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Want to work for one of Brisbane's largest employers of choice in an exciting and unique opportunity?
Davidson is currently partnering with one of our clients to look for an energetic, dynamic and motivated systems accountant to join their team. This role will see you working in a fast faced team environment where you will be required to provide exceptional customer service to both internal and external stakeholders.
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Possessing an aptitude for IT systems and a keen interest in finance, this role will see you join a team focused on support, maintenance and administration of finance systems as well as participate in ongoing projects and improvements. Working in a high volume and fast paced environment you will need to be adaptable and able to cope in an ever-changing environment.
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Long story short: I ordered new front strut mounts for my 2001 Civic from Rock Auto. Turns out my car, despite being a 2001, uses the 2002 style strut mount plate on the top of the strut. New parts don't fit, and can't be returned because they already "show signs of installation". The old ones were actually in much better shape than I was led to believe, so I put them back in. So now I've got two Moog strut mounts for a 2001 Honda civic that I don't need.
Does anyone here want them?
The other option I have is to get my hands on some 2001 style strut mount plates, but given the 2002s actually seem a bit better designed, I'm tempted to stick with them. This also solves my little mystery that I had when I was trying to install them. The 2001 mounts use a plastic bearing with a different shaped mount, and the 2002 mounts use a metal and plastic bearing with more of a cup-shaped mount.
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New Five-Night "Ultimate Honeymoon" Package Delivers Over-the-Top Beachfront Luxury at Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa
SOUTH WALTON, Fla. - Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa, the largest full-service beachfront resort hotel on Northwest Florida's Gulf Coast, is offering a new luxury honeymoon package filled with over-the-top extravagance, starting at $11,986.00* for five nights or more. From private limousine pick-up, to a champagne-and-roses greeting and spacious Presidential Suite, the "ultimate honeymoon" package features private perks and pleasures for an unforgettable newlywed experience.
"This new package is perfect for couples who want to celebrate their marriage in style and experience all the luxurious resort amenities together," said Gary Brielmayer, general manager, Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa. "Whether they hide away in their private Presidential Suite or step out to indulge in award-winning spa treatments or cooking lessons with our Four-Diamond executive chef, our newlywed guests will feel like royalty."
The honeymoon package includes six days and five nights in the resort's luxuriously appointed Presidential Suite, with champagne and a dozen roses upon arrival. Guests will enjoy a private limousine for airport transfers and a sedan with a private driver available for exploring the area during their stay. The extravagant package also includes several exclusive activities on the resort, including a professional photographer for a one-hour session at sunset, a private beach bonfire with s'mores, and a private pool cabana or beach setup each day.
Couples also will be treated to a four-course, private dinner in a wine cellar room at the AAA Four-Diamond Seagar's Prime Steaks & Seafood. Additional dining options include a customizable and private cooking lesson with executive chef Dan Vargo of Seagar's, and daily in-room breakfast from Sandcastle's.
For a relaxing and romantic rendezvous, couples will receive "his and her" plush robes to slip on during their couple's spa day at the award-winning Serenity by the Sea Spa. The decadent day includes side-by-side classic pedicures, 50-minute Aromastone massages, 30-minute refresher facials, and a glass of wine from the resort's Four-Diamond restaurant. Guests will also enjoy a private sunrise yoga session on the beach and a special Serenity by the Sea Spa basket featuring FarmHouse Fresh products.
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In Ghana, the slightest incident could become a nationwide trend. There have been famous ones like the Akufo-Addo-Kalypo challenge which took social media by storm in the heat up to the 2016 elections.
Well, after the shocking release of a sex video between a headmaster and his Junior High School (JHS) student, the kitchen stool that was used in the video is trending on social media.
The leaked sex tape involves Robert Sepey, the headmaster of the Breman Edumanu District Authority Basic School in the Asikuma Oboben-Brakwa district of the Central region, and a student of the school [name withheld].
In the video that has gone viral, the student is seen kneeling on a kitchen stool while Mr Sepey stood behind her engaging in the sexual act.
One social media user posing a challenge
The use of the kitchen stool has trigged the 'kitchen stool challenge' on social media and some of the posts are hilarious.
Kitchen stools have all of a sudden become the talk of the town as many social media users are posting images of themselves stooping on it imitating the sex act.
Some people have started a joke to the effect that the price of the kitchen stools has gone up after the incident because they are in high demand now.
WATCH VIDEO: Why GES cannot punish the "kitchen stool Chopping Distin" headmaster


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In the complex world of modern app deployment solutions, containers have been gaining traction as a popular distribution method. But what are they, and why are people so excited about them? This two part series will look into some of the benefits offered.
First, we'll look at how isolation is generally used to solve a whole class of problems. Next we'll look at how containers, specifically, makes isolation more manageable. An intermediate familiarity with UNIX-like systems is assumed throughout.
User/Group Privilege Isolation
User and group access restrictions are one of the most basic forms of isolating what a particular application can do.
Users are often warned to avoid running applications as the admin user (in most cases root) as much as possible. To accomplish this, privileges can be dropped to an unprivileged user at execution time through setuid and setgid system calls.
For example taking this simple echo server in C and modifying it to bind to a port which requires root privileges:
servaddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
servaddr.sin_addr.s_addr = htons(INADDR_ANY);
servaddr.sin_port = htons(7);
bind(listen_fd, (struct sockaddr *) &servaddr, sizeof(servaddr));
If this is run as-is, it will require root access for binding to a low numbered port. If we want to improve on this, we can require that the program drops its privileges after binding to the port with privileged access:
servaddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
servaddr.sin_addr.s_addr = htons(INADDR_ANY);
servaddr.sin_port = htons(7);
bind(listen_fd, (struct sockaddr *) &servaddr, sizeof(servaddr));
65534 is the user ID for the
nobody user on the particular system this is running on. (Practical solutions (i.e. not example code) should take user names as strings as well as user IDs.)
When the program is run with this new setuid addition:
# ./echo
Echoing back - Testing
# ps aux
nobody 4031 0.0 0.0 4044 344 pts/3 S+ 16:07 0:00 ./echo
This process is now running as the
nobody user while still being able to properly accept connections. However, as it stands, the server has the potential to access any files on the system that the
nobody user can access. While not too much of a concern for this simple echo server, it could cause security issues in a production environment, should the server be compromised.
Filesystem isolation can be used to prevent this.
Filesystem Isolation
The chroot is a basic form of isolation at the filesystem level, with the name of the program being an abbreviation for "change root". Essentially it changes the root of the filesystem for a one process and all child processes under it.
A few practical uses of chroots include:
- Development environments
- Isolation of services
- Restricted user SSH access
Let's continue working with our echo server. Firstly, we need to create a basic directory structure, and then copy over some essential shared libraries:
# mkdir chroot
# mkdir chroot/bin
# mkdir chroot/lib64
# cp echo chroot/bin
# ldd chroot/bin/echo
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff0adff000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f516c7cf000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f516cb74000)
# cp /lib64/libc.so.6 chroot/lib64/
# cp /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 chroot/lib64/
Now these files are copied over, it's time to attempt to run the program in the isolated filesystem:
# chroot chroot /bin/echo
Echoing back - Testing
nobody 15285 0.0 0.0 4048 388 pts/3 S+ 16:51 0:00 /bin/echo
Even though filesystem isolation is present, there's more we can do. The server is still using the host's resources without any real limitation. This might be a problem if there are other processes running on this host that are competing for resources. What we need to do now is to isolate those resources.
Control Group Resource Isolation
Control groups, or cgroups for short, are a way to isolate shared resources. These resources include block IO, memory, CPU, and so on.
Let's look at IO for a second. For a disk on AWS EC2 hdparam shows:
# hdparm --direct -t /dev/xvda
Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 382 MB in 3.02 seconds = 126.68 MB/sec
So IO is around 126 MB/sec.
Now, let's throttle that to 1 MB/sec using control groups.
First a control group needs to be created:
# cgcreate -g blkio:throttled-io
blkio is the name of the subsystem (block IO) we're going to restrict and
throttled-io is the name of the control group we're creating.
Throttling works on specific devices, so the major/minor identifier of the device needs to be obtained:
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 202, 0 Apr 24 10:06 /dev/xvda
In this case it is 202, 0.
cgset is used to set the actual throttling:
# cgset -r blkio.throttle.read_bps_device="202:0 1048576" throttled-io
Now we can run
hdparm with this new control group using
# cgexec -g blkio:throttled-io hdparm --direct -t /dev/xvda
Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 4 MB in 4.00 seconds = 1023.59 kB/sec
As shown, the IO rate is now throttled around 1 MB/sec. Success!
This is just one example of the many other cgroups that are available to utilize for resource management. Read more about the other cgroups in the Red Hat docs.
However, the service has the potential to see process information it really shouldn't. This leads into the next form of isolation: namespaces.
Linux Namespaces
Namespaces are a way to isolate areas like network and process space.
Due to the rather complex nature of network namespaces with isolated applications and chroots, we'll discuss that in more detail in part two of this series instead. For now we'll focus on process space isolation.
So, we need to modify the code for this. The full code is available in this gist, but the important parts are here:
printf("Child: PID=%ld PPID=%ld\n", (long) getpid(), (long) getppid());
char *stack;
char *stackTop;
stack = malloc(STACK_SIZE);
if (stack == NULL) {
printf("malloc(2) failed\n");
return 1;
signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN);
stackTop = stack + STACK_SIZE;
pid_t child_pid = clone(echo_server, stackTop, CLONE_NEWPID | SIGCHLD, NULL);
First, in the child process, the PID is printed out so that we can verify the process namespace is working properly. If it is, the PID will show as 1, which is normally the init process on the host system, but will be our top level process once it's isolated. The
clone() function creates the new namespace and will execute the server with it. This new namespace will have an entirely isolated process space.
We can see that by running:
# chroot chroot /bin/echo
Child: PID=1 PPID=0
The process has a PID of 1, showing that the process space isolation is working.
We built a fairly simple echo server, and took steps to isolate the privileges, filesystem, allocated resources, and process space. Of course, the methods used here serve as an introduction only. For those looking for more information on what was presented, you can read more about: setuid, chroot, Control Groups, and Linux Namespaces.
In part two, we'll look at network isolation. We'll also introduce containers and discuss how containers are the modern way to do all of this stuff effortlessly.
P.S. What sorts of things would you like to see my cover in part two? If you have any questions or comments or requests, throw us a comment below.
Addendum: I've received some comments regarding various access control systems as a form of isolation. While technologies such as AppArmor and SELinux do provide fine-tunable access controls, their proper implementation is a more involved discussion than the more simplified isolation overview that this article was meant to achieve. For those looking at more advanced ways to secure systems, I recommend starting with the Wikipedia article on security models. With that in mind, these sort of systems will not be touched on in detail in this series.


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CATONSVILLE, Md. (AP) — Citing negative stereotyping of Arab culture, a Maryland elementary school has canceled its production of Disney's "Aladdin Jr."
Danette Zaghari-Mask is an attorney with the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
She told media outlets her son decided to drop out of the Westowne Elementary School play when he learned that "Arabs are described as barbaric" in it.
She went to the school with his experience, and says her family is "relieved that the school is considerate of diversity."
Principal J. Palmer Wilker sent a letter to drama club parents last week in which he said the school wanted to "cultivate students who have a strong self-image, appreciation, and respect for other cultures."
The school's drama club will replace the February 2019 production with "an alternative theatrical production with a focus on fables."
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Well look at that, now it's July.
Engraved on the Eye by Saladin Ahmed
I've had this one lying around forever, so I finally read it. It's a collection of short stories, most set in the fantasy realm that his Throne of the Crescent Moon takes place (I think? I still haven't read that one yet -.-) and I loved them. All of them. I'll pick a favourite: "Judgement of Swords and Souls" which is about an action-girl and seriously, I'd read a 12 part series about her and her exploits. Fantasy tends to get a little tiring and stale sometimes. I don't even think I'd be excited if GRRM announced that book 6 comes out tomorrow. I'd just be like, "K." But these stories felt really fresh while still being typical fantasy stuff that I know and love, so, I'm really glad I actually read it. And I'm very interested to read Ahmed's full novel.
Indigenous Poetics in Canada by Neal McLeod (sort of)
Neal McLeod is the editor and occasional contributor of this anthology of essays about what the title says. As it's an academic book, it's a bit of a slog, and I'm way out of practice over here. It's been 5 years since I left school, and even when I was in school I didn't take a First Nations lit course, which would have given me a bit of background for this discussion. Still, even though I felt waaaay out of my depth at times, it was nice to revisit this way of thinking about books and poetry. I liked one essay that reformed words, so that "recreate" becomes "re-CREE-ate" – ahhh. I miss academia. And that's an example of fiddling around with words that's actually really meaningful. There's also the fact that apart from Thomas King, who was only mentioned briefly, I'd never read the poets/authors who contributed essays and/or whose works are discussed, so I was almost entirely lost. But I took it as a list of recommendations for who to read next and went with it, hopefully with some theoretical knowledge to consider as I go.
Luna Station Quarterly, Issue 028
This is a very good idea for a literary journal. Women-based fantasy stories? But of course. I believe my favourite story this issue was "Earth is a Crash Landing," but "Wedding Feast" stayed with me more vividly. It manages to make the thing that sometimes happens at weddings (I mean where they read the really misogynist passage out of the bible rather than the obvious choice of "Wedding at Cana" and everyone stands around like nothing incredibly bizarre is happening) seem perfectly normal in comparison.
Disney Princess #2 by Amy Mebberson
Of course I loved it.
A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
So in this new YA series, Charlotte Holmes is the descendant of Sherlock Holmes with an oxy addiction and a BFF in Jamie Watson (yes, he's also a descendant) and they solve a big huge mystery. Charlotte is a rape survivor and may be ace or a sociopath or just traumatized. Jamie has rage problems.
I thought I'd be raising my eyebrows a lot, but honestly, Cavallaro actually sells it. The only thing I still have a problem with is that this premise requires Sherlock Holmes to have bred. And I feel like if you're not actually going to be, like, emotionally available in the slightest to your offspring, you should probably not have any. But that it hugely my bias and it doesn't effect the story at all, so, I don't know.
The Truth About Twinkie Pie by Kat Yeh
I loved this. I don't know what else to say, it was just really good.
Out on Good Behavior by Dahlia Adler
Surprising myself, I read another Radleigh University book. This one focuses on Frankie, the pansexual non-monogamous one in the group of friends, having an actual, serious crush on a girl who isn't out yet to her super Republican political family, and learning to deal. Like Right of First Refusal, it has some obnoxious allusions to and descriptions of sex, but overall I found it much easier to read. Partially that's because the story this time was a little… nicer? There are also a couple of moments that depict issues surrounding consent really, really well, and I liked that a lot. And the non-sex-related stuff was better – Frankie's extracurricular activities are art, rather than lacrosse, which I prefer. But there was one part that depicted mirror sex as though it was the hottest thing that could possibly ever happen, and, just, come on. That isn't just me being asexual, is it? Why would anyone do that OK you know what, I'm moving on.
Poison Kiss by Ana Mardoll
This is another fantasy story that feels pretty fresh (a realm exists of evil fairies who kidnap humans, give them different, often destructive magical abilities, and just generally exploit them but then a bunch of them escape and learn to deal). Part of the freshness for me is that it's a fantasy romance, and despite the fact that I've read all of Twilight, other than that I'm still pretty new to this subgenre. But it also majorly features all types of queer people, so that was cool. I had two problems with it: I felt like there was too much exposition and introspection. A lot of the action was punctuated by these long spells of explaining backgrounds or Rose, the protagonist, would agonize about her problems after every new development on that front. And I need to know a lot of that, sure, but I think there needed to be a little more action overall to balance it all out. My other problem was that a couple of times it alludes to these experiments one of them is doing on rats to try to figure out how these altered people's magic works. This story is trying (and, I think, largely succeeding) to be safe for people of intersecting identities, but the casual references to lab rats rather ruined it for me. We can argue all day about whether animal experimentation is necessary, but the reality is it will one day be over, if humans are even half as decent as I think we generally are, so if we're not everyday working towards perfecting alternatives (even in fiction!) instead of normalizing exploitation (even in fiction!) I don't know what to say.
But it was only twice, I think, and in this book we didn't see any of it, at least.
Also, this book has the distinction of featuring my favourite male love interest so far: Clarent. He's so sweet.
Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
I'm still mad at this one. It's very, very good, but if two lab rat references in Poison Kiss were enough to annoy me, well, this book is brimming with actual depictions of animals suffering and dying. It's a thought experiment on the relationship between human intelligence and happiness, and while I think it's really worthwhile, I don't actually think it ever thoroughly explained what "happiness" is, which would have been kind of crucial.
I was unhappy with the implication that dogs would of course be inherently somewhat sexist with added intelligence (maybe that wasn't what Alexis was going for but that's how I read it), and I didn't like the implication that dogs would be kind of gleefully cruel, with their newfound intelligence. I get that humans aren't natural predators the way dogs are, though, so maybe that part is just me projecting an idealized version of what dogs are on to dogs.
The dominance/submission stuff was actually annoying, though. Part of the problem is that we don't have adequate language or understanding yet of how dog "society" works, but dogs being deferential to other dogs and humans is much more complicated than the whole alpha concept can adequately explain. Especially since the alpha concept isn't a real thing except in captive wolves.
I mean, I was thinking against the book much of the time, but it made me think a lot. A lot a lot. And the depiction of the friendship between Majnoun, a poodle, and Nira, a human who has adopted him, makes everything worthwhile. Lots of it takes place in High Park in Toronto, which is also cool. High Park is cool.
If I was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
I loved this! At times it's harrowing, and what I wanted after reading it was just thousands of books featuring trans girls, boys, and enbies not having to worry about something as critical as their gender identity and expression. Also, like Out on Good Behavior it depicts people making sure they've gotten consent and I wish every romance ever had this.
Witness, I Am by Gregory Scofield
I miss poetry. This is really good stuff. The first poem, called "Muskrat Woman," is almost half the length of the collection and reminds me of "The Wasteland," but contemporary, critical of the forced assimilation of First Nations people into Christianity and silly Christian-style misogyny, and referencing the current and horrifying events related to the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. So, much better and more important than "The Waste Land," is what I'm saying.
George by Alex Gino
I just loved this book. If a genie granted me three wishes related to this book, my first wish would be that 20 copies could be on every library shelf in every school, my second wish would be that everyone could have a friend like Kelly (Kelly is awesome), and my third wish would be to set the Genie free.
Burning in this Midnight Dream by Louise Bernice Halfe
More poetry. I just finished this one yesterday and it's still sinking in, but let me just say, someone needs to back a dump truck filled with copies of this collection up to Lynn Beyak's house and just leave them there. Because. Fuck.
Thaw by Elyse Springer
Yeeeeah, a romance between two women and one of them is asexual. As with most romances, it was somewhat predictable when it came to what the major conflict was going to be, but I really liked this one.
That's 14, if you haven't been counting. It's occurring to me now that I probably am going to get to 100 by the end of the year. Go me, I guess.


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Late one evening in the spring of 2005, toward the end of the first year of my fellowship, I sat in a room on the 10th floor of the hospital with a dying woman, Germaine Berne. She was a vivacious psychologist from Alabama. In 1999, she had been struck by nausea, a queasiness so sudden and violent that it felt as if it had been released from a catapult. Even more unsettling, the nausea had been accompanied by a vague sense of fullness, as if she were perpetually stuck devouring a large meal.
Germaine had driven herself to the Baptist Hospital in Montgomery, where she had undergone a barrage of tests until a CAT scan had revealed a 12-centimetre solid mass pushing into her stomach. On Jan. 4, 2000, a radiologist had biopsied the mass. Under the microscope, the biopsy had revealed sheets of spindle-like cells dividing rapidly. The tumour, which had invaded blood vessels and bucked the normal planes of tissue, was a rare kind of cancer called a gastrointestinal stromal tumour, or simply, a GIST.
The news quickly became worse. Her scans showed spots in her liver, swellings in her lymph nodes, and a spray of masses peppering the left lung. The cancer had metastasized all over her body. A surgical cure was impossible, and in 2000, no chemotherapy was known to be effective against her kind of sarcoma. Her doctors in Alabama cobbled together a combination of chemotherapeutic drugs, but they were essentially biding their time. "I signed my letters, paid my bills, and made my will," she recalled. "There was no doubt about the verdict. I was told to go home to die."
In the winter of 2000, handed her death sentence, Germaine stumbled into a virtual community of co-sufferers - GIST patients who spoke to each other through a website. The site, like most of its bloggers, was a strange and moribund affair, with desperate folks seeking desperate remedies. But in late April, news of a novel drug began to spread like wildfire through this community.
The new drug was none other than Gleevec - imatinib - a chemical found to be active against chronic myelogenous leukemia.
Germaine pulled strings to get enrolled in one of these trials. She was, by nature, effortlessly persuasive, able to cajole, badger, wheedle, pester, beg, and demand - and her illness had made her bold. ("Cure me, Doc, and I'll send you to Europe," she told me once - an offer that I politely declined.) She worked her way into a teaching hospital where patients were being given the drug on trial. Just as she was being enrolled, Gleevec had turned out to be so effective that doctors could no longer justify treating GIST patients with a placebo pill. Germaine started on the drug in August, 2001.
A month later, her tumours began to recede at an astonishing rate. Her energy returned; her nausea vanished. She was resurrected from the dead.
Germaine's recovery was a medical miracle. Newspapers in Montgomery picked up the story. She doled out advice to other cancer victims. Medicine was catching up on cancer, she wrote; there was reason for hope. Even if no cure was in sight, a new generation of drugs would control cancer, and another generation would round the bend just as the first one failed.
In the summer of 2004, as she was celebrating the fourth anniversary of her unexpected recovery, the cells of Germaine's tumour suddenly grew resistant to Gleevec. Her lumps, having remained dormant for four years, sprouted vengefully back. In months, masses appeared in her stomach, lymph nodes, lungs, liver, spleen. The nausea returned, just as powerfully as the first time. Malignant fluid poured into the cisterns of her abdomen.
Resourceful as usual, Germaine scoured the Web, returning to her makeshift community of GIST patients for advice.
She discovered that other drugs - second-generation analogues of Gleevec - were in trial in Boston and in other cities. In 2004, on a telephone halfway across the country, she enrolled in a trial of one such analogue called SU11248 that had just opened up.
The new drug produced a temporary response, but did not work for long. By February, 2005, Germaine's cancer had spiralled out of control, growing so fast that she could record its weight, in pounds, as she stood on the scales every week.
Eventually her pain made it impossible for her to walk even from her bed to the door and she had to be hospitalized. My meeting with Germaine that evening was not to discuss drugs and therapies, but to try to make an honest reconciliation between her and her medical condition.
As usual, she had already beaten me to it. When I entered her room to talk about next steps, she waved her hand in the air with a withering look and cut me off. Her goals were now simple, she told me. No more trials. No more drugs. The six years of survival that she had eked out between 1999 and 2005 had not been static, frozen years; they had sharpened, clarified and cleansed her.
She had severed her relationship with her husband and intensified her bond with her brother, an oncologist. Her daughter, a teenager in 1999 and now a preternaturally mature sophomore at a Boston college, had grown into her ally, her confidante, her some-time nurse, and her closest friend. ("Cancer breaks some families and makes some," Germaine said. "In my case, it did both.")
Germaine realized that her reprieve had finally come to an end. She wanted to get to Alabama, to her own home, to die the death that she had expected in 1999.
When I recall that final conversation with Germaine, embarrassingly enough, the objects seem to stand out more vividly than the words: a hospital room, with its sharp smell of disinfectant and hand soap; the steely, unflattering overhead light; a wooden side table on wheels, piled with pills, books, newspaper clippings, nail polish, jewellery, postcards. Her room, wallpapered with pictures of her beautiful house in Montgomery and of her daughter holding some fruit picked from her garden; a standard-issue plastic hospital pitcher filled with a bunch of sunflowers perched on a table by her side.
Germaine, as I remember her, was sitting by the bed, one leg dangling casually down, wearing her usual eccentric and arresting combination of clothes and some large and unusual pieces of jewellery. Her hair was carefully arranged. She looked formal, frozen and perfect, like a photograph of someone in a hospital waiting to die. She seemed content; she laughed and joked. She made wearing a nasogastric tube seem effortless and dignified.
Only years later, in writing this book, could I finally put into words why that meeting left me so uneasy and humbled; why the gestures in that room seemed larger than life; why the objects seemed like symbols; why Germaine herself seemed like an actor playing a part.
Nothing, I realized, was incidental. The characteristics of Germaine's personality that had once seemed spontaneous and impulsive were, in fact, calculated and almost reflexive responses to her illness. Her clothes were loose and vivid because they were decoys against the growing outline of the tumour in her abdomen. Her necklace was distractingly large so as to pull attention away from her cancer. Her room was topsy-turvy with baubles and pictures - the hospital pitcher filled with flowers, the cards tacked to the wall - because without them it would devolve into the cold anonymity of any other room in any other hospital. She had dangled her leg at that precise, posed angle because the tumour had invaded her spine and begun to paralyze her other leg, making it impossible to sit any other way.
Her casualness was studied, the jokes rehearsed. Her illness had tried to humiliate her. It had made her anonymous and seemingly humourless; it had sentenced her to die an unsightly death in a freezing hospital room thousands of miles from home.
She had responded with vengeance, moving to be always one step ahead, trying to outwit it. It was like watching someone locked in a chess game. Every time Germaine's disease moved, imposing yet another terrifying constraint on her, she made an equally assertive move in return. The illness acted; she reacted. It was a morbid, hypnotic game - a game that had taken over her life. She dodged one blow only to be caught by another. She, too, was like Alice in Wonderland's Red Queen, stuck pedalling furiously just to keep still in one place.
Germaine seemed, that evening, to have captured something essential about our struggle against cancer: that, to keep pace with this malady, you needed to keep inventing and reinventing, learning and unlearning strategies. Germaine fought cancer obsessively, cannily, desperately, fiercely, madly, brilliantly, and zealously - as if channelling all the fierce, inventive energy of generations of men and women who had fought cancer in the past and would fight it in the future.
Her quest for a cure had taken her on a strange and limitless journey, through Internet blogs and teaching hospitals, chemotherapy and clinical trials halfway across the country, through a landscape more desolate, desperate, and disquieting than she had ever imagined.
She had deployed every morsel of energy to the quest, mobilizing and remobilizing the last dregs of her courage, summoning her will and wit and imagination, until, that final evening, she had stared into the vault of her resourcefulness and resilience and found it empty.
In that haunted last night, hanging on to her life by no more than a tenuous thread, summoning all her strength and dignity as she wheeled herself to the privacy of her bathroom, it was as if she had encapsulated the essence of a 4,000-year-old war.
From The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Copyright © 2010 by Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD. Reprinted by permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc


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Yesterday, we held the 'Gain better customer insight via improved data quality' webinar that reviewed our 2016 global data management benchmark report's most important findings and conclusions. Erin Haselkorn, Analyst and Public Relations Manager and Basil Brown, Pandora PreSales – Technical Lead discussed the key takeaways
Marketers need to work to improve their data management techniques and how they work with other parts of the organization to improve the quality of data assets. Yesterday, Erin Haselkorn, Analyst and Public Relations Manager at Experian Data Quality presented a webinar, "Better leverage your data: Overcome common data quality challenges."
It's never too early to start planning for the holiday season. Consumers are already dreaming of getting holiday emails from their favorite brands or businesses with deals, promotions and gift ideas neatly wrapped inside. But as a marketer, you're more worried about making sure that those messages get delivered without any hiccups. Yesterday, Spencer Kollas, VP of Global Deliverability at Experian Marketing Services, and Shirley Zhao, Content Marketer at Experian Data Quality presented a webinar, "Don't be a last minute holiday marketer." They covered off the top email collection challenges, consequences of bad emails to your business, leveraging verification and deliverability techniques, and discussed how to prepare for holiday success.
With a 24/7 shopping cycle and an increasing number of digital channels at their disposal, consumers today are more empowered than ever before and forcing businesses to adapt to their wants and needs. Yesterday, Shirley Zhao, our Content Marketer, and Melanie Clark, our Retail Partner Manager presented a webinar, "Loyalty matters: How better data drives more loyalty and more revenue." The webinar covered statistics around loyalty and three ways to improve insights on loyalty along with your loyalty or customer engagement program.
When you decide to take on a data integration project, it will require a lot of advanced planning, work, time and resources. Without a deep understanding of what the project's requirements, it's unlikely that you will complete the integration on time and on budget. Yesterday, Rishi Patel, Strategic Account Manager at Experian Data Quality and Michael Ott, Senior Vice President at Innovative Systems, Inc., an Experian Data Quality partner, presented a webinar, "De-risking data integration projects." The webinar focused on four major topics: the historical challenges of data integration projects, how current environments introduce additional complexity, an advanced methodology for overcoming data integration challenges, and a checklist to ensure that your project stays on track for success.
Last week my colleague, Evan Yarian, and I attended Inspire 2015 in National Harbor, Maryland. Inspire 2015 is the landmark event for Perceptive Software, now known as Lexmark Software. Lexmark Software builds intelligent capture, content management, process management, enterprise search and integration products that connect unstructured printed and digital information across enterprises with the processes, applications and people that need it most. This conference brought together over 1,500 customers, partners and employees to connect, learn and have some fun!
As a marketer here at Experian Data Quality, I am by no means a technical expert on data quality. However, what do know is that I've found many similarities between data quality and one of my personal passions: baking! Both require pre-planning, solid execution and refinement after the fact.
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Our garage door repair services in Haw River, NC are trusted by most of our clients and you can check it yourself. We understand all there is to know about old and modern garage door models. Through our highly trained, honest, time-conscious, knowledgeable, and highly experienced technical experts, we can resolve all of your garage door issues.
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Garage doors run through mechanical system and subjected to wear and tear whether they are used a lot or not. A garage door is supposed to last for at least two decades but this only happens when a garage door is maintained well.
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Periodically, we assess Sunday School classes to see what we're doing right and what we need to do better. The following is our assessment tool for Youth Sunday School classes.
Current teachers: Answer and/or make comments on each question. Use the COMMENT BOX on this page to submit your answers or suggestions. (Comments will NOT be posted or made public.)
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____ 1. Is the room arranged for member involvement?
____ 2. Do the workers arrive before the first member?
____ 3. Is the room set up and ready before the first member arrives?
____ 4. Are the youth bringing and using their Bibles?
____ 5. Are the youth investigating Bible content?
____ 6. Are they practicing "Total Period Teaching" (large group time and small group time both relate to same teaching aim)?
____ 7. Do the walls contain items from the resource kit for the unit (and only this unit)?
____ 8 Are the members involved in discussion and work rather than the teachers doing all the talking, etc.?
____ 9. Are member involvement methods being used (drama, art, creative writing, etc.)?
____ 10. Do the teachers have all the resources they need?
____ 11. Is there someone other than youth keeping records?
____ 12. Do the leaders know the names of the members?
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SEC Adopts Changes to Rules 147 and 505
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on October 26, 2016, voted to update Rules 147 and 504.
These changes reflect the increased use of Rule 147 in connection with intrastate securities offerings, often in combination with state intrastate crowdfunding rules. The revision to Rule 504 reflects the increased usage of Regulation D in connection with private offerings and the liberalization of private offerings under the 2012 JOBS Act and the SEC's Regulation CF. Because the SEC took more than three years to implement the crowdfunding provisions in Title III of the JOBS Act, may state regulators and legislators took steps to implement intrastate crowdfunding rules as contemplated by Rule 147. Those state rules, in many respects, were more permissive than what the SEC had previously allows. As a result, the North American Securities Administrators Association joined with a bipartisan group from Congress to support these changes.
New Rule 147A and Amendments to Rule 147
The SEC adopted new Rule 147A and amended Securities Act Rule 147 to modernize the existing intrastate offering framework that permits companies to raise money from investors within their state without concurrently registering the offers and sales at the federal level.
Amended Rule 147 continues to serve as a safe harbor under Section 3(a)(11) of the Securities Act so that issuers engage in securities offerings in reliance on state law exemptions. New Rule 147A will be nearly identical to Rule 147 except that it will allow offers to be accessible to out-of-state residents and for companies to be incorporated or organized out-of-state.
Both new Rule 147A and amended Rule 147 contain the following provisions:
- The issuer must have its "principal place of business" in-state and satisfy at least one "doing business" requirement that would demonstrate the in-state nature of its business;
- A new "reasonable belief" standard for issuers to rely on when determining the residence of a securities purchaser at the time of sale;
- A requirement that issuers obtain a written representation from each purchaser regarding residency;
- A limit on resales to persons residing within the state or territory of the offering for a period of six months from the date of the sale by the issuer to the purchaser;
- An integration safe harbor that includes prior offers or sales of securities by the issuer made under another provision, as well as certain subsequent offers or sales of securities by the issuer occurring after the completion of the offering; and
- Legend requirements to offerees and purchasers about the limits on resales.
Amendments to Rule 504 and Repeal of Rule 505
Rule 504 of Regulation D is an exemption from registration under the Securities Act for offers and sales of up to $1 million of securities in a 12-month period, provided that the issuer is not an Exchange Act reporting company, investment company, or blank check company. The rule also imposes conditions on offers and sales, with limited exceptions for offers and sales made in accordance with specified types of state registration provisions and exemptions. The amendment to Rule 504 will retain the existing framework, while increasing the aggregate amount of securities that may be offered and sold under Rule 504 in any 12-month period from $1 million to $5 million. The amendment will also disqualify certain bad actors from participating in Rule 504 offerings.
At the same time, the final rule also repeals Rule 505, which permits offerings of up to $5 million annually that must be sold solely to accredited investors or no more than 35 non-accredited investors. With the increase in the maximum offering amount under Rule 504 from $1 million to $5 million, Rule 505 becomes unnecessary.
Effective Date
Amended Rule 147 and new Rule 147A will become effective 150 days after publication in the Federal Register and Amended Rule 504 will become effective 60 days after publication in the Federal Register. The repeal of Rule 505 will become effective 180 days after publication in the Federal Register.
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The room that a car takes up in a parking space doesn't seem to be that big. But, every year on PARK(ing) Day, people in Phoenix find something creative to do with that small space.
The day is designed to draw attention to the use of public spaces and how they could be repurposed to better serve the community. Participants pay a parking meter in the city and then set up a mini park. It's a way to "reimagine how public space could be created and used if it were built for people before cars," says Stacey Champion, who runs the event and has been with it since it first started in Phoenix.
It originally started in San Francisco in 2005 by a design group called Rebar and has since expanded to be a worldwide event.
Essentially, participants are creating temporary parklets, which help fill what Champion sees as missed opportunities with small spaces. A parklet is an extension of the sidewalk that usually fills a parking space and provides a small bit of nature, with trees or grass, and oftentimes a place to rest.
According to Champion, there is only one parklet in downtown Phoenix, outside of Matt's Big Breakfast in the Roosevelt Arts District. To her, the event is bittersweet because she feels the city of Phoenix hasn't done much with their parklet program.
"I've always loved the event because it's really joyful and fun," Champion says. "It's a way to engage people and get them to think about things a little bit differently. I'm also, in the same breath, frustrated about the lack of action on the city's part in getting small nature spaces woven into our concrete jungle."
She's also frustrated with the city for other reasons besides the parklet program.
There's "a lack of regard for sustainability," Champion laments. "Why not take that parklet program and bring it into some of the under-served communities where urban heat island is absolutely affecting people more?"
Champion believes that combining art and activism, which this event does, is important and provides a more interesting way of storytelling.
Over the years, people have gotten really creative with the designs of their parklets. Champion's favorite is a zombie bistro-themed park in which participants dressed up and followed people on the sidewalk. Other ones have included opera-singing, yoga, and Willy Wonka.
However, Champion has ensured that this is a space for community awareness and not advertising.
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"Every year, I have to battle back against people who want to set up informational tables and bring their trade show banners," she says. "It is definitely not a day or place for that."
To her, it's a day to connect with people and nature in a way that oftentimes can be difficult.
"People get very busy; especially in the city, people don't talk to each other as much," Champion says. "I think those small places that have some connection to nature, whether it's flowers or a tree, or whatever it is, those small, intimate spaces also help people connect on a human level."
PARK(ing) Day. Friday, September 21, Washington Street between First and Second Avenue, Phoenix; facebook.com/ParkingDayPHX.


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In a 1987 The South Bank Show documentary on The Smiths, Morrissey says that "I feel the Smiths create their world…The Smiths create their own environment and you can either go in or you can say 'no I want Diana Ross instead', and it's your choice really." Over 25 years – and a successful solo career – later, the sentiment behind the long-awaited Autobiography remains the same: either choose to enter, accept, and embrace Morrissey's world or find something else to read instead. In this way, Autobiography is demanding of the reader; it never attempts to be accessible or easily digestible, and this is what makes it a refreshingly honest, utterly fascinating, and ultimately frustrating read.
On publication, Autobiography was immediately greeted with an atmosphere of hostility and disbelief, prompted by its instant status as a Penguin Classic, an esoteric accolade usually reserved for the literary greats such as Homer, Dickens, and Austen. However, whilst the critics were debating literary theory, devoted fans were starting the book they'd anticipated for over a decade, modestly beginning with "My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets".
This promising opening begins the reader's transportation into a vivid vision of bleak, post-industrial Manchester, where Morrissey is struggling to adapt to a world in which "the ordinary process of living takes up everyone's time and energy", "dodging life's bullets is known as survival", and school's "negativity exhausts [him] to a permanent state of circumstantial sadness". The mundane existence of working class Manchester is celebrated and elevated, despised and chastised, as the young Morrissey sees beauty and glamour in harshness and struggle, but simultaneously flees from anything resembling the ordinary. He doesn't "want to live unseen, camouflaged within the crowd" and instead bravely aligns himself to society's margins, preferring to be "acceptable to one's own self" rather than "acceptable to others".
In this 'How Could Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel' isolation, the young Morrissey lives for art, expressing obsessive enthusiasm for Lou Reed's "half-sung melodies of menace", the "opposite to polite and antiseptic" New York Dolls, and the poets who "can tell you everything you need to know about your own sorrow, and about the joy and sadness that is usually found side by side". These artists all serve as reminders that "the good life is out there somewhere", and thus Morrissey commits himself to the pursuit of his own art, determinedly deciding "I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die". Although this penchant for the poetic and the melodramatic may seem hyperbolic to some readers, what else should be expected from the man who once, deadpan, said "I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong"?
However, in typical Morrissey style, settling old scores eventually takes precedence in the narrative. We learn that Morrissey is in constant search of perfection and is angry with those who fall short of his idealistic vision, even if that someone is his ever-striving self. As a result, the memoir is peppered with self-parody and self-deprecation, often to hilarious effect: "I bored my own self into unconsciousness every single day".
The majority of the work is written in the present tense which often creates chronological confusion but perfectly evokes the process of remembering, in which fragments of life are fleetingly unshrouded and seemingly unrelated events blur together. The content itself is also frequently contradictory; we are told that "no teacher at St. Wilfred's will smile" before "Miss Redmond smiles lovingly at Anne Dixon". Morrissey seems either oblivious or indifferent to these inconsistencies, as though satisfied in the fact that his identity cannot be pinned down long enough to sustain a definite perspective. The reader is thus given the impression of the protagonist not as a fixed entity, but as a conglomeration of conflicting characters who surface with different intensities and different perspectives accordingly: the man who looks forward to the funeral of the "irritating" Julie Burchill is the same person who pities humanity for being "cursed by the sadness of being"; the man who is confident enough in his talent to state "I have never had anything in my life that I did not make for myself" is also the man who continually questions his fans' enthusiastic adoration.
Throughout Autobiography, Morrissey refuses to simplify himself into a manageable format for the reader. He revels in his own complexities and refuses to limit himself to one narrative voice. This refusal of limitation is, perhaps, the only constant aspect of his personality, and this is reflected in his refusal to organise his life into chapters or confine his prose to paragraphs or sentences of manageable length. His prose style is full of twists and (sometimes painful) contortions which work hard to resist definite assertions and to retain the possibility of multiple interpretations. Consequently, the should-be-straightforward is often blurred into intriguing vagueness and the alluring mystery which has been so central to Morrissey's appeal is masterfully maintained in a genre, which by nature, promises revelation. However, despite its constantly changing moods and styles, the narrative is pinned together by an intellectual sharpness, wicked humour, and a constant Wildean wit: "'Do you ever get tired of singing "I, I, I, I,I,I,I,"?' Jerry asks me. 'I?' is the indignant reply."
Although the work is deeply original and unapologetically demanding, the persistent reader, who chooses to enter Morrissey's world despite its contradictions, confusions, and complexities, is rewarded with a rare glimpse of a fascinating character who has lived life on his own terms and condensed this life into a beautifully poetic and frequently hilarious prose. Overall, Autobiography is an infuriating and instantly lovable paradox, and thus, the perfect and most revealing reflection of Morrissey himself.


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You'll find food to rival even some of Wales' best restaurants at these pubs.
And you can enjoy it while surrounded by the best countryside Wales has to offer. Some sit on the waters of the Welsh coast, others are deep in the Brecon Beacons or nestled down country lanes.
Whether you're looking for top-notch cooking or pub classics, a summer terrace or cosy log fire, you'll find something here that fits the bill.
They are listed in no particular order.
1. The Heathcock, Cardiff
The Heathcock was a well-known pub in Llandaff before closing and being taken over by the people who run the equally excellent Hare and Hounds in the Vale of Glamorgan. It's instantly cosy and homely when you walk through the door to wooden floors and tables and a small bar, and the food is as good as pub grub gets. Starters include king scallops with button mushrooms, smoked bacon and apple, or braised rabbit leg pappardelle, while main courses include roast red legged partridge, red onion, bread sauce and confit potatoes.
Sample dish: Roast Torgelly Farm lamb, duck fat potatoes, roasting juices and mint sauce (£17.90)
2. Inn at the Sticks, Llansteffan
In the village centre, but just a short walk from Llansteffan's beach and castle, is the Inn at the Sticks, a friendly, welcoming pub with excellent pub food and service. Using local suppliers like Swansea Fish and the Carmarthenshire Cheese Company, the menu has dishes like Swansea Bay mussels and slow-cooked pork belly with hispi cabbage and creamy mash. They are also happy to cater for vegan customers. The perfect place to end the day after a walk on the beach.
Sample dish: Braised lamb shoulder, summer veg ragu (£13)
3. Raglan Arms, Llandenny
The Raglan Arms is an AA rosette-winning Monmouthshire country pub that's also made it into the Michelin Guide for 2019. Its menu features starters like wild mushroom and truffle ravioli with fresh sage brown butter and Parmesan, followed by mains like breast of Monmouthshire duck (cooked pink) with a garlic and duck sauce, served on creamed cabbage with croquette potatoes. The head chef has also cooked at highly-regarded restaurants like the Gliffaes Hotel and the Inn at Penallt.
Sample Dish: 'Taster of Beef' – red wine braised oxtail, blade of beef and beef burger in brioche bun and triple-cooked chips (£23.50)
4. The Harbourmaster, Aberaeron
Dishes as attractive as the colourful quayside on which this boutique hotel sits are the order of the day here. The Harbourmaster is hugely popular with locals and visitors alike, so it's a bustling bar and restaurant with a great atmosphere. As you'd expect from a dining room almost in touching distance of the local fishing fleet, there's a focus on seafood like Cardigan Bay crab, lobster, locally landed sea bream and hake. It's been baking its own bread on a daily basis since its very first day in May 2002.
Sample dish: Pan fried scallops, carrot and ginger purée, crispy kale (£11)
5. The Ferry Inn, St Dogmaels
A cosy waterside pub which was first opened in 1833, The Ferry Inn not only has fresh, seasonal food, but panoramic views around the Teifi and is situated at the start of the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path.
Thanks to its location the menu reflects what is on its doorstep, from freshly caught lobster to locally reared pork.
Sample dish: Wild garlic, chicken and chorizo tagliatelle (£13.95)
6. The Felin Fach Griffin, Felin Fach
A superb restaurant which is among the best in Wales. It got a Bib Gourmand in the Michelin Guide, but the Griffin still retains enough of a pub atmosphere to be included here, with locals enjoying a pint of ale at the bar or by the cosy log fire.
It's in the middle of the beautiful Brecon Beacons and surrounded by gardens from where much of the produce is grown. It boasts the lively atmosphere of a buzzing pub, and the mouthwatering food of a wonderful restaurant.
Sample dish: Halibut, broad bean, pine nut and hazelnut fricasee, truffle (£20)
7. Griffin Inn, Dale
Eat in front of roaring log fires in the winter or out on the alfresco terrace in the summer while overlooking the harbour, the Griffin Inn's setting is what eating by the sea in Wales is all about. Their seafood is mostly sourced off the shores of Wales by local fishermen, and the hand-dived scallops are delivered to the pontoon outside the restauarant. A shellfish specialist six miles away supplies the crab and lobster and the lamb comes from a farm near the village.
Sample dish: Fish pie (£15.95)
8. The Bear, Crickhowell
The Bear is right up there among the cosiest, most welcoming pubs in the country. A former coaching inn which has been welcoming guests for 500 years, you can eat and drink in the historic bar with its oak beams, wooden floors and open fires, or in the restaurant. Either way, you'll be happy. The bar menu has dished like braised Welsh lamb shank with spring onion mash and braising juices.
Sample dish: Cumberland sausage ring, mash with gravy and shoestring onions (£12.95)
9. Hare and Hounds, Aberthin
A thriving local watering hole on one side and, on the other, a restaurant serving some of the finest pub food you'll find anywhere. There's also a large beer garden. The menu at the Hare and Hounds changes every day, depending on what's available and in season.
The head chef, Tom Watts-Jones, grew up in the village and has returned having worked at one of London's best restaurants, St John. The place is a little gem and has acquired a Bib Gourmand from the Michelin Guide.
Sample dish: Roast Wye Valley wild boar, smoked celeriac, oxtail and pickled quince (£20)
10. The Hand at Llanarmon, Llanarmon
An ancient hostelry with bags of character and a cosy atmosphere with old beams and roaring fireplaces. It's been names among the "cosiest pubs in Britain", has two AA rosettes and got a mention in the Michelin guide for its food.
Sample dish: Whole Grilled Ceiriog trout with a warm tartare sauce with pearl barley (£16.50)
11. Nags Head, Usk
This pub prides itself on using fresh, local, seasonal produce and offer an ever-changing menu based on what's around, alongside their usual standard one. Think locally caught game dishes using pheasant, partridge, rabbit and fish.
Sample dish: Homemade rabbit pie (£10.75)
12. Kinmel Arms, St George
The Kinmel Arms has firmly established itself as one of the best places to eat in North Wales and been named the AA Wales Pub of the Year in the past. It was put up for sale by its previous owner in 2018 and bought by a businessman who lived next door, who bought it in the face of interest from several larger chains, saying "I was very keen that it would remain a country pub, where alongside the good food people can still use it as their local pub".
The menu is sophisticated, featuring dishes like guinea fowl and sweetcorn, or coley, hazelnut, truffle and parnsip.
Sample dish: Marinade beef rump, mushroom puree, herb and garlic dumpling and ox cheek cottage pie (£21)
13. The Stackpole Inn, Stackpole
The charming Stackpole Inn is tucked away on the National Trust's Stackpole Estate in Pembrokeshire.
The 17th century pub has earned a fine reputation for food, which is all prepared and cooked in-house, including all stocks and sauces. The pub is a multiple award-winner, uses several local suppliers of food and drink, and has cosy, maritime-themed rooms available if you just want to flop into bed after a delicious meal.
Sample dish: Pan fried fillet of salmon with a tomato, chickpea and chorizo cassoulet (£15)
14. The Bell at Skenfrith, Skenfrith
The Bell, on the bank of the River Monnow, looks directly at Skenfrith Castle and the mill adjoining the arched bridge that once represented one of the main access routes to South Wales. Originating in the 17th century, it has been restored to its former glory as a traditional Welsh coaching inn.
It's got a long-established reputation as an excellent place to eat and has an award-winning wine list.
Menus change regularly and offer locally-sourced seasonal food, some from their kitchen garden when in season.
Sample dish: Fillet of brill, creamed potato, white wine poached salsify, peas, spinach and cockle beurre blanc (£18.95)
15. Y Talbot, Tregaron
You can feel the history as you walk into this old drovers' pub in the middle of Tregaron, but the food on offer certainly isn't stuck in the past. Chef Dafydd Watkin trained with Marco Pierre White and was premier sous chef at The Ritz before arriving here. The menu comes in Welsh first and includes dishes like roast beef fillet with braised ox tail, or pan-fried tuna with braised fennel.
Sample dish: Roast lamb rump, crispy breast, savoy cabbage, celeriac puree, Madeira sauce (£18.50)
16. The Pilot, Penarth
The Pilot is part of the Knife and Ford Food group. High on a hill overlooking Cardiff Bay, it has a good selection of changing guest ales and a blackboard menu which includes pub classics and seasonal specials.
Sample dish: ham, egg and chips with a twist (£11)
17. The Fox and Hounds, Llancarfan
A village pub next to a 15th century church down a Vale of Glamorgan country lane.
The menu changes regularly according to produce available, and there are daily specials on the chalk board. You can choose to eat in the cosy snug, restaurant, covered terrace or recently refurbished beamed bar. The restaurant has been awarded an AA rosette and it's dog-friendly.
Sample dish: Pan-fried Cornish brill, Jerusalem artichoke, potato croquette, chive butter sauce (£18)
18. The Plough & Harrow, Murton
After a Gower walk, this Murton pub is a great place to refuel and unwind. It was the Gastropub of the Year in the Food Awards Wales in both 2016 and 2018, when it was also awarded an AA rosette. The menu is a step up from your average pub fare, with starters including Scottish scallops and whole Gressingham quail with white onion puree.
Sample dish: Welsh Wagyu burger, smoked bacon, Wasabi rarebit, pak choi, brioche bun, triple-cooked chips (£16)
19. The Glynne Arms, Hawarden
Its sister business is the Hawarden Estate Farm Shop so the food served here starts at the farm, from fresh fruit and vegetables to meat, sausages, poultry and game.
Sample dish: Hawarden Estate Farm Shop Cumberland sausages with wholegrain mash, leeks and light ale onion gravy (£13)
20. Britannia Inn, Llanmadoc
On the northwestern tip of the Gower is the rustic but smart Britannia Inn. It's cosy inside but outside there are gorgeous views over the Loughor Estuary. The team who run it worked for several major hotel chains and the Celtic Manor before settling back on Gower. After a long walk on the Gower, could any starter sound better than the hot-smoked pig's head consommé, with homemade apple mustard, sage and crackling?
Sample dish: Pan fried wild bass, roasted new potatoes, spiced bean, lentil and fennel tagine (£22.95)


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Distance to a city In the city
Access time Instant access (< 5min)
Easy to find? OK
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Special access No access issues
Alternative name Batroun
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Day timing Afternoon
Dangers Visible hazards, Submerged hazards, Reef/Rocks
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usualy the wind is between 10 and 14 Knots and it picks up to 25-30 knots on some days. In winter between December and January we get very strong winds but not regularly with rain stroms. The Condition becomes Radical and only experienced sailors can sail.
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Ukraine's SBU security service said it has detained an aide to the country's Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman on suspicion of being a Russian spy, with officials identifying him as a top government interpreter.
The SBU said in a statement late Wednesday the suspect "gathered information about government activities with special equipment" and passed it to his handlers.
He is accused of high treason.
Groysman said on his Facebook page that the man was "an official in the government's secretariat who was working in the interests of the enemy state for a long time."
The SBU did not release the man's name or official capacity, but other officials identified him as Stanislav Yezhov.
Aide to the Ukraine interior minister, Anton Gerashchenko, said Yezhov was recruited when he was working at Ukraine's embassy in Washington and acted in Russia's interests for at least two years.
Yezhov's wife is a Russian citizen and he could have been blackmailed or pushed to work for Russia, he added, urging him to cooperate with the investigation.
Another official, an advisor to the interior minister, Stanislav Rechinsky, called him "one of the best simultaneous interpreters in Ukraine."
Prior to his work in the cabinet of ministers, Yezhov worked in the presidential administration, translating during press-conferences with former president Viktor Yanukovych during visits by foreign leaders.
Photos on what appears to be his social networking profile on Russian website VK show him on trips with Groysman, including sat behind the prime minister during talks with former US vice president Joe Biden.
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Yezhov is one of the more high-profile Ukrainian officials accused for working for Russia following the pro-European revolt in Ukraine which toppled the former pro-Moscow leader Yanukovych in February 2014.
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