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RentRight App
Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV) have developed a RentRight App to help you manage your tenancy. Using the RentRight App you can send email templates on a range of tenancy issues, such as repairs and ending your lease. There are also some handy calculators to help you with working out the cost of rent (weekly, fortnightly, calendar month, six monthly and yearly). The RentRight App also has information on your rights and responsibilities.
Tenants Union of Victoria Campaign
A bond (or security deposit) is paid to the landlord or real estate agent at the start of your tenancy to ensure you comply with your legal obligations as a tenant. This money is held by the Residential Tenancies Bond Authority (RTBA). At the end of the tenancy, the landlord may be able to claim all or part of the bond as compensation for damage to the property or for unpaid rent. There are many issues surrounding the recovery of bonds for tenants. To help campaign for better tenancy laws and practices in this area, the Tenants Union of Victoria are inviting feedback on experiences related to bond refunds. See more information about this campaign.
Thinking about off-campus accommodation for 2017?
Remember to register to the La Trobe Accommodation Database for exclusive access to rental offers from real estate agents, private landlords and commercial accommodation providers.
Inspecting a Property to Rent
Knowing what to look for in a rental property can be hard. The Tenants Union of Victoria has created a handy checklist that you can take when you inspect a property. Download the Property inspection checklist from the Tenants Union of Victoria website [PDF 39KB]
Rooming House Operators Bill 2015
The Rooming House Operators Bill 2015 has recently been passed in the Victorian Parliament. Previously, there was no legislation regulating who was able to own or manage a rooming house, but this new bill proposes a licence system, with approval based on owners past criminal and financial history.
As a result of this bill, owners must prove that they are a "fit and proper person" to receive a rooming house license. It will be illegal to run a rooming house without a licence and registration with the local municipal council. This Bill will seek to limit the opportunities for exploitation, thereby making it safer for rooming house residents. This bill is likely to come into effect in 2017.
Visit the Victorian Legislation website for more information on the Rooming House Operators Bill 2015.
If you have concerns about your tenancy in a rooming house, visit the Consumer Affairs Victoria website.
Calculating the rent per calendar month.
As most months have more than 4 weeks/28 days, it is important to know that agents calculate rent per calendar month (PCM). If only the weekly rent is advertised, you will need to calculate the rent per calendar month. You do this by following the equation:
- Rent per week x 52 weeks ÷ 12 months
- Example: $200 (per week) x 52 weeks ÷ 12 months = $866.66 per calendar month.
To avoid any surprises at the beginning of your tenancy, ensure that you have calculated rent per calendar month.


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Dad Builds Daughter an Awesome Tree House for Her 5th Birthday
One dad's tree house gift for his daughter is spreading smiles to thousands online.
As soon as his daughter started walking, "DIY Dad" — as he prefers to be known — says the little one began to climb the tree in front of their Golden, Colorado home. "She liked being in the tree quite a bit," he tells Yahoo Parenting. And after reading her friend's Magic Treehouse books, he says she started asking for one of her own. "I was just going to make a platform for her to enjoy at the top of her climb but things … escalated."
Indeed. The 40-something newspapers retiree spent two years and $3,000 constructing his daughter a playhouse in their Freemont cottonwood — a breathtaking 30 feet off the ground — as a gift for her 5th birthday last May. "It was a huge hit," wrote the Treehouser blogger Monday on Reddit. Ditto his photo montage of the digs, which he posted on Sunday. Less than 24 hours later, it raked in more than 4,400 points and hundreds of comments.
As soon as the kindergartener saw it, he tells Yahoo Parenting, she broke out into a "big perma-grin." She climbed up and started yelling down "about how cool it was," followed by an announcement that she wanted to sleep there that night. "Then she quickly backtracked," he says. "She wants to put a sleepover on hold until 'dad puts in a bathroom.'"At the birthday party debut, the stay-at-home dad detailed how she and her friends "enjoyed going up and down as much as playing in the tree house itself. We sent up walkie-talkies, snacks, blankets, pillows, dolls, toy fairies, you name it." ("DIY Dad" doesn't want to share his real name or his daughter's.)
Nearly a year later, his daughter is still just as psyched about her hideaway in the clouds. "Weather permitting, she asks me to lower the ladder most days after school and most weekends," he says of the structure, accessible by a custom 4-sided ladder that he created for additional safety. "She'll usually go up and down a few times, getting things she or her friends forgot. We keep the walkie talkie up there, and a basket on a long cord, so they can put in snack orders."
The kindergartener has outfitted her tree house with pillows, blankets and a few of her favorite things, too. "She's quite into fairies and gnomes at the moment," he says. "Several of them live up there, and have little houses she's made for them from different things. They have adventures exploring the yard, then go back up to the tree to stay safe."
Safety has been dad's No. 1 priority. "I often tell people I would've been done a lot sooner if I hadn't worried about safety — my own as much as my daughter's." The first summer he worked on it, he did nothing more than putting the main beams in place.
Still, the dad embraces his daughter's adventurousness and lets her literally fall down and pick herself back up to learn her own strength. She'll come to me and ask, 'Can I climb to the top of that playground thing?'" he says. "I'll say, 'Well, do you think you can? What part is going to be hard about it? And are you willing to take the risk you might fall? How badly will you get hurt if you do?'" Actively avoiding telling her she "can't" do something, he says he and his wife try to talk with the daredevil about things and work them out together. "She weighs risks now, and sure, like a lot of kids, she's fallen," he adds. "But she hasn't hurt herself badly, I think, because she's hurt herself just a little bit, quite often. And I'm there to pick up the pieces when it happens."
His little girl, after all, is his everything. "I get a lot of ribbing about how nice it must be to sip scotch up there or what-have-you," he says of the tree house project. "But I would never have done this for myself. It's a special spot for my daughter, and when she shares it with me and we get to play up there together, I'm the luckiest guy in the world."


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Designed to eliminate confusion: New name for NFL
|Rick Sincere at NFL HQ in Ripon, 2012
The decision was made by the NFL's board last May. One of the purposes behind the change in nomenclature was to reduce two separate but equally frustrating forms of confusion: with the National Football League and with the term "forensics" as crime scene investigation procedures, as if the NFL were the trade association for characters played on TV by David Caruso, Ted Danson, and Gary Sinise.
To be fair, the term "forensics" derives from the courtroom rhetoric used by lawyers to prove their case beyond a shadow of a doubt. Eventually this grew to encompass all the tools used by law enforcement and prosecuting attorneys, from fingerprints to DNA analysis as well as deductive reasoning and argumentation. Orators and debaters laid claim to the word before the maggot-studying scientists started to use it.
In an FAQ on what used to be the NFL's web site, the reason for the rebranding is explained:
As a communication organization, we need to effectively communicate who we are and what we do. There is a common misunderstanding of "NFL" or "forensics," including confusion with the National Football League or crime scene investigation; changing our name to focus on the activity of speech and debate will appeal to more students, coaches, alumni, sponsors, and the general public. We believe rebranding the organization as the National Speech & Debate Association will help us strengthen existing relationships, build new partnerships, increase national and local support for speech and debate, and allow us to pursue our mission to the fullest potential.I have written on previous occasions about the positive impact speech and debate have had on my life and career. Participating in debate through Marquette University High School's Webster Club and coaching younger debaters at the Georgetown University Forensics Institute (there's that word again) for three summers gave me analytical skills that I use every day. Writing a blog post is not so different from writing a debate brief. There just aren't as many bodies piled up on the podium, and you don't breathlessly tell your readers to "pull that across your flow."
It's too bad that popular culture has seldom offered a realistic view of speech and debate. (Even the well-received play, Speech & Debate by Stephen Karam, is off the mark.) Films like Thumbsucker and Listen to Me deserve thumbs up for effort but raspberries for accuracy.
The only recognizable portrayal of competitive speech on the high school circuit I have found is in James Magruder's novel, Sugarless. In a brief review of that book in 2010, I wrote:
I don't read much fiction, in general, but when I received a review copy of James Magruder's Sugarless late last year, I simply could not put it down.
It has been almost a year since I read the book, but I still think about it because it resonates with my personal experience so much: not in every aspect, but hitting a sufficient number of points on the matrix to make me believe it.
Sugarless is the story of Rick, a 15-year-old high school student in suburban Chicago during the mid-1970s who, almost purely by chance, ends up on the speech team and finds out he has a talent for dramatic interpretation (or dramatic interp, for those in the know).
Magruder's verisimilitude about high school forensics struck me more than anything else in the book, even the parts about the protaganist's struggle with coming out as gay in an era far less accepting of that than it is now. His descriptions of the scenes at speech tournaments are amazingly accurate, and his portrayals of coaches and competitors are eerily familiar to me.
The one detail that other readers might find difficult to believe is the choice of the protaganist's speech coach to have him do an excerpt from Mart Crowley's play, The Boys in the Band. People unfamiliar with high school forensics may think that a play about gay men would be off-limits, especially in 1976, and especially in the American Midwest.
The truth is, a cutting from The Boys in the Band was circulating at that time, and my own coach asked me to do it. For reasons unrelated to the content of the piece, I ended up doing a different selection. (If I recall correctly, it was the courtroom scene in A Man for All Seasons, a far more conventional choice.) So I can testify against the doubters that an excerpt from The Boys in the Band was, indeed, being performed on the high school forensics circuit in the mid-1970s.
Having just seen the excellent documentary about Crowley and his play, Making the Boys, at the Virginia Film Festival, my memories of reading Sugarless earlier this year and my own experience in high school rushed back to me.
I recommend Sugarless to anyone who has competed in speech and debate or to anyone who was once a gay teenager. It's an excellent book, and a compelling read -- a real achievement for a first-time novelist, even one who, like Magruder, is an accomplished playwright and translator.I would love to see Sugarless on screen, although I doubt that's likely to happen anytime soon. Too niche; too talky; too gay -- but delicious all the same.
Having mentioned Sugarless, I should also note Mark Oppenheimer's relatable, readable memoir, Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate. Oppenheimer portrays accurately the debate environment in which he competed, but that was not policy debate under the auspices of the NFL or the NCFL (National Catholic Forensic League). It was, rather, a self-contained regional circuit populated by New England prep school teams, different from the kind of debate people tend to encounter elsewhere in the country (Upper Midwest, Texas) and even in today's urban debate leagues. My review of Wisenheimer was published in December 2010.
While old-timers like myself may feel the rebranding of the National Forensic League into the National Speech & Debate Association (no approved acronym or abbreviation ) is a rejection of the organization's historical roots, at least it is an accurately descriptive moniker for the group. It requires no more explanation than what can fit on a business card.
A final note: it was announced earlier this month that the policy debate topic for the 2014-15 school year will be "Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its non-military exploration and/or development of the Earth's oceans."
Ocean policy got me into college and was one-quarter of my master's degree -- but those are stories for another time, another day.


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DESPITE HIS MULTI-MILLION-POUNDsuccess at the box office, Tom Cruise has never managed to win an Oscar.
But the Hollywood star will hardly be thrilled to learn he has picked up three nominations at the Razzies.
The spoof ceremony pays tribute to the worst the film industry has to offer.
In Cruise's case, it was for his nauseating performance on Oprah when he bounced up and down on a sofa professing love for fiancée Katie Holmes.
That bizarre display bagged the 43-year-old a nomination in the 'most tiresome tabloid target' category.
But Cruise is not one to do anything by halves. The devout Scientology follower has earned himself a second nomination in the same category – for branding the psychiatry profession 'an esoteric cult' in several interviews.
His final nomination is in the 'worst actor' category for his performance in the lacklustre blockbuster War of The Worlds.
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- Free WiFi
- Breakfast included
- Free parking
- Pet Friendly
What's nearby
- Herndon Centennial Golf Course
- 5 min drive
- Dulles Sportsplex
- 5 min drive
- Washington, DC (IAD-Washington Dulles Intl.)
- 6 min drive
- Ashburn Ice House
- 6 min drive
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About this area
Located in Sterling, Extended Stay America Washington, D.C. - Sterling - Dulles is in an area with good airport proximity. Travellers eager for a bit of culture can stop by National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, while those who have shopping on the agenda may want to visit Dulles Town Center and Reston Town Center. Looking to enjoy an event or a game while in town? See what's going on at Dulles Sportsplex, or consider a night out at Old Ox Brewery.
What's nearby
- Herndon Centennial Golf Course - 5 min drive
- Dulles Sportsplex - 5 min drive
- Ashburn Ice House - 6 min drive
- Dulles Town Center - 6 min drive
- Reston Hospital Center - 8 min drive
Getting around
- Manassas Station - 25 min drive
- Wiehle-Reston East Metro Station - 78 min drive
- Washington, DC (IAD-Washington Dulles Intl.) - 6 min drive
About this property
Extended Stay America Washington, D.C. - Sterling - Dulles
Property amenities
- Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
- Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Parking and public transport
- Free self parking
Food and drink
- Free on-the-go breakfast available daily 6 AM–9:30 AM
- Coffee/tea in a common area
Family friendly
- Full-sized fridge
- Kitchen
- Laundry facilities
- Microwave
- Front-desk safe
Guest services
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Housekeeping (on request)
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
Languages spoken
- English
- If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them in the special requests field on the booking page after selecting your room.
- Wheelchair-accessible parking
- Smoke-free property
Room amenities
- Air conditioning
- Free toiletries
- Hairdryer
- Shower/bathtub combination
- 32-inch flat-screen TV
- TV channels
- premium channels
Food and drink
- Coffee/tea maker
- Cookware/dishes/utensils
- Kitchen
- Microwave
- Fridge
- Hob
- Access via exterior corridors
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board
- Phone
Nearby things to do
- Fitness centre (discounted access)
Guest rating
- Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
After check in, went to my room and the door handle stuck to the point that I would literally have to push down on it with my body weight and two hands to open. The room was clean, but there were no cup for water or a bucket for ice, not was their any ice in the freezer. There were no extra blankets available except the thin one on the bed. When I called for more, was told there were none. The toilet had a sign on it that said that the toilets were upgraded to eco-friendly toilets and don't need to be held down to flush. But they didn't flush at all and at one point it started to overflow.
- Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Shameful is how I can summarize my experience with this hotel. I called ahead of time to inform the front desk of our late check in, when I got there for check in I waited outside on the phone for 10 minutes until someone opened the door. Upon checking in, I inquired about upgrading to a double bed and my question was ignored and I was just told NO! We did not spend much time in the hotel, as we mainly just needed to sleep there. On what was supposed to be our last night, my husband found COCKROACHES!!! I called the front, nobody answered. I called Expedia and they began to assist me with contacting the hotel regarding this issue. We eventually decided to leave and not stay the night, because if there are COCKROACHES in one room, more likely they're in other rooms too! I dropped off the keys at the lobby and told the woman working there the situation and all she said was sorry. I asked for the manager, she said he was not there. The woman said she could not resolve anything, that the manager was the only person that did that (what kind of customer service is this?) So we left the hotel, tired and annoyed and began our drive back to Chicago. I still don't have a resolution for a refund due to the disgusting conditions of the suite! I DO NOT RECOMMEND this hotel, STAY AWAY if you don't want to get COCKROACHES all over your personal belongings and in your personal space. P.S. I was also informed from a local resident that the hotel is known to have bedbugs too.
- Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Recommendable for everyone the cheapest prices in the area!
- Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Worse than a Super 8
Broken glass and trash in the walkway/hallway (walkway/hallway to rooms is not enclosed) for 3 days. I told them about it after the first night's stay and it was still there the day I checked out. My "smoke-free" room smelled like cigarettes. Someone tried to enter my room at 7:26 a.m. the first morning - I heard them messing with the door, and my dog immediately started growling directly at the doorknob when he heard it (really glad he did). I informed the front desk about the incident about 30 minutes after it happened and asked them to see if it was another guest or housekeeping, front desk said "No one with a card tried to get into your room", and made no efforts to assuage my concerns. TV stopped working last night of the stay.


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Our range of litho printing presses allows our customers to choose from single to multicolour printing, with the capacity and flexibility to produce anything from business cards through to high volume brochures and everything in between. All our presses are colour calibrated to ensure high quality consistent results across all our presses.
KJB Print are one the UK's leading litho printing firms having invested in state-of-the-art litho printing technology, presses and software. We are a Cannock based litho printing company that services major clients nationwide.


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HAVANA (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Thursday urged Cuba to speed up and extend market-style economic reforms, saying world investors would respond and that it might be the best path toward better relations with the United States.
Chamber President Thomas Donohue extolled the virtues of capitalism and free markets in the communist-ruled country, once taboo subjects here, and told Cubans that reducing excessive government control of the economy was the best assurance of prosperity.
"The more Cuba can do to demonstrate its commitment to reform, and the more it can do to address and resolve disputes in our relations, the better the prospects will be for changes in U.S. policy," Donohue said in a speech before Foreign Investment Minister Rodrigo Malmierca, a host of other Cuban officials and university students.
Donohue also met with Cuban President Raul Castro, state television said, without reporting details of their conversation. It was a late addition to Donohue's agenda before departing for the United States at the end of a three-day visit.
Donohue, an influential voice in U.S. politics, led a delegation including representatives of commodities giant Cargill [CARG.UL] and direct-selling pioneer Amway on a trip that drew protests from supporters of the U.S. economic embargo back in Washington.
The chamber has long opposed the embargo as harmful to U.S. business interests; the embargo remains a pillar of the strong Cuban exile lobby that supports maintaining Cold War-era punitive sanctions.
Since taking over as president for his ailing brother Fidel in 2008, Castro has ushered in reforms that have allowed nearly 500,000 small private businesses to operate and hundreds of thousands of private farmers to grow food on their own land.
Cuba is also seeking badly needed foreign investment with a new law it hopes will attract $2 billion to $2.5 billion a year in foreign direct investment, an estimated 10-fold increase from current levels, which it does not report.
Donohue praised those reforms, but he said Cuba had more to do and cited China and Vietnam as examples where communist countries have raised living standards by turning toward more market-oriented policies.
"We hope these changes continue and urge that they be expanded. Businesses throughout the global economy will respond," Donohue said.
He cited the protection of intellectual property rights and the lack of an independent arbitration system for business disputes as areas where Cuba must improve to attract foreign investment.
"I believe that Cuba ... has the potential to develop as a very good investment," Donohue said.
When asked in a question-and-answer session how much of his own money he would invest, Donohue said, "It depends on what I could buy.
"There are some pretty good deals here, you know. There's some great real estate on the waterfront," he said. "I'm not going any further than that."
Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by G Crosse and Leslie Adler


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Formed in Essen, Germany in 1982, Kreator are arguably the most influential and successful European thrash metal band ever, like many of their European speed metal brethren, Kreator fused Metallica's thrash innovations with Venom's proto-black metal imagery. Often referred to as one of the "Big 4" of Teutonic thrash metal, and they are often credited with helping pioneer death metal and black metal by containing several elements of what was to become those genres. The band has achieved worldwide sales of over two million units for combined sales of all their albums, making them one of the best-selling German thrash metal bands of all time. The band's style has changed several times over the years, from a Venom-inspired speed metal sound, later moving in to thrash metal, and including a period of transitioning from thrash to industrial metal and gothic metal throughout the 1990s. In the early 2000s, Kreator returned to their classic thrash sound, which has continued to the present.
With hindsight, and a sense of history, Outcast is certainly one of Kreator's most inventive and important albums. The German gargantuan-watt gladiators' eighth studio release was different to anything they'd done in the past during a time when metal was in turmoil due to the grunge and Nu Metal explosions. The title Outcast was appropriate for how the band felt in the late 1990's and when Outcast was released in July 1997 it wasn't a huge selling album, nonetheless it proved they were still an exciting, individual and focused band.
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New York State prison guards often escape punishment for acts of brutality because district attorneys in communities where prisons provide jobs, and are thus essential to the communities' economic health, are hesitant to charge them. Another factor is that the union contract with the state shields prison workers from prosecution even in many egregious cases.
That contract is now being renegotiated. Gov. Andrew Cuomo needs to hold out for a new one that strengthens state control over the prison system by holding guards more closely accountable for wrongdoing.
The flaws in the disciplinary system, which have been obvious for some time, were exposed yet again last year when the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York charged five corrections officers with fraud and with violating the civil rights of an inmate whom guards had beaten nearly to death at the Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill three years earlier.
Three of the officers pleaded guilty. Last month, a federal jury in Westchester County convicted the remaining two — one of them a supervisor — of a barbaric crime and an extensive cover-up that might have gone unpunished if not for federal intervention.
The case dates back to November 2013, when officers grew angry at a 54-year-old inmate named Kevin Moore for talking back to them. They proceeded to kick, punch and beat him with batons for what court documents describe as "an extended period," leaving him with five fractured ribs, a collapsed lung and multiple facial fractures.
As Mr. Moore begged for mercy, the supervising officer on the scene did nothing, instead mocking him as she watched. According to court documents, the officers ripped out a clump of dreadlocks from Mr. Moore's head, which one of them claimed as a "trophy."
Instead of sending the gravely injured inmate to the hospital, the guards locked him up in solitary confinement. They cleaned up blood and concocted an elaborate cover-up in which the inmate was falsely described as having attacked and injured a guard. Mr. Moore's injuries were discovered the next day. According to court documents, he spent the next 17 days hospitalized.
The union contract makes it difficult to fire officers, even in horrible cases like this one. One particularly outrageous provision gives guards the right to refuse to answer questions put to them by the police, which undermines the investigation from the start.
The contract also requires a convoluted disciplinary process presided over by arbitrators who need union approval to keep their jobs, and who thus tend to lean toward suspension rather than dismissal.
The two recently convicted former Downstate corrections officers — one of them the supervisor — face the possibility of lengthy prison terms when they come up for sentencing in April.
For starters, Mr. Cuomo needs to push for a sensible disciplinary system, like that used by the State Police. Charges against officers are heard by a panel of three commissioned officers — two appointed by the superintendent and one by the union. The State Police superintendent gets final say. New York City's Police Department uses a similar system.
Governor Cuomo has strengthened the system's investigative apparatus, which is more inclined than in years past to refer misconduct cases for criminal prosecution. But to regain full control of a prison system that is essentially run by the guards, a radically different union contract will be necessary.


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Amid Evil is set for 2018
One of my biggest issues with the FPS genre is it all ends up feeling a bit copy and paste. Okay, the setting might be different as may well be the guns, but generally it doesn't matter whether you're trudging through World War II streets or boarding a star ship; when you've done it once you've sort of done it. One thing we don't see very often is a fantasy based FPS, I'm not saying it hasn't been done, it has with games like Hexen but it's always nice to see something new right? New, in this particular case comes in the form of Amid Evil.
So what are we being told about the game? Well it's styled on Heretic, which certainly isn't a bad thing, and it's by the producers behind DUSK and the creators of Return of the Triad. This isn't a game that's going to be out until next year but we've got a few interesting bits of information for you thus far.
Amid Evil plays over seven distinctive episodes with each featuring different settings and enemies. On the subject of levels we can expect really large areas to explore and play through, which are going to be stuffed with tons of secrets and game lore. The devs are also touting a smart AI, and this is something that is always welcome in an FPS where in far too many cases you find yourself up against an army of brain-dead bullet sponges that will throw everything including the kitchen sink at you to get a kill. If the enemies are hunting you, they're thinking and this is a really good recipe for fun. Add an arsenal of awesomely powerful weapons and you have a game that could well be rather brilliant.
Something you don't really see anymore are cheats. There's probably good reason for this. I've seen what the Gameshark and Gamegenie did to some games back in the day and you really wouldn't want to go destroying an expensive piece of software in this day and age just to get a few extra lives. There's something about cheat codes, however, that is just nostalgic and a game harking back to older, (slightly more polygon filled) days wouldn't be right without them. Cheats and other in-game options have been built into Amid Evil to allow for that truly retro experience. As retro as you can get considering this game has been built with the Unreal Engine 4.
Some of the lucky souls that found themselves at PAX Australia last weekend have already played Amid Evil. The rest of us have a little bit longer to wait. When 2018 comes around we're bound to learn more about this title. Like which platforms it's going to be appearing on. Until then we'll just have to wait and see.


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|The Smarties with Brad from the West Coast Eagles
He spoke to us about the benefits of playing sport. When we play sport, we get the "Three Fs". They are:
He also told us about the "Five Rs". These are things that we should try to do so that we can grow up to be the best we can be. They are:
RESPECT OURSELVES - We need to respect our bodies by taking care of them.
RESPECT OURSELVES - We need to respect our bodies by taking care of them.
RESPECT OTHER PEOPLE - We need to respect the ideas and opinions of the people around us. as well as being good sports.
RESPECT THE ENVIRONMENT - We need to look after our school, our town, our country and the Earth.
REACH OUR POTENTIAL - We should always do our best and make the most of the special talents we have.
REACH OUT TO THE COMMUNITY - Doing good things for other people in our community is very important.
Brad had a friend with him! He was a very big surprise. His name was Rick "The Rock" Eagle. He was funny and silly. He made us laugh a lot. Brad checked Rick's lunchbox and saw that he had some very healthy foods inside it, but there were some things that are not so good for him. We talked about the importance of eating healthy, natural foods and drinking lots of water because they are the best things for our bodies.
Our activity in class this afternoon was to think about the things that are in a healthy lunchbox. We decided there should be some fruit, vegetables, grainy bread, some cheese or yogurt, lean meat and a water bottle. We made some pictures to show what we'd like in our healthy lunchbox.
For those of you who aren't Australian, you might be wondering who the "West Coast Eagles" are. They are an Australian Rules Football team from Western Australia. Many of The Smarties barrack for them! If you're not Australian, then you might not know about Australian Rules Football (also called AFL). It's one of the most popular sports here and many children play it (but with modified rules because the grown-up version can be very rough!). It's nothing like soccer and not much like American Football. Here's a YouTube video we found to give you an idea!
Love from The Smarties and Mrs N


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Spent the weekend shopping for officewear essentials. I bought blazers, cardigans and tops. On Saturday, we will be celebrating our company Christmas party in Waterfront Hotel. We're having a Hollywood theme for the party so I'm probably going to shop for a dress after work.
No Boundaries wifebeater, brown woven belt, beige highwaisted shorts, beige cage shoes, mum's bag, round leopard glasses.


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How Much Does It Cost for More Mac Memory? →
In 2011, it does not cost a lot of money for apple memory upgrades, and in fact now is the perfect time to buy mac memory as RAM has never been cheaper than right now for Apple Computers.
Let's take a look at today's RAM prices: As I write this you can buy memory for MacBook Pros for as little as $49 for 4GB of MacBook Pro memory, one of the best selling Apple notebooks available today. To maximize current memory on any modern MacBook Pro will need to replace the 4GB that ships as standard equipment when the MacBook Pro comes from Apple and replace it with 4GB memory modules x 2 for a total of 8GB of MacBook Pro RAM. To offset the cost of your MacBook Pro RAM there are many memory stores that will buy back your old ram and and credit you against the newer and larger memory upgrades – regardless of which Apple computer you need RAM for and making the memory for your Apple Computer even that much cheaper. It's possible you could upgrade the RAM on your Mac for under $50 for most current shipping Apple computers – and even less if you're looking to upgrade older Macs with cheaper and smaller ram modules.
When it comes to upgrading the memory on older Macintosh computers, you do need to be aware of the price and performance ratio, as some older Macs might not be worth it to add more memory to. Your computing dollar might be better spent on buying a new Mac, rather than upgrading the memory on an old computer where your performance dollar might be better spent.
Below are the best prices on Apple RAM for all current Apple computers such as Apple iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro and Mac Pro
**What it costs for more Mac memory


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Thank you and enjoy my pic art
13 October 2012
Fender SRV Stratocaster
Thank you and enjoy my pic art
Where this belong? Unreleased tech pic.
2 comments:
- bluesguy62 said...
Great guitar, neat and functional rewiring job.
- 13 October 2012 at 23:08
- Steve C. said...
ahha this is teh real deal! compared to my japanese reissue XD
- 14 October 2012 at 19:04
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C-U in the Prairibbean XII is scheduled for Saturday, August 6th in downtown Champaign in the parking lot at the corner of Neil and Washington Streets and the proceeds will benefit DSC! This year's event will feature Jimmy Buffett tribute band, The Boat Drunks, and the Tons O' Fun Band! A large silent auction and a $5,000 CASH raffle will be a part of the festivities that you won't want to miss.
Event tickets: $10 each, Cash Raffle Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20. Gates open at 5:00 p.m.


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Our Berlin based Kiwi mate Reuben plays in a band, stays up all night, writes this blog and, apparently, looks a lot like a man-sized cherub. This is a letter he wrote to England's leading formaldahyde artist Damien Hirst. Reuben's letting you read it because that's the kind of free spirit he is.
Dear Damien Hirst (acclaimed artist),
My name is Reuben Bonner and unbeknownst to you, we are now sharing a very critically acclaimed exhibition at the Tate Modern in London.
While you did the lion's share of the work (around 25 years' worth), I would also like to take a small portion of credit for the wonderful collection for the following reasons:
1. I took in around 12 cigarette butts (mainly Rothmans) and dropped them in the art piece that is a gigantic ashtray filled with hundreds of cigarette butts. I suppose this is still mainly your art piece, but I like to think I have given it a bit of an upgrade as I couldn't really see many Rothmans butts in there before. If it was named 'Ashtray' before, maybe now it could be named "Damian and Reuben's Ashtray 2.0" or something similar?
2. I also snuck in a fully-grown fly in a matchbox and released it inside the room where A Thousand Years is kept (the piece which has a cow's head inside a big glass cabinet while thousands of flies buzz around inside it). I think this is pretty artistic on my part, as when people see my fly OUTSIDE the cabinet, they are probably wondering how it could have possibly escaped. Then they will probably think: 'Brilliant. One fly outside the cabinet, hundreds of thousands inside. That is art. What a statement.' I think this exhibition is mainly for the art connoisseur, but it is still effective. At least until my fly dies.
I hope you are not cross at me for doing this without asking first, but I suppose I would call myself a bit of a renegade or vigilante artist who doesn't usually ask for permission. I bet you can respect that. But, if you ARE cross please let me know, as I can easily go back and get the cigarette butts out and capture my fly if you don't like the idea of sharing the exhibition any longer. I know exactly where the cigarette butts are, and it shouldn't be too hard to find my fly, as it was pretty gigantic. Just let me know, but please do it by next Wednesday as I am leaving London (probably forever). Secretly I'm hoping you aren't cross, as it is at least an hour for me to get there on the tube and no doubt it will be packed with billions of people and I will probably have some stranger pressed against me, breathing directly into my mouth, maybe even with his penis pressed against my leg.
Can I please make some observations about our shared exhibition at this early stage:
1. I think your artworks are fantastic, even though I am an ignoramus I really felt like I was surrounded by real art when I was in our exhibition. It was truly, truly inspiring and it made me think that you would be a great guy to hang out with in real life. My friend Beads who went to the exhibition also really loved it. Especially The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living AKA the tiger shark encased in formaldehyde solution.
2. I would love to have some LSD and go back to the exhibition, mainly to look at the incredible spinning psychedelic art piece in one of the smaller rooms (you know the one I mean). I hope now that, as it is partly my exhibition, I won't have to pay to get back in.
3. A lot of people who go and look at art, walk around with their hands clasped behind their backs. I think this makes them look at least 50 percent more intelligent than the people who walk around with their hands to the side. Although the trade off is that they probably look 50 percent more like a wanker.
4. The Tate Modern is not really very economical with space. My friend Beads and I stood outside the building commenting on how big it looked, then after walking in we realised that half the building was basically an empty carpark with a gigantic roof. Because of this, Beads decided not to give the optional donation of £1.50 and said to the person at the ticket booth: "By the way you guys are using your space, it doesn't really look like you are struggling financially." The ticket person laughed and said "Fair play." It was a valid point and I wished that I had thought of the same thing instead of paying the £1.50.
Anyway, I hope you get this email and it is just not read by the person who is in charge of your website. I wrote you this Haiku to say thank you for the art, and I hope you are having a nice day. It is called "Damien and Me (A Haiku)":
Damien And Me
Our Art Will Live Forever
Until My Fly Dies
Yours Sincerely
Reube Bonner (emerging artist)
PS, What do you think of London? For me personally, I am not so fond of how everyone always seems to talk about the tube. What tube line they catch, what tube lines are the worst on weekends, etc, etc. If people shut up about the tube for five seconds, I think I would like London a lot better.
PPS, what are the odds of me getting a small cut of the income for our shared exhibition? Or do you think it is important for me to work as a struggling artist for a few more years before I try to cash in?
PPPS, do you think there is a chance that my name could be added to all the signage at the exhibition or is it too much of a hassle? It would obviously be much smaller than your name. For example, if your name was size 24 font, mine would be about eight or nine. Is this something I should take up with the Tate museum directly?


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Happy Tuesday, lovelies!
I was at the Salvation Army the other day, poking through the jewelry, when I saw this adorable magnifying glass necklace tangled up in a heap of other, less lovely chains.
Isn't it precious? It occurred to me on my drive home from the shop, that I'd seen something similar somewhere on the Internet. At Urban Outfitters, to be exact!
The Sal/Val version: $2.The cost for the UO necklace: $28. Personally, I think the thrifted one looks cooler anyway.
If you're a regular thrift-store shopper, I'm sure this is a common occurrence for you too, right? Spotting something at a thrift that's being reproduced down the design, fabric, stitch and sold in "normal" stores? I guess as the saying goes, what goes around comes around…


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I was having trouble with a webserver this week, which I'd just set up for a client. When it went live, it seemed OK initially, but when we left it overnight it curled up its toes and died. It was so dead that I couldn't even ssh in to reboot it, so we had to do a remote reboot. Crunch.
Anyway, on getting it back up, I poked around in the logs and found that it was running out of memory, which it really shouldn't do given that it was a fairly low load on the webserver, and only apache, mysql and php were running on it. I looked around the Interwebs and found an excellent resource called Troubleshooting Memory Usage, which gave me some pointers about how to rein in apache and stop it from eating up memory so quickly. Thanks!
Anyway on the page was a script for summarising memory usage, which I thought was a good idea, so i grabbed that one and adapted it to my own purposes. I thought I'd make the results available here, so feel free to grab it and adapt it to your own needs.
#!/bin/bash # Mem-info.sh. Version 1.5 2008-12-20 # Adapted from various sources around the Internet. # Requires mutt to be installed to use the email function. #################### Functions #################### function print_help { echo " Usage:" echo " $0 [-a full|summary] -f /tmp/memoryreport.txt" echo " Parameters:" echo " -a Specify full or summary report" echo " -f Specify alternate filename " echo " -e
Send report to specified email address" echo " -h | --help This usage information" echo " Running the script with no parameters writes a summary report to ./output.txt" } function summary_report { echo "=========================== SUMMARY ============================" > $mem_outputfile date >> $mem_outputfile echo >> $mem_outputfile echo "=========================== uptime ==============================" >> $mem_outputfile uptime >> $mem_outputfile echo >> $mem_outputfile echo "========================== free -m ==============================" >> $mem_outputfile free -m >> $mem_outputfile echo >> $mem_outputfile echo "========================= vmstat 1.5 ============================" >> $mem_outputfile vmstat 1 5 >> $mem_outputfile echo >> $mem_outputfile echo "================== ps top 20 Processes by CPU ===================" >> $mem_outputfile ps -eo user,%mem,%cpu,pid,cmd --sort -%cpu | head -n 20 >> $mem_outputfile echo >> $mem_outputfile } function full_report { summary_report echo "========================= FULL DETAIL ===========================" >> $mem_outputfile echo "======================== top raw output =========================" >> $mem_outputfile top -b -n 1 >> $mem_outputfile echo " " >> $mem_outputfile echo "======================= ps auxf raw output ======================" >> $mem_outputfile ps auxf --width=200 >> $mem_outputfile echo >> $mem_outputfile echo "=========================== end ================================ " >> $mem_outputfile echo >> $mem_outputfile echo >> $mem_outputfile } #################### Process Command line #################### while [ "$1" != "" ]; do case $1 in -f ) shift mem_outputfile=$1 ;; -a ) shift mem_action=$1 ;; -e ) shift email_to=$1 ;; -h | --help ) print_help exit ;; * ) print_help exit ;; esac shift done ######################### Set Defaults ######################### if [ -z "${mem_action}" ]; then echo " No action Specified. Defaulting to summary report" mem_action="summary" fi if [ -z "${mem_outputfile}" ]; then echo " No output file specified. Writing to `pwd`/output.txt" mem_outputfile="output.txt" fi ######################### Do Stuff ######################### if [ "$mem_action" = "full" ]; then full_report else summary_report fi if [ "$email_to" = "" ]; then echo " No email address specified. Not emailing report." else mutt -s "Memory Usage Report" $email_to < $mem_outputfile fi
Or you can download the file mem-info1 if the formatting above is all messed up. Make sure you go to the page I linked to above for excellent advice on interpreting the report.


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The AZADV Executive Board has approved the release of "Why Join AZAD?" PowerPoint. The Board will use the PowerPoint as an AZADV Tool Kit for Membership Recruitment jointly by the Membership Chairman and Director of Public Relations. The AZADV Tool Kit will consist of the PowerPoint presentation and AZAD brochures which include a membership form.
The PowerPoint will also be available to individual Docent groups for use during new trainee classes and/or an AZADV Day set aside for all docents to attend…make it a party atmosphere. Show the PowerPoint, have AZADV members talk about their experiences from past AZADV Conferences. Discuss how knowledge gained from paper presentations, guest speakers, networking and ideas from pre and post trips has been incorporated into their own docent programs.
The AZADV Tool Kit is available online or you can request a hard copy by contacting the Director of Public Relations.
[Download Membership Toolkit: PowerPoint Presentation | AZAD Brochure | Membership Form].


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My typed up briefs, in my own words for practicing:-
I have typed up all my briefs to help with myself remembering what i need to cover and also in the demo what i need to show and explain to clients:-
*Not needed for assessment but i felt it was important for myself to do to remember how to say and explain things
OH&S this can be used for all types of activity's abseiling, rock climbing, bush-walking Adjust as need be:-
Good Morning! / Afternoon
Today we are doing……….
Format:- What, When, Where,
(Guide to times depending on day)
Things to Mention:-
- P= Personal items
- T= Toilets
- S = Smoking
- S= Sunscreen / Hats
- W= Water
- Environment (- Rubbish, Staying to the Tracks)
- H= Hazards
Safety Rules:-
1) Do not go over the edge with out a safety Line,
2) Do not take off your safety line only an instructor will do this,
3) Look out for everyone if you see something wrong or not looking right please call an instructor over.
4) Please keep your helmet on with in 4 meters of the cliff
Abseiling Brief:-
How to Abseil brief, we have a device called a figure 8 which the rope runs through and connected with a carabiner, this is connected to your harness, instructors will connect you to the rope, you do not need to worry about this, you will have your feet shoulder width apart, and slowly make your way to the edge of the cliff, leaning back in your harness, knees and legs straight, now you can slowly move your feet down the wall, Go is allowing your hand up, stop is lock of by your hips, Body at 12.00 o'clock and hand at four o'clock, when moving down the wall you need to keep your feet flat against the wall "No tip toes". I also have a bottom belay person who is an instructor, if something happens they will lock off the rope and you will not be able to move any further. When you want to be able to move again you will, have your hand back on the rope locked off ready to abseil again, say "In Control" and the bottom belay instructor will let you abseil down the wall. Anything to add Martin or instructors?, We will now break into groups have an awesome time abseiling!
Safety Rules:-
1) Do not go over the edge with out a safety Line,
2) Do not take off your safety line only an instructor will do this,
3) Look out for everyone if you see something wrong or not looking right please call an instructor over.
4) Please keep your helmet on with in 4 metres of the cliff,
We yell "Rock" if something is falling , important you do not look up, look down.
Rock climbing Brief:-
Today we are going to show you how to rock climb with a top rope system, top rope climbing means that there is anchor points at the top and the rope runs through the bolts / anchors. The rope closest to the wall is the climbers end and the other end is what we call the belayer end. Before we do anything we need to check the rope is untwisted. Take the Rope closest end to the wall which we need to tie in the climber, we do this with a Figure 8 knot and a stopper knot = double fisherman's knot to tie in the climber , "You do not need to do this as an instructor will do this for you" – now this end is the belayer end we use a Bug / belay device to control the rope for the climber to allow safe climbing and abseiling back down. we take a bit/ bite of rope and feed it through the device, the top part of the rope should go to the anchors and then the climber the bottom part should go to the rest of the coiled rope on the ground.
We use a FIVE POINT system called V to the Knee 1 2 3, this is to keep the climber safe at all times, (Demonstrate)
Buddy checks – checking that the climber is tied in, harness, helmet, shoes all safe backed off, checking the belayer is connected carabiner screwed up, The belayer needs to take all the slack out of the rope, being a dynamic rope it has a lot of stretch in it, it is a dynamic rope to allow a safe fall the rope will stretch a little.
Things to remember while climbing are:-
*Take all the stretch out of the rope, Buddy checks!,
*Keep the rope between your arms, Do not have it to one side as this could cause a pendulum swing, Do not climb to far to the left or right of the climb.
*Before and When lowering a climber an instructor must be present at all times!, No lowering without an instructor as it is the most dangerous part.
We will now split into groups for climbing, Happy climbing! 🙂
"Need to keep practicing my briefs till i know them inside out" This will also mean i am less nervous in saying them!
Practice makes perfect so they say !
My First time saying the Briefs and giving a abseil demo 24th July 2016
Getting more confidence the more i do the briefs and specking in front of people.


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Apr 5, 2014
Han Solo vs. Commissioner Gordon sounds awesome, until you
realize the star of Paranoia is actually a Hemsworth brother. And
not the good one. Meanwhile Elliott doubles down on the size of
Gary Oldman's penis, Stuart disturbs us by talking about intimate
times and Dan introduces the notion of a California Raisins
A note: in this episode Dan confuses Baba Yaga with Strega Nona.
Movies recommended in this episode:
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Visitor
The Sweet Smell of Success


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Herbal tinctures are one of my favorite ways to take herbal medicine. They are fast-acting, potent, and portable! While teas are great, and I LOVE my teas, tinctures are usually my go-to for the ease and quickness. A dropper full of tincture is easy to just squirt into your mouth-whereas you have to go through the process of boiling water, steeping herbs, straining, sweetening, etc. Which, don't get me wrong-I love the ritual of brewing teas! But, when you have a sinus headache, you want something to hit it fast and hard.
Oh, you don't know what a tincture is? Let me explain! A tincture is simply an extract of constituents of the plant material into a menstruum (solvent-alcohol, vinegar, or vegetable glycerin, typically). My preferred menstruum is alcohol. I personally use 190 proof organic alcohol that I then dilute down to appx. 100 proof. But, you can just buy a cheap bottle of vodka, rum, brandy, etc. as long as it is around 100 proof (50%). Anything less and you run the risk of not getting the full extraction.
I use tinctures for all kinds of things. Headaches, stress, allergies, sleeplessness, anxiety, liver support, digestion, respiratory support, immune boosting. All the things! As I said, alcohol is the preferred solvent, as it and the water content are sure to extract the alkaloids and water soluble components of the plant. Now, the exception is if I want to extract the nourishing components of a plant (vitamins and minerals). In that case, I like to use apple cider vinegar.
If you are concerned about using alcohol preparations, fear not! I give them to my children. If you think about it-the amount of alcohol in a dosage is about 15-20 drops. That comes to MAYBE a mL of alcohol. One serving of alcohol is 30 mL (one ounce). You would have to drink an entire 1 ounce bottle of tincture to get a mixed drink's serving of alcohol. And, a child's dosage is even less-depending on weight it is between 3-10 drops. There is more alcohol in the vanilla extract you are cooking with! The only concern, in my opinion, with using alcohol based tinctures with children is convincing them to use it. Because, the taste leaves much to be desired. You can hide it in tea, smoothies, apple sauce, etc. There is the option of glycerin based tinctures, but they aren't as effective.
Interested in making your own tinctures? Keep reading for a simple tutorial!
Step 1: Get some herbs. Ideally, you want to work with freshly harvested herbs. Unfortunately, we don't all have access to a bountiful herb garden or know how to properly wild craft. So, the option is to use dried. You can purchase them in bulk from various stores online, Mountain Rose Herbs, Bulk Herb Store, Monterrey Bay Herb Co., Starwest Botanicals are a few that I love. OR, you can contact me for smaller 1 ounce amounts. Sometimes it is intimidating receiving a pound of herbs when you are just starting out! For this tincture, I am using dried skullcap. Skullcap is fabulous for stress, anxiety, and pain relief. I LOVE it. It's one of my most popular tinctures. There are two methods to use here. 1-the folk method. Put some herbs in a jar. Just an eyeballed amount. Perfect for folks who are just making it for themselves and don't worry if one batch is more potent than the next. and 2-the weight to volume method (w:v). Each herb has a specific w:v ratio, but the most common is 1:5. Which means, that for 1 part of plant material, you use 5 parts solvent. So, for example, you have 2 ounces of skullcap by weight. You will need 10 ounces of alcohol. If you are making them for yourself, friends, and family, this method is unnecessary.
Step 2: Combine with menstruum in jar. Put your herbs in a clean mason jar. Cover with your solvent. Make sure all the plant material is covered. You can even have a few inches extra in the jar. Cap it. Give it a shake.
Step 3: LABEL!! You do not want a jar of mystery tincture in your house. Trust me. The label should have the name of the herb (common and botanical), the menstruum used, and the date you prepared it.
Step 4: Wait. Patiently. It takes at least 6 weeks for a tincture to fully macerate. Keep it on your counter. Give it a shake everyday/every other day.
Step 5. Strain. Use a fine wire mesh strainer, or some cheesecloth/muslin. I invert the jar over the strainer and let it sit for a few hours. Then, I press all the herbs to make sure I get all the liquid out. Compost the remnants (marc).
Step 6. Bottle. You can just rinse out your jar and pour your tincture right back in it. I would suggest getting a few dropper bottles (always glass!!!) for easy of dosage and convenience. Store the majority away in the jar, and keep your little bottle in your purse, bathroom, etc, wherever you keep your medicine. Again, make sure that you label your bottles!!
Do you make your own tinctures? I'd love to see pictures! Share them on my Facebook page at Wild Earth Herbals or tag me on instagram @wildearthherbals.


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Roma ace dismisses Manchester claim
Roma midfielder Radja Nainggolan has dismissed a report he has been spotted in Manchester.
The Belgium international has been linked in press reports with both Manchester United and Manchester City.
But Nainggolan, 26, stressed on Twitter that he has been training in Rome, effectively denying claims in newspaper Leggo he made a trip this week to the north of England.
He wrote: "To be training and be placed somewhere else is hard."
At the end of his tweet, he including three laughing emoticons.
Nainggolan has scored three goals in 28 league appearances for Roma this season.
The 26-year-old joined Roma from Cagliari in January 2014 and is under contract until June 2018.
Nainggolan is expected to start for Roma in Saturday's Serie A match against Inter Milan at the San Siro.
Roma are third in Serie A and hold the last Champions League qualifying spot with seven games remaining.
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Daylight Saving Time 2013: What time do we change our clocks to spring forward?
Friendly reminder: Daylight Saving Time 2013 begins 2 a.m. Sunday, March 10. You'll set your clocks ahead an hour.
What's the purpose of Daylight Saving Time? "Many people believe that DST could be linked to fewer road accidents and injuries. The extra hour of daylight in the evening is said to give children more social time and can boost the tourism industry because it increases the amount of outdoor activities. DST is also used to save energy and reduce artificial light needed during the evening hours," according to the website timeanddate.com.
We're curious: Amid the prevalence of cell phones and computers, is the idea of physically setting your clock an antiquated notion? How many of your clocks will not automatically change when DST kicks in?


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Update! No. 45, October 2016
This newsletter showcases dance events from the FloridaCajunZydeco.com website and publishes articles not on the website pages.
On Tuesday, Oct. 4 the Cajun and Zydeco Dance will be at Island Vibes in Largo. Marcia Ball makes appearances at Ace's Live on Oct. 6, Funky Biscuit on Oct. 7, and Daytona Blues Festival on Oct. 8. JB's Zydeco Zoo plays the BBC on Friday, Oct. 28 for their annual Halloween Party.
Also, check out these stories in this edition: Spotlight on The Louisiana Band Photography of David Simpson, and a farewell to Stanley Dural Jr., aka Buckwheat Zydeco.
We're on Facebook in Groups (Florida Cajun Zydeco Dancers) and with our own Facebook Page (Florida Cajun Zydeco). Check us out and "Like" us to see the posts and reminders throughout the week. This is a good way to get your Cajun and zydeco fix between newsletters.
FloridaCajunZydeco.com loves to travel — in your pocket on your smart phone. Check the website for dance information wherever your travels take you.
Regards, Jim Hance Publisher, FloridaCajunZydeco.com
6-9:30 p.m. Island Vibes, 351 West Bay Drive, Largo 33770. Ph. 727-240-4420. No cover charge. Please patronize the restaurant. I will be playing some fine Cajun and zydeco tunes that will keep you dancing. If you have any special requests, let me know. There is parking on the street out in front, behind the restaurant, and on the other side of 4th St. For people who know, it's on the same street as the Pinellas County School Board. We'll be using the room at the back. The owner is anxious to meet you! Come on by. Check out their menu and location at sweetislandvibes.com
Marcia Ball will be appearing at Ace's Live in Bradenton on Thurs. Oct. 6 and Funky Biscuit in Boca Raton on Fri. Oct. 7 on her way to Daytona Blues Festival on Sat. Oct. 8.
For those not familiar with Marcia Ball, she grew up in the small town of Vinton, Louisiana, right across the border from Texas. She began taking piano lessons at age five, playing old Tin Pan Alley tunes from her grandmother's collection. From her aunt, Marcia heard more modern and popular music, but it wasn't until she was 13 that Marcia discovered the power of soul music. One day in 1962, she sat amazed while Irma Thomas delivered the most spirited performance the young teenager had ever seen. According to Ball, "She just blew me away; she caught me totally unaware. Once I started my own band, the first stuff I was doing was Irma's." In 1966, she attended Louisiana State University, where she played some of her very first gigs with a blues-based rock band called Gum.
In 1970, Ball set out for San Francisco. Her car broke down in Austin, and while waiting for repairs, she fell in love with the city and decided to stay. It wasn't long before she was performing in local clubs with a progressive country band called Freda And The Firedogs, while beginning to sharpen her songwriting skills. It was around this time that she delved deeply into the music of the great New Orleans piano players, especially Professor Longhair. "Once I found out about Professor Longhair," recalls Ball, "I knew I had found my direction."
Marcia Ball has recorded with Capitol Records and Rounder Records and is currently with Alligator Records. She has been nominated for a Grammy and has been featured on numerous TV programs such as "Austin City Limits" and movies such as Piano Blues and Angels Sing.
The New York Times says, "Marcia Ball plays two-fisted New Orleans barrelhouse piano and sings in a husky, knowing voice about all the trouble men and women can get into on the way to a good time."
The Boston Globe says, "An irresistible, celebratory blend of rollicking, two-fisted New Orleans piano, Louisiana Swamp rock and smoldering Texas blues from a compelling storyteller."
The Minneapolis Star Tribune says, "Ball is the bayou queen of the piano, steeped in blues and honky-tonk. When revved... she's a rollicking dynamo spewing heat-seeking triplets from the ivories while her horn-driven band wails. She's also a subtle songwriter and a formidable singer with a wisp of huskiness edging her Cajun-Texan twang."
So now you know.
Thu. Oct. 6, 8 p.m. Ace's Live, 4343 Palma Sola Boulevard, Bradenton, FL
Opening for Marcia Ball will be Gumbo Boogie (listed start time 7 p.m.) Dancers, get there early.
Fri. Oct. 7, 9 p.m. at Funky Biscuit, 303 Southeast Mizner Blvd. #59, Boca Raton, FL
Sat. Oct. 8, 9 p.m. at Daytona Blues Festival, Jackie Robinson Ballpark, 105 Orange Ave., Daytona Beach, FL
Mon., Oct. 10, 8 p.m. at Ponce City Market, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave., NE, Atlanta, GA
Dikki Du (Troy Carrier) played washboard with his dad, the great Roy Carrier, and then C.J. Chenier for two years. He played drums behind his brother Chubby Carrier, for a few years before picking up the accordion and starting his own band, Dikki Du and the Zydeco Krewe, about twelve years ago. He played at Ace's Live in Bradenton in July, and he was sensational!
8 p.m. at Ace's Live, 4343 Palma Sola Blvd., Bradenton, Florida 34209. Phone 941-795-3886.
Dikki Du (Troy Carrier) was born in 1969 in Church Point, Louisiana and discovered his love for zydeco music at the tender age of nine. Troy's brother Chubby Carrier started a family band and offered Troy a job playing the drums. Troy toured with his brother from the late 80's until the 90's when he returned home to pick up the accordion. It has now been nineteen years that Dikki Du and the Zydeco Krewe have been on the scene. Dikki Du has incorporated his musical heritage with unique experience to create one of the most innovative zydeco groups around. His original funky and hypnotic zydeco style announces that he has arrived, occupying a spot on par with the best." On his last trip to the area Dikki brought his sons with him. Let's hope he can do the same this time. Let's come out and support this venue again and help bring more Zydeco music to our area. Website: http://aceslivemusic.com
Eunice, Louisiana is pretty much the center of Cajun culture. Eunice is famous for its Cajun music, and in November 1997 the Cajun Music Hall of Fame and Museum was founded there. The City of Eunice and the National Park Service sponsor "Laissez les bons temps rouler au rendezvous des cajuns," a live Cajun music show every Saturday night at the Liberty Theatre. Eunice is home to the Prairie Acadian Cultural Center. Eunice is host to one of the largest Courir de Mardi Gras (a traditional rural French Louisiana Mardi Gras observance), as well as the World Championship Crawfish Étouffée Cook-off.
Eunice is also the home of Louisiana State University Eunice. David Simpson lived in Eunice nearly 30 years, teaching English at the campus, without being exposed to the Cajun and Creole cultures, or even being infected by their powerful and emotional music. As fate would have it though, he would learn more than he had ever imagined about the local cultures and the music.
He took on a volunteer project of posting tourism-related events to LSU's new website in 1996, and rural Mardi Gras events were among the local offerings. In 1999 Simpson attended a performing arts series at his school which featured the Magnolia Sisters, and he purchased their CD, Prends Courage. He studied the French and English lyrics from the liner notes, and appreciated the stories the songs told.
A month later he attended Lafayette's Festival International and was further impressed by Christine Balfa's "strong, passionate voice combined with the intense, aching sadness of the twin fiddles" that compelled him to find out what the words meant. "I discovered that Will Balfa's lyrics were, if anything, even more intense than the music. The singer is determined to find the woman he loves or die in the last drop of his last blood. He discovers her with another man and then proclaims that if he had five days left to live, he would give up three just to spend the last two days with her and then die in her arms." It was at this event that Simpson began photographing the artists of his community, starting with Balfa Toujours and Geno Delafose, and learning more about the rich musical culture that was all around him.
As an extension of his public relations activities at LSU, he began posting pages to the LSU website featuring background information on the musicians of the area. Then newspapers began requesting use of some of his images, and he compiled CDs of his photos for the media. Then in 2008, he uploaded sets of photos to Flickr, which have now grown to 29,000 indexed high resolution images.
His images have been used by regional newspapers such as offBeat, and some artist CD covers including Kevin Naquin's 2004 release, Never Satisfied (Jamais Satisfait). But Simpson says he is especially proud of having some of his images included in the book One Generation at a Time: Biography of a Cajun and Creole Music Festival by master photographer Philip Gould. Gould also chose a number of Simpson's photo images for an art museum exhibit at University of Louisiana at Lafayette titled "Visions of Tradition: 40 Years of Festivals Acadians et Creoles."
More than fifteen years behind the lens has left indelible impressions on Simpson by musical artists he has come to appreciate. "Going to photograph Geno Delafose at a benefit dance at the Church of the Assumption Parish Hall in Basile is another fond memory. The wooden floor shook and rocked like we were at sea."
Another memory is that of a Creole jam session in Basile at a muffler shop. "Marcel [Fontenot] had his drum set up in one corner, and the musicians used a U-Haul dolly as a mic stand."
Simpson got to witness Boozoo Chavis on stage one time. "If anything, he more than lived up to his legendary status. In the sweltering plus-100-degree heat at the 2000 Original Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Festival in Plaisance, Boozoo not only commanded the stage, he also held an interview session with Herman Fuselier holding nothing back in letting people know how he felt about his music and his life."
He attends Saturday shows at the Liberty Theater in Eunice, hosted until recent years by Barry Ancelet, "both because the programs feature some great music from a variety of bands, and because of the interaction between the host and the band members. Terry Huval and the Jambalaya Cajun Band, in particular, have put on some outstanding shows."
Simpson says he is heartened by the emergency of young musicians, many of them from families with a rich musical heritage. "With bands and musicians like the Pine Leaf Boys, the Lost Bayou Ramblers, Roddie Romero and the Hub City All Stars, Feufollet, Bonsoir Catin, T-Salé, Kira Viator and Bayou Beat, Forest Huval, Bubba Hebert, Sarah Jayde Williams, the Lafayette Rhythm Devils, Kevin Naquin and the Ossun Playboys, Jamie Bergeron and the Kickin' Cajuns, Kyle Huval and the Dixie Club Ramblers, Briggs Brown and the Bayou Cajuns, plus many more, the music will certainly still be around for a long time if it continues to get the support it deserves…. The next generation of Creole and Zydeco musicians like Keith Frank, Chris Ardoin, Nathan Williams Jr., Jeffery Broussard, Curley Taylor, Wayne Singleton, Terry Domingue, Joe Hall, and, of course, Geno Delafose, to name just a few, are preserving and revitalizing the past or creating their own unique music."
Before 1999 David Simpson knew little of Cajun and Creole music. Now that music and experiencing the live performances of that music by musicians fully immersed in Cajun and Creole cultures is a cherished part of his life. "I continue to find in the music a heartfelt directness and emotional depth that most pop music lacks. The joy and the sorrow are real. When Creole accordionist Goldman Thibodeaux titled his first CD Les Misères dans le Coeur, he was truly singing from the heart, from his own experience, and, in the process, giving thanks for the blessings that life offers along with the pain. Even when they have not lived everything they sing about, the younger musicians are close enough to their roots in their families and in their culture that their voices carry truths that are authentic, not manufactured for a mass audience. There is, of course, other roots music elsewhere that has a comparable power and intensity, but our role in Louisiana should be to enjoy and support our own very rich, amazing cultures that we have inherited and that we need to preserve."
You can view more of David Simpson's photography of Cajun and Creole artists at indexed at www.cajunzydecophotos.com. Or find him most any week at Rendezvous des Cajuns show at the Liberty Theatre in Eunice. He plans to be at Festivals Acadians et Creoles this month, with his camera no doubt.
Wednesday Sept. 21 seven bands played "real good for free" in order to raise relief funds for Louisiana bands and their families beset by recent floods. The bands included Bayou Brothers, Euphoria Brass Band, Sue Palmer, Theo and The Zydeco Patrol, Mercedes Moore, Casey Hensley and Naked Eye. The venue was Tio Leo's Lounge in San Diego.
According to Jan Maxted, a longtime board member of the Bon Temps Social Club of San Diego, "The Louisiana Musicians' Fund Raiser at Tio Leo's was a blast! Great music from seven different bands (plus interesting combinations of musicians from several bands), lots of enthusiastic dancers and other party animals, and plenty of generosity in the air. Thanks to Ric Lee and Peter Oliver for putting all the pieces in place for the party (along with the Gator by the Bay staff, I'm sure), thanks to all of the musicians who donated their time and talent to make it happen, to Greg for teaching a lesson, for everyone who donated raffle prizes and lastly to Tio Leo's who donated the 'gate' to our efforts. And thanks from all who attended and spent lavishly on raffle tickets! An all-around terrific event!"
And the collection of funds for Louisiana musicians and their families affected by the flood continues. If you would like to contribute, visit http://gatorbythebay.com/louisiana-flood-relief-fund/
Twin 25-year-old brothers Benjamin and Bervick Guillory have created a band they call Double Trouble Zydeco in Mallet, LA. They are shirt-tail relatives of Chubby Carrier.
As a freshman in high school, Ben started to develop a real interest in the music, and particularly the music of Beau Jocque, Boozoo Chavis, Clifton Chenier, Buckwheat Zydeco, and many others. As boys they would sneak into every club that would let them through the door just to hear the live zydeco bands coming through town. After some pleading with their mother, Ben got an accordion of his own for Christmas. After a good deal of practice, Ben thought his brother, Berv, should play too, and they would start the first twin accordion band with real twins! Bervick told Ben, "I'm not the man on the bandstand. That's Keith
Frank! We won't ever be able to do what those other guys do." It took some talking, but finally Ben talked Berv into trying. That was the birth of Double Trouble Zydeco.
They practiced their music, and then came time for their first public show. Double Trouble Zydeco made their debut at the Zydeco Extravaganza held on Memorial Day Weekend in Lafayette. They recall being back stage and running into Buckwheat Zydeco. Buckwheat asked if they were about to play, and he decided to stay so he could "see what they were working with." Ben says that after their performance, Buckwheat came to them, reached his hand out as if to give a handshake, and instead gave him a big hug. He told them they did a great job, and that he really saw potential in the twins. His advice was to always stay true to their roots and they would do fine.
Here is a sample of the band on youtube featuring twin accordions and two rubboard players. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7M5M1HD-mI
Double Trouble Zydeco has posted a number of videos over the past several years of their performances on Youtube. Their website is doubletroublezydeco.com/music.html
Florida bands Gumbo Boogie, Porchdogs and JB's Zydeco Zoo are appearing at the following locations in October:
Oct. 1: Porchdogs at International Festival (Palm Coast)
Oct. 8: Gumbo Boogie Band at Saturday Morning Market (St. Pete)
Oct. 13: Porchdogs at Biketoberfest (Ormond Beach)
Oct. 21: Porchdogs at Lake Wales Rifest (Lake Wales)
Oct. 22: Gumbo Boogie at Clancy's (Bradenton)
Oct. 23: Gumbo Boogie at Ace's Live (Bradenton)
Oct. 28: JB's Zydeco Zoo Halloween Party at BBC (Tallahassee)
For more information, visit floridacajunzydeco.com/calendar.html
Find a list of festival events throughout the United States at floridacajunzydeco.com/festivals
October 1, 2016 — The Creole United Festival (Sausalito, CA)
Artists include Grammy-nominated Andre Thierry, Step Rideau and The Zydeco Outlaws, Porter Williams and Vibrasón.
October 13-16, 2016 — Festivals Acadiens et Creoles (Lafayette)
Festivals Acadiens et Creoles in Lafayette, LA. Celebrate the rhythm of Cajun and Creole life at Festivals Acadiens et Créoles.
October 13-16, 2016 — Suwannee Roots Revival
Bands include Donna the Buffalo, Sam Bush, The Wood Brothers, Leftover Salmon, Peter Rowan Band, Jim Dauderdale, Verlon Thompson, and many more. Live Oak, Florida 32060.
Sat. Oct 8 --- Marcia Ball at Daytona Blues Festival
at Daytona Blues Festival, Jackie Robinson Ballpark, 105 East Orange Avenue, Daytona Beach, FL 32114.
October 21-23, 2016 — Musicport (UK)
The Mahotella Queens (S. Africa), the Blockheads, Lynched (Eire), Kathryn Tickell and The Side, Soupsongs Live.
October 29-30, 2016 --- South Louisiana Blackpot Festival and Cookoff
(Lafayette, LA)
Bands include Feufollet, The Revelers, Caleb Klauder Country Band with special guest Courtney Granger, Lil Buck Sinegal, Los Texmaniacs, Freetown Aces, Ed Poullard and Preston Frank, Pineleaf Boys, Square Dance with Clelia Stefanini and Nancy Spero calling.
Nov. 10-13, 2016 --- Riverhawk Music Festival (Brooksville, FL)
Bands include Travelin' McCourys, Delta Rae, Solas, Driftwood, Cornmeal, Shiny Ribs, Grandpa's Cough Medicine, The Honeycutters.
Nov. 6-13, 2016 --- Carnival Dream Dance Cruise (Henderson, Louisiana)
Dance Cruise with Geno Delafose & French Rockin Boogie.
Sat. Dec. 3, 2016 --- Al Berard Music Fest (Henderson, Louisiana)
Bands include Horace Trahan and The Ossun Express, Michael Juan Nunez, Major Handy & Lil' Buck, Traiteurs Reunion with Sonny Landreth, and Lafayette Parish Gifted and Talented Students.
Mon., Oct. 10, 8 p.m. at Ponce City Market, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave., NE, Atlanta, GA
ACZA will be hosting the following bands over the next several months:
Oct. 1 --- Zydeco T
October 29 --- Roux du Bayou (ACZA Halloween Party and Dance)
Benson Center, 6500 Vernon Woods Drive, Sandy Springs, GA 30328; Phone: 404-613-4900. Free beginners dance lesson 7-8 p.m. Free intermediate dance lesson 6:15 p.m. to 7 p.m. Dance to live music 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
December 3 --- Jambalaya Cajun Band (ACZA Holiday Party and Dance)
The Atlanta Cajun Zydeco Association (ACZA) would like to remind dancers traveling to Atlanta that there is information about a hotel discount for out-of-town dancers on their website (http://aczadance.org/). "It's the hotel where the bands stay when they play for us."
Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr. of Carencro, leader of the Grammy- and Emmy-winning band Buckwheat Zydeco, died at 1:32 a.m. on September 24, 2016 in Lafayette, Louisiana. Dural, who had battled lung cancer, was 68.
For more than 35 years, Stanley Dural Jr. exposed more people on the planet to zydeco than any other artist. Buckwheat played with everyone from Eric Clapton and U2 to Robert Plant and The Boston Pops. Buckwheat Zydeco performed in the closing ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, which reached a TV audience of 3 billion people. He played at both inaugurations for former President Bill Clinton, and for countless commercials and TV shows, such as "The Late Show with David Letterman" and the last episode of "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon." Because of Stanley Dural Jr. and his band, Buckwheat Zydeco, the native music of southwest Louisiana had a global impact.
Dural's longtime manager, Ted Fox, notes, "Many people in Louisiana know that Buck was a musical legend and the preeminent ambassador of zydeco music. For others around the world, if they got into zydeco music, or felt its influence, or watched the world celebrate this great aspect of Louisiana culture over the past 30-plus years, it's likely been because of Buckwheat Zydeco."
Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural, Jr. was born in Lafayette, LA on November 14, 1947. He acquired his nickname because, with his braided hair, he looked like Buckwheat from The Little Rascals. His father was an accomplished, non-professional traditional Creole accordion player, but young Buckwheat preferred listening to and playing R&B. He became proficient at the organ, and by the late 1950s was backing Joe Tex, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and many others. In 1971, he formed Buckwheat and The Hitchhikers, a 15-piece funk and soul band. They were a local sensation and found success with the single, "It's Hard To Get," recorded for a local Louisiana-based label.
Never a traditional zydeco fan growing up, Buckwheat nonetheless accepted an invitation in 1976 to join Clifton Chenier's Red Hot Louisiana Band as organist. He quickly discovered the joy and power of zydeco music, and marveled at the effect the music had on the audience. "Everywhere, people young and old just loved zydeco music," Buckwheat said. "I had so much fun playing that first night with Clifton. We played for four hours and I wasn't ready to quit."
Buckwheat's relationship with the legendary Chenier led him to take up the accordion in 1978. After woodshedding for a year, he felt ready to start his own band under the name Buckwheat Zydeco, and began his recording career with the small Blues Unlimited label. By the mid-1980s there were more offers to perform than he could possibly accept. Recordings for Black Top and Rounder followed before Buckwheat befriended New York-based journalist Ted Fox, who championed Buckwheat to Chris Blackwell at Island Records in 1986. Buckwheat Zydeco signed a five-record deal and Fox became and remained his manager and frequent producer. The success of these records kept Buckwheat Zydeco on the road and in constant demand.
In 1988, Eric Clapton invited the band to open his North American tour as well as his 12-night stand at London's Royal Albert Hall. As even more doors opened, Buckwheat found himself sharing stages and/or recording with Keith Richards, Robert Plant, Willie Nelson, Mavis Staples, David Hidalgo, Dwight Yoakam, Paul Simon, Ry Cooder and many others, including indie music stalwarts Yo La Tengo on the soundtrack to the Bob Dylan bio-pic, "I'm Not There." His music has been featured in films ranging from The Waterboy, The Big Easy, Fletch Lives and Hard Target. BET's Comic View used his live version of "What You Gonna Do?" as theme music for the program's 10th anniversary "Pardi Gras" season. He co-wrote and performed the theme song for the PBS television series Pierre Franey's Cooking In America. Buckwheat won an Emmy for his music in the CBS TV movie, Pistol Pete: The Life And Times Of Pete Maravich. Buckwheat Zydeco played every major music festival in the world, including the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (numerous times), Newport Folk Festival, Summerfest, San Diego Street Scene, Bumbershoot, Montreux Jazz Festival and countless others. Buckwheat won a Grammy for the Best Zydeco or Cajun Music Album in 2009 for the album, Lay Your Burden Down, which featured Trombone Shorty, Sonny Landreth and other stars.
"He had this incredible charisma both onstage and personally," Fox said. "To the end of his days with all the stuff that he'd done, all the awards, he was still the same Stanley Dural Jr. who was picking cotton when he was five years old."
Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural, Jr. is survived by his wife Bernite Dural and their daughter Tomorrow Lynn Dural; sons Sir Reginald M. Dural (who played rubboard and keyboards in his band) and Stanley Paul Dural III, daughters April Germain Dural, and Stacie Durham.
There has been a GoFundMe account for the family to help with all of the expenses of Buckwheat's hospital stay and the flooding that affected his family home. If you are interested in contributing, go to this link.
If you missed last month's newsletter...
Discover all of the Update! newsletters and feature stories on Cajun and zydeco artists on the "Stories" page at floridacajunzydeco.com/stories.html


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Watching BT Sport on a BT TV YouView box
BT's big investment in football means that it has 38 matches this year, and it will be hoping that it gives plenty of people a reason to buy into its YouView service.
The BT Sport channel is available on BT TV - so not all YouView boxes. If you have BT Infinity broadband and a BT TV package then you won't have to pay any extra, unless you want HD in which case it's another £3 a month.
Alternatives to the alternative:
You can access the online player or app if you have a BT broadband or Infinity package, if you have a Sky box but BT Infinity you can add it for nothing (but sign up for another 12 months of broadband) or you can add it for £12 to your Sky plus a £15 one-off fee and a minimum one month contract. Got that? Phew.
Watching through the Sky Sports iPad app
If you subscribe to Sky's sport package and fancy an alternative way to watch the football, you could try out the hugely improved Sky Sports app.
It lets you watch a stream of the football (powered by Sky Go) which is great, but the real trick is the huge amount of other information it will allow you to access. If you're ensconced on your sofa in front of the TV it's worth checking out the app as a second screen information source.
Alternatives to the alternative:
Sky Sports subscribers can access the football through their TVs (duh), the Sky Go app on iOS, some Android devices and computers. The Sky Sports TV app is available on iPhone or iPod touch for a fiver a month.
Streaming MOTD live through iPlayer on your laptop
Rights restrictions mean that you won't be able to watch Match of the Day on catchup, but if you happen to have a laptop and a decent connection you could always stream the famous old highlights programme and catch up with Alan, Gary and, not very often, Mark Lawrenson.
Alternatives to the alternative:
iPlayer is available on many Android, Windows Phone and iOS devices and through the website. Another highlight option is Football First on Sky.


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My response to the adult taking the standardized test…
December 5, 2011 § Leave a comment
The viral tweet of the day is "When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids" from The Answer Sheet at the Washington Post. I read the blog post this morning and my first thought was that the people retweeting it needed to do a little critical thinking.
I'm a fan of The Answer Sheet. I think Valerie puts up some great things about challenging the current state of education in our country, but I have some serious problems with the essay (which was guest authored by Marion Brady) that was put up today, and I think that any high school level English teacher would have the same problems I do. I would hope that any editor of a major newspaper would also have these issues had this been a new article and not on the op-ed page.
The lead paragraph sets up the story pretty well, but the second paragraph completely turned me off.
By any reasonable measure, my friend is a success. His now-grown kids are well-educated. He has a big house in a good part of town. Paid-for condo in the Caribbean. Influential friends. Lots of frequent flyer miles. Enough time of his own to give serious attention to his school board responsibilities. The margins of his electoral wins and his good relationships with administrators and teachers testify to his openness to dialogue and willingness to listen.
My first thought when I read that was, what does ANY of that have to do with this person's knowledge base or their ability to answer questions correctly on a test. If you can't see that, substitute "my friend" with "Charles Barkley," or "Christina Aguilara." Just because someone has a lot of money does not mean they are smart. I think that's one of the biggest problems in this country at the moment. We equate wealth with intelligence. We equate popularity with intelligence. It's part of the reason we're in this mess in the first place…the politicians with the most money are the ones who get elected, even if they aren't the smarted people around.
One of the arguments I hear quite often on Twitter is that the people with money are throwing around their influence to back charter schools, when it is clear that charter schools do not outperform public schools. Yet, because of the money and power behind them, they are getting the media attention. Money does not equal intelligence.
The second half of the post is written well, but the entire argument base for it hinges on this:
A test that can determine a student's future life chances should surely relate in some practical way to the requirements of life. I can't see how that could possibly be true of the test I took.
And yet, this is exactly the same problem that plagues politicians. They can't possibly see the merit in anything other than what they decide. The author states that it could be argued that if he was in 10th grade before taking the test, he might have done better.
This is where I practically shouted "YES" at my monitor. I know from personal experience that if you don't use it, you lose it. I was two years removed from taking math classes when I had to take a placement test for college math, and I didn't do well. It wasn't that I didn't know how to do that math, but I was rusty. I hadn't used it. And if I could do poorly on a college placement test two years removed from high school, how bad would I be 20 years removed? 40?
But that isn't the point.
The point is, we are trying to prepare high school students for college and careers beyond college. That career might be acting, programming, auto repair, or engineering, but if we don't give students a solid basis in ALL disciplines before sending them off to college (or the real world), then we are severely limiting their options as far as future careers.
Just because you, in your career, don't use the math you learned in high school doesn't mean that nobody uses it, and it doesn't mean that it shouldn't be learned or tested.
Do I have issue with the amount of tests and the weight that they're given in judging schools? You bet I do. But arguing against testing a subject just because "I don't use it and I'm successful" isn't any more of a reason to ditch the tests than "I'm in charge and I say so," is a reason to give them.


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JulesJordan – Kristen Scott Interracial Gangbang! (12.03.2019)
Kristen Scott gets more BBC than she can handle as she's gangbanged by 5 black studs for her FIRST GANGBANG! Kristen is looking sexy as ever in her Pink latex skirt, black polka dot top and pink high heels as she shows off her body for the camera. She's not wearing any panties


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Gbemi Saraki goes calm
No doubt, Senator Gbemi Ruhkayat Saraki has done well for herself, politically, in the last few years.
That GRS, as she is fondly called, has been able to earn herself the intimidating political profile she now parades is not doubt, yet, it is a fact that the likeable former senator has assumed a god-like stature, especially in her political clan in her home state, Kwara.
These days, one thing you would notice about Gbemi is her newly found mood of calmness. Hardly can you see her now without smiles on her face.
Her chosen quiet lifestyle was the reason she didn't celebrate her 50th birthday late last year.
The beau is presently Chairman of the Governing Council of the newly established Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, hometown of immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan.
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Friday, July 01, 2016
Amicable divorce, enforcing contact and more...
My posts this week on Marilyn Stowe's Family Law & Divorce Blog included some advice for those seeking an amicable divorce, a look at how a cohabitee property system can work and a couple of ECHR judgments:
An amicable divorce - Seven steps that might make it possible.
A cohabitee property dispute, Scottish style - The Scottish Court of Session case Melvin v Christie.
A not-so-private affair - The ECHR judgment, Sihler-Jauch and Jauch v Germany.
Failure to enforce contact breaches father's human rights - Another ECHR case, Malec v Poland.
Have a good weekend.
Posted by John Bolch at 7:30 am
Labels: Children, Cohabitation, Divorce, Human Rights, Marilyn Stowe Blog, Marriage
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