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In his entertaining one-man show An Evening with Blowers, Henry takes his audience on a hilarious journey from his eccentric childhood in Norfolk to his schooldays as a prolific batsman at Eton and his successful career as an international cricket writer and broadcaster. He tells many colourful anecdotes about the game of cricket and his BBC colleagues including John Arlott and Brian Johnston and reveals what really happened when the Queen presented the TMS team with a special cake!
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- Teresa Cooper
- 27-04-2015
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One of the most entertaining characters in cricket today is Henry Blofeld. He has a wealth of cricketing knowledge and gives the impression of being a "bit" absent minded, the reason for this is explained in this talk. He also confesses why he calls people "old thing " and " my dear old thing ". A fantastic evening with Blowers a positive suggestion to read.
- Alex
- 19-06-2013
Even better than I'd hoped
Blowers on splendid form, genuinely witty and warm. I'd hesitated a bit over getting it but think this'll be something I listen to plenty of time over the years.
Very glad I bought it.
I'd love to hear his auto biography A Thirst for Life: With the Accent on Cricket (or even something more recent) on Audible.


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France has a very diverse immigrant population. According to the Institut National de la statistique et des etudes economiques (Insee) at least 200,000 immigrants arrive in France every year. Of the 802,000 newborns in metropolitan France in 2010, a little over 13.3% had one non-French parent and 6.6% had two non-French parents.

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Mortgage brokers in Caledon are the people who bridge the gap between mortgage brokers and mortgage consumers. The main goal of a mortgage broker is to make sure that the message gets out to potential lenders about consumers' needs. They negotiate with banks and other lenders to find services that are most suitable for individual clients. The mortgage industry of Caledon grew in response to the need for loans among people who couldn't access bank loans. Banks require a very high credit score before they can loan anyone but this is a figure that very few meet this requirement. Many mortgage brokers choose to connect their customers with non-bank lenders so they can negotiate the best terms and rates. Such lenders are more flexible than banks and can lend to any client without regard to their credit history. Our mortgage brokers in Caledon only offer private deals to those who cannot get bank loans. This serves a large number of clients in Ontario who are constantly looking for alternative financial solutions.
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text: Lee to Honor Martin Luther King, Jr. with Week of Events Share Tweet Email LinkedIn 01/09/20 Top News University Wide All Inclusive Life @ Lee Lee's faculty and staff Cultural Diversity Committee will host a series of events beginning Monday, Jan. 20, commemorating the work, theology, and philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The events will consist of lectures, multiple discussions, a chapel service, and a film showing."During this week of honoring Dr. King's work, we are all learners - students, faculty, and community," said Dr. Mary McCampbell, associate professor of humanities at Lee. "Learning to truly love our neighbors as ourselves is the work of a lifetime, and we look forward to spending a week focusing on the ways in which our love of neighbor relates to understanding the experiences of African Americans in this country."On Monday, McCampbell and Assistant Professor of Sociology Dr. Ruth Wienk will present "Resistance, Lament and Praise: The History and Practice of African American Protest Music," a lecture on the historical connections between music, protest, theology, and the struggle for freedom. This presentation will take place at 7 p.m. in the Johnson Lecture Hall, located in Lee's Humanities Center, and will include live music and discussion.Lee alum Mo Huggins, a pastor at Stevens Creek Church in Augusta, Georgia, will speak in a special chapel service on Tuesday, Jan. 21, at 10:40 a.m.That evening at 7, there will be a showing of "King in the Wilderness," the 2018 documentary about the final chapters of King's life. Following the film, Chattanooga racial justice advocate Donivan Brown will facilitate an open conversation about the ways in which this history impacts us today. Lee's Dr. Richard Moy, assistant professor of mathematics, will help host this event in the Rose Lecture Hall, located in the Helen DeVos College of Education.On Wednesday, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m., the first Black Student Union meeting of the semester, which is open to everyone, will take place in Room 207 of the Humanities Center.A panel discussion, "Bridging our Parallel Lives: Lee University and College Hill Community," will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 23, in the Johnson Lecture Hall, hosted by Associate Professor of Sociology Dr. Arlie Tagayuna. This panel will highlight some of the College Hill community members' contributions to Cleveland, while identifying significant ways in which the community has evolved side-by-side with Lee University. The week's events will conclude on Friday, Jan. 24, with "Help Me Be Sensitive," hosted by the university's Student Leadership Council. This session will provide an opportunity to hear student stories and perspectives on social issues impacting the Lee family and surrounding community. "Help Me Be Sensitive" will take place at 7 p.m. in the Johnson Lecture Hall."Dr. King's work focused on helping us to see the dignity and beauty in all human beings," said McCampbell. "In order to learn to see, we first have to listen to the voices of those who have historically not been seen. We invite all to partake in these important conversations, to listen, and to see."All events are free and open to the public.For more information, contact McCampbell at (423) 614-8353 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Attorney Eric Thole – Experienced Drug Crimes Attorney in Minnesota
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Though the legalization of drugs is a hot political topic, drug crimes remain a serious issues for those arrested for possession or use. The severity of the crime often depends on the drug and the amount in possession, but a person arrested for illegal possession of drugs may be facing mandatory prison time, heavy fines, and a black mark on a background check for many years. If you have been arrested for drug possession or use, your first move should be to contact attorney Eric Thole. Mr. Thole is one of the most respected attorneys in Stillwater, Minnesota. He is experienced in both criminal and civil litigation and has been a practicing attorney since 1992.
Mr. Thole graduated cum laude in 1998 from Macalester College and then attended law school at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, earning his Juris Doctor in 1992. He then gained valuable experience and an extensive list of valuable contacts by working as civil lawyer and misdemeanor prosecutor for the cities of Stillwater and Cottage Grove. He worked as an assistant Washington County attorney from 1997 to 2004, and prosecuted many serious felony crimes. He was admitted to the Minnesota State Court in 1992 and to the United States District Court – Minnesota District in 2006.
Mr. Thole opened his law firm in 2005 and currently specializes in DUI, burglary, assault, battery, homicide, white collar crime, shoplifting, and an extensive list of other felony and misdemeanor crimes. Mr Thole also has experience in civil litigation, such as unlawful detainer matters, zoning issues, adult use violations, and employment disputes. Experience is one of the most important keys to expertise, and Mr Thole has plenty of experience.
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Nestled in the picturesque Waterberg mountain range approximately 70 minutes from Pretoria lies Modimolle (previously named Nylstroom), a bustling bushveld town.
Named after the Sotho for the 'God(s) have eaten,' Modimolle and the surrounding Waterberg area boast plentiful free roaming game, birdlife and beautiful indigenous trees and plants.
A characteristic feature here is the impressive Kranskop Mountain, a natural beacon rising above the surrounding landscape. It lies next to the N1 Highway that runs between Pretoria and Polokwane en route to the Kruger National Park.
Nature and adventure enthusiasts need not travel far from home to experience a host of outdoor activities such as hiking, game viewing and abseiling. The Waterberg's numerous activities, coupled with its mild year-round weather and warm dry winters have boosted its popularity among people looking to escape the city for a few days.
Here, in the heart of Bushveld country on a 64-hectare farm 14 kilometres from Modimolle, lies a little piece of paradise. The 4-star Shangri-La Country Hotel & Spa, hidden in a tranquil tropical setting, reflects the elegant allure of yesteryear.
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Albania's reigning champions in crisis over severe UEFA match-fixing ban
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TIRANA, Feb. 6 – Albania's reigning champions Skenderbeu are officially in crisis after suffering their sixth consecutive Superliga defeat in a situation that reflects financial problems and uncertainties ahead as they await a final say by Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport over a 10-year European competition ban handed by European football's governing body, UEFA, last year over match-fixing.
Having dominated Albanian football in the past decade and being the sole Albanian club to make it to the group stage of the Europa League competition, Skenderbeu started the 2018-19 campaign as a top favorite and dominated the first 11 Superliga games.
However, the Korà§a-based club, southeastern Albania, nicknamed "The snow wolves" lost sharp ground last December as they lost all four games.
The critical situation continued even after the winter break as Skenderbeu lost at home to leaders Partizani and was also beaten away to relegation-zone Kastrioti during the past week following the resumption of the Superliga's second stage on Jan. 25.
Having played 20 games, and with still another 16 to go before the Superliga closes, Skenderbeu have dropped to fifth with 30 points, trailing leaders Partizani by 13 points and with few chances to repeat the 2018 Superliga success which would nevertheless make them ineligible to compete in European competitions due to a UEFA ban in force since March 2018.
The situation reflects key departures from last year's winning team that continued even in the January transfer window with the transfer of Kosovo international, defender Fidan Aliti, to Sweden's top league side Kalmar for a reported €150,000 on a four-year deal with Skenderbeu retaining a 25 percent stake on the player.
"The departures are hampering our squad, but are justified based on club policies following what happened at European competition," says Orges Shehi, a goalkeeper and captain until a couple of years ago who led Skenderbeu to several trophies before taking over as coach in mid-2018.
"The results have really been not decent for Skenderbeu, but we will do our best to return to victories," Shehi said ahead of an Albania Cup second-leg qualifier with lower-division Beselidhja which Skenderbeu won 3-0 to qualify for the Cup quarter finals where they will meet Superliga rivals, bottom-ranked Kamza.
Skenderbeu claimed their eighth Superliga trophy last season, with seven of their titles earned during the past decade when they dominated Albanian football and became the first ever Albania club to make it to the Europa League group stage with two appearance in the 2015-16 and 2017-18 campaigns.
The 10-year ban and a €1 million fine handed by European football's governing body, UEFA, in March 2018 made Skenderbeu ineligible to compete in this season international competition where Albanian clubs failed to make it to the group stage of either the Champions League or Europa League.
UEFA's disciplinary body handed Skenderbeu the ban over 50 matched the club is suspected to have fixed in the Champions League and Europa League campaigns as well as in the Albanian Superliga and in friendlies since 2011 based on its betting fraud detection system. The new ban follows an earlier 2016-2017 ban from the UEFA Champions League campaign, which the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld following Skenderbeu's appeal.
Skenderbeu deny claims and are hopeful of overturning the UEFA punishment, the severest ever handed to a European club, but prospects are Skenderbeu could be lucky to get away with a reduction of their 10-year ban which would still place the club's future at risk.
Partizani take advantage
Albania's Partizani have emerged as top favorites to claim a long-awaited Superliga title this season in what could be a major triumph for an elite Albanian club that has been trophiless at the top flight of the country's football during the past quarter of a century.
With Skenderbeu on six-game losing streak, the Tirana-based club have ousted their key rival and now hold a comfortable five-point lead over second-placed Kukes, a team with not much history but who have been highly competitive in the past five years in a performance that peaked in 2017 when they claimed their first-ever Superliga trophy.
Partizani easily qualified this week for the last eight of the Albanian Cup and will face in the quarter finals Superliga rivals Luftetari who have lost much of their last season's shine that secured their a first ever Europa League qualifier.
Once the most successful Albanian club under communism, Partizani have struggled since 1993 when they claimed their last top league title in a tough transition period as the country switched to a multi-party system and a market economy following almost five decades under a hardline Stalinist dictatorship.
Partizani take to this year's campaign in an Albanian-led team after a failed short-term experience with an Italian duo last year.
Partizani's 2017-18 campaign project with Lucciano Moggi, the former Juventus managing director who is suffering a lifetime ban from Italian football for his role in the 2006 'Calciopoli' match-fixing scandal, and former Juventus player Mark Iuliano who only had a short spell as Partizani coach, failed to produce any result with Partizani ranking fifth and failing to progress through the Europa League qualification campaign last season.
Meanwhile, Albania's historically most successful club, Tirana, continue facing problems this season following their Superliga comeback after an embarrassing first-ever relegation last year, and rank seventh just five points above relegation-threatened Kastrioti and Kamza thanks to series of positive results in the past few games.
The Albanian Superliga features 10 teams, two of which are relegated following a four-stage 36-game championship.


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Ace Marrero was chosen as one of 6 male actors across Los Angeles, to participate in the industry renowned, ABC Diversity Showcase, which led to roles on LAW & ORDER: LOS ANGELES and a recurring spot as Dr. Miles Hart on ABC's, BODY OF PROOF. Additionally, Ace has also recurred on GENERAL HOSPITAL with a character initially slated for one episode.
In the recently surging horror genre, Ace garnered a healthy fan following playing the bad boy brother Kyle in the indie horror hit, MADISON COUNTY and an edgy police officer in the upcoming Horror Anthology for NBCUniversal's, Chiller TV called 5 SENSES OF FEAR. Other upcoming projects include the international action/thriller, THE FLIGHT PLAN, where Ace leads the cast as Benjamin Grey, the pilot on a mission to save his terminally ill son, while escaping drug runners in Cartagena, Colombia. Also set for a 2013 release, the high concept, single location 'hitchcockian' thriller, ROADSIDE, finds Ace thrust into the lead role of Dan, a man held hostage with his expectant wife on a snowy mountainside, by a hidden gunman. Think of Colin Farrell in Phone Booth and Ryan Reynolds in Buried.


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13 Smug Things All Parents Once Said About Parenting Before They Had Kids
What is it about people who aren't yet parents and their need to dole out parenting lessons? I'll admit that at one point in my life, I was one of those Smuggy McSmugingtons who assumed I knew everything there was to know about being a parent — feed it, change it, clean it, right? Easy. Well, I've got two kids now and (surprise!) my assumption that I had parenting figured out before I ever became a mom myself couldn't have been farther from the truth.
Honestly, I'm close to three years into this motherhood gig and I'm still trying to figure it out. There are definitely things I wish I had known before becoming a mom, but even those lessons might not have fully prepared me. Because the truth of the matter — the thing that no one wants to tell you — is that nothing can fully equip you with everything you'll need for all that becoming a parent entails.
Yes, there's a lot of feeding and butt-cleaning and not sleeping involved, but that's only the tip of one very large iceberg in an even larger ocean. Now that I'm in the thick of it, I can't help but to laugh at myself and others in all of our omnipotent pre-parental glory, assuming that we knew all there was to know.
So for the sake of laughing at our sweet, innocent, naive past selves, I've compiled a list of completely batsh*t things people have said about kids and parenting long before ever actually becoming parents.
"I'll Never Let My Kids Eat Crap Food."
We've all got good intentions when it comes to feeding our children. Whether it's making our own baby food or swearing off certain brands with GMOs or antibiotics or whatever else it is that we're suddenly supposed to panic about tomorrow, we all want to give our kids the best, most nutritious food possible.
Something that we perhaps hadn't considered in our pre-baby days is that our kids couldn't care less about our nutritional intentions, and there will come a time they will make up their own minds about what they will and will not put into their mouths, no matter how much effort and research we put in.
"I'm Just Going To Sleep When The Baby Sleeps."
Like most parents, Tina Fey has got a good response to her friends and family telling her to sleep when the baby sleeps. "Why stop there? Why not scream when the baby screams? Take Benadryl when the baby takes Benadryl, and walk around pantless when the baby walks around pantless?" Fey said in her book Bossypants.
Also, babies sleep for, like, 30 minutes at a time. So by the time you put the baby down, brush your teeth, feed yourself, and get cozy there's a very good chance that you're baby is going to wake up right when you reach the deep sleep phase. And that pretty much sucks.
"What Do Stay-At-Home Moms Even Do?"
"I mean, it must be so fun to just stay at home in your pajamas all day and watch Grey's Anatomy with you kid while they just take care of themselves."
Pardon me while I go laugh hysterically. I'm not a stay-at-home mom, so I can't speak completely for them, but I am a work-at-home mom and I can tell you that there's very little luxury to this title of tending to my house and family all day every day, while often basically putting my own needs (like, say, showering) on the back burner.
This article could be 5,000 words long and it still wouldn't even come close to covering everything that a stay-at-home mom does. Those women are saints and bosses and magicians, and I bow all the way down to their multi-tasking skills and devotion. It's so funny what my pre-baby self thought about that life.
"Why Do Women Breastfeed In Public? Don't They Feel Exposed?"
Um, because their babies are hungry? Because it's not the responsibility of women to cater to the comfort of other grown-ass people, especially when doing so means that an actual baby doesn't get to eat freely? What was pre-baby me thinking? That it was a chill idea to just, ya know, tell the baby to wait until they got home to eat? I'm sad not only that breastfeeding freaked me out temporarily, but that it continues to freak out way too many people every single day.
"We Aren't Going To Let Our Kids Watch TV."
Also, obviously, most People Without Kids™ feel very strongly about their kids (who, again, don't exist) having no screen time. No screens of any kind, ever. Just coloring books and counting cars because we all know that TV is the damn devil, right?
I'd like past me to jump in a time machine and try to have that conversation with when when it's 11 a.m. on a Saturday and I need to just go hide out in the bathroom while I finish my coffee.
"I'll Never Have "That Kid" Pitching A Fit In The Store."
Oh wait, yes, you will. Hopefully not all that often, but there will most definitely be a point in your parenting journey when your kid will become that kid in the check out line at Target, and you will become that mom making that face.
Just accept it and move on.
"I Don't Ever Want Kids."
This is something that a lot of people might actually mean, but the tone in which it is said speaks volumes. There's nothing wrong with not wanting kids. Nothing at all. But if you're telling someone that does want kids that you don't want them, depending on your tone it might come off as a bit judgmental.
Telling someone you don't want kids is fine, but just as that person respects your decision not to have kids, you should respect their choices too.
"I Don't Think It's Going To Be That Hard."
Feed, clean, sleep, right? It's that easy! Except, no, it's not that easy. There are these things called vegetables, and chances are, your kids will hate most of them a lot of the time. And a lot of babies refuse to sleep, and those feedings happen every few hours (which gives you just enough time to clean up in between them). Then there's the pressure to actually teach these little humans the ABCs and other important life lessons. There's the responsibility of teaching them about diversity, and teaching them how to treat everyone with respect, the need to both nurture them and let them find their own way all without seeming too overbearing or too lackadaisical. We aren't just raising babies, we're raising the people that are going to be in charge of the future, and that's kind of a big deal.
But you're totally right, Past Me. It's not that hard.
"I'll Never Let My Kid Get Away With [Insert Thing They'll Eventually Get Away With Here]."
Are you seeing a pattern here? The lesson to be learned is that you should never say never. Because, yes, there's a good chance that they will eat a chicken nugget eventually. They will throw a tantrum in public one day, and they will rebel against every effort you make to clothe them one day. It's going to happen. It's kind of adorable how much our pre-kid selves were convinced that we would be magically excluded from all of this.
"Kids Don't Belong In Restaurants."
Why would anyone every actually want to expose their children to the elements of O'Charley's? I mean, are they crazy?
"I'm Going To Have My Child Potty Trained Before Their Second Birthday."
Ahahahahaha. Oh you guys, just stop it.
"Why Can't [Friend With Kid] Just Get A Sitter?"
Well, because trusting another human to take care of your child is sort of a big deal. Truthfully, most parents don't think that anyone is capable of taking care of their children the way they do, and yeah, that's probably true but that doesn't mean that there isn't someone out there capable of doing a perfectly decent job.
Between competing for the "good sitters" and not wanting to spend the money just to go out and spend more money, and just being really tired and kinda wanting to stay home anyway, it's a wonder that people without kids aren't more aptly saying, "Oh wow, [friend with kid] actually got a sitter? What a hero of organization, budgeting, and energy-having! Let's buy them all the drinks!"
"My Kids Will Never Sleep In My Bed."
Pre-kid me was pretty serious about this. It was so not going down. Like, seriously, never. Except, yes, they did end up in my bed at some point when their tummies hurt, or when they were scared, or when they just missed me and put on their super adorable face that was begging me to cuddle them. Being wrong sucks (sorry, Past Me) but honestly, this is not the worst thing in the world that could happen.


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With Metro Vancouver firmly socked in (our own version of) winter, it's time to pull out the slow cooker. The ideal dinner mate when it's cold and bleak outside, slow cooker's are a busy mama or dada's best friend. We love the ability to throw a bunch of ingredients into ours in the morning and come home to a delicious dinner. Or better yet, toss a few things in at night and wake up to a warm and hearty breakfast. There is no shortage of inventive dishes you can make in a slow cooker; you can even bake bread! We've focused on more healthful recipes, but have thrown a few tasty treats in for good measure.
Here are 27 healthy-ish winter slow cooker recipes to try out:
Healthy Spinach and Artichoke Dip
image: photo by Janine / CC BY
Get the Healthy Spinach and Artichoke recipe by yoyomama.ca
Cinnamon Almonds
Six Sister Stuff
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Chicken and White Bean Taco Dip
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Ginger Curry Lentil Soup
Fountain Avenue Kitchen
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Quinoa Chili
Everyday Reading
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Barley and Chickpea Risotto
Foxes Love Lemons
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Beef Ragu
Whitney Bond
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Korean Beef
The Recipe Critic
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Beef Barbacoa
Five Heart Home
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Crispy Caramelized Pork Ramen Noodle Soup with Curry Roasted Acorn Squash
Half Baked Harvest
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Easy Pork Tacos
Our Family Eats
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Apple Kielbasa Bites
Belly Full
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chicken and turkey
Honey Garlic Chicken
Just a Taste
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Buffalo Chicken Lettuce Wraps
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Italian Turkey Meatballs
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Overnight Oatmeal
Alton Brown
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Breakfast Casserole
Family Fresh Meals
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Cinnamon Swirl Pancake Bake
Homemaking Hacks
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Chicken Enchilada Soup
Dainty Chef
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Butternut Squash Soup
Pretty Prudent
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Corn Chowder
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Super Easy Skinny Veggie Lasagna
Pinch of Yum
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Chicken Broccoli Alfredo
Family is Funny
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Three Cheese Macaroni
Host the Toast
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Baked Apples
House of Hawthornes
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Molten Lava Cake
Domestic Rebel
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The Kitchn
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We hope this giant round up of delicious, healthy-ish crock pot meals inspires you to dust off your slow cooker!
Yo, mama, looking for some more great family-friendly recipes? Try these:
- breakfast strata
- pumpkin soup fit for a ball
- roasted autumn fruits with torched sabayon & white truffle risotto with cauliflower
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Red Rose Room ~ queensize bed & sleeper sofa (single)
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Exciting New Patisserie and Desserts on Show at IFE13
As mentioned in our previous post, the International Food and Drink Event (IFE13) in March will host the official launch of our rebrand to become Destiny Foods.
As part of the evolution of our brand, we tasked our Development Chef, Laurent Beauvironnois, with bringing exciting new patisserie and dessert ranges to market and we are pleased to say that he has done just that.
Laurent, a specialist in the creation of Viennoisierie pastries and traditional French-style 'Croque en Bouche' desserts, has combined his high level of technical expertise with solid commercial judgement to develop some exceptional new Destiny Foods products, including:
Sticky Toffee Pudding with Sauce (image above)
A moist sponge cake, made with finely chopped dates and served with its own toffee sauce.
Red Velvet Cake
Made with buttermilk, butter & flour this red velvet cake also has a delicious chocolate flavour. Finished with cream cheese frosting and red 'velvet' speckles.
Large Pre-Cut Maltese Torte
A milk chocolate mousse decorated with swirls of cream and chocolate covered honeycomb balls.
All of our new products, as well as a selection of our best-selling classics, will be on-stand for samples at IFE13.
Join us from 17th-20th March at ExCeL London (Stand N1679) to satisfy your sweet tooth!


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No matter how 'fun' your job is, the first days back at work, after a relaxing time off, can be difficult.
Typically, motivation and productivity are low.
For some of us, the idea of hours straight without the children after so long starts with a 'yes' feeling. But as you watch the hundreds of emails roll in and the piles of paperwork awaiting you become visible, you may start to sing a different tune.
Use these tips to bounce back after any holiday, particularly those romantic getaways, the type where you actually got rest and relaxation on (or maybe not that much rest… wink wink).
Return to work mid-week
I call this the 'easing-yourself-in-gently' technique.
Starting back at work on any day apartfrom Monday, makes the week a little bit shorter.
It also gives you a chance to get back into the work routine and temperament, slowly.
Do the hard stuff first
Thanks to human nature, we all want to do the things we enjoy doing most, first. Then you procrastinate about the more annoying stuff, and subconsciously hope it goes away. Most times it doesn't go away.
The work we like to procrastinate about is boring, monotonous, not to our strengths or just not fun to do. When I was in corporate world, the hard stuff included things like: doing my time sheets (I did client work), archiving work that had been done (involved chasing people), speaking to the client to chase my requests (who else hates bothering other people?).
Well, apparently we should save ourselves the hassle by doing the harder or more boring work, first!
Make a list
Create a to-do list. Tick things off your handwritten (preferably) to-do list. You'll feel like you're getting things done.
The mind is a powerful tool!
Don't over estimate/ over stretch yourself
Get realistic and work it out, realistically, how much you can get done in those first few days? And then concentrate on doing a good job on those three of four tasks. Only three or four.
If you try to out-do yourself, you might get overwhelmed in the process. I for one hate a long to do list. Apparently, by concentrating on those few tasks that are achievable or that progress can be made on, you get a more satisfying feeling.
Schedule a treat
It could be ice-cream, your favourite meal, a catch-up with friends or TV – plan an end-of-the-week treat.
Schedule something for the end of the week, so you have something to look forward to. This will help you stay motivated and make getting to the end as productively as you can, even more worth it (hopefully).
Bonus point – just allow yourself to feel whatever it is you're feeling. Do your best!
It is totally normal to go in the first couple of days and just not be 'feeling it'. Do not feel bad. Dust off the guilt; chances are your boss (or employees) feel exactly the same way you do.
The objective is to get through the day and if you achieve a few things along the way, too (you will, you will), then GOOD!
Ladies, even reading this now, In January, after my first two weeks back at work has been a lesson. I'm actually already feeling like I need another couple of days of TLC. I have had a cough, now getting a cold, but mehn, things can only get better!
How did you deal with getting back to work after summer holidays or even the long Sallah weekend just passed? What tricks did you use?


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Drobox is a renowned platform to store files in the cloud. Its free version is more than enough for a lot of users. This is a good option to create backup files and be able to always have our photos or videos on any device. In this article, we will talk about some interesting tools to send files to Dropbox via email. We already explained how to use two Dropbox accounts at the same time.
Send files to Dropbox via email
Sometimes it might be nice idea use our email to send a file to our Dropbox account directly, saving time and effort. We will focus on two tools to do so.
The first tool is SendToDropbox. This is a free tool that lets us send files to Dropbox via email. We need to create an account to use the service. Then we need to grant it access to our Dropbox account. What it really does is that it creates an email account.
The way it works is simple. We send attached files to that email and they will be sent to our Dropbox account directly. This is evidently not ideal if we want to send large files because the service has a limit when sending emails.
The tool allows us to set up different elements. We can send an email with an attached file, which will be sent to a predetermined folder in Dropbox, for example. Let's imagine we want to send photos. They will be sent directly to a folder specifically created to store photos.
We can also set up some elements like the date, automatic file extraction, what to do with duplicate files, etc.
As we said above, SendToDropbox is a free tool. We can download it from its official webpage. We also have to say there is a paid version that has some improved features.
This is another tool we can use to send files to Dropbox via email. This is a web-based service that has several features and elements we can set up, like sending files to Dropbox via email.
We need to create an account to use the service. Then we have to add the tool, which we can download from this link.
We will also have to grant it access to the account. We just have to send a message with attached files to the email address, and they will go right into Dropbox based on the email subject.
In conclusion, these two tools let us send files to Dropbox via email. They are free and can be great in some cases. As we said above, there is a limit when sending attached files, so we cannot send files larger than the limit.


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From childhood in many homes it is drilled into millions of impressionable young minds: "You will go to a good university. It is the pathway to almost everything that is good in life. We'll get the money for it by borrowing."
So millions of young people, many with little understanding of what they're doing and even less understanding of the long-term financial consequences of their actions, take student loans—-lots of them. This youthful debt, sanctioned and endorsed by parents, college and political officials, often leads to decades of misery. And, in some cases, it is the cause of bankruptcy.
It can all start with lots of red ink at the beginning of one's adult life. Seven out of ten seniors who graduated from public or private colleges last year had a student loan debt of $28,400, according to credit card industry numbers. This represents a two percent increase from the year before.
"Save for mortgages, student loans constitute the largest component of household debt for Americans. As of June 30, 2014, total outstanding student loan balances disclosed on credit reports stood at $1.12 trillion, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported in August," according to WalletHub.com. "The latest figure represents an increase of $7 billion from the first quarter and $124 billion from a year ago."
Going deep into debt to pay for a college degree is not a layup. Indeed, many graduates entering the labor market are realizing that a college degree doesn't guarantee financial security. It may even lead to the opposite—-years of worry.
The problem is widespread and serious when one considers that most young people who graduate from college are unlikely to earn a lot of money in their 20s. This is a time when one is just getting a foothold in a profession, usually starting at the bottom.
First, let me stipulate I certainly believe that higher education, over the long term, can lead to greater career earning power and sometimes a happier life for many. But, for millions of young graduates student debt can be an albatross that takes decades to pay off.
Second, I believe the problem of student debt is part of a bigger problem that we have written about here many times: The lack of personal finance education. It can be a problem of both the parents, who often egg on their kids to take out loans, and the young people, who misunderstand the consequences of loans.
These loans seem harmless; debts that will always pay off big in the future with good paying jobs and that won't have to be re-paid for years. They are usually offered at below market interest rates and, the same as with a mortgage, are usually tax deductible. They are pushed by college administrators who are often looking out for the interests of the institutions they serve, not the long-term interests of their customers, students. The latter will be gone in four or five years, then saddled with possibly decades of red ink.
"It's an absolute disgrace how kids are being taken advantage of in these loans," a financial advisor I respect has repeatedly complained to me. Yet, there are ways to avoid them or at least limit the debt damage.
Third, I remember when I was attending two universities in the 1970s. I went at night and—despite being implored by university officials to take student loans "even if I didn't need them"—-was able to work full-time during the day. I lived at home and was able to complete my undergraduate and graduate work in four years without running up any debt.
That was a good thing since, right after college, I went into small-market radio. I was making very little money after I graduated. And, like many people of my generation, I had some periods of unemployment in my 30s.
By contrast, my best friend in college took tons of student loans and obtained an MBA. He is a very sensible person, not usually given to overspending and had a good career although, like me, he also had some periods of joblessness. However, it took him some 25 years to pay off his student loans. They were an incredible drain on his financial life.
Fourth, I count myself as lucky to have avoided the plague of student loans. I think they should still be available, but greatly restricted and come with warnings, the same as the ones on cigarette boxes ("Warning: Student loans can wreck your finances. Use them carefully. The colleges, the banks and the pols don't worry about you. You must take care of yourself by understanding the consequences of debt.").
Before anyone takes them, he or she should be required to demonstrate minimum financial competency. When you go for a mortgage you have to show that you will be able to manage this huge loan that often takes people decades to retire. When the mortgage review process is sloppy or non-existent, you get what we had in the 2008 market meltdown—-millions of people, who never should have received mortgages, all at once defaulted. That nearly caused a depression.
Could the same thing happen, in the next recession, with millions of student loans?
Fifth, financial education is vital in avoiding the problem of bad student loans. Many of the problems we write about here come from a lack of it. That leads to the question how so many people graduate from high school and even a university knowing so little about money? Isn't it important?
Again, pre-university students should be educated in how to save for college and general financial education. They should discuss these issues with their parents. They should both come up with an action plan for building up the biggest college nest egg possible and using the smallest amount of debt possible.
They should also consider various options: Having the young person work part or all of a summer vacation to build up college savings. Also, why is it necessary to finish a college education in four years? How about five or six years? And yes, how about working in the day and going to college at night.
Finally, I know the latter—-working during the day and going to college at night—seems radical; it requires a young person to grow up at an early age. But, for some families, it could be the best thing.
I speak from experience. I hate to confess this but it is the truth: I never realized how hard my parents worked and what outrageous taxes they paid until I started working full-time in college. I developed a new respect and love for my marvelous padres (May they rest in heaven. Good news, Dad, your beloved Giants won the World Series again!). I learned the value of working at multiple things and having to manage my life. Most of all, I left college without one cent of student loans.
Not a bad deal.
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"LSU police chief retiring next month; national search on tap," said the HEADLINE in the June 9 Baton Rouge Advocate.
But don't look for that "national search" to extend far beyond the corporate limits of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. And don't be surprised if an old familiar name is quietly named the new chief.
We don't want to announce his name just yet, but his initials are Mike Edmonson.
That same day, a Baton Rouge TV STATION announced that current LSU Police Chief Lawrence Rabalais was being forced out after it was learned that his department racked up $1.2 million in overtime pay last year for his 80-person staff.
In case you don't have a calculator handy, that comes to about $15,000 per person in overtime pay but don't carve that in stone because some apparently were not getting their share. Records obtained by New Orleans television investigative reporter Lee Zurik, working in conjunction with Baton Rouge station WAFB-TV, showed that two LSU police captains made more than Rabalais in both 2015 and 2016 from logging hundreds of hours of overtime. In 2016, one of those captains made $64,800 in overtime while the other pulled down $61,800 in overtime pay. In another case, an LSU officer made $56,200 in overtime pay, which was nearly $5,000 more than his base pay of $51,300.
Rabalais will be stepping down from his $127,800-a-year job, effective July 5, the school announced. LSU spokesperson Ernie Ballard, III said Maj. Bart Thompson would serve as interim chief until a permanent successor is named. "We will begin a national search for his permanent successor and put together plans for a transition plan in the near future," Ballard added.
When asked if the retirement was voluntary, he said, "Our policy is to not comment on personnel matters, but there have been no terminations at the police department."
Well, no, when you can pressure someone into resigning or retiring, firing becomes a moot point and administrators can walk away without having to invoke the ugly F-word.
"We will begin a national search for his permanent successor and put together plans for a transition plan in the near future," Ballard added.
The timing of the Rabalais announcement is more than a little suspect, to say the least.
Something just doesn't pass the smell test.
Don't take that as a defense of Rabalais. He certainly had sufficient baggage with the Helen Haire matter to warrant a change. It's just that the university had the perfect opportunity to cut its losses when her sex discrimination suit wound up costing LSU big bucks after he was named chief over her. Instead, the school waited for an obscure issue like overtime to make its move.
One might then asked why, then, did LSU suddenly take action?
LouisianaVoice has learned that Edmonson, for nine years Superintendent of State Police until his lax managerial practices finally caught up with him in San Diego last October, is near the top of a very short list of candidates for the job.
Don't be too surprised if he does indeed get the job. In Louisiana politics, the Peter Principle—the theory that the selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate's performance in his or her current role, rather than on abilities relevant to the intended role—is in full effect.
Edmonson's position prior to being named by Bobby Jindal to head Louisiana State Police was that of public information officer for LSP and as bodyguard for LSU football coaches—and he was very good at those because his duties primarily involved schmoozing those in a position to help his career along.
Unfortunately for Louisiana, that did not translate to effective leadership of the entire agency. In a state where administrators are chosen not for their ability but for their political connections, it is not only the norm but the expectation that mediocre people will occupy the positions of greatest power and influence. The more power and influence to wield, the greater the demand for mediocrity.
And nowhere in state government—and the emphasis is on nowhere—are political influence and inflated egos more prevalent than on the campus of Louisiana State University, aka the Ole War Skule.
It's almost enough to make one wonder if, when the chance to bring Edmonson into that tight little clique that is LSU presented itself, LSU officials decided to jump at the opportunity and to belatedly "address" the Rabalais problem.
Oh, surely not.
LouisianaVoice was first with the STORY on March 10 that Edmonson was gone from the State Police and the official CONFIRMATION came five days later, on March 15. We also were consistently first on dozens of accounts of Edmonson's controversial tenure as Louisiana's top cop for more than four years until other media were finally forced, albeit reluctantly, to begin following the story, and then stepping in to politely accept the credit for his ouster.
Some of the events at which officers have worked overtime were understandable. Besides more than 130 LSU athletic events and Bayou Country Superfest, a three-day music festival held in Tiger Stadium for the past several years, there was the 2016 flood event in Baton Rouge last August and the police shootings of 2016. In the latter case, all police patrols went from one- to two-person patrols, thereby doubling the need for officers on all shifts. There also was the 2014 ice storm, and other crisis or emergency situations; fundraisers on campus; events held by student organizations; work at other LSU facilities, and others.
Certainly it was a mere coincidence that Rabalais was told to clean out his desk at LSU so soon after Edmonson was told the same over at LSP.


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Perry High School Youth "Pink OUT" Basketball Cheer Clinic will be Saturday, January 30, 2016, from 10 am – 3 pm at Edison Middle School. Youth girls will cheer with our Perry cheerleaders, Friday, February 12, 2016, against Green. This game will be our fourth annual basketball "PINK OUT" game. Please sign up and reserve a spot quickly for your future Perry cheerleader! The cost for the clinic is $40 per child and includes a shirt to wear the night of the game. Please have your child bring a snack lunch with a drink. Click here for a clinic flyer and registration form. Questions can be directed to Sancy Mehringer at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Was the same in classic - but the slight advantage in classic was that the evil races had Ogre, Troll and Iksar at the cost of not having Bard, Paladin, Ranger or Druid. So in PvP the dark side was stronger, but gameplay was severely lacking until we started to merge good and evil guilds like a pve server, with the exception of having to pay attention to your AoE and tab targeting lol. It made for some really broken PvP fights too, where as a Dark Elf SHD fighting an entire group of humans, while having a Human healing me and nothing any of my opponents could do.
Yeah I imagine humans as neutral, I imagine the factions as "Good, Neutral and Evil". I dont think we will have just two factions.


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Our community is more than just helping with questions, sharing experiences and tailoring monitoring together. We've grown so much in the past 10 years that we always seek to improve the conversation. You've seen our many Icinga Camps, keep following our social media channels, engage with developers on GitHub, read our blog … one thing is gladly missed: Our very own discussion platform which combines a forum with a mailing list and also enables quick chats known from IRC channels.
We are proud to announce our new official community platform: Icinga Discourse. We've made sure to add the most valued content, howtos and questions there already. Now you just need to signup with a new account (hint: you can also use social logins like GitHub or Twitter) and join the conversation!
Discourse is built for the modern web, with endless scrolling, mobile views and much more to make it easy to start a discussion topic. We've also enabled the "mailing list mode" which allows you to reply to conversations from your mail client. Read more in the announcement post.
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Koppell: 'No reason' to end Klein challenge
ALBANY—Oliver Koppell said he has no plans to abandon his primary challenge to State Sen. Jeff Klein, even after Klein announced his Independent Democratic Conference intends to re-align with mainline Democrats in the Senate.
"It doesn't mean I'll give up in my campaign because he's disgraced himself," Koppell told Capital.
Koppell, a former New York City councilman, said that as of Thursday morning no one had asked him to pull out of the race for the 34th State Senate district and his support has not wavered.
"I believe that if I had not put my name forward Jeff Klein wouldn't have divorced himself from Skelos," Koppell said.
Koppell, who also served briefly as attorney general, said his presence in the race and his scrutiny of Klein's alliance with Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos and the Republican conference increased the pressure for Klein to rejoin the conference.
"I have been successful in getting Jeff Klein to, at least for this moment, divorce himself with the alliance he made to Dean Skelos and work with the Democrats to get the agenda passed that I've talked about," Koppell said.
Koppell had been pushing for a more progressive agenda including a higher minimum wage and public financing of campaigns, passage of the Dream Act, which would allow students in the country illegally access to state financial aid, along with all 10 points of the Women's Equality Agenda, which includes a contentious abortion plank.
The challenger said he's already gathered more than enough signatures to appear on the primary ballot and has raised more than $100,000 but still needs to raise more money to challenge the incumbent.
"There's no reason to take my name out of the race at this point," Koppell said.


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Living Learning Communities (LLCs) are groups of students residing in the same residential area, interacting academically and socially with each other and with faculty, and sharing the same academic major, program or interest. The LLC's at Elon are consistently ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Connected thematically, LLC's provide students the opportunity to interact with one another and with faculty members, attend events, speakers, and programs on or off campus, participate in community service experiences, and meet new friends with a shared interest.
LLCs participate in a varity of creative, innovative, academic and community focused activities. Students describe their LLC experience as an intrigal part of their Elon University experience, students not only find a sense of community through their LLC, they find a true sense of home. For more information on current events in our LLCs, please see the Neighborhood Happenings Newsletter.
LLCs participate in the prestigious Annual Residence Life Mural Competition, in which students are provided the opportunity to paint a mural within their hall and community depicting their sense of bELONging at Elon. The winners of the Residence Life Mural Competition are announced at the Elon Homecoming Football game. A substancial cash prize and the prestige of winning are rewards.
Two of the top three winning murals were designed and painted by LLCs. See pictures of some winning murals below.
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Information for G02879
Not your usual facilitator... (PLA 57)
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There is no single 'model' of immersion, and different approaches are used by different people and organisations for different purposes. Nevertheless, at the heart of each immersion is the contact that is established between a host family and their guest, which is (sometimes) supported by an interpreter and/or facilitator. The quality of the relationships between these various protagonists is critical to the success of an immersion. The articles in Section 2 (PLA 57) explore these roles and relationships as well as the roles of the facilitator and interpreter – sometimes the same person, sometimes two people – but both of them important bridges between host and guest. Sometimes the facilitator also acts as interpreter. Another approach, used by ActionAid, gives the facilitator a role that is distinct from that of the interpreters. S/he provides practical and emotional support to the visitors, working with individuals to reflect on their experiences and draw out its implications.
Here, Dee Jupp explores this particular form of facilitation. She compares participatory approaches facilitators, whose work with groups to enable intra-group engagement requires them to adopt particular attitudes and behaviours, and immersion facilitators, who work with immersion participants to help those participants adopt appropriate attitudes and behaviours for a quality immersion experience.
Participatory Learning and Action (PLA, formerly PLA Notes) is the world's leading series on participatory learning and action approaches and methods. PLA publishes articles on participation aimed at practitioners, researchers, academics and activists. All articles are peer-reviewed by an international editorial board.
Guest editors: Izzy Birch, Raffaella Catani with Robert Chambers.
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- IIED code: G02879
- Published: Dec 2007 - IIED
- Theme: Monitoring, evaluation and learning
- Series: Participatory Learning and Action 57
- Source pub: Participatory Learning and Action 57 Immersions: learning about poverty face-to-face
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After a soft opening almost a month ago, Flatiron newcomer Kat & Theo (5 West 21st Street; 212-380-1950) is finding its feet. "We're ironing out kinks," chef Paras Shah tells the Voice, "and we're getting busier, which is exciting but also daunting."
The restaurant's dramatically lit room features archways of light cocooning booth tables, as well as a more informal bar area at the front that looks out onto 21st Street. The space looks built for secret liaisons, milestone birthday parties, and the odd business dinner. And though the kitchen is still finding its stride, it's one to watch. Shah trained at El Bulli in Spain and cooked at Per Se and Momofuku Noodle Bar, while pastry chef Serena Chow is an alum of Eleven Madison Park and Pearl & Ash.
"This is food that takes pride in local ingredients and local ways of cooking," Shah says. "We don't do any sous-vide, nothing really molecular — it's more 'Here's the product, let's make the flavors shine and complement one another as a full bite.' "
Though Shah describes the menu as "Mediterranean in spirit," Spanish influences shine through, especially when it comes to seafood, which makes up a good proportion of the offerings. Check out mackerel with vinegar, adorned with chive flowers and orange-infused salt, and octopus with a smoked-potato purée.
"I want to cook accessible food that's also elegant," Shah says. "Not highfalutin, but really good. Maybe slightly thought-provoking, but basically, I grew up in Queens, and I want my friends to come here and feel at home. This should be real food, real cooking, but not taken too seriously."
This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on October 1, 2015


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5 prohibited, in conversation with a fan of Apple
How not to make small talk about the new iPhone after September 12.
"How much?! Yes for such money it is better to buy Xiaomi".
Guilty without trial: Apple pulls back the price tags to the roof of the newly built space plates. How not to kick the owner of the iPhone for a stupid purchase? Yes, Note8 want 70 thousand rubles, and estimates the Sony Xperia z 55 thousand. Reasonably, of course. The greedy vendors are working in Cupertino is every Evangelist knows Xiaomi.
After: to turn away from the man. And then begin the story telling of how the front facing camera in its "six" has shifted to the millimeter and smartphone replaced free of charge, though a flaw in the photo and not affected.
"They stole the idea from … !"
The argument is good, if living in the heart 2012 OS and word-wide war, that glorious time. Ah, Android vs iOS…
After: remember, the pioneers are innovating the last couple of years. Incredible benefits of curved, like buckets, smartphones or LG screen Huawei Mate S recognising the effect of depression. How great it is to weigh it on the oranges!
Google interview Tim cook also helpful: Apple CEO boldly believes that it is more important to be the best, not the first on the market.
In the flagship Microsoft iris scanner perform only one function — unlocked Lumia. And Touch ID is great and speeds up the shopping on the Internet, and makes life easy for the forgetful people, all passwords to remember. You never know what good a new facial recognition system in the iPhone 8, but it is necessary to argue — it was created for people and not with the motto of "technology for technology".
"Your iPhone turns into a pumpkin!"
Ideal for weeks of the September presentation. To say, mischievously smiling.
After: open Bulletin Board. Compare how many are used smartphones and tablets on iOS and how much for b/y electronics from other manufacturers. Look for owners of "pumpkin" Oldies 5s, ask if they like to upgrade the OS for four years.
"Buy iPhone 7 right now? To wait four years and take the "ten"?"
Questions "edunov" annoying, like the dream of an anchor on his forearm, which you voiced tattooed man. Want an iPhone? Prepare a Bank card. No? Well.
After: not to buy anything or find a third option. To inform the source, in order to confuse him.
"[Steve jobs] Apple is not the same. Cursed! Doomed!"
Others living and working without visionaries. And nothing.
After: you look at the statistics of sales of the iPhone (1,2 mlrda pieces for ten years), to compare with numbers Meizu or HTC or OnePlus. To remember what Apple products are selling the best (spoiler — expensive) and sell what our competitors (again, spoiler alert — state employees). In General, the phrase it is better to postpone for an indefinite "later". Or forgotten forever.


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New publication
First quantification of subtidal community structure at Tristan da Cunha Islands in the remote South Atlantic: From kelp forests to the deep sea
Christopher Thompson | Mar 29, 2018
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Scientists from the University of Western Australia, the National Geographic Pristine Seas Programme and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds explored the waters of Tristan da Cunha using a combination of sampling techniques.
Photo: Roger Horrocks.
Caselle JE, Hamilton SL, Davis K, Thompson CDH, Turchik A, Jenkinson R, Simpson D, Sala E. 2018. First quantification of subtidal community structure at Tristan da Cunha Islands in the remote South Atlantic: from kelp forests to the deep sea. PLoS ONE, 13(3): e0195167.
- We conducted the first quantitative surveys of nearshore kelp forests, offshore pelagic waters and deep sea habitats using UVC, mid-water stereo-BRUVS and Deep Ocean Dropcams.
- Kelp forests had low biodiversity and species richness, however the species that were present were in high biomass and abundance.
- Assemblage structure both in the nearshore and offshore differed significantly between the main island group and Gough Island, located further south across the subtropical convergence zone.
- Species richness in the deep sea was positively correlated with rocky substrate and saw a distinct differences in fish communities above and below ~750m, matching a break in temperature and salinity noted in concurrent oceanographic sampling.
- The marine ecosystems sampled at Tristan da Cunha appear to be in a healthy state, however, not without potential threats. The UKs commitment to protect the marine environments of its overseas territories including Tristan da Cunha, is of great value if managed correctly. The results presented will be of use in informing management as well as providing a baseline against which future monitoring efforts can be referenced.
Tristan da Cunha Islands, an archipelago of four rocky volcanic islands situated in the South Atlantic Ocean and part of the United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs), present a rare example of a relatively unimpacted temperate marine ecosystem. We conducted the first quantitative surveys of nearshore kelp forests, offshore pelagic waters and deep sea habitats. Kelp forests had very low biodiversity and species richness, but high biomass and abundance of those species present. Spatial variation in assemblage structure for both nearshore fish and invertebrates/algae was greatest between the three northern islands and the southern island of Gough, where sea temperatures were on average 3-4o colder. Despite a lobster fishery that provides the bulk of the income to the Tristan islands, lobster abundance and biomass are comparable to or greater than many Marine Protected Areas in other parts of the world. Pelagic camera surveys documented a rich biodiversity offshore, including large numbers of juvenile blue sharks, Prionace glauca. Species richness and abundance in the deep sea is positively related to hard rocky substrate and biogenic habitats such as sea pens, crinoids, whip corals, and gorgonians were present at 40% of the deep camera deployments. We observed distinct differences in the deep fish community above and below ~750 m depth. Concurrent oceanographic sampling showed a discontinuity in temperature and salinity at this depth. While currently healthy, Tristan's marine ecosystem is not without potential threats: shipping traffic leading to wrecks and species introductions, pressure to increase fishing effort beyond sustainable levels and the impacts of climate change all could potentially increase in the coming years. The United Kingdom has committed to protection of marine environments across the UKOTs, including Tristan da Cunha and these results can be used to inform future management decisions as well as provide a baseline against which future monitoring can be based.
Bubble plots depicting A. site-level variation in species richness and B. numerical abundance from pelagic BRUV stations sampled across the four Tristan da Cunha Islands. Inset bar plots show mean values for each island ± 1 standard error of the mean Figure: Caselle et al. 2018.
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There were many stages of escalation from countries accross the globe, leading up to US military involvement in Vietnam.
The events began with the French, who had returned to Vietnam to claim it for their empire after World War 2. It wasn't expected that this would take as long as it did. Incredibly the French were defeated by Ho Chi Mihn's Vietcong army at Dien Bien Phu. The Vietcong sought to promote communism in Vietnam.
Communism was feared in America, the largest capitalist country in the world. The American government felt if one single country became communist, it would eventually lead to its neighbouring countries becoming communist too. This theory, the invention of the US military theorists, was referred to as The Domino Effect.
Nearby to Vietnam, China, a country which was very large compared to its neighbours, had recently become a communist country, which could have had a massive effect if the Domino Theory was correct.
In Vietnam, it was decided that the country should be split into a North and South region, under The Geneva Convention. The Communists and Ho Chi Mihn would inhabit the North, and the capitalists lead by Diem would be based in the South.
When President Kennedy came to power in 1961, at the height of the Cold War, he was determined to stop the spread of Communism. Kennedy believed the Domino Theory and also believed that involving US with the affairs in Vietnam would demonstrate America's strength, hate of communism and power. He would send money, aid and advisers to South Vietnam.
Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, so it was never known what his real decision for military action may have been. Some modern opinions think Kennedy may have really wanted withdrawal as he could see the horrendous sequences of waging...