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We interview Greta Larkins, the woman behind one of our Favourite Tumblrs of All Time.
One of our favourite pieces of internet brilliance this year has been FashGif — the Australian GIFmaster who rules Tumblr's fashion realm with her artful animations. Some are blink-and-you'll-miss-it subtle, some are flashing in hypercolour and acid-induced trippy, but all are brimming with wit and make you wish that all JPEGs moved. She's been commissioned by bigwigs like Calvin Klein, Kenzo, The Huffington Post, and Oyster — she animated this year's Paris and New York Fashion Weeks for us, and helped celebrate the birthday of Alexa Chung. Her "real" name is Greta, and we decided to get to know her a little better before she herself shrinks down to two pixels tall and jumps into the internet once and for all, à la Mike Teavee in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Ingrid Kesa: Let's take a trip down memory lane... tell us about the very first GIF you ever made.
Greta Larkins: It was a kind of strange GIF of a friend standing in a field and a stick floated into frame and he caught it. It didn't take too long to make as I already had some Photoshop experience, but I remember being so excited about it. Like, maybe unhealthily excited about it?! Sadly that GIF has been lost in the depths of my inbox somewhere but the second GIF I ever made was my first one for FashGif. I started making them just under two years ago.
So how has your artistic GIF practice expanded since then?
Vastly! Sometimes I look back at some of my earlier GIF work and I can see so many mistakes [laughs]. For months I didn't realise Tumblr had GIF size restrictions so a lot of my earlier ones had too many frames and didn't move in the dashboard. I now test them religiously — no point posting a GIF if it appears as a still image. My Photoshop skills have also expanded which, in turn, means I can experiment with more extreme ideas and concepts. If I know I'm about to embark on two hours of Photoshop work I need to be pretty convinced the completed GIF will have a good impact. It's a matter of balancing the effort versus the result. If you're new to Photoshop, Google is your friend. Ask it questions.
You must be a bit of a JPEG hoarder. Are you obsessed with grabbing images from the internet? Are you anal about your desktop and computer filing system?
You guys are living in my brain! I'm, like, JPEG hoarder 101. I'm mainly obsessed with hi-res images, I just love them; no point saving a tiny thumbnail. I'm currently collecting anything and everything to do with Frida Kahlo. So 'Internet' of me. Any unusual or striking image, I grab. Tumblr is great because you can 'like' things and it stores your likes, so this has definitely reduced my need to drag and drop. I try to tidy my desktop weekly, but I have a scary folder called 'SORT SORT SORT' that, yes, I need to sort. Nick Drake (not the singer) is the master of wicked pop-culture-must-save-to-desktop images.
On average, how long does it take you to bang a GIF up?
Usually about 45 minutes if it's fairly juicy but I can do them in under five if the concept isn't too loco. I'd say three hours is the longest I've spent on one image. One thing I chant to myself when I'm working on something complex is, "forest through the trees." Basically this is a reminder to zoom out and step away from the image. Even if you leave something for just five or ten minutes, grab a drink, scratch your head, stretch your legs, when you come back to it you can see the "forest through the trees" and begin working on it in a new light. Or give the idea up! When you're zoomed in on an image, manipulating the pixels, you easily forget the bigger picture (literally) and can alter something too much. It's like how Coco Chanel says to take one thing off — sometimes one pixel can make the difference to an image looking right.
Who are your three favourite designers right now and why?
I've been a bit of a loopy Christopher Kane fan for a while now. Mind you, when the rumours were swirling that he was heading to Balenciaga I wasn't super pumped. I mean I was excited, but it didn't feel like the perfect fit. I have this bizarre fantasy that he'll take over at Chanel [laughs]. But obviously Karl will live forever so let us never speak of this again. Anyway, he just does interesting clothes. I'm always left grinning after scrolling through one of his collections.
Karen Walker is probably the designer I have the most of in my wardrobe. Her clothes just fit well and she's been doing stunning prints since long before prints were a thing. I have a body like those women in old-master paintings with cherubs flying around their heads (though I'm about a foot shorter) so I like to wear clothes that offer me a bit of coverage and shape. Karen does this well.
And Prada. Is that an obvious answer? I once had a dream that Miuccia let me choose myself an outfit from their sample room and I picked this jacket from Fall 2012. Basically the best dream my brain will ever construct.
What about models?
Confession: sometimes I make a GIF not because I love the outfit but because I love the model. Sicko. I'm going to answer this question in terms of Spring 2013 because there are so many models and so many I love for different reasons so I've changed the question parameters, apologies.
Let's start with Antonina Vasylchenko I mean look at her face. I'm also really enamoured by Kristin Liljegren but as far as I'm aware she only walked one show (Balenciaga) this season. Hopefully she'll be opening and closing shows like a mad woman for Fall 2013. Kate Upton — I am obsessed with her and I have no idea why. On paper she's just that babe at your high school who's married by 23 and kind of painful but then you see her high fashion shoots and it just works?! I nearly cried when she wasn't cast in the Victoria's Secret show.
How old are you?
I'm 27 and I have a grey streak already and kind of moody skin. Wow, remind me not to put this in an online dating profile.
Besides being a GIF Genius, what else do you do with yourself? Are you arty otherwise?
I recently made a light-up unicorn head beacon for a music festival so I have my moments. I'd say I have arty qualities but I would never consider myself an artist. I do a bit of work in trend forecasting so I'm definitely about visuals. I wish I could play the piano.
Who else's internet skills do you admire?
I'm a big fan of WHTEBKGRND, I love any site with a consistent aesthetic, a strong theme. Monster Hub is another favourite, some very clever GIFs are happening on that site. Ubicouture creates some pretty striking images with the fashion/art mash up concept but Jesus Swimming will always be the best thing on the Internet ever.
Finish these sentences:
The internet rules because... Wikipedia. I am a junkie.
But it sort of sucks because... discovering stuff on the Internet isn't quite as cool as discovering stuff IRL. Go outside.
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Interview: Ingrid Kesa
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Given its placement at the soggy bottom of a former glacial lake, Winnipeg will forever face the intermittent threat of floods and the irregular nuisance of mosquitos.
How to manage an abundance of water is one of the most important tasks on the wettest patch of the Canadian Prairies. So it stands to reason we care about the people granted jobs that might seem mundane in cities where deluges and insects are not so prominent.
In the past two weeks, Winnipeggers have been introduced to a new chief city mosquito fighter, Ken Nawolsky, and a new provincial flood forecaster, Fisaha Unduche.
Nawolsky fills the position vacated last summer by Taz Stuart, one of the most popular civil servants in the City of Winnipeg's recent history, thanks in part to his willingness to engage the public through the media.
Unduche takes on a job briefly held by Phillip Mutulu, who had the misfortune of taking over from longtime flood forecaster Alf Warkentin shortly before the record Assiniboine River flood of 2011.
The pressure on both officials is immense, partly because of the celebucrat nature of their jobs: The bug boss and the flood forecaster are two of the only civil servants ordinary people are able to name.
Some would argue this is a product of a mainstream-media obsession with floods and mosquitoes in this province. Others may argue governments make celebrities out of bureaucrats by forcing them in front of microphones and cameras.
Either way, the city and the province had no choice but to hold news conferences to introduce Nawolsky and Unduche because citizens have got used to knowing who these people are.
If politicians had their way, no one would ever know the name of a public servant of any sort, whether it is the head of a department, a skilled professional or a manager at any level of the city, province or federal government.
It's not that elected officials have an insatiable desire to take credit for anything and everything a government does. It's that people in power like to be able execute that power.
When a bureaucrat has a public profile, elected officials are forced to cede some of the control they crave. A public servant with a name represents a potential political liability, if not an outright threat, especially if they engage in the unfortunate habit of stating facts that contradict political aims.
At the federal level, it was at first dismaying and eventually depressing to see the Conservatives muzzle environmental scientists by tightly controlling media access to researchers and academics. The feds may be the worst offender, but they're hardly alone in the practice.
The province maintains a tight control over flood-forecasting messaging in the fear ordinary people may misunderstand a probabilistic forecast -- a long-term outlook where a range of outcomes is possible under different weather circumstances.
While the U.S. National Weather Service publishes all of its flood-forecasting data, Manitoba crafts a very specific message in an effort to ensure nothing comes back to haunt politicians in the event weather pushes actual flood outcomes to edges of the bell curve.
Similarly, the city has tried to keep a tight lid on any news about mosquito-control activities, mainly by refusing any media access to its former entomologist outside of a weekly news conference.
This reached the height of comedy in 2010, a mosquito-heavy election year, when both Mayor Sam Katz and former St. Vital Coun. Gord Steeves pledged to reduce the size of malathion-free buffer zones.
What became apparent through provincial documents was there was no way to reduce the buffer zones more than 10 metres -- something Taz Stuart knew very well and presumably tried to tell the politicians.
When politicians say they rely on the advice of the experts in the public service, what they all too often mean is they like to blame those experts when something goes wrong. And when something goes right, politicians attempt to take credit.
Perhaps it would be better if voters knew the name of every public servant, as opposed to just the bug boss and the flood forecaster. Accountability would certainly improve -- and credit would be given where credit is due.

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ORLANDO, Fla. - SeaWorld's Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin opened officially to guests Friday morning with the only appropriate greeting for Central Florida: 30-degree weather and snow.
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Some of the first people through what SeaWorld refers to as the new "realm" are already raving, calling the experience "unique" and "phenomenal."
Lines for the ride itself wrapped into the Antarctic-themed courtyard, complete with a new restaurant and gift shop. While guests waited in the minimum 20-minute queue, which is bound to be longer during the peak of summer, SeaWorld workers treated them to snacks.
Then riders weaved their way through climate-controlled chambers designed to acclimate their bodies to the 30-degree temperature at the ride's end. But first they rode trackless cars through the twists and turns of the penguin's view of the Antarctic. It's all through the eyes of the animated penguin Puck, whose life guests experience--including the danger and mystery of the journey.
One of the most buzzed-about experiences was the up-close encounter with real-life penguins the attraction offers at the ride's end.
"When they turn you around you're seeing all these real penguins. It's right there in front of you," said Shelby Platt, one of the first riders.
Platt's friend Jaqueline Erazo said she never thought she'd experience anything like it.
"I don't think you could see this anywhere else. It's awesome," she said.
SeaWorld has gathered four species and nearly 250 penguins in what is as close to their real icy habitat as possible.
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HAMILTON -- The Winnipeg Blue Bombers will head into Hamilton for a must-win game against the Tiger-Cats on Saturday with a new defensive line that will include a raw rookie and a converted defensive tackle platooning at one end position.
With both of Winnipeg's starting defensive ends now out of the lineup with injuries -- Alex Hall is out for the season with a knee injury and Jason Vega is out for at least this week with a toe injury -- the Bombers held their final full practice of the week at Canad Inns Stadium on Thursday with Bryant Turner and Youri Yenga platooning at one end position.
Turner played defensive end in high school and college but he has only ever played as a defensive tackle in his CFL career. Turner missed the last two games with a lower-body injury but sounded like he was not going to be denied the chance to play in this week's critical game.
"I've been pestering at the coaches to get back on the field," said Turner, who doesn't think the shift from tackle to end will pose significant problems for him.
"It was kind of my natural position in college and high school, so I'm looking forward to getting back out there."
Yenga, meanwhile, is a raw rookie who has seen just two weeks of actual action this season and none since Week 5. Yenga said he's grateful for the chance to prove himself in such a key game. "I've just been working and keeping a positive attitude and I guess that's the result of a positive attitude," said Yenga.
"Instead of me saying I can do this or whatever, I'd rather let my actions speak for itself," he said.
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The other major positional change on defence this week will see Johnny Sears take over at strong-side linebacker after Demond Washington, who had the job for just one game, was injured in practice earlier this week.
Sears, who will in turn be replaced at cornerback in the starting lineup by Brandon Stewart, said he's looking forward to doing a lot more hitting from the linebacker position.
"I welcome it," said Sears. "I don't mind (the physical contact) at all. I've just got to be the hammer and not the nail."
Sears is the fifth SAM linebacker the Bombers have auditioned this season since cutting former SAM Clint Kent at the end of training camp.
Head coach Tim Burke was asked Thursday afternoon if he now regretted the decision to cut Kent. Burke said the decision to release Kent after training camp was made by the whole coaching staff, but he said he didn't disagree with the decision at the time and it doesn't sound like he does now either.
"You make decisions and you have to live with them," said Burke. "Clint's been a part-time starter for Edmonton, too."
Kent was signed by the Eskimos soon after his release by Winnipeg but he's been injured at times and has not been a regular starter with the Eskimos this season.
Burke said he thinks Sears is nicely suited to the SAM role, perhaps more so than all the other defensive backs who've auditioned in the role this year.
"He's probably one of our best DBs athletically. Plus he's bigger, so that's a good spot for him. He's a pretty good hitter, too," said Burke. "He's much closer to a (Montreal Alouettes SAM) Chip Cox than the other guys are. They're more cover-type guys. So I'm hoping he can be like Chip for us."


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Farmer, Jhadol, India
Photograph by Geeta Amravat
In January 2009, students from rural and urban areas in Rajasthan, a state in northwestern India, came together in Jhadol for a National Geographic Photo Camp presented in partnership with Sanjhi.
Guided by National Geographic contributing photographer Ed Kashi, the students spent four days photographing, writing, and discussing the importance of nature in their lives.
"We experience nature by its beauty," says Photo Camp participant Geeta Amravat, who took this photo. "For example, a mother takes care of her baby throughout its childhood. That's the way nature is taking care of us. We should take care of our nature."
Cabbage, India
Photograph by Arun Prajapat
Life starts and ends in the environment. We get a lot of things from our environment, like fruits, flowers, wood, air, medicines, etc. The medicines that we get from the environment make us healthy and keep us away from diseases. That's the reason the environment is very useful to us and without the environment life is not possible.—Photo Camp participant Arun Prajapat
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Leaf on Water, India
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Jhadol is a very very peaceful place, as living in cities we don't get a chance to experience this kind of environment we experience here. It is a very touching atmosphere. It's free of pollution, and the people are very eco-friendly. They use dry leaves as plates and bowls. They recycle a lot. There is a little bit of land pollution but less than if compared to city roads. I even love the greenery around Jhadol. It's breathtaking and wonderful.—Photo Camp participant Tvisha Gor
Grasshopper, India
Photograph by Karan Singh Rathore
Our survival is linked with nature. Nature gives us everything that we need for living. There is no life possible on other planets as there's no environment there. Without the help of the environment we cannot do anything, and human beings are dependent on the atmosphere. Day, night, evening, and morning everything is controlled by the environment.—Photo Camp participant Karan Singh Rathore
Lotus Flower, India
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My grandfather and father and my teacher, they all told me about nature, and how they are useful, and how it's important for us and how to conserve it.—Photo Camp participant Dharmendra Nagda
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We have a very deep relationship with the environment. With the help of the environment, we can survive on this Earth. Without nature, life is not possible. We are directly connected with nature. Whatever we get from the environment, we can use it to survive and live happily. Hence we can say that because of the environment, we are here.—Photo Camp participant Chirag Tak
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Nature is superb. Nature is life. It is cool and clean and I feel happy from it as it gives something that can only be felt by us, not touched or seen. It is pleasant. It is the giver of birth to us. Without it we can't even imagine our life on this beautiful Earth. Its greenery looks very good and pleasant to our heart. It touches the heart. Its greenery gives fresh air to breathe, food to eat, and some Ayurvedic medicines.—Photo Camp participant Ankita Jain
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Bug resolved
- [FLEXPMD-173] – UnusedPrivateMethod – reference in attribute initialization
- [FLEXPMD-195] – UnusedLocalVariable rule fails to notice use in a particular function
- [FLEXPMD-152] – PackageCase rule incorrectly reports upper case package names for mxml files
- [FLEXPMD-167] – ASDoc rules failing when there is metadata between asdoc comment and attributes/methods/classes
- [FLEXPMD-181] – Looks like FlexMetrics does not count properly static methods
- [FLEXPMD-183] – Cannot suppress ExcessiveImport violation
- [FLEXPMD-170] – OverLongLineRule fails if line length is equal to threshold
- [FLEXPMD-160] – problems with some of the event rules
- [FLEXPMD-120] – FlexPMD View remains blank
- [FLEXPMD-130] – Runtime exception when removing markers
- [FLEXPMD-126] – FlexPMD plugin is difficult to configure
- [FLEXPMD-127] – FlexPMD fails silently if there's a space in the project path
New rules
- [FLEXPMD-174] – TooManyStatesInMxml
- [FLEXPMD-177] – Avoid tooltips in multitouch screens
- [FLEXPMD-176] – AvoidRollMouseEvent in MultiTouch screen
- [FLEXPMD-193] – OnlyOneScriptBlockPerMxml rule
- [FLEXPMD-188] – [Security] LSOSecureFalseRule
- [FLEXPMD-186] – [Security] LocalConnectionStarRule
- [FLEXPMD-187] – [Security] AllowInsecureDomainRule
- [FLEXPMD-189] – [Security] ImportLoadBestPracticeRule
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- [FLEXPMD-196] – PMD Rule to enforce naming convention on an interface
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Inspired by a typical Shaker step stool, this version employs pocket screws to join both the side panels and the supports. To cut down on the number of rip cuts, I used three pieces of 1×6 dimensional lumber to form the side panels (1×6 actually measures 3/4″ x 5-1/2″), so this version also ends up a bit deeper than a traditional Shaker stool – and thus a little sturdier and beefier looking.
First, use your miter saw to cut the 1×6 pieces to length for the side panels. You'll need two each at 20-1/4″, 13-1/4″ and 6-1/4″.
Now, clamp one of the 20-1/4″ pieces flat to your bench (face side down), and drill holes for two pocket screws along the edge that will meet the middle piece. Place one hole 2″ from the bottom edge, the other at 11″. Repeat with the second 20-1/4″ piece. Now drill each 13-1/4″ piece along the edges that will meet the short pieces. Locate one hole 3″ from the bottom edge, the other at 5-1/4″.
Next, it's time to glue up the side panels, and this is where the pocket screws come in handy – especially if you're short on clamps. Run a bead of wood glue along the edge of one of the 6-1/4″ pieces, then line up that piece and a 13-1/4″ piece flush across the bottom, and flat across the panel, then clamp across the two. Drive screws into the pockets to join the two pieces together. Now that the screws are in place, you can unclamp and move on to joining the 20-1/4″ to the 13-1/4″ piece. Do the same with the other side panel.


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Just an FYI to let you all know I will be offline starting tomorrow the 13th and well be back Feb 18th late in the day. Mark and I are taking off for the weekend since I have a four day weekend off work. It's of course Valentine's Day and then our anniversary is the 16th, hard to believe it's been 12 years already. Time flies when you're having fun. But it will be our first even mini-vacation since this has all started so I am so excited about it.
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Franklin Mountains State Park to Host Chihuahuan Desert Fiesta
Park Event Kicks off Annual Celebration of Our Mountains Festival in El Paso
EL PASO — Franklin Mountains State Park will be the host site for the fifth annual Chihuahuan Desert Fiesta, a day-long interpretive program highlighting the unique plant and animal life of the southwest desert ecosystem and the Rio Grande region, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19 at the park's Tom Mays Unit, located at the western base of Transmountain Road.
The Fiesta will also serve as the inaugural event for the popular, six-week Celebration of Our Mountains festival, now in its 16th year. The festival features numerous educational programs, hikes, field trips, driving tours, nature walks, and other activities around town showcasing the city's natural beauty and significance of its environmental resources.
Chihuahuan Desert Fiesta will offer various presentations by state park staff throughout the day on topics such as helping protect the threatened Texas horned lizard, the numerous bird species of the region, and the restoration of vegetation along the Rio Grande. The event is sponsored by the Chihuahuan Desert Education Coalition (CDEC), a conglomerate alliance of state agencies, nonprofit, education and other organizations in far West Texas and Southern New Mexico that are concerned with conservation of the area's rich environment and ecology.
Climbers of Hueco Tanks Coalition also will be on hand giving free climbing tutorials, and a chili cook-off—sanctioned by the Chili Appreciation Society International and complete with tasting open to the public—will also be a part of the day's activities.
"The main focus of the Fiesta is to increase awareness of the Chihuahuan desert," said Rick LoBello, education curator of the El Paso Zoo, which is a member of CDEC. "The desert has been identified as a real hot spot for conservation, particularly in light of urban sprawl. It's important that we help people understand what the desert is all about, so they can help protect it."
"Most of Franklin Mountains State Park is high elevation, but the Tom Mays Unit has the greatest number of low elevation trails, so it's the best example of the desert ecosystem," continued LoBello. "I can't think of a better location (for the Fiesta) in the Chihuahuan desert environment that's close and accessible to where people live."
The park's customary $4 per-person adult entrance fee will be waived for the day, but donations to the park's Lone Star Legacy endowment fund will be accepted. Food will not be served to the public, but facilities will be available for picnicking and outdoor barbeques.
"There are so many people who have lived here their whole lives, or who have maybe just moved here, who cruise past this area on the highway but don't understand what this desert ecosystem is about," said Rink Somerday, president of CDEC. "The Chihuahuan Desert is the largest desert in North America, and if people will get out and experience it, they can start to understand all of the wonderful plants and animals that make up this ecosystem."
For more information about the Chihuahuan Desert Fiesta, call Franklin Mountains State Park at (915) 566-6441, or visit www.chihuahuandesert.org, or for more information about the Celebration of Our Mountains festival, visit www.celebrationofourmountains.org.
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Fish oil and shellfish offer various healthy Omega fatty acids, known popularly as 'brain food'.
Evidence at the Pinnacle Point Caves in Mossel Bay shows that ancient people lived here between 170 000 and 40 000 years ago, and that they lived off what the ocean left them on the rocks below the caves.
Simply put, Pinnacle Point on today's Garden Route may have been the world's first-ever seafood restaurant – albeit a self-service establishment.
Food was at a premium at that time, but not for those who lived in these caves, which provide a marvellous view out over the Indian Ocean and passing southern right whales. They ate the whales that beached here, any seals they could find and, of course, shellfish off the rocks.
The Pinnacle Point Caves also contain signs from those times of stone tool-making and the grinding of ochre for body painting.
These findings were made by Professor Curtis Marean, from Arizona State University in the United States, and a group of archaeologists This development has prompted the local municipality to apply for World Heritage Site status for the caves.
The floors of the Pinnacle Point Caves give the 40-odd scientists working on the Mossel Bay Archaeology Project lots to think about in terms of ancient human lifestyles. Looking up, the dripstone formations suspended from the roofs of the caves tell them what the water, the flora and the weather was like back then.
Studies of both the roof and the floor of the Pinnacle Point Caves give scientists the chance to work out the future effects of climate change. This is an important part of what makes the Pinnacle Point Caves such a special place.
In October 2008, Marean told a gathering at the 44th Nobel Conference at the Gustavus Adolphus College in St Peter, Minnesota: 'Our best sources for predicting these environmental changes are the records from the past, since the Earth warmed and cooled many times and ancient humans designed strategies to adapt to these orbitally driven changes.
'Today, climate changes are driven by human behaviour, and once again we must learn to adapt. The past holds lessons for us both on how the environments may change, and on how we may adapt to these changes.'
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Mossel Bay Tourism
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The St Blaize Cave (one of the famous caves that is open to the public) is situated right below the St Blaize lighthouse.
Around the area
Do the very popular Oystercatcher Trail – it's a three- to five-day hike that takes you from the historical St Blaize Cave at Pinnacle Point on an unforgettable journey to various points along the Garden Route Coast. See the listed website for more details.
Tours to do
There's lots to do in Mossel Bay and many tour guides to take you places. Check the listed Mossel Bay Tourism website for details.
Get around
Once you're at the St Blaize Cave, you take a long circular walkway around this large space. There are information signs posted.
What will it cost
There is no charge to visit the St Blaize Cave.
Length of stay
A visit to the St Blaize Cave should take you 30 minutes.
Where to stay
The Pinnacle Point Hotel is right below the St Blaize Cave – see the listed Mossel Bay Tourism website for details.
What to eat
Eat just what Middle Stone Age humankind ate here: seafood. There are a number of good restaurants in the area that serve fresh seafood.


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>Racing>2012 Goal of Sub 4:00 Marathon
MattJ - Did you run at Dallas on Dec 2nd? How did it go?
I dont sweat. I ooze liquid awesome.
Taper SUCKS. HA.
I PR'd my 5K last Saturday by a minute (21:37)...so I know I'm def in good shape. No nagging injuries, no real issues other then going crazy not being able to run more then 3 miles. Also I've gained a few lbs already....BOO. I wanted to be around 105 on race day, but I think it's gonna be close to 110. I can't eat fewer calories then I am now without being hungry and I can't add more miles so... Oh well.
The only negative for race day looks like it will be the weather. Stupid Charleston weather. It's been a lovely Fall, with temps in the 40's and 50's. So of course we are having a mild December and looks like 70 and humid on race day. I run soooooooooooooo much better in the cold AND my hydration planning was based off the last 2 months or so, not a hot, humid day. I'll deal with it.
Still all things pointing to me having a good race and I plan to start/finish with the 3:55 pacer! Or as close to her as I can!!!!
Surely your 5k and 10k indicate a faster marathon than that? Maybe 3:45?
Have a great race!
PBs since age 60: 5k- 24:36, 10k - 47:17. Half Marathon- 1:42:41.
10 miles (unofficial) 1:16:44.
SimonR...thanks for the confidence!!! It means a lot to me actually. I'm trying to be conservative...Scared to set my sights too high here, as this will be my first REAL marathon.
We will see on race day. If the weather was in the 40's I would agree with you that I am capable of closer to a 3:45...but with temps in the 70's and humidity @ 86%...I'm just gonna stick to the 4 hour plan!!
I'm doing the New Orleans Marathon Feb 24th, so that's why I'm not too worried about pushing my limits to capacity this weekend. I want to have a nice SOLID race...and still feel good enough to enjoy the post-race beers!!!
Vegefrog, it sounds like you're in perfect shape for this race, and it's okay that you put on a few pounds during the taper. That's a good thing. Have a great race!!
Well at least someone here is making relevance to the subject. - S.J.
Thanks LedLincoln!
2 more days!!!! I'm so excited but also nervous!!!!!!!!
Thanks LedLincoln!
2 more days!!!! I'm so excited but also nervous!!!!!!!!
Best of luck! Waiting to hear good news and report from you!
I keep flip-flopping between the uber-confident "I am going to KILL THIS" and freaking out "What if I hit the wall? What if I have to pee? What if I can't even finish?"
Hopefully going to the expo and getting my bib will calm me down...
I can't wait to write my race report Sunday
Felt great. Sandbagged it.
Think I can BQ @ NOLA in February!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only have to drop 11 minutes and today was...well I sang and smiled and danced the whole way
Race report tomm. Tonight I must drink
Felt great. Sandbagged it.
Think I can BQ @ NOLA in February!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only have to drop 11 minutes and today was...well I sang and smiled and danced the whole way
Race report tomm. Tonight I must drink
This is awesome stuff vege !!!!!!!! Yes, sandbagger alright
Very happy for you .. and look forward to your race report .. hopefully, you also had time to do smile for the camera you can post up.
Now for that well deserved rest .............
The Scrub
Sign me up. I'm running the 2012 Tucson Marathon on December 9th with the goal of going sub 4. This will be my first.
Sign me up. I'm running the 2012 Tucson Marathon on December 9th with the goal of going sub 4. This will be my first.
Crushed my goal. 3:42:08.
2014 Goals:
Crushed my goal. 3:42:08.
Wow !!! Fine end to the year; Fantastic stuff !!! Did you start the race looking at finishing sub 3:45 or did you wing it after feeling good at 20 miles? This is huge...
I was shooting for around 3:45, but figured I'd end up short. I guess I didn't slow down as much at the end than I had thought I would.
Guys .. there is gonna be a load of good wishes floating around this time of the year so this is no different ...
To all the folks who took the step forward to become a part of the collective here, a virtual toast to all of you .. good fun training ... exhilaration and frustration in equal measure ... several of us hit our goals and several of us came close ... the fact is that we all got to the start line with a legit reason to be there .. and that alone is reason enough to celebrate ... the end outcome is just icing on the cake.
I have thoroughly enjoyed being part of the group and i look forward to meeting more of us in the New Year 2013.
Mahesh / Turbolegs


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Sailor wrote:I'm going to chime in here one more time. Now I'm no world class sharpener like Ken and I suppose most folks don't even care what my opinion is but I'm giving it anyway so stop reading now if you are not interested.Regarding the Nubatama hype and waiting for a review data base. Since I already have 3 of them, this no longer is important to me but for those waiting for more solid base of reviews. Who are you waiting for to use them and give a review, what if 100 people were given the 3 stones to use for a month and give those reviews. Who are those 100 people going to be, why would I trust them over the people who have already given me what I need to know?It's not like there is some Board of Water Stones executive committee that going to give us a the answer that will be key decision maker. When I made the jump from King to Chosera and Shapton Glass stones, I just went by the advice of the same people giving it to me now. Yes Ken selling these stones automatically negates some of his positive reviews because he is selling them. However I would take Ken's words over 100 people that I have never heard of before. To be honest, I never bought my Nubatamas based on what Ken said, it was the other folks here and their reactions that sold me. There was no doubt in my military mind that when I got the stones they were going to work, they're abrasives and it wasn't like I was getting them off of ebay from some unknown dealer. I couldn't care les about how they work on these Bling Blades that I will never see. I lost count of the Henckels and Globals I sharpen daily so those are my money knives and they just as important to their owners as any knifeLive on the edge, what's the worst that can happen? MR, your single review would be worth an entire Legion of other knife sharpeners comments. I need another coffee.
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Toshiba's Windows 8 Hardware: The Shape of Things to Comeby Dustin Sklavos on 8/30/2012 12:00 PM EST
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guidryp - Thursday, August 30, 2012 - linkAll of these sliding/flipping convertibles really don't meet the mark IMO. You end up with a 3lb or 4lb tablet.
The Asus Transformer type where you separate the keyboard and tablet really seems to be the way to go for convertibles. That way you end up with a thinner sub 2lb tablet when you want to do tablet stuff. Reply
phatboye - Thursday, August 30, 2012 - linkThat is your opinion. I don't want a tablet with a detachable keyboard. I'd rather have a convertible laptop. It's all a matter of taste and I, for one, am glad that companies are offering choice. Reply
frozentundra123456 - Thursday, August 30, 2012 - linkIf you cant detach the "tablet" or screen or whatever you want to call the display, how is it really different from a regular notebook?
Personally my ideal configuration would be a notebook form factor in which you can remove the screen and use it as a tablet. The primary use would be with the keyboard attached and with a mouse. If you wanted ultimate mobility, say for trip or something or to watch netflix in bed, you can detach the display and use it as a tablet.
I suppose something like the Asus Transformer, but it absolutely has to run windows. I pretty much hate android, it is still way buggy, or maybe it is just my particular tablet. Reply
phatboye - Thursday, August 30, 2012 - link"If you cant detach the "tablet" or screen or whatever you want to call the display, how is it really different from a regular notebook?"
It's different in that it has a laptop form factor that can be converted into a tablet by flipping the screen. Reply
Malphas - Saturday, September 01, 2012 - linkI'm with phatboye. You have your own usage scenario, and others have theirs. A tablet has limited utility for me but is useful on occasion, whilst a small and light laptop is very useful for my lifestyle. I can live with the extra size and weight on the occasion where I use such a device as a tablet, whilst having a separate, detachable keyboard would be a major nuisance the rest of the time. To that end, a convertible is definitely something I would be interested in, and presumably others, so it's good that manufacturers are catering to different people's needs. Reply
Flunk - Thursday, August 30, 2012 - linkIt depends what you want, you can fit a lot more hardware in a sliding/flipping convertible than you can with a trans-former type convertible. Reply
kyuu - Thursday, August 30, 2012 - linkWhat is the reason why OEMs are refusing to put Trinity in 13/14 inch ultrabook form-factors and instead will only put them in their 15.6 inchers? Reply
stm1185 - Thursday, August 30, 2012 - linkBecause the 15.6 is most likely a value machine while the ultrabooks are not, and ultrabook is an Intel branding thing that capitalizes on their marketing, much like Centrino did years back. Reply
Malphas - Saturday, September 01, 2012 - linkYeah, it's very annoying. OEM's don't seem to realise that people are interested in thin-and-light/Ultrabook-type devices for the form factor and appearance and don't especially care about having high-end internals. Obviously Intel is encouraging this because they want to sell more expensive chips and thus why they've created the Ultrabook platform.
They're basically doing the exact opposite of what they should be doing and scrimping on things like screens and cases (looking into using plastic instead of aluminium) whilst continuing to use [relatively] expensive Intel CULV processors.
The first company to realise what they need to do is really nail the housing, screen, keyboard, trackpad and build quality whilst using the cheapest internal components they can get away with, like a Brazos and a 64GB SSD, and undercut the competition will outsell everyone. Reply
Granseth - Thursday, August 30, 2012 - linkI think if somebody made a big screentouchpad (like a 4"cellphone screen) it would be awesome with metro and win 8 as I think a more creative and alternative interaction would be great.
But I don't want a tablet interface on a PC I use with mouse and keyboard. And I don't feel any need to abandon win 7 for a while, so they might as well take their time to get it right. Reply
Spivonious - Thursday, August 30, 2012 - linkTry Windows 8 with a mouse and keyboard. It really doesn't take long to learn the hot corners. Designed for tablet, but works just fine on a desktop. Reply
Granseth - Thursday, August 30, 2012 - linkI agree that WIN 8 works OK with a mouse and keyboard, It's just that I feel it doesn't give me anything that makes it worthwhile to change from Win 7 Reply
Iketh - Saturday, September 01, 2012 - linkall you have to do is spend 2 weeks with Win8 and you'll never go back to 7... it is the future Reply
makken - Thursday, August 30, 2012 - linkIt was 77 degrees in SF yesterday. I had to check to make sure my phone was pulling weather info from the right location. Reply
Pessimism - Thursday, August 30, 2012 - linkTo 1366x768 screens. Seriously. Reply
Visual - Friday, August 31, 2012 - linkThat, plus no mention of active digitizer, just kills this product for me. Reply
Winterblade - Thursday, August 30, 2012 - linkI just can't even start to imagine how tiresome will be to use 3+ pounds tablets, I honestly think that the correct weight should be under 1.5lb, and until we have the tech to make this possible I'll choose the Asus Transformer form factor over all the sliders, swivel, twist, yoga convertibles around.
My ideal convertible could be something like a transformer, where the display half runs a full ARM SoC (Win 8RT or Android), while the keyboard half runs a x86 hardware (Win 8), and of course the apps and files will be accesible to one another and kept synchronized trough bluetooth or WiFi.
It is something that can be done already, but I fully aware that the cost would be off the charts... maybe in a couple of years when Atom became truly "powerful enough"... Reply
frozentundra123456 - Thursday, August 30, 2012 - linkyea, this is pretty much what I had in mind with my other post, but you stated it more clearly. I could live with Android when the display is detached I suppose, but it has to run x86 windows as well so you can actually do some work with it. Reply
p05esto - Wednesday, September 05, 2012 - linkI don't understand any of these stupid devices. Give me a powerful laptop with a 17"+ screen any day. I want to actually get my work done, not surf anandtech all day long. I can see tablets for casual surfing in bed or on the couch, but that is IT, no other scenerio makes a lot of sense from a productivity perspective. Reply
Amit kumar - Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - linkWow the device brilliant, frankly I have belief in your review. It's have a excessive features. I got its full specification on this site as well. http://www.gadtecho.com/ Reply


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WASHINGTON - The Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Fisher-Price, announced Tuesday a voluntary recall of Rock 'N Play Infant Sleepers due to risk of exposure to mold.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said that its warning applies to 800,000 infant recliner seats, called sleepers, that were sold at stores nationwide and online since September 2009, with prices ranging between $50 and $85. The seats, designed for babies up to 25 pounds, feature a soft plastic seat held in a tubular metal rocking frame. The product has a removable fabric cover.
Mold can develop between the removable seat cushion and the hard plastic frame if the sleeper remains wet or is infrequently cleaned, the agency said. Mold is associated with respiratory illnesses and other infections, the warning said. Fisher-Price has received 600 reports of mold and 16 infants have been treated for respiratory issues, coughs and hives after they were in the Fisher-Price sleepers.
The agency said consumers should check for dark brown, gray or black spots that can indicate the presence of mold under the removable seat cushion. If mold is found, they are advised to immediately stop using the product and to contact Fisher-Price for cleaning instructions or further assistance.
Units currently in retail stores are not affected by the warning, but mold growth can occur after use of the infant sleepers.
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Plans to transform the world-famous Court One at the All England Club in Wimbledon are expected to be submitted to Merton Council this month.
The move comes as the first deadline for charities in Merton and Wandsworth to apply for up to £5,000 in charitable funding from the club approaches.
The All England Club is hoping to put in a formal planning application to the council by the end of August detailing plans to transform the court by adding two tiers of 900 seats plus improved hospitality facilities.
A new fixed and retractable roof like the one on Centre Court could be built if it is approved by the council's planning committee.
The master plan features ideas to create a two-level public plaza in place of court 19, wider and more comfortable seating on Court One, improved on-site concessions and catering areas and a new large television screen for spectators on Murray Mound.
An artists' impression: Aerial view.
The Wimbledon Foundation Community Fund is a new initiative in association with the Wimbledon Foundation, a charitable arm of the All England Club.
It aims to distribute £100,000 in the coming year to organisations which apply for the funding boost.
There are a number of criteria, which can be viewed on the website.
Applications should be made by Friday, September 5.
Plans for the All England Club.
A public exhibition of the master plan was held on Thursday, August 7, and Friday, August 8, for neighbours of the club in Church Road, Wimbledon.
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text: Sharing a cuddle and a good book is the best way to end the day with your toddler, making these books must haves for your bedtime routine. Some of these classics may already be in your collection, but we've also included a few that may be unfamiliar. Reading to your child encourages language development, stimulates your tot's imagination, and gives mom and little one a chance to unwind together. Click through for a collection of bedtime books for toddlers. Did we miss your favorite? Leave a comment with yours below.


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create-integration-test command creates an integration test for the given base name.
grails create-integration-test book
DescriptionCreates an integration test for the given base name. For example for a base name "org.bookstore.book" an integration test called
BookTests will be created in the
test/integration/org/bookstore directory.An integration test differs from a unit test in that the Grails environment is loaded for each test execution. Refer to the section on Unit Testing of the user guide for information on unit vs. integration testing.Note that this command is just for convenience and you can also create integration tests in your favourite text editor or IDE if you choose.Usage:
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Since I started this thread, I can hijack it at any time, as I will.
Below is partial list of people that have started threads in this section of the forum. There are fourteen names on the list, I have circled the names of members that have posted NO information on their page. nine of us, out of fourteen, have no real name, pictures, birthdays, locations, etc. Most of these people did not 'introduce themselves' either.
Why should I (Or anyone) be required to post anything they don't want to post?
We have no right to require you to do anything but the Ceramics Arts software should, at least, require real names.


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GILEAD, Maine — When a mom or a dad in the Maine National Guard deploys, their children are often left to wonder what will happen without having a support group of peers going through the same experience.
"The kids feel like they're all alone," Master Sgt. Barbara Claudel, organizer of the Maine National Guard Youth Camp, said Monday as campers scampered all around her. "It's not like there is one big base in Maine. Our Guard members live all over — in every nook and cranny in the state — and this camp lets the kids know they are not alone."
The Army Guard's Bog Brook training area in western Maine plays host to a pair of week-long youth camps, where around 200 Maine youngsters, ages 5 to 18, come together for camaraderie and campfires.
"It's a typical summer camp with a military flair," Claudel said, listing rappelling, archery, kayaking, hiking, swimming, a ropes course and an overnight bivouac as activities.
Brennan MacDonald, 18, who graduated with a class of around 300 from Bangor High School this year and is commander of the camp's Bravo Company, said "only a couple" of his classmates were in military families.
"It's awesome here because it's like a second family," he said.
His dad, Senior Master Sgt. Andrew MacDonald of the 101st Air Refueling Wing, has deployed overseas more than once and the teenager said he has come to count on the friendships he's made at camp over the last 10 years.
His dad usually volunteers at camp but this year is away at training, but his younger brother, Patrick, is a camper.
"They all share similar experiences," camp co-organizer retired Chief Master Sgt. Steve Hughes said. "Many have parents who have been deployed or who will be deployed. It's that similar fraternity that connect them."
"These kids are going to school with other kids who don't know what it's like to have a parent missing for a year," he said. "That is why they look forward to [camp] all year long."
The campers are broken into groups, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta companies. Each camper pays $55 to attend the camp with $5 of the money allocated for them to spend at the "candy shack."
In addition to food and activities, there are interesting attractions.
"The Birdman," Sgt. 1st Class Adam Farrington, who helps rehabilitate injured or abandoned animals, also had pelts, bones and live animals — an owl, a hawk, pigeons, turtles, worms, and a baby groundhog — from Maine on hand for the campers.
He also brought along "Gunther," an 11-year-old tortoise that he adopted after it was abandoned.
There are 92 campers at this week's session, four from Coast Guard families, four from the Army Reserves, one from the Navy and the rest split about 50-50 with Army Guard and Air Guard members.
About 35 junior counselors, who are all former campers who have returned to be mentors, also are on hand along with adult volunteers — colonels to privates — who donate their time to run the camp.
Technical Sgt. Bob Mooney, of the 101st in Bangor, is on hand for the 10th year in a row to help with the ropes course and rappelling. He just returned three weeks ago from Turkestan where he spent three months working to dismantle the military base.
"It gives them the sense of teamwork, trust and it's something outside of their comfort zone in a controlled environment," he said of the ropes course, which is called "a confidence course."
Sgt. 1st Class Adam Knoblach of Headquarter Company in Augusta has volunteered for 14 years and has three kids attending camp this year, his oldest is a junior counselor.
"It's an amazing opportunity to be with my own kids," he said. "Out here I have about 100 kids. I keep coming back because you have to make it better than it was last year."
The adults get as much out of camp as the kids, said Claudel.
"Military people are all mission focused and sometimes they have their blinders on," she said. "When these guys return to work, they see their soldiers in a different way. They remember they have families."
Ann LePage visits
Ann LePage, wife of Gov. Paul LePage, makes it a point to visit each camp and attended Monday's session.
"I chose supporting men and women in uniform as my cause. I've only done it for, this will be my fourth year, and you guys have done it your entire life so because of that I want to thank you," she told the campers.
This year, because of scheduling, she did not participate in any activities, but "last year, it was hot fudge sundaes and they had ketchup or mustard on the bottom — you didn't know what you were getting," LePage said.
The year before that, she participated in camp olympics. She was in a pie-eating contest during her first visit, which is also when she arrived in a Blackhawk helicopter.
LePage was met first by the junior counselors, who were heading out to go cliff jumping at a local swimming hole. They asked her opinion about gun rights and if she owned one.
LePage said her husband bought her a gun but no bullets, which she went out and purchased herself last year. She said her husband has an AR-15 rifle.
"I had to explain to the painters, when they came to paint, 'don't let that scare you,'" she told the campers, getting a round of laughter.
Just before leaving to head up to the cabins, where the younger campers were waiting, she told the teenagers that she had a big surprise that would be announced on Tuesday.
That announcement is that she will skydive with military veteran Travis Mills, who lost both arms and both legs in Afghanistan in 2012, on Aug. 9 to raise money for the Northern Maine Veterans Museum and Community Center.
When she got to the younger campers, LePage thanked them for supporting their parents. Several then thanked her and a few told short stories about their lives, and she autographed a few T-shirts.
"I've been here since I was pretty much born," Isabelle Farrington, the daughter of "The Birdman," told LePage.
"My dad is in the Coast Guard and this camp has meant a lot to me," a boy said.
"My dad got hurt in the war the year I was born," Alyssa Ardry told LePage. "I want to be an Army doctor and help people like my dad."
After LePage left, Ardry said her dad, Army Spc. Craig Ardry, has retired.
He survived an attack on his convoy as he and other soldiers were leaving their base in Mosul, Iraq in April 2004, that killed fellow soldier Sgt. Christopher D. Gelineau of Portland.
"I don't have many friends who have dads or moms in the military," the 9-year-old from Pittsfield said. "It feels really good to be here with other kids in the military."


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SEVEN months after suffering a near fatal heart attack, Kevin Holroyd led his work colleagues on the Three Peaks Challenge, raising more than £2,300 for The British Heart Foundation.
The dad-of-four, who lives in Little Lever, was rushed to the Royal Bolton Hospital in January last year after feeling numbness and heaviness in his body, and found out he had a blood clot in his artery.
After a life saving operation at Wythenshawe hospital, Mr Holroyd, aged 52, was determined to get back to his best so began to build up his fitness by taking his dog for walks each day and going to the gym.
Once he felt fit enough, Mr Holroyd and colleague Jamie Gledhill, who work at George Cox and Sons, organised a 12-strong party from the Farnworth-based Highway Contractors to undertake the Three Peaks challenge, to climb Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon in just 24 hours.
After the event, which they completed on August 24 last year, representatives from the team handed the cheque to Barbara Dunn at BHF.
Mr Holroyd said: "It was an amazing experience and I am pleased to have helped raise money for such a good cause. It was hard going but to be honest the drives between climbs were the worst."
Mr Holroyd, a site supervisor, decided to take up the Three Peaks Challenge following a heart attack early last year.
He said: "After the heart attack I felt as weak as a child most days, but I was determined to build up my strength.
"It all started late November in 2012 when I started feeling numbness in my body and felt achy like someone was sat on my shoulders. I just thought it was indigestion.
"Then on January 23 last year I had the same feeling but still got up for work. I was driving on the motorway and thought I was going to faint. I managed to pull over and get myself to work before passing out.
"It wasn't until later I rang the emergency doctor who told me it sounded like I was having a heart attack. I got to Royal Bolton and they whisked me to Wythenshawe where I had to have an operation to stop the blood clot. I could have died if I hadn't had it done."
Barbara Dunn, fundraising manager at BHF across Lancashire, said: "I would like to say a big thank you for the effort and time that the team put into the event and raising the money.
"Without this kind of support we would not be able to do as much work as we do saving people's lives."


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Wittenberg Prepares To Install Laurie M. Joyner, Ph.D. As University's 14th President, Sept. 7
Springfield, Ohio – Following a celebratory week featuring a number of student-centered, mission-inspired activities, Wittenberg University will formally install President Laurie M. Joyner during the inauguration ceremony at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, in the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Center, 250 Bill Edwards Dr.
Joining members of the Wittenberg community at the Inauguration will be 60 delegates representing institutions of higher education, including the University of Cambridge, founded in 1231. Representatives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), current and emeriti members of the Wittenberg Board of Directors, students, faculty, staff, civic officials, members of the university's Alumni Board and other distinguished guests will also be in attendance.
The ceremony will reflect Wittenberg's mission and Lutheran heritage with performances by the Wittenberg Choir and IMANI Gospel Choir, and in a special series of greetings from representatives of the campus, the church and the university's sister city of Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. A number of Joyner's colleagues and mentors will also participate in the ceremony, including The Rev. Charles L. Currie, S.J., a national higher education leader, and Lewis M. Duncan, Ph.D., president of Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., Joyner's previous institution. Following the official installation portion of the ceremony, Joyner will present her inaugural address, after which the entire assembly will join in singing the university's Alma Mater.
The event will be streamed live online beginning at 3 p.m. at www.wittenberg.edu, with full coverage of this historic moment in the life of the university to follow. A reception will take place immediately after the ceremony in the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Center.
Wittenberg officially welcomed Joyner as the university's 14th president on July 1, 2012. Prior to joining Wittenberg, Joyner served as vice president for planning and dean of the college at Rollins College where she was responsible for institution-wide strategic planning and served as senior student affairs officer, including responsibility for athletics. She also co-chaired the college-wide budget committee, oversaw high-impact educational practices, and led the comprehensive student success initiative.
While at Rollins, Joyner served as interim vice president for academic affairs and provost at Rollins, where she exercised administrative oversight of academic deans, 400 faculty and staff members, and an operating budget of nearly $50 million. From 2007 until 2010, Joyner was dean of the faculty and professor of sociology at Rollins, and prior to Rollins, she held a variety of positions at Loyola University New Orleans including faculty leadership roles on the Academic and Faculty Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees and University Senate Executive Council, to administrative roles such as associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
A magna cum laude graduate and recipient of the Dux Sociologicus Award from Loyola University New Orleans, Joyner earned her master's and doctoral degrees in sociology from Tulane University. Throughout her academic and administrative career, a consistent priority has been linking the academy to diverse communities in ways that deepen student, faculty, and staff learning while addressing pressing community needs.
Founded in 1845, Wittenberg University is a nationally ranked liberal arts university dedicated to intellectual inquiry and wholeness of person within a diverse residential community. Reflecting its Lutheran heritage, Wittenberg challenges students to become responsible global citizens, to discover their callings, and to lead personal, professional and civic lives of creativity, service, compassion and integrity.
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The mum of a former Croydon Athletic footballer - who was left brain damaged after being assaulted by a pack of thugs while on holiday - brought victims of crime abroad together in Westminster.
Wallington woman Maggie Hughes, who has campaigned for changes in international law after her son Robbie was attacked in 2008, got help from her local MP Tom Brake in organising a meeting for people who have been affected by crimes abroad at the House of Commons last week.
Robbie Hughes in hospital after the attack
She said so many people came to the meeting, held in one of the meeting rooms at the House of Commons, that it was standing room only.
Robbie Hughes, now 32, was on holiday with friends in the Greek resort of Malia when he was beaten up by a gang of English youths who were also on the island in 2008.
The attack outside the Candy Club left him in a coma for two weeks and he still has problems with his short term memory.
Mrs Hughes has been fighting to get justice for her son but has found dealing with a criminal case happening overseas difficult.
It took four years for Curtis Taylor, Daniel Bell, Joseph Bruckland and Sean Branton, all from Horley in Surrey, to be convicted but they have since appealed against their convictions with a hearing not scheduled until November.
Benjamin Herdman, left was cleared of any wrong doing but Taylor, Bell, Bruckland, and Banton were all found guilty.
Mrs Hughes and Mr Brake planned the meeting in order to give victims of crime abroad a chance to compare experiences and to speak to advisers from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, police, the Association of British Travel Agents and Victims' Commissioner Baroness Newlove.
Mrs Hughes said: "It was really useful and informative.
"Dealing with things like this can be hard but if you give people the proper tools and information you can empower them to take on their own investigations and that's what this was all about.
"It's about networking and sharing information with other families and with the authorities so that we can make it easier for victims and their families."
Mr Brake added: "Although this issue affects a relatively small number every year, the effects of crime or injury abroad on the victims, and their families can be life shattering.
"This is why it was so important to hold this meeting.
"With so many victims of crimes and their families in one room, this was a very touching and emotional event, but I hope it was also a very constructive one.
"It was good to see all parties together, from the victims themselves, to the FCO, tour operators and the Victims' Commissioner, coming together to discuss how support for victims could be improved."


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Only Alastair Cook and Chris Woakes did themselves any justice as England were bowled out for 182 in the final NatWest Series match against South Africa at Trent Bridge.
Success would not only finish a sequence of 13 wins from 14 completed one-day internationals this year for Cook's world number one team, but would also wrap up an eighth successive home series victory.
England will have to bowl especially well, though, to defend a significantly below-par total in which a succession of batsmen got out to regrettable shots on a perfectly viable ODI pitch.
The hosts lost their first two wickets for the addition of one run, in the fourth and fifth overs, after choosing to bat first on a glorious afternoon for this day-night fixture. They had made an encouraging start until Ian Bell missed a delivery that came on with the arm from Robin Peterson (three wickets for 37 runs) and was lbw pushing forward, Simon Taufel's decision confirmed after the batsman invoked DRS.
Ravi Bopara, pushed up to number three in the absence of the injured Jonathan Trott, is enduring a nightmare run of form. His troubles continued when Dale Steyn pitched a delivery in the ideal place, and found just enough movement for Bopara to be caught behind for single figures for the third successive time in this series.
This was also his second duck in those three innings, and put added pressure on new batsman Jonny Bairstow - called up for his first one-day international cap since last October.
The young Yorkshireman fared well in a 55-run stand with Cook (51), until he became the first of three consecutive batsmen to fall to catches chipped unerringly straight into fielders' hands. Bairstow picked out deep square-leg off Morne Morkel; Eoin Morgan hit his second delivery, from JP Duminy, to mid-on - where Hashim Amla had just been brought up five yards, to save the single.
Then Cook, who had done so much of the hard work on his way to his first half-century in his last 10 Test and ODI innings, lost his famed concentration against Faf du Plessis' part-time leg-spin and pushed a low full-toss back for a routine return catch. It was an unsatisfactory end to his 72-ball stay, and a similar summary applied when Craig Kieswetter mistimed an attempted big hit off Morkel and skied a catch to Amla again at mid-off.
After the wicketkeeper-batsman had gone in the powerplay, following back Nottinghamshire's own Samit Patel, who gloved a slower-ball bouncer from Steyn behind - England began what should have been the last 10 overs on an unpromising 165 for seven.
The tail then folded to Peterson, who took two wickets in two balls - and not even Woakes' career-best 33 not out could salvage much worthwhile before Jade Dernbach was last out after just 45.2 overs.


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After 12 frustrating days of waiting for news of loved ones on the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, at least two relatives of passengers aboard Flight MH370 were forcibly removed Wednesday from a news conference at a hotel near Kuala Lumpur.
Dramatic footage broadcast by the BBC showed a woman thought to be a Chinese relative of a missing passenger being knocked to the ground and then dragged away from journalists ahead of the daily news briefing by Malaysian officials.
The pair appeared to be trying to unfurl a banner expressing their dissatisfaction over the lack of progress in the investigation that has dragged on for days. Police escorted them out.
Of the 239 people aboard the plane that went missing March 8 on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, more than 150 were Chinese nationals. Malaysian authorities have been especially sensitive to any criticism of the investigation.
The disturbance comes as Malaysia's Defense Minister and Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Wednesday that files were recently deleted from the home flight simulator belonging to the pilot aboard the missing Malaysian jetliner.
"Forensic efforts are on to retrieve the data," Hishammuddin said. He also said that the pilot, Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah, is innocent until proven guilty of any wrongdoing and that members of Zaharie's family are cooperating in the investigation.
Malaysian Police Chief Khalid Abu said the files containing records of the simulations were deleted on Feb. 3.
Police are continuing to consider a number of different scenarios that would explain the plane's disappearance including the possibility of hijacking, sabotage, terrorism or issues related to the mental health of the pilots or anyone else on board, and have asked for background checks from foreign agencies on all foreign passengers.
Hishammuddin said background checks have been received for all the foreigners except those from Ukraine and Russia. Those two countries had three passengers on the flight. He said none of the checks have turned up anything suspicious.
Still, the theories about what happened to the Boeing 777 plane, and where it or its wreckage may now be located, have stacked up even as investigators have been able to offer relatives few concrete facts about how it vanished, and as authorities from 26 countries have expanded the search-and-rescue mission to an unprecedentedly large area stretching from central Asia to the southern Indian Ocean.
In a brief statement addressing the scenes outside the news conference Wednesday, Hishammuddin said: "One can only imagine the anguish they (relatives) are going through. Malaysia is doing everything in its power to find MH370 and hopefully bring some degree of closure for those whose family members are missing."
But the resentment is building.
"It's really too much. I don't know why it is taking so long for so many people to find the plane," Subaramaniam Gurusamy, 60, said in an interview with the Associated Press from his home on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. His 34-year-old son, Pushpanathan Subramaniam, was on the flight heading to Beijing for a work trip.
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A reformed couch potato who hopped on a bike last year and never looked back is urging Swindonians to embark on a 338-mile cycle ride to Belgium in aid of the Great Western Hospital.
After 20 years spent mostly avoiding gyms and the great outdoors, Oonagh Fitzgerald, director of workforce and education, took the New Year's resolution to improve her fitness and to keep her resolve.
The daunting Three Cities Challenge from London to Brussels via Amsterdam in August will be her second ride for the hospital's charity Brighter Futures.
After a successful London to Paris round journey, which several staff took part in last September, GWH decided to repeat the experience, this time inviting members of the public to test their endurance and stamina alongside employees.
Although excited to be completing another journey in aid of Brighter Futures, the prospect of covering between 60 and an intimidating 112 miles each day between August 27 and 30 was not exactly comforting, she confessed.
"I had not exercised for about 20 years when I started cycling last year. I was a couch potato. The challenge last year was 250 miles but we wanted to push ourselves this time. I've never done 112 miles in one day so this is going to be a big challenge for me.
"We really want the public to join us and support their local hospital. We want people who are after a big challenge in their lives to take part and get fitter. It's fun to do as part of a group and we will be training together."
Challengers will travel back to the UK on the Eurostar on August 31and enjoy a welcome glass of champagne of wine to mark their achievement.
GWH communications manager Kevin Mcnamara was one of the first to sign up to the Three Cities cycle.
"The challenge last year was three days while this one will last four days," he said. "But the route will be flatter so it should be ok. We hope people will take part and help us raise money."
Brighter Future supports the Great Western Hospital in Swindon and community healthcare and maternity services across Wiltshire.
Head of fundraising for Brighter Futures, Jen Green, added: "People don't have to be a top cyclist to take part. They may have done cycle challenges before, or it could be the first time they have ever done something like this. The challenge is open to anyone and we hope to see as many people as possible signing up."
Riders will need to pay a registration fee of £99 and raise a minimum of £1,500 in sponsorship.
To secure a place and find out more visit www.gwh.nhs.uk, contact Jen Green on 01793 605631 or email email@example.com.