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- noun A hut the roof and sides of which are made of thatch, bundles, or mats of grass, common in tropical regions.
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The new influx has increased the number of displaced people at the grass-hut camp to 23,000, officials said Friday.
Quite aside from his Tarzanesque trappings, his grass-hut head of hair, his loincloth, his leathers and jewels, he conveys an intensity of being that is impossible to ignore; it blasts out of his disquietingly immobile eyes in licorice rays, and no doubt would blast just as mightily were he attired in banker's garb.
While they were reloading a lion leaped on a goat, which was tethered to the grass-hut, and carried it away before any one could fire.
Here the little grass-hut villages were not fenced by a _boma_, but were hidden in large fields of plantains.
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Here the little grass-hut villages were not fenced by a boma, but were hidden in large fields of plantains.
All alike live in grass-hut villages, fenced round by bomas in the south, but open in the north.


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Stack ALL Of Your Supps In One Place With Blender Bottle's New GoStak & ProStak Lines [Product]
*Disclaimer: Blender Bottle sent us a ProStak and GoStak for trial purposes. This review is otherwise unsponsored and solely reflects the views of Lean It UP.
Everyone knows and loves Blender Bottle. It's the de facto shaker bottle and chief protein delivery mechanism for workout fiends and whey junkies across the country.
There's one in your gym bag. Two in your locker. And probably 36 stacked in your cabinets. And if you're in a frat, you might have enough to support a whey pong game (is that a thing?).
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Carrying 3 shakers is obnoxious and inconvenient. And pill jars are undersized and overflow easily, especially if you're trying to hold enough for multi-day supplement cycles.
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Klout Adds Google+ To Its Social Scores
The third social network icon on your Klout dashboard is now Google+, just behind the Twitter and Facebook buttons.
Latching onto news Tuesday that anyone can sign up for Google+, Klout CEO Joe Fernandez revealed the Google+ integration via a tweet: "Boom! I just connected my @klout account with Google+."
Fernandez told Mashable it will take a few days for Klout — which calculates users' social influence and assigns a score from 0 to 100 — to pull in everyone's data and "normalize it across the population."
"We have always believed that influence was the ability to drive people to actions and Google+ has great signals such as +1s and comments," Fernandez continued. "One thing we have noticed is that the conversation frequency and quality on Google+ really sets it apart from other platforms."
Fernandez has always been open about his desire to add Google+. He and his team were just waiting for Google to release the platform's first developer application programming interfaces. Google made that Google+ API available last week.
In August, Klout doubled the number of services it measures, adding Blogger, Flickr, Instagram, Last.fm and Tumblr to its scoring system. With the addition of Google+, Klout users can connect to 11 services. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare and YouTube are the others.
What do you think the Google+ integration? Will you use Google+ more now? Let us know in the comments.
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The San Francisco-based startup also released another new feature last week that lets users gain insights on top content influencers as well as users who have received the most +Ks for respective topics.
To populate a user's Topic Pages (see screenshots below), Klout analyzes the user's content created across the 11 networks it calculates.


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4th Annual Student Art Contest
4th Annual Student Art Contest | Entries Due Friday, May 17th
Theme: "SunLine Buses are Important for the Coachella Valley and the Environment"
As a leader in alternative fuel solutions, SunLine's buses are environmentally friendly and don't pollute the air. The art contest is a way for our local youth to learn more about the advantages of clean energy and the public transit system. Participating students should create a message about how public transportation improves the environment. The message should be incorporated as part of the artwork. The art should include buses and landmarks that are unique to the Coachella Valley, such as: mountains, palm trees and windmills.
The SunLine Student Art Contest is open to all elementary school students, grades K-5th, and middle school students, grades 6-8th. One winner will be chosen from each category, elementary and middle school, for a total of two winners.
- The SunLine logo must appear on any drawings of buses.
- Artwork may include crayons, paint, markers, or colored pencils. No digital art.
- All words must be spelled correctly.
- The back of the poster must include the following information and it must be legible: student's name, home phone number, grade level, school name, and teacher's name.
- Each student may submit only one poster design. The design must be original work created by the student. The poster must measure 11" high x 17" wide. The design should be laid out horizontally and submitted on regular paper or heavy paper such as poster or card stock.
Entries should be mailed or personally delivered to:
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SunLine Transit Agency
32-505 Harry Oliver Trail
Thousand Palms, CA 92276
The winner will have his or her artwork fully wrapped on our latest Hydrogen Fuel Cell bus. The winning entry will also be posted on SunLine's website, sunline.org, or other printed / digital materials.
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As a leader in zero emission technology, SunLine's Hydrogen Fuel Cell buses provide environmentally conscious public transportation. As such, the art contest exposes students to the public transit system and helps teach them about alternative fuels. To enter into the contest, students must incorporate images of the transit system, the environment, and Coachella Valley landmarks.
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8.554722 - FAURÉ / RAVEL: String Quartets
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) • Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
String Quartets
Bringing together on one disc the two quartets of Ravel and Fauré is not the result of pure chance. These works are closely linked, as were their creators, who vowed each other an 'unfailing affection'.
Born in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département on 7th March, 1875, Ravel was introduced to music's joys by his father, an engineer: 'Lacking musical theory, that I have never learnt, I started studying the piano when about six years of age.' In 1897, he went to the Paris Conservatoire and met Fauré in his composition class. A relentlessly hard worker, but forever losing in competitions, Ravel had to be content with second prize in the Prix de Rome (1901) whilst failing the various Conservatoire examinations. His failures seemed plain to the director: 'no chance, on account of the awful inaccuracies in writing!' Though expelled from the establishment in 1900, he was enrolled by Fauré as an unregistered student until 1905, thanks to what Koechlin called his 'fresh, bold harmonies'. His problems with the Conservatoire's leaders would go so far as to start a 'Ravel affair' when for the umpteenth time Ravel tried for the Prix de Rome in 1905, despite being disqualified by age... The jury had no hesitation in denouncing the young composer, already notorious in the capital, as being 'without any great musicality, a poor, beggarly writer'. The infamous thought ran through the societies: 'Monsieur Ravel may well consider us conservative; he won't get away with taking us for idiots.' However, he had already published his Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899), his Jeux d'eau (1901) and his String Quartet (1903). As for the art of revenge on the 'old fogeys'…the critic Jean Marnold summed it up: 'When you have heard Maurice Ravel's Quartet in F, you are not very surprised that the gang of pedants at the Institute would not give the Prix de Rome to this young artist'.
Ravel's String Quartet in F major is dedicated to his teacher, Gabriel Fauré. That is the first link between the two works on this disc. Though the start of Ravel' s career in chamber music has often been compared to that of Debussy, it must be said that the latter can stand alone. If such a comparison exists, let us also make one with Fauré, to whom he dedicated this quartet as follows: 'To my dear master Fauré'. About his own score, Ravel said, 'My Quartet in F results from an idea of musical construction, probably imperfectly realised, but which seems clearer than in my earlier compositions.' Written between December 1902 and April 1903, the Quartet in F was first performed in Paris on 5th March, 1904 by the Heyman Quartet at a société Nationale concert Published that same year by Astruc, the score was retouched by Ravel before its second publication in 1910. He had probably given too much importance to the remarks of his master who found the last movement 'truncated, ill-balanced and, in a nutshell, a failure', and that despite the appeals of Debussy, quite won to the young man's cause: 'In the name of all music's gods and for my sake, don't fiddle with anything you've written!'
In his work, Ravel was clearly inspired by the full essence of Fauréan feeling, yet he quickly freed himself by adopting his own idiom. In the opening Allegro moderato, in sonata form, one is absorbed in the intimate, delicate, sweet Ravelian atmosphere. All is delicateness and stylistic affectation, particularly in the two simple bars of the Très doux theme made up of a series of ascending quavers and crotchets which explode in the fifth bar: a theme with variations, which then returns to sink into a profoundly low register. Several repetitions of the latter introduce rhythmic excitement before we very quickly hear the second theme. The linking of the two, with a subtle alliance of keys (A and D minor) follows a classical pattern, here very well-treated. The treatment of the second movement, Assez vif, frankly recalls Debussy, with its lightness of line and the vibrant force of its writing. The airy use of pizzicato from the very first bars gives way to vigour, though never vulga, quite light and short-skirted! Bien chanté, the second theme, is tinged with melancholy, introduced by the cello, filled out by the viola, then completed by the first violin. The movement ends with a furious scherzo with firm pizzicati. Next the Très lent entrusts to the viola (in F sharp major) the task of revealing its dreamy side. A hovering spirit takes over the bowing, without any great trace of ambiguity. We recognise here and there material used in the first movement. The final Vif et agité, in 5/8 then 5/4, synthesises the chief ideas of the first movement in the form of a last flourish. The bows scuttle on two successive levels, then pursue each other in soaring flights which Ravel treats frenetically in technically perfect semi-quavers and trills. An opportunity for virtuosity, but also for mischief, for calm sometime, far too obvious to be really believable…
In the Courrier Musical of 15th March, 1904, Sauerwein summed up Ravel and his quartet perfectly: 'He gradually breaks away from traditional methods and today brings us a rather new form of quartet. But it seems that some sort of antagonism sets him against himself, preventing him from making a clear choice between the very contrapuntal writing of the Franckists and Debussy's style of freer, bolder, but infinitely less polyphonic harmonic writing - hence more different from that usually associated with the quartet. However, those are rather theoretical reservations, applicable to the future of a form rather than to the present work. The freshness of inspiration, the themes, the confidence and the ever charming surprises of the details of development, are such in this quartet that on hearing it, one cannot but be carried away by it and that I defy you not to fall in love with it on first hearing'.
Gabriel Fauré's String Quartet in E minor, Op 121 is a swan song, an apotheosis for this old man of eighty years, born on 12th May, 1845 at Pamiers in the Ariége. The son of a primary school inspector, Fauré was sent very early to Paris to study with Louis Niedermeyer, then Saint-Saëns. Organist at Rennes in 1866, he successively held five organ posts in Paris from 1870 to 1896 before becoming a teacher at the Conservatoire, then its director in 1905. This courageous, pleasant-looking man was to train such famous names as Enesco, Ducasse, Koechlin, Schmitt, Aubert and Nadia Boulanger, to name but a few. Losing his hearing, he had to resign as director in 1920, but continued to lead an active life as a writer of articles, but mainly as a composer. He was made a commander of the Légion d'honneur in 1910 and died on 4th November, 1924.
'I've started a quartet for strings, without piano. This is a genre made particularly famous by Beethoven, so that anyone who is not Beethoven is scared stiff of it!' wrote Fauré to his wife on 9th September, 1923. What better way to judge the modesty of an established composer faced with a noble genre…? Already coming to the end of his life, Fauré assessed this unacknowledged musical testament: 'As I moved on towards the conclusion, I increased my hours of work and I'm paying for it with a little tiredness. I can scarcely manage to write a few lines'. One would need many pages to give an account of the exciting genesis of this work, so much did Fauré put into it the best of himself... The Allegro moderato in 2/2 is in sonata form, a style dear to Fauré. The theme on the first violin is merged into a rending appeal from the viola in an atmosphere of melancholy, almost swaying. The first violin then sings its rising phrase of legato crotchets, so naïve, yet so detached. A re-exposition is sketched with the lip of the brush adding a touch of colour, then serious counterpoint and brightness in the final development…it all ending in a pianissimo. The Andante in 4/4 that follows found in Jean Michel Nectoux the ideal commentator: 'The Andante is one of the finest pieces of string quartet writing. From start to finish it bathes in a supernatural light… There is nothing that is not beautiful in this movement with its subtle variations of light-play, a sort of white upon white.' Is there more to be said? Unless 'The sublime music sinks out of sight, where it carries on, rather than seeming to come to an end' (Nectoux). Fauré uses the sonata form once more in his final 4/4 Allegro. The cello announces and develops the refrain over a pizzicato accompaniment, the whole thing being a cleverly disguised scherzo. The central development, bringing together ideas previously stated, takes up no fewer than 230 bars! Everything explodes in a sustained crescendo, 'light in nature, a sort of scherzo recalling the finale of my trio' in Fauré's own words. Jean Chantavoine, in Le Ménestrel, sums up in these words the sweetness rather than profundity of the work: 'One is rather following, holding one's breath, the meditation, ever so slightly abstract, of a pure mind'.
With common accord, in their own way, Ravel and Fauré both spoke out for pure invention, for renewal of inspiration: 'Where there is invention, there is genius'… (Fauré)
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A promised land? : Russian refugees in New Zealand after 1945
McFarland, Paulette R.
Cite this item: McFarland, P. R. (1997). A promised land? : Russian refugees in New Zealand after 1945 (Dissertation, Bachelor of Arts with Honours). University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/2686
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This dissertation is a brief examination of New Zealand's position as a resettlement country for refugees from the Russian Empire I Union of Soviet Socialist Republics after World War II. Three groups of refugees will be examined. These will be elderly refugees who resided at Nansen Home, Lower Hutt, Russian Old Believers who settled in Southland, and Soviet Jews who were brought to New Zealand through the work of the New Zealand Jewish Community. Much of the onus on bringing refugees to New Zealand was on voluntary religious groups, but whether or not to accept refugees was the prerogative of the New Zealand government and public. One of the most important questions in this study is whether or not New Zealand's attempts at refugee resettlement can be considered a success. [Preface]
Date: 1997
Degree Name: Bachelor of Arts with Honours
Degree Discipline: History
Publisher: University of Otago
Research Type: Dissertation
Languages: English
vii, 68 leaves :ill. ; 30 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Cover title. Typescript (photocopy).
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Juveniles in Kashmir continue to be jailed in violation of the Juvenile Justice Act, experts say, raising questions over the standard operating procedures (SOPs) being followed by the police while implementing the legislation.
On January 7 this year, a 14-year-old boy from southern Traltownship was detained by the police and charged under the provisions of the Arms Act, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and attempt to murder. Days later, another juvenile from Awantiporatownship in southern Kashmir was detained by the police and taken to Kathua "for questioning".
On January 13, a juvenile, who the police alleged was a militant, was apprehended by the police from southern Shopian district.
In December 2018, six boys from Srinagar's Batamaloo area were detained by the police and on October 29 of the year, a class 12 student from Shopian was picked up by personnel of police station Imam-Saheb allegedly in place of his brother and detained for two days, preventing the boy from writing his board examination. An analysis of these cases clearly shows how that the Juvenile Justice Act is violated with impunity in Kashmir, experts say.
Justice (R) HasnainMasoodi, chairperson of selection-cum-oversight-committee (SCOC), an apex body for monitoring and evaluation of the Juvenile Justice Act, said: "Preventive detention of a juvenile on the face of it is illegal. It is prohibited under section 8 of the J&K public safety Act, 1978; there is no ambiguity about it".
How the police pass detention orders against juveniles, Justice Masoodi says, "The senior superintendents of police in their dossiers don't show juveniles as juveniles and once they show them as adults, the concerned district magistrates (the detaining authority under law) slap detention orders without making an enquiry about the age."
"And till the time the concerned juvenile rushes to court and questions his detention order on the grounds that he is a juvenile and argues that the detention is prohibited under section 8 and the court sustains that objection, he happens to have already been in jail for a couple of months. By being secretive about his actual age, the purpose of the detention is actually served because the juvenile is still detained".
Justice Masoodi, who has been continuously writing to the government to desist from detaining juveniles, further said: "Whenever I get to know that a juvenile has been detained, I inform the government and ask them to revoke the detention order. I keep reminding them to issue instructions to all superintendents of police to desist from using Public Safety Act (PSA) against juveniles."
A "juvenile" or a "child" means a person who has not completed 18th year of his age and a "juvenile in conflict with law" means a juvenile who is alleged to have committed an offence and has not completed 18th year of age as on the date of the commission of such offence.
The Juvenile Justice System is designed to respond to the needs of these juveniles and children who are in need of care and protection. At the Central level, this Act was implemented in 1986 and since then many changes were suggested and finally a new juvenile Justice Act was passed in 2000 to make it an effective law.
In 1997, the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly passed the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act and a decade later laid down the rules to enforce it. After delay of many years, in 2013, the legislature finally cleared the updated Juvenile Justice Act and approved its rules the following year.
Despite having a juvenile law, children continue to be detained, raising questions on the Standard Operation Procedure followed by the police while detaining a juvenile and keeping him in lock-up for days together.
According to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2013, a juvenile in conflict with law cannot be prosecuted as an adult criminal in the court of law.
The Act states: "As soon as a juvenile in conflict with law is apprehended by police, he shall be placed under the charge of the special juvenile police unit or the designated police officer, who shall produce the juvenile before the board without any loss of time but within a period of twenty-four hours of his apprehension excluding the time necessary for the journey, from the place where the juvenile was apprehended."
The law prohibits the police from locking up a juvenile or lodging a child in jail. But on ground, the provisions of the Act are allegedly flouted with impunity.
As per a report titled "Terrorised: Impact of violence of children of J&K", published by the J&K coalition of civil society (JKCCS) on 16 September 2016, 16-year-old Rayees Ahmad Mir from Delina, Baramulla, was arrested by the police under charges of throwing stones at government forces. Two days later, he was booked under PSA.
"The PSA order stated that Rayees was 18-year-old, which was incorrect according to his school records. The order was challenged by Rayees' family in the high court, and the family produced documents proving he was 16 years old," the report said.
The high court on 7 October 2016 stated that Rayees be treated as a juvenile under Juvenile Justice Act, as prima-facie evidence suggested that he was a minor and he should be transferred to a juvenile observation home.
However, Rayees spent his entire detention period 360 kilometres away from his hometown in KotBhalwal jail in Jammu before he was released in January 2017.
Rayees was released three weeks after the high court quashed his PSA on 6 December 2016. Before being released, Rayees was taken to Joint Interrogation Centre Jammu where he was detained for some days before he was sent to Baramulla police station where he was kept for a few weeks more before being released, according to his family.
In one more case of juvenile detention, a 14-year-old Tariq Ahmad Tantray was arrested by the police from his home at Frisal in Kulgam district on 28th August, 2016. Tariq spent 20 days in alleged illegal detention at a police station in Bijbehara before he was booked under PSA, despite being a minor.
His age was allegedly wrongly written as 21 by district magistrate Anantnag. Tariq was taken to Kathua jail in Jammu, some 250 kilometres away from his home district of Kulgam, the report of the JKCCS stated.
In another case of detention, 17-year-old Zubair Ahmad Shah was arrested from his home at Kralgund, Handwara on 5 September 2016 and detained at police station Kralgund.
Zubair spent 14 days in alleged illegal custody before PSA charges were brought against him on 19 September 2016. In the PSA dossier prepared by police, Zubair's age was reportedly wrongly stated as 22.


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New York City-based International Flavors & Fragrances (NYSE:IFF) is closing a factory south of the Mason-Dixon.
On Friday, the $6.4 billion company announced that it will shutter its Fragrances Ingredients plant in Augusta, Ga. by July 2014, and consolidate production into other IFF factories.
IFF characterized the plan as "supporting the company's objective to ensure operations are cost-efficient and competitive." Nicolas Mirzayantz, IFF Fragrances Group President, explained that: "With a changing competitive environment, we have decided to streamline those parts of our business that support lower value-added, commodity-like ingredients and remain focused on those areas that are more value-enhancing."
Senior Vice President for Fragrance Ingredients Rob Edelman added that "we do not make decisions such as this lightly. We value our employees and will do everything possible to treat them with fairness and sensitivity."
IFF employs 54 people at the plant in Augusta, according to government figures. The company did not disclose what severance plans it has for these employees, nor say what financial effect it expects the move to have on this year's profits. IFF shares closed 1.5% higher in Friday trading, at $77.94.


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Where: Macquarie Centre (Herring Road and Waterloo Road, North Ryde)
Duration: 50 minutes
Themes: 3 themes
Cost: $100 (flat room rate Mon-Thurs and $150 Fri-Sun)
Overall Summary: Hugely disappointing with a rude gamemaster
I have made this blog to provide my opinion on various escape rooms that have opened up, predominantly in Sydney but also beyond. I have been to almost all escape room outfits in Sydney and a total of 128 different rooms so far in Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Cairns), as well as 14 in person in California and a bunch of virtual rooms worldwide (for a current total of 153). My aim is to help you to spend your hard-earned money on awesome rooms, not crappy ones...
Did an escape room with Strike @ King St Wharf, we asked the guy about the last puzzle, he also refused to answer...ReplyDelete
Did an escape room with Strike @ King St Wharf, we asked the guy about the last puzzle, he also refused to answer...ReplyDelete
Strike at KSW has also updated to be Exitus, and has now included the QR code system for clues.
Casino has now opened and I played it across the weekend and felt the same about how you felt about these room - would be interested to see your thoughts on this one!
In our opinion, the clues you get from the QR codes almost seemed necessary to the game, otherwise at some points you just had no direction at all, and even then the puzzles didn't seem that well thought out.
You receive a 5 minute penalty for the initial clue, and a 10 minute penalty to reveal the full answer - pretty hard to get out in time considering you pretty much NEED the clues to proceed in some cases.
Found this room harder than Forensic, for the fact it was too difficult to find out what to do with a puzzle, rather than the puzzles being too hard themselves - look forward to seeing what you think!
Hi puzzles
To be honest, I'm still annoyed too much with this place to consider going back in the near future to try the Casino room.
Never say never, but not likely to be any time soon.
My team (and I'm betting every team out there) loves to escape from a room. That being said, I am also very happy to be beaten by a well-designed room - there are few things better than being told the solution to a puzzle and kicking yourself because it was so clever.
But being beaten (or almost beaten) by a crappy room just isn't fun. When a room becomes so frustrating or tedious that you could gladly call it a day and head home, you know it is a shite room.
Moonshot certainly met this criteria.
Yikes!! I had low expectations for this place but this is a whole other level! It's hard to believe how terribly they operated considering this isn't their first outlet. For such a reputable business, this is just embarrassing. And I hope the management team reads this and review their customer service as well as product offering. It's like they are openly insulting their customer's intelligence by offering inferior product.
It's such a shame though because people who are new to escape rooms will try this, have a bad time and not want to try the really good places.
Thanks for taking one for the team Scott, now we won't have to bother trying this place (second shame because we live near by and was hoping it would be decent). Considering all the advertising they've put around our area, they should've put the money towards improving their escape room(s).
Hi K
Even setting to one side the part where we were spoken to like garbage, it was a completely flawed room.
We also tried out Injustice (one of their other rooms) and whilst it was significantly better than Moonshot, it was still the same level of "meh" puzzles and room design.
I just don't get how they can think that going with a completely automated system in any way addresses the consistent negative feedback Strike has had for the past 12 months regarding their poor customer service.
I'm now convinced that they exist only to make money and for that reason, I hope they don't survive in the market. As you said, it would be a true shame if someone tried their rooms, had an awful experience and then wrote off escape rooms for good.
Escapism at King St Wharf has also become EXITUS and they adopted the crap QR hint system before the name change.
When playing The Garden at EXITUS / Escapism at King St Wharf, we had the same issues of badly worded hints from the QR system. There was a walkie-talkie as a 'backup'. When we used this backup, the bar staff didn't know where in the room we were up to.
This whole Escapism to EXITUS thing is just a rebranding mechanism, probably to deal with the atrocious reviews for Escapism.
For $150, go watch Star Wars at IMAX instead.
Worse than mystery puzzle?
If you got time it would be great to see a update list of your rankings of the best to worse escape rooms in Sydney
Great! Looking forward to itReplyDelete
Hi Scott,
We (3 of us - my wife, 9 y o son and I) went to do Moonshot 2 weeks ago. I agree a 100% with your review (long wait, weird gamemaster, clunky puzzles that you cant solve without a clue, too few puzzles) but here was the highlight (or low light of our visit):
We were blindfolded and taken into a room - we take off our blindfolds, start solving and finish one puzzle when the GM comes in and says sorry, I left you in the last room. So Blindfolds on again and we were led to the first room! Ridiculous!
Hi Kanishka
Your story made me laugh. I have heard a lot of stories about poorly run escape rooms but placing you in the incorrect starting room has got to take the cake.
Strike Bowling are simply not an escape room outfit - they think they are, but they truly are not.
There are so many excellent true escape room outfits in Sydney that are much better and are worth your time and money. Shoot me an email (firstname.lastname@example.com) and let me know a little more about your group and experience level with escape rooms and I can suggest some more rooms for you to try. Definitely don't be put off by Strike's abysmal excuse for an escape room, Moonshot...
Sounds good. Will drop you a note. Thanks for the blog. It has been massively helpful thus far.Delete
Thanks Scott for this review. I know to avoid this one now.
I've been reading your blog and it has been helpful in finding what are some good rooms to do in Sydney. So far I've been doing the rooms you have been reccommending and I must say they have been fantastic! Keep on escaping! CHeers
Just to add to this. I did the Exitus Escape Room in Melbourne when it first opened and it was absolutely disappointing. I left a review on their tripadvisor and what did they do?
Management replied to that comment calling me a fraud who is trying to sabotage their business. It really got me seething. There are so many better escape rooms out there, Exitus is simply not one of them.
Hi Garfunky
Thanks for your comment. I have heard very bad things about Exitus (they apparently treated other escape room owners like garbage, they made allegations, etc).
Like me, I'm betting you also cannot understand why a company would want to buy out Exitus? Their rooms are truly forgettable and they appear to be very aggressive in their business approach. I suspect after another year or so they would have been out of business anyway...


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There are nine public and semi-public labyrinths in Kitsap County. Nine contemplative circular walking paths, all evolving from a labyrinth history that began in 5th century Egypt. I posted a blog about it last year and then revised it for use by West Sound Home and Garden's online magazine who published it here.
Tag: Port Orchard
Kitsap Sites On the National Register of Historic Places
I may not have mentioned this previously. I'm a freelance travel writer. I love the research that goes into an article. And I can ever so easily go down the internet rabbit hole which was exactly how I ended up on the National Register of Historic Places website.
It began with an article idea about architectural styles that I pitched to a regional magazine and they liked it. Then I began to research and found myself in the murky depths of online digital archives with links about strange architectural style names: Carpenter Gothic, Brutalism and Slick Skin anyone? Anyone?
However, in the pursuit of the history of one particular building, I found myself on the National Register of Historic Places and wondered how many sites in Kitsap County had been awarded that designation. Surprisingly it turns out there are 19 and they're as varied as the county itself. There were 20 but one of the sites, the Sidney Hotel in Port Orchard, built in 1891, burnt down in 1985. Apparently they take away your active designation when you cease to exist.
The National Register is maintained by the National Park Service. The list includes districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that have been identified and documented as being significant in American history, architecture, archaeology, engineering or culture. There's a fairly lengthy state and federal process involved in being named to the list so kudos to our 19 recipients. In alphabetical order, here are Kitsap County's sites deemed worthy of the title:
The Agate Pass Bridge in Suquamish
Bremerton Elks Temple Lodge (currently called the Catholic Services Max Hale Center)
Camp Major Hopkins on Bainbridge Island (currently called Camp Yeomalt)
Coder-Coleman House in Bremerton
Filipino-American Community Hall on Bainbridge Island
Fort Ward Historic District on Bainbridge Island
The Hospital Reservation District in Bremerton
Jackson Hall Memorial Community Hall in Silverdale (also known as Silverdale Scout Hall)
The Marine Reservation District in Bremerton
Masonic Hall in Port Orchard
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton
Charles F Nelson House in Olalla
Officers Row Historic District in Bremerton
Old Man House Site in Suquamish
Point No Point Lighthouse in Hansville
Port Gamble Historic District in Port Gamble
Puget Sound Radio Station District in Bremerton
Shelbanks in Bremerton (also known as Kean Cabin)
U.S. Post Office in Bremerton
You may be wondering why the three Reservation Districts in Bremerton are in bold? It's because I'm as intrigued as you are about their history and anticipate a future blog post about them. What exactly is a Radio Station District? Why is there a Hospital Reservation District? Will the internet rabbit hole reveal the answers?
98370 vs 98366 Factoids
I've lived in two zip codes in Kitsap County during my 36 year tenure here – Poulsbo's 98370 whose demographics I profiled in my previous blog post and 98366 in Port Orchard. How do the two waterfront communities compare? They look oddly similar when viewed from their respective city marinas with a dominating steeple in the background.
Using the same website that provides aggregate data from the 2010 Census, The United States Postal Service, FedEx, UPS, Google and Yahoo…….
PORT ORCHARD IS YOUNGER: Port Orchard's median age is 38 compared to Poulsbo's median age of 43.
PORT ORCHARD IS EQUALLY POPULATED BY MEN AND WOMEN. The genders are each 50% of the population while Poulsbo has a slightly higher ratio of women.
TWICE AS MANY PEOPLE WORK FROM HOME IN POULSBO: Poulsbo 7%, Port Orchard 3.8%
PORT ORCHARD SENDS MORE CHILDREN TO PUBLIC SCHOOL THAN POULSBO – 83% in Port Orchard vs 77% in Poulsbo.
POULSBO HAS A HIGHER MEDIAN INCOME: $71,410 in Poulsbo vs $56,549 in Port Orchard.
This website provides these additional 98366 facts:
- 98366 is located at the same latitude at Vienna, Austria
- 299 of you ride your bikes or walk to work regularly.
The Way It Was In Kitsap County Schools
Mrs. Nell Skinner taught one term at Mcdonald School. Then the school board told her they were against hiring married women so she was out of a job. She ran into the same opposition from the Illahee district but when she told them she had a sick husband and three children to support, they relented and hired her. To get to her job each day she would walk to Captain Anderson's place and was rowed across the bay to Fletcher Bay. Then she took the little steamer Chickaree from the Fletcher Bay dock to the Illahee dock. After landing at Illahee she walked up to her school and made a fire in the wood stove to heat up the room before her pupils arrived.
In 1902 after graduating from the eighth grade, Chloe Sutton took the State Teachers Examinations, passed and received a certificate to teach. Her first school was located between Brownsville and Keyport.
My second year of teaching at Kitsap Lake School I served the children a hot lunch. Hot cocoa was always served on Mondays and I cooked vegetable soup at my cabin. I bought the soup bone and meat at Silverdale on Saturdays and cooked the stock. Each child brought a potato and 15 cents each week for lunch supplies. Eliza Jane Hanberg
On May 14, 1931, the Bremerton School Board adopted the following resolution: That a married woman having private means of support, income producing property or other property capable of producing an income, or a husband who is physically able to support her, shall not be hired as a teacher by the district.
Excerpts from The Way It Was in Kitsap Schools, Kitsap County Retired Teachers
The local newspapers have been busy covering public education issues in the county over the past month. South Kitsap School District lost its bond election to build a new high school for the second time. The North Kitsap Superintendent is under fire for ignoring teacher and community input. Central Kitsap School District has a bus driver shortage. And I've been reading a fascinating book that appears to be the sole resource of collected historical information and archived memories on Kitsap County's public education history. What was it like back in the day?
Schools in the county were built before Washington achieved statehood and were mostly situated at population centers near lumber mills. Unlike today where the county is served by five school districts: South Kitsap, Bremerton, Central Kitsap, North Kitsap and Bainbridge Island, each early school in the county was a school district. By the time Washington was declared a state in 1889, there were already 615 students in the county and 24 schools located in 24 school districts. As the population grew and shifted, more schools were built. At its peak there were about 34 K-8 school districts in Kitsap County.
The first school was built in Port Gamble in the current North Kitsap School District, though the building that housed the school was used for "public worship, social enjoyment or fraternal communion and to educate the children." Given the multi-purpose use of the building, Bainbridge Island lays claim to the first building erected as a school which was built in 1860 at Port Madison on Bainbridge Island. The third school was built seven years later at Seabeck in what is now the Central Kitsap School District.
Those earliest schools only served younger students. It wasn't until 1902 that the first high school opened in Kitsap County. The school was located in an existing elementary building in Bremerton and in its first year there were four students who attended – three ninth graders and a tenth grader. By 1905, there were 61 students wanting to attend high school so Bremerton School District and adjacent Charleston School District voted to create a merged Union High School and agreed to open it in a Lutheran church in what is now downtown Bremerton. By 1908 the only high school in the county had it's own building and a student population of 106. Students in the rest of the county who wanted to go to high school either attended high school in Bremerton or in Seattle or Vashon and boarded with family or friends.
In 1920 six of the fourteen school districts in what is now the North Kitsap School District joined forces to build Union High School. Over the next ten years, the remaining eight districts joined them and by 1930 a bigger high school was built. Port Orchard built its first high school in 1921 after a similar history of its eighteen school districts voting for one consolidated high school. Silverdale's districts opened their first high school in 1925. Bainbridge's eleven school districts opened a high school in 1916.
The school buildings changed as the county populations shifted. Some of the first schools took place in local residents' homes such as the first Bethel School school in Port Orchard and the Bangor School near Silverdale. Others took place in a tent such as the Harley School on Bainbridge or a grocery store where the first Bremerton School operated. The earliest schools were small one room board and batten or log buildings constructed by volunteer labor on donated land with no insulation, no plumbing and a wood stove for heat. Water was usually carried in by the teacher or students from a neighbor's well and the lack of heat often meant that the school only operated during the warmer months. The 1891 Crosby School in what is now the Central Kitsap School could only afford to stay open three months a year. Blackboards, books and desks came from donations and the local community raising money at basket socials to buy equipment. When the school building became too small it was sometimes dismantled and the materials used in the building of a bigger school or abandoned only to be reincarnated as something else as my previous post on an early Keyport school illustrates or the land and building was returned to the resident who donated the property.
The earliest teachers were unmarried woman and men (who could be married); some who had only just graduated themselves from the 8th grade. They performed multiple duties beyond teaching; they were also the school janitors, cooks and according to the Rules and Regulations of the State Board of Education, air quality monitors: Every public school teacher shall give vigilant attention to the temperature and ventilation of the school room and see that the atmosphere of the room is changed frequently.
The county rule regarding the married status of female teachers didn't change until 1942 when a regulation was passed entitled War Emergency Teachers. Because male teachers were called to military service, the change allowed districts to hire married women during the duration of the Emergency. Despite what would now be an illegal hiring practice, women who taught managed to serve in school leadership capacities. Most famous among them is Elizabeth Ordway who taught at the first schools built in the county and then became the Superintendent of County Schools in the 1880s and Jane A. Ruley, the first African American teacher in Kitsap County hired by the Sheridan School District in Bremerton in 1887 to open its first school.
Unlike today when collective bargaining determines teacher salaries, the first Silverdale teachers recalled that their salaries were determined by having them bid for how much they wanted to get paid with the job usually going to the lowest bidder. The average monthly salary of the county's first teachers ranged between $30 and $40 per month and much of it was used to pay room and board to the families they lived with while teaching. In some of the first schools, such as the small 20 feet x 28 feet Seabeck School, an apartment for the teacher was part of the building and some students whose commute by boat or walking was too distant or dangerous boarded with the teacher when school was in session. (School transportation didn't involve bus driver shortages back in the day. There are plenty of anecdotal memories in the book about students swimming to shore from overturned boats and getting charged by bears while commuting to school and teachers sinking in quicksand while walking home.)
In researching this post I discovered a website with old class photos from Kitsap schools in the early to mid 1900's. Who do you know in these photos? What memories exist in your family records about early schools in the county?
Public Labyrinths of Kitsap County
Finding the Bainbridge Halls Hill Labyrinth and its Community Tibetan Prayer Wheel is not so easy if, like me, you don't know the island's backroads, but I've been there a few times now.
It's stunning in the summer when the Asian inspired landscaping fully complements the labyrinth and prayer wheel and it's stunning in the winter when rain highlights the varied colors in the four quadrants of the labyrinth. However, I never remember how to get there and so on my most recent foray I asked The Google for directions and he revealed four more Bainbridge labyrinths also on private land (all of them churches) but regularly open to the public and another one in a public park. How many public labyrinths are there in Kitsap County?
It turns out there are two more – one in Kingston and one in Silverdale, both of them on welcoming church property. And the south end of the county lends its own unique contributions to the county labyrinth culture. A Port Orchard couple who have a semi public labyrinth belong to a state network of labyrinth events and consult on building labyrinths. And a Bremerton based artist makes finger labyrinths.
I set out to walk them all and discovered each is unique. While most of the county labyrinths accessible to the public are on church property, labyrinths are not part of any specific religion. The earliest ones are from the Middle Ages and were intended to be used as both a meditative and spiritual practice.
The labyrinth at Grace Episcopal Church on East Day Road, Bainbridge is one of two walking meditative features. The architecturally stunning church is located down a long driveway and the labyrinth is on a small north rise above the parking lot. Made of gravel and lined with stones, this labyrinth was built in the Chartres pattern of two circuitous paths to the center. Beyond the labyrinth is a meditation trail that winds through the trees.
Bethany Lutheran Church on Finch Road, Bainbridge maintains a seven circuit stone and gravel medieval labyrinth on the southwest part of their property. Since the church also hosts a large park and ride parking lot, I wondered if the labyrinth also provided stress reduction for the island's significant Seattle bound daily commuter population.
The Eagle Harbor Congregational Church labyrinth in downtown Bainbridge was nearly indistinguishable from its surroundings when I visited. Covered with needles, the seven circuit brick lined labyrinth is on the south side of the church just off the parking lot.
Eagledale Park on Bainbridge has a large, well-signed hilltop labyrinth with a view of Mt. Rainier. The park was once part of a Cold War Nike missile complex which made me wonder how many of THOSE we have in Kitsap County – a future blog post.
In Kingston, the United Methodist Church on Shorty Campbell Road has a small three circuit labyrinth behind the church. While open to the public the church asks that it not be visited on Sunday mornings while services are in progress.
It was one of our recent cold, frosty days when I found the Silverdale labyrinth located at the Silverdale Lutheran Church on Ridgepoint Drive. I like that walking the pathway leads to a contemplative bench.
And for anyone not wanting to brave the elements of an outdoor labyrinth, Brian Watson, a Bremerton artist and woodworker makes beautiful finger labyrinths. The above photo is from his website.
ADDENDUM: Readers of this post informed me of two more labyrinths on Bainbridge Island; one at Sakai Intermediate School and another at Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church. Check out this link from the Smithsonian for more information about labyrinths.


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Guidelines and HOWTOs/AppStream
Quick guide on how to AppStream your app. For a more in-depth overview hop on over to Techbase.
Assuming your software is named "foo"...
- Make sure your desktop file is reverse-domain-notation i.e. org.kde.foo
- Your desktop file should be org.kde.foo.desktop. This is also your desktop-id, so whenever you may need that. It's basically your file name.
- If you have a D-Bus service ... make sure that your D-Bus service name matches this or change your desktop file to match the service address (whichever seems more appropriate)
- The name part 'foo' MUST be the name of your binary. If it should be different you need to either use KAboutData::setDesktopFileName() or, if not using KAboutData, QGuiApplication::setDesktopFileName() to set the desktop file name you are using for the app's runtime metadata
- Create a file org.kde.foo.appdata.xml in your source tree
- Paste the template you can find below (see section Template) into that file
- Make sure you replaced all place holders from the template
- Take some screenshots and put them in the git repo kde:websites/product-screenshots (note the README.md)
- Add the CDN links to your screenshots to the appdata.xml file.
- Install the file via CMake (KDE_INSTALL_METAINFODIR is defined by KDEInstallDirs from extra-cmake-modules)
1 install(FILES org.kde.foo.appdata.xml DESTINATION ${KDE_INSTALL_METAINFODIR})
- Validate your appdata using the appstreamcli helper
appstreamcli validate org.kde.foo.appdata.xml
- Validate your installed tree using the helper in your build directory
make make install DESTDIR=root appstreamcli validate-tree root rm -r root
- If all looks good commit and push
- If you have any questions submit a review and make sure to subscribe sitter and mak
Carefully review all fields and replace all $VARIABLES ($NAME with your application name as seen in the reverse domain notation). Where appropriate the fields have URLs of respective AppStream documentation to help you find out what to put there.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <component type="desktop-application"> <id>org.kde.$NAME</id> <metadata_license>FSFAP</metadata_license> <project_license> see https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-metadata_license </project_license> <name>$NAME</name>  see https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-summary  <description>
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 </description> <url type="homepage">https://www.kde.org</url> <url type="bugtracker">https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided&product=$YOURPRODUCTNAME</url> <url type="donation">https://www.kde.org/community/donations/?app=$YOURBINARYNAME</url> <launchable type="desktop-id">org.kde.$NAME.desktop recommended, see https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-launchable </launchable> <screenshots> <screenshot type="default"> <image> see https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-screenshots Central hosting for uploading at https://phabricator.kde.org/source/websites-product-screenshots/ Central URL to use here https://cdn.kde.org/screenshots/... </image> </screenshot> </screenshots> <provides> <binary>$YOURBINARYNAME</binary> </provides> <project_group>KDE</project_group> </component>
AppStream allow customs tags (see https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-custom).
Here is a temporary proposal (don't use it yet) for some custom tags that are then displayed in kde.org/applications.
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Labour Party leader Ed Miliband paid tribute to the work UCLH does for cancer patients during a visit to the Trust today (April 4).
Ed Miliband talks to UCLH radiographers
Mr Miliband spoke with staff and patients at the Trust's radiotherapy department during a tour led by Sir Robert Naylor, UCLH chief executive, Geoff Bellingan, medical director and Julia Solano, radiotherapy services manager.
As well as speaking with nurses and radiographers, he was told about the Trust's new cancer centre – the first of its kind in the UK – which will open next year and plans to build a proton beam therapy centre which could open in 2015 to improve treatment for children and teenagers.
He said: "I love UCLH. It has special meaning for me because it's where my children were born. It's fantastic seeing what is being delivered for cancer patients here with the most modern technology. It is incredibly exciting to hear about the new plans for proton beam therapy and specialist cancer centre. It's a great tribute to what UCLH is doing that it is cutting edge in so many different ways."
Julia Solano, spoke to Mr Milliband about 2011 being the Year of Radiotherapy. She said: "It is about trying to raise the profile of radiotherapy as a treatment regime for cancer. Radiotherapy is often thought of as being outmoded but what we deliver here is absolutely cutting edge and can get fantastic results."
UCLH's radiotherapy department is the largest in the North Central London and West Essex Cancer Commissioning Network. It is the largest paediatrc and young adult centre for radiotherapy in the UK. The department sees approximately 2,000 patients per year and all radical patients are treated within 31 days.
Sir Robert said "It was a pleasure to show Ed Miliband around the hospital. He obviously cares passionately about the NHS, as we all do. It's always nice to show off our great facilities, but even better to meet so many highly motivated professional staff proud to work here."
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The other day I was questioned, in a friendly way, about
why I wrote about many places in the Community Voices area but never much about
Chisholm Township where I live. So here is a short trip through the township.
Wikepedia states that Chisholm , according to the 2006
Census, has 1318 people up 7.2% from 2001, has 573 dwellings and an area of
205.26 square kilometres .
Chisholm is hugged by East Ferris on the north with Nipissing and Bonfield
Townships touching briefly on the north end. To the west is Powassan (formerly
South Himsworth) and to the east is Boulter Townhip. Ballantyne Township is
on the south end. Boulter and Ballantyne are unorganized townships. The
Algonquin Park boundary touches the eastern half of the Balantyne/Chisholm
boundary. Chisholm like many other townships is named after a former MPP-Kenneth
Chisholm (1829-1909).
There is no longer a central gathering place with a store,
post office, church etc. as was the case in the past. People head for Powassan
or Astorville or on to North Bay for for their needs Many work outside of the
There are still many regular farms and hobby farms but many
homes just enjoy their acreage with gardens and trees. Recreational vehicles
abound. Many of the homes and many summer cottagers are located on Wasi Lake in
the north end of the township.
The south end of the township has the Almaguin Highlands with high rolling hills
and minimal population. I live on a hill on lot 6 concession 3 on Bear Mountain
Road which puts me about 3 kilometres from Algonquin Park which provides for
some interesting over flow animal life of all sorts. My property and a
neighbour's are the farthest south in the Township. There is a summer road to
Powassan but I usually take the 20 km. long way to town. I bought 86 acres of
recreational property on Concession 2 in 1972 and built a log cottage with two
of my sons. When I retired in 1989 I bought 46 acres on Concession 3 on a
maintained road (Bear Mountain). The property was originally the Bear Mountain
Canoe Company which produced and continues to produce (in Peterborough)
beautiful canoes. My daughter and her husband and two children moved on from a
second house on the property after my daughter and her husband graduated from
NipissinU and my wife and I are very content with lots of peace and quiet and
lots of good neighbours and many local festivities.
The Township website (www.chisholm.ca ) profiles some of the "Things To Do" in Chisholm –
all terrain vehicles, summer beach program, camp grounds and cottages, Clear
Springs Golf Course, tennis courts, equestrian facilities etc.. Chisholm is a
partner in the excellent Library in Powassan and some northern residents pay a
small fee to join the East Ferris Library in Astorville where there is a post
office nearby.
The Chisholm Council is a hardworking and progressive group under Mayor Barb
Groves, and Councillors Heather Ward, Cec Reid, Doug Penny and Steve Boyle. The
office staff under Clerk Treasurer Linda Ringler and Deputy Lorena Thompson and
the receptionist/ secretary Alice lauzon provide excellent service as does the
Public Works Department under Murray Rose.
A current Council crisis with Barb Groves resigning as of
December 31 for health reasons and Doug Penny moving to another community is
being dealt with. Leo Jobin, a former Councillor has come back to fill out the
last year of the 4 year term in one of the positions. Heather Ward is on sick
leave as well and will be back in the new year.
Chisholm has an excellent 5 year plan and has done well on
acquiring Federal and Provincial funding for road and bridge projects. Chisholm
is on the Wasi River Watershed which requires over 20 bridges on our roads On
October 23 MP Anthony Rota and MPP Monique Smith and others cut the ribbon on
two great improvements in Chisholm. River Road has been widened and paved which
helps the locals but also those heading to the golf course from out of the
Township. The bridge and several miles of road has been improved on Memorial
Park Drive and with the million dollar rebuild on Alderdale road last year and
the new paving to Powassan it is a pleasure to travel in Chisholm now.
About 10 years ago some of the dying farms and others
facing retirement caught the eye of Amish people looking to establish a new
community Since then some 20 families have arrived and have changed the
community in a very positive way. New businesses, homes, a school and many farm
improvements have activated the community . I hope to do a profile of the
Chisholm Amish here soon.A photo of them haying was on the cover of Community
Voices earlier this month.
The past 10 days have been exciting as the feature film
Oliver Sherman has been shot in Chisholm primarily on the Tran farm on Pioneer
Road. Dozens of cars, trucks, vans, tents, lights etc created a whole new
community while the actors did their thing. Can't wait to see the film about
two veterans who get together after many years and spin out their lives.
I will update the Council membership and other Chisholm
information in the near future. As a follow up on my column on heritage
restoration I will give a report on the log house I built 37 years ago which has
been completely refurbished this summer. It's too late for the fall colours but
don't hesitate to make a trip to Chisholm some time soon and see some fine
country living.
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Day 70! Can we celebrate not just how far we've come, but that we have a month left!
Much like the painting challenge, I've learned a lot in this process. There has been growth and active awareness about how I'm treating and caring for myself on a daily basis… which is pretty much exactly what we're told *not* to do.
To some, self care is selfish. That is SO not the case.
Today's Self Care Stats:
- Protein shake
- Small walk in the cold
- Body-weight exercises
- Knee exercises/stretches (these have actually morphed a little because I can handle more now, yay!)
- Savored a hot shower
- Drank water
- Awesome salad for lunch
- Gratitude awareness
- Mini watercolor study session
- Financial podcast (I love this stuff)
- Went over my goals; 10yr, 5yr, 1yr, monthly and what I'm focusing on this week (FYI: I do a check in with my monthly/weekly goals every week and my 10y/5y/1y goals every month.)
- Read for business and pleasure (still no novels though)
- Normal bedtime
How I felt
Happy to get a bulk of my near-daily self care routine done before 8AM. Seriously. This stuff doesn't take a long time. As easy as it is to DO it. I just as easy to NOT do it. Think about that.
Take away point
I repeat: As easy as it is to DO it. I just as easy to NOT do it.
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A left-handed traditional teapot from Tokoname region in Japan. Tokoname-ware is famous for its natural reddish appearance, which comes from the fine-grained clay containing a high percentage of iron. Some bitterness / astringency from tannin in tea becomes milder with the iron in this teapot. Ashes of different kinds of wood are used to create variations in color such as the unique yellow of this teapot. Teacup Tokoname Koshi (Yellow - 60 mL) can be matched with this teapot as a set.
- Capacity: 260 mL
- Tokoname-ware, Aichi Prefecture
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It was a strong July for IATA member airlines.
Total revenue passenger kilometers (RPKs) rose 8.2%, an improvement on the June year-over-year increase of 5.5%.
July capacity (available seat kilometers or ASKs) increased by 6.5%, and load factor rose 1.4 percentage points to 83.6%.
Despite the strong results, jittery stock markets are causing concern. "July results were strongly positive but slowing global trade and the wild gyrations of stock exchanges around the globe suggest that we may be in for some turbulence in coming months," said Tony Tyler, IATA's Director General & CEO.
July international passenger demand rose 8.6% compared to the same month in 2014, with airlines in all regions recording growth, including Africa for the 1st time this year. Total capacity climbed 6.5%, pushing load factor up 1.6 percentage points to 83.5%.
Here in North America, traffic rose 5.3% compared to July a year ago, more than double the 2.6% rise achieved in June year over year. Capacity climbed 3.5% and load factor rose 1.4 percentage points to 86.5%. IATA believes expectations for better economic performance are supporting travel demand.
All markets showed growth with the strongest increases occurring in India and China. Domestic capacity climbed 6.5%, and load factor improved 0.8 percentage points to 83.6%.
Tyler summed up the forecast going forward: "Following a strong summer the outlook heading into autumn is unsettled to say the least. The downward movement in stock markets around the globe reflects investors' growing concerns about slowing trade and economic growth in emerging economies, as well as China's continued shift towards domestic markets," said Tyler.


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At their Nintendo Direct presentation today, Nintendo showed off a new trailer for Level 5's Youkai Watch RPG for the Nintendo 3DS. You can watch the trailer below:
Like Inazuma Eleven and The Little Battlers, Level 5 have plans for Youkai Watch beyond just videogames. You can learn more about the game by using its tag.


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HP to Buy Fortify
Palo Alto, CA-based Hewlett-Packard announced yesterday that it has agreed to acquire Fortify Software, a San Mateo, CA, maker of automated systems to find and fix security vulnerabilities in enterprise software. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Fortify's venture backers, who last provided a $10 million Series D financing round in 2005, include DAG Ventures, Sigma Partners, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.


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Buju Banton to say a lot at Long Walk To Freedom show - publicist
Buju Banton publicist Ronnie Tomlinson addresses audience members at the launch of the artiste's Long Walk to Freedom tour on Wednesday in Jamaica. (PHOTOS: Marlon Reid)
Buju Banton has so much things to say. And he plans on doing just that during the first stop of his Long Walk To Freedom Tour on March 16 inside the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica.
Speaking at the media launch at Spanish Court Hotel in St Andrew on Wednesday evening, Ronnie Tomlinson, Public Relations Officer of Buju Banton and Gargamel Music, said the entertainer will use the opportunity speak his mind in his first performance since being released from prison after spending nine years behind bars in the US for conspiracy to traffic cocaine.
Tomlinson said, "everybody who knows Buju Banton, knows the type of energy that he brings to the stage. He will not only bring that energy but he has a lot to say, a lot to share, a lot to tell you and a lot to leave on that stage.
(From left) Reggae artiste Capleton with the iconic Marcia Griffiths and Stone Love Movements founder Winston 'Wee Pow' Powell.
"You can all come and expect something very special," Tomlinson said at the jam-packed launch event which, in addition to local and international journalists, attracted many fans of the entertainer including notable music industry insiders and corporate executives.
According to Tomlinson, since returning to Jamaica five weeks ago, Buju has been doing a lot of work, especially with his recently-launched Buju Banton Foundation.
She said that the foundation is something that Buju Banton has always wanted to do and is proud that it is has come to fruition.
The launch event was filled to capacity with fans of the entertainer.
According to Tomlinson, the Buju Banton Foundation will benefit from the Long Walk To Freedom Concert, with each stop the event makes in the Caribbean also benefiting through different charities.
Meanwhile, Buju, in a video presentation, said that the concert will give him a chance to "reconnect and pick up where we left off". He expressed delight at the support that the event has been receiving.
The Long Walk To Freedom show at the National Stadium will be the first concert in a regional tour that will see 'The Gargamel' also make stops in Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados and St Kitts.
At the launch event, organisers remained mum about the lineup for the show as well as prices for tickets, which go on sale on Thursday.
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City Press Release
The City of Colorado Springs announced last week Terracare Associates has been awarded a contract to perform snow removal in the northwest portion of Colorado Springs. The area is Grid 1 in the City Streets Division's 16-grid route plan, which is north and west of Garden of the Gods and I-25 to the city limits.
Terracare Associates will follow the City's Snow and Ice Removal Priority Plan in this grid. The Priority Plan calls for primary routes (arterials) to be cleared first, followed by secondary routes (collector streets) once the primary routes are passable. Residential streets will only be treated if there is at least six inches of accumulation and only after primary and secondary routes are passable.
Citizens living in this area should contact Terracare Associates directly regarding any snow plowing concerns. They have set up a website at www.SpringsIssues.com/portal to accept snow/ice removal work orders.


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Real name Paul Rose, Scuba is continually in flux.
2012's 'Personality' has been followed by a string of one off releases, as the producer continually tinkers with his live show.
Dropping past London at the weekend for a ferocious show, Scuba has now unveiled plans for his next EP.
The four track 'Phenix 1' EP is forthcoming, while Rose himself popped into Annie Mac's Radio 1 show recently to unveil new cut 'Curious Paradox'.
A tech-heavy house monster, the whole thing is filtered through Scuba's heritage in bass weight.
There's an intense, industrial weight to proceedings - tune in below.
Speaking about the EP, Scuba said: "After 'Triangulation' I made a conscious effort to do the opposite thing that people expected of me... which is obvious in the contrast between that album and the 'Adrenalin' EP, the 'Personality' album and then the 'Talk Torque' and 'Hardbody' singles - those two tracks especially were the furthest I could push that approach. I feel like it's time to move on now and the Phenix series is quite a large step away from that sound and that approach to things."
'Phenix 1' EP is forthcoming. Tracklisting:
A1 - Throb
A2 - Cyanide
B1 - Time Relentless Time
B2 - Curious Paradox
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Animal cruelty: Rhino horn poaching in Africa
The Rhinocerous is one of the most powerful and prestigious creatures on land. They have two distinctive horns on their forheads that are used in wild battles.
But it is these horns that are so valuable that have made rhinos the target for groups of poachers in Africa who then sell the horns to the Far East for vast prices.
Gunmen shoot darts filled with powerful sleeping drugs at the rhinos which immobilises them. They have even been known to use helicopters to track the beasts. One the rhino has been shot, the poachers use saws or in some cases, machettes, to hack off the rhino's two horns.
For the rhinos being subjected to this kind of attack has devastating consequences. When the animal comes round from its drug-induced sleep it is often disorientated. There is often a gaping wound pouring with blood from where the horn has been butchered.
This leads to breathing problems and many of the rhinos will eventually die from their wounds. Female rhinos that are pregnant often lose their children.
There has been a large increase in these kind of attacks over the last couple of years. In 2010, there were 443 rhinos killed or seriously wounded by theifs who hacked off the creatures' horns. This compared with 17 incidents in 2007, according to the World Wildlife Fund
Almost all of this cruelty is taking place in South Africa, which was once known as the last sncturay for the rhino.
There are currently just 1,916 black rhino and 18,780 white rhino in South Africa. At the rate at which the animals are being targeted, there may not be many years left before they are extinct alltogether.
So why has there been such an increase in rhino horn poaching? Well, most of the demand is coming from Asia, where the value of rhino horn is now higher than gold.
The horn is crushed and ground into a fine powder. It is then used as a medicinal treatment that people believe can alleviate fevers and pain. In Vietnam, people believe that rhino horn can cure cancer. In Hong Kong in Japan, rhino horn sells on the black market for £1,190 an ounce.
Despite this massive demand from the far east there is absolutely no medical proof that rhino horn can cure ailments. No doctor would ever suggest such a treatment and it is entirely unethical, cruel and misguided to add to the demand for rhino horn by purchasing it.
The individual pain that the rhinos suffer and the damage to the overall population has not deterred the poachers. They can make hundreds of thousands of pounds with a few horns.
These criminal gangs often hire helicopters and use high-tech equipment such as night-vision goggles and powerful drugs used by vets.
There have even been some vets from Nylstroom, South Africa, who have been arrested for allegedly supplying poachers with tranquilizers. This included Douw Grobler, the former head of game capturing at Kruger Park.This all points to determined criminal gangs behind the rhino horn poaching.
Most of the poaching takes place at Kruger Park, which does excellent conservation work including helping the 'crodiles that turned to rubber' after a bout of pansteatitis. The poachers often then flee over the border to Mozambique.
However, Kruger Park's anti-poaching boss Ken Maggs said there had been some violent gun battles with poachers. That these criminals are willing to risk their own lives highlights just how sought-after rhino horn is.
Maggs says that although they aim to arrest people and not to shoot to kill, when the poachers open fire, the game keepers have to fire back.
The game keepers at the park have now made attempts to prevent poachers from finding the rhinos. Information that used to be put on boards around the park directing tourists to the location of rhinos has now been removed. The authorities believe that poachers were using these sign posts in their hunt for the creatures.
Another game reserve that has experience poaching of rhino horn is Fairy Glen in Worcester, Western Cape. Staff there describe this as a 'kahki-colloared' crime carried committed by specialists.
The game reserve's owner Pieter de Jager said the rhinos are often dying once they have been targeted. He said they can barely breathe through their nasal cavities. The rhino is left in pain and in need to urgent treatment.
What can be done?
Thankfully there are people across the world who are working on behalf of rhinos and their welfare. There are also a number of ways that you can pledge support for these majestic creatures.
- Contact the team at Kruger Park in South Africa to show your support for them and the rhinos that they are protecting. Email them here.
- Contact the embassies for Vietnam, Hong Kong and China urging them to crack down on the illegal trade of rhino horn. The Vietnam embassy in the U.S. is here
- Visit the Kruger Park on a safari or donate to the World Wildlife Fund, both of which work to support animals around the world
- Pray for the rhinos and the gamekeepers and conservationists who are working to protect the creatures
Read more animal cruelty hubs
- Animal cruelty: Horse fighting in China
China and Asia as a whole have terrible record on animal rights. Many places still fight horses illegally, resulting in death and injury.
- The pansteatitis pollution that turned Nile crocodiles to rubber
Crocodiles at Kruger Park in South Africa were hit with the disease in May 2008. They were being killed off. An investigation revealed that this is likely to have been caused by a new damn being built further upstream.
- Animal cruelty: High diving mules forced to dive into pool of water
WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: Terrified mules are forced to dive from a high platform into a small pool of water below while crowds cheer and a whip is cracked below them during the 'stunt' at Pipe Creek ranch in San Antonio, Texas.
- Animal abuse and cruelty at Smithfield Horse Market in Dublin
Many of the horses and ponies at the popular market in Dublin, Ireland are treated badly by the traders and teenagers that attend the fair. Horses rearing, bucking and being kicked and whipped are common scenes.
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I am Nisha from Nepal.
First of all, I really wish to thank you for doing such an amazing job-speaking up for the voiceless.
The other reason why I am writing to you is because I am making a small video on animals to create awareness among the people of my country. The condition of animals in my country is appalling especially the stray dogs. People do not care and those who care are very rare and if any they cannot do anything because of the lack of good organizations, awareness and funds to support animals. There are over 20,000 stray dogs just in the capital city. I have no idea how many are there in other parts of the country. Most of the people here consider dogs and pets are a source of entertainment and when they fail to do so, they abuse them physically and mentally. I have witnessed many of such heart-wrenching acts but I cannot do anything against them because there are no laws on animal abuse or anything of that sort. And the condition of stray animals is even more heart breaking. Almost every single dog lives in a pitiful state, suffering from starvation, disease, maltreatment and skin disorders. Some dogs carry rabies. Throughout Nepal, 16,000 people get dog bites and over 200 people die of rabies every year. Hundreds are killed every month by vehicles. Talking about a recent issue, we are having a SAARC meeting in Nepal and the stray dogs are relocated. I wonder how thousands of dogs are going to survive in the same place. Some organizations raised voice against it, but in vain. That is the condition here. I cannot do much from my side and the least I can do is make people realize that animals are living beings too and they can feel the pain too which I believe many people do not take into consideration. For that purpose, I am making a small video and I found a picture on your website which would fit perfectly to my video. I would really appreciate if I could use that picture on my video. I would be posting the video on social networking sites as well. So, would it be okay for me to use pictures from your website?
The link for the pictures is:
I would really appreciate your help.
Thank you
Kindest regards,
Nisha Pandey
That is so sad
Thank you for spreading the word about this and the other animal cruelty issues I have seen on your site. I always have mixed feeling about clicking the "like" button on stories like these. I don't like the subject. I wish it didn't exist, but it does so people must know. I will click like, tweet, put a link on my site etc. Keep up the good work. ~ Karen ~ http://www.doublekkenterprises.com
that's so sad
oh my gosh!!! i saw the pictures and my jaw just fell... i was like how could someone do this to an innocent animal?? i don't get it. it sickens me and it breaks my heart. coming from an alltime animal lover. thank you for writing this and showing us this tragady
Hi Rick,
A friend originally from South Africa shared a video on Facebook today. I was not aware of this issue until seeing the video. I'll post the link that he posted-- and a couple of other video links that I found on youtube today.
Here was the first video that he posted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkoPQwYL9ys
This film shows a Rhino who's horn was hacked off while it was still alive. The wildlife management tried to save its life, but the wounds were too deep. He had to be put down. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvtbwJ0_5NE&fea...
Here's another video that shows the abandoned baby rhinos still beside their dead Mom/Dad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULi0sVxGHWY&fea...
China's attitude on animal cruelty has always sickened me. But, I can't say the US is any better in many aspects.
Here we have baby seal poachers in the north, chicken and dog fighting all over the rest of the US, and horse slaughter factories, who have a legal right to put horses in a pen that aren't "fit" for slaughtering and allow them to starve to death.
We have puppy mills all over the place too.
You would think these practices would be something much easier to get rid of, but when the fight is against people with dark hearts and no compassion, it makes it very difficult. And, as long as there is a way to make money from any of them, people keep on doing it.
Oh my goodness Rick,
This is awful! I have to admit, I absolutely hated reading it. It broke my heart. But, I'm so glad you wrote it.
Hope you don't mind if I share it.
I have no liking at all for poachers. The cruelty that can find a place to thrive in peoples' hearts astounds me.
Thanks for addressing this hot topic. Sadly the animal poaching and illegal trafficking of wildlife continues. Last year ended being the worst year since 1989 supposedly.