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Ebola Update: Can I safely travel to Africa?
Ebola Update
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has predominantly affected Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. There has however been a level of anxiety for travellers looking to visit Africa; and misperceptions about Africa's geography and risks are adding to concerns.
Safari365 operates in two main geographic zones, Southern and East Africa.
Can I safely travel to East Africa ? (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda)
To date, there have been no reported cases of Ebola in East Africa and no international government travel warnings against travelling to East Africa. Inward and outward international flights from non-effected countries remain unchanged.
Kenya: Entry of passengers travelling from or through Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, is suspended, with the exception of health professionals supporting efforts to contain the outbreak and Kenyan citizens.
Tanzania: The government has intensified surveillance at all entry points to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus in the country. Walk-through thermal scanners have been installed at the country's five international airports to check the spread of the Ebola disease.
Rwanda: Authorities have banned entry of all travellers who have been travelling in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the previous 22 days. Health screening is in place at all border posts. Any non-residents with a fever of 37.5 degrees or above will not be allowed to enter Rwanda.
Uganda: Health screening is in place at Entebbe International Airport for all travellers from affected West African countries and from the Democratic Republic of Congo. An isolation centre has been established at the airport for any suspected EVD cases.
Can I safely travel to Southern Africa ? (South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe)
To date, there have been no reported cases of Ebola in Southern Africa and no international government travel warnings against travelling to Southern Africa. Inward and outward international flights from non-effected countries remain unchanged.
South Africa: Foreign citizens arriving from EVD affected countries in West Africa will not be allowed to enter South Africa. South African citizens will be allowed to re-enter, but will be subject to screening.
Botswana: Authorities have banned entry of all travellers who have been in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria or Sierra Leone in the previous 30 days.
Namibia: Authorities have suspended the entry of passengers travelling from EVD affected countries, with the exception of Namibian citizens.
Zambia: The entry of travellers from affected West African countries is banned.
Zimbabwe: Passengers from Ebola affected countries are being identified and interviewed at airports and land borders. Travellers from West Africa are reportedly subject to a 21 day health surveillance
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention International Update
On October 29, WHO released a situation report that included an increase of 3792 cases since the report released on October 22, 2014. WHO reports that the increase in total cases results from a more comprehensive assessment of patient databases. The additional 3792 cases have occurred throughout the epidemic period.
On October 23, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reported a case of Ebola in a medical aid worker who had returned to New York City from Guinea, where the medical aid worker had served with Doctors Without Borders. The diagnosis was confirmed by CDC on October 24.
On October 23, Mali reported its first confirmed case of Ebola in a child who had traveled there from Guinea. The child passed away on October 24.
WHO officially declared Senegal and Nigeria free of Ebola virus transmission on October 17 and 20, respectively.
On October 15, a second healthcare worker at Texas Presbyterian Hospital who provided care for the index patient tested positive for Ebola. The patient is receiving care at a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.
On October 10, a healthcare worker at Texas Presbyterian Hospital who provided care for the index patient tested positive for Ebola. The patient has since recovered and was discharged from the NIH Clinical Center on October 24.
CDC is implementing enhanced entry screening at five U.S. airports that receive over 94% of travelers from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
How does the Ebola Infection Spread?
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), "Ebola outbreaks occur primarily in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests. The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spread in the human population through human-to-human transmission, with infection resulting from direct contact with infected people."
Ebola is not an airborne disease, it is not spread via air or breathing. Ebola is contracted through blood, feces, or bodily fluids, so it's difficult to come in direct contact unless you're a doctor, nurse, or caring for a sick person.
Please see the following websites for more:
World Health Organisation http://www.who.int/ith/updates/20140421/en/
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/

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(this is a continuation of my previous entry
there's also part one, part two, and part three)
On Friday night everything was finished- I was mostly packed, the house was boarded up with hurricane shutters, everything was brought inside, the entire container garden dismantled, cut down, and brought into the garage, and any butterflies we had flying in the lanai were released.
The butterfly garden was a hard thing to let go of. Since we haven't had a big enough storm in several years to dismantle the garden (it's all in containers and pots), it was huge and basically a living part of our lanai- we had butterfly vines twined up the screens, plants entwined in one another and growing into clusters, chrysalises tucked away… it was heartbreaking to have to cut it all apart and trim all those plants into nothingness, even if we knew it was for a good reason. The garden was its own eco-system, in a way- there were lots of little lizards and ladybugs and tiny frogs and other living things tucked in there, as well. Argh. We also knew that depending on how long the plants were in the garage, and if they got hit with flood water, we might lose a lot of them and would have to start over. We did need to really edit the garden- since we use it for butterflies now there were still a lot of older and straggly plants from my gardening-for-fun days that I was just hanging on to out of nostalgia. And I'm not sure we would have done a big "edit" like that if there wasn't a storm to contend with, but I would have rather have done it in our own time. *heavy heart*
So we had one last night at our house before we had to get to my parents building around noon on Saturday. The power was due to cut out as soon as the winds reached 40mph and the manager wanted everyone inside and settled before he kicked on the generator in case the elevators didn't work.
So eight days after Tom's surgery, four days after he was released from the hospital, we got all our stuff and our pets and drove over to my parents' building to wait out the actual storm itself. We got all the pets settled in their little rooms, brought our stuff into the little room we'd be staying in. There was nothing left to do but wait. On one hand it was a relief, because it was all out of our hands. On the other hand… it felt like it might be just the beginning of something bigger and more complicated, which I couldn't even think about. However, you have cancer surgery and a major hurricane (the first in more than a decade) in the same freakin' week and you start to believe that anything else could be possible.
The room was completely dark because there were hurricane shutters over the windows. Tom flopped down on the bed and fell asleep instantly- his first real rest since leaving the hospital. Grace read for a while and then drifted off, as well.
It was hard for me to shift from all the doing-planning-prepping to LITERALLY doing nothing, but sitting on a chair so I was too wired to rest or relax. I put HGTV on the TV for a little noise (house Hunters is pretty much my version of comfort food- I'm absolutely addicted), and stayed glued to the weather radar and forums on my phone and iPad, hoping for any last minute sign the storm might disorganize or go off track or something. I brought some colored pencils with me and drew for a while, but I couldn't stay focused.
So I just sat in the little bucket chair in the corner of the room and hit refresh-refresh-refresh on my iPad. All that happened was that the storm came closer, and the wind picked up outside and started howling.
Tom and Grace briefly woke up, we made some sandwiches, fed the pets, went up to my parents' floor to see them, talked about the weather, and then we all tried to go to sleep. Tom and Grace conked out immediately, and I stayed up. I slept on and off, but every time I jerked awake, I grabbed my phone, hoping for some good news, but there wasn't any. I did that until around 7am, when I finally got up.
On early Sunday morning, the power and water were still on and we all had just enough time to go to the bathroom and brush our teeth and stuff before it all shut off from the intensity of the wind outside- they had expected the power to shut itself down on Saturday, so it was nice that we got an extra day of it.
I had filled a giant bucket in the bathtub with hot water before the water went off, so we had that water to use along with some bottled water. I have a thing about washing my hands, so not being able to do that with water out of the sink made me a little edgy but there were bigger things to be concerned with. Like how hot it was getting inside the building. I really thought that it would take a few hours for the building to heat up after the air conditioning went out with the power, but it got hot instantly, I guess because the building was completely closed up (no air moving inside) and we were several stories off the ground. It was still in the 80's outside, 100% humidity, and usually in closed up interiors it can get hotter than that because no moving air.
We did have cell service, though, which was great- I guess the ATT cell tower on the roof of the building was also powered by the generator in the building. We were able to set up hotspots with our iPhones so we could stay online. Tom and I used our iPads to watch the weather radar and keep an eye on the news, and Grace watched movies and surfed Pinterest and read.
I have to admit, I've felt a little guilty about owning an iPad because I mainly use it to draw mandalas (the Apple Pencil is a wondrous thing), paint in ProCreate, and read books. But the iPad was such an amazing thing to have during the storm (and after). It's worth its weight in gold for just that purpose alone. When we went through Wilma, it was before smart phones (!!!!!!!) and all we had was a weather radio (with a D battery and a metal antenna!) so we just stayed stuck to it, waiting for updates and information. It felt like a luxury to be able to just "summon" any information that we wanted when we wanted it. Viewing the real time radar and being able to read what other people in different parts of Florida were experiencing at the same time really changed the feeling of the experience- you don't feel like you're quite as isolated, locked behind storm shutters and closed off from the rest of the world.
Hurricane Irma made first landfall on the Florida Keys early on Sunday, and then went back out in the Gulf of Mexico and drfited up the coast towards Marco Island. There was no wiggle room anymore- no way out. Pretty much the worst case scenario was inevitable- we were going to be hit pretty much head on by this thing.
As with most everything else in life, the reality of a situation is usually completely different than your anxiety makes it out to be. Sitting through that storm was scary, and it was not like a passing rain shower- it was hours long, howling, damaging, building-shaking- but the days leading up to it were a zillion times worse. Plus, when you're in the middle of a hurricane, you're in the middle of it- you're not thinking about anything else. Your brain is only on one thing, one moment, and not spiraling out in 40 different directions.
As the storm came closer, Grace, Tom and I (along with most of the other residents of the building) moved to an interior common area, away from the windows and doors. The residents of my mom's building (along with most of the population here…) are mostly in their 70's and 80's, so they were fairly non-terrified and chatty. I think they all felt tucked in and secure, more so than Grace, Tom, and I did because at the end of the storm, we wouldn't be able to just get on an elevator and go back to our home and our lives. They gathered around our iPads to watch the weather/news/radar and stretched out on lounge chairs from around the pool the manager had brought up for them to sit on.
After 1pm, the storm got more intense and started rattling the building a bit. It was unsettling, but I didn't feel like we were in any real danger. I kind of wished we could have seen what was going on outside, but going near windows that didn't have shutters on them wasn't such a great idea in 115+ mile an hour winds. So we listened to the storm rage outside and watched it swirl on the radar.
We were away from windows and doors, but my dad and Tom would occasionally go and peek at the storm through an unshuttered window, and my dad said he watched several palm tress snapped like matchsticks. He started talking about him and Tom driving one of the cars up to the higher points of the island during the eye of the storm, so that if the island flooded from storm surge, we might be able to get off the island and got o their place in North Carolina after the storm. But as the hurricane became more fierce, that idea was abandoned.
There are two things I really remember about the storm- one was feeling the building sway in the wind. At once point Grace and I were sitting on the floor, our backs against a wall, and we could feel the building sort of shimmying a little bit, like we were on a moving platform or a low-intensity ride at Disney. Which isn't much until you remember you're in a building, and it's not supposed to be moving.
That was nothing compared to when some of the windows and sliding glass doors in people's condos started to blow out. Most of the windows in the building had storm shutters, but intense winds can sometimes still break the glass behind them, and there were some condos that had no protection at all. Since we were in an inside hall, we weren't in any sort of danger from debris, but as the storm got more intense, you would hear the loud crack of a window being blown out (it sounded like gunshots), then the sound of glass shattering, and then the "whoosh" of the wind rushing through the condo. The wind came in so hard and so fast that the the apartment door would rattle in its frame from the wind and there would be a super-eerie low whistling/howling sound as the wind seeped under and around the condo's front door and into the interior halls and common areas inside the building.
As the storm got more and more intense, more and more windows around the building blew, and more and more doors were rattling and whistling, so by the middle of the storm, it was like listening to several freight trains coming at you from every direction. I'm glad the building's generator kept some of the lights powered in the hallway we were sitting in because all those banging doors and howling was *seriously* creepy. It literally sounded like there was a person in each of those condos, smashing on the doors from the insides. I would not have wanted to be sitting there in pitch black listening to that.
As the eyewall of the storm started to hit us (the most intense part of the storm- where the tornadoes form and the wind gusted up to 150mph), we heard glass breaking from my parents' unit. But they couldn't go to see what had happened until the eye of the storm passed over us and the wind died down enough for them to get inside their condo there without the potential for serious injury. If they went in there while the wind was blowing, all sorts of glass and debris and whatever else the wind picked up inside their condo might be flying around, and just force of the wind flowing through an open window could knock them down. My mom was ready to go up there RIGHT THAT MOMENT but we talked her out of it. They had to sit there for a half an hour or so and I know they were imagining the worst. My dad was so stressed I was worried he'd pass out.
After the eyewall passed over us, we had a half an hour or so of less intense weather- the eye of the storm. All the residents took off to check their condos, and my parents and Tom went up to see what was going on in their condo. It turns out that and a wall of sliding glass doors had broken in their back bedroom. In the half an hour they had before the other eyewall of the storm was due to hit us, they were able to find some plywood in the building's workshop to patch the hole in their condo, but the room was trashed. They barely finished getting the plywood up before the storm started picking up again.
When the eye passes through, it's almost eerily calm- barely any wind, no rain. The sun sometimes comes out.But then the other eyewall comes and it's INSTANTLY back to super severe storm. There's no transition at all. So the second the wind started up again, everyone came scrambling back to the 4th floor to wait out the rest of the storm.
The other eyewall was less intense, wind-wise, but as soon as the winds picked back up there was literally a succession of glass blowing out all over the building, all at one time- I guess several windows and glass sliders had become weakened by the first half of the storm, and when the wind picked up again, they just all gave away at the same time. It really did sound like all the glass had gone out in the building, but I think it was just several units (as opposed to the entire eighty or ninety in the building.)
Finally the storm moved north and the wind settled enough for everyone to go back to their apartments. My parents had a huge mess to clean up- the back room was trashed- everything in it destroyed and soaked. A woman who lived on the fourth floor next to the guest room we were staying in had a huge gash in her ceiling from where the water from my parents unit had poured down- just the pressure of the rain coming in a broken window for half an hour was enough to flood down that stack of units and crack ceilings all the way down to the main floor.
Some of the residents and the manager went around the building checking on the units who had broken windows- some of the units were salvageable (just had damage to one room) but there was at least one condo that was completely trashed by the storm.
By this time it was later in the evening, and we were just sort of worn down. The storm wasn't officially over, though- we had to wait and see if the island would flood from the predicted storm surge. The Gulf and the canals had been "sucked out" earlier that day from the storm and no one knew when the water would flow back, and how strong that flow would be. My parents' building is directly on the Gulf of Mexico, so it would affect them, too, if it came back fast and strong. If it flowed up to the building, that meant that Marco Island itself would be underwater, so it was just a wait and see. And because all the windows facing the Gulf were shuttered, I couldn't keep an eye on it.
We had no idea how our house was- we had no idea if any windows had broken or if our street had flooded or if a tree was on our roof… we just had to wait it out.
I tried to focus on the fact we had made it through the storm itself, and we were all *okay*. We were okay, the pets were okay, and we were all safe. The building had survived the hurricane, despite the broken windows. As long as the surge wasn't four stories tall, we made it.
We made it through so much- the cancer diagnosis, the storm prep (which was as stressful as the storm itself), Hurricane Irma itself, and we were now just waiting so see if this whole situation might end for us now or if a whole new situation (needing rescue off the island, and I guess going to North Carolina to sat in my parents' town home until we found a new place to live) was just about to begin.
(to be continued in my next post)


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The nose is intensely perfumed, with lychee, gooseberry, grassy and rosehip notes all contributing. The flavour is similar; with an abundance of tropical fruits, lychees and passionfruit, swirling through the palate, highlighted by floral and grassy edges. The wine is fine and long, thanks to vibrant natural acidity, and with a mineral finish.
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The fruit for this wine is sourced from the cool climate Adelaide Hills. Small batches of grapes are crushed gently, chilled, and then transferred to stainless steel basket presses. Gentle extraction of the juice is critical in these early stages to retain the delicate fruit characters.
To add complexity and mouthfeel, a small percentage of the wine is partially fermented in aged French oak for two to three weeks.
None of the white wines at d'Arenberg are subject to malolactic fermentation as we aim for the retention of fresh, natural acidity, which is integral to the balance and longevity of the wine.
The perfect partner to a variety of Asian-spiced dishes - or if you just want to feel summery.
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Absolutely gorgeous, so light and fruity, it has become my favourite for sharing with friends. So glad we were able to chat to D'Arenberg's representative at the shop.
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There are schools offering chemistry courses in California!
Schools Offering Chemistry Programs in California
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Approximately 0.2% of graduates in of California receive chemistry degrees every year. Thus, California's 121 chemistry schools put out approximately 1,871 chemists each year.
Top Schools
The top-ranked school in California with a chemistry program is Stanford University, which is located in Stanford. In 2010, it was ranked 2nd nationwide. 55 students graduated with a degree in chemistry from Stanford University in 2010. Students at Stanford University paid $40,172 per year in tuition fees.
University of California-Berkeley, which is located in Berkeley, is the second-ranked school in California that has a chemistry program. It received a ranking of 5th in the country in 2010. In 2010, 198 students graduated from University of California-Berkeley chemistry program. Tuition at University of California-Berkeley was $10,940 per year.
The third-ranked school in California with a chemistry program is University of California-Los Angeles, which is located in Los Angeles. In 2010, it was ranked 5th nationwide. In 2010, University of California-Los Angeles graduated 138 students from its chemistry programs. Tuition at University of California-Los Angeles was $10,781 per year.
Chemistry schools in California, charge students an average tuition of $11,153 per year. But, tuition can be as much as $41,130 per year, or as little as $624 per year. The California chemistry schools with the highest tuition rates in 2010 were:
- Pitzer College - located in Claremont, students are charged $41,130 per year
- University of Southern California - located in Los Angeles, students are charged $41,022 per year
- Occidental College - located in Los Angeles, students are charged $40,939 per year
The following California chemistry schools had the lowest tuition rates:
- West Hills College Lemoore - located in Lemoore, students are charged $624 per year
- Cosumnes River College - located in Sacramento, students are charged $644 per year
- College of the Siskiyous - located in Weed, students are charged $650 per year
A chemistry degree from a California school... what next?
A large number of California chemistry graduates become chemists. 10,870 chemists were working in California in 2010. The following counties have the largest number of California chemists:
- San Diego County - 2,200 chemists
- Los Angeles County - 2,130 chemists
- Alameda County - 1,510 chemists
Projected Growth
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that by 2018, an estimated 11,600 chemists will be working in California state. This would require the number of chemists to grow by 6%.
On average, chemists earn $81,240 per year. In 2010, however, some California chemists earned as little as less than $28,850 per year or as much as more than $153,640 per year. The counties in California with the highest average salary for a chemist are:
- Kern County - $102,040 per year
- Marin County - $98,600 per year
- San Diego County - $94,260 per year
The California counties with the lowest average salary for chemists are:
- Fresno County - $54,120 per year
- Riverside County - $58,440 per year
- Los Angeles County - $67,490 per year
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Here are the different levels of study available for you to explore.
- Associate's Degree in Chemistry in California
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Oshkosh Defense Pays It Forward
May 16, 2018
United Through Reading (UTR) is proud to partner with Oshkosh Defense so that service members using their tactical vehicles can also stay connected to their families through the read-aloud experience when they are away. UTR's mission success impacts Oshkosh Defense employees and aligns with their commitment to our country's military. Oshkosh Defense has hundreds of staff members who currently serve in the military and thousands of civilian staff members with friends and family members currently serving.
For the last two years Oshkosh Defense generously sponsored UTR's Tribute To Military Families. Support like Oshkosh Defense's sponsorship elevates UTR's impact and reach. During the Month of the Military Child (April) and National Military Appreciation Month (May), Oshkosh Defense employees are taking their support a step further. They are paying it forward by sponsoring a Virtual Book Drive. The goal of the Virtual Book Drive is to raise enough funds to purchase 1,000 books.
Oshkosh Defense team member, Stephen Rosera, shared why he chose to donate to the Virtual Book Drive, "I served in the Wisconsin National Guard for 18 years. During my last two deployments I used this program to read to my two small children every night. Every little ounce of connection we can share with our families while we are deployed means so much."
Watch his Facebook video to hear the full story: https://www.facebook.com/OshkoshDefense/videos/1916413181702396/.
Another team member, Thomas Jefferson sent the following note with his gift, "My father was a Sailor in the Korean War, and I thought this would be a wonderful way to honor his memory. He was a pretty terrific man who would enjoy the idea that a father/mother is connecting with their children with the help of my donation."
In addition to sponsoring Tribute to Military Families and the Virtual Book Drive, Oshkosh Defense employees will have the opportunity to see UTR in action. Arrangements are being made for Oshkosh Defense employees to volunteer at Fort McCoy and help the UTR volunteers make pre-deployment recordings for the troops there.
We have the pleasure of partnering with many businesses and organizations; Oshkosh Defense definitely stands out as a top notch UTR partner that is driven to support military families!


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After breakfast we wander up to Gaffey to the Starbucks and sit and enjoy our drinks. We make note of how darn cold it is. Heck it is colder here than at home. It is overcast and looks like it could rain (in fact is does start raining later in the afternoon).
Around noon we get back to the hotel and get our bags that we stored with the bell hop. The hotel does have a shuttle, but I believe they now charge $5 for it and the walk is not that far so we head out on foot.
We walk along the promenade to the ship. It is the only ship in port and it looks rather quiet. We arrive at 12:30 and we are on board at 12:45. We had to fill out the health questionnaire. Note they are still screening for the Ebola with the questions about where you have been in the last 21 days.
We head up the escalator to the line to get our cruise cards. We get to go in the priority but it really didn't save much time as there really were no lines. As soon as we have our cards we go thru the security screening which takes a bit of time. We didn't have any alcohol but if we did we would have been directed to the table right after the screening.
Boarding has already started but since we are elite we get to go right on. Note they were giving out boarding numbers to those below Platinum. As we were getting on they were calling group #10.
As soon as we got on we went to our cabin which is P204, the second oceanview cabin on Plaza deck. It is bigger than most insides, a little longer. We do notice that the beds are in twin format and there is only one night stand that is a bit bigger than the normal one but smaller than two normal ones put together.
Hmmm if the beds are put together how are we going to have each a nightstand. After speaking to our cabin steward Qi, she says he can put it together but one side of the bed will be right against the wall. Or she can turn the nightstand sideways (but we won't have access to the drawers). Which is what we say is fine with us, we don't need to access the drawers. It is only a seven day cruise and we don't have that much stuff. Plus we have a large window sill that can take things.
Footnote – later when the bed is put together as a Queen the night stand is positioned so we can access the drawers.
There is a wide space on one side (where stand is) and a narrow side on the other side. So take note that P204 is a bit narrower (by about a foot) than the standard cabin.
However it is longer with more space at the foot of the bed to the dresser than the standard cabin.
We ask for extra towels and a top sheet.
The ship looks great. It is strange coming back to this ship after being on the Royal for so long but we love this size.
We get a coffee and run into Norma and Kim who are friends of Monika and Rick and just sailed to Hawaii with them.
When we get back to our cabin our small bag is there so we unpack it. The second bag took another four hours to arrive, but it did.
Not sure why but it seems often that Princess needs to change out their shower curtains more often. Ours stinks of mold so we let our steward know and she brings us another one. But later on when we enter the bathroom all I can smell is mold/mildew. I lift up the shower curtain and see the black marks at the bottom and smell it and it is horrible.
I am sure she just grabbed this shower curtain from another cabin that wasn't in use. It is so bad the smell I take the shower curtain down myself. She promises us she will get us a fresh one, and she does right away. It is a newly laundered one.
But other than that the cabin is great, we have our mini bar, we have ice. The bed is very comfortable, we have a clean cabin, a big window with no obstruction and it appears to be very quiet.
The Horizon Court is crazy busy, which is the norm on embarkation day. But we are not hungry at all. We wander around and it is busy with people inside cause the weather is not nice, in fact it is raining. Guess sailaway is going to be inside.
We get a call from the dining room telling us that they are able to accommodate us at Mark's station tonight for 8 pm. We are so excited to see Mark again.
Looking forward to a wonderful voyage.
Off to muster drill now, more later.


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Saturday, June 30, 2007
Mets take 2 from Phils
J.D. Durbin (Joseph Durbin) got a rude welcome to the bigs as a starter, but facing a potent squad as the NY Mets are, it could have been worse! His era is a lofty 21.94 but if he has a couple more starts we will be able to see a better picture of his abilities. The Arizona Diamondbacks outright dropped Durbin in 2006. J.A. Happ (James Happ) starts tonight for the Phils, another first time starter. This business of first time starters going against the Mets is terrible for the Phillies. They should have made a better move by now but it appears the upper management doesn't care if the Phillies slide back into the standings because the ballpark is full perhaps. Make money, fill the seats. Pat Gillick and his sidekick Ruben Amaro have this team on autopilot and whatever happens, happens. Strategy is not playing a big part upstairs at Citizen's Bank Park.
The Phils now slide 5 games back and suddenly the surging Braves are back in the picture. The remaining games against the Mets remain crucial. This is no time for the Phillies to fall flat on their faces. Let's give them the support they need at the ballpark by cheering them on!
Pat Burrell is back in the lineup. I know why. He seemed to have played the Mets well over the past couple seasons. What the Phils are doing to Burrell is almost as bad as what the Phillies did to Brett Myers. Here you have the highest paid player on the team who is struggling a little and you outright bench him. I don't understand this logic. Despite his 8 games benched in this recent past 11 games I bet he will still have a decent year. I didn't hear all this bad publicity when Ryan Howard struggled with the mendoza line. No, that wasn't even an issue. Howard has had 220 at bats with 85 strikeouts already this season. Burell has had 212 AB's with 54 strikeouts but his current average is .203. I don't think that is just cause for benching a player that still has great explosive power as Burrell has. Support Pat Burrell through his struggles Gillick, don't just try to embarrass him. Just for giggles here is Albert Pujols numbers so far this season: 279 AB's with only 34 strikeouts.
Rich Baxter / Fightin' Phillies 2007 Blog
Friday, June 29, 2007
Phils take 2 from Reds, thanks J Roll!
Jimmy Rollins is my favorite player on the Phillies. I think with last night's win over the Reds that he may become the favorite Phillie of a few more fans. From the start of the year Jimmy Rollins has brought some spark to this otherwise kind of dull team.
Yes, there's been highs and lows for Jimmy this year, this will happen to most of the players in the MLB, but I do believe that Rollins wants this to be the year for the Phillies to make the playoffs. He's a great professional that hustles everytime out there.
So, bring on those Mets! It's less than an hour away from game time as I write this, the skies in South Jersey are sputtering with rain so I hope the weather is better in Philly!
Chris Coste is returning back from the minors and this could be another chance for him to shine in some limelight! Coste will answer the call again for the team, I think that is one of the worst moves that the Phillies did this season in not bringing Coste up with the team this year. It just doesn't make sense to me that a fan favorite and a guy that came through big time with the Phils last year, gets sent back down in order to bring in someone who is unproven to the Phils like Barajas was.
Rich - Fightin' Phils 2007 blog
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Poll: Will the Phils make the Playoffs
Phils coast into second place!
The news was not good either as Jon Leiber will probably miss the rest of the season. So two of the Phillies pitchers who were originally penciled in as the starting rotation are now missing. Kyle Kendrick has moved into the starters role from the minor league and so far he's done a great job to keep the Phils in ballgames. Adam Eaton had another of those 'rough outtings' yesterday as he gave up near his era of 5.67 with 6 runs given up to the Cards in 5 and 2/3's of his innings pitched on Saturday. It is tough for a team like the Phils to have to score more than 6 runs a game when Eaton pitches just to get even with the other team. Maybe the Phils call ups will produce another Cole Hamels type pitcher that is in the Phils minor system when they get their call up to the bigs. That is the best we can hope for now, as the Phillies have said that they will fill Lieber's spot internally.
Lieber hasn't been a 'lights out' pitcher for the Phils so far this year, he's 3-6 with a 4.73 era at the time that he is going on the DL. So the prospect of having a decent minor leaguer doesn't really scare me all that much. I would like to see the Phillies change direction with both Lieber and Garcia and go with a younger pitcher that has great stuff. I feel both Lieber and Garcia have already pitched the best games and I'm not impressed with either of them.
The Mets funk appears to be over for now, their slide over the past 15 games has been dramatic compared to the way they started off. The Mets just beat Oakland again yesterday and go for the sweep of Oakland today even with those wins the Mets June record going into today 6/24 is: 6 - 14 . That is incredible that the Mets have held onto first place and the Phillies haven't been able to capitalize on this. Is the Mets slide over? Or is Oakland just a terrible team?
After today's game with St. Louis, the Phils head home with an off day on Monday, then the Reds come to town for three games and those NY Mets come into Citizens Bank Park for a four game set, a series that can great possibilities for the Fightin' Phils!
Rich Baxter / Fightin Phils 2007 Blog
Monday, June 18, 2007
Bring on the Indians, the Tigers wore us out!
The heat tested the stamina of the fans that was for sure. The game proceeded along with a game where the ball was lively early on. Neither pitcher would get a 'no hitter' today. Jason Verlander was poised to become only the second pitcher to pitch a back to back no hit game, but it wasn't to be. I thought to myself when watching Verlander pitch, what a great delivery he has to the plate. I was comparing his delivery to Freddie Garcia's and it really struck me on how confident and the way that Verlander approached batters as opposed to the slow, disorganized method of Garcia. The Phillies got to Verlander early enough to show that he was hittable and it looked as though the Phils might be sending home all the Dads, there cheering them on, home happy.
Detroit had other plans though, they stayed at arms length of the Fightins and got to Eaton in the 7th but most of the fans wanted Eaton to stay and try to pitch out of the trouble. He certainly looked mad at coming out of the game as well, perhaps Manuel didn't want him to be the losing pitcher. Geoff Geary came in to game for a cup of coffee and he got the loss, then Manuel continued to change pitchers much to the chagrin of the fans. Pitching seemed to lose the game for the Phils but also another stat that didn't look too good was Ryan Howard going 0-5 and leaving many runners on base, and J Roll who is normally relied upon to produce only mustered to go 1-5. So those two batters go 1-10 and left plenty on base for the Phils. Howard is getting scary, yes he has hit some homeruns lately but I don't know if Howard will ever get back to his form of last year.
The Cleveland Indians are up next, but we have Cole Hamels going for the Phils tonight.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Fightin' Phils Audio Show (Jun 17 2007)
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Take me out to the ball game.... Another stadium rant!
I just watched the Phillies on tv have the bases loaded at Citizen's Bank Park against the Detroit Tigers during the bottom of the first on Saturday night. They looked like they were about to break the game open. To start off, Chase Utley hit a massive drive to deep right center, it appeared to be a homerun. Wrong, a fan reached out and made a great catch but pulled the ball up and over the fenced area along the front row of right center. Ground rule double it is ruled, and that fan probably felt like a complete idiot, and the fool of the ballpark for doing it. Welcome to Citizen's Bank Park... Up close and personal. I'll continue on with the inning. Ryan Howard walks and goes to first base. Pat the Bat is now up and this looks serious. Pat's up there looking at a couple pitches but what I notice isn't anything to do with the game on the field. I am thinking about the fans, here's a great opportunity and there is nothing but silence coming from the fans in a full looking Citizen's Bank Park. They're quick to boo, but do you think we can make some noise when the Phils have something going on? Nope, nothing ... Zilch, you can hear a pin drop! I don't entirely blame this on the fans and this may be the very reason that the Phillies are doing terrible at home. In the not to distant past, at Veteran's Stadium that place would have been rocking. The Veteran's Stadium crew would have had the 'clapping hands,' if your old enough to remember those, out on the scoreboards at the Vet! going crazy along with some cool organ music that made you want to clap and cheer and see your team succeed. Well, not at Citizen's Bank Park, not a peep from an organ, no sir nothing. To finish the inning Aaron Rowand gets hit by a pitch goes to first and loads the bases, then Abe Nunez promptly looks at called strike three and the inning is over! No music, no clapping hands before the pitch, no nothing. This is the problem at Citizen's Bank Park!
You've got a multi million dollar facility that basically doesn't have a soul. It's a nice place don't get me wrong, but very short on things to get the fans pumped up and moving a little. Have the Phillies brass forgot about all those wonderful things that used to make going to a ball game and watching the Phillies at Vet's Stadium such a treat. How about Phanavision? Did they forget that and all those cool things that used to be baseball in Philly? You had cool organ music and other things going on when the Phils got some offense going to get you excited and I think even the players got into it more at the Vet. I've already ranted about the seat size at the new ballpark, the seats are just too small, look on tv the next time you get a chance at a Phillies game then remember how close the people in the 'regular' seats are to one another, then watch an out of market game on ESPN and see the difference. In Kansas City last week, it looked as though if people had a least 1 1/2 times as much room as you do at Citizen's Bank Park. It's just not right. A couple weeks ago I sat up in Section 318 and I noticed a group of seats amongst the 'regular' sized seats that were the size of the premium seats there was quite a difference. In the middle of all these seats was 3 larger sized seats that looked so much more comfortable I just couldn't understand why they were located where they were. I was so moved by it that I took a picture of them before the game.
People are going to continue to go to games, they are going to continually going to be squeezed into small seats at Citizen's Bank Park, but can we have a little entertainment while we're knee to knee and shoulder to shoulder? It's not too much to ask is it?
Rich Baxter / Fightin' Phils Blog
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Fightin' Phils Audio Show (June 14 2007)
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Winning is a good thing!
I can get use to this, the Phillies dominating night after night and getting the job done! Cole Hamels turns in another gem as he coasts in with 9 wins and leads the NL in wins. A sweep of the Sox would be great today, but even if it doesn't happen I like the way things have been going for the Phils lately.
Freddie Garcia finally found his problem of why he couldn't locate pitches and get good velocity on the ball. He may be finished for the season, and for his Phils career, but at least he's not out there costing the Phillies games. He looked like he had promise, and I wish he had worked out but it is not to be or at least at this time it looks like Garcia may be done for the season.
Thome may come back to haunt us in this game today for the businessman's special. As of the time I am writing this Thome had just come up to bat and tipped his helmet in appreciation to the standing ovation he received.
Monday, June 11, 2007
Phils return home on ESPN vs. The White Sox
The most popular player on the Sox, Jim Thome, will not see action in the first two games. That was announced prior to game time, I am sure everyone who bought tickets expecting to see Thome in action has been disappointed. It's almost like going to Rome and finding the Pope will be away for the month on other activities! Here's some numbers on Thome: in 2006 after leaving the Phillies, Thome played in 143 games for the Sox he had an incredible 490 AB's and 42 homeruns for the Sox while batting .288. He was voted as an All Star in 2006. So far in 2007 he has played in 39 games for the Sox and hit 8 HR's so he has trailed off a bit this year. He is projected to hit at least 29-30 HR's total for this season though on ESPN's projected totals section of their player bios. Thome has been a DH for the Sox, so he isn't playing the field like he had to do with the Philadelphia Phillies. He may be moved to first base soon, says some reports from the White Sox team.
The broadcast team of Rick Sutcliffe and Dave O'Brien made some objective comments compared with some of the comments by our own Phillies broadcasters who are paid by the team. Our guys are great don't get me wrong, we should still have a campaign to bring Scott Graham back too!, but in 2007 the MLB doesn't black out the game locally anymore so you can tune in to get that national broadcast opinions that aren't really influenced by the Phils.
Adam Eaton has pitched 6 strong innings as of the time I am writing this blog entry, and Burrell and Howard have gone yard already. Is this the start of a long winning streak at home? Speculators have guessed that the Phils make make a trade this series with the Sox, or some other team. I think the Phils stand pat here, they keep this bunch of players for now. No moves in the next 10 days at least concerning a trade.
Rich Baxter / Fightin' Phils
Friday, June 08, 2007
2nd sweep of the season, Phils thump Mets
The Phillies played a great series against the Mets at Shea. Despite many dubious calls from the umpires the Phils handed the Mets a three game sweep and moved within 5 games of first place. The Mets have to be a bit unsettled over this. The Mets bullpen allowed the Phillies to creep back into 2 games that the Phils eventually ended up winning. What seemed to be a lost season, is now looking much better now with the Phillies going into KC with a day's rest for a weekend series in Kansas City. The beer and steak dinners have got to taste better to the Phillies players out in Kansas City who are no doubt probably impressed with what they did to the Mets!
Chase Utley had to be the series MVP during the Mets games, with Jimmy Rollins a close second. Let us not forget how Pat "The Bat" Burrell has pummelled the Mets either, say what you will about Burrell but he's still a guy that I like playing for the Phillies! He's not Babe Ruth, but he's been much better this year even though recently it looks as if 'The Bat' has slipped in his numbers.
The Phillies will play the next 12 games on an American League swing, they could even find themselves in first place at the end of the Interleague matchups if they continue to get the job done like they have been doing. Clutch hitting, great pitching and a big will to win, have gone a long way for the team. A lot of local Philadelphia sports talk shows had basically written the Phillies off, here's egg in their face! Howard Eskin said that they were "done" just the other day, I guess he and others will be singing a different tune now that the Phils have sweep the Mets like they did.
Hopefully, I'll get back to doing some audio podcasts for this blog. I've got so much to say about the Phils and not too much time to do it.
Rich Baxter / Fightin' Phillies 2007 audio blog
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Phils take game 1 from the Mets ... Stadium rant
The Fightins took on the mighty Mets last night and actually impressed me with the way that they hung in the game and came out with the victory thanks to great play by Chase Utley and others. As have been noted in several media stories, the Phillies need to play tough and win this series. Jamie Moyer kept the Phils in the game and Ryan Madson and Geoff Geary kept the wheels on going into extra inning to give the Mets their first extra innings loss this year.
I used to really like the Mets and have been to Shea many times. I couldn't help but think about Shea Stadium as it is nearing the same fate as Veteran's Stadium after the 2008 season. I looked at the seating areas on television and appreciated all the room that the fans have in the first level and throughout the stadium for that matter. Shea Stadium was built with some comfort for spectators in mind. Citizen's Bank Park is another matter, except for the Diamond Club and Hall of Fame level, fans are literally packed in like sardines. The stadium areas apart from the size of the seats themselves are first class, but when it came to making the seat size someone goofed! I am around 6 feet tall and a bit on the heavy side so when I sit down I am literally shoulder to shoulder and knee to knee with the person in the next seat. Take a look at the next home game on TV, you'll see that people are packed in like fish and are way too close to one another. That's a major problem in a stadium where your paying more money than ever to see a ballgame. Give us some room please !!! The Vet was much roomier than these seats at Citizens Bank Park and I would assume, the new seat size at Mets Stadium , to be called Citi Field. So another big part of baseball that I grew up with is going to be blown to smithereens, the famous Shea Stadium.
Join us on the Philly Sports Talk Now! Blog later tonight after 10 pm for the next edition of our podcast where we talk Philadelphia sports!
Rich Baxter / Fightin' Phillies Audio Blog 2007
Saturday, June 02, 2007
Bonds and 'The Juice' - The MLB Steroids Scandal
Barry Bonds has landed again in Philly, despite his cloud of suspension of steroid haze that follows him, nothing has happened to him and even some Philly players mingle with him like he's the best thing since sliced bread!
Bonds and the 'Juice' Why Hasn't Bonds Been Suspended?
It seems like an old story now. The story of Barry Bonds using steroids stretches back to 1998 when most experts and testimonies of people who know about Bonds use of steroids agree that '98 was the start of Barry's use of illegal substances to enhance his performance on the field. The matter has been dragged in front of the US Congress, played out in front of many courts, employing many experts, and spawning many books about this, and exposed this use to a nation of baseball fans that have acted upon the information like they are waiting on a higher power perhaps the commissioner of the MLB to come out and say something to them. We've been waiting for years for someone in charge, someone who can make a ruling, or tell us all, that 'yes' this did happen and here's the penalty for it. There is a strange silence on this issue from Major League Baseball. The MLB doesn't like negative attention, in fact they probably wish that this whole situation just sails into the future under the present day situation where not much is said or done about this issue.
It's not only Bonds that could be punished in this 'juicing' – there are a lot of players that could or should be punished, although some are already retired. This has been a tremendous 'black eye' to baseball, perhaps when future generations look back at this it may well big the biggest scandal of the MLB's history. We don't have any suspensions, no 'lifetime bans' as Pete Rose received for being honest in saying that he bet on baseball, not much of anything happened to the players as this controversy developed and encircled them in this cloud of substances. As the scope of the Congressional investigation of doping in the MLB played out, many players were called to testify and it really brought this situation to the front living rooms of fans of baseball. Sosa, McGuire, Palmiero, Giambi, and these are only the bigger stars of the game that we were familiar with, there were or are probably hundreds more of lesser known players that were doing it too. To date though, not too many penalties or fines, or any repercussion of the player's use of these substances have been handed out.
The official word from the San Francisco Giants is basically silence. They simply don't comment on it. That is really an ignorant response. You have a player that 99.9 percent positive that he has used steroids, and you say 'no comment'. So now you have a team that covers this up for a league that appears to want to sweep it under the rug, a player that says "No Comment" about the situation and this whole controversy appears to just roll through the atmosphere unscathed. Baseball fans go to the ballpark, they boo Barry outside of San Francisco, and I suspect even some San Franciscans may count themselves amongst the fans that are telling the MLB that what went on with this situation is wrong, it's criminal, and without saying so directly want a 'final answer' on this sometime before the year 2050!
Bonds got away with the use of steroids with this very same cloak of secrecy and silence. He brought his own personal trainer who supplied him with steroids as a paid member of the San Francisco Giants staff, and despite the Giants knowing that something serious was happening here, they just went along in silent mode letting Bonds get away with anything he wanted to. Why? The supplier who supplied the trainer Greg Anderson with steroids who eventually got them to Bonds plead guilty to distributing anabolic steroids and got a sentence that a shoplifter may have received. He distributed these growth enhancing drugs to more than just Bonds though. A street drug dealer that peddles his drugs would have been sentenced to many years behind bars for doing this. So the story continues, it's now almost 10 years old, and the MLB probably wishes it would go away. Well the story won't go away anytime too soon, the All Star Game is even going to be in San Francisco this year, and maybe this is a way for the MLB to punish the San Francisco Giants for their role in the Bonds scandal? Award them a national classic game, maybe somewhere down the road we'll see if someone is ever held accountable by the MLB for this, or maybe money, power, and politics will smooth it over and keep the real truth from happening.
Rich Baxter / Phillies Audio Blog 2007
Rich Baxter / Phillies Audio Blog 2007


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- Club meets:
- 2nd & 4th Tuesday, 12:00 pm
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- Club Number:
- 00651271, District 53, Area F64
- Charter Date:
- Jun. 28, 2004
Meeting Times: 2nd & 4th Tuesday 12:00 pm
Phone: +1 860-602-3874
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For this section, I have researched the different types of lanterns. I believe that this will help me understand the lanterns themselves, and will help me know what to use within my design. Although there is a lot of brands for these different lanterns, I am going to just talk about their features as a whole.
(Profile lighting, no date)
A Profile, also known as an ERS, is one of the most convenient types of lanterns. It offers copious visual variants and is aesthetically versatile. There are two different types of profiles. Ellipsoidal and Condenser Optics. The first one I am going to talk about is an ellipsoidal reflector, which makes it easier to focus the lantern. The lights circle breadth is adjusted by an iris diaphragm which is placed at the front focal point. Near the iris, there is a gobo slot, as well as four shutters. These shutters are used to restrict the light beam vertically and horizontally. There are three different planes within a profile which will modify the beam and are placed closely behind each other. The shutters are placed either on four or two different planes. The gobo slot, which I previously mentioned, is placed on an additional plane. This is so the beam can be transformed to produce any desired shape. This style of lantern has become more effective over the years with the use of zoom optics. This is like a zoom lens you would find on a digital camera. It will produce a much better quality, however this can be disputed through the workings of the individual operating/designing of the lighting. (Meet Google drive – One place for all your files, no date) (Shelley, 2011)
In comparison to the ellipsoidal, a condenser optics light discharged by the lamp and the spherical reflector is focused by the lens of the lantern. The same as the ellipsoidal, the beam is changed by hand by the use of an iris diaphragm, shutters and/or a gobo. Transposable lenses may also alter the focal length on this lantern. These styles of profiles are improved and are more convenient for altering the focal length. With condenser optics lanterns, the lenses are no longer changed, but in addition, an adjustable lens is fitted that will allow the lantern to cover a greater range of beam angles. An example of the beam angles are:
- 12 – 22
- 16 – 30
- 28 – 40
(A Philips group brand arena PC & Fresnel | strand lighting – A Philips group brand, no date)
The way the Fresnel was built is similar to that of a traditional profile, however the lens is replaced by a Fresnel lens, which consists of ridges to make the edge of the beam diffused. The basis of this lens is so that large diameters can be used. The way in which you change the size of the beam works the same way as a Profile. The light is diffused leaving colour errors less noticeable around the edges. This is because the beam that is being produced is soft edged from the ridges of the lens. Fresnels are generally used as a general coverage of the stage, as you can use barn doors to section off the stage evenly. This style of lantern can take incandescent and discharge lamps.
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A Parcan is a lantern that has been further developed from the parabolic reflector. The way in which the lantern makes light is used by an incandescent coil, (which is an arc in the case of the discharge lamp), a reflector; holder and front lens is placed within in confined unit and is mounted within the housing.
The beam that is produced is oval, and they are essentially sharply defined. The focal length cannot be altered, however, it can be determined from the lamp chosen. This style of lantern can be purchased in four different beam angles consisting of:
- Narrow Beam (9×12)
- Medium Beam (10×15)
- Wide Beam (11×24)
- 70×70
These different beam angles are created by the uppermost layer of the lens.
(The strand archive – Iris Flood, no date)
A Flood is personally the simplest form of lighting, which consists of a lamp; reflector in a box with no lens. The reflectors job in this case is to concentrate the beam out of the box. There is no controlling the focus of this lantern other than guiding the beam in the direction you would like it. Some Floods nowadays have an asymmetric or diagonal reflector which are designed to light cyclaramas. These types of Floods have a linear lamp, which will help light the entire stage. (Types of lantern, no date)
P.C (Pebble Convex)
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This style of lantern has many different similarities to the Profile and Fresnel. The lens that this lantern uses is a modified plano-convex lens with pebbled effects on the plano side. This pebbled effect gives the beam its characteristic soft edge. This beam is moderately harder than a Fresnel is, but it is not hard edged.
Profile lighting (no date) Available at: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=profile+lighting&es_sm=93&biw=1280&bih=667&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAmoVChMImf_ixcX8yAIVCKAOCh3XIAOw#imgrc=-TxbVBtGbd_V8M%3A (Accessed: 6 November 2015).
Profile theatre lighting hire oxford (no date) Available at: http://www.acdisco.com/profile-light-hire.html (Accessed: 6 November 2015).
Acclaim|Acclaim axial 18°-34° Zoomspot (no date) Available at: http://www.seleconlight.com//index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.p1&category_id=121&product_id=74 (Accessed: 6 November 2015).
Keller, M. and Szabó, D. (2006) Light fantastic: The art and design of stage lighting, with DVD. 2nd edition. New York: Prestel Publishing.
111 (no date) How to make a cheap home made par can. Available at: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-cheap-home-made-par-can/ (Accessed: 8 November 2015).
Types of lantern (no date) Available at: http://www.theatrecrafts.com/page.php?id=803 (Accessed: 8 November 2015).
Pebble convex (no date) Available at: http://www.pslx.co.uk/prod03.htm (Accessed: 8 November 2015).


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Marica Sevelj – Master of Arts in Arts Therapy second year student
"I believe strongly in the power of the arts to heal and I love working with people in this deeply personal and meaningful way," declares second year arts therapy student Marica Sevelj.
Marica became aware of the therapeutic potential of the arts 20 years ago when her son, who was 10 years old at the time, was diagnosed with leukaemia. She was given a journal to document what was happening for her and her family.
"This journal was the start of an amazing adventure. It was also when I first met an arts therapist - I didn't know such a job existed."
Marica, who lives in Wellington where she works full-time, says the low residential programme was a major draw card.
"Low residency means I can pay my bills and pursue my dream without uprooting my life and moving to another city to study."
Whitecliffe provides a fantastic opportunity to learn about an amazing profession amongst inspiring people, she adds.
"You feel anything is possible as long as you are prepared to do the work."
<< Arts Therapy < Jennie Halliday | Alecia Steel >


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In case you didn't see the previous announcement, ChipGeek's Message Parlor has recently undergone some revamping. It is running on a dedicated server and we're working toward turning it into a powerhouse of ChipGeek-related information.
The new message system requires registration. Registration is free and was added to help filter out the people who drop by to sound off without thinking, in the same way the new tradition of "First Post!" posters do in registration-free areas. So far we've had some interesting topics come and go. Anyone can start a new topic, so drop by and ask a question. Answer one if you can. And let's see if we can turn the Message Parlor into a place the ChipGeek community regularly turns to for assistance. Visit the ChipGeek Message Parlor.


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Hello Beauties,
It's about time that I bring you this post on THE BEST MASK!
Having missed the whole hype during its initial launch (many years ago), I only finally tried this Collagen Crystal Facial Mask sometime this year. I was traveling when I bought this, after a customer commented on how old I've looked after a year.
And that incidence, it shone a light on the journey of masks, and emergency facial rescue.
This mask has truly stood out, in the pool of non-saloon masks.
So What Is A Collagen Crystal Facial Mask?
If you're not familiar with what a crystal mask is, it is unlike a sheet mask, it has a jelly/gel like texture. Instead of drying up like a sheet mask, crystal mask melts its essence into your skin from your natural body heat. This crystal mask, makes some hefty claims to its benefits, and the best thing is, it does deliver.
You can see the mask has melted to your body heat, and your skin is moist and hydrated with the essence melted off the collagen crystal mask.
What Are The Benefits of A Collagen Crystal Facial Mask?
Based on the label, it claims to have effects on:
- Whitening
- Moisturising
- Anti-Wrinkle
- Oil-Control
- Pore Reducing
- Hydration
Ingredients Of A Collagen Crystal Facial Mask
This mask comes compact with some impressive ingredients. Not a lot of preservatives like common sheet masks. Here are the ingredients:
Aqua, Glycerin, Polyinyl Alcohol, Sodium Polyacrylate, Tartaricacid, Grape Seed Oil (vitis vinfera), Retinyl Palmitate (Vitamin A), Tocophbryl Acetate (Vitamin E), BHT, Methylparaben, Fragaben, Fragrance, Phyto-Collagen, Aloe Vera, Green Tea Extract, Plum Extract
So How Good is The Crystal Collagen Facial Mask Really???
You can use this mask for 30 minutes long, or some choose to leave this overnight, for not more than 12 hours. Whilst I'm not too used to sleeping with masks on, yet because the mask is so nutritious, I leave it on for 1 hour.
Here is the result of collagen crystal facial mask after 1 hour, freshly removed. You can obviously tell the skin is so much more brightened, supple, and so hydrated! Even when compared to a good sheet mask, the effect of brightening this collagen crystal mask achieves is much more capturing. And you know what's the REAL KEY BENEFIT? The effects, they last for at least another day or two! With sheet masks, the effects don't carry forward to the next day, but this does!
Just last night I did it and this morning I woke up to a fantastic fair and even face, brightened up, all my fatigues washed away.
Collagen Crystal Facial Mask is also suitable for all skin types!
I have let a couple of friends try it and all come back with news of superior results. Because of it's formula, your skin is able to breathe as it doesn't have any waxy substance suffocating your faces and masking your pores, all it does is just juicy substance slowly absorbed by your skin, hence it's suitable for any skin type, even for acne prone skin. Unless you are specifically allergic to the ingredients listed.
This is literally my Holy Grail of masks. When I'm late for my facial appointment, this suffices to delay my appointments for another week. Also with this mask, my skin just glows the next day, I tend to skip any foundation and just let the natural glowing face be beautiful on it's own.
I like it so much, not only I bought just 1 but all the variations for specific purposes!
Different Types of Collagen Crystal Facial Masks
If you would like to know more about this, feel free to drop a message. Cheers, and keep your skin healthy y'all!


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About the Cultural Centre
Richmond Cultural Centre
7700 Minoru Gate
Richmond, BC V6Y 1R9
Phone: 604-247-8300
Fax: 604-247-8301
Email: email@example.com
Cultural Facilities Map
Enrich your life at the Richmond Cultural Centre
Press the play button and then the square button in the bottom, right-hand corner to watch the video in full screen HD.
Facility Information
Operating Hours
Monday to Friday 9:00 am-9:30 pm
Saturday 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Sunday 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Culture Centre Supervisor: Judy Lo
Cultural Centre Facility Clerk: Luis Yang
About the Cultural Centre
Opened in 1993, the Cultural Centre shares its vibrant location with the Richmond Library (Brighouse Branch), Richmond Arts Centre, Richmond Museum, City of Richmond Archives and the Richmond Art Gallery. Cultural Centre amenities also include the Media Lab and the Rooftop Garden.


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What is an Injury and Compensation Trust?
Injury and Compensation Trusts are usually established under the terms of a Court Order or Settlement, where funds have been paid to an individual for personal injury and compensation. Often these funds are required to be held in trust for the benefit of the individual injured, called the beneficiary.
What payments can be held in trust?
Injury and Compensation Trusts are usually established from a lump sum payment. These include:
- Lump sum payments from accident insurance, for example the Transport Accident Commission (TAC)
- Lump sum awards from Court Settlements
- Lump sum payments following charitable collections or public donations made to people injured in an accident or natural disaster.
Who can be trustee?
Parents, siblings or friends of the beneficiary who are over 18 years of age and an Australian resident can be a trustee.
A professional Trustee Company such as State Trustees, or a corporation that specialises in legal, accounting or financial planning may also be appointed.
The Court will decide who is best placed to be the trustee.
What can the trust funds be used for?
All expenditure from the trust must benefit the beneficiary. When a request for funds is made, the trustee should consider:
- The amount of funds in the trust and how long the trust funds need to last
- Any specific rules about what purposes the funds may be used for, as outlined in the trust deed or Court Order.
Depending on the needs of the beneficiary, who may be disabled, funds may be released for medical expenses, accommodation, education, recreation or respite etc. It is the trustee's responsibility to ensure payments made from the trust benefit the beneficiary.
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Press Release: On Tuesday August 25, 2015 at 4:27p.m., thousands of Prairie View students will join with the family and friends of Sandra Bland in a "Walk of Solidarity" to the City of Prairie View's City Hall, where the council will vote on a measure to rename the main thoroughfare leading to Prairie View A&M University, Sandy Bland Parkway.
If the measure is adopted, the Prairie View community will make a powerful statement that #blacklivesmatter as they honor a young Black, unemployed female graduate of Prairie View, who died in a Waller County jail, under mysterious circumstances.
The "walk" will depart from the Memorial Student Center on the campus of Prairie View A&M University
and proceed south (one mile) on University Drive to Business Highway U. S. 290 east, (1/4 mile) to the
Prairie View City Hall.
The council action is the first item on the mayor's agenda. The council meeting is called to order at
For more information please contact DeWayne Charleston 573-356-9872; Hai Bui 281-330-4351;
Cynthia Cole 713-540-0706; for radio interviews call Michael Moore 832-723-7156


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The VIX broke through the 19 level today, meaning pricing for puts and calls have reached their lowest levels in 16 months. But that doesn't make them cheap.
While many refer to the VIX as the so-called fear index, as we've pointed out time and again on the show, the VIX is more of a movement index: the more the market moves, the more the VIX tends to bounce around.
The VIX is currently pricing in average daily market moves of just under 1% per day, far greater than the market has actually moved in the past 20 days, which works out to about just over a half-a percent a day.
That disparity could mean the VIX could go even lower, as options prices catch up to a less volatile market.
"VIX is likely to fall another 10%, and when that happens, I might want to look at buying call options," said Brian Stutland of Stutland Equities.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Russian Airbus A321 with 224 people on board crashed on October 31 while en route from Egypt's resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, leaving no survivors.
"We have prepared the materials to claim compensation for the victims' families from the owner of the aircraft — an American company ILFC…," lawyer representing the interests of the victims' relatives, Igor Trunov, told Izvestia.
According to the lawyer, the amount of claims will vary from $300,000 to $1.5 million.


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Skarmory (Plasma Storm 87)
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Skarmory (Japanese: エアームド Airmd) is a Metal-type Basic Pokémon card. It is one of the Plasma Storm expansion.
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Pokédex data
|Skarmory - Armor Bird Pokémon
|5'07" (1.7 m)
|111.3 lbs. (50.5 kg)
|Pokédex entry
|Its heavy-looking iron body is actually thin and light, so it can fly at speeds over 180 mph.
|がんじょうで おもそうな てつの からだだが うすくて かるいので じそく300キロで とべる。
Release information
This card was included in the English Plasma Storm expansion. In Japan, it was released as one of the BW-P Promotional cards and was one of four possible promotional cards given to customers who purchased ¥1000 worth of Pokémon Card Game products at participating stores. This print also has the Plasma Gale expansion logo in the bottom left corner of the artwork.
Steel Wing is a move in the Pokémon games that Skarmory can learn. This card's Pokédex entry comes from Pokémon Black 2 and White 2.
|This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.