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Allures 52
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|€599 000
|16.3 m
|Matériau de la coque
|Cherbourg, France
|Statut en matière fiscale
|Taxe payée
|Longueur Hors Tout
|16.3 m
|Longueur à la flottaison
|14.08 m
|4.7 m
|Tirant d'eau max.
|3.1 m
|Tirant d'eau min.
|1.1 m
|Type de quille
|16900 kg
|6100 kg
|Type de moteur
|Marque du moteur
|Modèle de moteur
|Année du moteur
|75 hp
|Type d'entraînement
|Transmission Sail Drive
|Type d'hélice
|3 pales
|Hélice repliable
|Matériau de l'hélice
|Heures de moteur
|Appareillage Électrique
|Équipement Interieur
|Équipement Extérieur/Options
|Berret Racoupeau
|Certification CE
|Couchettes doubles
|Réservoirs de carburant
|750 litres
|Réservoirs à eau douce
|750 litres (Plastique)
|Réservoirs eau noire
|2 x 40 litres
|Forme de la coque
|Guindeau électrique
Available immediately, this stunning 3-cabin, 2-heads alloy & composite centreboard cutter is fitted out for serious liveaboard and circumnavigation duties. A great opportunity to head off without delay aboard one of the most exciting new designs in blue water yachting.
Launched in late spring 2016 and displayed at the Cannes Boat Show in September, MoRiMoRi is hull no.2 of the brand new Racoupeau designed Allures 52. Chosen and configured specifically for a 4-5yr circumnavigation, MoRiMoRi features absolutely everything a serious liveaboard yachtsman could wish for to enable safe and comfortable passage across the world's oceans. Her strong alloy construction, coupled with her light and well-insulated composite superstructure make her a safe and comfortable home, whilst her twin rudders and powerful cutter rig afford thrilling performance under sail. Her centreboard and fully-skegged saildrive offer unrivalled access and protection in the most challenging of anchorages. Specification highlights include:-
- Ocean interior layout with 'Zen' light oak joiner
- 5kw generator
- Dessalator 24v watermaker
- Bowthruster
- 280w solar panels on transom arch
- Upgraded battery capacity
- 50/60Hz shore power inputs with variable input battery charger
- Wind-generator
- Furling asymmetric spinnaker
- Symmetric spinnaker with pole (also used for poling out genoa)
- Cutter rig with furlers for genoa and staysail
- Structural spay-dodger/ hardtop
- Upgraded Evo electric winches
- Marinedeck synthetic side decks, cockpit and bathing platform
- Davits built into transom arch
- Stern anchor roller
- B&G instrument package with plotter/radar displays at chart table and at both helm positions
- Fusion stereo system
- Iridium sat coms
- Washing machine
Now unexpectedly offered for sale due to her private owner's change of plans, MoRiMoRi is 100% ready to go and offers a truly unique opportunity to step aboard and sail away on the adventure of a lifetime. Offered for sale exclusive of VAT, this stunning blue water yacht is available for immediate delivery.
The Allures 52 is a prestige yacht for true long-distance cruising.
It is also an innovative project, the fruits of a collaboration between boat builders, designers and yachtsmen. Everyone, whether they are professionals, experts or just passionate sailors dream of a unique and accomplished yacht. They wanted a yacht which reflected the spirit of the times and fulfilled the aspirations of the modern yachtsman. Only a safe and comfortable yacht, quick and elegant, could get them dreaming.
The yachtsmen, whether famous or not as well-known, who contributed to the development of the Allures 52 prepared an uncompromising set of specifications:
- The pleasure of sailing without limits in complete safety aboard a yacht which is simple, lively, fast and elegant,
- The pleasure of a boat truly designed for living on board.
We took up this challenge by drawing on the convincing experience acquired over the last ten years. The innovative ideas developed by our shipyard enabled us to take it on successfully. It was through discoveries and technical developments that the objectives set for the 52 were finally exceeded.
The entire team at Allures Yachting is proud to reveal our flagship yacht, designed to sail the world's oceans with an exceptional level of safety, comfort and elegance.
Safety, Power, and Elegance
Three words that help to summarize the design and execution of the Allures Yachting line. Below we've detailed many of the features that serve to bring those adjectives together into the picture of a modern, ocean-going yacht.
Strength & Safety
- Strong yet lightweight rounded aluminum hull.
- Watertight bulkheads enhance safety.
- Well thought out layout with handholds throughout
- Dual wheels for excellent visibility.
- Wide, maneuverable decks.
- Ballast tanks extend tankage and boost upwind performance.
- Retractable centerboard delivers access to shallow harbors and enables you to beach the yacht.
- Dual rudders for stability, steering responsiveness, and beach-ability.
- S-Drive motor is lower maintenance, quiet, and responsive under power.
- Twin seat navigation station – so you both can chart the course.
- Multiple cabin configurations fit your style.
- Many customizable options.
- Sleek and elegant, inside and out.
- High capacity water and fuel tanks extend your cruising range.
- Copious storage for all the necessities and toys.
- Large sail locker increases your options while keeping the cabin clear.
- Solar panels integrated into the design, not a bolted on afterthought.
- Composite topsides enhance insulation and lead to beautiful, fluid lines.
- Rounded aluminum hull is sleek and stylish.
- Light, bright, and inviting interior spaces.
The three Peyron brothers chose the Allures 44 for their expeditions to the far North; Michel Desjoyaux advised the Allures Yachting team on the design of their boats. It goes without saying that we are proud of the confidence these sailors have placed in us.
Allures Yachting, founded in 2003 by Xavier Desmaret and Stéphan Constance, is enjoying great success. These two engineers who dreamt of designing the perfect boat for a round-the-world trip placed their whole range in our hands. This confidence gave rise to innovative lifting keel centreboards which benefit from combining a robust aluminium hull with the comfort and elegance of a composite superstructure. Berret-Racoupeau Yacht Design develop, design and create both the exterior and interior designs of the Allures.
We were looking for an ocean-going yacht which would answer a sailor's legitimate requirements within the limits of a reasonable budget, which is:
- safe in the toughest of conditions,
- high-performance and enjoyable at the wheel,
- adaptable to all moorings,
- comfortable and user-friendly,
- elegant (interior as well as exterior).
Within our budget we soon realized there was hardly any choice available. Day after day we met sailors who had come to the same conclusions: our requirements and our dreams were the same, but there was no yacht yet to fulfill them. So we founded Allures Yachting. For months prior to reaching the concept of our boats, we had hours of fascinating discussions with a wide range of sailors - some anonymous, others famous - and integrated our own experiences, acquired through thousands of miles over the seas of the world. Close analysis of all these experiences gave us our key principles:
- aluminium for safety,
- a centerboard for increased freedom,
- GRP superstructure for performance, comfort and elegance
Along these lines we have been developing a range of sail yachts designed to fulfill all your yearnings. Our range includes the Allures 39.9, 45 and now the new Allures 52. The yard experienced an outstanding growth, with a turnover which almost doubled each and every year during the first six years. With the take over of Outremer (simple, fast, sea-worthy blue-water catamarans) in 2007 and Garcia (custom aluminium yachts ranging from 50 to 115') in 2010, our group has reached a leading position in the long distance cruising sailboat industry.
RCD Status:
- MoRiMoRi is CE certified for category A - OCEAN: Designed for extended voyages where conditions may exceed wind force 8 (Beaufort scale) and significant wave heights of 4 m and above, and vessels largely self-sufficient.
Hull, Deck & Superstructure Construction:
- Smooth curve hull and deck in Sealium® 5083 and 6060 aluminium alloy, welded in inert atmosphere by MIG and TIG process.
- Welding of hull sections monitored by dye penetration
- Chain plates and reinforcements welded to the hull and deck structure
- Additional hull insulation for aluminium topsides above waterline
- Water-tight aluminium collision bulkhead
- Coachroof, cockpit and transom made of polyester resin sandwich reinforced with fibre glass, with felt or balsa core.
- Composite aluminium bonding by bolting/riveting and gluing.
- Welded aluminium toe-rail with Marinedeck synthetic teak strake
- Side decks in Marinedeck synthetic teak
- Cockpit seating, helmsman's seat, cockpit sole and bathing platoform covered in Marinedeck synthetic teak
- Painting of deck and down to 50mm below deck
- Antislip inlaid in paint and gelcoat.
Keel & Rudder:
- Centreboard adjustable from cockpit
- Twin rudder blades
Engine & gearbox:
- Volvo Penta D2-75 sail-drive 75 hp engine with bipolar installation
- Volvo Saildrive gearbox fully protected by hull skeg
- Fresh water cooling via raw water intake and heat exchanger
- Acoustic insulation with absorbent foam /visco-elastic foam compound
- Forced ventilation by extractor fan
- Control panel with alarms
- Switchable dual fuel pre-filters
- Light in engine compartment
Maintenance & Performance:
- Engine hours: Approximately 530 hours as of November 2016
- Cruising speed: 7 knots
- Maximum speed: 8 knots
Propulsion & Steering:
- JEFA transmission steering system with 2 x 1000mm diameter leather covered steering wheels
- Engine controls to port
- Emergency steering gear
- Stainless steel prop shaft
- MaxPower CT225 24vDC tunnel bowthruster
- J-Prop auto-feathering 20" 3-bladed propeller
- Spare 3-bladed fixed propeller
Voltage systems:
- 24v domestic system with 12v starting banks and 220vAC via generator or shore power
Battery Banks:
- 1 set of 24v/432Ah service batteries (upgraded capacity)
- 12v/105Ah engine & generator start batteries
- Digital battery monitoring systems at chart table with touchscreen and 300A active shunt
- Emergency parallel switch between engine & generator battery banks
- Victron Centaur 24v/60A battery charger – multi voltage and multi-frequency input
- Fischer Panda 5000i speed regulated 220vAC 5kw generator
- Generator hours – approx. 6 as of November 2016
- Victron Phoenix 24v 3,000w Inverter with controller at chart table
Energy Management:
- Superwind D400 / 24V Wind Generator
- 280w solar panels on aft gantry
- 30Amp MPPT Charge controller
- 1 x 24v/50A split alternator coupled to the engine for charging service battery bank
- 1 x 12v/115A alternator for charging start battery bank
- Sterling alternator charger
Other Electrical:
- 220v/110vAC 60/50Hz adapable shore power connection with AC outlets in interior
- Galvanic isolator
- Preinstallation for hydro-generator at stern
Cathodic Protection:
- 2 sacrificial anodes on skeg
- 1 sacrificial anode on centreboard
- 1 sacrificial anode on sail-drive base
Fresh Water:
- 24vDC pressure system with accumulator tank for hot and cold fresh water.
- 40 litre calorifier tank for heating water via engine or with 220vAC element from shorepower or generator
- Hot & cold pressurised showers in all heads and at transom
- Freshwater inlet at transom
- Dessalator D-100 100lph 24vDC watermaker
- Watermaker hours: approx. 8 as of November 2016
Bilge Pumps:
- 1 immersed electric bilge pump in sail locker
- 1 immersed electric bilge pump forward of the mast bulkhead
- 1 immersed high volume manually-operated electric bilge pump in bilge
- 1 water detection alarm in bilge
- 2x electric diaphragm pumps
- 2x built–in and ballastable fuel tank (total capacity of 750L)
- Separate fuel circuits for port & starboard tanks with independent fuel fillers and tank manifold system
- Tank gauges at chart table
Fresh Water:
- 2 x Polyethylene and ballastable water tanks (total capacity of 750L)
- Tank gauges at chart table
Holding Tanks:
- 2x 40 litre blackwater holding tanks
In cockpit:
- B&G Zeus2 9" colour GPS/chart plotter radar displays at both helms
- 2x B&G Triton T41 multi-displays at companionway
- B&G wind, speed, log, depth and water temperature transducers
- 2x B&G autopilot controls at helms
- B&G AC42 course computer, RC42 gyro and Jefa DU-T58-12 electric drive unit
- Spare power unit for autopilot with angle sensor and selection switch
- B&G Broadband 4G digital radar scanner on mast
- B&G ZG100 antenna
- B&G Class B NAIS 400L AIS transceiver with silent switch
- Steering compasses inset to cockpit coamings
At chart table:
- B&G Zeus2 12" colour GPS/chart plotter radar display at chart table
- B&G Triton T41 multi-display
- USB/Simnet PC outlet at chart table
- B&G WR10 autopilot remote control
Communications Equipment:
- B&G VHF50 VHF with AIS & DSC at chart table with fist mic.
- Iridum sat-phone system including antenna, router terminal and phone handset
- Navico GoFree Wi-Fi box
- WiFi/4G Webboat Glomex antenna
- Twin stainless steel sinks with hot & cold pressurised fresh water supply.
- Manual fresh & salt water supplies at galley
- ENO 3-burner gimballed gas stove with oven & grill
- 220vAC 750w microwave oven
- 2X stainless steel draw-opening fridges - 24vDC
- Stainless steel Drawer-opening freezer – 24vDC
- Electrolux 4kgs capacity 220vAC washing machine
- Nespresso coffee machine
- Dyson hand vaccum
- Jabsco 'Quietflush' electric heads in day heads
- Jabsco manual marine heads in owners ensuite
- Hot & cold showers in both heads
Heating & Ventilation:
- Webasto diesel-fired central hot air heating
- LED Lighting
- Fusion MS-IP7000i Ipod reader
- 2x 200w waterproof speakers in cockpit
- 4x 100w surface-mount speakers in saloon
- Bluetooth connection kit and USB socket
- Fusion 22" LCD TV with DVD on main bulkhead
- Home movie/ subwoofer amplifier
- Glomex amplified TV aerial at masthead
Summary of Accommodation:
- Up to eight berths in three dedicated sleeping cabins with master cabin forward and two aft guest cabins, plus converting saloon double. Ensuite heads for master cabin and shared heads for aft cabins and day-heads usage. Saloon with occasional settee berth, galley and chart table areas.
Accommodation Finish:
- Internal layout designed by Berret-Racoupeau Yacht Design
- Light oak interior 'Zen' finish
- Furniture in solid wood and marine ply, and laminate for heads
- Main bulkheads in plywood.
- Furniture in plywood Soles in laminated plywood
- Cabin linings in plywood covered with fabric or imitation leather
- Upholstery and mattresses in high density foam, covered with removable, washable fabric.
- Piere Frey Alba upholstery in saloon
- Retractable blinds for deckhead and coachroof windows
Description of Accommodation from Forward:
Forward Cabin:
- Double island bed with generous storage space and 2 drawers
- 2 individual mattresses on slatted bed bases
- Seat with storage on port and starboard side
- Cupboard with shelves
- Wardrobe on top of cupboard
- Closed cubbyholes along hull sides and main bulkhead
- Cubbyholes to starboard (under the portlights and along the bed)
- LED ceiling lights, reading lamps & indirect background lights
Forward Heads:
- Built-in sink unit with mixer tap
- Tall unit covered with 3 mirrors
- Separate shower with direct air circulation
- Storage recesses with LED spotlights
- Storage spaces
- Linen basket
- First aid cabinet
- manual marine WC
- LED ceiling spotlights
Main Saloon:
- Central bench seat and upholstery
- L-shaped side bench seat with upholstery and extensive storage space
- Large upper storage shelf
- Central table with fiddles and height adjustable legs and infill to create double berth
- LED ceiling spotlights & indirect background lights
Navigation Station:
- Double panoramic chart table with storage lockers
- Bookshelves
- Anthracite instrument panel
- Electric control panel with 24V, 12V, & 220V functions, bipolar magneto-thermal protection, leak tester, navigation lights monitoring system, voltmeter and ammeter.
- Central gauge monitor for water and diesel tanks
- LED ceiling spotlights 1 red and white LED lamp for night passages.
- 12V sockets & 220V sockets
- Upper shelf for micro-wave
- Base unit with synthetic resin worktop
- Gimballed gas stove-oven with 3 burners
- Storage shelf for a pressure cooker below the gas stove
- Built-in sink unit with synthetic marble worktop and integrated draining rack
- 2 s/s fitted sinks and a waste bin.
- Pressurized hot and cold water mixer tap
- Sea water footpump and spout
- Stainless steel support handrail
- Fitted refrigerator with 2 x 144 litre s/s drawers
- Fitted deep freeze with 1 x 75 litre s/s drawer
- 220v socket
- Gas stopcock
- Central bar unit continued by a large multipurpose unit covered with a synthetic marble worktop with fiddles and stainless steel handrail
Port Aft Heads:
- Electric marine WC
- Storage locker
- Upper storage unit with mirror
- Built-in hand basin with mixer tap
- Mirror
- Separate shower with mixer tap
- Stainless steel hand-rail
Port Aft Cabin:
- Double berth with flap to free access to machinery room and aft peak locker
- 2 individual mattresses
- Seat with locker
- Wardrobe
- Cupboard along the hull
- Shelf along the hull
- Access panels to engine, machinery room and after peak locker
- LED ceiling and reading lights
Starboard Aft Cabin:
- Double berth with generous storage space
- 2 individual mattresses on slatted bed bases
- Seat with locker
- Wardrobe
- Cupboard along the hull
- Shelf along the hull
- Access panels to engine, machinery room, after peak locker and main electricity terminal block
- LED ceiling and reading lights
- Sparcraft anodised aluminium deck-stepped mast with two sets of spreaders
- Mainsail track for batten cars with ball bearings.
- Anodised aluminium boom
- Continuous stainless steel wire standing rigging
- Stainless steel rigging screw protectors
- Mast-step
- Profurl manual genoa furler
- Profurl manual staysail furler
- Dyneema halyards and topping lift
- Single-line reefing system led aft to cockpit with 3-reefs in main
- Rigid boom vang adjustable from cockpuit
- Walder 403H boom brake gybe preventer
- Selden CX45 soft-furler for asymmetric spinnaker
- Aluminium alloy spinnaker and booming-out pole stowed vertically on mast
- Checkstays for use with staysail
- German mainsheet system
- Adjustable mainsheet track on coachroof forward of companionway
- Adjustable genoa tracks with sheeting blocks for genoa and staysail
- Stackpack with lazyjacks for mainsail
- Lewmar winch package consisting of 7 winches, 6 of which are electric 2-speed self-tailing and 4 of which are EVO versions.
- Incidence Sails Hydranet tri-radial fully-battened mainsail
- Incidence Sails Hydranet tri-radial genoa
- Incidence Sails Hydranet tri-radial staysail
- X Voiles nylon 190sqm symmetrical tri-radial spinnaker with snuffer
- X Voiles nylon 130sqm furling asymmetrical spinnaker
- Pushpit, pulpit and stanchions in polished 316 L s/s with insulating washer
- 2 pulpits, 4 pushpits 8 standard stanchions, 4 entrance stanchions
- 4mm single strand lifelines with fixed clevis and pelican hook
- Stainless steel mast pulpits
- 2 large lockers under cockpit seating
- 2 helmsman's seat openings
- Aft chain locker with mooring port on transom
- Scooped stern with built-in bathing ladder in locker, hot and cold shower, locker for gas bottle, second locker and box for liferaft.
- Custom-made drop-leaf cockpit table (20mm teak)
- Aluminium aft gantry to carry electronics and davit
- Sliding companionway hatch in 15mm
- PMMA French-style teak doors to companionway
- 2 s/s 3 metre handrails on coachroof coaming
- Folding aluminium passarelle
Anchoring & Mooring:
- Overhang sternhead fitting with twin bow rollers
- 24vDC 1500 W vertical windlass with warping end and gypsy, disengageable for emergency manual operation
- Windlass control at helm pedestal
- 30kgs spade anchor with 80m 12mm chain & 50m warp
- Kobra 2 16kg kedge anchor with 20m chain and 50m warp
- Chain roller on scooped stern
- 8 x 450mm mooring cleats welded to side decks
- 1x 300mm mooring cleat welded in scooped stern
- 2x 160mm mooring cleats on gantry
Tender & Outboard:
- Dinghy davits on arch
- Plastimo hypalon P270HH 2.70m tender with cover
- Suzuki 9.9hp 4-stroke outboard engine
Covers, Cushions & Canvas:
- Sunbrella crimson red stackpack for mainsail with lazyjacks
- Sunbrella crimson red bimini with stainless steel frame
- Sunbrella crimson red Enclosure panels for hardtop
- Sunbrella crimson red cockpit table cover
- Sunbrella grey cockpit cushions
- Wheel covers
Navigation Lights:
- LED Navigation lights, mooring lights, masthead and deck lights
Life saving:
- Plastimo Transocean liferaft
- 3x RescueMe MOB personal beacons
Fire control:
- Automatic engine room fire extinguishing system
- Fire extinguishers throughout interior
Grabau International offers the details of all vessels in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information or warranty the condition of any vessel and the details do not constitute a part of any contract. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. All vessels are offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice. Grabau International provides professional yacht conveyancing and legal transfer of title for all yachts as per the ABYA Code of Practice with all deposit payments and final balance payments processed through secure dedicated client accounts solely for that purpose. Our dedicated client accounts are written in trust at Natwest Bank and we are fully insured.
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Stars announce contract extensions for Travis Morin and Colton Sceviour
Both are expected to be key players for the Texas Stars and provide depth for the NHL Stars.
Here is the press release:
|FRISCO, Texas - The Dallas Stars announced today that the team has signed forward Travis Morin to a two year, two-way contract and forward Colton Sceviour to a one year, two-way contract.
Morin, 29, has skated in three career NHL games, all during the 2010-11 campaign. This season, the 6-foot-1, 195-pound forward from Minneapolis, Minn., played 59 games for the Texas Stars, Dallas' development affiliate in the American Hockey League (AHL), where he led the team with 32 assists and ranked third in overall scoring with 44 points (12G-32A). He also earned three assists in seven Calder Cup Playoff games. Morin was Dallas' ninth-round selection (263rd overall) in the 2004 NHL Draft.
Sceviour, 24, has played two career NHL games, and earned his first NHL point (assist) on Jan. 26, 2013 against the St. Louis Blues. The 6-foot, 196-pound forward from Red Deer Alta., led the Texas Stars in scoring with 52 points this past season (21G-31A) and also paced the club with a plus-21 rating in 62 regular season contests. Sceviour posted four points (1G-3A) and a plus-1 rating in nine Calder Cup Playoff games this past season. Sceviour was Dallas' fourth-round selection (112th overall) in the 2007 NHL Draft.

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|Data Worm is easy to play. It's basically a snake game with 360 degrees of turning. Use the left and right arrow keys (or 'A' and 'D') to turn the Data Worm. Collect the green data, but watch out for red viruses and the surrounding firewall. Collect yellow powerups to make your life easier. Do not hit yourself.
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CTI has a proven track record in managing complicated and multidisciplinary advisory boards. These experiences have led to relationships with thought leaders and productive communication to guide product development. CTI leverages existing global relationships to assist our sponsors in gaining immediate access to key opinion leaders (KOLs). Once experts have been identified and briefed on the sponsor's needs, the CTI meeting planning team will identify possible venues to hold scientific advisory board meetings and efficiently manage all meeting activities.


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After about another 24 to 27 days, once the larvae have gone through all of the skin moults, they change into one final stage which is the pupae. Pupae look like white waxy ants that lay with their legs and antennae folded up against their bodies. Some species, such as Lasius niger, do not have a pupa stage but the larvae will spin themselves a cocoon in which it will metamorphosis into the adult ant. To be able to spin a cocoon the larvae must be against a solid object, this could be the ground, wall of a chamber or, in some cases, the larvae will have soil particles placed on it by the to assist them in the spinning of the cocoon. Perhaps the soil granules act as an irritant causing the larvae to spin its cocoon. Sometimes a larvae can be encouraged to spin its cocoon by the worker ant gently pressing its own body against the larvae.
The larvae will eject all its gut contents out and this appears as a small black dot at one end of the cocoon. I have seen my Lasius niger ants with 'naked' pupae rather than the usual cocoons in them, and I assume this has happened because the larvae, for whatever reason has not had soil granules placed on it nor has it been surrounded by a hard surface other than the ground it is laying on.
Adult Ant
After, approximately, a further 13 to 28 days (about a total of 8 to 12 weeks from egg to adult ant), and again this varies according to species and ambient temperatures, the adult ant emerges looking very pale and soft. A newly born Lasius niger ant is almost white at first but after a few hours it will darken to black and it's exoskeleton will harden.
The particular job that each worker does within the colony depends on its age. New ants tend the queen and brood within the security of the depths of the nest. As the ant gets older so it will change jobs which take it nearer the surface of the ground until, nearer the end of its life, the ant will leave the safety of the nest and forage outside. This is the most economical way of sharing out the chores among the ants.
I once read somewhere that men send their young me to war, whereas ants send their old ladies.
Whether it is a worker, soldier (not seen in native UK species), male or queen depends on various factors:
Worker: Normal development and food intake as a larvae.
Soldier: Increased foot intake as a larvae.
Male: Unfertilised eggs.
Queens: Appears to be food intake related – lots more food than a worker.


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Shifting Frontiers: Texas from Spain to Space
By Marketing and Communications | 10-27-2016
Shifting Frontiers: Texas From Spain to Space
New Cushing Memorial Library and Archives Exhibition Now Open
The new exhibition at Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Shifting Frontiers: Texas from Spain to Space, highlights the complexity of Texas history, as well as the impact Texas has made on the rest of the United States and the world. While the items tell a comprehensive history of Texas, they also showcase the multi-faceted impact that Texas A&M University has had on its history.
The exhibition consists of unique and rare items in a wide variety of forms, including maps, books, manuscripts, photographs, textiles and audiovisual materials. The exhibition documents the culture and history of Texas from the early days to the present time.
Military history is strongly represented in the exhibition, from the Texas Revolution through the two World Wars and the Korean and Vietnam wars. Other aspects of Texas life documented in the exhibition include immigration, ranching and agriculture, technology, popular culture, performing arts, the oil and space industries, and other science breakthroughs.
The exhibition is open and free to the public in the Cushing Library from October 28 through June 30, 2017. To see all artifacts and pieces of Texan history, guests are recommended to visit at least twice during the span of the exhibition, since some items are being displayed only for a limited time.
For more information, please contact co-curators Robin Hutchison (email@example.com), Anton duPlessis (firstname.lastname@example.com), or Greg Bailey (email@example.com).


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Hemel charity Billy's Wish raised over £800 on Saturday night with a fundraising boxing match.
Hundreds of supporters packed into the Holiday Inn in Stevenage to support the iBox Promotions Charity Boxing Evening.
The charity was set up by Paul Dove in 2012 following the tragic death of his young son, Billy Dove in Hemel Hempstead in November 2011.
Since 2012 Billy's Wish has produced and developed an Anti Knife Crime Education Programme that is being taught in Hemel Hempstead schools, and is currently being run out across Hertfordshire, with a new extended programme becoming available from January 2016.
The event was hosted by TV presenter and Billy's Wish supporter Rob Lamarr, and featured guest judges British legend WBC World Welterweight
Champion John H Stracey, who was inducted into the WBC Hall of Fame in 2005, and English Flyweight title holder Ashley 'Flash Ash' Sexton, who still boxes professionally.
Both men took great delight in handing out trophies to the boxers, while John also hosted the charity auction, which included a pair of golden gloves signed by him, an Absolute Radio football signed by Ian Wright, and a range of boxing memorabilia.
David Stephenson, owner of iBox Promotions, said: "Billy's Wish is a fantastic charity that has worked so hard to educate young people about the dangers of knife crime.
"It was an absolute pleasure to put on this event to raise much needed funds for them. We have so far raised £800 with more pledged.
"The event was a huge success and my team at iBox Promotions have decided to make this an annual event. Together we can fight the fight against knife crime."


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Lloyds advice on weathering winter storms
by Gill Montia
Story link: Lloyds advice on weathering winter storms
With a harsh winter predicted and freezing temperatures on the way, Lloyds TSB Home Insurance is advising householders to give their properties a winter health check.
Last year, the insurer handled 26,500 burst and frozen pipe claims which cost over £39 million to put right, and over 14,000 windstorm damage claims that cost over £5 million to fix. Advice from Lloyds is as follows:
Check the condition of the roof.
Clear the gutters and drain pipes of any leaves or debris that have built up.
Keep gates and outbuilding doors fastened securely and secure any other loose items.
Check external light fittings are secure.
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My son gave me some kielbasa, the Polish sausage. I would like some recipes for its use, but not too heavy. Does one boil it, saute it, broil it? Help!
Miriam from Southbury, CT
We like it fried with potatoes and onions for breakfast. Very basic, but good. We often make this camping. (02/22/2007)
By Patti
If the sausage is pre cooked, slice and use in the recipes below.
If the sausage is fresh (uncooked), saute or boil first.
If you are not a cabbage/sauerkraut fan, you can eliminate these from the recipes.
Boiled Dinner - serves 4
Start large pot of water boiling. Add potatoes and carrots, simmer about 10 - 15 minutes, until soft, but not done. Add kielbasa, and simmer 5 minutes more.
Mustard Sauce
Lazy Pierogi Casserole-serves 4
Mix the soup and milk in a bowl. Place all other ingredients in greased/cooking sprayed casserole dish. Pour soup mix over ingredients, mix well to coat everything.
Bake uncovered 20-25 minutes in 350F degree oven. (02/23/2007)
By Jean
It depends on whether it is already fully cooked. The kind I buy is. I just slice it up over a can of Bavarian style sauerkraut in a large skillet. You can also add some sliced potatoes and sometimes I even add a can of drained green beans. Put on the lid and let it simmer until the potatoes are soft and everything is heated up well. A great meal all in one pan! You can also throw this in the crock pot. Even our young children love this meal! (02/23/2007)
I love it with fried potatoes and onions. Cut meat, potatoes, and onions into small cubes and fry up together. It is so good. Here is a crockpot recipe that we love.
Sweet and Spicy Kielbasa or Polish Sausage
In crockpot, combine brown sugar, mustard and onion; add kielbasa and
stir well to coat evenly. Cover and cook on LOW for 2 1/2 to 3 hours,
stirring occasionally.
During the last hour of cooking, I add Mrs. T's Pierogies right to the pot. I just baste them and mix them right in. There are 3 pierogies per serving and they add an additional 3 points to each serving, bringing the total for both to 5 points/serving
By christi
Take the sausage cut up in small pieces fry with a medium onion until done and nicely browned then add 2 cans of butter beans and cook for about 1/2 hour. (02/23/2007)
By Elaine
If the Kielbasa is fully cooked, just cut it in portion sizes, split down the middle and fry in a skillet until nicely caramelized. Then just eat as a sandwich with your favorite condiments or as a meat with side dishes. I like it sliced in potato soup, or sauteed with onions, garlic, cabbage, green peppers, and potatoes. Fry a couple of eggs to go with it for a very hearty breakfast or quick supper on a cold winter's night. (02/23/2007)
By Margie
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My mom used to slice some onion, zucchini, and various other veggies with the kielbasa to make a nice stir-fry with some rice.
My husband really enjoys it hot with a bit of mustard like a hot dog! (02/23/2007)
By Aimee
A lady just gave me this recipe and she says its great. I am going to try it soon.
In a nonstick skillet, saute kielbasa over medium heat until lightly browned.
Add the onion, green pepper, celery, and garlic. Saute and stir for 5 minutes
or until
vegetables are tender. Transfer to a crock pot/slow cooker.
Stir in the remaining ingredients. Cover and cook on LOW heat setting for 8
to 9 hours.
Yield: 5 servings.
By Michele
Oh, we just love kielbasa sausage. In the summer we slice it in half and grill it.
We also make a Low Country Boil.
In a large pot fill with water add Old Bay and bring to a boil, add potatoes allow to come back to a boil and cook for 15 minutes, add the corn bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes, add the sausage bring to a boil again and add shrimp. Make sure the water covers everything, everything is done when the shrimp turn pink. Dump on to a large platter or on newspaper on a picnic table in the backyard during warm weather. Enjoy and you don't have a lot of dishes to clean. This usually feeds 4 hearty eaters. I serve it with some homemade bread and an assortment of cold drinks, sodas and sweet iced tea.
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By Susie from Buckhead, GA
I would rinse a can of good saurkraut, put in a casserole dish, put kielbasa in a circle on top of kraut. Cover and bake at 350 degrees until hot through. Serve with mashed potatoes and apple sauce. This is simple and a good cold weather dish. (02/23/2007)
By Sylvia
If it is the cooked kind, I just cut it into 1 inch chunks and add it to spaghetti sauce and serve over the spaghetti. My husband loves this. (02/24/2007)
By Starlight
I slice it up and cook it in a big pot on the stovetop with water, instant rice, frozen peas, one can of cream of celery soup, one can of cheese soup and a small can of mushrooms.
It makes for one quick and delicious dinner.
By Heather
One way our family likes it is putting it sliced up in my Nesco roaster along with a head of cabbage, onion, garlic and about 1/2-1 c water or chicken broth (if I have it). I serve it on top of mashed potatoes and my hubby and dd cannot get enough! I started making this when my dd was 4 (she's 7-1/2 now) and didn't think she would eat it cuz she is a picky eater, but she loves it! Yum! (02/26/2007)
By Nikki
I use Kielbasa in potato soup. Cook up some potatoes, slice some carrots and cook in a cup of chicken broth. Mash the potatoes and add milk to the consistency you like. I slice up the sausage and fry it (you don't have to do this step, but it adds flavor). Add cooked carrots, sausage, mashed potatoes, chicken broth and milk all together. Season as you like, salt, pepper, parsley, whatever.
I also make Spanish rice and add sausage to that for one-step meal. Delish! (03/01/2007)
By Marcie
This is how I love to cook my kielbasa.
Serve with buttered noodles and your favorite vegetable.
Kids love this recipe too because it's sweet. (09/04/2007)
By Jessica
I have made Kielbasa every way that you can think; from a typical New England Boiled dinner to including it in a cheese and tomato omelet. My hubby especially likes it sliced lengthwise and grilled on the grill for hard roll sandwiches with Provolone Cheese and sauerkraut. Another way to enjoy it is to slice it on a diagonal into "few-bite" pieces (pre-cooked, of course) and serve with cocktail sauce. I also have heard of recipes with barbecue sauce and grape jelly in the crockpot? Sounds good! Enjoy. (02/08/2008)
By Lynda from CT
Cut the kielbasa into circle slices and cook with vegetable oil in a skillet until cooked. Add fresh green bell peppers and Vidalia onion. Mix with garlic and pepper flavored couscous. Makes a delicious and filling meal. (05/04/2008)
By Dann
Brown kielbasa and onions in bottom of good sized stock pot. Add cabbage (chopped up), squash (sliced), and bag of carrots. Add about 1 cup of chicken broth and the water, and stew for about 45 minutes (on low heat).
Better the second day. (05/14/2008)
By Becky
Kielbasa Burritos
Start by adding a tbsp of oil to a large skillet or pot. Add potatoes and onion; sprinkle with a little salt and pepper, cooking until potatoes are almost cooked through. Add Kielbasa and broccoli or cabbage mixing all ingredients together. Cook until sausage has been browned and vegetables are cooked enough for your liking.
Serve Kielbasa mixture and refried beans burrito style or just use the tortillas on the side.
Enjoy! (05/14/2008)
By Sheri
Slice the kielbasa in round circles. Slice up some peppers (green, yellow, and red), some mushrooms, and some garlic. Brown the Kielbasa in olive oil, then add the vegetables, and saute. When it's almost ready, add 2 Tbsp. of lemon juice, stir in and lower flame to make a light sauce. Cook some bowtie pasta, and serve over it.
Yum! (08/24/2008)
By Scharon
I fry or boil it, sliced in 1 inch circles and set aside. Make a package or 2 of red beans and rice. Mix together and add a little hot sauce. Quick easy and yummy! (08/27/2008)
By guest
Cut kielbasa in circles, cook over medium flame for a few minutes, slice some peppers (best is green), add to the kielbasa and add oyster sauce (half of a bottle to a whole bottle if desired). For a thinner sauce add, just a few, teaspoons of water. Cook over a medium-low flame to heat up the sauce and cook the bell peppers slightly, don't overcook the peppers. Add over rice and enjoy. I love this recipe. (10/05/2008)
By Shadow
I love it sliced down the center and grilled, I serve it with sauerkraut mashed potatoes, and green beans, or broccoli cheese rice and green beans.
To make sauerkraut mashed potatoes:
Melt 2 tbsp. butter in a sauce pan and about 1/2 medium onion chopped, add 1 can sauerkraut and 1/2 cup of water. Simmer covered for 30 minutes until water is evaporated.
Make mashed potatoes as normal and then add the sauerkraut to the potatoes, mmm delish! It is even better the second day!
I also do the sausage, red potatoes halved, and sauerkraut in a big pot for about 45 minutes, covered, on medium lo heat, it's all yummmy! (10/13/2008)
By Lauren
I like to slice it lengthwise and then cut it into thirds and fry it in a frying pan till caramelized. I use applesauce and seasoned potatoes as side dishes. Try dipping the Kielbasa in the applesauce it is most delicious. (01/21/2009)
By Heather E.
I add precooked kielbasa to my chili recipe! It's tangy and great. (02/07/2009)
By Roberta
I make a quick dinner of cutting the Kielbasa diagonally and frying with butter and onions in a skillet. Add a box of frozen Pierogi and cook till lightly browned. These are things that I always have in the house so even if we are snowed in there is still dinner. (02/07/2009)
By Cyndi Dann
My favorite way to have it, is how my mom used to make it when I was growing up. I make it for my nieces now. It only takes 4 total ingredients:
Preheat oven to 350*F, cut kielbasa into bite sized pieces, I usually do half circles. Pour cans of tomato sauce into baking pan and add kielbasa. Stir in curry till desired taste. Bake in oven for 20 minutes. Sprinkle cheese over top and place back into oven till cheese is melted. Serve with salad and garlic bread. Yummy!!
By Roberta
This recipe is great. I think my mother found it on a package of Hillshire Farms kielbasa years ago. Today I prepare it this way for my own family. Enjoy!
Slice kielbasa into rounds and cook in a large covered skillet. Cut up pepper and tomatoes, add to pan. In a separate dish, combine cornstarch, vinegar, soy sauce, and preserves. Do not taste test the sauce at this point. Simply
add it to the pan with sausage and veggies. Now add the pineapple and the juice from the can and stir. Now taste!
Cover and simmer for about 10 minutes on low -medium.
Serve over hot white rice.
By Sue
This is a great and easy recipe. Use a sheet of aluminum foil about 2 feet long. Drain a container of sauerkraut and form oblong in center of foil. Place kielbasa on top of sauerkraut. Sprinkle black pepper to taste. Cover with thinly sliced onions and wrap with aluminum foil. Cook in over at 350F for approximately one hour or for best results, cook on grill for about an hour. (02/27/2009)
By John
This recipe using Kielbasa or smoked sausage or Polish is awesome.
Cut sausage in round slices and fry in whatever oil you like til golden and caramelized, add diced onions until soft, then add a large can of diced tomatoes with liquid, a can of cream of celery soup and a can of water. Then add some dry bowtie pasta or egg noodles and the liquid will absorb into the pasta and cook it. Add more water if you wish and salt and pepper, I always double the recipe, add come original Mrs.Dash, as well, (just a bit), enjoy!! Cook on low if on stove or in slow cooker on low. (02/15/2010)
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Success – at least in some industries, such as the disk drive and earth moving machinery industries which Christensen documents – can equally lay the foundation for failure. Group and individual behaviour can play off each other, creating emerging forces from below.
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One common way of reaching out to the long tail, and monitoring its movements, is "data as the next Intel inside". Google exploits what its itself calls the "uniquely democratic nature of the web" to derive data on the click activity of millions of users to drive its PageRank algorithm. I suspect that social networking sites, such as MySpace, Facebook, Bebo and LinkedIn, could likewise exploit their data about networks of people. I've always wondered in passing how data regulators, such as the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, view such click gathering and social networking activities…
As Web 2.0 embraces beyond "the level of a single device" – which was Ajit's theme of his presentation - I observe that telecommunications operators, such as Vodafone, O2 and T-Mobile, collect and record quantities of data, ironically in a large part due to regulatory requirements of data retention legislation in jurisdictions such as Ireland. These vast data archives capture about social communication patterns of populations – it is not just the social networking sites which have such data! There are opportunities, and privacy risks, to exploit these vast patterns to provide commercial value. One can imagine intelligence being generated by mobile phone operators to enable targeted marketing by third parties and content providers…
Quietly collecting mouse click activity, or analyzing phone call patterns and triangularising the locations of their owners, are data driven ways of using to drive for the long tail. Importantly, the data is dynamic and therefore so also is the derived collective intelligence: as trends emerge, or change, so can the offerings tailored for particular sets of individuals. But it seems to me that these approaches may wear a clandestine cloak: there are more explicit ways of using collective intelligence for the wagging long tail.
A successful web site needs stickiness to retain, and track, its audience, including the wagging long tail. A social networking site such as those above in part generates its stickiness because of the network effect of having ones friends, co-workers and colleagues using the same site: most people think it is too cumbersome to re-register oneself and encourage one's cohort elsewhere. IMHO, the resulting stickiness is in fact rather superficial, rather than systemic: it consequently threatens any purported fiscal value for the site. The SIOC project at DERI in
Another strategy to capture the long tail wags is "harnessing collective intelligence" – another of O'Reilly's Web 2.0 facets. One explicit way is to allow individuals to define their own collections of interesting items, and then to share and discuss them with other like-minded souls. A simple way to do this is just by tagging items: for example, photos tagged with "
Rather than expecting people to work out the correct search and query expression across a set of tag values for what they actually want, another way is to let people explicitly define and share their own collections. Hobbyists – such as stamp collectors – have been doing this for years, and a craft worker likewise learns what the set of right tools are for the job from the experiences of his trade. Enabling individuals – and micro-markets and even the crowd - to share what works well together when, is a positive tactic for managing the wagging long tail, and which I wrote about recently in the context of software configurations and Cloudsmith.
When doing a little research for this blog entry, I came across Dan Bricklin's interesting blog entry on When the Long Tail Wags The Dog. His theme is that "must have" items have more value than those which are less likely to fit the job at hand; and that general purpose items are likely to have most value since they can entertain the dog as well as its long tail. While I don't disagree, my thoughts about the dynamics of the long tail, and how to work with within it, are a slightly different emphasis.
Reinforcing Bricklin, being relevant to the individuals and small groups in the long tail requires customization and tailoring of general purpose offerings. In the enterprise software space, software vendors have traditionally worked with systems integrators to tailor more appropriate solutions to different niches of the market. With componentization in the software industry, in principle useful aggregations of different constituent parts can more likely be used to tailor specific solutions. Collective intelligence can be harnessed by explicitly sharing these aggregations, as I indicated above.
However, once delivered, installed and put into use, assemblies of software components in production environments have in the past usually been relatively static. The challenge is that the long tail wags: micro-markets and even mass markets change, and production systems need to more easily do so too. One promise of the dynamic module environment of OSGi is to enable dynamic evolution: if collective intelligence can be dynamic as trends emerge, or change, and then suggest new offerings tailored for particular sets of individuals, then perhaps also can production software assemblies in business and enterprise environments be dynamically adjusted. This is a theme which we are working upon in IONA, particularly in the context of our highly dynamic plug-in architecture for Artix and our open source FUSE offerings – see Eric Newcomer's blog.
But if the world is dynamic, and contains a universe of micro-markets as well as a mass, can offerings not only be tailored so as to be a good fit, but also be priced attractively for each ? What when micro-markets change ? As I wrote about, one industry which faces these challenges is the mobile/cell phone operators, for whom intelligent and responsive bundling of services (SMS and MMS and call rates and roaming charges etc) is competitively critical. The ability to generalise this approach into the world of software components and packages is of interest and relevance to the wagging long tail. LeCayla is one company building a common approach to the issue of dynamically rolling out new charge and billing rates so that software vendors can competitively foster specific micro-markets.
Let me summarise: the internet as a platform enables a global market to be addressed. Web 2.0 uses collective intelligence to play in both the mass markets, and the long tail of numerous micro-markets. There is room for both individuals and the crowd, and group and individual reasoning can positively feed off each other. – creating the ever lurking possibility of being disrupted from below. Scalably addressing both the mass market and the long tail is however not the complete issue: markets change, the long tail wags, and scalably addressing dynamic markets is even harder – but possible.
Footnote: my 7 month old Alsatian, Charlie, has yet to grow into his long long tail. He wags it a lot.


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The ship of the future - from a 7 year old
One of my greatest joys is to sit back and watch kids create. Create anything. You can see exactly what's going on in their mind by watching what they create.
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|Yankee Hill
|USGS 7.5' Map:
|Central City and Empire
|Gilpin and Clear Creek
|Adopted by:
|Managed by:
|Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forest,
Clear Creek Ranger District
|101 Chicago Creek Road, P.O. Box 3307
Idaho Springs, CO 80452
|Yankee Hill is part of an old stage route connecting Central City with Alice and Georgetown.
|View from the top of Yankee Hill. History.
|Natural - closed by heavy snows.
|Best Time:
June - Access from Alice early.
July - Best time.
August - Best time.
September - Best time.
October - Early snows may close the road.
|Trail Heads
|There are dispersed sites all along the Yankee Hill road. Be aware of private property in the area.
|Base Camp:
|This would be a good area to base camp with the large network of 4WD roads to explore in the area.
|Fall Colors:
|Average. There are some aspen stands.
|East end start (this way has lots of confusing side roads after getting through Central City). From Black Hawk, CO head southwest on Gregory Street. Gregory Street turns slightly left and becomes Lawrence Street. Continue for 0.5 miles to Eureka Street. Continue 0.5 miles and turn right to stay on Eureka Street. Continue 0.3 miles to CR 3/Upper Apex Road. At 0.4 miles turn left onto CR 1-N/King Flats Road. Go 1.6 miles to a bend in King Flats Road and continue straight onto Bald Mountain Road. Follow Bald Mountain road for 1.9 miles to an intersection. Take the right to head north on CR25/Pisgah Lake Road. This is the Yankee Hill road.
West end start. On I-70 just past Idaho Springs take Exit 238. Turn right onto CR 275/Fall River Road. After 6.6 miles turn right to stay on Fall River Road. Go 0.5 miles and turn left to stay on Fall River Road. Continue for 1.4 miles and turn right onto Mine Road. Turn left to stay on Mine Road. Continue 0.4 miles and take the slight right turn onto Jeep Road. Follow Jeep Road 0.5 miles to an intersection, turn right and continue up hill. This is the start of Yankee Hill Road.
|Yankee Hill was named during the Civil War by Northern sympathizers and the town that develped on the hill became known as Yankee. Mining never developed to any large extent here. Yankee became an important state stop on the route from Central City to Georgetown, the shortest route at the time. A concentrate mill was built here in 1905 to process the ore from the Gold Anchor Mine.
|Yankee Hill Is an easy 4WD road with a moderately challenging hill climb to the top of Yankee Hill. From Alice, Colorado is the quickest access to the top of Yankee Hill. Once you start on the 4WD road it is a short distance to the large clearing on the southern flanks of Yankee Hill. There are quite a few old mine tailing in the area. After climbing to the top of Yankee Hill you must return the main road back the way you came.
Heading southeast from Yankee Hill the 4WD road gets better maintained. Just past the Miners Gulch connection the road will become a two lane graded gravel road as it continues on into Central City.
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My dear friends, Hazardswake Overmind* and Susan "Sooz" Knowles, just won the Grand Prize for the 2014 Indie Game Maker Contest!
Their game, Remnants of Isolation, was judged the best-of-the-best out of a field of over 800 entries, reviewed by an all-star panel of Judges including Ed Greenwood and Kimberly Weigend.
They got a very nice cash prize, and their game will get some additional polish (including some additional art and music support) to get it ready for sale on Steam!
I cannot express just how happy and proud I am for these two phenomenal people and the amazing work they've done. I am looking forward to diving back into playing this myself.
(*) – Edited due to a recent privacy/doxxing issue. Ugly Internet trolls are truly ugly, horrible people.


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I just jogged past a bald guy carrying a tray of Starbucks coffee on Rodeo Drive. I slow down. Wasn't that Ben Kingsley? Nah. Gandhi wouldn't be schlepping coffee around on the street.
A few blocks away, I slow to a trot again, at the corner of Rodeo Drive and Wilshire Boulevard, when I spot a gorgeous blond woman with big hair and a low neckline. Isn't she on "Desperate Housewives"? No, probably not.
I'm on a group jog of L.A.'s swanky haunts -- a guided, 4-mile tour called "Running From the Paparazzi" -- that has me maneuvering through the land of Range Rovers and Botox in hopes of gawking at Hollywood's pampered royalty. This is what our celebrity-fawning society has come to. . . . And so far I'm striking out.
Leading the group of 10 -- mostly women under the age of 30 -- is Cheryl Anker, the fiftysomething founder of Off 'N Running Tours, who organizes 5K runs and walks for convention visitors and corporate clients.
Anker came up with the idea of a celebrity-watching jog a few months ago and seems to have had no problem finding runners willing to pay $60 to work up a good sweat while targeting A-listers. Anker is no celeb fanatic, but she knows enough about Beverly Hills and Hollywood to hit the obvious celebrity hangouts. She runs her clients along Rodeo Drive, past the posh Via Rodeo shopping compound, in front of pricey Kitson boutique and near-decadent Crumbs cupcakes.
On such routes, runners must possess expert hopscotching skills to slip around shoppers on crowded sidewalks, dodge cellphone-gabbing motorists and avoid vagrants and dog walkers in parks.
During this run, my first with Anker, we have no luck, except for a possible sighting of "Happy Days" alum Scott Baio eating at the Ivy restaurant. One of the women running with us claims she saw Chachi, but the rest of us don't bother to go back and confirm it.
During a second celebrity-free run with Anker, on a warm Monday afternoon, we notice a band of paparazzi milling about in front of Intermix, a favorite celebrity boutique on Robertson Boulevard.
We ask one of the photographers whom he's stalking but he plays it cool. "Just hanging out," he says. Another gives us a tip: Mondays are bad for scoping out celebs, he says. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays are better.
Celebrity spotting is a lot like whale watching, it seems: You can improve your odds of glimpsing these elusive creatures by learning their behavior, habits and mating rituals, but in the end, sightings are rare.
Not willing to give up -- this can be addictive -- I meet Anker a third time, on a Wednesday. We are jogging along 3rd Street, near Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, when we see that an LAPD patrol car has pulled over a shiny black SUV. We run closer and recognize the driver. It's George Lopez.
Pay dirt, I think: A well-known actor getting busted. This could be a Mel Gibson moment. Then Lopez sees us pointing our digital cameras and steps out of his car. We tell him we're out jogging for celebrity sightings, and he pauses. Then, as if this were the most natural thing in the world, he asks if we would like to take his photo. But what about the cops, we ask. Oh, the police officers, Lopez says; they pulled him over just to meet him.
Boy, some people sure are obsessed with celebrities.
Running From the Paparazzi: $60 (includes T-shirt, bottled water, fruit and a cupcake); www.offnrunningtours.com


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The federal government is hatching a plan to bring free wi-fi to your neighoborhood – and many neighborhoods across the United States – according to this report by The Washington Post's Cecilia Kang. The heavenly view is that this would open up a world of innovation, and level the playing field for those who can't … Continue Reading
U.S. Companies Lobbying Against Europe's Privacy Proposals
European regulators are trying to pass legislation that would more stringently protect the privacy of citizens by restricting what companies can do with data. According to this New York Times article, companies from Silicon Valley (and perhaps other US companies) are trying to block the legislation – as it goes much further than U.S. government … Continue Reading


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The Choice/Cuts collaboration between our friends at The Deli and HotBox Studios fit nicely into the landscape of music / video series stewing in the city last summer, but went on a hiatus after their Norwegian Arms feature in September so the studio could relocate from South Philly to Fishtown. With the move complete, Choice/Cuts returns with a stellar video of Grandchildren performing "Sunrise," a song from their new album that they premiered last week. Check it out below, and catch Grandchildren at Underground Arts this Friday March 1st for its South By Southwest tour kickoff show.
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Bob works closely with our clients for telephone and technology implementation to support your business needs and our business goals. Bob has extensive background and experience with IT systems, including custom management software and VoIP-based systems. He excels at technical architecture and software design, data analysis, team management, and implementation of technology solutions. At his previous job, he was the Chief Technology Officer of a national direct response company where he was responsible for the development and maintenance of all IT systems. This included the implementation of a call center phone system integrated with the CRM software which increased the company's ability to process a call volume capacity of over 10,000 calls per day and expanded the software's capability to service a customer database of over 555,000.
Scott maintains an active role in all campaign implementation and strategy. He travels to Belize regularly to work with the management staff and agents to make sure performance is always up to Transparent BPO's high standards. Before starting Transparent BPO, Scott was the Director of Operations for a national direct response merchandise lender. There, he oversaw sales, customer service, quality assurance, and default management departments and led the company to a significant increase in customer account assets totaling over $250 million. Scott is a strong leader and team builder with expertise in coordinating offsite call centers, agents, and customer account and resources. He holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York.
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Jason, with over 14 years of experience in the BPO industry, has a passion for finding the right fit for his customers. Utilizing a thorough consultative approach, he strives for win-win scenarios for customers to achieve KPI goals. He has had the pleasure of working with a broad array of industries as well as solutions including customer care, customer acquisition, technical support, back-office operations, customer self-service solutions, and process improvement projects. He receives the highest satisfaction from providing valuable jobs to customer service professionals supporting top brands. Connect with Jason: LinkedIn | Twitter
Based in Miami, Florida, Peter manages the overall IT infrastructure of our call center locations in Belize and our centralized IT facilities at the Terremark data center in Miami. He has over 15 years of experience in the design, implementation, and maintenance of mission-critical voice and data-converged networks for the BPO industry. Before joining Transparent BPO, Peter designed and implemented world-class voice and data networks for some of the largest nearshore contact centers in the region, allowing them to grow and successfully support Fortune 500 companies. Peter's team supports an IT infrastructure designed for five-nines reliability.
Jon works from our contact centers in Belize. He is responsible for supporting and developing our leadership team and sustaining operational excellence. Jon has over 13 years of call center management experience. Prior to Transparent BPO, he was site lead at Dell and senior training manager at Startek. He was responsible for service delivery, client services support, and curriculum and leadership development. He leverages his Six-Sigma training along with multi-vertical experience to create a best in class operational delivery team.
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Chicken Spaghetti - Pioneer Woman comes through yet again. This is such an easy recipe to throw together beforehand and heat up when you need a dinner fast. According to her recipe, you can make this up to 6 months in advance and heat it up whenever. I would recommend having one in the freezer, just in case. The beautiful part, the leftovers might even be better than the original dinner. FYI, I used whole wheat spaghetti just to add a little more fiber. Yum!
Tuesday Night
Southwest Pinto Bean Burgers with Chipotle Mayonnaise - We have all fallen victim to the blandness that can be most veggie-type burgers. It makes you long for a big, juicy red meat patty. This veggie burger makes you long for ANOTHER one of these veggie burgers. I know, you don't believe me. I would not have believed me either. After all, I am prone to exaggeration. I swear to you, I am not overstating how yummy these are. Don't skip the Chipotle Mayo, that makes the whole thing. It is so yummy, smoky and zippy, you may want to slurp it up out of the bowl. But, hold it together, you can make more. You could even make more and use it on other sandwich-type items. Or you could dip fries in it. Or you could dip your finger in it and eat it while you are up late at night, surfing the net and no one is watching. Don't be ashamed, we all have our secrets. Just don't get any adobo sauce on you or your clothing. It is the strongest dye I have ever encountered. I am thinking of using a splash to cover my gray hair. It definitely has more staying power than Miss Clairol.
Mustard Roasted Potatoes - Whew, I think I need a shower after thinking about those Veggie Burgers! So spicy and delish. These potatoes are our new favorite side dish. Simple, look fancy...so not fancy. Great leftovers, great with sandwich, much healthier than french fries and how can you go wrong with Dijon Mustard.
How are we doing so far? By the way, Monday night's dinner (Chicken Spaghetti) was reheated and eaten for lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday. It just keeps getting better with each passing day.
Are you as excited as I am to see what's cookin' for dinner tonight?
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The Daisy Garland charity was set up in November 2004 to keep Daisy's memory alive and to help other little children like her.
We fund an increasing number of Ketogenic Dietitians who work in National Health Hospitals treating hundreds of children with intractable epilepsy.
We are the only charity funding full-time Ketogenic Dietitians working within NHS hospitals nationwide - each dietitian costs up to £47,000 per annum. If you think you could help us fund our next Daisy Garland Ketogenic Dietitian go to HOW YOU CAN HELP. Be in touch today.
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My 4 year old son Hugo came off the Ketogenic diet just over 3 months ago - and is seizure free! That's right, no seizures!
It is still difficult to believe how wonderful the Ketogenic diet was for us and how it changed our lives. Pre-diet days Hugo would have up to 40 fits a day - some serious enough to put him in hospital for up to a week. 7 months ago he wasn't able to read and he was difficult to understand. Now he is happily chatting, starting to read and almost writing his name. He was originally at a school for children with complex needs but he now attends his local mainstream school with a classroom assistant.
Hugo started the ketogenic diet in August 2007 under the supervision of a Daisy Garland Ketogenic Dietitian at St. Georges Hospital in SW London. After about a year on the diet we agreed to lower Hugo's fat/carb ratio until Hugo was off the diet completely. It is incredible to look back at Hugo's journey on this amazing diet.
The work that The Daisy Garland charity does is invaluable. We hope that one day the National Health Service will take the diet seriously enough to fund it themselves. Until that time, the Daisy Garland charity is the only hope for children like Hugo.
Hugo and his mum Esther appeared on ITV's ˜This Morning Programme on 10th June 2009 with Dr Chris, discussing the ketogenic diet. I would just like to point out that the examples of high fat foods that appeared on this programme were not the kind of foods we ever used on the diet! So please don't think that this is an unhealthy diet full of saturated fats. Lard?? Yuck!! They could have included lots of yummy nutritional high fat foods such as oily fish, fresh lamb and chicken, healthy oils, nuts, eggs, cream, mayonnaise, cheese and lots of lovely fresh low carb fruit and veg - avocado, swede, asparagus, celery, kiwi, pineapple, cabbage and the list goes on and on, and on! Delicious!< Previous Story | Story 26 of 30 | Next Story >
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This video must have been made during a slow day the the University of Washington Medical Center.
At least, I hope so. I'd hate to think there was a soon-to-be mother waiting in the hallway while staff watched a surgical simulation team hook a pregnant pumpkin up to medical equipment.
The surgical team took first place in the medical center's pumpkin carving contest after conducting an elaborate simulation. The result was this: A look at the inner workings of a pumpkin patient about to give birth, including arteries, bladder and kidneys — all made from gourds.
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Martial artists, stuntman, and actor Jackie Chan have become the first Chinese to acquire Embraer's latest jet, the Legacy 500 Business private jet which is priced at $20 million.
Apparently, Chan loves the crafts manufactured by Brazilian-based Embraer of which he serves as a brand ambassador. His other private jet is an Embraer Legacy 650 with a dragon-themed paint job which he purchased back in 2012.
And we can clearly relate to Chan's love for Embraer. Their recent masterpiece aka The Skyacht One dubbed the flying yacht and the world's most luxurious private swept us off our feet. Click here to read more about Skyacht One if you missed it.
As expected, their latest mini-jet, Legacy 500 is nothing short of luxury and high-tech specifications. Legacy 500 has two Honeywell HTF75000E turbofan engines which produce 7,000 pounds of thrust each giving it the capability to travel at the range of 3,600 miles, fly at 45,00 feet with a maximum speed of 0.83 the speed of sound. It features a flat-floor cabin and can be pressurized at 6,000 ft which makes breathing easier.
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The mini-jet has an expansive interior with the capacity to carry 12 or 8 depending on the buyer's preference. The interiors can also to customized to any theme of choice. Chan chose a relaxed light-colored decor as seen in the photos.
Comfort is optimum with the Legacy 500. The seats can be transformed into cozy beds, a kitchen is just at the entrance and a bathroom at the end. You are not supposed to miss home.
For entertainment, there are two 19-inch HD screens, WiFi connectivity and HD entertainment systems. Controls are made via concealed touchscreen remotes or iPad/iPhone.
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The uber modernized full-glass cockpit is designed to ensure easy operation by the captains. It features side joystick controls— the first of its kind, and heads-up-display HUD for easier access. The stuntman extraordinaire had this to say about his latest acquisition;
I'm so thrilled to receive this Legacy 500, a state-of-the-art executive jet. In the past few years, my Legacy 650 has brought me fantastic traveling experiences and great convenience, allowing me to do more acting and philanthropic works around the world. I'm sure that the performance of the new Legacy 500 will again exceed my expectations, and become a comfortable mobile home and office for me.
As reported by Business Insider, Embraer says Chan will be using his Legacy 650 for transoceanic, that is long-haul flights while the latest and more modernized purchase will be perfect for shorter routes.
Here are photos of Chan's New Private Jet for your viewing pleasure;
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