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Is welsh compulsary up to 16?
not in gods own county it in't old cock.
Yes . . . in Wales
It depends upon a few things.
All children in secondary education in Wales have to be taught Welsh up until they leave school unless they are disapplied. There are two common reasons for disapplication, SEN and entry into the school at a late stage not having been taught Welsh before.
Generally we will not place children into Welsh classes if they join from a 'non- welsh' school prior to the end of Key Stage 3, i.e., end of Year 9.
Children with severe learning difficulties will be disapplied from Welsh from the outset, as will pupils joining us who speak little or no english.
I would've thought little/no English would've been a bonus from a languages point of view anyway
second what ton said - 'appen we should learn aar bairns aar own dialect. an' learn 'em to say Bratfud. 'an get rid o' this bloody queens english nonsense
Mind you, I work in Barnsley - I don't think there's anywhere in England where the local dialect is thriving as much as it does there
Not in my school it wasn't back in the 80's - Had to take it for three years from 11-14 then could choose to continue it or take french / spanish or german
depends on where i th coutry you are and the school
all schools will teach welsh compulsary to all kids upto 16.
But Theres also 3 streems at a lot of schools (maily in the north and more "welsh" areas) one where english is taught almost as a second language so everythig appart fom "english" is taught in welsh. Then theres bi-lingual where you'l get a mix with some lessons in each. And English where Welsh is a second language and only tught in welsh lessons.
Its not as hard as it sounds, the only downside was that when i moved to england at 12 I struggled in some lessons as I knew the theory but had no idea what the word was in english. That and my spelling is atrocious. I could read welsh as well as if not bettter than english, and when asked what language something was written I'd have to go back and actualy look at the words before i could answer.
Yes, following on from Ambrose' post, we moved back to Wales from Cheltenham when our youngest was in year 2 and his older brothers year 4 and 6. My older lads struggled with Welsh while the youngest did well. A full GCSE is optional where we live but a half GCSE (one hour a week) is compulsory.
I hate to say it but knowing a couple of people whose second langauge is English after Welsh, I'd suggest you get as far away as you can and treat Welsh as a novelty.
Makes me sound incredibly bigoted and probably racist too, but it's screwed these people over badly. As an example, if they're together with a 3rd person who doesn't speak Welsh, they'll chat to each other in Welsh regardless. When pressed, they consider this absolutely normal and it's how they were brought up (from different parts of Wales, too).
No ive never been welsh
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aways amazes me, how come when i go abroad eveyone isnt speeking english, i mean its just rude, surely everyone should speek english?
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When pressed, they consider this absolutely normal
People speaking in their native tongue shocker...Apparently, at home, the French think nothing of gabbling away in French...Imagine!
thisisnotasppon - yeah, totally agree if in Wales but this was in SE England.
wrong thread isn't it?
Makes sense that you learn the national language if you live in Wales. Ditto Scotland. Your culture and history is intertwined with your language.
I had to learn Latin, and I didn't notice any Romans hanging around
Makes sense that you learn the national language if you live in Wales. Ditto Scotland
Don't you mean it makes sense to learn English ?
I lived in England and went to a school in Wales, I had to learn Welsh as a second language from start of year 7 through till year end of 11, I'm still utterly crap it though!
Welsh people in the school were also allowed to do lessons with Welsh as their first language
Ernie...Wales is a Nation, with a now thriving language...I'm a very proud Welshman and one of my biggest regrets is not learning the language as a child. I accept that some for whom Welsh is a first language and used almost exclusively then struggle with exams etc in English but I would counter that with the fact that in North Wales at least fluency is a major plus in business....
As for that old tripe about the Welsh speaking English until outsiders walk in the pub its bollox...if it's their first language it's what they use simple as that.....
As for getting far away...we see folk from all over at our local trail centres...seem happy to keep coming and are always made welcome!
LOL @ polarisandy
There is a huge amount of ignorance in England regarding the Welsh language unfortunately.
Personally I have spent the past 5 years trying my best to learn. Even with the added advantage of working in a 95% Welsh first language institution alongside many bards and authors, I still struggle.
Anyone growing up in Wales today would be at a serious disadvantage if they did NOT have at least reasonable welsh conversational skills.
Sufr is spot on
Sufr...Getting on in business applies even more so to the arts/creative media arena....good luck learning, I'd love to but something ie biking would have to slip! As work stupid hours and have 2 kids
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Occasionally, you might need to protect some data on the computer from prying eyes. Here is an easy way to do it without downloading any third party software.
1Open Notepad. This can be done by clicking on the Start Menu, clicking run and typing notepad.
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cls @ECHO OFF if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK if NOT EXIST MyFolder goto MDMyFolder :CONFIRM echo Are you sure to lock this folder? (Y/N) set/p "cho=>" if %cho%==Y goto LOCK if %cho%==y goto LOCK if %cho%==n goto END if %cho%==N goto END echo Invalid choice. goto CONFIRM :LOCK ren MyFolder "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" echo Folder locked goto End :UNLOCK echo Enter password to Unlock Your Secure Folder set/p "pass=>" if NOT %pass%== wikiHow goto FAIL attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" MyFolder echo Folder Unlocked successfully goto End :FAIL echo Invalid password goto end :MDMyFolder md MyFolder echo MyFolder created successfully goto End :End
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Music by the Sea presents sensational folk night with two acts, The Poachers and Cole and Van Dijk. Both acts are much loved in the Brisbane folk scene. All these seasoned artists will undoubtedly deliver an unforgettable evening in the Sandgate Town Hall on November 3rd, 2012, at 7:30 p.m.
Brisbane-based vocal/guitar/fiddle trio, The Poachers (Andrew Heath, Cathy Bell and Penny Boys) formed in 1998 and had great success on the Australian festival circuit, playing supports for folk greats Altan, Tony McManus and the Fureys, and releasing a critically-acclaimed CD in 2000 which received national airplay on the ABC. Now, after an 8-year break living on different continents, they are back together, singing and playing an eclectic mix of traditional English, Irish, American and Australian folk music and original songs, with recent appearances at Woodford, the National, Maldon, and Neurum Creek Festivals, and a new CD "Back in the Woods" released in April 2012.<
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While the B.C. government funds the K-12 education system in the province, the teachers' union effectively runs it.
That is why, for decades now, the conversation around education has focused almost exclusively on the wants and wishes of teachers instead of the needs of those they are paid to teach.
At least that's the perception of many.
The B.C. Teachers Federation would argue that everything it is asking for in the name of its dues-paying members is about the kids. So a demand to reduce class sizes is not about lightening the load of educators, but providing a better learning environment for the pupils. Lobbying for the elimination of standardized testing is not about getting rid of something that stresses out a great deal of teachers, but abolishing something that stresses out a great deal of kids.
See how it works?
Once upon a time, after man discovered fire but before Steve Jobs invented the iPhone, the education system in B.C. worked on behalf of children. "It was the envy of the country," says Thomas Fleming, a renowned professor of educational history at the University of Victoria. "People thought it was quiet and harmonious. Both sides of the legislature kept education out of politics."
Now, it's only about politics.
As usual, education is back in the news in B.C. for all the wrong reasons. It is bargaining season, and the teachers' union has made demands that the government says amount to more than $2-billion. The union says this is false and inflammatory and typical of a government that doesn't value teachers.
As part of a job-action strategy, teachers are refusing to do report cards. (Many of them must be thrilled. There are few things about their jobs they hate more.) The B.C. Public School Employers' Association, meantime, has asked the labour relations board to rule that report cards are an essential service. The association is also seeking an order that would require the union to reimburse school districts monthly for 15 per cent of gross salary and benefits for work teachers aren't doing because of their job action.
And so it goes in B.C., where teachers (or at least their union) and the government have the most poisonous and counterproductive relationship in the country.
Dr. Fleming's new book, Worlds Apart, looks at the evolution of the education system in B.C. over the past 140 years. The first 100 years, it turns out, were actually pretty good. It's the past four decades that have been pretty much a disaster.
Unionized teachers began to become a political force in the late 1960s, and are often considered responsible for helping end the 20-year reign of Social Credit premier W.A.C. Bennett in 1972. The BCTF acquired full collective-bargaining rights in 1987 and is now the most powerful and militant union on the West Coast.
The professor's examination of education policy in B.C. over the past 40 years is a withering indictment of political leadership in the province. But he also puts a large share of the blame regarding a system that is fundamentally broken at the feet of a union that has long been viewed as a political arm of the New Democratic Party.
Consequently, the professor told me, the public school system in B.C. is increasingly irrelevant to its K-12 users. The teachers' union resists any change that doesn't benefit its members while government shies away from making the kind of structural and curriculum moves that should have been made years ago because it doesn't want a fight with the BCTF.
"It is in almost every respect a system built for another age," Dr. Fleming writes. "As it now stands [it]is fractured at its core and directionless."
He says the three institutional pillars of the system – the union, the government and the school trustees – are anti-visionary, anti-technological and completely committed to the status quo.
Welcome to school wars in B.C., where me-first adults argue and name call and accomplish very little.
"The amount of demonization that goes on in this file is stunning," Dr. Fleming said in an interview. "There is no jurisdiction like it anywhere in the country. It seems we're not happy out here until someone is lying bleeding on the ground. The lack of civility is shocking. The system is in shambles and badly in need of an overhaul."


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New Mexico prosecutors say 40-year-old Ronald Ralph King was sentenced Friday.
The Las Cruces Sun-News says King pleaded guilty Tuesday to kidnapping 25-year-old Heather Lynn Eiche from a truck stop in Anthony, N.M., and beating her to death.
Authorities say King admitted to the killing in 2009 while serving a 10-year sentence for two child rapes in Virginia. He was extradited to New Mexico last year.
Eiche's body was found in February 2001 buried under an old mattress, tires and other debris near a drainage dam just north of the truck stop.
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You do not need to implement custom persistence for the custom objects that you create as long as their properties use only simple data types such as integer and string. The default implementation of persistence saves the metadata for your object along with the values of all its properties.
However, if your object has properties that use complex data types, or if you want to perform custom processing on property values as they are loaded and saved, you can implement the IDTSComponentPersist interface and its LoadFromXML and SaveToXML methods. In these methods you load from (or save to) the XML definition of the package an XML fragment that contains the properties of your object and their current values. The format of this XML fragment is not defined; it must only be well-formed XML.
|When you implement custom persistence, you must persist all the properties of the object, including both inherited properties and custom properties that you have added.
Although the Sql Server Custom Connection Manager Sample does not require custom persistence for its three properties of type string, the following code shows an example of the custom code that would be required to persist the connection manager and its properties. The class that contains this code must implement the IDTSComponentPersist interface.
private const string PERSIST_ELEMENT = "SqlConnectionManager"; private const string PERSIST_SERVER = "Server"; private const string PERSIST_DATABASE = "Database"; private const string PERSIST_CONNECTIONSTRING = "ConnectionString"; public void LoadFromXML(System.Xml.XmlElement node, Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.IDTSInfoEvents infoEvents) { // Make sure that the correct node is being loaded. if (node.Name != PERSIST_ELEMENT) { throw new Exception("Persisted element is not of type " + PERSIST_ELEMENT); } // Save the three properties of the object from variables into XML. foreach (XmlNode propertyNode in node.ChildNodes) { switch (propertyNode.Name) { case PERSIST_SERVER: _serverName = propertyNode.InnerText; break; case PERSIST_DATABASE: _databaseName = propertyNode.InnerText; break; case PERSIST_CONNECTIONSTRING: _connectionString = propertyNode.InnerText; break; } } } public void SaveToXML(System.Xml.XmlDocument doc, Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.IDTSInfoEvents infoEvents) { XmlElement elementRoot; XmlNode propertyNode; // Create a new node to persist the object and its properties. elementRoot = doc.CreateElement(String.Empty, PERSIST_ELEMENT, String.Empty); // Save the three properties of the object from variables into XML. propertyNode = doc.CreateNode(XmlNodeType.Element, PERSIST_SERVER, String.Empty); propertyNode.InnerText = _serverName; elementRoot.AppendChild(propertyNode); propertyNode = doc.CreateNode(XmlNodeType.Element, PERSIST_DATABASE, String.Empty); propertyNode.InnerText = _databaseName; elementRoot.AppendChild(propertyNode); propertyNode = doc.CreateNode(XmlNodeType.Element, PERSIST_CONNECTIONSTRING, String.Empty); propertyNode.InnerText = _connectionString; elementRoot.AppendChild(propertyNode); doc.AppendChild(elementRoot); }
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France honours Malala with Womens` Freedom award
Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls` education.
Islamabad: Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls` education, has been awarded the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Womens` Freedom by France.
Malala`s father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, who accepted the award on behalf of the 15-year-old, said the Taliban are fighting a lost cause and must accept peace talks, reports The News.
Malala was shot in the head by a Taliban hitman while she was returning home from school in Pakistan`s northwestern Swat Valley in October. The bullet grazed her brain, coming within centimetres of killing her, travelling through her head and neck before lodging in her left shoulder. She was flown to Britain for specialised treatment.
Yousufzai said that in Pakistan, fathers are known by their sons; daughters are very much neglected, but he is one of the few fortunate fathers who is known by their daughter.
He also called for a change in global politics, saying his country has suffered enormously in an era when "our children were orphaned, our women were widowed and our schools were lost".
Malala first rose to prominence at the age of 11 with a blog for the BBC`s Urdu-language service wherein she described her life in Swat under the Taliban, whose two-year reign of terror supposedly came to an end there with an army operation in 2009.
Last month, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari announced a USD 10 million donation for a global war chest to educate all girls by 2015 set up in Malala`s name.
The "Malala Fund for Girls` Right to Education" aims at raising billions of dollars to ensure that all girls go to school by 2015 in line with United Nations Millennium goals.


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Sentinel interviews Firefighter Jayson Johnson on earthquake safety. Brian Carter for Sentinel
With a large earthquake on the possible horizon, Californians must prepare for the worst.
By Kaylee Davis
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Recent earthquakes have many Californians fearful a 'big one' is nearing. Brandon Gray, a Los Angeles native, speaks of being shaken up by the tremors. "I feel that it's a warning to a big earthquake that is soon to come," he shares.
Firefighter-Paramedic Jayson Johnson explains that California is historically hit by a large scale earthquake every 150 years, and the latest occurred in 1957. "Essentially we are overdue…like eleven months pregnant," Johnson warns. Luckily California, a modernized region, will not experience devastation at the levels of Haiti and other such nations. Johnson reassures, "Our buildings are built stronger."
Yet, Californians must realize earthquake awareness is imperative. Along with numerous Angelinos, Gray's memory of earthquake safety is hazy at best. Jennifer Johnson of L.A. admits she no longer owns an earthquake kit. Both were last educated on earthquake preparation several years ago in elementary school.
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Develop an earthquake emergency plan for your family that includes a meeting place in case of separation. Educate your children, and focus on making them feel safe and secure. "Teach them age appropriately," Johnson articulates. He believes every family member can be an asset during an earthquake.
Prepare your house for an earthquake; secure overhead objects or take them down all together. Be sure to put together an earthquake kit which includes water, food, a pair of walking shoes, flash lights, batteries, first aid, and a whistle. Johnson also keeps a crowbar, hammer, and battery-operated radio in his bedroom. In addition, preparation can include scanning all important documents to an external hard drive or emailing them to yourself.
Before an earthquake, know the location of your main water serve pipe and the main electrical panel of your home. All responsible household members should know how to shut off the gas meter.
During an earthquake, instead of running towards a doorway which can be dangerous, simply "duck, cover, and hold on." Avoid glass, and wait until the shaking subsides to assess the damage.
For additional information, visit Johnson's blog site on disaster preparedness- www.yourhouseinorder.com. Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) classes are offered free of charge to educate citizens on disaster awareness. Visit www.cert-la.com or email email@example.com. Take note of Johnson's motto, "Hope for the best; prepare for the worst," and your family will have the ability to tackle an earthquake with expertise.


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Minnesota Vikings vs Washington Redskins Live Stream
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Time: 2:00 PM ET
Date: Sunday on 12 November 2017
Location: FedEx Field, Landover
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The Minnesota Vikings will participate in the upcoming 2016-2017 season as a professional football team in the NFL games. The Vikings play the football games becoming the member of National Football Conference at North Division.
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The Vikings have also gained 19 Divisional Championship trophies until today. They have also achieved 4 times Conference Championship trophies in the NFL history consecutively.
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The Christmas Steam sale is over signalling the end of the holidays and the beginning of the rest of Winter and I've gained a few new titles in my little ahem collection.
Cook, Serve, Delicious: Any of you following me on Raptr, Steam, and/or Twitter will have noticed how much time I've put into this game since grabbing it in the sale. It caught my eye as I'd played something very similar on Facebook called Kitchen Scramble. I'd really enjoyed that game but inevitably had to stop playing because of the usual payment block. So I snapped up Cook, Serve, Delicious and gave it a go, and lo and behold, it was 10 times better than the Facebook alternative.
It's basically a restaurant sim, you are given a rundown restaurant in a tower and told to improve it. You choose what's on the menu day-to-day based on positive and negative factors, as well as what you prefer making, you have to pass safety inspections, keep the place clean, buy new foods, upgrade foods, gain stars for your restaurant, participate in challenges, take on bets to earn extra coins.. it all gets a bit manic but it's fantastic. Syl did a nice little Let's Play if you'd like to see for yourself.
DuckTales Remastered: I haven't yet had chance to play this one but thanks much to Stoove for the Christmas gift! Have been dying to play me some DuckTales since I discovered it was a thing several months ago. Altogether now.. ♪Life is like a hurricaaane, here in, Duck-berg..♪
Dust: An Elysian Tale: Another gift, this time from the lovely Kihira! I've wanted to play this game for forever. It's so pretty and sounds fantastic. Hoping to soon. Thank you, lovely. 🙂
Left 4 Dead 2: 'Twas free one day so I nabbed it. No idea if it'll be my kind of game or not but you really can't argue with free. I am intrigued, so it's nice to have the option to play it now.
Long Live The Queen: I'd had this one on my wishlist for a few months as well so snapped it up when it went on sale. Have played a little bit of it and I love it. The music is gorgeous, the art style also, and the gameplay is ever-so-slightly confusing but interesting. It's basically a strategy-thingy in a pink package. I like it.
Magical Diary: I saw Lady Jess had purchased this one in my Steam friend activity and it caught my eye. I have a thing for "magic schools" and the anime art style and affordability of the game cinched the deal so I picked it up for myself as well. I've put in a few hours and adore it.. though make no mistake, it is a visual novel with a heavy focus on dating. However, I really like how it handles gender, sexuality, and so on. It doesn't even flinch when it comes to these issues. There's even a lesson telling young Witches and Wizards the polite way to refer to somebody before knowing their gender (e, emself, em, etc.). However, it somewhat broke my heart so right now I "hate" it. runs off to cry and write fanfiction
Nihilumbra: Haven't had chance to play this one yet but from what I can tell, it is a game following a part of the abyss which you control. This baby abyss doesn't want to be evil so sets about to change the world but the abyss wants it back as it longs to be whole and it looks gorgeous and I'm so glad I picked it up when I did. It pretty much looks like cheerful goth which has me practically clawing at the gate.
Surgeon Simulator 2013: I grabbed this one on Christmas Day, I believe. I gave it a quick go. Couldn't work out how to pick up a scalpel let alone give the poor guy a heart transplant so put it aside for the time being. Hmm..
Titan Quest: Okay, so.. I haven't been near this game since my ex (the same guy who introduced me to World of Warcraft many years ago) was raving about it for being, and I quote, "just like WoW." Ahem. So.. he was a bit of a weird one. I've never really played Titan Quest myself and even I know this is nothing of the sort. However, I am a big fan of Diablo III (shut up, I never played II to have anything to compare it to, I liked it) and Torchlight II, so I guess I like the action/RPG style games. Couldn't say no for £1.99.
The Wolf Among Us: And another gift. This one from my lovely fiancé-boyfriend-partner-thing, Dan. Or Ryyu. Whatever you know him as. I have a humongous amount of love for Telltale's The Walking Dead and have been eagerly making grabby hands in the general direction of Wolf Among Us hearing the story's premise (the same grabby hands are also going out towards the Fables comic series). So he gifted it to me as a Christmas present while it was on sale. Can't wait to play it on my new PC!
Sadly, I missed out on The Walking Dead: Season 2 and The Stanley Parable as they went on sale after we'd reached our reckless spending limit, but I can't say I'm disappointed in the little stash of games I've picked up over the holiday season. Now just to work out a formula to make sleep entirely optional…


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Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in Michigan
my ex-best friend is suing me for receipts she kept throughout the last couple months of our friendshiop saying i owe her $1500. does she have a case?
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Yes she has a case. Is it a good one? Thats the tough question. Without a written agreement to repay these as loans, I would think a judge would not agree with her. Good luck.
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Help with initial multisite install in subdirectories
I am using JustHost and am trying to do the initial install(they offer 3.0), which I then want to upgrade to 3.0.1. I want to set up multiple sites in subdirectories. I am reading the latest WordPress for Dummies book and see the following instructions are necessary to enable a network:
mod_rewrite must be enabled in Apache file httpd.conf. Also, the <VirtualHost> section of the Apache file httpd.conf must be modified as follows:
AllowOverride None
should be changed to:
AllowOverride FileInfo Options
as well as adding:
ServerAlias *.hungryhappyhealthy.com
This last line is supposed to define the host name for my network site.
I do not have access to the Apache file and here is the non-helpful instructions sent to me from tech support:
"let me to explain:
you don't have access to modify Apache settings
You can set needful changes in your .htaccess file.
The rewrite_mod is enable on the server
All settings that you want to add to Apache you can add to your .htaccess file
Also you can modify permalinks in the admin area of the WP software
You can create .htaccess file via Cpanel >> File manager in any folder of your account
You'll be able to edit your rules there via Cpanel >> File manager >> Editor"
There is a 1-step install for WordPress 3.0 on the site, but I don't believe it allows for the multisite option on setup or is that something that you do later? Also, do I need to set up multiple MySQL databases for each subdirectory? I see conflicting information on that topic as well.
As you can tell, I am totally lost. Pretty sad when the Dummies book isn't Dummy enough for me. Anyone out there that can give me some helpful step-by-step to make this happen? Thank you in advance!
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text: Dominic Joseph Fontana, is an American musician best known as the drummer for Elvis Presley for 14 years. He played on over 460 RCA cuts with Elvis. Nicknamed "D. J.", he was employed by the Louisiana Hayride to be an in-house drummer on its Saturday night radio broadcast. In October 1954 he was hired to play drums for Presley, and that marked the beginning of a fifteen-year relationship. He performed on the NBC television special known as the '68 Co...... more on Wikipedia


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We were having some problems with forest fires in Alberta this summer. There was an out of control fire
that had been burning a lot of forest close to our town of Grande Cache, and smoke had been drifting into town on a daily basis for a couple of weeks. There was a lot of smoke in the air this particular evening which made a rather spectacular sunset, so I want to share it with you
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text: Megacord This is an idea by my friend Ed Sackett. See here for another of his ideas on munitions. Megacord Military demolition is usually a task for combat engineers, but infantry needs its own demolition equipment. Repeatedly in the wars of the twentieth century, infantry have faced natural and man-made obstacles which must be removed quickly. Twenty-first century war shows no sign of being different. Demining and clearing fields of fire are two well-known situations which call for versatile, easy-to-deploy forms of explosives. Combat, especially in urban areas, constantly presents fighting men with the need to blast their way forward. A well dug in enemy can scarcely be dislodged by any other means than heavy charges of explosive delivered literally to his door. Blocks of TNT and C4, allied with fuses, detonators, and primacord, have long served the infantry in making up satchel charges and daisy chains. These are of course essentially engineers' materials borrowed for frontline use, and they will always be useful, but they remain improvised devices. Primacord is sometimes deployed by itself in ambushes and for small demolition tasks, and its light weight, ease of handling, and flexibility of employment frequently make it useful to the infantry. At the other end of the scale, the huge line charges currently employed for clearing mine fields are formidable munitions, much too heavy for infantry to carry, although they have occasionally been used defensively by dug-in troops and the effectiveness of such linear explosives has been demonstrated convincingly.Ralph Zumbro relates the story:-"The MICLIC (mine clearing line charge) may be only 80% effective on a mine field, but it is 100% effective in an Iraqui infantry company in open formation"Megacord. I propose a light line charge for infantry, something that combines the handiness of primacord with the power of high explosives. Let's call it Megacord for convenience. I envision an extruded plastic explosive about 25 mm in diameter, flexible and easily cut, that comes in plain vanilla for demolition, or embedded w/ precast ceramic "pebbles" for added anti-personnel effect. A standard package of Megacord might be three or four meters long, depending on weight. In most applications, Megacord would be fired using standard detonators and wire, or devices such as ManDet. But I also propose a simple metal or plastic adaptor, threaded to take a grenade or other type of fuse, that can be pressed over the end of a length of Megacord and crimped or taped for security. A short length of Megacord could thus be fused and thrown like a grenade; to make a large demolition device, half a meter to a meter of Megacord can be doubled several times and taped into a manageable bundle. There exists a variety of primacord with a U-shaped cross section. In this form, primacord becomes a small linear shaped charge for cutting tasks. I suggest a version of Megacord extruded w/ a symmetrical Y- or X-shaped cross section which would similarly generate shaped jets for cutting, but with greater power. I specify symmetrical cross sections so that a length of such Megacord can be plopped down in haste, or thrown, and still cut effectively. Megacord will be versatile: wrap it around a column! drape it over a door! string it along a ditch! It will provide explosive power in an adaptable form that can be employed in small amounts (a piece the thickness of a slice of pepperoni can pop off a padlock) or large amounts (two meters can blow down a concrete wall). This would go far toward providing infantry with the portable demolition capability it needs in so many situations.PW:This sounds like an extremely simple and versitile device to use, which are never bad features for infantry weapons. One of the classic uses for normal primacord is to lay it along a ditch, then get the enemy to jump into the ditch for cover when ambushed. Megacord is even more useful since its blast will be effective at a greater range. Lay it along the side of a track or along a street gutter, covered by leaf litter or rubbish and it will probably still be lethal to troops moving down the centre of the path. This is why I favour the "Y" shaped version, since the explosive jets will be focused upward. Megacord camouflaged and placed on walls or tree trunks would not only cut troops in half but drop the trees or walls on them as an afterthought. I like the improvised grenade idea too -just a short length of Megacord or a long bit spiraled onto a ball. Since these will form multi-directional shaped charges they should be more effective than conventional grenades against body armour.


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BMW 328I Parts and BMW 328I Accessories
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The famous BMW 3-series debuted more than 30 years ago and has been successful in capturing the hearts of people all over the world. Its impressive list of credentials is highlighted by being BMW's best-selling line up in the United States. It has spawned numerous models to date, including the BMW 328i. The BMW 328i was introduced in 1996. It became the successor of the 325, which was reintroduced as a 323. With a larger and more powerful 2.8 liter inline 6 engine, the 328i dishes out 190hp. Despite its popularity, there have been some unlikely and frequent missteps here and there. These are the things owners or potential owners should look out for in the 328i.
Cooling system
One of the most common problems encountered with the BMW 328i is the failure of its cooling system. Various parts have been verified to fail uncharacteristically at some point in time. One instance that got the most complaints is the lower fan resistor failure. There have been reports of the heater fan being unable to read its speed setting. Another problem like this stems from the fan not able to be turned on and off. The 328i's affected by these are the 1997, 1999 and 2000 models.
In much recent models, vibrations are prevalent due to low Air Conditioning refrigerant. Vibrations start when the AC is switched on and they stop once it is switched off. Technicians have concluded that leaks may have started to appear from AC system. The 2007-2010 models have reportedly had this concern.
In an improbable event, the BMW 328i had been recalled for issues pertaining to safety. The safety gaffe is found within the air bag deployment system and the safety belt tensioner. A connector was improperly installed on the side air bag and belt tension wiring, creating inadequate contact for it to deploy properly. In September 16, 2009, 2,350 recalls began to address the wiring in order to eliminate further risks. It has been one of the most recent high priority recalls in BMW history.
The plastics inside the BMW 328i may experience some morphing. There were some instances of bulging on the dashboard center air vents and the glove box slumps over time.


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It was a slow morning at the military airfield in the Chapare, the heart of Bolivia's coca-growing area. President Evo Morales had swept into power a year earlier on a populist platform that included allowing coca growers to increase production. I planned to spend the day with the military tracking down jungle labs making coca paste. I also wanted to investigate rumors that the few labs being raided belonged to people who had not paid their dues to the coca growers union, of which Morales was still the president. I sat in the sterile military cafeteria drinking thin coffee with two Bolivian colonels, enduring the standard speeches about the importance of stopping the drug traffic in Bolivia, when suddenly I heard the whine of an incoming Super Puma helicopter. This was a rather odd event, as the Bolivian military has no working helicopters. But the Venezuelan markings on the tail told the story: The helicopter and its crew were on loan from Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. A short while later, the colonels were again interrupted, as three new cars swept in and pulled up on the tarmac. One of the colonels stood up and said it was Evo, and I grabbed my camera bag and strode rapidly toward the helicopter.
Evo was already in the window seat, looking out the sliding door. He was traveling without a large entourage and seemed to recognize me from a photoop a few days before, when I'd been given a few minutes of one-on-one time with him. He gestured for me to get in, and when I asked where he was going, he wryly answered, "Top secret." I turned to Patricio Crooker, my friend and fixer, and apologized for the change of plans, and a minute later I had left him behind on the ground and was flying at 150 miles an hour over broken forest and fields of coca, sitting next to the President of Bolivia. My Spanish is pretty spotty, so I kept my mouth shut. Best was to be like a silent fly on the wall of Bolivia's borrowed Air Force One. When one of Evo's two mobile phones rang, it was dutifully handed to him by a heavily decorated army general (this seemed to be his main job). Evo often addressed his callers as jefe or chief.
On our first stop, we landed in a field and were whisked into 4x4s that drove us to a village that had been decorated for our arrival. Evo was on his home turf—the place of his youth and heartland of his populist political base. People put garlands of flowers and coca leaves around his neck and showered him with confetti; supporters cheering and chanting his name lined the way. Everyone wanted to shake his hand, kiss his cheek, or have their kids photographed with him. We were ushered into an old schoolhouse, where the tables were set for a breakfast of fish-head soup, roasted chicken, rice, cassava, and beer. As the obvious foreigner, I tried to be low-key and sat at a distant table, but midway through the meal Evo looked my way and turned to the Cuban ambassador, who was traveling with him, to ask for a word. Then, with a big smile, he raised his can of non-alcoholic malta in my direction and said, "Cheers!" I was touched, for Evo, an Aymara Indian, doesn't speak any English, and even his Spanish is imperfect. He toasted me again at lunch at another school a few hours later. The best pieces of fish and meat were set before him, but he made sure to distribute them to his bodyguards and the military men who were accompanying him.
After the meal we visited a school expansion, which President Chavez had funded and Evo had come to inaugurate with long-winded speeches. They all started the same way, with Evo demonstrating his new national salute he was hoping would catch on: one hand over the heart and the other hand raised in a clenched fist. He went on to tell how he had nationalized the natural gas fields to give Bolivians more money, how he wanted to use this money to improve their lives, how he supported the rights of farmers to grow more coca, his partnership with Cuba and Venezuela, etc., etc.
We went on to three more school openings in Chapare that day, and once he donned a soccer uniform with "EVO" written on the back and played a match with his bodyguards against the local team. Evo's team won 5-3. As the daylight began to fade I reflected on what had been a most fortuitous day, and I felt an odd sort of kinship with a nation of people who, like me, had willingly been kidnapped by a charming indigenous idealist with a high school education. I didn't know where we were going to end up, but it was a ride I just had to take.


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Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013 | 4:40 p.m.
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A piece of the Life is Beautiful festival disappeared Tuesday.
One of several murals created on downtown buildings for the October festival that celebrated art, music, food and learning was painted over.
To many, the downtown murals were one of the most welcomed aspects of the festival — long after the music ended, the speakers left and the food vendors drove away, the artistry of the murals lived on.
But the mural on the side of the Beat coffeehouse, at 6th and Fremont streets, of a Vegas Vic-like character in front of an old-time slot machine, with hands reaching toward him, is no more.
By early Tuesday afternoon, the Sun had received several reader emails about and smartphone photos of the disappearing mural.
Jennifer Cornthwaite, who operates Emergency Arts, the business adjoining the Beat, said the decision to paint over the mural came because "it didn't reflect the spirit of all the people working downtown at all.
"We want (something) positive that makes people happy and reflects the people that are here."
Cornthwaite added that Interesni Kazki's mural looked like "people are buried; their hands are coming up from what would be the ground."
She said even the Ukrainian artist who painted the mural admitted it had a negative message. When he was contacted and informed it would be painted over, she added, he expressed "surprise it was even up."
"Even he knew it was something that was negative," Cornthwaite said.
Kazki could not immediately be reached for comment.
Cornthwaite said a partnership has now been created between Life is Beautiful, First Friday, Emergency Arts and the El Cortez. They are forming a murals committee and will sponsor a contest, with the winner receiving an unspecified amount of money and the right to paint a mural on the Emergency Arts building wall. They also are considering changing the mural every year or so, she said.
"I think we'll come back with something way more representative," she said.
Ed Fuentes, an arts journalist and photographer who catalogued much of downtown Los Angeles' redevelopment, characterized Kazki's mural as "one of the cool ones."
He said a mural can do one of two things: be a brand for a project, such as Life is Beautiful, or be something that allows an artist "to do or say what he or she wants."
"At some point you have to decide: Is it the creative people or the marketing people who decide what can happen downtown?" he said. "It's a negotiation at times, but one that has to be defined."
In the end, the biggest thing that may have come out of the disappearing mural is the demonstration that, for the first time in many years, art in a once-forgotten section of downtown is something people want and are beginning to notice.
Joe Schoenmann doesn't just cover downtown, he lives and works there. Schoenmann is Greenspun Media Group's embedded downtown journalist, working from an office in the Emergency Arts building.


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Tony Blair's father Leo has died aged 89, the former prime minister's office announced today.
Mr Blair, who was with his father when he passed away earlier today, said he was "privileged to have him as a Dad".
The former PM - who pulled out of an engagement with former US president Bill Clinton last night after his father fell ill - said: "He was a remarkable man. Raised in a poor part of Glasgow, he worked his way up from nothing, with great ambitions dashed by serious illness on the very brink of their fulfilment.
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"He lost my mother, whom he adored, when she was still young. Yet despite it all he remained animated by an extraordinary spirit that was in him until the end.
"I was privileged to have him as a Dad."
Leo Blair, the illegitimate son of two English actors, was adopted as a baby by Glasgow shipyard worker James Blair and his wife, Mary.
His second son, Tony, now 59, was born in Edinburgh in 1953 and the future Prime Minister spent the first 19 months of his life at the family home in the Willowbrae area of the city while his father worked as a junior tax inspector and studied for a law degree from Edinburgh University.


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Australia has been suffering under a heat wave. New Zealand is having one of its hottest and driest summers on record. On cue the climate changers start beating their little drums with all the frenetic pace of the Energizer Bunny. "See, we told you. Global warming. All this heat. It's proof that the climate is changing." Blah, blah, blah.
With one minor problem. Just a small one. Usually these extreme weather events are reported with a little codicil, often announced sotto voce, that runs like this: "we are experiencing the hottest summer ever since . . . " What follows after the little preposition "since" skewers the credibility of the climate changers.
Miranda Devine takes up the case:
Aussies have weathered nature's extremes before
Miranda Devine
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
CLIMATE alarmists have waited a while for a good heatwave to press their case that human activities are causing unprecedented catastrophic global warming. This summer the weather delivered.
Right on cue, after a record string of hot days across Australia, the ABC, The Guardian (UK) , the Climate Commission, the CSIRO and the UN's IPCC (coincidentally meeting in bushfire-racked Tasmania) all trotted out scary climate statements. The Bureau of Meteorology even added an extra colour to its heat scale, even though previous charts have included temperatures over 50C, and there have been hotter days in the past.
Yes there have. There really, really have.
Take the 50.7C at Oodnadatta Airport in South Australia on January 2, 1960, or the 50.3C the next day. Hot stuff.
Australia has always had extreme heat, droughts, bushfire and flooding rains. To prove it, let's go to a contemporaneous source. Sir John Henniker Heaton kindly recorded it all for us in 1879 in the Australian Dictionary Of Dates, which a reader has provided. It is an invaluable primary resource, as you will see. (I have translated temperatures from fahrenheit to celsius).
December 27, 1790: "Great heat in Sydney, 39C in the shade. Settlement visited by myriads of flying foxes, birds dropped dead from the trees."
February 10 and 11, 1791: "On which days the temperature at Sydney stood in the shade at 41C, the heat was so excessive at Parramatta, made worse by the bushfires, that immense numbers of the large fox-bats were seen to drop from the trees into the water, and many dropped dead on the wing."
Heaton quotes from The Sydney Gazette of November 29, 1826: "The heat and hot wind of Saturday last excelled all that we ever experienced in the colony. On board the Volage man-of-war (a naval vessel), in the shade, the thermometer was 41C, and on the shore it was, in some parts of the town, 38C, and in others 40C.
"To traverse the streets was truly dreadful, the dust rose in thick columns, and the northwest wind, from which quarter our hot winds invariably proceed, was assisted in its heat by the surrounding country being all on fire, so that those who were compelled to travel felt themselves encircled with lambent flames. Sydney was more like the mouth of Vesuvius than anything else."
Again from The Sydney Gazette, February 21, 1832: "Saturday was one of the hottest days ever remembered. The recent rains having saturated the earth, the atmosphere was impregnated by an aqueous vapour not unlike steam issuing from a boiler, while the sun poured down all the fury of his heat. It was dreadful. "Man and beast groaned beneath the oppression, and numbers of working oxen dropped down dead on the public roads."
The bullocks were even worse off on Saturday, March 18, 1832, which The Sydney Gazette reported was "insufferably warm. At 1pm, the thermometer was 54C in the sun. The cattle suffered much. Working bullocks dropped dead."
Of course it was much hotter in Central Australia. Heaton records explorer Captain Charles Sturt's account of November 11, 1845: "The wind, which had been blowing all the morning hot from the NE, increased to a gale, and I shall never forget its withering effects. I sought shelter behind a large gum tree, but the blasts of heat were so terrific that I wondered the very grass did not take fire. Everything both animate and inanimate gave way before it.
"The horses stood with their backs to the wind and their noses to the ground, the birds were mute, and the leaves of the trees fell like a shower around us. At noon I took out my thermometer, graduated to 53C, and put it in the fork of a tree, and an hour afterwards when I went to examine it; the tube was full of mercury and the bulb burst."
On January 11, 1878, Heaton reported that, on the Lower Macquarie River, at 2.30pm, a thermometer registered 47C in the shade. At 5.30pm it was still 43C.
He records the fate of one Lieutenant Lowe, in January, 1840: "at the floods on the Namoi, [he] was perched on the trunk of an uprooted tree ; the rains had ceased, the thermometer was at 38C, a glaring sun and a coppery sky were above him; he looked in vain for help; but no prospect of escape animated him, and the hot sun began its dreadful work. His skins blistered, dried, became parched and hard like the bark of a tree and life began to ebb…He was literally scorched to death."
There were "disastrous bushfires throughout the south and west of NSW in January, 1870, fires burning on each side of the line on the southern railway, the railway porters and others beating it out with bushes, and waiting at the stations with water for the passengers to drink, and a truck on the Goulburn train catching fire near Liverpool on January 18".
He records years of drought (interspersed with floods), including the three-year drought from 1825-27: "One of the most severe droughts ever known in NSW, with great scarcity of water in Sydney and suburbs, only two months' supply being left in the Botany dams, and water being sold at a very high rate in Parramatta."
In January and February 1791, wrote Heaton, there were "several weeks of excessive heat, hot winds, birds dropped dead from trees and everything burnt up, stream of water supplying Sydney nearly dried up".
And so on.
Australians were religious about their climate in the past as well. Heaton wrote they prayed for rain on November 2, 1858, and "for breaking up of drought" on November 2, 1876, and on March 1, 1878, with a fast day and "day of humiliation".
Australia has never had a mild and easy climate. Whatever is the extent of global warming and any human contribution to climate change, exaggerating the 2013 heatwave is just another green lie which will blow up in all our faces.
NSW hit a high of 48.3 degrees on Saturday at Bourke, according to the Bureau of Meteorology, and Sydney hit 42.3 degrees last Tuesday.
But we haven't come close to the highest state temperature on record, (BoM records have been kept since 1910) which was 49.7 degrees in Menindee on January 10, 1939.
Or even to the 48.9 recorded at Brewarrina on December 9, 1912.
And in the 19th Century, long before BoM took notice, there were hot days recorded in Sydney, and elsewhere, by Sir John Henniker Heaton in his 1879 Australian Dictionary of Dates. Here is a sample which should throw cold water on climate alarm enthusiasts trying to seize the latest temperatures for propaganda purposes.
1826, November 29, in Sydney: 40C in the shade
1832, March 18 in Sydney: 54C in the sun
1833, February, in Bathurst: 41C (sun)
1835, January 31, in Sydney: 43C (shade)
1837, February 23 in Sydney: 56C (sun)
1839, January 29, in Yass: 49C (sun)
1845, January 21, Central Australia: 55C (shade)
1845, November 1, Central Australia: 53C (shade)
1848, January 1 on the Paterson (Hunter Valley): 53C (sun)
1848, January 3 on the Paterson: 43C (shade) (At 10.30 p m. it was still 33C)
1863, January 5, in Sydney: 42 (shade)
1866, January 8, in Lochinvar (Hunter Valley): 42 (shade)
1867, January 2, in Lochinvar: 42 (shade)
1867, November 16 ,in Lochinvar: 40 (shade)
1867, December 25 in Lochinvar: 41 (shade)
1870, January 3, at Sydney: 41 (shade)
1871, December 22 at Sydney: 40 (shade)
1878, November 21 at Sydney: 55C (sun): "Glass burst, and the temperature must have been over 55C to do this."


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We are cruising to that area and have a day to soend there. Should we take a tour from the cruise line or do our own thing? It seems like there are trams to the top and not sure we need a guided tour???
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We were in Gibraltar a couple of years ago, there is a tram that goes to the top but make sure of closing times because if it stops running, you are stuck walking down. The site is well-signed and there is lots of information in English, so unless you are a person who loves a tour guide you can probably get through it alone. Plan on lots and LOTS of walking and stairs nonetheless.
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There is a cable car to the top (is that what you mean by tram)? After that a little wandering - but IMHO not a lot to see.
We felt it was a waste.
Do you have the option of seeing part of Spain instead?
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Gibraltar? Better to look at from afar than visit. You should spend your time in Cádiz and enjoy yourself.
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An English friend and I were talking about places to go recently. She mentioned Gibraltar so we had a long look on Google Streetview. We couldn't find anywhere that looked interesting or inviting in any way. Now we may have just missed the charm somehow but, in any case, we decided to not go there.
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Eh, since your cruise is forcing you to stop there, you might as well have a look around, see the apes, etc. I wouldn't suggest anyone go there, but since you have to stop, make the most of it.
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The "apes" are monkeys - that are half-tame, ill-tempered, nasty and given to stealing and biting.
Any reasons you can't do Cadiz or similar instead?
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We are stopping on a cruise-thanks for the good advice. Maybe we will just take a tram to the top
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nytraveler - no, the animals are Barbary Apes. They also live in the Middle Atlas of Morocco. Supposedly there is a tunnel under the Straits which allowed them to migrate to the Rock, but it's never been found.
Wordsmith - after looking at the apes, go to the bar of the Rock Hotel and have a G&T or some tea. It's the traditional thing to do.
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The weirdest thing about Gibraltar is driving from the Spanish fronrier and going across the airport tarmac to get to the town.
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St. Michael's Cave was interesting as were the Great Siege Tunnels. And, I liked the Barbary Apes.
Stayed at the Rock Hotel. Hired a taxi driver to be our guide. Saw everything.
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To tell you how exciting Gibraltar is, Spain no longer has any interest in getting it back from the British. Something to do about the Apes?
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Spain no longer has any interest in getting it back from the British.
It's a good reason to stay on Gib and not go into Spain
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Oops, my mistake. They are actually monkeys !
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Well I don't know why so many are slamming Gibraltar - I wouldn't want to spend any length of time there but for a day stop on a cruise, it is interesting enough. We took the cable car up and enjoyed the amazing views, then walked to where we could watch the apes. From that point you can look down on all the taxi tours coming thru and watch the antics of the apes with your fellow passengers - it was quite entertaining IMO. We have also done one of the taxi tours and found the cave fortifications somewhat interesting. If you don't want to do the tour, you can take a local bus to where the cable car goes up.
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Well of course they're monkeys. Apes are gorillas, chimps and orangutans - totally different from the many species of monkeys.
And they are still nasty, steal things from tourists and can bite if not fed.
We spent 4 hours - including lunch - and it was 2 hours too long - compared to all there is to see and do in Spain.
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I would not go if I was you. Queues can be long at times and at the moment the UK and Spain are having a fizzy fit.
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"Spain no longer has any interest in getting it back from the British"
Spain wants to take control of the Rock, it all got noisy again over the weekend. I think if I was in that part of the world I would pop in and have a visit. But it is really a very small town, only 25k citizens and about 10k Spaniards come over to work each day.
During the noisy periods the link with Spain is slowed down by paper work. So the only people hurt by the slow down is the 10k Spanish.
It is not really a British issue, but the locals vote to stay British time and again with startling high agreement and turn out.
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>>I would not go if I was you. Queues can be long at times and at the moment the UK and Spain are having a fizzy fit.<<
But I understood the OP is arriving IN Gibraltar on a cruise ship, so the queues in/out of Spain are irrelevant in the OP's case.
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>>To tell you how exciting Gibraltar is, Spain no longer has any interest in getting it back from the British.<<
Officially they do, of course, but I suspect its real value is as a way of providing Spanish governments in difficulty with something to make a distracting noise about (quite apart from the general economic situation, the PM is facing some difficult personal allegations).
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The best thing we saw was a stupid tourist who ignored the signs that warned not to take food out of the coffee bar at the primary ape site.
A Barbary ape jumped on her head and reached down over her shoulders to steal the food off her plate. He was a persistent devil, and though she did not have a scratch, she was not a happy tourist in the minute or so it took to get rid of him. Opinion was generally in favor of the ape.
It is a place about as utterly lacking in charm as any place we have ever been. All that is missing is poisonous snakes. But it is fascinating to look across to Africa and to see the amount of shipping that still passes through the Straits.
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We thought it was a quirky little corner of the world. Not that we would return, but it did not make us throw up on our shoes either.
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nytraveler - No, it's not "of course" they're monkeys, unless you're a primatologist which I rather doubt. They've been called apes since 1791.
Yes, Spain is much more interesting than Gib, but the OP will not be able to visit it from the Rock. The border crossing currently takes 6 hrs in both directions. I feel certain they'll visit other ports right in Spain.
The apes are wild animals, and people shouldn't expect them to be friendly. They need to take care.
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Some not so smart people thimk they are the Barbary of Seville.
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Most of the comments actually make me laugh a bit. It seems like Gibraltar is the worst place to be on the planet for some people here due to not being able to come along with the monos.
Tour or no tour should be depending on how you enjoy traveling the most. If I had a whole day to spend in Gib, I'd do everything on my own by walking. You could do something like this:
Get off the cruise and walk straight in the direction of Ocean Village. Enter on the pedestrian bridge to your left located at the end of the bus parking lot. That little exclusive residential area has a tiny marina with some fast food restaurants around. As it is en-route to the Main Street anyway, it's worth a peak for sure. If you feel like taking a look at the unique cross-the-airstrip-to-get-to-the-border situation, walk towards the Casino and take a right at the end of the boardwalk. It's only a five minutes' walk.
If not interested in the latter, leave Ocean Village just at the beginning of the "boardwalk" with the restaurants and bars to your left, cross the roundabout, enter casemates, grab a highly recommended smoothie at Joost little booth in the middle of the square and walk up Main Street. Take your time, as you are not in a hurry.
The cable car station (it's not a tram) is located at the southern end of the Main Street. On your way you'll pass the small Trafalgar Cemetery. You may want to pop into the Botanic Garden before or after. Also, have a look at Moorish Castle. Make sure to drink and eat before entering the Rock, as the monos know their business once bagpacks are being opened. If you show no fear and don't act a fool, you might well find one of them sitting on your shoulder or doing the high-five if they feel like it. Sit down someplace next to them on the road and enjoy watching the average tourists' behaviour and the monos' smart reactions. Make sure to see a guided-tour bus stopping next to one of the monos and enjoy the little show.
Visit the St. Michael's cave. However, in your shoes, I'd contact my travel agency to find out if they knew some locals to ask them to schedule a special cave tour by local guides in some other hidden caves, which are not accessible unless you know someone knowing the guide. You would be surprised to see all the beauties inside. Furthermore, you could actually take a swim in the lake inside of the Rock and learn so much more about the history of Gibraltar and its tunnel system. But well, that requires prior arrangements for sure. It's roughly a two hours tour and a real hidden gem in Gibraltar, most tourists have no clue about. Other than that, the St. Michael's Cave gives you a small idea of what's really inside the Rock.
The Siege Tunnels on the other side will offer you a decent view onto the mainland, the airport and have some interesting information to share, too.
Don't be too worried about the cable car. The last depature is scheduled for 19.45.
Oh, and in case you really enjoy hiking and are fit, you might find it interesting to climb up the Mediterranean Steps instead of taking the cable car.
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I agree with MaloBalo.The rock is an interesting day trip!
What is your option, to stay on the cruise ship? On a clear day, you can see Africa. To walk/cross over the runway and visit the Spanish side is definitely not interesting.
It is fun to say you have actually been there!
Before you get back on board, do walk around and check out/compare the prices of things that interest you-it's duty free.
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Yoga Seems to Ease Fatigue, Reduce Inflammation in Diagnosed Women
A small study suggests that practicing yoga for as little as 3 months can ease fatigue and reduce inflammation in women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.
The research was published online on Jan. 27, 2014 by the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Read the abstract of "Yoga's Impact on Inflammation, Mood, and Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Randomized Controlled Trial."
Breast cancer treatment can be very hard on the body. Many women report feeling stressed and exhausted during and after treatment. When the body is stressed, it tends to become inflamed as a response. Chronic inflammation is linked to a number of health problems, including heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and almost all autoimmune disorders.
Earlier small studies suggest that yoga can improve quality of life, as well as ease sleeping problems in women who've been diagnosed with breast cancer. So the researchers who did this study wanted to know if yoga could help reduce inflammation and fatigue, too.
The study involved 200 women who had been diagnosed with stage 0 to stage IIIA breast cancer. The women were between 27 and 76 years old and had had their last surgery or radiation treatment 2 months to 3 years earlier. None of the women had done yoga before.
The researchers randomly assigned the women to one of two options:
- two small-group, 90-minute hatha yoga classes per week for 12 weeks
- being placed on a waiting list for the yoga classes
While the women attended only two yoga classes per week, the researchers encouraged the women in the yoga group to practice the yoga postures at home. The women kept track of the total time per week they practiced yoga.
The researchers measured the women's levels of inflammation by measuring the levels of three proteins in the blood that are markers of inflammation:
- interleukin-6
- interleukin-1 beta
- tumor necrosis factor-alpha
The researchers also measured the women's levels of fatigue, vitality, energy levels, sleep quality, physical activity, moods, and eating habits using standard surveys.
All these variables were measured before the yoga classes started and then 3 months after the study started (when the yoga classes ended), and 6 months after the study started (3 months after the yoga classes ended).
Overall, compared to women who were on the waiting list, women who took the yoga classes had lower inflammation levels and higher vitality scores.
Three months after the study started, at the end of the yoga classes, compared to women on the waiting list, women in the yoga group had:
- 41% lower fatigue
- 12% higher vitality scores
- 11% lower interleukin-6 levels
- 15% lower interleukin-1 beta levels
- 10% lower tumor necrosis factor-alpha levels
Six months after the study started, 3 months after the yoga classes ended, compared to the women on the waiting list, women in the yoga group had:
- 57% lower fatigue
- 13% to 20% lower inflammation levels
When the researchers looked at the amount of time the women practiced yoga, they found that women who practiced yoga for the most time per week had even lower levels of fatigue and inflammation, as well as higher levels of vitality. These women also reported sleeping better than the women on the waiting list.
Yoga, which means "union," is a 5,000-year-old system of principles and practices originating in India. Yoga incorporates exercise, stretching, breathing, and meditation with the intention of bringing together the mind, body, and spirit. One of the most frequently practiced types of yoga is hatha yoga, which uses physical poses and breathing techniques to increase strength, flexibility, and well-being. Hatha yoga was the kind of yoga used in this study.
If you're experiencing fatigue or inflammation because of breast cancer treatment, you might want to talk to your doctor about yoga to see if it's right for you and your unique situation. If you're thinking about doing yoga, consider a class that is taught by an instructor familiar with the special needs of breast cancer patients. An experienced instructor can tailor poses to accommodate any physical limitations you might have because of your treatment. Some breast cancer patients can have arm and shoulder problems that could be aggravated by some yoga poses.
In the Breastcancer.org Complementary & Holistic Medicine pages you can learn more, including:
- what to expect
- how to find a qualified practitioner
- important things to consider before trying a technique
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very good for a first review, glad to see you doin this Jesuslaves
Though Hetfield muttering 'c'mon shoot me again, I ain't dead yet' in his best Chad Kroeger voice is worth the price of admission.
Could never see myself rating this more than 3 but you back up your points very well. Just look at the ratings though, its like the ultimate stairway down on Sputnik. Anyone who rates this a 5 though seriously needs their head examined. Pos'd
EDIT: Recommended tracks needs moar FRANTIC-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TOCK
Album does get too much crap but it's still bad.
Review wasn't though, pos'd.
Album Rating: 1.5only metallica album I havent heard...and by the looks of it, looks like I should avoid it. Good first review though.
Album Rating: 1.5title track is addicting sometimes, but horrible album otherwise
Really good first review
I like two (maybe three?) songs off this album. Its cool to see you back up your list from earlier though.
Album Rating: 1.5i think corenotgore should back up his lists too
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good review.
shit album.
though hey has it right. title track ain't half bad.
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Album Rating: 1.5naughtily bad album. review was good though
Nice review man, pos'd
Album Rating: 2.0album is good
Seems to me that your rating should be a 3 at most, based on your review. Otherwise I really enjoyed it so I' ll pos.
This is Metallica's most "love it or hate it" album, and I 'm on the "love it" side. It has some obvious faults (that you nicely stated) but I liked the rawness of the album and the fact that Metallica try to sound modern (with all tha garage influences or groovy riffs) without losing their identity. And some songs are really good. Not "Master of Puppets" good, but good
Only heard title track and FRANTIC TICK TICK TICK TICK, but it's enough to tell me to stay away
Album Rating: 3.0excellent review pos'd. album gets too much hate, but its not that great either, between 2.5 and 3 for me. the problem isnt the drums or the production, its that most the songs just arent good enough
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Ted Landau
January 2005
Years ago, while watching syndicated reruns of Star Trek, I was certain that some scenes were being cut from each episode. Sure enough, a few days later, an article in the newspaper confirmed this. The reason? Not censorship, but lack of time. More specifically, when the episodes first aired, the number of minutes devoted to commercials was several minutes less (per episode) than was presently the case. To make the reruns accommodate the increased commercial time, the station deleted a few scenes from each episode. This practice is now fairly common, and you will notice it in many rerun shows now in syndication.
The sad truth is that the minutes/hour devoted to commercials has continued to increase over the years. Up until 1992, stations adhered to a self-imposed limit of 9.5 minutes per hour in prime time. Even this limit represented more minutes per hour than had been common in previous decades. However, the restriction was dropped altogether when it was ruled in violation of anti-trust laws. Stations were then free to run as many commercials as they thought the public could tolerate. Apparently, they thought the public could tolerate quite a bit. The number of commercial minutes per hour has since almost doubled to the current level of about 19 minutes per hour in prime time! For daytime shows, it goes even higher (reaching 21 minutes/hour on some shows). There are times when the duration of a commercial break goes on for so long, that it starts to feel as if the show itself is the interruption, rather than the reverse. This has led me to just about give up on watching TV programs when they are broadcast. Instead, I tape the shows I want to watch and view them they next day -- so that I can fast-forward through the ads (more about ad-skipping in a moment).
If you watch sports on television (which is one case where tape delay doesn't work as well; I don't want to watch today's football game tomorrow), it can get even worse. In football, for example, commercials often occur with almost every stop in the action. It's especially annoying after a touchdown; the network goes to commercial after the touchdown, again after the extra point, and again after the ensuing kick-off return. For about 10 seconds of action, you get something like 6 minutes or more of commercials. Then there are the enforced "referee's time-outs" -- whose only purpose is to guarantee that you don't go too long without a commercial. But wait; there's more! The advertisement blitz continues with the "billboard" ads that surround basketball courts and hockey rinks, and remain annoyingly in view as you are watching the game. Then, of course, there are the various worthless (in my view) "statistics" that are posted on your screen throughout the game -- whose real function is to shill for some product rather than provide information (with names like the "Gillette close shave of the game"). On top of this pile, add the promo messages that appear on screen while the game is actually in progress (typically used to promote upcoming shows on the network). Even the names of the arena or stadium (e.g., SBC Park; Ford Field) and the event itself (e.g., the FedEx Orange Bowl) often include product names. Is there no limit? Has the word "overload" been removed from the dictionary?
Sadly, ad over-saturation is not limited to television. You are not safe even in your local supermarket. Ads are everywhere: on your shopping cart, on the floor, on the dividers used to separate orders at the checkout conveyers, on the extra coupons you get when you get your receipt, and on and on.
Enough already. A desert island starts sounding good as a permanent residence on some days.
Getting back to television: I am not alone in taking action to avoid commercials. But advertisers are fighting back. Because of the trend to use devices such as VCRs and TiVo machines to bypass ads, stations are increasingly using commercial overlays (as pioneered in sports TV) in regular prime time shows. The "advantage" of these ads is that you can't block them without missing the show itself!
Then there's the increasingly popular trend towards product-placement advertising. When the star of a TV show (or a movie) grabs a bottle of Coke, you can be sure that it's not a random choice of cola. Coca-Cola is paying for this exposure. Now, even these relatively unobtrusive placements are not sufficient. We are on the verge of "advertainment" (as covered in a recent Denver Post article). In these cases, the product actually becomes a key component of the program/movie. For TV, this was pioneered by game shows, such as the Price is Right -- where the entire game becomes an excuse to promote one product after another. But you can now expect to see this approach integrated into the plots of weekly series (such as Ford's Mustang as a key component of the plot on Fox's "The O.C"). It's already old news in movies (recall the vehicles showcased in Tomb Raider and James Bond movies). Actually, one of the most annoying examples of product placement I have even seen was for (of all things!) Apple's iPod. In Blade 3: Trinity, there is an entire subplot that revolves around a character's use of an iPod and ITMS. It serves no purpose whatsoever except as a commercial.
A mutant variation of the product placement concept are commercials masquerading as something else. This is currently in vogue on the Web. Prime examples are American Express' Seinfield-Superman episodes and the mini-movies shown at the Amazon Theater.
And I haven't even broached the subject of ads that arrive via junk email and junk faxes.
There's no escape. I am now convinced that even if I did move to a desert island, I'd be subjected to banners from planes flying overhead and flyers that arrive in bottles.
But it gets still worse. The powers-that-be want to take away one of the few tools available to counter this onslaught: the ability to fast-forward through TV commercials. You may recall that ReplayTV was once a strong competitor to TiVo. ReplayTV went bankrupt largely because Hollywood studios sued it for including an automatic ad-skipping feature. The new owners of ReplayTV have dropped this feature. Similarly, I was in an electronics store last year, looking at a VCR with a built-in ad-skipping feature. The salesman told me that if I wanted this feature, I better buy it now -- because next year's model was dropping the ad-skipping capability. Why? Pressure from Hollywood had forced them to do so. Even TiVo has started to include more ads integrated into its subscription service.
Hollywood has even gotten Congress to help them out. House Resolution 4077, also known as the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2004, makes it legal for DVD players to include a feature that permits automatic skipping of R-rated scenes. Yet, somehow not seeing this as inconsistent, Congress is also working on legislation that would specifically prohibit video players from including features that skip commercials.
Looming on the horizon: With DVD recorders growing in popularity and HD-capable recorders becoming cheaper, Hollywood (panicked at the prospect of movie piracy) is seeking restrictions on a user's ability to copy television broadcasts to a DVD. The days when you could make TV recordings for your personal use may soon be over. But that's another story. I'd tell you about it now. But we have to go to commercial.
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