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September 2020
Being able to spray on each plant the dose it requires, the sound of the future? Not according to BBLeap. The first sprayer is up and running. By building techniques onto existing machines, they are future-proof.
How it started
The brains behind BBLeap are Peter Millenaar, Rieks Kampman, and Martijn van Alphen. For years they have worked at Agrifac. Millenaar took a turn in 2018. Van Alphen was CTO and decided to leave last year. 'The new techniques are just too interesting', he smiles. Third founder Rieks Kampman is supporting the company with his developing skills from South Africa.
The men started their plan a year ago: controlling the sprayer on plant level. They reached out to potato grower Jacob van den Borne in Reusel, the Netherlands. 'We were looking for a farmer who knows his way around with high-
resolution farming data so we could start working on plant level." Millenaar explains. 'That excludes most farmers, so he was the obvious guy to go to'.
"Farming On Plant Level is the third revolution in agriculture"
Peter: 'After the introduction of fertilizer and plant breeding, we believe that farming on plant level is the next big step in agriculture. Farming on Plant Level is what it is all about. That is the reason we have founded a company. We focus on the system instead of the sprayer. Each sprayer manufacturer can become our customer, but the system is also directly available to farmers.'
The Leapbox is the beating heart of the machine that controls the pulse width modulation (PWM) nozzles. While the first machine holds a nozzle distance of 50 cm, the LeapBox has no issues dealing with 25 cm or 37,50 cm nozzle distance. The maximum capacity the system can control goes up to 250 nozzles at which the flow can vary 40 times a second.
A 160.000 planes grid
Millenaar: 'our system can handle a grid of 160.000 planes per hectare within a 2.500-hectare surface.' The pulse valves can work up to a speed of 100 hertz, but that is not the crucial factor, emphasizes Van Alphen. 'What truly determines the capacity is the ability to control the electromagnetic valve that opens and closes extremely fast. It is that quick that the spray pattern is not reduced in quality. Regardless if you are driving 2 or 24 kilometers an hour, the spray pattern is constantly perfect. No need to rush when taking off at your headland.'
The 3 LeapBox certainties
Get the basics right prior to variable spraying.
Droplet size
Always the right droplet size
Always the exact volume
Always the perfect distribution
Full boom width
The system controls the flow, in the driving direction, and the full boom width on plant level. 'The flow is precise. Even if you are driving sleepy slow or Australian fast and that is how we are making the difference. With just one non-venturi 0.8 nozzle we can create a fine and uniform droplet spectrum' Van Alphen explains.
We are working on the submission of these nozzles. The benefit is that due to its coarse classification it is within the 95% drift reduction classification. It is hard to measure the drift because the spray pattern of the PWM technique is completely different from that of conventional machines.
The first installation
Van den Borne's backup sprayer, a 36-meter 2006 Dammann, was completely stripped and the LeapBox got installed. A full metric cube of hardware was removed from the sprayer and replaced by two little modules, a cable, and a series of nozzles. "Anyone who believes that his current spraying technique performs well doesn't need to call us', Millenaar winks his eye. Nonetheless, the undertone is serious.
First BBLeap customer experience
This summer Van den Borne Aardappelen in Reusel sprayed his 180 potato fields with the Dammann trailed sprayer by use of the BBLeap technique. The owner of the sprayer Jacob van den Borne is an enthusiastic customer. 'We have taken care of disease control very site-specific with a variable flow over 58-sections. That means a tremendous amount of data with our acreage.' Says van den Borne. 'It was surprising to us that the old Fendt 936 was compatible with the system and data load. The newest generations of tractors will be capable of handling even more. That will allow us to work even more precisely. BBLeap is pushing the technique to its limits'. With that said it's time for a demonstration. The driver takes off and the effect of the system is clearly visible. At taking off the valves seem to sputter instead of flowing and only switch twice a second. In the field at 11 km/h and 300 l/ha, the system sprays at 80% of its flow capacity and the nozzles are no longer pulsing visibly.
Easy to use
While the system may sound pretty complex, the user experience is comparable to that of an Ipad. 'We want to be the Apple in agriculture', says Millenaar. 'The driver just fills in the desired droplet size and volume and the system will take care of the rest. Who is not ready to work with data on plant level, will still benefit tremendously due to the ease of use and the extremely precise spray pattern.'
Over- or underdosing in corners or at boom swings, the system can anticipate all of that and constantly maintains that perfect spray pattern. 'We do not just say it, we prove it. We are not planning to build our own sprayer, but at the same time, we do not want to be limited by a lack of technique. Therefore we are also working on our own direct liquid injection system and high-resolution crop mapping technology.
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Original interview
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We define ourselves as a community by the care we show for those most in need of our help – so why would the Elkhart County Council consider cutting funding to an organization that serves Elkhart County's disabled people? Let's start with a number — $1,235.
Elkhart County budgeted $450,500 for ADEC in 2014. That works out to slightly less than $1,235 a day.
But that $1,235 caught the Elkhart County Council's eye again during budget hearings Wednesday. Councilors wonder if they can reduce ADEC funding in 2015 or eliminate it altogether.
The answer to both questions is no.
ADEC — the Association for the Disabled of Elkhart County — serves 1,045 people. Some of those people require care all day, every day.
The agency provides supervised group living, transportation and family services. Its guardianship program assists those legally unable to make their own decisions.
Many ADEC clients rely on the agency's transportation system in order to get to work and training. ADEC says that more than 200 of its adultshold down jobs here and in St. Joseph County.
The county budgeted $1,235 a day for ADEC this year. Spread over 1,045 people, that's about $1.18 daily per client.
We can afford that, no matter how tight the rest of the budget looks.
Councilor Darryl Riegsecker questioned the county's annual contribution to ADEC in 2012, when he ran for county commissioner. Riegsecker suggested cutting ADEC's funding for the following year, or gradually cutting back its allocation.
He lost. That should've established ADEC's value to the county, but it didn't.
Commissioner Terry Rodino accused the council Wednesday of targeting ADEC. Mike Yoder, the incumbent who defeated Riegsecker in 2012, said the council wanted to "whack ADEC" in order to lay the groundwork for a tax increase.
President John Letherman sought to reassure ADEC advocates that no one wanted to hurt the agency.
"I don't think any of us feel that what you do isn't important," Letherman told ADEC's CEO, Donna Belusar. "I don't think any of us begrudge the money we send you. Our question is what's appropriate for what we send, and that's what we'd like to discuss."
ADEC's proposed $450,500 allocation makes up 0.49 percent of the county's estimated $91,830,232 budget for 2015. That sounds appropriate.
Investing in ADEC allows parents and families to work instead of staying home as caregivers, which strengthens the county's economy. But even more important, it allows those with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live as fully as possible.
We define ourselves as a community by the care we show for those most in need of our help. ADEC serves more than a thousand families, friends and neighbors who have nowhere else to turn for housing, for jobs, for training, support and transportation.
They're worth $1.18 a day.
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Rock 'n' roll's 'best kept secret' heads to The Strand
The British rock band The Cult brings its "Hidden City' tour to Shreveport this month.
Bringing the same passion and intensity that drew crowds to their 2016 world tour, The Cult will deliver a set of iconic songs drawing on their 10 studio albums at its May 25 show.
Tickets prices are $59.50, $49.50 and $35.50 and available at thestrandtheatre.com.
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The Cult formed in 1983. Before settling on their current name in January 1984, the band performed under the name Death Cult, which was an evolution of the name of lead singer Ian Astbury's previous band Southern Death Cult. They gained a dedicated following in the UK in the mid-1980s as a post-punk/gothic rock band, with singles such as "She Sells Sanctuary," before breaking mainstream in the United States in the late 1980s as a hard rock band with singles such as "Love Removal Machine" and "Fire Woman."
According to music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, the band fuse a "heavy metal revivalist" sound with the "pseudo-mysticism ... of The Doors (and) the guitar-orchestrations of Led Zeppelin ... while adding touches of post-punk goth rock."
Since the initial formation of Southern Death Cult in Bradford in 1981, the band has had various line-ups; the longest-serving members are vocalist Ian Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy, the band's two songwriters.
What: The Cult
When: 8 p.m. May 25
Where: The Strand, 69 Louisiana Ave., downtown Shreveport
Cost: $59.50, $49.50 and $35.50
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New in Payara Server 5.191: Remote EJB via HTTP
Published on 26 Mar 2019by Arjan Tijms
Payara and GlassFish have supported classic remote EJB since its inception. Classic remote EJB uses RMI-IIOP (Remote Method Invocation over Internet Inter-ORB Protocol ) for transport and CSIv2 (Common Secure Interoperability Protocol Version 2) for security.
While feature rich, these protocols were not designed with firewalls, NAT, (private) clouds, Docker - and generally the Internet itself - in mind. For these environments, the requirements of the protocol, such as establishing independent connections back from the server to the client, are too troublesome. Practically speaking in these environments only one protocol really works, and that's HTTP(S).
Additionally, RMI-IIOP/CSIv2 also requires heavyweight client libs.
In the case of Payara, that client lib is almost as big as the entire server as it's essentially a special form of the ACC (Application Client Container). For HTTP(S) much smaller clients can be used, or even widely available HTTP agents such as wget or curl.
Payara Server 5.191 EJB Remoting Technology
For these reasons, Payara Server 5.191 features an additional EJB remoting technology based on HTTP and using a thin client. This technology is built from the ground up, and is not using the existing CORBA and IIOP stacks.
In reimagining remote EJB, we started out with the basic JAX-RS REST client and a thin factory on top of that. In true EJB style, it works via traditional JNDI. Given a JNDI name the underlying code will first request the corresponding remote interface definition from the remote Payara Server, and will then create a local proxy based on that.
The following sequence diagram shows the lookup process:
Next, calls on the proxy will be serialised using JSON-B into JSON and sent over to the remote server. Once there, the server will lookup the EJB bean again, deserialise the JSON payload and invoke the bean locally (albeit via its remote interface), and then serialise the return value (if any) in JSON again.
This is shown in the diagram below:
In the initial version that has been released in Payara Server 5.191, not all remote EJB functionality has been implemented, as we're building the protocol from the ground up and have started with the basics.
The Future of EJB in Payara Server
Things that we're looking into adding for future releases include:
- Support for Stateful EJB session beans
- Support for returning other remote EJBs
- Security propagation
- TX propagation
Note that "Security propagation" refers to the security context propagating from one bean to another bean, with having to explicitly authenticate using credentials. The latter is supported, so secured remote EJB beans are supported in this initial cut.
The following extra features are being considered as well:
- Custom JSON serialisers for remote HTPP EJB
- GET requests for trivial EJBs to remote HTTP EJB
- Easily securing the ejb-invoker endpoint
- Client load balancing for the HTTP EJB Invoker
- Lookup for JMS destinations (and perhaps other resources)
Documentation about this new feature can be found at:
A fully working example application can be found at: https://github.com/javaee-samples/javaee8-samples/tree/master/ejb/remote (read the documentation on how to activate the required endpoint, it's deactivated by default).


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Meteorological measuring system ASPires-GEOProvides measurement, accumulation, and publisher of data in a private cloud. Access to the system and data may be via a secure channel or through a public web site.
The measurement data obtained can be used both for professional research analysis and to import accurate and up-to-date meteorological information into other specialized information systems. For example, in:
Forest fires are one of the main risks to nature and protected forest areas. The early detection of fire, minimizes damage and protects the environment. The ASPires project is developing a new model of an information system for early detection, monitoring and forecasting of forest fires in areas of particular importance, ensure high accuracy of the fire hazard assessment.
The ASPires projectpresents Mr. Boris Popov,Chairman of the Managing Board of the National Cluster for Intelligent Transport and Energy Systems (NCITES)
"In May 2017, we joined an international consortium that to set up a model for an early warning system in the presence of forest fires. That's how we started working on the ASPires system, which combines and integrates all current technical means for early detection of fires that are available and available on the European.
The ASPires project is run by the Hochschule Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany.The project also includes:The Macedonian Military AcademyBulgarian companies ICB, Comicon.
The project ends in April 2019.More information on our participation and the current status of the project can be found on the website www.aspires.eu. "
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text: TS Bank concludes $15,000 grant to the local American Red Cross for southwest Iowa disaster relief March 29, 2021 | TS Bank test Twitter Facebook Linked In Treynor, IA - TS Bank recently completed a multi-year gift of $15,000 to the local American Red Cross chapter which was utilized for disaster relief in the Southwest Iowa region, in particular the spring flooding of 2019. In the first six months of 2019, a series of extraordinary floods and severe weather events battered communities across the Midwest. The American Red Cross was there with vital aid for tens of thousands of residents impacted by these emergencies, providing refuge, food, relief supplies, financial assistance and more. That same year, Mick and Judy Guttau, Officers of TS Banking Group, were selected as the honorary chairs for Heroes in the Heartland, an event that honors individuals who have saved another person's life during the past year or who have positively impacted the quality of life in the Omaha Council Bluffs Metro area. Mick and Judy Guttau are known for their hospitality and ability to help direct others to assistance. In the Guttau family, Judy is the mender – from altering prom dresses to repairing rips, while Mick is the big picture person. And if there is something unrepairable or the problem too big, suggestions are offered on where to get help. Likewise, when a disaster or an emergency strikes, the American Red Cross serves as this first point of contact. They too, are there to help or direct others to help – to help alleviate human suffering. With the help of many, the American Red Cross made an incredible impact last year and will face whatever challenges lie ahead. For nearly 80 years, March has been proclaimed as Red Cross Month to recognize people giving back through its lifesaving mission, powered by more than 90% volunteers. "The Red Cross provides many services and programs, but its impact to the Armed Forces touches a soft spot in our hearts. As honorary chairs of the Heroes in the Heartland event, our role was to assist with fundraising for the American Red Cross," said Mick and Judy Guttau. Mick Guttau served as a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War, an experience his children said helped shape his life after military service. TS Banking Group CEO, Josh Guttau said his parents' involvement with the Red Cross was, "driven by Mick's experiences in Vietnam and seeing the importance of blood and emergency response that the Red Cross represents." Watch a video about the Guttau's contribution to the Red Cross and the community at large below. "I hope you know, that you are heroes to myself, to your grandchild and your entire family. You were really good business people and bankers, but even more so you were great parents. And the great parents is what makes the rest of that work," said Josh Guttau. "You set such a great example for me and Josh and our children of what you can achieve. I'm the luckiest girl in the world to have you as parents and even luckier to be the grandparents of my children," concluded Heidi Guttau. The American Red Cross has had an impact on the Guttau family. Similarly, the Guttaus and TS Bank are grateful to help the American Red Cross make an impact on others in the local communities. The American Red Cross is an organization committed to helping people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies in our communities. To consider a donation to the American Red Cross contact email@example.com. About TS Bank: TS Bank's mission is to Ignite Prosperity® in the communities it serves. Leading the resurgence of community banking, TS Bank reinvests 10% of their net income locally; hosting educational events and partners with local organizations and non-profits. TS Bank was chartered in 1923 and has $365 million in assets, along with the largest Iowa state-chartered C-Corp trust department west of Des Moines at nearly $218 million in assets named TS Prosperity Group. Locations include Treynor, Macedonia, Atlantic, Corning, Council Bluffs and Ames, Iowa. For more information visit tsbank.com. Back


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text: My Name is Joe Wills and just to give you a little bit of my history…I started at a company call MJI Broadcasting in 1996 as a Pre-Production Assistant, editing sound bites that were used in their various music news services. In 1998 I was promoted to Producer/Writer, working on short and long form shows — including Brunch with Roberta Flack — in some markets it was also branded as Robert and Friends. In 1999 I joined a company called eYada.com as their Morning and Mid-day Producer. eYada was a pioneer as the first internet based talk-radio station. Unfortunately, the technology was not quite ready for the concept as broadband wireless internet was not yet widely accessible, and the company began to dismantle in early 2001. At that time I went back to MJI, which had merged with Premiere Radio Networks. I worked on the specialized radio prep service called Decade in a Box-The 70s (which provided all sorts of content allowing a station to run a 70s themed program). In early 2002 I was promoted to the position of the writer and producer of a newly created country countdown show called Ben and Brian's Big Top 20 Countdown. I remained in that role until I moved to Sony Music Nashville in February of 2007. As the Manager of Radio Production at Sony, I created and produced content involving Sony's country artists, including Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Martina McBride, Brooks & Dunn, Miranda Lambert, Chris Young, Sara Evans, Jake Owen, Cam, Luke Combs, Maren Morris, Kane Brown and many more. In December of 2017, I started my own company, Production Content, Inc, and created the role of an Audio Publicist. Working with artists and labels I create content for Country Music Prep. Along with the news oriented content, I also write and produce radio specials, commercials and other various audio features for artists and labels.


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In the movies, many robbers leave calling cards — The Joker left a playing card in "Batman," while Harry & Marv, aka The Wet Bandits, flooded houses they robbed in "Home Alone." However, in reality, very few criminals take the time to come up with a theme for their crimes. Yet 42-year-old Andrew Jensen has decided to bring back the themed-crime; at least for one robbery.
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Police say that Jensen broke into a house in Southern California in October and defecated before making off with some valuables from the home. Unfortunately for this deuce-dropping burglar, he forgot to flush (or purposefully didn't) before leaving the house. Investigators used the log to collect DNA evidence that they matched to Jensen though a national database; and on July 28, he was arrested at his home in Ventura, California.
He was charged with first-degree residential burglary, which is a felony, and his bail was set at $180,000.
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Detective Tim Lohman of the Ventura County Sheriff's Office said that this is the case he's heard of where poop has produced a perp. He noted, "when people think of DNA evidence, they usually think of hair samples or saliva."
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IAM Role Delegation Configuration¶
Scalr supports the use of IAM Role Delegation for AWS Credentials.
To enable this feature the role-delegation configuration must be added to the
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This configuration specifies the role (via the access keys) to be used along with the principal account ID that will be required when setting trusted relationships to this role.
Scalr will automatically generate single use, short life access keys to be added to a workspaces during a run.
/etc/scalr-server/scalr-server.rband add a configuration block as shown below with the required substituted values.
app[:configuration] = {
"scalr" => {
"aws" => {
"role_delegation" => {
"account_types" => {
"regular" => {
"access_key_id" => "<access-key-id>",
"secret_access_key" => "<secret-access-key>",
"principal_account" => "<account-id>",
"session_duration" => 3600 # in seconds, optional. 3600 used by default. Use either for AssumeRole action and Role creation through CloudFormation
#Only use below if cn cloud is needed
#"cn-cloud" => {
# ... # same options as for regular
#Only use below if gov cloud is needed
#"gov-cloud" => {
# ... # same options as for regular
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On America's school grounds, there are pandemics people talk about and those we don't. There's rape. There are society initiation passings. What's more, in the two cases, the consideration of the country ordinarily goes to these issues simply after a disaster has happened… after Penn State green bean Timothy Piazza kicks the bucket from expending 18 beverages in 82 minutes… after Brock Turner explicitly attacks an oblivious lady behind a dumpster at Stanford…
Look further, be that as it may, and these plagues share something practically speaking: the inescapable and dangerous drinking society among American youth.
"When you have almost 2,000 kids a year dying that are college-aged kids on college campuses, I'm surprised that those statistics are not out there in a bigger way and that colleges aren't owning that a little bit more," says clinical social specialist Julie Fenn in the CBSN Originals narrative, "Drinking Culture: American Kids and the Danger of Being Cool." "If there were 2,000 kids dying for, you know, a brain disease or the flu or something, we would be all over that."
In the present popular culture condition, hitting the bottle hard has not just moved toward becoming standardized, it's turned into a marker of economic wellbeing.
""People do have that conception that the more you can drink, the cooler you are," says Alex Artaza, an understudy at Nova Southeastern University in Florida.
"Girls who could handle their alcohol are seen as a lot cooler and a lot more interesting than girls who can't," agrees Kaeli Van Cott, a 23-year-old internet based life supervisor in New York City. "Individuals would empower in school like, 'We have to drink, we have to pregame, we have to go out.' … Folks who can deal with their liquor were viewed as cool and young ladies who could keep up were welcomed in."
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism characterizes hitting the bottle hard as four beverages for ladies and five beverages for men over the range of two hours. In the United States today, in any case, understudies regularly devour a few times that sum.
And keeping in mind that it used to be that men were considerably more prone to hit the bottle hard than ladies, that sexual orientation hole is quickly shutting, with paces of liquor use and hard-core boozing now on the ascent in ladies and young ladies.
For the narrative, "Drinking Culture," CBSN Originals visited the University of Wisconsin–Madison, one of the most infamous gathering schools in America, to talk with understudies there about the sums and sorts of drinking that are presently viewed as ordinary.
Gretchen Schroder, a 21-year-old senior, told makers that the most girl's needed to savor a night was 15 beverages. At the point when gone ahead what that resembled, and whether she recollected that night, girl shook her head, snickered a tad, and answered, "No. I blacked out."
The NIAAA characterizes passing out as a period"of amnesia during which a person actively engages in behaviors like walking and talking but does not create memories for these events as they transpire. … Depending on how impaired the brain regions involved in decisionmaking and impulse control are, the missing events could range from mundane behaviors, like brushing teeth, to dangerous and traumatic events like driving a car, getting into a fight, or committing — or being the victim of — a sexual assault or other crime."
While numerous guardians presumably ecstatically accept that this kind of liquor prompted daze is an irregularity, the majority of the youthful Americans who show up in the CBSN Originals doc, "Drinking Culture," told makers that they have either passed out themselves or saw their companions passing out on various events.
"I've seen a lot of people black out," says Van Cott. "I can't even give you a defined number. … People brag about that as if it's something that's cool to do. Like, 'I'm totally going to black out tonight.'"
In addition to the fact that this sorts of standardized underage drinking conduct put American youngsters at more serious danger of physical damage and rape, specialists call attention to that there are natural results to drinking in abundance before the mind is finished creating.
"What we've seen with data is that if you start drinking at age 13 or 14, drinking full drinks, that that is associated with a five times greater risk of developing an alcohol use problem or disorder compared to if you start at age 21 or older," clarifies Dr. Sion Harris, a partner teacher of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
"We're also seeing that there are impacts on the development of what we call wiring of the brain. One of the things that really is important that's happening in the brain during the adolescent years is kind of the connecting up of different brain areas. And the reason that that's so important is that in order for us to have a really sharp brain, fast processing, and healthy functioning, different parts of the brain have to work together, and that is developing through adolescence," girl clarified. "When the brain is exposed to things like alcohol, marijuana, other drugs, that seems to impact how the brain gets wired up and that can impact our ability to learn, our ability to make smart decisions, our ability to regulate our emotions."
Hard-core boozing influences youthful Americans both in manners people can see and in manners people can't, and backers state people truly need to truly investigate the base of the issue.
"We have to challenge and change that culture, that thinking that it's normal behavior,"said Julie Fenn.
What's more, people includes a preventative note for guardians: "I think there is that stereotypic belief that, 'not my kid. I'm a good parent. My kids would never do that.' I think all of our kids are at risk. And I can say that honestly, as a parent of three, it doesn't matter what your profession is, no child is protected."


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I am now printing a 20 hour print that uses only hotend 0, but I cannot turn off hotend 1. Neither on the panel or by gcode.
I have send G10 P1 R0 S0 multiple times and I have tried to turn off hotend 1 on the panel.
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A convenience store employee arrived at work Friday morning to find a safe, valued at $4,000 and containing about $15,000, had been taken, the store office was ransacked, and the gas pump system damaged, authorities said.
The store employee, whose age was not listed in the report, called police and the 69-year-old, male owner to the gas station down to the scene, according to the police report.
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Seduction and betrayal in a foreign land
"Brick Lane" is one of those cultural displacement dramas full of sexual awakening and self-discovery. It means well (these movies always do), but it's as leery of the world beyond its shabby title London enclave as its heroine is. Written by Laura Jones and Abi Morgan, based on Monica Ali's novel, and directed with watchable downiness by Sarah Gavron, the movie revolves around Nazneen (Tannishtha Chatterjee), who, as an adolescent, was separated from her sister and shipped from Bangladesh to London to be the wife of an educated office functionary named Chanu (Satish Kaushik).
By the time we meet her, Nazneen has been together with Chanu for almost 20 years. She's still taciturn, bashful, and immune to the notions of assimilation that have made her daughters - a moody teenager and a tween angel - and a lot of her neighbors tentatively comfortable as Brits. Her connection to the world outside her is the seamstress work she lucks into. But this transplant life of hers has gone on so long that she feels utterly foreign to herself.
She's a shell now, the kind of wife who lies in bed patiently while her husband rolls over onto her. The movie gives her and us a break when she opens her door and the young man on the other side starts delivering more than fabric. His name is Karim (Christopher Simpson), and it's true that the minute he flashes his first sidelong glance, I thought, "Give me a real break." But any young cute guy from the motherland who spends his days delivering clothes to women whose husbands are out is probably going to seduce one of the wives. Why not Nazneen? So, like her, I go with it.
We never see what her sister back in Bangladesh is up to, but we get an earful from the letters she writes. It seems she's madly in love with a light-skinned man. She writes of utter rapture, and Nazneen devours the pages accordingly. You also get the sense that this affair with Karim is powerful for her: The closest she can get to being her sister is to be like her, and now she has something to write home about.
This is all pleasant enough, like watching a paperback romance moored by characters with real-world problems. There's no real psychology to speak of. Whether Nazneen suffers from depression, the way her suicidal mother did, is unexplained. After an hour, those troubles intensify as Sept. 11 rears its head, and the movie tries to be more than a look at the awakening of an impassioned housewife. It flirts with making a bigger fuss out of the anti-Islamism English that the Muslims feel they're up against. But Gavron is more piqued by the romance of the situation than the headache and heartbreaks that arise from it. Dramatically the film is weaker for it, hilariously shorthanding Karim's growing extremism by suddenly giving him a kufi and scraggly beard while affording him no real ideological corollary. Future radical or fashion poseur? Hard to say.
Easily, the best character in the film is Nazneen's tubby husband, who's been angling to take the family back to Bangladesh. Instead of the boorish cuckold these stories usually require, he's a happy, if stubborn man whose jolliness masks the insecurity of inadequacy. His older daughter (Naeema Begum, who's good and spiky) thinks he's a fool. But the movie and Kaushik, in playing him so eloquently, infuse the character with sound judgment, surprising political clarity, and an achy heart. This completely re-characterizes the movie since "Brick Lane" is supposed to be the story of a woman who finds her voice. Even when she does, she doesn't use it to say anything.
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*Elazar M. Teitz writes:* *I think the main difference is that not getting married is bitul of a mitzvah. Not going on the Har Habayis when one has no korban to bring is not.* Besides the matter that korbanot were not the only reason to be on/in the Har Habayit, if I am not mistaken, the Rambam and others include building the Bet Hamikdash as a mitzvah and in doing so, we can afford for the Jewish people the opportubnity in one form or another to fulfill some 200+ mitzvot. -- Yisrael Medad Shiloh Mobile Post Efraim 44830 Israel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.aishdas.org/pipermail/avodah-aishdas.org/attachments/20070608/11f1cd3d/attachment.htm
reuven koss wrote: > > >> reuven koss wrote: >>>> It's older than the MB. Lubavitchers say both, and even have a specific >>>> minhag as to the order (in Ki Teitzei zeicher is first, in Beshalach >>>> zecher is first), and they're unlikely to have got the minhag from the >>>> MB. > there is no zecher in Beshalach on which there is a machlokes how it > is read. Sure there is. It's the same word in both places, so why should there be a safek in one and not the other? > Regarding the Gra in M"R, Rav Chaim Volozhner is a daas yachid that the Gra > read it with a tzere- most talmidim of the Gra say that he read it with a > segol. I'm not sure what this whole thing has to do with the GRA. I'm fairly confident that it didn't originate with him. That there's a machlokes in what he did, which side of the safek he came down on, is one thing, but the safek itself, and the custom of some people to say both, is surely older. I doubt that L would have a minhag based on a machlokes between talmidei haGRA about how he lained. -- Zev Sero Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's email@example.com interpretation of the Constitution. - Clarence Thomas
We have discussed in the past of the position of the Mishnah Berurah on wearing tzizit outside of the clothing. In a shiur I went today on hilchot Tzizit (parshat hashavua) the rabbi noted that if one's tallit get torn on shabbat so that the tzizit are not valid then one need not remove it in shul because of kavod habriot. The MB notes that for a tallit katan this does not hold because that is private and not public. The implication being that not everyone wore the tzizit of the talit katan outside! (As a side issue he said that today the halacha of Tallit might be changed because of the availability of a shul tallit) -------------------------- On the subject of wearing tzitzit outside, R. Jonathan Sacks had what I thought was a beautiful dvar torah on the subject this week. http://www.ou.org/shabbat_shalom/article/covenant_and_conversation_fringe/ Michael Feldstein Stamford, CT ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.aishdas.org/pipermail/avodah-aishdas.org/attachments/20070608/f19158b6/attachment-0001.html
R' Micha Berger wrote: <What about noi mitzvah, which is a qiyum of zeh Keili ve'anveihu? <People spend money on esrog boxes, and invest time decorating their <Sukkos -- even though it doesn't make the esrog or Sukkah superior. That is no different then hiddur mitzva, it only applies to an aseh and not a lav. There is no mitzva to have peyos, the mitzva is not to cut them off, therefore how can there be noi mitzvah? What is the cheftza of the mitzva?
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 09:43:03PM +0300, Marty Bluke wrote: : That is no different then hiddur mitzva, it only applies to an aseh : and not a lav. There is no mitzva to have peyos, the mitzva is not to : cut them off, therefore how can there be noi mitzvah? What is the : cheftza of the mitzva? There is no mitzvah for an esrog or megillah to have a case, never mind a pretty one. And an artistic kesubah doesn't make the contract any more valid. Noi mitzvah is thus broader than hiddur mitzvah. (RYGB suggested here once that a wig is noi mitzvah in sei'ar be'ishah ervah, BTW.) Why assume it doesn't apply to lavin? Gut Voch! -mi -- Micha Berger "As long as the candle is still burning, firstname.lastname@example.com it is still possible to accomplish and to http://www.aishdas.org mend." Fax: (270) 514-1507 - Unknown shoemaker to R' Yisrael Salanter
Israel Medad writes <Is the issue then halachic or...ideological haskafa? Which brings me to the Shomer Emunim and the Muncatzcher approach. In one of his books, Pierkage (sp?) traces this approach of "EY is too holy" but I think we all know that history and the thinking of the Em HaBanim S'meicha has shown how wrong-headed this was. It is not a question of proper analysis of sources but an attempt to fit the Halacha to an outlook. The same with the VaYoel Moshe who gets into exactly what the Sitra Achra knows, wants, desires and forgets about HKBH and simple Torah.>> Part of the problem is that everyone is sure that his side is halachah and the other side is haskafa. Sperber in the most recent volume (8) of Mihagei Yisrael brings down several rishonim that were very much against moving to EY. Maharm mI-Rotenberg has a teshuva strongly discouraging moving to EY. There is a teshuva from chasideoi ashkenaz (R. Yehuha HaChasid?) prohibiting it in the strongest terms. Sperber's own interpretation is that in times when "aliyah" was popular like the early baale hatosafot moving to Acco then teshuvot appeared in favor. Later when the crusares were kicked out the teshuvot argued against it (and not just on economic grounds but fundamentally). 100 years later when conditions improved the Maharil was in favor. Today each side quotes the poskim that agree with their stand and ignore those on the other side. Similarly with har habayit. As REMT has pointed out there is no mitzvah to go to har habayit in the absence of a bet hamikdash. Hence, why take a chance with karet? On halacha there are 3 types of problems 1. hard problems - where there are strong reasons for doing 2 oppsite activities and one has 2 decide between the alternatives 2. medium problem - one side is very important and the other is less important. Then one tries to find a heter (if needed) for the important issue at the expense of the lesser issue. 3. minor issue - both sides are minor. I remember hearing from RYBS that he refuse to discuss issues of the amount of water needed for netillat yadaim. Giving modern homes why not be machmir? He remembered from his youth the water boy going to the river to bring up water. Then the question was importanr and so it might be important today in rare circumstances but in everyday cases one should be machmir on the grounds of why not? Hence the question is why not be machmir on entering har habayit when there is a question of karet? The only reason seems to be political rather than halachic. This is probably why RAL does not support going up. Even R. Shapira discourages going up as serving no purpose. The rabbanim that favor it are generally members of the "yisrael hashlema movement" and so encourage it for political reasons. -- Eli Turkel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.aishdas.org/pipermail/avodah-aishdas.org/attachments/20070609/420ca216/attachment.htm
> From: "Elazar M. Teitz" <email@example.com> > Subject: Re: [Avodah] Har Habayit > To: email@example.com > I think the main difference is that not getting married is bitul > of a mitzvah. Not going on the Har Habayis when one has no korban to > bring is not. > > EMT I was reading the material presented in Sidur HaMikdash, Shabbat regarding Mitzvot to be performed in the Mikdash itself, and apparently Korbanot are not the only mitzva. A. There is a Mitzva min HaTorah to enter Har HaBayit for prayer and Ze'aka when a Ta'anit is called, when Am Yisrael is in danger (Sefer HaMitzvot Rambam, Aseh 59 and Hilchot Ta'aniyot 1:a), for example: during water; plague; lack of rain; or other Pur'Anuyot. It is a Mitzva both during the time of the Bayit and when it's BeChurbano. At this time, they are supposed to blow on Chatzotzrot HaKesef and a shofar (described in Mishna Rosh Hashana 25;a and Rambam). Shaliach Tzibbur adds 7 special blessing to the prayers with a special ending and during which Cohanim Tok'im UMeri'im (see Rambam there, chapter 4 and especially halachot 16-17). This gathering is held Davka near Sha'ar HaMitzrach of Har HaBayit (NOT the Kotel) so that as many as possible can partake, including Tmei'ei Meit and Tevulei Yom. B. There is a special mitzva to do Teki'ot Rosh HaShana Davka on Har HaBayit (mishna Rosh HaShana 3, 3 and also 27;1). C. There is a special mitzva of Netilat Lulav on Sukkot during all 7 days davka on Har HaBayit (see Sefer HaMitzvot Rambam mitzva 169). It was not cancelled b/c of the Churban. These 3 are just examples. There are many others examples and special tefillot which are answered davka if said on the Har HaBayit itself. Shoshana L. Boublil
Re: RET's <<The MB notes that for a tallit katan this does not hold because that is private and not public. The implication being that not everyone wore the tzizit of the talit katan outside!>> The tzitzit inside/outside question has been discussed on the list many times. The most complete history was posted by R' Seth Mandel and can be found in the archives. I can probably find some of R' Seth's postings on the subject hiding in my computer and send them to anyone interested. To RET's comment quoted above, I remind that the CC wore his tzitzit inside. When his son-in -law and grandson pointed out to him that this was not what was recommended in the MB, they reported that he replied that his talmidim had written that text and they misunderstood what he meant. I believe that what he meant was that, if the beged is worn outside, the tzitzit should not be hidden inside. David
RMB wrote: > But I don't think this is true, because it fails the Kuzari Test. I > asked around, and no one around here heard of their grandmothers > soaking their vegetables in vinegar. With the exception of the romaine > lettuce used for maror. (Which was possibly the only time Ashkenazi > grandparents ate romaine...) So at most I would think it is possible > some qehillos did soak in salt or vinegar water, but it definitely was > not universal. Eastern European Jews didn't eat vegetables. My late father told me how, at the beginning of the war, while a prisoner of war (this is a humorous strange story in its own right: some Polish Jews retrocatively became prisoners of war after Germany attacked the Russian part of Poland; the Russians claimed that since Poland was now under German control and these Jews were from Poland, they were actually Germans), my father ate a turnip. A local military officer caught him and slapped him for eating dangerous food (or, as it was referred to in Yiddish, maakhel behaimeh). One year later they were all converted to "vegetabelism". Gut vokh, -- Arie Folger http://www.ariefolger.googlepages.com
Reb Rueven Kos wrote: > Regarding the Gra in M"R, Rav Chaim Volozhner is a daas yachid that the Gra > read it with a tzere- most talmidim of the Gra say that he read it with a > segol. Could you please provide references? AFAIK (based on a conversation with Rav Mordechai Breuer zal), there were only two players in this disagreement. However, the MR was one of those talmidim that moved to Israel, and so the Perushim followed the MR. For RMBreuer, the Perushim were the only ones justified in following the MR. -- Arie Folger http://www.ariefolger.googlepages.com
Eli T. finishes off his posting asking: *Hence the question is why not be machmir on entering har habayit when there is a question of karet?* And answers: *The only reason seems to be political rather than halachic. This is probably why RAL does not support going up. Even R. Shapira discourages going up as serving no purpose. The rabbanim that favor it are generally members of the "yisrael hashlema movement" and so encourage it for political reasons.* Of course, the other side of the coin is technically, logically and halachically valid: why be machmir when perhaps you don't need/have to; or whether it is uncalled for; or whether it stems from a political consideration; and is preventing you or others from performing a mitzva? And to throw a spanner into the works, see Divrei Yoel, p. 69 on Parshat Noach where he seems to support, paradoxically, the position that the Beit Hamikdash will be built first by the people of Israel davka to provide merit for the "sinners" who have engaged in first rebuilding the M'lucha. -- Yisrael Medad Shiloh Mobile Post Efraim 44830 Israel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.aishdas.org/pipermail/avodah-aishdas.org/attachments/20070610/18700a4e/attachment.html
> On 6/6/07, Danny Schoemann <email@example.com> wrote: > > Which doesn't quite match with YD 181:9 which says that the shiur of > > the Paye is from the [top of the] forehead till the [top of the] > > jawbone - and this entire width Lo Siga Bo Yad - shouldn't be touched. On 6/7/07, Marty Bluke <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > You have to take the shulchan aruch's words lo siga bo yad in the > context of the overall sugya and the rishonim. The phrase "lo siga bo yad" seems to have been coined by the Beis Yosef - and there he clearly means as you say it does - not to narrow the width of the Payes. In the SA it less unambiguous. Proof is the Bach, who maintains that it refers to the length - and quotes the SA as supporting proof! > The Rambam seems to > hold that Min Hatorah, you only violate the issur if you cut off all > the hair, if you leave even 2 hairs you are not chayav. The Tur, BY and Bach struggle to explain what precisely is the Rambam's opinion along with his 4/40 hairs. > However, Lo Siga Bo Yad is not meant to be taken literally that you > cannot cut the hair at all. You can clearly cut the hair when it grows > too long. What is the shiur of hair? See above. - According to the BY you may cut it not too short - as in "scissors like a razor" - According to the Bach you may cut it once it grows below the skull. (As the BLY clearly says in the name of the Airzal, on the side of the SA). > In other areas of halacha > (negaim) it is to bend back the hair on itself, therefore you can > certainly cut the hair to a reasonably short length according to the > Shulchan Aruch. Correct, as per the BY and the SA. Not so obvious according to the Bach's explanation of the SA. According to the Bach, this would be one more place where the BY contradicts the SA. This is not all that rare - as strange as that sounds. (~2 decades ago I was in Kollel where we learnt Tur & SA in the afternoons - and I noticed this phenomena every so often.) This of course doesn't answer the original question of where Yeshivishe Payes started... - Danny
On 6/10/07, Micha Berger <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > There is no mitzvah for an esrog or megillah to have a case, never > mind a pretty one. And an artistic kesubah doesn't make the contract > any more valid. Noi mitzvah is thus broader than hiddur mitzvah. (RYGB > suggested here once that a wig is noi mitzvah in sei'ar be'ishah ervah, > BTW.) Why assume it doesn't apply to lavin? Having a pretty case for an esrog or megilla shows chibuv mitzvah. Is there an element of chibuv for lavim? A kesuba is an interesting ra'aya. Is a kesuba the cheftza of any mitzvah? The mitzvos of eirusin and nisu'in can both be accomplished without it. I know there is a machlokes whether kesuba is d'oraisa (learned out from "k'mohar habesulos" in parshas oness) or d'rabbanan. Is that referring to the shtar kesuba itself, or just the 200 shekel payment? If the shtar kesuba itself is, according to some opinions, mandated min Hatorah, its beautification can be explained just like the esrog case. Even if not, I don't think that the kesuba is about refraining from a lav, so it is no ra'aya for our case. Where does the halachic literature talk about noi mitzvah? Is there any precedent of noi mitzvah for lavim? (RYGB's suggestion notwithstanding, but a proof would be nice.) KT, Michael ------------------------------ Avodah mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com http://lists.aishdas.org/listinfo.cgi/avodah-aishdas.org End of Avodah Digest, Vol 23, Issue 135 *************************************** Send Avodah mailing list submissions to email@example.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.aishdas.org/listinfo.cgi/avodah-aishdas.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to email@example.com You can reach the person managing the list at email@example.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Avodah digest..."
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Candywriter went from simple word games to in-depth life simulators in late 2018 with BitLife, and we probably don't need to remind you any further about how it's become a huge hit due to how it keeps getting bigger and better with every major update. But in the absence of new updates to overhaul the game's features and/or add new ones, Candywriter has mostly been keeping busy during quarantine time by launching new challenges, and these have ranged from easy to hard, depending on the many unusual things the game may ask you to do. This new one, as we see it, appears to be right in the middle.
It's been a while since Candywriter has rolled out a new challenge, and on Saturday, they delivered with the all-new House Flipper Challenge, which requires you to start out with absolutely nothing to your name as a first-generation Bitizen and become a self-made man or woman without the benefit of a full-time job. Instead of that, your main source of income will be buying houses and flipping them once you've gotten them fully renovated, and you'll need to make a cool $1.5 million from these endeavors before you reach the age of 60.
Are you up to the challenge? If you are, we strongly advise you to read our latest BitLife guide, as we've come up with a few tips that we believe could help you complete the House Flipper Challenge faster.
Get A Part-Time Job As Soon As You're Able To
For this particular BitLife challenge, there aren't any special requirements for your Bitizen — they can be of any gender or nationality and there's no specific statistical threshold to keep in mind here. It would help if you're born to rich parents, though, and if you paid for God Mode, you can set this up after creating your character, by going to the Relationships screen, tapping on one or both parents, then on Edit, then Edit His/Her Attributes, and setting the Money stat to 100.
Though there's no way to edit this, it does also help if you were born out of wedlock and one of your parents is at least 50 years old at the time of your birth — that means they're likely to die sooner, thus allowing you to inherit their fortune sooner. But speaking of things like that, you should definitely create a fresh new Bitizen, and not try to complete this challenge by using a second-generation character who may have inherited quite a bit of money and/or assets.
Regardless, though, of where you stand in terms of your parents' wealth and other factors, we would recommend getting a part-time job by the time you turn 14, which is when this option becomes available. You're going to need money to buy your first house, and since full-time jobs are out of the question, per the requirements of the House Flipper Challenge, part-time jobs will be your only acceptable (and legal) source of income. (Alternately, you can use illegal means to earn enough money to buy a home, but you wouldn't want to get caught by the cops.) Always pick the highest-paying available jobs in the part-time category and that should get you going.
By the time you turn 18, you'll have the option to work more part-time jobs — we suggest taking as many jobs as you could without letting your Stress bar become orange or red. Just make sure to avoid any kind of full-time work, because your main line of work in this challenge (and ultimately, your main source of income) is as a house flipper.
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As an additional pointer, if you pass your driver's license test and get a car from your parents as a reward, you might want to sell that right away for a further injection of house-buying funds.
Start Out Small, Then Work Your Way Up
One of the requirements for completing the House Flipper Challenge is to sell at least 10 homes — this would tie in to another requirement, which is that you accomplish everything else in the list before you turn 60. So with that in mind, your best course of action is to start with a small, affordable house, or even a trailer. We would recommend buying a house/trailer that is in particularly poor condition, preferably with the Condition bar being red or orange. It can be green, just as long as it's less than half-full.
This may take some trial-and-error, so be prepared to quit and restart BitLife quite a bit before you find something that meets the above requirements. Also, for best results, we suggest buying your first, cheap home by the time you turn 18 — do not attend college, because even if you get in on a scholarship, hitting the books won't be good for your Stress levels, and you likely won't do well in work AND school!
After waiting about three to four years, you can renovate the property until the Condition bar is all filled up, then sell that house and make a profit of a few thousand dollars. You may need to go cheap once again for your second house, but go for something a bit more expensive, but similarly dilapidated — wait another three to four years, renovate, and sell at a profit. By the time you turn 25 or 26, you should be ready to buy and sell your next eight houses using the strategy we'll describe below.
Your Next Eight Houses Should Ideally Have Some 'Uninvited' Guests
When Candywriter launched a Halloween update for BitLife last year, haunted houses officially became a thing — not just around Halloween, but all year round. These "purportedly" haunted houses are a comparative rarity, but if you quit the BitLife app and reload it enough times, chances are you'll see one or two per realtor, including some that may surprisingly be within your price range. This is what you'll need to do in order to earn that $1.5 million profit from fixing and flipping houses — buy a haunted house, preferably one in mediocre to poor condition, renovate it, and before selling it at a profit, make sure you've exorcised all the spirits that share the house with you. They are, after all, the main reason why those houses are available on the cheap.
Becoming a professional exorcist is obviously not among your options here, as that would require you to take a full-time job. Instead, you'll need to pay a couple hundreds for an exorcist to visit the haunted house and try to cast the spirits out, though this could be quite challenging if a) the spirits aren't too active and b) they also happen to be friendly.
Repeated exorcisms, however, worsen their mood and increase their level of activity, thus oftentimes making them easier to cast out — that means you'll need to pay the fee repeatedly and perhaps wait more than a few years before putting the houses on sale, but as long as you renovate before calling the exorcist for the first time, your house's value will keep increasing over time, even with the ghosts still hanging around.
We've noticed that Candywriter has nerfed some quit-and-restart workarounds in recent weeks — for example, the money you spent on your political campaign will be lost forever if you quit and restart after losing an election. Just as a warning, they may be doing this to unsuccessful exorcisms, but since the exorcism fee is relatively low, you'll want to save the quit-and-restart trick for two scenarios — when you've spent well over a couple thousands total on exorcisms in a year and when the ghosts get violent and attack you.
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Also make sure to quit and restart if an encounter with a ghost affects your Health stat or causes you to suffer from heart disease, PTSD, or similar conditions — you can't complete the challenge if these supernatural encounters ultimately kill you!
After following the buy/renovate/exorcise/sell routine with one house, move on to another and keep buying dilapidated, haunted properties that cost progressively more. Before you know it, you'll have sold your tenth house and/or hit the $1.5 million profit mark before the age of 60, thus allowing you to pass the House Flipper Challenge with flying colors!


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I have wanted to go to the Shrek's Adventure attraction on London's Southbank for some time, but our girls were too young so I was more than a little delighted to be invited to go and review the experience now that they are old enough. Add to that the fact that we were invited to attend the How to Train Your Dragon; Hidden World launch and my kids were ready to burst with excitement.
We were given complimentary tickets to attend the Shrek Adventure Tour. All opinions given are entirely my own.
How To Train your Dragon; Hidden World
We were very lucky to be invited to the launch of the Hidden World. The boys were on count down for this movie to come our so they were just thrilled to have this opportunity. The event started bright and early at 9am. We luckily don't live very far from the Southbank so we didn't have to drag any children out of bed in the pursuit of dragons. Since they were headed off with the promise of vikings and dragons there was very little cajoling and persuading to be done and all were ready to leave on time; giddy with excitement.
Once we were at the event the children were given VIV passes (very important vikings) and these are now firmly amongst their prized possessions. We were then taken into what I now know is the arrivals hall for the Shrek Adventure itself. This contains a variety of film scenes from movies such as Penguins of Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda which the kids can get into and take pictures or just play. My kids love those penguins so there was much 'smile and wave boys, smile and wave'. Then then got to meet some 'real live' vikings and a baby dragon as well as doing some craft activities and, for at least one of my littles, eating their body weight in croissant.
The vikings were great at getting the children excited and when the hidden world was revealed the kids all rushed in dying to get glimpse. When it calmed down it was lovely to see how thrilled they were to be in the Hidden World and they especially loved the lighting that made their tops and teeth glow.
This part of the Shrek Adventure is now open to all visitors and makes a really lovely addition to the trip for any budding dragon riders.
The Shrek's Adventure Tour
As I said I have been wanting to visit the Shrek Adventure for a while, but didn't really know what it was all about. I don't want to ruin the surprise for any of you and therefore I will be slightly vague… However, this is an interactive and immersive tour through the kingdom of Far Far Away meeting loads of the well loved and familiar characters from the Shrek franchise. You are not allowed to take pictures once you head through into departures for your bus trip to Far Far Away which is great as you don't end up watching everything through someone else's phone and you all very much become part of the experience.
The long and short of it is that we absolutely loved this experience. I had no idea what to expect and from the minute we were greeted by the actor in 'departures' we were all captivated. Even my least willing to join in child was having a dance, shouting out and singing along by the end.
The bus ride itself was quite fantastic. I haven't been to a 4D experience previously and I was blown away by the whole thing. I did start to get a bit concerned about my two kids who get hideously travel sick as although you are stationary it doesn't feel like it. I really don't want to say much more about it than that so that you too can be surprised, but that was my absolute favourite part of the attraction. I genuinely felt like I was flying!
Once the bus ride is over you are taken through the adventure by a host of great actors who have those funny lines that both make kids and adults laugh, but for different reasons. They really are very good. We got to meet three princesses too including Fiona. Having read some other reviews I was a little concerned that my girls (3) might be a bit scared in parts and sure enough as things got a little darker one of them did said she felt nervous, but a quick cuddle from me and a promise that Shrek would save us and she was fine. I am not sure all 3 year olds would be so very OK as there are witches and things, but my girls are pretty robust with two big brothers. My other little girl literally loved it from start to finish. She was up the front with her brothers in every section, joining in with the shouting out and screeching with glee and excitement so I think that age wise I would say you know your child. It isn't frightening and nothing makes you jump or anything like that, but there is mild peril in the story line and as I say a witch or two!
At the end of the tour everyone gets the chance to meet Shrek. I don't have a picture of this as all my children bar one were very happy just to see him from a distance and the one who did go and say hello did not want to have her picture taken – kids! It is kind of funny that it is the hero of our story who they were afraid of. He is huge and an ogre I suppose!!
Since we visited the Shrek Adventure some 3 days ago now it is all one of my girls can talk about. Her grandparents, currently on an extended holiday in Australia, were most confused to be hearing about flying buses and witches… As a family I would say this is one of the best mornings we have spent at an attraction in London. The tour takes around 75 mins so probably with time for photos in the arrivals hall and the obligatory shop visit you would be looking at 2 hrs or so which makes it a good option for combining with a walk along the Southbank where there is just so much to do. We were there early in the morning, as I said and so it was not at all busy, but there were longer queues as we were leaving. For me I would always visit London attractions in the morning as generally there are fewer people and less waiting around. I mean it stands to reason – people are on holiday and no one wants to rush on holiday mornings.
I asked the children what they all thought of the experience today and the twins made videos to share their thoughts. You will see that one of them was keener than the other and that is as she explains just because she was a bit concerned by the witches!
My eldest (almost 8) shared that he loved it and found the bit with the witches and getting captured was the absolute best!! Something for all ages I think.
My almost 6 year old said simply 'it was great' and then as a post script insisted that I finish with the below gem…


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