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Valley United Way’s board of directors has approved more than $470,000 in allocations for the 2014-15 fiscal year that began in July.
The process was conducted by the Allocations Committee that is composed of 25 community volunteers headed by Valley United Way board member Ron Villani.
Agencies submitted funding requests in May, and committee members then visited with the agencies to examine programs and budgets, and made recommendations that were voted on by the local United Way’s full board.
Jack Walsh, president and chief operating officer at Valley United Way, lauded the work of the committee while noting it’s not easy to make funding decisions when there is never enough money to meet the needs of so many worthwhile agencies and programs.
Members of the Allocations Committee were Tom Christiano, Mark Daconto, John DeGray, Jim Geissler, Dave Grant, Johanne Henderson, Jennifer Kalasardo, Fran Leach, Rob Lesko, Rich Marazzi, Sharon Massafra and Kurt Miller.
Also, Ned Miller, Kristie Raines , Patty Reynolds, Richard Rosen, Brian Sexton, Bob Smits, Phyllis Sochrin, Bob VanEgghen, Rob VanEgghen, Ron Villani, Tom Welch and Phil White.
Valley United Way is a philanthropic resource for the Valley towns of Shelton, Ansonia, Derby, Oxford and Seymour. It works to match the needs of the community and the interests of donors to improve the quality of life in the community.
The local United Way focuses on initiatives addressing youth, families and people in crisis. Learn more about the nonprofit organization, based on Grove Street in Shelton, at www.valleyunitedway.org.

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Valley United Way ’s board of directors has approved more than $ 470,000 in allocations for the 2014 - 15 fiscal year that began in July .
 The process was conducted by the Allocations Committee that is composed of 25 community volunteers headed by Valley United Way board member Ron Villani .
 Agencies submitted funding requests in May , and committee members then visited with the agencies to examine programs and budgets , and made recommendations that were voted on by the local United Way ’s full board .
 Jack Walsh , president and chief operating officer at Valley United Way , lauded the work of the committee while noting it ’s not easy to make funding decisions when there is never enough money to meet the needs of so many worthwhile agencies and programs .
 Members of the Allocations Committee were Tom Christiano , Mark Daconto , John DeGray , Jim Geissler , Dave Grant , Johanne Henderson , Jennifer Kalasardo , Fran Leach , Rob Lesko , Rich Marazzi , Sharon Massafra and Kurt Miller .
 Also , Ned Miller , Kristie Raines , Patty Reynolds , Richard Rosen , Brian Sexton , Bob Smits , Phyllis Sochrin , Bob VanEgghen , Rob VanEgghen , Ron Villani , Tom Welch and Phil White .
 Valley United Way is a philanthropic resource for the Valley towns of Shelton , Ansonia , Derby , Oxford and Seymour . It works to match the needs of the community and the interests of donors to improve the quality of life in the community .
 The local United Way focuses on initiatives addressing youth , families and people in crisis . Learn more about the nonprofit organization , based on Grove Street in Shelton , at www.valleyunitedway.org .


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Tour buses are pretty awesome, with a lot of companies and individuals using them to ferry people around cities or from place to place. Often, these tour buses have local guides with them to ensure that you and your party know the most about the area you are in. In order to get the most out of a DC tour bus excursion, you’ll have to follow a few rules, that way your bus experience will be a good one.
First, always treat the driver with respect and care. They want to make the ride good for you and you should be making the same effort for them. Take the time to thank them, ask if they need anything, and be clear with where you want to go. When you and your party leave the bus, let the driver know when you will be back and keep that appointment to ensure that no one is late or left behind.
Second, try to stay seated when the bus is moving. It’s almost like a school bus, so sit down, buckle up, and focus on your next destination. If there is food or drink on the bus, then try your best to keep the bus clean. No one wants to clean up your mess, so ensure that you leave as little as possible during your stay on and off the bus.
Finally, when you are on the bus, don’t do anything or make any loud sounds to distract the driver. Again, treat the bus like it’s a school bus and then everything should be fine. Tour buses should be fun experiences and allow for you to travel across a city or area in style, and it’s even more fun when you treat the bus and its driver with respect.

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Tour buses are pretty awesome , with a lot of companies and individuals using them to ferry people around cities or from place to place . Often , these tour buses have local guides with them to ensure that you and your party know the most about the area you are in . In order to get the most out of a DC tour bus excursion , you ’ll have to follow a few rules , that way your bus experience will be a good one .
 First , always treat the driver with respect and care . They want to make the ride good for you and you should be making the same effort for them . Take the time to thank them , ask if they need anything , and be clear with where you want to go . When you and your party leave the bus , let the driver know when you will be back and keep that appointment to ensure that no one is late or left behind .
 Second , try to stay seated when the bus is moving . It ’s almost like a school bus , so sit down , buckle up , and focus on your next destination . If there is food or drink on the bus , then try your best to keep the bus clean . No one wants to clean up your mess , so ensure that you leave as little as possible during your stay on and off the bus .
 Finally , when you are on the bus , do n’t do anything or make any loud sounds to distract the driver . Again , treat the bus like it ’s a school bus and then everything should be fine . Tour buses should be fun experiences and allow for you to travel across a city or area in style , and it ’s even more fun when you treat the bus and its driver with respect .


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The Legendary Pokémon Awakens: May not yet have enough clean source material to make this work.
Lumiose City (Longer): Want to make this happen, but not sure if it's doable yet given what I have.
Pokémon Gym, Rock Version: May not yet have enough clean source material to make this work.
Q: What's your release schedule?
A: There is none. I release songs whenever I have the time to do it.
Q: What software do you use to do your music rips?
Q: How did you learn how to rip songs?
A: I learned the basics from the Internet back in late 2014. I learned the finer nuances through improvisation and trial-by-error.
Q: What sources do you use for your audio?
A: Every time an episode airs, I extract the audio from whatever raws are released following the episode. After that, I update my database that tracks various songs' appearances in the anime by episode. That database makes it easy for me to know which episode files I need to draw upon when I want to rip a song. The audio sources need to be as high in quality as possible; to understand why, see below.
Q: How does the ripping process itself work?
It starts with finding the episode in which the most complete version of the song plays (in most cases, only small excerpts play). I load this track into Audacity and use it as something of an anchor/skeleton for the rip.
Then, I use a plugin that removes as much unwanted noise as possible. Most of the music is left- or right-panned, while vocals and foreground noise are panned to the center (appearing in both the left and right channels). It's a vocal-removal plugin that strips out most or all of this center-panned audio; it works by inverting one channel's waveform against the other channel's, and adding them together. The result is a mono file that should, in theory, contain only the music.
Usually a small amount of instrumentation is lost in this process, but the most crucial instruments usually remain after the plugin is applied. Additionally, you can sometimes hear minor foreground noise artifacts in the resulting audio. This is due to the audio being compressed; the compression causes the center-panned audio to differ ever-so-slightly between the right and left channel, meaning that when one channel is added to the other, inverted channel, the center-panned audio isn't 100% canceled out (it's more like 99.9%). The remaining artifacts normally aren't too noticeable, and they can be minimized by using a source that is compressed at high quality.
However, some bigger problems can occur along the way. Many sound effects — particularly echoing noises, battle explosions, running water, wind, and rain — are also left- or right-panned and thus remain fully intact after center-panned audio is removed. Most clips I work with have at least some of these unremovable background noises present. Additionally, even the most complete version of a song that has aired in the anime is sometimes still missing parts. And another problem is that there are differences in how a song sounds depending on which TV station plays it.
As a result, I have look to other episodes to find any song segments that are missing from the anchor file and and/or that can replace segments in the anchor that have unremovable background noise. After finding these segments, I stitch them into the anchor file in the appropriate places, and make adjustments to equalize each segment's volume. And for each rip, I try as hard as possible to use audio samples from the same TV station to ensure a uniform sound.
The result is usually a song that, while not as good in quality as an original might be and perhaps lacking texture/detail, is probably the closest you can get to hearing the original thing until the day when originals are officially released. Most of the time the rips are mono (a consequence of how the vocal-removal plugin works, as explained above), but I'm investigating a workaround for that.
Q: Are any songs impossible to rip at a decent level of quality?
A: Yes. A lot of techno songs in the anime have center-panned percussion and/or bass instrumentation. That makes it nearly impossible to remove foreground vocals/noises without also severely compromising the instrumentation of the song. Songs in XY for which this is a major problem include Lysandre Battle and the Tripokalon Performance Round Theme.
In other cases, a song can't be ripped right now because it hasn't played enough times in the anime for me to be able to extract a version that is devoid of unremovable background noises. The main remedy for this problem is simply to wait until I have enough samples to work with. Songs for which this is a big problem include Vaniville Town, Xerneas/Yveltal Theme and XY Trainer Battle.
A: Sure, but I can't guarantee that it's doable, and I also can't place an ETA on it or honor specific delivery dates. These rips take a lot of time.
Q: So, how much time does each rip take?
A: It varies, but anywhere from an hour to 15 or more hours for each song. It depends on how many audio files I need, how many segments I need to stitch into the anchor file, etc.
Q: Can I reuse your rips anywhere?
A: Sure, but it'd be great if you could give credit to Citronic Gear On.
Q: Who else does rips of unreleased anime tracks?
A: Try Felipo Depot, Furious Trainer and Brock Steel. I'll add others here if/when I think of them.
A: Just ask for me in the thread. Or post something on one of the YouTube videos.

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The Legendary Pokémon Awakens : May not yet have enough clean source material to make this work .
 Lumiose City ( Longer ): Want to make this happen , but not sure if it 's doable yet given what I have .
 Pokémon Gym , Rock Version : May not yet have enough clean source material to make this work .
 Q : What 's your release schedule ?
 A : There is none . I release songs whenever I have the time to do it .
 Q : What software do you use to do your music rips ?
 Q : How did you learn how to rip songs ?
 A : I learned the basics from the Internet back in late 2014 . I learned the finer nuances through improvisation and trial - by - error .
 Q : What sources do you use for your audio ?
 A : Every time an episode airs , I extract the audio from whatever raws are released following the episode . After that , I update my database that tracks various songs ' appearances in the anime by episode . That database makes it easy for me to know which episode files I need to draw upon when I want to rip a song . The audio sources need to be as high in quality as possible ; to understand why , see below .
 Q : How does the ripping process itself work ?
 It starts with finding the episode in which the most complete version of the song plays ( in most cases , only small excerpts play ) . I load this track into Audacity and use it as something of an anchor / skeleton for the rip .
 Then , I use a plugin that removes as much unwanted noise as possible . Most of the music is left- or right - panned , while vocals and foreground noise are panned to the center ( appearing in both the left and right channels ) . It 's a vocal - removal plugin that strips out most or all of this center - panned audio ; it works by inverting one channel 's waveform against the other channel 's , and adding them together . The result is a mono file that should , in theory , contain only the music .
 Usually a small amount of instrumentation is lost in this process , but the most crucial instruments usually remain after the plugin is applied . Additionally , you can sometimes hear minor foreground noise artifacts in the resulting audio . This is due to the audio being compressed ; the compression causes the center - panned audio to differ ever - so - slightly between the right and left channel , meaning that when one channel is added to the other , inverted channel , the center - panned audio is n't 100 % canceled out ( it 's more like 99.9 % ) . The remaining artifacts normally are n't too noticeable , and they can be minimized by using a source that is compressed at high quality .
 However , some bigger problems can occur along the way . Many sound effects — particularly echoing noises , battle explosions , running water , wind , and rain — are also left- or right - panned and thus remain fully intact after center - panned audio is removed . Most clips I work with have at least some of these unremovable background noises present . Additionally , even the most complete version of a song that has aired in the anime is sometimes still missing parts . And another problem is that there are differences in how a song sounds depending on which TV station plays it .
 As a result , I have look to other episodes to find any song segments that are missing from the anchor file and and/or that can replace segments in the anchor that have unremovable background noise . After finding these segments , I stitch them into the anchor file in the appropriate places , and make adjustments to equalize each segment 's volume . And for each rip , I try as hard as possible to use audio samples from the same TV station to ensure a uniform sound .
 The result is usually a song that , while not as good in quality as an original might be and perhaps lacking texture / detail , is probably the closest you can get to hearing the original thing until the day when originals are officially released . Most of the time the rips are mono ( a consequence of how the vocal - removal plugin works , as explained above ) , but I 'm investigating a workaround for that .
 Q : Are any songs impossible to rip at a decent level of quality ?
 A : Yes . A lot of techno songs in the anime have center - panned percussion and/or bass instrumentation . That makes it nearly impossible to remove foreground vocals / noises without also severely compromising the instrumentation of the song . Songs in XY for which this is a major problem include Lysandre Battle and the Tripokalon Performance Round Theme .
 In other cases , a song ca n't be ripped right now because it has n't played enough times in the anime for me to be able to extract a version that is devoid of unremovable background noises . The main remedy for this problem is simply to wait until I have enough samples to work with . Songs for which this is a big problem include Vaniville Town , Xerneas / Yveltal Theme and XY Trainer Battle .
 A : Sure , but I ca n't guarantee that it 's doable , and I also ca n't place an ETA on it or honor specific delivery dates . These rips take a lot of time .
 Q : So , how much time does each rip take ?
 A : It varies , but anywhere from an hour to 15 or more hours for each song . It depends on how many audio files I need , how many segments I need to stitch into the anchor file , etc .
 Q : Can I reuse your rips anywhere ?
 A : Sure , but it 'd be great if you could give credit to Citronic Gear On .
 Q : Who else does rips of unreleased anime tracks ?
 A : Try Felipo Depot , Furious Trainer and Brock Steel . I 'll add others here if / when I think of them .
 A : Just ask for me in the thread . Or post something on one of the YouTube videos .


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Tumut — Recycle Night - Recycle Right!
About our Team: Valmar provides supported employment opportunities to people with a disability. We currently operate a range of interesting and diverse businesses in the Tumut and Yass regions.

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Tumut — Recycle Night - Recycle Right !
 About our Team : Valmar provides supported employment opportunities to people with a disability . We currently operate a range of interesting and diverse businesses in the Tumut and Yass regions .


text: That is one big cat! Can you spot Ed Sheeran behind this domestic animal? With his head poking through the cat's ears, this fun poster captures Ed's eccentric and comic personality. If you're an admirer of the works of British solo artist, Ed Sheeran, then this poster is an awesome piece for your home. Complete with a 61cm x 91.5cm black wooden frame, fronted with transparent Perspex and ready to hang in your home.

tokenized: That is one big cat ! Can you spot Ed Sheeran behind this domestic animal ? With his head poking through the cat 's ears , this fun poster captures Ed 's eccentric and comic personality . If you 're an admirer of the works of British solo artist , Ed Sheeran , then this poster is an awesome piece for your home . Complete with a 61 cm x 91.5 cm black wooden frame , fronted with transparent Perspex and ready to hang in your home .


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On the occasion of World Cancer Day, on 4TH of February, Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences’ Centre for Arab Genomic Studies (CAGS) issued, recently, a report on Cancers in Arabs.
The report, a preliminary survey, referred to at least 55 kinds of Cancers in Arab people, according to the statistics of CAGS’ Catalogue for transmission genetics in Arabs (CTGA), including intestinal carcinoid tumors, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, gastric cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma, Lynch syndrome, cutaneous malignant melanoma, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, and others.
As per the report lung cancers and prostate are the most common among males, whereas Breast and Thyroid Cancers are the most common among females in the region.
Also, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar are mentioned as countries with 'high incidence' of breast cancer, and characterized by lower fertility rates, a rapid decline in early childbearing age, and a lower duration of breast feeding.
It is worthy to mention that although Arab females tend to develop breast cancer at least a decade earlier than their counterparts in Western countries, they do not present themselves for regular medical examination, results in late presentations.
Also, the report mentioned that despite the high intake of calories and consumption of animal fat, the annual incidence of prostate cancer in the male UAE population is very low when compared to Western Countries. Yet, Arab males, in the absence of prostate cancer, have higher levels of serum Prostate Specific Antigen compared to global populations.
According to the report, most Cancers are genetic in origin, but inheriting cancer is not always as straightforward as it may seem. Cancers are considered sporadic and may result from gene mutations that body cells may develop during the life of an individual due to environmental or lifestyle factors. On the other hand, cancers that occur in families are usually due to inherited gene mutations. In these cases, the occurrence of cancers in families is more often than would be expected by chance. These cancers usually occur at an early age.
The report stressed on the importance of widespread availability of modern medical facilities and the increasing public awareness which have made possible the early detection and reliable diagnosis of a variety of cancer types in the region.
It is worthy to mention that UAE shows a continually increasing proportion of cancer burden imposing itself as the third leading cause of death after cardiovascular diseases and accidents.

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On the occasion of World Cancer Day , on 4TH of February , Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences ’ Centre for Arab Genomic Studies ( CAGS ) issued , recently , a report on Cancers in Arabs .
 The report , a preliminary survey , referred to at least 55 kinds of Cancers in Arab people , according to the statistics of CAGS ’ Catalogue for transmission genetics in Arabs ( CTGA ) , including intestinal carcinoid tumors , cervical cancer , colorectal cancer , gastric cancer , Hodgkin lymphoma , Lynch syndrome , cutaneous malignant melanoma , head and neck squamous cell carcinoma , and others .
 As per the report lung cancers and prostate are the most common among males , whereas Breast and Thyroid Cancers are the most common among females in the region .
 Also , Bahrain , Kuwait and Qatar are mentioned as countries with ' high incidence ' of breast cancer , and characterized by lower fertility rates , a rapid decline in early childbearing age , and a lower duration of breast feeding .
 It is worthy to mention that although Arab females tend to develop breast cancer at least a decade earlier than their counterparts in Western countries , they do not present themselves for regular medical examination , results in late presentations .
 Also , the report mentioned that despite the high intake of calories and consumption of animal fat , the annual incidence of prostate cancer in the male UAE population is very low when compared to Western Countries . Yet , Arab males , in the absence of prostate cancer , have higher levels of serum Prostate Specific Antigen compared to global populations .
 According to the report , most Cancers are genetic in origin , but inheriting cancer is not always as straightforward as it may seem . Cancers are considered sporadic and may result from gene mutations that body cells may develop during the life of an individual due to environmental or lifestyle factors . On the other hand , cancers that occur in families are usually due to inherited gene mutations . In these cases , the occurrence of cancers in families is more often than would be expected by chance . These cancers usually occur at an early age .
 The report stressed on the importance of widespread availability of modern medical facilities and the increasing public awareness which have made possible the early detection and reliable diagnosis of a variety of cancer types in the region .
 It is worthy to mention that UAE shows a continually increasing proportion of cancer burden imposing itself as the third leading cause of death after cardiovascular diseases and accidents .


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2016: You were supposed to learn how to plant seeds. The past few years have been nothing short of radical for you, and it all began with your emerald Jupiter year in 2016 lighting the way for you to start making connections – perhaps with partners, employers or even with your inner self – that would come to fruition over the next few years.
2017: You were supposed to realize how you were holding yourself back. This year was all about letting those seeds start to sprout, and identifying the ways in which you were stomping on your garden before you gave it a chance to grow.
2018: You are supposed to learn how to let your garden feed you. This year is about finishing up what began in 2016, and allowing yourself to thrive in it. It is about making serious relationship commitments, becoming more financially stable than ever, and adjusting to your highest vision of yourself – because deep down, that’s who you’ve been all along.
2016: You were supposed to learn how to see for yourself. Despite being particularly self-assured and confident – even standoffish at times – you’re almost overwhelmingly swayed by what you think other people think. This was the year to start believing in your power more than your doubt; to start honoring what you feel, not what others believe.
2017: You were supposed to embrace the feelings you’d been shoving away for so long. This year was all about confronting the emotions that you had been trying to avoid. Of course, it is all with purpose: next year is going to be about your renewal, and so to know what you want, you usually must first identify what you don’t.
2018: You’re supposed to start new. With Jupiter touring your sun sign for most of the year, it is your time to build the life of your dreams. The relationships, jobs, challenges and choices you make now will leave you with (positive) repercussions for many, many years to come.
2016: You were supposed to learn what it means to reconcile. This was the year that you had to look face first at what you think you’ve failed at, the relationships that had deteriorated over the years, and the ways in which you need to improve your wellbeing. This year likely brought you to many distant lands and into the arms of people you’d never expected. This was a year of mind, body and spirit exploration. You were supposed to come out on the other end with a greater sense of clarity.
2017: You were supposed to learn how to reconnect. Whether it was a sick parent who you needed to stay at the bedside of, or a cousin who you’d regrettably lost contact with over the years, or even a friend who you’d always think about but never make plans with, this was a year that you opened your heart back up, and let the right people in… however slowly you had to do it.
2018: You are supposed to make significant change in your life this year. Whether this means finally moving, changing careers like you’ve known you had to for so long, or just re-adjusting your daily routine to be more sustainable, this is the year in which any unstable bridges will collapse. This is for the best – you’d been hanging on by a thread for far too long. Besides, greener pastures await.
2016: You were supposed to learn how to have vision. Despite being strong-minded, Caps are known for being malleable, if not gullible. They easily adopt other people’s ideals as their own, and this was the year to break out of that. It was time for you to learn how to think and feel autonomously, and the chances that succeeded those revelations seemed nothing short of miraculous.
2017: You were supposed to get clarity on what’s not working. This was the year that didn’t hold back: you saw what doors were closed, you saw people’s true colors and intentions, you saw which business ventures were becoming fruitful and which weren’t. You couldn’t fool yourself if you tried to this year, the only question was how long it would take for you to finally choose to pivot.
2018: You are supposed to start a journey into the unknown. This is a year in which you will do things you’ve never done before, perhaps live in or visit places you’ve never been, try work you’ve never done. This is the year that you will surprise yourself with your capability, and you will see all your past regrets dissolve now that you are truly living for your own best interest, not your preoccupation with someone else.
2016: You were supposed to learn patience. Some years are revolutionary, some are stationary, some just… are. This year was the latter for you, as things seemed to move slowly, if at all. Little did you know then, the gears were turning, it was all just happening beneath the hood (so to say).
2017: You were supposed to learn how to trust. This is a year that bridged the status of your life between 2016 and 2018, and it was built entirely on trusting people. Letting others into your sacred vision for business, love or life is not easy, but it is crucial. This year, you started to open up to potential you hadn’t recognized before, whether that was dating someone outside of your norm, or letting other people take on more responsibility at your job. Either way, it worked out for the best.
2018: You are supposed to learn how to coexist, and co-work, better than ever before. You’ve learned over the past few years that teamwork makes the dream work (ha, but seriously, it does). Therefore, it’s in your best interest to be the best partner and in some cases, boss, that you can be. This means honing in on your empathy, your compassion, and at times, your selflessness, all while holding true to a greater vision. It’s a challenge, but the rewards will be invaluable.
2016: You were supposed to look into your past, and feel into your depths. This was a year in which some of your darkest traumas peeked their way out of the closet and said hi again. Of course, this was not so you’d needlessly suffer, but so that you’d see them for what they are – harmless ghosts in the closet – and resolve that you can move on.
2017: You were supposed to find passion again. Over the past few years, if you’ve been less than thrilled with life it’s because you’ve felt your passions were suppressed by the weight of responsibility and loss. This is the year you rediscovered what you really love, or noticed that maybe you made a wrong choice with a move, a job, or a personal life decision. Either way, it’s not too late to turn around, or in some cases, keep running toward the horizon.

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2016 : You were supposed to learn how to plant seeds . The past few years have been nothing short of radical for you , and it all began with your emerald Jupiter year in 2016 lighting the way for you to start making connections – perhaps with partners , employers or even with your inner self – that would come to fruition over the next few years .
 2017 : You were supposed to realize how you were holding yourself back . This year was all about letting those seeds start to sprout , and identifying the ways in which you were stomping on your garden before you gave it a chance to grow .
 2018 : You are supposed to learn how to let your garden feed you . This year is about finishing up what began in 2016 , and allowing yourself to thrive in it . It is about making serious relationship commitments , becoming more financially stable than ever , and adjusting to your highest vision of yourself – because deep down , that ’s who you ’ve been all along .
 2016 : You were supposed to learn how to see for yourself . Despite being particularly self - assured and confident – even standoffish at times – you ’re almost overwhelmingly swayed by what you think other people think . This was the year to start believing in your power more than your doubt ; to start honoring what you feel , not what others believe .
 2017 : You were supposed to embrace the feelings you ’d been shoving away for so long . This year was all about confronting the emotions that you had been trying to avoid . Of course , it is all with purpose : next year is going to be about your renewal , and so to know what you want , you usually must first identify what you do n’t .
 2018 : You ’re supposed to start new . With Jupiter touring your sun sign for most of the year , it is your time to build the life of your dreams . The relationships , jobs , challenges and choices you make now will leave you with ( positive ) repercussions for many , many years to come .
 2016 : You were supposed to learn what it means to reconcile . This was the year that you had to look face first at what you think you ’ve failed at , the relationships that had deteriorated over the years , and the ways in which you need to improve your wellbeing . This year likely brought you to many distant lands and into the arms of people you ’d never expected . This was a year of mind , body and spirit exploration . You were supposed to come out on the other end with a greater sense of clarity .
 2017 : You were supposed to learn how to reconnect . Whether it was a sick parent who you needed to stay at the bedside of , or a cousin who you ’d regrettably lost contact with over the years , or even a friend who you ’d always think about but never make plans with , this was a year that you opened your heart back up , and let the right people in … however slowly you had to do it .
 2018 : You are supposed to make significant change in your life this year . Whether this means finally moving , changing careers like you ’ve known you had to for so long , or just re - adjusting your daily routine to be more sustainable , this is the year in which any unstable bridges will collapse . This is for the best – you ’d been hanging on by a thread for far too long . Besides , greener pastures await .
 2016 : You were supposed to learn how to have vision . Despite being strong - minded , Caps are known for being malleable , if not gullible . They easily adopt other people ’s ideals as their own , and this was the year to break out of that . It was time for you to learn how to think and feel autonomously , and the chances that succeeded those revelations seemed nothing short of miraculous .
 2017 : You were supposed to get clarity on what ’s not working . This was the year that did n’t hold back : you saw what doors were closed , you saw people ’s true colors and intentions , you saw which business ventures were becoming fruitful and which were n’t . You could n’t fool yourself if you tried to this year , the only question was how long it would take for you to finally choose to pivot .
 2018 : You are supposed to start a journey into the unknown . This is a year in which you will do things you ’ve never done before , perhaps live in or visit places you ’ve never been , try work you ’ve never done . This is the year that you will surprise yourself with your capability , and you will see all your past regrets dissolve now that you are truly living for your own best interest , not your preoccupation with someone else .
 2016 : You were supposed to learn patience . Some years are revolutionary , some are stationary , some just … are . This year was the latter for you , as things seemed to move slowly , if at all . Little did you know then , the gears were turning , it was all just happening beneath the hood ( so to say ) .
 2017 : You were supposed to learn how to trust . This is a year that bridged the status of your life between 2016 and 2018 , and it was built entirely on trusting people . Letting others into your sacred vision for business , love or life is not easy , but it is crucial . This year , you started to open up to potential you had n’t recognized before , whether that was dating someone outside of your norm , or letting other people take on more responsibility at your job . Either way , it worked out for the best .
 2018 : You are supposed to learn how to coexist , and co - work , better than ever before . You ’ve learned over the past few years that teamwork makes the dream work ( ha , but seriously , it does ) . Therefore , it ’s in your best interest to be the best partner and in some cases , boss , that you can be . This means honing in on your empathy , your compassion , and at times , your selflessness , all while holding true to a greater vision . It ’s a challenge , but the rewards will be invaluable .
 2016 : You were supposed to look into your past , and feel into your depths . This was a year in which some of your darkest traumas peeked their way out of the closet and said hi again . Of course , this was not so you ’d needlessly suffer , but so that you ’d see them for what they are – harmless ghosts in the closet – and resolve that you can move on .
 2017 : You were supposed to find passion again . Over the past few years , if you ’ve been less than thrilled with life it ’s because you ’ve felt your passions were suppressed by the weight of responsibility and loss . This is the year you rediscovered what you really love , or noticed that maybe you made a wrong choice with a move , a job , or a personal life decision . Either way , it ’s not too late to turn around , or in some cases , keep running toward the horizon .


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Apparently, the digestive problems I've been having lately could be side effects of the Tylenol #4. Also, my recent lower back pain and sleep issues (both extreme tiredness/sleepiness and, ironically, having trouble sleeping) are also common side effects. It makes sense to hold off on any obsessive diet tracking (such as my planned effort to discover any new food sensitivies) until I see if anything changes when I'm off the codeine.
Today has been a haze of headache and exhaustion. As has happened in the past in this tsunami situation, the headache never actually goes away: it lightens up a bit, especially when I distract myself well with coloring, but it never actually goes away. I have hopes for tomorrow, though. Not like I'm planning to go write the great American novel while simultaneously performing mathematical impossibilities and bicycling across the continent, but just being able to think a bit more normally would be cause for celebration.

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Apparently , the digestive problems I 've been having lately could be side effects of the Tylenol # 4 . Also , my recent lower back pain and sleep issues ( both extreme tiredness / sleepiness and , ironically , having trouble sleeping ) are also common side effects . It makes sense to hold off on any obsessive diet tracking ( such as my planned effort to discover any new food sensitivies ) until I see if anything changes when I 'm off the codeine .
 Today has been a haze of headache and exhaustion . As has happened in the past in this tsunami situation , the headache never actually goes away : it lightens up a bit , especially when I distract myself well with coloring , but it never actually goes away . I have hopes for tomorrow , though . Not like I 'm planning to go write the great American novel while simultaneously performing mathematical impossibilities and bicycling across the continent , but just being able to think a bit more normally would be cause for celebration .


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* Year 12 and Year 13 entering in September 2017, fees will be frozen at Year 11 rate. This is subject to change in subsequent years.
If a student withdraws prior to the start of the academic year, the balance of the first term’s fees paid will be refunded, except for the registration and deposit fees.

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* Year 12 and Year 13 entering in September 2017 , fees will be frozen at Year 11 rate . This is subject to change in subsequent years .
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Not every language uses a layout direction of left-to-right (LTR). Some use right-to-left (RTL). This is also known as the “reading direction” or “writing direction”.
This is dependent on your page’s content instead of the system settings.
This will prevent you from making CSS attribute selectors that resolve to “ltr” and “rtl” (it’ll be “auto” instead which defeats the purpose). There is a proposed CSS4 :dir(…) pseudo-class which would resolve auto to “ltr” and “rtl” but it is currently experimental and browser support is very weak.
I was not able to find any Microsoft documentation that says whether UWP has anything equivalent to Android and iOS.
Unfortunately these disparate mechanisms are not abstracted into a unified, built-in Cordova API, the Cordova globalization plug-in, nor from what I can tell, any 3rd party plug-in.
var bcp47Tag = ...; // e.g. "en-us", etc.
Whether you are developing a MAF (or ADF Mobile) application or a classic ADF Faces application, it is becoming more and more important to support HiDPI screens (high resolution or “retina” displays). There is no easier way to make your application look out-dated than to use grainy, unprofessional image assets or use them improperly.
In HTML, the “px” unit (sometimes referred to as a “dp” or density-independent pixel) corresponds to the same amount of space regardless of the DPI of your screen (however, the number of screen pixels may vary). The original iPhone models did not have HiDPI displays. Each point of color on those screens corresponds to one HTML CSS “px” unit. Newer iPhone models introduced a HiDPI (or “retina”) display that has 4 screen pixels in the same amount of space that 1 screen pixel used to take up (2 screen pixels wide by 2 screen pixels tall); on these new screens, the width and height “px” values use twice the amount of screen pixels.
Why is this a common problem? Since MAF (or ADF Mobile) uses HTML, displaying an image is not as simple as just specifying the source path and magically hoping the browser will know that you are using a high resolution image. You must specify dimensions to go along with the source path.
This would look just fine on a classic low-DPI display. However, on a HiDPI display, it still takes up the same space but since there are more screen pixels, the image will look very grainy.
Even if you still want to support legacy screens for your application, this same image (with the same specified width and height) will look beautiful on low-DPI screens because of how images are processed modern browsers.
If for some reason you really needed or wanted to specify alternate images for each kind of screen, you have the option to use a screen properties EL variable to toggle the rendered state of alternate amx:image components or simply use that EL to alter the inlineStyle and the source path as desired.
Consider whether using PNG is really the right choice to begin with. SVG (scalable vector graphics) files tend to be smaller file sizes when created without excessive anchor points, no embedded bitmap data, reduced decimal number precision, excess whitespace removed, and comments removed. If the resolution of your display gets better, the SVG will look that much better; you don’t need multiple resolution versions of the same image resources. If the SVG was given the proper width/height to begin with by its creator, you won’t even need to muck with inlineStyles since the image will naturally be displayed at the proper size.
This entry was posted in android, css, graphics, html, iOS, java, jdeveloper, mac and tagged adf, amx, hidpi, image, lodpi, lowdpi, mobile, quality, retina, server.
In the past I posted a link to the Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client demos (server-based web applications). Now that the Oracle ADF Mobile framework for native iOS and Android applications has been released, a similar demo is now available: the Oracle ADF Mobile mock component gallery.
This mock component gallery is based on the real component gallery application bundled with the ADF Mobile JDeveloper extension. The recommended best place to view this demo is using the mobile Safari or Chrome browsers on your iOS and Android devices. Doing that will give you the closest experience to how the components will appear and behave in real ADF Mobile applications. However, you can also view the demo using desktop Safari and Chrome for an approximate experience when access to a mobile device is not available.
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Not every language uses a layout direction of left - to - right ( LTR ) . Some use right - to - left ( RTL ) . This is also known as the “ reading direction ” or “ writing direction ” .
 This is dependent on your page ’s content instead of the system settings .
 This will prevent you from making CSS attribute selectors that resolve to “ ltr ” and “ rtl ” ( it ’ll be “ auto ” instead which defeats the purpose ) . There is a proposed CSS4 : dir ( … ) pseudo - class which would resolve auto to “ ltr ” and “ rtl ” but it is currently experimental and browser support is very weak .
 I was not able to find any Microsoft documentation that says whether UWP has anything equivalent to Android and iOS .
 Unfortunately these disparate mechanisms are not abstracted into a unified , built - in Cordova API , the Cordova globalization plug - in , nor from what I can tell , any 3rd party plug - in .
 var bcp47Tag = ... ; // e.g. " en - us " , etc .
 Whether you are developing a MAF ( or ADF Mobile ) application or a classic ADF Faces application , it is becoming more and more important to support HiDPI screens ( high resolution or “ retina ” displays ) . There is no easier way to make your application look out - dated than to use grainy , unprofessional image assets or use them improperly .
 In HTML , the “ px ” unit ( sometimes referred to as a “ dp ” or density - independent pixel ) corresponds to the same amount of space regardless of the DPI of your screen ( however , the number of screen pixels may vary ) . The original iPhone models did not have HiDPI displays . Each point of color on those screens corresponds to one HTML CSS “ px ” unit . Newer iPhone models introduced a HiDPI ( or “ retina ” ) display that has 4 screen pixels in the same amount of space that 1 screen pixel used to take up ( 2 screen pixels wide by 2 screen pixels tall ) ; on these new screens , the width and height “ px ” values use twice the amount of screen pixels .
 Why is this a common problem ? Since MAF ( or ADF Mobile ) uses HTML , displaying an image is not as simple as just specifying the source path and magically hoping the browser will know that you are using a high resolution image . You must specify dimensions to go along with the source path .
 This would look just fine on a classic low - DPI display . However , on a HiDPI display , it still takes up the same space but since there are more screen pixels , the image will look very grainy .
 Even if you still want to support legacy screens for your application , this same image ( with the same specified width and height ) will look beautiful on low - DPI screens because of how images are processed modern browsers .
 If for some reason you really needed or wanted to specify alternate images for each kind of screen , you have the option to use a screen properties EL variable to toggle the rendered state of alternate amx : image components or simply use that EL to alter the inlineStyle and the source path as desired .
 Consider whether using PNG is really the right choice to begin with . SVG ( scalable vector graphics ) files tend to be smaller file sizes when created without excessive anchor points , no embedded bitmap data , reduced decimal number precision , excess whitespace removed , and comments removed . If the resolution of your display gets better , the SVG will look that much better ; you do n’t need multiple resolution versions of the same image resources . If the SVG was given the proper width / height to begin with by its creator , you wo n’t even need to muck with inlineStyles since the image will naturally be displayed at the proper size .
 This entry was posted in android , css , graphics , html , iOS , java , jdeveloper , mac and tagged adf , amx , hidpi , image , lodpi , lowdpi , mobile , quality , retina , server .
 In the past I posted a link to the Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client demos ( server - based web applications ) . Now that the Oracle ADF Mobile framework for native iOS and Android applications has been released , a similar demo is now available : the Oracle ADF Mobile mock component gallery .
 This mock component gallery is based on the real component gallery application bundled with the ADF Mobile JDeveloper extension . The recommended best place to view this demo is using the mobile Safari or Chrome browsers on your iOS and Android devices . Doing that will give you the closest experience to how the components will appear and behave in real ADF Mobile applications . However , you can also view the demo using desktop Safari and Chrome for an approximate experience when access to a mobile device is not available .
 This entry was posted in android , demo , iOS , java , jdeveloper and tagged adf , android , browser , demo , faces , gallery , iOS , java , jdeveloper , mobile .


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Round Top's 168th 4th of July Parade - Wednesday July 4th in Round Top!!
All parade floats will begin at the Round Top Rifle Hall at 10:30 am and make their way through town....enjoy live music, great food and amazing 4th of July floats created by area residents and local businesses!
Make sure to arrive early and claim your spot along the parade route!

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Round Top 's 168th 4th of July Parade - Wednesday July 4th in Round Top ! !
 All parade floats will begin at the Round Top Rifle Hall at 10:30 am and make their way through town .... enjoy live music , great food and amazing 4th of July floats created by area residents and local businesses !
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The MS 24 Hour Mega Swim is back! - Aquamoves – Indoor and outdoor pools, fitness facilities and programs in Shepparton, Victoria.
The Shepparton MS 24 Hour Mega Swim will celebrate its 10th anniversary this month, raising more than $150000 with almost 800 participants in that time.
Event spokesperson Damien Stevens said this year it was hoped more than $20000 could be added to the total to support people living with multiple sclerosis.
‘‘The MS 24 Hour Mega Swim is a fun team relay event where teams have a swimmer in the water for the entire 24 hours and compete for laps swum and money raised,’’ he said.
More than 15 MS 24 Hour Mega Swim events take place across Australia each year.
Last year, nearly 3000 participants swam more than 400 hours across Australia, raising more than $850000 to support people living with multiple sclerosis.
Events are organised by local committees with support from MS Australia.
Now in its 18th year of the event, the MS 24 Hour Mega Swim was started by Carol Cooke, an Australian paralympian living with MS who had a vision of bringing people together to raise funds for multiple sclerosis.
Multiple sclerosis is the most common neurological disease in young adults and diagnosis typically occurs between 20 and 40 years of age, although onset of symptoms may be earlier.
The symptoms are varied and unpredictable.
Mr Stevens said funds raised from the MS 24 Hour Mega Swim would go to MS victims by funding the Go for Gold Scholarship Program and financial assistance programs.
Go for Gold Scholarships allow people living with multiple sclerosis to reach their potential in life, including employment, sport, travel, education and the arts.
Financial assistance programs provide direct and immediate support for some of the 25600 Australians living with multiple sclerosis.
To donate or sign up to this event and for more information, email megaswim@ms.org.au or phone 1300733690.
The event will be held at Aquamoves in Shepparton on Saturday, February 16, and Sunday, February 17.
Article courtesy of the Shepparton News, Saturday 2 February 2019. Written by Tara Whitsed. Picture by Rodney Braithwaite.

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The MS 24 Hour Mega Swim is back ! - Aquamoves – Indoor and outdoor pools , fitness facilities and programs in Shepparton , Victoria .
 The Shepparton MS 24 Hour Mega Swim will celebrate its 10th anniversary this month , raising more than $ 150000 with almost 800 participants in that time .
 Event spokesperson Damien Stevens said this year it was hoped more than $ 20000 could be added to the total to support people living with multiple sclerosis .
 ‘ ‘ The MS 24 Hour Mega Swim is a fun team relay event where teams have a swimmer in the water for the entire 24 hours and compete for laps swum and money raised , ’’ he said .
 More than 15 MS 24 Hour Mega Swim events take place across Australia each year .
 Last year , nearly 3000 participants swam more than 400 hours across Australia , raising more than $ 850000 to support people living with multiple sclerosis .
 Events are organised by local committees with support from MS Australia .
 Now in its 18th year of the event , the MS 24 Hour Mega Swim was started by Carol Cooke , an Australian paralympian living with MS who had a vision of bringing people together to raise funds for multiple sclerosis .
 Multiple sclerosis is the most common neurological disease in young adults and diagnosis typically occurs between 20 and 40 years of age , although onset of symptoms may be earlier .
 The symptoms are varied and unpredictable .
 Mr Stevens said funds raised from the MS 24 Hour Mega Swim would go to MS victims by funding the Go for Gold Scholarship Program and financial assistance programs .
 Go for Gold Scholarships allow people living with multiple sclerosis to reach their potential in life , including employment , sport , travel , education and the arts .
 Financial assistance programs provide direct and immediate support for some of the 25600 Australians living with multiple sclerosis .
 To donate or sign up to this event and for more information , email megaswim@ms.org.au or phone 1300733690 .
 The event will be held at Aquamoves in Shepparton on Saturday , February 16 , and Sunday , February 17 .
 Article courtesy of the Shepparton News , Saturday 2 February 2019 . Written by Tara Whitsed . Picture by Rodney Braithwaite .


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New Food, New Wine, more Great Times!
If you haven’t visited us at Highlands Road for a while, you might have missed the exciting launch of our Café’s new Summer Menu, crammed full of delicious Tapas, our now famous gourmet-pizzas and flatbreads (with a few new combinations as well). From decadent deep-fried Camembert cheese to home-made Meatballs and Bacon Jam (yes, our read right!) there is something to satisfy your every craving.

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We are pleased to present below all posts tagged with ' Sauvignon Blanc ' . If you still ca n't find what you are looking for , try using the search box .
 New Food , New Wine , more Great Times !
 If you have n’t visited us at Highlands Road for a while , you might have missed the exciting launch of our Café ’s new Summer Menu , crammed full of delicious Tapas , our now famous gourmet - pizzas and flatbreads ( with a few new combinations as well ) . From decadent deep - fried Camembert cheese to home - made Meatballs and Bacon Jam ( yes , our read right ! ) there is something to satisfy your every craving .


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Today, the 31st August, is the last day of the Bournemouth International Centre (BIC) Dinosaurs Encounter exhibition. By tonight the doors to the dinosaur exhibit will have closed for the last time and the engineers and technical experts will be working over the next few days to dismantle and crate up the various animatronic dinosaurs that have been on display.
No doubt these mechanical marvels will be making an appearance at another venue in the near future, but for the time being we have to see them packed off and the sets cleared ready for the next event to be staged at the Bournemouth Pavilion.
The Solent Hall has echoed to the sounds of Triceratops, Ankylosaurus, Oviraptors and Ornithomimids over the last few weeks but by 5pm this evening the hall will be silent as the great prehistoric animal models are switched off at this venue and the first part of the breakdown of the sets takes place.
We met lots of lovely people when we worked down at the event, it does not seem like two months ago when we were helping to open the event and meet all the journalists and hoteliers as we promoted the exhibition. Our fossils and casts even got their very own dressing room. This was really handy as we had somewhere safe to store them and we could then bring lots of different ones out to show the visitors. Many thousands will have seen the event over the Summer months, all of them enthusiastically met by the helpful Bournemouth staff.
I know the management team at the Pavilion received some lovely comments from the visitors, especially all the excited young dinosaur fans who came to meet the prehistoric animals and take part in the activities organised by the Bournemouth Pavilion team.
We remember the little blind boy and his Mum and Dad who came to visit on the opening weekend. We got out lots of fossils and replica casts and this one special dinosaur fan and his parents got to hold Mammoth teeth, T. rex claws, the skull cap of an Ankylosaurus and the lower jawbone of an adult Triceratops. We think this made his day. He was certainly very excited and could hardly contain his excitement as his fingers traced over the contours of each fossil.
Our thanks to everyone at the Bournemouth Pavilion who helped to make the event such an enjoyable experience for all the visitors.
In this digital age with so many different forms of media it is sometimes easy to forget the importance of radio. Whilst most of the United Kingdom is undergoing the digital revolution with television broadcast media at the moment, for radio, the change over to digital programming and all the added benefits that the transition brings has already taken place.
We have several digital radios, one in the office, others around the warehouse, even one in the dinosaur fan. The van radio is quite a sophisticated device, it allows mobile phones and other equipment to be used by the passenger whilst providing updates on the Test match and other valuable information for the driver.
Many of us at Everything Dinosaur, have fallen back in love with the radio and for some of us, we have only just begun to realise the rich variety and diversity of radio programming in the UK. All the automatic digital tuning stations on each set are used and at the touch of a button the listener can switch from Radio 7 (comedy, sci-fi and drama), to Radio 5, 5 Sports Extra and back again, all in crystal clear clarity.
The controllers at Radio 4 deserve a special mention. This station, (news, current affairs and information), has always provided an excellent range of programming, the Archers (longest running soap in the country- “an everyday story of country folk”), is popular, as are the science programmes.
Over the last few weeks, the BBC have been broadcasting on Radio 4 a series of short monologues by Sir David Attenborough entitled “David Attenborough’s Life Stories”. Each ten minute programme is a talk by Sir David on the natural histories of creatures and plants from around the world. Broadcast twice a week (Friday evenings 8.50pm GMT) and repeated on the following Sunday 8.50am GMT), it has proved to be essential listening. Not only is Sir David an eloquent and erudite speaker, but his love and fascination for the natural world really comes over in these short programmes. His life long interest in nature has proved a rich and fertile ground from which to create this series of twenty talks. He has covered a wide variety of topics, from recalling his first encounter with a South American Sloth, to musing over the discovery of Archaeopterxy.
One of his recent episodes covered the story of how he was duped into buying a pair of mating Trilobites from a local trader in Morocco. A number of our team members have been lucky enough to travel to that country and we too have been taken in by the fantastic fossil specimens of these Arthropods that can be purchased by the roadside. His most recent programme covered the story of the discovery of a Coelacanth and the controversy over how closely related this particular type of prehistoric fish was to the first Tetrapods.
Next weeks ten minute programme is about the Dodo. Radio 4 are to be congratulated for creating such an informative and interesting series. A programme narrated by a knowledgeable person covering subjects that they love and are enthused by. Sometimes it is the most simple programme ideas that are the most effective.
Good luck to the Radio 4 production team behind these programmes and good luck to you Sir David Attenborough, may you continue to have many more adventures whilst filming the natural world, and hopefully you will commit some more stories to tape so that Radio 4 can produce a second series.
Australia is beginning to rival China when it comes to announcing the discovery of new types of dinosaur. Hot on the heels of last month’s announcement of the discovery of two new Titanosaurs and a new Theropod (meat-eater), the Australian press is carrying reports of another exciting dinosaur discovery from down under.
An expedition has uncovered the fossilised remains of a large Sauropod at a site to the west of Eromanga, in southwest Queensland. This area of Queensland is proving to be a real hot spot for mid Cretaceous dinosaur remains and this new find is one of a number of dinosaur discoveries made recently in the area.
The fossils are believed to represent a new genus of Titanosaur, a long-necked dinosaur that may have had dermal armour. Preliminary examination dates the fossils to around 97 million years ago (Albian/Cenomanian faunal stages). During this time, (mid Cretaceous), the area was covered by a shallow inland sea. The sea is named after the nearby town of Eromanga, ironic as one of modern day Eromanga’s claims to fame is that it is the town in Australia furthest away from the sea.
Although, not the largest specimen of an Australian Titanosaur known to date, the Queensland Museum palaeontologists who studied the fossils are confident that this dinosaur is going to turn out to be one of the most complete sets of fossil bones discovered in the area to date. Like many other palaeontologists, the dinosaur has been given a nick-name whilst the scientists and volunteers work at the dig site. This dinosaur has been named “Zac”.
It will be sometime before “Zac” is formerly named and described, there is a lot of work to do on the delicate fossils in the meantime, however, the Queensland Museum team are confident that this particular dinosaur will turn out to be one of the most important dinosaur discoveries made in Australia.
“The discoveries made this year confirm the south-west Queensland site is likely to be of great significance – not only for Australia – but for a wider scientific understanding of the age of dinosaurs”.
Other dinosaurs from this region include the primitive mid Jurassic Sauropod Rhoetosaurus , a member of the Cetiosauridae perhaps? This dinosaur has been dated to around 175 million years ago.
Scientists are confident that more prehistoric animal remains will be found in the area, providing a detailed insight into life down under during the mid Cretaceous.
It seems that Australia is putting itself firmly on the map when it comes to finding dinosaurs. Now, if only they could put together a decent cricket team..
The original King Kong film was released in 1933. Merian C Cooper (who produced the film) along with Edgar Wallace (the writer of the screen play) wrote the story, a twist on “Beauty and the Beast” between them. It was the pioneering special effects engineer Willis H. O’Brien that brought King Kong, the gigantic ape and the prehistoric animals that shared Skull Island to life. The 1925 film “The Lost World” was a very big influence on the original King Kong movie. In the novel, the Lost World, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a team of daring explorers led by Professor Challenger venture up a remote plateau and encounter prehistoric creatures.
Kong the great ape, is worshipped by the natives on Skull Island. Kong falls for the beautiful actress that accompanies the explorers as they visit the island. The actress is offered to Kong as a sacrifice, but the huge simian does not eat her but steals her away into the jungle. Kong is eventually captured and taken to New York as the “Eighth Wonder of the World”. However, the ape escapes from his shackles and meets his end on top of the Empire State Building in perhaps one of the most memorable scenes in the whole of cinema.
Giant apes the size of Kong, as far as we can tell from the fossil record did not exist, Kong was the figment of the script writer’s imagination. The fossil record for primates and early human ancestors is actually very incomplete, although there is no credible evidence to suggest that giant gorillas roamed the Earth. However, sometimes real life can reflect fiction. Two years after the film King Kong was released a German palaeoanthropologist Ralph von Koenigswald purchased a very large molar from a Hong Kong pharmacy. Animal teeth and bones are commonly used in Chinese medicine, even today. Chinese doctors used “dragons teeth” found in remote caves in a number of traditional medicines. Koenigswald correctly identified the tooth as a molar from an unknown, giant primate species. He went onto name the animal Gigantopithecus blacki.
Gigantopithecus fossils are known from South east Asia (China and Vietnam), this animal lived during the Pliocene epoch but survived into the Pleistocene, before finally becoming extinct approximately 200,000 years ago. Like Orangutans and Gorillas extant species today, the males were much larger than females. A mature male could weigh over 500 kilogrammes and stand 3.1 metres tall.
Although known from a few fragments of jawbone the rest of the animal has been deduced following studies of extant species of primate. Fortunately, for our ancestors and other hominids such as Homo erectus, Gigantopithecus was a herbivore, feeding mainly on bamboo.
Switzerland might be more famous for cuckoo clocks and Swiss army knives but it is gaining a bit of a reputation as a hot spot for Triassic dinosaur remains. For example, back in 2007 the discovery of a huge bone bed of Plateosaurs was announced by scientists from the University of Bonn. The site in question is regarded as the largest congregation of dinosaur bones ever found in Europe.
A team of researchers from the Natural History Museum in Basel have found a set of three-toed dinosaur footprints, half-way up a mountain. The footprints, believed to be from a bipedal, Theropod dinosaur are some of the largest footprints of their kind ever found in Europe. The tracks indicate that approximately 210 million years ago, this area of Europe was stalked by a large predatory dinosaur, perhaps more than 6 metres long. Evidence of such a large, carnivorous dinosaur from such ancient sediments has caused scientists to re-think the evolution of the Theropod lineage, footprints of this size are known from the early Jurassic but not from the late Triassic. This indicates that large meat-eating dinosaurs evolved earlier than previously thought.
During the Triassic, Switzerland was part of a huge landmass in the northern hemisphere called Laurentia, this part of the world was a coastal plain and a number of important Mesozoic fossils have been found in the country, but never before has evidence of such a large meat-eating dinosaur been discovered. The footprints measure up to 40cm long and indicate a very large carnivorous dinosaur, perhaps exceeding Liliensternus, a late Triassic carnivore, a member of the Coelophysoidea whose fossils have been found in Germany and France.
The footprints were found at approximately 3,300 metres on a mountain in Ela Nature Reserve. During the late Triassic this part of the world had a tropical climate and it seems that the footprints were made when this dinosaur walked across a shallow area of salty water. The prints were fossilised and then over millions of years geological pressure forced the strata to buckle and fold forming the Alps. The prints are difficult to spot, they are only visible when direct sunlight does not shine on them, and to see them tourists will have to endure an eight hour hike. Hopefully, casts will be made and these will be put on display at a local museum and visitor centre.
The three-toed print can be just made out in the centre of the photograph. As trackways have been discovered (a set of fossil footprints), the Swiss scientists hope to calculate how fast this dinosaur was moving. Other dinosaur footprints are known from this area but they are all herbivores, most likely Prosauropods such as Plateosaurus.
It is impossible to state precisely what sort of Theropod dinosaur made these footprints. It could be a very large Coelophysid or perhaps a primitive Ceratosaur. The fossil record for meat-eating dinosaurs of the late Triassic is particularly poor.
If it was a crested meat-eater it may have resembled a Liliensternus, but at this time this is pure speculation.
The Pterosaurs are an extinct group of flying reptiles. Known from the fossil bearing strata dating from the Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous, these bizarre creatures were the first truly diverse and successful flying vertebrates (not withstanding one or two genera of Permian gliders). The wings of these strange reptiles were formed out of skin that stretched from the body over the forelimbs and were supported by an elongated fourth digit.
For many years scientists have debated the aerial capabilities of these flying reptiles. Studies of endocasts of braincases and papers written on these animal’s ability to balance have been published and many researchers now believe that these animals were very capable fliers. However, whilst graceful and fully at home whilst airborne, how these animals moved around on the ground has long been debated. It has been argued, almost since the first Pterosaur fossils were studied in the 18th Century, that these animals were clumsy on land. Some scientists have proposed that these animals had a bipedal stance (especially the larger Pterosaurs such as the Late Cretaceous Azhdarchids), whilst others have proposed a quadrupedal stance.
Ichnologists (scientists who specialise in the study of footprints and tracks), have found a number of Pterosaur trackways. A paper was published recently on a set of tracks made by a large Pterosaur and preserved in late Cretaceous strata in Mexico. These indicate a quadruped gait and stance. This evidence is supported by trace fossils from perhaps the best preserved Pterosaur trackway site in the world, that found in the late Jurassic limestone deposits of Crayssac in south-western France.
A number of Pterosaur tracks have been identified in the Crayssac site. Some scientists have argued that previously described Pterosaur trackways may actually be Crocodilian but the absence of a tail drag and five digit impressions at the French location suggest that the majority of the trackways ascribed to various types of Pterosaur have been accurately described.
A number of different sized and different length trackways are known from this region. They indicate the presence of a number of different types of Pterosaur in the environment at the time. The trackways were made in shallow, inter-tidal water and some of the tracks are several metres in length. Crucially, the tracks indicate a quadrupedal gait, and, surprisingly measurements taken by French scientists indicate that some of these Pterosaurs were capable of moving quite quickly when on the ground. How these animals took off, or landed has yet to be determined, but it is suggested that these graceful reptiles were capable of touching down or taking off in a similar fashion to modern birds. Some of the footprints indicate that certain species had webbed feet, an adaptation to their marine environment. Perhaps these animals filled an ecological niche similar to extant Pelicans of today.

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Today , the 31st August , is the last day of the Bournemouth International Centre ( BIC ) Dinosaurs Encounter exhibition . By tonight the doors to the dinosaur exhibit will have closed for the last time and the engineers and technical experts will be working over the next few days to dismantle and crate up the various animatronic dinosaurs that have been on display .
 No doubt these mechanical marvels will be making an appearance at another venue in the near future , but for the time being we have to see them packed off and the sets cleared ready for the next event to be staged at the Bournemouth Pavilion .
 The Solent Hall has echoed to the sounds of Triceratops , Ankylosaurus , Oviraptors and Ornithomimids over the last few weeks but by 5 pm this evening the hall will be silent as the great prehistoric animal models are switched off at this venue and the first part of the breakdown of the sets takes place .
 We met lots of lovely people when we worked down at the event , it does not seem like two months ago when we were helping to open the event and meet all the journalists and hoteliers as we promoted the exhibition . Our fossils and casts even got their very own dressing room . This was really handy as we had somewhere safe to store them and we could then bring lots of different ones out to show the visitors . Many thousands will have seen the event over the Summer months , all of them enthusiastically met by the helpful Bournemouth staff .
 I know the management team at the Pavilion received some lovely comments from the visitors , especially all the excited young dinosaur fans who came to meet the prehistoric animals and take part in the activities organised by the Bournemouth Pavilion team .
 We remember the little blind boy and his Mum and Dad who came to visit on the opening weekend . We got out lots of fossils and replica casts and this one special dinosaur fan and his parents got to hold Mammoth teeth , T. rex claws , the skull cap of an Ankylosaurus and the lower jawbone of an adult Triceratops . We think this made his day . He was certainly very excited and could hardly contain his excitement as his fingers traced over the contours of each fossil .
 Our thanks to everyone at the Bournemouth Pavilion who helped to make the event such an enjoyable experience for all the visitors .
 In this digital age with so many different forms of media it is sometimes easy to forget the importance of radio . Whilst most of the United Kingdom is undergoing the digital revolution with television broadcast media at the moment , for radio , the change over to digital programming and all the added benefits that the transition brings has already taken place .
 We have several digital radios , one in the office , others around the warehouse , even one in the dinosaur fan . The van radio is quite a sophisticated device , it allows mobile phones and other equipment to be used by the passenger whilst providing updates on the Test match and other valuable information for the driver .
 Many of us at Everything Dinosaur , have fallen back in love with the radio and for some of us , we have only just begun to realise the rich variety and diversity of radio programming in the UK . All the automatic digital tuning stations on each set are used and at the touch of a button the listener can switch from Radio 7 ( comedy , sci - fi and drama ) , to Radio 5 , 5 Sports Extra and back again , all in crystal clear clarity .
 The controllers at Radio 4 deserve a special mention . This station , ( news , current affairs and information ) , has always provided an excellent range of programming , the Archers ( longest running soap in the country- “ an everyday story of country folk ” ) , is popular , as are the science programmes .
 Over the last few weeks , the BBC have been broadcasting on Radio 4 a series of short monologues by Sir David Attenborough entitled “ David Attenborough ’s Life Stories ” . Each ten minute programme is a talk by Sir David on the natural histories of creatures and plants from around the world . Broadcast twice a week ( Friday evenings 8.50pm GMT ) and repeated on the following Sunday 8.50am GMT ) , it has proved to be essential listening . Not only is Sir David an eloquent and erudite speaker , but his love and fascination for the natural world really comes over in these short programmes . His life long interest in nature has proved a rich and fertile ground from which to create this series of twenty talks . He has covered a wide variety of topics , from recalling his first encounter with a South American Sloth , to musing over the discovery of Archaeopterxy .
 One of his recent episodes covered the story of how he was duped into buying a pair of mating Trilobites from a local trader in Morocco . A number of our team members have been lucky enough to travel to that country and we too have been taken in by the fantastic fossil specimens of these Arthropods that can be purchased by the roadside . His most recent programme covered the story of the discovery of a Coelacanth and the controversy over how closely related this particular type of prehistoric fish was to the first Tetrapods .
 Next weeks ten minute programme is about the Dodo . Radio 4 are to be congratulated for creating such an informative and interesting series . A programme narrated by a knowledgeable person covering subjects that they love and are enthused by . Sometimes it is the most simple programme ideas that are the most effective .
 Good luck to the Radio 4 production team behind these programmes and good luck to you Sir David Attenborough , may you continue to have many more adventures whilst filming the natural world , and hopefully you will commit some more stories to tape so that Radio 4 can produce a second series .
 Australia is beginning to rival China when it comes to announcing the discovery of new types of dinosaur . Hot on the heels of last month ’s announcement of the discovery of two new Titanosaurs and a new Theropod ( meat - eater ) , the Australian press is carrying reports of another exciting dinosaur discovery from down under .
 An expedition has uncovered the fossilised remains of a large Sauropod at a site to the west of Eromanga , in southwest Queensland . This area of Queensland is proving to be a real hot spot for mid Cretaceous dinosaur remains and this new find is one of a number of dinosaur discoveries made recently in the area .
 The fossils are believed to represent a new genus of Titanosaur , a long - necked dinosaur that may have had dermal armour . Preliminary examination dates the fossils to around 97 million years ago ( Albian / Cenomanian faunal stages ) . During this time , ( mid Cretaceous ) , the area was covered by a shallow inland sea . The sea is named after the nearby town of Eromanga , ironic as one of modern day Eromanga ’s claims to fame is that it is the town in Australia furthest away from the sea .
 Although , not the largest specimen of an Australian Titanosaur known to date , the Queensland Museum palaeontologists who studied the fossils are confident that this dinosaur is going to turn out to be one of the most complete sets of fossil bones discovered in the area to date . Like many other palaeontologists , the dinosaur has been given a nick - name whilst the scientists and volunteers work at the dig site . This dinosaur has been named “ Zac ” .
 It will be sometime before “ Zac ” is formerly named and described , there is a lot of work to do on the delicate fossils in the meantime , however , the Queensland Museum team are confident that this particular dinosaur will turn out to be one of the most important dinosaur discoveries made in Australia .
 “ The discoveries made this year confirm the south - west Queensland site is likely to be of great significance – not only for Australia – but for a wider scientific understanding of the age of dinosaurs ” .
 Other dinosaurs from this region include the primitive mid Jurassic Sauropod Rhoetosaurus , a member of the Cetiosauridae perhaps ? This dinosaur has been dated to around 175 million years ago .
 Scientists are confident that more prehistoric animal remains will be found in the area , providing a detailed insight into life down under during the mid Cretaceous .
 It seems that Australia is putting itself firmly on the map when it comes to finding dinosaurs . Now , if only they could put together a decent cricket team ..
 The original King Kong film was released in 1933 . Merian C Cooper ( who produced the film ) along with Edgar Wallace ( the writer of the screen play ) wrote the story , a twist on “ Beauty and the Beast ” between them . It was the pioneering special effects engineer Willis H. O’Brien that brought King Kong , the gigantic ape and the prehistoric animals that shared Skull Island to life . The 1925 film “ The Lost World ” was a very big influence on the original King Kong movie . In the novel , the Lost World , written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , a team of daring explorers led by Professor Challenger venture up a remote plateau and encounter prehistoric creatures .
 Kong the great ape , is worshipped by the natives on Skull Island . Kong falls for the beautiful actress that accompanies the explorers as they visit the island . The actress is offered to Kong as a sacrifice , but the huge simian does not eat her but steals her away into the jungle . Kong is eventually captured and taken to New York as the “ Eighth Wonder of the World ” . However , the ape escapes from his shackles and meets his end on top of the Empire State Building in perhaps one of the most memorable scenes in the whole of cinema .
 Giant apes the size of Kong , as far as we can tell from the fossil record did not exist , Kong was the figment of the script writer ’s imagination . The fossil record for primates and early human ancestors is actually very incomplete , although there is no credible evidence to suggest that giant gorillas roamed the Earth . However , sometimes real life can reflect fiction . Two years after the film King Kong was released a German palaeoanthropologist Ralph von Koenigswald purchased a very large molar from a Hong Kong pharmacy . Animal teeth and bones are commonly used in Chinese medicine , even today . Chinese doctors used “ dragons teeth ” found in remote caves in a number of traditional medicines . Koenigswald correctly identified the tooth as a molar from an unknown , giant primate species . He went onto name the animal Gigantopithecus blacki .
 Gigantopithecus fossils are known from South east Asia ( China and Vietnam ) , this animal lived during the Pliocene epoch but survived into the Pleistocene , before finally becoming extinct approximately 200,000 years ago . Like Orangutans and Gorillas extant species today , the males were much larger than females . A mature male could weigh over 500 kilogrammes and stand 3.1 metres tall .
 Although known from a few fragments of jawbone the rest of the animal has been deduced following studies of extant species of primate . Fortunately , for our ancestors and other hominids such as Homo erectus , Gigantopithecus was a herbivore , feeding mainly on bamboo .
 Switzerland might be more famous for cuckoo clocks and Swiss army knives but it is gaining a bit of a reputation as a hot spot for Triassic dinosaur remains . For example , back in 2007 the discovery of a huge bone bed of Plateosaurs was announced by scientists from the University of Bonn . The site in question is regarded as the largest congregation of dinosaur bones ever found in Europe .
 A team of researchers from the Natural History Museum in Basel have found a set of three - toed dinosaur footprints , half - way up a mountain . The footprints , believed to be from a bipedal , Theropod dinosaur are some of the largest footprints of their kind ever found in Europe . The tracks indicate that approximately 210 million years ago , this area of Europe was stalked by a large predatory dinosaur , perhaps more than 6 metres long . Evidence of such a large , carnivorous dinosaur from such ancient sediments has caused scientists to re - think the evolution of the Theropod lineage , footprints of this size are known from the early Jurassic but not from the late Triassic . This indicates that large meat - eating dinosaurs evolved earlier than previously thought .
 During the Triassic , Switzerland was part of a huge landmass in the northern hemisphere called Laurentia , this part of the world was a coastal plain and a number of important Mesozoic fossils have been found in the country , but never before has evidence of such a large meat - eating dinosaur been discovered . The footprints measure up to 40 cm long and indicate a very large carnivorous dinosaur , perhaps exceeding Liliensternus , a late Triassic carnivore , a member of the Coelophysoidea whose fossils have been found in Germany and France .
 The footprints were found at approximately 3,300 metres on a mountain in Ela Nature Reserve . During the late Triassic this part of the world had a tropical climate and it seems that the footprints were made when this dinosaur walked across a shallow area of salty water . The prints were fossilised and then over millions of years geological pressure forced the strata to buckle and fold forming the Alps . The prints are difficult to spot , they are only visible when direct sunlight does not shine on them , and to see them tourists will have to endure an eight hour hike . Hopefully , casts will be made and these will be put on display at a local museum and visitor centre .
 The three - toed print can be just made out in the centre of the photograph . As trackways have been discovered ( a set of fossil footprints ) , the Swiss scientists hope to calculate how fast this dinosaur was moving . Other dinosaur footprints are known from this area but they are all herbivores , most likely Prosauropods such as Plateosaurus .
 It is impossible to state precisely what sort of Theropod dinosaur made these footprints . It could be a very large Coelophysid or perhaps a primitive Ceratosaur . The fossil record for meat - eating dinosaurs of the late Triassic is particularly poor .
 If it was a crested meat - eater it may have resembled a Liliensternus , but at this time this is pure speculation .
 The Pterosaurs are an extinct group of flying reptiles . Known from the fossil bearing strata dating from the Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous , these bizarre creatures were the first truly diverse and successful flying vertebrates ( not withstanding one or two genera of Permian gliders ) . The wings of these strange reptiles were formed out of skin that stretched from the body over the forelimbs and were supported by an elongated fourth digit .
 For many years scientists have debated the aerial capabilities of these flying reptiles . Studies of endocasts of braincases and papers written on these animal ’s ability to balance have been published and many researchers now believe that these animals were very capable fliers . However , whilst graceful and fully at home whilst airborne , how these animals moved around on the ground has long been debated . It has been argued , almost since the first Pterosaur fossils were studied in the 18th Century , that these animals were clumsy on land . Some scientists have proposed that these animals had a bipedal stance ( especially the larger Pterosaurs such as the Late Cretaceous Azhdarchids ) , whilst others have proposed a quadrupedal stance .
 Ichnologists ( scientists who specialise in the study of footprints and tracks ) , have found a number of Pterosaur trackways . A paper was published recently on a set of tracks made by a large Pterosaur and preserved in late Cretaceous strata in Mexico . These indicate a quadruped gait and stance . This evidence is supported by trace fossils from perhaps the best preserved Pterosaur trackway site in the world , that found in the late Jurassic limestone deposits of Crayssac in south - western France .
 A number of Pterosaur tracks have been identified in the Crayssac site . Some scientists have argued that previously described Pterosaur trackways may actually be Crocodilian but the absence of a tail drag and five digit impressions at the French location suggest that the majority of the trackways ascribed to various types of Pterosaur have been accurately described .
 A number of different sized and different length trackways are known from this region . They indicate the presence of a number of different types of Pterosaur in the environment at the time . The trackways were made in shallow , inter - tidal water and some of the tracks are several metres in length . Crucially , the tracks indicate a quadrupedal gait , and , surprisingly measurements taken by French scientists indicate that some of these Pterosaurs were capable of moving quite quickly when on the ground . How these animals took off , or landed has yet to be determined , but it is suggested that these graceful reptiles were capable of touching down or taking off in a similar fashion to modern birds . Some of the footprints indicate that certain species had webbed feet , an adaptation to their marine environment . Perhaps these animals filled an ecological niche similar to extant Pelicans of today .