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Pop-ups and bright graphics demonstrate that humans have more than five senses to fool.
This busy book expands the traditional set of senses to no fewer than 18 at the outset. Though it doesn't get to all of them, along with color-based effects and other optical illusions, it offers ways of tricking nose and tongue, challenges to pattern recognition, demonstrations of proprioception, and tests of reflex speed. The small but varied bundle of interactive extras includes a sliding panel of colored acetate, a pop-up visual puzzle, a section of scratch-and-sniff dots, and a slotted maze at the end through which to roll ball bearings (included). Subtle embossing defines several animals hidden under flaps and two other mazes that readers are directed to trace with eyes closed, but it's likely too low for all but braille-trained fingertips. Still, in general the neatly presented visuals and accompanying instructions are easy to follow, produce reliable results, and come with descriptions of the expected effect, its causes, and the body part involved.
Despite some features with limited shelf life, a useful start to exploring the body's full sensorium. (Informational pop-up. 8-10)


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A computer finally!
Negril Health Centre gets donation from Sandals Foundation
NEGRIL, Westmoreland — THE Western Regional Health Authority's Negril Health Centre was recently given a major boost with the donation of a brand new refrigerator, desktop computer and DVD player from the Sandals Foundation.
The items, which were handed over last Friday, are expected to equip the public health care facility to better meet the needs of patients and add value to the service it offers.
Addressing health care providers and patients at the handover ceremony, Sandals Foundation representative and Beaches Sandy Bay general manager Brian Sang noted that the donation is the first in a long-term commitment by the philanthropic organisation for the development of the health care facility.
"We [the Sandals Foundation] are dedicated to building communities and impacting lives… and this is evident in the scores of projects we have implemented across the Caribbean. It is this same vision that led us to recognise the need at the Negril Health Centre and the next step in this project is a $1-million expansion of the facility to better accommodate patients," Sang stated.
The clinic, which was built to accommodate a 45-patient complement, currently serves over 100 residents from the communities of Little London, Delveland, Negril and their environs on a daily basis.
Arlene Willams-Grant, a records officer at the centre noted that working without the use of a computer has been very challenging.
"Doing everything manually takes up a lot of time. We've had to purge dockets for persons who haven't visited in over 10 years and rewrite them for submission to the regional office for record keeping. Some administrators have even had to take the long journey to Savanna-la-Mar to type a report. With this computer we will have to enter information dating as far back as 1987, but in the end it will definitely improve efficiency, client record keeping and data collection," she explained.
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NEW YORK, NY (December 10, 2015) – The Autism Science Foundation today hailed new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) findings of an improvement in the age of initial diagnosis of autism. Citing new data from its pilot Early Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network (ADDM) study, the CDC reported a five-month decrease in the age of first comprehensive developmental evaluation for autism in a cohort of 4 year-old preschool children with autism. On average, these children born in 2006 had an average age of diagnosis of 2 years, 3 months, compared to children born in 2002 who had an average age of diagnosis of 2 years 8 months.
"The decrease in age of first evaluation for concerns is an important improvement because we know that the earlier children are identified and the sooner they begin early intervention services, the better their long term outcome," said Dr. Alycia Halladay, chief science officer of the Autism Science Foundation. "By continuing to study children's development between age 4 and 8, we can gain actionable information that can inform how school districts and other service-providers can best help children during this critical developmental period."
The prevalence of 4 year-olds was 30% less than seen in 8 year-olds, which is not an entirely new finding. Earlier this year, the High Risk Baby Siblings Research Consortium reported that while a diagnosis at 18 months is stable, some children do not meet criteria for a diagnosis until 3 years. Children with a lower IQ were more likely to receive an early diagnosis, confirming earlier findings that children with more behavioral symptoms are more likely to be picked up earlier.
Said Autism Science Foundation President Alison Singer, who participated in a CDC teleconference about
the new findings: "What's five months in the scheme of things? It's huge. That's five months a mother or father doesn't have to spend questioning their toddler's development and behavior — or questioning whether they should be doing more to help him. That's five fewer months of painful uncertainty. For a parent, five months can be an eternity."
Added Singer, "We've gained five months, which is wonderful news. Now let's be greedy and try to gain 12 months, 18 months, for all children. We need to keep chipping away at the delay and disparity in diagnosis. We're making important and measurable progress, but, working together, we can do even more."
Halladay noted: "While this is great news, there is still progress to be made with regards to racial and ethnic variation in age of diagnosis. At 4 years of age, there was no difference in diagnosis rates between African American and Caucasian children. However, African American children still experience a delay in the age of first developmental evaluation."
The overall prevalence of autism in the cohort of 4 years-olds was reported to be 13.4 per 1000 (1 in 75). This is the first time prevalence numbers have been reported for 4 year-old children. For the past 15 years, the ADDM network has reported autism prevalence in 8 year-old children. The new CDC data are not the widely cited "1 in x" prevalence data; those data, which measure the change in prevalence among 8 year-old children, are reported every two years and are next expected in the spring of 2016.
The same methodology was used to measure prevalence in 4 year-old children and in 8 year-old children: examination of school and health records. Preschool records were examined in 5 sites, a subset of the 12 ADDM sites.
Today's report was published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.
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Natural selection is the Darwinists main magic wand for the passing of life from some purely hypothetical first common ancestor, to man. By this "mechanism", the Darwinist elite claim that all life on earth has come to be. Survival of the fittest, they used to call this. They have attributed to natural selection all the power of a deity.
Natural selection is seen as a cornerstone piece within the whole "modern synthesis" framework.
Simply put, Natural selection is the process by which biological organisms with favorable traits survive and reproduce more successfully than organisms that do not possess such traits. Conversely, organisms with deleterious traits survive and reproduce less successfully than organisms lacking any weakening traits.
Evolutionist Ernst Mayr defined natural selection as "the process by which in every generation individuals of lower fitness are removed from the population."
It is well known that natural selection, in the Darwinian sense, constitutes a tautology. It survives therefore it is fit. It is fit therefore it survives.
This is still controversial and often debated simply because the modern Darwinist does not like being told his major foundation stone for the whole of Darwinian theory is circular reasoning. Darwinism is in fact based on several logical fallacies like this. Another common Darwinian fallacy goes like this:
Species A is morphologically very similar to species B, therefore they are biologically related or have some evolutionary common ancestor. Modern molecular biology and genetics has proved this wrong (like so many other standard Darwinian claims). That specific error is almost a definition of the logical fallacy called "undistributed middle".
So they, as usual, merely deny the reality of it and go on arguing over as if debating it using this or that sophism changes anything of the truth of it.
Without going into the origin of this now ubiquitous term, I'll simply say that it was an idea spawned and developed by creationists, not atheists. Darwin took the term mostly from Edward Blyth a British zoologist who had written on the subject long before his "Origin", as had others. Indeed, according to anthropologist Loren Eiseley, Darwin appropriated the work of Edward Blyth, who wrote on natural selection and evolution in two papers published in 1835 and 1837. From a creationist viewpoint. (Eiseley L.C., "Charles Darwin, Edward Blyth, and the Theory of Natural Selection," in "Darwin and the Mysterious Mr. X," E.P. Dutton: New York, 1979, p.50)
Darwin basically took the idea changed it to his own view and "ran with with", bringing it to the very pinnacle of his theory of evolution.
It is viewed, in Darwinism, that mutations, by creating genetic diversity, supply the raw material for natural selection to work on.
Well, let's get to the reality of what Natural selection really is.
In one single word, natural selection is "death"!
This should be extremely obvious, but for the Darwinian mindset, most of the time, nothing logical is obvious. Real selection is not anything being selected at all, its all about things being filtered out of the environment by death and that's all. Death rids the "unfit" species from the world.
Selection is thus just a very banal involuntary filter.
This is easily seen by the fact that if one removes death, there would be no such thing as natural selection at all. Not in any Darwinian sense, thats for sure.
"Selection" is thus a very poor choice of words for death. Don't you think? It's almost the equivalent of the Grim Reaper. The selection is implies choice, but nature has no mind to enable it to choose anything at all. Some things die, that's it. And it often has nothing to do with fitness.
Again, this is not hard.
So the fact that Darwinian fundamentalists treat natural selection like some sort of wizard able to leap tall buildings with a single bound, creating all the estimated 13 million living species on earth, is rather amazing. You may even find it amusing, and indeed it would be if not so serious and error.
By realizing the real nature of natural selection, its fairly straight forward to see why it isn't all its cracked up to be.
Here's the ultimate question: How can mutations + death be the mechanism, that creates all life on earth?


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Indirect Tax Strategic Plan
In response to increased scrutiny from Boards, Revenue Authorities and other regulators, many businesses are now formally documenting their indirect tax strategy and implementing formal processes to evaluate and approve planning ideas.
For leading companies, a tax strategy is a dynamic framework that is shaped by internal and external drivers.
A tax strategy should cover all key taxes and business locations and should be aligned to the overall business strategy.
Potential Benefits Of A Documented Indirect Tax Strategy Include:
- Obtaining clarity around the business' indirect tax risk appetite, which should facilitate the identification of planning opportunities appropriate to the business' wider commercial objectives
- Providing the business with a consistent and efficient review and evaluation process over tax-related matters
- Raising the profile of Indirect Tax with key business and Finance stakeholders
- Monitoring and strengthening governance procedures in decentralized and overseas jurisdictions
- Identifying improvements in indirect tax-related systems, processes and controls
- Identifying areas where additional indirect tax resources or funding may be required
To challenge the Indirect Tax Function's short and long term business plan objectives the site contains a roadmap of an 'Indirect Tax Strategic Plan' and includes examples of 'Setting the Objectives Of The Tax Function'.
Tax Control Framework
Tax Control Framework forms an integral part of an organisation's Business or Internal Control Framework, ensuring that the organisation's processes have been structured so that the tax risks or potential savings become visible on time.
Proving The Reliability Of Accounting Records For Tax Purposes
The New Trend might be to have a more open dialogue between revenue bodies, taxpayers, and tax intermediaries. The at times prolonged operational audits performed by the tax authorities seem to be turning into a thing of the past.
Initiatives Of Tax Authorities
- In 2005, the Netherlands Tax and Customs Administration (TCA) initiated a pilot 'horizontal monitoring' programme involving 20 of the country's largest corporate taxpayers
- In 2005, the United States initiated a Compliance Assurance Process
- In September 2005, the Irish Revenue Commissioners initiated their 'Co- operative Compliance' programme with large corporate taxpayers.
- Budget 2009, Senior Accounting Officer sign off in the United Kingdom
- GST Assisted Compliance Assurance Programme (ACAP) in Singapore
We refer also to OECD promotion of 'enhanced relationship' (OECD report: Study into the Role of Tax Intermediaries). Even if the authorities have not embraced such an approach (yet), a proactive mode can not only safe time and money but result in a good relationship.
With the arrival of horizontal supervision the Netherlands, combined with the use of audit samples and data analyses, businesses can prove the reliability of their accounting records for tax purposes themselves, which offers the opportunity to avoid supplementary tax assessments and penalties.
The following benefits may be realised if VAT pre-audits are performed using, among other things, data analyses and audit-sample techniques:
- Improved relations with the Tax Inspector (evidently, by using audit techniques similar to those used by the Tax Office, the first hurdle in any future discussions about the outcome of an audit is already taken).
- Businesses obtain an understanding of the nature and scope of their tax risks in a statistically reliable, quick and efficient way.
- The quality of the assessment of procedures performed by external auditors will increase, because they will have to spend less time on assessing risks in the tax chapter in the fields of, for instance, indirect taxes, payroll tax and national insurance contributions.
- Less "vertical" audits and lower costs to be incurred on using business resources for such audits
- Lower penalties
Statistical Sampling
Statistical Sampling is the tax audit methodology of the Dutch Tax Authorities and it can be used by companies for proactive audit defense: pre-audit and detective control resulting in quantification of potential amount of exposures and/or savings.
By identifying risks respectively opportunities, an action plan pertaining to both the future and the past may be drawn up to mitigate these risks or realize savings.
Data Analytics
An alternative for performing an efficient tax audit would be data analysis. Data-analysis options have increased and been refined rapidly over the past few years, allowing for large data volumes to be reviewed in an effective and efficiently way. Besides, data analyses can usually be performed using the same software tool as that used to statistical sampling.
Example of executive summary of data analytics – scope both savings as risks evaluation (source: KEY Group)
By The KEY Group specialized in 'Business Control, 'Information Technology' and 'Indirect Tax Performance'
CEO, Richard Cornelisse
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- Taxmarc™: your best SAP solution for Indirect Tax Automation (indirecttaxtechnology.com)
- The KEY Group measures Indirect Tax Performance and improves where necessary (richardcornelisse.com)
- How Internal Audit could contribute value in realizing indirect tax objectives? (indirecttaxtechnology.com)
- VAT Control Framework (indirecttaxtechnology.com)
- Merger and Acquisition – Integration And Indirect Tax: Managing the Moving Parts Before, During, And After a Transaction (indirecttaxtechnology.com)
- Indirect Tax Can Drive Costs For Shared Service Centers (indirecttaxtechnology.com)
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How would you like a homemade tanning lotion for the sun or salon that doesn't cost too much, yet is still as effective as any product you could buy?
The homemade tanning lotion I'm about to show you is the exact same one I use whenever I'm in the sun or at a salon. I think it's even MORE effective than any product you could buy in stores.
You may already have some of these products at home, so make sure you hunt around a little before heading out to the store.
It may seem like making this lotion is expensive at first because you have to buy the ingredients. However once you have everything, it will literally last you for like a YEAR!
Only Three Ingredients:
Coconut Oil
Coconut oil is an amazing tanning accelerator. How it works is pretty simple. Try to think of it like a magnifying glass on your skin. This magnification draws in even more UV rays, which then help to produce the melanin necessary for a tan to appear.
It also helps to retain moisture. This is so important as without added moisture, our skin will dry up and expire a lot faster. This then leads to flaking and with it goes the color you just added during your tan.
Basically it helps keep your tan for longer.
The main purpose of lanolin is to act as an emollient. This is something that is able to lock in moisture and it's vital if we want to achieve a long lasting tan.
It's also great for those with sensitive skin as it's a hypoallergenic, meaning that it won't cause any irritation whatsoever.
Black Tea(3 bags)
Like all of these ingredients, black tea plays two roles:
It will act as a natural dye, adding some color to your skin.
It contains a ton of antioxidants that will fight off any toxins that may arise during the sensitive time right after tanning.
How To Make This Homemade Tanning Lotion
This is a simple recipe to make! Just follow the simple steps below and you'll be ready to apply your lotion:
1) Take 3/4 cup of water, boil it and pour into a mug with your 3 black tea bags. Place it off to the side to allow it to brew for a couple of minutes.
2) Take a 1/4 cup of coconut oil, 1/4 cup of lanolin and 1/4 cup of tea and pour them all into your blender. Start it up and as you're blending, slowly pour in the remaining 1/2 cup of tea.
3) Mix until the lotion start to look nice and even.
4) At last you're ready to apply!
This homemade tanning lotion is seriously going to accelerate the process. If you're a little on the pale side, I recommend starting off with no more than 5 minutes in a tanning bed or 10 minutes of direct sunlight.
The black tea combined with the coconut oil is messy when it comes to staining clothes. At the same time you don't want to wash it off right away. Doing this will remove any nutrients before they have a chance to absorb properly into your skin. You want to give it at least 2 hours to soak in.
If you're heading to the salon, always take an old change of clothes and DON'T WEAR WHITE!
Enjoy your tan! Just don't overdue it!
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We also played Headbanz as a family today, which was fun. Caleb's first question was, "Am I a mystical creature?" Which made us all laugh. That's just so Caleb!
Abby's wonderful teacher FaceTimed with her this evening, which brought smiles. She is seriously the best!!
While we are hoping to transfer to rehab tomorrow, there are a lot of insurance hoops still to jump through because of the holiday. It may not be until Wednesday. Our insurance doesn't have a rehab benefit, but it has to be submitted and denied before it can be submitted to Medicaid. None of that can happen until tomorrow because of the holiday.
Tonight, I'm taking one last opportunity to get a decent night's sleep before heading to rehab. Caleb and I are back at RMH tonight with big plans to watch the second Harry Potter movie. :)


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I love you, my sweet boy. I hope you never doubt that. Even when things get hard to understand. You're one year old now. Such a big boy. I have always felt, though, that you have an old soul. Like you are just waiting for your body to catch up so you can show me (and the rest of the world) all of your big ideas.
You are so beautiful. Everyone comments on your big blue eyes. I have loved your little chin since the moment we met. And your soft, pudgy hands with such capable long piano player fingers make me so happy when I feel them on mine.
Your daddy thinks you look like me. I think so too. I love seeing the shape of my eyes staring back at me. I love that you got your Grandpa McGuire's hair. I love your long legs and cute little beany bum. You got your daddy's skin though. It is the softest skin I have ever felt. I love the spot at the very bottom of your cheeks. Almost where it meets your neck. That's where I kiss you when I come to say goodnight to you before I go to sleep.
You are such a fast crawler. You can be halfway up the stairs before I find you. You know how to open doors unless they are shut all the way. You love things with buttons. You love glasses and anything shiny. And you know what you like and how to get it. I love watching you learn about a new object. You turn it over and over in your hands until you have felt every surface.
I love watching you find delight in something. The wind, sunshine, a toy you've never played with before. You throw your head back and grin, soaking it all in. You can't teach passion like that.
You are so curious. You get into drawers and cupboards. You climb the playground jungle gyms and explore the slides fearlessly. You tell me about every single one of your adventures in the car on the way home. Until you drift off to sleep.
Someday, we'll talk about your dreams. I know they're larger than life. I hope they stay that way.
For now, I love that you are my little boy. That I get to carry you up to bed and feel your warm breath on my neck. and smell your soft hair. My baby. You always will be.
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I would like to share my definition of irony. We have three boys...all cub scouts. That's nine pinewood derby's between 'em. I also have one husband who spends a good part of the year on business travel. We get that he has to travel, but it always seems to coincide when we need him here. Take the pinewood derby. We're not gung-ho derby enthusiasts. We always wait until the week of the race to start our kits. We never use tools the way they're meant to be used. Why use a jig saw when miter saw will get the job done...sort of. I can't think of a single time that we entered a car with dry paint. Our car always has pennies (and sometimes nickles and quarters) taped to it in an effort to meet the weight requirements.
We can deal with having the ugliest car in the race. But how do you console a child when they have the ugliest and SLOWEST car? Ours have literally stopped on the tracks and had to be prodded down to the finish line. I get that Dad couldn't have done much at this point, but it sure would have been nice to have him around pretending to know exactly where to apply the grease lightening!
Guess what. Our local Pack's Pinewood Derby is this week. My husband is town! The irony? Our youngest is now a boy scout and too old to participate. Go figure!


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A pretty long while ago I wrote a tutorial with how to setup a reverse SSL proxy server using apache. There is a good article at Security focus on setting up a reverse proxy server and using the mod_security mod. Tempted to update my tutorial now to include the mod_security
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As global data centers continue to demand more storage capacity to
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Sacred Heart Schools has served the Louisville area community for nearly 140 years, committed to helping students to grow from learners to leaders. Click on the tabs below to learn about our long and illustrious history.
A request for teachers to the Ursuline Sisters of Germany came from Louisville. Three young Ursulines answered the request, traveling to Louisville to teach German immigrant children at St. Martin's school. By 1859, the Sisters had established Ursuline Academy at the corner of Shelby and Chestnut streets.
The Sisters incorporated the Ursuline Society and Academy of Education.
In the 1870s, more space was needed to accommodate the growing number of sisters, students and boarders. The community purchased property on Workhouse Road (later known as the Lexington Road campus).
In October, classes began in an existing farmhouse, and the Academy of the Sacred Heart opened for grades 1 through 12.
Fire severely damaged the original Academy of the Sacred Heart building.
Sacred Heart Junior College, offering two-year degrees, was established on the campus.
The Academy became two schools: Sacred Heart Academy, a high school for girls, and Sacred Heart Model School, a grade school for boys and girls. Student teachers from Sacred Heart College performed their teaching practicum at the school, which is the reason for the word "Model" in the school's name. Two years later, construction began on SHA's own building. Construction also began on Ursula Auditorium.
Sacred Heart Junior College became a four-year college and was renamed Ursuline College.
In the 1940s, additional land was needed for the growing student population. Six additional acres of land known as the Barker Place on the eastern edge of the Lexington Road campus was purchased.
By the early 1950s, the Model School had outgrown the 100-year-old building where it was housed. Without funding for new construction, the sisters decided to close the school.
Parents and the Ursuline Sisters were determined to save the popular school, and on May 27, 1955, the cornerstone was laid for a new Sacred Heart Model School.
A third Ursuline high school was built near St. Lawrence Church in Shively, Kentucky. It was named Angela Merici High School.
On January 16, 1962, ground was broken for a new Sacred Heart Academy. It included a cafeteria, auditorium/gym, chapel and convent.
The Ursuline Special Education Center for children with learning disabilities opened thanks to generous donors, including WHAS-TV's Crusade for Children.
The Ursuline Montessori School (now Sacred Heart Preschool) opened in September of 1967. Modeled after the classic work of Dr. Maria Montessori, the school's aim is to nurture and cultivate each child's own natural desire to learn. One year later, the Ursuline School of Music (now Sacred Heart School for the Arts) opened to serve the various schools on the Ursuline Campus and in the community. The school is open to students of all ages.
Ursuline College became part of Bellarmine College and moved from its Ursuline Campus location.
Recognizing the need to provide additional childcare for working parents who had children enrolled in SHMS or the Ursuline Montessori School, the Ursuline Sisters opened the Ursuline Child Development Center (now Sacred Heart Preschool).
After studying the feasibility of sponsorship (a ministry of influence) and separately incorporating their community-owned schools, the Ursuline Congregation proposed that some schools and programs on the Ursuline campus be separate from the Ursuline Society and Academy of Education.
On June 26, 1990, Ursuline Campus Schools, Inc. became a separate corporation sponsored by the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville and included Sacred Heart Academy, Sacred Heart Model School, Ursuline Child Development Center, Ursuline Montessori School and Ursuline School for the Performing Arts.
On August 15, 2008, Ursuline Campus Schools officially changed its corporate name to Sacred Heart Schools at Ursuline Campus (SHS). From this evolved the following school names: Sacred Heart Academy, Sacred Heart Model School, Sacred Heart Preschool and Sacred Heart School for the Arts.
In May 2010, Sacred Heart Schools announced it had surpassed its $9.55 million Ursuline United Capital Campaign goal. The campaign, just the second and by far the largest undertaken by the school, kicked off in November 2004. The capital campaign projects included the state-of-the-art renovation and expansion of the Ursuline Arts Center and Tom and Barbara Thieneman Atrium; construction of a new Sacred Heart Model School gym; renovation of Sacred Heart Academy's four science labs; construction of the Cissy Musselman Connector and fitness room at SHA; redesign of SHA's front entrance, which includes a lit tower; creation of the R. F. Joseph Amphitheater and a piazza with a life size statue of St. Angela; and, construction of two new roads to link the east and west sides of campus.
Sacred Heart Schools was granted District Accreditation from the AdvanED Accreditatino Commission. Sacred Heart Schools, and each of its four member schools, are now recognized across the nation as a quality school system.


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Four terrorists arrested in Lahore
According to intelligence sources, law enforcement agencies raided the city's Thokar Niaz Baig area after intelligence personnel intercepted terrorists' communication.
Four terrorists and their facilitator were arrested in the raid. They were shifted to an unknown location for investigation.
Latest weapons and suicide jackets were also recovered from the saboteurs during the raid, sources added.
It is being said that the militants were planning to carry out a major terrorist attack in Punjab's capital.


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KAYLAD-e | trike evolved [2013]
Kaylad-e is the end result of a thesis/graduation project, presented in late 2013. The brief was to design a hybrid vehicle for commuting in the modern metropolis. Kaylad-e aims to help people make the shift to active means of transport in a safe, stylish and enjoyable manner. Everyone enjoys different things in an experience. This is due to different mindsets, culture, situations, environment etc. Fun and enjoyment was one of the most important guidelines of Kaylad-e. The first goal was to remove as many of the stress factors and discomfort of commuting by bicycle as possible. Thus enabling the rider to enjoy all the aspects of the ride. The second was to create a product that will last and mature over time. Choice of materials and the ability to adapt to new technology [battery, motor etc.] are a crucial step in that direction.


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PAYE: employment-related securities: securities disposed of for more than market value
Part 7 Chapter 3D ITEPA 2003
Part 7 Chapter 3D ITEPA 2003 was introduced with effect from 16 April 2003 by Schedule 22 FA 2003. It provides for a charge to income tax in certain cases if employment-related securities are disposed of for a consideration that exceeds the market value of the employment-related securities at the time of the disposal.
The Share Schemes Manual will be amended to provide detailed guidance in due course.
Section 698 ITEPA 2003 was fundamentally amended by Schedule 22 FA 2003 with effect from 1 September 2003. Where an amount counts as employment income of an employee by reason of Part 7 Chapter 3D, then by virtue of Section 698 the employer is required to operate PAYE if the relevant employment-related securities are readily convertible assets(see EIM12400).
The employer is not required to operate PAYE on an amount that counts as employment income of an employee by reason of Part 7 Chapter 3D if the relevant event occurs on a day before 1 September 2003.


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Have a look at the events and exhibitions taking place at Swansea Museum.
You can also keep up to date by signing up to our 'museums and galleries' monthly e-mail – you can unsubscribe at any time.
Enjoy varied exhibitions about Swansea's past, all FREE to attend at Swansea Museum.
Opening hours (main building)
Open Tuesday – Sunday
Closed Mondays except Bank Holiday Mondays
10.00am – 5.00pm (last admission 4.40pm)
Free admission


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If your website isn't getting the traffic you hope for, maybe you've not properly optimized it to be found by search engines. Search engine optimization (SEO) is an important step for getting your website listed in the top 10 search engine listings when someone is searching for a keyword that applies to your business. That makes SEO a key small business marketing strategy for you to consider.
Here are some tips I picked up from SEOMoz, specialists in this field.
The first step is to know the keywords that will get your website listed. Pathmaker Marketing LLC is a solid online fundraising company and non profit consultant that does extensive research for our clients. We first identify the keywords that could apply (the list is always quite long), then we get the client's input, then we run them through a difficulty ranker. The difficulty ranker helps us determine which keywords will be the easiest for us to get a higher listing for on our client's behalf. We can help you with this step. Give us a call at 623-322-3334 to see if there's a fit.
Once you know your keywords, then you can begin the process of optimizing your site. Here are some important elements.
HTML Tags – the most important one to use is the <TITLE> tag. Optimize every page of your site for a different keyword. Be sure to use the keywords near the front of the <TITLE> tag for the page you are optimizing. Also, while using the Meta Description won't get you a higher ranking, it will show under the title of the page in search results, so be sure to write a good description.
URL – if you can, get your keyword in the URL of the page. Shorter URLs work best, so don't hide your page behind lots of directories (example: www.yourbusiness.com/page is better than www.yourbusiness.com/directory1/directory2/page.
Body Copy – be sure to use your keywords two to three times on shorter pages and four to six times on longer pages, and get at least one of those occurrences in the first 50-100 words. Use the keywords in a context that makes sense. You can also use variations of the phrase throughout the copy. Use the <H1> tag for your headline rather than an image or just making the size of the text bigger. Use <ALT> tags (using your keyword) for images, and try to name images using the keyword. It wouldn't hurt to put the keyword in bold/italics at least once, but this only helps a little.
Linking – link to pages within your site (and make the click-through depth shallow), and do your best to get other sites to link to you. When you do, ask if you can provide the appropriate text. This small business marketing strategy will often mean you'll need to do reciprocal links. Don't be afraid of that – just open the link up in a new window so people won't lose your website, but don't make the link any more prominent than necessary.
Social Networking – have social and professional networking accounts, and link to your site from them. Work to get followers/friends in your accounts.
According to SEOMoz, here is the weight of the various factors considered in search engine optimization. Take them into consideration and make them part of your small business marketing strategies.
- Trust/authority of your domain – 23.87%
- Link popularity of specific pages – 22.33%
- Anchor text of external links to specific pages – 20.26%
- On-Page keyword usage – 15.04%
- Registration and hosting data – 6.91%
- Traffic and Click Through Ratio (CTR) data – 6.29%
- Social graph metrics (the popularity of your site in social networks) – 5.30%
A good graphic and blog post from SEOMoz that illustrates this topic further can be seen and read here:


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Fog City News is a place where I spend many of my lunch break at. If you work at San Francisco Financial District, you MUST check out this place. I love their magazines and chocolate selection. If you don't work at San Francisco Financial District, you can always pay a visit on a Saturday afternoon.
As Fog City News claims on it's website –
"Fog City News carries the largest stock of magazines in the Bay Area. The foreign publication section — alone — totals over 700 titles from more than 25 different countries — larger than the entire stock of most newsstands!
Fog City News imports hundreds of premium chocolate bars from around the world — one of the largest collections in the United States."
I always find myself fill with satisfaction when I walk out this store with my favorite magazines and chocolate bars.
Fog City News
455 Market Street, SF, CA 94105
Sat Noon-5
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Lunch Menu
Mirza Farangee - Grilled eggplant folded over a mixture of sautéed onion, garlic tomato, feta cheese and herbs.
Topped with cugurt sauce and served with toasted garlic pita. $8
Humus - Homemade chickpeas paste with garlic, scallion, parsley, lemon juice, and tahini sauce. Served with fresh veggies and nan. $8
With chicken $12
Baba Ganuj - An eggplant paste made with black pepper, lemon juice, parsley, garlic and green onion. Mixed with tahini and served with fresh veggies and nan. $8
Humus and Baba Plate -With julienne of veggies and bread $10
Dolmeh - Steamed stuffed grape leaves with tabouli and raisin, served over rice and topped with cugurt sauce. $8
Cucumber Yogurt Sauce (Cugurt) - Home-made yogurt mixed with chopped cucumber and dried mint, served with bread. $4
***Vegan fresh and delicious homemade lentil soup, served with nan.
Cup $2.50 Bowl $3.50
Basic One - A cup of soup, a bowl of rice and a house salad all in one platter. $8
Mediterranean Salad - Medley of fresh herbs; Romaine lettuce, spinach, parsley, chives, mint, basil and dill
with capers, feta cheese, minced garlic, tossed olive oil, lemon juice, tomato, cucumber and olives. $8
With chicken, tofu of falafel $12
With schrimp $14
With salmon $16
With lamb gyros $12
Tabouli Salad - Bulgur wheat mixed with mint, parsley, tomato, spinach and lemon juice and a touch of olive oil served on a bed of romaine lettuce. $7
With chicken, tofu of falafel $10
With salmon $14
With lamb gyros $10
Shirazi - tomato, cucumber, onion, mint, lemon juice and salt. $5
House Season Salad - A mix of fresh herbs with fresh veggies served with house dressing and nan $5
Spicy Chicken Herb Salad - Fresh house season salad served with grilled breast of chicken with a touch of feta cheese and house dressing, served with toasted garlic pita. $12
Caesar Salad - Romaine lettuce mixed with house made Caesar dressing with fresh toasted garlic pita croutons $8.
With chicken $12
With salmon $16
With lamb gyro $12
Angel Hair Feta Salad - An avocado, lemon juice and soy dressing with mixtureof our house season salad and pasta, topped with saffron, almond, raisen mix and garlic toasted pita $12
With chicken $15
Veggies Sandwich - Warm pita pocket filled is laced with avocado, filled with fresh veggies, herbs and feta
cheese, topped with sprouts, a sprinkle of olive oil vinegar dressing $8
Falafel in Pita - Pan fried mixed chick peas and favo beans in a warm pita pocket with herbs, pickles, and tomato. Topped with tahini sauce. $5
Tofu in Pita - Grilled tofu with onion, tomato, garlic, ginger, herbs in a pita pocket topped with cugurt sauce. Served with tabouli salad $8
Grilled Cheese - Provolone cheese and whole wheat bread laced with avocado, tomato, onion and herbs. $5
Gyros - Grilled strips of gyros, wrapped in pita topped with tomato, onion and cugurt sauce. $ 5
Grilled Cheese and Tofu - Layers of grilled tofu with soy and provolone cheese in a whole wheat bread laced with avocado, tomato, onion, and herbs. $8
Americhix in a Pita - Breast of chicken grilled with onion, garlic, tomato, peppers and mushroom, jalapeno, and soy sauce in a warm pita pocket with feta cheese and cugurt sauce. $9
Mirza in Pita - Eggplant grilled with olive oil, onion, tomato, garlic, feta cheese and herbs in a warm pita pocket topped with cugurt sauce. $8
With chicken $10
Gyros and Eggplant - Both grilled eggplant and gyros wrapped in a provolone cheese laced handmade pita bread with tomato, onion, and cugurt sauce. $10
Purple Shoots - A combination of grilled eggplant and braised asparagus topped with sautéed onion, garlic,
tomato, feta cheese, herbs and cugurt sauce. Served with rice $12
With chicken $15
With salmon $16
Falafel and Dolmeh - Chick peas croquette served over fresh tomato, pickle relish, topped with tahini sauce and steamed stuffed grape leaves with tabouli bulgar grain served over rice topped with cugurt sauce. Enjoy! $10
Spinach Burger - A herb patty with parsley, chives, spinach fenugreek and walnuts, topped with onion, garlic , tomato, feta cheese and cugurt sauce served over rice and a cup of lentil soup. $12
Merza and Gyros - Grilled gyros strips with Persian spice, served with stuffed grilled eggplants with sauteed onion, garlic, tomato, feta cheese, fresh mixed herbs and cugurt sauce. $12
Merza and Dolmeh - Grilled eggplant stuffed with sautéed fresh tomato, garlic, onion, and feta cheese served next to steamed stuffed grape leaves with tabouli bulgar grain over rice and topped with cugurt sauce $12
Spudburger - Braised potatoes mixed with Persian spices, carrots, celery and mushrooms, topped with sauteed onion, tomato , garlic, feta cheese and cugurt sauce, served over rice and side of fresh salad. $12
Veggie Stir Fry - Broccoli, cauliflowers, carrots, celery, cabbages, sno peas, turnips and more with tomato, onion , and garlic olive oil, stir-fried with soy sauce, topped with sesame seeds and served with rice. $12
With chicken or tofu $15
With shrimp $16
Gyros Platter - Strips of gyros are grilledwith Persian spices and served with fresh veggies, herbs, cugurt sauce and pita. $12
Mexigyros - Gyros are grilled with hot peppers, mushroom, tomato, cilantro and cumin. Served with rice and cugurt sauce. $12
Shish Kabob - Marinated filet mignoncharbroiled with bell pepper, tomato, served with onion, rice and cugurt sauce. $15
Chicken Kabob - Breast of chicken is marinated and charbroiled with tomato, served with rice and cugurt sauce. $12
Angel Hair Pasta - Grain pasta prepared with cheese sauce, feta cheese and parmesan cheese, served with toasted garlic pita. $12
With chicken or tofu $14
With schrimp $15
With salmon $16
Vegan Pumpkin Pie $5.50
Vegan Carrot Cake $5.50
Vegan Carob Chocolate Cheesecake $8.50
Baklava Persian (with pistachio) and/or Greek (with walnuts) $5.50
Pistachio Saffron Ice cream $6.50
Mango Ice Cream $6.50
Rice pudding $5.50
Apple Juice $2.50
Fresh Carrot Juice 3.50
Freash Carrot Apple Ginger 4.50
Fresh Carrot Beet Celery 4.50
Mango juice $3
Dough (homemade yogurt drink) $3
Perrier $3.00
Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite $3
Pomegranate juice $3.50
Lemonade, home-made with honey and rose water $3.50
Tea & Coffee
Iced teas: mint, peach, plain, cinnamon, green $2.50
Hot teas: mint, peach, plain, cinnamon, ginseng $3
Persian Hot Chai - with cardamon, rose water $3
Coffee and Decaffeinated coffee $3
Turkish Coffee 3.50
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Difference between revisions of "User talk:IBAlex"
Revision as of 22:40, 14 May 2013
Here are archived discussions on my Talk Page.
Fixed image widths
I was a little concerned about this edit of yours http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Singapore&curid=773&diff=1999726&oldid=1999264
It's great to add some pretty pictures but I think you need to remember that all our casual readers have their page width reduced by the adverts that appear on the right and many may have slow connections or narrow screens.
That's partly why we have these policies: http://wikitravel.org/shared/Image_policy#Minimal_use_of_images and http://wikitravel.org/shared/Image_policy#Image_sizes and this advice: Wikitravel:How_to_add_an_image#Sizing
What do you think are the chances of this proposal being implemented: Wikitravel:Travellers'_pub#Default_image_sizes_in_Thumbnails?
I've only changed the specification of the lead image, but you may want to consider removing the fixed width of 400px from the other images in our Singapore article after you have read the references above - especially as Singapore currently has star status, meaning it should comply with all our current policies!. --118dot93dot73dot30 15:10, 1 March 2013 (EST)
The spam filter does not allow me to create a template to facilitate the display of panorama style images on small screen widths. Here is the code which needs to replace the current truncated code:
Thanks for your anticipated assistance. --118dot93dot73dot30 20:55, 5 March 2013 (EST)
-> 'style( )*\=( )*(\"|')?overflow( )*\:( )*auto'
Can you find this edit to your user page in the log? --118dot93dot73dot30 16:39, 7 March 2013 (EST)
We made it, Alex! You can see the (working) result of the new {{panorama}} template here: User:118dot93dot73dot30/Test & here; I'm particularly gratified to see that the width of the displayed panorama box reduces its width automagically (at least with my XP and Linux Firefox browsers) if the window or tab width is decreased. Try it!
That overflow phrase can be powerful, so, if you are unable to assign any special editing privileges to me, it might be wiser to restore the local spam filter to what it was now we've got it working. It will be difficult and tedious for me to introduce new templates here if I keep running into this sort of problem, though... --118dot93dot73dot30 19:04, 7 March 2013 (EST)
I'm afraid your filters are making it impossible for me to do any useful work here.
Check the filter logs for my recent edits that were forbidden please.
Just now I wanted to test a new article title display format to avoid the problem of having a very thin lead paragraph squeezed between an infobox and a table of contents but was stopped again.
Please replace display:THWARTED with display:nOVEMBER(no space between the 4 letters and don't use the capitalised parts of the NATO spelling alphabet)oSCAR(no space between the 4 letters and don't use the capitalised parts of the NATO spelling alphabet)nOVEMBER(no space between the 4 letters and don't use the capitalised parts of the NATO spelling alphabet)eCHO, wherever it occurs below, and then substitute the proper code for the current first line at South Island/Title Template, please:
Please would you favour me with a reply to the above request? --118dot93dot73dot30 19:11, 13 March 2013 (EDT)
I'm getting a little frustrated that my efforts to drastically improve the look and feel of our articles are getting thwarted by the lack of a reply - it's been a week now. --118dot93dot73dot30 15:16, 17 March 2013 (EDT)
Thank you!
Hi, thank you so much for your friendly welcome! Unfortunately I can't find out how to reply on my own page - maybe you can tell me? I enjoy contributing to Wikitravel very much and hope to do more in the future! It's a great project! Kind regards, MissGraham
Should IBadmins ignore policy
when Wikitravel:Don't_tout#Don.27t_include_referral_codes_in_URLs states clearly "Referral codes don't benefit travellers and will lead to removal of the listing"?
By doing this, I think you are sending the wrong message since a bit of carrot and stick is needed with the marketeers... --118dot93dot73dot30 16:44, 12 April 2013 (EDT)
here's an interesting edit --118dot93dot73dot30 18:03, 19 April 2013 (EDT)
Checkuser requested
For newly created account Special:Contributions/Corncob believed to be a parallel account of Special:Contributions/Edralin and Special:Contributions/Duskromano because of their patterns of editing and specific and idiosyncratic MoS errors (not outlined here because of security concerns). --118dot93dot73dot30 01:44, 19 April 2013 (EDT)
Have replied on my page
Hi Alex. I have replied on my page to your question there. Cheers. Nurg (talk) 21:11, 18 April 2013 (EDT)
Blocking users from editing their own talk page
I do not believe it complies with either our policies (as currently enunciated) or natural justice that a blocked user "cannot edit own talk page". Do you, and if you do, why please? --118dot93dot73dot30 19:57, 19 April 2013 (EDT)
Page protection
Changed rosters mean I will probably be unable to edit for 5 days - so you might want to protect these two pages from the taxi touts for a week or two: Lake Toba, Parapat --118dot93dot73dot30 03:33, 23 April 2013 (EDT)
It may be just a question of poor English, but are they misrepresenting that there is current e-mail correspondence with you? If they have a genuine case for listing then it would be far better that they made it on the associated discussion page of each article they want to tout in... --118dot93dot73dot30 11:38, 23 April 2013 (EDT)
Thank you!
Thanks for the kind words regarding the photos I uploaded for the London page (and thanks for utilizing them!) I've got some of Bruges & York which I think could be suitable. I'll have a look through my archives, dig them out and upload them in the next couple of days! :)
Listing of providers
Hello Alex,
We have an office in Senaru, Lombok, and offer Rinjani treks, so I added our agency on the Mount Rinjani page, where there was already a list of guides and trekking providers.
One user - Felix505 - always deletes us. He was writing that there are already sufficient providers listed and that we don't have enough experience, even if my husband is climbing Rinjani with guests for a long time. He started to be a guide 11 years ago and last year in April we opened our own office and organise Rinjani trips now.
We were reading the guidelines but couldn't find a note about expertism of listed offices. We have only seen that it has to be a "real world" office with address, phone number, and so on. And we have also seen that it's written wikitravel is not the Yellow Pages. But also: "The Wiki technique we use for Wikitravel makes it possible for us to include information that's not in other travel guides. This doesn't mean that we only include information not found in other guides. Wikitravel aims to be a complete travel guide -- not just an additional resource on the side of traditional guides." For us that looks like you want to offer a list of good providers, well established offices but also new ones.
We don't understand how a single user can decide, if a company is listed or not. Why does he has the right to delete us? It would be great, if you could help us.
Best wishes, Sandra and Andreas
Re: Barcelona page
Hi Alex, thanks for contacting me, it's great to hear from you again! As requested, I've written a detailed analysis in response to the discussion you started here. I hope it helps! :) BarcelonaExpert (talk) 20:11, 13 May 2013 (EDT)


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On a very hot July day Edwin Cuss and Syd Flatman gave thirteen members of the Friends of Gloucestershire Archives (who braved the heat, the pre-airshow bustle and aircraft noise) a very interesting historical tour of the town. A post visit quote was "Lovely to be shown around an area by locals who know all the hidden gems." Two of the members who had been on a town walk on a previous occasion had a tour of St Mary's Church by Geoff Hawkes, they were delighted to be shown round by the expert. All the members then had a tea provided by the Society in the Heritage Room.
FoGA was established in 1993 to provide help and support to the Gloucestershire Archives (then called Gloucestershire Record Office) and to educate people in the importance of preserving the county's archives. See www.foga.org.uk for more information)


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|Mr. Donald Morrison
South Uist
|Additional Info:
|This is one of 9 family members belonging to Mr. John Morrison. Nothing is known about them other than what is on the stone.
|Gravestone Inscription:
|Pray For The Souls Of
John Morrison Born 1843 Died 1935
Mary Morrison Born 1859 Died 1926
John Morrison Born 1896 Died 1919
Donald J. Morrison Born 1902 Died 1924
Catherine Morrison, Wife Of John Morrison, Joiner, Kilphedar who died 20 Dec. 1888 Aged 48 Years
Also Their Family
Donald Who Died 18 Sept. 1892 Aged 27
John Who Died 10 Dec. 1887 Aged 26
Allan Who Died 20 June 1891 Aged 19
Kate Who Died 15 March 1891 Aged 22
Mary Who Died 12 Aug. 1898 Aged 16
"Erected By Members Of The Family"
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Alternatively, if you would like to send me a voice message or record a voice dedication for me to use on one of the shows, please use the form below.
Just click record, allow access to your microphone of course, and you can play it back as many times as you like before you send it to me. You must put your email address in and voiced dedications MUST be in before noon on the Friday before a show, to give me time to arrange them.


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Last time the challenge was 'In the country' chosen by Janice. We had some great entries so pop over to OLL to see if you're a winner! (link in sidebar)
This is my 'Love and Romance' card for you.
I have used the CD 'Say it with words'. The DP, image, banner strip and greeting all come from this CD. there are some lovely images and inspirational words o0n this CD.. A real treat!!
I hope you have a great crafty week and I look forward to visiting your blogs.


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Tuesday, 8 October 2013
A tale of two cities
This spring I had a "historical french literature"-theme, starting with The three Musketeers, going on to Les Miserables, and then the entire Scarlet Pimpernel-series.
After having read so much about the time around the French Revolution, I thought, "why not have a good and nice wrap-up to this theme, by reading A tale of two Cities?"
So I did... and it left me rather traumatised...
Don't get me wrong, it was a good book,with a plot full of twists and surprises, and probably gave the most accurate picture of the French Revolution, of all the books I have read, regarding that period of time.
And that was the traumatising part...
I guess I had a rather romantic view on the period, due to the 8 Scarlet Pimpernel-books I'd just read (and also because in Les Miserables, the main characters all loved the French Revolution), but there's nothing of that in Charles Dickens' writing - it is all painfully realistic.
The following will contain a lot of spoilers, so if you intend to read the book, don't read this.
First of all I found the book a little confusing, due to the changes of narrators and all the characters you are introduced to, who don't seem to be connected at all. However I liked that you see some of the pre-revolution-France, it made me understand the reasons people had for rebelling more clearly. And I actually liked the revolutionaries - that is, until all the violence started.
At first I had a hard time discovering who was actually the main character - but I admit after being introduced to Sidney Carton, there wasn't any doubt. He is definitely my favourite character - and also the most pitiable character. I felt so sorry for him during the entire book, where he never got what he wanted. And then the ending. I think that was what traumatised me the most (I just don't like deaths in books/movies).
The last pages of the books I constantly hoped he would find an escape, and when he didn't I was just thinking, "WHY? WHY DID HE HAVE TO DIE?`"
By the way was I the only one thinking "where is the scarlet pimpernel when you need him" during the entire execution scene?
I was mostly shocked by the ending, because I was under the impression the Charles Dickens wrote happy endings. And yes, upon analysing the ending, I can see that in some way it was a happy ending for Sidney - he finally found a purpose with his life (even if was dying), and he saved the happiness of the woman he loved, but still... a happy ending in my opinion is no deaths whatsoever.
And another thing that irritated me to no ends, was that his sacrifice wouldn't even have been necessary if Charles Darnay hadn't been so stupid to go to France. I mean wasn't that rule no 1 for french aristocrats who valued their life? - "Don't go to France in the middle of a revolution, whose main purpose is to kill all of your kind."
So, yeah, after reading that book I swore never to read anything about the French revolution again ( I actually also swore I would never read Charles Dickens again, but I guess I can't blame him for writing realistically about a terrible time period)
So now I'm moving on to non-french authors and stories with a happier theme.
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Well, you don't need to swear off French books forever! I don't think I'd give up Les Mis even if every other French book on the planet was terrible. But not every French book is terrible...certainly Phantom of the Opera was very good (although also rather traumatizing), and I loooove TSP.ReplyDelete
And by the way, have you seen the Tale musical? It is SO GOOD. I just thought I'd recommend it. :)
I've followed your blog- thanks for following mine! :)Replies
Well thanks a lot for following my blog :)Delete
Don't worry I have no intention of stop reading French books, I have way to many favourites to do that (especially the two you mention). I just intend read some books of another nationality.
And no, haven't seen the musical, but seen it recommended at several blogs, so I just might watch it after all
If you haven't read it and need a good post revolutionary story with romance and European history, spiced with fiction though, I can highly recommand "Désirée" by Annemarie Selinko. It would be interesting to hear you opinion about itReplyDelete
Hugs :)


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The Sports Xchange
West Virginia hires former Penn State assistant Bradley
Longtime Penn State assistant coach Tom Bradley is joining the West Virginia staff.
The school announced Friday night the hiring of Bradley as senior associate head coach and a yet to be determined defensive coaching position.
"Tom brings numerous years of successful college coacing experience and versatility," West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said. "He is an excellent defensive teacher, has high energy and intensity and gives us a proven recruiter with regional and national ties.
"I look forward to Tom joining the Mountaineer family, and I know he will work extremely well with Tony (Gibson), our defensive coordinator. The two have known each other for quite some time and share many of the same philosophies. We have put together a strong defensive staff under Tony's leadership."
The 57-year-old Bradley served on Joe Paterno's staff for 33 years at Penn State. He replaced Jerry Sandusky as defensive coordinator in 1999 and remained in that role until he took over as interim coach for four games during the 2011 season after Paterno was dismissed in the wake of the Sandusky sexual-abuse scandal.
"I am truly excited to join the West Virginia football program," Bradley said. "I want to thank Coach Dana Holgorsen and (athletic director) Oliver Luck for this tremendous opportunity to contribute to the continued growth and success of the Mountaineer football program.
"Tony Gibson and I have recruited against each other in Pennsylvania for a lot of years, and it will be good to finally be on his side. I look forward to working with my friend to build a strong defensive unit at West Virginia."
When Bill O'Brien was hired as Penn State coach in 2012, Bradley resigned. He spent the past two seasons working in broadcasting as a college football analyst.


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Can anyone change injectors or would it have to be a dealer? I've heard that they need to be programed in?
Reach for the sky, climb every mountain higher.
I have and the fuse is fine, I changed it anyway (f22) I think it's either injector fault or wiring loom as I do sometimes get engine speed sensor error after a long time cranking, and before someone says I have replaced both engine speed sensors, could also be the M prop valve?
I have checked all the pipes, if I had a leak would it not weep a little bit of diesel? Even if it was a filter seal? One of the filters is under pressure so that one would definitely leak right?
And it's had a small knocking noise on idle most of the time I've had it
We rigged up a new tank above the radiator fed directly to the lp pump with a bulb type primer inline and had it running, then stopped it left it till morning and se think happened, just cranked over!
There are a couple of observations I will make to the 6480 not starting, if the speed fault is showing, and a whiff of easy start starts it, you need too check the voltage drop when starting,as the ecm needs 8-9 volts to start the tractor, this can be caused by a lazy starter, leads or a too low a cca battery.
Sorry Spud I haven't a clue what tractor you should change
Dilema time again! Three years since I wrote the op. 95 went for a Nov 13 reg 7620, been fine bar an odd addblue sensor and a set of brakes destroyed by an enthusiastic pilot.(Now on 4800hrs)
6490 continued to test my patience and was traded in for a new 7620 March 15 (Now on 3600hrs)
6180 caught fire on the road in Sept 16 and was destroyed. Replaced by a 10 reg 3000hr 6480 in Spring 17
3075 still here on 10400hrs
7480 still here with 12400hrs, but the brakes are now knackered, she breathes pretty hard and is (as you might expect, a bit tired) Hmmm. 7480 needs to go, its cost bugger all so far, but the writing is on the wall, and it does almost 1000hrs a year still. Cant afford downtime.
I had a self propelled sprayer for a year in 2015 - scatched an itch I suppose - I couldnt cope with the slow, noisy, lack of traction or comfort, and the constant demand it had for attention. Sold it. Back to the 7480 for spraying 16&17!
I went to see a few s/h tractors this week.
The options:
Step down the older 7620 and sell 7480 for a new 7720. Too expensive, and lose lighter tractor - as last times dilema with the 7495 (still wish I'd kept it and sold that bloody 6490!)
S/H late 7480 - very dear for what they are, if you can find a good one. New sprayer last year, electric compressor on it, but its a pain. Replacement 7480 needs air. Still need front links and pto for taty planting rig
S/H 7618 - prob favoured option - looking at sub 2000hrs so it will last long enough to outlast the others in the fleet, which will need changing soon enough.
S/H 7718 - can be found with 1000hrs for 10/12k under new price, but by the time front pto has been added, its too close to new price to be a contender
New 7718 - big jump from a 12k 7480 - need to spend a bit less to allow other replacements to take place
New 6718s - demod this back in October - super little tractor, very impressive, but very expensive, more than the 7718.
Time flies.
Regards, Spud
Would it be crazy to overhaul the one with the worn brakes and breathing engine if the transmission is sound? What would it cost, the whole lot could be put against tax.
The neg side would be spending say 10k but not actually have a tractor worth 10k more?
I was talking to neighbour who does similar thing to me and we run old Ford 8340s. They must be towards the end of life without major overhauls. They cost 9-11k 10+ years ago but to replace them for tractor with less than 6k hours and say 10 to 12 years means parting with a large wedge (to us at least). Couple that with the written down value being FA so a sale would be taxable.
If spending 10k gives you a machine that will give 5 years of acceptable service, the cost is 2k per year (plus the reduction in the residual value of the machine) - there are darned few machines which will appreciate in value as they are used and get older.


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In blue - ( I have been having a "Blue Period")
......and two examples of machine embroidered crazy patchwork...
...and a larger piece worked in silks, satins and velvets......
I only spend about two hours at a stretch doing the stitches, as much longer makes your eyes go doolally.
It's very enjoyable though, relaxing, and potentially addictive!
Hope you like them!
©Dar Msallema 2010-2011


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- Description
Executive Summaries/Applications due
- Website
- Competition Organizer
The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
- Submission Date
- Business Plan Submission Date
- Awards Date
- Total Prize Cash (US Dollars)
- Competition Category
- Graduate - Global
- Who's Eligible
The competition is open to all full- and part-time graduate students, not just MBA candidates, enrolled in a university. The management team must consist of at least one graduate student. Non-students may be members of the management team and participate in planning the venture; however, only students may present the plan in the competition on campus and answer questions from the judges.The competition is for new, independent ventures in the seed, start-up, or early growth stages.
- Important Dates
Team application begins on November 1, 2010. Applications and executive summaries are due on February 18, 2011. Qualifying teams will be asked to submit a full business plan by March 21, 2011. The final Competition will take place April 14-16, 2011.
- Competition Prizes
More than $1 Million in cash and in-kind prizes will be awarded. A $325,000 cash and investment prize will be offered to the Grand Prize winner of the competition. Total investment prizes will total $750,000 and total cash and investment prizes will be $1,300,000.
- Other Info
After the submission of an Intent to Compete and an executive summary, semi-finalists will be announced and asked to deliver a full-fledged business plan. Finalists will be announced and invited to the final competition, during which activities such as an elevator pitch round, a challenge/wildcard round, as well as oral presentations will take place to determine the prize winners.


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Receipts into Warehouse: Defective Aviation Fuel (AVTUR)
Persons who wish to dispose of defective, unmarked AVTUR (other than by use in aircraft engines) are to be informed that unless duty at tax type 541 rate is paid, it must be returned to duty-suspended storage, or to Remote Marking Premises for the addition of kerosene marker. (Special arrangements apply to waste AVTUR arising at RAF airfields. Oils assurance teams for such airfields have the details of those arrangements.) Unused AVTUR may be accepted as contaminated if:
- It has been off-loaded from aircraft tanks; or
- It has been in storage for over 6 months; or
- An oil company's laboratory report is produced showing that the fuel is not of the quality specified for aircraft use; or
- It has been drawn for CAA or quality control checks.
You may authorise the enquirer to add prescribed marker to the AVTUR in the tanks of the road or rail wagon as received at the installation, for re-delivery of the oil as marked Kerosene.
Collectors taking ownership of either AVTUR or marked kerosene must be approved as RDCOs prior to receipt.
See Notices 179a 'Mineral (Hydrocarbon) oils - AVTUR' and 192 'Registered Dealers in Controlled Oil'.