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Entrepreneurs will be given greater freedom to start up a business from their home as part of new measures announced by the Westminster Government.
These include legislation to make it easier to run a company from a rented property and new guidance on business rates clarifying that, in most circumstances, home-based firms will be exempt. Planning guidance is also being updated to make it clear that planning permission should not normally be required to run a business from home.
Announcing the package, Business Minister Matthew Hancock said there had never been a better time to start a company. He said: "It's this spirit of personal endeavour and self-determination that is driving our economic recovery.
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"We'll give people the confidence they need to run a business from a rented home, making sure that the majority of home businesses are exempt from business rates and our aspiring entrepreneurs have the information they need to start up and grow."
The law is to be changed so that landlords can be assured that agreeing to a business start-up within their property will not undermine their residential tenancy agreement.
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Colvin Chapman of Ticonderoga takes a break from clearing trail to enjoy the view from Cheney Mountain.
There are safety concerns with the new Cheney Mountain Trail in Moriah.
The new recreation trail opened last month. It starts by the town's former landfill on Pelfershire Road and follows an old logging road to the summit of Cheney Mountain, affording views of Lake Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains.
"It's been utilized by a lot of people from all over the area, which is a good thing," Supervisor Tom Scozzafava said. "The problem is hunting."
Moriah allows hunting on town property. Adjacent land owners also allow hunting on their property.
"People (hikers) are leaving the trail and town property," Scozzafava said. "The adjacent property owners have expressed concerns. Can you imagine sitting in a tree stand all day waiting for a deer and all the sudden a group of hikers walk past?"
The supervisor said he will recommend to the town board that the Cheney Mountain Trail be closed during deer hunting season, from mid-October to the first week of December.
"For the safety of the people utilizing the trail I think it should be closed during hunting season," Scozzafava said.
October is a favorite time for many hikers who enjoy the changing fall colors.
"I realize that," Scozzafava said, "but this is a safety issue. I knew when they first started talking about this (trail) there could be problems."
The supervisor said signs urging people to stay on the trail will also be erected.
The Cheney Mountain Trail had been discussed for several years. This summer and fall it was cleared with the assistance of Champlain Area Trails, Inc.
CATS is located in Westport. It's a non-profit organization whose purpose is to develop hiking/skiing trails that link Champlain Valley communities, connect people with nature, promote economic vitality and protect natural areas, farmland, and scenic vistas.

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I did EC and liked it, but if my kids were as close as yours and I was in your position, I would give it up until the new one is born. Then maybe do it with both the littles, if you have the energy.
my kids are only a year and a half apart, and for the first year of my second DD's life, I felt like I was failing both of them. I felt like the ideals of APing really were designed around a mother having only one baby at a time -- that the ideals would be far more doable for moms of children, or for moms whose kids were spaced much further apart -- like 4 years apart.
In practice -- I just got through it. And then I didn't want any more kids for a long, long time. As far as ideals, I don't really have any anymore, other than trying to be fully present in the moment as much as possible.
I accomplished the entire APing checklist, but become clinically depressed while doing so. In the end, I realized how much parenting is left once that check list is past (accomplished or not). My DDs are 13 and 14 now, and soooooooooo much easier than they were as babies/toddlers. But we are still building our relationship. And I see moms doing a great job with their teens who didn't AP when their kids were little, and moms not doing such a good job now that accomplished the checklist. I'm enjoying my kids now in a way that I didn't when they were small -- partly because they really are less work and partly because I'm not trying to be perfect anymore.
I still think the things on the AP check list are good, but in a very soft, relaxed way. I see children as more resilient than I used to, I've come to completely and totally accept that I don't have to be prefect.
My best actually is good enough.
but everything has pros and cons
I have three kids, with #4 due in December. Ages 9, newly three and almost 2. The younger two are 14 months apart.
You can be an AP parent with closely spaced kids, but you HAVE to take what works for your family and not obsess about things that fall by the wayside. EC? Pft, not around here. Cosleeping? Sure, but I really want them in their own beds soon, because I need that space to recharge. Extended nursing- sure but I create limits eventually because I can't be 'on' all the time. The first thing we have to do to be good parents is to take care of ourselves. If we are frazzled and overwhelmed that carries into every moment of our childrens' lives.
I'm one of the few parents in this country who is willing to invest the time and energy in learning about and implementing these things, and my kids totally balk at it
How do you know this? DO you really know that yyou are one of the chosen few in this country that parents thier kids after researching the best methods of doing so? Really? I find it hard to believe that 99.5% of the population do not invest as much time and enegery in thier kids as you do.
And I think this may be the crux of your issue. You are expecting your kids to conform to what you feel they SHOULD want and need, not what they DO want and need.
The primary staple of AP parenting is anticipating your kids needs and ensuring you can give them what they need. Not figuring out what you need and expecting your kids to give it to you.
Maybe the reason why you are only one of the chosen few who invest in this method is bc this method isnt working?
We, as mothers, are so hard on ourselves AND other parents (as proven by the comment I posted). Maybe we need to step back and find out what works for our kids before we conform to one ideal?
Yes, ElliesMomma, my kids are still pretty little. My oldest is 7, then 6, then 2.5, then just turned 1. Add to that a new one due in February and yeah, AP gets hard. I didn't know about AP when we started our family and #4 was a whoopsie (though a wonderful one!) and #5 is an unexplained phenomenon. So we didn't take AP ideals or practicality into consideration when we spaced our kids. I guess I often feel like I'm not really cut out to be an AP parent but that it's an ideal way to parent so I have to do the things I can to enhance those bonds. When it's not working it does sometimes make me feel like I'm loosing the best tools I have. That's why it's so frustrating. But I have been trying to learn not to hang onto things so hard. It's a work in progress.
What would some of you AP parents do differently if your kids were as closely spaced as mine? How would that change your practices and ideals?
My kids are 16, 11, 10 and 7. I decided that I wanted to do everything "perfectly". I spaced my middle 2 out exactly 18 months b/c that was the ideal age I was told. That any more was too far apart and they woudlnt bond and any closer and they would be rivials.
So, I went by the book.
And my son was born 5 weeks early and my daughter, who was 16.5 months old, still wasnt walking or talking. I didnt get to breastfeed as long as I wanted to bc my son had an (undiagnosed) anaphayltic milk allergy and he was losing weight rapidly and puking constantly.
So. All my perfect plans went out the window. They were perfect for someone else. Not me.
When my youngest was born I wanted , even more, to be that perfect parent. I was going to breastfeed for years and have a family bed and my DD woudl sleep on her back and not start solids until she was a year old. I would go back to work when she was 4. Perfect!!!
Except she was born with a severe medical condition. She coudlnt breastfeed. She had a feeding tube instead. She coudlnt sleep on her back bc her tongue suffocated her, I never went back to work bc she requires so much support. And I slept in her bed until she was 6.
My next one, I am writing my OWN BOOK. And I am waiting until my child is born before I start planning out who and what I want him/her to be.
That would be my advice to you. Write yor own book. That book may change every other day or last until he/she is 18.
Hey OP, so sorry it's tough going right now! But I just had a quick thought about poop. I bet your baby would be a perfect candidate to use flushable biodegradable liners in his diapies. Y'know those ones by GroVia or Bummis? Since he poops so often you could just stick one of these in every diaper and peel off the poop!
I'd relax about the EC thing. I would LOVE to catch a poop from one of my boys, just ONCE! But no, as much as I sit 'em on the potty (and we do get pee's, at least), it just hasn't happened. If I let them go naked, then they poop on the carpet. And daaaaammmmmmmnn, I'd much rather clean poop off a diaper than the carpet.
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(CBS News) Secretary of State John Kerry met with Iran's foreign minister, face-to-face yesterday, for half an hour. It's the highest-level government contact between the two countries since 1979.
Kerry talks about Iran's nuclear program in a "60 Minutes" interview. He told "CBS Evening News" anchor Scott Pelley that the Iranians have to convince the United States they are not trying to build nuclear weapons.
Russia agrees to U.N. resolution on Syria chemical weapons
Pelley asked, "Give me an example, one concrete step, one thing that they can do to assure the world that they're giving up their ambitions."
Kerry replied, "They could immediately open up the inspection of the Fordo facility -- a secret facility and underground in the mountains, fortified and unquestionably not something that a peaceful program (laugh) would be doing. They could immediately sign the protocols, the additional protocols of the international community regarding inspections. They could offer to cease voluntarily to take enrichment above a certain level, keep it at a very low level, because there's no need to have it at a higher level for a peaceful program --number of things they could do, Scott."
Pelley also asked, "What bold step could the United States take right now to answer this apparent opening by the Iranians?"
Kerry said, "Well, providing that the Iranians take concrete steps, I'm confident they would have an expectation that the United States is going to respond by perhaps adjusting the sanctions regime that we have today, by setting up a process that shows them how they can have this peaceful program without disturbing our efforts to -- to make sure that no country is now going to build nuclear weapons."
Watch a preview of Pelley's "60 Minutes" interview below.
Speaking of that conversation amid the backdrop of Iran apparently seeking a loosening of sanctions, Pelley said on "CBS This Morning," "One of the things that Kerry said was we have hopes, but not necessarily expectations.
"I think they're trying to open this dialogue. The president and Secretary Kerry believe that this is a true opening from Iran, and they're going to exploit it every way that they can. They've decided...that there are going to be more talks on the nuclear issue in Geneva later in October, and I think that's when we're going start to see how serious both sides are."
So when could a deal between Iran and the U.S. come to fruition? Timelines, Pelley noted, differ -- and depend on to whom you're speaking. "Rouhani, the president of Iran, said that he wanted a deal in three to six months. We asked Kerry about that and he said, 'Why not sooner?' But then the Iranian foreign minister last night said, 'Well, maybe we can do something in a year,' so these are all areas of negotiation, but the United States is trying to essentially say to Iran, 'We'll be a partner with you. If you're serious about this, you'll find a willing partner in the United States'."
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JEFFREY BROWN: President Obama has made his decision about the size and pace of the initial U.S. pullout from Afghanistan.
White House officials confirmed today that he will announce his plan tomorrow evening in a nationally televised address.
The president and his war counselors huddled at the White House today, ahead of tomorrow night's announcement. Earlier, Secretary of Defense Gates and Secretary of State Clinton had nothing to say about specifics of the impending troop drawdown, but Gates, who has publicly favored only a modest reduction, did say that more than just military factors are weighing on the decision.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT GATES: There are a lot of reservations in the Congress about the war in Afghanistan and our level of commitment. There are concerns among the American people, who are tired of a decade of war.
So, the president obviously has to take those matters into consideration, as well as the conditions on the ground in Afghanistan.
JEFFREY BROWN: Indeed, the price of that decade of war has been steep, more than 1,500 Americans killed and nearly half-a-trillion dollars spent.
And polls show an increasingly weary American public — 56 percent in the latest Pew survey ready to withdraw U.S. troops as soon as possible. Since President Obama took office, the number of American troops in Afghanistan has tripled to about 100,000. In December 2009, at West Point, he announced the surge of 30,000 of those troops centered largely in southern Afghanistan.
And he set a time frame for beginning an American withdrawal.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home. These are the resources that we need to seize the initiative, while building the Afghan capacity that can allow for a responsible transition of our forces out of Afghanistan.
JEFFREY BROWN: According to reports today, the president is now leaning toward a reduction of 10,000 troops by the end of this year, with the first 5,000 leaving this summer.
Another option said to be favored by military leaders would call for a slower withdrawal, 3,000 to 5,000 troops by the end of the year. But some in Congress, and even reportedly some of the president's top advisers, have pushed for a much faster and bigger pullback.
The pacing of the pullout has divided Congress. Republican Sen. John McCain told ABC this morning that he wants a minimal drawdown.
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, R-Ariz.: This date never should have been set to start with. It was done for political reasons, with no recommendation from any of our military leaders. But I hope that it's modest. And I believe that one more fighting season, and we can get this thing pretty well wrapped up.
JEFFREY BROWN: But among many of McCain's colleagues and the public, last month's U.S. raid to kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan has bolstered a conviction that the time to begin leaving Afghanistan is now — one sign of that, in late May, a House vote garnered a surprisingly large bipartisan coalition urging a faster withdrawal.
And, today, West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin said bin Laden's al-Qaida cohorts are on the run, and that means America's job in Afghanistan should be finished.
SEN. JOE MANCHIN, D-W.Va.: Intelligence estimates suggest that there are only between 50 and 100 al-Qaida terrorists harbored there. Because of incredible work of our military men and women, the mission of destroying al-Qaida in Afghanistan, by all accounts, has been a success.
But the real truth is, after 10 years, our current mission in Afghanistan has become less about destroying al-Qaida and more about building a country where one, frankly, has never existed.
JEFFREY BROWN: Thursday begins the sales job for whatever the president announces tomorrow night. Secretary Clinton will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. And the president himself will travel to Fort Drum, N.Y. It's home to the Army's 10th Mountain Division, which has seen repeated deployments to Afghanistan over the last 10 years.


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Forum OpenACS Q&A: CVS Commit forum notifications and separate forums for separate tags
Is email notification working for the CVS Commits forum for anybody? It's not for me, I've tried toggling it several times.
Also, would there be value in creating different Commits forums for different tags? We're tracking the 4.6 release pretty closely, but I have to look closely in the forum to see what patches got committed to which branch.
I'll think about a way to log to different tags, but how about this: We the tag to the subject or to an extra header so you can quickly filter it with procmail or another mail processing tool?
If people are not happy the "thread per day" model, then please suggest another model and we can see about making it happen.
Will this be difficult when the patches apply to more than one tag? Or will that never happen? Sorry if I am exposing my CVS ignorance.
That way people could subscribe to notifies on just the modules they care about (as well as all of them, of course). Of course, since I am not going to do the work I will now quit nitpicking your cool logging tool :)


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HSP Resources for National History Day
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Thursday, November 1, 2012 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Each year, more than half a million students nationwide participate in National History Day, a unique program in which students choose a topic related to the annual theme, conduct primary and secondary research and present their findings. With more than 600,000 printed items and more than 21 million manuscript and graphic items that span over 350 years, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania is a valuable resource for teachers and students participating in NHD.
Attend this workshop to find out about the unique offerings of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, including lesson plans and primary and secondary sources that will help you incorporate NHD into your classroom throughout the year. The workshop will be conducted by Claire Frosch, teacher and Beneficial National History Day Fellow. Beneficial Bank generously supports the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's involvement in National History Day.
When & Where
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
1300 Locust Street
Thursday, November 1, 2012 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EDT)
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Historical Society of Pennsylvania
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is one of the oldest historical societies and one of the largest family history libraries in the nation. Following a complete merger with the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, HSP is also a leading repository of immigrant and ethnic history. It is second only to the Library of Congress for material on the nation's founding and is the country's third most popular destination for genealogical study. With approximately 21 million records including manuscripts, graphics, and books that span over 350 years of history, HSP is an invaluable resource for historical research.
HSP serves thousands of on-site visitors each year. It also offers a research-by-mail service and extensive online resources, including a library catalog, finding aids, digital collection, and curricular materials. HSP hosts educator workshops and public programs, and publishes a quarterly scholarly journal. To learn more about HSP or to become a member, visit us at www.hsp.org.


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SOLON, Ohio — Macy's is partnering with Earthworks System LLC, a provider of 100% recycled PVC sheets for the plastic card industry and plastic card recycling programs, to provide its customers with a recyclable gift card program for the retailer's customers.
The Earthworks System Recyclable identifier will be imprinted on Macy's gift cards to indicate it is made of Earthworks System approved recyclable material, the company reported. Macy's department store locations will collect spent gift cards for their return to Earthworks System where they will be reprocessed into printable sheet and re-sold to printers to make new cards.
"The Earthworks System for plastic card recycling complements Macy's sustainable business philosophy," said Rodd Gilbert, president of Earthworks System. "Our partnership will provide Macy's and its customers an environmental solution for the significant number of plastic cards it distributes every year."


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This is the first of many tabletop game reviews I will be publishing here on IGN. If you want a little more info on why I'm reviewing board games, check out my "Reasons Why You Should Get Into Board Gaming" blog.
Title: Dead Of Winter: A Crossroads Game
No. Of Players: 2 - 5
Playtime: 60 - 120 Minutes
Genre: Zombie Survival, Semi Co-op
Difficulty: Moderate - Hard
There are plenty of zombie games out there (the most famous being the infamous Zombiecide) but I can safely say without a shadow of a doubt that the most tense, thematic and exciting zombie board game to play is Plaid Hat's Dead Of Winter: A Crossroads Game.
In Dead Of Winter you play co-operatively amongst your friends as a group of survivors after a zombie apocalypse, working together to not just avoid beating eaten, but also survive an extreme winter. You'll gather supplies such as food, medicine and fuel for the colony, but that won't be your only concern as merely staying alive won't help you complete your main objective and win the game.
There is also another twist in the tail of this game. Every survivor will have their own personal mission to complete - and some of those will be against the good of the colony. There may be a traitor amongst you!
The Basics
Each game of Dead Of Winter, players will select a main objective for which they must all work together to complete. This could be as simple as surviving a certain number of rounds, gathering lots of supplies or killing loads of zombies. A pre set amount of game rounds will be determined for each objective, and the objective must be completed before the no. of rounds expires in order to win.
Alongside setting up the main objective, each survivor will also be dealt a secret objective that they must not reveal to anyone else. These hidden objectives require players perform an extra task in secret, and if these are not completed alongside the main objective, that survivor loses, even if the main objective was passed. There's also a chance that one of these objectives will make you a traitor, actively working against the good of the colony and secretly trying to make the survivors lose!
Hidden objectives add an extra level of intrigue to Dead Of Winter, making you question and doubt your friend's actions. This plays wonderfully into the theme of the game and makes the co-op action not as straightforward as it might be in other games of this style. In Dead Of Winter you need to keep your morale level above 0 in order to stay in the game. The moment morale collapses, its game over. There are many ways in which morale can get hit and traitors will exploit all of them!
Each player will also be a given a choice of two of the many survivors in Dead Of Winter. There's a wonderfully varied cast of characters, each with their own back story, stats and abilities that can all come in handy during the game. These include ex teachers, doctors, soldiers and even more off the wall characters such as a pirate, ninja and even a stunt dog (Sparky for the win!).
"For The Good Of The Colony"
The game board is divided into two main parts - the Colony and non-Colony locations. The Colony is as you might expect, a safe place for the survivors away from zombies. However, the colony isn't as safe as you might think. Colonists need food to survive and the more people that stick around inside the colony, the more zombies will try and break in. You'll also have to deal with cleaning up waste - a problem that's all too real for any group of people gathering together in large numbers.
Outside the colony are the non-colony locations, which is where you'll find items to help you complete the many objectives in Dead Of Winter. There are 6 locations, including the School, Police Station, Gas Station, Library, Grocery Store and Hospital. Each location has its own deck of item cards tailored to it (food can be found commonly in the grocery store for example). Zombies will also attack these locations, so sticking around in them too long is also not a good idea.
As well as the main objective, in each round of Dead Of Winter, players will draw a crisis card, which they must attempt to solve in order to prevent the often very bad effects from happening on them. These crises may include a food shortage, a sickness in the colony or lack of fuel for warmth. Players must anonymously contribute items in order to solve these crises, and at the end of the round the hidden items are revealed. Only the correct items must be contributed, and because contributions are made in secret, this can a be a great opportunity for a traitor to mess things up real bad!
Roll The Action Dice!
On their turn, players will roll blue action dice and perform actions based on the number of dice they have and what they rolled. There are several different basic actions a player may take on their turn:
Build A Barricade: Construct a barricade that blocks zombies from getting into or overwhelming a location.
Clean Waste: Remove discarded items from the waste pile (this is important and can prevent morale loss!).
Search: Search a location's deck for items.
Attack: Attack and kill a zombie in your location.
Use Ability: Use a survivor's special ability
Trade Items: Swap items with other players in your space or equip your survivors with items.
Move: Move a character from one location to another.
Most actions for characters will be determined by the roll of their action dice, with a characters Search, Combat skill or special ability likely giving the player an idea of what role they should be performing on any given turn. Some characters are born fighters, good at taking out zombies, some are observant and ideal at searching for items, whilst others might have a specialist role such as being good at cooking, cleaning or constructing barricades. How well players work together taking advantage of their character's skills will determine the outcome of the game.
There's another dice in Dead Of Winter I haven't mentioned yet, and that's the 8 sided "Exposure Dice" perhaps one of the deadliest dice in all of gaming. Every time a character moves locations or attacks a zombie they must roll this die (unless they have the right items) - and the consequences can be deadly. Roll a blank, you got lucky, nothing happens. Roll a skull, your character gains a wound. Roll a snowflake skull, you gain a frostbite wound which means at the beginning of each turn your character gets another wound. If a survivor gains 3 wounds, they die!
What you most definitely do not want to roll on that red dice is the tooth mark. This tooth signals a zombie bite and instant death for that character. The bite effect then spreads to other characters in the same location, meaning they must either choose to sacrifice themselves to stop the bite spreading, or roll the red dice and hope they get a blank - otherwise its death and the bite spreads again! This, as you can imagine can be devastating, and for each death the colony loses 1 morale. You'll soon learn to fear the bite and do all you can to prevent anyone from rolling that red dice!
"There's A Traitor Among Us!"
If there appears to be a traitor in your midst, all players can collective vote to exile someone they strongly suspect is screwing everyone else over. If the vote passes by a majority, that player must reveal their hidden objective and draw a new "Exiled" objective, regardless of whether they were a traitor or not. The new objective could be for the good of the colony, or a selfish task out of bitterness. Exiling those that are not traitors comes at a cost, however, if you exile a good guy then prepare to see morale drop for your mistake. Exiled players can also no longer visit the colony or contribute to crises.
If hidden agendas, zombie bites and the potential of starving colonists aren't enough spice for you, then Crossroads cards should certainly add something else to the mix for you. Each player to the left of the current player draws one of these cards that contain story filled special events that trigger when certain conditions are met in game or a certain character is or isn't in play. They could be good or they could be very bad.
Crossroad cards can be real gamechangers and the consequences of them, which is usually determined by player choice, can either turn a game in the survivor's favour or further doom them to misery and despair. Unique to Dead Of Winter, Crossroads cards add plenty of extra personality, randomness and choice to the game. It's a game feature that, as the title suggests (A Crossroads Game) may appear in other board games in the future, and I certainly hope this is the case.
As you can probably tell, Dead Of Winter is a tense, exciting but also challenging game, and it stands apart from other zombie games on the market because of all the games it's the closest in spirit to The Walking Dead. The game isn't just about killing zombies, it's about surviving, player interaction and overcoming very real human problems such as starvation, sickness and betrayal. This isn't a Left 4 Dead style killfest, it's an apocalyptic drama!
In Summary
The game is very good, but is not without a few flaws that I should definitely probably mention. The game's biggest flaw is perhaps how the odds are slightly stacked in favour of the traitor. A very shrewd and clever traitor can hide themselves very well and can cause a huge amount of devastation in a single turn, ending a game within minutes if they take full advantage of the many actions that can destroy morale. In a game that's already challenging, having an expert saboteur in the ranks can ruin the fun for the other players.
Some people may also not like the random nature of the game. A lot is dependent on dice rolls, and if you don't get the right results then a whole players tun can be rendered totally useless. There's also that red exposure die to contend with, and it shows no mercy. It's not just dice that will mess with you either, as bad card draws from the crisis deck, Crossroads deck and being unable to find the items you need when searching can also really ruin your day.
The challenging nature of the game may also be a turn off for some players. It's quite complex and perhaps not recommended for those new to modern designer board games. However, despite the complicated rules, I've found that the strong and familiar theme of the game allows many newbies to overcome the challenge and gives them extra incentive to learn the game and take what is dishes out in its stride. Theme can make or break the success of a game with new players. Everyone 'gets' zombies and is willing to give Dead Of Winter a chance, where they might not for other board games with daunting rules.
Overall Dead Of Winter is an excellent board game that's an absolute must play for fans of zombie apocalypse media like The Walking Dead. It perfectly captures the feeling of survival against the odds and has plenty of drama, player interaction, has a healthy challenge, a cool cast of characters and has plenty of narrative extras that ensure you'll want to play the game with your friends over and over again!
TLDR Review
Pros: Immersive zombie apocalypse survival theme, great player interaction, cool characters, excellent co-operative challenge, awesome narrative, lots of replayability
Cons: Difficult for new board gamers, a lot left to random chance
9 out of 10
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After several false starts, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, is making a play to be as much a powerhouse online as it is offline, reopening its renovated Web site Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Target Corp. unveiled its own redesigned site last Friday, boasting better graphics and an improved search engine. And Kmart Corp. this week officially flashed its Bluelight.com site, after quietly launching it in June.
With more consumers becoming Web savvy 51 percent of American households are expected to be online this year, up from 45 percent last year, according to New York-based Jupiter Communications the discount behemoths aim to seize a larger share of the e-commerce pie.
But the discounters have much catching up to do.
Despite its stock taking a recent hit, e-tailing veteran Amazon.com has dominated traffic on the Web, attracting 14.3 million people to its site in September alone, according to Jupiter's Media Metrix.
That same month, Kmart's Bluelight.com had just 2 million customers, while Target.com attracted 1.5 million and Walmart.com 1.4 million.
But Wal-Mart, Kmart and Target say they're counting on their brand appeal to win customers online.
Take, for example, Karen Bakos, a 38-year-old New York resident, who is a loyal Amazon shopper, but is open to shopping online because of the discounters' reputation for low prices.
"If the sites are easy to use, then I would definitely use them," she said. "I just had a baby, and it's hard to get out. I would buy toys and clothing."
All three discounters are trying to closely link their online and offline businesses, using their stores to advertise the sites through circulars and signs.
Yet each discounter is also trying to carve out its own niche.
For example, the Minneapolis-based Target is limiting its online offerings to 15,000, with a focus on trendy and profitable items like Phillips toasters and Michael Graves housewares.
Kmart mixes such basic products as baby strollers with image-brand items like Martha Stewart sheets, while Bluelight.com is selling 300,000 items, up from 50,000 in June.
Then there's the Bentonville, Arkansas-based Wal-Mart, whose 4-year foray into e-commerce has been rather rocky.
Its latest Web makeover is being spearheaded by Jeanne Jackson, chief executive officer of walmart.com.
"It's just a refreshening," she said, adding that the site's closing was necessary to shift to speedier technology.
The makeover includes revamping the search engine to make it easier to find any one of 500,000 items, adding sharper graphics, and expanding such categories as toys, electronic gadgets and other gift items.
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RECIPES: Recipe Details
Texas Salsa Burgers w/ Roasted Chilies, Queso Oaxaca and Jalapeno Sour Cream
From Dallas, Texas comes a Tex-Mex combination where the flavor of the beef is front and center, and the condiments compliment the juciness and freshness of the ingredients.
2 Ripe roma tomatoes
2 Scallions, green and white part
1 Clove garlic
1 Tablespoon cilantro leaves
1/2 Large fresh jalapeno
1/8 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/2 large fresh jalapeno
2 scallions, white and green part
1 cup sour cream
1/2 lime
6 fresh anaheim chilies
1 tablespoon Colavita canola oil
2-1/2 pounds freshly ground chuck with 20% fat
2-1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 tablespoon Colavita canola oil for grill rack
2 cups shredded mexican queso oaxaca or asadero cheese
6 bakery style white hamburger buns
2 fresh rip California avacados
1/2 lime
kosher salt
freshly ground black pepper
Heat gas grill to 400 degrees F.
Finely dice tomatoes. Finely chop scallions, garlic and cilantro.
Cut jalapeno in half. Remove seeds and finely dice 1/2 of jalapeno. Save other half.
In a small bowl, mix vegetables with the cumin, salt and pepper. Set aside.
Finely dice the remaining jalapeno half. Finely chop scallions. Add to sour cream. Squeeze lime into
mix and stir well. Refrigerate until ready to use.
Brush all sides of chilies using 1 tablespoon of the oil and roast directly on grill,
turning often, until skin is blackened all over.
Remove from the grill and put into a zip lock bag. Close bag and set aside.
Mix ground chuck lightly with salt and pepper. Form into 12 equal size balls.
On wax paper, flatten each ball to a 5" diameter. They will be thin.
On 6 of the patties, place 1 rounded tablespoon of the salsa mixture in the center.
Spread to within 1/2" of edges. Top with remaining 6 patties and
seal the edges completely. Re-shape into 5"" burgers.
Using tongs and a wad of paper towels , grease grill using remaining 1 tablespoon oil.
Grill burgers at 400 degrees for 7-8 minutes per side, or to an internal temperature
of 160 degrees with an instant-read thermometer.
During the last two minutes of cooking, top each burger with 1/3 cup cheese and
place the buns on the grill to toast lightly. Close grill lid.
Remove chilies from bag and remove the charred skins and seeds.
Trim off stem and end of chilies to lay flat.
Cut avocados in half and remove the pit. Slice each avocado into 6 slices. (12 total)
Squeeze remaining lime half on avocado slices. Season with salt and pepper.
To assemble the burgers, place 2 slices avocado on bun, then the burger.
Top with roasted chili and 2 tablespoons of sour cream.


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THE European elections have provided another good result for UKIP following a strong showing in Thursday's local election.
The anti-EU party received just over 17,000 votes, several thousand more than the Conservatives and Labour who finished second and third respectively.
It was a poor night for the Liberal Democrats who finished fifth behind the Green Party.
These results were then combined with the rest from the South West region, which includes Gibraltar, to decide the six MEPs who will represent the area in the European Parliament.
The total results mean there will be two from UKIP, two Conservatives, one Labour and one Green.
While it was a boost for Labour, who gained one MEP from the Conservatives, the result was a further blow for the Lib Dems, who lost their one MEP to the Green Party.
It ends a very good few days for UKIP in Swindon, as well as the Conservatives who have said they are delighted to be ahead of the Labour party one year before a general election.
The turnout for the European election was 35.6 per cent.


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NO pain, no gain was Haines Watts' take on the Chancellor's budget.
Julie Bryant, Stephen Edwards and David Smy, from the firm of chartered accountants based in Sarum Hill, held a presentation at the Red Lion Hotel last week to give their view of George Osborne's 2014 budget and its implications for SMEs in the Basingstoke area.
David said: "While the UK economy will be back at the level it achieved pre-recession this year, growth has largely been achieved through consumer spending, rather than from savings, productivity growth or a rise in earnings.
"In fact, in terms of GDP, experts say the real growth won't follow until 2017.
"Set against this backdrop, the message was firmly that, although the economy is stronger, much more work needs to be done to get back into shape."
Stephen said: "The Government is keen not to fritter any money away and Haines Watts reminded businesses to ensure they don't get caught by the new measures being implemented to counter tax avoidance or the deferment of tax payments.
Julie said the Government did make several useful concessions for SMEs.
"Of interest to the many manufacturing and technology-based firms in the Basingstoke and Thames Valley will be the fact that it has invested over £100 million in the science and technology sector.
"From April the rate of the payable tax credit will be increased from 11 per cent to 14.5 per cent for loss-making SMEs conducting R&D activities."


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Both cities are targets for political housing announcements with National and Labour focusing on different ways to get first-home buyers into affordable housing.
Statistics New Zealand figures for July showed dwelling consents issued were up 1% in July from June, but 20.5% for the year ended July.
However, Auckland consents were thought to have increased 23% in July on a seasonally adjusted basis.
Although Canterbury consents were thought to have fallen 15% in July, this followed a strong result in June.
For the year to July, Canterbury dwelling consents issued increased 42% on the same period last year.
Housing Minister Nick Smith claimed the statistics showed Government housing reforms were working.
''We are increasing land supply and speeding up consent processes through our housing accords and special housing areas legislation. In Auckland alone, we have so far announced 63 special housing areas with a potential yield of 33,500 houses.''
Dr Smith expected to make an announcement on the fourth tranche of special housing areas in coming weeks.
Labour is promising to build 100,000 modern homes over 10 years through its KiwiBuild programme and National is promising to help 90,000 first-home buyers through KiwiSaver changes.
ASB economist Christina Leung said she continued to expect house-building demand in Auckland and Canterbury would drive construction growth over the next couple of years.
Statistics NZ estimated Canterbury earthquake-related consents totalled $126 million in July, of which $84 million was for residential building work and $42 million for non-residential work.
It was estimated $2.1 billion of earthquake-related consents had been issued since September 2010.
The work identified as earthquake-related only captured work to repair or rebuild on earthquake-related sites and did not include replacement buildings on a different site, Ms Leung said.
''The continued increase in non-residential building consents in July is another positive development.''
The increase in July was led by stronger demand for new office buildings and retail outlets. With businesses showing increasing optimism towards investment, that was likely to flow through to a continued improvement in commercial building demand over the coming year, she said.
Looking at the implications of the latest data, Ms Leung said the July data highlighted the positive developments in the construction sector.
House-building demand remained strong, led by Auckland and Canterbury and higher business confidence was finally translating through to increased demand for commercial buildings following soft demand over much of 2013.
''We expect strong house-building demand in Auckland and Canterbury will drive construction growth over the next couple of years. Added to that will be increased demand for non-residential construction, reflecting the continued improvement in business confidence.''
The ASB expected the Reserve Bank to hold the official cash rate at its current level of 3.5% until March next year.


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Topical Bevacizumab for Preventing Recurrent Pterygium
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Phil R. Capraro
Phil R. Capraro
Award: Honoring Our Veterans
Year: 2013
Phil Capraro was drafted into the Army in 1943. After basic training he was assigned to the 42nd Infantry Rainbow Division. He was wounded for the fi rst time, during the D-Day landing at Omaha Beach as part of 'Operation Overlord." Later, while engaged at the Siegfried Line, Capraro was wounded for a second time, and was awarded two Bronze Stars for heroic action. On December 16, 1944 at the "Battle of the Bulge," Capraro was wounded for the third time. At the time, Phil was in charge of four machine gun placements which were charged with providing cover fi re for 200 rifl emen in foxholes up front awaiting the German onslaught. At the end of the war, Phil continued to serve as part of the occupation forces. Capraro remained in the Army and was called up for the Korean War. In addition to two Bronze Stars, he earned three Purple Hearts, Good Conduct Medal, Battle of the Bulge Commendation, WWII Victory Medal, and European Theater Operation Medal.
He retired from the Army in 1975 after serving 32 years in several capacities.
As a civilian, Capraro worked as a small arms repairman for National Guard Armories in Central New York and ended as the Superintendent of the Parkway Armory in Utica.
Phil continues to be an advocate for veterans and military concerns, and is still active with the American Legion, DAV, the Order of Purple Hearts and the Vets of Battle of the Bulge. If he is not home, you will probably fi nd him retelling his fi rsthand accounts at a local school, or volunteering for a vets food-drive, or at a Wounded Warrior Project event, or making a delivery of donated goods at one of the naval hospitals.
Phil and his wife, Ida, continue to call Utica their home and count their three children, six grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren, as their greatest trophies.


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Have a peek into the studio of Karin, of Creative Chaos. At right is a photo of her vintage wallpaper stash.
Another scrapbook room can be seen here. This one belongs to Guppy Storm. See all the photos here.
Take a look at Sue Clark's art studio. This lucky gal's husband converted the sunroom for her. Such a bright and open space to work in!
Shimelle Laine shows some photos of her studio in a post here. One photo is shown at left. See all her studio shots here.
Vicki Flinchum shares photos of her scrapbook space here.
Little Miss Crafty shows photos of her craft space here. There are so many things to delight the eyes here! One photo is shown below.


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By Marius R. Busemeyer and Torben Iversen
Inequality has been on the rise in all the advanced democracies in the past three or four decades; in some cases dramatically. Economists already know a great deal about the proximate causes. In the influential work by Goldin and Katz on "The Race between Education and Technology", for example, the authors demonstrate that the rate of "skill-biased technological change" — which is economist speak for changes that disproportionately increase the demand for skilled labor — has far outpaced the supply of skilled workers in the US since the 1980s. This rising gap, however, is not due to an acceleration of technological change, but rather to a slowdown in the supply of skilled workers. Most importantly, a cross-national comparison reveals that other countries have continued to expand the supply of skills, i.e. the trend towards rising inequality is less pronounced in these cases.
The narrow focus of economists on the proximate causes is not sufficient, however, to fully understand the dynamic of rising inequality and its political and institutional foundations. In particular, skill formation regimes and cross-country differences in collective wage bargaining influence the quantity and quality of skills and hence also differences in inequality. Generally speaking, countries with coordinated wage-setting and highly developed vocational education and training (VET) systems respond more effectively to technology-induced changes in demand than systems without such training systems.
Yet, there is a great deal of variance in the extent to which this is true, and one needs to be attentive to the broader organization of political institutions and social relations to explain this variance. One of the recurrent themes is the growing socioeconomic differentiation of educational opportunity. Countries with a significant private financing of education, for example, induce high-income groups to opt out of the public system and into high-quality but exclusive private education. As they do, some public institutions try to compete by raising tuition and fees, and with middle- and upper-middle classes footing more of the bill for their own children's education, support for tax-financed public education declines.
This does not happen everywhere. In countries that inherited an overwhelmingly publicly-financed system only the very rich can opt out, and the return on private education is lower because of a flatter wage structure. In this setting the middle and upper-middle classes, deeply concerned with the quality of education, tend to throw their support behind improving the public system. Yet, they will do so in ways that may reproduce class-based differentiation within the public system. Based on an analysis of the British system, one striking finding is that a great deal of differentiation happens because high-educated, high-income parents, who are most concerned with the quality of the education of their children, move into good school districts and bid up housing prices in the process. As property prices increase, those from lower socio-economic strata are increasingly shut out from the best schools.
Even in countries with less spatial inequality, in part because of a more centralized provision of public goods, socioeconomic inequality may be reproduced through early tracking of students into vocational and academic lines. This is because the choice of track is known to be heavily dependent on the social class of parents. This is reinforced by the decisions of firms to offer additional training to their best workers, which disadvantages those who start at the bottom. There is also evidence that such training decisions discriminate against women because firm-based training require long tenures and women are less likely to have uninterrupted careers. So strong VET systems, although they tend to produce less wage inequality, can undermine intergenerational class mobility and gender equality.
The rise of economic inequality also has consequence for politics. While democratic politics is usually seen as compensating for market inequality, economic and political inequality in fact tend to reinforce each other. Economic and educational inequality destroy social networks and undermines political participation in the lower half of the distribution of incomes and skills, and this undercuts the incentives of politicians to be attentive to their needs. Highly segmented labor markets with low mobility also undermine support for redistribution because pivotal "insiders" are not at risk. Labor market "dualism" therefore delimits welfare state responsiveness to unemployment and rising inequality. In a related finding, the winners of globalization often oppose redistribution, in part because they are more concerned with competitiveness and how bloated welfare states may undermine it.
Economic, educational, and political inequalities thus also tend to reinforce each other. But the extent and form of such inequality vary a great deal across countries. This special issue helps explain why and suggests the need for an interdisciplinary approach that is attentive to national institutional and political context oppose redistribution.
Marius R. Busemeyer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Torben Iversen is Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. They are Guest Editors of the Socio-Economic Review April 2014 special issue on The Political Economy of Skills and Inequality which is freely available online until the end of May 2014.
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Honor the life of one who dedicated his or her service to country with this standing funeral wreath. Red gladioli and roses, white mums, blue hydrangea and delphinium are accented with lush greens for a beautiful and patriotic tribute.
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By Laurie Chance Smith
Web Exclusive – June 27, 2008
My five-year-old son Joshua was crying inconsolably, his look-mom-no-hands bike ride interrupted by a jolting wasp sting. Slinging Joshua onto my hip, I headed to the medicine cabinet and grabbed a blended bottle of lavender (Lavendula angustifolia) massage oil. With one drop of this miracle-working oil on the sting, Joshua's tear-streaked face transformed. Not only did the lavender's analgesic qualities deaden the pain on his arm, its spring-blossom smell calmed his anxiety.
Aromatherapy is a form of natural healing that Valerie Gennari Cooksley, author of Aromatherapy: A Lifetime Guide to Healing with Essential Oils, calls "the study of scent". For aromatherapy, essential oils like lavender are distilled from plant materials, such as leaves and flowers.
Aromatherapy's plant essences contain powerful healing elements that can be used safely and effectively at home for everyday needs. In Aromatherapy for the Healthy Child, Valerie Worwood agrees, "Every parent has been in the position of having a sick child to care for with no available help. It's a horrible feeling. With aromatherapy, however, you're not helpless; there's something you can do—something that's been shown to work through long-term use, and through a great deal of scientific research."
Not only effective for life's daily emergencies, "regular use of essential oils—in baths, inhalations, vaporizers and compresses—can be a wonderful method of preventative medicine to help children avoid colds and other infectious diseases," says aromatherapist Nicola McGill. Essential oils stimulate the immune system, encouraging the body toward a natural state of strength and health. Naturally in tune with their senses, children often respond quickly and positively to the healing effects aromatherapy offers.
To utilize the healing benefits of aromatherapy, locate 100 percent pure essential oils. Before using them, perform a patch test to check for skin sensitivities by placing one drop of the oil on your child's wrist, and wait an hour. If irritation develops, do not use the oil.
Kid Soothers
"Lavender and chamomile (Anthemis nobilis) are the most valuable oils for children," says McGill. To blend massage oil for a child who is run-down, not sleeping, or over-excited, mix five to seven drops of lavender or chamomile essential oil in one ounce of jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis) oil or unscented lotion. Massage your child wherever they feel tension; neck and shoulders are a great place to start.
Tummy Troubles
Lavender, Roman chamomile, spearmint (Mentha spicata), and tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) oils are effective aids for digestive disorders. If your child has an upset stomach, dab one drop of lavender or Roman chamomile massage oil behind each ear. Either of these aromas will help ease nausea.
At the same time, massage the feet with lavender, chamomile, or tea tree oil blended with jojoba or lotion. "You can relax all parts of the body by massaging the feet," says McGill. Also add two drops of tea tree oil to a bowl of warm water. It's strong, medicinal scent helps disinfect the sick room. Tea tree has a range of antibacterial and antiviral properties, and is particularly effective in treating digestive viruses.
The candy-flavored scent of spearmint is an agreeable aroma to diffuse for young children with stomach upset. Simply add two drops of spearmint to a vaporizer. Footbaths can also soothe nausea. To a bowl of warm water, add two drops of tea tree, spearmint, lavender, or chamomile. Ease the feet in and play soothing music to help your child relax.
Colds and Coughs
Along with tea tree, eucalyptus (Eucalyptus radiata) essential oil is effective at treating cold and flu symptoms. Eucalyptus is a familiar smell due to its presence in many over-thecounter chest rubs. For aromatherapeutic inhalation, add two drops of eucalyptus or tea tree essential oil to a bowl of warm water. Stay near your child as they lean over the bowl to breathe the healing vapors. McGill advises parents to limit the time of inhalation to a few seconds at a time—this will allow the child to become accustomed to the steam and oil combination.
For additional benefits, blend five drops (combined) of eucalyptus, geranium (Pelargonium graveolens), and rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) essentials oils in one ounce of lotion. Massage over the neck and chest twice daily. Aside from its healing benefits, geranium's rosy scent is relaxing and uplifting. Rosemary is an especially effective treatment in the beginning stages of a cold or cough, says Kurt Schnaubelt, Ph.D. in Advanced Aromatherapy.
From Hiccups to Nosebleeds
Utilize chamomile's fruity, herbal scent to ease hiccups. Rub chamomile, blended in jojoba, on your palms, hold to the child's nose for inhalation, then massage the chest and stomach with the blended oils. Aromatherapist Jeanne Rose suggests lavender's quintessential calming scent as an alternative.
A lavender compress can bring aid for nosebleeds. Fill a bowl with warm water, add two drops of lavender, dip a soft cloth into the lavender water and wring out. Lay the cloth across the nose, keeping it away from the eyes. Aside from the healing aspects of the lavender oil, the scent will help calm your child during these scary episodes, says Maggie Tisserand in Aromatherapy for Women.
Rest and Rejuvenation for Children and Mothers
Bath time becomes a breeze with aromatherapy's calming aid. McGill suggests blending up to four drops of lavender or chamomile essential oil in a teaspoon of milk or vegetable oil. Run all the bathwater, then add the blended oils and swish the water with your hand before the child climbs in. An alternative bath recipe includes two drops lavender and two drops mandarin (Citrus reticulata) for a floral, citrus smell, says Cooksley.
To encourage sound sleep, add two or three drops of lavender essential oil to the child's vaporizer at bedtime. With lavender's soothing scent drifting from your child's room, carve some time to indulge yourself.
Rose (Rosa damascena) is known as the queen of flower; its essential oil is a reputed hormone-regulator at any stage of a woman's life. Rose relieves stress, headaches, and insomnia, and according to Cooksley, is "balancing and rejuvenating to [the] skin."
The sweet, clean scent of frankincense (Boswellia carteri) has been used since ancient Egypt to purify sacred space. Frankincense essential oil is meditative, benefiting anxiety and tension. The inhalation of frankincense also opens the lungs and encourages deep breathing. Add six to eight drops of lavender, rose, or frankincense to a warm bath to help dissolve the day's stress and pave the way toward peaceful sleep.
Natural Hand Sanitizer
Fill a clean four-ounce spray bottle with water. Add ten drops lavender and five drops tea tree; then shake to blend. Keep this antiseptic spray in the car to clean hands quickly.
Mother's Luxurious Cream
To a four-ounce bottle of unscented cream, add five drops rose and two drops frankincense. Blend and apply to face daily to help retain the skin's healthy glow and slow the appearance of wrinkles.
Bibliography of Sources
Cooksley, Valerie Gennari. Aromatherapy: A Lifetime Guide to Healing with Essential Oils. Paramus, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996.
McGill, Nicola. www.nicolamcgillaromatherapy.com Email and Telephone Interviews, March 25, 2008.
Rose, Jeanne. Electronic Mail Interview, April 30, 2007.
Rose, Jeanne. 375 Essential Oils and Hydrosols. Berkeley, CA: Frog, Ltd., 1999.
Rose, Jeanne and Susan Earle, Eds. The World of Aromatherapy. Berkeley, CA: Frog Limited, 1996.
Schnaubelt, Kurt. Advanced Aromatherapy: The Science of Essential Oil Therapy. Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 1995.
Schnaubelt, Kurt. Medical Aromatherapy: Healing with Essential Oils. Berkeley, CA: Frog Ltd. Books, 1999.
Tisserand, Maggie. Aromatherapy for Women. Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 1985.
Tisserand, Robert B. The Art of Aromatherapy. Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 1977.
Worwood, Valerie. Aromatherapy for the Healthy Child. Novato, CA: New World Library, 2000.
Worwood, Valerie Ann. The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy. Novato, CA: New World Library, 1991.


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Tired of lugging around slippery bundles of receipts and having to figure out what they were for and when and where you generated that expense for that painful aspect of business travel, the expense report? Gorilla Expense, a new NBAA exhibitor at Booth No. 4641, has developed software to make the expense process easier.
Gorilla's software is a combination of the online Gorilla Expense system, tied to a mobile application that runs on iPhones, BlackBerrys and Android phones. When you pay for an expensable item on a trip, simply shoot a photo of the receipt with your phone's built-in camera and edit a few details about the expense. It's then automatically incorporate into your Gorilla Expense account.
Once back at your office or from any computer with Internet access, you can complete your expense report. Or, for an extra fee, Gorilla will customize your software to integrate with your company's ERP or accounting system to further automate the expense reporting process. The software can also handle foreign currencies, as well as incorporate company policies and limitations, warning users of policy violations, for example.
Gorilla Expense has focused previously on the consulting and engineering fields, but given the amount of travel done by aviation industry personnel, company president CV Sudarshan saw an opportunity and decided to exhibit at this year's NBAA show.
Gorilla Expense costs from $10 to $50 per person, depending on how many users work for the company that buys the software. NBAA attendees can view the iPhone app at the Gorilla Expense booth and sign up for a free trial of the product, said Sudarshan.


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Metroplex to Mineral Wells, Texas
Posted by Zachary W. Ford | Tags: Inexpensive , Rail-Trails , Routes & Rides , U.S. - Texas
The Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex is the last place you'd think of for bike-camping but when you look around and see the over-worked, over-stressed city slickers running around in their Suburban's...well, it might just be the perfect place!
That's exactly where I found myself 9 months after getting back from my 2,500 mile tour across the West ... I had caught the bike tripping bug and it was gnawing away at my soul. (All I could think about was the freedom, pedaling down roads I've never seen, sleeping anywhere I wanted to, riding till I got tired then on till the sun set — freedom.) What does one do? I couldn't take off for another 13 weeks; I had a job and a house! But perhaps an overnight trip could work.
Entering Aledo, 4 hours in to the trip. (Pondering Cyclist—April 2011)
This time I decided I didn't want to do it alone. I talked my girlfriend in to going with me; she'd never been on a tour and had never ridden further than 45 miles but seeing that she's a hardcore commuter, I knew she could handle it. I just had to make it easy.
Not lost while riding through the sprawl of North Crowley. (Pondering Cyclist—April 2011)
The day we left, I had the gear together, not only the necessities — peanut butter, tortillas, and oatmeal — but some extras to make it a little more enjoyable: a hammock and whiskey. She had my panniers on her rack, and I had my road bike with BOB trailing behind.
On the way out I realized that, somehow, I didn't have any tent stakes, so we went to Mountain Sports to get a couple as well as any other items we forgot. The route was Arlington, TX, to Mineral Wells State Park, about 75 miles away. I knew we probably wouldn't make it all the way in one day so in the back of my mind I was thinking of stealth camping somewhere near Weatherford. (Say what you want about that particular form of sleeping but in my opinion it's tops, opening up a whole world of sleeping possibilities.) That night, after stopping at the best pizzeria this side of NYC we found a little spot off the Interstate, hopped a fence and spent the night in a stand of trees. Perfect.
Six hours in to the trip and done with day one, we stop for pizza and pasta at Nizza Pizza. (Pondering Cyclist— April 2011)
The next day we got our coffee on and continued, this time hopping on a wonderful rail-trail path that goes between Weatherford and Mineral Wells. Couldn't have asked for a better route: The tree cover provides wonderful shade, and creates this amazing tunnel of wind that pushes you the whole way to the lake.
During our ride down the rail-trail between Weatherford and Lake Mineral Wells State Park. (Pondering Cyclist—April 2011)
Finally, after 36 hours on the road we arrived at the entrance of the park, climbed six switchbacks up a gravel path and then descended -- on the Park's paved road -- to the lake. After all the miles, we jumped in that beautiful, cold lake water as fast as possible.
Not only was it an amazing escape but I got another cyclist hooked on the idea of traveling by bike. It was her first trip but when she asked me, "When are we going to do another?" I knew it wouldn't be her last.
Go ahead, take the weekend off, hop on a bike and ride it somewhere, anywhere. Take the plunge, bike overnight!
10 responses so far ↓
norma - Jul 14, 2011 at 10:34 PMyes , once you have the bug you won't /cant let go of it!
I got it !
Zac Ford - Jul 15, 2011 at 8:58 AMNorma, it's so true! I allow myself time to go out and do the weekend trips but all I can think about is taking off for another three-- or more-- months and simply letting go to live on a bike.
Bob D - Jul 17, 2011 at 4:38 AMThanks for taking the time to write this. I live in Houston and keep thinking of a tour as a $300 shipbike ticket to get my bike to some place east or north to do a tour. I forget that going to a state park with a couple of friends can be exhilarating. Your write-up is inspirational.
Zac Ford - Jul 17, 2011 at 11:20 AMPick up a copy of next month's The Racing Post, I write a column about weekend bike trips for them, too, and they're all in Texas!
It's so true, though, you don't have to go far away to do a tour, sure it's nice to fly to Colorado or ride through Taos but you can get the same feeling simply by riding out your own doorstep and going 20, 40, or sixty miles away-- and you can do it more often! Try it some time, and if you're in Houston find my friend Darrell Robertson, he's a big bike tourist down there. Shoot me a message- firstname.lastname@example.com
Marc - Jun 17, 2012 at 3:30 PMWhat route did you use from Arlington to Mineral Wells? It looks like I-20 does not have a feeder / access road for bike travel
Michael McCoy - Jun 27, 2012 at 11:00 AMMarc, I've forwarded your question to the author. Sorry for the delay; hopefully we'll hear from Zachary soon.
zac ford - Jun 27, 2012 at 12:53 PMHey Marc, I rode from central Arlington to Mansfield, through Kennedale to Burleson, Crowley and over to Benbrook. From there I hopped on 1187 to Weatherford and finally took the rail-trail to MWSP.
Matt Bailey - Jul 29, 2014 at 8:27 AMDo you happen to have a GPS map of this route so I know exactly what roads to travel the whole way? Thanks!
zac - Jul 29, 2014 at 8:43 AMNope, I don't.
zac - Jul 29, 2014 at 8:51 AMMatt look at my comment above and then at a map, its fairly easy to figure out.


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The Siena Heights University men's soccer team improved to 2-0 Aug. 26 with a 2-1 victory at St. Francis, Ind. The game was originally scheduled to be played in Adrian, but was moved to Fort Wayne, Ind., because heavy rains led to unplayable field conditions at SHU.
With the match scoreless at halftime, the Saints got two goals in the second half and held on for the win.
Ryan Hansinger scored an unassisted goal in the 64th minute and Blake Fowler added the insurance goal eight minutes later.
St. Francis' only goal came on a penalty kick goal with less than a minute left to play. The Saints outshot the Cougars 17-9 and had a 5-3 edge in corner kicks.
Andrew Klenner earned the win in goal for Siena Heights, which is scheduled to play Friday in the opening round of the Walsh (Ohio) College Invitational.


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You know the news on Casey Pachall. He was arrested on suspicion of DWI early Thursday morning. There is no need to dive into his situation any further. What we do need to discuss is how this latest setback affects the Frogs on the field. Redshirt freshman Trevone Boykin will make his first collegiate start on Saturday, which means there are two areas of this TCU team that must step up if the Frogs want to remain unbeaten.
You know the old saying, "offense wins games, but defense wins championships?" This TCU defense must now take its level of play up a notch. Not only to help the offense, but because the schedule doesn't get any easier from this point forward. The Frogs defense has been incredibly efficient on third downs this season. TCU held Grambling to 21 percent on third downs, Kansas to 15 percent, Virginia to 19 percent, and SMU to 21 percent. For you non-math majors out there, that means TCU opponents are converting only on 19 percent of their third down opportunities on the year. This is a trend that needs to continue if the Frogs want to have success. Keep the opposing offense off the field. There are few things in football more disheartening than when the opponent converts on third down to keep a drive alive.
The last thing you want to do to a young quarterback is force him into making plays and having to come from behind. If the Frogs' defense can play the way we have seen Gary Patterson-led defenses play in the past, it will make Boykin's life easier, and make the game much more manageable.
Another area that must improve to make the transition to Boykin even smoother is the running game. Injuries have had a major impact on the running back situation, but TCU's rushing yards have declined in each game since the opener against Grambling. The Iowa State defense is stingy and is giving up only 98.5 yards per game. The Cyclones defensive unit will be the best TCU has seen to date. The offense must come out with an emphasis on establishing the rushing game and controlling the line of scrimmage. I guess one of the positives in this situation is that Boykin is a much better runner than Pachall. If the Frogs can get back to pounding the ball on the ground, it will take a lot of the pressure off of Boykin.
I have confidence in Trevone Boykin, but he is a redshirt freshman. If the TCU defense and rushing game can have success, it only increases Boykin's chances of succeeding. I'm a little nervous right now. That is nothing new though. I was nervous before Pachall made his first start at Baylor last season, but he came out and lit up the scoreboard. Hopefully Boykin can do the same. The pressure is off, just go out there and play.