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Answers to common questions about CloudPublish®
How does CloudPublish work?
CloudPublish is a publishing and digital delivery system with a comprehensive API allowing the creation of feature-rich websites by publishers or third parties.
Can I offer my eBooks online and for download?
Yes, your eBooks will be "streamed" online via our fully-featured eReader, which uses the latest web browser technology to deliver crisp images and a fluent, fast, and feature-rich reading experience on tablets and other hand-held devices as well as desktop computers.
For downloads, your eBooks can either be secured with "hard DRM" or "soft DRM". With our "hard DRM" option, your books are protected by Adobe DRM and made available on Adobe Digital Editions and a wide variety of compatible software, apps and devices. With our "soft DRM", your books are available as encrypted PDFs, with (optionally) printing enabled, disabled or degraded, and/or copy-and-paste enabled or disabled. Furthermore, we add visible and invisible watermarks to the PDFs identifying the user, and the time and location of the download.
Does your "soft DRM" interfere with screenreaders and other accessibility software?
We are able to allow screenreaders to read the text in a "soft DRM"-protected ebook while at the same time preventing copy-and-paste and printing, for a secure yet accessible approach to soft DRM.
Our online eReader is also packed with features aimed at providing an accessible reading experience and good compatibility with browser-based screenreaders.
Can I integrate CloudPublish with other software?
Yes, you can apply any design and branding and combine with any other application. Your front-end website will be linked to the CloudPublish back-end through our API.
We do not have a suitable website. Can you help?
Yes, CloudPublish provides all the tools you need to create fully functioning, branded digital publishing websites for the sales and delivery of eBooks, eChapters, and eJournals. Our team of integration experts can help you create the website you need to start distributing eBooks straight away.
What business models does CloudPublish support?
CloudPublish offers a "concurrent user" model as part of the basic service. However, the API is flexible and will allow you to implement virtually any other model you can devise (PDA, loans...)
Can I keep my existing customer database?
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Can I sell my eBooks 'by collection' from my CloudPublish website?
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Can I sell eChapters using CloudPublish?
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We are a very small publisher. Is CloudPublish for us?
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We are a very large publisher? Why would we use CloudPublish technology?
CloudPublish includes features which simplify procedures and administration saving time, reducing costs and increasing efficiency across all digital publishing operations. It is also highly scalable, so that however large your catalogue or customer base, CloudPublish always offers high performance.
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We are not familiar with ONIX metadata, can you help?
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How will I authenticate my clients' users?
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What support does CloudPublish provide?
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CloudPublish also offers IT development services for publishers who would like to devise additional features for their CloudPublish-powered website.
Please also search and browse our dedicated CloudPublish support area on this site.
What is a "platform-as-a-service"?
Platform as a service (PaaS) is a cloud computing model that delivers applications over the Internet. In a PaaS model, a cloud provider delivers hardware and software tools to its users as a service.[1]
In ePublishing terms, 123Library's CloudPublish products provide publishers with the platform (i.e., management tools, hardware, software) to publish eBooks online, without the need to invest in developing that platform themselves. Thus, the e-publishing platform is provided "as a service".
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A hobbit loves food. It is no coincidence as to why my springer is named after such a being.
I am no chef but it kinda goes like this .....
- 1 cup of Plain flour
- 1 egg
- 1 cup of lactose free/ goats milk
- 1 cup of water
- place all ingredients into a bowl and mix
- lightly oil the pan and cook
So my list of how to make them really couldn't be shorter could it ? They really are that easy !
Top with banana , apple or blueberry.
As you can see from the photo above Bilbo clearly absolutely hated them. Refused to touch them.
The hound hated the pancakes.
Repulsed by the pancakes.
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Sheffield taxi drivers and mosque leaders have come together to raise money for the family of Kelly Brewster who was killed in the Manchester terror attack.
Drivers from Network Taxis are aiming to raise money to help her family while condemning the act of terror as 'evil'.
The Sheffield Federation of Mosques prayed for the victims and their families during Friday prayers.
Ms Brewster, of Arbourthorne, was planning to start a family before she was killed by a suicide bomber who detonated an explosive device inside Manchester Arena last Monday.
Taxi boss Jahan Dad said he wanted to pull his drivers together in a show of unity.
A call operator is related to the victim's family and the firm said they would be doing whatever they could to help.
Mr Dad's nephew and taxi driver Hammed Affzal said: "We were absolutely disgusted this evil man killed innocent people in the name of Islam. We're doing this for Kelly's family and to help community cohesion by standing as one.
"This is not what Islam is about, anyone who justifies acts of terror in this way is evil and does not represent Muslims.
"We want to show we are one people and to raise money to help the family during this time."
The Sheffield Federation of Mosques has echo that sentiment and said it was 'saddened and horrified' by the attack.
A spokesman said: "Our thoughts are with the victims and their families. This has been a mindless and unjustifiable act, targeting the innocent and young in this indiscriminate manner.
"There are no words to capture the deep anger and frustration we feel by this cowardly and despicable attack. The perpetrators, whoever they may be, must bear the full consequences of their actions.
"We urge our communities to remain calm and united in these difficult times. The terrorists want to divide us, but the Sheffield community undoubtedly will stand in defiance and united with families of the victims and we will do all that we can to share their pain and loss.
"During our Friday prayer, we prayed for the victims, their families and for greater understanding and peace within our communities."
The Sheffield Federation of Mosques said they have launched a fundraiser in memory of Kelly.
Mosque leaders will also be meeting the police to discuss and plan how they can 'work together and play our part in ensuring the security and safety' Sheffield.
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It's 5 o'clock: do you know where your computers are? Remember the good old days when offi ce computers were big clunky things that stayed chained to desks? Managing security was certainly simpler back when a reseller knew where all its customers' computers were and what they were up to.
These days your customers are more likely to hand out notebooks, netbooks and smartphones to staff, to encourage the notion of a mobile workforce. The work-anywhereanytime mentality might offer a productivity boost on the road, or outside traditional business hours, but the trade-off is that these corporate devices are now used for work and play. There are a growing number of gadgets, such as smartphones, netbooks and tablets, designed to slip into a bag and be used externally. And, as they head out of the offi ce door, the lines between work and play are further blurred and a range of new security challenges presents itself for channel players to tackle.
The free fl ow of devices in and out of the offi ce is set to increase. This year end-users will be responsible for half of all business IT procurement decisions, according to research by technology analyst group Gartner. Management consultants Accenture focused their research on a group of young workers it calls Millennials and found around one-third of this new generation of workers not only wanted to use the computer of their choice at work, but also wanted control of the applications they use too. Resellers need to ensure they stay in the loop, not just to protect revenues but also to protect customers against consumercentric threats fi nding their way into the workplace.
Digital entertainment no longer just involves employees slipping a CD or DVD into a computer. It involves them using a range of devices to draw content from a variety of sources, some fraught with danger. A modern IT security approach needs to protect both end-users from themselves and protect the corporate network when portable devices come back into the offi ce. Just as a co-worker with the 'fl u can infect the entire offi ce, so can a portable device threaten an entire organisation with a nasty infection.
Video content, especially of an unsavoury nature, has long been a favourite way of hackers to encourage people to inadvertently install malware. Peer-to-peer fi le-sharing services such as BitTorrent can be used to quickly spread infected fi les. Online video sites can also trap unsuspecting web surfers. If you want to watch this amazing video – whether it's a cute baby or a movie star caught in a compromising position – you'll need to update your video player. Just click here and you'll be on your way. The more desperate people are to watch the video, the more likely they are to throw common sense out the window and start clicking on things they shouldn't.
The security threat from digital entertainment is likely to rise, with video expected to account for 91% of consumer internet traffi c by 2013. This will be accompanied by the rise of digital signage and multimedia advertising designed to interact with our personal gadgets, bringing with it a new generation of threats and exploits. Now is the time for the reseller community to start paying attention to how these technologies will impact our lives, considering you'll be dealing with customers both producing and consuming this new form of interactive content. With devices and content constantly crossing corporate fi rewalls, security processes will also need to evolve.
Security starts at home. As resellers you must ensure that your own IT security measures are up to scratch, and that you're prepared for a new generation of threats, in order to best serve the needs of your customers.


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An obscure family of small, narrow-leaved water plants that have for years been classified as oddball relatives of grasses turns out to represent one of the most ancient surviving lineages of flowering plants, researchers say.
These plants, the Hydatellaceae, belong with water lilies near the base of the family tree of flowering plants, say Sean Graham of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and his coworkers.
The family consists of some 10 species in Australia, New Zealand, and India. Several obvious traits, such as the clumps of bladelike leaves, do look grassy, acknowledges Graham. And earlier DNA analysis of a gene from the plants


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Dan Ryan Builders Charitable Foundation recently presented a donation of $40,000 to Interfaith Housing Alliance Inc. in support of its affordable housing programs.
"The continued commitment to affordable housing by the organization and its charitable foundation is commendable," said James Upchurch, president, Interfaith Housing Alliance Inc. "It is through these partnerships that our families and senior citizens are able to live in safe and affordable homes."
"We are thrilled to be able to continue our long tradition of partnering with the community. Interfaith Housing provides a valuable service to the community and we are honored to help them in anyway possible. This is just one way we put into action our mission of making the dream of homeownership a realty for as many as possible." said Dan Ryan, president and CEO, Dan Ryan Builders.
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Dustproof/water resistant at depth equal to or greater than 1 meter.
Device is protected with extra seals to prevent failures due to any kind of weather.
Text messaging is much faster due to a hardware keyboard.
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2160 x 3840px
Sony Xperia H8541
2160 x 4320px
Damage resistant glass (such as Corning Gorilla Glass or Asahi Dragontrail Glass) is thin, lightweight, and can withstand high levels of force.
The bigger the screen size is, the better the user experience.
Huawei Mate 20 X
The device has a display with three full subpixels per pixel, resulting in a sharp and crisp picture. Pixels in some displays (like AMOLED) share one subpixel to preserve space. This can result in a less crisp, slightly blurred image.
AMOLED displays, also known as active matrix OLED displays, offer higher refresh rates and consume less power than other types of displays.
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IPS (In-Plane Switching) is a technology used for LCDs. It was designed to overcome the main limitations of normal TFTs TN-matrices: relatively slow response times, small viewing angles and low quality color reproduction.
The system on a chip (SoC) has an integrated LTE cellular chip. LTE is capable of downloading at faster speeds than older, 3G technology.
933MHz (Qualcomm Snapdragon 430)
1866MHz (Qualcomm Snapdragon 845)
It can support faster memory, which will give quicker system performance.
Umidigi One Max
With integrated graphics you don't need to buy a separate graphics card.
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AES is used to speed up encryption and decryption.
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Wiko View2 Pro
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Devices with stereo speakers deliver sound from independent channels on both left and right sides, creating a richer sound and a better experience.
With a standard mini jack socket, you can use the device with most headphones.
More microphones result in better sound quality and enable the device to filter out background noise.
Motorola Moto Z3
It works as an FM radio with included headsets
The music player can be blindly used.
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Energizer Power Max P16K Pro
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The manufacturer offers a branded wireless charging kit. To charge the device, you simply put it down on its charging base.
The battery is removable and can be replaced by the user if broken.
Fast charging technologies, like Qualcomm's Quick Charge or MediaTek's Pump Express, are used to reduce the time it takes to charge a device. For example, with Quick Charge 3.0, the battery can be charged to 50% in just 30 minutes.
An indicator shows you when the device has low battery.
Offline voice recognition enables you to perform voice actions, like dictating texts or using various voice commands, without an internet connection.
Anyone is free to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve the design of the software.
If an app has sharing capabilities and the developers have indicated it, the app will automatically appear in your list of sharing options. Some OS's limit direct sharing options to a select few apps, which means you have to open apps separately in order to upload the files you want to share.
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A female relative of reggae recording artiste Jah Cure was arrested on Wednesday, December 21 in Florida after she was caught attempting to smuggle cocaine into the United States.
According to information Loop News has received from the Broward Sheriff's Office, Mckadia Damale Alcock, 29, was arrested by US Marshals at the Fort-Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport and charged with possession of cocaine.
The 29-year-old is being held prior to trial at the Paul Rein Detention Facility in Pompano Beach, Florida.
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ANZ Small Business launches a bold new campaign that is expected to stand out in its category, for its energy, humour and broad appeal. Created by M&C Saatchi, the TVC and a wider campaign are directed at the SME market and will also impact favourably on the ANZ brand at large. The stand-out campaign is part of ANZ's customer strategy to deliver 'more convenient banking' for businesses. ANZ continues to expand specialist services to this segment.
The filmic quality of the commercial, directed by Paul Middleditch, (maker of the Carlton Draught Big Ad), makes it a memorable and watchable spot.
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Exclusive panoramic trailer for 6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain!
Survival stories will always be interesting, because it immediately makes you empathize with the main character. As you're watching, you start thinking, "what would I do in that situation?", "would I be willing to do that?", or some people yelling, "why aren't you drinking your own pee yet!" So it's no surprise that there's a new movie about the harrowing true life story of hockey player Eric LeMarque (Josh Hartnett) getting stuck on a mountain during a snowstorm, and struggling to survive.
However, the real impressive thing about the film is that first ever feature film to be presented start-to-finish in Barco Escape's three-screen, panoramic movie watching experience. That way you'll feel like you're freezing on the mountain with Hartnett. So, that's pretty cool I suppose.
Anyway, here's the official synopsis:
When a snowstorm strands former professional hockey player Eric LeMarque (Josh Hartnett) at the Sierra Nevada Mountains for eight days, he is forced to face his past and come to terms with his personal demons and rediscover the power of faith within him in order to survive. The screenplay was adapted from the book "Crystal Clear" by Eric Lemarque and Davin Seay.
Meanwhile, 6 BELOW: MIRACLE ON THE MOUNTAIN will climb into select Barco Escape theaters October 12th. Here's a link to get tickets: https://ready2escape.com.
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My Physics Teacher, So Far
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I am currently taking Electricity & Magnetism (E&M) and I have never quite taken a class like this one. My professor teaches in a very different way and it is both a bit intimidating, but truly effective.
To respect his privacy, I will not include his name, but my E&M teacher is truly one of a kind. Whereas many professors vary from being completely uninvolved to being almost like parent-like, this professor teaches in a way that is, at this point in my life, novel.
First off, he restricts us from using calculators and reference sheets on quizzes, tests, you name it. Why might he do such an awful thing you may ask? To prepare us for the inevitable standardized tests we will likely have to take when we move along into university as whatever our majors demand of us (as you can assume, I am at a community college).
This means he allows us to round up as much as we like to in order to work our way around the problem, so complicated decimal numbers can be abbreviated and pretty much treated as whole numbers that are easy to use while maintaining the appropriate order of magnitude. For example, rather than writing down the entire format for scientific notation, he uses a personal abbreviation (which he encourages we use as well) of scientific notation to simplify things.
This is that notation:
This is basically saying, 1×10^2 or 1E2. It is a really useful system and, if you are stuck using normal scientific notation, I recommend switching to something like this, as it makes more intuitive sense, especially when changing the order of magnitude around in a problem alongside its base value. Again, though: this is all what I assume to be his. He could have easily seen this from somewhere else, so if you manage to know where, please leave a comment. I would love to know.
He stresses that Physics is not Calculus. The mathematical operations we use to get around a problem is not worthy of the majority of points assigned to an assignment. Instead, he looks for conceptual understanding, like what equation we ought to use. For example, merely putting down the correct equation that is needed to be used and, of course, trying to use it will result in a 17/20 right off the back. The rest of the points come from proper Calculus and the correct result.
Now, do not assume that I like his class because of the apparent easy A's he seems to give out. He does focus on the hardest examples—the ones that would take you hours and hours to do—so that we actually progress rather than mindlessly focus on trivial problems that could be solved by anyone given any of the equations.
Given that we have to rely on our memory, which he says "is more impressive than you realize", his teaching methods helps us associate equations to situations and determine what we need and what we do not need, which is vital to those who are going into a field that involves this kind of stuff.
The semester had just started and only a few weeks in and we just finished up Zener Voltage Regulators and Basic Transistors, whereas the other classes are just finishing up Gauss' Law. We are making some serious progress and, in my honest opinion, this will only help us get more of a competitive edge among other students.
There are plenty of things I could say about this professor, but the list would just go on and on. So, I will leave with just one remark:
It truly does not matter what professor you have, many are bound to a textbook or to their own educational stratagem. What really matters is your tenacity to both learn and, as my E&M professor is clearly showing us, to keep moving forward.


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SOURCE: Highwoods Properties
July 16, 2012 09:25 ET
$29.8 Million Investment
$29.8 Million Investment
RALEIGH, NC--(Marketwire - Jul 16, 2012) - Highwoods Properties, Inc. (NYSE: HIW) today announced that it has acquired three medical office properties in Greensboro through an off-market transaction. The Company has completed the acquisition of Church Street Medical Two and Three in Greensboro and expects to close on Church Street Medical One later in the third quarter after obtaining lender consent to a related loan assumption. The Company's total investment is expected to be $29.8 million, which includes $220,000 of planned near-term building improvements. These properties, which encompass 149,000 square feet plus structured and surface parking, are located across the street from Moses Cone Hospital, a 518-bed facility that is the largest hospital in the four-county area.
Ed Fritsch, President and CEO, stated, "These medical office buildings are extremely well-located for medical practices to have immediate access to Moses Cone Hospital. We applaud our Greensboro and investments team for sourcing and completing this meaningful off-market transaction."
The Church Street Medical portfolio is currently 86.4% occupied, which will increase to 88.3% in September. The portfolio is expected to generate stabilized annual cash and GAAP net operating income of approximately $2.4 million and $2.5 million, respectively, excluding approximately $200,000 of expensed acquisition costs.
The transaction includes the issuance of approximately 77,000 operating partnership units and the assumption of secured debt expected to be recorded at fair value of $7.9 million, with an effective interest rate of 3.5%. This debt matures in August 2014. The total investment assumes the seller will earn $1.0 million of contingent consideration upon stabilization.
About Highwoods Properties
Highwoods Properties, headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, is a publicly traded (NYSE: HIW) real estate investment trust ("REIT") and a member of the S&P MidCap 400 Index. The Company is a fully integrated, self-administered REIT that provides leasing, management, development, construction and other customer-related services for its properties and for third parties. At June 30, 2012, Highwoods owned or had an interest in 338 in-service office, industrial and retail properties encompassing approximately 34.6 million square feet and owned 581 acres of development land. The Company's properties and development land are located in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. For more information about Highwoods Properties, please visit our website at www.highwoods.com.
Certain matters discussed in this press release, such as expected net operating income of acquired properties and the timing and impact of required lender approvals, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements are distinguished by use of the words "will", "expect", "intend" and words of similar meaning. Although Highwoods believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be achieved.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from Highwoods' current expectations include, among others, the following: the financial condition of our customers could deteriorate; development activity by our competitors in our existing markets could result in excessive supply of properties relative to customer demand; development, acquisition, reinvestment, disposition or joint venture projects may not be completed as quickly or on as favorable terms as anticipated; we may not be able to lease or re-lease second generation space quickly or on as favorable terms as old leases; our markets may suffer declines in economic growth; we may not be able to lease our newly constructed buildings as quickly or on as favorable terms as originally anticipated; unanticipated increases in interest rates could increase our debt service costs; unanticipated increases in operating expenses could negatively impact our NOI; we may not be able to meet our liquidity requirements or obtain capital on favorable terms to fund our working capital needs and growth initiatives or to repay or refinance outstanding debt upon maturity; the Company could lose key executive officers; and others detailed in the Company's 2011 Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent SEC reports.
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A DRIVER will appear in court later this month following a fatal crash with a cyclist in Charlton.
Bo Christer Lundmark, 54, of Umea, Sweden, was served with a summons to appear at Worthing Magistrates' Court on January 29 to answer a charge of causing death by careless driving.
A Sussex Police spokesman said: "The cyclist, 42-year-old Howard Plumb of Emsworth, Hampshire, died after suffering serious head injuries when he was collision with a Honda Jazz car driven by Lundmark, at Knight's Hill, Charlton, near Chichester, at 5.15pm on Saturday, July 5, last year.
"He was taken to St George's Hospital in London by air ambulance where he sadly died two days later."


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David Jones department store in Sydney's CBD has been evacuated, with more than 300 Christmas shoppers forced out after smoke started pouring from a lift motor room.
Fire and Rescue NSW crews were called to the Castlereagh Street shop about 4.30pm.
Emergency services have now given the building the all clear.
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Friday, October 20, 2017
A date with a female doctor
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It's getting better :)Delete
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Hope all will be ok after this.ReplyDeleteReplies
It's getting better :)Delete
Fungal rashes are very common with all of us where our bodies often sweated. The bacteria would slowly cause rashes when the sweat was not being wiped away. The common areas are between toes, underwear lining and under garment areas that would 'press' our sweats. I had suffered enough of this until today as they caused painful skin tears. So I used Dermovate cream to treat any type of my skin problem. The pharmacist would discourage me as Dermovate is the strongest on their shelves. I still use them as the problems go away faster. Me happy!ReplyDeleteReplies
Guess cos of the hot weather, I sweat and also during HIP, not convenient to do laundry, I repeat my clothes...Delete
Hope that the rashes will go away after you have applied the cream and powder.ReplyDeleteReplies
At least not itchy around the area as before...Delete
Yeah, hope the medicine works for you.. meanwhile keep the area dry..ReplyDeleteReplies
Not as bad as before...Delete
Fugal rashes quite common in hot weather, especially when we sweat a lot. Hope the rashes will go away soon.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hopefully it will go away in few days time...Delete
Must be the dust or the weather. Lately I also had itchiness on my breast. Quite annoying but thank god it has gone.ReplyDeleteReplies
I guess also due to inconvenient to do laundry, I repeat my clothes...Delete
Hope you get better soon!ReplyDelete
Hope it goes away soon, Sharon. Take care xxReplyDeleteReplies
It's getting better :)Delete
hope it goes away...take care!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hopefully it will get away in few days...Delete
How come payment still need to take number? Can just go to the self-service kiosk.ReplyDeleteReplies
The self-service kiosk at that time when I wanna make payment, long Q...Delete
Hope you are getting better and take care of yourselfReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Elaine, it's getting better...Delete


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Last update: 20-07-2018 from Seglingsberg, Sweden
|Days on the road
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|Average daily distance
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|Max daily distance
|159 km
|Min daily distance
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|45175 m
|43999 m
|Time on the saddle
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All the best to you both happy and safe travels and greetings from Leeds UK, it's good to travel I did when I was younger and enjoyed every moment, you realise the world is not such a big place and you see that there are alot of similarities in people. I hope you visit Ireland, it is a magical place very special, Greece also a very special place to go…
May you travel lightly and with joy in your hearts always…RH
i'll be interested to follow you on your trip. my travels in asia and africa have changed my life. with so much less i found that people in a way are happier than many people here. i think our meeting other cultures can lead to a better globalization than the capitalist version. good luck!
Hello Gijs & Annebeth,
Very cool this cycletrip of you.
I will follow the whole course and enjoy all your contributions.
I have a question: How do you intend to transport electric bicycles by plane, as I know, it is forbidden to transport lithium batteries by plane.
A hug and a great trip 🙂
Hallo Travellers… ik ga jullie volgen. Kreeg deze site van jullie ouders. Tj en B. Wat een bijzondere uitdaging is dit. Geniet ervan. En houdt ons on de hoogte 😉
Hi Elizabeth! Leuk dat je ons gaat volgen 🙂 Zullen we doen, bedankt!
I hope you have had better weather to start your trip than we had in the UK, looking forward to updates, enjoy.
Hi Andrew! Unfortunately, we had terrible weather the first two weeks of cycling (during the day between -5 to -12 and a lot of headwinds…) But we are going South hopefully, lots of rays of sunshine! 🙂 Were are you now? Good luck and enjoy your trip!!
Hi, as your journey is really interesting because you use e-bikes instead of just bicycles. I would love it if you would include how often you have to recharge your batteries on your trip/per day/month/week. I would recommend putting it also in the statistic as people who plan to do something similar can also gain from this experience.
Hi Franzi, we put our "Ride Log" below the page, here you can see our stats per day! From now on we will note per day our battery use, tomorrow we will leave again and from then on there is more information 🙂
Hi friends, how is the performance of electric bikes?
Has there been any depletion of the battery charge?
Do you think it is necessary to take two batteries for each bike?
Thankful and good bike travel.
Hi Luis, you can find that stats in the Ride Log. In every blogpost we give an update about the E-Bikes. When travelling with an E-Bike it is definitly necessary to have 2 x 500W batteries. Most of the time you can do it with 1, but in mountain areas a extra battery can come in in handy. Soon a blogpost will be only on how to improve your battery-range.
Dear Gijs & Annebeth, You are doing well ! I follow your trip almost on a daily basis and I see that you are crossing the Iron Curtain trail. Now it is becoming even more interesting. I hope you will find safe roads to cycle on in Bulgaria and report about this on your blog so others may follow in your tracks. The Adriatic coast pictures are very nice. Who needs to go to Bali anymore?
Keep safe!
I'm very interest in your journey. I have a trip mapped out that is clockwise but similar start day June 26… can't wait. Bought an over the top e-bike 1500w 48 ah beast. Are you going north from Helsinki. I am starting in Oslo going all the north and then south through Helsinki hopefully to Greece and then west to England.
Hi guys, love your blog and this page! What are you using to track all your totals and is there an app to link your spreadsheet info to these stats? Or is it just a manual update?
Hi Abhi, Thank you! Great to hear 🙂
We track all our totals and it is manual update, so lots of works haha
Hallo Gijs & Annebeth
Effen een brichtje uit zwolle
hoe gaat het met juliie en de hondjes
waar zijn jullie nou
hier in holland is het erg warm 'en bij jullie?????
groetjes uit zwollywood
jeska en Fennie
Hallo Jeska & Fennie!
Met ons gaat het goed! Met jullie ook?
We zijn op dit moment in Roemenie en het volgende land word Oekraine.
Het is hier ook erg warm, we zweten ons kapot op de fiets haha.
Bedankt voor jullie berichtje 🙂 Doe groetjes aan de rest daar!
Gijs & Annebeth
Hi Steve, Thanks for your interest! We can do around 100 kilometers on one charge. This is with the bike trailer behind it + 60 kilo of dogs. We just re-charge the battery almost everywhere, restaurant, campings or at locals. Check out one of the E-bike Travel Guide for some tips!


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Cool Heh!
They are an easy knit and use up all your left overs.
If I get enough requests then I will blog the pattern. So leave a comment and let me know if you think I should.
They are great :) I love the colors and seeing what beauty can grow out of left overs.
Yes please!
I have become too attached to my wunderballe to possibly ever give them away and might have to use them to knit a pair each for my girls!
They are beautiful Carle', I love them, please post the pattern!!!
Those are stunning Carle!!!!
I've never knitted colour patterns before (just plain stripes!) I'd love to see your pattern and give it a go... they look gorgeous.
I love these! Please post the patteren and let the waldorf group know when you do.
They are lovely. You should blog the pattern. Thanks so much for your warm and fuzzy blog.
They are absolutely beautiful... such vibrant colors! I would love those on my 3 year old daughter's hands!!!
I would love to know how you made them. It is beginning summer here, so many hours in the sun will be spent knitting up for the fall and winter. Thank you so much for posting your patters and the beautiful things you knit!
Very nice! I would love to see the pattern....
I love your blog and have added it to my favorites. Thank you!
I have finally blogged the pattern, it can be found at


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Since the creation of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference in 2001, women's soccer has been controlled by CWU's rivals, Seattle Pacific University (SPU) and Western Washington University (WWU). Both schools have won a Division II National Championship in the last decade (2008 for SPU and 2016 for WWU) and have been the only two teams in the conference to win over 100 conference matches.
This season, CWU women's soccer bucked the trend by placing second in the conference with a 14-6-1 record, which tied the school record for wins in a season. The team also made the NCAA Division II Tournament for the first time in school history.
[Playing in the tournament] "was so cool," said senior midfielder Keilin Farrand, daughter of head coach Michael Farrand. "Especially since we missed it last year by one game."
Despite playing in a conference with a clear hierarchy, Michael Farrand has stuck with the team through rough seasons. After posting a 12-6-1 record in 2000, at the time tying the school record for wins in a season, the Wildcats did not post a winning season until 2008. From 2001 to 2007, the Wildcats went 39-91-11, averaging less than six victories per season.
"I've seen the whole progress of a who we were as a program in 2000 to who we are in 2017," Michael Farrand said. "The journey through Division II regional play is just brutal."
Since 2008, the team has gone 77-73-18 and has placed fourth or better in the conference six times.
"We couldn't do what we do without him," junior midfielder Mackenzie Nolte said. "It's been cool to be part of something that's growing into something we can see how we're making an impact. He doesn't get the credit he deserves… because the outcomes don't show what goes on."
Nolte, who is among the 71 student-athletes honored on an all-conference team during Farrand's tenure, is also among the 100 student-athletes who have made the academic all-conference team since 2001, with a 3.61 GPA as a psychology major.
"Basically everyone strives to get good grades and you don't want to be the one that's not," Nolte said. "You also want to succeed. You really have to stay on top of everything so it's tough but doable."
Farrand credits the Athletic Department and its support for leading to academic success.
"With Mal Stewman at the Academic Success Center, the foundation our athletes get as freshman, nobody does it better than us," Michael Farrand said. "Our girls are motivated, they want to be successful in the classroom and they know a lot of them will be doing post-bac work and their grades matter now."
Senior midfielder Keilin Farrand and her older sister, former CWU forward Hadli Farrand, have both made all-conference and academic all-conference while playing under their father, including making first-team all-conference as seniors.
"There's been kind of pressure being the coach's daughter and a lot of pressure on him to stay impartial," Keilin Farrand said. " It's been great learning from him, all my life. Any success I had is probably because of him and the team and the culture he has made."
The Wildcats will lose many seniors, including all-conference defenders Allie Bohnett and Jessica Haga, midfielder Reilly Retz and Farrand's daughter Keilin Farrand, but the coach expect many of the younger players to step up next season.
"I tease this group a little bit about starting 11 of the same core of girls as last year," Michael Farrand said. "Probably the biggest key in this year's turnaround has been the depth of our roster. We played 18 field players all year, and that allowed us to rest most of our key girls and take some mileage off their legs. In years past, when we got to postseason we were playing with 13 or 14 girls. We're not built that way anymore, we have a great deep roster of girls, a lot of underclassmen who contributed to us this last year."
Coach Farrand believes that the level of success that CWU women's soccer has attained is still only the launching pad for future success.
"It was a super year," Farrand said. "The hard part is getting here, that's the hardest part. That battle has now been won, so now the hardest part is 'can we stay here'. Hopefully we're not one and done and this group can stay here and does even better and we get to Western and we beat them twice and then we're on our way to regionals and nationals. We're excited and we're honored and grateful for the university and our support."


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The planet, known as K2-155d, is about 1.6 times the size of the Earth and is located in the habitable zone 200 light years away.
The discovery was made by a group of researchers led by Teruyuki Hirano of the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The stars may be useful for researchers looking to figure out how the planets form and evolve, according to data-based results from the second mission of NASA's Kepler K2.
In addition to simulating the climate, the researchers say the new Earth-like planet K2-155d can have liquid water on the surface, but can only confirm the information by quantifying its star size and temperature more accurately.
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These days the future looks more like Idiocracy or Black Mirror or RoboCop than Star Trek. Not even the excellent Star Trek Discovery can give us much hope for tomorrow. However, in-between all the cryptocurrency and climate change, there are still technological breakthroughs convincing us the next few decades might not be so bad after all. A new study in Science Adventures sheds light on techniques for converting molecules into new forms, Star Trek replicators basically.
The technology is called carbon nanotube membranes, or CNTs, and the major force behind them right now is New York startup Mattershift. The process revolves around combining and separating individual molecules, the building blocks of matter, to build entirely new blocks according to the scientist's whims. Currently, Mattershift is working on removing CO2 molecules from the air and turning them into fuel, killing two birds of the global warming crisis with one stone.
But the potential applications of altering matter like this boggle the mind. Mattershift's latest breakthrough has been getting CNTs to work on larger, more cost-effective scales. This way, they could "print" huge quantities of valuable raw materials like carbon-zero gasoline and jet fuel essentially out of nothing. Mattershift CEO Dr. Rob McGinnis imagines using the process to create food and medicine on space colonies so we won't rely on costly flights from Earth to Mars.
Right now the biggest obstacle between CNTs and fullmetal alchemy is that it only recycles one mass of raw material, like air or soil, into another mass of raw material. As useful as it is to print a bunch of clean water or gold or whatever, it's not quite as cool as printing an exact replica of Doug Jones's original Mac Tonight costume. Fortunately, Mattershift believes that in time they will be able to convert molecules into increasingly complex new forms. So keep holding a torch for the Star Trek future we deserve.
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Petrie Palestinian Project
This project has the following aims:
- To completely catalogue the Institute of Archaeology's holdings of material in the Petrie Palestinian Collection and make it available online via the IoA collections website.
- To research the current locations of all materials from Petrie's excavations in British Mandate Palestine between 1926 and 1938 and provide an online guide to these resources.
- To digitise Petrie's field records from Tell el-'Ajjul and Tell Fara, and make these available to researchers online.
- To conduct research into Petrie's field methods and practices, and reassess material from his excavations.
Related outputs
- Sparks, R.T. (2013). Fishing for meaning: Net weights, fishhooks and netting needles in mortuary contexts at Tell el-'Ajjul. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, 5 (2), 33-47.
- Sparks, R.T. (2013). Flinders Petrie Through Word and Deed: Re-evaluating Field Techniques and their Impact on Object Recovery in British Mandate Palestine. Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 145 (2), 143-159. doi:10.1179/0031032813Z.00000000049
- Sparks, R.T. (2013). Publicising Petrie: Financing fieldwork in British Mandate Palestine (1926-1938). Present Pasts, 5 (2), 1-15. doi:10.5334/pp.56
- Laidlaw, S., Sparks, R.T. and P.J. Ucko. (2007). A Future for the Past: Petrie's Palestinian Collection. This was the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Brunei Gallery in London.
- Sparks, R.T. (2005). The Lost Loci of Tell el-'Ajjul: Petrie's Area C, PEQ 137.1, 23-29.
- Funding was received at an early stage in this research from the Stockman Foundation


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EDIT: I decided to move on from this idea for the time being, mainly due to the graphics and onscreen effects I'm working with not really fitting the style of the levels I'm making.
If any of you still have some advice to the old post hidden in the spoiler below, then feel free to respond.
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It's been a long time since I touched anything lua related.
Lately I've been trying to create a custom stage title HUD.
The aim was to make my custom stage title appear instead of the original srb2 stage titles, while also making sure that they slide on and off the screen when you just start a level.
I attempted this using my old "starpost-item-giving" lua file as a template.
The problem that I had bumped into however, was that I couldn't figure out how to make the custom stage title slide off the screen.
Imagine this but instead of fading out, the title and its background would keep moving to the right, until it is no longer on screen.
Here's the current code I have for this:
local fonttimer = 0 local fontbacktimer = 0 local frontxpos = 70 local backxpos = 50 //Timer for stage title HUD in the front local function startFontTimer() for player in players.iterate if player.fonttimer != nil and player.fonttimer > 0 player.fonttimer = $1 - 1 if player.fonttimer < TICRATE player.frontxpos = $1 + 1 if player.frontxpos > 200 player.fonttimer = 0 end end end end end //Timer for stage title background HUD in the back local function startFontBacktimer() for player in players.iterate if player.fontbacktimer != nil and player.fontbacktimer > 0 player.fontbacktimer = $1 - 1 if player.fontbacktimer < TICRATE player.backxpos = $1 + 1 if player.backxpos > 200 player.fontbacktimer = 0 end end end end end local function LevelSpawn(player) player.fonttimer = 2*TICRATE player.fontappear = "TESTFNT" //Name of stage title front image player.frontxpos = 0 player.fontbacktimer = 2*TICRATE player.fontbackappear = "DBLOCK" //Name of stage title background image player.backxpos = 0 end local function fonty(v, stplyr) if stplyr.fonttimer != nil and stplyr.fonttimer > 0 local fontpatch = (v.cachePatch(stplyr.fontappear)) v.draw(frontxpos, 82, fontpatch) end end local function funty(v, stplyr) if stplyr.fontbacktimer != nil and stplyr.fontbacktimer > 0 local fontbackpatch = (v.cachePatch(stplyr.fontbackappear)) v.draw(backxpos, 80, fontbackpatch) end end hud.add(funty) //Place before "fonty" so that the background isn't seen in front of the stage title hud.add(fonty) hud.disable("stagetitle") addHook ("ThinkFrame", startFontTimer) addHook ("ThinkFrame", startFontBacktimer) addHook ("PlayerSpawn", LevelSpawn)
I'm pretty much lost here on how to mix the timer scripting with a script for sliding the HUD.
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Humans–Homo Sapiens or Anatomically Modern Humans–have been around for about 200,000 years. We have only recently–for the past few thousand years or so–begun making a serious effort at recording human history and figuring out what happened before our own times.
Most of what we know about major migrations and changes among human populations come from three major sources: written records, archaeology, and genetics.
Written records are (usually) the easiest to work with. We know when the Spaniards discovered Cuba because we have written records of the event, for example. Unfortunately, written records go back only a few thousand years–covering a teeny portion of human history–and can be highly unreliable. After all, we thought the entire world was only 6 thousand years old for a while because a book that seemed to say so.
Archaeology lets us peer much further back than written records, but with much less detail. We don't know a lot, for example, about the folks who made Aurignacian tools–what they called themselves, what sort of rituals they had, what they hoped or dreamed of. Without those details, it's hard to care much about one culture or another. After a while, pots blend into pots, stone tools into stone tools.
Can you tell which one is Aurignacian, and which is Gravettian?
(Oh, I threw in a Mousterian tool, as well. Those were made by Neanderthals, not H. sapiens.)
I can't, either.
It is difficult to tell whether a change in artifacts between one layer and the next reflects a change in people or a change in technology. The proliferation of steel artifacts in the archaeological record in Mexico circa 1500 reflects an influx of new people, but the proliferation of television sets in the future-archaeological record of my area merely reflects a technological development. Finding a lot of mass graves in an area is, of course, a tip-off that invasion and replacement happened, but invasions aren't always accompanied by easily identified mass-internments.
This is where genetics comes in. If we can find some skeletons and sequence their DNA, and then find some later or earlier skeletons in the same area and sequence their DNA, then we can get a pretty good idea of whether or not the later people are descended from the earlier people. This probably doesn't always work (if the people in question are under some kind of selective pressure–which we all are–then their descendants might look genetically different from their ancestors simply due to evolution rather than replacement,) but it is a pretty darn good tool.
As I discussed back in "Oops, Looks Like it was People, not Pots," archaeologists have fiercely debated over the decades whether the replacement of Narva Pots with Corded Ware Pots circa 3750 ago represented a population replacement or just a change in pot-making preferences:
Corded Ware on the left, Narva on the right.
Luckily for us, genetics has now figured out that the Corded Ware people are actually the Yamnaya, aka the Proto-Indo-Europeans, and that they expanded out of the Eurasian Steppe about 4,000 years ago, replacing much of the native population as they went.
So it's starting to look like there were quite a few conquering events of this sort.
In general, if you see a lot of mtDNA and only a little Y-DNA, that means there were a lot of women around and only a few men. And that generally means those men just killed all of the other men and raped their wives and children.
Which appears to have happened on a massive scale throughout much of the world around 10,000-4,000 years ago.
Just off the top of my head, recent large-scale migrations and at least partial replacements include the arrival of Indians in Australia around 4,230 years ago; replacement of the Thule people by the Inuit (aka Dorset aka Eskimo) around 1,000 ago; successive waves of steppe peoples like the Turks and Mongols invading their neighbors; the Great Bantu Migration that began about 3,500 years ago; the spread of Polynesians through areas formerly controlled by Melanesians starting around 3,000 BC; displacement of the Ainu by the Japanese over the past couple thousand years; etc.
And of course, we know of many more recent migrations, like the one kicked off by Columbus.
So it looks like people have moved around a lot over the past 10,000 years.
Terms like "bronze age" are a little problematic because people adopted different technologies at different times. So the "bronze age" began around 5,300 years ago in the Middle East, 4,000 years ago in Ireland, and skipped the Inuit entirely (they basically went straight from stone and bone tools to guns.)
Agriculture emerged in the Middle East circa 11,500 years ago; followed by the wheel, 8,500 years ago; carts, 6,500 years ago; and domesticated horses about 6,000 years ago. These technologies made the world ripe for warfare–riders on horseback or in chariots were great at conquering, and agricultural settlements, with their large population centers and piles of food, were great for conquering.
Our conventional views of prehistory are tainted, I suspect, by a mis-perception of time. This is probably basically a quirk of perception–since we remember yesterday better than the day before yesterday, and that day better than last week, and last week better than last year, we tend to think of more recent time periods as longer than they really are, and older time periods as relatively shorter. Children are most prone to this; ask a child to make a numberline showing events like "Last week, my last birthday, the year I was born, and the year mommy was born," and you'll tend to get a very distorted number line. Grown ups are much better at this task (we can count the time-distance between these events,) but we're not perfect.
We show this same tendency when thinking about human history. Our written documents barely go back past 3,000 years, and as far as most people are concerned, this is the beginning of "history". Nevermind that humans have been around for 200,000 years–that's 197,000 years of human history that we tend to condense down to: humans evolved, left Africa, and invented agriculture–then came us. We tend to mentally assign approximately equal chunks of time to each phase, which leads to things like people thinking that the Basques–who speak a language isolate–are an ancient, archaic people who hail directly from the first humans, or Neanderthals, or somesuch. Neanderthals disappeared around 40,000 years, and the Indo-European language expansion probably cut the Basques off from their fellow-language speakers about 3,000 years ago. Of course, the Basques could have been cut off since the Neanderthal age, but that's a jump of 37,000 years (or more) on very little evidence. Likewise, we tend to assume that people just spread out from their original African homeland, got to where they were going, sat down, and never moved again. With the exception of Columbus and his European co-ethnics, everyone is sort of assumed to have gotten where they are now about 100,000-40,000 years ago. (Or the equivalent time period for people who think humanity is much younger or older than it is.)
But the emerging picture is one of conquering–lots of conquering, at least in the time periods we've been able to get details on. But go back more than 10,000 years or so, and the records start petering out. We've got no writing, far fewer artifacts, and even the DNA breaks down. The technology we've developed for extracting and sequencing ancient DNA is amazing, but I suspect we'll have a devil of a time trying to find any well-preserved 40,000 year old DNA in the rainforest.
So what did the human story look like between 200,000 and 10,000 years ago? Have humans been conquering and re-conquering each other from the beginning? Is it ethnic group after ethnic group, all the way down? Or did lower population density in the pre-agricultural era make it easier to spread out and avoid one's neighbors than to bother fighting with them? Certainly armies would have spread much less slowly before the domestication of the horse and invention of the chariot. (Not to mention that they require quite a bit of food, which is a tough sort of thing to get in large, easily-transportable form if you're a hunter-gatherer.)
Certainly prehistoric peoples slaughtered (or slaughter) each other with great frequency–we can tell that:
It doesn't take a lot of technology to go put a spear into your neighbor's chest. Even bands of chimps go smash other bands of chimps to bits with rocks.
We also have genetic evidence emerging from further back, ie, An Older Layer of Eurasian Admixture in Africa. As Dienekes summarises:
The authors propose that a genetic component found in Horn of Africa populations back-migrated to Africa from Eurasia ~23 thousand years ago. … For a time, there was a taboo against imagining back-migration into Africa; in a sense this was reasonable on parsimony grounds: Africans have most autosomal genetic diversity and the basal clades of mtDNA and Y-chromosomes; a model with Out-of-Africa is simpler than one with both Out-of and Into-Africa. However, we now know that pretty much all Africans have Eurasian ancestry, ranging from at least traces in theYoruba and Pygmies (to account for the Neandertal admixture) to intermediate values in East Africans, to quite a lot in North Africans.
Eurasian admixture in Africa seems to be general, variable, and to have occurred at different time scales. It's still the best hypothesis that modern humans originated in Africa initially and migrated into Eurasia. However, it is no longer clear that Africa was always the pump and never the destination of human migrations.
Whether this was "conquering" or just wandering remains to be discovered.
As for me, my money's on horses and agriculture making warfare and dispersal faster and more efficient, not fundamentally changing our human proclivities toward our neighbors.


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Performance Opportunities
Each term the First, Middle and Senior Schools have a program of informal and formal performance opportunities.
These include:
- Termly instrumental concerts
- Chamber concerts in the Chapel
- Student Led Open Mic Nights
- Musical cheese and wine and soiree dinner events
- Choir performances at Newcastle City Hall and Newcastle Cathedral
- Weekly performances in assemblies in all three schools
CDs and Recordings
Kings Priory School musicians aim to record our own CD every 18 months featuring not only performances by students but also some own compositions. We work in collaboration with the YStudio in North Shields to produce these recordings and offer students valuable recording and studio experience.


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"How They Made It: Inspirational stories of how others succeeded in their dream job – and how you can too" is a diverse and inspirational collection of career profiles, compiled by graduates and aimed at graduates. But this isn't your usual career guide. This book won't give you standard job profiles or a list of how tos and contact information.
This book is far more than that; it's life stories telling of struggles and triumphs, unique approaches and what the jobs are really like after you've finally got them.
If you're anything like me, and love a good interview or biography to inspire you, then this book is ideal. Furthermore, there's a lot of relevant material for writers and creatives. Included are profiles of children's poet and author Michael Rossen, critic Mark Kermode, fashion magazine editor-in-chief Trish Halpin, screenwriters Barbara Machin and Paul Abbot, and TV producer Tim Hinks.
Not only do we get a biographical profile of the interviewees, we also get an insight into their career paths and a whole range of inspirational ideas and tips for us as writers as the beginning of our own careers. As a Children's Laureate, Michael Rossen has found the process of reigniting the trend of performing poetry invigorating, and he's embracing social media too, having found it thrilling to "work and practice styles in".
Perseverance seems key throughout the inspiring tales, with creative director Paul Brazier stating "perseverance furthers" as his motto.
"If you Keep plugging away, if you don't lose enthusiasm, you can get somewhere". "If you don't put yourself out there you will slip off the dial within six months."
Not only is perserverance key for many of the success stories in this book, but open-mindedness and diversity, too. Waking The Dead creator and writer Barbara Machin never once let her passion go for better-paid jobs, instead taking on writing-related jobs such as a literature fieldworker for the Arts Council.
The interviews with screenwriters were particularly fascinating for me as a writer, because they're not only educational regarding career progression routes but there are some fab tips in there as well. Contrary to popular belief, writing for other shows such as Casualtly can in fact help you develop your own voice, says Barbara, and the key ingredient to screenwriting is imagination.
"You can research all you like, but it won't create great stories or characters".
"If you learn to make the ordinary extraordinary, then you can write tales," says writer and producer Paul Abbott. Paul is inspirational not only as a writer, but as a mental health sufferer, having not let his bipolar disorder affect his career aspirations. Having written prose during University, he later turned to scriptwriting after having been inspired by reading the manuscript for Kes. Confidence, says Abbott, is key in starting out:
"You put your best foot forward first [when sending work to industry professionals], and don't send in half-hearted work".
The only criticism I have of this book is that the profiles are often focussed on those whose careers were built during the 1960s through 1990s. Therefore, some of the routes may no longer be as relevant to today's youth who are looking for ways of breaking in. However, that said, the information given is still hugely informative and valuable to any aspiring professional.
The variety of careers covered could also be perceived as a downside when you already have a specific career in mind, but as an aspiring writer you will definitely find a lot of inspiration and advice within its pages. Personally, I found the non-relevant career profiles just as inspiring.
Endemol producer Tim Hincks wisely advises us to "research the people and be sure it's the industry you want to get into," and I'd say reading a book like this is a great start at getting a taste of what different creative careers are really like.


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For years Congress has missed opportunities to reform the U.S. sugar program. This outdated and outrageous program has not been modernized in 80 years. It is a rigged system that protects a concentrated group of 13 mega-processors at the risk of American small businesses and workers.
This sugar shakedown is baked into nearly every food, snack and treat, which results in zero benefit for the American consumer. The U.S. sugar program forces manufacturers to pay twice as much for sugar as the rest of the world, putting American small businesses at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to creating jobs. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the sugar program killed 123,000 jobs between 1997 and 2015. The American Enterprise Institute estimates that the program costs small businesses and consumers $2.4 – $4 billion a year.
Some in Congress believe that we should wait for agriculture policies in other countries around the world to change before we address this problem here at home. It's time to stop pretending that the need to reform the U.S. sugar program is about how other countries operate their governments. Right now these mega-processors operate at zero risk year-in and year-out while American small businesses and manufacturers get zero access to an adequate supply of sugar at a fair price and American manufacturing jobs are put in jeopardy.
Learn more here
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- Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. If you'd like help figuring out how to do that, just email or call us. We are happy to help.
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- Sign the Now Or Neverglades declaration, adding your voice to hundreds of thousands of other Floridians or lovers of the Everglades. You will be joining with our conservation partners, like the Everglades Foundation, Audubon, Sierra Club, National Parks Conservation Association, Florida Wildlife Federation, Bonefish & Tarpon Trust, Bullsugar, Captains for Clean Water and hundreds of thousands of Floridians. Here's a list of many of our corporate partners in the Now Or Neverglades movement.
- Visit often. Ask questions. We're here to help. Be extremely confident in knowing your advocacy is backed up by overwhelming sound science and research.
- Vote in the August 28 primaries and in the general elections on November 6. As they approach, we will be telling you about the candidates. We'll share the good, the bad and the ugly.
- Get your family and friends to do all of the above.
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I seem to enjoy yard work in extreme weather. First, I hauled out all of the concrete chunks in pouring rain. Yesterday, in 90 degree weather, I decided to fill in our dry well/french drain and haul more rocks!
With our new patio we are putting in, I needed to redirect the drain pipe coming off the back roof. We have always had a problem with water collecting in this area. It is also right where our hose is and I am constantly having to use it to clean out concrete and thin-set buckets, which doesn't help the situation. We have a sub-pump under the house, but I wanted to do something more.
So we had our contractor, Courtney, dig a trench and pit to redirect the gutter water into a pit filled with rocks.
Next, I had to buy drain pipe and an elbow for the redirection of the drain.
Then I had to line the pit with landscape fabric. If I just dumped rocks in there without the fabric, over time it would fill with dirt and sink and become useless.
Then I had to fill the pit with rocks. Luckily, we had a ton of these rocks from my friend Vicki that was changing the landscaping of her yard a couple years ago. Being garden and yard pack rats, we jumped at the chance to take a yard of rocks, having no idea what we would do with them. We have used a modest amount in the landscaping in the front yard, but now they have found their true purpose for existing. Note my nice new orange wheelbarrow.
Finally, I covered the end of the pipe with landscape fabric before filling in the rest of the rocks and covered them up in a landscape fabric package and then filled in the dirt.
I still need a little more dirt, but by this time (even with a 20 minute break for every 20 minutes I worked) I was pretty sweaty and exhausted and pleased with my work; so I called it good. A large part of this spot is going to be covered with a planting bed to visually block the ugly oil tank and recycling bins.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Re-Do the Backyard: Part 3
Posted by Jennevieve at 8:33 AM
Labels: DIY, outside, yard and garden
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You amaze me! Your husband can't complain that you sit around the house all day!ReplyDelete
I forgot to add that I have a great fountain for your new yard! LOL!ReplyDelete
Thanks for doing this. Something similar is on our project list and now I can show Randy how easy it is :) Glad the landscape fabric went to good use.ReplyDelete
Cynthia, you need to send me photos of that old crappy fountain and I will put up your befores and after!ReplyDelete
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Last day of school & vacation savings
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Check out upromise.com. They offer a credit card that lets you earn money towards your kids college education. Stephanie and I have built up $1500 plus. There are many options for "earning" the money.ReplyDelete
I love free hotel nights too, but I "earn" those by traveling for work. Most hotels, airlines, car rental places have member rewards programs. One minor benefit to traveling for work, trust me, there are many more negatives.
Is the ME picture from the cabin? I'd bet that water is COLD!
Tricia I am so excited about this blog! With my husband in med school and me only working PRN so I can be home with our little one (soon to be oneS), we are always looking for new ways to be frugal - but, I have to admit, it does not come naturally to me. So, I am SO excited to have some guidance! Thank you for doing this!ReplyDelete
Faith (Haithcock) Tolan
Thanks for reminding me about Upromise...I have an account, but it's not nearly as "full" as yours. And the water isn't Florida temp, but it's really not too bad!ReplyDelete
Faith, thanks! Hope we can be of some assitance!


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If you're new to this blog, check out my Dinner Party Series in the Index. Every now and then, I remember to take photos of our efforts in the kitchen as we entertain. This simple brunch of French toast and fruit highlights how color can perk up any table.
So where's the French toast? With a houseful of guests over the holiday season, I wasn't about to photograph it or the juice, the bacon, the sausages, or the steaming cups of tea and coffee ("Would you pause just a second and smile as you pretend to eat that bacon? Whoops! No flash! Let's try that shot again ...") And again ... and again ... and again.
If you've never made gourmet French toast, you'll find three new takes on this old favorite at:
If all you want is the basic yum!, check this super-simple recipe at:
or try the easy French Christmas Croissants I made a couple of weeks ago:
As for color? Never be afraid to use it - and use it liberally! Keep it in mind as you cook and serve, and everything will taste better than it already does.
|Sitting at the kitchen table lends a casual feeling.
|This couldn't be faster: Section 1/2 an orange
per person, layering with fresh berries.
|A tiny table needs a tiny centerpiece. These
snippets of red kalanchoe blooms were ideal!


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So I waited, even though I had every intention of blogging about it all, from the very first day, even any potential bad stuff. Though, of course, to several of you, this is old news (funny how you tell one or two people and suddenly everyone knows, hmm?). To stop this rambling, bring the rest of you up to speed, and just effing get on with it, a pictorial explanation:
12 weeks and 3 days as of today. Estimated due date is April 25, 2009. April is a wonderful month to have a baby, right, Mom? Given my track record (Finn was born 8 days late), we may be having a May baby, but I'm holding out hope for April.
According to the newsletter I received a couple of days ago, this little one is about the size of a lime right now, up a few centimeters from the fig-sized mass it was last week (Side note: Why do they always use produce? Why not say the baby is the size, for example, of a badminton birdie? A shuttlecock, if you will?). As of today I can confirm that it has two arms (you can see one in the picture on the left), two legs, two scary alien-baby eye sockets, a spine, a bladder, a stomach, very low odds for having Trisomies 18 or 21, and a wonderful beating heart. 158 bpm - a little lower than Finn's heart rate at this age, if I remember correctly, but I'm not going to read anything into that. Nor the fact that I've been feeling much worse with this pregnancy (the indigestion! the nausea! the general blech-iness!) than I did with Finn. Our family makes boys, so I'm assuming that's what this one is. Confirmation will not be forthcoming until the birth, however - we are holding out for a surprise on this one.
We are excited, and introducing the concept to Finn. He has heard the heartbeat (thank you, Donna, for the use of your Doppler!) and has a vague idea that there is either a baby or a bulldozer inside my belly (the confusion is my fault, but I think it's cute so we may string him along a little longer). We bought him The Berenstain Bear's New Baby (both to introduce him to the idea of a sibling AND the idea of a new bed, which he will need in the next few months), and we read it occasionally. Finn will be two and a half when this baby is born, an age difference I am hoping is perfect (is there such a thing?). Close enough together to be friends, far enough apart where I won't have TWO babies at once. Though that thought saddens me, as Finn will always be my baby, right?
So, there, it's done with, I managed to actually write a blog post about this. Hopefully the rest of them will come more easily.


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