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Canadian stocks just booked what was, by any measure, a crappy month. To the end of July, the SP/TSX composite was the worst-performing developed-market stock index in the world, falling by nearly five per cent last month and by more than 12 per cent since the start of 2015.
Three reasons for investor optimism
Canadian stocks just booked what was, by any measure, a crappy month. To the end of July, the SP/TSX composite was the worst-performing developed-market stock index in the world, falling by nearly five per cent last month and by more than 12 per cent since the start of 2015.
Over the past 12 months, the TSX has dropped by four per cent. That compares unfavourably to the gains posted by the SP 500 (9.8 per cent), the Dow Jones industrial average (7.1), the Nasdaq (18.8), the Euro Stoxx 50 (19.7), Japan's Nikkei 225 (34.6) or even Hong Kong's Hang Seng, which despite a meltdown in Chinese mainland markets is down less than one per cent on the year.
For index investors, at least, it's been a semi-annus horribilis. It's not hard to see why. Oil prices hit multimonth lows, commodities remained in the tank, and economic data suggesting a first-half recession weighed on equities.
If you sold in May and went away, as the old chestnut prescribes, you'd have saved yourself a lot of pain. And if earlier this year you had done what the textbook says you should – achieve better diversification by gaining exposure to international stocks – then you'd be resting a little easier in your deck chair right about now.
If you didn't do all that, well, you might be looking for some comfort in the fact that nothing lasts forever. Maybe you're scanning the horizon for signs of hope.
Maybe you're not having much luck. Or maybe you think the TSX's recent mini-rebound – it notched its sixth straight daily gain on Wednesday – bodes well for better times ahead.
When you look at what's happening in China, Greece and oil prices – this year's triumvirate of woe for Canadian investors – the signs are not good.
And yet it's not all bad news, even in the midst of these summer doldrums. If you're looking for reasons to believe in a better second half – or maybe a better 2016 – for Canadian markets, then put on your rosecoloured sunglasses and consider the following.
First, we are in for low, low interest rates for the foreseeable future. The Bank of Canada has already shaved 50 basis points offthe overnight rate this year, and it can go lower if it has to (even though the likelihood of that is very low, at least until after the recently called federal election).
Cheap money should be broadly supportive of stock valuations, especially if we begin to see that they are having some benefit in the real economy.
We might have started to see that already in Wednesday's trade data, which showed exports surged in July by 6.3 per cent – the biggest monthly gain in almost a decade. That might suggest the devalued loonie is starting to have the desired effect of making our exports (especially non-energy) more competitive.
Granted, trade data can be volatile, but last month's figures at least reversed a months-long decline. And they might be an early indication that the economy as a whole started to rebound in June. (Emphasis on "might.") Second in our Pollyanna Top Three is the fact that we are heading into elections in Canada this year and the U.S. next year.
U.S. markets and their satellites (the TSX included) tend to outperform in the year before and the year of a presidential election. (It's not a perfect correlation, of course, but hey, we're looking for signs of hope here.)
When it comes to the Canadian election, the good-ish news is that it's unlikely to have any effect whatsoever on stock markets. The little research that's been done on correlations between parliamentary election outcomes and financial market performance suggests that there really aren't any. Left-wing, right-wing, minority, majority – it just doesn't matter much.
Of course, that's a benefit in the negative, but at least the upcoming election is unlikely to derail any resurgence in market performance. (On the other hand, we've never had an NDP government before …)
Last but perhaps most importantly, there's the U.S. economy. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis recently revised its measure of first-quarter GDP growth into positive territory, to 0.6 per cent from the previous revision of -0.2 per cent (which itself was a gain from an earlier estimate of a 0.7-per-cent contraction).
The revisions resulted largely from an increase in reported consumer spending, which grew in the first quarter at a healthy pace of 2.1 per cent.
In the second quarter, consumer spending grew at an inflation-adjusted rate of 2.9 per cent, driving overall GDP growth of 2.3 per cent. That was below expectations, but the consumer sector is relatively strong, and that's important for Canadian exports.
Those June trade numbers showed Canadian exports of consumer goods rose by more than 17 per cent – a record.
Put it all together, and you have, well, maybe not very much. But as you're contemplating the future from your deck chair, it's worth remembering that things could always be worse – and they just might get better.


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Chesham, Bucks, UK
Artist's biography
From 6 years ago KFH Pooraka aka Kirsty Hawkshaw has been living part time in the virtual world Second Life. She is a donation-based artist in this world and builds interactive installations with scripts, music and photos for her fans to enjoy. When visitors come to her land they can wander around and interact with the installations. KFH recently built a room with floating kinetic rotating singing balls and received much acclaim from her visitors who donated to the scripted linden dollar boxes left around .
The work
This short film is one of Kirsty's first attempts at a Machinima movie. She has a vision to eventually use SL to make a virtual musical using all her favourite musicians, and her own music including Mark Pritchard from Harmonic 313 who makes an appearance in this film with the track Falling Away featuring Steve Spacek.


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Ecological designers being experts in sustainability might function straight for multinational organisations, such as the United Nations, in federal government departments or in big business. These ecological engineers develop tasks that check the effects of climate adjustment on framework and look at methods to lower those effects, or they might take a national approach to carrying out recycled water plans, or an international method to much better ecological administration. Transport engineers use their maths abilities as well as passions in calculated preparation and also choice making to supply innovate design services for problems that impact people in their day-to-days live. Transport designers operate in federal government departments as well as organisations, preparing agencies, exclusive companies and also financial institutes– providing technical and managerial assistance to a large variety of transport jobs.
Tidewaters, where rivers meet the ocean, are a remarkable location to examine as the mixing of saltwater and also freshwater brings about special environments for plants as well as wild animals. Water engineers aim to recognize just how tidewaters act and could aid to restore them when growth has actually created them to end up being out of balance. Water quality requirements depend upon the planned use the water and also water engineers layout and also run water treatment plants, waste water therapy and also water reusing systems.
Preservation motions as well as laws restricting public activities that would certainly damage the environment have actually been established by various societies for millennia. Noteworthy examples are the legislations decreeing the construction of sewers in London and also Paris in the 19th century and the production of the U. Researchers have air pollution dispersion models to evaluate the concentration of a toxin at a receptor or the influence on general air high quality from automobile exhausts and also commercial flue gas stack discharges. To some extent, this field overlaps the wish to lower carbon dioxide as well as other greenhouse gas exhausts from burning procedures. They use clinical and also design principles to examine if there are likely to be any type of damaging effects to water high quality, air top quality, habitat high quality, plants and also animals, agricultural capability, traffic influences, social influences, environmental impacts, sound influences, aesthetic (landscape) influences, etc
. Environmental designers are concerned with safeguarding the atmosphere by analyzing the influence a project has on the air, water, soil and also sound levels in its location. This is done by researching the job's design, building and construction as well as operation, and reducing any adverse effects that it might carry the environment. Environmental designers are likewise associated with eliminating troubles caused by previous task, such as cleaning infected commercial land so it can be made use of for real estate. They anticipate exactly what issues may be brought on by accidents, such as oil spills as an example, and evaluate exactly what might trigger troubles for the environment in the long term. They additionally plan and design tools as well as processes for the treatment and risk-free disposal of waste material and also guide the preservation as well as wise use of natural resources.


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I love these handbags; the top one was husband E's Aunt's. It opens wide and then closes tight like an umbrella. The bottom bag was a gift from Japan when our exchange student stayed with us in August.
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16 Mechanic Avenue - LITTLE PORTUGAL
Two years ago, I
posted a house at 14 Mechanic Avenue in Little Portuga
l. It was the blue house to left of this house.
That house was a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom semi on a 15.50 x 76 foot lot. It listed at $475,000 and
This is a 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom semi on a 15.25 x 76 foot lot and it is basically the updated version of that house.
And it's fine...it just isn't that exciting.
The living room is bright, it's opened up...
But then you get to the kitchen island...
And the basement bathroom that doesn't look like it has been touched in a
The dryer in the backyard that matches the shed...
And the bags of garbage hanging off the side of the house...
So, even though this place has been renovated, it is still kind of a mess.
And at $849,900, when you could have bought the neighbour for almost $400,000 less and fully done the whole house top to bottom with a couple hundred thousand left over...
I think this might be a little high.
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We had gathered for a carol practice – choristers from two churches. My church members and I were on home territory. I decided we should make the others feel welcome. I grinned at their friendly faces. I went up to them and chatted for awhile. Soon we were asked to form three rows to could sing as a choir. I joined friends in the front row. That's where I usually end up because of my height. I was too short for anywhere else.
It was then that I felt God whisper into my heart. '
Make them feel welcome Anusha'
. So I turned back and said with a smile 'Why don't you take our places in the front row?" They smiled back. We exchanged places. And everyone was happy. Myself included.
Until I realised I couldn't see the choir conductor very well.
! Never mind, I told myself. All for a worthy cause. Besides, I could peep in between two heads and that way I could see well enough. I enjoyed those practices. I had two great friends on either side of me. One of them joked all the time and made me laugh. The other was a kindred spirit. It was lovely to make new friends too. I even discovered a lady who was from Sri Lanka. And of course, singing carols with others always bring me joy.
On the day of our performance, I dressed in dark pants and a white blouse. I made sure my bag contained all I needed, including a bottle of water – it was a warm day. I drove to church for our sound rehearsal. I hastened to the platform here we were to be seated. I hopped on to it and began moving towards my seat in the second row. But stopped short as I realised something was amiss. My seat had been taken by a newcomer.
I sidled backwards and onto the grass.
Where could I sit?
'Would you like to sit in the front row Anusha?" asked the choir leader. My eyebrows shot up.
Now that was a surprise. But....why not?
'Yes, thanks!' I replied with a wide grin. I stepped onto the stage again Yes, there were two seats in the front row so I took one. It was then that I felt God's whisper in my heart once again. It was His gift to me - that front row seat. Wow! I was so amazed.
I confess that I enjoyed sitting there in the front row that day. For one thing I had a great view of the proceedings. For another I felt deeply blessed to know how it came about. I had given up my front row seat for a good reason. And there was God working things out for me. I was in the front row again – because He put me there. That was special. And very encouraging.
I was encouraged not just because I got a seat in the front row. I was encouraged because it was a sneak peak of other situations where I wondered what God was doing. Sometimes circumstances have pushed me to the back row. The view wasn't good. I struggled to see the 'Conductor' and to follow His music. But that day God taught me not to fret. It's His job to bring me to the front row, not mine. He will do at the right time.
Yes, I can trust Him.
Have you been pushed to the back row lately? Are you wondering what God has been up to? Have you been sitting patiently in the dark – way behind in the back row – hoping the lights will come on and that you will see better? Sometimes our times in the back row are training seasons. Usually they are only for a brief time. Sometimes though, they go on for far too long! And we begin to wonder where the Conductor's gone and what He is doing.
Let me remind you my friend that one day the Master Conductor will walk up to you and ask you to move to a seat in the front row; one with a grand view. May God encourage you today with His promises and His hope. May you leave the past behind with its disappointments and its sorrows. May you walk ahead confidently into the New Year and with your head held high, knowing that He who conducts life's orchestra knows what he is about. His music will get your off your feet to start to dance even while the rain pours down. His anthems are melodious; His music sweet.
As this New Year unfolds, may God place you in best seat of all.
"And may the God of hope fill your heart with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." Romans 15:13
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There are plenty of methods to reduce expenses these days. Among the many things that individuals which are exactly what you could call "good savers" do is reduced costs on the important things they currently pay for. By this rationale, as opposed to attempting to destroy points from their daily lives, they attempt to trim expenditures anywhere they appear to be overpaying.
For several years, some individuals have actually adamantly made use of prepaid cell phones as a method to conserve cash every month. These individuals commonly have not bothered with what sort of phone they have or just what bells and whistles they could possibly have as component of their cellular phone strategies. These people might have been a little in advance of their time.
Pre paid mobile phone have still been viewed as something that exceptionally thrifty people utilize. Prepaid made use of to likewise be considereded as only for those individuals that could possibly not afford a postpaid contract strategy. Well this rationale has absolutely been activated its head due to the fact that currently pre-paid mobile phone plans are considereded as an attractive means of mobile interaction, just as a result of some of the remarkable deals presently available in the cordless marketplace.
As individuals become a lot more interested in saving cash than they have actually been in the past, the pre paid offers out now look much more enticing. If you are presently seeking a new cellular phone strategy, right here are a few point to look out for as you look for the most effective prepare for you.
Search for a limitless pre-paid plan. There are a number of companies with inexpensive limitless plans that you must definitely consider if you are in the marketplace for a brand-new phone. Endless just means that subscribers to these plans receive endless usage of mobile talk time and text messages. As you could clearly see, this immediately negates any type of excess costs you could have to spend for mins utilized over your plan's requirements. If you have endless mins, you can not "examine" your granted mins.
Even if you discover an endless pre paid mobile phone strategy, you intend to ensure there are no roaming charges or other associated fees that might not be completely clear. Plans like Straight Talk by TracFone as well as the Improvement Mobile Monthly Unlimited plan may be worth taking a look at.
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If you were tutoring one student, would you hop over to TES, download a PowerPoint and just present it? Thought not. You'd probably act more like a doctor: ask some diagnostic questions to find out what she didn't know, and then teach to fill the gaps. Benjamin Bloom, yes, the same Bloom, invented a system for doing this with a whole class. Crucially, the diagnostic assessment happens before the end of the topic so you have time to adapt your teaching for the students who didn't get it first time. There's buckets of evidence that 'mastery learning' can improve achievement. But you don't see much real mastery going on in science because it takes a lot of resources to make it work when your goal is understanding rather than rote learning.
Our 'Starter Pack' solves this problem. A homage to the famous taxonomiser, it follows exactly the components of his system that were responsible for the high effect sizes on achievement.
Diagnostic mastery quiz
This is a specially designed multiple choice quiz. Each scientific idea is broken down into a number of facets, and each one is tested with a series of questions. The questions are written so that the distractors are misconceptions that students may hold, like this example from the 'gravity' topic.
Relearn activities
Based on individual students' performance on the quiz, you can decide whether they need to spend more time re-learning the concepts. The Starter Pack provides two kinds of activity. For students who didn't manage the 'Apply' type questions, the activity gives practise on recognising which idea to use in an unfamiliar situations, and how to use it. For students who struggled with 'Know' type questions, it review the basics and examines gaps in knowledge and misconceptions.
Second chance quiz
Mastery is about making students feel successful, so the Starter Pack also has a second mastery quiz to be done after the re-learning. This tests exactly the same objectives, with similar but not identical questions. This approach is consistent with the 'growth mindset' where that students can demonstrate that their efforts have helped them make progress. This helps them to become confident with science, instead of seeing it as something they're bad at.
Extend activity
Students who did reached whatever cut-off score you set in the diagnostic quiz, get to move forward. We have provided an 'Extend' activity, which is on the one hand, motivating, and on the other, challenging. It needs to be seen as motivating to encourage everyone to pass the quiz! The challenging part is that it focusses on higher order thinking, and the 'Extend' learning objectives in the KS3 Science Syllabus.
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If you'd like to understand more about our mastery learning approach, watch the video where Tony explains how the different components fit together.
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There are many things in life that make me smile. Things that for such a long time I had lost.
After D Day happened, I was at my lowest. I had to find a way to survive, a reason to get up each day.
Maybe it was my subconscious trying to keep me afloat, I don't know, but what I do know is, in that dark time I learned something new. I learned to take each day as it came. As shitty as it might have been, I learned to look beyond all that and to find the joy. And I did. Sometimes in the smallest, trivial of things; a flower, a rainbow, a smile from a passerby, but mainly in my boys.
Oh those two.. Everyday, between them they brought and still bring me so much joy; so much so, that I couldn't possibly put it into words – certainly not in any way that would do how I feel for them justice.
But after a while; me a single mum, working hard, running the home, managing the bills and all those other millions of things that we juggle day in day out, well, it started to feel like a chore.
I no longer got the satisfaction in the same way I once did. I still found true joy in the little things, but I also felt a hole.
A deep sad hole. Something was amiss. A part of me that meant so much just wasn't there.
I knew what that was. It was love.
And just then, out of the blue, there he was. It was a huge surprise to none more that I! I fell fast and hard. And everyday still, I feel myself fall a bit more.
I'm a thinker. An analyser. I hate it but it's me. So in my typical style I have on many occasion found myself questioning why has this one made an impact? How has he not only taken down my walls, but pulled up the bloody foundations too… well that answer is simple.
It's the little things. All those silly, simple, little things that when added together make a force to be reckoned with. A force so strong that I am rendered powerless.
Our dates are special, each completely unique. Some lavish-luxury hotels, champagne, chocolates – amazing! Others a simple stroll on a windy beach in autumn, a bubble bath with coffee. His and her wine- delicately picked by him knowing I would laugh at his soppy purchase or just a simple night watching Tv, warm on the sofa together.
But that's all just stuff. Anyone could do that. Right? So what else?
Well it's him. Simply put it's just him- His gentle and considerate nature; the warm car so I won't be cold when he picks me up, the silly videos he sends to cheer me up on a crappy day, the flowers I receive when I'm sick. The way he leaves his comfies at my house when he goes away (knowing full well that I'll wear them to just to feel close to him). The "good morning beautiful" messages that start my day with a smile combined with the "I love you beautiful" ones that are the last thing my sleepy eyes see at night. There's oh so many examples of him just being him that to list them all would be tiresome (and would likely give him a rather large ego!).
But more than that, he knows me. He gets what I need to feel safe. What I want to feel joy. And what it means for me to be sad. And he either holds me whilst I ride it out or he makes it better. And I feel it.
I feel it in his smile against my temple when he holds me. The strength in his arm, wrapped tightly around me and the resistance I feel from him trying not to let me go- every time he embraces me. The way he cups my face as he stares deep into my eyes- every time knowing to question what's going on in my crazy head or not.
So today im blessed that I don't have to look very far for the joy in everyday things, because now I have him and he knowingly or not serves them right to me in all the little things he does. says and is x


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- NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and two Russian crewmates will answer questions about their upcoming mission on the International Space Station at a news conference, and be available for one-on-one interviews, Thursday, July 7, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The 2 p.m. EDT news conference will air live on NASA Television and stream on the agency's website.
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Kimbrough and cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko and Sergey Ryzhikov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos will launch to the space station Sept. 23 aboard the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio will round out Expedition 49, and return to Earth in February as part of the Expedition 50 crew.
B-roll video of crew training will air before the news conference, beginning at 1:30 p.m. Media who wish to participate by telephone should call Johnson's newsroom at 281-483-5111 no later than 1:45 p.m. Those following the briefing on social media may ask questions using the hashtag #askNASA. Interview opportunities also are available in person or by phone.
To request credentials to attend in person, or to reserve an interview opportunity, reporters must contact Johnson's newsroom by 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 5.
During their planned five and a half month mission, the station crew members will perform approximately 250 research investigations and technology demonstrations not possible on Earth in order to advance scientific knowledge of Earth, space, physical and biological sciences. Science conducted on the space station continues to yield benefits for humanity and will enable future long-duration human and robotic exploration into deep space, including the agency's Journey to Mars.
Kimbrough, a retired Army Colonel, completed his first spaceflight in 2008 on space shuttle mission STS-126, when he spent almost 16 days helping expand the station's living quarters to accommodate a six-member crew. During those 16 days, he completed two spacewalks, logging 12 hours and 52 minutes outside the station.
A native of Killeen, Texas, Kimbrough is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He started working at Johnson as a flight simulation engineer on shuttle training aircraft before his selection to the astronaut corps in 2004.


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@author Generated from Forte @since 19-Nov-2008
AddressA generic postal address object for being associated to any other objects that may require address information. @author Sergio Montoro Ten @version 3.0
A Class for storing opaque Addresses. Any type of address can be stored at any length.
Typically this class is subclassed and more specific implementations such as IpAddress and MacAddress add additional functionality but use the underlying mechanics of Address for storage and manipulation of address.
A several @author Mark Bednarczyk @author Sly Technologies, Inc.
Interface for defining Address types.
Warning: This is a facade provided for use by user code, not for implementation. User implementations of this interface are highly likely to be incompatible with future releases of the product at both binary and source levels.@volantis-api-include-in InternalAPI
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To: Bob sip:email@example.com would have a display name attribute of
Bob and an address of
@see SipURI
@see TelURL
@author BEA Systems, NIST
@version 1.2
This class extends {@link java.lang.Number} and implements all {@code Number} methods forconverting to primitive integer types.
An {@code Address} instance is lighter weight than most {@link Pointer}instances, and may be used when a native address needs to be stored in java, but no other operations (such as reading/writing values) need be performed on the native memory. For most cases, a {@link Pointer} offers more flexibilityand should be preferred instead.
Title: Address
Description: Domain Object describing a Address entity
Copyright (c) Xoetrope Ltd., 2002-2006
$Revision: 1.1 $
License: see License.txt
Fields map to definition in TPC-C for the CUSTOMER, WAREHOUSE and DISTRICT tables. The Java names of fields do not include the C_,W_ or D_ prefixes and are in lower case.
All fields have Java bean setters and getters.
Value object representing an address.@author Allard Buijze
Below is the annotation that signifies this class is "prepared" under JBossAop. This is used in conjunction with a special jboss-aop.xml (supplied by JBossCache). In addition, this is JDK1.4 style, so a annoc Ant build target is needed to pre-compile it.
To use this approach, just apply this line to your pojo and run annoc (and possibly aopc).
Address element behaves.
Basic address class that will be associated with each class that stores an address
This will normalize the path part of the uniform resource identifier. A normalized path is one that contains no back references like "./" and "../". The normalized path will not contain the path parameters. @author Niall Gallagher
Address interface serves as a base class for all SNMP transport addresses.
Note: This class should be moved to package
org.snmp4j in SNMP4J 2.0.
(exchange)/(routingKey)Here we also the exchange name to default to empty (so just a routing key will work if you know the queue name). @author Mark Pollack @author Mark Fisher @author Dave Syer @author Artem Bilan
This is the bottom-most interface which abstracts address access for both debugging and introspection. In the situation of debugging a target VM, these routines can throw the specified RuntimeExceptions to indicate failure and allow recovery of the debugging system. If these are used for introspecting the current VM and implementing functionality in it, however, it is expected that these kinds of failures will not occur and, in fact, a crash will occur if the situation arises where they would have been thrown.
Addresses are immutable. Further, it was decided not to expose the representation of the Address (and provide a corresponding factory method from, for example, long to Address). Unfortunately, because of the existence of C and "reuse" of low bits of pointers, it is occasionally necessary to perform logical operations like masking off the low bits of an "address". While these operations could be used to generate arbitrary Address objects, allowing this is not the intent of providing these operations.
This interface is able to fetch all Java primitive types, addresses, oops, and C integers of arbitrary size (see @see sun.jvm.hotspot.types.CIntegerType for further discussion). Note that the result of the latter is restricted to fitting into a 64-bit value and the high-order bytes will be silently discarded if too many bytes are requested.
Implementations may have restrictions, for example that the Java-related routines may not be called until a certain point in the bootstrapping process once the sizes of the Java primitive types are known. (The current implementation has that property.)
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The second example emphasises the fact that women play more video games than men. Historically, research done in the 1980s and 1990s have suggested that women have been marginalised as video gamers (Crawford, 2012: 53), but in the last years it seems to have changed dramatically. The Guardian published the main findings of the research conducted by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) in the UK (Stuart, 2014), where they assert that women account for the 52% of gamers.
These two snapshots of how more people are playing video games regardless of their demographics, convey the idea that video gaming is not a subculture anymore and has become mainstream culture.
This growing tendency of video game culture sneaking into Western society households seems to be confirmed by more recent surveys. According to the Essential Facts about the Computer and Video Game Industry report of 2014 produced by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the most important video game industry association in the United States, the 59% of Americans play video games. In their report they also state that the 51% of American households own a dedicated game console. Other data of interest shows that the average game player is 31 years old, 48% of gamers are women, 39% of video gamers are over the age of 35 and female gamers of the age 50 and older have increased by a 32% from 2012 to 2013.
If we turn now to the data gathered by the UK Interactive Entertainment (Ukie), the principal video game industry association in the UK, it shows similar figures for the British households. In their UK Video Games Fact Sheet of 2014, which draws on various research reports from different sources, Ukie estimates that 55% of the United Kingdom population plays video games. Depending on the source cited, the distribution of male players and female players in the UK varies between 55% males-45% females and 48% males-52% females.
All the data points to the same facts: around half of people in Western countries play video games, the number of women who play games is almost the same as men, and even those who were not socialised in a video game culture have started to play video games. That would be the general portrait of video gamers, which quantitatively corroborates the hypothesis of an existing and growing video game culture.
However, the brush strokes are so vaguely defined that there is still a great deal of detail missed in that data. Not only do they tend to miss information about who plays what video game on what device - although in fairness some of the reports provide partial data on those issues, but there is also a lack of elaboration on critical aspects of their research. For instance, they define a video gamer as someone who has just played at least once in the last year or in the last six months. This approach quickly overlooks what the implications of that assumption in terms of identity and community construction are. This will be a topic which I will come back to in the future, because it directly affects the controversy about what a video gamer is and who belongs to the community of gamers.
In any case, those are not the only concerns that can be raised against this data. The fact that the 'original sources are often poorly referenced' (Crawford, 2012: 51) and that they seem to mix the information from different reports without taking into account the methodological differences between them does not help to figure out how to weight their importance and reliability. Being representatives of the video game industry, these organisations are expected to 'convey a very particular image of video gaming as normal, social and healthy pursuit' (Crawford, 2012: 51). In contrast, it can be argued that these organisations seek to accurately represent video gamers because they want to provide the best information for marketing reasons.
Even if the information selected is biased to stress the most spectacular figures in order to give a certain impression of the product they are trying to sell, it is still a valid information that tells us how video game culture has burst into our contemporary societies. Whether this is caused by the rise of new kinds of video games and platforms (the so called casual games, to be played on browsers, consoles like Nintendo Wii or Ouya, mobile phones and tablets) as it has been suggested by authors like Jesper Juul (2010) or by any other factors, the fact is the normalisation of video games and video gaming in our society is now an unavoidable reality:
Video games are becoming normal (...). The rise of casual games is the end of that small historical anomaly of the 1980s and 1990s when video games were played only by only a small part of the population (Juul, 2010: 20).
Certainly some gamers do seem to belong to a culture distinct from mainstream society. The term subculture, however, is too limited to adequately explain the broader world of games and game players that currently exists (Consalvo, 2007: 3).
- Crawford, Garry (2012). Video Gamers. London: Routledge.
- Consalvo, Mia (2007). Cheating. Gaining Advantage in Videogames. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Simon; Smith, Jonas H.; Pajares Tosca, Susana (2008). Understanding Video Games. The Essential Introduction. New York: Routledge.
- Entertainment Software Association (2014). Essential Facts about the Computer and Video Game Industry
- Juul, Jesper (2010). A Casual Revolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Schiesel, Seth (2007). "Video Games Conquer Retirees" in New York Times
- Stuart, Keith (2014). "UK gamers: more women play games than men, report finds" in The Guardian
- UK Interactive Entertainment (2014). UK Video Games Fact Sheet


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It's been so long since i actually did papercraft. Aaron's lovely Dissidia Duodecim crafts certainly got the itch back in.
Anyway, I've been meaning to do a model of Yuna for a while, after seeing the gorgeous gigantic HD pepakura of gunner Yuna by Jouzu. Yuna is one of my favourite FF babes. :3
Planning on doing Rikku and Paine right now, so it's a complete set.
Note: There aren't any written instructions for this, since it's a project to get me back into crafting. It's not hard though, just build sensibly from the bottom up and refer to the PDO for where to stick the bits of her hair. The head, including her 'tail' should be built as a seperate unit and glued on last, to save you the finicky heart ache of sealing the model otherwise.


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After my marriage to Patrick, my daily routine changed over night. My mornings started very early because I had to wake the kids up and prepare them for school. I also had to make breakfast for them and their daddy, clean up the house and make sure nothing was left out of place.
"Sam," Jade called, on our first morning together as a family. "Can I get some extra pancakes? Mummy always made three for me because she knew my friends at school always get their share."
"Oh! Okay, I will get you some more." I gave her the rest of the pancakes and she ran off with Kathrine to catch the school bus, which was parked in front of the house. Patrick saw them off and then came back in.
"Thanks." Patrick said, as soon as he was in. "Thank you for the love you show them."
"They're like my own children, Patrick." I replied. "I can't help wanting them to be happy and comfortable. I can't help loving them."
"I know. All the same thank you. Fiona couldn't have picked a better mother to take care of the kids."
That said, he took his briefcase and went to work. I quickly finished my chores and dashed off to my restaurant. Although we had our differences and problems, we lived together in peace and harmony.
With time I started getting attracted to Patrick, especially when I saw him playing in the sand with the kids. He is their father, he loves them and they adore him. Whenever there was an occasion to attend, we usually went together. We did a lot of things together, especially with the children. This got us very close and I didn't even know when my feelings for Patrick started to take a different turn. His smile made me smile and his pain left me in much deeper pain. But there was nothing I could do about it. I wasn't ready to give Patrick even the slightest idea that I felt anything for him. As long as I was concerned, we were in an arranged marriage, and that was it.
Things went on that way for a year after our marriage. Then one day, I got home from my restaurant, late. It rained heavily that day and I got soaked to my under wear. Patrick saw me coming in and he looked very worried.
"I will make a cup of hot tea." He said, with so much concern.
I said my thanks before running up to my room to take a hot bath. I filled the bath tub with very hot water and mixed it a little with a cold one before hopping in. I stayed in for a long time before washing up. When I was done, I grabbed my towel but didn't tie it around my body. I just cleaned my body with it and then dried my hair while I walked out of the bathroom. I was well inside my room before I realized that Patrick was standing beside a tray of hot tea he had just placed on top of my dressing table. He looked surprised and dazed at the same time. I felt really embarrassed and quickly tied the towel around me.
"I'm... I'm so .... sorry." He said, after I had covered up. It was like his senses returned as soon as the show was over. "I should have knocked to tell you I was here.
I was too embarrassed to say anything. I simply looked on as he walked out. It was a while later before I recovered from the surprising event but even then, I couldn't help but remember the look on Patrick's eyes when he saw my nakedness. I could tell he very much liked what he saw, but I wasn't betting on the fact that anything would happen between us. He loved Fiona too much and even though she was long gone, he always talked about her from time to time. He did everything possible to keep her memory alive.
That evening, I didn't go down stairs to eat dinner. I wasn't sure I was ready to face Patrick again, not after what had happened. I waited until I was sure everyone was asleep before going down to find something to eat. I fixed a quick toast with some sardines, cabbage and butter. Before I sat down to eat, I placed a kettle of water on the cooker. I had finished eating and was about to make tea when I heard the kitchen door squeak. I turned around only to find Patrick leaning against the entrance and staring unflinchingly at me.
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"Oh. I didn't know she was in town." I said with an almost shaky voice, as I realized that Patrick had left his position and was walking towards me.
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"No." I replied. "Why should I be?"
"I don't know." He replied. 'But if you are not scared, then why are you moving backwards?" He asked.
I wanted to make an argument about the question he asked, but when I looked around, I saw that I had really moved backwards. "Well, maybe my instincts are pushing me away from you." I said.
"Instincts right?" He asked lazily, as he pulled out a chair and sat down. "Can I have one too?"
"Have what? Instincts?"
"No." He chuckled. "I meant a cup of tea."
It was then I remembered that I was actually about to make tea when he stepped in. "Oh!" I said, feeling stupid. "I will do just that."
I took out two mugs and poured the already boiled water into them, brewed the tea and added milk and sugar. Tea was soon ready and I served him his own cup. After I placed the tea on the table, Patrick pulled out a chair and asked me to sit with him.
"Well, I can sip my tea upstairs in my room."
"I know that." He said. "I just want you to sit with me so we can talk." He insisted.
"Okay." I said. I reluctantly sat on the chair he pulled out.
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In America we have gun and knife shows just about every weekend of the year, all year long. It is nothing to have a hunting exposition and a fishing convention to be held at the same time and in the same facility. In certain parts of the upper mid-west and the deep south, you can have half a dozen of such conventions within a three hour driving circle from your home. Putting together a historical fair, where arms and armour, clothing, cooking utensils, fabrics, textiles, shoes... any thing you would need to create a historical persona don't just happen in the UK. There are councils, (Think very small local governments.) to consult. Property Owners, Tax Authorities, Health Officials. There is an enormous mountain of red tape, which has to be cleaved like Alexander slicing through the Gordian Knot. -It is very much a process. Not to mention most of the promoters who put on the various shows, charge money for admission.
Not everyone wants to go to a market and purchase their "Kit" as they call it, from a medieval style merchant. But if they do, they don't want to be charged for the privilege! To that end my friend and fellow sophisticate David Smith started the National Living History Fair. Here is our interview, perhaps he will shed some light on how things are done in the "Old World."
|David Kevin Smith
A: Since 2003. So I would guess this is going on 11 years. I left school at 16 and joined the Army, then spend several years working in Hotel Management before going to University and then training to become a Chartered Accountant with Touche Ross & Co in London. Passed my exams and joined one of the companies I had been auditing, spent years counting beans full time before being made redundant in 1993. Since then I've mixed contract work as an accountant with running events, starting with Antique Fairs and ending up with Medieval Festivals.
Q: At what point did you decide to create the Fair?
A: I saw TORM at a venue I was planning to use for an Antiques Fair and thought it was amazing. Then I discovered it was a monopoly and staged just twice a year, and had a waiting list of traders as well as many traders who had fallen out with the management. This was as opposed to competing with 300 other Antiques Fairs every weekend...
|Lots of arms and armour from Katso Armour
A: We set out to be friendly and to have fun, and becasue we were the new kid on the block we were quite deliberately going to be more affordable. After a run of disastrous events in 2006 I lost control of the original NLHF, which is now trading as the ILHF at Bruntingthorpe, but several traders asked me in 2012 if I'd re-stage the old NLHF as it used to be - affordable and fun - and so I took another look at it to see if it could be done.
Q: I know you have exhibitors from all over Europe who attend. Can you tell us from which countries they come from?
A: We won't have quite so many this November as the dates - which are arranged to co-incide with TORM which is just 9 miles up the road - clash with the huge established Medieval market at Pontoise in France. But we are delighted to have Spes Medieval and Lady Malina from Poland, Lixa Bellorum from Germany, Kasto Armoury from the Czech Republic, and Magen from Fairbow Netherland.
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A: Currently we have bookings from 124 traders, who will be exhibiting a vast range of things, from Armour to Beeswax. You can find a complete list on the website, which I try to keep as up to date as possible. Basically, if you're involved with re-enactment you'll find things here they you didn't even know you needed, as well as almost everything you knew about! And we have FREE admission, so you can spend all your hard earned cash on goodies!
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A: One of the main issues that folk complained about at the original NLHF was that they couldn't stay over on site. This applied just as much to traders as customers, and although it meant that some local pubs did a roaring trade over the Friday and Saturday of the market, it was a real shame that it wasn't really possible for everyone to get together for a decent social all together.
So when I was looking for a suitable venue for the re-born NLHF I was determined to find somewhere that had the facility for Camping, ideally sufficient room for all the traders and for all the customers as well who wanted to keep their accommodation and travelling costs to a minimum, brave the terrifying English weather, and have some fun as well as doing a lot of business.
|The indoor exhibition space, with wide avenues for shoppers and suppliers.
|Small swords, perfect for that early 18th Century portrayal
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I want to point out the various side characters that aren't used to direct the plot- basically, everyone but Sakurai, Fujimoto, and Koiwai. These in-game side characters are shown in the opening to have real lives outside the game, and we are lead to believe based on an ending scene in the opening that a female we never learn the identity of (I'm thinking Lilac) visits Moriko's apartment.
Besides the opening cinematic, there are numerous references to adventures and relationships we never see develop as viewers. I don't quite remember over how long a time period this show takes place, let's call it a year, but the ten episode stint of MMO Junkie is certainly not long enough to dictate every detail. Instead of wasting time with the commonly used "getting-to-know-you-getting-to-know-all-about-you" story arcs that persist is just about every anime we see, MMO Junkie simply allows us to infer and understand that there is a lot we don't see and that we don't need to see. Do you actually care about Pokotaro and Hayashi's in-game relationship and how they became good friends? No. You don't.
Furthermore, if you've ever played an MMO, you know that you sort of just log on and play. There isn't often a huge session of learning about each other- you just play the game. MMO Junkie brings a sense of relief with this storytelling, and a sense of reality that I find, frankly, refreshing.
In talking about time, let's talk about how long the show is: it's ten episodes. That's two-three episodes shorter than the average season run, and it's another thing we don't see often in anime. A lot of shows will run their count, stretching the plot, over-explaining, character arcs, animations, and so forth just to reach that twelve episode mark.
MMO Junkie didn't do that.
It told the story it wanted to tell, granted there is a lengthy side episode that accomplishes something I feel could have been done better and more quickly, and ended. There's OVA's, of course, but that's not a part of the main season run. In a world where we are used to timing our shows to the 12's and 13's, it was cool to have someone end it all early with confidence that they did what they wanted to.
That brings me to the content of the show itself; what did Recovery of an MMO Junkie want to do? Well, let's look at the title of the show, first off. I actually found the English title off-putting and confusing considering the content and direction of the show. While I do understand that the title is referring to Moriko's recovery as learning to cope with her anxiety and getting back into the world, the title lead me to believe this show was going to be more gag-centric about the life of a NEET.
I am very glad it wasn't a over-the-top gag anime because I hate them. However! If people are similar to me, you may not pick this show up based on the wording of the English title. That being said, the Japanese title isn't much better: ネト充のススメ or Recommendation of a Neet (best translation I can get).
Honestly, I don't think either title serves the show, but it's something to think about when watching and understanding what the creators want to get across.
MMO Junkie begins as a fantasy for most of us, then becomes an adorable RomCom that makes you go "aw" at the teenage-like love of two 30-year-olds. We need to get from Moriko being a borderline hikkimori to a reasonably social girl with prospects. MMO Junkie does this in a two cool ways:
First of all, we establish the gender-bending aspect of online gaming, and twist it just a smidge. You'd never expect a guy to play a girl character, and that's what makes Lily a great plant. Moriko comes to love and idolize Lily in-game, and even becomes her partner later. We can see here that Moriko doesn't see gender as a boundary, which is interesting in itself, and this leaves us open for Sakurai's eventual acceptance.
Secondly, we have two characters that only exist to move our fated lovers along: Koiwai and Fujimoto. Koiwai provides the catalyst that gives Sakurai the courage to pursue Moriko despite his initial reservations, and it's heavily implied that if Koiwai didn't start moving on Moriko- Sakurai would likely have backed off and not attempted a relationship with her.
Fujimoto provides a similar, though different, service for Moriko where he serves to give Moriko encouragement, confidence, real-life friendship, and eventually come to terms with her in-game and out-game gender.
With these two plot aspects set in stone the RomCom nature of the show, even if the use of exterior characters seems contrived at times. I believe that MMO Junkie wanted to make an endearing look at online gaming, and it really did succeed. Moriko and Sakurai do not feel forced together, so the growth of their relationship feels natural and smooth. If cute love stories are your bag, then this is the show for you.
Recovery of an MMO Junkie is great. Watch it.
It's streaming on Crunchyroll!
Rating: A


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What was the most played song by Steve at Talk About Pop Music this week?
The most played song this week was "This Town –Tiësto Remix" by Niall Horan.
I am loving Niall Horan's song right now and this remix by Tiësto just makes me love it even more!
There's also another fab cover of 'This Town' by Linney in here which is also well worth a listen.
I've been updating my Spotify playlists this week so since one of them is about Cathy Dennis – that's why her cover of 'Waterloo Sunset' is included here.
Here is the Talk About Pop Music Top 10 most played songs from the last 7 days.
Watch the full playlist of all the videos…
I'd like to say a big thank you to Last.fm – without their service over the past ten years none of these stats would be possible each week!
What about you? What have your most listened to songs been this week – let us know in the comments below or send a tweet to @PopAndTalk as we love discovering new songs.


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The biggest story in a while... Regis Philbin is old and "retiring" from his gabfest on an undisclosed date in the near future. The last vestige of the great morning comedy duo known as Regis & Kathie Lee will be lost for good, unless you watch her get drunk on NBC or watch Rege on the soon to be launched RPN, if Oprah has a network Regis should have TWO by now. Rumor has it, he may "pop in" as a guest host on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Keep your fingers crossed. Oh... and that football player who texts images of his dick as a pick up line retired to for the 12th time.
Who is that? That face on the far right is so familiar. Can't get it? Think red headed? How about vixen from one of the best shows on TV? Give up. That is the Christina Hendricks, the queen bee of ad agency secretaries Joan Halloway on Mad Men from a Playboy shoot in 1999.
Cinenamatical spotlighted a personal favorite this week in their "Scenes We Love" series, which digs back into the archive for breakdowns of great moments in cinema you may have forgotten. The highlighted segment this week is from Falling Down, where Michael Douglas' fantastic man-on-the-brink says what most people thinking after they get their fast food order.
Read the one of the more hilarious job dismissal reports via Geekologie:
REPORT: Jeopardy Super Computer Wins Practice Round vs. Jeopardy Nerd King Ken Jennings. First they will understand our language like a child, then they will take over the world.
Have you ever heard of a Snow Penis? Let the local news handle this one:
And if you didn't know, Parks & Recreation was probably the funniest show on last year and was off the air for the first part of the year but will be returning Thursday night. Adam Scott and Rob Lowe seemed to have joined the cast in a more permanent basis which should help the show continue on this path. Here's a pretty funny promo where Rob Lowe has a tantrum on set (a bit NSFW as the kids say):


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Saturday, January 28, 2017
Frosted Fanny 2016
A good way to start the year. The highlight of my month. And a lot more to come!
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Ethno-tourism is very similar to eco-tourism, in that, it focuses upon "Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people." (TIES, 1990) Yet, ethno-tourism has a greater focus upon understanding the culture, customs and daily life of ethnic groups than eco-tourism. We want to help people experience life in a local village, not just observe it. At the same time, we want to help provide additional, sustainable income to more remote villages. Through our home stay tours, we seek to adhere to basic eco/ethno-tourism principles:
- Minimize impact.
- Build environmental and cultural awareness and respect.
- Provide positive experiences for both visitors and hosts.
- Provide financial benefits and empowerment for local people.
- Raise sensitivity to host countries' political, environmental, and social climate.


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Insa-dong's history begun 500 years ago, as the residential area for government officials. Today, still retaining it's old nostalgic charm, is a popular shopping district for cultural and traditional items. Insa-dong is a straight road (700m) connecting Jonggak station and Anguk station. Along Insa-dong are many small alleys where galleries, traditional restaurants, traditional teahouses and cafes can be found. This is the focal point for Korean traditional culture and crafts.
(From Jonggak Station)
(From Anguk Station)
Traditional handicrafts, hanbok (traditional costume), hanji (traditional paper), ceramics, pottery and fine art find their home at Insa-dong. This is also the place for visitors to get some souvenirs. Prices for mass-produced souvenir items are slightly cheaper and the variety is complete.
Located along Insa-dong gil (means Insa-dong road), Ssamzie-gil was opened in 2004, it is a one-stop place for handicraft shops, art galleries, souvenir shops and restaurants.
Noticed the special structure of Ssamzie-gil? It is like walking a big spiral in the building as you move from shop to shop, where there are about 70 shops in total. Each level is sloped gentle that you may not realise that you moving upwards or downwards.
At the top level (4th level), is an open-air sky garden where you get to admire the entire Insa-dong from a bird's eye view. On the same level is also a book cafe and an art gallery.
This is a small cafe in Ssamzie-gil which serves waffle and coffee. It is a cosy place with 2 levels.
Look at this! I thought it was quite a interesting way of presenting the bill to the customers.
Being a one-stop mall, there is a shop at the ground level where visitors can buy freshly-made traditional confectionery (hangwa) eg. peanut, sesame and even rice flour confectionery.
I particularly like this shop that sells DIY ceramic musical boxes. The designs are traditional yet contemporary. The skills of combining the beauty of ancient and modern Korea is reflected in this piece of art. It is DIY because you decide how you want to assemble the musical box, from the music (from a music list of more than 1000 songs), the main box and the accessory to wind the music.
This is another musical box design which is so pretty, traditional and yet not tacky.
Lots of streetfood stalls can be found along Insa-dong gil too... This is a ho-tteok (호떡) stall, a Korean pancake which is very popular during winter. The dough is made from wheat flours, water, sugar, milk and yeast. The filling is a sweet and the main ingredients include brown sugar, honey, chopped nuts (usually ground nuts and pine nuts) and cinnamon.
The freshly pan-fried pancakes are served in a paper cup to prevent scalding of fingers.
This is an interesting convenience shop - 구멍가게 (gu mong ga ge) that sells tidbits and what particularly attracts attention is vanilla ice cream in the J-shape corn-stick.
How about an ice cream in the cold weather? I like it!
Another popular hot streetfood is the Egg Bun (gye-ran-bbang, 계란빵). On top of the muffin-like bread is a runny egg. There is option for cheese Egg Bun (gye-ran chi-seu bbang, 계란치즈빵) too.
We were attracted by this rowdy stall selling dragon beard candy (ggul-ta-rae, 꿀타래), filled with crushed peanut fillings. The stall will be happy to demo how they create these thin strands of candy from a piece of dough.
While walking along Insa-dong, keep a lookout for the small alleys for some of the popular restaurants are hidden in there. We spotted one with long queue and were curious what the stall was selling. It turned out to be a dumpling (mandu, 만두) stall selling steamed as well as fried dumplings.
One stall that really cracked me up was this stall selling Poop-Bread (ddong-bbang, 똥빵). It is simply a variety of fish-shape waffle pancake (bungeobbang, 붕어빵), with redbean paste filling.
Street-food in Korea isn't expensive with prices ranging from 1,000 to 2,000. So, just try them! For Koreans, they tend to stand around the food stall to finish their food, but nothing's stopping from eat as you browse the shops, as long as you don't dirty their goods!
Enjoy the wall mural paintings as you move along, explore the small alleys as there's really must to discover in this charming Insa-dong. Stay tuned for Part 2 which will introduce Samcheong-dong.
[This trip is made possible by the Asian On Air programme, organised by the Korean Air and Korea Tourism Organisation].
Getting there:
1. Jonggak Station (Line 1, Exit 3). Walk 300m ahead. At the 4th intersection, turn left and walk another 100m.
2. Anguk Station (Line 3, Exit 6). Walk 100m and turn left.
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Makako (まか子) is the most important artist of all Yukkuri fandom because his/her works established the foundations of Yukkuri looks and behavior. Makako drew the first bodied Yukkuris: the Scarlet Sisters, Reisen, Tewi, Teruyo, Shikieiki, Reimu, Marisa, Cirno. Kimeemaru, Orin and Mokotan; and some works show memes of Yukkuri fandom, such as the dinosaur suit for Yukkuri Remilia or the Suii.
Makako's role in Yukkuri fandom should be mentioned. Makako was the first to create some of the staples of Yukkuri stories - pinching their cheek, light bullying, the fact that they are edible manju, and the concept of "refreshing!" - though only a lone Reimu getting refreshed from a cellphone on vibe, and Makako has yet to draw any yukkuri sex/births. Makako was also the first to draw yukkuri death, the Reimu owned by Sanae getting crushed by Kanako's defense pillars (even though it was shown to be alive in a follow up). Despite this, Makako does not draw any guro or violent torture, only light bullying.
It is thought that for a while, Makako retreated from Yukkuri fandom after people began making violent/torture edits of Makako's work, to which he/she did not take kindly. However, recently what appear to be newer Makako works have been appearing.Makako also produced artwork for a family friendly Yukkuri game. A translation for this game is yet to appear, however.
External links Edit
- Website: http://yumebouei.2-d.blog.fc2.com/
- Yukkuri art index: http://yumebouei.2-d.jp/index/yukkuri.html
- Pixiv: http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=64672


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I looked down the hill and there he was by the mailbox. Fear gripped me. This happened about 13 years ago, but I can still remember it as vividly as yesterday. You see, my first-born, Jared, and I had gone outside to play in the yard a few moments earlier. Jared was on his little John Deere tractor that grandpa had given him at Christmas, and I was shooting some hoops.
Now, somehow, someway, I threw up an errant shot and the ball went into the bushes. A moment or two later, I retrieved it and glanced back where Jared had been only to see the green tractor. "Jared, Jared," I called out. No answer. I looked downhill toward the road and the little guy was running away from me only a few steps from where the cars were flying by. I called, "Jared! Jared, stop!" I pled with him, "Stop! Come to me." My heart was pounding, and the terror I felt was the worst I had ever experienced. "Please come to me and find safety."
If you have had a 2-year-old boy in your life you may have made a similar appeal. Or maybe it was, "Get down off the ladder," or "Put down that ax," or something else maybe even more adventuresome. You might have pleaded with an older child, "Please do not ride with that person because they are not careful," or "I do not want you to date that individual because their character is in question." Maybe your appeal was to a friend who was on the edge of a disastrous decision, and you were saying don't do it. Whatever it was, the appeal was from your heart and the purpose was to help someone in need.
Jesus Christ makes an appeal that extends to us. Matthew 11:28-30 says, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Jesus gives a heart-motivated cry for you and I to accept help — his help.
What is the "Jesus appeal?" Very simply, "Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest." A few thoughts set off the "Jesus appeal" from the normal. It is an urgent appeal — "come." If you are in a disaster or headed for one, swiftly turn now and find help. It is a compassionate appeal. Jesus Christ reaches out motivated by his heart to the weary and burdened. It is a hopeful appeal. Hope is wrapped up in the promise of "rest," but not just a quickly vanishing rest but "rest for you souls."
There were many that Jesus was talking to who would have been characterized as weary and burdened that day. The people of that time, by any account, there in ancient Palestine, were weary and burdened. I can only imagine the exhaustion and fatigue of being under the thumb of occupying Roman military power. The rules set forth by the religious leaders of that time placed a heavy weight on the people. Others were heavily laden by the negative impact of immoral living. Today, it is no different. Stress, pressures, sickness, criticism, wrong choices and other weakness can leave us weary and burdened.
In one sense, Jesus had broken them down. Earlier in the passage, Jesus is passing through several of the towns and villages and he is preaching. His message to the towns and the individuals was "repent." Repentance means to "go in the opposite direction," or "turn from your current path." The people were not ready to "turn" and Jesus rebuffed them for the hardness of their hearts. "Woe to you."
This is what we learn: Jesus has a heart of compassion and concern but at the same time he is a truth teller. Rest for the soul comes from "turning." An individual will never get the help Jesus offers until they are able to willingly admit their flaws and seek help.
Jesus, in making this appeal, is asking a question, an important question, "Are you ready for me?" Are you weary and burdened? Are you aware of your inability to right the ship on your own? Do you need outside help because you are broken beyond repair? Are you ready?
If you are weary and burdened, broken by life, then you just might be ready for a new way. You might be ready for a relationship, a new start found by following Jesus. How do you get there?
Let me take you back to 13 years ago. "Jared, Jared! Stop! Come to me!" Right before reaching the road, that little guy stopped the way he was going and turned to me. It was just enough time to save him.
Imagine the rest that you would experience in your soul if you turned to Jesus Christ. You would find forgiveness and even more, a leader to show you how to live. You would not regret it. But the question is, "Are you ready?"
Norm Byers is the lead pastor of Genesis Church. Genesis meets at 9:30 a.m. at North Central Michigan College and 11 a.m. at Boyne City Elementary. Visit www.genesiswired.com online for more information, or comment on Twitter @NormByers.


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On Saturday we decided on a walk from Buttermere, round to the other side of Crummock Water to check out Scale Force. A quick check of the Geocaching.com App on my iphone revealed that there was a geocache called Higalty Piggalty Tree on the way.
The Water in Buttermere Dubs, the stream joining Buttermere and Crummock Water, was amazingly clear. We sat here for a while watching fish swim up the river.
But Hannah was on a bit of a mission so we carried on around the lake. We got to about 500m from the waterfall when Hannah decided she had no energy left. There was no persuading her so settled for a compromise of finding the 'treasure'.
A tell tale pile of stones at the base of a tree that could fairly be described as 'Higalty Pigalty' gave the game away. I suggested that Hannah look behind the stones and sure enough...
TREASURE! Who would have thought that a four year old would be so happy with a marble?


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On February 25th and March 2nd 2018, two nights only, Village Arts of Colorado Springs broke new ground in outreach and original theatre with GhostLight Ensemble's collection of new pieces.
Designed especially for young adults, but relevant to all,
The Real Me Is Here Anyway: An Evening of New Plays
was a creative and entertaining exploration of emotions and how we can understand them.
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It seems that Symantec, the company with the greatest market share in the antivirus, spyware and malware internet protection products can't protect their own servers and as a result put everyone else's at risk as well.
In the security world any protection solution is only as good as it's weakest link, and it looks like that weakness is at the top.
An the article this week by Fahmida Y. Rashid in eWeek, Rashid details the background and story of the leak. While much remains unknown from all appearances some source code was leaked. You can read the details via this link: Symantec pcAnywhere Code Leaked After $50,000 Payoff Deal Collapses


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Why do bathroom stall doors open into the stall, where with your coat and purse you practically have to stand on the toilet to make room for the door, instead of out where there is tons of room? I ask myself this question EVERY time I'm trying to avoid touching my legs to the public toilet to get in and close the door and open the door to get out!
Why is it okay to use our spit to clean a smudge off our kid's face or a smudge of mascara off our own face yet we balk at being spit at?
Why are our socks that we put on with the lights on universal but we have a right and left slipper to put on the right feet in the dark?
I know I have more but I didn't want to overwhelm myself thinking about this stuff again.


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Monday, November 25, 2013
You're hot and you're cold
The weather has been really weird lately.. on a hot day I went and got ice cream at the beach with my mum, on a cold day I went and got a haircut and saw Catching Fire, on a hot day I went in to the city and did training for work, on a cold day I went to Shannon's 21st. It was actually so great to see some Top D friends and I really can't wait to go back to college and see them all again.
Apart from my days seeming to work around the weather, I had my first shift at work yesterday which was pretty fun. Today I am unfortunately stuck doing my essay. But I have another shift on Thursday and then I get to see Sam afterwards! From then onwards I have a few exciting things to look forward to. Hurry up and let it be Thursday already, just so I can put my arms around Sam again.
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History of the Eilean Donan Castle
The defensive structure had existed already in ancient times on the rocky island of volcanic origin, washed by the water from Lake Loch Duich. By the end of the 6th century a monastery was erected on the island. St Donan lived there with his brothers. He was a Christian preacher whose name finally stuck to the island and became an inherent name of the castle. In 618 the monastery built at the border between the lands of the Picts and Scotti was destroyed and all its residents were killed. Some historians attribute those crimes to travelling looters, while others believe that the order to burn the monastery was given by the Queen of the Picts who did not like Christians much and was suspicious of Donan himself who came from the Scotti tribe.
The first fortress, about which more detailed data exists, was built on the island in 1220, during the reign of Alexander II, the King of Scotland, who gave order to build Eilean Donan and the Tarbert Castle. These buildings were essential to provide safety and protection for Norway's army supporting the rulers of the Kingdom of Isles – a half independent territory separated from Scotland in the mid-12th century. In 1248 the ruler of the Kingdom of Isles recognised Norway's king as his suzerain of his own will. As a result, Norway actively participated in the war against Scotland. In 1263 a decisive battle took place between the Scots and Norwegians near Largs. Colin Fitzgerald distinguished himself with great courage so later the King of Scotland gave him a title of Baron of Kintail and the Eilean Donan Castle.
The grandson of Fitzgerald, Kenneth McKenzie, gave shelter to Robert Bruce in the Eilean Donan Castle, who hid himself from the English. After Robert Bruce became a crowned Scottish monarch, the lands of Kintail were ruled by his relative, Randolph, who treated all those who loved freedom very severely. So in 1331 a mass execution of plotters took place near the castle. Their heads «decorated» the castle walls for a long time. The Eilean Donan Castle had been an important defensive structure for many years, serving Scotland with faith and truth when the political situation was very unstable and threatened by the outbreaks of aggression.
In 1530 a descendant of the rulers of the Kingdom, Donald MacDonald, sparked off an uprising against the King of Scotland that lasted for several years. In 1539 the army of rebels reached the Eilean Donan Castle which, despite its small garrison, put up strong resistance to the enemies. After the death of the commanding officer, a young soldier, Duncan McRae, was in command. He turned out to be a very accurate shooter as he fatally wounded Donald MacDonald. The rebels, having lost their leader, gave up very quickly to take any further actions, and brave McRae was given by McKenzie the position of the commander of Eilean Donan both for himself and his descendants.
At the beginning of 17th century Clan McKenzie owned enough land, including the castles, but Eilean Donan was thought to have been the biggest and most significant one. At the beginning of the 17th century Clan McKenzie was not only a supporter of the Stuarts but he also actively participated in the Jacobite risings. Several thousands of soldiers under McKenzie clashed in the battles of Sherramuir and Glenshire. At the beginning of the 18th century the Spaniards who supported James Edward Stuart's ambitions in his aspirations for the English throne established their strategic point in the Eilean Donan fortress with an armoury, a storehouse and a small garrison.
In 1719 the English state army attacked Eilean Donan on three frigates which fired at the castle and the storehouses. The small garrison was imprisoned, the castle was blown out and destroyed. Its host, count William Mackenzie, had to escape to France. The members of Clan McRae, who during the last centuries fulfilled not only the role of the castle commanders but also Mackenzie's private guards, stayed to supervise the destroyed castle and even came up with an idea to send to their lord charges collected for leasing the land. By the end of the 18th century a member of different branch became the leader of Clan Mackenzie which treated the Leod Castle near the city of Inverness as their family home. After two hundred years of oblivion, the Eilean Donan Castle was given a new life by John McRae-Gilstrap, who bought the island of Eilean Donan with the castle ruins in 1911. He dedicated more than two decades to restore the stronghold to its former appearance according to the sketches remained from past periods. In July 1932 the renovation work ended in the castle. So a stone bridge runs from the castle, over the lake water, to the mainland. Since 1983 the Eilean Donan stronghold is part of a trust fund established by Clan McRae to maintain and remain this wonderful place.


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