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The Boat Parade
OUR OUSEDAY regatta begins with a colourful and noisy parade of boats from Lewes Rowing Club, bearing pirates singing sea shanties.
The rowing club is one of the town's oldest institutions, dating back to 1874 when the Earl of Lewes and his mates dipped oars in the Ouse as they enjoyed an outing in their gigs.
On Ouseday our members motor, row, oar and sail through the town in every kind of craft proving that whatever your background or the depth of your pocket, there really is nothing more worth doing than simply messing about in boats.
And we are delighted that the singing pirates will once again be in the vanguard of our little flotilla. Mike Green and the Wellington Wailers will wonder what to do with the drunken sailor and entertain all with their countless sing-along shanties. Come along and join in.
Rowing club chairman Brendon Parsons says: "This club has been a part of the Lewes community since 1874 and it was our members who organised the last regatta, back in 1910. It is appropriate that we should be the ones to team up with Round Table and help create this new festival of fun. Our members get to enjoy boating on the Ouse every day and we are delighted to be sharing that privilege with the rest of the community on Ouseday. Response has been extraordinary, everyone has instantly taken the regatta to their hearts. Our members get the whole thing started with the opening parade and then they provide most of the safety boats for the rest of the event. With 450 people on tidal waters, this is no little undertaking. Members also give up many days to help prepare for the day as part of the organising team, called Riffrafters. Others put up posters, or safety equipment. Special mention must go to our regatta admiral, David Sykes and his team, they do an incredible job of co-ordinating all activity on the water, and they epitomise the spirit of this unique, historic and precious club. I could not be more proud of all that is achieved by our members – and watch out this year for a spectacular return to actual rowing on the Ouse."
David Sykes, pictured blowing on his starters horn, says: "This is a wonderful event, great fun on the water and a great spectacle for everyone watching. Hurrah for the Ouse and for messing about in boats!"
Anyone interested in finding out more about our unique boat club, based in South Street in Cliffe, should visit our website: click here
Enter raft race
Application details
When: Sunday 1st July 2017 – Starts tbc (subject to tide)
Where: Raft race starts from Malling Rec in Lewes (by Tesco's) and finishes at Newhaven Marina
How: Build and decorate a raft that floats and fits under bridges.
Why: To have fun and raise money for a good cause of your choice
Theme: Music – Rock the Boat
Application Entry deadline: 1st May 2018


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The Rhino canister model with the finished cold cast aluminum one.
The model weighs 392 gm, while the hollow cold cast version weighs a mere 91 gm (3.2 oz)! The wearer won't even notice it's there.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
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How did you do the lettering on the model? Was it a stamp or stencil? Did you carve it?ReplyDelete
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Maybe the comments from one of Tom's posts last year will help explain a few things:
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I own a small business making custom resin items, mostly corporate trophies. A few years ago I purchased a laser engraver for that business, and I now use it occasionally in my steampunk work.
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Phenomenal detail. It reminds me of the Police Building in Blade Runner for some reason: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2009/11/5/1257432294732/The-futuristic-police-sta-001.jpgReplyDelete
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Call me crazy, but music makes me happy. The more music I get, the happier I am generally. Not only do I like music, but even more, I like my music to be delivered to my canals through the simplest, least encumbered systems possible. Before I continue, I should mention that my wife does not share the same lustful views that I do with music. She listens to the radio in the car or a nice CD every now and then … Sorry, I can't continue. Radio??? CDs in the car??? Who does lady think she is?
This is music we're talking about. The lifeblood and driving force for every bit of positivity and creativity in my life. More music is always better than less music. Luckily, my kids love rocking out to "dad music" and rarely think that enough is enough.
So when the wife has had her fill of music for the evening, I turn to headphones. I detest ear buds. Rather, I think they detest me. I have never had luck with a proper fit. If walking is jarring enough to dislodge the bud, it is no bud to me. My standby was a Sony sport headphone with minimal ear penetration and a clip that wrapped around the ear. Cheap, convenient and doesn't fall out fit the bill for a solid period of time. And then a problem occurred.
If you're reading closely, you may gather who caused the problem. Yes. My lovely wife thought she would borrow my headphones for her own music listening. Drake on the treadmill somehow combines two things I have little interest in. What happened next is a bit graphic so be patient with me.
The volume of the right headphone was significantly reduced the next time I plugged in. The reason? Wait for it. Wait for it. Wait … Earwax! Yes. Yellowish brown. Grossness personified. Earwax. I needed a new pair.
Shopping around and reading reviews as any 21st century responsible consumer would do brought me to the ME Electronics Air Fi Runaway headphones. Since it was the 21st century, I decided that bluetooth needed to be my step. After all, I can't let wires stand between me and … well, anything, I guess. Ordered from Amazon with prime and a $50 birthday gift card from my brother, they got me for about $13 out of pocket and arrived in the guaranteed two days.
I open the box to find headphones. Standard black, glossy headphones. There is no bright pink color, and for some reason, the manufacturer failed to include the standard "b" that adorns everyone's headphones. I charged them with the novel cord that was USB on one end and a standard headphone jack on the other. I'm no engineer, but that is a pretty slick innovation that reduces the need for multiple ports. In fact, the Air Fi's only have the one port that doubles to give you a wired connect and three rocker buttons that accomplish six functioning including power/ pairing, answering calls, track back, track forward, volume up and volume down. Super easy and natural to learn.
The sound is amazing for Bluetooth standards, but you have to know what you are getting into. Compressed music delivered via Bluetooth sounds worse. It just does, but the Air Fi's manage to yield a full, wide range that pleases my ears.
The sound is a huge pro, it is not the best feature. That is reserved for the battery. My headphones were delivered on February 24th. As of writing this, five weeks later, I have charged the phones once. Yeah, once on the day that they arrived. I have listened for at least 15 hours since then, but when I push the power button and wait the four seconds for pairing to complete, a pleasant voice informs me, "Device one connected. Battery high." Battery high? To me, this feat is an insane accomplishment. I don't know stats on other earcans, but this has to be at the top end of the performance standards.
With the price, style, sound and battery life, there is no reason that your next pair of headphones shouldn't be ME Electronics Air Fi Runaways. Choosing anything else is like choosing Drake on a treadmill. Is that what you want?
Consume.Review.Repeat. rates the Air Fi Runaways at 9.7 Canadian Hip Hop/ child actors out of 10.


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Dalgain (the Robert McCabe residence) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Portions of the content of this web page were adapted from a copy of the original nomination document. [†] Adaptation copyright © 2015, The Gombach Group.
Dalgain, 1223 Staunton Road, is a distinctive early South Hills residence of the McCabe family.
Robert E. McCabe, for whom the house was built, was a prominent Charleston attorney active in the city's business life. Dalgain was built the year of his marriage to Margaret Fleming Ward. She was the daughter of Charleston's engineering giant, Charles E. Ward. Stonleigh, Ward's residence, was built a year later and is on land adjacent to Dalgain.
The house is a colonialized American Four Square with Italianate influence apparent in its roof and paired brackets. The windows have multi-paned upper sashes and single-paned lower sashes and wooden trim painted green, making an interesting play of color with the white stucco and green roof.
The house sits on a 2 acre lot at the northern intersection of Ridgeway Drive and Staunton Road.
† Alice Carter, Dalgain, Kanawha County, WV, nomination document, 1983, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Washington, D.C.
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It is definitely Summer now, so to beat the heat, we decided to make these fun Vanilla Wafer Ice Cream Sandwiches we saw over at Random Thoughts of a Supermom! Molly thought we had to use the bigger sprinkles since they had "pink" in them! They were very fun, and tasted great!
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IM Bryant, GM Gareyev, & GM Khachiyan Win LA Open
The Los Angeles Open was held from November 4-6, in Ontario, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. The $15,000 guaranteed prize fund drew 180 players in six sections including two GMs and five IMs in the 31 player open section. The two GMs both tied for first, but the top prize on tiebreaks went to IM John Bryant. Bryant won $900 plus the $100 bonus while GMs Timur Gareyev and Melikset Khachiyan each won $900. Bryant started 3-0 by defeating Pranav Nanur, WIM Annie Wang, and IM Joshua Sheng. Here is the round two win over WIM Wang.
In rounds four and five, Bryant drew both Gareyev and Khachiyan.
Gareyev gave up draws to IMs Bregadze and Bryant and defeated NMs Albert Lu and Ilia Serpik and Gordon McNeil.
GM Khachiyan drew with Bryant and NM Albert Lu and defeated IM Sheng, NM Daniel Mouserri and Aaron Jones.
There was a four way tie for 4th at 3 ½. NM Danial Asaria won the first Under 2250 prize of $600 while IM Keaton Kiewra, WIM Annie Wang, and NM Ilia Serpik each won $150.
US Chess News reporter NM Vanessa West and NM Anthony Ge each won $150 for splitting the second under 2250 prize.
The section winners were:
Under 2050
Ed Cohen, 4 ½ – ½ $1200
Under 1850
Charles Smith, 4 ½ – ½ , $1200
Under 1650
Alexander Garber & Fausto Castro, 4 ½ – ½ , $750
Under 1450
Leo De Vera, 5-0, $1000
Under 1200
Malachi Fowler, 5-0, $986
Under 1000
Ryan Qu, Imaad Rana, Johnny Li, Omya Vidyarthi, Ivan Lin, & Austin Mitchell, 4-1, $250
Mixed Doubles
Omya Vidyarthi & Vyom Vidyarthi, 8-0, $300 each
Blitz Tournament
IM Levan Bregadze 7-1, $120
NTD David Hater directed for CCA assisted by Randall Hough and Scott Hunt.
Full tournament details can be found at www.losangelesopen.com.
Previous Continental Chess tournaments can be found at the Continental Chess website at http://www.chesstour.com/cross.html.


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You have worked hard today, it's time to take a break. We all love to dream about all our fantasies coming true. For women, it may be dinner with Brad Pitt. For men, it may be Prom with Mila Kunis. For me, it would be drinks with Jennifer Anniston… she just never ages!
Whatever it is, let's dream together for a couple of seconds….
The Situation
In light of Mark Zuckerberg's massive profits from stock options last year ($3.3 billion to be exact), let's look at some houses that may tickle our fancy….
The List
5. Think Wimbledon, water park and New York… And you come up with this beauty in Southampton, NY. It's selling at a bit of a premium, but who doesn't like grass tennis courts and sweet pools, live a little! For a just over $43 million, you can have it! http://bit.ly/SouthHampton
4. Here is 7.6 acres on a lake, with seclusion in New York! Unheard of. This beauty is a deal. After a recent price cut of nearly $20 million, we can buy privacy for just over $49 million. Along with the luscious acres of green grass, we get a wine cellar the size of our current house! http://bit.ly/SecludedNYC
3. We are going back, back to Cali. Picture this: sitting inside your house, with your walls, literally, open, sipping some Dom Pérignon, overlooking the Pacific Ocean! Well, this beauty in Malibu, California allows for that and it only costs $54 million! http://bit.ly/BacktoCali
2. Maybe walls opening up to the Pacific wasn't enough? Well, with this special property, not only do living rooms open to the Pacific, you can play tennis while looking at the Pacific and your bedroom walls open up to the Pacific. There is nothing like a little Pacific breeze to wake you up. It's only $3.5 million more than house number 3… might as well splurge! http://bit.ly/MalibuBaby
1. This one takes the cake! Despite not having the ocean, this house wraps everything into one. With this, you get seclusion like no other (basically have your own island), amazing views, nearly 51 acres to roam and 12 bedrooms, enough for your closest friends. Oh, and you get a grass tennis court, pool and a rose garden overlooking, basically, your own lake. All of this in Connecticut for $130 million! http://bit.ly/TakingtheCake
Reality makes me sick
Most of us are sitting here and looking at these homes only dreaming to one day be INVITED to one of them. For Zuckerberg, with just what he earned in 2013, he could buy all five of our favorite spots and still have multiple billions to utilize to buy furniture, boats, tennis gear and whatever else he needed to make these places even more awesome!
That's disgusting.
Well, for me at least, it's back to reality. I just woke up from my luxurious dream (slobber and all) and am back on Facebook… helping to feed the already giant beast!
I do have some more reachable dreams in reality, though. So real in fact, I've set goals to achieve them. YourWela.com now has a tool that after signing in through the Stack Up tool allows you to input your dream. Whether it's a car or a down payment on a house, you just put in how much you need to save and the amount of time you have to reach your goal, and then it helps you track your progress.
If your goal is one of the houses above, I hope you either have a long time to achieve it, or the paycheck to reach it quickly!


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Latvia are to debut in the Turkvision Song Contest represented by Oksana Bilera with the song "Yakisiyor bize bu sevgi".
Latvia are the latest country to reveal that they will be participating in the Turkvision Song Contest 2016. Oksana Bilera has been announced this morning as the Latvian representative for this years contest in Turkey. She will be singing "Yakisiyor bize bu sevgi" which translates as "This love suits us".
Oksana has been performing for over a decade and to date has released a number of albums. In 2010 she released her first album which mainly consisted of dance and club mixes. Her latest album "Zapretnyy plod" was released in June of this year. Oksana normally performs in Russian however her entry for the Turkvision Song Contest will be performed in Turkish.
18 countries have now confirmed their participation this year, they are:
- Azerbaijan – Sevinc Beyaz
- Belarus – Svetlana Agarval
- Crimea (Russia)
- Gagauzia – Yulia Arnaut
- Germany – Seyran
- Kazakhstan
- Khakassia (Russia) – Irenek Khan
- Kumyk (Russia)
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia – Oksana Bilera
- The Netherlands – Elcan
- Northern Cyprus
- Romania
- Sandzak (Serbia)
- Sweden – Arghavan
- Turkey
- Ukraine – Natalia Papazoglo
- Yakutia (Russia)


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So for those of you who are new here, I'm not exactly a fan of the whole retiring super early thing. I think that the people who would rather take it easy at 35 than do something they're passionate about are a special kind of silly. I fully applaud their goals to accumulate all of the money. I just don't agree with the slacking off part that immediately follows.
Related: Embrace selfish employment rather than early retirement
Saying that, I'm still relatively interested in the notion of financial independence. I like the idea of getting there, mostly as a safety net. What's the point of spending all this time on our finances if the goal isn't security?
And every time I write one of these anti-retire-early posts, I get accusations that I don't understand the notion of early retirement. Because hey, what better way to deflect valid criticisms than to claim the person making them has things all wrong?
So I decided I'd read THE GOOD BOOK. No, not the Bible, dummy. I had some time to kill on a plane recently, so I decided I'd read Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker. This is my review.
The bad
I think I'll separate out this review into stuff I liked and stuff I didn't like, followed by a conclusion. Groundbreaking concept, I know.
Let's start with the bad stuff.
I'm not sure how familiar you guys are with Fisker, but if you're a personal finance aficionado, chances are you've at least heard of his website, which has the same title as the book. And to be frank, he's kind of a dick. He's smarter than most of the people reading, and he knows it. There's not a whole lot of humility in the book, and Fisker couldn't give two craps if you're entertained. Thus, the whole thing reads like a textbook.
Early Retirement Extreme is split into two halves. The first half is all about the psychological aspect of early retirement. You not only have to want to retire early, but you have to know the intimate details of why you want it. Luckily for the people who don't spend as much time thinking as Fisker does, he's got you covered. Does he ever. The first hundred or so pages drag because of this.
Fisker spends a lot of time discussing what a so-called renaissance man spends time doing. It's not enough to learn about something like programming, because Fisker wants you do understand everything from how to build a PC to knowing how a hard drive works. As in, how to assemble one. Essentially, only a man who knows a bit about a lot of different subjects is fit for an early retirement, because he doesn't have to depend on others to repair his computer or unplug his sink.
(Aside: he's also obsessed with egg boilers. He mentions how wasteful they are about every 20th page. He really needed an editor [naturally, he edited the book himself] to eliminate stuff like that)
Fisker has a very clear picture of what the ideal early retiree should look like. I find that to be very interesting, especially considering the types of comebacks you typically hear from that crowd. (Think "personal finance is personal", but about early retirement) There aren't many of them who take Fisker's opinion on becoming a proper renaissance man seriously.
Finally, after many pages of Fisker explaining exactly why his version of spending $10,000 per year is more noble than everyone else's habits, we get to the good part of the book.
The good
Fisker spends much of Early Retirement Extreme pointing out how he's not going to give many "how-to tips" or anything like that. Other blogs do that, and he's above that. Which I can at least respect.
And yet, the parts of the book when he explains exactly what he does and how he accomplishes it are by far the most interesting parts. It's full of useful suggestions like shopping around sales at the grocery store instead of making a meal plan, and not owning stuff you'll only use once or twice a year. There are also good tips on how to cut your housing costs down to practically nothing and the importance of learning to cook cheaply.
Fisker's ability to cut costs was oddly inspiring, and by the end of the book I was searching for ways to cut the fat out of my spending. I think most people who read it would probably agree.
I awaited the investing section of the book in great interest. It was also a disappointment.
Fisker presents the same math I've seen a million times, stating that if you can save say 50% of your income, you only have to work every second year. If you can save 80% you only have to work every fifth year, and so on. If you can maintain a savings rate that high for a while, you can retire early.
Fisker makes many comments about how he's a successful investor and how he can easily figure out what's a good investment or what isn't, but that's about it. The details are sorely lacking. He plays around a lot with return simulators and withdrawal schedules without telling people how to invest in the first place. His advice on investing can be boiled down into a few sentences that are no more complex than you'd see on the average frugality blog. And yet, he proclaims himself an expert.
I liked the part where he told us about the things he actually did. The philosophy stuff got old fast, and so did his holier than thou attitude on why his way of life was better than ours. The part on investing was also woefully incomplete.
I'll give it 2.5/5. You'll probably like Early Retirement Extreme if you think early retirement is going to make all of your non-sexual dreams come true, but I'm going to need something better to be won over.


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Luton defender Frankie Musonda has completed his loan move to National South side Oxford City.
The 20-year-old, who has played 12 times for Luton in total, including three games in the Checkatrade Trophy this season, has moved to Marsh Lane for a month on a youth deal.
He will also work under former Hatters player and academy coach Joe Deeney, who is assistant-manager at Court Place Farm and join forces with ex-Town keeper Craig King, after he joined the club recently.
Musonda signed at the same time as MK Dons striker Sam Nombe, as City boss Mark Jones told the club's official website: "I feel that we did need to improve at both ends of the pitch so we've brought in Frankie Musonda as a defender and Sam Nombe as a striker.
"They're both professionals who have been in and around their first teams.
"Frankie has got good leadership qualities and good character.
"We believe they will come in and give us a real boost which sometimes you need.
"As much as you want to work with the players, communicate, and engage with them a couple of fresh faces at the right time can give everyone a lift so we're delighted with the two signings.
Musonda now goes into the squad for tomorrow's home clash against Hemel Hempstead Town.


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It was once said that "it simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons." While this isn't the particular tale he was referring to, Tolkien's words still ring true. Pete's Dragon is definitely a worthy adventure.Director David Lowery brings this beautiful story to life, impressing audiences right from the start. The opening scene was excellently portrayed, showing the sadness of the events without being excessively graphic or traumatising.
A great amount of credit must also go to the cast. Oakes Fegley is adorably innocent in the leading role of Pete, the young boy who has grown up in the woods with only Elliot for company. The stand out fact that makes this story all the more amazing? Elliot is a dragon!
Of course not everyone is going to react the same when the existence of said dragon comes to light. Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) is a park ranger who, with the help of her father, Meacham (Robert Redford), and her boyfriend's daughter, Natalie (Oona Laurence) want to protect Elliot. On the other side of the coin, we have Natalie's uncle, Gavin (Karl Urban). Gavin's reaction upon discovering the dragon is to go hunting.
We really can't blame Gavin too much for his reaction. It seems, more often than not, that upon finding something unknown to us, our instinct as humans is to fear it. Stories generally tell us that dragons are something to be feared, so that is the view point adopted by Gavin and his friends.
Thankfully, as in most children's movies, lessons are learnt and friendships made, so don't despair too much.
The soundtrack was another facet to this film I really enjoyed. The mostly calming song choices kept the magical feeling throughout.
Lastly, but by no means least, we must address the elephant in the room; or rather, the dragon. Elliot's mannerisms remind me of a large (ok, massive) green Labrador puppy. His excitement as he plays with Pete and the fear and sadness when he finds himself alone are very well displayed. Effects used to create this adorable, furry giant are fantastic in their quality and his personality is shown extremely well for a character who has no dialogue.
For kids and adults alike, Pete's Dragon is the perfect tale to put a little magic in your day.


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One of my favorite things to do each month is to participate on the Mom Mentor panel for Graham Blanchard. I love the questions we're asked because it makes me take a moment to reflect on questions in my spiritual life, my life as a mom, and my child's spiritual growth that I can easily overlook with the busyness of the day.
This month the question was, "As your children grow, what surprises or strikes you most about the way their spiritual life is developing?" It made me pause and reflect on how I've contributed to Anya's spiritual foundation, but more importantly how she is developing her own relationship with Christ. This question also made me think about how as she moves through different stages in her life that her relationship with God will hopefully mature, and how I can encourage her in our day to day life to draw nearer to the Lord.
You can read my answer and what the other moms said over at Graham Blanchard. If you haven't check out the website it is a great resource for all moms on this journey with their children. Also I would love to hear your answer to this question, so please feel free to comment!


text: The USA television network TBN's weekly program "The Watchman" recently visited ancient Jewish and Christian monuments in the Galilee with Eldad Keynan, an expert on Northern Israel archaeological sites. The episodes will air on Thursday, October 27 and Thursday, November 3, 2016, at 11:30 p.m. EST. Series host is Erick Stakelbeck, Director of the Christians United for Israel Watchman Project, an initiative of "America's largest pro-Israel organization." Episodes also can be viewed at this link. Keynan, a published author on post-Second Temple Jewish burial rites and practices, actively researches interactions between Jews and Christians in the Ancient and Byzantine eras, and is moderator of the public Facebook discussion group, "Early Christianity and Judeo-Christianity in the Galilee" (which provides fascinating images and film clips of visits to ancient tombs). A 2015 ASOR notice of his work is here.


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|My little man nursing at just a few days old.
I love that we have a week highlighting this beautiful act of motherhood, but it's a lifelong battle in Ireland which never ceases to baffle me.
Just looking at some of the reactions of people on twitter says a lot about Irish culture and the way women are really viewed. If boobs are seen purely as a sexual thing, what does it say for us? For a culture who is rapidly rejecting religion and all the backwards theories that comes with it and finally backing science and natural selection, it's amazing to me that we can be so close minded about this. I wonder where people think the human race evolved from if it wasn't for boobs. Formula wasn't even an option 200 years ago, yet somehow we managed to survive.
I would urge every woman to examine her feelings on this issue and wonder why and where those feelings evolved. If boobs are only for our partners to play with, what does that say about us? What does that say about our view of the role of women? Where did such views come from? Whether you choose to breastfeed or not, you really need to think about this. Why should women be made feel uncomfortable or in extreme cases shunned for doing something their bodies were made to do? Why is it ok for women to flaunt their assets in the media or out on a Friday night but not to use them how they were actually meant to be used? Why is it that educated women feel this way? Why is it that 50 Shades of shite is so popular among women? Why is it that we are our own worst enemies? Yes, Christianity has a lot to answer for shaming women and their bodies, but even in some of the most oppressive countries towards women today breastfeeding is a non-issue. Nursing burqas are big business I tell you! :)
All of this bears thinking about and pondering... above are just some of my thoughts and there are many more where that came from but I will spare you! Check back tomorrow for my new favourite cake recipe... Grapefruit! Yes, it's worth it!
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A tablet can be a great productivity tool on its own, but it's even better with the right accessories. A keyboard is handy for extended typing sessions, and a mouse or stylus makes precise tasks like editing a spreadsheet a lot easier. Some tablets are even compatible with docking stations that can transform your tablet into a desktop computer. You'll want to protect your decked-out work slate with a case, too.
Read on for five accessories that can turn a basic tablet into a serious productivity machine.
Available for: iPads, Android tablets, Windows tablets
A touch-screen keyboard is fine for hammering out quick email replies, but it can't beat a physical keyboard for serious typing.
- Android: With an Android tablet, your keyboard options vary depending on which model you own. Some tablets, like the Asus Transformer Book T200, come with a snap-on keyboard right out of the box. For other models, you can pick up a Bluetooth keyboard, and use a clamshell case to keep your tablet and keyboard together.
- Windows: Most Windows tablets include a full-size USB port, so just about any keyboard you can find will work. Some models, like the Surface Pro 3 or Dell Venue 11 Pro, are compatible with keyboards made for that particular tablet. Of course, any Bluetooth keyboard will work as well.
- iPad: None of the iPad models released so far includes a USB port, but there are plenty of Bluetooth keyboards available for both mini and full-size iPads. And if you're working at a desk, Apple's full-size wireless keyboard for Mac computers is a pretty good option.
USB/Bluetooth mouse
Available for: Android tablets, Windows tablets
Touch screens can't always give you the precise control you need. When you sit down at a table or desk, a mouse is a much better tool for precision pointing.
- Android: The Android operating system features external mouse support, but not all Android tablets come with a USB port. A Bluetooth mouse should work with just about any model, though. You also have the option to buy a micro USB adapter.
- Windows: Windows tablets, which run on the full desktop version of Windows, were built with mouse pointing in mind. Most Windows tablets come with at least one full-size USB tablet, so plug in and start working. Bluetooth mice are another good choice.
- iPad: Sorry, iPad fans. Apple tablets don't work with mice — period.
Available for: Android tablets, Windows tablets, iPads
A tablet paired with a stylus makes a great digital notepad. The accessory also gives you more precise control for times when using a mouse isn't practical.
- Android: Some Android tablets, including those in Samsung's Galaxy Note line, actually come with a stylus and a pressure-sensitive touch screen for accurate, natural handwriting. For other Android slates, you can pick up a capacitive stylus that works with any model.
- Windows: Likewise, some Windows tablets come with a stylus. The Surface Pro 3 comes with a pen, integrated note-taking apps and a pressure-sensitive display. Otherwise, grab a capacitive stylus, and get writing.
- iPad: You won't find an iPad model with a built-in stylus, but there are plenty of third-party options, including a few that detect how hard you're pressing.
Docking station
Available for: Windows 8 tablets
A docking station is different from a simple charging dock. It's like a desktop hub that adds extra ports, letting you connect your tablet to a mouse, keyboard, external hard drive, monitor and more. But the real benefit of a desktop dock is that it eliminates the need to plug in all your accessories each time you sit down at your desk. But although laptop docks are common, tablet compatibility is limited.
- Android: There are no true docking stations for Android tablets, but you can get something close. Some tablets, such as the Dell Venue 11 Pro, are compatible with keyboard accessories that add extra USB ports, and an HDMI port for connecting a separate monitor. If you leave it on your desktop, that sort of keyboard accessory makes for a decent docking station.
- Windows 8: For desktop docking, Windows tablets are your best bet. The Surface Pro 2 andSurface Pro 3 are compatible with Microsoft's dock, and a similar accessory is available for the Dell Venue 11 Pro. Belkin's desktop dock is compatible with any Windows 8 tablet that has a USB 3.0 port.
- iPad: The iPad can't be docked, but you can mirror its screen on a larger monitor with the help of an adapter.
Cases and folios
Whether you're commuting or leaving for a business trip, your tablet is likely to go with you, so grab a case to keep it protected from drops and dings.
- Android: The number of case options you have depends on the popularity of your particular Android tablet. You'll have the most options for models in Samsung's Galaxy series or Google's Nexus line.
- Windows 8: Most keyboard accessories for Windows tablets double as a screen protector, and standard cases are available for most models.
- iPad: Apple sells two different cases for the iPad: the Smart Case, which covers the front and back of your tablet and can act as a kickstand; and the Smart Cover, which protects just the front of your iPad.


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The characters of the ASCII encoding provide for the former sort of representation. It is natural to think of Unicode as just a larger version of that, now allowing for many different alphabets and languages. When it was developed, though, it swept in Japanese emoji characters. There is a Unicode character for a pile of poop -- not the general term which in English we write "poop", but 💩. And so on for lots of other little pictures.
Are these just yet more letters? Or is something different going on?
One might think that the distinction I began with is just Goodman's distinction between allographic and autographic works. In work with Jason D'Cruz, we articulate and defend that distinction. Importantly, however, we argue that digital images are allographic. The digital image which corresponds to U+1F4A9 is just how PILE OF POO renders on your computer, though. The character doesn't mean specifically that digital image.
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In 'The Will to Believe' (1896), James characterizes the religious hypothesis as the claim that the best things are the more eternal things and that we are better off believing them so.
Two years later, James gives a lecture at Berkeley which considers similar questions.** I assigned it this time through, because it's the first place where the term 'pragmatism' is introduced.
In the Berkeley lecture, James considers religion of the focus-on-the-eternal sense but poses the worry that abstract religion is too concerned with the infinite and the abstract. His reply is to concede this and claim, instead, that genuine religion is realized in particular lived experience. He writes:
Did such a conglomeration of abstract general terms give really the gist of our knowledge of the Deity, divinity-schools might indeed continue to flourish, but religion, vital religion, would have taken its flight from this world. What keeps religion going is something else than abstract definitions and systems of logically concatenated adjectives, and something different from faculties of theology and their professors. All these things are after-effects, secondary accretions upon a mass of concrete religious experiences, connecting themselves with feeling and conduct that renew themselves in saecula saeculorum in the lives of humble private men. If you ask what these experiences are, they are conversations with the unseen, voices and visions, responses to prayer, changes of heart, deliverances from fear, inflowings of help, assurances of support, whenever certain persons set their own internal attitude in certain appropriate ways.
This shift in focus points toward the enquiry which is presented a few years later as The Varieties of Religious Experience (1901-2). But the two conceptions of religion are offered alongside one another in the Berkeley lecture.
In 1906, James delivers the Pragmatism lectures. I've never paid much attention to the first lecture, because it is merely an advertisement for pragmatism rather than an explanation of it. He poses the distinction between tough-minded and tender-minded temperaments, and he claims that we pick philosophical conceptions which fit our temperaments.
Yet there is also an extended discussion of the failings of religion. Considering the tragedy of a man who commits suicide because he cannot support his family, James writes:
[W]hile... thinkers are unveiling Reality and the Absolute and explaining away evil and pain, this is the condition of the only beings known to us anywhere in the universe... What these people experience is Reality.
Here James seems to flatfootedly reject the value of religion which gestures to the infinite, insisting on the religion instead which is realized in particularities.
So it seems to me that there may be a shift in the ten year period from `The Will to Believe' to Pragmatism. It coincides with James' popularization and working-through of pragmatism as a method.
* This is probably well-marked in the secondary literature somewhere, but I don't have enough of a grasp on the literature about James to say where.
** Published as 'Philosophical Conceptions And Practical Results'.
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Predictably, however, it's also been an occasion for whinging about the word "planet". The New Horizons team wants to talk up Pluto as a planet.
They are happy to play it up for a reporter. Alan Stern, the mission's principal investigator, complains that the IAU definition is "rather unscientific", that it's "trying to legislate what is and isn't a planet -- to keep the numbers small." His idea, I think, is that the discovery of Eris and other Kuiper belt objects revealed that there were too many planets to make up a countable list for school children. He raises some of the usual objections against the orbit-clearing criterion which figures in the official definition of "planet".
My view on this is that the 2006 decision to regiment the word "planet" in a way that excluded Pluto made the word track a natural kind. There's a broader natural kind which includes the planets, Pluto, Ceres, Eris, and a great many other round solar satellites. Astronomers could have made "planet" pick out that broader category, at the cost of reclassifying the asteroid Ceres. Either way, folk use of the term was going to take some bruising. (I deal elsewhere with the usual objections.)
The New Horizons team has some professional investment in the status of Pluto, of course. And their focus on studying Pluto also means that they are focused on phenomena which make the broader natural kind more salient for them. But it misrepresents the way that scientific language works to pretend that there was only one scientific thing for the IAU to do.
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a short article on d-cog at the Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. It's something between a critical notice and a blog post, I guess.
Brown's aim, narrowly, is to engage Ron Giere's claim that distributed cognition counts as cognitive in virtue of having individual doxastic states among its outputs. His argument, by way of Wilfred Sellars and Paul Churchland, is to argue that the model of individual doxastic states itself elides all the material and social distribution that necessarily contribute to doxastic states.
In my own work, I've argued for a thin conception of d-cog according to which "an activity is d-cog if (1) the task is such that it would count as cognition if it were carried out entirely in a single mind or brain, and (2) the process by which the task is carried out is not enclosed within the boundary of a single organism."
Brown's argument seems to open up this objection to my conception: Belief and knowledge are never and could never be entirely in a single mind or brain. As such, it seems false that they would "would count as cognition if... carried out entirely in a single mind or brain". At best, it's undefined as to whether they would.
I find both my own conception and Brown's argument plausible. I'm not sure how to resolve this.
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I seriously have a lot more blog posts to come. But.office.workload.is.piling.up… Madness!
Ok, when did I have this meal again?? Seriously it's THAT long ago. But I can still remember the meal itself pretty easily cos' this jolly well could be one of the longest wait for my main course to arrive - EVER!
How long was it? Well, let's see… Long enough for my son to run in and out of the restaurant almost 10x? The only saving grace was that it was weeknight so the restaurant wasn't THAT filled out, therefore I spare myself some embarrassment; having to run/scream after an active toddler.
Then again, if the restaurant wasn't crowded, why did the food take THAT long to arrive?
Beats me. One thing for sure, my hubby already gave his thumbs down, "This will be the first and last. No more." (referring to dining there). Which is such a waste. Cos' I like the food they offer and this is the closest branch to home. Pfft.
Then again, maybe I'm impartial towards this place because they are from Korea, serves Korean stuff and pay K-pop MVs the whole time. :)))
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Now on to the food.
Glad I ordered this. Cos' this didn't require any cooking. Maybe that's why it arrived early.
What do you expect from this? At least the chips ain't stale. My only gripe was that all the squiggles of mayo & cheese were on top, leaving the insides dry.
Anyway we ordered the promo set where the main course comes with a bowl of soup (of-the-day), soft drinks and dessert.
Thankfully the soup (out-of-can variety) arrived around the same time as the above chips so at least we managed to fill ourselves up a wee bit.
When this FINALLY arrived, my face was all flushed from all that running and also embarrassment. I was really exhausted and hungry.
I-dunno-how-many-times my son kept running into the cake shop opposite and stopped right in front of the counter because of this sweet teenage girl manning it. She had no choice but to ignore him because her boss was in there. So it was totally one-sided on my son's part. Poor boy… :P
The chicken meat was tender and nicely marinated. After Popeye's mashed potato, all others just seem so meh. I was pretty apprehensive as to what might be served for the veggie on the side. We are usually at the mercy of the oft-changing 'veggie-of-the-day' when it comes to this kind of mains. Thankfully the blanched french beans and carrots were to my liking, albeit a tad bland.
My hubby's order. He only managed a grunt when I asked him how the steak was. I guess when you're miffed with such poor service (yes, there were other issues), nothing seems good anymore. Oh well…
My son finally sat still after my hubby strapped him down in thr stroller (he hates baby seats) and fed him those fries. What's up with toddlers and fries anyway? Any toddler out there who don't like fries?
Too bad the portion's a tad too small for sharing so hubby didn't get much of them fries.
By the time we're finally done with our mains, it's wayy past my son's bedtime and my hubby was eager to get home (crank alert!). But I reminded him of the dessert that comes with the promo set so we asked that to be served together with the bill. I asked about the dessert and it was a scoop of ice-cream per set. I forgot to place my choice of flavour and the server didn't even ask. Pfft.
Naturally, while waiting, my boy took the chance to take off and greet his 'ice-princess' (she still refused to acknowledge him, poor fella). When I came back to the table, I saw that my hubby had taken the chocolate flavour for himself, leaving me with the vanilla.
My son took interest in it so I shared it with him (what? I know it's already his bedtime and all but if I don't do that, the ice-cream will go to waste!).
Here are my previous dining experiences at BBQ Chicken (inc. at other branches):
01, 02, 03
I will be coming back for the Hot Hot Drums or Jerk Chicken. That's how much I like those. But not with my hubby, I guess.


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As complex and varied as the flavor of beer is, it is actually only made up of just four key ingredients: Malt, Hops, Water and Yeast. Each of these ingredients has a role in the final product, and we'll be reviewing each piece as a part of Beer 101. The first ingredient we'll be discussing is malt.
Malt plays several roles in beer, from providing the sugars that allow for fermentation, to providing a base for the flavors. Before I go into more details about what malt does, let's talk about what malt is.
When discussing malt in beer, the most common kind you'll find is malted barley. Though it's not the only malt suitable for making beer, barley has become the preferred grain for several reasons. One of the primary factors that made barley the malt of choice is that it's not very good for grinding into flour. I'll cover this in more depth in a future post in Beer 101 where we talk some beer history. We'll also cover other grains used in beer in a future post.
Barley is a grain member of the grass family that grows in three varieties. Two, four and six row varieties refer to the number of seeds on the stalk. Two and six row barley are the only ones that are suitable for brewing, and brewers choose which type they will use in their beer for different reasons.
Two row barley is often selected because it malts better, and because it has a higher ratio of starch to husk than six row barley. Six row barley is used because it is cheaper than two row, and it produces more enzymes for converting starch into fermentable sugar during the malting process. This extra enzyme production is key when using other ingredients that don't produce their own enzymes or don't produce enough for effective brewing. Two row barley is the traditional brewer's favorite, but six row barley is very common among U.S. craft brewers.
Barley by itself is not suitable for brewing and it must be malted before it is used in beer. Malting is the process that converts the starches in the barley into soluble starch, reduces proteins and generates yeast nutrients and enzymes that are important to brewing. Barley is malted by taking the harvested grain and soaking it in water to activate the dormant kernel. The kernels are then allowed to start germinating (sprouting roots). This germination is where the seeds naturally convert starch into soluble starch which would be used as food for the new plant. Since brewers are only interested in the malted barley, it is at this point that the grain is heated in a kiln to stop the further growth and dry it out.
The next step in processing the barley is to roast it. Much like coffee beans are roasted, there are varying degrees to which the grains are roasted. If the barley is simply roasted to the point that it stops the germination process, it is considered pale malt. This pale malt is the lightest form of malt in terms of color, and has the most enzymes remaining. Pale malt is used as the base malt in many beers and many breweries add pale malt to every beer they brew because it provides a solid malt sweet backbone to the beer and is much cheaper than malts that have been roasted further. The high concentration of enzymes remaining in the malt is also very important to the rest of the brewing process.
As the malt is roasted further, it becomes darker and different flavors are introduced. Amber, brown, chocolate and black malts are different varieties that are produced by heating the malt to a higher temperature. When the malt is further darkened, caramel and roast flavors come out, but the enzymes are also burned away.
After malting and roasting, the malt is ground into grist. This grist is then added to water and heated. This heating process starts the enzyme reaction and the starches in the grain are turned into sugar. This sugar is important because it is what the yeast will turn into alcohol and carbon dioxide later in the brewing process. The product of adding the grist to the water is known as sweet wort (unfermented beer).
Malt is a crucial ingredient to the flavor of the beer. It adds the sweetness of the beer and provides a balance to the bitterness introduced by the hops. Malt also provides the sugars that are used in fermenting and allow for the creation of alcohol in the beer. The malt that is used in a beer is the most obvious difference between a pale beer and a stout beer.
I hope that you learned something by reading this, and that you have a clearer understanding of one of the four main ingredients in beer. Stay tuned as my next Beer 101 post will cover another one of the main four ingredients of beer: hops. Again, if you have any questions, or clarifications, please feel free to comment, or send me a tweet.


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PADT draws flak for demolishing Shivalaya
- Says it will rebuild the temple
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The Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT) has met with widespread criticism for demolishing one of the four Shivalayas on the premises of the Pashupatinath temple.
The PADT demolished the Shivalaya on Saturday as part of its plan to expand the Kriya Putri facility, a holy place where mourners stay after cremating their dead.
Following criticism, the PADT has said it will rebuild the demolished temple.
"We have instructed the concerned agency to rebuild the temple. If it does not do so, the PADT itself will rebuild the temple," a press release issued by the PADT said.
The area where the structure was demolished falls within Unesco World Heritage sites.
Local representatives were neither consulted nor informed before demolishing the temple, said Ward Chairman Dinesh Dangal. "How reasonable is it on the part of the PADT to say it will reconstruct the temple," he said.
According to locals, the centuries-old structure was demolished in the night.
On Sunday, representatives of the Department of Archaeology (DoA) visited the site. DoA Spokesperson Ram Kunwar said the department has already written to the PADT asking it explain its act of demolishing the temple.
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A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man
Are Neanderthals Human?
|Some evidence suggests Neanderthals may have used herbal remedies
Neanderthals in the News
"…we found that Neanderthals did not just throw their stuff everywhere but in fact were organized and purposeful when it came to domestic space."
"The discoveries are the latest in continuing research by Riel-Salvatore showing that Neanderthals were far more advanced than originally thought."
"In an earlier study, [Riel Salvatore] found that Neanderthals were highly innovative, creating bone tools, ornaments and projectile points."
"This [logical and organized living spaces] is still more evidence that they were more sophisticated than many have given them credit for. If we are going to identify modern human behavior on the basis of organized spatial patterns, then you have to extend it to Neanderthals as well."[4]
|Comparison of modern human and neanderthal skulls from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
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The New Neanderthals
- They created efficient tools for specific purposes (wood working, hunting, scraping hides, etc.)
- Able to share information and pass along techniques
- May have used markings and symbols
- Used fire
- Buried their dead
- Were skilled hunters
- Innovated and adapted to changes in the environment
- Cared for their sick and injured[8]
|One of the first depictions of Neanderthals


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Congo's president promises democratic vote despite tensions
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo's president on Friday broke his silence on upcoming elections that have fueled tensions in this central African country for well over a year, promising a democratic process but declining to detail his political future.
President Joseph Kabila's second and final term under the constitution expires at the end of this year, but the opposition suspects the government will try to delay the vote to keep him in power.
Elections are currently scheduled for November. In Friday's speech in the eastern town of Kalemie, Kabila said voter registration would begin in July.
He also warned politicians against any bid to destabilize Congo, which has never had a peaceful transfer of power.
"To all those who want to intimidate us by saying that blood will flow if there aren't elections, if they come here ask them whose blood is going to flow?" said Kabila, who spoke in Swahili.
He said some Congolese wanted him to stay on.
"From the airport road I heard the crowd say that I should stay in power longer. Know that we are in a democracy and that means we are going to organize democratic elections in this country," Kabila said.
The president's remarks came one day after the U.N. Security Council urged his government to maintain a free, fair and timely electoral process while expressing concern over "recent arrests and detention of members of the political opposition."
Also on Thursday, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on a top Congolese police official who activists say is linked to dozens of deaths. The statement announcing the sanctions against Celestin Kanyama noted a "pattern of repression" by Kabila's government.
Congo's embassy in Washington called the move "an infringement on our sovereignty."
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A fabulous conference is held yearly by Bioneers.
It presents many of the theoretical and practical details of how the Ecozoic era will be manifested.
Highly recommended!
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Founder Kenny Ausubel coined the word bioneers in 1990 to describe an emerging culture of social and scientific innovators who are mimicking nature¹s operating instructions to serve human ends while enriching the web of life. We take a "solve-the-whole-problem" approach: Taking care of nature means taking care of people – and taking care of people means taking care of nature. It's part of our mission.


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The City of Austin, Parks and Recreation Department, Cemeteries Division (512-978-2320) is responsible for the administration, interment, and maintenance functions of the five city owned cemeteries: Oakwood, Oakwood Annex, Austin Memorial Park, Evergreen, and Plummers. The Travis County International Cemetery is owned and maintained by Travis County, but by agreement, the City opens and closes all graves.
Oakwood is the oldest cemetery. Provision for a cemetery was made in 1839 when the city was founded, and in that year, according to Frank Brown, "the regular burying place was established on the southwest part of the present city cemetery." In 1856, Oakwood was deeded to the city by the State of Texas. In 1866, Temple Beth Israel bought two sections for its congregation. The official name has changed several times. In 1886, it was named "City Cemetery." In 1903, the name was changed to Austin City Cemetery, and in 1912 it received its present name.
In 1917 the Oakwood Annex opened, and Evergreen opened in 1928. Travis County opened the Travis County International Cemetery, for paupers, in 1940. The city purchased Austin Memorial Park from a private cemetery company in 1941. Plummers Cemetery was acquired in 1957 as a condition of the city's purchase of land for Givens Park.
Though not a city cemetery, some information about Mount Cavalry is included in some of the records because at one time the city managed this cemetery. Also, some of the ledgers reference burials at the State Cemetery when the city opened and closed the graves.
The bulk of this collection is comprised of records of individual burials in the various city cemeteries. Most of this information is found in bound ledger and index books. The burial ledger books contain burial date, name, age, gender, color, nativity, disease, attending physician, where buried, by whom buried, and remarks; completeness of data varies by ledger. The index books contain date of burial, book and page number in the record, the cemetery name, section, lot, space, and notes; completeness varies by ledger. The property ledgers contain section, lot, location, deeded to, date paid, amount, deed issued date, and transfers.
There are some records regarding general administrative management of the cemeteries and maps of the cemeteries.
The collection is arranged into 6 series:
Note: There is not a separate series for Plummers Cemetery as there are no specific records for this cemetery.
AF Subject Files:
AF Photograph Files
Archives and Manuscripts
General Collection
Architectural Archives
This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
The ledger books may not be photocopied due to preservation concerns.
These records were transferred to the archives from the Parks and Recreation Department. The transfers occurred at different times, though most of the records came when the City of Austin contracted with Intercare to manage the cemeteries.
Austin (Tex.). Parks and Recreation Department, Cemeteries Division Records (AR.2001.003). Austin History Center, Austin Public Library, Texas.
Donor #: DO/1968/063
Donation Date: varies


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Full Faux Fur: This is the full shebang. Best reserved for fashionistas in trendy cities like NYC or LA. This can be really cute with heeled boots, jeans, and a basic shirt, but can go overboard really fast!
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Members of Banks-v-Goodfellow
Robin Jacoby DM. FRCP. FRCPsych.
Education: Oriel College, Oxford and Guy's Hospital, London.
Prof Jacoby has been a consultant since 1980: between 1983 and 1993 at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals in London; and since 1994 in Oxford as Clinical Reader and later Professor of Old Age Psychiatry. His research in the field of old age psychiatry enjoys an international reputation.
He was the lead editor of the Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry published by Oxford University Press, first to fourth editions (called Psychiatry in the Elderly in editions 1-3). In all four editions he co-wrote the chapter on testamentary capacity. He also contributed to chapter 13, Testamentary Capacity in Williams, Mortimer and Sunnucks: Executors, Administrators and Probate. (eds. J.H.G. Sunnucks with J.G. Ross Martyn & N. Caddick). Sweet & Maxwell, London. He lectures to lawyers and doctors on testamentary capacity. He is co-author, with solicitor Peter Steer, of How to assess capacity to make a will published in the British Medical Journal 2007, 335, 155-157, and of Testamentary Capacity: Law, Practice and Medicine (with Martyn Frost & Stephen Lawson).
Prof Jacoby speaks fluent French, German and Russian.
Prof Jacoby has written very many reports for solicitors in criminal cases, including 31 cases of homicide. In the last 20 years or so he has developed a particular interest in mental capacity in older people, in particular testamentary capacity. He has given opinions in over 300 hundred capacity cases of which the great majority were contentious probate, and given evidence in those that were not settled out of court. He has conducted golden rule assessments of potential testators, and assessments of older persons in cases where disability in relation to trial (fitness to plead) has been raised. He has published chapters and articles in the area of testamentary capacity, and given lectures on the medical aspects of capacity assessment to seminars run by various barristers chambers, solicitors firms and, in 2007, to the Chancery Bar Association.
Prof Jacoby gave testimony as an expert witness in the following reported cases:
Robert J Howard MD MRCPsych.
Education: Jesus College Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
Professor Howard was a Consultant at the Maudsley Hospital from 1994 until 2015 when he moved to University College London. His research in the areas of dementia and psychosis in older people has an international reputation.
Since the 1990s he has had extensive experience of report preparation for civil and criminal proceedings and has given evidence in Court. He was an expert witness in the War Crimes trials in the late 1990s and was Amnesty International's main expert during the Pinochet extradition proceedings.
Professor Howard has experience of fitness to plead and stand trial proceedings as well as golden rule assessments of testamentary capacity. He has provided expert reports for solicitors and counsel and given evidence in court on contentious probate cases.
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PUTNEY, Vt. — Santa's Land will close its doors for good later this month after 54 years in business.
Timothy and Leslie Wells purchased the year-round, Christmas-themed park seven years ago, making improvements and increasing the park's attendance, the couple said.
But when gas prices topped $4 per gallon four years ago, out-of-state business declined and never recovered, the couple said.
After considering closing the park last year, the couple decided to give it one last shot, reducing admission rates and trimming the schedule, but it wasn't enough to keep the park going, they said.
Burglaries and vandalism compounded the park's problems.
Jack Poppele opened the park Aug. 10, 1957, welcoming guests at a cost of 19 cents per person, according to the park's website.
Poppele, along with his daughter, managed the park until 1970, when it was sold to a local family who would manage it for the next 30 years, according to the website.
The current owners hope to entertain offers that involve keeping the park open, they said.
The couples' attempts to get financial assistance through historic preservation efforts were unsuccessful, they said.
The park is open this weekend and next, with its final day of business scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 18.
(c)2011 The Keene Sentinel (Keene, N.H.)
Visit The Keene Sentinel (Keene, N.H.) at www.sentinelsource.com
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon, May 25 (UPI) -- The United States sent supplies to Lebanon Friday to help government troops fighting al-Qaida-backed militants at a Palestinian refugee camp.
Lebanese security services said four Arab-owned planes carried weapons and ammunition from U.S. Army bases and depots in the Middle East, The Times of London reports.
Fighting erupted anew Thursday night between government forces and the Fatah al-Islam guerrillas at the Nahr el-Bared camp near the northern city of Tripoli.
At least 33 Lebanese soldiers and 25 militants are believed to have died in what is being described as the worst fighting since the country's 1975-1990 civil war.
The government has ruled out any negotiations to end the standoff.
"We will put an end to the terrorist phenomenon without hesitation," Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said.
So far the United Nations agency that cares for Palestinian refugees has been unable to enter the camp to provide the remaining civilians with supplies.


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Create VM-Host affinity rules to specify whether the members of a selected virtual machine DRS group can run on the members of a specific host DRS group.
Create virtual machine DRS groups that contain one or more MSCS virtual machines as described in Create a Virtual Machine DRS Group (MSCS).
Create host DRS groups that contain one or more ESXi hosts, as described in Create a Host DRS Group (MSCS).
- Browse to the cluster in the vSphere Web Client navigator.
- Click Configure.
- Under Configuration, select VM/Host Rules and click Add.
- In the Create VM/Host Rule dialog box, type a name for the rule.
- From the Type menu, select Virtual Machines to Hosts.
- Select the virtual machine DRS group and the host DRS group to which the rule applies.
For example, select VMGroup_1 and HostGroup_1.
- Select Must run on hosts in group.
- Click OK.


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I know that 2015 is coming to a rapid end and I have made a few decisions, especially in regards to my reading challenges. I am thinking that I am going to back down on the number of reading challenges that I participate during 2016, at least at the start.
I am also signing up for Michelle @ True Book Addict's Christmas Reading Challenge and Christmas Spirit Readathon.
For the reading challenge, I am going go for the Mistletoe level, in which I am hoping to read 2-4 Christmas books and I am also going to do Fa La La La Film challenge as well. I hope that you can join as well. And to kick things off, Michelle is hosting a read-a-thon for the first week. I hope to read at least one or two books during this time.
And to add to that Jenn at Jenn's Bookshelves is hosting the Thankfully Reading weekend. I hope to spend a bit of time reading during the weekend.
I will get back to my reading and hopefully I can start to catch-up the book reviews that have been piling up this coming week.
Hope you have a great rest of the day and a great week of reading.


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Patience is key
Thanksgiving is inarguably one of the busiest travel times of the year, so you can pretty much expect there will be delays and bottlenecks at airports, train stations, and bus terminals.
Before you're tempted to throw a travel-inspired temper tantrum, try some easy-peasy breathing exercises. For example, inhale for four seconds, hold for another four seconds, and then exhale for six seconds. It sounds silly, but it works wonders and can help you keep cool in the most frustrating situations—sorta like Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) did when the airline lost Howard's mother's ashes in "The Intimacy Acceleration" (Episode 16, Season 8).


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דרדסים: הסרט 2011 / The Smurfs 2011 720p BluRay QEBS5 AAC20 MP4-FASM
דרדסים: הסרט 2011
1.55 GiB
הועלה ע"י
תאריך העלאה:
24.11.11 - 21:11
הסרט הראשון שיצא לקולנוע עם גיבורי הילדות הדרדסים גרגמל וחתחתול.
לחץ להורדה | מגנט |
Movie name ................: The smurfs (2011)
Movie info.................: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472181/
Movie Lenght ..............: 1:42:43
File size .................: 1.51GiB
File Container ............: MP4
Video Source ..............: BLURAY MPEG4 AVC
Video Format ..............: MPEG4 AVC HIGH PROFILE LEVEL 3.1
Video Aspect Ratio ........: 16:9
Video Attributes ..........: 23.976 fps 1280x720 @ 1972kbps
Video Commpresion Technique: Quality Enhancer Bitrate Squeezer 5.0
Video colour matrix .......: BT.709-5
Audio Source ..............: BluRay - DTS HD core 5.1
Audio Format ..............: AAC LC HRTF STEREO
Audio Attributes ..........: 144kbps
Audio Language ............: English
Subtitles external ........: Polish,English
DXVA Compatible ...........: YES
FAT32 Compatible ..........: YES
PS3 Compatible ............: YES
IPHONE 4/IPAD Compatible ..: YES (www.iphone-without-itunes.com)
XBOX360 Compatible ........: Read below
WDTV Compatible ...........: Read below
WWW Streamable ............: YES
Standalone players ........: Limited to h264 devices only
Sample Video...............: Included
When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village,
they tumble from their magical world and into ours.
Encoders note:
FASM 720p releases have display resolution 1280x720 and have special HRTF
transformed STEREO sound converted from 5.1 BluRay source.Just imagine the file
which is small enough, have great quality, which you can play on multiple devices
from smartphones to large TVs directly, without the need to using some special
converting software. If you can imagine that you have the idea of whats offering
you FASM 720p RIP.
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Check out the new instruction for fixing your player problemms.
Regards to all encoders especially Big thanx to Atom, FLAWL3SS and FraMeSToR crew
, Filix, Rok3r, Kempas, Stun, Askeen, Faolanscath and all who likes my work.
1. All FASM releases were done by THE PEOPLE for THE PEOPLE, so if you think they
are worthy share them anywhere you want, but if you like the movie, show your
gratitude to the creators by going to cinema or buying Bluray/DVD!
2. UNFINISHED/SAMPLE movies HAVE synchro problems, full movies DON`T. This is the
nature of highly compressed content. The QUALITY of the display depends ALSO
from the PLAYER you use. There are some buggy players which display those
movies at the significiant worse quality!! If you have any problemms with your
video player check "Instruction for fixing your player problemms" folder.
3. Please COMMENT my work ONLY if you have actually seen it. If you LIKED this
release - tell others about it. If you didnt, leave a comment saying why, so
I can learn from your opinions and provide you with something better in the
future. Everything here has been done with the reason, so if you do not
understand something dont assume its done bad. Of course we also make mistakes
so any observation is welcome.
4. I have found that XBox360 can play stereo AAC directly and 5.1 through WINDOWS
media center extender. For more info read this forum:
5. WDTV devices are causing so much problemms with AAC. I am not sure is this
also the case with this release, so its better for me to give you stright link
to the disscussion regarding this: http://wdtvhd.com/index.php?showtopic=23287
6. Movies can be directly streamed through WWW using Adobe Flash Player 9 or new.
7. FASM Quality Enhancer Bitrate Squeezer is h264 compression method optimized
directly for lowbitrate HD contents. It is constantly being improved, each
revision brings quality to a new level. Its efficiency over standard x264
encoding is explained by the same reason as XVID encodes are better than DIVX3
8. Any subtitles made for different releases, but taken from the same source
(Bluray) should also work with this release. If you are looking for them visit
9. AAC sound must be decompressed and send through HDMI or SPDIF as PCM. Please
also note that if you do have video card with HDMI that means you do have two
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text: Mark Webber says starts like this can be avoided as overtaking has become easier in the sport [EPA] Formula One's governing body needs to crack down on dangerous behaviour in feeder series like GP2 to improve safety standards in grands prix, according to Austrian Alexander Wurz.A lively debate has been going on in Formula One since inexperienced French driver Romain Grosjean was banned for last weekend's Italian Grand Prix for causing a pile-up in Belgium the previous Sunday.Grosjean will be back for Singapore next week and his Lotus team say he has learned a lesson from spending time watching and listening in the garages at Monza while Belgian Jerome d'Ambrosio drove his car.The Spa accident saw Grosjean's car lift up over the front of the Ferrari of championship leader Fernando Alonso, narrowly missing his head, in a collision as the field funnelled into the first corner.Wurz, lucky to have escaped injury in a similar incident in Australia in 2007 when David Coulthard's Red Bull flew over his Williams, said drivers coming into Formula One needed more awareness instilled in them in the feeder series."Things like the start collision with Romain can and will always happen," the Austrian, who retired from F1 in 2007 and has a road safety training business as well as acting as a driver mentor for Williams. "But especially looking at GP2 races, which is the feeder series, the driver standards there are appalling - bad, very bad - and they are coming in to F1."It's something we clearly must work on that the feeder series are very strict and of the same standard as F1. And we have to achieve this and address it very quickly." 'Playstation' generation Wurz suggested this would involve the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) making sure rules and penalties were applied with the same rigour as in F1 by stewards and the race director.Australian Mark Webber agreed that the newcomers, including Williams' Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado who has had a string of penalties in F1 this season, needed to be educated about the dangers and to take responsibility.Grosjean and Maldonado are both ex-GP2 champions and recognised as quick but also very aggressive.Formula One has not had a driver fatality in a race since Brazilian triple champion Ayrton Senna died at Imola in 1994. "You do need to get involved but some guys are having more incidents than the others and they need to take that on board" Red Bull driver Mark Webber Michael Schumacher, 43 and driving for Mercedes after his glory years at Ferrari, is now the only driver still on the starting grid to have taken part in that fatal grand prix weekend. A new 'Playstation' generation has arrived that is used to seeing racers walk away or escape unhurt from massive smashes."In the last 10 years, the level of aggressiveness has ramped up a bit just because guys know that usually they'll be able to walk away from a crash," Webber, 36, wrote in a BBC column on Wednesday."But you can be aggressive and safe or aggressive and unsafe. I've always said F1 is not a finishing school when it comes to racing."Webber pointed out that the nature of racing this year, with the Pirelli tyres and DRS rear wing system making it easier to overtake, meant drivers did not have to be so 'desperate' at the start."You do need to get involved but some guys are having more incidents than the others and they need to take that on board," said the Red Bull driver. "We should be the best at what we do, racing in all conditions on all kinds of tracks, and driver etiquette has to match that." SOURCE: Reuters Humanitarian crises Sport Formula One Australia Belgium


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Esquadrilha da Fumaça EMB 312
Role Trainer aircraft
Manufacturer Embraer
First flight 16 August 1980
Introduction September, 1983
Status Active
Primary users Brazilian Air Force
Egyptian Air Force
Argentine Air Force
French Air Force
Produced 1980
Number built 504
Variants Short Tucano
The Embraer EMB 312 Tucano is a two seat turboprop basic trainer developed in Brazil. The prototype first flew in 1980 and initial production units were delivered in 1983. The Tucano family of aircraft became one of Embraer's first international marketing successes, with 600 units produced. An improved variant was licence-produced as the Short Tucano for the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force.
Design and development
In 1978 the Brazilian state owned aircraft manufacturer Embraer started the design for a new basic trainer for the Brazilian Air Force, receiving a contract for two prototypes in December that year. The first prototype flew on 16 August 1980, with the second flying for the first time on 10 December 1980.[1]
The EMB-312 is designated T-27 in Brazilian Air Force (FAB) service. It is the aerobatic demonstration aircraft of the Brazilian Air Force Demonstration Squadron, the "Smoke Squadron" (Esquadrilha da Fumaça). The FAB purchased 133 AT-27 light attack versions. First exported to Honduras in 1984, the EMB-312 proved successful.
The upgraded EMB-312H "Super Tucano" was a losing contender in the USA's Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) aircraft selection of the 1990s. Among the seven designs to enter, the Raytheon/Pilatus entry won, which became the T-6 Texan II. Embraer worked with Northrop, which merged with Grumman part way through the competition to become Northrop Grumman. The EMB-312H's design later served as a starting point for the EMB-314, dubbed the ALX, and adopted by the Brazilian Air Force as the A-29.
Operational history
On 27 November 1992, the aircraft were widely used by mutinied officers who staged a coup d'état against former President Carlos Andrés Pérez. The rebels dropped bombs and launched rockets against Police and government buildings in Caracas. Several aircraft, along with OV-10 Broncos were shot down during the uprising by F-16s flown by loyalist pilots
The Peruvian Air Force used the AT-27 for night bombing missions during the Cenepa War in 1995.
Drug busting operations
The aircraft, along with the Cessna A-37 Dragonfly, has been widely used for drug-busting operations in Central and South America.
The standard production model.
Two-seat basic training aircraft for the Brazilian Air Force.
Two-seat light attack version for the Brazilian Air Force.
80 units sold to France of model with French avionics.
Short Tucano
130 aircraft to RAF, plus 12 for Kenya and 16 for Kuwait with a different, more powerful engine and custom avionics.
a Northrop/Embraer developed prototype for USAF (JPATS) competition for an advanced trainer, from which derived EMB-314 EMB-314 Super Tucano (ALX) now in production for FAB.
Angolan Air Force operates 14 aircraft including six aircraft bought from Peru.
Argentine Air Force received 30 aircraft.
Brazilian Air Force bought 151 aircraft, 109 of them are in service.
Smoke Squadron
Colombian Air Force received 14 aircraft.
Dominican Republic
Dominican Air Force received 8 aircraft.
Egyptian Air Force bought 54 aircraft with 40 produced under license by Helwan.
French Air Force received 50 aircraft.
Guatemalan Air Force received 14 aircraft.
Honduran Air Force received 12 aircraft.
IRGC Air Force received 15 aircraft.
Iraqi Air Force bought 80 aircraft produced under licence by Helwan.
Paraguayan Air Force received six aircraft.
Peruvian Air Force bought 30 aircraft. Six of them were resold to Angola.
Venezuelan Air Force received 31 aircraft.
Specifications (standard EMB 312)
Data from Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide, Fifth Edition[6]
General characteristics
o Crew: 2
o Length: 9.86 m (32 ft 4 in)
o Wingspan: 11.14 m (36 ft 6 in)
o Height: 3.4 m (11 ft 2 in)
o Wing area: 19.4 m² (209 sq ft)
o Empty weight: 1,810 kg (3,990 lb)
o Loaded weight: lb (kg)
o Useful load: lb (kg)
o Max takeoff weight: 3,175 kg (7,000 lb)
o Powerplant: 1× Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-25C turboprop, 560 kW (750 hp)
o Maximum speed: 458 km/h (247 kt)
o Cruise speed: 347 km/h (187 kt)
o Stall speed: 67 kt (km/h)
o Range: 1916 km (1035 NM)
o Service ceiling: 9,150 m (30,000 ft)
o Rate of climb: 2600 ft/min (793 m/s)
o Wing loading: 164 kg/m² (33.5 lb/ft²)
o Power/mass: 0.11 hp/lb (0.18 kW/kg)
o Guns:12.7 mm(pod mounted on wing pylons)
o Bombs: May be mouted on wing pylons.
o Rockets: Unguided rocket pods may be mounted on wing pylons.
o Other:4 underwing pylons total capacity 1,000 kg (2,200 lb)
Endres, Gunther, ed. Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide, Fifth Edition. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. ISBN 978-0-00-725792-8.
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