Just over a third (34 per cent) agreed that getting to know the individual better may be the best solution, while 6 per cent thought the only option would be to fire the disliked employee.
This shows the clear danger that a lack of performance management poses to employers. Where employees are perceived to be "not pulling their weight", hostility and resentment may build up amongst the other members of the team. With more than half (53 per cent) of those surveyed stating that performance management would be the best approach to making a team member more "likeable", it is imperative that employers ensure managers are responding appropriately to poor performance and are trained in how to effectively conduct performance management.
Furthermore, if it is suspected that underlying tensions exist within a team that may be harming productivity and damaging a positive work culture, employers can take action by conducting a workplace inquiry to uncover any risks and to seek out the cause of the tension.
This will enable employers to put remedial measures in place to address any concerns around behaviour, performance, cultural issues or management which are uncovered and may be causing problems within a team.
This approach may help employers to avoid claims of bullying or harassment and to identify ways in which to improve performance and engagement such as training or coaching for individuals, mediation between parties where needed and structured performance management.
Additionally, Regus Australia and New Zealand Chief Executive Officer, Paul Migliorini suggests some tips for employers to improve working relationships:
- Have areas in the workplace for workers to collaborate and socialise together to help increase staff engagement
- Introduce flexible working methods allowing workers to have more control over where and when they work
- Help team members to improve their skills with training and development opportunities and coaching
- Set up a structure with goals for managing workers in order to help them get to where they need to be and to increase their abilities
- Host social functions to encourage mingling between co-workers
- Foster a positive work environment such as writing the company values up on the wall with positive messages.
iHR Australia offers extensive workplace training solutions, including customised and blended learning to help foster an inclusive and positive working environment. Additionally, iHR provides executive coaching and consultancy to ensure business leaders can effectively manage a diverse workforce.
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World News: 14:00 GMT Monday 17th July 2017. [Check Point Software via Globe Newswire via SPi World News]
SAN CARLOS, Calif., July 17, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP) has revealed that 28% of organizations globally were affected by the RoughTed malvertising campaign during June, according to the company's latest Global Threat Impact Index.
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Second placed Fireball, which impacted 20% of organizations in May, declined sharply and affected only 5% of businesses in June. The Slammer worm was the third most common variant, impacting 4% of organizations.
The most prevalent malware highlight the wide range of attack vectors and targets cyber-criminals are utilizing, impacting all stages of the infection chain. In contrast to RoughTed, Fireball takes over target browsers and turns them into zombies, which it can then use for a wide range of actions including dropping additional malware, or stealing valuable credentials, while Slammer is a memory resistant worm that can cause denial of service attacks.
This wide variety of attack vectors being utilized was reflected throughout the top ten common malware, which included the Cryptowall (4) and Jaff (6) ransomware, HackerDefender, a user mode root kit used to hide files, and Zeus (9) a banking Trojan.
In mobile malware, Hummingbad was the most common form of malware and was closely followed by Hiddad and Lootor:
Check Point's Global Threat Impact Index and its ThreatCloud Map is powered by Check Point's ThreatCloud intelligence, the largest collaborative network to fight cybercrime which delivers threat data and attack trends from a global network of threat sensors. The ThreatCloud database holds over 250 million addresses analyzed for bot discovery, more than 11 million malware signatures and over 5.5 million infected websites, and identifies millions of malware types daily.
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You'll have the chance to admire the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon in southeast Iceland as you travel out along the south coast, relax in the warm waters of the Blue Lagoon in the southwest, go on a day trip to the Golden Circle and travel the Snæfellsnes peninsula.
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If you'd like to add more fun, you can also reserve extra activities during the booking process. On your way around the Golden Circle, you can combine the marvelous attractions with snowmobiling on the glacier, horseback riding in the geothermal valley or snorkeling in the silver-blue waters of Silfra gorge in a national park.
If you are curious about other possibilities, there are many tours in and around Reykjavik to choose from. You could take a boat ride to see the whales of the North Atlantic or take a culinary walking tour of the city and indulge in a taste of Iceland.
If you never get enough of adventure, you can even extend your trip for a day and use it to go cave exploring, or, better yet, go inside a volcano! For those visiting between May and October, you can visit the impressive Þríhnjúkagígur volcano magma chamber, formerly filled with molten lava, and now a huge hall and a testament to Earth's incredible power.
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Although it is summertime, the Icelandic weather can be very unpredictable. Please bring appropriate clothing. Please be aware that your itinerary may have to be rearranged to fit your arrival date and time better.
The moment you land on the Keflavik International airport we'll be waiting to take you the northernmost capital in the world.
After you settle into your hotel in the city centre, you can spend the rest of the day exploring what Reykjavík has to offer. Be sure to walk around the old center of town and visit the main shopping streets, the beautiful harbor area, the new Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre and the impressive church, Hallgrímskirkja.
The quirky cafés and pubs of downtown, along with the many restaurants and museums, will be sure to keep you busy.
If you arrive in April or September, you can search the skies for Northern Lights, but from May to August, you can enjoy the extremely long days and Midnight Sun!
Today you'll go on a day tour of the Golden Circle, consisting of the Gullfoss waterfall, Haukadalur geothermal area – the home of the Geysir, and the Þingvellir National Parliament Park, the first national park you'll visit, out of three. Due to its rich history, being where Icelandic parliament, the Alþingi, was founded in 930 AD, Þingvellir is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It is also remarkable for its geology, as it sits above the meeting place of two tectonic plates. You'll be able to see the rifts in the ground, marking where the Eurasian plate and the American plate meet at the Silfra fissure. If you're looking for more exciting intercontinental fun, you could even opt for a snorkeling tour in the very same fissure!
Your next stop is the Haukadalur geothermal area. There, you'll find the Great Geysir himself - the geyser all others in the world are named after. The area is filled with other geothermal hot springs, geysers, and vents. The Great Geysir stopped regularly erupting a while back, but the geyser Strokkur that stands next to it erupts frequently and can reach up to 60 m (196 ft) with each blow.
The last stop on this day will be the grand waterfall Gullfoss. If conditions allow you'll be able to walk up close to the stunning waterfall Gullfoss, and see how it stumbles down into the Hvítá glacial river canyon over a two-tiered fall of over thirty meters.
If you feel like adding more oompf to this already awesome day of wonders, how about adding a little activity at the end? You could head out from Gullfoss on horseback and get to know both the Icelandic horse and nature a little better, or you could opt for a faster steed on a snowmobile trip to the Langjökull glacier. The choice is yours.
However, if you just want some R&R after your trip, how about a nice, relaxing soak at the Fontana geothermal spa to make a perfect end to an already great day?
On the way back to the city after the Golden Circle tour, you'll make a stop at the Blue Lagoon, for a sensory experience unique to Iceland. Release all your tension, letting the azure water soothe tired muscles and joints.
Please note that if you have arranged additional activities with your Golden Circle tour, such as snorkeling, horseback riding or snowmobiling, your visit to the Blue Lagoon will be scheduled on either your arrival or departure day instead, so you will have time to take full advantage of its restorative powers. The Lagoon is world-famous for its healing, mineral-rich waters - This is not a place you want to rush.
Afterward, you'll return to the city of Reykjavík, where you will spend the night. If you are still excited to keep experiencing the local flavor after you come back to the city, we offer many extra activities tailored to your desires - go ahead and create the Icelandic experience of your dreams! You can choose whale watching, a quick Nothern Lights Hunt, or you can simply enjoy the food and music of the nighttime scene!
Today you'll start your journey along the beautiful south coast of Iceland, going all the way to Vatnajökull National Park, the second national park that you'll cross on your trip.
On your way there you'll pass the stunning waterfalls Seljalandsfoss and Skógafoss, similar in height, but vastly different. One is light and teasing, with open grottos behind the waterfall, where it is possible to walk behind it for a unique point of view, while the other is a plunging wall of water, powerful and unyielding.
As you continue towards Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon you'll pass glaciers and volcanoes, black sands and fluffy moss, the impressive waves of the Atlantic Ocean and probably a few puffins, sheep, and horses.
At the end of the day, you will arrive at one of Iceland's most breathtaking natural attractions: Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon. This deep and ever-expanding lagoon lies beneath Europe's largest glacier, Vatnajökull, and is full of icebergs that have broken off the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier tongue.
Nearby is a black beach where icebergs have broken to smaller pieces and scattered all over it, and when the sunlight hits them, they resemble chunks of diamonds - earning the beach the nickname 'Diamond Beach.'
At the end of the day, you will return to Vik or within the surrounding area to stay the night.
You will start heading back towards Reykjavík, passing by the beautiful Skaftafell Nature Reserve, an area where it is possible to go glacier hiking! Experienced guides teach thousands of guests a year the basics of ice climbing, and many have experienced for themselves the exhilaration and adrenaline that comes with breaking the ice for the first time!
You will make stops on the way back where time was elusive on the previous day, such as at Dyrhólaey cliffs, to admire some puffins and the spectacular views of the south coast. On a clear day, you can see as far as the Vestmannaeyjar Islands in the south, to Mýrdalsjökull and Eyjafjallajökull glaciers in the north - and far along black beaches to both east and west.
In the evening you'll return to Reykjavík, where you will spend the night.
On this day you will pack your hats and mittens and go on a day tour of the west of Iceland, to the beautiful Snæfellsnes peninsula. The crown of Snæfellsnes peninsula is Snæfellsjökull glacial volcano, made famous by Jules Verne's classic novel 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth' as the entry point to the Earth's mysterious core.
Surrounding this glacier is a lava field, covered in moss and containing a lot of caves. Snæfellsjökull National Park is the only national park in Iceland connected to the sea, and the cliffs along the sea are truly spectacular. The cliffs are easily viewable from the tiny towns of Hellnar and Arnarstapi.
During your trip, you'll also visit the beautiful Djúpalónssandur pebbly beach and nearby cove, see some small waterfalls and visit the famous mountain Kirkjufell near the Grundarfjörður town, which is a popular photography location due to the striking image of the mountain reflected in the nearby pool.
After a day out you will return to Reykjavík, for your last night in Iceland.
All good things come to an end, and sadly, this is the end of your tour. Before you go, and if your flight leaves in the afternoon, you can choose to go on a whale watching tour from the old harbour in downtown Reykjavík. The boat would take you out on Faxaflói bay so you'll get a view of the city from the sea as well - a great farewell! You can also catch up on some last-minute shopping before hopping onto your airport transfer shuttle.
Of course, you don't HAVE to go! You can always stay a day longer and have some more adventures with us! You could use your extra day to take a helicopter ride or a riding tour, hit the mountains on ATVs and go lava caving, or go big and enter a volcano, heading 100 m (328 ft) below ground into the massive magma chamber of Þríhnjúkagígur!
If you prefer it cool, you could also take glacier trips and enter the tunnels and halls below the Langjökull glacier, or just laze around the city and enjoy all Reykjavík has to offer. If you want to extend your tour, we'll just move your airport transfer to the following day and let you enjoy your holiday a bit longer. An extra day is well worth it!
See our accommodation levels below. Super Budget booking will be arranged in hostel dormitory bed accommodation. For Comfort and Quality bookings, single person bookings will be arranged in a single room, while bookings of 2 or more people will share twin/double room(s) or triple room(s). If you are travelling in a group, but prefer a single room, please make separate bookings. For multi-day guided tours, accommodation cannot be upgraded and the levels below do not apply. We always do our best to accommodate special requests, which may incur additional costs.
Rooms or dormitory beds with shared bathrooms in guesthouses or hostels, such as HI Hostels. Located in the capital region. Breakfast is not included.
Rooms with a private bathroom at three-star hotels such as Fosshótel Barón, or quality guesthouses. Located in the city center or in close vicinity. Breakfast is included.
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