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- Costco's food court is home to a number of cheap and tasty menu options that members and food critics love.
- Costco employees themselves have some favorites, too.
- Business Insider reached out to Costco workers and scoured the web to figure out what meals are considered standout hits with employees.
Costco food courts are famous for having cheap, yummy grub.
The food court menus are static in terms of price and offerings. You'll have to travel if you want to find any serious discrepancies between Costco food court menus.
They're definitely a good option for shoppers looking to grab a quick, post-shopping spree meal. And some Costco employees are fans too.
Business Insider recently asked a number of Costco employees to share their favorite food court menu options. We also scoured the internet for employee reviews of the food court items on social media.
Here are the food court menu options that Costco employees love:
"Costco's pizzas are pretty incredible considering the price," Costco worker Stefan Winter wrote on Quora. "Crust is yummy, toppings are good quality, what's not to love?"
Nine other Costco workers told Business Insider that the pizza was their favorite food court item. Of those, one worker preferred the pepperoni pizza, while two went with the combo pizza.
"You get sick of the food after awhile, but the combo pizza is always my go-to," one Costco worker in Florida told Business Insider.
During a 2013 Reddit AMA, a Costco employee called the pizza "awesome" and added that "a lot of people don't know you can get vegetarian or do half and half."
The hot dog-and-soda combo
"The hot dog soda combo for $1.50 is a classic," one San Diego-based Costco employee told Business Insider.
One Costco worker in Illinois told Business Insider that they liked the bratwurst and felt disappointed when their store got rid of it for chili.
Another worker who's been at Costco for 12 years told Business Insider that, while they didn't often eat at the food court, when they did, they opted for the bratwurst.
Three Costco employees who have worked for the warehouse chain for seven and half, eight, and ten years, respectively, told Business Insider that their go-to food court orders typically included a churro.
"Lunchtime is always a safe bet for fresh food," a seven-year Costco employee wrote in a Reddit AMA. "When the lines are long, the churros are good."
Polish sausages
A Costco food court worker wrote in a 2014 Reddit AMA that they preferred the Polish sausages over the food court hot dogs, adding, "There's more flavor."
"I love the new chili and the pizza," a Costco worker in Ohio told Business Insider, adding that she ate at the food court "every now and then."
"Regardless of what you eat as the 'main course', the pistachio gelato — or any gelato — is to die for," former Costco employee Robert Lu wrote on Quora.
Berry smoothie
Four Costco employees told Business Insider that they favored the food court's berry smoothies.
BONUS: free samples
Costco samples don't actually count as food court items. But, as one Costco employee wrote in a 2013 Reddit AMA, it's always nice to get "free grub" on the job.
The employee noted that the people handing out the samples get "bored standing there all day. Just talk to them and they'll give you plenty."
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Pop Up Thinglab 7 was part of the "Not Moodle Roundtable" facilitated by Julian Bream at the Mary Ward Centre for people involved with adult and community education in London.
21 people from 15 adult and community learning services across London shared their experiences, tips and tools of education and technology - here is what we talked about:
* Learners expect to use familiar technology in their education (it's part of everyday lives) but the technology education offers is increasingly out of touch with everyday life and is difficult to use.
* There was much discussion about BYOD and examples were given of learners using smartphones to make videos and share things using social media and messaging apps. Waltham Forest for example have IT courses without providing any hardware - an example of BYOD family learning.
* Learners (and staff) have few problems using their own devices especially smartphones but we have to be very sensitive to technology equality issues as some people have very good personal equipment and networking while others have very poor equipment or none at all. Moving away from a focus on technology can help here - there is no use prescribing a particular app or system if it can't be used in context - focusing on teaching and learning is a better approach and putting any technology into a support role.
* Having to operate, teach and learn in locked down IT environments - restricting the freedom of teachers and learners to be flexible and to use the tools they find most appropriate.
* Too much focus on technology and its provision rather than a focus on pedagogy and using the appropriate methods and tools to support it.
* The idiosyncrasies of the venues they use - adult and community teachers often have to educate in venues operated by many agencies and the IT used has different "systems behaviours" e.g. ways to login, access storage and programs etc.
* In some places there is enthusiasm but its not matched with the right level of support or infrastructure.
* Some tutors feel they don't have the skills or confidence to use technology.
* People don't like change ... this is often a consequence of institutional methods of change ... top down "big bang" systems thinking approaches with inappropriate\inadequate consideration of human factors.
* The importance of peer support and the sharing of ideas, experiences and solutions was recognised and the need for more of this was appreciated. People talked about creating a toolkit of resources that can be selected from. In no particular order here are some of the tools that people talked about and recommended Thinglink, Padlet, Camstudio, Pinnion, Polleverywhere, Nearpod, Photomath, Blendspace, Quizlet, Whatsapp, Google translate and Youtube.
Education is not a problem to be solved.
InspireNshare's Martin King did an impromptu session on education technology. He spoke about the problem of change in education, "ed-tech solutionism", education and technology cycles, history repeating and about the philosophy of InspireNshare and Thinglabs .
Martin spoke about his experience of more than 35 years with education and technology - how he has seen the cycles of "the next big thing" that will really make a difference or as Evgeny Morozov writes "To Save Everything, Click Here". The latest technology solutions that most remember and which are still being promoted in education are of course eboards, MLEs's, tablets and MOOCs. Martin told Miles Metcalf's joke about eBoards ....
"The latest eBoards are so good that you can see the chalk dust"
There is a willingness to invest in tangible capital product but not the staff or staff development that can really make a difference and with this type of "concrete thinking" the replacement of teachers with AI systems seems inevitable.
"Concrete thinking" means the "e" in eLearning so often stands for "expensive" - there are so many stories of institution leaderships giving the go ahead to spend tens of thousands on tablets only to have them sit in cupboards unused because no one has had any idea how to use them in practice in their subjects or have them locked down and loaded with specific apps and taken out of charging cabinets in classrooms as if they were textbooks.
So often technology is seen as just yet another content delivery method and with this type of thinking the direct brain upload to students seems inevitable!
Why is it that education itself doesn't seem to change?
Why is it that so many talk about a growing disconnect between education and the real world?
Why is it that people talk about education technology and a crisis of relevance?
Keep taking the tablets ... technology dependence .. the solution is more of the same
One reason is that education decisions are not informed by teachers but by corporate style vested interests in maintaining the status quo of big expensive institutional technology and the high level deals with the education and technology industry "matrix".
Somehow learners and teachers must be able to shape the future of learning and teaching
Martin spoke about his "bottom up" and grass roots development philosophy and how inspireNshare and Thinglab are influenced by the ancient Greek steam engine and the Butterfly effect - that sharing things can inspire people to see appropriate or new uses for them and that by further sharing their ideas and uses can cause bigger effects than ever imagined.
In the 1st century AD Heron described what is considered to be the first recorded steam engine but it was only ever thought of and used as a toy ... imagine if a Roman engineer had seen it ... its potential might have been seen and history could have been very, very different.
The Butterfly is a symbol of change and lightness of mind and the Butterfly effect is the idea that tiny actions and changes can have large, widespread effects through chain reactions in an interconnected world.
As part of the meeting Martin brought along the Pop up Thinglab Virtual Reality Travel Agency with a selection of VR headsets and showed an Introduction To Virtual Reality Smash Hit VR, Cirque Du Soleil: ZARKANA and Discovr. Egypt on the Samsung Gear VR and The Click Effect and "The Evolution of Vrse" on Google Cardboard VR.

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I built these ruined walls from aquarium rocks and scrap mdf pieces. They're not the tallest ruined walls, but with the added height of the mdf they do the job.
Here are the rocks used
The unpictured steps are my standard basing/painting techniques; add sand, prime black, drybrush the rock walls in a medium grey followed by a lighter grey drybrush, paint the sand/dirt dark brown, and drybrush a grey/tam. Flock and foliage were then added.
This piece uses a flatter aquarium rock, so they resemble slate. The base is cardboard, covered with hot glue to give texture as well as strength. Some sand was added in various spots because the hot glue texture looks a little off by itself. Hopefully this will look like some cool ruined ground.


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Zanki Zero: Last Beginning Unveils New Gameplay Trailer
Spike Chunsoft has recently unveiled the latest gameplay trailer for their upcoming survival RPG, Zanki Zero: Last Beginning, and it is looking pretty interesting to say the least. For those unfamiliar with the title, it is a new type of survival game from the creators of the Danganronpa series, Yoshinori Terasawa and Takayuki Sugawara. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world where you take control of eight protagonists who are not just fighting for their own survival, but also trying to figure out the meaning of their never-ending cycles of life and death


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Entice yourself to shoot portraits by experimenting with different materials, sculpting your portraits, adding flare and more, using our experts' top tips
1. Prefocus your picture
Niki Boon
To increase my chances of a sharp result I often prefocus – this involves aiming the lens at an area I know the subject will enter into, rather than chasing movement with the camera. I prefocus, and when I see the subject entering the frame and about to do something interesting, I release the shutter.
2. Stay sharp with shallow DOF
James Abbott
Fast primes are fantastic for shooting portraits. Whether you're going in close for a head and shoulders crop or full length, the shallow depth-of-field they can create looks stunning. The difficulty is in getting the shots sharp where they should be – on the eyes. The zone of focus is so narrow that if you move a tiny amount between focusing and releasing the shutter, the point of focus is lost. One way around this is to set the camera to burst mode, and after focusing take three shots in quick succession. This will triple your chances of getting a sharp shot.
3. Add some flare
Tom Calton
Traditionally lens flare has had a bad reputation in portraiture. It's often regarded as something damaging to your photographs and should be guarded against with the use of a lens hood. Although in some instances this way of thinking has its merits, flare can also be viewed in a more positive light (pardon the pun) and can be used to add a dream-like haze to portraits, giving them a wow factor. The key to achieving good lens flare is in the positioning – or more specifically, the angle at which light glances over the front element of your lens. Positioning yourself so that the sun is approximately 45° from the front element of your lens is a good place to start; then while peering through the viewfinder, slowly pivot the camera away and towards the sunlight (but don't look directly at the sun) until you achieve the desired effect. The size of the front element of your lens will play a role in the type of lens flare you achieve. Lenses with larger front elements tend to generate a soft haze, while smaller lenses will produce concentrated rings and orbs of light.
4. Shoot with the camera tethered to laptop
Amanda Thomas
When shooting fashion portraits, I always shoot tethered to a computer in the studio or a laptop on location. This makes the working process much easier and smoother as you can view the images on a bigger screen while you are shooting. With a clearer view you will then know instantly if you need to make any changes as you go along. Stopping to crowd around the screen on the back of the camera to view a set of images will not only slow you down, it will break the contact and flow with your model.
5. Experiment with different materials
Trevor & Faye Yerbury
Very soft organza, or silks of pastel tones, can add a new dimension to your pictures. Material can be wrapped around your model in a number of ways, used as a veil or encouraged to blow in the wind, where it creates fluidity and movement when combined with slow shutter speeds. It can be advantageous to have an assistant on hand to help arrange materials in a particular way. Flimsy and light material slips off easily and having a stylist or assistant can help fix things while you wait to shoot so it doesn't slow you down.
6. Sculpt the light
Jason Lanier
Budget should be no barrier to controlling lighting so that you can model and sculpt it to flatter your subject. Reflectors and diffusers are cheap to buy. Finding the best position for a reflector is a matter of trial and error but there's one important rule: get it as close as possible. As you move the diffuser closer to a subject's face, the subject will start to glow and you'll get that catch light. This is applicable not just for natural light but also strobes, LEDs or anything you use. The closer you can get the light or modi er to the subjects, the more they will light up.


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Miguel has designed packaging for our proprietary products in the past and will work closely with any injection molding customers we have that may need package design, product literature and branding, promo videos, or ad campaigns. We can take products from design, tooling, manufacture, packaging (including design), complete with an ad campaign if our customers desire.
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Awhile back Elaine had a review on some scandinavian kolrosing knives she bought. There seemed to be some confusion about what it was and where it came from. I know a little of the history about kolrosing and have done a little of it myself.
For those of you not familiar with kolrosing, it isn't really wood carving as such,but it definitely is a woodworking craft which can rise to the status of art when done by creative hands.
Doing kolrosing consists of making incisions, or etching into wood, but not taking out any waste. The incisions are then rubbed with finely ground or sanded bark mixed with oil. This makes the pattern stand out very well. This art form actually originated in Scandinavia among the Laplanders, a nomadic people in the north who moved with their reindeer herds pretty freely between Norway, Sweden and Finland. The descendants of these people are still living In these areas and still herding reindeer, but are less Nomadic than they were earlier.
Kolrosing actually started with the etching of patterns on horn and bone materials and then rubbing the patterns with a mixture of burned out wood coals from their open pit fires and animal fat. I'm not sure, but I think the Inuit people do something similar. The practice has been extended to include kolrosing in wood. They look three dimensional, but are actually flat. Below are some pictures of old kolrosing on bone and horn done by Laplanders and followed by a current example in wood by Norwegian artist Leif Ottar Flaten. Hope you find them interesting. Sorry the pics aren't of the best quality.
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6: Walking like a pro before her first birthday! -July 10, 2008
28: Emily had such a good time opening her presents and hanging out with family!
47: Easter Morning 2009
50: One day we took a little drive and found this amazing park with the best playground ever. We spent the day with our shoes off, reading, and playing. It was a perfect spring day.
57: We had a joint farm birthday party for Emily and Mikell's 2nd Birthday. The kids swam in the pool, caught ducks in nets, put animal balloons in the corral, and searched though the straw for prizes. It was such a fun. party.
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Stuffed animals are piled outside the apartment complex where a 5-year-old was murdered last week.
The boy's mother, 42-year-old Shannon Dodson, is accused of killing him. She has been charged with first-degree murder.
Jude Murray-Gomez's lifeless body was pulled from his home at the Hill Park Apartments after a fire started on November 8.
But an autopsy revealed the child's death was not related to the fire--the cause of death was drowning.
According to Dodson's arrest affidavit, when firefighters arrived on scene on the morning of Nov. 8, smoke was pouring out of Apt. 203. Firefighters determined the fire was contained to one bedroom, and found a smoldering mattress there. When they tossed it out, they saw a child's arm draped over the box springs. Jude was wrapped in a blanket, lying between the bed and the wall. The blanket was also smoldering.
A firefighter started performing chest compressions on the little boy, and said that water began coming out his mouth.
The arrest affidavit says firefighters noticed a bath tub full of water, and found Dodson in a closet. The affidavit goes on to describe Dodson's appearance and demeanor:
Colorado Springs firefighter Lt. Jose Garcia located suspect Shannon Dodson in the hall closet...and stated she was naked, wet, and was sitting up with her hands wrapped around her knees. He said her eyes were closed and when asked, she would not open her eyes and did not respond to Lt. Garcia.
Dodson was taken to Memorial Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Two detectives went to speak with her. One of the detectives describes her conversation with Dodson in the affidavit:
I...asked her if she knew why I was there to speak with her. Ms. Dodson became emotion [sic] and said that she did. I asked her why she thought we wanted to talk with her and she said, "Because I killed my son."
Under Miranda, Ms. Dodson gave no further details of this incident, started to cry, and said that she shouldn't have done it and didn't know why she did it. Ms. Dodson also said she thought they would go together...that she couldn't believe she did it.
According to the arrest affidavit, one of Dodson's adult daughters told police that during a conversation four days before the fire, her mother said she wanted to kill Jude and then herself. Her daughter said she spoke with her mother further about it, and her mother told her she wouldn't do it.
Jude's family told 11 News that Dodson didn't have full custody of the boy, but was allowed to see him on the weekend.
Records indicate this is the first time Dodson has been in trouble with the law in Colorado.


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A Look at the World of Darkness MMO via EVE Online
With the unveiling of our exclusive EVE avatar video, we can now begin to draw lines and begin imagining how the engine could be used in an upcoming CCP game featuring White Wolf's World of Darkness. Watch the video, then read Micajah's opinion on the quality of the video and his excitement regarding the future of the World of Darkness MMO.
World of Darkness fans, your prayers have been answered. I've now seen what CCP can do when it comes to avatar graphics, and I was astounded by it. It was natural and smooth. But above all, it was beautiful...
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For the swimmers the club has a junior olympic size pool great for lap swimming and other water activities. We offer a free locker and towel service as well as child services for your young ones. You can grab a snack or a cup of coffee in the Member's Lounge after your workout.
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The spiritual sunrise of divine love gives the first light of the sweet morning of joyous living, and enlightened giving, with Seraphic angelic choirs making rejoicing appearance, singing praises to the God of love; for the rapture, and glory of the Divinest Person descends upon the children of earth, tuning the hearts of all to the pitch of existential love.
Every moment is rising to overflowing, with worshipful love chants, and a celebratory thankfulness of global heart rhythms, resonating in unison, eternalizing to the infinite melodies of a love supreme; and with modulating intensity, as daybreak unfolds, celestial song birds fill the air with the music of the spheres. Presently, the people of the earth are rising up, reveling in concert, as the epic rhapsody of divine love raves through every heart, and is now primetime—the hour of light and love has come!
In this new day, unadulterated love awakens us to a more elevated key-tone in which to tune our souls; this mighty ascendancy, and undiluted love current, is sounding the onset of a new dispensation, an age of enveloping, escalating, advancing love activities, ever protecting, and freeing all minds from the dark cold nights of life, until every being lauds unencumbered, extolling, acclaiming, and glorifying our revered Maker.
This auspicious, mounting hour, harkens to the divine affections of our beloved Heart Master of absolute love, forever making it impossible to remain asleep one minute longer; this momentous advent is love triumphant, in which our Universal Creator holds back nothing—excepting for our capacity—to array us with unending, unmitigated love. A bright new future has dawned, bringing on the spiritual sunrise of divine love. Hallelujah!!!


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A CAMPAIGN to fill Birmingham's empty shops and boost the city's economy by millions of pounds was launched today.
Business leaders Retail Birmingham and Marketing Birmingham have joined forces to spearhead the initiative, which will concentrate on ridding the city centre of its abandoned stores for the first time.
It is hoped the Voids Project scheme will entice new business to the city and enable struggling small independent shops to thrive.
The news comes after the Birmingham Mail reported last month how small traders were quitting the city centre because of a perceived "Bullring effect".
They claimed they were being forgotten by city council chiefs who placed too much emphasis on big name stores and shopping centres, leaving once thriving areas struggling.
Since the Bullring opened four years ago, the doors have closed on many shops, with To Let boards now littering the city centre.
The City Plaza, off Cannon Street, is ditching two thirds of its shopping space in favour of new offices and the Great Western Arcade is trying to fill empty units.
The newly-refurbished North Western Arcade nearby has more than half of its 23 outlets empty.
Corporation Street, New Street and High Street are also full of empty shops or cut price clothing stores.
Nigel Godfrey, Retail Birmingham's business manager, said: "We know the city centre's empty shops are a big issue.
"We are putting together a database of all the shops in Birmingham, including empty ones. Surprisingly this has never been done before and could be a reason why shops are remaining empty.
"The database will include information about how big the units are and how much they cost to rent."
Retail Birmingham, which represents 1,000 stores including 100 independent shops, also hopes its partnership with Marketing Birmingham will boost Britain's second city as a top shopping destination.
More than #600,000 will be ploughed into promoting the city over the next 12 months, including the Bullring, The Mailbox, Pallasades, Pavilions, New Street, High Street, Corporation Street, Great Western Arcade and Piccadilly Arcade.
"It's the biggest dedicated strategy the city has ever seen in terms of promoting retail," added Mr Godfrey.
"We aim to increase footfall into the city centre and build a credible Birmingham retail brand in key markets that will benefit all retailers, from department stores to small outlets."
Other projects in the pipeline include plans for a new website, retail directory, awards scheme and an advertising campaign.


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Follow the adventures of this Canadian in Edinburgh as he attempted to visit 365 different pubs in 365 days.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
#90. Theatre Royal, 25 Greenside Pl, Edinburgh
This handsome, stately pub is situated right next to the Edinburgh Playhouse, and was the start of our Leith Walk pub crawl to celebrate Tobi finishing his essays. The selection of cask ales was pretty good, as you can see from this photo.
Tobi had the seasonal Three Wise Men from Stewart's, while I tried a Merlin's Ale, one of the Broughton Ales brewed in the Borders area of Scotland. Not a bad beer at all, nor a bad place to enjoy one.
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Kingwood Texas Real Estate Company
About Tami Heitzwebel
Tami HeitzwebelREALTOR®, GRI2940 Oak St.KingwoodTX 77339-5525 US
Phone: (281)361-2245
Specialties: Buyer's Agent, Listing Agent, Relocation, Consulting
There are many qualities and skills that go into being an excellent real estate professional - honesty, integrity, in-depth community and market knowledge, marketing savvy, effective negotiation skills and a high-quality professional network, all of which are hallmarks of how I work.
That said, in my experience as an Atascocita, Humble, Kingwood and Houston real estate professional, I've also found that providing the very best service is essentially about putting my clients first. This means keeping myself accessible, being a good listener as well as a good communicator, and responding quickly to your needs.
This "client first" philosophy has always been my approach and it requires me to continually improve my skills and ways of doing business. In addition, I've found that the latest technologies are enabling me to do everything I've always done, only much more quickly and efficiently. They've also helped me to extend the range of services I provide to my clients.
Amanda WalkerREALTOR®2940 Oak St.KingwoodTX 77339-5525 US
Phone: 281-348-3051
Specialty: Buyer's Agent
As a real estate agent, we pride ourselves on qualities such as honesty, integrity, in-depth community and market knowledge, marketing savvy, effective negotiation skills and a high-quality professional network, all of which are hallmarks of how I work. Since I am a new realtor, I have many advantages others do not, such as a fresh perspective allowing new, exciting ideas and marketing to the real estate world. Plus, I have a lot of extra time to really focus fully on your needs!
While I maybe be a new REALTOR ®, I am not new to the real estate business. I have worked with Team Heitz for the past year as an assistant/transaction coordinator. I brought new systems in and marketing ideas to help our team be the best it can be. I have always been interested in design and art. Those qualities truly get to flourish when I work on new marketing materials. I also worked for a top producing REALTOR® in Baton Rouge, LA, for two years before moving to Houston. In my past three years of working in and around the real-estate business, I have gained unparalleled experience. Working for different teams and REALTORS® has revealed various examples of how to excel in this business. It has allowed me to shape myself into what I believe to be a higher quality REALTOR®.
I studied Fashion Design at Louisiana State University, as design has always been a passion of mine. However, I truly feel I have found my place here with Team Heitz. Our team represents everything I love about this business. We are genuine people who strive to create an honest relationship with our clients. That way we are able to put them in homes they love. We do so much more than just open the door; we are here every step of the way, making the process as smooth as possible.


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Officials and well-wishers said farewell during a ceremony on Wednesday morning at the Phnom Penh military airbase to 184 Cambodian peacekeepers set to join a U.N. mission in Lebanon.
The newly deployed forces from Cambodias Multirole Engineering Contingent Unit 369 will replace Unit 936 peacekeepers who recently completed their mission and are returning to Cambodia on Friday, said General Pol Saroeun, commander-in-chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces.
This is the seventh unit deployed to the Republic of Lebanon, where they will work in the area of construction, building new settlement bases and barracks, and other constructive work aiming at providing safety to all the Blue Berets in the area, Gen. Saroeun said in a statement.
The U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon will gain 184 Cambodian personnel, including 16 women, according to Alexandre Huynh, U.N. resident coordinator.
Cambodia currently has 43 female peacekeepers deployed in various countries, Mr. Huynh said. They represent a positive shift toward improved equality in the Cambodian armed forces.
Since 2006, Cambodia has sent more than 4,180 personnel on U.N. peacekeeping missions in Sudan, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Chad, Syria, Lebanon, Mali and Cyprus, Mr. Huynh said.
On Monday, a Cambodian military officer reportedly died of complications from malaria while working with U.N. peacekeepers in Central African Republic. Sergeant Major Luy Bunlong was the fifth Cambodian peacekeeper to die while on a U.N. mission in Africa and the second to die after contracting malaria.
(Additional reporting by Khuon Narim)
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Quick thoughts on tomorrow's tilt at the RAC:
1) This is Rutgers' Super Bowl. It's the last meaningful game on the Scarlet Knights' schedule. They are not going to make the Big East Tournament and the RAC is going to be empty after this (save maybe a UConn fan takeover). The one thing they have left in their season is tripping up Seton Hall. That should inspire a strong effort from the players and RU fans.
2) Most visiting teams would take Rutgers lightly, but Seton Hall's players won't. They know how hard the RAC can be, they understand the nature of the rivalry, and they'll remember the tough fight Rutgers put up at the Meadowlands.
3) This is a good matchup for Rutgers because Seton Hall gives up a ton of points and doesn't rebound well. It will be interesting to see if the presence of John Garcia changes that dynamic a bit.
4) After two straight losses, Bobby Gonzalez — who is obsessed with the metropolitan-area rivalries — will have the Pirates ready to be shot out of a cannon. The Hall will come out ultra-aggressive, going for the kill in the first eight minutes.
I predict both teams will bring their 'A' game and it will come down to the final two minutes, just like every other Seton Hall-Rutgers meeting in this building. It will be high-scoring, and I won't be shocked if Rutgers wins, but Seton Hall is the more talented team so we pick the Pirates 81-75.
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Since 2011, Timberland decided to move away from PDFs of CSR reports, and instead offer their stakeholders the possibility to « build a customized report, based on their own interests » out of a wide range of data that is to be found on what the company called the Report Builder. A final and accurate overview of annual data still is available, but in the form of an interactive web page, which they call {{LNK|Goals and Progress section|http://responsibility.timberland.com/reporting/goals-and-progress/}}.
In this space, the company has organized reporting in four points: Climate, Product, Factories and Service. If the content is quite straight forward and concise, it does not prevent the brand for being once again quite transparent about its statistics, good or bad. Here is what we have learnt.
Climate :
Timberland's GHG have been constantly decreasing since 2006, except for 2011 where a slight increase of 4.5% (vs. 2010) has clearly been announced, alongside with an increase in transportation emissions. If they justify it with business expansion, graphic shows "carbon footprint stayed relatively flat while growing the business". By 2015, the target is absolute emissions reduction by 50% compared to 2006, "for owned and operated facilities and employee travel," and so far, the evolution looks good.
The company's maintained its levels of non renewable energy use, while slightly increasing its share of renewable energy use to 15% (+10% since 2006). The target for 2015 is to double that amount, an ambitious bet as this is "5 years earlier than the Ceres guidance/benchmark".
If global emissions in the supply chain Timberland works with have slightly increased throughout 2011, the share of emissions that is specific to the brand has almost proportionally decreased.
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Timberland's Earth Keeper collection – the eco-conscious line made out of environmentally preferred materials - has reached one third of total sales.
"In 2011, 25.4% of materials used in Timberland apparel were recycled, organic, or renewable." And since 2007, the company's footwear boxes are made from 100% recycled materials too.
Using water based adhesives instead, and increasing their production of Earth Keeper shoes, Timberland has also managed to pursue its reduction of "Solvent-based adhesives" use by 1.5%, as they release VOC (a chemical compound that "creates human and environmental health hazards").
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Only twelve days ago BlackBerry pre-announced weak Q2 results, followed by a weekend deal with Fairfax Financial ahead of the normally scheduled financial results conference call that was to take place this past Friday. As followers of the stock are well aware, BlackBerry canceled its conference call and published it's results without giving analysts a chance to ask questions.
As happens every quarter, BlackBerry has now followed up its press release with a full SEC filing, including the "Management's Discussion and Analysis" section, which makes for very dry reading, but is necessary to dig through if you want to know what's happening in the business.
Note that the NYT online contributor Ian Austen called this a "delayed regulatory filing", which is factually incorrect. They always file with the SEC within a few days of the quarterly results press release. The best case is a same-day filing with public availability of the filing later that day, and often it's not available until at least the next business day. I still think the company made a mistake by canceling its conference call, but it's absolutely wrong to say a regulatory filing was delayed.
Re-tiering the Z10 as an entry level device
The most interesting bit of information in my late-night (very tired, and already in bed) read of the filing was the discussion around the Z10. No, not the discussion of the inventory write down. Instead, I am curious about the statement that,
"With the recent launch of the BlackBerry Z30, the Company plans to re-tier the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone to make it available to a broader, entry-level audience. Going forward, the Company plans to refocus its product and services offerings on its end-to-end solution of hardware, software and services for enterprises and prosumers."
As a reminder, the company said it would pull back to only four BlackBerry 10 devices, rather than six. Two of them would be for the high end of the market, and two would be for the entry level market. If the Z10 is re-tiered as an entry level device then presumably it, along with the Q5, make up those two entry-level devices. This leaves the Q10 and the Z30 as the high end devices.
This seems weird. The Q10 and Z10 have pretty much the same specs. So unless they're planning to kill the Q10 and release a Q30, I think this re-tiering plan comes across as strange and confusing.
BlackBerry 10 sell through is very weak
"During the second quarter of fiscal 2014, approximately 5.9 million BlackBerry smartphones were sold through to end customers, which included shipments made prior to the second quarter of fiscal 2014 and which reduced the Company's inventory in channel. Of the devices that sold through to end customers in the second quarter of fiscal 2014, approximately 4.2 million were BlackBerry 7 devices. The number of BlackBerry smartphones that were sold through to end customers was 6.4 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2014 and 9.5 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2013."
Do the math on this, and you'll discover that only 1.7 million BlackBerry 10 units were actually put into the hands of end customers during Q2 (the August ended quarter). That's pretty scary considering they recognized revenue on 2.7 million BlackBerry 10 units in the prior quarter (ended May). Obviously not all 2.7 million of those units were sold through to end customers in the May quarter, but any way you slice it the company is quantifying a significant decline in BB10 sales.
Lots of inventory still sitting around
This quarter BlackBerry wrote down the value of its Z10 inventory by $934 million. For those unfamiliar with what this means it's pretty simple. The company has way more Z10 inventory than it needs. Since they believe they can't sell it for at least as much as it cost to build, they need to take an accounting (non cash) charge to reflect this.
Personally, I'd like to see the company use this excess Z10 inventory to seed devices into the enterprise market. The launch of a new platform requires getting to critical mass, and if you have to give away devices to help you get there, at least you increase your chances of success. Besides, it's generally good marketing advice to offer discounts to the early adopters and then bring prices back in line with whatever "normal" is after an introductory discount period. Perhaps is BlackBerry had offered early adopter discounts on BlackBerry 10 from the get go, they'd be better positioned.
They recognize they screwed up in communicating the strategic alternatives
"The Company also believes that uncertainty surrounding its ongoing strategic review process may have negatively impacted demand for the Company's products in the second quarter of fiscal 2014."
For a while now we've been commenting that the general public doesn't understand what's happening inside of the company. What was initially a strategic review drastically morphed into public perception that BlackBerry is going bankrupt, or being shut down, or something else horrible. It's too bad this company hasn't learned its lessons with respect to twisted messages and the media. Never give the media an opportunity to take a story, twist out out of context and amplify it's volume to the general public. It's always going to end badly.
Plenty of real estate assets
The company has lots of buildings and land, which it could sell. Although the MD&A did not specifically talk about potential sales, there have been media reports suggesting BlackBerry is looking to sell space. They hold land and buildings that, together, add up to about $1.4 billion on the balance sheet, although I can't tell how much accumulated depreciation there is on the buildings. They don't break it out separately. But if BlackBerry wanted to do a sale and lease back of it's space, it looks like they have the potential to raise at least a few hundred million dollars.
Another $300 million in restructuring charges
When BlackBerry announced plans to cut 40% of staff late last month, the financial effect of this was not quantified.
The SEC filing reveals that restructuring charges to be incurred are now estimated at $400 million, up from $100 million previously. The difference, obviously, comes from the added 4500 job cuts. Again, this is painful ... but if you look at the results it is clearly necessary.
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2011.05.02 00:46 - Guns, Internet Stupidity, News and PoliticsIn light of recent events, SKD Tactical is having a sale.
I bought a chest rig, just because.
Also, I laughed.
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2011.04.29 22:12 - Guns, WhiningI am not very patient.
Ordered a semi-custom gun a while back (one of a small run of Sterling carbines built by a small company out west). Been waiting a while now. When I contacted the guy building it a week ago, I was told I'd get a tracking number when it shipped. So, I've promised myself I won't bug him about for at least a little while.
And, even if I got to pick it up tomorrow, it'd be at least a week before I could take it out and shoot it.
But! So impatient.
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2011.03.27 13:45 - Guns, Meatspace StupidityI bought a couple of cheap AR mags from a local gunshop: they had a large box of them at $8.99 each. I'd done a little research before buying on the names stamped into the floorplate, which indicated that the manufacturer had a good reputation. Both are stamped:
Black followers, heavy finish.
Wasn't until last night that I noticed both magazine bodies appeared a bit banged up. One has a dent that seems like it could cause feeding problems, the other has a nick in the hole for the magazine catch, and the area above the hole is pulled out.
Turns out, neither magazine fits right in my rifle's lower receiver. Doesn't fit right in the Armalite lower I'm working on, either. The magazines are very tight, and won't drop free. The one with the damaged magazine catch engagement was also pretty difficult to remove. And, of course, I didn't get around to checking any of this until after replacing the follower and floorplate on both magazines--and I've tossed the followers.
I've ordered a couple replacements from Bravo Company, and salvaged the aftermarket parts. Costs a little more per magazine this way, but only because of shipping.
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2011.03.20 21:32 - Guns, Magpul Masada/Bushmaster ACR, Entertainment, Microcode, WhiningI finished the single-player campaign of Homefront on the PC. I'm not real enthused.
As John Walker opines over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun, the single player campaign is scripted in a way antagonistic to human interaction. Walking is slow, and your access to an area is almost always gated by one or more of your companion NPCs.
What I found most obnoxious was the way the game handled weapons. There are two things I found specifically obnoxious:
- Guns that almost certainly share ammunition and magazines in the real world do not in the game. Which is why I found myself hauling around an empty ACR early in the game, despite being surrounded by M4s and M16s. I'm too lazy to go back in to find out if this problem affected everything in the game that would have taken STANAG mags (i. e. the M4, M16, ACR, SCAR-L, and PWS Diablo), or just some of them. Maybe the M4 and M16 actually work right, and the other guns are understood to take different ammo. Dunno. At the moment, not in the mood to find out.
- The gun or guns I have at the end of chapter A almost never carry over to chapter B. Which is how the aforementioned ACR disappeared at the end of the first chapter and was replaced by an M4 at the beginning of the second. "What's the matter," one of the NPCs quipped, "don't you like guns?" Actually, I love guns; I was trying to figure out where mine had gone.
And I can't say much good or bad about the graphics. The reviewers claim it's fantastic, graphically, all I can tell you is I needed to turn all the levers down to "Very Low" and it still ran poorly. Also, it's very brown (that's a TV Tropes link; click at your own discretion).
I'm not really interested in the multiplayer. The reviews say it's fine, but I'm not really in need of a multiplayer FPS right this second.
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2011.02.09 08:55 - Guns18.5" barrel, +2 magazine extension. So far, I have replaced the factory, orange, plastic magazine follower with a stainless steel follower from Vang Comp, and changed out the trigger group for one with a metal housing.
Long term plans probably include a shell carrier on the side of the receiver, and a bayonet lug0, but I haven't made major decisions past that.
I haven't been to the range with it yet, owing to the weather and the various other demands on my time and money. I'd like to get a couple swivels and a sling, first, though.
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It's been terribly long since I last posted and awfully lacking the motivation that's needed for this kind of hobby. I can throw the blame towards my surroundings and make excuses but of course, it's me, only me can take the blame for not trying hard enough and not doing the thing that I love the most, blogging.
Life is great, I feel so warm when I'm appreciating where I am right now, with my love my only love in a country I'd never thought I'd be. Only as you get older you understand when your parents used to say 'you learn from your mistakes', but right now, I don't feel like I've made any. But that's a lie or maybe it's a way of accepting that you've learned from them.
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"Here are some of the things the U.S. could do" about WikiLeaks and its release of almost four hundred thousand dispatches from our war in Iraq, according to Christian Whiton, a Fox News opinion contributor:
- Indict Mr. Assange and his colleagues for espionage, regardless of whether he is presently in a U.S. jurisdiction, and ask our allies to do the same.
- Explore opportunities for the president to designate WikiLeaks and its officers as enemy combatants, paving the way for non-judicial actions against them.
- Freeze the assets of the WikiLeaks organization and its supporters, and sanction financial organizations working with this terrorist-enabling organization so they cannot clear transactions denominated in U.S. dollars.
- Give the new U.S. Cyber-Command a chance to prove its worth by ordering it to electronically assault WikiLeaks and any telecommunications company offering its services to this organization.
- Holding meaningful congressional hearings to look into how this much classified information could ever be compromised and how the U.S. can better identify and combat political warfare organizations like WikiLeaks.
Wait—where on that list is changing our practices to be sure that we don't tolerate torture that goes on before our eyes, practiced by troops we support and train; don't recklessly kill civilians; don't pay private contractors who shoot into crowds when they're in a bad mood; or, more broadly, don't get into a war for no good reason? Or, re: No. 5., holding "meaningful congressional hearings" into the question of over-classification? None of those things seem to have made the cut.
But what did is disturbing. Designate WikiLeaks and its "officers" as "enemy combatants," so that we can take "non-judicial actions against them"? What does Whiton have in mind? We've heard the term "enemy combatants" used to justify indefinite detention without due process, and assassination. Are we going to send hit men to London, where Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is this week?
And who else gets knocked off? This is not just about Assange. (That's a point that Assange, too, might need to remind himself of, in a number of contexts.) Whiton says that WikiLeaks is a target because it is conducting "political warfare" (which, presumably, is why he uses the term "officers") and is out "to thwart and alter U.S. policy." He calls it "a foreign organization," but otherwise his definition would seem to encompass Katharine Graham and Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, in the Pentagon Papers and Watergate days. (Would we use that "big fat wringer" John Mitchell said might come after Graham?) Or, if the foreign part is crucial—and it doesn't seem it would be, under the arguments that the Obama Administration has adopted in the Al-Awlaki case, the consequences of which Whiton at least helps illustrate—can we assassinate the editor of the Times of London if his investigative staff comes up with something that causes people to recoil from a certain American policy?
How, really, is "political warfare" different from politics? Whiton's complaint is that Assange has said that he is trying to stop two wars. If hiding information about how a war has been conducted perpetuates it, and knowledge about its conduct persuades people to end it, then the problem may well be the war, not the revelation. Wars are not tender creatures that, once born, have the right to be fostered and grow. Whiton confuses protecting policies and politicians with protecting our country. They are not the same thing.
And let's look at No. 4 again:
- Give the new U.S. Cyber-Command a chance to prove its worth by ordering it to electronically assault WikiLeaks and any telecommunications company offering its services to this organization.
As it happens, Seymour M. Hersh has a long piece in this week's New Yorker on Cyber Command and the dangers of treating cybersecurity as a form of war (which Whiton, again, helpfully illuminates). Read it if you haven't already; it has the long answer to the question of why this is bad. But briefly: Cyber Command was sold to us with images of the scary cyber-things other countries and terrorists could do to our infrastructure—electrical grids, communication networks. But Whiton suggests that its "worth" lies in attacking not only WikiLeaks but telecommunications companies, which are a crucial part of that infrastructure, and, more generally, undermining the foundations of a free press and open discourse—that is, of our democracy. Is that what political warfare is?


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A little over a year ago my writing changed. Before then I maintained a personal blog where I would occasionally rant about some wild idea or share a story about my kids. I didn't think of myself as a "writer." My blog was simply where I shared thoughts too long for Facebook.
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Then on a whim one night, I decided to take the Story Cartel online course. As part of the course, participants were challenged to write a short story. I hammered out a fun tale that had been taking up space in my head for a few weeks. Immediately upon finishing the first draft, I was hooked and began to dream of what it might be like to be a "real writer."
The Myth of the "Real Writer"
I envisioned luxurious hours sipping coffee and listening to Sinatra, while gleefully thumping out stories on my laptop. I believed there was no way writing a short story would ever take me more than an hour, two at the absolute most.
Also, in my imagination, there was no editing. I would never need to edit anything. Rather, I would rip the first draft out of my typewriter and hurl it over my shoulder to the frenzied mob of publishers pushing and shoving one another to see who could get their fingers on my brilliant ideas first. After savoring the page they would demand more, but I wouldn't give it to them. In my mind I would instead respond in a 1930's-Cagney-New-York accent, "Now listen here, see. I'll give you more pages when I have time, see. You need to wait, see." Then they would weep and cry in despair as I strutted away, offering only a confident, maniacal laugh in reply.
Needless to say, those writing myths were quickly debunked.
Debunking Writing Myths
I found a good short story takes me a week.
Any music with lyrics is a complete distraction.
I have to edit everything at least four or five times. Even after all those rewrites, I am rarely satisfied with the end result. Rather, I'm exhausted and can't stand to look at the piece anymore. That is when I know it's done.
I do drink a lot of coffee and often laugh manically, but not because there is a crowd of publishers clamoring for my next story.
Writers Need Relationships
I have been fortunate in one way. As I said, before I started writing seriously, I'd been blogging for over four years. When I finally did finish a story, I had had supportive community in place, ready to give me feedback and encouragement.
Most new fiction authors I've met do not have this. They slave away on a story and then have to work equally as hard to find a place to share it. With nowhere else to turn, they attempt to launch personal blogs, only to discover how difficult building a platform from scratch can be.
The web is noisy and increasingly designed to be skimmed. Building a strong readership from nothing is a little like prospecting for gold: you get a nugget here and there, but the struggle drives you to grow a long beard, wear overalls, and scream threats at strangers through a fog of grumpy-insanity.
A Place to Share Your Stories
I want to help. I want to give writers a place to post their stories while they build their own platforms. To this end, I and some friends of mine are launching a new blog. It's called ShortFictionBreak.com. It is a space designed to give authors a place to share their work and receive feedback and encouragement.
We'll be accepting submissions from anyone with a story. Send us your work and we will post it. There are no hidden strings attached. We aren't making any money off the site. It is simply a digital space for you to share your fiction with the world.
If you like the idea of ShortFictionBreak.com and want to share your work routinely, we've got space for regular contributors. We'll give you your own "author page" and when you publish your book, we'll post a link to it so readers can find you.
To find out how to submit a story or become a contributor, head over to ShortFictionBreak.com here.
If you are a reader who likes our idea and wants to help us create an amazing space where writers can share their work, go over to ShortFictionBreak.com and subscribe so that when authors post their stories there is someone in the crowd listening. On the right hand side of the page, click the the button that says "Follow" to subscribe.
What writing myths did you believe when you first started writing?
Today's practice is a two for one: First, make a writer's day by sharing his/her work. Find a piece of writing (not your own) you think hasn't gotten enough attention and share it across your social networking streams. Second, dig up a short story you've written but wish more people had read. Share it out across your platform or go to ShortFictionBreak.com and submit it to be posted there.


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Sunday September 30th, 2001
It's Hot.
And going to become hotter and more humid as we head further up river.
All of the fans are humming - including the 8 new ones we managed to buy yesterday that are now in each cabin, as well as the saloon. One is right next to me here in the communications room.
The breeze they circulate is warm - there is no getting away from that fact. Between 2 and 4 pm seems to be the worst - then it quickly eases away, particularly if we have been fortunate to have had some rain.
We spent all yesterday, 1st October, getting ready for the "off".
Seamaster now sports white plastic tables and chairs on the aft deck - each table with its own blue and white sun umbrella.
The crew searched the town - several "teams" with shopping lists headed away from the yacht club before 8am and had the best part of the day finding mosquito nets for all of the hammocks; lightweight tarpaulins for each hammock for when the rain and the wind combine and blow underneath the awnings; extra brightly coloured hammocks from the market (the sellers couldn't believe their luck - 15 in 2 days); more fresh food for the trip - the fruit is very plentiful and cheap - and if one likes papaya, mangos, large passion fruit, bananas, pineapples, oranges and limes, this is definitely the place to come to.
Ollie cleared Seamaster "out" with the port authorities and the yacht club, went to the bank to change dollars for Reals; had a taxi take him and Miguel to an industrial part of town to buy a gas-fired barbeque (now set up on the aft deck), and generally everyone came back hot but successful.
There is a saying here that "man in a hurry has no place in Brazil" - and it is certainly true here where the heat eventually grinds you down.
We up-anchored just before sun-up this morning. Daylight comes very quickly here - with only a few minutes separating dark from full daylight. The sun was a blazing orange disk behind the high-rise buildings of Belem - with a surrounding hazy reddish glow - as we motored away down the river with the outgoing tide giving us a good push. After passing through a narrow and shallow channel past islands with sandy beaches, some with overgrown ruins and chimneys showing through the canopy of the trees, we turned south-westwards up the Rio Para - a long day ahead of us to our anchorage just short of the point where the river becomes a number of narrow fingers - we are heading for the narrowest.
The river was calm to begin with but now has a short steep chop following us along. The tide has turned again and is favourable once more, speeding our progress considerably.
At the anchorage at Belem, the river was full of brown silt - really quite thick - but here in the bigger river, whilst still brown, it is much clearer.
Janot and Rodger have the river water sterilization system in operation - and it is so far working really well. The tanks should soon be full again.
We are very conscious of waste, and both our toilets have high quality sewage treatment systems. But these are normally used in sea water - where natural chlorine is produced by an electrical charge thru the salt water. The river is fresh water, however, so to continue treatment we now add a measured quantity of fine salt to the water in each toilet pan after use - which in turn produces the chlorine as before. We have a lot of salt onboard.
A number of craft passed us earlier in the morning - most heading for Belem, including a barge loaded with lorries - probably at the end of its 10 to 15 day trip from Manaus. The river system is their highway. There are no suitable roads linking these far-apart cities, although there are ones in the planning.
The river is now quite wide - around 8 kilometres at this point - and the jungle on each side is a hazy smudge in the distance.
We have a long day ahead, the first of many.
1030 hrs: The sea breeze is on the increase and keeping conditions on deck under the awnings very pleasant. The pilot, Jose', is on the bow with a VHF radio link back to the steering position. He doesn't use any onboard navigational aids, just his long-time knowledge of taking vessels up and down the river from Belem to Manaus. We, however, are tracking our course carefully on the very detailed set of charts we bought in a chandlery down near the docks.
1130 hrs: 32 deg C on deck in the shade.
Our water tank is full (it overflowed) - the new system pumping the river water works well, producing approx 1 tonne of drinking water every hour. We can now have as many showers a day as we want!!
1230 hrs: We are in narrow channels between some islands - small villages to starboard nearly hidden by the trees.
Coconut palms show above the rest of the dense foliage, and trees with red and yellow flowers are common.
A double barge loaded with logs sits waiting to leave; fishermen in their dug-out canoes come alongside wanting to know if we will buy their shrimps - cooked a bright pink - in baskets.
Other river traffic converges on the narrow sections, then we seem to be almost on our own in between.
The on-deck watch has to keep a good lookout for fishing nets that are difficult to see.
Paolo is cooking thin fillets of pork for lunch - on the barbeque on the port side deck. This is the first time it has been used - but cooking in the open will certainly help keep the saloon cooler.
Our chef also appears from time to time in the cockpit with jugs of strange-looking juice - cold and refreshing but often of unknown origin. The latest concoction was a very deep red in colour - with bits. This was the juice of the acai berry - a fruit about the size of a large blueberry that grows in the jungle nearby. We are eating well.
1330 hrs: What a visual feast. The very narrow but quite deep channel between Ilha da Jararaca and Ilha do Murumuru was lined both sides by small houses - mainly thatched - with rickety wooden jetties. Many had large satellite television dishes.
Some of the houses were of 2 levels - brightly painted but with no need for glass in the windows. Most were on short poles - built over the water - obviously the closeness to the ocean means that the changes in river level are probably more tidal than whether it is the wet or dry season.
The tide is still helping us up-river at over 10 knots, but it will soon turn against us for the rest of the afternoon. Our next anchorage is still about 50 miles away, so we are unsure if we will make it before dark. There will be a full moon later, but the problem will be to avoid the large rafts of plant matter floating down river, as well as any unlit craft. Maybe the searchlight is about to get a work-out - its first since that miserable night in Antarctica when we were caught in the ice, in a gale, at sea, with Seamaster frozen over, and the lookout on the bow in survival suits with their eyes freezing shut.
The contrast could hardly be greater.
Until the next Log,
All the best,
Peter and crew.


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Bohlin Instruments: Digital Rheometer
April 3, 2001
Bohlin Instruments has introduced its new C-VOR, an advanced digital rheometer and dynamic spectrometer system capable of running all rheological test modes, including step strain testing. The unit is a high resolution modular system with triple-mode operation, which allows strain, stress and shear rate controlled measurements to be performed using a single test station. The new triple mode motor control enables the C-VOR drive motor to be engaged and controlled as a conventional servo system, allowing true strain controlled measurements such as stress relaxation and stress growth.
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Shoot....I don't normally want any of the SD stuff. But there's 3 F91 MS in this and I almost want to get all 3 in hopes of Bandai looking at F91 and/or it's time frame more.Would love to get some more UC stuff that's out of the same ~20 year period that they always return to.
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Quick & Delicious Beef Stew Recipe
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #FamilyMovieWithKleenex #CollectiveBias
Now that the weather is getting colder by the day, I am already starting to go a little stir crazy. Gone are the days of the kids being able to play outside and enjoy themselves. These days, if they want to leave the house, chances are they will be so bundled they won't be able to bend! I miss the warmer days, but I do appreciate the cold weather because it means more family time on the couch snuggled up with a movie, book, or warm comfort food like this Quick & Delicious Beef Stew.
Are we prepared? You bet!
I recently headed to our local BJ's Wholesale store and stocked up on groceries, and toiletries like these adorable Kleenex® Finding Dory Tissue Box Designs.
With Kleenex, one soft tissue is all it takes to show you care. They have the perfect balance of softness and strength, and are durable with 2-ply thickness and are absorbent to lock in moisture.
My kids are all about the Disney® Finding Dory movie so they were especially thrilled with these designs. They just love the movie, but since there are some sad parts, Kleenex® Tissues do come in handy for saps like myself!
Plus, Kleenex® Finding Dory Tissue Box Designs are ideal for the impending sick season. Here in New England the temps can go from below zero to record highs in 24 hours so the common cold typically runs rampant in our household. That is also why I tend to make a lot of soups and stews this time of year.
When you are sick, there is nothing like a warm bowl of chicken soup or beef stew to make one feel better.
Plus, these soups/stews are super comforting to enjoy on the couch with a movie like Disney's® Finding Dory.
Want to learn how to make this Quick & Delicious Beef Stew Recipe for your next Family Movie night?
Here is what you will need:
Quick & Delicious Beef Stew Recipe
- 1 1/2 lbs beef tenderloin cut into bite sized chunks
- 3 carrots sliced
- 2 stalks celery sliced
- 1 onion large, diced
- 3 potatoes large, cubed
- 3 Beef Bullion cubes
- 6 cups water
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1/4 tsp minced onion
- 1/4 tsp minced garlic
- 2 tbsps Parsley for garnishing
- In a large skillet heat your oil
- In a separate stock pot, add your water, and bring to a boil to dissolve your 3 beef bouillon cubes.
- Coat your beef in 1/2 the flour mixture
- Add in your flour coated beef and in a large frying pan, pan-fry for about 5 mins until all sides are browned
- Coat veggies in remaining flour and add to the pan
- Add in your veggies, and fry for an additional 5-10 mins on med heat until your veggies are slightly tender, and meat is fully cooked.
- Place veggies and meat into stock pot
- Add a little stock to your frying pan to de-glaze it and pour the mixture from the frying pan into the stock pot (flavor)
- Bring meat and veggies to a boil, and then reduce heat to simmer.
- Simmer for 45 mins on medium heat
- Soup will thicken as it sits.
What are some ways that your family enjoys a movie night when the weather is super cold?
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Why You Should Run a Contest as Part of a Facebook Marketing Strategy?
Before you put your product's Facebook contest out there, make sure that you have everything in place to kick it off with a bang. You may be spending money on the contest application, and you want to make sure that you're getting the maximum benefit. You also want to make sure that the contest is well thought out so that you don't get negative results.
Following are some of the benefits of running a contest:
Increased traffic to your Facebook Page: If you're promoting your contest well and encouraging people to enter via an app on your Page, you'll have increased traffic. Make sure that you set up the marketing schedule so that you promote consistently throughout the contest.
Reward for your community: A contest can reward some of the members of your community and keep them interested in your Page.
Increased participation: By opting in to your contest, your community members are participating more, which encourages more participation in the future, especially if you're having a true contest in which people vote.
More likes: You should require people to like your Page when you run your contest. Just remember that people also have to officially enter within your contest application.
More newsletter subscribers: Not everyone is reading your updates on Facebook all the time. E-mail is still a great method of communication when you really need to get the word out about something in your business.
Buzz: Well-run contests can generate buzz and get people excited about your product or brand.
Some of the disadvantages of running a contest are as follows:
Investment of time: Promoting and marketing your contest can take time. Good promotion can take a lot of time, possibly taking time away from your core business. Make sure to plan your contest during a time when you won't be caught trying to do too much at once.
Investment of money: Your contest may cost money to run; the prize also may cost money. Depending on how nice the prize is, you could spend a lot of money. If you don't receive the benefits you were hoping for, such as a large group of new likers, giving out that prize can feel painful. Again, planning and promotion can help you get the benefits you're looking for.
Possible community dissatisfaction: Some people just don't like contests. If judging is involved, people may get angry if they feel that the judging wasn't done properly, and this situation can create some bad buzz around your brand. Others don't like contests that involve voting because it can cause continual updates of people begging for votes.
One way to combat this potential dissatisfaction may be to think of a special gift for everyone who enters. That gift doesn't have to cost much money. It could be a special e-book or discount given only to contest entrants. Even just a personal note thanking people for entering and for their participation can go a long way to fostering good feelings about your contest.
You can also think about retaining some of the judging rights so that your contest winner isn't based on votes alone. Retaining some of the judging rights also gives you some control over the best candidate when the voting is close.
How will you be able to ensure that your contest is successful? The key is the system you have in place to handle the entries and marketing: the third-party application or the application you design yourself.
The nice thing about third-party applications is that they handle entries, voting, rule posting, and winner selection within Facebook guidelines. The applications make it easy to run a professional, well-designed contest.
Sometimes, you may not be sure what prize you want to offer or what would get the most response from your community. The best way to overcome this obstacle is to ask your users.
You can create a poll or survey easily at sites like SurveyMonkey and Zoomerang. You can use the Question tool in the Facebook Publisher to create a poll for your Page. You can ask, "What prize would you like to receive if I held a Facebook contest?" and then add prize options that people can vote on.
You may be deciding among two or three prizes, and involving your audience in the decision builds more about for the prize and also builds more buzz around the contest. If you don't have any ideas, your audience can help suggest things, but you may not get a consensus.


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Via Rail's do-it-yourself customer service to affect small train stations across Quebec
Via Rail has a series of significant changes in store for its train station employees and for passengers. Starting in October, a number of stations across the province will be unstaffed, as the passenger service moves to more automation in its reservation and information service.
Mylène Bélanger is communications spokesperson for Via Rail, and she joined us this morning to explain.
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