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I have been using Diet Chef meals for roughly two months and have lost approximately 15 lbs. There are four of us in the household using Diet Chef which led to our order being cancelled, as they thought we had ordered wrong. This delayed the process as you cannot contact them by phone. They did, however, provide us with a discount for the inconvenience.
You have a choice of the meals you would like to order, however, it is sort of 'suck it and see' with your first delivery. We have a member of cabin crew in the family and she has also been able to order meals that fit in with her hectic lifestyle and also order meals that are easy to make whilst she is flying (pasta pots where you simply add hot water).
The majority of the meals are tasty, however, they are small (obviously...as it is all portion controlled) so you will still need to spend a bit of money on fruit and veg as they recommend you still have your five a day.
The diet is clearly dependant on how well you stick to it. I liked the flexibility you had of having days off (for special occasions or meals out), however, you will then end up with an odd amount of either breakfast/dinner/lunch/snack.
I would recommend the following:
Chocolate Soft Cookie or Fruit and Oat Soft Cookie (breakfast)
Sweet Potato and Coconut Soup(lunch)
Sweet and Sour Chicken and Chicken Korma (dinner)
Paprika and Soya Potato Snacks (snack)
I decided to have a go at diet chef when I spotted an offer online, as this is quite a pricey diet plan.
I was tempted by diet chef due to being a very lazy person (yes I'll admit it) and I would never have succeeded with a diet that needed specific recipes, points counting and a strict regime. So I decided to splash out, and pop it on my credit card!
I did 4 months of diet chef, and I did lose weight, about a stone overall.
You pick all your meals online, and there really is a vast amount to chose from, for all tastes and eating habits. Your meals are split into 4:
Breakfast - consists of cereal bars, thick soft cookies (my favorite), porridge, museli, and ceral bars.
Lunch - Mainly soups, and a few pasta cup meals. The pesto pasta cup was my favorite, but each time I went to order online all the pasta cups were out of stock. When I complained to customer service as my plan seemed to coincide with low stock times, they sent me out pasta pots of all flavours once they were back in stock on top of my plan.
Dinner - Lots and lots of ready meals and meals in pouches. My favorite was beef goulash, beef in ale and sausage in onion gravy.
Snacks - The snacks were the best, very strong flavoured and moreish, they really were like real snacks (no need for carrot sticks) Chocolate biscuits, large bags of popcorn in various flavours, cheesy oat biscuits, paprika crisps and many more!
Each meal was pretty much complete, but you could add rice, salad or bread in small portions to meals such as curry and stew.
The beef was brilliant quality, very melt in your mouth, but the chicken was not! The chicken curry sauce tasted great, but the chicken was a lower standard than your ready meal, dark, pre-frozen style chicken that didn't look at all like chicken.
I complained to customer service that the chicken in some meals were perfect, and in others, terrible. Apparently they have different sources for different meals and there was nothing they could do!
You receive a book with your first pack which includes tips on what you can pair up with your meals, and the best thing to order when eating out, or what to cook if you have guests.
Alongside your diet plan you have an online profile, where you can track your weight loss and goals. When you reach certain weight loss goals, you also got a cute little bear symbolising each weight lost marker.
I did find this a very easy-to-use diet plan that I would try again if I had the money.
The only reason I stopped is because I became pregnant! All that weight loss for nothing :)
Well I started diet chef about three weeks ago. The food was tastey but little did I know may be it's the worms which were given the lovely flavour! Guess what, I found a WORM in my minstrone soup today! I contacted diet chef and was less than impressed with their response. I need to send back the worm and food at my own expense 'for analysis'. A photo apparently isn't good enough. I would avoid - god alone knows how many worms I've eaten and haven't seen. I'm so upset about this! Be careful, check your soup!!
I have tried Diet Chef for the last 2 weeks. My experience:
1- I was feeling hungry all the time, some times i eat additional snacks to fulfill my cravings & hunger
2- High sugar contents and low fibers and protein. this is why feeling hungry all the time.. simply it does not give you the full feeling after the meal.
3- High in sugar and sauces.. that what trigger migraine if you are migrainer
4- High in sugar that elevate Insulin.. high insulin levels may stop fat burning as the science said.
5- If you are diabetic or pre diabetic consult your physician before starting Diet Chef
6- To feel FULLER. I decided to add more protein and fiber to my diet by adding eggs whites and OatBran to my soups and breakfast, Plus vegetables and Fruits.
7- Most of the recipes taste good.
8- the portion quantity is very small.
9- If you are looking for a healthy food, DIET CHEF does not provide that kind of food. High sugar, low in Fiber Diet is not healthy.
I would not recommend Diet Chef to any one. I may try Go Lower after i finish what i have got from Diet Chef.
I had about 1 1/2 stones to lose and joined Dietchef in January to give it a try. I followed a 1200 calorie plan and have to say I didn't feel hungry. The food is good and feels like it's home made. In addition to the food they send you, you should add 2 portions of fruit, one portion of vegetables and 250 ml milk.
The first few days I followed that plan by the letter and felt a bit hungry on some days. When I calculated how many calories I was getting, I found that it was about 1000 calories or less. I went on their website and found out on the discussion board that you are supposed to add food to cover the extra 200 calories you are missing. To me that didn't make sense, as I was under the impression that with the 200 pounds I am paying for a month, I was supposed to get all the food I need for a day. Anyway I ended up adding either bread or rice fr 200 calories to dinner. I never felt hungry after that. On some days I even felt full and didn't believe I would lose any weight.
I stuck to their diet the first 5-6 weeks and lost about a stone. I had some of their food left and since then I have been mixing days where I eat their meals with days where I eat normal food (and sometimes indulge) and haven't gained any weight back (June).
The food doesn't need to be stored in the fridge and lunches and dinners come in pouches that you can just pop in the microwave. Heating the food up takes from 2-4 minutes. Use by dates are far in the future (around 6 months or so).
The website offers support as well with the discussion board and tools to find set weight lose goals and time limits.
delivery is free if subscribe for 2 months or more and costs about 4.95 otherwise. I find they never deliver on the day they state but it's not a problem for me as I don't have regular hours and can be home when I am expecting a hamper. Food comes in several cardboard boxes. One time dinners where packed in smaller boxes with about 10 in each and you can remove the top half making the food easier to store. Next time however it wasn't but I still had the boxes from before so I just re-used them.
There are 3 main categories: porridge, granola or Muesli cereal bars. Each come in 4-5 different flavours. I like porridge the most as it's more filling and I find theirs even better than Oat-so-simple. Granola is nice too especially the chocolate flavour but it has more calories and is less filling. I don't really like the Muesli bars and only ordered a couple to try but that's probably just me.
Lunch is basically soup. The have a lot of different soups and although I am not a big soup fan, I do enjoy them. Some have vegetable chunks in them which makes it feel more like a meal but all are nice. There are many vegetarian options but some have meat. They also have 4 flavours of milkshakes but I think soup is as far as I would go with a liquid lunch so I gave them a pass. I tried them once though and they are quite heavy.
Dinner is either a stew-like type or pasta. There are a few vegetarian options but not many. The lasagna is nice but smallish and they also have cottage and shepherd's pie. Meals with rice or pasta in them are more like the sauce with a little pasta or rice thrown in, you could almost miss it. The chicken paella is especially delicious although it smells like fish for some reason! The food tastes nice but I find the sauces to be a bit excessive compared to the vegetables or meat. I tend to pour some of it out and have it as a side soup or something. Although they have a lot of options it gets a bit boring after a while since the main categories of food are the same.
The popcorn is really nice and is a generous amount with only 100 calories. You can either choose salted, maple syrup or salt and vinegar. Salt and vinegar tasted horrible. The oat bites are nice and the cookies are ok. However, the snack bars were just awful.
Customer Service
I needed to postpone a delivery date once because I was going away. I didn't need to hold long and they were really nice and helpful. I called outside office hours so I was told I had to call the next day to change the date. I didn't have to call as they called me back the next day to confirm the change.
After trying a number of diets - and my husband's weight increasing and thus his snoring - we have both signed up to Diet Chef. We've both lost half a stone so far (five weeks) and are quite pleased, especially as we've had to eat out a few times with limited control over what we've had to eat and haven't done any extra exercise.
Don't be too put off by the outlay. We've saved money with less take aways and buying shopping that we don't get round to cooking and thus we've stopped throwing money away. If you use this voucher MYECE@GK you'll get £10 off at the checkout.
We've also saved time - it's very quick. Most meals 3 minutes so perfect after a long day at work.
We've envitably liked some meals more than others but it's easy to make changes in the website to your next order.
Neither of us have felt particular hungry except when meals are due although we weren't sure when we saw the size of the meals. It's certainly teaching us something about portion control.
Would recommend Diet Chef.
I think the food is really good and it works as well but they have got an awful customer service. You can pre-order the hampers for a certain day which is important for me because I work full time so I can only order it for a Saturday.
I never received the goods for the day I ordered them, so I phoned them up and got told it would definitely arrive the next day. So I wasted another day to wait for the delivery which never turned up and I phoned again. This time they gave me a consignment number and promised that the goods will arrive the next day.
Indeed, something arrived the next day but it was only one box with soup in it, all the other items of the second box were not delivered !!!
It is really a shame, they could make a good business out of this concept, I can really recommend the food and it works as well, but this awful service makes you want to go nowhere near this company again.
My partner is looking to start the dietchef regime. I have the concern that a restricted diet like this 1400 calories per day is not healthy.
As a male I have always been led to believe to lose weight effectively do it a couple of pounds a week.
Can I have some reassurance from people who have done this diet that it isnt harmful heath wise. she enjoys running so how can she get enough calories to keep doing that.
Can you only eat what is provided as part of the weekly food package or can you supplement it with fruit etc. I guess to have the full benefit you stick to the 1400 a day with no other snacks.
Do people who do this also take vitamin supplements etc. I would welcome any helpful advice as I want to be supportive on this . I have an existing medical condition which means I cannot join her on this diet. I have spoken to my dietician about this and I await feedback which I will post on her
thanks to all for your comments in advance
I started on the diet chef plan almost 3 weeks ago now and am absolutely amazed at how easy it is to follow! The food is delicious and is ready within 2-3 minutes of popping in the microwave. It requires no refrigeration and is easy to store. The diet chef company are very easy to contact on the telephone (no queuing on the line) and delivery of the diet chef hamper was problem-free.
I am particularly pleased that there is a great online forum. Rather than going to a weekly slimming class for support and encouragement - there is a whole online community of people all on diet chef. New people are joining every day and it's like being part of a club of people all chasing the same goal. We share tips and offer support to anybody who might be struggling - as well as getting to know each other online.
I had 3.5 stones to lose when I started on diet chef 3 weeks ago - so far I have lost 13 pounds! I think this is a great loss considering it has been so easy - and I have not increased my exercise level very much at all (only a little more walking)
For the first time in years I know that I am going to reach my target weight. My motivation is as high now as it was on day one. The variety of meals for meat-eaters is fantastic - no need to be bored. The food really does taste home made and with it being low GI it keeps you feeling full for many hours.
I have no negative comments to make at all from my point of view - the only negative point I can see is that the vegetarian choices are limited at the moment. Other than that - it's all good!
I would definitely recommend diet chef to anybody thinking of trying it - I have already ordered my 2nd hamper!
Diet Chef is a diet for those with busy lifestyles, or even those like me who regularly fail to stick to diets which involve lots of faffing around counting calories, carbs or points.
In a nutshell, a hamper containing breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks is delivered to your door. All you need to do is add some vegetables or the odd piece of fruit.
I desperately needed to lose weight and I'm currently working two jobs thanks to the credit crunch. I chose Diet Chef (www.dietchef.co.uk) because I simply didn't have the time, energy or will to do a complicated diet. I ordered the 35 day hamper at'a cost of £190 ( or £5.42 a day) and did it via quidco.com to get 10% cash back. So a total of £171 for 35 days worth of food - not bad!
The hamper was made up of:
- 35 breakfast pouches of Lizi's Granola
- 35 lunches consisting of soup by Look What We Found
- 35 dinners consisting of meals by Look What We Found
- 35 snacks consisting of bars by Nakd or sweet oat biscuits by Nairns
An interesting point about this (and a selling point for me) is the fact that these products do not contain artificial colours, flavourings or other un-natural stuff so often found in diet food. I did a bit of reading up on the products and it seems the Look What We Found range are cooked at high temperatures in a pressure cooker type method already sealed in pouches. This method means that you don't need to keep the food in the fridge and it lasts for up to 6 months.
Given that information I rather expected the soups and main meals to taste a bit bland or plasticy. I was therefore pleasantly surprised - they taste no different to something that's just come off the hob of a country kitchen. They are delicious! I ordered the following from the range:
Soups -
Country Cured Ham & Pea
Spicy Cumbrian Beef & Tomato Soup
Tweedside Honey in English Parsnip Soup
English Tomato Soup with Cheviot Cheese Pesto
Free Range Chicken Soup with Lemon Thyme
Wild Mushroom Soup with a Dash of Sherry
Dinners -
Gloucester Old Spot Pork Meatballs with Butter Beans in a Rich Tomato Sauce
Herdwick Mutton Stew
Wild Rabbit in Leek & Elderflower Sauce with Camargue Red Rice
Home Reared Beef in Black Velvet Porter with Maris Piper Potatoes
Beef & Basil Meatballs in Tomato Sauce
Cumbrian Lamb Hotpot
Fellside Beef Casserole
Home Reared Beef Chilli Con Carne
Traditional Pork & Herb Sausage Casserole
Cooking these was as easy as pie. You have the choice of opening the tops of the pouch a little and popping in the micro, emptying into a pan or putting the pouch unopened into a pan of boiling water (so very handy for camping enthusiasts!).
Since I wanted to keep everything as simple as possible for days I was really tired I elected to buy bags of steamed veg to go with the main courses which meant I could throw a bag in the micro half-way through the dinner pouch cooking. On days with more time I get a lot of green vegetables or stir-fry vegetables. Some of the dinner pouches look like the sort of thing you'd have with pasta and in those cases I'd make courgette ribbons and stir-fry them quickly.
The snacks are very good quality. I've always liked Nairns so was pleased to get those.
Doing some calculations I think you could probably buy the products from supermarkets cheaper if you only elected to buy a week's worth of Diet Chef however for the 35 day hamper ordering via Diet Chef is definitely cheaper (Look What We Found retail at £2.99 so that'd be £104.65 for the dinners alone!).
All in all I found the diet very tasty and easy to stick to so much so in fact that my other half has now asked if he can join me in it!
The important past is weight loss. Well I'm two weeks into the diet and have lost 13lbs so far. I don't feel hungry and for once I actually look forward to the next meal.
I would like to say that this is a superb new way of losing weight.
It works on the idea that you buy all your food from them, have it delivered, and with the addition of a couple of portions of veg/fruit you are able to lose weight without having to plan meals, cook them, or guess portion sizes.
I sent off for the meals twice and have been delighted with the quality. The food is highly nutritious and is low GI to keep you feeling full for longer.
The Basic Idea is-
Cereal for breakfast-this is a small packet of Lizi's Granola to which you can add milk.
Lunch is a lovely soup
There is a good snack in the form of a Nak'd bar for keeping you going in the afternoon which is a healthy snack full of natural ingredients.
For dinner there are good meals which you add to with veg.
You can have thier set meals or you can pick and choose and there are vegetarian options too.
The price is good and works out at less than £7 per day.
It is cheaper if you order for more than one week as you can save on postage. If you use a cash back site like Quidco you will also be able to save money buying from them.This may change so check a few cash back sites to see if you can get discount.
Now if you can be disciplined having looked at the food they send to you, it is possible to do the same thing yourself more cheaply by buying many of the items yourself in bulk from various suppliers- but this will mean the temptation to overeat may get you! However many of their foods are prepared themselves but some are commercially available like some of the soups which you can buy in Waitrose. You can buy Lizi's Granola and Nak'd bars on line in bulk too.
I was actually amazed at the amount of food and the calories it represented. I am vegetarian and thought I ate healthily but when you look at the portion sizes I soon realised where I was going wrong. It has made me serve up much less to myself since trying the diet.
If you are looking to lose weight without any temptation then try this, I think it's brilliant and you will succeed if you keep out of other shops as much as you can. It does say you can have days off for special events and it doesn't recommend alcohol which is a bit tough but it takes all the hard work out of planning a diet.
It isn't recommended if you have a BMI of more than 30 and there are other groups who should not do it but if you go to their site it will calculate your BMI for you and tell you about the groups it is not suitable for.
As a bonus their meals are fantastic for camping and much cheaper than those you can get in a camping shop. You don't need a fridge for any of them and you heat them up on the stove or microwave. We took some to a spot near Holy Island last week and we sat in a field eating delicious soup heated up on the camp stove!
Good luck to the founders-it's a great idea.


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Felger and Massarotti were joined by Jermaine Wiggins to talk some Sox and their leadership.
After the Sox got their first win last night, do we feel any better about this team? How big of an issue is their bullpen going to be throughout the year?
Which Sox starters do fans have the most confidence in?
Has Dustin Pedroia's play started to rub off on other players? Can Pedroia be the leader for this Sox team?

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Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Pennsylvania
if a home in PA is jointly owned by an unmarried couple, if refinance is rejected, who pays if home is sold by the county
1 Answer from Attorneys
You do not indicate who is liable on the existing mortgage. And why would the county be selling the home?
If the home is jointly owned, that just means that both people own the home. If only one is on the mortgage, then the mortgage lender can only go after the borrower. If the mortgage is not paid, the lender can foreclose but can only go after the borrower for any deficiency. However, if both owners are on the mortgage then both are at risk.
Counties do not sell land unless the taxes on the land have not been paid. However, most mortgage lenders are not going to let a property be taken for taxes and they will seek to foreclose and pay the taxes out of that. If the property is being taken via eminent domain, the property owners would get compensated by the county but the mortgage lender would still need paid.
I don't understand your question to answer the rest - you need to repost your question with more facts as to why the home would be sold by the county and who would be paying and who would be receiving money.


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This homebrew does several checks on installed IOS and custom IOS and generates a report on the root of the SD card.
* Nice GUI;
* Report viewer;
* Simplified / detailed report with information about what IOSes are and what they are useful for;
* Language file;
* Configurable settings;
Download:Download sysCheckGX.rar, upload your files and earn money.
infoi like this one but could use improvement,here's the new look, it saves the report as .txt so open with wordpad or micro word and it will tell if you have priiloader installed one bug it display all cios with es identfy patch which is not correct and once you close the report your left with blank screen with a settings button which doesnt really have any really useful features
sysCheck GX v1.0.0 by Erik Spyder
sysCheck GX is running under IOS58 (rev 6175).
Console ID: XXXXXXXX.
Region: PAL.
Hollywood v0x11.
Boot2 v3.
System Menu v450 (4.1E).
BC v5.
MIOS v9.
Found 112 titles.
Found 31 IOS on this console.
No IOS Stub on this console!
Priiloader is installed.
IOS 9 (rev 1034)
IOS 12 (rev 269)
IOS 13 (rev 273)
IOS 14 (rev 520)
IOS 15 (rev 1032)
IOS 17 (rev 775)
IOS 21 (rev 1038)
IOS 22 (rev 1037)
IOS 28 (rev 1550)
IOS 31 (rev 3349)
IOS 33 (rev 3091)
IOS 34 (rev 3348)
IOS 35 (rev 3349)
IOS 36 (rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES_Identify, NAND Access
IOS 37 (rev 3869)
IOS 38 (rev 3867)
IOS 53 (rev 5406)
IOS 55 (rev 5406)
IOS 56 (rev 5662)
IOS 58 (rev 6175): USB 2.0
IOS 60 (rev 6174): Trucha Bug
IOS 61 (rev 5405)
IOS222 (rev 4): Trucha Bug, ES_Identify, USB 2.0
IOS223 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES_Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES_Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0 (same base 57 so no es identfy patch)
IOS236 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES_Identify, NAND Access
IOS247 (rev 20): Trucha Bug, ES_Identify, NAND Access ........(not detecting usb 2.0)
IOS248 (rev 20): Trucha Bug, ES_Identify, NAND Access.........(not detecting usb 2.0 & its base 56 so no es identfy patch)
IOS249 (rev 20): Trucha Bug, ES_Identify, NAND Access.........(not detecting usb 2.0 & its base 57 so no es identfy patch)
IOS250 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES_Identify, NAND Access.......(not detecting usb 2.0 & its base 37 so no es identfy patch)
IOS254 (rev 65281)
Report generated on 2010-11-02.
the other report that it savessysCheck GX starting up...
Getting the console region... Success.
Getting the system menu version... Success.
Getting the running IOS version and revision... Success.
Getting the console ID... Success.
Getting the boot2 version... Success.
Getting number of titles... Found 112 titles.
Getting list of titles... Success.
Sorting titles... Success.
Getting the certificates from the NAND... Success.
Reloading IOS58 (rev 6175)... Success.
Generating the report... Success.
Mounting SD card... Success.
Initializing the FAT File System... Success.
Creating report to sd:/sysCheckGX.txt... Success.
Report saved successfully.
Last edited by Cile; 11-02-2010 at 04:50 PM.
thanks cile
I want to try this out
Helpful Links:
Guide: Softmod ANY Wii
4.3 Softmod Guide
How to post a system check
Install IOS202, 222, 223
See the Thanks button over there?
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Generally worked good, thanks. Here are some suggestions.
1. Let me change my report folder to usb. I tried usb:\ usb0:\ and usb1:\ and none seemed to work for the port I was in. Suggestions are welcome. I'm sure you already thought of this and there is some technical glitch. I'd love to hear what it is so i can learn.
1a. Same thing, about the usb drive except have it check both SD AND USB for the config folder so it doesn't crash when it doesn't find it on the SD....maybe put up an error if you can't fix it such that someone knows they HAVE to put in the SD card.
2. Put the config folder here: drive:\apps\syscheckGX\config so that your total apps folder is self contained. Why would i want a config folder off the root. Sure, i can fix it (i assume i didn't try) by changeing the path, but pre-fix it so no one else has to.
3. Register this with homebrew browser.
Otherwise, nice job. Thanks for your efforts!


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|The Next Door Boys
|Jolene B. Perry
Cedar Ford
|Pub. Date:
With her body still recovering from last year's cancer treatments, Leigh Tressman is determined to be independent. Despite the interference from her overprotective brother, physical frustrations, and spiritual dilemmas— not to mention the ever expanding line of young men ready to fall in love with her— Leigh discovers what it actually means to stand on her own and learns that love can be found in unexpected but delightful places.
(Summary and cover via Goodreads)
Leigh is ready to move on with her life. Having been declared in remission for cancer, she can't wait for things to get back to normal. When Leigh goes back to school, things don't run as smoothly as she plans. As frustrating as this can be, Leigh gets some small amount of comfort from her "next door boys," the boys living in the house next door to her house. Leigh's brother and his roommate are amazing guys who help her out even when she doesn't want them to. As Leigh experiences the ups and downs of college life, her next door boys help her see things in a whole new way.
I really enjoyed this book. There are a couple interesting aspects to this story, making it stand out from your typical romance-type book. The first involves Leigh's healing process, both physical and mental. This puts her in a unique position in a couple ways. She doesn't want people to know about her run-in with cancer, because she doesn't want them to see her as frail or weak. Of course, this is an issue with her family as well. On the other hand, she actually does have to take it easy as she is still healing. Trying to find a balance between what she wants and what her body can take is hard for Leigh, and I found this very interesting to read. I also enjoyed Leigh's gradual friendship with her neighbor. Watching her learn to be supportive and supported by others was great.
Overall I enjoyed this book a lot. I thought it was sweet and romantic without being overly cheesy. It was also interesting to see Leigh's perspective as a slightly "older" student at BYU. I thought this book was very fun. It didn't really surprise me plot-wise; you'll basically know where this is going from the start. That doesn't make it any less interesting. The journey to the end is where all the enjoyment is. Leigh is one of those characters that helps to pull you into her story and make you care all of those around her too.
Galley provided for review.


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of Melbourne
Since European settlement 180 years ago the city of Melbourne has benefited from the remarkable skill of many talented architects. Join MELTours on the Architecture Tour of Melbourne and discover some amazing architectural styles from the 1850s to the present day.
You will see buildings that are incredibly symbolic to ones that have sustainability at the core of their design.
Architecture Tour of Melbourne
- When – 2pm Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays or by prior arrangement
- Starting Place – on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral on the corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets
- Duration – 2 hours (approx.)
All guides are First Aid Level 2 qualified but please notify us if you have any outstanding health issues.
Some stairs could be involved with the tour but can be avoided if requested due to health concerns.
Controlled pedestrian crossings are used at all times except when crossing small laneways where we look out for your safety.
This is a walking tour so wear suitable footwear and please arrive 10 minutes early to ensure the tour starts on time.
We can cater for those with disabilities or families with children younger that 13yo on a Private Tour


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Rings have long symbolized the circle of life. At Gemvara, we believe that the rings you wear should be one of a kind, like you. That's why our rings are made to order in your choice of conflict-free gems and recycled precious metals. Choose black diamond and yellow gold or sapphire and white gold: it's your choice. Mix and match gems and precious metals for a look that's exactly you. It's jewelry for all life's occasions, from an anniversary or engagement to your own personal milestones and celebrations. Our unrivalled selection of designs by Jessica Behzad, Jeet Palavwala, Martha Gomez Gutierrez, and other talented jewelry designers means you can find a ring that's just your style. Because all Gemvara october birthstone rings are made to order, we can hand-select the finest quality materials to perfectly suit your design. The October birthstones, opal and tourmaline, are the most colorful of gems. Gemvara offers day-glow orange fire opal and pink or green tourmaline as October birthstone options so there is something for everyone. Be careful when removing rings to wash your hands. Don't leave your ring on the rim of a sink where it can slip down the drain! Clean october birthstone rings with mild dish soap: use a soft brush where dust collects. Gemvara's fine quality october birthstone rings are designed to be passed down for generations to come, crafted by hand in the United States.
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2 Case Studies for Business
Case Study 1
"The Supreme Court has held that the selection guidelines in the federal government's Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures also apply to performance measurement" (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, & Wright, 2011, p. 249).
Locate a recent court case or lawsuit related to discrimination or unjust dismissal by a performance management system. Write a paper at least 500 words in length about the selected court case of lawsuit. You are required to use at least your textbook and a court case as source material for your paper. Be sure to include the following in your paper:
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
is destruction really that underpowered when you consider...
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I don't mind the Fortify Crafting Skill effects, since being able to reach the armor cap with my favorite weaker tiers of armor is awesome, same with all weapons having a marginal difference in damage.
the problem isnt really the crafting skills we have its the crafting skills we dont have. spellmaking (and cooking) being left out is perhaps the biggest problem with magic, along with the ridiculous spell costs. if we could make our own spells from whatever magic effects we have (like in oblivion) it would open the door for... most of whats missing.
everytime i think i've seen it all...
someone does something stupider
...wtf does cooking not being fleshed out have to do with magic?
Spellcrafting is highly overrated. Skyrim's spells come in a much wider variety, and individual spells are a lot more complicated. A basic Frost spell alone comes with Frost Damage, Stamina Damage, and Slow effects in addition to a unique paralysis effect unlocked by the Deep Freeze perk. And that's saying nothing of the delivery: Cloak, Rune, streaming, and the hazards set by the Wall spell. Ironically, skyrim's canned magic is far more robust than spellcrafting ever was.
Would spellcrafting fix the destruction damage scaling issue? Sure, but even if you don't consider it an issue, the scaling is easily fixed through other, simpler methods. All I miss about spellcrafting was the autonomy, but that's got more to do with the RP aspect than the gameplay, and it's still not that important to me.
Playing on Legendary as a pure mage, and Destruction feels just fine to me—beating down a Legendary Dragon with a single spell should take several casts and a couple minutes, not one or two backstabs or a shout followed by a few casual power attacks. The only unbalanced thing about Destro and magic in general is that the cost of spells is so high it practically demands 100% or near 100% cost-reduction, which is silly... it makes the "best" mage-building strategy front-loading HP at the expense of MP because you're just going to reduce your MP costs to zero or near zero anyway.
Melee, on the other hand, is overpowered even on the highest difficulties thanks not only to the crafting skills but all the shouts and perks aimed at beefing up its DPS. Meanwhile Sneak is broken almost all on its own...
That said, the corollary is in an already relatively easy game, this makes mages the most fun archetypal build to play. Playing as a no-holds barred warrior or thief unrepentantly taking advantage of everything the game offers those builds feels incredibly cheap, whereas being a "pure" mage seemingly encourages the player to take advantage of as many things as possible (like Alchemy or the DB-exclusive gear), making them varied and fun. *shrug*
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Evil_Sandwich 4 years ago#74
HoonDing posted...
...wtf does cooking not being fleshed out have to do with magic?
All Bethesda had to do to fix Destruction was to simply add a fortify destruction damage enchantment or have spells gain bonus damage as you increase in level like NPC Mages do. (Malkoran's Ice Storm can hit for over 500 dmg due to scaling for example).
Adding a fortify destruction damage enchantment would have allowed people to use even Novice spells on Legendary difficulty for the entire game...
silverhunter16 4 years ago#75
Zero IX posted...
magic is fine, everything else is just OP
All you have to say and you're right for the most part but there are still some glaring issues with destruction that you can't just ignore either.
The cloak, rune, and wall spells don't get any stronger even with the augmented perks.
The master spells take to long to cast and do lack luster damage (One is so heavily gimped that it's practically useless)
Cost reduction is almost completely mandatory to use it properly.
Enchanted weapons can do more magical damage then destruction (Chaos enchant is the single most broken enchantment in the game and made destruction its b****)
"Okay, look. We both said a lot of things your going to regret but I think we can put our differences behind use. For science. You monster.
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You're also a very bad, if not persistent, troll. Fall ill, and die.
You don't think that's a bit harsh? Ah GameFAQs.
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silverhunter16 4 years ago#78
sunbro1 posted...
N1ghtm4reW0lf posted...You're also a very bad, if not persistent, troll. Fall ill, and die.
Normally, I'd agree but the man is a troll and trolls need to be put down.
"Okay, look. We both said a lot of things your going to regret but I think we can put our differences behind use. For science. You monster.
I don't know how many times it has been said but I'll say it again. If you think Destruction is UP you are simply playing it wrong. I won't mention potions because a) then it really is OP and b) I never play using potions anyway.
If you think high level destruction build is just running around dual casting expert level spells then ofc you will find it underwhelming because you are simply not doing it right. Here's a scenario you're in a Draugr tomb in one of those rooms where you just know about 10 guys are going to come out the crypts so you;
1.Dual cast flame cloak
2.Dual cast some runes on the ground
3.Dual cast some wall spells
Ideally you can pull this off before combat so you will likely still be at/near full mana once the fighting begins you have to cast in a sequence - ignite on both hands cast left, cast right a split second later then Dual cast. Your goal is to stack fire damage in as many ways as possible.
Between that runes and cloak and wall spells everything will drop in seconds.
In my most recent mage game lv66 on expert that would take around 30-45 seconds to clear the room and my mana of around 400 (high regen build) would be in zero danger of running out.
TL:DRYou're a mage you don't charge in without a plan you have to think a bit I honestly think (and I'm trying to not sound like a tool here) but people who complain about destruction damage just have no idea what they are doing.
I am as awesome as a bear high fiving a shark in space during an explosion.
Don't forget the other magic schools. A pure focus on Destruction is of course going to get you all kinds of owned; you can use Alteration and Illusion to get the upper hand before you enter battle, Conjuration to help even the odds, and Restoration to sponge damage. Wards are also great anti-dragon tools, if you use them right.
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Does everyone here prepare a fine tuned itinerary for themselves before leaving for a trip??? Seems awfully time consuming and mildly anal, are they really necessary?????
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I would say itineraries are necessary for the people who ask about them and want to have them, and unnecessary for the people who don't want them. That is not meant to be sarcastic at all, just that it varies with the person.
For me, my travel time and budget are limited and precious, and planning helps me feel that I will be making the most of it. it also depends on how much a person is willing to put up with the downsides when spontaneity leads to the museum being closed or the hotel having no vacancies. Doing the research and planning is also a big pre-trip enjoyment for me, part of the "hobby" of traveling.
I of course do try to allow for flexibility in any plan, and every so often I chuck the whole plan out the window.
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I must admit to being pretty anal about it all, but yes I plan a pretty definitive itinerary so far as hotels are concerned, but not what specifically to do when I get to a particular location. The few days I sometimes leave open as we will be driving and not sure where exactly we will want to stop or for how long, usually end up consuming too much time looking for a place to stay. We tend to be pretty picky about hotels, but I suppose if you are the type that just wants basic and clean and not particular about location or style, then it wouldn't take so long to find a place in most towns. I enjoy the planning and fortunately have the time to do starting at least a year ahead of each major trip so I feel it is easier to scout out the hotels long distance than it is to wait till I get somewhere. The other advantage of having a full itinerary is that I have an elderly mother back home and someone watching my house (usually in hurricane season) so it is reassuring to know that people can get hold of me wherever I am within a day's notice.
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I have traveled both with and without itineraries. Both Elaine and Patrick are absolutely correct: budget and time limitations make planning a necessity, and it is also my "hobby." When we do not have reservations, we have wasted up to three hours of a day finding a hotel (despite having a long list of hotels and good maps). Conversely, some of the most interesting things in our travels were not on the scheduled itinerary (but had been researched). "Planning" should always include lots of alternatives and then adjustments depending on weather, strikes and just being tired!
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Fredrick, To me very trip is in 3 distinct phases and each phase is equally enjoyable. The planning phase may take 6 months, but I have the time and it is a learning experience. Of course it is anal, but I have learned that the enjoyment of the execution phase is directly proportional to the time that I spend in planning. Oh yes, the third phase is boring my friends with photos and slides and reliving the experience for years after the trip. I would feel cheated if I was only able to enjoy one phase.
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I pretty much fly by the seat of pants in all other things, but I am on the side of the planners on this one. If you do not plan, down to what street to take to get to the center after you get off the train, then you eat up hours of time. Sometimes plans don't work out, and that's where you need to be flexible, but the basics: directions, sites and hotels, planning is a must. Not to plan is time-consuming and expensive.
Europe is becoming more and more packed. You would be surprised quickly hotels fill up. Just tried to book an unheard of (I thought) agriturismo in an unpopulated and non-touristy (I thought) part of Italy for the end of May, and it is already full.
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I quess I need a seat on the anal train!
I can't imagine not wanting to do the research for a trip, it is all part of the fun of planning and learning about the places you will be visiting. We try to do a 3 week family European vacation every 2 years if possible and when we are investing $15,000 can. you want things to run as smoothly as possible. Especially when you are traveling with children, nobody needs to be looking for hotels or arranging car rentals at the last minute. I go so far as to research almost all the restaurants we visit, the only one that I didn't research for our last night in Rome turned out to be one of the worst meals we had anywhere! We thought that we would just head out and stop at a place that was calling to us, well were our ears ever wrong, it was a bad way to end the trip but we were very happy that every other meal we had was fantastic! My itinerary looks like an actual travel guide when I am finished printing it out and I would be lost without it, but even I sometimes juggle days around, ( I'm not a complete freak ) Well maybe!
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Is it an age thing? Do older travelers plan more?
I'm with Elaine and Bob on this one. I enjoy the process almost as much as the trip. My oldest son travels with a different agenda then mine.
I want to see and experience things.
He wants to get to a place and stay put, relaxing and enjoying the companionship of the locals.
When I went to Ireland, I stayed only one night in each place trying to see and take in as much as I could. He went to Dingle, got a room, and stayed there.
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No, not an age thing, I dont think.
I've spet months planning a big trip but not to the 'nth' degree, leaving space for a chance happening etc.
To go on any overseas trip having done little or no planning seems, in the words of my mother, to be a lesson in being very silly indeed.
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It may be somewhat of an age thing. When I was younger I used to take a guide book with me that had highlights of places to see, but my time was totally open. If I couldn't find a place to sleep, I slept in my car. As some mentioned Europe is a lot more crowded now (as is the US) so I don't take quite as many chances now. I start reading and planning about 6 mos in advance. I just picked up books on Poland and Romania last weekend for my trip in Sept and already have found some places that I was not aware of but now have an interest in seeing. I also picked up audio tapes on Polish and have ordered same from Romanian so I'll have a smattering of the languages before I go. I have always found that even attempting to speak the local language (no matter how badly you butcher it) pays great dividents.
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It may be somewhat of an age thing. When I was younger I used to take a guide book with me that had highlights of places to see, but my time was totally open. If I couldn't find a place to sleep, I slept in my car. As some mentioned Europe is a lot more crowded now (as is the US) so I don't take quite as many chances now. I start reading and planning about 6 mos in advance. I just picked up books on Poland and Romania last weekend for my trip in Sept and already have found some places that I was not aware of but now have an interest in seeing. I also picked up audio tapes on Polish and have ordered same from Romanian so I'll have a smattering of the languages before I go. I have always found that even attempting to speak the local language (no matter how badly you butcher it) pays great dividents.
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I always make up an itinerary. Otherwise, I would forget which sites are closed on certain days of the week, & thus miss out. I pick out what I want to see, check the map for sites grouped together, & then check the dates they are open. This helps me figure out how many days I need in a particular city to accomplish most of it. I also like to get tickets in advance to anything that may sell out early (Lippizaner Stallions )or tend to have long lines (Uffizi). I also try to plan days that we can sleep a little later & have 'down' time for a rest before dinner & evening activities. This little bit of planning eases a fair amount of stress & unnecessary running around once we arrive. Of course all of this is subject to change at the suggestion of a local or our mood. : - )
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I suppose if you are young with no (big bad) constraints on your time - - if you can afford to be in Europe in six weeks (even if you only see three weeks "worth" of stuff because you are spending a lot of time working out your logistics on the fly), then traveling withoput an itinerary seems fine.
But I feel like I can stretch a trip of 2-3 weeks worth of lodging into 6 or 8 weeks of enjoyment by spending just as long here savoring the research, writing to places and anticipating - - as I do actually traveling.
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Many, many years ago I meticulously planned a three week driving tour in Europe. Before leaving home, I knew where I wanted to go, what I wanted to see, what I expected to experience. On my second day in the Netherlands, on the way to investigate the Zuider Zee reclamation project, I picked up a rain-soaked young man who was hitchhiking. He proved to be an hydraulic engineering student on his way home to Zwolle. We drove across the Zuider Zee dike while he, in impeccable English, described a history of Holland's land reclamation projects, what was planned for the future and how the plans would materialize and how he in his future career would be a part of them. I drove him home and was invited to lunch in his family's farm house. An extraordinary and unexpected experience. It prompted me for the balance of my trip to pick up the first interesting looking hikers I encountered which ultimately turned out to be 36 young men and women all but one proficient in English. I ended up seeing about 70% of what I planned to see and did so with people delighted to share their knowledge and interest in those sights. Two young architectural students, one Austrian the other Italian, neither of whom spoke the other's language and were forced to converse in English, introduced me to le Corbusier's stunning pilgrimage church in Ronchamps, France. Three young women college students treated me to dinner in Bremen's Ratskeller and gave me a tour of the city and the artist's colony in Worpswede a few days after I had treated them to lunch and a tour of the Kroller-Muller museum. The entire experience taught me a valuable lesson: plan well but be flexible.
I plan still: not about restaurants and hotels, but about what to experience and why. In traveling now, I expect to spend a quarter of my time seeing specific sights, museums, historical sites, half my time simply exploring, randomly wandering streets or driving off the beaten path and a quarter of my time devoted to whatever unexpected adventures or delights might materialize. I've never been disappointed. Where I get meticulous is in documenting where I've been, what I've done, why I did it and what impressions and memories I carry with me.
I suppose what I'm doing is putting the cart before the horse: sketching out an itinerary prior to traveling then filling in the blanks upon my return. Works for me!
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I suppose it's both an age thing and a style thing.
When I was in my 20's, I didn't even know enough to plan much! Of course, I had all the time in the world (summer vacations went on forever); and now, in retrospect, I see that I missed lots of wonderful things because I hadn't known about them. Of course, I had other wonderful experiences that have stayed with me, but much of the travel was about being open to experience and following the moment. I stayed in youth hostels and really cheap hotels and ate a lot of bread and cheese in those days.
Now, 25+ years later, I have less time to travel and have more awareness of cultural offerings and interest in seeing specific places and sights. I also like to be physically comfortable, and staying in a pleasant hotel is a more important part of the experience than it used to be. I don't want to spend my limited time searching for a hotel, and I now like having knowing where I'm going to be. Sometimes I will leave part of a trip unplanned, but I find now that I would rather know where I'm going instead of just winging it.
As others have said, there is a lot of pleasure in the planning, too. I have my summer trip to Turkey all planned and reserved already! But I've also planned to be in each of the places for several days, and that will be exciting; while I know of the places I'd like to get to, there will be experiences that occur when we're there that I certainly can't predict. And I think that I've set up situations which have allowed some degree of freedom and flexibility.
I do spend more time learning about the place, so that when I arrive, I have a sense of who I'm visiting. I read a lot of books-- especially fiction-- which will give me a sense of place.
So is the planning necessary? Absolutely-- and I love every moment of it.
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Habitually unemployed backpacking slobs can afford to spend a limitless amount of time muddling their way across Europe. The majority of Americans, however, only have a limited amount of time and an itinerary allows them to utilize that time in the most effective manner.
I am perfectly willing to travel to southern Utah without an itinerary because it's only five hours away and I can return every other weekend if I choose. Likewise, Europeans traveling around Europe may not feel the need to adhere to an itinerary because much of Europe is readily accessible to them.
I have a friend who refused to develop any preconceived notion of what he was going to do on his one-week vacation to Paris. To make a long story short, my wife and I were in Paris for four days and saw twice what my friend saw because he didn't bother to study a map closely enough to realize that the Louvre and Notre Dame could easily be visited together. Consequently, he left the Louvre with the spontaneous idea that he wanted to visit the Eiffel Tower next, and then left the Eiffel Tower with the spontaneous idea that he wanted to see Notre Dame next, etc. The result of his "spontaneity" was a lot of needless zig-zagging and backtracking.
An itinerary is not only valuable because you have a plan to follow when you get there. The process of developing an itinerary is a great exercise in familiarizing oneself with a city or a region of a country. It also allows you to develop a realistic idea of what can and can't be seen in the amount of time you have available.
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I'll join the group and say that I realized within the last several years that I obtain almost as much pleasure planning my trips, and reading up on the destination, as I do in actually taking the trip. (In my daydreams, we never get lost, we always have enough time and money, and nothing is closed.)
We travel in the shoulder seasons, and always book ahead hotels in big cities or other spots where the hotels are likely to fill in advance and/or it's more difficult to locate hotels with rooms, such as Paris or Florence. Smaller locations, we're more likely to get rooms when we arrive.
I read up on what we really want to see, and want we might want to see, and try to make an informal list of the places in those categories. (I.e., in Rome, we'll spend one day on the ancient Roman stuff, one day visiting the Vatican). Then, each day, we decide what we want to do. For example, if it's sunny, we might do outdoor things rather than indoor activities.
For restaurants, we usually have a couple of ideas, then check the menus out during the day. We don't mind spending extra time deciding on restaurants!
It ends up being planned enough to fit in what we really want to see, but enough flexibility to change our minds if/when we happen upon something uplanned and special (that gorgeous outdoor restaurant in Monteriggioni where we just had to have lunch, or an appealing villge we pass through on the way from one major site to another).
Time consuming - yes, but I'd rather read about the Dordogne than watch TV, and I'd rather have a hotel in Paris to stay in the night before I head back to the States. Mildly anal - yes, but I enjoy it! Really necessary - sometimes. Depends on whether you like to sleep in your car, and whether you'd rather see all 10 "must-sees" or fit in 5 of them & have some out-of-the-ordinary experiences. It's easier to choose the latter if you think or know you'll be back.
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I, too, plan a full itinerary; I enjoy the process, looking at the pretty pictures and reading the information in guidebooks, writing to tourist bureaus and receiving envelopes full of stuff, then plotting out where I'll be each day. I have never had good luck with 'winging it' for accommodations, so those reservations are made well in advance. And, yes, by having a well though-out itinerary I can cram a whole lot of stuff into a little bit of time, without feeling rushed. No disappointments that a sight was closed or a train for my chosen destination didn't leave for 2 days...
For women especially, safety issues are a concern; finding oneself in a railway station at 2am because one didn't plan ahead to catch an earlier train is not any place I want to be; sleeping on a park bench because all the hotels are full is a scary prospect.
Conversely, sticking to an itinerary and missing out on unexpected pleasures is ludicrous. If I know I have a hotel reservation, secured with a credit card, I can go to the street fair and take a later train than planned; I'll have a place to stay when I arrive.
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I love planning my trips! I look at each trip as it may be the first and last time that I might ever venture there and I sure don't want to miss anything. Do I make it a minute by minute plan? No, but I make sure that I have a hotel waiting for me, train schedules, the costs of hotels, tickets, admissions to museums, parks, etc. That way I not only know what's open on a certain day, have a place to sleep each night, but what my cost of my trip might be and it gives me a guideline on how much money to save. I read every guide book, web site, magazine I can get my hands on for anything that might be relevant to my trip. Then I make a list of what I want to see in that area on certain days. I also make sure that I leave time during the day just to relax and stroll down unexpected streets. I agree with Bob, a trip is 3 phases, 1)planning, 2) going, 3) remembering. All 3 are just as rewarding and a lot of fun!
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If you call it anal, and I am! I love to plan my trips and sometimes I take 6-8 months to plan. I'm sure I don't need that much (maybe 4-5), but planning is part of my enjoyment. My hobby. Travel is my passion. Without an itinerary, one can get lost, be stuck because of missed train or bus, or a museum is closed. I think everyone has some itinerary of some sort, some more detailed than others. I enjoy my research, buying my guidebooks, contacting tourist offices, posting questions here, talking to family and friends about upcoming trips and seeing happiness in their eyes for me. I learn through my planning. I want to get the most out of my trip so that I can visit new places. Once I get home from a trip, I'm ready to start planning my next trip!
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That should have been, "If you call it anal, then I am."
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I don't think planning is necessarily an "age" thing! I'm an anal 23 yo. But I am travelling alone for the first time for 2 months and maybe that is why I planned ahead. Basically I was worried about being homeless without a car so I thought I should at least have places to stay reserved. Other than that I have a lot of flexibility. Now, if I was travlling with friends or family, I think I would leave the planning up to them! But I actually had fun making my itinerary and learned a lot too.
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If spending almost a year planning a honeymoon to Spain isn't anal, I don't know what is! Funny thing, though, I'm not near that bad in "real life." I just want to make sure that this trip goes well and Michelle (my fiancee) loves the country as much as I did when I visited almost 20 years ago. She's accusing me of over-planning the trip, wanting the ability to change our itinerary on a moment's notice; hopefully, I have built enough flexibility into the schedule to allow that.
Someone once posted on this board that half the fun is the anticipation of the trip. They're absolutely right! Now, if October would only get here - soon!
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Yes, I prepare a fine-tuned itinerary months in advance of a trip and enjoy every minute of the planning. However, I must admit that I am also a major wanderer, always wondering what's just around the corner. I find it very easy to combine these seemingly contradictory traits when travelling. I always start the day by going to the first site on my plan for the day. After that, I make minute-to-minute decisions about what's next, and drop the plan if I feel like it. Somehow, when you know exactly what you're missing, decisions are simpler. Of course, it's easy to be spontaneous when you travel alone, and also one of the great benefits of solo travel.
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People make fun of me for my detailed itineraries, but they're important to me because if I'm only going to be in Paris for 5 days, I want those 5 days to be great. I don't pre-plan every minute, but I figure out which museums are open which days & hours and plan accordingly in advance. Also, I like to research in advance to find a few recommended restaurants in my price range that are near where I'll be on a certain day, and put those addresses on my itinerary too -- that way I don't have to lug a whole guidebook around with me all day -- all I need is my itinerary and my map. If I happen to walk past a place that looks great then I may try it, but if I don't then at least I have some recommendations with me to fall back on. I will also plot on my map the locations of any particular shops that I know I want to check out, so that I can see in advance where they are in relation to other things and go to them on days when I will happen to be in that neighborhood visiting a nearby museum or something. I also build some "down time" into my itinerary just for walking, shopping, relaxing with no goal in mind so that it's not all "go go go."
Plus, I find planning an itinerary as fun as the actual trip itself.
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I agree with Elaine. And Elaine thank you for your Paris file!! It's helped me with my itinerary. mary c
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Who needs an itinerary? I do. The trip we took to London 3 weeks ago, was my most "planned" trip and my most enjoyable. We did reservations for theater and certain restaurants. I was very happy that all went exceptionally well... I had all kind of contingency plans if certain things happened, and we were fortunate that nothing extraordinary interfered with our plans,,,, Our dear best friends like to wing it, and I know they would not be good travel companions for us. The uncertainty would drive me bananas! But to each his own, right? Also, I adore the trip planning segment almost as much as the trip itself! I learn quite a bit while researching, and this helps my to enhance my enjoyment immensely. I figure that is why I am such a fanatic Fodorite. Happy travels, Judy
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Sounds good, Judy...
Maybe you can plan a trip for me!
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Dean: better bring your surfboard and get in line, big guy, I am very much in demand! Judy <g>
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Like others on this thread, I love doing the research for every trip we take. I plan my itineraries first by making lists: places I'd like to visit; things I like to do; restaurants I'd like to eat at; shops I'd like to get to and so on. I include details like geographic location, hours etc. Finally I block out rough itineraries based on proximity and hours, trying to group places that are relatively close to each other and open on the same day. I try to plan so that I maximize our visit by using "open late" days and special event dates accordingly. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but I always have a general idea of which direction to head in each day. We stay flexible and often detour as more interesting things pop up as we travel. I don't think I would be comfortable without at least a general outline of what I want to see and do to get me started each day.
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Remember when GOP Rep. Peter King bashed his own party over Hurricane Sandy and halted donations to House Republicans? Me too!
New York GOP Rep. Peter King smacked down his fellow Republicans for having a "reality problem." He was furious over their failure to provide funding relief via a Hurricane Sandy bill, adjourning without permitting said aid. King even called on New Yorkers to stop all donations to GOP House members. Of course, these are the same compassionate conservatives who love to boast about being "pro life."
Now, according to Politicker, King's none too thrilled that Florida Senator Marco Rubio "has been raising cash on Wall Street after voting against the Sandy bill."
Ruh roh. I sense some new ranting coming on in 3... 2... 1...
"Being from New York we're not supposed to be suckers," Mr. King told Politicker this morning. "It's bad enough that these guys voted against it, that's inexcusable enough. But to have the balls to come in and say, 'We screwed you now make us president?'"
That's funny, Dems have been saying the very same thing about other opportunistic potential Republican candidates, but we're fine with zeroing in on Rubio for now. We're inclusive that way.
King went on to say that Rubio should be cut off from donations, as should any Congress member who "threw a knife in the back in New York" by voting "no" on the Sandy bill.
Why yes, yes he/they should. Thank you for the suggestion Rep. King. We'll be sure to spread the word.
And that concludes another episode of Republicans Eating Their Own.
Via ABC, Republican Steve Chabot from Ohio to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the House committee hearing about the attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya:
"I wish you well in your future endeavor. Mostly."
The video doesn't include the roar of laughter that erupted in the room.
I sensed a theme coming from Democrats at the hearings: Run in 2016, Hillz, run! Anyone else pick up on that? There was a reason...
Hillary was stronger and more professional today than any Republican in the room... make that both rooms. They sniped and posed, accused and grandstanded, politicized and spouted Fox talking points; I swear I heard Hannity's voice come out of a few GOP mouths. But Sec. Clinton calmly and intelligently swatted them away like the irritating House (and Senate) flies they were.
Love her or hate her, agree with her politics or disagree (And I sometimes do. She supported the Iraq War, after all.), she didn't disappoint.
As Chris Matthews said on Hardball, "If she [continues to perform] as well as she did today, look out."
Beautious. Grumpy McPoopypants questioning her now, let's see how this goes. Via.


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This album finds rising jazz star and saxophonist Miguel Zenon delving into third stream arenas with his augmentation of the base quartet by adding a strings quartet on two pieces and then a three-man horn section on one track. It's a kaleidoscopic progressive-jazz endeavor and arguably, his most ambitious solo effort to date.
Zenon's maturation process takes a big leap here, where his sweet-toned and pungent alto sax lines loom as the prevalent factor due to these largely, fast-paced compositions, spiced with sinuous time signatures. Nonetheless, the saxophonist leads a circuitous journey amid fluctuating ebbs and flows, often-accelerated by his rippling flurries. The band abides by a dynamic impetus, where Zenon and keyboardist Luis Perdomo occasionally blurt out yearning choruses.
The piece titled "Awakening - Interlude," signifies a high-impact diversion, as the horns section embarks upon a tumultuous, free-form string of choruses. Otherwise, Zenon uses the strings section for a textural underscore atop the full-throttle sequences and more tender moments. Zenon's compositions are rock solid, as they say. His penchant for generating knotty time signatures and multidirectional flows are steeped within modernism, while incorporating the Latin-jazz element in spots. More importantly, Zenon's music is hip and refreshing, which are attributes that are not always conducive within a good portion of these complex navigations of the jazz idiom.


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New Music From A Great Big World called 'I Really Want it' [AUDIO]
I was very lucky to meet Ian and Chad from A Great Big World earlier this year, and sit in on a private performance of theirs. They were most well known for a song they wrote and was later covered by Glee 'This Is The New Year'. However, I found my favorite song was 'Rockstar'.
Several months later a buddy of mine who is a huge country fan and a bodybuilder pulled out his phone and played their duet with Christina Aguilera 'Say Something' saying it was his favorite song.
Now the guys have released 'I Really Want It'. Their new album is set to drop January 21st, 2014.
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Falls of the Big Sioux River in the middle of Sioux Falls are a stunning site to see in eastern South Dakota – it is also an astonishing site to see since it is in the middle of the Great Plains! Each second, an average of 7,400 gallons of water drop 100 feet over the course of the falls. While visiting Falls Park be sure to check out the five-story observation tower to enjoy a breathtaking bird's eye view of the Falls of the Big Sioux River.
Waterfalls are a beautiful site to see no matter what time of year you are exploring. However, in the spring in Spearfish Canyon you can see one of South Dakota's most impressive sites – Bridal Veil Falls. The spring run-off causes Bridal Veil Falls to be at its peak flow rate providing maximum beauty. You can see this waterfall from Highway 14; there is also pullout area providing a chance to see the waterfall from outside your vehicle.
Just a few miles north of Bridal Veil Falls (follow the signs) is Roughlock Falls. This area is known as one of the most beautiful locations in the Black Hills. This area is perfect for wildlife viewing and fishing. There are hiking trails and picnic areas that surround Roughlock Falls.
Although there are many caves and mines in the Black Hills area, Thunderhead Falls is unique among them – it is the only cave with a waterfall inside. It is not a natural waterfall. This waterfall is 10 miles west of Rapid City off Highway 44 West in central Black Hills. The history and story of this cave is not completely known, but locals speculate that early miners blasted a hole into Rapid Creek's bed creating the existing waterfall.
Cascade Falls is south of Hot Springs, SD off Highway 71. The beautiful blue/green water can be crossed by foot just above the falls. Swimming is allowed in the Cascade Falls area but not in the Cascade Spring.
Come visit South Dakota's waterfalls. The beauty of South Dakota's waterfalls has been magnified this spring because of the spring runoff. Get out there, check them out, and post comments about your experience. Happy waterfalling!


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THAT coach journey from Edinburgh to Dingwall tomorrow will not seem quite so arduous now.
Until Sam Stanton's late equaliser against Partick Thistle on Saturday, it looked as if Hibernian would be journeying north to face Ross County on the back of seven successive defeats and seemingly consigned to the play-offs.
The draw doesn't change the overall picture all that dramatically - Hibs still have a bit to do to ensure they avoid finishing 11th - but the psychological lift Stanton's header gave the club after weeks of misery was hard to avoid as manager Terry Butcher held court with the sort of boisterous bonhomie last seen when he was still in charge at Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
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The statistics still don't look all that clever - they haven't won in 11 games - but that one goal has at least imbued Hibs with the confidence that it perhaps it isn't beyond them to do so again. On the back of a derby performance that was bright but yielded no points, they were again purposeful and tenacious even if a string of missed chances seemed likely to again bring nothing but frustration.
Another pointless exercise after playing well would have left Hibs disconsolate, the bus to the Highlands full of anxious passengers fretting about the future. Instead, there is now hope and optimism. A second win in 17 matches would be enough to guarantee top-flight football in Leith next season. "The changing room would have been completely different had we lost the game 1-0," admitted Liam Craig, the Hibs captain. "Knowing we can go up there and win the game, and that's the play-off forgotten about, it's a great incentive.
"It was a deflated changing room last week because with the way we trained before the [Hearts] game and the performance, we thought it merited more than we got. Again this week the response from the players has been excellent and for long spells in the first half they [Thistle] could not get out of their half. I think we definitely merited a point in the end."
Craig believes the introduction of the play-offs have reinvigorated the bottom end of the Premiership but hoped he would not need to play in the inaugural final. "Have I got my holidays booked? I don't want to comment on that yet. But my wee boy was telling me 'you better win because I want to go collecting shells on the beach on holiday' so that will answer that for you."
This has been a first season to forget for Craig at Hibs, from the departure of former manager Pat Fenlon to the dreadful run of results in 2014. The midfielder admitted there would need to be a detailed inquest even if the team avoided the play-offs.
"I think we'll sit down and reflect on it because we can't keep going on like this," he said. "It's a club that should be in the higher part of the league, competing in the later stages of cup competitions. This season has not been good enough, even if we do get a result against County that will not paper over the cracks. There is a lot of hard work to be done because we don't want to have a season like this again next year."
A victory would have all but secured Thistle's place in the top division next season but Kris Doolan's early goal would prove to be not quite enough on this occasion. There is a freedom about their play that remains pleasant on the eye, with seemingly not even the prospect of an immediate return to the second tier afflicting their determination to play a free-flowing brand of football.
"There's no nervousness about us and there shouldn't be," said Doolan, who injured his shoulder in scoring his goal and had to come off. "We should be able to play with a bit of freedom. The manager puts that into us that we can go out there and express ourselves.
"If we can stay up that's the be all and end all for us. That's been the main aim. If we can escape the play-off place I'll be delighted."


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Are our School Board members paid too much?
Good question.
A lot of people were asking that very thing, some in angry tones, after board members voted last week to increase their salaries to $36,436 a year -- never mind that in these tight budget times things such as music, art and physical education classes are being cut and teachers are having to dig into their own pockets to buy needed classroom supplies.
Well, let's see:
According to the National School Boards Association, "nationwide, three-fourths of school board members earn little or nothing for their service."
For example, board members in Houston receive no salary. The same applies to Chicago. And in Los Angeles, the nation's largest school system, board members are paid only $24,000 a year.
In fact, according to the association, less than 2 percent of all U.S. school districts pay board members more than $20,000.
That puts Duval County School Board members in some pretty high cotton.
It's not just our board members, however, it's board members in all of Florida.
Even the smallest school district in the state, Lafayette County, with 1,085 students in 2000, pays each of its school board members $19,864 per year.
Every other county in Florida pays more than $20,000 a year.
Those paychecks, by the way, add up to some pretty big bucks.
In Duval County alone, the salaries for the seven board members amount to about $250,000 a year. You can also tack on the cost for benefits for such things as health insurance and retirement.
Multiply that by the state's 67 counties and you could hire more than a few PE teachers for that chunk of change.
What's making teachers so angry about the board members' pay is the paltry raises they are getting this year.
Actually, the only pay raise the teachers will receive this year is their annual step increase.
For instance, a fourth-year teacher with a master's degree earned $32,566 last year. As a fifth-year teacher with a master's, that teacher will get $32,730 this year -- a whopping pay increase of $164, or about five-tenths of 1 percent, or $13.67 per month, or $3.15 per week.
And, yes, all of that is before taxes are taken out.
By the way, that teacher with a master's degree would have to work seven more years to reach the salaries being paid School Board members, who aren't required to have a college education.
It's just as bad for career teachers, the very people we should be encouraging to stay in the profession.
Teachers with more than 23 years of experience -- the final year for step increases -- won't get a pay raise at all. They will get a one-time $500 bonus -- not quite an extra $10 a week.
That should just about cover a pizza dinner. Oops, not after taxes are taken out.
Are our School Board members paid too much?
Good question.
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by Alyssa Oursler | November 6, 2013 5:13 pm
Whole Foods Market (WFM[1]) reported earnings after the bell today, and slowing sales sent WFM stock plummeting on heavy volume after hours.
Whole Foods earnings[2] beat expectations by a penny for Q4 and the full year. But WFM stock investors got skittish when the company missed an already-low revenue bar for both periods.
WFM posted sales of $3 billion in its Whole Foods earnings report vs. expectations of $3.04 billion. That represents just 2% year-over-year growth.
Wall Street's expectations for 4% growth were anemic enough, though the grocer did have accounting quirks to blame. In fiscal 2012, Whole Foods earnings[3] enjoyed a 53-week calendar year that's back to normal for the current fiscal year.
The Whole Foods earnings report also revealed $12.9 billion on the top line for the full fiscal year vs. Wall Street's hopes of $12.98 billion. That's growth of just 10% — the company's lowest annual rate since 2009 and a far cry from the nearly 16% growth WFM posted last year.
Slowing same-store sales played a role in the WFM revenue miss. Annual comps growth for WFM was north of 8% for the past two years, but was expected to drop to 7.2% or so. Instead, same-store sales growth slid just below 7%.
Apparently, just after hearing those numbers, WFM stock investors got wise to the high premium on their shares. WFM stock had built up a trailing P/E north of 40 thanks to a 40% run from Jan. 1 to just before Whole Foods earnings were released.
Thanks to the ugly Whole Foods earnings report, WFM stock is now testing its 50-day moving average around $59. While that level could support the stock, a break lower could mean even worse fortunes for shares.
As of this writing, Alyssa Oursler did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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text: Inaugural Lecture Series: The Pneumococcus: Captain of the men of death LocationLeonard Deacon Lecture Theatre, Medical School BuildingCategoryMedical and Dental Sciences, Research DatesWednesday 4th June 2014 (16:30-18:00) Download the date to your calendar (.ics file) ContactYvonne Dawson (firstname.lastname@example.com/0121 414 4054) College of Medical and Dental Sciences – Inaugural Lecture Series "The Pneumococcus: Captain of the men of death" Professor Tim Mitchell, BSc, PhD, FRCPath Professor of Microbial Infection and Immunity School of Immunity and Infection Tim Mitchell qualified with a BSc in Biological Sciences (Microbiology) from University of Birmingham in 1983. He was awarded a PhD from the same University in 1986. He obtained a Wellcome Trust Fellowship and spent 1 year at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He returned to the UK as a post-doctoral researcher and then Wellcome Trust Fellow at University of Leicester. In 1992 he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and in 1996 moved to the University of Glasgow where he was appointed to the Chair of Microbiology. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2004. In 2012 he returned to the University of Birmingham as Professor of Microbial Infection and Immunity. His research is focused on understanding the mechanisms by which bacteria cause disease and development of vaccines and therapeutic approaches to prevent pneumonia and meningitis. Wednesday 4 June 2014 – 4.30 pm Leonard Deacon Lecture Theatre, Medical School Building For further information contact Yvonne Dawson (email@example.com/0121 414 4054) THIS LECTURE IS OPEN TO ALL, PRE-REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED


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This might seem like a strange question.
I have a friend who uses internet through a phone plan. He claims that if he wanted to he can hide himself from his ISP, because he uses a "personal proxy", and that if it came down to some investigation because he did something or the other. He wouldn't be able to be traced by authorities.
I insisted that since he's paying for a mobile plan and using the internet through that, he could still be obviously traced, proxy or not.
Background information on him, he's no hacker (obviously), and no real experience with anything technical with programming or IT in general.
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Last night I went to the first meeting of the local knitter's club, held at Aunt Debbie's Knit and Stitch. Eight women of various ages attended. We showed off the things we were working on, were taught a "tip of the month" and otherwise, just sat and visited while knitting. Our names were put in a basket for a door prize draw and I won these.
They are clip style markers. I have collected lots of knitting accessories, but this is one thing I did NOT have, so it was a good score. No more safety pins as markers for me. :-)


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Gaston County 12, Rutherford County 1 (seven innings) � Aaron Biggerstaff gave a standout performance on the mound, surrendering only four hits in a complete-game effort to give the Braves a 2-0 series lead in the Area IV playoffs.
The Braves broke through in the third as Mason Smith singled home Christian Hilty to tie the game at 1-1. They were bolstered by Mauldin�s RBI single in the sixth and his two-run double in the seventh, along with Derek Perry�s two-run triple.
Gaston County heads to Game 3 against Rutherford County at 7 p.m. Thursday at East Gaston High School.
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It's nearly 3 a.m., and amid the din of workers sweeping up piles of broken bottles after another sold-out show at the Satellite Lounge, Scabs front man Bob Schneider is quietly comparing his craft to that of a fisherman. "Every day I get up, and I write and record stuff," he says. "It's like you're out there fishing every day. Sometimes you get the big bass, and a lot of times you get the little guppy. Twelve years can go by, and even though you're better at fishing, there's no guarantee you'll catch anything."
The singer's dime-store philosophy and measured demeanor are quite a contrast to the persona who, moments earlier, had whipped the Satellite crowd into a potty-mouthed frenzy. Yet Austin's man of the moment confesses that he won't be screaming "Pussy Fever" into the mike forever. Older, wiser, but still oddly naive, Bob Schneider, the solo artist and raconteur, sees himself evolving into his idol, Tom Waits, and singing lots of songs about being afraid to fail or what it's like to be a diamond ring.
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Cuts from his two quirky solo albums released over the past 18 months, Songs Sung and Played on Guitar at the Same Time and Lonelyland, are getting adult-alternative airplay. A new disc, Underneath the Onion Trees, featuring Schneider on vocals accompanied by Mitch Watkins on acoustic guitar, is due this month. Major labels are hot on his trail. "Five or six years ago, sure, I had 'Pussy Fever.' Now," says Schneider, "I don't know what it is. Maybe steak fever." So while fans in his adopted hometown of Austin are embracing the kinder, gentler Bob Schneider (and are still willing to bankroll his new pursuits by continuing to pack Scabs shows), the jury is still out on how the new Schneider will play in other markets. He's betting it will work. "I'll admit I was kind of afraid to be out there under my own name until last year when I was out there by myself, and people stuck around to hear the whole set. So it was a huge confidence boost." Bob Schneider performs Thursday, July 6, in a rescheduled show at the Fabulous Satellite Lounge, 3616 Washington. Stephen Bruton opens. $10. For more information, call (713)869-COOL. Tickets purchased for the July 15 show will be honored at the door.