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Ski Bumming and Roadtrips.
We are Justin and Bailey.
Justin is from south of Atlanta, Georgia and I (Bailey) am from a small town called Sutter Creek in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. We met at Kirkwood Mountain Resort in the fall 2014. I had worked there the previous winter season and was extremely excited for the upcoming season. He had come to work in the ski industry from the south and try the ski bum out once and for all. We were introduced by mutual friends and as they say, the rest is history.
We have lived and worked at Kirkwood each winter season since. If you have never heard of Kirkwood, you should know that Kirkwood is a remote ski resort in the northern Sierra Nevada and it has one of the highest annual snowfalls in North America. It is located on one of the most scenic highways in the state, Highway 88, and in any direction is at least 40 miles away from the nearest town or grocery store. To get to the closest town (South Lake Tahoe) you have to traverse over two mountain passes that have a habit of closing if the snow accumulates over a foot. Even with all of that Kirkwood is one of the best places to be for one reason: the mountain. With world class steeps and record breaking annual snow fall, Kirkwood is a hardcore skiers or riders dream. We are at the tail end of the biggest seasons in the last 50 years, collecting an epic 692 inches of snowfall! Justin is an expert snowboarder and I am his skiing counterpart with almost as much skill and a lot less confidence. This year was a dream come true in many more ways than one. Needless to say living in this place is an adventure, and we absolutely love everything about it. A lot of folks have never experienced a snow storm that dumps over 10 feet in a few days, let alone multiple in a row. For that I consider ourselves lucky, because we have once in a lifetime experiences everyday.
In the fall of 2012, I saw my first van life hashtag and from there I was hooked on the idea of living and traveling the country in an old school van. That was 2 years before I met and fell in love with Justin, and back in those days I was a 19 year old college drop out working at a pizza place in my hometown day dreaming of all kinds of wild ideas. All of which I had no plan in of how to fullfill. Fast forward 3 years to the winter of 2015, Justin and I had begun talking and brainstorming the idea of building out a school bus into a tiny home. We gave our self a timeline of a year and half to save and plan to build out our dream bus home.
As we went on with our lives for the next few months, we started to talk about what we really wanted out of the bus home. Our main concern was travelling, we enjoyed the open road and wanted to see and experience all the places and things that this country had to offer. We had a small taste of life on the road in summer of 2015. We drove Justin's 1993 Jeep Cherokee across the country from Kirkwood back to Georgia at the end of the winter season in 2015. Then, in the fall we drove the very same Jeep all the way back to California. We went to some awesome places on those trips including Las Vegas, Moab, New Orleans, The Grand Canyon and many more.
Since we are Ski bums, we work and play in the winter time. Living seasonally has given us the oppurtunity to have half the year off. After we realized that spending our off season travelling was what the we wanted to pursue, my dream of van living came back into reality. We made the choice to buy a van instead of a bus to convert into a home.
In January of 2017 We bought our dream van. A 1985 Ford Econoline 350 with a 4wd conversion. There is a picture below. We are very excited to share our journey with you! Visit our van build and check out our blog to keep updated on what we have going on…


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LocationWinston Salem
6725 University Parkway
Winston Salem, NC 27045
New 2019 Winnebago Outlook 27D
Winnebago Outlook class C motor home 27D highlights:
- Double Slide Outs
- Overhead Bed
- 24" x 32" Shower
- Sleeps Six People
When you choose to camp with this double slide out Outlook 27D motor home you and your family are ready to take on any type of adventure whether near or far! Come enjoy your meals at the 40" x 72" dinette and at night you can easily convert this area into additional sleeping space. Mom and dad will enjoy the private rear bedroom with a 60" x 75" queen bed, and the kids can easily sleep at the 54" x 95" overhead bed. Across the hall from the private toilet area and sink there is a 24" x 32" shower and more!
Are you ready for a class C motor home that is fully equipped and ready to travel when you are? Come select an Outlook by Winnebago. These models are built on a Ford E350 or E450 chassis and range in length from 24'2"-31'10". Each model has an overhead bunk for your kids and a rear bed for mom and dad! Enjoy more time outdoors under the awning. Now you can relax in shade while watching your kids play. Come start any adventure with an Outlook class C motor home!
I just wanted to thank Jamie, Wells and Brandon on my father's recent camper purchase. As they were for me last year, friendly, respectful and courteous to Dad's needs. These are three great guys that have been a pleasure to deal with. Keep up the good work.
Chris - Chris from Moncks Corner, SC
Stock# A12521
Chassis: Ford
Interior Color: MYSTIC
|28 ft 8 in
|Ext Width
|8 ft 5 in
|Ext Height
|10 ft 10 in
|Interior Color
|Gross Weight
|14500 lbs
|Fresh Water Capacity
|34 gals
|Grey Water Capacity
|40 gals
|Black Water Capacity
|40 gals
|Fuel Capacity
|55 gals
|182 in
|Number Of Bunks
|Available Beds
|Cooktop Burners
|Shower Size
|24" x 32"
|Number of Awnings
|Axle Weight Front
|5000 lbs
|Axle Weight Rear
|9600 lbs
|LP Tank Capacity
|Water Heater Capacity
|6 gal
|Basement Storage
|39.5 cu. ft.
|Awning Info
|Gross Combined Weight
|22000 lbs
|Shower Type
The Company markets its recreational vehicles on a wholesale basis to a diversified dealer organization located throughout the U.S., and Canada.
Mission Statement at Winnebago Industries - "Moving forward with innovation and quality." Winnebago remains committed to providing its customers high quality, great value, efficient design, and eye-catching style in all the recreational vehicles it produces.
Bill Plemmons RV is not responsible for any misprints, typos, or errors found in our website pages. Any price listed excludes sales tax, registration tags, and delivery fees. Manufacturer-provided pictures, specifications and features may be used as needed. Inventory shown may be only a partial listing of the entire inventory. Please contact us at 888-746-2351 for availability as our inventory changes rapidly. All calculated payments are an estimate only and do not constitute a commitment that financing or a specific interest rate or term is available.

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In some situations it would be very nice to have some extra (external) logging output when unittest failures happen. Suppose these logs can be potentially big - you would only want them outputted if something actually failed.
The tearDown can't help you much here - you don't have access to the result. Ideally we would have a custom TestCase class that provides this functionality and subclass it whenever we need this behavior. We could override the run method like described here but unfortunately that's not very robust - for example nose will not call it (nose rewrapps all your test methods in different TestCase instances).
We could write a nose plugin but that's a bad idea ... we would have to tag all our tests with a flag that activates this special behavior and, well, we're getting locked in.
Here's a base TestCase that provides said behavior:
from logging import getLogger
from unittest.case import TestCase, SkipTest
logger = getLogger(__name__)
class LogfileRecordingTestCase(TestCase):
_log_offset = 0
log_limit = 1024*1024 # no more than 1mb
log_name = 'foobar.log'
def __init__(self, methodName='runTest'):
meth = getattr(self, methodName)
def wrapper():
return meth()
except SkipTest:
wrapper.__name__ = wrapper.description = wrapper.__doc__ = methodName
setattr(self, methodName, wrapper)
super(LogfileRecordingTestCase, self).__init__(methodName)
def _print_logs(self):
if os.path.isfile(self.log_name):
with open(self.log_name, 'r') as fh:
output = fh.read()
if output:
print((" " + self.log_name + " ").center(80))
except Exception:
logger.exception("Failed to extract logfile data.")
def setUp(self):
super(LogfileRecordingTestCase, self).setUp()
if os.path.isfile(self.log_name):
with open(self.log_name, 'r') as fh:
fh.seek(0, os.SEEK_END)
self._log_offset = fh.tell()
- If you're running some external service that generates this logs (you probably are if you really need this) you can have buffering issues. Worth taking a look at PYTHONUNBUFFERED and unbuffer if you're doing some shell pipe redirects.
- You might want to from unittest2.case import SkipTest if you're using unittest2 - the classes will differ, and nose prefers the unittest2 import.


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|Carroll Leadership in Technology Magnet Middle School
All Call 11/4/13
Good afternoon Carroll Cougars! This is your principal, Ms. Keech with this week's announcements. A copy of this transcript will be shared through the Carroll Yahoo Email group and posted on our website under Keech's Corner.
Parents, report cards went home with your children today. Please contact your child's teachers or grade level counselor if you have any questions or concerns pertaining to your child's progress.
Our PTA would like to thank everyone who submitted Box Tops for our recent collection. The Bobcats turned in the most box tops. However, the Lions, Jaguars, Pumas and Tigers are coming up right behind them. Keep on clipping. The next collection date is January 10th!
Want to enjoy at day at Carter-Finley and help raise money for our school? Go to www.gopack.com/promo and enter the promotional code -CARROLLCOUGARS for the NC State vs.Maryland football game on November 30th. For every ticket sold $5 will be given to our school.
Carroll families, spread the word to your neighbors, family members and friends who may be interested in attending Carroll next year. Our next Cougar Chat and tour is this Wed. Nov. 6th at 4:00 pm in our media center.
Picture day retakes will be this Friday, Nov. 8th and don't forget our Early Release also on Friday at 11:45, and no school on Veterans Day next Monday, November 11th.
That's all for now. Goooooo Cougars!
Leave a Reply.
Cynthia Keech, Principal
June 2015
Carroll Leadership in Technology Magnet Middle School
4520 Six Forks Road Raleigh, NC 27609
(919)881-1370 Phone (919)881-1381 Fax
Office Hours 7:00am-3:30pm
School Hours 7:20am-2:15pm
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Ajit Pai and Jessica Rosenworcel
Ajit Pai and Jessica Rosenworcel are
two veteran Senate advisors with
FCC experience and the support of
legislators on
both sides of the
aisle. They were
the consensus
picks of Senate
and Democratic
leaders for the
two FCC seats
vacated last year
by commissioners Michael Copps
and Meredith Attwell Baker.
Rosenworcel is considered by Washington
insiders to be future FCC chairman
material, while Pai is described as
smart and ambitious. If they get full
Senate confirmation and are installed,
they will likely help determine how
broadcast spectrum is reclaimed and
re-auctioned for wireless, how media
ownership rules
are modified (or
not), how the
FCC regulates
indecency going
forward and how
the agency treats
broadband video
delivery systems.
And if their
nominations are ultimately thwarted
by the unrelated flap over Light-
Squared's FCC waiver, their names
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Comment on Skegness XSite Skate Park Review by Nicholas.
Firstly I think that the comments made are a bit harsh, what you need to realise is that the skatepark has taken many years of hard work to develop, without the hard work of certain individuals the facility wouldnt even be there!!! Lincolnshire Extreme Sports Association has been recognised for its achievements and X-Site Skatepark has held many events including, 2 years running, the UKSA British Championships.
whether your opinion is good or bad, it has been proved that the facility is needed, just because a few photos show people street skating (to be honest David Law, you shouldnt be taking photos of people without there consent!!!,I could possibly be one of those skating that day.)
"if X-site can't make money from a popular activity then their doing something wrong. X-Site made a profit in 2009, so I think you don't understand businesses taking advantage of a seaside holiday location."
The above quote also makes no sense, Xsite either makes no money or it does? You say that if they cany make money from a popular activity then you state they made profit in 2009?????
I also know that the profits dont pay for any big wig to go on holiday during winter months, it goes back into the park, they have just had new ramps and alterations made with some of that money, I was told that by someone who knows.
You also go on to mention the cost, first of all, the facility is not revenue funded by anyone, it has to be self sustainable and if it doesnt make money it closes! the same as any business, anywhere in the world.
"ukskatepark Stockport-Entrance fee
£3 for 1 hour
£4 for 2 hours
£5 for 3 hours
£2 for each extra Hour over 3hrs
£10 all day ticket
Non Members: additional £2.50 day membership, £1.50 if you stay 1 hour
IMPORTANT PART: Annual membership is £15
Have you really taken any notice of what you are saying here, Ukskatepark charges are no different, At the most Xsite charge £7.00 per session which on average last 4 hours, if you wanted to skate in Stockport it would cost for the same amount of time, £5 for 3 hours, £2 for each extra Hour over 3hrs = £7.00. Plus the day membership of £2.50 = £9.50 for your four hour session.
I think it is pretty obvious that you are just complaining because its not free. I agree that there are many skateparks in the country that are either free or cheaper but I can assure you that most of them, you wouldnt leave you son or daughter at them alone, that comes from over 20 years of skateboarding, baring in mind when I grew up in Skegness we had to travel everywhere which was far more expensive.
To finish for now because I could go on for the rest of the day, I also know that Xsite do discounted sessions after school for all school children, I think its about £3.50 including the equipment you need, i think thats pretty good!! I use the skatepark and I also street skate, that will continue regardless.


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Spiral Bike Rack
Our Spiral Bike Rack ticks both boxes: style and effectiveness. Available as a 4 bay rack (standard) or extendable to suit your requirements, the Spiral Bike Rack is a quality product made from A grade 304 polished stainless steel.
Manufactured in Australia, our range of Bike Racks provide practical solutions to the growing issue of safe bike storage in public areas. Whether it be a park, an office, a mall or a high-use urban environment, we can provide a tried and tested product that will suit and last.
50.8mm O/D Stainless Steel Tube
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Q: Can one throw away an amulet that has fulfilled its purpose?
A: Not in any case! Each kabbalistic amulet contains Holy Names that may not be destroyed or defiled. Therefore, if you no longer see any necessity for using the amulet, simply store it in a clean and secluded place.


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I make video games and I love doing it.
What got me started? Hmmm. A magical place filled with captivating sounds and flashy lights to catch your attention. The arcades in the early 80s. Imagination can go a long way. That is what brought me to making video games.
I started making video games for a living in 2010. You can read more about me and my experiences on my website.


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When it comes across enemies or potential prey, this Pokémon smashes its water-bubble-covered head into them.
It crawls onto the land in search of food. Its water bubble allows it to breathe and protects its soft head.
Lowers the power of Fire-type moves done to the Pokémon and prevents the Pokémon from getting a burn.
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Living Guide
The University Housing Living Guide is a resource that provides important information regarding Housing policies, resources on campus, and much more. For questions you may have that are not answered here, please contact your Resident Assistant or any other Housing professional staff member. One of our goals is to equip our residents with the tools they need to be successful members of their community. The Living Guide will help provide resources to get you there.
2018-2019 University Housing Living Guide: Policies
for Community Living
Additional information can be found outside the Living Guide by following the links below:
Staff Listing and Building Addresses
Madison County Transit (MCT) – MCT routes can be accessed at the Hairpin Drive or by obtaining a transfer at other points. There is a route from Cougar Village stops to the Hairpin multiple times throughout the day. Call MCT at (618) 931‑7433 for more information.
Bicycles – Bicycles may not be stored inside residence halls or on/in Cougar Village breezeways, hallways or balconies, but must be locked to bike racks located near the buildings. Bikes locked to benches, trees, or lamp posts will be removed.
Information about break periods, checking in/out of spaces, and vacancy consolidation can be found in the University Housing terms and conditions.
Information Release Policy – If it is your desire to have a personal information including local address and phone number withheld from the public, complete and sign an "SIUE Directory Information Hold Request/Cancellation Form." The completed form must be returned to the Service Center. Students can complete an Information Release form in the Central Housing Office if they wish to grant their parent/guardian access to their Housing information.


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So far we have talked about 6 kinds of family files that you must keep and organize. These are civil registry documents, passports and travel documents, real estate papers, financial documents, vehicle papers, and licenses.
Today, we will deal with four very important files: insurance, power of attorney, Last Will and Testament, and medical records.
Insurance and related documents
In my last post, I said that your vehicle insurance policy should be included in your vehicles file. You may either decide to file it there, or include it in this category, or both. It would not be too much to have copies in both categories. Your long-term goal is to be able to access these documents easily.
You can include other insurance documents here like life insurance, health insurance, and property insurance policies.
Related documents would be memorial or life plans, travel insurance, and educational savings plans.
I also advise you to have a list of your insurance agents' names, phone numbers, email and office addresses so you can easily contact them when you need to.
Use this checklist to guide you:
- Life insurance
- Vehicle insurance
- Health or medical insurance
- Travel insurance
- Educational savings plan
- Life or memorial plan
- Contact details of your insurance agents
- Others ___________________
Powers of Attorney
When you want someone to do something for you, you issue a power of attorney. It may be a general power of attorney, giving broad authority for a specific time. Or it may be a special power of attorney, authorizing someone to do certain things like receiving payment or selling a piece of property.
The person authorizing is called the "principal," while the person authorized is the "attorney-in-fact" or "agent."
If you are the principal, make sure that the authority you give your agent is very clear and specific. If your agent violates it, you can cancel the power of attorney.
If you are the agent, make sure the exact scope of your authority is clearly spelled out.
Some powers of attorney should be registered with a government agency, depending on the laws of a country or territory and the type of transaction involved. Make sure that this registration requirement is also complied with.
Use this checklist to guide you:
- Special Power of Attorney
- Purpose
- Principal
- Agent
- Duration
- General Power of Attorney
- Purpose
- Principal
- Agent
Last Will and Testament
Your Last Will and Testament is your way of controlling how your property will be handled after you pass away. When a Last Will is deliberately destroyed by the one who made it (known as a testator), it is cancelled and therefore ineffective.
However, if it is accidentally destroyed or lost, it should still be considered valid but the Last Will must go through a court process to prove that it was accidentally destroyed or lost, and what its contents are. This can be very tricky especially when heirs question its contents. So it's best to keep it in a safe place.
Some persons specify their preferred funeral arrangements and last rites in the Last Will or in a separate document. You may do this so that your heirs and relatives would be clear about your final wishes.
For more info on the importance of writing a Last Will, read my post on 7 Reasons for Writing Your Last Will.
List all your properties, and the names and contact details of your heirs, lawyer, accountant, and religious minister.
Use this checklist to guide you:
- Last Will and Testament
- Name and contact details of the executor named in the Last Will
- Names of heirs with contact details
- Names of lawyer, accountant and religious minister, with contact details
- List of all your properties
- Others _____________________
Medical Records
Medical records are for a lifetime. This should include a list of names and contact details of all medical practitioners that you and your family members have consulted and are still consulting. Also make a list of the clinics and hospitals you have gone to for consultation and treatment.
In addition, you should have the medical history of every family member so that doctors can understand their present medical condition and the risk factors they face. There is an excellent web article entitled "Medical history: Compiling your medical family tree" on the website of Mayo Clinic.
If you or any family member is adopted, you also need to construct the medical history of your or the adopted child's biological parents.
The Mayo Clinic advises that if possible, include the family medical history of at least three generations and try to get as much information on the following:
- Sex
- Date of birth
- Ethnicity
- Medical conditions
- Mental health conditions, including alcoholism or other substance abuse
- Pregnancy complications, including miscarriage, stillbirth, birth defects or infertility
- Age when each condition was diagnosed
- Lifestyle habits, including diet, exercise and tobacco use
- For deceased relatives, age at the time of death and cause of death
Pay special attention to conditions that develop earlier than usual, such as high blood pressure or diabetes in early adulthood, or conditions that affect multiple relatives.
For children, medical records should include immunization history, allergies and medications.
Other items to include are medical abstracts, prescriptions, x-ray and laboratory results, dental records, health insurance plans, and disability records.
Proof of medical expenses can also be included because these are tax deductible in some jurisdictions, and some medical insurance plans reimburse these expenses.
You may also include a Living Will, also known as a Health Care Directive. This contains instructions to doctors on "end-of-life medical care" if you are no longer capable of informing the doctors of your decision.
Here's a checklist to guide you:
- Names and contact details of your doctors, dentists, hospitals and clinics
- Family medical history
- Medical family tree
- Immunization records
- Allergies
- Medications and prescriptions
- Medical abstracts
- X-ray results
- Laboratory results
- Dental records
- Health insurance plans
- Disability records
- Medical bills
- Living will / health care directive
- Others ____________________
Til here for now. In my next post, we will deal with academic records, professional and employment records, identification cards, lists and inventories, and valuables.
* This post is based on my free ebook, YOUR FAMILY FILES. This free ebook shows you how you can keep your most important personal and legal documents safe yet easy to find. It's a good step for your peace of mind. Click here to get it now.


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Lehi, UT (PRWEB) March 25, 2014
BodyGuardz, provider of leading device protection products and consumer electronics accessories, has announced ScreenGuardz Pure® Flex Premium Glass Screen Protector's availability for LG's curved smartphone, G Flex, at AT&T stores nationwide. The new Pure Flex is designed from thinner glass coating to cover G Flex's unique and curved design without compromising the strength and the quality of Pure.
With the addition of LG G Flex, Pure is now available for 19 devices in the market. The expanding Pure Eco-System also includes iPhone 5/5s, iPhone 4/4S, iPad 2/3/4, iPad mini, iPad mini w/Retina, Galaxy S4, Galaxy S4 Active, Galaxy S III, iPhone 5c, iPad Air, Nexus 5 & 7, and Galaxy Note 2 & 3.
"Adapting to groundbreaking and ever-developing technology is essential for us," said Kirk Feller, President and CEO of BodyGuardz. "Our expanding Pure Eco-System includes protecting more than one million devices as more people continue to switch to glass protection. We will continue offering cutting edge products as we seek to stay ahead of emerging trends in technology and respond to the growing consumer requests for superior screen protection."
Pure works with BodyGuardz's very own Link and Covert cases, in addition to a wide range of cases and films as listed here. Tried, tested, proven with more than a million sold, Pure is an exemplary product, imitated by many.
ScreenGuardz® Pure™ Flex Glass Protector Advantages:
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Hearty dishes such as the Bernese platter, Suure Mocke (marinated and braised beef), Bernese Rösti (Bern style hash browns), onion pie or Burehamme (smoked ham) have been hallmarks of the Bernese culinary tradition for centuries. Not to mention specialties from regions such as the original Emmentaler cheese, Toblerone chocolate or the traditional Sonntagszopf, a braided bread.
Whether you want traditional, fast and inexpensive or the finest gourmet dining, Bern and the surrounding region definitely have the right restaurant for whatever you crave and at an excellent value.
You'll find the restaurant to suit your taste buds in our restaurant guide.
Contact us for help in planning your gala dinners, holiday parties or lunch for the company board. We are happy to give you our personal insider tips, reserve a restaurant for 700 persons or organize an evening dinner cruise on Lake Thun or Lake Biel.


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About us
We're a small, friendly, club - men and women from Galway. Please look around the site to find out more about what we do. We are a part of Rotary International, which is the world's largest service organisation for business and professional people. We enjoy social contact with like-minded, ethical professionals in all corners of the globe.
We are both an international organisation and a local community leader. Together we lead change in our own backyards and across the world.
We particularly welcome visitors from all over the Rotary world to be our guests at our meetings. So if you are in Galway on a Monday (around 6:30 PM) please do join us for dinner and/or good craic and I can assure you of good Rotary fellowship, and a really warm Irish welcome.
If you have SatNav, you can enter the LOC8 code: LTD-56-NF9 and get directed right away.
If you don't have a SatNav, but have a smartphone you can also look up the location by clicking on the following link:
Pinpoint accuracy for any location instantly. See you there!
If you are accompanied on your visit to Galway by family or friends they also are welcome to join us.
Join us at one of our Monday evening meetings to see what we are all about:
Rotary News
Be part of a global network of volunteers, trying to make the world a better place. Please also see the 'links & news' page for information from the local district and live feeds from Rotary International and Rotary International in GB&I.
Flexibility creating new opportunities for new members
RotaKids supporting their local community
Meetings & Venue
Where and when:
(No meeting Last week in July--Galway Races and Bank Holidays or in August.)
Ardilaun Hotel,
Taylors Hill,


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When your child learns to talk, it's so exciting -- that is, until he discovers tattling. Then you might wonder what you were thinking, teaching him so many words. Tattling seems to be part of every child's DNA, as though he was, in fact, born to rat out his sister, brother or similarly-aged playmates, for failing to share and other minor offenses.
While tattling is frustrating for parents, you can curb this behavior by teaching your preschooler the differences between "tattling" and "reporting." On the role modeling information site "Kelly Bear," Leah Davies, M.Ed., notes that children tattle for several reasons, such as getting attention, establishing the upper hand over a peer or gaining a feel for acceptable behavior. Learning to tell an adult about peer conflicts only when someone is injured or otherwise in danger not only minimizes parent headaches, but helps to keep children safe. Preschoolers might not fully grasp the nuances of tattling and reporting; however, they can begin learning the difference through activities geared toward their age group.
Davies suggests that basic role-playing exercises with your child will teach her how to tell the difference between tattling and reporting. Choose a moment when your preschooler is calm, rather than in the throes of a conflict with another child. Ask her to imagine a few situations with her playmate, such as having her toy stolen or seeing the friend wandering off the sidewalk and into the street. Follow up with basic questions for each scenario, like "Would you tell me about [given scenario] to get your friend in trouble?" or "Is your friend hurt or in danger?" Explain that tattling gets a playmate into trouble, but reporting gets a playmate out of trouble.
Picture Collage
The learning guide "I'm Telling! A Tattler's Tale" from Sunburst Communications proposes creating a picture collage to show aspects of tattling. Look through magazines with your preschooler and assist him in cutting out pictures that tell all about tattling -- the act of tattling, the results of tattling, the feelings of tattling or even a situation that might lead to tattling. Arrange and paste these cutouts into a larger picture and display on your refrigerator or bulletin board.
Reminder Rocks
In "A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue," writer and counselor Julia Cook suggests having children paint "reminder rocks." First, talk with your preschooler about how tattling or not tattling makes her feel, such as sad, angry or happy. Together, pick a color to represent that feeling. Paint a small rock that color and when dry, glue googly eyes to the rock. Have the child keep the rock with her in a pocket or near her playing area to help her remember not to tattle. Talk about the rock together periodically to reinforce its no-tattling message.
Drawing Relevant Emotions
Children can also learn to stop tattling through drawing pictures. Talk to your preschooler about what it means to tattle and ask him how he would feel after tattling. Have him think, too, about how his siblings or playmates would feel if he tattled on them, or vice versa. Provide crayons and paper and ask him to draw a picture of those emotions. Ask him to tell you about his pictures when he is done to encourage a deeper understanding of tattling and its emotional outcome.


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The other day on face book I had mentioned that I came across some zucchini in the clearance bin at Kroger. I got a dozen zucchini squash for $2.
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|King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain visited the Science and Technology Park of the Porto University (UPTEC) in Porto, Portugal on November 29, 2016. The Spanish royals arrived Monday in Porto for a three-day state visit to Portugal. Queen Letizia wore Hugo Boss Colorina Wool Blend Cashmere Striped Coat and Hugo Boss Malivi Wool Blend Cashmere Striped Skirt.
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Not one of her best outfits and I will never like a coat shorter than the dress worn below.ReplyDelete
I'm a bit undecided about this. The colours are great but maybe the wide lapels and the boxy shape are a bit overwhelming for her slender shape. And are the hems of the coat and skirt meant to be the same length, because that doesn't seem to be the case here.ReplyDelete
This is just perfect! Of course it's Boss, not Varela :)ReplyDelete
I want her shoes and her bag!
beautiful outfit! king looks handsome as well.ReplyDelete
Classy and stylish!ReplyDelete
Muy original y acertado el degradado de color del abrigo y el vestido. Los zapatos tienen un color precioso y parecen comodísimos. Un conjunto genial.ReplyDelete
Very, very elegant and absolutely gorgeous shoes! I love everything about this ensemble.ReplyDelete
The Queem looks stunning. MagnificientReplyDelete
I like the look. I think the transition from grey to rust to an orange is very nice. I do wish the coat was longer. I am not a fan of a shorter coat with a longer dress unless it is a jacket or if it a floor length dress evening wear and a luxurious coat.ReplyDelete
Superschön und sehr elegantReplyDelete
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Sandy - Students at Park Lane Elementary learned true superheroes don't wear capes but are kind to everyone. A special anti-bullying presentation was given to students about how to stand up to bullies and how to be kind to one another.
"If you fight with smarts and kindness, you will win," Jessie Funk, a motivational speaker and youth advocate.
Funk travels the country giving motivational speeches about not being a bully, or as she calls them, a "Grumpycat."
"We all make mistakes, and we can say we're sorry," Funk explained. "But a real grumpycat is never sorry."
Funk began her presentation by asking the elementary students who their favorite superheroes are. After the students shouted names like Batman or The Hulk, Funk asked the student who their favorite real-life superheroes are. Some students said their parents or their best friend.
Funk explained to the students that she studies history, specifically all the leaders in history who were real heros, such as Ghandi or Helen Keller.
"All of these heroes have one thing in common," Funk said. "All of them were bullied."
Funk invited a student up on the stage and reenacted different ways to defeat a bully. The main strategy Funk encouraged is to stay calm, don't retort and then give a compliment.
"If you are actively kind when they are being actively mean, it creates this secret called cognitive dissonance," Funk said. "That means they are confused."
Funk finished her talk with a fun demonstration of basic self-defense techniques. Using a young girl from the audience, she showed how even someone smaller can get out of a situation where someone is holding your arm. Funk herself is a black belt in karate.
"If you are smarter, it doesn't matter if I'm bigger than you or stronger than you," she said.
Principal Justin Jeffery said he felt the presentation was wonderful for his students and one of his favorite assemblies he's seen. He also commented on how good it is to teach the students an actual skill when it comes to bullying.
"We teach a lot about bullying to the point we almost bully about bullying," Jeffery said. "That's not what we want to do. We want to send a positive message, and I think [Funk] hit the nail on the head."
Funk has been a motivational speaker for the past 13 years. She started her career as a singer, releasing five albums. However, she quickly became bored of that and wanted to do more.
"I saw so many problems and I wanted to help," Funk said.
Funk holds a leadership certification from the University of Notre Dame University and a degree in psychology. Funk is the executive director of the nonprofit organization Ivy Girl Academy. The nonprofit hosts workshops for teen girls to teach them how to be modern-day ladies. Based on 12 levels of ladyhood, including confidence, self-defense and social etiquette. The program is based off of Funk's book, "The Lost Art of Ladyhood."
She mostly speaks to junior high and high school students but made a special exception since her mother is a teacher at Park Lane. She tailored her talk to be more kid friendly. With the older kids, she also delves into what is a healthy relationship, what are the red flags of abuse and how to get out of a toxic relationship.
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Just ask any parent, and you will probably hear that middle childhood is a period of rapid development, emotionally, socially and physically. Positioned between early childhood and adolescence, the age from 6-12 is a time when experiences are broadened and interactions increase. It is also a time when children begin to discover their place in the world and compare themselves to others. This newfound awareness makes their exposure to media messaging particularly concerning. In fact, who your child is becoming during this very formative time can be directly linked to what they view, whether it is through movies, television, advertisements, or video gaming.
Recently, the Parents Television Council, in conjunction with other sponsors, compiled statistics that graphically illustrate the negative effects of today's media and marketing messages, especially on girls. Though adults understand that images are often altered from their natural state, developmentally, children under the age of thirteen cannot discern the difference. With that in mind, consider these statements from the Fact Sheet at 4everygirl.com:
"The media consistently pushes an unnatural body type, making it difficult to accept natural beauty."
"Young girls are being stylized in the media to look and act like adults."
"Girls are surrounded by images of female beauty that are unrealistic and unattainable."
And…"42% of elementary school children between 1st and 3rd grades want to be thinner."
Additionally, in 2014, GameByte Kids reported that children ages 6-12 in the US contributed over $2 Billion in revenue just to the video gaming industry. Obviously, not all this content is wholesome, and the combined messaging from video games, television shows and movies can detrimentally impact this age group, manifesting in behaviors such as aggression, hostility, a lack of self-control and decreased academic performance.
Though there are some benefits to digital media usage, such as learning computer skills and accessing a wider range of knowledge, the potential risks for this age group are extremely important to consider. So parents, watch for a change in behavior and monitor the messages and content available to your children. Though you can't completely isolate them, you can certainly minimize their exposure. And as their awareness increases, remember to talk about how to make good media choices while also modeling good media habits. If you need a helpful resource in this area, I highly recommend The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place by Andy Crouch.
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text: Canada is a pretty big place: Its surface area is 9,984,670 km2, which means that only Russia and Antarctica are bigger. And photonics is pretty big in Canada, too.The country is strong in a wide variety of photonic areas, according to a January 2009 survey by the Canadian Photonics Consortium (CPC). These include research capability and infrastructure; industry-academic cluster activity, especially in Ontario and Québec; systems integration; optical communications; image sensors and vision systems; short-pulse laser technology; and emerging biophotonics capability.Source: Canadian Photonics Consortium Canadian photonics technologies are used worldwide in defense and security; health and medicine; manufacturing; energy and lighting; communications; consumer goods; environmental protection; sensing and measurement in the oil, gas, paper and forestry industries; and even entertainment.The nearly 400 photonics companies in Canada employ a total of more than 20,000 people, collectively generating close to 4.4 billion CAD per year, according to the CPC report. Approximately 85 percent of that revenue comes from exports, and 50 percent of those exports head to the US.In a country with so much space, clusters are only natural. The province of Ontario is known for biophotonics, according to the CPC, while Québec is known for sensing, although both regions have plenty going on in all photonics disciplines. Activity is more scattered in the western provinces.Ontario"Ontario has a strong track record of excellence in photonics," said Don Wilford, managing director of the Centre for Photonics, part of the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE), which supports research commercialization and connects academe with industry. "The industry sector is mature and successful, including globally competitive large firms, nimble small and medium enterprises, and a small but vibrant start-up community."The Ottawa area, traditionally the focal point of Ontario photonics, is home to communications companies such as Nortel, JDS Uniphase Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and Alcatel-Lucent Canada Inc. "This created a strong ecosystem focused on communications," said John Fielding, a director of business development at OCE.But that all changed in the early 2000s, when the telecom bubble burst. "One of the effects of the bubble," he said, "was that the technical and entrepreneurial people took their communications expertise and applied it to other technology sectors [including] biomedical, photovoltaics, industrial photonics and lighting."Today, Ontario's photonics industry is fairly balanced across six market sectors, according to Fielding: information and communications technologies, health and life sciences, defense and security, lighting energy and environmental photonics, industrial photonics, and the entertainment and consumer segments. And although there is still significant activity in Ottawa, the industry distribution has spread to other cities, such as Toronto and Waterloo.In Ontario, 41 percent of all photonics jobs are in the research-and-development area, according to a March 2009 report authored by Wilford. Nearly a third of jobs are in manufacturing, with the rest almost evenly divided between administration and small-/medium-business development.More than three-quarters of photonics employees work for large companies with more than 250 workers; most are subsidiaries of US corporations, he reported. Small and medium enterprises employ nearly 20 percent of workers, while startups employ only 4 percent.The Ontario Photonics Industry Network (OPIN), in which both Wilford and Fielding play key roles, works to promote photonics through various initiatives, from offering sponsorships to enable members of the industry to attend trade shows to compiling and distributing promotional materials on photonics in the province.On the academic side, Ontario is home to university groups and world-class research institutes such as the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre in Ottawa, which Fielding described as a unique-to-Canada photonics fabrication facility that allows companies to do small fabrication runs.POP is equipped with state-of-the-art laboratory systems and devices. Courtesy of Pierre Bolduc."Ontario has developed a strong capability in biophotonics, principally at the University Health Network in Toronto," Wilford said. The network's Laboratory for Applied Biophotonics (LAB), he said, has partnered with the Centre for Biophotonics Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis. "LAB is a unique model – embedded within Canada's largest research hospital complex and seamlessly integrated with its biomedical research, clinical trials and medical delivery capacities."QuébecOntario isn't the only photonics hot spot in Canada. Industry and research are booming in Québec as well. Most of the companies are located in Montréal and Québec City; a few others can be found in the Sherbrooke and Gatineau areas.Québec City is a hot spot for photonics innovation in Canada."The key factors driving the photonics industry in the province of Québec," said Dr. Michel Têtu, an emeritus professor from Université Laval in Québec City, "are the availability of highly qualified technical personnel, the presence of world-class research centers and institutes working closely with industry, the proximity to key markets in the US and Canada, a dynamic business environment and a strong commitment from governments to support the industry.The Pavilion of Optics and Photonics (POP), which opened in 2006 at Université Laval in Québec City, is the home of the Centre d'optique, photonique et laser and the administrative office of the Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations. Courtesy of Pierre Bolduc.Québec City, the provincial capital, has taken special care to home in on photonics in its quest to build a tech-centered creative economy.Local economic development agency Pôle Québec Chaudière-Appalaches works closely with Montréal-based Investissement Québec as well as area companies and institutions to ensure the success of photonics-related endeavors. Pôle does it all, from facilitating the formation of research and business partnerships between local entities to hosting events and conferences to promoting the area as a desirable spot for expanding foreign companies.Nonprofit photonics advancement group Québec Photonic Network (QPN), of which Têtu also is president and CEO, serves as a networking and information hub, working to bring together companies, government departments and organizations involved in the area's optics-photonics industry.Pôle and the QPN have a big job because there is so much going on with photonics in Québec."We have a strong history in optics and photonics research activities dating back to the late forties, Têtu said. Research centers strive to innovate at the basic research and industrial levels; so do major companies such as test and measurement leader Exfo, health science and optoelectronics market powerhouse PerkinElmer, spectrometer maker ABB and laser beam testing equipment manufacturer Gentec-EO.The Centre d'optique, photonique et laser (COPL) is Canada's largest university research center in optics/photonics. As a strategic cluster of optics/photonics researchers from a number of Québec province universities, COPL strives to perform both fundamental and applied research; to support industry; and to train the next generation of optics/photonics scientists. Other Québec research institutions with wide-ranging interests include the National Optics Institute, a design and development firm based in Québec City, and the Defence R&D Canada facility in Valcartier, Québec."The photonics industry in Québec province is mainly small and medium enterprises which are very diverse, covering many application domains," said Robert Corriveau, president and CEO of the Québec City-based Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations (CIPI), part of the national Network of Centres of Excellence. CIPI fosters interaction among Canadian scientists from universities, government and industry through research and networking programs.More than 100 companies in the province generate nearly 5000 jobs; in 2007, 1685 of those jobs fell into the research category. Sixty-nine percent of Québec photonics companies employ fewer than 50 employees, according to a May 2007 report produced by the QPN; only 3 percent employ more than 300. But companies with more than 300 employees offer 27 percent of the jobs; companies that employ more than 100 and fewer than 300 workers make up 38 percent of the job market.Corriveau said that, because Québec's photonics companies tend to be smaller, as opposed to mass-production companies, "they were less affected by the economic crisis."Québec has a striking spirit of cooperation between researchers and businesses – even those competing for the same funding and the same customer base seem to have little difficulty pooling resources to develop photonic solutions."Québec City is spread over a relatively small area with a tightly knit society. So the members of the scientific and engineering community know each other or/and they have common contacts. The same can also be said for the commercial community and others," Têtu said. "That's probably why we can more easily partner on a collaborative effort. This being said, we also recognize that the market is international, and the competition is international. So we have to join efforts to face the challenge of being competitive at the international level."Elsewhere in CanadaOther regions of Canada are a little less organized than Québec and Ontario in their efforts to take advantage of photonics, but that doesn't mean there aren't glimmers of activity.The prairie provinces – Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba – have 95 photonics companies, employing almost 3000 people among the three of them. In British Columbia, there are 50 companies, creating more than 2000 jobs.And even the Atlantic provinces, which are made up of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island, have a total of eight companies that employ more than 300 people among them. Collectively, the prairies, the Atlantic provinces and British Columbia generate 796 million CAD, far less than the 3.6 billion CAD raked in by Ontario and Québec. There do not appear to be any photonics companies in the Northwest Territories, the Yukon Territory or Nunavut.Niagara College's Welland campus in Ontario has a photonics lab with a cleanroom for laser research. Courtesy of Niagara College.Several glimmers of photonics activity outside Ontario and Québec are occurring at institutions such as the University of Alberta in Edmonton and the National Research Council's National Institute of Nanotechnology, which also is in Edmonton and is affiliated with the university. There also are photonics groups and projects at other universities, including the University of Victoria in British Columbia, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and the University of Calgary in Alberta. The University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon is home to the Canadian Light Source, the national center for synchrotron research.Because Ontario and Québec have done so well with the cluster model, the CPC has encouraged the other provinces to develop a focused plan and a dedicated cluster to support and promote photonics innovation.EducationA number of Canadian universities have photonics groups or centers. Algonquin College in Ottawa offers diploma and bachelor's degree programs, while Laval students can earn a master's degree in biophotonics. McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, has a bachelor's degree in applied engineering in photonics, and the University of Waterloo in Ontario offers a certificate in education for photonics professionals. Brock College in St. Catharines, Ontario, even offers a graduate certificate in lasers.Around the world, photonics as a field has been suffering from a general lack of trained engineers and technicians, and the CPC reports that this is the case in Canada as well. "Apart from the university education, there is not much exposure to photonics for students at the primary- and secondary-school levels," Têtu noted.But organizations such as the Ontario Photonics Education and Training Association, which was founded by another OCE director of business development, Marc Nantel, and the QPN have adopted the cause of building up the number of Canadian photonics engineers and technicians and of attracting younger students to science and technology careers.Outlook and goalsAs big as photonics is in Canada, there is always room for growth.The CPC has outlined some strategies for general success: Photonics companies should be more proactive about reaching out to customers, to ensure the development of photonic solutions that will fit their needs. Clusters and national photonics organizations should establish information portals to facilitate knowledge exchange between companies and researchers. Canadian technology should be increasingly commercialized, perhaps via interagency programs using alternative financing and technology transfer methods, to ensure that technological developments are exploited to the maximum. R&D efforts, the group advised, should focus on areas of strategic importance to Canada.


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Neo Geo Cart Conversions
|June 3rd, 2006
|Spencer Nielsen
The Neo Geo is one of my favorite consoles of all time. If I were to pick one word to sum up the Neo Geo it would be "hardcore." It's the "no expense spared" design attitude, appreciating collector value and of course the unique and high caliber of games that makes it one of the hardest of the hardcore.
- Expensive/Powerful Processor (for the day)
- Ginormous game carts used as fast access storage
- Easy to hack in additional video/audio connectors of varying types
- Extra debug features are easy to gain access to with a simple mod
- Hardware has aged well (after almost 17 years there are still games trickling out)
- Parallel to arcade hardware
- One set of game EPROMs, many game versions
It was these last two that got me interested in a process known as "AES cart conversion" (or cart killing depending on your beliefs in the religion of Neo-Geoism). See, I really love a lot of Neo Geo games and to me (and many other fans) there is just something different about playing the real deal rather than a port or an emulated version. There are little bugs, quirky hardware timing issues and a generally more genuine feel of playing a game that was designed for the system that you just can't reproduce. The problem is that the games for this system can get expensive, really expensive. Because of its collector status, Neo Geo games are only getting more expensive with time. This cost is also compounded with my situation of needing to buy AES (home version) carts which are considerably more expensive than MVS (arcade version) carts in most cases. A lot of people have just bought MVS machines to use but I like my AES system and don't plan on hacking together an arcade cabinet anytime soon.
Metal Slug, featuring bosses like Saddam Hussein
The quintessential example that everybody points to when talking about expensive Neo Geo games is an original mint condition US AES version of Metal Slug which goes for around $3000 whenever it goes up on ebay or forums like www.neo-geo.com whereas the MVS version can be found for under $100 (but the price has been going up). Now I like Metal Slug, but not that much. I like it more to the tune of around $60, which brings us to cart conversions.
For the most part a Neo Geo game only has one set of EPROMs as was mentioned above. Different languages as well as both the arcade and home versions of the game are all stored in the same set of silicon. The hardware that the game is plugged into determines what mode and language the game plays in. This means that the only real difference between AES and MVS games is the PCB and controller chips that the data chips are soldered into. Thus the theory is that you can de-solder the EPROMs off of an MVS cart and stick them into an AES cart and run it in an AES machine!
I remember when I first heard the rumblings to that effect. Dreams of cheap AES games for all danced in my head. Things are not quite that simple but the fact is that the theory has been put into practice and it works! Upon learning that, my first objective was to get me a hold of some Metal Slug…
Technical Implementation
First I needed a Metal Slug MVS cart. A friendly interweb arcade parts shop sold me a US branded one for $40. Now I needed an AES cart to become the new host for my Metal Slug chips. This is where things start to get tricky. See, not just any AES cart will do. You need a cart that can hold all of the chips that you take off of the MVS PCBs. There are different types of data chips in Neo Geo games: C, V, P, M1, S1, etc… You need to make sure that your AES host cartridge (also known as a sacrificial or sac cart) has enough of each type of slot for you to put your MVS chips into. You can find out beforehand how many and what kind of slots your carts have from listings and pictures scattered over various sites on the internet. My sacrificial cart of choice in this case was 真サムライスピリッツ覇王丸地獄変 (Samurai Shodown 2) Japanese branding, which is one of the more popular host carts because it is relatively cheap, prevalent and has a layout condusive to many different conversions.
Now comes the long and grueling part. One by one I soldered off all the connections holding the EPROMS into their spots in both the MVS and AES carts. I then swaped the MVS chips into the corresponding slots in the AES board. Then re-soldered one by one every pin back into the AES board. This process requires a fair chunk of time so if you want to attempt something like this be sure to give yourself an afternoon for it. So now that that was done I had a working copy of Metal Slug right? Not quite. If I put it into my AES machine I got garbage. The problem was that I needed to change around some of the jumpers on the PCB to match the new EPROMS that were now present in the PCB. To find out which ones need to be on or off you can again look around on various internet sites or try to match the settings on the MVS and then try different settings until the game starts looking more like it is running correctly. Ok, so now I had found the correct configuration for Metal Slug running in a Samurai Shodown 2 cart and switched the jumpers accordingly. I popped it into my AES, pressed the on button and lo and behold Metal Slug booted up! I felt very satisfied that my hard work had come to fruition and that I now had an AES version of Metal Slug to play! Oh wait a minute… Everything plays fine and the graphics are perfect but the sound is messed up. Did I get a jumper setting wrong? After switching around a few of the jumpers that affected sound I concluded that any changes only made the sound worse and that I had already found the "best" possible setting. But it can't be! I was so close to a perfect working copy! I decided to email the expert in the field of Neo Geo cart conversions and ask him if he had any advice. He responded by explaining the problem and giving me a really slick solution which I would have never thought up on my own. The problem was that even though Metal Slug and Samurai Shodown 2 use the same form factor for chips with the same number of pins and such, the sound chips for Metal Slug contain twice as much memory (32Mb vs 16Mb) as the ones in Samurai Shodown 2. Because the SS2 sound chips only contained 16Mb the PCB only had enough traces for the exact number of address lines that it needed. This meant that for Metal Slug's sound chips, the PCB had exactly one less address line trace than I needed. Without that last address bit, anytime the game referenced data in the upper regions of the two sound chips the addresses would be incorrect and return the wrong data.
The solution came about from the fact that the SS2 PCB has four sound chip slots even though it only uses two. Only one of the four slots should be read from at any one time. It accomplishes this by setting the chip enable bits on each slot accordingly to turn off all but a certain slot when it wants to read data from the chip in that slot. Normally you would just put the two sound chips in the first two slots because that is what is normally done, but in the case of Metal Slug I put the first one into the first slot and the second one into the third slot. What we are essentially doing is hijacking the address space of the second and forth slots for our own usage of the chips in the first and third slots. When the slot enable bits for either the first or second slots we make sure that the enable bit for the first chip is on. Likewise when the enable bits for the third or forth slots are on we make sure that the chip enable for the second chip (which is in the third slot) is on. This accomplished by making use of some unused AND logic on one of the chips there in the center (74LS08). We then separately wire the second slot enable to the last address pin of the first chip and wire the fourth slot enable to the last address pin of the second chip. Now things should be good. I popped it in my AES and now I had a perfectly working copy of Metal Slug AES for the approximate amount of $40 (MVS Cart) + $10 (AES sac cart) + $10 (materials/tools).
(Note: If you are going to attempt this yourself and use my pictures for a guide, there is wiring on both sides of the PROGTOP2 board to accomplish the address space hijacking. Apologies for the crappy quality of both the pictures and the wiring 🙂 )
I am not a collector and really just like to buy games that have really awesome gameplay. But I must admit that I have an attraction to the rare and exotic. A game like Metal Slug for the Neo Geo has both allures. Also, the experience and satisfaction from building something makes it one of my favorite items in my collection.
Other than being able to get playable AES versions of games for cheap, another reason that motivates people to do cart conversions is when there is a game that never had an AES release. Some people like to add games like Puzzle Bobble (which only came out in the arcades) to their AES collections for the sake of having something really rare and special.
There are also other factors to consider in doing cart conversions. At one point SNK started using chips that had much smaller lead width and pitch which made them a lot harder to solder off. Around 2000 (with Metal Slug 3?) SNK also started encrypting the contents of their EPROMS and included hardware decryption chips on the boards. Both of these changes made finding suitable host boards and doing the conversions a lot harder.
I have completed one more cart conversion other than Metal Slug. I have also converted サムライスピリッツ天草降臨 (Samurai Shodown 4) MVS (Japanese) using a Fatal Fury 3 AES cartridge (Japanese). SS4 is my favorite fighting game of all time and while not quite as expensive as Metal Slug, it still costs a fair chunk of change. Knowing the board layouts, chip sizes, jumper settings and other issues beforehand made that conversion go pretty smoothly.
NOT an original Metal Slug cart
It should also be explained that in some circles cart conversion is frowned upon. One reason is that some unscrupulous people (more so in the early days of cart hacking) do cart conversions and then try to sell them with the impression that they are originals for the full collectors price. Nowadays when people sell converted carts they mention the fact that they are conversions upfront and price them more reasonably most of the time. Another reason that it is sometimes not looked on kindly is that in many cases when a cart conversion is done you come out with one unusable cart and game set. Sometimes you might be able to do conversions the other way (AES to MVS) but not always. This means that you have taken another Neo Geo cartridge out of the wild (cart killing) and carts are only getting scarcer as time goes on. Thus, some people have a feeling of wanting to preserve the endangered carts and keep them in circulation.
Cart conversions have proved to be a very satisfying and rewarding hobby for me and although I probably will not do any more, I am glad that I can now play two of my favorite games in their original versions as they were always meant to be played without killing my wallet to do so.


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Cotton Jackets
Nepal1craft introduces new cotton Jackets. These cotton jackets are made up of 100% cotton. These stylish jackets will not only add an appealing look on you but will also ensure to keep you away from the chilly cold weather. Crafted from premium quality fabric, it will keep you warm and comfortable all the time. Featuring a vintage design, these jackets can be easily worn over a T shirt and surely going to redefine your style statement. They are definitely a wonderful addition to your wardrobe collection anytime.
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Hand block printed fabrics - graphic patterns in classic indigo colourways. All feature the charming irregularities of a thing hand made. Light weight fabrics perfect for layering or for spring and summer days.....only seven weeks left of winter, everyday is getting a little lighter and longer.
Or treat yourself to a solid pair of hand forged, brass handles scissors or shears. There is even a left-handed tailor's shear. Discover the Little India Collection here.
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She has a thing for stacks of beautiful fabrics, delights in holding something made to last, and respects good craftsmanship. These are the driving forces behind the Miss Maude shop. And here are her musings.
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Cecil Valentine De Vere
NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
De Vere vs J Minchin, 1871 1-0
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Winawer vs De Vere, 1870 0-1
De Vere vs Steinitz, 1867 1-0
E D'Andre vs De Vere, 1867 0-1
W C Spens vs De Vere, 1867 0-1
Burn vs De Vere, 1870 0-1
S Hamel vs De Vere, 1867 0-1
S Rosenthal vs De Vere, 1867 0-1
De Vere vs J Minchin, 1866 1-0
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Trip Overview
This is a great easy trip for someone looking for a peaceful few hours on a quiet river. We left our cars at the take out at Roaring River Canoe Rentals. The owner - John Alexander - and his dog Max also run a shuttle for those with their own gear. He loaded our kayaks onto his rig and shuttled us down to Smoot Park in North Wilkesboro where we put in.
We paddled this slow section of the Yadkin in the company of blue herons, turtles, and geese. There are a few very small rapids. After about an hour you pass a huge boulder on the left that is said to have Native American drawings on it. We found the rock, but not the drawings.
A little over three hours into our paddle we took a left onto Roaring River (you'll see a bridge downstream of the Yadkin when it's time to turn off) and paddled upstream on Roaring River until we came to the take out.
The paddle took three hours and forty-five minutes, and we encountered nobody else on the river. The river banks are steep, so you won't see any houses or other signs of civilization. A nice, peaceful paddle that makes for a relaxing short trip. We did it in an inflatable kayak and a sit-on-top.
John said that he also runs a trip that puts in where we took out. You can take out in Rhonda or go as far as the old Elkin-Jonesville Bridge if you want. We plan to go back and do that next time.
$10 for the shuttle
Route 268 to Cotton Mill Road in Roaring River to get to Roaring River Canoe Rentals.
Roaring River Canoe Rentals
Trip Details
- Skill Level: Beginner
- Water Type: River/Creek (Up to Class II)


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National Day of Prayer Ceremony Recognizes Power of Faith
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 3, 2017 — Signature HealthCARE believes in the power unity in times of uncertainty. Diverse religious leaders joined hands in celebrating their common sacred purpose on the National Day of Prayer on Thursday, May 4th.
"In a time of so much national turmoil, it's important that we recognize the power of faith to bring us all together," said Joe Steier, President and CEO of Signature HealthCARE. "The National Day of Prayer is a beloved annual tradition for our residents and stakeholders across the region. It's never been more needed."
The National Day of Prayer celebration took place at the Signature HealthCARE corporate headquarters, 12201 Bluegrass Pkwy., at 10: 30 a.m. The spiritual service hosted religious leaders of nearly every major religion, including:
- Roman Catholic: Father Jim Flynn
- Baha'i: Nancy Harris
- Jewish: Rabbi Gaylia Rooks
- Hindu: Sunder Iyer
- Native American: Jeremiah A.R. Cunningham
- Buddhist: Rev Nanda
- Christian: The Very Rev Joan Pritcher
- Unitarian: Elwood Sturtevant
- Quakers: Markham French
- Muslim: Imam Muhammad Iqbal
- Sikh: Dennis Stork
Read how Signature HealthCARE communities celebrated National Day of Prayer:
Chautauqua Rehabilitation & Nursing
Gastonia Care and Rehabilitation
Signature HealthCARE Center of Waterford