text: nutrition Beef up with hearty meatballs 19 September 2016 , By Sport Singapore Share Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Email In our 'Fuel Up' series, sport dieticians from Singapore Sports Institute, Cheryl Teo and Ang Sin Hwee, show you how to cook up delicious meals to last through a day's training. In this second episode, we take a look at serving up hearty meatballs in tomato sauce as the main course of the day. Love meatballs? Why not make your own? This is a fun recipe to make with the rest of the family or with your kids. You can double or triple this recipe as you like. It stores well in the freezer or refrigerator for an instant homemade meal after a long day in the office or as a post-workout meal. The combination of beef and tomatoes in this dish provides a wholesome meal that is rich in protein, iron and cancer-fighting lycopene. For a high carb meal, have this with pasta, or in between a wholegrain burger bun as a meatball slider. For a low carb meal, have this on top of a salad, or with cauliflower rice. Meatballs Estimated time needed: 35 minutes Serves: 2 to 3 Ingredients Meatballs 300g beef mince, swap this with pork, chicken or even tuna if you prefer 1 slice bread, roughly torn, OR ½ cup breadcrumbs 1 small egg 1 tablespoon Worchestershire sauce 1 tablespoon tomato paste 1 teaspoon mustard Tomato sauce 1 medium onion, diced 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 carrot, chopped 1 stick celery, chopped 2 x 400g cans tinned tomatoes 1 tablespoon tomato paste ¾ cup water ½ tsp dried herbs, optional 2 tablespoon canola/ olive oil Salt & pepper to taste Instructions To make meatballs, combine all ingredients for the meatballs in a large mixing bowl. Mix well to combine. Roll tablespoonfuls of mixture into balls and place them on a tray. Cover with cling wrap and refrigerate for 15 minutes or until firm. This prevents the meatballs from falling apart in the tomato sauce. Note: You can also panfry or grill the meatballs and serve them as they are, or with a sweet and sour sauce with vegetables. The options are endless! In a large pot, heat 1 tablespoon of oil over medium heat and sauté onion and garlic till soft and translucent, about 2 minutes. Add carrots and celery and sauté till fragrant for another 1-2 minutes. Add tinned tomatoes, tomato paste, ¾ cup water and allow the mixture to simmer for 1-2 minutes. Remove the chilled meatballs from the refrigerator and drop them into the tomato mixture. Simmer uncovered for 20 minutes, turning the meatballs halfway through to ensure they cook evenly. Serve with a side of your choice. If you love this recipe try the following as well to make it a complete day's meal: Shakshuka - poached eggs in tomato sauce Garlicky hummus - a healthy alternative to butter Gallery


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We as consumers should be wary of many things before we buy. After all, we are spending our hard earned money and we do have rights. Use this checklist BEFORE you make a purchase to avoid problems and make informed choices.
- Decide in advance exactly what you want and what you can afford.
- Do your research. Ask family, friends, and others you trust for advice based on their experience. Gather information about the seller and the item or service you are purchasing. We've all seen those online trading groups or Etsy shops and we get what we pay for. Be vigilant and vet these sellers before you buy,
- Review product test results from consumer experts and comments from past customers. That is exactly what I do when I shop on Amazon. I don't care how many reviews there are, I read them all before I buy that product.
- Get price quotes from several sellers.
- Make sure the seller has all appropriate licenses. Doctors, lawyers, contractors, and other service providers must register with a state or local licensing agency.
- Check a company's complaint record with your local consumer affairs office and the Better Business Bureau.
- Get a written copy of guarantees and warranties.
- Get the sellers refund, return, and cancellation policies.
- Ask whom to contact if you have a question or a problem.
- Read and understand any contract or legal document you are asked to sign or give agreement to online (by clicking "I Agree"). Make sure there are no blank spaces or incomplete terms. Insist that any extras you are promised be put in writing.
Quick Tips For Avoiding Fraud
There are many varieties of consumer fraud, but the most common ones are variations of fake check scams, credit repair, free trip offers, and sweepstakes. Here are a few tips to help you avoid being a victim.
- Don't give out personal information. Be suspicious of anyone you don't know who asks for your Social Security number, date of birth, credit card number, bank account number, password, or other personal data.
- Don't be intimidated. Be suspicious of calls or emails that want you to provide or verify personal information immediately. Answer that you are not interested and hang up or don't reply to the email.
- Monitor your accounts. Review bank and credit card statements carefully, and report unauthorized transactions to your financial institution immediately.
- Use a shredder. Tear or shred credit offers, bank statements, insurance forms, and other papers with personal information.
- Ignore unsolicited offers. Don't respond if someone you do not know asks you to send money or money orders to claim a prize, lottery, credit card, loan or other valuable offers.
When Prices Aren't Final
Retailers, both online and brick and mortar, sometimes use aggressive strategies to change the price of an item. It's called drip pricing and it's a pricing strategy where a seller adds fees, some of them mandatory, to the advertised price for the product or service. This practice makes it difficult for you to determine the full cost and compare similar options when all the fees are not disclosed up front. You can protect yourself by asking questions of sales personnel about fees before you buy, or asking for a complete price list.
Another strategy is dynamic pricing, when a retailer adjusts an item's price multiple times over a few days, or even within hours. The changes may be based on inventory, changes in demand, your browsing history, and even your personal information. Dynamic pricing is common with online retailers and airlines. Make dynamic pricing work to your advantage by using price tracker websites to compare the prices at different retailers. Use price predictor websites to track if the price is expected to go up or down. Clear your internet cookies so online retailers cannot use your browsing history to adjust prices.
Look for Grey Charges
Have you ever seen charges on your credit card statement that you can't figure out? These very well may be grey charges and there are several common types.
- Unintended subscriptions. You thought you made a one time purchase, but it was really a subscription.
- Zombie Fees. Membership fees that you previously canceled but the fees will not stop.
- Free trial to paid. When a free trial is over the seller converts it to a paid subscription.
- Negative option. You bought one product but did not realize you were buying others at the same time.
Take the following steps to protect yourself from grey charges:
- Read the terms of service before you buy. Disclosures about fees may be hidden or near the end, so read the entire document.
- Mark your calendar as a reminder to cancel free trials by a set date.
- Read your credit card statements closely. Pay attention to the names of companies and charges for small amounts.
- Contact the seller to have the grey charges removed.
- Dispute charges with your credit card company.
After You Buy
Even careful buyers can run into unforeseen problems after the purchase. Just in case, save all of the papers that come with your purchase. Keep all contracts, sales receipts, canceled checks, owner's manuals, and warranty documents. Read and follow produce and service instructions. The way you use or take care of a product might affect your warranty rights. You may be able to get a refund for the difference if the price of the item you bought has decreased within a certain number of days. Find out how to dispute a purchase, based on if you paid with cash, credit, or a mobile app, or payment device.
Remember, be a savvy PROTECTED shopper
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I do like the idea of using a price tracker to make sure you're getting the best prices for things. I have seen the swings and don't appreciate it. We have a shredder at home and always shred our statements and such.
Thanks for the great tips and checklist. I always try to price compare before I hit the stores.
Very good information. Thanks. I always mark in my calendar two days before a free trial will end so I have time to cancel before the charges!
There's a lot of facts in this post, so informative! All are good points and its definitely saying to be wiser consumer.
Its definitely saying to be wise consumer. Nowadays its hard to trust especially in the online world where there's a lot competition.
I think I must be an overly paranoid person because Im so skeptical to give any info out. Its amazing how much I didnt used to think about it though
I love price comparison websites for traveling. Oh! And don't even get me started on "Zombie" fees. I had a gym do that to me one time.
I admit I am not as thorough as this list in my research. I do need to be more intentionally smart with my money, though.
I really like the idea of price checker for looking around for prices. That is important to me as a buyer for many things.
Very informative post. thankfully I have never been a victim of fraud I always research what I am going to buy before I do to make sure its the best for what I am looking for
Such an important post, Tracie! With all the ways our identities are up for grabs for reasons outside of our own control, ours important to mitigate the risks that are in our control.
Great post! I know the free trial to paid snares a lot of people up. I always make sure that if I'm starting a free trial, I mark on my calendar when I have to cancel to avoid these kinds of fees.

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The one who delivered the most unexpected performance Monday on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars." "Malcolm in the Middle" star Frankie Muniz transformed himself into a menacing pirate for a showy Argentine tango with a "Pirates of the Caribbean" theme.
He looked like a decadent rocker and brought surprising fierceness to the dance. Bruno Tonioli raved about Witney Carson's choreography, and Muniz explained how he comes alive when he performs on the live telecast. His fine work earned 29 points, just shy of perfection.
Singer-actor Jordan Fisher did collect 30 points, the first perfect score of the season, for a foxtrot to "Moana." The effortless routine reconfirmed that he's the most talented dancer this season. Tonioli said it was the very model of a modern foxtrot and praised the syncopation.
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Violinist Lindsey Stirling and Mark Ballas were in Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire territory for a gorgeous foxtrot to "When You Wish Upon a Star" from "Pinocchio."
ESPN personality Victoria Arlen opened the show with a charming tribute to "Steamboat Willie," the debut of Mickey Mouse. Carrie Ann Inaba said Arlen and Val Chmerkovskiy were in perfect sync.
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bird - Sampurna Chatterjee
Just Like Hutton - Madulika Liddle
Mera Bharat Mahaan - Mariam Karim
(Personal narrative)
Printers' Row, Chicago - Dipika Mukherjee
Smoke Gets in your Eyes - Anjana Basu
Hiroshima, Mon Amour - Sylvia Ashby
The Sphatik - Kalpish Ratna
Where a Line is a Circle - Bhaswati Ghosh
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Indus, 3180 km - Akhil Katyal
He Got You - Saborna Roychowdhury
A Bridge across Time - Sucharita Dutta-Asane
East, West Sequence - Ricardo Pérez-Salamero García
The Caravan of the Cultures of the World - Varsha Seshan
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Anjana Basu
She was the first Frenchwoman most of us had ever seen. Everything about her from her blue eye shadow to her tapered black stiletto heels was exotic. The fact that our mothers were equally swamped with Elizabeth Taylor's plucked arches in Cleopatra didn't cause a flicker on our faces. We could cheerfully have let the whole lot of them and their seven coats of mascara sink in a gilded barge down the Nile.
Monique was a chanteuse – we learnt that word years later at the Alliance. She presided in a black cocktail dress over the hazy interior of the Cafe de Paris, by common consent the most Frenchified nightclub in all of Calcutta. Her rasping voice lent every song she sang a touch of heartbreak. Years and years of tears had worn their grooves down her vocal cords; lost loves had trickled away like smoky scotch and her nights had smouldered blue grey like the ash of a Gitane. In short, she was BAD — and that was all in capitals.
Our mothers warned us about her in hushed voices, bringing us home from school in the afternoon. "Don't be like her, don't even think about her, or you'll become as bad as she is!"
The problem was Colette. Colette was Monique's daughter and she was in class with us. Colette had thick white skin that looked as if the sun never got to it and hair the colour of jute sacking. She was only half French — the nuns would never have let her into school with a pure French chanteuse ancestry. Her father was a short, stocky Bengali businessman with a surname that had our mothers sniffing up their highbred Bengali, Parsee and Punjabi noses. "Aikat? Who on earth has heard of an Aikat? Scheduled caste nishchoi." The nuns pocketed Mr Aikat's money and ignored Monique's nocturnal activities.
Not many of us were allowed to play with Colette. Usually, the ones who went home with her were the ones with Anglo Indian surnames like De Cruz and Xavier. They sported an air of superiority the next day and talked airily about pancake make up and thick eye shadow sticks like crayons of emerald green and turquoise blue. Sheila De Cruz smirked so much about it that she almost got slapped in the playground.
However, there was one day when everyone was allowed to troop over to the Cafe de Paris. That day was Colette's birthday. Unlike most of us, Colette invited the whole class to her birthday party. "Aikater taka aachey, must be black money," sniffed the mothers, as they went into huddles over what we should wear. It would never do to dress down to Monique's Parisian elegance, bad as it was. All our frilly petticoats came out and were starched till they scratched our legs and waists.
It was the age of the can can petticoat, made of layers of ruffles and net. The stiffer they were starched, the wider our party frocks stood out above them. The more boisterous girls in the class had a habit of flicking the back of your skirt in the air when you weren't looking, so that the light organdy clung to the air and your can can was exposed in all its white scratchy stiffness. For Colette's birthday, those can cans were frilled and flounced to an inch of their lives. We walked dutifully through the plush carpeted interiors of the Cafe de Paris with our party frocks swinging like bells around us. Monique was waiting for us at the foot of the stairs with shrieking pink cheeks and staring blue eyelids. She was joined by an equally pink and blue Colette wearing a navy blue tunic. "Such a plasair to see you all," Monique rasped at us. "Colette is so 'appy!"
'Hello, Auntie Monique, Happy birthday, Colette,' we all chorused, as our mothers had sternly coached us. Then we were seated on rows of velvet banquettes with fizzing glasses of coca cola or Fanta in front of us. That moment of quietness lasted barely fifteen minutes. Then the ring leaders piped up one by one. "Please may I go to the toilet?", "Please may I be excused?"
The Cafe de Paris had its own mirror-ringed ladies' toilet. It was as plush as the restaurant, with velvet covers on the commode seats and a deep white dish of talcum powder. But that was not where we wanted to go. Colette was in the secret. One by one, she led us up the stairs to their flat and into their bathroom. It was that we all waited with bated breath to see. It might have been, and it probably was, a shabby, wet bathroom, but by the commode it boasted a real pink ceramic bidet. Colette had shown it to each one of us the first time we had stepped into her home. To her, it was the crowning proof of her mother's Parisienneness. "That's called a beeday," she told each one of us importantly. "You wash your bottom in it." And she showed us the hot and cold water jets with a consequential flourish.
To us it seemed the height of unimaginable luxury and wickedness that the French could have a basin just to wash their bottoms in; and every time we came to Colette's, we had to renew our thrill by visiting it. We all tried it out, with varying success. Suchandra drenched her can can and had to spend the rest of the party in borrowed clothes, while we rustled and giggled behind her back. Then the cake was cut and Monique in her blue eye shadow came into her own. "Zis afternoon," she purred, "Colette, Zizi and Fifi will perform for you a can can." A clash of cymbals endorsed her statement. We sat on the edge of our banquettes wriggling excitedly, the Fanta rumbling in our stomachs and setting an ache in our bladders.
Colette must have disappeared sometime after cutting the cake because she now materialized from behind the orchestra stalls in a frantic wave of Offenbach. Behind her came Zizi and Fifi in a vortex of restrained frills. We knew Fifi too. She was two classes junior to us and she never ever had a bath. She looked like stretched pink wax when she did the splits. "That must hurt," Sujata muttered. "She has tears coming out of her eyes." We strained to look. It was true. The tears were drawing grey lines down Fifi's rouge.
Zizi, Fifi's elder sister was doing the splits too, but hers looked effortless. She just stretched her leg back out into infinity. Colette didn't even attempt it. "I don't have to," she told us later snootily. "I'm not going to make a living through cabaret."
Our excitement was heightened by the clash of the cymbals and the sticky, fizzy gulps of the orangeade. At some point in the afternoon's proceedings, Colette's father would put his shiny bald head into the restaurant and blink at us mildly over the rims of his thick glasses. Monique would swish over to him effusively and link her braceletted arm through his. "The beauty and the beast," one of the more precocious of us would mutter unkindly.
But it was true. Mr Aikat fitted into that rich, sticky Parisian afternoon not at all. He was like an invader from the Calcutta street outside. Not a beast, we said, but a Frog Prince — the kind no one wanted to kiss. Our parents said that he was actually a smuggler — that he'd made the money to build the restaurant on shady underground deals. He'd picked Monique up on the same shady deal, a kind of two for one offer, restaurant and chanteuse in one fell swoop. Colette didn't look anything like him. The only thing Indian about her was that layered olive white skin that never burnt brown or peeled.
How much of all this came down from our parents or our imagination, I don't really know, but we grew up accepting the fact that Colette was not Aikat's daughter, while she was very certainly Monique's. Year after year we went to those parties. Every year, the bidet got a little shabbier, though the plush velvet depths of the Cafe de Paris remained unchanged. Fifi learnt to do the splits without crying and lacquered her eyelids with layers of green and gold. We also accepted the fact that she was almost certainly a lesbian. Monique's hair, originally blonde, became redder by the year. That final year, it was so bright, it could have set the air on fire, while her voice did rasp over our ears like a saw.
School broke up in a smear of inky fingers and blotted papers. To show their emancipation, the nuns held a beauty contest in the great hall. Colette was one of the runners up. The fading photograph still shows her sneering disagreeably while she holds the crown up over Neeta's head. Some of us got married. Most of us went to college. Colette was one of the few who didn't do either. She joined an international airline and flew out of our sphere.
We were almost ready to forget the days of can can and orangeade. Certainly no one ever dropped in to dinner at the Cafe de Paris. It was the place where bad women went after dark and held hands in the shadows with equally depraved men, helped along, no doubt, by the suggestions in Monique's voice. Our mothers would have thrashed us black and blue if we'd ever allowed a boy to take us there. Suchandra ran into Zizi one evening at Freeschool Street — or rather, she ran into her eyes hadow, foundation and rouge walking frenetically up and down the pavement. Zizi pretended not to recognize her.
And then the notice appeared in the papers: The owner of a well known nightclub was found, shot dead, in his apartment this morning by a maidservant. The police are investigating the matter. The grapevine said it was Aikat. An insertion in the obituary column of the Statesman also said it was Aikat — our beloved husband and father of the grief-stricken Monique and Colette.
Colette had shown us the pistol on one of our pilgrimages to the bidet. It was kept in a drawer of tangled nylon stockings and lace handkerchiefs. Flashed like that, it conjured up visions of James Bond and sex and violence. "My mother brought it from Paris," Colette told us. "It's a beretta, a spy's gun." She never had much time to develop the spy theme because we heard footsteps on the stairs and she hastily bundled the gun back into the drawer, just in time to confront Monique's arched eyebrow. We all remembered the gun, a stubby brass pistol. Not a beretta, my father said when I asked him, but probably a regulation police pistol. He had one from his Boy Scout days and he pulled it out to show me. It was the same stubby brass model, falling apart because the screws were falling out. That spoilt it a little for me, even though the image of a pistol against a mesh of filmy stockings still lingered.
Everyone's phone must have rung at least once that day, with a murmur of: "Did you see, Colette's father...." We had called that short stocky man 'uncle' and slipped impatiently past him at least once every year in the past five years. "Colette's father ... Colette's father...."
The police investigation was mercifully short, given our curiosity. A verdict of suicide was passed. "That's what comes of knowing sleazy people," sniffed our mothers. "He must have gone bankrupt." But it wasn't that, because the Cafe de Paris only shut its doors for a week and in that time it was festooned with black ribbons and white mourning wreaths. We knew because we called on Colette, who'd flown down for the funeral.
She received us upstairs in her apartment in stark black that made the most of her white skin. She was composedly triste — I think that's the word. Obviously she knew that the traditional white wouldn't set her off so well. Around her bustled a black-and-white ayah with trays of sandeshes. "Where's Auntie Monique?" one of us asked. "We'd like to say how sorry we are." Colette's face stiffened and a tear trickled out of one eye. "Mama's in Paris ... I don't know how ... you see, she and Baba were getting a divorce...." As we watched wide eyed, her face crumpled altogether. Then her sobs grew louder and louder and her ayah whisked her away.
In a flash, everything was made clear. It wasn't bankruptcy after all. For a second, we were wriggling on the edge of our seats again in ecstasy. The promise of Monique's voice and the dark velvet interiors of the Cafe de Paris had been kept. The tangle of stockings and revolvers had come together in our heads in the ultimate crime of passion. It took us so far back to those afternoons of cream cakes and Offenbach that one of us — it was Suchandra — lunged for the bathroom door and yanked it open.
The bidet was still there. It had dark ugly brown stains down one side, in a pattern of spatters. Rusty stains that we had all learnt to recognise, through months of aching stomachs and sanitary napkins. The stains of old dried blood.
Suchandra shrieked and slammed the door. We whisked downstairs with more haste than manners. Later we heard he had shot himself there beside that one tangible memory of his French wife.
Anjana Basu works as an advertising consultant in Calcutta. Her poems have featured in an anthology brought out by Penguin India, and recently by Authorpress. In America she has been published in Gowanus, The Blue Moon Review, and Recursive Angel, to name a few; and in Canada in The Antigonish Review. The Edinburgh Review and The Saltzburg Review have also featured her work. In 2003, Harper Collins India brought out her novel, Curses in Ivory. In 2004, she was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in Scotland. Her second novel, Black Tongue, was published by Roli (2007). Chinku and the Wolfboy was also brought out by Roli (2010). She has worked on scripts with director, Rituparno Ghosh for Antarmahal and The Last Lear, and has subtitled several of his films including Unishe April, Dahan, and Chokher Bali. She also subtitled the Rahul Bose starrer, Antaheen.


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One in five Massachusetts residents speaks a language other than English at home. Steward campuses cover much of eastern Massachusetts, including the greater Boston area, so their diverse patient populations speak many languages. These include Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, French, Russian, Vietnamese, Cape Verdean, and Haitian Creole.
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This paper presents a nonlinear theoretical model to study the effect of laser surface texturing on the tribological performance in soft elastohydrodynamic lubrication. Both geometrical and physical nonlinearities of the elastomer are considered by using a logarithmic strain and the Mooney–Rivlin constitutive law, respectively. The results of the present nonlinear model are compared with a previous linear one over a wide range of operating conditions. It is found that the simpler linear elasticity model predicts results that are only slightly different from these predicted by the more accurate nonlinear one. Hence, the linear elasticity model can be practically considered valid over the entire range of operating conditions.
Schematic of the model showing the initially undeformed elastomer (dashed line) at zero sliding velocity, and the final deformed elastomer (solid line) at full sliding velocity
Geometrical model of a laser textured surface: (a) schematic of the model, (b) zoom in on a group of dimples, and (c) a single column of dimples in the x1 direction
A comparison between the linear (16) and nonlinear results of the elastomer deformations along the center line of a single dimple column
Dimensionless load carrying capacity W versus the aspect ratio ε for different values of the SEHL stiffness index E
Dimensionless load carrying capacity W versus the elastomer length L1
Dimensionless load carrying capacity W versus the elastomer thickness L2
Maximum dimensionless load carrying capacity W versus the SEHL stiffness index E at the transition from full to mixed hydrodynamic lubrication
Dimensionless friction force Ff versus the aspect ratio ε
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Saturday, 7 November 2015
This, that and the other for Saturday
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- AnonymousSaturday, November 07, 2015
Gorgeuos page Val, love the colours, wonderful photos, too. Hugs, SarahReplyDelete
Wundervoll ist die Seite und großartig sind Deine Bilder heute wieder!ReplyDelete
Du bist so toll und vielseitig in Deiner Kunst Valerie - ich bin immer wieder begeistert!
Hab einen guten Samstag!
Happy AJJ and MMM!
Spectacular page Valerie, wow your colours are just so vibrant, love it. Your pics are as awesome as ever. Hope you enjoy your weekend.xxReplyDelete
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Sehr schöne Bilder!ReplyDelete
Hi Valerie. Long time no see! My original blog got hijacked, I shifted houses and have been hugely busy for a number of years and its time to get back to blogging with a new blog. Luckily, I have not lost the list of blogs I followed and am slowly visiting them to see whats happening in all your lives. Love your images. You are now going into Winter as we are heading into Summer and its lovely to see the beautiful colours of your Autumn. x JulieReplyDelete
I love today's contribution - it has shades of Alice through the Looking Glass about it.ReplyDelete
The 3 baths is unusual find ...what's the story there I wonder.
I spent 25 years making con-trails ... a life time ago now. It's warm here too, but it's raining horizontally with a gale straight off the Atlantic. it's only when the wind moves to the Northern quadrant that the sea gets really wild.Replies
I live near the airport, and love watching the planes take off or land, and the beautiful skies they make.Delete
Terrific art page and a wonderful story could be written around the characters you added to the old background, It is good to revisit old files and folders and find treasures.ReplyDelete
The photographs today are stunning. The lines in the sky and the wonderful colours are terrific.
Have a great day
Love Chrissie xxReplies
I am working my way through the pictures stored in my closet and putting them into the computer. Biiiiig job.Delete
Wow Valerie........absolutely adore these projects. Wonderful details and colours...love the whimsy styleReplyDelete
TFS and have a lovely weekend
Annie x
- AnonymousSaturday, November 07, 2015
Klasse, Valerie! Gefällt mir sehr, sehr gut...wünsche schönes Wochenende und sende viele GrüßeReplyDelete
What a fun piece! I love ItKupiLli"s work and her graphics so fun to play with! Happy weekend! xoReplyDelete
Wonderful piece today Valerie. Great images, I also enjoy watching the plane contrails dissipate, like a really strange cloud (which I suppose, it is)! lolReplyDelete
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Wow- this piece is amazing Valerie. Those colors! I think digging out those old pieces and giving them new life is so much better than just letting them sit and molder where ever they are stored. Those plane contrails are cool. I also like to watch them and wonder they are going to (often wishing I was going there too) and where they have been. Enjoy the rest of your day!ReplyDelete
Your post made me smile today! Great art--love the humor and beautiful colors. Swimming lessons at the rock! Very cute!ReplyDelete
Fantastic hybrid page, I have no idea how you do that :) Beautiful photographs as well. Happy Weekend, xxReplyDelete
I don't see the flying fish...but a lovely page, wonderful depth. Happy trails in your photos!ReplyDelete
Fabulous arty/surreal piece Valerie- love the background, looks like there a re more contrails there as well.ReplyDelete
I love looking at the sky too, I've probably said before about seeing faces in clouds etc, but the plane contrails are like a tornado/whirlwind or almost a pink lightning bolt.
Do you think the ducks were trying to intimidate the seagull to take its place on the rock or just making him dizzy swimming round and round :)
Gill xxReplies
The contrails were particularly special that day. I think the ducks were trying to intimidate him, looked like a clear case of duck harassment!Delete
Stunning page today with the bright stars and itkupili's crowned bird or is it a bird? Lovely photos You shared today.ReplyDelete
Fabulous page with stunning colours and a great choice of images. Love the beautiful photos too.ReplyDelete
Have a lovely weekend, Valerie!
Hugs, Mar
Love your fabulous journal page and all the images and autumn colours. Awesome photos as well.ReplyDelete
Yvonne xx
Love the absurdity of this journalpage! Great background painting too!ReplyDelete
How lovely to take something from the past and make it yours again now. It's a wonderful image. Your photos are gorgeous too. I wonder what the ducks and seagull were thinking...ReplyDelete
deine seite ist eine wucht,soooo klasse,was man da alles endecken kann.ReplyDelete
wunderschöne herbstbilder hast du wieder und der strahl am himmel ist so toll,das hast du super getroffen.
ein schönen abend.
hugs jenny
I love the painted scenery in the background of your page and the beautiful flourish in the foreground.ReplyDelete
I apologize for being so late visiting this post, but I couldn't let this one get away. I was really impressed with your hybrid art and the bird with the crown.ReplyDelete
Of course, those contrails were amazing. I've seen many of them, but none with sunlight reflecting like that. They were absolutely stunning.
Laughed at the ducks and seagull. It's always fun to see what you have come up with on your walks.
Spitzencollage, liebe Varlerie, eine ungewöhnliche Kombination der Motive!ReplyDelete
Deine Himmelfotos sind ja wieder fantastisch! LG Ulrike
I've said it before and I'm saying it again your collage skills are amazing!!! I want to be you when I grow up :) This is just over the top all around ♥ Your photos are fantastic! Out here in the country I don't get to see many contrails anymore. Don't even see many airplanes but that's okay with me. The birds are funnyReplyDelete
I love your page - and those images again! We live quite close to the airport now and as a child we used to have an aerodrome - I used to enjoy counting how long it would take for contrails to disappear! My mum was quite an expert at recognising military aircraft by their sound and we used to run out to watch the vulcans take off over our house! ChrisxReplyDelete
I love your digital creation on the crowns theme -- it is bold and beautiful. and as always I adore your photos. xoReplyDelete
I love that you are recycling your art! Cool art!ReplyDelete
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People around start noticing that there is no expression on the face and the arms don't swing when the affected person walks or talks. Speech often becomes soft and mumbling. The symptoms progress with the progress of the Parkinson's disease. There is no permanent cure for the illness but the symptoms can be controlled with medication. The most common symptoms of Parkinson's disease are
The symptoms of Parkinson's disease are as a result of decreased levels of dopamine, in the brain. This is because the dopamine producing brain cells either die or they are not functioning properly. No research has clearly demonstrated the exact mechanism responsible behind Parkinson's disease.
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There are many side effects of medicines used for Parkinson's disease such as involuntary twitching or jerking movements of the arms or legs, hallucinations, sleepiness, and a drop in blood pressure when standing up. The person suffering from Parkinson's disease should be in regular touch with the doctor to get a treatment plan that gives significant relief from symptoms with minimum side effects. Certain lifestyle changes also may help to make living with Parkinson's disease easier.
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How To Build A Simple Altar
My 14th and final altar..... To Bragi !
Start with a simple wood wall shelf, and two wall brackets. From the bottom of the bracket to the tip of the candles is only 16 inches !
The rune stones spell out both his name ( In front of his picture ), and the Elder Futhark ( In the background ). The candle holders are made of tin and have Viking scenes ( almost as if they were depicting one of Bragi's tales ) around their bases, and I chose silver candles to match Bragi's silver tongue as a Skald. The picture is of Bragi and his wife Idunn, and the statue is of Bragi playing the harp. The final piece is a little golden harp I found on - line to finish off my 14th altar.
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Last month our family visited the local Hindu Temple. It was an organized tour with several other homeschool families. We gathered in a room for a presentation about the Hindu religion, their beliefs, deities, philosophies and common misconceptions about their faith. Then we removed our shoes and entered the prayer temple. My … Continue reading


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Today's First Impressions features reviews and previews of Birthright #1, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #1, Thor #1, Wytches #1, The October Faction #1, Jim Henson's The Storyteller: Witches #1, and Punks: The Comic #1.
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Birthright #1 (Image Comics, $2.99)
- Story: Joshua Williamson
- Illustrations: Andrei Bressan
- Colors: Adriano Lucas
- Cover: Andrei Bressan with Adriano Lucas
- Availability: 08 October 2014
- Publisher's summary: For the Rhodes family, losing their son was the most devastating thing that could've ever occurred… but it couldn't prepare them for what happened when he returned. Skybound's newest original series turns fantasy into reality in this EXTRA-SIZED FIRST ISSUE for just $2.99, by creator/writer JOSH WILLIAMSON (GHOSTED, NAILBITER) and artist ANDREI BRESSAN.
- SPOILER WARNING: As opposed to the usual First Impressions reviews, our review of Birthright #1 features significant spoilers. We've marked off the portion of the review discussing these details so you can avoid them if you wish to do so.
Zedric Dimalanta: With comparatively little fanfare relative to that accorded to his more popular peers, writer Joshua Williamson has been producing some of the more entertaining, genre-diverse, and solidly-crafted comics of the past year or so: Over at Dark Horse Comics, his revival of the radio serial and Golden Age of Comics character Captain Midnight (first issue reviewed here) offers an action-packed take on the pulp superhero-out-of-time concept that balances camp/imagined nostalgia with modern superhero comics trends. On BOOM! Studios' RoboCop (first issue reviewed here), Williamson addresses contemporary concerns about gun crime and gun ownership against the backdrop of the original film's parodic vision of Reagan-era Detroit. In Image Comics' Ghosted (first issue reviewed here), the writer has crafted a winning combination of supernatural thriller and Hollywood heist movie, and with Nailbiter (also published by Image Comics, first issue reviewed at this link), Williamson is attempting to refresh—and perhaps subvert—the "use-a-killer-to-catch-a-killer" formula in crime fiction.
If its first issue is going to be any indication of its quality moving forward, however, Birthright may just be the work that catapults Williamson from severely underrated talent to comics' next big thing.
What ostensibly starts out as a missing child case—a young boy named Mikey disappears while playing with his father at the park—takes a fantastical twist when that child reappears a year later, fully-grown, claiming to be a veteran of armed conflict on another dimension, a champion of a parallel world who has been granted by his superiors the chance to see his Earth family before embarking on a campaign to hunt down war criminals from his adopted home.
For all of the off-the-wall inventiveness of the premise, however, it is the portrayal of the toll the disappearance of Mikey takes on his family that gives the issue its punch. Over the span of the comic's first eleven pages, the creative team covers Mikey's disappearance and the year subsequent to it and how it has affected his parents and his brother. It's a particularly effective and efficient demonstration of how well comics storytelling can be used to show the passage of an extended period of time without resorting to captions, stylized "flashback-style" panel borders, or other obvious tools—there are enough contextual clues in the dialogue and the art to inform the reader of what is going on. It is also to Williamson's ultimate credit that the family drama depicted over that period is not at all forced—the parents' anguish and feelings of helplessness, the brother's valiant effort to retain some optimism about Mikey's return, the paranoia and finger-pointing, are all things that come off as genuine and psychologically plausible.
Worth appreciating, too, is the underlying metaphor for how the current model of military intervention in foreign conflict affects families: Mikey, the very picture of joyful youth, potential, and innocence, is taken from his family to join a war in a distant land being fought for reasons that are not at all clear, and comes back changed—maybe irrevocably—by what he has seen and done, a stranger to his family that has tragically lost out on the experience of seeing him grow into adulthood. Is it too on-the-nose? Perhaps, but the execution of the metaphor is so artful that the theme will be problematic only to the most unreasonably difficult-to-please readers.
Birthright #1 is as good a series debut as I've read all year. I know I've been saying that about a lot of titles lately, but hey, what can I say, outside of the usual "event-driven" superhero cash-in nonsense (and we don't really overly concern ourselves with that here on the Geeksverse), it's been a great year for new comics.
Thor #1 (Marvel Comics, $3.99)
- Story: Jason Aaron
- Illustrations: Russell Dauterman
- Colors: Matthew Wilson
- Cover: Russell Dauterman with Frank Martin
- Availability: 01 October 2014
- Publisher's summary: The great hammer MJOLNIR lies on the moon, unable to be lifted by anyone in all the heavens! Even THOR! Something dark has befallen the God of Thunder, leaving him weakened and for the first time in forever… UNWORTHY! But when Frost Giants invade the Earth, the hammer will be lifted and an all-new Thor will arise! A Thor unlike any we've ever seen before! Who is this new GODDESS OF THUNDER? Not even Odin knows! JASON AARON teams with hot up-and-coming artist RUSSELL DAUTERMAN (CYCLOPS) to create a bold new chapter in the storied history of Thor!
- NOTE: This comic was a personal purchase by the reviewer.
Troy Osgood: I'll probably be the only one around but I didn't like this issue. I really enjoyed Aaron's run on Thor: God of Thunder and I was really looking forward to what he had up his sleeve with this new, much-hyped Thor—I find the idea of a female Thor to be intriguing and was raring to see Aaron examine what it means to be Thor and how "Thor" is more of a concept and a title than any one specific person, an idea Walt Simonson previously explored during his lauded stint handling the character in the 1980s.
I have to say, however, that the writing on this issue doesn't carry the same epic feel as Aaron's previous Thor work: There's always been a level of intentional hokiness to Thor dialogue, especially in scenes set in Asgard, but it feels especially pronounced in this issue. Worse, characterizations are inconsistent and are all over the place, with Malekith's behavior at odds with that seen in his recent appearances and Odin's conflict with Frejya coming off as annoying and petty. And the new female Thor? She only really shows up in the last page, and I think I've already got her identity figured out.
Dauterman does well with the issue's art, though, and it's the one aspect of the issue that I unreservedly enjoyed.
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #1 (Archie Comics, $3.99)
- Story: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
- Art: Robert Hack
- Cover: Robert Hack
- Additional writing: George Gladir
- Additional art: Dan DeCarlo
- Availability: 08 October 2014
- Publisher's summary: Terror is born anew in this dark reimagining of Sabrina the Teenage Witch's origin. On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, the young sorceress finds herself at a crossroads, having to choose between an unearthly destiny and her mortal boyfriend, Harvey. But a foe from her family's past has arrived in Greendale, Madame Satan, and she has her own deadly agenda. Archie Comic's latest horror sensation starts here! For TEEN+ readers.
- NOTE: This comic was a personal purchase by the reviewer.
Zedric: Archie Comics is capitalizing on the commercial and critical success of Afterlife with Archie by expanding its Archie Horror line with The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, a new series featuring the company's popular teen witch, perhaps most familiar to today's young readers as the eponymous lead of the long-running, continuously-in-syndication live-action sitcom.
Readers thinking that this comic will feature the TV show's campy teen/supernatural comedy hijinks, be forewarned: The Sabrina the Teenage Witch comics from the 1970s have always had a subversively dark streak beneath their teen comedy exterior, but The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #1 is an unadulterated horror comic through-and-through. There's contextual humor to the dialogue, but writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and artist Robert Hack pull no punches when it comes to delivering the horror quotient, and the title's "TEEN+" rating is very much deserved.
If you're one of those comics fans who gives all-ages comics and candy to kids trick-or-treating during Halloween, don't make the mistake of handing out copies of this comic unless you want parents giving you hell for giving their kids nightmares to go along with sugar-induced hyperactivity. Actually, the comic is scary enough that even parents may get nightmares from reading it, although perhaps for different reasons—the depiction of the relationship between Sabrina's parents and the effects of a lobotomy on a patient are quite disturbing, and are what really stuck with me from my reading, more than Hack's more overt horror imagery.
This isn't an unimaginative and stereotypical "grim and gritty" reimagining of a beloved teen comics property, however, nor is it a lazy Buffy the Vampire Slayer knock-off. Aguirre-Sacasa's love for the character and her surrounding mythology is evident from the mid-1960s period piece setting (a particularly bold choice, in my mind), the care given to the exposition and character development—Sabrina's adolescent concerns about romance and social acceptance get major play here—and the nods to the regular Archie Comics and the line's history. I was particularly surprised and thrilled to see Madame Satan cast as the debut story arc's putative villain. Madame Satan was a Golden Age character whose Pep Comics horror serial was abruptly canceled in 1941 to make way for one featuring a character named Archie Andrews and his teen romance shenanigans—her inclusion here is a delightful Easter egg for comics history geeks, and I can't wait to see how she will enact her revenge on the characters who "killed" her all those decades ago. Adding to the issue's value is a Robert Hack sketch gallery and a full reprint of Sabrina's first appearance in Archie's Madhouse #22 (October 1982) written by George Gladir and featuring the art of the brilliant Dan DeCarlo.
Wytches #1 (Image Comics, $2.99)
- Story: Scott Snyder
- Illustrations: Mark "Jock" Simpson
- Colors: Matt Hollingsworth
- Cover: Mark "Jock" Simpson
- Availability: 08 October 2014
- Publisher's summary: Across the globe, century after century, men and women were burned, drowned, hanged, tortured, imprisoned, persecuted, and murdered for witchcraft. None of them were witches. They died protecting a terrible and hidden truth: witches, real witches, are out there. They are ancient, elusive, and deadly creatures that are rarely seen and even more rarely survived. This October, superstar creators SCOTT SNYDER (SEVERED, Batman) and JOCK (SNAPSHOT, Batman) unveil WYTCHES, and introduce you to a world of unimaginable horror in a special EXTRA-SIZED FIRST ISSUE with 30 pages of story and no ads for just $2.99
Zedric: Writer Scott Snyder is best known to today's readers as the current caretaker of DC's Batman, but what fans who do not stray beyond the confines of superhero comics may not know is that he is also one of the medium's better horror writers. On Severed (hardcover collection reviewed at this link), Snyder demonstrated his ability to channel prime Stephen King and Ray Bradbury and while much of the attention lavished on The Wake was (deservedly) because of Sean Murphy's exquisite art, the DC/Vertigo-published limited series also showed Snyder's ability to fuse horror with other, related genres such as science-fiction and out-and-out fantasy.
Wytches sees Snyder and veteran 2000 AD artist and Batman collaborator Mark "Jock" Simpson masterfully manipulating the horror fiction quality that 19th century novelist Ann Radcliffe described as "terror," or the dread a reader feels in anticipation of an event. The creative tandem understand that the reader's imagination, given expert prodding and stimulation, can offer up frights more personally salient than just about anything they can cook up on their own—much of our worst fears are self-inflicted. The creative team provides just enough detail in both the words and the visuals to aid readers into effectively scaring themselves witless. Snyder's script doesn't overwhelm with exposition and demonstration, slowly doling out tidbits of characterization and history only when necessary—a background subplot framed in parental fears for an adolescent daughter entering a new school in the wake of a public scandal provides an extra layer of queasiness to the whole affair. In a similar fashion, Jock's illustrations, aided by colorist Matt Hollingsworth moody palette, leave room for the reader to visualize bespoke horrors lurking in the dark woods.
Wytches' true test will come when Snyder and Jock will inevitably have to reveal more aspects of the sinister, elemental "wytches" that are the comic's mysterious threat. Will they live up to the abominations they've helped readers imagine for themselves? We'll have to stick around to find out, but given the track record of the creators involved, I'm reasonably confident that readers will be in for a delightfully frightful journey, for however long it lasts.
Quick Takes (all capsule reviews by Zedric Dimalanta)
The October Faction #1 (IDW, $3.99, available 08 October 2014): An expertly assembled supernatural horror-adventure comic by the same team that gave readers the Frankenstein monster vs. Jack the Ripper miniseries Monster and Madman. Writer Steve Niles flashes the practiced craft he's honed over the years on such horror titles as 30 Days of Night and Criminal Macabre—he uses a familiar "getting the band back together" set-up, judicious expository dialogue, and action-packed flashbacks to equip readers with all they need to enjoy the comic on its own terms. Artist Damien Worm's work is reminiscent somewhat of that of 30 Days of Night co-creator Ben Templesmith (this is a good thing) and he is good enough that the rendering quirks of his style never interferes with the visual storytelling's clarity.
Jim Henson's The Storyteller: Witches #1 (of 4; BOOM!/Archaia, $3.99, available 17 September 2014): Less of a traditional comic book and more of an illustrated prose tale/comic book hybrid, Jim Henson's The Storyteller: Witches #1 features Shane-Michael Vidaurri's loose adaptation of the Russian fairy tale "The Magic Swan-Geese." Vidaurri's facility with imaginary worlds and anthropomorphized creatures is a known quantity—see his work on the 2012 graphic novel Iron: Or, the War After (reviewed here)—as is his watercolor painting skill. With this issue, though, Vidaurri gets to demonstrate his talent for graphic design. Working outside the usual paneled comic book restrictions, Vidaurri makes the most of the opportunity to use text not just as a tool for delivering textual story information, but as an ornamental element as well.
Punks: The Comic #1 (Image Comics, $3.99, available 08 October 2014): A brash experiment in photo/collage comics, Joshua Hale Fialkov and Kody Chamberlain's Punks: The Comic certainly lives up to its moniker in the sense that it has an undeniable DIY sensibility and that its creators seem to have had a lot of fun making it. Beyond that, the comic's humor is very much of the non sequitur Adult Swim variety—think Aqua Teen Hunger Force or Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!. An interestingly radical departure from the creators' usual output, but it won't be for everyone.


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This year's ESL Katowice's Hearthstone final tells an amazing and inspirational story. The tournament was in conquest format; a deck that has won a game cannot be played again. Orange, an unknown player from Team Darkstar, faced off against Amaz after conquering his way through the 530 player open bracket. "Best Priest in the World" Amaz, owner of Team Archon and champion of IEM Shenzhen, brought an odd line-up of decks to the final: Warrior, Priest and Mage.
In contrast to Amaz's line-up, the current meta suggests that Hunter, Rogue and Mage are the three strongest classes of which Orange brought two: Hunter and Rogue. Orange's third deck was a midrange control Warrior tuned with the interesting tech cards of Bomb Lobber, Frothing Berserker and Piloted Shredder in place of the more standard late-game bombs. These cards allow him to accelerate his play, by applying heavy midgame pressure, rather than stalling for Alexstrasza-Grommash kill-combos.
Orange had a clear plan going in: force an unfavourable matchup for Amaz's Priest by pitting it against his Rogue and Warrior decks, win the Hunter vs. Mage skill matchup, and avoid the Warrior Rogue matchup. On the other hand, Amaz's goals were to queue up his Warrior against Orange's Rogue, beat his Hunter with his Mage, and then clean up with his Priest. Unfortunately for Amaz, the matches didn't go as planned.
The first match was Amaz's Mage vs. Orange's Hunter; Orange seized the tempo in the midgame with a massive Unleash the Hounds going up 1-0 against Amaz. In the next game, Orange's Rogue just barely snuck a win by Amaz's Priest where he was forced to sap Dr. Boom not once, but twice! However his Gadgetzan Auctioneer simply proved too difficult to remove and put Orange up 2-0. Finally in Warrior vs. Priest the Bomb Lobbers and Piloted Shredders pulled their weight and allowed Orange to make outstanding trades. Amaz was never really able to seize board control and the match ended when Amaz attempted to steal a Sludge Belcher by using Shadow Word Death on his own Sylvannas but unfortunately stole an Armorsmith instead resulting in a 3-0 result from Orange.
Orange won a whopping $13,000 as well as 100 points towards the Hearthstone Championship Series. The hearthstone community be seeing a lot more of Orange in the future he has also qualified through the open bracket for Viagame House Cup but will doubtless be invited to many tournaments in the future on the back of this big win. The message to take away from ESL Katowice is that Hearthstone as an e-sport is an open field and anyone with enough dedication can become a champion.


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Ardilaun House Hotel
Europe, Ireland, West Coast, Galaway
The Ardilaun House Hotel is a privately owned 4 star country manor hotel set in 5 acres of beautiful gardens, convenient to Galway City and the seaside resort of Salthill.
Ballybunion (Cashen Course)
Europe, Ireland, South West, Kerry
Designed by Robert Trent Jones, the Cashen course at Ballybunion is every bit a demanding as its sister course.
Ballybunion (Old )
Europe, Ireland, South West, Kerry
The "Old" Course at Ballybunnion is world famous and is consistently rated amongst the top courses in the world.
Europe, Ireland, North & North West, Donegal
To play the Old Links at Ballyliffin is to experience golf on one of natures most beautiful stages.
Ballyliffin Hotel
Europe, Ireland, North & North West
The Ballyliffin Hotel is situated on the Inishowen Peninsula, one of the most beautiful areas in the whole of Ireland.
Bloomfield House
Europe, Ireland, Central
Centrally located in the heart of Ireland, Bloomfield House Hotel is easily accessible from all parts of Ireland and just an hour's drive from Dublin.
Carne Golf Club
Europe, Ireland, West Coast
The towering sand dunes of the Atlantic coast of Mayo are the unique setting for this new Championship Links Course.
Carton House
Europe, Ireland, East Coast, South East & Dublin
The magnificent Carton House hotel is located in a spectacular setting just 30 minutes from central Dublin. This three-floor hotel features 165 air-conditioned guestrooms with contemporary decor in soft neutral colours.
Carton House ( O'Meara)
Europe, Ireland, Central
Mark O'Meara, the 1998 US Masters and British Open Champion of Irish descent, has designed his first European course at Carton House Golf Club.
Carton House (Montgomerie)
Europe, Ireland, Central
The Montgomerie Course has been designed in a more open landscape, frequently offering impressive views of the Rye Water Lake.
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Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, Greene County, is hosting a farmland leasing meeting on Thursday, Aug. 3, at 1 pm at Greene County Extension office, 104 West Washington St in Jefferson. The annual meeting is offered to address questions that land owners, tenants or other interested individuals have about leasing farmland.
Core components of the program will include land values and cash rent trends, cost of production, methods for determining a rental rate, legal updates regarding leases and communication between tenants or landlords. Additional topics vary by location.
The three-hour workshop is designed to assist landowners, farm tenants and other agri-business professionals with current issues related to farmland ownership, management and leasing arrangements. Attendees will gain a better understanding of current cash rental rate surveys and factors driving next year's rents such as market trends and input costs. Comments from past participants highlight the value of the materials provided and depth of information covered in the short program.
A 100-page workbook is compiled for the programs, with resources regarding land leasing agreements such as surveys, sample written lease agreements and termination forms, along with many other publications.
Registration is $20 per individual or $30 per couple and includes materials. Pre-registration is encouraged as an additional $5 fee will be added for walk-in participants. To register contact the ISU Extension and Outreach Greene County office at 515-386-2138, email lballard [at] isu [dot] edu, or visit the Extension office.


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I haven't watched an episode of South Park in probably 10 years or more. But when I saw that the latest episode was titled "Freemium Isn't Free," I figured I'd check it out. You know, for work reasons.
In brief, Stan gets addicted to a terrible freemium mobile game, blowing $26,000 in the process. It's all a scam designed by the Canadian Department of Mobile Gaming to make millions and capture everyone's money and souls — you know, just like real mobile games.
The episode hits on all the right notes with regard to "free" gaming, especially mobile games, comparing them to all sorts of addictive habits, and actually does a surprisingly good job of describing why they're successful. As one exchange goes:
"Can't the game hidden inside the charade just at least be fun?"
"If the game was too fun, there would be no reason to micropay in order to make it more fun!"
Oh, and then the Devil shows up and succinctly explains it all with genetics, dopamine, and Skinner boxes. Yeah.
If you're in the U.S. — but, ironically, not Canada or any other foreign country — you can watch the episode above or on its Hulu page. It's free — we swear!
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I dont know i play firefall and i own every single thing in the shop and all of the battleframes and warpaints and shit and have never paid a dim before now and thats just to support them
Probably one of my favorite episodes so far this season(and this season has been pretty damn good) lol. I was laughing so hard when I was watching this on Wednesday.
Wasn't this always obvious though? You'd be hard pressed to find any F2P game where something isn't withheld from those who don't pay–or rather, things are given to those who do. You'd have to be pretty dense to believe F2P games are truly 100% free.
You'd be surprised. There are some especially retarded fanboys that will tell people that criticizing their precious game makes you "entitled" because the game is "free".
Nailed it. I've been telling people for years that free to play games are anything but.
I think everyone BUT those in the U.S. can watch it here (official site) without ads or anything, absolutely free.
This is now my favorite episode.


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Re: Using Code Red for Sex Offender Notification
The Texarkana Arkansas Police would like to inform all residents that the CodeRED Emergency Notification System will now include notification of Level 3 and Level 4 sex offenders moving into Texarkana, Arkansas.
The Texarkana Arkansas Police Department will release level 3 and level 4 sex offender notification information pursuant to section 13 of Act 989 of 1997, the Sex and Child Offender Registration and the Community Notification Guidelines promulgated by agencies to inform the public of a sex offender's release, when the release of such information will enhance public safety and protection. The individual who appears on this notification has been convicted of an offence that requires registration with the Arkansas Crime Information Center.
Texarkana Arkansas Police Department believes that the notification of level 3 and level 4 will be more successful by utilizing the CodeRed Emergency Notification System.
The CodeRED system was first established for all of Bowie and Miller Counties (including Texarkana) in 2006 as a means of quickly notifying targeted areas of the community of emergency situations. The CodeRED system gives city officials the ability to deliver pre-recorded emergency telephone notification/information messages to targeted areas or the entire city/county at a rate of up to 60,000 calls per hour. The CodeRED system not only offers faster calling rates and improved message delivery, it gives individuals and businesses the ability to add their own phone numbers directly to the system's telephone database.
The CodeRed system is absolutely free and takes just a few minutes to sign up and register by going to https://public.coderedweb.com/CNE/BFB7CC4C6C0A . Those without Internet access may call Central Records and Communications (903-798-3181) to give their information over the phone. Required information includes first and last name, street address (physical address, no P.O. boxes), city, state, zip code, and primary phone number, additional phone numbers (optional).
Central Records and Communication Manager, Kelly O'Neill stated, "CodeRED gives those who want to be included an easy and secure method for doing so. The information will only be used for emergency notification purposes". Questions should be directed to O'Neill at 903-798-3181.
Thank you and you can visit the Texarkana Arkansas Police Department online at http://www.txkusa.org/arkpolice.
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