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Exotic. Mysterious. A pulsating maze of colors, sights and smells, more Middle Eastern than Chinese. How do you begin to describe this mesmerizing 3000 year old oasis and trading mecca along the Silk Road?? An ethnic blend of Uyghurs, Tajiks, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, and Han Chinese, some things in the Old Town of Kashgar haven't changed since medieval times. Every narrow lane beckons you to explore the bazaars full of shimmering silk, knives, jewelry and carpets all moving to the rhythmic beat of metalworkers, cobblers, and weavers producing quality wares by hand; trades passed from generation to generation.
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Back to my exploration, I had enough time to venture out the places like Rudaki Park, Somoni Statue, Tajikistan Palace, Rudaki Statue to Ayni Opera and Ballet theatre etc. The major part was an indelible trip to Khujand, second largest city in the northern most province. Khujand is also considered as the oldest city, approximately 2500 years old, sits on the banks of Syr river. It was around 6 hours drive through some kicksmacking landscapes, passing through Zeravshan Range, Turkestan Mountain and 10-12 km long tunnels up in the Himalayas. Almost half of Tajikistan is situated in an elevation of 3,000 meters with a maximum elevation of 5,500 meters.
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Extraordinary senior: Danielle Ripka
For Danielle Ripka, dance is more than an art; it's a way to connect classmates.
It's a bridge linking the worlds of special-needs students, who use dance as an outlet of expression, and those who want to be their mentors and role models.
Her efforts began four years ago when she started volunteering at Dancing Dreams, a Queens-based nonprofit for children with physical challenges.
Ripka took what she learned there and brought it last year into Jammin' Jayhawks, a program started by her older twin siblings that allows Jericho 's physically and mentally disabled students to play sports each week under the guidance of volunteer classmates. The program's five-week dance portion attracted 30 volunteers and 15 special-needs students this spring.
"It's not about ability," said Ripka, 17. "It's about having fun without being judged."
Ripka also created her school's Corner to Corner Book Club, which invites students to review non-curriculum books on a district website; it has about 100 reviews now. And she directed this year's school fashion show, which raised more than $10,000 for Cohen Children's Medical Center.
In addition, Ripka is the founder of Let's All Dance, a program that places bins at several local dance schools to collect gently used dance wear for underprivileged children.
"Danielle does not simply observe from afar," said her guidance counselor, Brian Deaner. "She is a leader who takes a hands-on approach in everything that she accomplishes."
HER PLANS: Ripka will attend Northwestern University in Illinois; her major is undecided.
AT COLLEGE I'M MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO:"The freedom of being on my own. And the added responsibility."
HIGH SCHOOL HIGH POINT: "Being elected co-president of Student Council. It's an honor because the whole student body votes, so it feels good to be picked by your peers."


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Moses, now 38, a dance instructor at Stanford University, and a spring-tight mover, is in the midst of a two-week San Francisco run of his evening of modern dance. It is a program that fuses intellect, eros, and emotion inside an intensely physical, often rugged landscape full of echoes of his own eclectic training: ODC/SF, Twyla Tharp, Alvin Ailey, ballet, club dancing, Afro-Haitian, even tap. Themes wind through the concert's five works like underground rivers that repeatedly surface and submerge, but his recent work is rarely polemical. Instead, ideas quietly undergird the dances, from race and gender to justice and truth to the deep, sweet, overlooked complexity of the blues. More personal dilemmas also suffuse his compositions, subjects like loneliness, intimacy, sacrifice, and sorrow. Occasionally a symbolic gesture, like the T shape of crucifixion, crops up repeatedly, as in "Lucifer's Prance," a fiercely beautiful and Dante-esque ensemble piece created last year and set to sections of Philip Glass' album Akhnaten.
But Moses' desire to communicate -- which bursts out of his motley, intensely polished performers as though their very beings depended on it -- is offset by a wary refusal to be pinned down. As he talks, he twists in his chair away from his listener, looking ready to bolt, already halfway to somewhere else. From such physical torque Moses creates an incessant play of contradictions; the effect, in both the work and the man, is of a search for the impossible unity of opposites.
"I think it's interesting to see something go in one direction and then get pulled back in the opposite direction," he said last week in San Francisco. In the new "Dirt Roads and Back Doors," a paean to both the rural south and the blues (with selections from Howlin' Wolf and John Lee Hooker, among others), the men lift the women, the women pitch away, and the men tug them back with an elegant muscularity that's at once sensual and compassionately conflictual. "It says something about the relationship, but it first creates physical shock in the viewer to see them doing something unexpected." How they do the unexpected is also important, he notes, but the constant idea is to fill the space between things as often as possible. To do so, there must first be space to fill, which may be why Moses' dances are forever packing in steps and speed and proximity and emptying them out again with silence or stasis.
A few days before my conversation with Moses, as rehearsal progressed at the S.F. Dance Center on Oak Street, the dancers avoided the white plastic buckets collecting water from the leaking, peeling ceiling, dancing as if the curtain had just risen on the Gershwin Theater stage. In "Back Roads," the statuesque Danielle Colding stood mutely amidst the frenzy of the other dancers, strength and despair sculpted into her stance. During "Lucifer's Prance" Amy Foley pitched away in jeté, returned, and did it again as Brian Grannan fell onto his shoulders and launched himself back up onto his feet, seeming tied to Foley by an invisible bungee cord. Elsewhere, the women hurled themselves dangerously at the men, and the men caught and held their partners in beautifully strange and unnameable positions. Then, just as the dances came to seem predictably heterosexual, a mysteriously communal trio of men formed. As the work accumulated, it became clear that Moses avoids easy reductions or quid pro quos. Instead he moves deeper into pared-down complexity, even when the dances seem ornately decorated by syncopated limbs.
That ability to distill arises in part from his 10 years at ODC/SF, where artistic director Brenda Way allowed each dancer the latitude to approach similar movements differently, and every dancer had to know what all the others were up to. But his drive to find elegant expressions of complex situations is also a drive to snare the ornery truth -- such as that both Martin Luther King Jr. and Elijah Mohammad refuted Malcolm X, that racism is so deep lots of people can't even see it, or that we're all elementally flawed. It's knowing as a child that if the patrons of his family's store had no money, then his family had none, either. And knowing as a man that understanding how people view you is important, but that "after a certain point, it becomes a rampaging beast and you have to let it go." There's melancholy in the effort to hold contradictory ideas together in one's mind. For Moses, consequently, a certain sorrow finds its way on stage, even when his choreography is joyous. Still, he remains undaunted. "The idea of sorrow -- I like that," he said. "It's real."


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Meet the priest who takes selfies with stars to raise money for good causes
A priest has become the envy of his parishoners with his high-flying lifestyle which he records in selfies with scantily-clad models and rock stars.
The real-life Fr Trendy from the parish of Partry in Co Mayo has been attracting a lot of attention on his Facebook page, but for Fr John Kenny it's all a bit of fun and helps him raise money for charity.
One of his latest selfies, a cheeky snap with model Emma Quinlan, has earned him the status of legend.
"The poor girl was too cold to get out of the car because of what she was wearing. I just jumped into the car beside her and took the selfie for the fun of it while we were waiting around," Fr Kenny explained after attending the launch of the recent Cannonball Run at Mondello Park.
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The snap drew plenty of cheeky comments from friends and parisioners of the avid paddleboarder and petrolhead.
"A fine pair, ye make a fine pair," joked one man.
"Is she single? or twin turbo?..the car that is," wrote another.
Fr Kenny has participated in events such as Cycle for Suicide and Darkness Into Light.
The Laura Lynn and Barretstown charities have also benefited from his fundraising efforts. He's also taken to the catwalk for charity, looking dapper in waistcoat and bow tie.
Photographs from his account - where he has 1,800 friends - also show him posing with former Rose of Tralee Maria Walsh, ITV star Christine Bleakley whom he met while she was filming series The Wild Atlantic Way, Sinead O'Connor and Taoiseach Enda Kenny.
There is also a photograph of him with three Brazilian dancers.
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He said the charity events and his Facebook page bring him closer to his parishioners, as well as highlighting the work the various different charities do.
Fr Kenny also takes selfies of himself with couples he has just wed.


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There is no shortage of racing games on the iPhone. And the bar has been significantly raised the recent releases of Fast & Furious and Need for Speed Underground. While it would be great to see OutRun revived for the iPhone (have you downloaded the XBLA multiplayer edition?), Crazy Taxi is different enough to stand out from the crowd. It is an over-the-top arcade racer with unending replay value for gamers that are tuned into its silly concept of getting passengers all over town regardless of safety risks.
Naturally, steering would be handled by tilting the phone. On-screen buttons for forward, reverse, and braking are essential. The iPhone game could include the cities from the first two games in the series. (There was a third Crazy Taxi, but let's not discuss it now. Or ever, really.) And although listening to the Offspring is such a critical part of the original game, the licensing might not be worth it, especially if the cost is passed on to the gamer. So let the player listen to their own music while scaring the pants off fares.
Phantasy Star Online
SEGA's Phantasy Star Online series took a major hit with Phantasy Star Universe. It needs to go back to its roots on the Dreamcast. The original Phantasy Star Online was often likened to crack back in 2001, and for good reason -- the game is freakishly addicting. You always want to play just... one... more... mission to level up your character, earn a little more cash, get a new magic spell, and see if you can land some rare weapon. The missions were not huge timesinks in and of themselves, but because it was so easy to roll into them, you could spend hours in front of the game without really trying. The only thing that made smashing through a dungeon better was doing it with friends.
The iPhone needs a game like this. There is no marquee MMO for the iPhone. There will likely be one soon. SEGA could be that MMO if it moved Phantasy Star Online to the iPhone. While it might be tough to get the game running smoothly over the 3G network, it could definitely be done via Wi-Fi. And with 3.0 allowing in-game commerce, SEGA could squeeze a little extra revenue out of Phantasy Star Online by charging for extra mission packs. Just don't charge extra for mags. In fact, don't touch the unique evolution system for mags at all. Eight years later, the mystery of the mags in Phantasy Star Online remains one of its greatest triumphs.
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Jet Grind Radio... Jet Set Radio... whatever you choose to call it, if you played any of these games in the past on the Dreamcast or Xbox, you know how stylish and cool they are. From the costumes of the heroes to the soundtracks (seriously, to spray graffiti while "Birthday Cake" screeches in the background is an immortal moment), the Jet Set Radio games are loaded with personality and flair. But it's not just the production values and inherent cool that make them so good. These are very playable games. Racing through downtown with a dozen peace officers in pursuit, grinding a rail to escape over a fence, and then blasting some cool art on a billboard too high for the fuzz to reach is just a thrill.
Jet Set Radio would work quite well on the iPhone. For one thing, the cel-shaded visuals would be easy to replicate. But the controls make sense for the platform, too. A virtual stick could control Gum or Beat. Tilting the phone would maintain balance on a grind. And when it came time to spray, matching on-screen patterns with your finger would make tagging a tactile experience. Even better would be the ability to use your own photo library as source for your tags. Yes, there would undoubtedly be a city of inappropriate pictures out there, but that's why the game would never go online. You know, for the sake of the children.
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It isn't just SEGA's previous generation hits (or the generation before that), that deserve a chance on the iPhone; the games that truly put SEGA on the map should also be considered for the App Store. Space Harrier and After Burner, two of the finest arcade games to ever come out of Yu Suzuki's AM2 division, could be smartly tailored for the iPhone. The question, of course, is whether or not to leave them exactly as they are or to tweak them a little for the iPhone. Space Harrier is the better candidate for leaving well enough alone, as it is so perfectly tuned it would be tough to successfully monkey with any of it. Which would you prefer, though: tilt controls or a virtual pad?
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After Burner is not SEGA's only jet game. Sky Target is another that could be considered for the iPhone. (If your only experience with Sky Target is on the Saturn, reserve your judgment until you actually get to play it in an arcade cabinet.) It looks considerably more modern, although there are plenty of retrogamers downloading games from the App Store that would not mind those classic sprites at all.
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On Monday, Ryan admitted to reporters that "We know Russian Federation meddled in the election. He wanted to tell him that the report in the New York Times was 'B.S'". Attorney General Jeff Sessions. "You guys know they're ridiculous", he said. "But not every contact is improper". Whether this independent investigation comes to fruition, however, is another story.


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Inspired by the 31for21 Down Syndrome Blog Challenge and happiness-project.com, I began this blog in pursuit of my own happiness while raising my 3 children -- including identical twins with Down syndrome. On these pages, I endeavor to document the bits and pieces of my life that bring me the most happiness and keep me focused on all the positive stuff going on.
Advocacy, Angels and Random Happy Thoughts. These are the threads of happiness that are inextricably woven through the cloth of my life. Staying focused and writing about these things is what keeps me Walking on the Happy Side of Life. I'd love it if you would "Take A Walk on the Happy Side" with me.
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TGIF and Other Things I'm Thankful For
Haven't been attending to all the little things that keep me walking on the happy side lately. So here goes: 1. I am ever so grateful for a few good girlfriends that make me laugh out loud! I can always count … Continue reading
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Holland's Just a Stop-Over On Your Way to HERE!
So people–those of us who advocate for and, generally, have children with special needs–are talking about the "Welcome to Holland" story again. Honestly, I took offense to it the first, second and sixtieth time I read it. It took me six … Continue reading
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We are on the way home from Kentucky. For the past eight hours I have held "she who would not be put down", wrapped tightly in a blanket and in my arms. Now we have stopped to give the dogs some food and water, a walk and a bathroom break. I am trying to put her in an x-pen with a bed and the cozy blanket that has swaddled her. She is having none of it. She is so weak she can barely stand, take a few teetering, tottering, stumbling steps before she tumbles over. Yet she will not be put down. With everything she has in her she is trying to jump out of the x-pen. She jumps and collapses on her side and tries again. She is frantic. It is as if she thinks her whole world is collapsing in on itself yet again. She has found a measure of comfort and safety and although she does not have much left in her, she will expend it all to keep that. I swear that my heart burst in a million tiny pieces as I choked back the tears and scooped her up. After what she'd been through just to make it here, "she who would not be put down", would not be put down. This time whatever she needed would be hers.
Three days ago I'd pulled her back from the brink. She had just been severely attacked by two other dogs. Water hoses made them back off. They left her cold and wet, afraid and uncomprehending, a soaking wet mass of fur and fear. She was drenched, the air was brisk and she was shivering as shock set in. Her bones were covered only in skin, no fat or muscle there to protect. Her body torn open, bruised and bloody, evidence of the brutality she endured.
This is how I found her, hanging on, barely. She was dehydrated, her gums were white. Without the strength to stand or even sit, her life was nearly ended. Without intervention she was hours away from being no more. I'm amazed she was with us still. I wonder how she was.
Do dogs dream big dreams? I do not know but something kept her holding on. I'm certain she believed there was something better than her "this". Doggedly determined to hold on long enough to find it, here she was. Here she was, still fighting the dimming of her days, still sure there would be some way out. How did this tender-hearted impish girl know to dare to dream, to believe? Where did she acquire such surety and faith? Do dogs dream big dreams? I think she did.
The first night of the rest of her life was spent in the hospital. The first report was that she may not make it until morning. I knew she would though. I'd seen it in her eyes when we wrapped her in a blanket and held her close. I'd seen it in her body as she surrendered her life to our care now. I'd seen it when she gratefully devoured the food I offered. I'd seen a shy, sweet smile of humble triumph. The look on her face said, "There you are, I knew you'd come."
To this day I cannot figure out how she knew help would appear. But I think she did. I found her too weak to stand but not too weak to know what she so fervently believed had come true. And so I found her name, True. Her big dreams were finally real and she was going to stick around to live them. So when they told me she might not make it through that first night – I knew she would. I felt it in my soul.
Two weeks later as I watch True I am amazed.
She is so open, so loving, so ready to embrace and live this new life. She is full of love and spunk, sass and silly. When she's happy, which is always, her tail wags in big helicopter circles. She is brave and strong. She moves forward fully here in the now. I see a shadow specter of that day when she meets a new dog and for a moment wonders friend or foe. She is so courageous though and so ready and wanting to believe in good. She puts herself right out there, front and center, hello big life, here is True.
I scoop her up today and she turns to jelly, smiling. She loves to be held, to feel the safety of knowing she is no longer alone. She basks in the attention and affection. Now that she knows this will not go away, she is secure, content. I tell her every day, "I love you true True". I do. I love her fiercely. I think my heart might explode from the fierceness of my love. She is a little miracle. She is a reminder. She is resilience. This is why we do what we do. I love you true True, truly I do.


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I feel like there's something I should be doing, but there really isn't.
I just write up my CV, which I just need to get someone to check (I'll probably email Paul, and ask him to take a look at the online version). It's a paragraph over a page, so I'm not sure what to do with that. I read a post somewhere that the requirement for CVs to be only a page is silly now, since people have more roles within their jobs than before, so they take up more space explaining.
I have a list of job openings that I'm perfect for all printed off and ready for me to sort out. They're based sort of around the West Midlands, which means I'll be able to move out. I'm very nervous, and don't feel like I have enough confidence to have other people relying on me yet. I suppose the only way to get that confidence is to do it; fake it till you make it.
I might actually start writing up a plug in for WordPress, for the competition, though I'm not sure when the deadline is. Either way, a useful plug in would still generate traffic, and hopefully donations! More importantly, it'd be something good to put on my CV as actual work experience. At the moment, I've had to really talk up what experience I do have.


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A Group of Egyptian Friends Made a Joint Instagram Account and It's Everything
So, the Internet is a pretty weird place. Everything you can ever think of, or not, is right there to either entertain or horrify you. Today we will only talk about pure meaningless entertainment. Instagram is no stranger to weird accounts, from people promising you to poop glitter, to girls posing in front of mirrors. For some reason, we fail to understand. But this new group is something else.
Glad our El Shella got a group photo last night. Sadly no one remembers anything about the picture…or the party. #ElShellaFComa #HazoomElMabdoon? #FriendsForLife #HouseParty #BeOurFriend #AlsoSugarDaddy
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Meet El Shela El Sha2ya; a group of Egyptian friends that consist of Lucy, Hazoom, Nadouza, Kim, Naznaz, Monmon, Nonna, Booby and Boudy and co., decided to start a joint Instagram account where they get to document their days.
You wanna be us. You just don't know it yet. #elshella #shelletna #BeOurFriend #WeTotallyHaveOurShitTogether #positivefilm #filmisnotdead
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Does anything interesting happen on their Instagram? We would say no. What do they do all the time? It looks like they like the beach and food. So why is this a thing? We have no idea but it is hilarious and we love it. Are they having more fun than us? Hell yeah.
Hey zooba remember when you started stalking us? Well here's a video for you @zoobaeats #zoobaeats #zooba #foul #ta3meya #food #foodporn #elshellaelsha2eya #sheletna Video by #HazoomElMagnoon
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It is a public account, so we assume they want followers. But the question remains, what exactly are these followers getting? The Internet is so good to us sometimes and we thank you guys for starting this whole "I'll start an account with my bff" trend.
Fuck gender roles let the boys cook #elgouna #greencurry #thai #elshellaelsha2eya #fuckgenderroles
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WE SAID THIS: Keep doing you, guys!
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The first Johnny Isakson ad: A Peace Corps play for Democrats, women
As we've said before, Donald Trump and Johnny Isakson have very different goals on Nov. 8.
To win Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, Trump doesn't need to clear the 50 percent mark. The GOP presidential candidate simply needs to get more votes than Democrat Hillary Clinton and Libertarian Gary Johnson.
Isakson, on the other hand, is locked in a three-way contest with Democrat Jim Barksdale and Libertarian Allen Buckley. The Republican incumbent would very much like to avoid a runoff in his U.S. Senate re-election bid — which would extend for another nine weeks, all the way to Jan. 10, 2017. To escape that, Isakson needs to pierce the 50 percent mark.
Which means he needs Georgia votes that Trump can't or won't pursue. In particular, Democratic women – or those who lean in that direction.
Below is the first Isakson ad of the general election, a 60-second testimonial from Lois Puzey, the mother of a Peace Corps worker from Cumming, Ga., who was murdered in the French-speaking African nation of Benin. There's a 30-second version as well:
A quick transcript:
Lois Puzey: "Kate was the sunshine of our life. She was just a beautiful spirit. She taught English in the northern part of Benin. My husband always worried about her there.
"There was this one teacher who was actually abusing the girls. He actually raped a young girl. Kate reported him. He lost his job. A few days later, Kate was found murdered in her house, and our lives were shattered.
"It is hard to for me, every single day, to live without my daughter Kate. Johnny Isakson read about it in the newspaper, and felt so much sorrow for us. He said if there's anything I can do, just please call me.
"So much was done to honor her, and a lot of that is due to Johnny Isakson. He keeps a picture of her on his desk. Johnny Isakson helped us get justice for our daughter in Benin. He also was able to help get a law passed that better protects Peace Corps volunteers."
All of which was prelude to this line:
Lois Puzey: "I'm a lifelong Democrat. I'm so grateful that he was my senator."
Heath Garrett, a consultant to the Isakson campaign, told my AJC colleague Aaron Gould Sheinin that both the 30-second and 60-second versions of the TV spot will air statewide, but he was vague about how much cash would be behind the push. "It will be enough to make sure it is seen by voters," Garrett said.
The relationship between Isakson and the Puzey family is a real one, and well documented – by me among others. The AJC article cited in the TV spot can be found here.


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AN OBVIOUSLY proud Novy Chardon made her last Facebook post on February 3, three days before vanishing without trace.
"Finally I have got my own ABN (Australian Business Number)," she wrote.
The Gold Coast mother of two had recently started her own beauty business and, despite apparent marriage problems, she seemed to be moving on with life.
"She was happy in her life here," friend Maria Phillips said. "She loved her children and loved to hang out with her friends."
Mrs Chardon, 34, disappeared on the night of February 6 from the Upper Coomera home she shared with husband John, 65, and their two children, aged 7 and 9.
Police say Mr Chardon, who left on a business trip to Indonesia two days after his wife disappeared, was the last to see her alive.
Her late model Volvo wagon was found abandoned near Nerang railway station on Monday night. The car, along with the Chardon family home at Upper Coomera, has been pored over by crime scene investigators for much of the last week.
Mr Chardon, meanwhile, remains in Indonesia with his children. Police say while the trip was pre-planned, taking his son and daughter with him was not.
He initially told media outlets his wife was "crazy", that she should "get her stupid bloody a--- home" and that he was divorcing her but later said he was "extremely worried and concerned".
"Even though she can be difficult at times, I still love her," he said from Jakarta.
The Loganholme lubricant company boss seems quite a character.
Born in Brisbane in 1947 - his Indonesian-born wife is 31 years younger - Mr Chardon says he "hated school" and left at 17 to join the RAAF.
"But that only lasted three years, far too much authority for this fella," he says on his company website.
"Then for the next 20 years I worked in shearing sheds, droving, cook, mechanic, mining, drove semi-trailers and fixed the bloody things as well, made meat pies and had a pie cart, sold encyclopedias (that was a disaster just waiting to happen), laid turf, sold auto spares, life insurance, nuts and bolts, real estate, even sold black-market cigarettes."
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Former Houston Astros and Atlanta Braves outfielder Michael Bourn earned just the payday he was looking for today, inking a 4-year, $48 million dollar deal with the Cleveland Indians to presumably become their starting center fielder this summer.
Known across the MLB as one of the game's premier speedsters, Bourn will add some much needed speed and pop to an Indians lineup that was lacking in both last summer. While second baseman Jason Kipnis was adequate in the stolen bases category — he tallied 31 last summer — his numbers pale in comparison to Bourn, who stole 42 last summer, and on top of that, hit a career high nine home runs.
Bourn figures to take over in center field for Michael Bradley, who was solid, but unspectacular in 2012, hitting .288 with only six home runs and 60 runs batted in over 552 plate appearances. While Bourn may not provide any greater power than Bradley did in 2012, his Gold Glove-caliber range in center field will give the Tribe a big name in the outfield around which to build, especially given last year's dependable option, Shin Soo Choo has signed a one-year deal with the cross-state Cincinnati Reds.
Asdrubal Cabrera and Carlos Santana certainly will be called upon to deliver the majority of the runs production for the Tribe this summer, but they will be dependent upon Bourn at the top of the lineup getting on base consistently in order for those runs to be produced.
Fans in Cleveland can depend on Bourn hitting somewhere between .275 to .300 and maintaining an OBP of around .375 or better. After all, Bourn doesn't just hit well for average as a lead-off hitter, he also has developed a more refined eye at the plate over the last few seasons, earning 70 walks over 624 at bats during the 2012 regular season.
If Michael Bourn can maintain this same discipline at the plate in Cleveland, and make a few highlight steals and catches to boot, the Indians will be very happy with the investment they've made in the 30 year old center fielder. It's a big get for the Indians, and should show their fans the team is ready to compete in 2013.
Kris Hughes is the College Football Network Manager for Rant Sports. You can follow Kris on Twitter, Google Plus and Facebook


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I'll admit it; I'm one of life's over thinkers. It's an office joke that I'm not happy unless I'm feeling anxious over at least one thing, and that thing is usually outreach. The stupid thing is, I'm not even bad at it, I've never committed any email Faux Pas (okay maybe one, ONCE and I'm not admitting the publication) and I've secured several 'top-level' placements for our clients.
One thing that I identified at the end of last year was that the volume of outreach that I usually carried out needed to increase. A LOT – and it worked too, I implemented a mix of strategies and tools to ensure that I had approached the task from every angle and secured relevant placements, on sites with great metrics and a high level of social engagement. Initially, I thought that spending longer on outreaching my clients would mean that I was left time to work with them to create compelling articles – but in reality, the outcome was the complete opposite!
So, the first strategy is to make outreach a priority and spend a large chunk of your time doing it.
Below I will list some of the tools and strategies that I have, and am still using in 2017 to get me on my way to PR Nirvana.
Tweetdeck and #Journorequest
I'm specifying #Journorequest here because it seems that the once-used #PRrequest has become nothing more than a way for bloggers to amplify their wish lists. I'm not alone when I say that I too would love to work with a luxury skincare brand and review products, but you know what I would do? I'D BUY THEM. Sorry, off topic.
Tweetdeck is a great tool that allows you to customise the timelines that you view, essentially streamlining Twitter for PR's. For example, I have three timelines set up, and the one that I focus on is (of course) #Journorequest.
Put simply, every tweet that is sent out that includes this hashtag, I can see, and because it's in real-time, it means that you can act on it immediately, safe in the knowledge that it really is immediate because it was posted only 2 seconds.
On the flipside, thousands of other PR's are using this, meaning you have got to act quickly when you get in contact – you also must know everything about the client as you need to sell them (often along with your soul) to the person putting the request out. You need to described a detailed description of the business, what they do and why they fit the brief and send it in under a minute to ensure you are in with a chance!
This method is great for securing 'top tier' placements in national press and magazines; as well as gaining great PR placements, you can build relationships with journalists and editors, potentially leading to future placements too as they usually work across several titles. One of my most treasured placements using this tactic last year was The Independent.
Other similar services include HARO and Response Source.
Google Alerts
The Gods of Google can literally do no wrong; in my eyes, I mean, I'm sure that others have plenty of gripe with them. Wait, apart from the tax avoidance thing…. Aaaanyway – Google alerts.
You can set up Google alerts for the business name or any keywords that they are associated with, and related news stories from all over the world get delivered straight ito your inbox.
You can use these stories in several ways; You are able to see where a business's name has been mentioned and if they are being picked up naturally and featured in articles. You can also see the industry topics that are trending and the sites that are featuring competitors and industry news.
This enables you to create content that you already know is engaging and compelling, and it also provides you will a daily flow of fresh, relative sites to outreach too.
The Outreach Email
I have read so many posts that claim to teach you how to guarantee opens and responses. I've tried and tested most of them, and none of them are fool-proof. Its about tailoring your approach to see what works for you.
What you consider to be the email to end all outreach emails may never get opened. And sometimes, its crushing! But really, the first step is to make sure that the website or publication writes stories about your industry, this requires some research into other articles that are featured.
When outreaching to these sites, it's always helpful to reference the article that you have seen to show that you understand the nature of the site, and explain why the article that you are offering is going to benefit the reader. For example,
Dear Amy, – find their name to make it personal!
I hope this email finds you well? – Just be nice, unless you know that they aren't bothered about niceties. Then just go straight for the jugular.
I recently came across your article that discusses outreach strategies and tools for those working in marketing. (Link to piece)
I found it to be an insightful and entertaining article (shameless, literally shameless) and particularly liked your explanation of Tweetdeck.
I would like to offer the following title for your consideration – "How the role of social media has changed in marketing and PR".
At this point you should use any data and statistics to explain the title, give a brief synopsis of the article, use any data and statistics to back up your claims. Also provide an introduction to the business or person who will be supplying it. Link to the website of the business, where the reader can find out more about them and sign off.
It's also helpful to use any data you have about how well other articles in the same vein have been received by including views and social shares. Because these sites WANT their articles to attract new traffic and social shares.
Which is why it's helpful to use the following tool….
AH Refs
Another multi-use tool; with AH refs, you can analyse trending content, the volume of organic traffic it attracts and the number of shares across Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
You can also see the specific accounts that have shared it on Twitter.
As well as trending content in your industry, you can see which sites your competitors are featuring on and the content that they are contributing; whether that is guest posts, creative content such as infographics or quizzes, images or expert comments – you have access to it.
From this you have gained some more outreach ammo;
- You have data and stats – we all love data and stats, they provide context and perspective.
- You can see the content that is your competitor's placements – giving you foundation to write about the same topics in more depth and of a higher quality; or even expand upon by using surveys to gather your own data.
- You can see the type of sites they are being featured on.
In some cases, the link quality will be poor, and the links will have been built using black hat tactics like using comments sections to place links or the articles will be 300 words long on a site that is completely irrelevant. If this is the case, you of course, don't want to emulate what they have done! But you can be safe in the knowledge that Google Penguin will sort this right out.
Personal branding and Social Interaction
If you want to get your name and out there and put some weight behind it, you are essentially going to have to make yourself into a brand.
This means writing posts in your own name, offering up expert comments and getting involved in discussions on social media.
Now, you might be thinking, "Amy, this isn't an outreach strategy", and to that I say – YES IT IS.
With great branding comes great respect; your opinions, thoughts and ideas will be respected, and your contributions will be welcomed. Asking others for their contributions will open doors and after a while, your name will begin to be recognised.
I'm not saying that this one is an instant win – more of a long-term strategy.
What are you outreaching?
Whichever strategy you decide to embark on, it needs to be referring to something substantial.
Now to be blunt, unless your press release is detailing something truly incredible and unique….its unlikely that it is going to gain that much traction. However, if you do decide to send press releases about something your business has done, include the text in the body of the email as well as attach a PDF to make it easier for those who are using smartphones.
Informative, well researched and unique content is a good start, if all the pieces of the jigsaw fit together – relevant site, trending topic, high social engagement.
The pieces that are likely to gain a large volume of interest and get picked up naturally are pieces of substance. Whether this is creative content, in-depth surveys – particularly if they are industry specific and white papers. This is because they either require user participation or they provide us with data; the latter means so much to us because it allows us to make informed decisions and dive deeper into the data.
We can also impress people with data, and who doesn't like to throw out a hard statistic or fact at a party? I know I do.
And there you have it, some of the strategies that can be used to create compelling content, and ways to outreach to sites that are worthwhile. Outreach is such an important part of content marketing; it's worth perfecting your skills to streamline your time to allow you the time to create the awesome content that will secure the placements!
Please comment below if you have more strategies to add!


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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > I'm trying to understand what other anomalies you mean between > Unix and Win32, they aren't that dis-similar. I was mainly refering to the big block of mpm-control directives near the top. But I like the suggestion of getting rid of almost all of that (besides some basic things like MaxClients) and not discriminating against non-unix mpms. > We have httpd-std.conf.in and ssl-std.conf.in, why not break > some of these more lengthy 'passages' into their very own > includes? First and foremost, httpd-intl.conf.in - this > would take tons of lines across and leave a couple lines Honestly, I prefer the one-config format, because I think it is easier for the new user to find what is going on if they know everything is in one file. But this is a situation where personal preferences will vary. But I have a compromise suggestion (based on Manoj's idea). What about a conf/examples/ directory that would contain a bunch of little files with config snipets (like international.conf.in, proxy.conf.in, vhosts.conf.in). Given the name of the directory, I would expect people to either copy-paste the stuff in httpd.conf or move the file before Include'ing it. I wouldn't provide commented-out Include directives for these files. Joshua.
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Baghdad: peace campaigner writes from a city in darkness
March 18 marks the third anniversary of the most recent outbreak of war on Iraq. With millions of US dollars allocated for reconstruction and promises to help stabilise the country, Iraq is still in the dark. In the month that I've been in Baghdad, we have averaged about five hours of electricity a day. Sometimes we get a couple more hours in the middle of the night. Last week, we had a 30 hour stretch with no electricity at all. Even our overworked generator died. The average Iraqi without a generator has no control over a basic necessity that, for the rest of the developed world, is as simple as flipping a switch. Lack of electricity is not the only thing that keeps Iraq in the dark. The lack of stability and security, which is at its worst ever, puts most people into social and psychological darkness. The occupation has played on the darkest fears of the Iraqi people, the fear of each other. Instead of helping to bridge the sectarian divisions, the occupation has widened them. Instead of fostering relationship building and reconciliation, it has created mistrust and hatred. Many Iraqis tell us they believe this was done deliberately. Divide and conquer is a war game that permeates throughout history. Iraqi human rights leaders say there are now signs pointing towards ethnic cleansing. Militias grow out of the different sects. They have infiltrated the Iraqi police force. There is no real sense of rule of law. Lurking in the shadows of darkness are the ever present US military advisors who excel in teaching counterinsurgency techniques designed to create, fear, mistrust and confusion. In my own dark night of the soul, I asked an Iraqi friend what good CPT does in Iraq. He said we need you here. You expose injustice. You shine the light on the evil. My mind immediately raced to all the others who bring light to these dark times. There are the human rights workers who train teenagers in non-violent conflict resolution, the Catholic priest who continues to preach the good news of the Gospel of love even while churches are targeted, the Muslim Peacemaker Team that strives to build bridges and heal relationships, children's laughter, genuine smiles from strangers, greetings of peace with hands over hearts, the local bread maker who refuses to take my money for bread, the joy expressed by new parents, the voices of hope, the voice or reason in the midst of insanity. The list goes on. "The light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overcome it". (John 1:5) Christian Peacemaker Teams is an ecumenical violence-reduction program. Teams of trained peace workers live in areas of lethal conflict around the world. CPT has been present in Iraq since October, 2002. To learn more about CPT, please visit www.cpt.org.


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CEO tip: Keep sales managers focused on key behaviors
If you're in the C-suite, you know that measurement is critical. I wrote in previous posts that employers should measure for lagging and leading indicators, but there's one more piece to the puzzle: measuring behaviors.
Put simply: Is your team doing the right activities on a daily basis in order to make the sale?
Behaviors include everything from taking a client to lunch to cold calling prospects, and the trick is to make sure salespeople exhibit those behaviors continually, (not just when sales dwindle or when you're watching).
Without measuring a team's behaviors, it would be almost impossible to measure for anything else. Why? Because at its core, the anatomy of every sale starts with a specific behavior.
So get your sales team back to the basics of behaviors, and if they're managing other salespeople, make sure those managers follow the right behaviors to motivate their team. Pair that with lagging and leading indicators, and you've identified the trifecta of measurement for every sale.
Tom Niesen is the CEO of Acuity Systems Inc. For more information, call 972-960-8695 or go to salesmadeeasy.com. Email your sales questions to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Imagine if A-Rod ignored it?
Seriously? A guy who might be the best hitter of this era was caught with a failed drug test, told an obvious lie through his agent, was shown it was a lie, and has yet to say a word about it? Am I the only one who thinks its absurd that he hasn't even had a press conference about his failed drug test?
Imagine if A-Rod ignored it?
Considering Manny's history, I don't find it absurd. At all.
Ask Jordy.
What do you want to hear? More of the same lame excuses? Why it isn't really his fault? How much pressure he's under? Spare me. I'm sick of the steroids crap. Suspend him and anyone else that comes along. And then let's not give these douches any more mind.
F him. There's nothing he can do or say that will ever redeem him in the eyes of baseball fans. He's a guy with "A+" baseball ability and "F" human ability. And now his career is forever tainted.
Enough with the drama. Save it for People Magazine and the tabloid TV shows. I just want the games.
Well, since you asked...
So in short, we haven't heard from Manny because of the terms of his suspension. Which he may have just broke anyway, but really, that's besides the point. Oh, and when the suspensions over we still won't be hearing from Manny because he's not here to talk about the past. No one held that against Mark McGwire right, so shouldn't we show Manny the same type of respect?The dreadlocked slugger, who also talked to manager Joe Torre, told reporters he isn't going to formally address the media about what led to his 50-game ban because it's in the past.
"I don't want to be a distraction for this team," Ramirez said. "What happened, happened. I spoke to [owner] Frank McCourt, I apologized, I spoke to Joe, my teammates and I'm ready to move on.
"I didn't kill nobody, I didn't rape nobody, so that's it, I'm just going to come and play the game."
The fact that he spoke at all could be a problem, however. The terms of his suspension restrict him from addressing reporters, ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney reported. It's not known if he would face further discipline from Major League Baseball.
"I didn't kill nobody, I didn't rape nobody, so that's it, I'm just going to come and play the game."
There ya go kids. The modern day athlete in a nutshell. Rock on Manny.
So I should not be shocked but Manny plays parts of two games after coming back from suspension and needs a day off because he not in baseball shape?
What the hell was he doing while he was suspended? ARod had hip surgery and played how many straight games when he came back? Manny, fully healthy, could not work out enough on his own?
As I said, should not be surprised but this is just further proof of what a loser this guy is.
Sure there's a little uncertainty as to WHEN he started/stopped, with reports he started as early as high school, but it doesn't really matter. At the end of the day he took steroids and we will no longer look at him as "clean" anymore, like the MLB wanted it. MLB wanted A-Rod to be the new "clean" HR king and did everything they could to present it like that but in the end the truth was revealed and it will continue to be for other sluggers of the steroid era.


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You girls are insane. Count me in. Maybe.
You girls are insane. Count me in. Maybe.
"I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults". Molly Ivins
USFS rules say that there's no camping with 300 feet of any trailhead, but that's the only restriction in this area. We wouldn't have to go very far in to set up camp and leave water in the cars if that's the concensus. There's also access on FS Road 203, so we could camp near there and cache water where the trail crosses.
Water will be the primary safety concern., next will be mosquito protection.
There are road crossings at 1.8, 3.4 & 8.7 miles, giving several oportunites for shuttling and caching if hiking is what we want to do. It all depends on how much hike and how much hang the concensus decides.
As far as scheduling, I have Sunday School duties every other weekend beginning Jul 28/29, so there are two August weekends open for me. I had planned on doing Scout The Wonder Dog and the Abandonded Farmhouse, but I don't think there would be any problem doing Scout The Wonder Dog and The Strangers In The Woods.
I'll scan a couple pages of the trail guide regarding Section 1 and post them up here.
Sarge....sounds like we may be onto something here! I would be all about some hiking. I'm going to leave Reggie at the house (boxers don't do well in the heat.) Which 2 weekends do you have available?
Well, lets just shoot for 8-18. Smack dab in the middle of Aug! I don't think it will get any hotter
I would be interested as well.
I'm probably in though i have obligations the Monday following that weekend.
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Tonight I will take a moment to unwind and watch DVDs of Smallville.
This was a show that could not hold my interest for the longest time. I have tried watching this the very first time it aired in 2004 (?) and that pilot was the first and last episode I saw.
But now, thanks to my brother who so kindly lent me his sets, I'm about to check the show and see what the buzz is for myself.
So, fly away I go. See you in a bit.
Update: 9:35 PM
I failed to jump the Smallville wagon tonight, or fly into it...whatever. Instead, I decided to check out Brothers & Sisters with Calista Flockhart (Ally McBeal)...what can I say? ----> *weep*
From Season 1 Episode 1 - Patriarchy, this was the best scene for me:
Mom (Sally Field): You want my opinion if you should be marrying a man I don't even know
Kitty (Calista Flockhart): Well it was your choice... you were the one who virtually refused to be in my life for three years, who barely spoke....and I know it's because I unforgivably gave my opinion about Justin ---
Mom: Not refused. Couldn't....... I was afraid of the things I didn't want to say
Kitty: Well let's just say it...that I sent Justin to war, that I put him in the frontlines, that's reductive, that's ridiculous!
Mom: He trusted you. He asked you! And you said to him ---
Kitty: I would tell him the same thing today. I would tell him that I was proud of him. I was there... I was right there. I was in New York, I was six blocks away from where the towers fell ---
Mom: I know where you were! Kitty, for godssakes you're my child, I was terrified for you. I was on the phone with you, and then I was terrified for him, day after day after day...you have no idea what it's like for a mother, you have no idea. And then you don't think about that when you go on the air and you sell your views. And now you're going to be doing it on national television. Oh, Kitty that's just great...really great.
Kitty: No mom. This is not just about my politics. Tommy and Dad think the same things I do and you've managed to reconcile forty years of loving somebody who fundamentally disagrees with you..... but you can't love me. And I don't know what it's about. But it's not about the war.
And then the Dad dies on the pilot episode, at the end.
And then the secrets come out.
I think this will be on my watchlist now. This and Ugly Betty.
And I am bumping two shows out:
I think I'll watch Smallville on Saturday nights now, to fill the spot I opened when I gave up on PI.


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Maybe they should have named it Bowling for Palestine. Bowlmor Lanes, a fixture in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood for decades, was secretly bankrolled, in part...
NEW YORK — Maybe they should have named it Bowling for Palestine.
Bowlmor Lanes, a fixture in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood for decades, was secretly bankrolled, in part, by the late Yasser Arafat, newly released documents reveal.
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Using a holding company, Arafat quietly sank about $1.3 million of Palestinian Authority money into the business in 2002, two years before his death.
Bowlmor is several blocks from the campus of New York University and is popular with Manhattan hipsters, who pay about $8 a game per person to bowl in the evenings and on weekends. The alley also advertises itself on its Web site as an ideal location for bar and bat mitzvahs for Jewish teens.
The news, first reported in Bloomberg Markets Magazine, hit some Bowlmor patrons like a 15-pound ball taking down the headpin.
"If I had known, I wouldn't have come, but I promised the kids," said financier Steve Saslow, 55, with his 4-year-old and 8-year-old in tow.
It apparently also came as a surprise to Bowlmor's owners, a company called Strike Holdings, which has lanes on Long Island and in Maryland and Florida.
The firm said it was "shocked" to learn Arafat was behind the investment — and planned to return the money and sever any ties to the Palestinians.
"This information was never disclosed to us previously, and had we known the source of these funds, which represents approximately 2 percent of our company's equity, we never would have accepted them," spokeswoman Marcia Horowitz said.
"We do not endorse their values, and we do not want to be affiliated with them in any way."
With its disco atmosphere and prime location, Bowlmor has become the top-grossing alley in the city — a popular spot for office parties and young singletons.
Bowlmor has been around since 1938, but it was sold in 1997 to entrepreneur Tom Shannon.
Shannon happened to attend business school with Arafat's U.S. investment manager, Zeid Masri, who decided to park some Palestinian Authority cash in Bowlmor.
The $1.3 million, funneled through a company called Onyx Funds, was just a small piece of a fortune that Arafat invested in companies across the Middle East and the United States.
The money was among $799 million in international investments by Arafat detailed in newly released documents, Bloomberg Markets reported. Other holdings included $285 million in Orascom, an Egyptian cellphone company, and $3.2 million in the U.S. software firm Simplexity, it said.
Arafat, the icon of the Palestinian cause who died in November, is said by Israel to have stashed away millions of dollars in aid that the Palestinian Authority received from the United States, Europe and Arab nations.
Arafat made the investments abroad with tax money that he "diverted" from the Palestinian finance ministry, according to a September 2003 International Monetary Fund (IMF) report on the Palestinian economy.
Israel collected import taxes for goods destined for the territories and passed money to the authority.
Israel halted the payments after violence erupted in the West Bank and Gaza in September 2000. By the end of 2002, the Palestinian Authority owed its ministries and suppliers as much as $531 million, or 10 percent of gross domestic product, the IMF report says.
Masri figured the stake would be a moneymaker, but it looks like a gutter ball for the Palestinian Authority, because Strike Holdings has not paid any dividends on the investment.
Information from Reuters, The Associated Press and Bloomberg News is included in this report.


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With four wins from four matches, the Russian Boxing Team had already guaranteed their spot in the Season VI playoffs. A record of 15 wins out of 20 bouts is highly favourable, particularly when stacked against Argentina Condors' six from 20.
Despite fielding two teams in two days, the Russian Boxing Team has named a powerful line-up for their bout with the South American franchise in Moscow. Devastating flyweight puncher Bator Sagaluev leads the card. The Baku 2015 European Games gold medal winner, who won his first Season VI bout by TKO, faces WSB debutant Nicolas Alfonso.
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Many people were concerned there had been a natural gas explosion nearby.
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Residents near NAS Fort Worth JRB can expect to hear "booms" as the base sets off at least 14 explosions for training purposes.
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The pond is now a week old and I can't believe how settled in it already looks!
Last week (5/7/15)
And here it is today!
Today's purchases, all the new plants!
The new aver 'palmatum garnet'
- 12 Jul, 2015
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Dan it looks as though the little beach is fine shingle but it would all have fallen off by now - what did you use to get that effect please?
You've worked very hard to get it all done so quickly that's what happens when you have youth on your side! It does look as though its been there for much longer than a week - well done you!
13 Jul, 2015
Hi stera! Thanks! And it's actually a liner that is about a foot wide and is covered in gravel! It's designed to go over the edges of pond liner to hide where the water line is so that you can't see the black liner and also protects the pond loner from the sunlight :)
13 Jul, 2015
You did a great job Dan.
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14 Jul, 2015
Thought it must be something like that. What a brilliant idea.
15 Jul, 2015
It's a great idea!!
16 Jul, 2015
Great job Dan it looks really nice as if it's always been there
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It does look good Dan...
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Thursday, April 23, 2015
Thoth Gateway moved to GitHub, now supports Apex 5.0
If you don't care about the source code, you can head straight to the releases page to download just the binaries. Updated installation instructions for IIS 8 will be forthcoming, but deploying the Thoth Gateway is really as easy as just dropping the binaries into the wwwroot and using IIS Manager to turn the folder into an application.
Also, there were a few minor tweaks needed to support Apex 5.0. As far as I can tell from my own testing, everything now works, but do let me know if you have any issues.
Download the lastest version of the Thoth Gateway with Apex 5.0 support here.
13 comments:
- Marco Wolschke said...
Thank you! It works fine.
- April 23, 2015
- Thomas said...
That's great! I really appreciate that you keep Thoth up to date with new versions of APEX and IIS. We have been using Thoth a couple of years now, and it works perfectly!
- May 15, 2015
Is there anyone that could help me?
I've downloaded the latest version 1.4.1 but if I try to follow the doc on your website seems that are referring to previous(and probably with different structure) versions of thoth
Many thanks in advance
- July 03, 2015
- Morten Braten said...
@Emanuele: Note that with version 1.4.0 and later, you no longer need an Oracle client so the installation is as easy as putting the binaries in a folder and turning that folder into an ASP.NET application. See this post for more info: http://ora-00001.blogspot.com/2014/11/thoth-gateway-140-beta-release-1-available.html
Let me know which steps you took to install, and what error message you got, then we can take it from there.
- Morten
- July 05, 2015
- Emanuele said...
I've download thoth-gateway 1.4; I've windows server 2008 with IIS7
What do I have to do?
I've copied the download files into c:\inetpub\wwwroot\thoth
Now what?? The installation guide says something about install folder, create virtual directory and seems it's referring to something old (previous version?)
Could you please figure me out all the steps needed to let thoth working?
- July 10, 2015
- Frédéric Boudineau said...
Great development, is it still maintained? do you have a configuration documentation
Best regards
- June 17, 2016
Downloaded v1.4.1 and installed under IIS 7.5 on 2008R2 server. Works beautifully and can access apex v4.2 on oracle 10.2 (remotely) and apex v5.0.3 on oracle xe 11g (locally).
But i need to run an app other than f?p=4550 (developed under apex, sid=102). Can someone advise on how to format the DatabaseConnectString parm? i tried different formats but getting either syntax errors or that tns can not resolve. Also, i'm a newbie to Oracle.
Any advise will be greatly appreciated.
- June 18, 2016
- Morten Braten said...
@Frédéric: The project is still maintained. Look in the /doc/installation_guide.htm document for how to configure. Note that as of version 1.4.x you can skip step 2 (install ODP.NET) as it now uses the ODP.NET Managed Driver which is just a single DLL which lives in the same folder as the application (Thoth Gateway) itself.
- Morten
- June 19, 2016
- Morten Braten said...
@Anonymous: Great to hear that you got it working. But I think you are confusing the concepts of database connections and APEX application IDs. In your web.config file you add a "DAD" (Database Access Descriptor) for each database you want to connect to. The "SID" is the database identifier (typically "XE" for Oracle Express Edition, and default "ORCL" for Oracle Standard/Enterprise Edition). In your case you have two databases, so you need to add two different DAD sections to the web.config. The name of the DAD becomes the second part of the URL, after the folder you put the Thoth Gateway in. For example, if you put the Thoth Gateway in a folder called "pls" and you added a DAD called "mydad", then the URL to access that database would be http://myserver/pls/mydad/
Once you have set up the DAD you can run any APEX application in that database. Each APEX application has its own ID, starting with 100 for the first application you make, then 101, 102 and so on. The APEX Application Builder that you use to create APEX applications is itself created in APEX, and it has the number 4550. To access any APEX application you just add the ID to the end of the URL, like this: http://myserver/pls/mydad/f?p=12345
Key point: You don't need to change the DatabaseConnectString to run other APEX applications, you just change the ID of the application in the URL. You can read more about the concepts here: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E59726_01/doc.50/e39147/concept_url.htm#HTMDB03018
Hope this helps,
- Morten
- June 19, 2016
Morten, thank you very much for this detailed and simple explanation. It makes a lot of sense, even for an Oracle newbie like me.
After trying your suggestions, i have been able to access 3 apps on our production oracle server, 2 of which use AD authentication.
Again, many thanks for your explanation and quick reply. And many thanks for the Thoth gateway too!!!
- June 19, 2016
- Frédéric Boudineau said...
I am convinced that Thoth Gateway has a huge potential.
In my case the same IIS server can manage the main APEX application and others ASP or WCF .Net module. Great!
With ords, you need GlassFish, Windows WCFService and NGINX as proxy. Really complicated.
I will look on features specific to ords like restful.
- June 20, 2016
Can this gateway run on .NET Core under Linux
- July 01, 2016
- Morten Braten said...
@Haris: Good question. It depends on how much of the ASP.NET request pipeline is supported in .NET Core, and also if the Oracle ODP.NET Managed Driver is supported on .NET Core. Also, you would need to host the gateway in a server process. On Windows with regular .NET web apps, this is IIS. On Linux with .NET Core, this would be the "Kestrel" webserver behind an Apache or Nginx proxy. Unless you want to do some customization of the Thoth source code using .NET on Linux, why not just use ORDS on Tomcat behind Apache or Nginx?
- Morten
- July 04, 2016


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Today I whipped up this cute little chef from Kaboodle Bug Designs and made a little 8x8 page for a recipe book I plan to make....eventually! Geesh I got into scrapbooking so I could make cute books for all my photos and memories...guess how many I have done....well if you guessed 0 you would be right. I started doing cards and then it kind of took over but even that is a big nada cause I don't ever send them and guess what happens when I am needing a card? Usually its last minute and so I buy one. WOW what a way to spend alot of money to make useless items right!! I am going to try to be better from now on but it will take some time!
Anyhooo here is this cute little chef guy! You can get yours here
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Chef in the house
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3 comments:
- Kim H said...
Debbie ~ Oh my this is so stinking ADORABLE! I LOVE this idea (I would never get anything done if I did my recipes like this ~ in a HUGE folder) but I can't wait to see the finished product!! Okay you post is HYSTERICAL!!! So true for me too! OMG ~ thanks for the laugh tonight...I needed one!
- September 12, 2013 at 10:55 PM
- Creative M said...
Seriously TOO Stinking Cute!!
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- September 13, 2013 at 5:05 PM
- jessica said...
This is so adorable!!!!! I LOVE that cut!!
Awesome job my friend! Thanks for sharing and have a GREAT weekend!
- September 13, 2013 at 9:45 PM
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