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Eswatini, officially Kingdom of Eswatini, Swati Umbuso weSwatini, previously called Kingdom of Swaziland, landlocked country in the eastern flank of South Africa, where it adjoins Mozambique. It extends about 110 miles (175 km) from north to south and about 80 miles (130 km) from west to east at its largest dimensions.
In the colonial era, as a protectorate, and later as an independent country, Eswatini was long known as Swaziland. The name Swazi is the Anglicized name of an early king and nation builder, Mswati II, who ruled from 1840 to 1868. The country's administrative centre is Mbabane, former capital of the British colonial administration. The national capital is the seat of King Mswati III and his mother, some 11 miles from Mbabane, at Phondvo in the vicinity of Lobamba, where the houses of parliament and other national institutions are situated. In April 2018 the king announced that he was changing the official name of the country from the Kingdom of Swaziland to the Kingdom of Eswatini.
Relief and soils
A long and complex geologic history has created a landscape with a surprising variety of relief, climate, and soils for such a small country. There are four well-defined physiographic regions, extending longitudinally from north to south in roughly parallel belts. From west to east they are the Highveld, the Middleveld, the Lowveld, and the Lubombo (Lebombo) escarpment. Geologically, the oldest formations are in the west, and the youngest are in the east.
The Highveld, covering about 30 percent of the country, is a complex of granites and more ancient metamorphosed quartzites, sandstones, and volcanics that has been eroded into a rugged mountain land. The average elevation is between 3,500 and 4,500 feet (1,100 and 1,400 metres); the highest points are the summit massifs of Bulembu (6,108 feet [1,862 metres]) and Ngwenya (5,997 feet [1,828 metres]) in the extreme west. Known to the Swazi as Inkangala (a cold, treeless place), the Highveld was the last part of the country to be settled. Its deeper-weathered red to yellow acid soils have developed on the gentler gradients and in river valleys.
The Middleveld occupies about one-fourth of the country and has an average altitude of 2,000 to 2,500 feet (610 to 760 metres). It is a region of rolling uplands and wide, well-watered valleys. It is mainly underlain by ancient granites and gneisses (metamorphosed granites), with dolerites and quartzites, which have weathered deeply to produce friable red and clay loams interspersed with shallower profiles of sands and sandy loams. To the Swazi it is known as Live ("The Country") or Inkabave ("The Navel") and is the heartland of the Swazi nation.
The Lowveld, or Bushveld, covering nearly 40 percent of the country, is a generally undulating lowland with isolated knolls and ridges rising abruptly above the general level of 500 to 1,000 feet. In general, the soils reflect the transition from the acidic granites and sandstones of the western Lowveld to the more basic basalts and dolerites of the eastern part—i.e., from sandy loams in the west to red and black clays in the east, the latter being some of the most naturally fertile soils in the country. This region is called Lihlanze by the Swazi, meaning a warm place with trees—in its undisturbed state, the typical African savanna.
The Lubombo escarpment and plateau covers about 5 percent of the country, consisting of a narrow strip of about 600 square miles. It rises abruptly from the Lowveld to an average altitude of 2,000 feet, with higher peaks (Siteki and Mananga) of about 2,500 feet in the north. It is deeply dissected by the gorges of three of the main rivers that traverse the country from west to east, the Umbuluzi, the Usutu, and the Ingwavuma. The plateau soils vary considerably, from shallow sands to deeper loams, depending on the composition of the volcanic lavas that form the bedrock. The Swazi have no specific name for this part of the country.
Eswatini is one of the best-watered countries in southern Africa. Major perennial rivers, which have their sources in South Africa, flow through the country to the Indian Ocean. They are the Lomati, the Komati, the Umbuluzi, and the Usutu. The Usutu has the largest catchment in the country, with three main tributaries, the Usushwana, the Ngwempisi, and the Mkhondvo. In the south the Ingwavuma rises in western Eswatini and also cuts through the Lubombo.
The climate is in general subtropical, but it is strongly influenced by the country's position on the eastern side of southern Africa, which exposes it to moist maritime tropical air coming off the Indian Ocean for much of the year. The cessation of maritime airflow in winter months because of intensified continental winds produces a high degree of climatic variability. The climate is also subject to steep temperature and precipitation gradients from west to east because of the fall in altitude of about 4,000 feet over a distance of about 50 miles.
Average maximum and minimum monthly temperatures are 72 °F (22 °C) and 52 °F (11 °C) in the Highveld and 84 °F (29 °C) and 59 °F (15 °C) in the Lowveld. The Middleveld occupies an intermediate position in these gradations.
Eswatini falls within the summer rainfall region of the subcontinent, where about 80 percent of the precipitation falls during the summer months of October to March, usually in the form of thunderstorms and frontal rains. Average annual rainfall in the Highveld is about 55 inches (1,400 mm), in the Middleveld 34 inches, in the Lowveld about 22 inches, and on the Lubombo about 35 inches. However, variability in the annual totals is great, and figures have fluctuated dramatically from year to year. In the Middleveld, where the bulk of the population lives, the average has varied from a high of 63 inches to a low of 13 inches within a period of a few years. These extreme fluctuations appear to relate to wetter and drier than average quasi-cyclic fluctuations of from 8 to 11 years, which have been identified in the rainfall records.
Plant and animal life
The natural vegetation includes forest—confined mostly to the Highveld and the windward slopes of the Lubombo escarpment—savanna, and grassland. Factors such as soil composition and moisture produce a variety of vegetation subtypes. There are both wet and dry forests, various densities of savanna, and several grassland types, which range from sweet to sour based on their palatability when mature and dry. Altogether it is a rich flora, with ferns and flowering plants alone accounting for more than 2,600 species. Some have a very limited distribution and are found only in or around Eswatini.
The natural fauna has been severely depleted in recent years because of habitat destruction caused by the spread of the human population, and representative species such as antelope (impala, reedbuck, duiker, waterbuck, wildebeest, and kudu), hippopotamus, rhinoceros, elephant, giraffe, and zebra are found largely in protected reserves. However, smaller mammals—such as the baboon, monkey, jackal, and mongoose—may still be encountered, and several types of snake have a wide distribution. Crocodiles are also common in Lowveld rivers. Birdlife is abundant in each habitat and comprises both resident and migrant (breeding and nonbreeding) populations. The migrants come from central and North Africa and from farther afield (northern Europe and eastern Asia in the case of storks, swallows, and hawks). Distinctive among the more common birds are barbets, weavers, the various hornbills, the lilac-breasted roller, and the purple-crested loerie.
Settlement patterns
Traditionally, the Swazi lived in family homesteads (imithi) dispersed throughout the countryside. The only larger settlements were the homesteads of royalty and chiefs. This pattern has been modified since the late 19th century by the exposure of the rural Swazi to the money economy. Nucleated settlements grew up at important administrative and trading centres under British colonial rule from 1903, but the process of urbanization accelerated only after World War II, when the establishment of major agricultural, mining, and industrial operations acted as magnets for job seekers and created sizable company towns such as Mhlume, Simunye, Big Bend, and Mhlambanyatsi. The largest are the administrative capital of Mbabane and the commercial and industrial centre of Manzini. Roughly one-fifth of the population is urban.
The rural population lives within a communal land tenure system administered by the traditional chiefs. A typical homestead includes the main hut of the headman (umnumzane); the huts of his mother, wife (or wives), and children; the kitchen and storerooms; and the cattle enclosure (isibaya) in front and facing east. Cattle are more than draft animals and a source of milk. They constitute a store of wealth for use on social and ceremonial occasions (e.g., lobola, or bride-price).
The traditional pattern of homestead life is strictly seasonal. With the onset of the rains in spring (August or September), women plant gardens along the riverbanks; later, when the heavy rains come in summer (October to February), with help from the men, they plow or hoe to sow corn (maize) and sorghum (a millet) in larger fields. At this time all able women and children abandon their homesteads for the fields, and the men also join in the planting and weeding. The summer months are, on the whole, the hungry months, unless supplemented by remittances from working members of the family. Autumn to early winter (March to May) is the harvest; by July the last of the corn and sorghum has been dried and brought in. Activity then moves to the homesteads, where women and men thresh the grain, the best of which is stored and the remainder consumed at once. Winter is a time for relaxation, hunting, entertaining, and visiting. To some extent this traditional round has been disrupted by population pressure on land, by increased drift to the towns, by the absence of men working in the cities, and by the use of hired tractors for plowing, but the basic pattern is still recognizable.
The traditional centres of Swazi life are the royal villages of the ngwenyama (the king) at Ludzidzini and of the ndlovukazi (the queen mother) at Phondvo, both of which are in the "royal heart" of the country and not far from the old royal capital of Lobamba.
Ethnic groups
The Swazi nation is an amalgamation of more than 70 clans. Their chiefs form the traditional hierarchy under the ngwenyama and ndlovukazi, who are of the largest clan, the Dlamini. The amalgamation brought together clans already living in the area that is now Eswatini, many of whom were of Sotho origin, and clans of Nguni origin who entered the country with the Dlamini in the early 19th century. Traditional administration and culture are regulated by an uncodified Swazi Law and Custom, which is recognized both constitutionally and judicially. The language is siSwati, which is akin to Zulu, though it shares official status with English, which is in fact used generally for official written communication.
The Swazis constitute more than four-fifths of the population, the remainder being immigrants from Mozambique, South Africa, and the rest of the world. Included among these are a few thousand Europeans and Asians and their families engaged in business activities.
The majority of Swazis belong to Christian churches, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, whose missions were responsible before independence for much of the education and health services, particularly in the rural areas. However, many adherents also retain the traditional beliefs and practices of the rest of the population.
Overall, the economy displays a marked duality of large-scale intensive production and small-scale semi-subsistence activities. This produces a great contrast in incomes and living standards, which tends to be obscured by average per capita statistics. National economic policy is based on the free enterprise or market philosophy, with fiscal measures to redistribute resources to education, health, and community improvement projects. Government revenue is derived principally from receipts from the Southern African Customs Union, sales tax, and corporate and personal taxation. The budget is generally in balance, but foreign aid is a major contributor to the capital or development budget, providing a buffer to help meet any deficit in revenue. Nevertheless, the dual economy persists, and the formal employment sector is unable to absorb the annual increment of new workers generated by the country's high population growth rate. Many workers, mostly men, are forced to seek employment as migrant workers, predominantly in South Africa. Labour relations in the country are at an embryonic stage, with a generally fragmented trade union movement pitted against a longer-established employers' association and with the government endeavouring to act as referee and arbiter.
Agriculture and forestry
A mixture of subsistence and commercial farming is practiced in Eswatini. The staple crop is corn, and other crops include sorghum (mainly for the brewing of traditional beer), pumpkins, beans, peas, and other vegetables. Crop yields are generally low, but the more progressive farmers produce on a par with the large-scale commercial sector. Because of the role of cattle as a traditional store of wealth, the livestock population, mostly cattle and goats, greatly exceeds the country's carrying capacity and is a major cause of vegetation loss and soil erosion.
The largest agro-industry is the cultivation of sugarcane and the manufacture of sugar. Also of major commercial importance are the extensive man-made forests of pine and eucalyptus (in the Highveld), which supply timber to a wood pulp mill and several sawmills. Unbleached wood pulp is the country's second largest export after sugar. The area under timber plantations is about 6 percent of the country's total area. Other important crops are citrus fruits and cotton (Lowveld), pineapples (Middleveld), rice, tobacco, and vegetables. Commercial livestock farming is also important, particularly in the Lowveld, and supports meat processing and dairy plants.
Mining has declined in relative importance since the 1960s, asbestos and coal in particular. Iron ore, tin, and gold have been exploited sporadically in the past, but no mines are now active. Since 1984 diamonds have been growing in importance and are now the second largest mineral export after asbestos.
The processing of agricultural, forest, and livestock products forms the backbone of the industrial sector. Other manufactures include textiles and clothing, which expanded enormously in the 1980s, beverages, office equipment, furniture, and various other light industries.
Tourism, particularly from South Africa, has become a major sector of the economy. Centred on the hotel and casino complex in the central Ezulwini valley (about seven miles from Mbabane), the sector boasts smaller complexes at Piggs Peak in the north and at Nhlangano in the south. High-quality handmade textiles and tapestries and a range of stone and wooden handicrafts complement this sector.
Finance and trade
Eswatini, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa constitute the Southern African Customs Union, which provides generally for the free movement of goods and services throughout the area. Eswatini has its own currency, the lilangeni, but is also a member of the southern African monetary union (with Lesotho and South Africa), which seeks to ensure that currencies are on par and funds move freely between the member countries.
Apart from one bank that is wholly owned by the government, the commercial banks are subsidiaries of international (including South African) banks. As a consequence of these associations, most international trade is with South Africa as part of its regional trading network. Exports are largely raw materials or lightly processed products, essentially from the agro-forestry sector, while imports consist of machinery and transport equipment, fuels and lubricants, and foodstuffs.
Good all-weather roads link the main population centres and extend to neighbouring South Africa and Mozambique. The railway, originally constructed from the western to the eastern border for the export of iron ore through Maputo in Mozambique, has been extended to provide links to the South African network in both the north and the south of the country. Eswatini has one international airport, named after King Mswati III.
Administration and social conditions
Executive authority is vested in the king and is exercised through a dual system of government. The king appoints a prime minister and a cabinet of ministers to advise him on government matters. In addition, there is the Swazi National Council, which advises the king on all matters regulated by Swazi Law and Custom and connected with Swazi traditions and culture. Eswatini's legislature is bicameral. The House of Assembly comprises 65 members, of whom 55 are elected by popular vote and 10 are appointed by the king. The House of Assembly may sometimes have an additional member if the speaker of the House is chosen from outside that body. The Senate has 30 members, of whom 10 are elected by the House of Assembly and 20 are appointed by the king. The general electorate consists of all citizens over the age of 18 grouped into 55 constituencies (tinkhundla). Each tinkhundla elects one member to the House of Assembly; elections are held at intervals of no more than five years. Political parties are banned, but, nonetheless, several are active in the country.
Eswatini's judicial system is dualistic, with both constitutional and traditional courts. The constitutional courts comprise the Court of Appeal, the High Court, subordinate or magistrate's courts, and an industrial court. There are also traditional Swazi National Courts, including two courts of appeal and a higher appeal court. The Swazi National Courts hear only cases in which all those involved are Swazi and the charges fall within a restricted list of criminal and civil matters. They must defer to the constitutional courts in any case of conflict between the two systems.
Local government is administered on a regional level. An administrator appointed by the king heads each of the country's four regions (Hhohho, Lubombo, Manzini, and Shiselweni).
Land ownership is one of the most sensitive issues in national life. Traditionally, all land is vested in the king in trust for the nation and allocated as communal land by the chiefs. In the late 19th century, however, much of the territory was alienated as land concessions to foreigners—as owners according to them but as lessees according to the Swazi. One of the first tasks of the British crown when it assumed direct control of Eswatini (then known as Swaziland) in 1906 was to try to reconcile the rights of the Swazi with those of the concession holders. In 1907 it decided to reserve one-third of the country for Swazi use and to allow the concessionaires to retain two-thirds, but by World War II little progress had been achieved. The real impetus came at independence when all the crown lands became national land; shortly afterward Britain agreed to finance the repurchase of nearly one million acres. Other land was also purchased privately by the nation. Swazi Nation Land now constitutes about two-thirds of Eswatini. The remainder is held under individual title, but some of this is also under Swazi ownership, both nationally and individually.
Schooling was introduced as a part of missionary activity in precolonial times, and missionaries continue to influence the education system. The Swazi nation itself set up schools as early as 1906, and a number of chiefs established what were known as "tribal" schools. However, it was only after independence that the coverage of primary and secondary schools began to increase dramatically and to enable more than 80 percent of the school-age population to attend full-time. As a result, illiteracy is declining steadily. State education is not free, and school fees constitute a major financial commitment for parents. There are also teacher-training and vocational and industrial training centres, as well as a university.
Health and welfare
The initial stimulus for health services came from church missions and from industrial establishments catering to large numbers of employees and their dependents. They established both hospitals and rural clinics. There are also private medical practitioners in all the larger urban centres. Chief causes of illness are intestinal infections, tuberculosis, food deficiencies, and respiratory diseases. After its virtual elimination in the 1950s, malaria has again become a major disease, especially in the Lowveld, where there has been a large influx of infected immigrant labour from Mozambique. By 2000 Eswatini was suffering from one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world, with nearly one-fourth of the population being afflicted.


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SVS Press Touts New Releases, including "St. George & the Dragon," by Jim Forest
St. Vladimir's Seminary Press began as a response to the urgent need for English-language books about the Orthodox Christian faith, which arose in the mid-1950s. At that time, our multi-ethnic Orthodox student body were hearing lectures in English, but textbooks were available only in foreign languages, in particular, Russian and Greek. To address this need, lecture notes of the professors were hand typed or mimeographed for student use, and sometimes collated for distribution.
Simultaneously clergy in parishes were clamoring for educational material. To address this need, Fr. Alexander Schmemann (Dean from 1962–1983) produced a series of small pamphlets, including "Clergy and Laity" and "Great Lent." When Fr. Alexander published the full version of his Great Lent in book form in 1969, it sold out within the season of the Great Fast, demonstrating the hunger by clergy and laity for English-language titles about their faith.
Today "SVS Press" is the largest and most active publisher of Orthodox Christian books in the English language, with more than 400 titles in print. It continues its reputation of insisting on works of theological excellence, as evidenced in its 2011 releases, recently showcased in its Spring Brochure.
In addition to its usual scholarly releases, the press welcomes to its collection a children's book, St. George and the Dragon, engagingly written by well-known author Jim Forest and strikingly illustrated by iconographer Vladislav Andreyev. The book will be available in summer 2011, and SVS Bookstore is taking advance orders. Click here to order the book.
"St. Vladimir's Seminary Press has been really active recently," notes Fr. Benedict Churchill, Associate Director of SVS Press. "In the past few months, we've added four books to the Popular Patristics Series, and introduced two new books, with Metropolitan Hilarion's Orthodox Christianity series, vol.1, History and Canonical Structure, and Archbishop Dmitri's commentary on The Epistle of St. James.
"I'm delighted to have a role in helping these important works see the light of day, and in helping the Press in its mission of making Orthodox materials available in English," he says.
Download a PDF of SVS Press's Spring Brochure.
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HOUSTON -- Generally, the Lakers don't like to talk about Dwight Howard, hoping his decision to leave them will go away and hide in a file cabinet of awkward moments in team history.
They don't have a choice Thursday. Staggering from two horrid road games in a week, the Lakers play at Houston, Howard's new team.
The Lakers finished practice Wednesday, the day after another bad road loss, and were blitzed by Howard questions.
So what exactly happened in July when Howard chose Houston's offer of four years and $88 million instead of the Lakers' offer of five years and $118 million? "We knew there were some problems and we didn't know which way he would go," Lakers Coach Mike D'Antoni said Wednesday.
Kobe Bryant and Howard didn't exactly hit it off last season. Bryant was too serious for Howard's taste and Howard too goofy for Bryant's deathly serious outlook.
There was also the pressure of playing for the Lakers, following the legacies of centers George Mikan, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Shaquille O'Neal, a constant critic of Howard's.
D'Antoni didn't deny that his offensive schemes last season factored into Howard's departure, given that last season the Lakers had Bryant, Steve Nash and Howard on the court.
"It's tough when you've got two Hall of Famers, three Hall of Famers, on the floor at the same time. Too bad. You're not the No. 1 guy we go to," D'Antoni said, referring to Howard.
D'Antoni then mentioned other factors that led to Howard's unhappiness last season, including his return from back surgery. "But I think a lot of it is you're not healthy, a lot of pressure, people are squawking. There's just a lot of stuff that piled on and you can't fault him for it."
The Rockets (4-1) have been solid so far other this season. The Lakers (2-3) on the other hand are losing road games by an average margin of 25 points.
Bryant did not talk to reporters Wednesday but Pau Gasol tried to shine light on what happened last season between Howard and Bryant.
"There was definitely a lack of understanding and connection," Gasol said. "I don't know how much tension it was. There was days it was fine and everybody was on the same page. When things did get a little rough, usually that's when the tensions occur and come up. It was a rough year, a lot of things didn't go our way and that made it that much more difficult."
After a season of hanging out near the three-point line, Gasol was privately thrilled to get his post position back when Howard left.
But Gasol acknowledged missing Howard on defense, where the Lakers are toiling toward the bottom in points allowed this season.
"You don't have that type of shot-blocker back there that will bail you out some of the time," Gasol said. "And he's also a guy that gets his hands on balls, he's aggressive, gets a couple steals every game. These are extra possessions. We have to make up for that in different areas."
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After two successful editions in Lubmin (2004) and Autrans (2007), the 3rd International CPMSP2 Summer School on "Cognitive and Physical Models of Speech Production, Speech Perception and Production-Perception Interaction" was held in Berlin from the 27th of September to the 1st of October 2010.
The focus of this summer school was the planning of speech sequences and its interactions with dynamical properties of speech production and speech perception. It was organized around 9 tutorials addressing related issues from the linguistic, neurophysiologic, motor control, and perception perspectives.
External webpage: http://summerschool2010.danielpape.info/


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The question every vegetarian or vegan gets. As I wonder, how do people feel comfortable eating factory farmed meat, milk and eggs at every single meal?
During a recent snowstorm, on the news they were interviewing people outside a grocery store, and a woman was listing what she deemed necessities: milk, eggs, butter, and cold cuts. It struck me they were all animal products. I also thought, how necessary are cold cuts? Of course if you ask my family dog, that's another story.
Here's a sample of what I've been eating in the past month:
An Arnold Palmer (a mix of lemonade and iced tea), $2.25, and falafel, $5.25, at Maoz Vegetarian (this location recently opened on Eighth Ave. at 43rd and 44th Sts. in New York City) I was super excited another veg option is available, especially in a high-traffic tourist area, but you can find great falafel at many places.
To go at Maoz: vegan rice pudding, $3.50.
At Empire Hunan, a Chinese and Japanese restaurant in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, bean curd soup, $1.75.
After sharing steamed vegetable dumplings, $4.50, devouring sesame fried tofu with veggies and brown rice, $9.50. A feast, and made more frugal by splitting the dish. Don't waste food (and money) - if you have leftovers, take them home, and bring your own takeout container when you can to reduce takeout waste.
To end, fragrant lychee fruit, $3.95, also to share. After the season of over-indulging (which is thankfully over), fruit is a refreshing and welcome change to complete the meal.
At cozy Mario's Trattoria on Ninth Ave. at 37th and 38th Sts. in New York City, garlic knots, $6.
The Mediterranean chopped salad, $9: green and red peppers, red onions, artichoke, tomatoes, cucumbers with oil and vinegar.
Heck, I can even eat at a steakhouse! My dad choose Charlie Brown's Steakhouse for his birthday dinner. So full from the salad bar (included in the price of the entree), I barely had room for my pasta primavera, $11.95 with garlic bread. I took it home in reusable container, and paired with a salad I got two more portions.
A dining out tip if you're looking to eat veg: don't just look for vegetarian entrees. Look at the other sections and see you can leave off the meat. If you are ordering a meat entree sans meat, ask if they'll give you a price reduction. I've had $1 to several dollars taken off. For example, at P.J. Finnegan's in Westwood, New Jersey, they took a few dollars off the chicken stir fry when I asked since I was just having the veggies and rice. Call me cheap - I prefer frugal. But it's more principal. I don't expect to pay for an ingredient I'm not having. Never feel embarrassed about respecting your hard-earned money. I don't.
Know you can find great vegetarian and vegan food dining out even if you don't have access to all the veg dining options. I dine primarily at non-veg restaurants. If you feel adventurous, ask the waiter or waitress to have the chef surprise you. Don't feel suprised when you don't miss the meat.
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Stand-Up Paddle Board with Paddle and Fins
Hit the Waves this Summer and Explore the Coast! Only $699 for a Stand-Up Paddle Board Including Paddle and Fins. Choose from Two Great Made-to-Order Boards Suitable for Beginners or Experienced Riders. Perfect for Summer. Valued at $1500
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Hit the water this summer and enjoy the latest sporting craze with a stand-up paddle board, paddle and fins from Byron Blue
Choose from either:
Hi Performance 10'6" stand up paddle board, paddle and fins - Ideal for first time paddlers and a versatile board for advanced riders, the boards wide body design provides a stable, smooth gliding ride and the round full nose picks up waves easily. Great for flat water cruising, its super responsive shape enables smooth gliding, easy maneuverability and maximum stability
Wave Rider 8'10" stand up paddle board, paddle and fins. A fast wave riding board designed for shore breaks and clean overhead waves. Perfect as the first step into high performance paddle boarding and wave riding, it features a stable, wide body design with lifted nose rocker for carving and cutbacks. The size and shape provide good speed, versatility and predictability in the surf
See the 'Details' tab for further information and make your choice at check-out
Your paddle board will be made-to-order and available to pick-up within eight weeks of purchase
Please note that paddle boards can only be collected from NSW
What We Like
Just in time for summer, discover the great new sport of stand-up paddle boarding
Perfect for beginners or more experienced riders wanting to take the next step up
Ideal as a gift for friends and family
Once purchased your order will be placed and your board will be ready in approximately eight weeks. You will be notified when you board is ready for collection and you must present your voucher upon collection
To be collected from 1/148 Hartley Road, Smeaton Grange, NSW 2567
Members can purchase up to twenty vouchers (gift vouchers aren't available for this offer, but you can purchase multiple vouchers and give the product as a gift)
Not valid in conjunction with any other offer and not redeemable for cash
Please note that paddle boards can only be collected from NSW
Hi Performance 10'6" stand up paddle board
Size: Length 10'6" x Width 33" x Thickness 4.5"
Professionally shaped and hand finished
Round tail for easy maneuverability and turning performance
Medium full rails for maximum stability
Performance rocker and flat mid-section for a smooth glide
Bamboo Deck – super strong natural fibre
Centre 9" fin Box.
FCS compatible side fins.
Quality Glassing 3x 6oz deck and 2x 6oz base
Full length stringer for strength and rigidity
Inbuilt carry handle and single leash plug to minimise board recoil
Wave Rider 8'10" stand up paddle board
Size: Length 8'10" x Width 32" x Thickness 4.25"
Professionally shaped and hand finished
Wave Rider design for early paddle in and quick turns
Pointed nose with raised rocker designed for carving
Round tail for easy manoeuvrability and turning performance
Raised rear grip pad
Performance rocker and signature midsection
Bamboo Deck – super strong natural fibre
Centre 7" fin box
FCS compatible side fins
Quality Glassing 3x 6oz deck and 2x 6oz base
Full length stringer for strength and rigidity
Inbuilt carry handle and single leash plug to minimise board recoil


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Openarch is a real prototype of a smart home. The first home designed from scratch to incorporate a digital layer connecting the house and its elements to the Internet. Its inhabitants lead a new digital and connected life. It is flexible and thanks to its ability to transform, it can adapt to any condition that the user requires.
The digital layer – which from now on we will call D. OS (domestic operating system) – includes a series of components that allow users to stay connected to anyone or any place; control the house's components by the movement of the body; hold conferences from home; know the power consumption at any time; activate any electrical household appliance from work; share a live video of your cooking recipes with the rest of the world; create your own TV set in the lounge, and so on.
The user is more in tune with his domestic environment and can adapt it to any situation or need. The holistic design of both physical and digital layers of the house creates flexible architecture. All furniture can be moved and the possibilities to change the space are maximized by a series of rolling and movable partitions.
With D. OS the house becomes a space for exchange and interaction, a domestic public space. The ability to connect several houses and their data with each other; share their daily routines through simultaneous projections; connect people in real time without looking at a screen; see real-time images of a public space and interact with people who are walking around. Possibilities that have seemed unimaginable until now will grow by generating a network of Openarch houses. Networks which will be infrastructures of future smart cities.
All the components of the house have continuous internet connection, creating a parallel home on the web. A type of domestic 'situation room' where we can access all the house's data, control any element, know in real time how the house is being used, allow the house to tweet about what is happening and also share with others what we are interested in. This situation opens up a new way of managing the space, from automatically sharing or renting the house when we are not at home to turning the home into a service.
The gestural interface developed for Openarch completely breaks the limitations of interacting with a computer through the screen, mouse and keyboard.
Everything in the house can be used to communicate, the interface is ubiquitous. Through projections that are activated by the presence of a person, we can control everything with the movement of the hands: the lights; turning on any electrical household appliances; music; even connecting to Skype for a conference from any part of the house. Once connected to the internet, any device can be managed and switched on and off from anywhere in the world, and even controlled by mobile phone, tablet, or from any device which is connected to the internet.
The gestural interface is complemented by a system integrated within the household objects, from plug sockets to coffee pots. A network of RFID tags will allow a Smartphone with NFC, or a reading device, to interact with and visualize the objects' data without activating the projections. Simply moving the phone towards the object can switch it on or off, and even obtain in real time the data that it generates.
We can have a deeper understanding of what surrounds us, and be aware of the processes taking place in our domestic environment. Sensors that measure temperature; energy expenditure; light and air pollution, including CO2 generated in our home. Sensors connected directly to the internet help us to understand energy consumption or city pollution. Webcams located throughout the space allow us to understand how we use the house, how we move in the house, how to improve our daily life and the design of our surroundings.
Using projections and an integrated videomapping system, the information collected through the sensors and the cameras can be displayed in its original place or wherever we choose to position it. All sorts of information, from temperature and pollution levels to our Twitter followers, can be projected onto the fridge.


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Beautiful fit out at this smart Madrid chocolate shop.
Large selection of chocolate bars in dozens of flavours.
Hand dipped pralines.
Plenty of selection.
Cacao Sampaka in Madrid.
Packaging is superb and the store neat and tidy.
Large selection of Champagnes, Sherries, Ports and Sauternes for sale.
Probably the best beer in the world?
The general strike in Spain and austerity strikes across Europe gave us an unexpected extra day in Madrid. This gave us the opportunity to visit the Madrid branch of Cacao Sampaka, we visited the Barcelona branch last year and love the brand. The store is fantastic, and has a large selection of chocolate items, alcohols, books and houses a smart cafe. Cacao Sampaka is located at Calle de Orellana, 4 28004 and is well worth a visit. Tomorrow we return to London on business and we will be catching up with talented individuals in the world of cuisine. We will let you know who they are and how it goes in our next post, but for now it is time for a last beer in Spain. What better than the special edition Estrella on which chef Ferran Adria contributed! Saludas Madrid, see you next year!!
Cacao Sampaka http://www.cacaosampaka.com/
Estrella Cerveza http://www.estrelladamminedit.com/es/index.html


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As lighting installations in office buildings and other facilities continue to become more complex, designers must address ambient, task, and security illumination solutions separately. Why? When you consider that today's state and federal energy requirements often define a maximum lighting power density for different types of new facilities, it seems energy-efficient lighting design has become a requirement for squeezing out the best value for every dollar spent on lighting. Businesses can no longer afford to miss out on the savings an energy-efficient lighting design affords them, so it's no wonder more and more electrical and lighting design professionals are looking to software for help.
Today's lighting design software programs are powerful tools that can solve a variety of problems. They can calculate lighting levels easier, faster, and more accurately; handle repetitive layouts; keep track of fixture counts; determine the electrical loads on feeders or branch circuits; and take you on a virtual tour through your design. However, to fully appreciate the advantages such software can provide, it's important to understand some of the challenges modern lighting installations present.
Not only are many lighting installations becoming more complex, several are coming into the second and third generation of retrofits. Though previous retrofits may have saved some energy dollars, many have also caused a diminished visual environment. In some cases, they even failed to provide adequate lighting. Providing high-efficiency, high-quality fixtures, and lighting controls for complete relighting efforts translates into big business for contractors today. This is especially true for fluorescent and metal-halide applications. In this market, the right lighting design software program can help turn a proposal into a sale.
The industrial plant lighting market is also ripe with opportunities. Most manufacturing facilities have their own spatial conditions and task requirements. With a lighting design program, you can prepare several designs using different lamp/system combinations to determine variances in performance and economics. Each design must include a return-on-investment (ROI) evaluation.
The increasing use of electric power-generating photovoltaic panels in buildings is another factor to consider. To make the most of solar-generated electricity, these buildings must be as energy-efficient as possible. So architects rely on skylights and clerestory windows to maximize daylight in the interior spaces. Lighting programs that feature day lighting modules are very useful on these projects. Now that we've looked at the characteristics of today's lighting design market and explored a few ways you can apply lighting design software, let's take a look at the software itself.
Not what it used to be
Evolution is the key word when it comes to lighting design programs. In the old days, designers used rudimentary programs to do only the complex calculating functions rapidly. Today's modern programs can take you on a virtual 3-D color tour of the lighted space. This makes your computer or workstation a video tool, allowing you to see how a proposed lighting design will look when the lighting equipment is installed. The result is a better design in less time with greater assurance.
Powerful as it may be, lighting design software (like any tool) has its limitations. The utility of a lighting design program usually depends on the training, experience, and judgment of the user.
Granted, a program user cannot create any of the dramatic images unless he or she has the knowledge and experience necessary to understand how light is produced and controlled. However, features like photometric data files, which demonstrate the way lamps and lighting fixtures distribute light, have increased the demand for these programs. As a result of its increasing popularity, photometrics is an important concept for designers to understand. Major lighting fixture manufacturers and photometric laboratories use the most popular formats to archive luminaire photometric data in databases.
Finding the right program.
The best source of information on computer software is the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA), New York, which periodically conducts a survey on currently available products. The latest survey results (printed in the December 1999 issue of the association's monthly magazine, Lighting Design and Application) include 25 lighting design software programs.
The survey describes the specific features of indoor, outdoor, roadway, flood, and sports- and stage-lighting applications, and it divides the information into eight sections, including price, applications, hardware requirements, types of analysis, special features, user interaction, and photometry.
The section on types of analysis reveals whether a program offers point or plane luminance calculations or economic analysis, and the section on special features identifies programs that import or export CAD files and the maximum number of luminaries the program can handle. The user interaction section presents the methods of entering data in each program and the types of output the program can handle. For example, one program may generate gray-scale renderings, while another may allow output of the lighting design to E-size blueprint pages.
The price section provides a starting point for selection. One fixture manufacturer offers two free programs and another that costs $100. Programs offered by other fixture manufacturers cost only a few hundred dollars, and should satisfy most contractors and engineers. On the other hand, programs sold by independent software firms run anywhere from a few hundred dollars up to $10,000. Generally, higher priced products are recommended for individuals who require detailed analysis on a regular basis.
The survey also provides the following information about software products:
If it operates inside a CAD program.
If you can enter data into tables on the screen.
If it accepts input from a digitizer, a keyboard, a mouse, or a stylus.
If it has provisions for multilingual support or CIE calculations (European standards).
If you can view graphic photometric distributions on screen
If you can tilt light meters.
If it uses the zonal cavity or lumen method for indoor calculation of average luminance.
If it offers roadway luminance and day lighting capabilities.
If tech support is available.
If documentation is provided online or is available in a printed manual.
The special features heading lists particular capabilities of the program. For example, the automatic layout feature suggests a layout of the luminaries. A generate schedules function produces a luminaire schedule for the building. Building shadowing calculations take into account the shadowing effects of other buildings in outdoor analysis. A program with batch processing can run several analyses while the computer is unattended. Interior obstructions calculations take into account the effects of user-defined obstructions in interior spaces. And an economic analysis feature will calculate the cost considerations for the lighting system.
Practical examples.
What can a typical lighting design program accomplish? One popular $600 program (from an independent software company) offers a photometric library of more than 17,000 products from about 60 manufacturers. It provides a step-by-step checklist for producing a lighting layout. Other features include: CAD interfaces with import and export capabilities, gray-scale images, project file merging, and a variety of customized reports. It also offers predefined objects, such as partitions, tables, and chairs that you can add to a rendered space to provide a realistic view of the design. In addition, you can use a second software program to produce full-color, photographic quality images.
If you work on both interior and outdoor projects, you may need more than one program. For example, software that includes the ability to use exterior luminaire photometrics, a solar calculator, and a geographic location is very useful when working on exterior site lighting layout. It's important to find a program with these three capabilities because they aren't usually found in a program that also does interior-design work.
The big picture.
Keeping up with the changes in lighting installations can be a job in itself. Not only that, as systems continue to increase in complexity, designers must find new ways to design and implement innovative lighting for new facilities. Luckily, recent advances in lighting design software have brought new capabilities to the field and made this task a little easier to handle.
Lighting Standards
Since the 1970s, government regulations and users have promoted the need for lighting systems with energy-efficient designs that follow an energy budget. For that reason, a lighting designer should be familiar with the latest revision of the ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA 90.1-1999 standard. The ASHRAE portion of this standard deals with heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, while the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) portion deals with lighting.
The new 90.1-1999, Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low Rise Residential Buildings, includes lighting power density (LPD) values for whole buildings and for spaces within buildings. The Lighting Subcommittee of the ASHAE 90.1 Standards Project Committee and the IESNA Energy Management Committee developed these LPDs.
The LPDs establish appropriate lighting energy-consumption limits that promote energy efficiency without sacrificing good design and quality lighting. For calculating the LPDs, currently available lighting characteristics, such as coefficient of utilization (CUs), light loss factors, lamp efficacy, and luminance values from the 8th edition of the IESNA Lighting Handbook were input. Professional design experience and the characteristics of typical buildings were also included in the data. Then, by applying this data, a modified form of the lumen method in lighting calculation was used to set up the LPDs for each of the various building types. For example, the standard lists 1.34W/sq ft as the average for an office, and 2.2W/sq ft average for a manufacturing facility. The LPDs assigned to all types of facilities are available on the IESNA Web site: (www.iesna.org).


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Are The Courts Finally Trying To Bring Some Balance Back To Copyright?
from the technological-neutrality dept
One of the recurrent themes here on Techdirt is the increasing lack of balance in copyright, which is now heavily weighted in favor of creators and their proxies, and against the public. That bias has come about thanks to the rise of the Internet, which has turned the traditionally rather specialist area of copyright law and enforcement into a matter of everyday concern: it affects practically everything we do online, and can criminalize even the most trivial of activities there.
But there are signs that some judges are starting to recognize this imbalance and -- more importantly -- to do something about it in their rulings. Here's what Graham Smith, a UK lawyer and blogger, had to say on this trend recently:
These have been a hectic couple of weeks for copyright. Ten days ago the EU Court of Justice published the UsedSoft decision, which will have us thinking in a completely new way about exhaustion of rights online. On Thursday this week the Canadian Supreme Court delivered five separate copyright judgments on subjects ranging from fair dealing to communication to the public, each in its separate way reinforcing a more user-centric, less author-centric, approach to copyright.
The UsedSoft decision was discussed here on Techdirt a few weeks ago, and may allow software and other digital goods to be re-sold within the EU – it's not clear yet how much of an impact this ruling will have. Meanwhile, the judgments from the Canadian Supreme Court are almost certain to re-shape the copyright landscape in that country.
Smith points out that one thing the European and Canadian decisions have in common is a desire to assert "technological neutrality" -- the idea that the move from an analog to a digital world shouldn't see the balance of traditional copyright tipped towards one side or the other:
Both the ECJ and the SCC [Supreme Court of Canada] kicked back hard against what they perceived as imbalance between hard copy and digital copyright outcomes. The ECJ strove to achieve 'functional equivalence' between a fully paid permanent download and a sale on physical media. It said that what would otherwise be a communication to the public would be converted into a distribution to the public if a 'transfer of ownership' (defined in economic rather than legal terms) had taken place. The ability to rely on the first sale doctrine in order to acquire second-hand software applied in equivalent situations, regardless of whether the transactions took place on physical media or by download.
The key role of technological neutrality in driving the recent decisions is supported on the Canadian side by Michael Geist, who concluded a series of posts analyzing the implications of the five SCC rulings -- which he termed "the culmination of a ten year transformation of copyright at Canada's highest court" -- as follows:
The SCC invoked a similar concept of 'technological neutrality' in several of its judgments, two of which together held that the right of communication to the public applied to streaming but not to downloads.
the court frames technological neutrality as a matter of balance within the Copyright Act and as a means to avoid the double dipping that occurs when new fees or restrictions are layered onto new technologies.
The net effect is to firmly reject claims that users' rights is merely a metaphor. In the eyes of the Supreme Court of Canada, it is an essential component of Canadian copyright law that is integral to achieving the purpose of copyright it identified over a decade ago -- a balance that "lies not only in recognizing the creator's rights but in giving due weight to their limited nature."
Let's hope this new recognition of the essential nature of users' rights deepens and spreads to other countries where copyright in the digital age remains seriously out of kilter.
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I think most people worked out that my last post (ProBlogger Acquired by Google) was an April Fools Joke – however I wanted to make sure.
It was an April Fools joke!
It's been two years since my last April Fools Day prank – last time (in 2008) I issued a press release announcing that I was starting a new company – Pay Per Tweet. Of course back then the idea of sponsored Tweets had not happened and it caused some outrage – all I can say is that I hope this year's prank comes true too! :-)
The idea for this year's joke started with a dream – a real dream where Google actually did buy ProBlogger for a new blogging platform for professional bloggers. I tweeted the dream and it got such a good reception (including from a few people who work at Google/Blogger) that I filed it away as an idea for April Fools Day.
Yesterday I decided to go for it and wrote the press release announcing the acquisition. I even went so far as to register a domain for my next business venture – FoolsMedia.com and setup a twitter account for it (funnily enough that Twitter account is already getting followers and is featured on at least a couple of Twitter lists).
Of course running an April Fools Day post on your blog has some benefits and risks.
On the negative side – some people fall for it, and fall for it hard. Today I've had a lot of emails, DMs, comments and even a few phone calls congratulating me on the 'acquisition' (and a few accusing me of selling out). I even took a call from a family member (who was very happy for me) and another from a reporter (who wanted to run a story of me selling my blog). I've had to follow up with a few people to make sure that they realized it was a joke – although I have to say most got it.
On the up side – the joke was a lot of fun, caused a nice 'buzz', was retweeted a lot (actually I think most people who were fooled were on Twitter where people just saw the headline and started RT'ing like crazy without reading the post) and even got a few incoming links from other sites who pointed it out.
A big thanks to a few people for making this possible. Firstly to Google/Blogger for their inactive part in it (although guys…. if you ever want to buy a blog about blogging…. you know where I am), secondly to Lara who had to moderate the comments when my last post went up… and lastly to everyone who read and responded to the post (whether you were fooled or not) – thanks for playing.


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How California Pizza Kitchen managed to turn lettuce wraps filled with lean protein into a nutritional nightmare is almost more than we can fathom. Good thing we've made 'em over... DIG IN! Prep: 10 minutes Cook: 10 minutes Ingredients: 1 tbsp. reduced-sodium/lite soy sauce 1 tsp. granulated sugar 1 tsp. chopped garlic 1/2 tsp. ground ginger 1 cup chopped shiitake mushrooms 3 oz. cooked and chopped skinless chicken breast 3 oz. chopped ready-to-eat shrimp 1/2 cup canned sliced water chestnuts, drained and chopped 1/2 tsp. sesame oil 1/4 cup chopped scallions 5 medium iceberg lettuce leaves Directions: In a medium bowl, thoroughly mix soy sauce, sugar, garlic, and ginger. Bring a skillet sprayed with nonstick spray to medium-high heat. Cook and stir mushrooms until softened, about 4 minutes. Add chicken, shrimp, water chestnuts, and sauce mixture. Cook and stir until mixture is hot, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in sesame oil and scallions. Let cool slightly, and then distribute among lettuce leaves! MAKES 1 SERVING
Serving Size: entire recipe Calories: 316 Fat: 5g Sat Fat: 1g Sodium: 925mg Carbs: 21.5g Fiber: 3.5g Sugars: 8g Protein: 46g PointsPlus® value 8*SmartPoints® value 5*
Time out, CPK. You're not playing fair. We're going about our lives, trying to make smart food choices, and just when we think we've found something promising, you hit us with a big ol' FOOD FAKER. Lettuce wraps filled with chicken and shrimp? Surely a light option -- why not order the appetizer platter for yourself as an entrée, right? WRONG. We hate to be a buzzkill, but this app plate has more calories than CPK's Belgian Chocolate Soufflé Cake and nearly three dozen fat grams. It's not the worst thing on the menu, but it's still way heavier than it should be. How does something like this happen? One word: OIL. The filling for these wraps is incredibly oily. There's also a sauce on the side, which seems rather unnecessary, since said sauce tastes much like the marinade already used in the filling. No amount of lettuce can save this dish, so we made it over. Ditch the excess oil, skip the silly sauce... just use our recipe. We know how to play the game!
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"The 2nd International Symposium on Traditional Foods from Adriatic to Caucasus, held in Drim Hotel-Struga/Macedonia on 24-26th October 2013 has been achieved with a great success. There were around 600 participants who visited your country. They were all satisfied with your services and enjoyed in the symposium. The success of this event is because of not only our organization committee but also with Ms. Ana Jancheva and her team's great effort to solve problems quickly. We are glad to have symposium in your hotel and work with you!"
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AHL Game Night: 3-23-13 Devils at Crunch
Still hanging onto first place.
Riku Helenius allowed 1 goal on 28 shots for the victory. He came within 54 seconds of a shutout before Albany's power play goal. Still, with the effort tonight, Helenius has finally managed to get his save percentage back to .900 for the season. He had a good February and is having a good March, which the Lightning have to hope leads to a good Option B for Syracuse come playoff time.
First Period
SYR Namestnikov, (5) (Gauthier, Jacques), 13:39
SYR Sexton, (6) (Wyman), 14:25
Second Period
SYR Brown, (10) (Wyman, Sexton), 14:00
Third Period
ALB Anderson, (13) (Whitney, Gelinas), 19:06 (PP)
Dan Sexton, Vladislav Namestnikov, and Helenius were the game's three stars. Namestnikov's strong play in March also has to have the Lightning extremely happy. We at the website can't wait to see him and Nikita Kucherov lined up together, which could happen this season depending on how the QMJHL playoffs go.
With Providence going down to Worcester, Syracuse holds a 2 point lead on Binghamton for the top spot in the Eastern Conference. Springfield and Providence lag by 3 points. Syracuse gets Rochester next on Wednesday, and with just 11 games left in the regular season every point matters from here on out, as it could be the difference between being 1 seed or a 4 seed.
6 of Syracuse's remaining 11 games are at home, including a nice 5 game homestand to close out the regular season. Also, 6 of the 11 games are against teams that currently would not make the playoffs, although the team they have the most games left with, ironically Norfolk, is just 2 points out of 8th in the East.
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I do not agree that we are 'back to square one'. I believe we've confirmed that Mr Serio is correct (NO DATE CODE, per se), BUT.. we've also learned empirically that the ID code/SN has a month/year encoded into the SN... which serves the same purpose for us. A 'date code' is a marking put on a part purely to record the actual date (time/shift/etc) without any other purpose. The Hurst ID/Serial number code has multiple pieces of information in it, some of which we do not know, but we've pretty conclusively shown that there is a month and year encoded as part of this SN. But I doubt they did it just so we could demonstrate originality to a car 44 years later..
Another one to add to the mix for you... Jan 69. Not original to my car though. Recognize it Gary? lol
Quote from: SgtHawkUSMC on January 30, 2014, 04:52:33 PMAnother one to add to the mix for you... Jan 69. Not original to my car though. Recognize it Gary? lol Is that the one I traded you a year or so ago? I bought that unit in Atlanta at a Classic Chevy Meet in the late '70's or early '80's.. and I didn't know the code to determine date at the time I traded it to you.. that's been a later point of knowledge for me (learned here on CRG a few months ago.. Did you ever find someone to trade you the BB rods for the SB rods that were with it?


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TG4904 : Gt Yarmouth to St Olaves railway - Bradwell
taken 9 years ago, near to Bradwell, Norfolk, Great Britain
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Gt Yarmouth to St Olaves railway
The line connected Gt Yarmouth (South Town) and St Olaves (Haddiscoe High Level), from where it curved into Fritton Woods. Running in north-easterly direction it entered the village of Belton. No trace of Belton & Burgh Castle station remains: the location and some of the surrounding countryside was designated for development and residential housing now covers much of this area. Running north-west from Belton to Bradwell the line passed All Saints church > Link in the north west, crossing St Johns Road and Shortsteps via a bridge, passing Burgh Castle in the south-west. Entering Bradwell from the south-west the line ran alongside Doles Lane. Before reaching Yarmouth South Town station the railway was crossed by the old Lowestoft to Yarmouth line (closed 1970).
A railway station at Haddiscoe was first opened by the Norfolk Railway in 1847 at the Herringfleet Junction. In 1854 the Halesworth, Beccles and Haddiscoe Railway (later renamed the East Suffolk Railway Co.) was opened between those towns and extended via Darsham to Ipswich in 1859. The original Haddiscoe station was closed by the Great Eastern Railway in 1904 in favour of the current location at the junction of the Wherry Line > Link - Link and the now closed Yarmouth-Beccles Line from London to Yarmouth. Both stations operated until withdrawal of services on the Yarmouth line in 1959 which resulted in the closure of the Haddiscoe high level station > Link. Until closure the two stations were linked - the link being controlled by the Haddiscoe Junction signal box. The East Suffolk line crossed the then Great Eastern line via a (since dismantled) bridge > Link just south of Haddiscoe high level station.
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Questions about CLL
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
My partner has CLL and is 40 years old. He was diagnosed 2 years ago and his white blood cell count has doubled each year for the past two years. His nodes, liver and spleen are enlarged and he is now on chemotherapy. Is CLL related to lymphoma(s)? He does not suffer from frequent infection or fevers will this risk increase as time goes on? His platelet and red blood cell counts are low; will the chemo help these improve?
Selina M. Luger, MD, Director of the Leukemia Program and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
CLL (chronic lymphocytic leukemia) is a cancerous disease of the lymphoid system and is related to the lymphomas. It is hard to tell the difference between CLL and lymphoma if the lymph nodes are large and the white blood count is not exceedingly high (a patient with CLL can have enlarged lymph nodes and a patient with lymphoma can have excess lymphoma cells in the blood). However, the treatment is the same regardless of which disease process is occurring.
Patients with CLL typically present with elevated white blood counts, and most of those white blood cells are lymphocytes. In its earliest stages, only the white blood cells are increased, and the bone marrow is filled with these same lymphocytes (a bone marrow test is not necessary but if one were to look, that is what one would find). As the disease advances, the lymph nodes can become involved. The liver and spleen any enlarge and the normal hemoglobin and platelet count may decrease. Although the white blood count itself is not usually a reason for treatment, the other factors often require initiation of therapy. Hopefully with therapy these issues will resolve.
There are several reasons that a patient with CLL may be susceptible to infections--the disease itself makes patients more susceptible. There is no real way to test if any individual patient will be more likely to get more infections. Also the treatments themselves can make patients more susceptible to infections.
The choice of treatment often depends on the reason that treatment is being started. Often a drug called fludarabine is used in the initial therapy. Hopefully, your partner will have an excellent response to therapy. At the age of 40, there are quite a few new treatments that are available and can be considered at a later date if necessary.


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NEW YORK (AP) — A woman suspected in the death of an immigrant who was pushed off a New York City subway platform has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Erika Menendez, 31, was arraigned Saturday night on a charge of murder as a hate crime. She had told police she has hated Muslims since Sept. 11 and thought the victim was one. Judge Gia Morris ordered that Menendez be held without bail and be given a mental health exam.
Menendez is charged in the death of Sunando Sen, who was crushed by a train in Queens on Thursday night. Friends and co-workers said Sen, a 46-year-old Indian immigrant, was Hindu.
"I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I've been beating them up," Menendez told police, according to the district attorney's office.
"The defendant is accused of committing what is every subway commuter's worst nightmare," Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
Menendez was incoherent at her arraignment in Queens criminal court, at one point laughing so hard that the judge told her defense lawyer, "You're going to have to have your client stop laughing."
Menendez admitted shoving Sen, who was pushed from behind, authorities said. She was arrested after a tip by a passer-by who saw her on a street and thought she looked like the woman in a surveillance video released by police.
A call to Menendez's attorney was not immediately returned today.
Angel Luis Santiago, who used to work at the Queens building where Menendez's mother and stepfather live, said he was shocked by her arrest.
"It surprised me what she did," he said. "She never acted that way."
Menendez's next court appearance is scheduled for Jan. 14.
Sen was the second man to die after being pushed in front of a New York City subway train this month. Ki-Suck Han was killed in a midtown Manhattan subway station on Dec. 3. A photo of Han clinging to the edge of the platform a split second before he was struck by a train was published on the front page of the New York Post, causing an uproar about whether the photographer, who was catching a train, or anyone else should have tried to help him.
A homeless man was arrested and charged with murder in that case and is awaiting trial. He claimed he acted in self-defense.
It's unclear whether anyone tried, or could have tried, to help Sen on Thursday.
Psychiatric test for suspect in NYC subway death
NEW YORK (AP) — A woman suspected in the death of an immigrant who was pushed off a New York City subway platform has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.


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BRISTOL — According to town officials, after 125 years of active duty, Holley Hall was in need of a little relief. The renovation project began in 2008 and was completed last month. It rehabilitated the historic building and updated the space to meet the current needs of its inhabitants.
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Hallormstaður is the biggest forest in Iceland, located 25 km south of Egilsstaðir, less than half hour drive from the airport. In the past it was considered to be seven hours walk and three hours ride on a good horse.
Icelanders consider Hallormsstaður an oasis in a land where the wind often blows. But to foreign visitors Hallormstaður is a welcomed change from the naked landscape during their travel around the island.
Beautiful place and great breakfastSteve, USA
- seeing the northern lights - back deck area - hiking in the area - looking for the monster ;-).
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Clean and very comfortable cottage. Excellent location in forest over a stream.
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The location is fantastic, the hotel spotless, the staff willing to please.
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[Funeral Program for Edward A. Smith, February 14, 1989]
Description: Funeral program for Brother Edward A. Smith, died February 8, 1989. The funeral was held February 14, 1989 at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, officiated by Rev. Claude W. Black, Jr. Funeral arrangements were made through the Lewis Funeral Home and he was buried in Needville City Cemetery in Needville, Texas.
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