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Delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia Returns
From Escorting the Remains of General Denikin and Ivan Ilyin
At the end of last week, the trip to Russia made by Archbishop Mark
of Berlin and Germany and the delegation of the Russian Church Abroad
escorting the remains of General Anton Denikin and Ivan Ilyin concluded.
The delegation included Protopriest Pavel Tsvetkov, Senior Priest
of the Elevation of the Cross Cathedral in Geneva; Protopriest Peter
Holodny, Treasurer of the Synod of Bishops; Priest Serafim Gan,
personal secretary of the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox
Church Outside of Russia and Vladimir K Galitzine, Warden of the
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sign at the Synod of Bishops in New
York City.
From September 28-October 3, an historic and profoundly symbolic
event took place for all Russians who found themselves outside the
borders of their Homeland against their will, and for those who
for decades were forcibly separated from their Orthodox faith, culture
and historical truth. The remains of General Anton I Denikin of
the White Army and the ideologue of the White Movement, Ivan A Ilyin,
along with those of their spouses, were reburied at Donskoy Monastery
in Moscow.
This project was initiated by the Russian Cultural Fund and received
the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy of Moscow and All Russia,
and the approval of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Synod
of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, headed
by His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus, lovingly responded to this
idea, with the Synod blessing a delegation to participate in every
phase of this project. The relatives and executors of the reposed
prepared all the documents needed for the reburials, thereby fulfilling
the wishes of the loyal sons and daughters of the God-preserved
Fatherland to have their bodies being returned to be with Russia
and her people.
In 2002 the Russian Cultural Fund began filming "Russians without
Russia," the first part of which, "Russian Choice,"
was devoted to the Civil War, the retreat of the White soldiers
and their fates abroad. This movie, which first told the historical
truth about the White Movement, its heroes and participants to the
Russian people, was broadcast in December 2003, as the first phase
in the return to Russia of her warrior-defender and her philosopher.
The grave of General Denikin at St Vladimir Cemetery in Jackson,
NJ, was filmed for the movie in March 2002, and in August, the first
negotiations began with the local authorities on the reburial of
his remains. After overcoming many obstacles, on September 23 of
this year, the exhumation of his remains was performed; these were
placed into a temporary wooden coffin. The coffin was then sealed
in the presence of Russian and French diplomatic consuls.
Over 40 people were in attendance during the exhumation, including
representatives of émigré organizations. A pannikhida was performed
beforehand by Protopresbyter Valery Lukianov along with other clergymen
of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, and during the
exhumation, the local hierarch of the Orthodox Church in America,
Bishop Gregory, who is retired, served, along with the rector of
the cemetery church dedicated to the Nativity of the Mother of God.
Before the opening of the coffin, the cemetery director asked the
press and guests to stand back and not to photograph the remains.
The sole exception was allowed to the representative of the Russian
Cultural Fund, which made photographs for their archives.
Entirely unexpected was the condition of the remains. The director
of the local funeral administration warned beforehand that little
would survive of the body of a person who died in 1947. As it turned
out, the body miraculously survived, in its military uniform, and
the familiar features of the White general looked as though he were
only recently buried.
On Wednesday, September 28, the coffin was delivered to the Cathedral
of Our Lady of the Sign in New York, where at noon a pannikhida
was performed with the participation of local representatives of
Russian émigré socities, the Synodal men's choir under the direction
of the young and talented Peter A Fekula, along with the choir of
Sretensky Monastery which had arrived from Moscow the evening before
with the Russian delegation. A sermon on the significance of the
White Movement and on the historical path of the Russian diaspora
was delivered by Priest Serafim Gan before the service began. After
the pannikhida in the Synodal Building, a commemorative trapeza
was offered during which Protopriest Peter Holodny spoke, as did
the director of the Presidential Programs of the Russian Cultural
Fund, EN Chavchavadze. The Sretensky Choir also sang spiritual and
folk music during the reception. As a display of the friendly and
elevated emotion of the day, the cadets and Synodal choir sang the
songs "Borodino" and "Veshchii Oleg" together.
At the end of the trapeza, the coffin was delivered to St Nicholas
Cathedral of the Moscow Patriarchate, where a pannikhida was performed
by Bishop Merkury of Zaraisk.
That day, at Resurrection Church in Zurich, a pannikhida was performed
for Ivan and Natalia Ilyin by the clergymen of the Moscow Patriarchate.
Their remains were then taken to Geneva, where Protopriest Peter
Tsvetkov headed a pannikhida at the Elevation of the Cross Cathedral.
In his eulogy, Fr Peter emphasized the symbolism of this event,
calling it an historical moment in the reconciliation between the
people of Russia and the Russian diaspora. The return to Russia
of the eminent religious thinker of the Russian diaspora, and the
participation of representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate and
of the Russian Church Abroad shows our willingness to achieve the
full unity of the Russian Church, said the Senior Priest of the
His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus prayed during the service, and
also shared his thoughts on these events and pointed to the importance
of a fuller understanding of Russian history.
On September 29, the remains of Ivan and Natalia Ilyin, and of KV
Denikin, who was earlier buried at the Russian cemetery in St-Genevieve-du-Bois
of Paris, were sent to St Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Paris, where
the body of General Denikin arrived the next day. Here Archbishop
Gabriel, Exarch of the Russian Orthodox Churches in Western Europe,
headed the pannikhida. In the overfilled cathedral, Archbishop Mark
of Berlin and Germany prayed, along with Bishop Agapit of Stuttgart,
the General's daughter Maria Antonovna Denikina, the Russian Ambassador
in Paris, AA Avdeev, representatives of Russian émigré organizations
and a multitude of worshipers.
At four o'clock, a reception was held at the Embassy, at which the
Ambassador addressed the guests, saying, in part:
"Eminent archpastors, deeply-esteemed Marina Antonovna, dear
"Today is a special day for us: not only we but all the Russian
people will remember. This is a joyous day because everything is
now coming full circle, though slowly, the difficult process of
unification into one nation of scattered families, generations and
fates. We gradually emerge from extinction at the hands of the horrible
totalitarian system, and we justly rewrite our history, we rewrite
it in a good sense. Of greatest importance is that we have embarked
upon this path and we pay our respects to our remarkable and great
Russian figures, who had laid their lives on the line in the name
of Russia' greatness, her unity, in the name of Orthodoxy.
"I remember the day when you, Marina Antonovna, along with
Elena Nikolaevna Chavchavadze and Nikita Sergeevich Mikhalkov, came
up with the idea of reburying Anton Ivanovich Denikin in Russia.
You not only planted this idea in us, this great thought, but you
gave to Russia treasured archives and documents relating to the
live of Anton Ivanovich, and you authored a book, an honest, remarkable
book on your father. It has just been published, and I wish to present
it to you all. The book is called 'General Denikin—Memoirs of a
"I extend heartfelt thanks to you, Marina Antonovna, and all
the participants of today's celebration."
Then the Sretensky Choir sang Russian folk songs and spiritual compositions.
At the end of the reception, Ambassador Avdeev thanked the staff
and servants of the Embassy for their efforts, noting that the great
thinker Ilyin, a fervent patriot and ideologue of the White Movement,
created an economic plan for the development and benefit of an emancipated
Russia, a plan for the education of children and youth of the future
Russia. "Ivan Ilyin and Anton Denikin were devoted to Russia
with their entire souls. These people were portrayed in Soviet textbooks
as traitors, as monsters, and worse than the fascists. We cannot
allow such filth to ever stain the pages of Russian textbooks, may
they no longer serve as a source of lies and slander. And the transfer
of these patriots and heroes back to Russia will help this difficult
but unavoidable process."
It is noteworthy that on this day, the President's Envoy to the
Central Federal District, GS Poltavchenko, expressed the notion
that Lenin's body should finally be removed from the mausoleum and
On October 2, the remains were taken from Paris to Moscow. A special
flight of the government's aviation arm to Vnukovo Airport was met
by Archbishop Arseny of Istrin, Vicar Bishop of the Moscow Diocese.
An honor guard gave the body of General Denikin a military salute,
after which the bodies were taken to Moscow's Donskoy Monastery,
where His Holiness Patriarch Alexy performed the consecration of
the cornerstone of the Memorial to National Reconciliation and headed
the pannikhida at the Monastery's Great Cathedral, after which,
in the presence of government representatives, politicians and eminent
social figures, the remains of General Denikin, Ivan Ilyin and their
spouses were reburied. During the pannikhida, Archbishop Mark of
Berlin and Germany read His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus' greeting,
which said in part:
"While making an archpastoral visit to monasteries and parishes
of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia in Western Europe,
I send this greeting to all the participants in the reburial in
Moscow of the remains of General Anton Denikin and Ivan Ilyin, and
join you in the prayers raised today for the repose of the souls
of our national heroes who fought for Russia and our people: one
who fought with arms, the other with the power of thought. Both
later found themselves abroad, but neither forgot his motherland,
their thoughts always directed towards Russia, and they lived for
her, as did many Russian émigrés."
The honor guard escorted the remains to their final resting place.
Military officers carried 10 battlefield banners brought from Versailles,
where they are kept, and the personal arms of the General. After
the burial of General Denikin, Ivan Ilyin and their wives, shots
of salutation were fired.
The area of the Memorial of National Reconciliation and Concord
in Donskoy Monastery now contains the graves of five celebrated
Russian émigrés. The first of these was the author Ivan Shmelev.
The following day, at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Archbishop
Mark participated in the opening of an exhibited devoted to the
life and history of the Polish Orthodox Church.


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It takes only a passing comparison between the heavens floating above Grand Central's main hall and the stained girders of the giant bus terminal across town to understand how the intercity bus ranks in American culture.
Many a movie scene has drawn inspiration from the gritty and mysterious characters that haunted the major depots of American cities, which invariably lack the grandeur that characterizes America's great train stations. It's no wonder that Rasto Rizzo, the hapless, penniless drifter played by Dustin Hoffman in "Midnight Cowboy"—ironically most famous for his line "I'm walkin' here!"—succumbs to pneumonia in a Greyhound en route from New York City to Miami (as if anyone expected him to reach his destination). Many of the people who are riding the bus these days, though, bear much closer resemblance to Hoffman's Benjamin Braddock in "The Graduate," a handsome, bright college grad who drives an MG but finds love in the backseat of a bus in Santa Barbara. Millennials, yuppies, and countless other "discretionary" riders have been lured back to the bus by a new breed of service that has deliberately tried to shake off the stigmas of the past.
A Megabus rides through city streets in San Francisco. The line has
expanded its territories rapidly since launching six years ago and recently
served its 30 millionth passenger.
Upstarts Megabus and BoltBus began service in the U.S. in 2006 and 2007, respectively, just in time to serve the iPhone generation. Megabus began in the Chicago area while BoltBus first developed service in the Northeast Corridor between Boston and Washington, D.C. Essentially copycats of each other, Megabus and BoltBus rolled out brand new coaches, appealing liveries, easily navigable websites, relatively low prices, and, not insignificantly, curbside pick-up and drop-off. They endeavored to be everything that the conventional bus companies, such as Greyhound, Trailways and Peter Pan, were not (though BoltBus is actually a subsidiary of Greyhound/Peter Pan).
"Greyhound is a 99-year-old brand identity," said BoltBus General Manager David Hall. "We started fresh with the consumer from day one and established our own."
Hall compared Greyhound's development of BoltBus to that of a hotel conglomerate with multiple flags.
"Hilton has 10 different hotel brands…from the Conrad Hilton all the way down to Hampton Inn," said Hall. "We hoped to attract the consumer that wasn't a Greyhound consumer, so it was less of a cannibalization and maximized growth."
In fairness, BoltBus and Megabus are neither the inventors nor the lone operators of curbside intercity service. For years, so-called "Chinatown" bus services have operated in the East Coast. As their nickname implies, they often connected big-city Chinese enclaves to each other and were run by Chinese immigrants. Those services, however, are known for running run-down, uncomfortable vehicles and have often operated under a haze of derision.
"They didn't have the Internet sales … but they did have the curbside bus service and pioneered that many years before Megabus did and they also had the different locations," said Randall O'Toole, a transportation researcher with the libertarian Cato Institute. "They went where their customers wanted to go, not where the bus stations were."
Their new counterparts are trying to offer something very different. Six years after coming into existence, Megabus (which prefers to go by Megabus.com) served its 30 millionth passenger earlier this year. BoltBus does not publish total ridership figures, but Hall said that its ridership has grown around 400 percent since 2008.
"[Megabus' level of service] caught the imagination of the American consumer, because their perception of American bus service was not very high," Megabus spokesperson Mike Alvich said. "They would rather walk."
"Our biggest competitor is not another bus company. Our biggest competitor is the automobile," Alvich said.
National Surge in Intercity Bus Travel
Recently, BoltBus expanded from its base in the Northeast Corridor to the Pacific Northwest, with service between Seattle and Eugene, Ore. BoltBus recently announced plans to expand into California. Megabus, with a larger network, operates throughout the Northeast, Southeast, Texas, and, as of recently, California.
Since 2008, DePaul University's Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development has carved out a singular niche by conducting an annual survey of intercity bus service. The most recent findings, covering the year 2012, revealed an industry on the rise. In 2012 alone, intercity bus service increased 7.5 percent, the second-highest rate on record, after 2008. But this year's numbers represent a significant increase in gross activities, with 3,879 daily operations at the beginning of 2013, up from 3,608 at the beginning of 2012.
From 1960 to 1980, services had declined a total of 1.8 percent annually, and from 1980 to 2006 they were in a death spiral of –2.6 percent annually—until Megabus rumbled into the picture. Of that 7.5 percent increase in 2012—in an industry still dominated by Greyhound and dozens of regional carriers—BoltBus, Megabus, and other so-called curbside carriers grew by 30.6 percent. This growth includes that of the new Greyhound Express and Peter Pan Express services, both of which were inspired by BoltBus and Megabus.
No one is more surprised by this turnaround than are the companies themselves.
"The demand is a little bit overwhelming, quite frankly," BoltBus' Hall said the company's 400 percent growth since 2008, adding that "we've been blown away by the volumes, the customer reaction." Hall said the company currently moves 50,000 passengers per week among 17 destinations, for an annual average of 2.6 million. By contrast, airline seat-miles and automobile miles traveled both grew by less than 1 percent in the same period; rail service expanded by 3 percent.
Branding, Amenities Create Separation
The popularity of BoltBus and Megabus begs the question of whether they have tapped into a previously repressed market or whether their services are so revolutionary that they have created the market themselves.
Operators like Megabus and BoltBus offer amenities like free
Wi-Fi and more comfortable seating than traditional buses
to make lengthy trips more palatable to riders.
"It's a hard question to answer because it obviously takes lots of things to grow that fast," said Joe Schwieterman, director of the Chaddick Institute. "We call it the perfect alignment of the stars. The obvious factors are that fuel prices went up and the airport hassle got worse."
"They're clearly filling a market niche that was a gap for the intercity bus industry," said Stephen Schlickman, executive director at the Urban Transportation Center, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Then again, the perception of traditional Greyhound service meant that the new companies had a whole range of biases to overcome—and they seemed to have overcome every single one of them. Perhaps cannily, both companies chose not to make incremental changes to the traditional intercity bus model. They presented themselves as brand-new services with the full complement of amenities from the onset, so as not to appear merely if putting lipstick on a dog.
Onboard, both services have taken a cue from their upstart brethren in the airline industry, such as JetBlue and Virgin America. BoltBus's interiors in particular look suspiciously similar to the black leather seats of Virgin America's aircraft.
Most importantly, both bus services offer the most important amenity that enables students, young professionals, and pretty much everyone else to tolerate what would otherwise be as many as six miserable hours behind the wheel or in a rolling prison: wireless internet.
"People are willing to accept longer rides in a coach seat because they're armed with their personal technology," said Schwieterman. "Twenty or 10 years ago, it was all about speed … because travel is negative. Now people are quite willing to sit in a coach seat for four to five hours because they bring their life with them."
Curbside Pickup Convenient, Cuts Costs
The use of curbside pickup has also enabled BoltBus and MegaBus to avoid significant capital costs. The strategy makes sense: Whereas airlines need runways and security checks and trains need tracks and platforms, buses need only a few dozen feet of curb space.
A BoltBus picks up passengers at a curbside stop in Oakland, Calif.
Company officials say that eliminating the need to build and maintain
official stations keeps fares down.
"The construction, upkeep and maintenance of facilities is an important factor for your overall cost of services," said Schlickman. "By eliminating those needs and those costs, they can be much more competitive with their fares." He also said that the new companies may not be burdened by old, expensive labor agreements.
They are also appealing to a generation of riders that are too young to remember the heyday of decrepit bus stations and too immersed in their use of technology to bother with something as old-fashioned as a car. Indeed, the rise of curbside buses corresponds nicely with a general preference among Millennials towards dense urban living and the abandonment of personal automobiles. In other words, BoltBus and Megabus have a natural customer base among Brooklyn's hipsters, Manhattan's aspiring bankers, and Boston's students.
"Up to about 40 percent of the current emerging generation have no interest in driving," said Schlickman. "I think for that market, definitely other features such as Wi-Fi and the 'hip' nature of the service might be more important."
All of this is a welcome development not only to roving students and dot-com magnates, but to free-market advocates. Because of its reliance on public infrastructure and its central role in the national economy, the transportation industry has always had a fraught relationship with government. Critics have long contended that all sorts of government involvement—from anticompetitive regulations to the construction of physical infrastructure—have made transportation less efficient than it should be.
"I think it's great," said Cato's O'Toole. "Since about 1964, transportation in America has been increasingly…bureaucratized, subsidized, regulated and so on. They're figuring out ways to rely on shared infrastructure—highways are used by cars, trucks, buses and so forth—and not have a lot of their own infrastructure."
Safety and Legal Controversies
What makes economic sense has been, at times, a headache for the companies themselves. By venturing away from traditional bus depots, they run the risk of monopolizing curb space and commercializing places that have not traditionally been commercialized. Recently, crowds waiting for Megabus outside of its Madison Square Garden stop compelled the company to move its pickup location farther west, near the Javits Center. Meanwhile, the cities of Boston and Washington, D.C., force the companies to use their respective bus stations and, consequently, pay usage fees.
The locations for stops also run the gamut from major transit hubs to smaller local landmarks. A rider in Newark, N.J. would board in front of Penn Station, while users across the river in New York City are instructed to wait in front of the Tick Tock Diner on Eighth Avenue.
These differing approaches mean that the companies must navigate different relationships in all of their markets.
"Each one of the 17 is a totally unique animal, which is somewhat frustrating," said Hall. "Baltimore is completely casual and a handshake arrangement. Whereas 39 miles down the way in Washington, D.C., it's a borderline nightmare. We have to have a separate strategy and thought process on each one."
While each company must fight their minor battles for curb space, O'Toole said that the biggest—and perhaps only—threat to their continued success is, literally, the threat of danger. An accident or poor safety record can be, and has been, devastating for a bus company.
BoltBus and Megabus have, in fact, already benefitted from other companies' safety problems. Following the crash of a Chinatown bus that killed
15 people in 2011, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration launched an investigation into curbside carriers. Finding rampant safety violations, they forced the closure of 26 companies, including the Fung Wah service that ran between Boston and New York and is considered the original curbside carrier.
However, O'Toole questioned whether the companies were more the victim of bad reputations, citing an article that contended the Chinatown carriers didn't have higher accident rates than the industry as a whole.
"Megabus and Greyhound are very happy to see their competition shut down," O'Toole said. "That bothers me. As a free marketer, I want to see them all have a chance."
Josh Stephens is a freelance journalist based in Los Angeles.
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Interlaken is a little city in the Bernese Highlands Region of focal Switzerland. Found between two Alpine Lakes, Interlaken is an in vogue base camp for outside games and voyage in the encompassing Bernese Oberland Alps. While Interlaken itself is not that grand it serves as an exceptional base to identify the neighbouring valleys, mountains and lakes, since it holds all the framework and might be arrived at rapidly from major Swiss urban communities via train and auto.
Interlaken, in an exceptional area between Lakes Thun and Brienz and at the foot of the towering acclaimed mountain trio Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau, has for a considerable length of time been the dream occasion objective and journey takeoff indicate for endless global guests. No other resort in Switzerland can offer very nearly numerous types of relaxation and joy exercises inside a minimized 20-kilometre span.
Interlaken is more than mountains. Throughout the middle of the year, the yearly Greenfield Festival unites cutting edge shake acts from far and wide. Each September, 4000 and above runners from in excess of 50 nations tune in on the planet's generally excellent marathon, The Jungfrau Marathon.
Warsaw City | Poland
Warsaw is the capital of Poland and, with 1.7 million occupants, its biggest city. It is placed on the Vistula River, harshly equidistant (350 km, 217 mi) from both the Baltic Sea (Bałtyk) in the north and the Carpathian Mountains in the south. Warsaw is the capital and biggest city of Poland. It is spotted on the Vistula River, approximately 260 kilometres from the Baltic Sea and 300 kilometres from the Carpathian Mountains.
There are the same number as 82 parks in the city which blanket 8 % of its range. The most senior ones, once parts of agent royal residences, are Saxon Garden, the Krasinski Palace Garden, the Royal Baths Park, the Wilanów Palace Park and the Królikarnia Palace Park.
Warsaw is the hotspot for naming substances, for example Warsaw Confederation, the Warsaw Pact, the Duchy of Warsaw, the Warsaw Convention, the Treaty of Warsaw, the Warsaw Uprising, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The Warszawianka is extensively recognized the informal song of praise of the city.
Yehliu | Taiwan
Yehliu is a cape on the north shore of Taiwan in the town of Wanli between Taipei and Keelung. The cape, known by geologists as the Yehliu Promontory, structures part of the Taliao Miocene Formation. It extends roughly 1,700 meters into the sea and was structured as land compels pushed Datun Mountain. A percentage of the rock creations have names dependent upon protests that take after their shapes. The most really popular hoodoo is called "the Queen's Head." Yehliu is inside the town of Wanli which is between the urban areas of Taipei and Keelung.
Annapurna | Nepal Travel Guide & Information
Annapurna is an area of the Himalayas in north-focal Nepal that incorporates 8,091 m (26,545 ft) Annapurna I, thirteen extra tops in excess of 7,000 m (22,970 ft) and 16 progressively in excess of 6,000 m (19,690 ft). This segment is a 55 km-long (34 mi-long) massif limited by the Kali Gandaki Gorge on the west, the Marshyangdi River on the north and east, and Pokhara Valley on the south. Annapurna I is tenth around Earth's fourteen eight-thousanders. 8167 metre Dhaulagiri I climbs 34 km to the west over the Kali Gandaki Gorge, acknowledged Earth's deepest gulley.
Around the famous treks in the area are the Annapurna Circuit trek which rings the Annapurna Range, the Kaligandaki River Valley trek which carries you up the planet's deepest valley and the Annapurna Sanctuary Trek up to the Annapurna Base Camp. There are numerous more trails for shorter treks. The district incorporates the Trans-Himalayan zones north of the principle Himalayan Ranges, where the area is bone-dry and the society more Tibetan than Hindu.
The Annapurna area, as travellers know it, is not an authoritative locale. The region is spotted in two zones -Gandaki and Dhaulagiri. The areas in the Annapurna locale are Baglung, Kaski, Lamjung, Manang, Mustang and Myagdi. Colt is found in the western part of Nepal and is formally the name of the region having a Tibet like district. This colt is partitioned into two parts Upper Mustang and Lower Mustang. Upper Mustang is generally involved by Manangi individuals and heads off up to the aged capital of Lo Manthang. Though Lower Mustang fronts the part of more level valley along the Kali Gandaki stream. Horse is the main region in Nepal with its own particular King.
The Annapurna area, as travellers know it, is not an authoritative locale. The region is spotted in two zones -Gandaki and Dhaulagiri. The areas in the Annapurna locale are Baglung, Kaski, Lamjung, Manang, Mustang and Myagdi.
Bronco is found in the western part of Nepal and is authoritatively the name of the locale having a Tibet like district. This colt is partitioned into two parts Upper Mustang and Lower Mustang. Upper Mustang is to a great extent involved by Manangi individuals and heads off up to the antiquated capital of Lo Manthang. Inasmuch as Lower Mustang spreads the part of easier valley along the Kali Gandaki stream. Colt is the main area in Nepal with its own particular King.
There are three major trekking tracks in the Annapurna area: the Jomson Trek to Jomsom and Muktinath, the Annapurna Sanctuary track to Annapurna base camp; and the Annapurna Circuit, which loops the Annapurna Himal itself and incorporates the Jomsom track. The town of Pokhara ordinarily serves as a beginning stage for these treks, and is likewise a great beginning place for other short treks of one to four days, for example tracks to Ghorepani or Ghandruk.
Sydney | Australia Travel Guide & Photographs
Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most crowded city in Australia. It is on Australia's south-east coast, on the Tasman Sea. In June 2010 the more stupendous metropolitan territory had an estimated populace of 4.6 million individuals. Tenants of Sydney are called Sydneysiders, containing a cosmopolitan and universal populace.
Sydney is regarded as the Harbour City. It is the biggest, most senior and generally cosmopolitan city in Australia with an advantageous notoriety as one of the planet's generally wonderful and liveable urban areas. Overflowing with history, nature, society, craft, style, food, plan, it is situated by miles of sea coastline and sandy surf vacation spots. Later migration patterns have prompted the urban communities notoriety as a standout amongst the most socially and ethnically differing urban areas in Australia and the planet.
Sydney has a place with the elite club of urban communities that produce fervor. At the finish of a marathon flight there's restored imperativeness in the lodge as the plane rounds the city, where many yachts are suspended on the dim water and the sails of the Opera House sparkle in the separation. Favored with amazing beaches and a sunny atmosphere, Sydney is around the most excellent urban areas on the planet.
Sydney's urban range is in a beachfront bowl, which is flanked by the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Blue Mountains to the west, the Hawkesbury River to the north and the Royal National Park to the south. It lies on a submergent coastline, where the sea level has climbed to surge profound waterway valleys (ria) cut in the Hawkesbury sandstone. Port Jackson, otherwise called Sydney Harbour, is one such ria.
Sydney has a calm atmosphere with warm summers and gentle winters, with precipitation spread all through the year. The climate is directed by vicinity to the sea, and more compelling temperatures are recorded in the inland western suburbs. The hottest month is January, with a normal air temperature go at Observatory Hill of 18.6–25.9 °c (65–79 °f). A normal of 14.6 days a year have temperatures of more than 30 °c.
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Lake Powell | Utah, United States
Lake Powell, the second biggest man-made lake in the United States is the play yard for Page, Arizona, and pulling in additional then three million guests yearly. This astounding man made consider named after John Wesley Powell (who headed the first investigation of the Colorado River). It is the biggest repository on the Colorado River in Utah. The Lake extends from two miles south of the state line in Arizona upstream more or less 300 kilometers to Canyon arrives National Park in Utah.
Lake Powell is 186 miles in length and has 1,960 miles of shoreline, which is more extended than the whole west bank of the mainland United States. There are 96 major gulches to investigate however you'll need a water art for the dominant part of them since access is constrained on the grounds that there are not many streets.
Every year in excess of 3 million individuals visit the 186-mile-long lake and the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and the length of stay is the longest (4.5 days) of any elected park. This surrealistic scene of perfectly clear lake encompassed by brilliant gulches, crests and buttes draws guests from far and wide and is a lasting most beloved area for camera people and movie producers.
The lake's principle figure extends up Glen Canyon, yet has likewise filled numerous (in excess of 90) side gorches. The lake likewise extends up the Escalante River and San Juan River where they blend into the fundamental Colorado River. This gives access to numerous characteristic geographic purposes of investment and in addition a few remainders of the Anasazi society.
The lake, which lies halfway in Arizona and basically in Utah, is more than 500 feet profound in spots. While Utah has the lion's impart of Powell's clear as can be water, Arizona lays case to the most imperative part the dam. It took 17 years, from walk 13, 1963 to June 22, 1980, to fill to the arranged level of 3,700 feet above ocean level. Lake levels vary relying upon the spring spillover from the mountains and the discharges would have done well to generate power from the dam's eight generators.
Offices at Lake Powell incorporate two guest focuses, five marinas, lasting mooring for in excess of two thousand private vessels, cabin, restaurants, campgrounds and RV offices. Administrations incorporate houseboat and powerboat rentals dockside and dry watercraft space, angling and water games rigging, foodstuffs and general stock.
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Mallorca Island | Spain
Mallorca or Majorca, as its in some cases known, is the biggest of the four Balearic Islands which lie off the East coastline of Spain, in the Western Mediterranean. The playing point Mallorca has is that it is just a two hour flight from generally major European Capitals (London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Zurich), and is a five hour Ferry ride from Denia and five hours on the quick ship from Barcelona both on the shore of territory Spain.
The primary recognisable milestone on the last approach before arriving will be the great fourteenth Century Gothic basilica at close-by Palma, and the sight of it from the air never stops to blow your mind. Offspring Sant Joan, which is the primary vacationer airfield, is a vast cutting edge office, and is spotted in the south of the island simply outside the capital Palma and a little to the north of the resort of C'an Pastilla. Notwithstanding, when flying out from the island please make an effort to remain mindful that the flight doors are an impressive separation from the weigh in bureaus, so be cautioned, permit more than enough time for the stroll to the flying machine!
Majorca has a long history of marine. The Majorcan cartographic school or the "Catalan school" alludes to an accumulation of cartographers, cosmographers, and navigational instrument-producers that prospered in Majorca and somewhat in territory Catalonia in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. Majorcan cosmographers and cartographers improved leaps forward in cartographic strategies, to be specific the "standard portolan outline", which was adjusted for navigational utilize and the plotting by compass of navigational tracks, requirements for the finding of the New World.
At 75 kilometres from North to South and 100 kilometres from East to West its the biggest of the Balearic Islands. Its current populace is in excess of 500,000 with generally living in and around the city of Palma. This obviously builds incredibly throughout the Spring months, when numerous seasonal specialists and travelers plunge upon the island.
The Summer season runs from the first of May until the 31st October, despite the fact that the city of Palma is mainstream for short breaks lasting through the year. Winter is an exquisite time to visit the island as exercises, for example trekking, climbing, cruising and touring social and significant territories might be reveled in.
Mallorca has a present day foundation: incorporating a magnificent open transport system, noteworthy portable and settled phone system; running water and power in all towns and villages; fast web access; and top notch head out associations with whatever remains of Europe and territory Spain, via air and via ocean.
Mallorca Island, Spain
Delft | Netherlands
Delft is a city and region in the area of South Holland, in the Netherlands. Delft is spotted between the bigger urban areas of Rotterdam and The Hague. Delft is basically known for its important town focus with channels; likewise for the painter Vermeer, Delft Blue ceramics, the Delft University of Technology, and its acquaintanceship with the Dutch regal family, the House of Orange-Nassau.
Delft is more than 750 years of age. Its name is determined from "delven" which implies dive or burrowing. Delft's most senior channel is known as The Old Delft (de Oude Delft). Delft broadened around it; later on numerous other city-channels were dug as life lines through the city. These grachten are still the pride of Delft.
There are various superb exhibition halls and exhibitions in Delft. It is additionally a famous shopping terminus, especially for the planet renowned worldwide ceramics that is generated in the neighborhood. The person on foot agreeable neighborhood is an extraordinary place to investigate by foot. There are more than enough great lodgings in Delft and in the close-by urban communities of Rotterdam and the Hague.
Delft is well known for the Delft ceramics earthenware items which were styled on the foreign made Chinese porcelain of the seventeenth century. The city had an early begin around there since it was a home port of the Dutch East India Company. Delft has long been a core of craftsmanship and science. With the establishment of the VOC in 1602, Delft likewise turned into an exchanging focus. The VOC was around then the biggest exchanging organization on the planet, with a tremendous armada and work places everywhere on Asia. One of the Dutch work places was in Delft.
Delft is found 2km inland from Den Haag, a ten moment train ride (see our Delft area outline the right). Delft is a town of fewer than 100,000 individuals and is noted for its waterways and gabled houses. It's not difficult to get to Delft from the principle train station, Delft Centraal. The notable focus of Delft is a 5 moment stroll around the steeple you see in the separation.
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Learning to play an instrument is always fun. As fourth graders, Joey and Andy both play in their school bands. Joey plays the trumpet, and Andy plays the tuba. Andy's sister, Angelica, plays the flute. Band practice is three days a week right after school is out.
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Douglas Baer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, Canada, where he has been teaching since 2001. He is a past Chair of his department and is presently the Academic Director of the Branch Statistics Canada Research Data Centre there. Previously, he taught at the University of Western Ontario. He is a former President of the Canadian Sociological Association, and has recently served on numerous national grant committees. His research interests include voluntarism and civic engagement, immigrant social and economic adaptation in Canadian society, social inequality, and comparative politics.


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used validator the first time when changes in our active directory
drivers had to be made. GREAT (notice: uppercase).
when asking about pricing ... *gulp* .
if anyone is interested, that´s what our reseller sent us:
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1-Year / 9.400,00
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why is this not in IDM advanced edition, would that not be a unique
selling proposition one could win over any developer/engineer?
our Situation:
we have 80+ Active Directory Drivers (Notes Drivers, a few Delimited
Text Drivers), but rarely need to make a change/addition to the driver
logic(s) (twice a year), which might involve changing AD & Notes & Text,
you can imagine some things do happen.
to date this was cumbersome, i did my testing with command-line tools
and ldif-files, yet still not testing out every aspect of some change
for "practicability reasons" leading to unwanted behaviour, more
commonly referred to as bugs.
validator is a great tool to allow more agile development of those
changes with a safety net. still hard to argue due to those rare changes
for such a hefty fee (yearly!). been there, done that. no validator.
i can see a few advantages by putting it in advanced:
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drivers, but no technical need for advanced, we´d be happy with standard
edition. validator would change that.
- unique selling proposition each technician would understand the value
- lowers the bar to make changes: might increase the number of customers
taking their well running idm infrastructure into consideration to
achieve certain goals they refrained from touching the system. further
implications: strengthens the product, increases acceptance, reputation
points for netiq, ....
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i want validator. i won´t get it. don´t know how many validator
subscriptions have been sold as of today, but i assume it would be wise,
to bundle it into IDM.
thumbs up for your great work @those who made validator. florian
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Artistry: Simply Hue Blog Re-design
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looks absolutely gorgeous. you are so talented my sweet. xoReplyDelete
how adorable! the color palette is beautiful ^_^ReplyDelete
it looks awesome. i love the soft palette. you are very talented!ReplyDelete
It looks wonderful, Anna!ReplyDelete
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Anna it looks fabulous!!! well done, great job!!ReplyDelete
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Looks lovely and goes perfectly with her aesthetic! Beautiful work, Anna!ReplyDelete
this is simply gorgeous!!! you and she are both so very talented!ReplyDelete
Oh wow, you're right... I'm totally intrigued and will head over to check it out.ReplyDelete
Right after I nose around your blog a bit more of course. Sorry, I have been MIA for the past few days, trying to catch up on the blogginess now :)
Anna, the site is GORGEOUS. I'm so impressed. It's perfectly simple and classy. I love it!ReplyDelete
well just look at you! You keep switching things up everytime I visit you! I love it! the new layout is nice:) And great job on Simply Lovely! -JamiReplyDelete
You did a fantastic job for Vicki! Love how the site is looking now!ReplyDelete
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Happy Birthday a few days late to Gabriel!
I know what you mean about savoring each and every day with your child. Isn't it amazing how quickly this first year went? It is such a blink. Just try to take as many pictures and videos that you can. You think you are going to remember it all and it all changes so fast. It is so much fun to look back on them and seen how much they grow. My baby is 18 and will be going to college in the fall :( and I feel like she should still be in her car seat, with her stuffed animal and a sippy cup! Where does time go?
Your blog re-design is great, I just love the look! I will have to go over and check it out.
Have fun preparing for the big party! I'm sure you are going to have a great time. Make sure to take LOTS of pictures. I can't wait to see!
Have a wonderful day!
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You did an awesome job on Vicki's re-design Anna. It is so easy on the eyes and organized. I didn't know that you did this too. If I had known, I think I might have given you a call for my blog re-design. I might just need to call you for a few updates or when I get tired of what I have now.ReplyDelete
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Don't Wait for Someone to Speak Up on your Behalf
A couple times a week, I like to visit my local convenience store, to pick up some fresh produce very early in the morning just as they open. I'm a great believer in supporting small local businesses and the combination of quality produce, fewer customers around and a speedy service is definitely worth the early morning effort.However, on some occasions this idea of swinging by the store super early proves quite popular especially for those who are on their way to work but who are in need of some essential items. Unfortunately, on one particular morning, the store was incredibly short staffed with only one cashier at the checkout.
Of course, it wasn't long before a rather long queue (line) had formed. Now, Here in the UK we are very good at queuing (waiting in line), It's one of the things we are renowned for around the world, but on this particular morning people began to get rather frustrated at the slow service.As time ticked by, the mutterings of complaints became more audible;"I only popped in here to grab a..." or "I wish that cashier would take it up a notch and get a move on." There was absolutely no consideration for the poor checkout woman who, under the circumstances was doing her best to serve the disgruntled customers as quickly as possible.
As I listened to the complaints which were coming thick and fast I decided to look into the possibility of another check out being opened. I spoke out over the hum of the irate customers and asked the checkout lady "Have you called for some back-up from another staff member"? She said that she had but there was no response. I could not see any other staff member from where I was standing so I left the queue and went looking for anyone working on the shop floor.
Sure enough at the back of the store I managed to get the attention of a staff member unpacking a case of groceries and explained that a rather large queue had formed with only one checkout in operation. As it turned out, she was completely oblivious to the situation and agreed to open another check out straight away.
Because I had made the effort to speak up and get out of line in order to find a solution to the problem, I had the privilege of being served first at the newly opened checkout. And guess what? All the complainers were right behind me eager to take advantage of the situation.Isn't it interesting that, not one other person had been willing to step out of line and find a solution? They were happy to complain about the inconvenience of being held up but it did not occur to them that they could do something about it.
This got me thinking about what else my fellow shoppers might be complaining about in their lives but not 'speaking up' about. If they could not find it in themselves to speak up at the local store, I wondered, were they speaking up in their jobs when they needed to? What about in their homes and their communities, was it the same approach of complaining but not doing something about it? Perhaps they're waiting for someone to speak up on their behalf and find the solutions to THEIR problems. We all know how that turns out... No one is going to solve your problems for you if you're not willing to stand up and speak out for yourself.
As long as you have a voice, you have a choice!
We can choose to whine and complain about the terrible service, the unfulfilling job, the inadequate bank balance and poor leadership of others OR we can actually do something about it. If things are not going the way you wish them to be, step out of line and out of your comfort zone (your place of perceived safety) and speak up! Overcome your shyness or fear of being judged, use your voice, you can do it!
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
Happy New Year Skull Scarf
Happy New Year my faithful readers! I have a feeling 2011 is going to be a great year. I have so many ideas in this warped brain of mine for some new wicked crochet creations.
I was able to start the year off by completing a new skull scarf. This is made with some great yarn. The light green is hand spun alpaca wool from animals raised right here in Oregon. The variegated color I used for the skulls and fringe is hand painted merino from New Mexico. I just love the bright almost neon colors of this scarf. You will definitely stand out in a crowd while wearing this skully beauty.
Lately I've been sketching my ideas before I actually start the project . Here's the sketch of the skull scarf when it was only a twinkle in my eye.
Yeah....The scarf looks much better.
Thanks to my lovely daughter for being a good sport and modeling for me. If it wasn't for her my cats would have to model. And I'm sure that wouldn't thrill them in the least.
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Adorable! I'm trying to bring back crochet too! Crocheting isn't just for old ladies anymore. I just took up crochet, have the book "Happy Hooker" on order, so hopefully soon I can start mastering the art really soon.ReplyDelete
Candice I LOVE the blog! You are awesome. The Happy Hooker book is a good one to get started with. You should also get a good crochet stitch book. I would recommend "The Crochet Stitch Bible" It has TONS of stitches and easy to follow directions. I refer to mine all the time while designing. I look forward to seeing your crochet progress. Keep on Hookin!ReplyDelete
I love this! I would definitely buy it if I weren't do poor. D:ReplyDelete
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LAKE TWP. - Officials are investigating at least 10,000 fish that died in Lake Ariel.
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission notified the state Department of Environmental Protection of what they called a "fish kill" Wednesday morning, according to DEP spokesman Kevin Sunday.
Mr. Sunday said specialists conducted sampling, but had no information on the results of the testing Friday.
"I must respectfully decline to comment on potential contributing factors at this point in our investigation," he said in an emailed statement late Friday.
Eric Levis, the press secretary for the Fish and Boat Commission, said the event will remain under investigation.
"The preliminary estimate is 9,000 minnows and some smaller fish and 1,000 game fish, such as bass and perch," Mr. Levis said in an emailed statement.
There were no dead fish visible Friday, and people could be seen kayaking, tubing and boating on the lake.
"We love our lake," said Mollie Conway, 49, of Dunmore, who has a lakefront home.
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Jonas – Everpure's drummer from 2008/09 – and I have started out in January 2010 with some rough ideas and a fancy concept about Magnetic Bass, which was based on some Magnetic Poetry that I had on the fridge in my kitchen, plus our love for bass. We wrote a couple of songs with our drums, guitar and Ableton Live, and finally concluded that we wanted to have a singer adding some vocal melodies to them. We called ourselves The Hmn, which we found about one billion nerdy stories for.
So we started looking for a singer, and we found her: Lou Lou Mais, a wonderful singer from Copenhagen. She contributed with some wonderful words and melodies, which we recorded in September 2010 at Rusk Studio.
Unfortunately, we didn't continue with the project, so these four songs are all you will ever hear from the project called The Hmn featuring Lou Lou Mais.


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5:45PM: Hollywood VIP David Geffen was seated at President Obama's table.
3PM: Below is a list of expected entertainment industry attendees at tonight's first White House State Dinner hosted by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for guest of honor Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India, & Ms. Gursharan Kaur: Ari Emanuel, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jeff Immelt, Michael Lynton and wife Jamie, Gayle King, M. Night Shyamalan, Steven Spielberg, Alfre Woodard, Blair E Underwood. For background on why these Hollywood insiders invited, read my previous: Obama Thanks Hollywood With Invites To First White House State Dinner.
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In this article we will cover the basics of using subdomains in Ruby on Rails. Subdomains are quite useful in a number of different scenarios. For example, lets say you are building a multi user blog application. Each user gets their own blog. Being able to give each user a unique subdomain allows you to give users their own personal space. For this article we will build a simple blog application that contains this feature.
Rails Application Setup
The first thing we need to do is generate a couple models. The first model, Blog, represents a specific blog tied to a specific subdomain. A blog contains many posts. The second model, Post, is a simple blog post containing a title and body. Run the commands below to create these models now.
Terminal Commands:
rails g model Blog name subdomain
rails g model Post title body:text blog:references
rake db:migrate
The next thing we need to do is create our controllers. Similarly to the models, we will have a Blogs controller as well as a Posts controller. Run the commands below to create these now.
Terminal Commands:
rails g controller blogs index show
rails g controller posts show
Great, now we need to edit our routes file and set up a few routes. Open up your routes file and modify it so that it looks like the code listed below, being sure not to overwrite the first line of your routes file.
SubdomainsExample::Application.routes.draw do
resources :posts
resources :blogs
match '/', to: 'blogs#index', constraints: { subdomain: 'www' }, via: [:get, :post, :put, :patch, :delete]
match '/', to: 'blogs#show', constraints: { subdomain: /.+/ }, via: [:get, :post, :put, :patch, :delete]
root to: "blogs#index"
The first two lines are self explanatory. The magic happens on the next 2 lines. The first match line tells rails to match the subdomain 'www' to the index method of your blogs controller. This makes it so that typing http://www.yourdomain.com doesn't search for a subdomain, but rather goes right to the blogs index method. The next match line tells rails to pass the subdomain request onto the blogs/show method.
Next we need to add some code to our application controller. We will add a
get_blog method that will find the specific blog by it's subdomain and return the result. If the blog doesn't exist the user will be redirected to the blog index. Modify your application controller so that it looks like the code listed below.
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
protect_from_forgery with: :exception
before_filter :get_blog
def get_blog
blogs = Blog.where(subdomain: request.subdomain)
if blogs.count > 0
@blog = blogs.first
elsif request.subdomain != 'www'
redirect_to root_url(subdomain: 'www')
Excellent, now lets modify our blogs controller. Open up your blogs controller and add in the code listed below.
class BlogsController < ApplicationController
def index
@blogs = Blog.all
def show
@posts = @blog.posts
The code above is pretty self explanatory. The index method gets a list of blogs, the show method shows the contents of a specific blog.
Now let's add some code to our posts controller. Modify your posts controller so that it looks like the code listed below.
class PostsController < ApplicationController
def show
@post = @blog.posts.find(params[:id])
This code is pretty simple. It simply grabs the specified post for the current blog.
Now lets do the views. First lets modify our application layout to include bootstrap to make this example pretty. Modify your application layout so that it looks like the code listed below.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<%= stylesheet_link_tag "application", media: "all", "data-turbolinks-track" => true %>
<%= javascript_include_tag "application", "data-turbolinks-track" => true %>
<%= stylesheet_link_tag "http://yandex.st/bootstrap/3.0.2/css/bootstrap.min.css", media: "all" %>
<%= javascript_include_tag "http://yandex.st/bootstrap/3.0.2/js/bootstrap.min.js" %>
<%= csrf_meta_tags %>

<%= yield %>
Great, now lets create our blog index view. Open up your blog index view and modify it so that it looks like the code listed below.

Blogs on this Server

<% @blogs.each do |blog| %>

<%= link_to blog.name, root_url(subdomain: blog.subdomain) %>

<% end %>
Okay, now lets update the show view for blogs to look like the code listed below.

<%= @blog.name %>

<% @posts.each do |post| %>

<%= post.title %>

<%= truncate post.body, length: 160 %>

<%= link_to "Read More", post %>
<% end %>
Great, finally lets modify the show view for posts to look like the code listed below.

<%= @post.title %>

<%= @post.body %>
One final thing. Lets add some seed data. Open up your seeds.rb file and add in the code listed below.
Blog.create(id: 1, name: "My Example Blog", subdomain: "example")
Blog.create(id: 2, name: "Awesome Blog", subdomain: "awesome")
Post.create(id: 1, blog_id: 1, title: "An Example of a Post", body: "This is a perfect example of a blog post. Feel free to reference this example in your other applications. Note that the author of this blog post does not accept responsibility for the contents of this blog post.")
Post.create(id: 2, blog_id: 1, title: "Another Example of a Post", body: "This is yet another example of a blog post. This one is less perfect than the first one.")
Post.create(id: 3, blog_id: 2, title: "An Utterly Awesome Post", body: "This is a super awesome example of a really good blog post. You should...like...totally copy this!")
Post.create(id: 4, blog_id: 2, title: "Yet Another Utterly Post", body: "This is yet ANOTHER example of a super awesome blog post. You should totally copy this one as well!")
Now lets run a db:seed to add in the seed data.
Terminal Commands:
rake db:seed
Great, now it's time to test our application. The easiest way to test on development is to use the vcap.me domain name. vcamp.me and all subdomains point to localhost, so it's quite simple to test on development. Start a rails server and navigate to http://www.vcap.me:3000. You'll see a list of blogs. Clicking on one of these blogs will show the specific blog with it's posts. You can then click on that specific post to display the post. That's it! Thanks for reading!


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Q. What diameter of lawn should be removed from around a shade tree trunk? I have silver maple and pin oak now 10-15 ft high, growing to full size.
Is there a minimum or maximum size needed for optimum tree health beyond which is only a matter of personal taste?
I recall experiments at Bartlett that showed that trees benefited from mulching up to the drip line. However, that is impractical and not as aesthetically pleasing than using a smaller mulch area. Besides the health of the tree, mulching helps to prevent damage to the bark and limbs. A mulch area about four feet in diameter should suffice and be aesthetically pleasing. Two to three inches of mulch is optimum and do not cover the bark of the tree with mulch. Mulch volcanoes should be avoided as they cause a variety of problems including girdling of the roots.
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For my money, Dana Milbank is the most biased, least trustworthy political writer on the Washington Post's staff (for evidence, type his name into our search engine and click on the results). Thus, one must suspect the presence of parody when Milbank, in the name of honest MSM journalists, decries the efforts of bloggers to "do away with [the MSM's} truth-telling role." Milbank makes essentially three points: (1) an independent, truth-seeking press is valuable, (2) the MSM constitutes such a press, and (3) bloggers, primarily conservative ones, are trying to destroy that press. Let's examine these points in turn.
1. I agree that an unbiased, truth-seeking MSM would be very nice to have.
2. Whether we have such a press is, of course, the key point in controversy these days. Unfortunately, Milbank assumes, rather than proves his contention that the MSM operates honestly and in good faith. His only evidence of his own lack of bias is that both the left and the right have accused him of bias. This is a familiar and disingenuous dodge. I could use it to prove that my writing is non-partisan, since I've received bitter complaints from conservative readers. Readers interested in Milbank's record, as opposed to the identity of his critics, are again invited to search our site. Or they can proceed directly here, here, or here, for starters.
To show that the MSM in general lacks bias, Milbank relies on a statement by former Bush administration press secretary Ari Fleischer, who says that the media is biased but that this bias is "complicated, secondary [to its lust for conflict] and often nuanced." For purposes of discussion, let's stipulate that this statement is true in many cases (but not Milbank's). It hardly supports Milbank's position. "Nuanced bias" is still bias.
3. When it comes to Milbank's claim that bloggers are trying to destroy the press so it can't tell the truth, Milbank offers no evidence at all. We know that bloggers are constantly challenging the accuracy and fairness of the MSM's work. But this tells us little, if anything, about their motivation. Are they doing this because they want the MSM to be more factually accurate (that would be the most natural conclusion), or because they want the MSM to be less accurate and, indeed, unfree? A trustworthy commentator wouldn't assert that the motive is the latter, nefarious one without providing evidence. But Milbank has demonstrated time after time that he is not such a commentator.
UPDATE: Charles Johnson notes the irony in Milbank's complaint here.
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