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CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — Accolades streamed in Monday for Frank Buckles, America's last surviving World War I veteran, who died shortly after midnight Sunday. He was 110.
Several area residents who knew or befriended Buckles offered remembrances.
There was no word at press time Monday whether a resolution sponsored by 13 U.S. senators passed the Senate to allow Buckles' body to lie in state in the Rotunda in the U.S. Capitol. According to the resolution, the ceremony would serve "as a tribute and recognition of all United States military members who served in the First World War."
The leading condolence honoring Buckles and remembering his surviving daughter, Susannah Buckles Flanagan, came from President Obama.
"Michelle and I were inspired by the service and life story of former Army Cpl. Frank W. Buckles. ... We join Susannah and all those who knew and loved her father in celebrating a remarkable life that reminds us of the true meaning of patriotism."
Condolences also came in from U.S. Sens. Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin, both D-W.Va., and U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va.
Buckles was born in Missouri. When he was 16, he lied about his age to get into the Army. He served as an ambulance driver in England and France.
During World War II, Buckles spent more than three years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines. A civilian, he was working for an American steamship company in 1941 when the Japanese invaded the island nation.
"Frank often talked about his ordeal in the prison camp and how it left him with lifelong effects," said Diane Mickelson of Gerrardstown, W.Va., Buckles' personal trainer for the last four years. She last saw Buckles at his home Feb. 21.
Mickelson said she first came to Gap View Farm, Buckles' cattle farm and homestead, twice a week when he was still able to walk to help him retain his mobility.
"We had a wonderful relationship," she said. "It's sad to lose a good friend. He was aware up to the end."
Terence Shotkoski, a director of Joseph Gawler's Sons Inc. funeral home in Washington, D.C., said Monday that he was waiting for instructions from the family about services and obituary information.
Buckles will be buried in Arlington (Va.) National Cemetery.
Don Amoroso of Shepherdstown, W.Va., spoke of the relationship between his father, Arnold D. Amoroso, and Buckles. They were prisoners in the same camp, but didn't know it until they met after the war at a reunion of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor.
Amoroso said Buckles told him that Gen. Douglas McArthur, commander of American forces in the Philippines in 1941, asked that crew members of the cargo ships remain because their ships would be needed to resupply his troops. Buckles ignored his captain's pleas to leave with the ship and ended up being captured, Amoroso said.
Charles Printz, 95, of Shepherdstown, was a fellow member with Buckles in the Gen. Adam Stephen Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. He said he met Buckles when both were in a play about John Brown in the 1950s.
"Frank used to tell me about being a prisoner, how he would eat anything the Japanese gave to stay alive, even worms," Printz said. "He said the prisoners who refused died."
Shepherdstown native John Schley recalled that Buckles was knowledgeable about Jefferson County history.
"We both belonged to the Jefferson County Historical Society. I guess I knew Frank as well as anyone," Schley said.
"I knew he was on one of those famous death marches in the Philippines, not the Bataan one, but another one," he said.


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I took my camera, just in case, so that I could get some cute pics of our lunch today. Warning, some might make your mouth water!!
Brayden had his first taste of Carino's bread!
Ella shared my cesar salad
She normally gets bowtie with alfredo and black olives,
but I made her switch it up.
Instead, she ate pizza with extra mozz and black olives.
This is my super yummy Turkey and Bacon Panini (add lettuce)!
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We had a great lunch, with great service (as always)!
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"It's " LIBERATION DAY" for GAY PEOPLE everywhere!!!! The road to liberation day has been a long one, filled with tears and a great fight, but one that thankfully does not include giving up hope. Today, the end of the road is a little bit closer. Today, two people in love can finally be recognized just like everyone else. Its about love, acceptance and life. This is not only about a piece of paper, its about human rights. Its about rejoicing in the beauty of each and every person living on this planet! Its about individuality and the right to exist!
Gay people are citizens just like everyone else and should be afforded the same rights. Without recognizing gay marriage as a legitimate expression of love, partnership and equality, we are still living in the dark ages-communicating a message of intolerance and hate. It's 2008. Its a new time. A new era. A time to wake up and "throw your illusions away." May all beings rejoice and be happy, as we get one shot- one life- to be all we can be, be the best humans we can be and to love and be loved equally, as we all bleed the same blood. To all my gay and lesbian peeps- this ones for you.
All my love and respect, FERRAS"
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Tuesday, 10 February 2009
How wouldn't want to spend a little time in this winter wonderland?
Photos by Esten Borgos, Arne Tønset and Stein W. Eriksen.
Røros Event
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Oh...I would!! So unreal :)ReplyDelete
Har vært i Røros for flere år siden. Regn! Masse regn hele dagn rundet! Skulle reise dit en gang til synes jeg! Bildene er herlig. Kjempeflott!ReplyDelete
Hilsen fra Pillepalle
i wish i was there right now!ReplyDelete
those photos give me a magical feeling. incredibly moving landscape and weather.ReplyDelete
ah, i was lucky enough to go to roros last year (hessdalen to be exact) - what an incredibly enchanting place - loved it, loved it!ReplyDelete
Pippi Longstocking loves Røros, too!ReplyDelete
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At a time when the partnerships between wholesalers and craft brewers are being scrutinized in the pages of mainstream and trade publications alike, one consulting firm believes the relationships are actually quite healthy and it has the survey results to prove it.
Tamarron Consulting, known for its annual Malt Beverage Supplier Performance Survey, which polls hundreds of U.S. beer distributors and asks them to rate performance and share perceptions of the leading domestic and import brands, recently made its first foray into craft beer with its inaugural Craft Brewer Performance Survey.
Eight craft brewers producing between 50,000 barrels and 200,000 barrels annually — Deschutes Brewery, Dogfish Head, Firestone Walker Brewing, Great Lakes Brewing, Green Flash Brewing, Harpoon Brewery, Odell Brewing and Stone Brewing — took part in the 44-question survey. Distributors graded those brands on a scale of 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent) and answered questions about leadership, distributor management, sales planning, forecasting, packaging and more.
And while the typical rhetoric surrounding distributor and craft brewer relationships might suggest a rift, results of the survey suggest otherwise.
"The scores for craft brewers, in general, were much higher than the scores for suppliers on our main survey," said Mike McDonnell, the vice president of Tamarron.
But those numbers could be somewhat misleading.
"The fact that there were fewer respondents for the craft survey, we think, had something to do with driving the scores up," he said. "We think that these distributors look at their national suppliers — companies like Anheuser-Busch InBev, MillerCoors and Heineken — and hold them to a higher level of expectations given the amount of resources they have in the market."
Nearly 50 percent of the distributors who received the Craft Brewer Performance Survey responded, McDonnell said. That's compared to about 40 percent participation that the company usually sees for its national Malt Beverage Supplier Performance Survey, which is sent to a larger set of wholesalers, McDonnell said.
Nonetheless, the results describe a view of the rapport between the industry's top craft suppliers and their distributor partners.
In general, the 219 distributors who responded to Tamarron's craft survey were satisfied with the current state of their craft brewery partnerships and optimistic that those relationships will improve over the next five years.
46 percent of distributors surveyed believe that the working relationship between wholesalers and craft brewers is "good" while 39 percent believe it is "very good." And 64 percent of those distributors believe that in five years, those relationships will improve.
Of the eight participating suppliers, Odell Brewing received the highest grades for relationship and performance — 100 percent of its distributors gave Odell an "A" or "B" grade. Deschutes was a close second, with 93 percent of its distributors grading the company as an A or B.
Meanwhile, two San Diego-based breweries — Green Flash and Stone Brewing — ranked the lowest in these areas. 77 percent of Green Flash's distributors gave the company an A or B grade for relationship and 66 percent of its partners graded the company an A or B in performance. Similarly, 76 percent of Stone's distributors graded their relationship an A or B and 68 percent gave the company an A or B for performance.
Both Stone and Green Flash also ranked the lowest in overall performance based on the results for all 44 "function-related" questions, while Odell and Deschutes ranked the highest, Tamarron reports.
The survey, which gives brewers and wholesalers insight into the strengths and weaknesses of a partnership, found that craft brewers score highest in areas such as packaging and customer service. Collectively, the eight brewers received an average score above 3.85 (very good) in areas like leadership, packaging, finance and revenue management and customer service.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the eight craft brewers scored the lowest in areas of national account placements, promotions and category management. In the national on-premise and off-premise accounts categories, brewers, on average, scored less than 3 (good).
The results suggest that while craft companies are at a disadvantage when accessing and working effectively with national chains, there is an opportunity for the eight participating breweries to become leaders or validators in the area of craft category management, Tamarron said.
Tamarron hopes to improve involvement in the survey next year and would like to grow the number of craft brewery participants to "about 12 to 14," McDonnell said.
Tamarron worked in conjunction with Odell Brewing's director of sales and marketing, Eric Smith, and Dogfish Head's vice president of sales, Adam Lambert, to develop the questions included in the survey, McDonnell said.


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Nov. 13 — In a Nov. 13 report, the National Association of Corporate Directors has highlighted three key findings that investors will prioritize for the upcoming proxy season.
NACD's "Investor Perspectives: Critical Issues for Board Focus in 2015" draws from discussions with major U.S. institutional investors in September and October.
According to the report, three themes emerged from these discussions regarding the upcoming proxy season:
• investors are focused on "drivers" of effective board leadership;
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According to the report, "investors emphasized that unilateral actions to change bylaws and/or their application in ways they believe adversely affect shareholder rights can be cause for significant concern."
According to the report, investors will hold directors accountable when they undermine shareholder rights.
One investor quoted in the report said, "We encourage directors to have some discussion—why a particular action is being taken, the potential impact on shareholders, whether investors should be allowed to weigh in—and provide a rationale where appropriate. Otherwise the board appears blind to investors' view,"
Recently, Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. adopted a standalone policy related to unilateral bylaw/charter amendments, stating that the firm will generally vote against directors that adopt amendments that "materially diminish[] shareholders' rights or that could adversely impact shareholders".
Also of concern for investors was the "reliance on the recommendations of outside advisors in the absence of broader input, especially feedback from major shareholders," the NACD report states.
Investors are more interested in "drivers" of outcome than the outcome itself, according to the NACD. Pursuant to this theme, investors highlighted two particular categories of boardroom processes: "Board 'refreshment' practices" and "Board engagement in strategy-setting and oversight of risk management activities."
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The Word for today:
Jeremiah 46, 47
Jeremiah 46, 47
What in the world is going on?
Turn on the TV news. Scenes from around the world flash across the screen. Suicide bombings in the Middle East; failing currencies in Europe; collapsing economies; epidemics and pandemics; earthquake upon earthquake; genocide; revolution; ethnic unrest; drug trafficking at unprecedented levels; famine; state-sponsored terrorism; tyranny; nuclear proliferation into rogue countries pledged to annihilate their enemies. The mind reels, trying to take it in.
In the United States a culture of dependency leaves stupefying deficits in its wake; citizens lose trust in their government; citizens lose trust in financial, educational, and media institutions. Immorality of every sort--which has always been rampant behind closed doors--emerges from the closet and parades down 5th Avenue with the mayor leading the way. As a nation, we have voted out God and made ourselves the legislators of right and wrong, the arbiters of life and death.
What in the world--and in the neighborhood--is going on?
In chapters 46 to 50, Jeremiah gives a portrait of a world which, we sense, we've seen somewhere before. In these chapters we flash, by imagination, from one country to the next, viewing all-too-familiar scenes of global disintegration. But the Bible reader comes away with a very different sense of things than the TV viewer does.
TV news leaves the viewer with a dizzying feeling that chaos reigns; while the Bible shows, paradoxically, that God is in control. The Bible reveals that history is not just "one thing after another," but is subject to God's purposeful direction.
What's going on is exactly what the Word of God says will go on. There's nothing on the newscast that's news to him.


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2 Contents About the EQ 3 Battle of the Giants: Apple vs. Google 5 Social Media Cheapskates 9 Who s Really Winning the Browser War? 12 Benchmark Reports 14 Methodology 20 References 20 About Monetate 21 Executive Summary Average order value (AOV) is one of the most important key performance indicators for any ecommerce business. And online marketers who use AOV to discover new visitor segments will see an immediate impact on their bottom line. There s plenty to be said about AOV for common customer segments such as new versus returning visitors, or shoppers with an affinity to a brand/category but to achieve long-term revenue and growth, successful ecommerce businesses will identify customers who spend the most money and get them to buy again and again. As website traffic continues to make a drastic shift from traditional desktop and laptop computers to smartphones and tablets, EQ takes a look at two visitor segments platform type and inbound traffic source that stand out as potential game-changers. Lastly, EQ tells the real story behind web browsers. While the amount of visitors accessing websites via traditional methods plummets, one web browser has nabbed a significant portion of market share and left the once-mighty Internet Explorer in the rearview mirror in a unique and revealing way. a monetate publication 2
3 ABOUT THE EQ As ecommerce companies look for ways to increase customer engagement and sales in a highly competitive online shopping environment, they re faced with challenges centered on massive amounts of data. This Big Data conundrum extends beyond the collection and storage of information about customers and prospects; the critical component of business intelligence is the ability to transform this never-ending stream of data into meaningful insights to create more relevant shopping experiences. Managing this data is a big part of delivering relevance. Using a combination of historical and real-time data to target each website visit can delight customers who then become extremely loyal and share their experiences with others. Ecommerce businesses that tackle Big Data head-on focus their attention on three primary visitor segments, groups that will be explored (with examples of each) in every release of the EQ: Predefined: New versus returning; referring traffic sources; technographics; geography. Custom or Proprietary: Demographics; proximity to location. In-Session Behavior: Shopping cart activity; brand or category affinity. a monetate publication 3
4 Technology providers like Monetate play an essential role in helping businesses understand this data and their audiences. Through the use of the Monetate Agility Suite and advice from Monetate s website optimization experts and content resources, businesses are now able to realize the unfulfilled promise of ecommerce: Delivering relevant messages to customers at the right place and at the right time. The EQ also provides takeaways and ideas that point to the importance ecommerce businesses must place on delivering a more engaging shopping experience to customers in ways that provide measurable impact. As more online businesses look to maximize their investments in technology and marketing, these tactics will become even more critical to consider. The EQ is published four times a year, after the conclusion of every calendar year quarter. a monetate publication 4
5 Battle of the Giants: Apple vs. Google Platforms and devices impact conversion and average order value. A great deal of attention continues to be paid to sales of smartphone and tablet devices from Apple and Google. As these technology behemoths battle it out, there appears to be a smartphone share of total WeBsite traffic correlation between a decrease in Android smartphone market share 1 and the amount of website traffic that comes from users of these devices. Leading ecommerce websites receive 3.31% of their total visits from smartphones running Android, up from 1.76% last year and an increase of 85% in total shopping sessions. These same websites receive 5.41% of their traffic from iphones compared to 2.45% a year earlier, an increase of 117% in total shopping sessions over the same time period. Despite the growth in iphone market share, shoppers on Android- powered smartphones continue to convert better (1.26%) than iphone users (1.00%). a monetate publication 5
6 Less than a year ago, the Google versus Apple smartphone debate did not have a clear frontrunner: Leading ecommerce websites received just 6% more traffic in Q from iphones than from smartphones running Android. Following the release of the popular iphone 4S in October 2011, consumers appetites for Jelly Bean, Ice Cream Sandwich, Honeycomb, or Gingerbread running on devices like the Galaxy, Nexus, Evo, Thrill, or Droid have greatly diminished as almost 25% more visits now come from iphones. a monetate publication 6
7 There s a different story when comparing website traffic from Androidbased tablets to the ipad. Although the ipad is the most dominant device in terms of tablet-based traffic (88.31%), in just one year the Amazon Kindle Fire and other Android tablets have swiped 10% of market share away from Apple. It will be interesting to see how Google s Nexus 7 impacts tablet market share in the second half of 2012 and beyond. Similar to smartphones, conversion rates on Android tablets (3.58%) have crept ahead of the rival ipad (3.19%). a monetate publication 7
8 EQ Takeaways Whether on an ipad or Android device, consumers are shopping more on tablets and represent one of the fastest-growing customer segments. Convert more tablet browsers to buyers by testing alternate payment methods such as PayPal that don t require a shopper to reach for a credit card. Understand your specific smartphone and tablet opportunities. Use quantitative data (web analytics) and qualitative data (usability testing) to start identifying what s broken and fix what doesn t work. Both smartphones and tablets could present a significant AOV opportunity for your business. a monetate publication 8
9 Social Media Cheapskates Shoppers from social networks are not big spenders. Key performance indicators, including conversion rate and average order value (AOV), still rank among the more viable ways to measure the success (or failure) of online marketing campaigns. And as more marketers test Facebook Ads and Sponsored Stories, or Twitter s Promoted Tweets or Accounts, examining these performance metrics reveals that more traditional inbound channels continue to produce better results. Q ConveRsion RAtes By traffic source The AOV of website traffic from search is $26.21 higher than traffic from social networks. remains a proven inbound marketing channel, delivering an AOV that s $18.53 higher than traffic from websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. And as reported in EQ1 2012, conversion rates from social networks remain dramatically lower than search and . a monetate publication 9
10 EQ Takeaways Requiring a user to register before making a purchase is a big reason why conversions don t occur on a website. To help increase conversion from websites like Facebook or Twitter, consider implementing social login that allows shoppers to use their social network identity for registration. Using social login also can provide additional data such as birthdays, gender, and special interests that can be used to create a more relevant experience when visitors return to your website, helping to increase conversion and AOV. a monetate publication 10
11 Timing Is Everything Remember the replatforming initiative you started back in February that keeps getting delayed? For most ecommerce businesses, the holiday season will make or break the entire year. A recent Forrester Consulting Thought Leadership Paper, Getting the Most From Your Replatforming Project, reveals that for 95% of ecommerce businesses, AOV decreased following a redesign and replatforming. 2 By not timing a replatforming initiative correctly, especially around the holidays, any potential increase in AOV could be lost or even worse, as many ecommerce businesses have experienced, AOV could drop even lower. Make sure backend systems are tried, tested, and ultimately stable. Don t wait until September to deploy new features and functionality (either unfinished or not started). The eve of holiday shopping is not the time for unpredictable performance and untested ideas. The message is loud and clear: It s critical for ecommerce businesses to complete a technology project like replatforming well before the holiday season. Increases in AOV like the noticeable improvement of $14.08 when comparing all traffic in the second quarter of 2012 with the third quarter of last year means that projects targeted for completion later in the year could result in businesses missing out on additional revenue. a monetate publication 11
12 Who s Really Winning the Browser War? A new contender is ready to claim victory. In May 2012, both the media and blogosphere were abuzz when web traffic analysis tool StatCounter released weekly browser share data that indicated Google Chrome surpassed Microsoft Internet Explorer as the most popular web browser worldwide. 3 However, our research reveals the rapid rise of Safari as a preferred choice of online shoppers throughout the day. When combining Mobile Safari with its desktop counterpart, The once-dominant Internet Explorer a browser that claimed more than 90% of market share a decade ago is now used by just over onethird (37.50%) of consumers who visit leading ecommerce websites, while losing 6% more market share between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. Q BRoWseR MARket share ecommerce businesses get more than one-fourth of their traffic (28.76%) from Safari, an increase of 9.04% in one year, making it second only to Internet Explorer. Comparatively, Chrome s market share (17.15%) increased 6.27% in one year. Outside of the enterprise in other words, after work computers are shut down for the day Safari slips in as the dominant web browser with 31.42% market share between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. In fact, all web browsers other than Internet Explorer see an increase in usage after the typical workday comes to an end, when users have the ability to choose the web browser that they want to use. a monetate publication 12
13 EQ Takeaways: With Internet Explorer s dominance in the enterprise waning, when will you stop supporting older versions in order to move your business forward with new platforms, tools, and technology? With the pending release of Internet Explorer 10 4, online marketers need to understand what Do Not Track policies in both the US and worldwide could mean to their business, and proactively inform their customers about how this could affect the user experience. The first step is to do a thorough audit of any new browser versions impact on website performance, functionality, and usability, and then support these findings with qualitative user testing. a monetate publication 13
14 Benchmark Reports Overall Website Traffic Device Market Share Q Q Q Q Q Traditional 93.47% 92.36% 91.64% 87.82% 83.92% Tablet 2.26% 3.17% 4.06% 6.12% 7.24% Smartphone 4.27% 4.47% 4.30% 6.06% 8.84% Tablet ipad 98.46% 96.91% 94.52% 89.16% 88.31% Kindle Fire NA NA 0.93% 4.46% 5.11% Android Tablet 1.54% 3.09% 4.54% 6.38% 6.58% Smartphone iphone 57.24% 54.80% 52.27% 56.82% 61.19% Android Phone 41.14% 43.58% 46.14% 41.82% 37.46% Windows Phone 0.75% 0.84% 1.02% 0.87% 0.88% Other 0.87% 0.78% 0.57% 0.49% 0.46% a monetate publication 14
15 Overall Conversion Rates by Device Q Q Q Q Q Traditional 3.05% 2.65% 3.47% 3.03% 3.34% Tablet 2.93% 2.55% 3.23% 2.86% 3.17% Smartphone 0.96% 0.93% 1.25% 1.15% 1.09% Tablet ipad 2.94% 2.57% 3.25% 2.86% 3.19% Kindle Fire NA NA 2.06% 1.98% 2.22% Android Tablet 2.18% 2.02% 3.15% 3.50% 3.58% Smartphone iphone 0.93% 0.87% 1.13% 1.04% 1.00% Android Phone 1.03% 1.04% 1.40% 1.33% 1.26% Windows Phone 0.78% 0.73% 1.02% 1.13% 1.02% Other 0.08% 0.06% 0.09% 0.08% 0.03% a monetate publication 15
16 Overall Inbound Referral Traffic Market Share Q Q Q Q Q Search 29.06% 29.95% 32.11% 33.15% 34.79% Social 2.53% 2.56% 2.66% 3.07% 2.85% 4.66% 4.27% 5.03% 4.36% 4.38% Overall Conversion Rates by Traffic Source Q Q Q Q Q Search 2.53% 2.12% 2.96% 2.40% 2.49% Social 0.35% 0.37% 0.56% 0.48% 0.59% 3.65% 3.56% 4.21% 3.82% 4.25% Google 2.26% 1.87% 2.64% 2.10% 2.17% Facebook 0.56% 0.57% 0.88% 0.75% 0.93% a monetate publication 16
17 Average Order Value by Platform Q Q Mac $ $ Windows $91.56 $88.75 Overall Average Order Value by Device Q Q Q Q Q Traditional * $ $ $95.41 $91.86 Tablet * $ $ $96.83 $96.11 Smartphone * $ $ $ $97.39 Tablet ipad * $ $ $96.68 $96.80 Android Tablet * $ $ $99.17 $95.81 Kindle Fire * NA $87.16 $86.42 $84.56 Smartphone iphone * $ $ $ $97.49 Android Phone * $ $ $ $97.16 Windows Phone * $ $ $97.72 $92.45 * Incomplete Data a monetate publication 17
18 Average Order Value by Traffic Source Q Q Q Q Q Search * $ $ $91.70 $90.40 Social * $60.70 $64.69 $63.76 $ * $84.58 $91.60 $79.08 $82.72 * Incomplete Data Browser Market Share Q Q Q Q Q Internet Explorer 49.37% 47.15% 46.17% 40.77% 37.50% Chrome 10.89% 12.75% 13.80% 16.01% 17.15% Firefox 19.29% 17.74% 16.96% 16.32% 15.80% Mobile Safari 6.43% 7.48% 8.57% 11.43% 15.11% Safari 13.30% 14.28% 14.05% 14.81% 13.65% Kindle Fire 0.00% 0.00% 0.05% 0.27% 0.37% Opera 0.32% 0.31% 0.28% 0.33% 0.36% Other 0.41% 0.29% 0.12% 0.06% 0.06% a monetate publication 18
19 Q Browser Market Share by Time of Day Morning Afternoon Evening Overnight Internet Explorer 44.46% 40.01% 31.71% 29.93% Chrome 14.08% 17.91% 19.52% 21.25% Firefox 15.60% 16.44% 16.06% 18.16% Mobile Safari 12.78% 11.53% 15.90% 15.58% Safari 12.48% 13.48% 15.90% 13.95% Kindle Fire 0.31% 0.29% 0.52% 0.42% Opera 0.24% 0.28% 0.33% 0.45% Other 0.05% 0.06% 0.06% 0.17% Key: Morning: 6am 12pm Afternoon: 12pm 6pm Evening: 6pm 12am Overnight: 12am 6am a monetate publication 19
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A responsible organization to cater to the needs of true music lovers and to preserve the rich tradition of the classical music is essential for a commercial city like Kochi. Edappally Sangeetha Sadas was formed to fulfill that need. Sangeetha Sadas was registered in 2004 under the Charitable Societies Act.
The inaugural music concert was held on 15th November 2004 which is traditionally observed as Muthaiah Bhagavatar Day.
Regular monthly music programmes of rich quality are organized by the Sangeetha Sadas. In addition to staging musical concerts of known musicians, Edappally Sangeetha Sadas gives opportunities to the new talents also. On an average 40 musical programmes are held every year. This is a record which has earned it the prestigious 'Keli Puraskaram' from the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy.
Apart from the monthly programmes, Sangeetha Sadas takes every opportunity that comes its way to provide sumptuous musical feast to its members and other music lovers. Thus Muthaiah Bhagavathar Day, Dikshithar Day, Thygaraja araadhana, Swathi Thirunal Day, Neyyatinkara Vasudevan Anusmaranam and Mohammed Rafi Day are observed with dedication and zeal.
Navaratri Festival is celebrated on all nine days with variety of music programmes. The annual music festival, Edappally Sangeetholsavam, in which reputed musicians perform, has become an attraction of music lovers from far off places also.
As a respectful homage to the great musician Neyyatinkara Vasudevan, whose untimely demise was a big loss to the contemporary Carnatic music, Sangeetha Sadas has instituted an endowment fund in his name. The amount generated by the fund is used to give an award every year to a deserving musician selected by a jury. The award, Neyyattinkara Vasudevan puraskaram, giving ceremony and the music concert followed has been a major event of Sangeetha sadas which attracts lot of music lovers.
Kalamandalam Kesavan was patron of the Sangeetha Sadas from the very beginning till his untimely death in 2009.
B Rajagopala Menon
PR Nair
K Madhavan Pillai
Governing Council of Edappally Sangeetha Sadas
Prof.P.Jayalakshmi Patron
B.Rajagopalamenon President
C.Somanathan Nair Vice President
P.R.Nair Secretary
K.M.Ramadasan Jt.Secretary
K.Madhavan Pillai Treasurer
K.M.R.Pillai Member
Vasumathy Varma Member
Priya R.Pai Member
Prof.R.Kamakshi Member
P.Sreelatha Member
V.T.Muraleedharan Member
P.P.Balachandran Member
G.Sai Raj Member
P.S.Sreekumara Menon Member
K.K.Madhusoodanan Member
K.M.Udayan Member
P.K.Krishnan Member
B.Ramesh Member
T.S.Sasikumar Member
V.M.Sasidharan Member
M.K.Murali Member
P.P.Ramachandran Pillai Member


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The riders find that the gates of Alt-Kahlenberg are shattered, and evidence that a small party has forced its way into the old city. One of the messengers is dispatched to warn the Schattengraf. The intruders seem to have traveled mostly by surface streets through the city. The buildings are all of the local, light stone, and are often more than half merged into the rock of the hill. The builders favored arches and niches: the whole environment speaks of a kind of darkness of the soul. The clouds gather oddly, whispers have already begun, and from the shadows, the ancient crystalline lights of the Aldrenfolk shed their pale blue radiance. None of this is a good sign.
Now, the intruders are visible on a ledge facing north, toward Gegen-Felsenburg; there is a narrow stair. The intruders are apparently a wizard and his servants, these appear to be constructs of some kind. He has laid a circle in turquoise and copper, and is intoning a rite of disturbing cadence. The circle begins to flare: at first, a deep amber, strengthening quickly to pure white. A metallic scent fills the air. The clash of Sir Dieter engaging the constructs takes the wizard's attention momentarily from the ritual. "You are too late! We are all too late! Seeing the rest of the patrol, he begins to cackle wildly: "it worked! Ha! Onlar burada! Ha hah ha! Onlar burad—!" His words are cut short by the blinding, deafening blast of radiant thunder.
The world disappears in white.
The Camden team under Dr. Sheldon Duncan has a problem: Amtex has opened the new shaft ahead of schedule. The passage itself runs straight east, directly under the Great Pyramid, at an angle down that suggests it has already reached a level below the known lower chamber. The passage itself is clear, a good indication that it has not been breached since it was built. The walls, like most of the pyramid above, are of finely-cut masonry, but otherwise undecorated. The lights ahead are steadier now, an even white glow from halogen lamps
The passage abruptly levels out, and apparently ends in a square chamber some thirty feet on a side, the walls surprisingly inlaid with green and blue traceries of copper and turquoise. The Amtex team has set up a series of lights, and much of the chamber is concealed by their portable virtual-reality projector.
A light, like natural sunlight, appears from a small, square opening in the east of the chamber. Dr. Gottfried is holding a thumb-switch, like the remote for a camera, or a bomb. "Ah!" she nods with a satisfied smile, "Onlar burada," and releases the switch.
The world disappears in white.
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Anyways im back on having my regular lessons so i have a few to post about now. I keep getting told about how much progress G and i are making... i have a video but i have to 1 build up the courage to post it and 2 find a video of me riding worse so that there is something to compare too... that will be later this week im hoping.
Anyways G and i had a lesson with Nat on Thursday it was great G was forward and ready to work however he has now decided that in the canter transition he would like to buck and kick out, he does this almost every time now and i have had people watch him move to make sure that it is not a soreness issue all the coaches and other riders at my barn even the equine massage therapist says it is him testing me. So we have backed off the canter a little bit for the time being.
Trot poles are greatly improving i no longer hold my breath while going over them and i am able to go through with a posting trot as well as a sitting trot. MY biggest challenge is trying to fix my posting trot... if i get up the nerve to post the videos you will see i post like a a crazy person and thats why i have such a hard time with controling our rhythem and pace... as well as why i feel like he is running away with me all the time.
Thats my biggest challenge right now trying to fix my posting.
I also will be taking a few lessons with another coach at our barn before she goes away to compete in the states in January because she will be the one working with me in the summer since Nat will be leaving for ferrier school.


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Inspiration hit me tonight as I sat typing away on my computer. What's black and white (and read all over)? A book, of course. And how about a bit of text torn from a book (I know, blasphemy!) But it's the perfect accent to a card with a library card background. And the K Werner black, white, and gray challenge.
Edit** Bummer, I was too late to Linky it, but it was fun to make anyway! I'm thinking it would make a great cover to a mini album about books read, or pics of my boys reading, or favorite books, or notes on books. . .


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Watercolor painting of a lone fisherman on coastal rocks, 14 3/4" by 22" (22 1/2" by 29" framed), signed at right center "E. Dunlavey". This is a well executed impressionist work by an artist who does not appear to be listed in standard directories. Condition is excellent with exception some age toning; the border between the portion that had been exposed to air and the portion that was hidden by the mat is now a vertical line about 1 1/2" from the right edge of the heavy, quality watercolor paper; similarly, there is a horizontal line about 1/2" from the bottom of the sheet. The new owner can simply mat out these peripheral sections, while retaining the signature and all vital portions of the drawing. There might be some other browning within the image at top and lower center. Colors are otherwise rich and not sun-faded. There is surprising color complexity in the rocks. Though the frame can be included if purchaser wants to keep it, it is nondescript, somewhat too large, and the work itself is not currently mounted under it----slipping around loose. Shipping cost would be less if sent unframed.
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I have been extremely overdue for new sneakers, and last weekend, Brendan helped me figure out how I could combine a bunch of deals to get brand new Nikes for less than $20. I'll explain how in a second, but first you just have to see them!
After checking out a few pairs at the mall, I settled on the Nike Flex Run 2013 in teal. We ordered online from FootLocker.com because they didn't have the teal in my size, and they just arrived yesterday. I broke them in on a brisk walk this morning, and I could not be more pleased.
My old workout shoes were sturdy but stiff, and they had been known to make my toes tingle if worn for too long. These new shoes are super-light, flexible, breathable, AND comfortable, and with them I feel like I have a fresh take on fitness again. That being said, I am committed to hitting the gym at least 3 times this week!
So the shoes are awesome, and I was sorely in need of them at any price, but the most exciting part of all of this is that the final charge for these $80 Nikes after discounts and deals was a whopping $17.59!!
Probably about a year and half ago, I discovered the Viggle app on my iPhone. Since then, Brendan and I have racked up more than 500,000 Viggle points by watching television (or, at least, "checking in" to tons of TV shows with the app). I know I sort of threw him under the bus in my last post, but he is really a master of less-than living, especially when it comes to earning points for free stuff. So every bit of this sneaker success story should really be credited to him. He has done about 95% of the "Viggling" in our relationship, and yet somehow I seem to be reaping the rewards.
Anyway, Viggle allows you to redeem the points you've earned with the app for various products and/or gift cards from national retailers like JC Penney, Best Buy, and (you guessed it) Foot Locker. It cost us 100,000 points to claim $50 in Foot Locker gift cards, which sounds like a lot, but we really have so many points and I needed to make a sneaker purchase sooner rather than later.
On top of the Viggle rewards, our Entertainment Book had a Foot Locker coupon for $15 off a purchase of $75 or more, bringing the cost of the shoes down to $65 to get us started. If the shoes had been available in the size and color I wanted in the store, we really could have paid the rest off with Viggle gift cards, but for some reason the Foot Locker website only allows you to redeem five gift cards in one transaction. So we knocked off another $50 with our Viggle rewards, and were left to pay just $15 plus tax. Pretty sweet deal, right?
Are you using Viggle yet? If so, I'm curious to know if you're saving up for a big ticket item or redeeming your points for smaller rewards as you go. If not, I definitely suggest you give it a try. My feet sure are happy that we did! 🙂


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I read some review of a number of noir films, and this one was on it. The critic said it was fairly dreadful, but it's in the Criterion Collection [again: so is Armageddon and The Rock] and the plot description—hooker tries to go straight, but finds no one in a small town will accept her—sounded too interesting to resist. Alas, I should have listened, because aside from some fabulous photography and a few intriguingly off-center touches, this is a giant waste of time.
We have a shock opening with this prostitute Kelly attacking this guy with a shoe. Eventually her wig falls off, and it turns out she's bald! She knocks the guy out, takes her money from him [but doesn't take all the money he has—she has principles!], and puts her wig back on under the credits, during we find that this has a cast of thousands, and is written, produced and directed by Samuel Fuller of Shock Corridor.
Two years after the wig incident, Kelly arrives in this small town, and why, look what's playing at the local theater: it's Shock Corridor. This guy, Griff, is hanging out at the bus station, and he spots her right off. She walks down the street, where she passes an unattended baby in a carriage, just a'sittin' on the sidewalk, next to these two wholesome girls skipping rope. Kelly plays with the baby [in startlingly mismatched footage], smiles beatifically [she has maternal instincts!] and moves on. Griff catches her in the local park, where he learns that she "sells champagne" for a living. They go to his place to play Hop On Pop, cracking open one of the champagne bottles. Afterward, Griff tells her in no uncertain terms that she can't set up her champagne sales business in his town. But he can go to the whorehouse of this woman Candy Allacarte's and if she plays her cards right, she can be Griff's number one whore! Can you believe the LUCK?!? Kelly tells Griff she is so inspired by the poetry of Goethe, which she pronounces "Go-THE." Now, I know that's a difficult, non-intuitive one to pronounce correctly [sounds like "Ger-te"], but it also seems like the kind of thing you might want to check out before you make a movie.
So Kelly sets out the next day to find respectable housing, coming to a stop in front of a house that advertises "PLEASANT rooms to let." I do so enjoy a PLEASANT room. You will be party to an uncommon number of Kelly reaction shots as she sees just how very PLEASANT these rooms are. The landlady tells her that the room she's looking at is "wanting four angels," and contains Charlie, a dressmaker's mannequin with a uniform on, that of the landlady's betrothed, who left for war and never came back, 30 years ago, and she decided never to marry but just pine for him. So Kelly is moving into THAT highly-symbolic PLEASANT room. She also hooks up a job as a nurse in a school for handicapped kids, one of whom she inspires to touch his toes, despite being paralyzed.
Well, Griff wants to know what she's still doing in town and pretending to be all wholesome, when everyone knows she's a whore, Whore, WHORE! Turns out that, right after being run through with Griff's lance of love, she looked at herself in his mirror and decided—just like that—to leave her life of prostitution behind and start anew as a respectable woman. Griff finds this hard to believe, and frankly, so do I. Not that she wants to leave the life of prostitution, but that it should suddenly happen, and with such conviction, right after taking a tumble with the first guy she saw in town. But who knows. Maybe it could happen. Anyway, Kelly soon meets Grant, the charming playboy of town, who takes an immediate shine to her, despite Griff's consternation.
Kelly, who is such an inspiration to those adorable handicapped kids, tells them that if they "pretend hard enough," anything can happen. We can debate the wisdom of encouraging handicapped kids to enter into impossible wish-fulfillment fantasies at a separate time. Anyway, Kelly and Grant listen to the Moonlight Sonata and he tells her that if she "pretends hard enough" she can be with him on a gondola in Venice. Me, I prefer actual tickets and hotel reservations, but Kelly will take what she can get. There is an odd sequence of shots in which she actually is in Venice in her mind. It all seems to be coming true for Kelly!
So Kelly sees her friend Buffy [not the vampire slayer] being seduced into working at Candy's, and tells her "You'll meet men you'll live off of, and men who will live off you, and those are the ONLY men you'll meet." Then she goes to Candy's and beats the fuck out of her, telling her to stay away from Buffy!
But Kelly's mind is tortured with the pain she anticipates feeling when Grant finds out she was once a whore! So she breaks it off with him, telling him her secret and that eventually he'll find out and—she proposes to her! She takes a while to think about it, then decides that YES, she CAN allow herself to be happy at last! She gives Buffy $900 to have the baby [oh yeah, she's pregnant] and not get married [a dubious gift, and keep your agenda to yourself, thank you very much]. Then Griff stops by, ready to spill the news of Kelly's past to Grant, but Kelly tells him he already knows, and accepts her anyway. Griff softens, and says "That's the big score—falling in love and being loved." It seems that nothing can stand in the way of Kelly's happiness! Nothing but a soupcon of pedophilia, that is.
You see, she goes over to Grant's just as a young girl is running out. Grant tells her that he's a pervert, just like her, and that's what makes it so right. "Our marriage will be paradise, because we're both abnormal!" So Kelly does the only thing she can do—kill him. The next day the case is reported, and her past is splayed all over the front pages!
Kelly is thrown in the slammer! She tells Griff that if she could just find that girl—only she doesn't remember a single thing about her! Meanwhile Candy comes by and tells Griff that Kelly was running an extortion racket! This all continues, until it seems like Kelly is having some sort of cell-side tribunal, with Griff the sole presiding officer. Then this strange series of edits makes it seem as though there are a bunch of kids kept in a cell next door, playing. But they're actually in the alley outside. And Kelly recognizes the girl! And she makes Griff, who we understand is coming to trust and respect Kelly, go find the girl and bring her in.
But every dark cloud has a silver lining, and they find the kid—and Kelly terrorizes her. Okay, I know she's upset, but even someone who has passed a magazine with an article on child psychology would know that maybe a young kid is not going to respond to "Do you remember me? Do you?! YES YOU DO! YOU REMEMBER ME! [shakes her] You MUST remember me!" The girl finally says "Oh yeah," and spills that Grant used to like to play a "special game" with her. Griff gets this all on tape, and Kelly is vindicated! Not only that, but she's a local hero, because she stopped that bad child predator, and she steps out of jail to find the town gathered round to laud her. She walks by another unattended baby carriage [no wonder this town has a problem if parents just leave those things on the sidewalk while they run errands or whatnot], and coos warmly at the baby. I have a feeling she'll have one of her own in just a bit, and it bet it'll have Griff's eyes.
One can kind of see why this is in the Criterion Collection, as it is packed with gorgeous photography, and contains a few semi-avant-garde touches here and there. One can also see why the film is just thrown out there with nothing but a trailer ["The shock-and-shame story of a night girl!"], because aside from all that, it's just not that great and hella tedious. You can see where it's headed from 13 miles away, and you have to endure a lot of righteous speeches on the slow drive there. Kelly is not exactly likeable, and veers between being an angelic nurse to those darn crippled kids that she just loves so much, damn it, and being a cold, righteously angry scold making haughty speeches to anyone within the neighboring three states.
The movie's politics are also a bit sketchy. It tries to be on Kelly's side about how unfair it all is that her past should be held against her, but at the same time tries to tease the audience with the titillation of Kelly's past, and Candy and Buffy's present. And it's more than a bit unbelievable that Kelly should just, suddenly, decide to change her ways after boffing Griff. Was it so great? Or so awful? She says that that moment was the "Naked kiss," when she realized that she had to change her ways. Well, if you say so, but we don't see what was so special about it, and this aura of disbelief keeps one at a distance from the entire film.
Furthermore, it's impossible to forget that Griff thought it would be great and satisfying to all sides for Kelly to go work at Candy's and be his #1 whore… until he grew tired of her. And he's really rabid to bring her down throughout the entire movie—he goes out of his way at any chance to destroy her happiness and deny her the fresh chance she wants, and… is THIS why she's so hung up on him? Not a sentiment Gloria Steinem can really get behind. And while the movie implies that Kelly and Griff share something special, one also feels that a lot of his interest in precisely because she WAS a whore. And these kind of marriages don't usually work out, as anyone who has seen The Lonely Lady can attest.
Anyway, a strange film beautifully photographed, but not one I think you or anyone needs to run out and see.
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Plenty to please everyone at Festival
The festival kicks off on this Friday, July 26, with a cheese and wine reception in the
Village Inn at 5pm.
The official launch will be performed by Mary Fleming a direct descendant of John 'Red' Kelly. Mary featured on 'Nationwide' when RTE produced a feature programme on Ned Kelly.
The launch will be followed by a short talk on the lives and times of 'Red' Kelly and Ned Kelly. This will be followed by a tour of sites associated with John 'Red' Kelly. At 9pm a traditional music night will commence in The Village Inn, with Seanachai Walter Dunphy to entertain the audience. All musicians are welcome.
Saturday July 27
A packed day of sports for boys and girls commences at 2pm in the Community Field. Races for all ages. A Ned Kelly novelty race will also add to the entertainment.
For more information please contact Kevin or Mark @ (086) 8231019/ (086) 8034185. All boys and girls are welcome to enter. Hot food will be available.
Vintage Tractor Run
Registrations for Vintage Tractor Run will commence at 2pm at Community Hall on Saturday and the run will take place at 3pm via Rocklow, Killenaule Road with stopover in Fethard.
A school reunion of those who attended the old school in Moyglass (the same building where 'Red' Kelly was baptised) has been arranged for 5pm at The Village Inn on Saturday.
The Fureys and Davey Arthur
This legendary band will play in The Community Hall, doors 7pm.
Festival Sunday July 28
A day for all the family to enjoy commences in the community field at 12 noon. Registration for Vintage static show will start at 10am and will have a harvest theme this year.
A Ned Kelly cookout with music by the very popular Clonmel band The Waheys will commence at 7pm at The Village Inn. The festival will draw to a close with an Irish wake in the Village Inn.


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Kew Gardens death: Woman killed by falling tree branch
A 32-year-old woman from New Zealand has been killed by a falling tree branch at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, south-west London, during gusts of wind and heavy rain.
Police were called at 14:10 BST on Sunday by London Ambulance Service to reports of a fatal injury.
An eyewitness said he heard several cracks which sounded like "shotgun fire in very quick succession".
The woman, not yet formally identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said the death is being treated as non-suspicious.
Kew Gardens was closed on Monday following severe weather warnings.
The Met Office has issued amber warnings - advising people to be prepared for severe weather - for London and the South East.
'Deepest sympathy'
The family of the woman who was living in the UK has been informed.
Marketing director Gary Baker was at Kew Gardens with his wife when the branch fell.
He said: "I was walking towards Brentford Gate and there were several cracks to my left.
"It sounded like shotgun fire in very quick succession. I looked around and there was quite clearly a movement in a tree, something falling."
He ran towards the victim and said he saw a "big chunk of branch a metre or so away".
A Kew Gardens spokesman said: "The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew confirms a tragic accident at Kew Gardens when a falling tree branch resulted in a fatality.
"We cannot comment further at this stage but our deepest sympathy is with family and friends."
Consular advice
Police officers will be liaising with the Health and Safety Executive later with a view to progressing the investigation, Scotland Yard said.
A London Ambulance Service spokesman said: "We were called just before 2.05pm to reports that a large tree branch had fallen on a woman in Kew Gardens.
"We sent an ambulance crew, three responders in cars, an officer and London's Air Ambulance to the scene.
"Extensive efforts were made to resuscitate the patient, but sadly she was pronounced dead at the scene."
A spokesman for New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it was providing consular advice and support to the woman's family.
A post-mortem examination is due to take place on Tuesday.


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Robotics Lessons 2018-2019
Robotics is increasingly being considered as the fourth "R" of learning, "Reading, wRriting and aRithmetic" that modern-day students must understand to succeed in a highly competitive, technology-driven world. Robotics integrates all STEM fields in way no other subject can cover.
Robotics is the mother of all subjects. It integrates Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, Control Engineering, Computer Science, Technology, Maths and Science. The hands-on experience of learning to design, build and program robots of increasing complexity can greatly boost young people's teamwork and problem-solving abilities, while helping them to learn how abstract concepts of mathematics, engineering and computing actually work in practice. If young people get involved in robotics on a competitive level, they will encounter a whole new arena of exciting creative and practical challenges.
Emphasys Centre will be offering for the academic year 2017-2018 three different levels of Robotics courses:
Introduction to Robotics suitable for Primary School Students. Creating fun and educational projects with the use of the award winning Lego WeDo 2.0 and the all new Lego Boost. Students will construct a variety of different robotic contraptions and control them with companion applications from smartphones and tablets.
Introduction to Coding through Robotics suitable for Gymnasium Students. With the use of Edison Robots which have been endorsed by the Australian education system and the Lego Mindstorms EV3 platform, students will be introduced to coding through Block Based Coding which is the de facto way to teach young students introductory programming, which involves dragging and matching different "blocks" of instructions.
Dive deep into programming through Robotics suitable for upper Gymnasium and High School students. Students will learn Python programming with Edison Robots – EdPython, utilise Lego Technic Sets and construct advance Lego Mindstorms projects, for example a robot solving the Rubik's Cube. Students will be introduced to Computer Engineering and Science by using and programming the Arduino Uno platform and creating complex autonomous robot cars with various functionalities.


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On this edition of Host and Guest, Rick is joined by comedian Dan Telfer. Dan's first EP, "Fossil Record" is coming out very soon on AST Records as part of a 3-pack with Greg Proops and Paul F. Tompkins. For more information about Dan, visit his website http://www.dantelfer.com/
If you want to see Dan during the Just For Laughs - Chicago festival, visit this link:
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A clean-up crew is digging trenches on Goldenwest Street to get to the source of an oil spill after at least 850 gallons were discharged on the surface Friday morning.
City maintenance workers, and the Police and Fire departments responded after a passerby noticed oil seeping through the asphalt on the southbound side of the street, south of Ellis Avenue, said Huntington Beach Deputy Fire Marshal Jeff Lopez.
"The crew wants to see if they can open the street for a few days to get through the weekend, but we don't know yet," he said. "We want to make sure the road is safe to drive on because if it's not, traffic could be in danger. They have to do a lot of work to see if they in fact can open it or keep it closed."


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The new Bank Negara Malaysia Museum and Art Gallery already open for public. Many of you might be wondering, where is the new Sasana Kijang location. I am planning to go there tomorrow and Google for some information on the location of the new Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) Money Museum. Exactly, Sasana Kijang wasn't just house new BNM Museum but also training facilities, offices, conference halls and BNM Knowledge Management Centre, among other. The Sasana Kijang is not far away from BNM Headquarters at Jalan Dato Onn but not everyone is familiar with Kuala Lumpur, right? You can look at the map provided (just click for large view).
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If you came from KLIA, you can go to KL Sentral using ERL (Express Rail Link). In KL Sentral, there is many public transportation that you can find. If you're using taxi, just asked them to go to Sasana Kijang or New BNM Money Museum., the fare should be around RM10 from KL Sentral. If you want to walk a little bit, go find a KTM Komuter or Star LRT and buy a ticket to Bank Negara, the fare will be around RM2.00. When you arrived at that place, look for a hill near that place, the new Sasana Kijang is on that hill. Its around 2KM Walk and its normally hot in Kuala Lumpur (the best way is to stop at Bank Negara KTM Komuter Station, you can asked police station there). The new BNM Complex are also near Memorial Tunku Abdul Rahman and Memorial Tun Hussein Onn.
Picture by BNM Official Facebook page: New BNM Complex.
In the Bank Negara Malaysia Museum and Art Gallery you can view Bank Negara Malaysia Gallery, Economics Gallery, Islamic Finance Gallery, Numismatics Gallery, Children's Gallery and the Central Bank's art collection at the Art Gallery. The Museum and Art Gallery operation hour is from 10am to 6pm daily. Admission is free. Ample parking is available at LG4 and LG5 (basement parking) at Sasana Kijang. Parking fee is RM3.00 per entry.
Sasana Kijang, Bank Negara Malaysia
Jalan Dato' Onn, 50480 Kuala Lumpur.
Visit time: 10am-6pm. Everyday including Saturday & Sunday.
Parking: LG4 & LG5. RM3 per entry.
GPS Coordinates & Position: N03 09.439 E101 41.456
BNM also provide guided tours for groups of visitors from schools, universities and non-profit organisations. The tour is free of charge and must be booked in advance. Applications for the guided tour should be made at least two weeks before the date of the requested visit. Please contact BNMTELELINK via email at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 1-300-88-5465 (for request from overseas, please call: +603-2174-1717) for details or further query related to visiting the Bank.