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I remember as powerful a play as a lily-white newly teenaged man/child could comprehend…I vaguely remember being one of very few white people in the audience…and I remember the black woman sitting next to me, tears streaming down her face one moment, her self-affirmative, "Mmm hmm! That's right!" proclamations the next; her juxtaposition of pride, fear, love and anger, joy and sadness, all accumulated…I was a minority – encompassed within a coterie of sisterhood who lived and breathed the fire and air that was on display on that stage…and I never felt more at ease with my homosexuality up to that point in my life. The ladies who surrounded me were being guided through their own explorations, and though I couldn't decipher the emotional catharsis and confusion at the time, naturally, the consanguinity was both tangible and intangible.
I saw FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF when I was 14 years old. There are so many shades of grey detailing that time frame of my life – like scattered fragments that can never make a whole. I can't remember if I was solo, or if this was a school trip, or a date with my older "friend" (I was 14, involved, so to speak, with a 23-year-old from the neighborhood – a man who, of course, recoiled in the dank caverns of cowardice and later married)…or if I wandered into the Booth Theater one afternoon while sojourning the streets of a insalubrious, Mayor Abe Beame-era Times Square (never had I imagined that I would find my way back to the Booth Theater throughout the years as a spectator to many Broadway performances, from 1984s SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE to NEXT TO NORMAL only a few months ago…)
The plot synopsis in Wikipedia:
Structurally, For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems, collectively called a "choreopoem." It is performed by a cast of seven women characters, each of whom is known only by a color: "Lady in Yellow," "Lady in Purple," etc. The poems deal with love, abandonment, rape, and abortion, embodied by each woman's story, i.e. Lady in Blue's visceral account of a woman who chooses to have an abortion, and Lady in Red's tale of domestic violence. The end of the play brings together all of the women for "a laying on of hands," in which Shange evokes the power of womanhood as the Lady in Red begins the mantra "I found God in myself/and I loved her/I loved her fiercely."
I wouldn't have been able to oblige such intricate details so locked within/lost forever from my psyche three decades later…
So, out of historical curiosity, I do want to see the adaptation and probably will (and not because inside every gay man is a black woman trying to break free. Although…). But…
What irks and worries me beyond admittedly logical cognition about the film, retitled FOR COLORED GIRLS, is that it's directed by Tyler Perry – a man responsible for more cinematic bile than any man has a right to without being brought to justice. And the film stars Janet Jackson, who unintentionably has given more risible performances that any woman has a right to without being brought to (poetic) justice.
Prejudging is never something I'm apt to do – but I've suffered through far too many Perry debacles to automatically assume anything positive. Yet, in this particular situation, perhaps I should give him the benefit of the doubt. As a young, gay black man raised within an abusive household, Perry must have felt a kinship to this play that far too many young black men (and women) should ever have had to – he's told the stories of his tormented and abused childhood at the hands of too many elders, especially his father. His affinity for these characters must be innately palpable. He's far too young to have seen the original Broadway production, but as a prolific playwright, he's sure the have read the text and been moved by it.
So, despite those aforementioned caveats and with that modicum of hope, at lleast the rest of the cast boasts some of the finest actresses working today. Phylicia Rashad, so magnificent in her Tony Award-winning roll a few seasons back for A RAISIN IN THE SUN, is the one I'm really looking forward to seeing. But with Whoopi Goldberg, Loretta Devine, Kimberly Elise, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington in the cast it's sure to be packed with some powerful performances.
The film was originally scheduled to debut in January 2011, but bumped up to November in hopes for Academy Award consideration.
Viewing the trailer brings back nothing familiar as far as plot points are concerned, and I notice that Perry subjected the storyline to a modernized setting. And, while it's hard to say, "OSCAR-CALIBRE!!" from a trailer, I see nothing that displays any award-worthy potential:
What a refreshing change if this time my assumptions were unwarranted about "A Film Directed By Tyler Perry."


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|Boat 1 with 6 pound boat gun. Strictly gunfire support material
|A look further astern. That's a Lewis and Clark figure on the stern. Makes a good squad leader.
|A nice shot down the stem of the boat.
|A shot at boat two with the three swivels
|I chose to make the swivel guns of iron rather than brass. Thought that might be more the norm on the frontier.
|A quick comparison shot of the two boats.

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When I was recovering from Influenza last weekend, I had zilch appetite. I was actually getting better last Saturday but after tucking into some rich, heaty and oily Italian food at a Lego launch where bloggers were invited, I got home feeling a hundred times worse. I felt like the cactus in my throat had grown a million times thornier after the event. I felt really sick. I did not feel like talking that evening coz I yakked a lot at the event and I partially lost my voice after the event.
After downing many packets of Izumio and popping over 6 Super Lutein on Saturday, I felt much better on Sunday. The headache, eye ball ache and body ache were gone. But I still did not feel like eating anything. I still did not feel like myself yet. And the sweltering El Nino heat made things worse.
I only felt like eating cold semi-sold food. So I kept whacking my favorite skinny sugar-free yoghurt and Haagen Dazs ice-cream!
Drama Queen made some toasties with Food For Friends cheddar cheese and avocado and I had half a slice.
Lunch was at our favorite friendly neighborhood restaurant. I told the lady boss what I wanted and she whipped up my favorite fish slice vermicelli with spinach with reduced salt and oil. That bowl of noodles was such a comfort!
After lunch, the foodie hubs dragged us to LDG Cafe. While he enjoyed his cuppa latte, we enjoyed some desserts -- Creme Brulee...
and some French chocolate dessert.
After clocking in 9 hours of sleep per night for 5 nights straight, I am finally myself again. Sleep is one of the most important ingredients for our body to recover, without which, it will take a long time to heal. Of course, you need good nutrition and a good supplement for your body to function optimally. I am glad that I have my Izumio and Super Lutein to give me the peace of mind in good and bad times :)


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Thursday 31 October 2013
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Appropriately falling on Halloween, we'll be talking about the difficulties and pitfalls of maintaining an art practice, the trials and tribulations that come with developing your work, and alongside discussing and evaluating the main three threats; time, space and money, this evening will be an opportunity to discuss and hopefully remedy some problems artists might be having. A ghoulish antidote to the threats to art practices! Threat themed refreshments will be provided.


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For 16 years, Santa Claus has traded in his sleigh for a more cushy ride in northern Saskatchewan.
Christmas came early for the communities of Fond Du Lac, Black Lake, Stony Rapids, and Wolleston Lake on Friday. Youth from the four communities eagerly waited for their chance to get a photo with St. Nick and tell him their wish lists.
It's part of an annual initiative by Transwest, as a way to pay back the northern communities they serve.
"The kids just enjoy Santa," said Steven Thatcher, principal of Father Porte Memorial Dene School in Black Lake. "It's good, it's really appreciated, it's nice."
Thatcher said events like Santa coming to town really bring the community together.
"It's like 'Oh, Santa's coming,' so boom, all the parents brought their little kids up," Thatcher said. "It's an event too, hey, I mean it's Santa Claus, what the heck."
Children under the age of 10 were given a wide variety of gifts from Santa.
Fresh mandarin oranges and candy canes were given to staff and students from the four communities.
The man bringing all the joy to the children is Travis Waldner.
He never planned on being Santa; it's something he said just kind of happened. His father's workplace needed someone to fill the role, and Waldner stepped up. 12 years later, and he says he loves the seasonal role.
"The more I got into it, the funner it became every time I did it," Lardner said. "It never gets old, I never get tired of it. I could do this all day, all week, all year."
Waldner called the role a remarkable experience.
"It truly embodies Christmas, to me." Waldner said. "The feel, the magic of the whole Christmas experience."
This was his first time travelling to the northern regions of the province as Santa Claus. He said without his seasonal job, he wouldn't have the opportunity to get up to north Saskatchewan.
"It's a very seasonal duty I take very serious," Waldner said. "I give every child or person who wants to listen to Santa, who wants to come sit on Santa's lap or stand next to him and get a picture, I give them the full experience."
Waldner said he hopes to return next year with Transwest. Regardless, he won't stop being Santa.
"I don't ever see me ever quitting doing this."


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First week sale projections are in for both Earl Sweatshirt and ASAP Ferg's new albums.
This week was another big week in the album release department. With Earl Sweatshirt and ASAP Ferg both releasing their anticipated albums, we now have first week sale projections for their projects.
According to HDD, Earl's new Doris album is expected to move 55-60k copies in its first week, which should land him the #4 spot on the Billboard charts this week. Where as, A$AP Ferg's new album, Trap Lord, is expected to move about 30-35k copies, which will land him the #5 spot on Billboard right behind Earl. We'll keep you posted come next week when the official numbers come tallying in.
What album are you going to cop?
[Update: Final First Week Sales]
Well the final numbers are in and they were pretty close to the projections. According to HDD, Earl Sweatshirt's Doris album moved 48,552 units, landing him the #5 spot on the charts. Where as ASAP Ferg's Trap Lord album moved only 31,830 units which landed him the #8 spot.
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A collection of recent work from this venerable publication includes a dozen short stories that range as widely in style as they do in quality.
The term "unprofessionals" aims to distinguish the writers here from those who "write long and network hard" in search of commercial success, Paris Review editor Stein says in his introduction. That's somewhat disingenuous: the author bios note 16 published or imminent novels, a senior editor at the New York Review of Books, and the New Yorker's poetry editor. Never mind. Along with 5 essays and 14 poems, the fiction here represents what Stein calls "the intensity and perfection found only in small things." "Intensity" certainly applies to some. Ottessa Moshfegh writes of a man's weekend flight from his pregnant wife to an unplanned tryst with his brother's lover. Angela Flournoy seems to capture a lifetime in a few hours of a gambling addict's life as it moves from eviction to the roulette wins and then broke again. An S&M session between two men gets out of hand in Garth Greenwell's painfully clinical prose. Atticus Lish carries the torch for Raymond Carver in his laconic tale of a blue-collar worker in and out of prison. Several pieces have the callow ring of MFA exercises. "Perfection" came to mind only with Zadie Smith's angry, tense, hilarious story of a black transvestite shopping for a corset in prose that manages to suggest both Lou Reed and Flannery O'Connor. Special mention goes to John Jeremiah Sullivan's evocative essay on the time he spent with 92-year-old Southern literary critic Andrew Lytle, an atmospheric portrait that some of these unprofessional fiction writers would do well to study.
The collection may give a sense of contemporary U.S. writing, but the marked unevenness is surprising given the magazine's illustrious history.


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The 21-gene Recurrence Score (RS) assay significantly influenced clinicians' decisions to recommend breast cancer patients for adjuvant chemotherapy, analysis of a population-based dataset showed.
Used to predict disease recurrence and benefit of chemotherapy in estrogen receptor-positive, lymph node-negative early-stage breast cancer (EBC), the assay had the strongest association with recommendation for chemotherapy, with an adjusted odds ratio (aOR) of 83 for high assay scores and 12 for intermediate scores, both relative to low scores.
Test use was significantly associated with younger age, white race, academic centers, private insurance, and pT2/pN0(i+) grade 2 to 3 disease, Peter Kabos, MD, of the University of Denver, Aurora, CO, and colleagues reported online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
"Our study revealed that the RS assay is an important predictor of the use of adjuvant chemotherapy in EBC, [and] affected clinicians' decisions regarding recommending adjuvant chemotherapy more than other variables studied," the study authors wrote. "Furthermore, significant differences exist in the use of the test and receipt of chemotherapy on the basis of race, insurance status, and type of facility."
The study, which looked at patients with EBC diagnosed from 2004 to 2012 who were included in the National Cancer Data Base, showed that the RS assay was ordered for 54.0% of 143,032 patients.
But the analysis found that testing guidelines weren't applied equally to different racial groups. In particular, it showed that black patients (aOR 1.31; 95% CI 1.20-1.43) and those treated in community facilities (aOR 1.49; 95% CI 1.35-1.63) were more likely to be tested outside the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines, the analysis demonstrated. In addition, younger black patients (aOR 1.33; 95% CI 1.16-1.54) were more likely to receive chemotherapy despite low assay scores.
This study highlights the differences in implementation of ASCO guidelines for biomarkers across different practices in the U.S., Mateusz Opyrchal, MD, PhD, at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, University of New York at Buffalo, said in an interview. Opyrchal was not affiliated with the study.
"Overall, it did show that use [of the 21-gene RS] did guide use of chemotherapy especially in elderly women," Opyrchal said.
The study also highlighted "an ongoing trend across many studies that African American women are less likely to be treated according to published guidelines," he told MedPage Today.
Black patients (aOR 1.51; 95% CI 1.31-1.69) and those with high tumor grade (aOR 30.76; 95% CI 26.48-35.73) also had significantly higher assay scores, a finding that could reflect use patterns or less favorable tumor biology for estrogen receptor-positive disease, said Kabos and colleagues.
"The differences among races in receiving chemotherapy were significant for low test scores and younger age, and they disappeared with older age and higher test scores, indicating that the former group receives chemotherapy despite their low scores on the RS assay," the investigators suggested.
They noted that in their earlier study looking at racial differences in testing, scores, treatment and outcome, results showed that minority patients were significantly less likely to be tested despite meeting the criteria. The 2012 study also indicated that black women were significantly more likely to be tested outside the recommended guidelines.
Prognostic for Progression, Survival
A second study in women with late-stage breast cancer showed that the RS assay is independently prognostic for both time to progression (TTP) (hazard ratio 1.40; 95% CI 1.05-1.86; P=0.02) and 2-year overall survival (HR 1.83; 95% CI 1.14-2.95; P=0.013) in ER-positive/HER2-negative de novo stage IV breast cancer.
"Given the growing body of evidence that demonstrates the ability of the 21-gene RS to predict prognosis and benefit from chemotherapy in both early-stage node-positive and node-negative disease, these findings suggest that biology is the major determinant of outcome and warrant further prospective investigation," Tari A. King, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and colleagues reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
"Prospective validation is needed to determine the potential role for this assay in the clinical management of this patient subset," they said.
The study looked at patients out of the Translational Breast Cancer Research Consortium (TBCRC) 013 -- a prospective registry that evaluated the role of surgery of the primary tumor in patients with de novo stage IV breast cancer. TBCRC 013 enrolled 127 patients from 14 sites from July 2009 to April 2012.
The analysis cohort was made up of 109 (86%) of these patients who had pretreatment primary tumor diagnostic biopsy samples suitable for RS analysis. Median patient age was 52 years. A total of 72 patients had HER2-negative breast cancer and 20 patients had HER2-positive disease.
At a median follow-up of 29 months, median TTP was 20 months and median survival was 49 months. An RS generated for the 101 primary tumor samples indicated that 22 were low ris, 29 were intermediate risk, and 50 were high risk.
"The majority of women with de novo stage IV breast cancer have ER-positive/HER2-negative disease and experience durable responses to first-line physician-directed therapy," noted King and colleagues."Within this population which represented more than one-third of patients enrolled in PALOMA-3, the potential to individualized treatment on the basis of predictive markers remains an unmet clinical need," they added.
"We have known that tumor biology of breast cancer influences prognosis and more aggressive, hormone therapy resistant ER-positive tumors have much worse prognosis then slower growing, hormone responsive tumors even in metastatic disease," Opyrchal commented. "21-gene RS assay is one of methods to help physicians determine the tumor biology better then pathologic assessment alone. Therefore, it is not surprising the patients with higher scores do not do as well as patients with lower score," he told MedPage Today.
"We will be looking into results looking at predictive value of the test in use of hormone and chemo-therapies in this patient population as it already does to some degree in the adjuvant setting," he added.
The authors in the first study disclosed relationships with Oncothyreon (Inst), Incyte (Inst), Abbott Laboratories/AbbVie (Inst), Galena Biopharma (Inst), Merrimack Pharmaceuticals (Inst), Genentech, Medivation (Inst), Astellas Pharma (Inst), CytRx (Inst), Eisai Medical Research (Inst), Johnson & Johnson (Inst), ImClone Systems (Inst), Covance/Bayer Healthcare (Inst), Angiochem (Inst), AstraZeneca (Inst), Eli Lilly (Inst) and Pfizer (Inst).
The authors in the second study disclosed relationships Genomic Health, Pfizer, Genentech, Carl Zeiss, Eisai (Inst), Seattle Genetics (Inst), Celgene (Inst), Veridex (Inst), Clearbridge Biomedics (Inst), Novartis (Inst), Myriad Genetics (Inst), Bayer (Inst), Merck, Eli Lilly, and The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
- Reviewed by F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE Assistant Professor, Section of Nephrology, Yale School of Medicine and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner
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Journal of Clinical OncologySource Reference: Kabos P, et al "21-gene recurrence sore assay as a predictor of adjuvant chemotherapy administration for early-stage breast cancer: an analysis of use, therapeutic implications, and disparity profile" JCO 2016; DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2015.65.0887.


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[Written by Karen C from HR]
Been pretty occupied with university recruitment talks lately. So far, I've met some great undergrads. One of their favourite questions is, "What can I do?" So in return, I asked one of them, "Well, what sounds good to you?"
And his reply was, "Everything! I just want to be part of this."
I love meeting people like that. The enthusiasm is infectious.
The RWS Management Trainee Program
Many undergrads that I spoke to were looking for management trainee programs with RWS. However, I explained that our formal programs would only be rolled out after our opening, when we reached a more steady state of operation.
Right now, our sights are focused on opening up the resort. We're still on track for an early-2010 opening, which is really only a few months away!!
Part-time Jobs
Although we haven't started our management training program yet, we encourage current students to use our part-time jobs as stepping stones in preparation for a full-time career at our IR.
Training starts prior to our opening and will be fully paid for. To further sweeten the deal, we offer attractive part-time rates for hospitality jobs, and those that work night shifts will also be sent to their nearest bus stop after work (as close to home as you can get)!
The positions are:
1. Waiter/Waitress
2. Bellman
3. Sales Associate (Universal Studios Singapore)
4. Crew (Universal Studios Singapore)
5. Traffic Warden
Especially if you're a first or second year student with the luxury of few years before graduation, consider these part-time jobs. You can work in between classes, during holidays, weekends… the hours are flexible!
Try your hand at any of our numerous F&B outlets during one of your vacations, and then move to any of our six themed hotels the next. And if you're game, you could top it off with a Universal Studios experience.
Before you know it, you'd have created the entire IR experience for yourself! When you're ready to interview for your full-time position, you can tell us with confidence that you know exactly what it takes to work at our IR.
Think about this: If we had to choose between two candidates for a full-time job, who would we pick? The candidate with the RWS work experience? Or the one without?
I'm all about the full-time…
You might be a December '09 graduate or available for immediate hire, so you'd rather delve straight into a full-time job at RWS. Completely understandable. We'd like to highlight a couple of full-time job opportunities:
1. Croupier
2. Guest Services Ambassador (GSA)
Our croupier and GSA jobs are not easy. Croupiers need to master several different table games, be strong at mental calculations, have good finger dexterity, and be sharp and alert. Our GSAs are involved in Casino Marketing, and need to be poised (they represent our glamourous Resorts World Casino) and have great interpersonal skills (they manage anyone from regular guests to members to VIPs).
How to Apply
If you're interested in the part-time and full-time opportunities mentioned in this post, do apply online at www.rwsentosa.com/careers or email us at firstname.lastname@example.com, clearly indicating the position you are interested in.
If you think that you might be better suited for other full-time opportunities, then you can also visit our careers website for the full range of options. As a side note, if your graduation date is some time next year or several years out and you're ONLY looking for full-time opportunities, do apply with us closer to your graduation date.
Tying up the odds and ends from Aug 22/23
Btw, we're almost done short-listing and conducting all interviews from the Aug 22/23 recruitment drive. If you know anyone who's still waiting on us, they probably were not shortlisted for the position that they applied for.
However, we still encourage them to apply for other RWS positions that they qualify for!
That's all for now! Talk soon!


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Definition of ulster
n. - A long, loose overcoat, worn by men and women, originally made of frieze from Ulster, Ireland. 2
The word "ulster" uses 6 letters: E L R S T U.
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a - estrual saluter b - bluster butlers subtler c - cluster cutlers relucts d - lustred rustled strudel f - fluster fluters restful h - hurtles hustler i - lustier ruliest rutiles n - runlets p - spurtle r - rustler s - lusters lustres results rustles sutlers ulsters t - turtles
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Considering there is a distance of 927 km between these two cities, taking a flight to get from Massafra to Piossasco is a good option, as the average trip duration is about 2 hours. You can find up to 82 daily connections between your departure city and Piossasco, 6 of which are direct flights.

 The departure airport
 Massafra main airport is Bari International Airport-Karol Wojtyla, which is 68 km away from the centre. 63 flights to Piossasco leave from here everyday, from 06:25 to 21:50. These flights are operated by companies like Alitalia, easyJet, Ryanair. You can take a shuttle bus from Massafra to Bari International Airport-Karol Wojtyla to get to the airport purchasing the tickets together with the air tickets online on Wanderio. Thanks to our service, in fact, you can compare all the available airlines and find other means of transport to organize your trip, such as the transfers to get to the airport or to your destination.
 Another airport to start your journey from is Brindisi – Salento Airport, which is served by Alitalia, easyJet, Ryanair. The first take-off is at 09:55 while the last one occurs at 21:45; to get to the airport, that is 69 km distant, you can take a transfer to Brindisi – Salento Airport from Massafra.

 The arrival airport
 If you're going from Massafra to Piossasco by plane, you will land at Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport , or, based on the company operating the flight, at Turin Airport, Milan Malpensa Airport . The main airport is 126 km away from the centre and can be easily reached by taking a shuttle bus from Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport to Piossasco. However, in case you land elsewhere, you can find transfers from your arrival airport to your destination on Wanderio.


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Yehuda Amichai
What Kind Of A Person - Poem by Yehuda Amichai
"What kind of a person are you," I heard them say to me.
I'm a person with a complex plumbing of the soul,
Sophisticated instruments of feeling and a system
Of controlled memory at the end of the twentieth century,
But with an old body from ancient times
And with a God even older than my body.
I'm a person for the surface of the earth.
Low places, caves and wells
Frighten me. Mountain peaks
And tall buildings scare me.
I'm not like an inserted fork,
Not a cutting knife, not a stuck spoon.
I'm not flat and sly
Like a spatula creeping up from below.
At most I am a heavy and clumsy pestle
Mashing good and bad together
For a little taste
And a little fragrance.
Arrows do not direct me. I conduct
My business carefully and quietly
Like a long will that began to be written
The moment I was born.
s Now I stand at the side of the street
Weary, leaning on a parking meter.
I can stand here for nothing, free.
I'm not a car, I'm a person,
A man-god, a god-man
Whose days are numbered. Hallelujah.
Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav
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*** The G2 cartridges are a bit shorter than the Hi-Tec-C and require a little space filler to fill the gap between the cartridge and the screw. You can use tubing, a cotton ball, or even paper towel or tissue rolled up into a 5mm ball. Whatever you choose to fill the gap, make sure it's breathable, so air can flow into the back of the cartridge.
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If you feel like swapping out your cartridge... MAKE SURE YOU DON'T ACCIDENTALLY THROW AWAY THE LITTLE TIP PIECE!!! There is a little assembly diagram in the paper insert that comes with the pen. Make sure you hang onto all those pieces or you'll end up with sadface pen (see image below of backer @andrew aka thoughtbox's very sad pen)
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The wife of a backer way out in Sydney, Australia posted a nice write up about Kickstarter and Pen Type-A: how I see it
So nice + thank yoU!!!
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@Brian: "Theoretically we're both millionaires, but in Reality we are just really living with a couple of whores"
Michael Quinn on
@Charles NVM. Apparently the trick is to log on to Kickstarter, write a comment, then try the Pen again - works great now.
Couldn't even say what I did to make it work, after several squiggles and mucking about on the back of an old envelope with disappointing results. I decided to try sketching some notes on a printout of some work I'm doing today thinking that might do the trick - and it worked fine from the first word.
So the lesson is - don't muck about with using the Pen-A on disposable paper - get to work and it will work for you!
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@Charles What sort of effort is required to get the ink flowing? I've just received my Pen and it's drawing like its out of ink - very faint and sketchy. I thought I would check on here before searching out a replacement already.
What technique do you suggest to get the ink moving?
PS - overall I love the pen - just disappointed with the ink flow so far.
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@Janet The tip is not in contact with the sleeve. There is a collar around the interior which keeps the tip offset from bottom of the sleeve.
Also, these refills, and the same is often true of the Hi-tec-c itself, tend to require a bit of effort to get the ink flowing in the beginning. This is more true of the smaller tips than the larger.
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I recently received my pen and wanted to let you know the the tip did not write well. It was not smooth and skipped. I looked at Jetpens for a refill and found they were out of stock on the ones I wanted. After a bit of Googling I found the Tokyo Pen Shop in San Francisco. These folks claim that the refills are made in China and are inferior to the original pens that are made in Japan. I bought some .3 .4 and .5 pens from them and put a .4 cartridge in my Pen Type A. All is well.
A question..... when the pen is in the sleeve is the tip in contact with metal? If so I think it might get damaged by rough handling such as going through the mail.
Jonathan Wong on
The edges on the bottom piece are all very sharp and they end up almost putting a hole in my bag's pocket where i keep the pen. Does anyone have a solution to this problem?
Daniel Deines on
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! for the G2 hack. This makes this pen so much more functional for me.
Guillaume Perras on
I just received mine 30 minutes ago and i have to say.... this pen is incredible. I don't think i could ever be impressed by a fancy gold plated pen again. The finnish and precision of the final product is astonishing! All of you who are still waiting for your pen, be patient, the quality of Pen Type-A is well worth the wait. Don't be afraid to set your expectations high, they will be met. Thank you CW & T!
abel garcia on
Order date: 2011-08-05 Pens to go: 1609.
hopefully ill have mine by september when I start school again


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10. Dynamikks Ultima! Estimated: $350,000
This "earthshaking, cool" system features a unique one square meter box shape and emits between 150 hertz to 23 kilohertz. Dynamikks was created in 1993 in Germany, and with its 20 years of experience, it has continued to evolve with new techniques. This speaker has a bit more of a classic look than some of the other speakers on this list!
9. Acapella Audio Arts' Sphäron "Excalibur" Estimated: $380,000
Another German audio company, Acapella Audio Arts has offered audio solutions since 1997. The Sphäron "Excalibur" combines the Sphäron with a horn unit into one comprehensive sound system. This more classic, horn-shaped speaker system needs to be in a room larger than 40 square meters in order to perform properly. The 12-square-meter, vibrantly colored horn unit is meant to create a three-dimensional feel in its sound.
8. California Audio Technology (CAT) MBX Estimated: $500,000
CAT is world-renown for being able to customize sound systems for any space, creating and designing sound system solutions for boats, businesses, and homes. For that reason, though it ranks low on our list, this customizable system can be as pricey as 16 million dollars depending on the need. This system can include more than 100 subwoofers. 21 channels, and 10 drivers per channel.
7. Backes Müller BM 100 Estimated: $500,000
These odd, elegantly curling forms are made by yet another German company, which has been building loudspeakers since the 70s, and is determined to work towards the long-term goal of mechanically representing a human perception of sound. The BM 100 uses FIRTECTM technology to separate the signal in bass, mid-range and mid-to-high range components.
6. Wisdom Audio's Infinite Wisdom Grand Estimated: $700,000
Need a sound system for your castle? The Infinite Wisdom Grand from Wisdom Audio is the system for you. This system is effective in multilevel rooms, large homes, ballrooms, and – to quote the website – "palaces". This 13-foot-tall, nearly 2 ton system is the pride and joy of Wisdom Audio, which has been serving audiophiles since 1996.
5. Goldmund Epilogue Signature Audio System Estimated: $1,000,000
Despite this sytem's high price tag, Goldmund International has some well-spoken, happy customers (like Mark Rosen, who interviewed with Bloomberg about how much he loved his system). For about thirty years, the company has been developing high-end equipment, like their Epilogue speakers or their Eidos players
4. Kharma's Grand Enigma Estimated: $1,000,000
The Grand Enigma System was designed for an atomic cellar in Belgium. Unfortunately this bad boy is unique – only one was made. That doesn't stop many audiophiles from going gah-gah over it. Perhaps they'll make a new one for you... if you have good karma?
3. Moon Audio's Dark Star Opulence Estimated: $1,100,000
Only 10 pairs of this incredible system have been made by Florida-based Moon Audio, making it an extremely limited edition for music lovers. The system weighs about a ton, and can even persist to deliver music even if one's ears are plugged.
2. Moon Audio's Dark Star Opulence Estimated: $2 Million
Using "ribbon panels", Transmission Audio's Ultimate has received numerous industry awards and recognition for its design. Each speaker contains 40 subwoofers, and paired together, the two speakers are about 40 feet wide. The system can generate as much sound as a jet plane taking off, and can produce an output of 31,000 watts. It also comes with a 10 year warranty, for all of you who are interested in the $2 million system.
1. Kipnis' Outer Limits Theater Estimated: $6 Million
There are audiophiles... and then there are audiophiles. Jeremy Kipnis is the creator of the world's most expensive home theater system. He customized his KSS 8.8 channel audio system and added Snell subs, creating a spine tingling effect of realism. This is a theater that your regional mall would be jealous of. With the price tag of $6 million, it's the world's most expensive home audio system!


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MARY of NAZARETH, the epic motion picture on the life of the Blessed Mother from her childhood through the Resurrection of Jesus is available now on DVD. This extraordinary film on the life of the Blessed Mother was seen by some 200,000 people on 552 screenings in more than 270 cities across North America as part of Ignatius Press' theatrical and parish screening program.
The MARY of NAZARETH DVD case contains two discs – one is the Mary of Nazareth movie in English with Spanish and English subtitles. The contents of the second bonus disc includes an interview with Alissa Jung, who starred as Mary; an interview with Fr. Donald Calloway MIC, author and Marian expert; "behind the scenes" footage; a film photos slide show; segments from Mary: Mother of God, part of the acclaimed "Footprints of God" DVD series; "Pieta," a song by M.J. Poirier; and testimonies from the San Francisco premiere of Mary of Nazareth. Plus, there is a 24-page collector's booklet and study guide.
"Mary of Nazareth offers the best film presentation of Our Lady I have ever seen," says Father Donald Calloway MIC, considered one of the foremost experts on the life of Mary. "Mary of Nazareth is an absolute theological and Mariological masterpiece! It will make you want to love her more than ever."
"The film, Mary of Nazareth, is a beautiful portrayal of the humanity of Mary, Joseph and Jesus," says Most Rev. Samuel J. Aquila, Archbishop of Denver. "I would encourage everyone to see the film in order to understand the unique relationship between the members of the Holy Family and, most especially, the central role played by Mary as Mother of our Savior."
To see a trailer of this film, endorsements from prominent Catholics and much more, visit www.MaryFilm.com.
And coming soon: Mary of Nazareth: The Life of Our Lady in Pictures, a book based on the theatrical motion picture. The book, slated to be released Nov. 4, combines inspiring commentary and meditations by Calloway, with over 65 lovely photos from the movie. The insightful text and captivating pictures tell the moving story of the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, from childhood through the Resurrection of her Son, Jesus Christ.
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What a treat, and an honor, to be invited to attend the Oscar Nominees Lunch once again. This unique gathering of over 100 nominees brings together stars, directors, animators, sound men, documentarians, screenwriters, makeup artists, and other collaborators—and treats them all the same. It's a rare opportunity to commune with leading talents from every aspect of the movie world…but of course, stars get the lion's share of attention. I told Meryl Streep, "I hope you know you are loved," and she said she did at that moment, even though "I thought my career was washed up twenty years ago."
That just goes to show that we never see ourselves as others see us. Throughout the rest of the afternoon, as I conducted interviews for Entertainment Tonight aside the Beverly Hilton pool and asked nominees who they were most excited to meet that day the answer was, as often as not, Meryl Streep. And why not? She is arguably our greatest living screen actress.
Michelle Williams said she welcomed the opportunity to talk to Streep about the challenges of balancing motherhood and a career. I asked what went through her mind, knowing that she was sharing the Best Actress category with the likes of Streep, Viola Davis, and Glenn Close. The New York-based actress confessed that every time she comes to Los Angeles, she can't help thinking about the time when she couldn't get an audition, let alone a callback, in this very city.
For George Clooney, a highpoint of the day was meeting Max von Sydow for the first time. Even Gary Oldman had no compunction about admitting that he remains star struck. (He just got to work with one of his longtime heroes for the first time, John Hurt, in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.)
As for von Sydow, he reveled in the joy and enthusiasm of the assembled talent on hand. Even at the age of 82, he retains his passion for acting and reveled in the chance to spend an afternoon with his colleagues.
Nick Nolte, who gives such a fine performance in Warrior, admitted that he appreciated the honor more than he would have as a young man, when he says he had a habit of putting his foot in his mouth.
For newcomers to the luncheon the effect was especially powerful. "Pinch me!" said charming Jean Dujardin, while Demiån Bechir could only think of how far he'd come from playing soccer on the streets of Mexico.
I asked Clooney and his director, Alexander Payne, how they felt about the horse-race aspect of the Academy Awards, and the actor—who is quite possibly the savviest guy around—said he refused to get caught up in that aspect of the season. He enjoys being able to share this time with his colleagues and peers, as does Payne; they seem to appreciate all the good things it affords them and don't want to become jaded.
It was nice to see Martin Scorsese, just one week after our evening of conversation at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, and he said with a smile, "Let's do it again!" My reply: any time you say.
My most surprising encounter of the day was meeting Melissa McCarthy, who told me that years ago she was in my house as a production assistant with a crew that was interviewing me! Little did I know I had already met one of the breakout stars of the past year…and little did she dream, way back then, that she would be an Academy Award nominee.
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Gazing at the Sacred Peak
January 10, 2008
For all this, what is the mountain god like?
An unending green of lands north and south:
From ethereal beauty Creation distills
There, yin and yang split dusk and dawn.Swelling clouds sweep by. Returning birds
Ruin my eyes vanishing. One day soon,
At the summit, the other mountains will be
Small enough to hold, all in a single glance the part in this poem that really got me thinking was the very first question. For all this, what is the mountain god like?
when i read this poem, i was reminded of when i went to the grand canyon in hawaii, and found myself looking up from the bottom of the canyon (with my mule standing next to me..haha) and just staring there in awe. If this is how i view a tiny section of a gigantic canyon, then it must be the most overwhelming experience to look at everything "in a single glance." it really made me think about how it must be, for the "mountain god" to look at everything and in a single glance. if we had that option, to see thinks in a single glance, how wuold we respond. It'd be like looking out an airplane, and being able to see EVERYTHING….its really crazy to think about
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Fed 2 Rangefinder For a Live Concert1 5 Share Tweet
with f/2.8 + 1/25 – bulb capacity, i was surprised on how versatile + useful a rangefinder, a fed 2 mind you, could be when it comes to capturing dark, important + historical moments such as these concert where from placebo to the relatively unknown kate miller-heidke played with a majestic backdrop of angkor wat.
i just recently got hooked to rangefinders. just because it's lightweight + ease as opposed to the boring [yes, i wrote b o r i n g!] dslr. not that i own one of those, but i was looking for a more alternative but dependable armory to shoot with. i read reviews about them + of course, interested in owning either a leica or a contax [analog only!], but ending up buying fed 2 + kiev 4a instead. a decision i would never regret.
there was two reason for this:
1. price, as leica was out of the picture [even their analog second hand cameras are still pricey] i stumbled to fed 2, their exact copy with a significantly less price. read a little further + i met kiev 4, whose role model was contax in the making. looked here + there, i found someone who was willing to sell those two cameras as a reasonable-priced package. perfect.
2. lc-a was, + still is my first love. i got it with a discount price [since i was working for the store!] + back in the days where lc-a + was still on the drawing table. i never got bored shooting with it [pissed off with the result +/or the shop who develops the films is another case!] it's a big plus, since i used to take pix with a nikon slr + a fujica vintage slr soon after. i think i would never get used to digital slrs, only pocket cameras make sense to do the digital crossover.
as i just moved recently to phnom penh, i only travels with the cameras that are the most handy: my beloved lc-a + fed 2 [also a nikon digital pocket camera for making office reports of course, don't blame me for that!] as for my recently bought kiev 4a, a dearest friend of mine borrowed it for a little while. this is when a surprise came: there would be a historical concert happening. it's a lottery based closed free concert for 1ooo audience supporting the cause to end human trafficking + exploitation. sounds good enough? hear who would headlining: duncan sheik, the click five [who?], kate miller-heidke [double-who?] + the most important of all: placebo. hearing this, there's no other way, me + my girlfriend [who was a die-hard placebo fan] just had got to be there. how? using our media relations of course. we went there as a press couple.
now, to the interesting part, what makes me championed fed 2 [+ it's lc-a counterpart]? because it clearly wins in a certain term against all of the other top professional photographers [with their god forbid dslrs!] in the concert. it's not speed [since they have this rapid mode went on + on + on], not the amount of pictures taken [again… rapid mode + this is an analog with winding + rewinding film needed!], but because it's quality + flexibility.
it's so nice to travel with such a lightweight, no-space-needed camera, no cameras + just laugh when your fellow photographers got booed at because one of his telelenses blocking the audience view, or when one can just preset the camera, take position, focus, + snap [with f/2.8 + asa 4oo would do it most of the time for fed 2, + making f/2.8 with infinite distance most of the time would also with lc-a, or simpler put a small cheap flash on its hotshoe!] most of the frames i took, delivered great result.
it's the man behind the camera you said? tQ, but it's what in front of you that lets you do the things you do, i must reply. are the editors of the magazine i took these pix for satisfied? i don't know, but they used a selection of them + it's their loss if they don't see the beauty offered.
piece out from the surprisingly breezy cambodia,
written by slothglut on 2009-01-19 #gear #concert #review #lc-a #fed-2 #placebo #mtv-exit #angkor-wat #duncan-sheik #the-click-five #kate-miller-heidke


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Lipid Profile in Children in PREDICT: Immediate Versus Deferred Nevirapine-Based ART
July/August 2012
PREDICT was a 144-week randomised trial of immediate ART (at CD4 15-24%) versus deferred nevirapine-based ART (at CD4 <15%) conducted in ART-naive Thai and Cambodian children 1-12 years of age with baseline CD4 between 15-24%.1
Suparat Kanjanavanit showed findings from a substudy of PREDICT -- in which the children's fasting lipid profile was compared between arms -- in an oral presentation at IAC 2012.
The study included data from 263 children. Of these, 129 received immediate ART and 194 deferred starting ART. At the time of analysis, 60 children in the deferred arm had started ART and 143 had not started ART.
At baseline, the children's median (IQR) age was 6.5 (4.1-8.5) years, 58% were girls and 57% were Thai. Their median fasting time was 8 hours. There were no significant differences between study arms in clinical characteristics at week 0, see Table 1.
Abnormal lipid levels were defined as: total cholesterol > 200 mg/dL; LDL-cholesterol > 130 mg/dL; HDL-cholesterol ≤ 40 mg/dl and triglyceride > 130 mg/dL.
At week 144, 60 children in the deferred had started ART. At this time point the investigators found dyslipidemia to be significantly less in the immediate arm. They also found the immediate arm had significantly higher total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) but lower triglyceride and TC/HDL ratio than the deferred arm.
In multivariate analysis, the mean differences over 144 weeks between the immediate arm and the deferred arm without ART (n=73) were significant for all lipid parameters, see Table 2.
He also noted that although this comparison was made in a substudy of a randomised trial, the small number of children and short duration of ART in the deferred arm are limitations to the findings.
He concluded, "After 3 years of follow-up, nevirapine-based initiation achieved favourable lipid profile in children with mild to moderate HIV-associated immune deficiency. Less dyslipidemia was found in treatment group compared to deferred group."
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15 Die in Kashmir Elections Attacks
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SRINAGAR, India (AP) _ Militants struck polling stations, set off explosions and fired on security forces in Indian Kashmir on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people in the third and most violent round of balloting for the state legislature.
More than 135 political activists, candidates, soldiers and civilians have died since the elections were announced in August. Nevertheless, 41 percent of registered voters in the disputed Himalayan province braved the violence and ignored a separatist call for a boycott.
Minutes before the polls opened, suspected Islamic militants killed nine people in a raid on a bus near the Pakistan border in Kashmir's Kathua district. Thousands of Indian soldiers patrolled the region's militant heartland to secure polling stations.
Just after polls closed, six paramilitary troopers escorting poll officials were killed when their vehicle was blown apart in Panzgam, 35 miles south of Srinagar, the summer capital. Four troopers were injured.
The British Broadcasting Corp. office in Srinagar said it received a telephone call from the Pakistan-based Hezb-ul Mujahedeen claiming responsibility for the explosion.
A local news agency said it received a message from a lesser-known militant group, Al-Arifeen, claiming it was behind a dozen attacks on polling booths. Police say Al-Arifeen is an offshoot of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militant group, which took responsibility last month for the killing of Kashmir's law minister and a ruling party activist.
Pakistan-based Islamic groups dispute India's authority to hold the elections in the disputed territory and vowed to disrupt them by killing voters and candidates. The militants and Kashmiri separatists claim the elections are rigged to favor the pro-India ruling party, the National Conference.
The violence curbed turnout in two rebel strongholds, the Pulwama and Anantnag districts, where the federal Election Commission reported turnout at 28 percent and 25 percent respectively. However, 59 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the predominantly Hindu districts of Udhampur and Kathua, the commission said.
While the first two rounds of voting for the 87-seat state assembly were relatively peaceful, there were 23 major incidents Tuesday, including grenade explosions, shootings and bomb blasts, said Pramod Jain, chief elections officer in Srinagar.
During the previous two rounds _ Sept. 16 and 24 _ voter turnout averaged 43.4 percent. The final round is Oct. 8, with results expected four days later. The state has 5.7 million eligible voters.
Many people, as in the first two rounds, said troops forced them to vote.
In other violence Tuesday, an Indian paramilitary officer was injured in an explosion in Pulwama, 40 miles south of Srinagar, after suspected rebels detonated a bomb early Tuesday, police said.
In Shopian, 35 miles from Srinagar, at least nine polling stations were attacked, though there were no reports of casualties. Guerrillas also lobbed a grenade at the town market, but no one was injured, police said.
Hundreds of people demonstrated against the elections and renewed their calls for Kashmir's independence.
"The only solution to our problems is independence. We don't want jobs. We don't want seats in colleges. We want freedom," said student Mohammed Idries.
Khurshid, a contractor who goes by only one name, said there were few voters in Shopian.
"They will inflate the count in the evening on television, but that will be a lie," he said.
In nearby Laripora, dozens of villagers lined up to vote.
Mohammad Yusuf Khumar, a 25-year-old government employee, said he and his neighbors were tired of the current administration after 12 years of "uncertainty" and that "with our votes we will try to ensure its defeat."
"In our village, we have decided to use our vote to alter the political map of our state," said Khumar.
Federal and state officials hope high voter turnout will sap the separatist movement in the Himalayan state, the focus of two wars between India and Pakistan. Both countries claim the region in its entirety.
India accuses Pakistan of trying to disrupt the elections by allowing the militants to cross into the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir. Islamabad denies the charge and says the elections are a sham.
New Delhi also blames Pakistan-based militant groups for a Dec. 13 attack on the Indian parliament along with help from Pakistan.
The two nuclear-armed countries nearly went to war after the attack, and more than a million troops are still deployed along their borders. Tensions eased amid intense international mediation. Pakistan and India have fought three wars, two over Kashmir, since gaining independence from Britain in 1947.


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AC Power Supply-Low VoltageHere's AC power supply circuit with low voltage output (step down transformer converter). Warning! This project involves the use of dangerous voltages. You must make sure all high-voltage (120 volt household power) conductors are safely insulated from accidental contact. No bare wires should be seen anywhere on the "primary" side of the transformer circuit. Be sure to solder all wire connections so that they're secure, and use real electrical tape (not duct tape, scotch tape, packing tape, or any other kind!) to insulate your soldered connections.
If you wish to enclose the transformer inside of a box, you may use an electrical "junction" box, obtained from a hardware store or electrical supply house. If the enclosure used is metal rather than plastic, a three-prong plug should be used, with the "ground" prong (the longest one on the plug) connected directly to the metal case for maximum safety.
Before plugging the plug into a wall socket, do a safety check with an ohmmeter. With the line switch in the "on" position, measure resistance between either plug prong and the transformer case. There should be infinite (maximum) resistance. If the meter registers continuity (some resistance value less than infinity), then you have a "short" between one of the power conductors and the case, which is dangerous!
Next, check the transformer windings themselves for continuity. With the line switch in the "on" position, there should be a small amount of resistance between the two plug prongs. When the switch is turned "off," the resistance indication should increase to infinity (open circuit -- no continuity). Measure resistance between pairs of wires on the secondary side. These secondary windings should register much lower resistances than the primary. Why is this?
Plug the cord into a wall socket and turn the switch on. You should be able to measure AC voltage at the secondary side of the transformer, between pairs of terminals. Between two of these terminals, you should measure about 12 volts. Between either of these two terminals and the third terminal, you should measure half that. This third wire is the "center-tap" wire of the secondary winding.
It would be advisable to keep this project assembled for use in powering other experiments shown in this book. From here on, I will designate this "low-voltage AC power supply" using this illustration:
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It is a requirement for all guests on a Bikestyle Tours trip to have travel insurance so that you are protected financially for medical assistance, lost, stolen or damaged luggage, total trip cancellation or transit delays. Travel insurance avoids many disappointments and frustrations when things beyond your control don't go to plan!
- If you pay a portion of your trip or flights with your credit card, you may be eligible for travel insurance. It is worth checking the level of cover available to you and the conditions for what is insured.
- If you are a regular international traveller, you may already have a multi-trip travel insurance policy that covers you on your holiday also.
- Your home and contents insurance may allow you to 'bundle' a travel insurance product.
- For Australian residents departing from Australia we are able to offer the following insurance.
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Bikestyle Tours is pleased to offer QBE Toursafe travel insurance for you and your bicycle with a special online purchase discount of 15%.
Please note this travel insurance is only available to Australian residents departing from Australia.
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Wow... can you believe it... its that time again... in some states kids are already back, but here in Oregon we don't until after labor day!
I got started by grabbing my Simple Stories Smarty Pants paper stack, and selected a few pieces to use for my card today! Then I grabbed my Unity Stamp Co. Birdie Conversation stamp set, and fell in love with the "We are cheering you on" sentiment along with a birdie and flag, which I colored in with my Spectrum Noir Markers. I added some yarn and a few sequins to finish off my card!
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South Devon has some fabulous historic houses and gardens that are open pretty much all year round. Listed below are some of those that can be accessed easily from our various self catering holiday apartments in Torquay.
With a history stretching back more than 800 years the Abbey can claim to be one of the oldest buildings in the entire area. It started life as a religious community until Henry VIII's dissolution programme resulted in its forced closure. It played host to prisoners from the Spanish Armada and was a family home until 1930 when it finally became a museum and home to the municipal art collection. Amongst its famous visitors was Horatio Nelson.
Today, Torre Abbey is open to the public as are its fabulous walled gardens with their arid house and palm house.
This was the holiday home that Agatha Christie bought on the banks of The River Dart in 1938. The house originated in Tudor times having been built by the Gilbert family but is substantially a Georgian property.
Now in the hands of The National Trust, the house and its grounds are open to the public seven days a week for most of the year.
This is another property owned by The National Trust and was the home of the D'Oyly Carte family who operated the Savoy Theatre in London. Coleton Fishacre has an Art Deco interior and spectacular cliff top garden this property has appeal throughout the year. This property is best reached by car and lies between Brixham and Dartmouth. Journey time is around twenty five minutes.
Berry Pomeroy Castle is set deep in the countryside outside Torquay and Paignton. It sits on a rocky outcrop and was originally home to the Pomeroy family who needed an easily defended home in the troubled years leading up to the Wars of the Roses. In later years it passed into the Seymour family's hands one of whose family members was Jane Seymour, wife of Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI. There were massive building programmes in both the Tudor periods and the later Jacobite periods and the home that was created was astoundingly beautiful and beyond anything else that had been built in the south west of England. The fortunes of the Pomeroys very much declined but the Seymours were adroit at steering their way through difficult times and still own the property today. At the start of the 1700's they stripped the property of anything they could use elsewhere and it was allowed to fall into ruin. Today, glimpses of the stunning palace that had been built on the site are still evident at a castle reputed to be the most haunted in England. The castle is managed by English Heritage.
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Iraq Today: America's
By Stephen Lendman
America came to Iraq to stay. Contingents of US forces remain. America's embassy cost over a billion dollars to build. It's the world's largest.
It's inside Baghdad's Green Zone. It includes 21 buildings. Extraordinary security measures protect them. They're on 104 acres of land. It's the equivalent of 80 football fields.
Democracy is verboten. So-called liberation is a convenient illusion. Iraq was ravaged and destroyed. Daily violence rages out-of-control. Unemployment, poverty and human misery are extreme.
An epidemic of birth defects, cancer and other war related diseases plague the country. So do tens of thousands of US and other Western private military contractors, advisors and security personnel.
At issue is controlling the region's oil, gas, other strategic resources as well as economic policy and politics.
America's imperial legacy reflects destroying the cradle of civilization. Pre-1990 Iraq no longer exists. Charnel house conditions replaced it.
Over two decades of war, sanctions, and occupation wrecked Iraq's ecosystem. Scores of pollutants contaminate vast parts of country's soil and water.
They include depleted and enriched uranium, benzene and other harmful chemicals, toxic metals, oil, bacteria and other poisons.
One hundred Paul Bremer orders raped Iraq. They turned it into a cutthroat free-market laboratory. Inside the bubble is paradise. Outside is hell. Basic services for the vast majority of Iraqis don't exist.
Pillaging on the grandest of grand scales continues. Iraq remains a virtual US colony. Its sovereign independence is gone.
Gideon Polya maintains body count numbers. War related deaths come from violence, starvation, preventable diseases, poverty and neglect. Apocalyptic conditions follow.
Polya defines avoidable mortality as "the difference between actual deaths in a country and (those) expected for a peaceful, decently governed (one) with the same demographics."
On the 10th anniversary of Washington's invasion, he said Iraqi deaths from sanctions, violence, and violently-imposed deprivation since 1990 totaled 4.6 million.
Extinguishing human lives on this massive a scale constitutes genocide.
Article II of the Genocide Convention defines it as including "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
In stark contrast to "science-based estimates," said Polya, imperial liars and complicit media scoundrels lowball numbers disgracefully.
They practically ignore daily violence and horrific conditions. Millions of internally and externally displaced refugees don't matter. Washington's full responsibility gets no coverage.
Some of the greatest ever crimes of war and against humanity are airbrushed from history. They continue daily out of sight and mind. No end game suggests relief.
Puppet Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki serves at America's pleasure. His tenure began in May 2006. His longevity reflects his subservience.
On November 1, he arrived in Washington. He did so hat in hand. Oval office photos with Obama followed. Earlier ones showed him with Bush. A duplicitous joint statement said in part:
"In their meeting today at the White House, President Obama and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki reaffirmed the strategic partnership between the United States and the Republic of Iraq and pledged to advance common interests to support a stable, secure, and prosperous Iraq and Middle East."
"Since most US forces redeployed nearby in the region, both countries "entered a new phase of their relationship, based on mutual respect and a shared commitment to build a strategic partnership between two sovereign nations."
"They recalled the thousands of Americans and Iraqis who have given their lives in our common fight against terrorism and extremism in Iraq."
"The President and Prime Minister renewed their determination to honor the memory and sacrifice of those killed by strengthening our joint long-term strategic partnership across the fields covered by the SFA, including security, diplomacy, trade, education, energy, culture, science, and justice."
Obama calls Iraq an emerging democracy. Bush said its future reflects a "beacon of democracy." Reality reveals otherwise. High-minded rhetoric rings hollow.
Iraq is a failed state. It's totally dysfunctional. Basic services and security don't exist. Corruption and daily violence are out-of-control.
Hopes for eventual stability and prosperity are ill-founded. Destroying the cradle of civilization created a blank slate. Iraq, Inc. replaced it.
Chicago School fundamentalism rules run things. US corporations got first dibs. Bremer orders institutionalized plunder. Occupation harshness persists.
Today's Iraq reflects everything wrong with imperial wars, colonization, and predatory capitalist ruthlessness. Ordinary Iraqis are entirely shut out. They're on their own, out of luck, sink or swim.
Survival is their problem. Shock and awe, invasion, occupation, and rapid transformation from what was to what is killed millions.
Survivors struggle to get by. Doing so isn't easy. Many don't make it. Puppet governance masquerades as legitimate.
America calls the shots on what matters most. Maliki and other stooges do it bidding. Failure assures replicating Saddam's fate. White House photo-ops reward subservience.
George Bush said America came to Iraq "to plant seeds of democracy." Ghoulish dystopia reflects today's reality.
Iraq is a violent dysfunctional wasteland. Nightmarish conditions exist. Washington bears full responsibility. Multiple car bombings occur almost daily.
July was the bloodiest month since 2008. Violence killed over 1,000. Over 2,300 others were wounded. Maliki's response is severe repression.
Thousands of suspected regime opponents are imprisoned uncharged. Torture and other forms of abuse follow. Mass arrests continue.
According to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Iraq and Afghanistan are America's most expensive wars by far.
No one knows when they'll end. No one can determine their final cost. From what's known to date, up to $6 trillion may be spent. Costs go way beyond combat.
Externalities include longterm medical care, disability and survivor benefits, interest on debt related to war and occupation, as well as other social, economic and political costs.
War doesn't come cheap. Multiple ones are hugely expensive. Waging them one after another sacrifices other budget priorities.
Most US resources go for militarism, aggression, corporate handouts, and homeland police state harshness.
Social America is being destroyed. It's to maintain what demands condemnation. Bipartisan complicity is turning the nation into a dystopian backwater. It's being thirdworldized.
Perhaps it'll end up like Iraq. October exceeded July's violence. Deadly car bombings killed over 1,000. Thousands more were wounded.
Fear, human misery and deprivation grip the country. Normalcy is nonexistent. Bloodshed, insecurity, and extreme repression reflect daily life. Obama wants Maliki to crack down harder.
New York Times editors march in lockstep with America's imperial agenda. They supported the Gulf war, years of genocidal sanctions, Bush's shock and awe lawlessness, and occupation that followed.
They've done so unapologetically. On November 1, they headlined "Can Iraq Be Saved?"
Maliki came to Washington looking for help. Times editors blame him for ongoing turmoil. True enough for complicity with America.
Times editors pointed fingers the wrong way. Bush and Obama administrations bear full responsibility. Maliki does what he's told.
According to Times editors, Iraq might be safer with more US troops on the ground. Their arrival instigated what's now ongoing.
"(T)here is no reason to trust Maliki unless he adopts a more inclusive approach to governing and ensures that next April's election will be fair and democratic," they said.
Reality is polar opposite. America deplores democracy. Iraq has none for sure. Ordinary people have no say.
America decides who runs things. Strings are pulled in Washington. Maliki's in charge as long as he remembers who's boss. Don't expect Times editors to explain.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at email@example.com.
His new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity."
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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Users can find an online tutorial for the Samsung Galaxy S in the Support sections of websites such as Att.com and VerizonWireless.com. On these websites, users can peruse various topics, including device layout, assembly and gestures, or watch one of the instructional videos.
Similar to VerizonWireless.com, the support section of Att.com arranges the information into multiple categories, allowing users to click on the plus symbol next to the desired topic to access various support articles that open in the same window. Alternatively, users can type the desired topic in the search field to access the information without navigating through individual categories. Att.com also lets users play the step-by-step instructions for certain topics automatically by selecting the Play All Steps option.


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Castleford Tigers' new forward Matt Cook has revealed that Daryl Powell is a major reason for him joining the club and he expects the head coach to make him a better player in 2015.
Back row or prop Cook, 28, has had a good career in Super League with Bradford Bulls, Hull KR and the London Broncos club from where the Tigers have signed him, but reckons there is still improvement to come – and coach of the year Powell is just the right man to bring it out of him.
He told the Express: "Daryl Powell was a big reason for me joining. He spoke very passionately when I talked with him about joining Castleford.
"Obviously seeing what he's done externally to the club and how the team turned around so dramatically with not that much of a change in personnel whilst he was in control I thought he had to be a very good coach.
"And when I asked around a few of the lads already at Cas the feedback they gave me was how good a coach he is.
"I think he can make me a better player. I'm now 28, but I still think there's a lot of improvement I can make as a player and I think he is the right coach to help me.
"I've noticed some differences in the way he works. It's more intense than I've been used to and in training he's very clear and specific in what he wants to get out of each session.
"He kind of puts a target out there and doesn't take no nonsense either.
"He expects standards to be high and he'll let you know in a nice way if you're having an off day. He's a good motivator as well as being a good technical coach.
"So I'm seeing his coaching attributes already even though it's only been a few weeks."
Cook's first ambition at Castleford is to win a regular place in the first team squad and he acknowledged there are plenty of other players with the same aim with the Tigers going again for some strength in depth.
He said: "For me my main aim is to earn a position in the squad weekly.
"There's a lot of competition in the team. It's healthy and I just want to come and give my all every day that I'm there.
"I want to fight for a spot within the team and be competing for silverware."
Cook's favoured position is in the back row, but he knows he faces big competition for a place in that position in the team from the likes of new team-mates Junior Moors, Oliver Holmes, Grant Millington, Frankie Mariano as well as his fellow London recruit Mike McMeeken.
He added: "In conversations Daryl mentioned potentially hopefully that I'll be playing back row, but things can change.
"It's my preferred position, but I'm pretty much happy anywhere in the pack so long as it's not hooker.
"At the moment I'm aiming to make my trade in the team in the second row, but anything can happen during pre-season and between now and the start of the season.
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1079?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13001139#comment-13001139 ] Jan Lehnardt commented on COUCHDB-1079: --------------------------------------- I'm sorry, this is entirely my fault. I don't really know why I didn't do it properly in the first place. We should separate Minor and git sha/svn rev with a dash. But I don't know if the change or the new format breaks anything down the line. > Fix local version append > ------------------------ > > Key: COUCHDB-1079 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1079 > Project: CouchDB > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Paul Joseph Davis > > The local version info is awesome to be able to track down exactly what commit someone has built locally with, but the way that info is appended caused some confusion: > 1.2.0ac052866-git > I tried a handful of git sha's from that info before I broke down and read the bootstrap and acinclude.m4.in sources to figure out what was going on. It turns out, the version info is: > 1 (Major) 2 (Minor) 0 (Revision) a (Alpha) (c052866-git) (Local) > As you might guess, figuring out why Git was telling me that revisions 0ac052886 and ac052886 was mildly irritating. I would propose we just add a dot to separate the local part as in: > 1.2.0a.c052886-git > I'd commit this but I figured I should go ahead and see if anyone has any objections first. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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Thursday, December 2, 2010
Eat, Stray, Poop
I wasn't able to do this kind of "service" prior to rescuing Luna. I remember once going through volunteer training for our local Hospice. I got half way through the training and had to bail. I was an emotional wreck! I felt like such a loser for not being able to help. Luna has enabled me to serve, to be strong and to bring joy to peoples life's. In life and in death. Why? I'm not quite sure, except for I think she rescued me. I was at such a sad, gloomy, vulnerable place when Stella died. I had lost my job, and lost my "mojo" too. I just couldn't find ME. She brought me back to my happy place and back to ME.
So when people say to me "how do you volunteer there? I could never do it. I'd want to take them all home" And I say..... "it's not easy, but they need me and they could use you too!" Truth is is that I'm so busy the whole time I'm there, I'm focused on getting things done and cleaned up. Dogs walked, kennels cleaned, beds laundered, dog dishes washed, garbage emptied, an occasional bath, and cuddle. All done by donations, volunteers and very dedicated hard working animal loving people.
Thanks Luna!!
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