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Fire officials rely on proper train labelling, TSB says
Transportation Safety Board official says municipalities need proper labelling of dangerous goods
Municipalities and emergency measures officials rely on properly labelled rail cars so they can properly react to any potential incidents, a senior investigator for the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said on Monday.
Donald Ross said last week the crude oil carried in tankers that derailed and ignited in Lac-Mégantic, Que., in July was misidentified as a less volatile substance.
Ross said he cannot confirm whether the proper checks now are being carried out to ensure dangerous goods being transported on railways are identified correctly.
Ross said municipalities require this information about dangerous goods in their communities so they can properly plan for any potential problems.
"I think the obvious thing is to make sure to identify what those products are and what type of hazards and things they need to do to get ready in case … of something unfortunate happening," Ross said on Monday.
The crude oil in the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic train that derailed in Quebec had been listed as Packing Group 3, the least hazardous on the scale.
The oil actually had the properties of a Packing Group 2 substance, which also includes goods like gasoline, that have a lower flash point and will therefore ignite more quickly.
Ross said in an emergency, such as Lac-Mégantic, it would be important for emergency crews to understand what was being transported in their area so they had the appropriate materials, such as fire-fighting foam, available.
"In the general sense, those conversations are normally held in communities. We've been asked ourselves to come and speak to communities about matters in that regard," he said.
Importer responsible for proper labelling
It's the responsibility of the organization importing dangerous goods to ensure the products are labelled properly.
In the case of the Lac-Mégantic accident, Irving Oil Ltd. was responsible to ensure the descriptions of the products were correct.
Ross said on Monday Irving Oil has been co-operating with the investigation.
Bob van der Valk, the managing editor of the Bakken Oil Business Journal, said last week the misidentification of crude oil from the Bakken oil fields in the United States is routine.
The Lac-Mégantic tragedy has sparked demands for better rail safety standards from different municipalities and organizations.
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities has added its voice to calls for swift federal action on rail safety.
Meanwhile, Rothesay and Quispamsis officials met with local and provincial emergency co-ordinators in August to discuss rail safety in the region.


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Oil Stain Cleaning Company (OSCCO) effectively cleans oil-based stains and spills on concrete surfaces unlike any other company on the planet. Motor oil, lubricants, fuels, grease, cooking oils, tree sap, gum, wax, and paint are some of the stains OSCCO can clean. Our unique process achieves far better results than pressure washing or store-bought chemicals and results in a clean, uniform-looking surface that can be used immediately. Even better, when we perform our work, the results are guaranteed.
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Here's guy proudly holding aloft his sweater. I suppose finding an old Hanukkah sweater at the thrift store isn't as easy as finding one for Christmas...what is man to do? Well, according to the original caption, this one is a DYI crafter's creation! Not only has he done a rather good job crafting that menorah, but look at that ingenuity using the Star of David as the shamash candle's flame! (Part of me hopes you've got a pair of festive Hanukkah boardshorts for when you break out that sweet ride in the background.) Mazal Tov dude!
...or, show off your fun loving side with this dreidle inspired number! Be careful or you may end up spinning in a pile of gelt!
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Even Fido isn't left out! I'm nearly kvell! Would you look at that little guy! I'm glad to know it's not just the gentile pets that get the...er...privilage of being forced to wear "stylish" seasonal clothing!
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"Say Jim, what are you doing for Kwanzaa this year?" "Er, actually Bob, I hadn't planned on observing it at all..." "Well, why not Bob, are you one of those types who goes around knocking down Christmas trees and blowing out the candles on the menorah?" "Well...no Bob, it's just that like you...I'm 60...and white."
Kwanzaa...I found one sweater participant...and that was him. Nice additions there with the chain and hat. Although, I was really hoping to find some excellent Cosbyesque gear for Kwanzaa, but alas...it was not to be.
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Rob, I sure wish there was a holiday for guys like us...you know, folks who probably celebrate some other holiday, but would really like another reason to hang out and party." "Well, Sid, my Uncle Bob was telling me about some other holiday just the other day..."
*suddenly a voice calls out in the wilderness*
"...Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way."
"What happened to the doll?"
"It was destroyed. But out of that a new holiday was born: a Festivus for the rest of us!"
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Those sweaters...they're...a Festivus Miracle! From the winter wonderland on the left to the multi-colored argyle on the right, it's absolutely beautiful. I'd love to see you guys standing around the Festivus pole, airing your grievances and reminiscing about past feats of strength...(Serious update! Carrie, has pointed out to me that I have failed to mention the majestic mullet on the owner of sweater number one! I was so distracted by Mr. Argyle that I didn't even notice that hair! Dude, you're making Billy Ray proud.)
Until later...Festivus YES! Bagel NO!


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This long drop necklace is another re-do. I originally designed it as a short double tiered necklace but after a few wears, found it was too heavy and chunky.
Though I'm not usually one for long necklaces, I like the swagger of this new design. It's lighter, free and just a tad bohemian.
Plus, the neckline works perfectly with my new jean dress from the Gap!
I made this jewelry one year ago, to wear in Kristin & Dami's wedding. Sifting through my jewelry-making related posts on the blog, I'm not sure how I could have neglected to post this last August, but neglect I did.
In any case, since the happy duo are now with me in the flesh, and since a simple and elegant self-design deserves a little self-promotion, here it is:
If I do say so myself, it's quite a lovely piece. And when I wear it, it reminds me of special people. The centerpiece is a clip-on earring; one of a few pieces my Mom saved for me after my nana passed two years ago.
It took me awhile to find the perfect re-setting, but I think it was worth the wait.
As you may be able to tell, my hands have been at work. Winter is always a time when I hunker down and get my bead on. Plus it's a good way to temper my urges to cook nonstop.
So here's my latest creation — nothing particularly creative but a simple design of chic spotted egg chips mixed with timeless black.
After a Friday night of debauchery with the gals in Melbourne, we ended up at Senoritas — my new favorite restaurant in the CBD and the second restaurant in Melbourne to actually have decent Mexican food. The decor is Day of the Dead; the food a pleasing array of small dishes (tacos and dips) and standard mains (like a perfectly spicy and sweet rich chicken mole).
When the bill came, it was adorned by this cute little skull pin, which having had multiple rounds of margaritas, we promptly ooohed and aaawwwed over. So our server gave us each one – turns out they are little costume rings that they flatten and slide onto your receipt.
We spent the rest of the night (yes, we continued to drink…) rolling around the CBD and raising our rings shouting "sister skull power!!" Strangely, no magic powers emanated from the rings, but we had a good time showing them off nonetheless.
To commemorate the event, and take a little piece of Friday nights out with the girls in Melbourne home with me, I came up with this colorful design.
¿ que bonita, no?
The great thing about making your own jewelry is that you can always recreate old things to make something new and pretty, or mend things that don't quite work out right the first time.
Take, for example, this turquoise lariat… ah, how I loved this design.
I visualized the design about a year ago and over time finally found all the perfect pieces: the turquoise disks for the collar, different textures of red coral chips, the perfect centerpieces (a chunk of red coral and a turquoise doughnut with a red coral flower through the center) to balance it out.
Unfortunately, try as I did, this design was not meant to be. Time after time, it broke. I tried a heavier gauge wire, reinforced wire, double strengthening the bind at the clasp… all to no avail. It was just too heavy, too long, and with too many pressure points at the various juncture points.
When I went to mend, I found myself with a much simpler design but still elegant finish. It's a high neck choker, and looks lovely with a plain black dress and black cardigan; a real stand out piece. What do you think, old or new?
This weekend, I dedicated myself to some long-over due jewelry making. It started with an early night at work on Thursday, leading to the blown-glass creation pictured below. Then late night on Friday, I finally finished my project from our trip in March to Freycinet Park, Tasmania, and strung up my purple seashells. And the trifecta: on Saturday, after a few hours at the bead and gem stores on Smith St., Fitzroy, we settled in for a night of movie watching and beading! (well, I played with beads; Steve concentrated on movie watching…)
We watched 4 movies, so I guess that means I beaded for around 7-8 hours. I'm feeling creatively-spent, but at least I have some pretty things to show for it…
blown-glass beads with swarovski crystals
I found these gorgeous blown-glass pieces at a bead store that was going out of business, and scored the lot for about $5. Pair with leftover swarovski's and viola, a shimmering adornment!
turquoise and red coral lariat
The necklace is doubled up here in the center to fit in the frame. It's a long drapey necklace, with a flexible swing but rigid and defined turquoise collar. I've been meaning to do something in this color family for awhile, and I totally love it. I think it will be perfect with the traditional Melbourne fashion – all black. Brighten things up a bit!
carnelian drop necklace
for $10, I signed up for a VIP membership at this gem and semi-precious stone store on Smith St, Fitzroy. Which was so worth it, as it gave me 50% off right away on these beauties – teardrop carnelian. Don't they look like little dinosaur eggs?
black and white twist-up
This one is a collaborative effort. The beads on the left were left-over from one of the only custom jobs I've done, for a friend of my good friend Lisa. After I finished the commissioned piece, I had some extra of the swirly marbled beads, so I kept them until a new idea struck me. A few months ago, a woman riding the tram had a twisted necklace like this, and I loved how simple yet elegant it looked. So when I found these black lava beads this weekend, I knew just what to do!
purple shells from the clear waters of Tasmania
Handpicked for me by my loving husband when we were at Wineglass Bay in March, then painstakingly hand-drilled to make suitable for a necklace. Its like my own personal piece of the sea. Love it.
painted glass beads with rose quartz
I dig the contrast of the diamond white and black glass swirls, painted with delicate little pink roses. I had a bunch of rose quartz already in my inventory, so I thought these were perfect to pair something new with something old.


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Whenever we craft and create products, we do our best to predict customer questions and concerns. We try to anticipate how the product will be received, which is why we offer a comprehensive FAQ page, an ingredients page, and a product care page.
Even with all of the information we offer, including on our blog and product descriptions, we still get questions from customers. We're so happy when you contact us with your questions because it makes us better makers, providers, and allows us to offer service that is specific for you. Most of the questions we receive are in person at our shows, but we also get them via email and our social media accounts.
Some of the questions we receive are a little obscure, which is why we don't just update our FAQ pages, but we thought it would be a lot of fun to share them (and answer them) here!
- Will the glitter on your soap turn me glittery or make me sparkle?
- No, we use cosmetic grade and biodegradable glitter solely for the aesthetic purpose of the soap itself. It will not adhere to your body….or make you a unicorn.
- *Side note – We use this same glitter (sometimes) in our bath bombs. This may get stuck to your bath tub, but it is easily rinsed off with water and a cloth.
- Will your soap wash off blood?
- To be completely honest, the context of how this question was asked freaked us out… A LOT, nonetheless, if the blood is on the body (such as a cut or scratch), then yes, our soap is no different than any other body soap in that it will wash off the blood. If this question was referring to fabric, then the answer is no. You would need a special blood enzyme stain remover for fabric. Just for the sake of precaution – our soap does not claim to stop bleeding or act as first aid equipment.
- Will your products cure my eczema/acne/psoriasis?
- As much as we would love to boast that our products could do everything, maybe even your laundry, the reality is that our products are solely created for cosmetic purposes – to make you look younger and more beautiful than you already are.
- Is your soap made with lye?
- Yes, our soap is made with lye. It's as simple as this: no lye, no soap. (FYI – Lye is the common name for sodium hydroxide.)
- Why did my bath bomb fizzle all out in my tub?
- Bath bombs are created as a one-time-use-only bathtub treat. Some people have broken the bombs to get multiple uses from them, but the bath bombs will not perform in the way they were intended to if they are broken.
- I've left my scrub open in the shower and now it smells weird/looks weird?
- While we use enough preservative in our oil-based scrubs to anticipate some water contamination (like wet fingers dipping in to grab more lovely scrub), you can never, ever leave any products open for water contamination. Where there's water, there's mold, mildew, and bacteria.
- I want to stretch my product, can't I just add water and/or more oils?
- No, no, and please NO. Not only are you risking some serious contamination, you are messing with delicate chemistry and formulations. Unless you know the actual percentages and properties of everything inside of a product, you don't take it upon yourself to change it. Think of it this way – if you're making cookies and you're out of eggs, do you just add more water?
- I only use liquid soap; I don't buy bar soap because it's dirty.
- Well, we actually wrote a whole blog entry about this, but in short – you're way dirtier than your bar soap will ever be, unless you store it in the dumpster.
- Are your products natural?
- Ah, the famous natural question. The answer is yes and no. Did we pick our bar soaps and candles off of our magical bath and body bushes, nope; did we use ingredients derived from nature, yup; were those ingredients synthesized and decontaminated through various scientific methods, yup; do we use harsh surfactants, detergents, phthalates, or formaldehyde, nope. In short, NATURE + CHEMISTRY = BEAUTIFULLY SAFE.
- Do you have anything made with milk, beeswax, or honey?
- No. We are a vegan company who only uses botanical (plant-based) ingredients. The closest we get to breaking that law is the use of palm oil (from palm trees); however, we only use RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) which is responsibly sourced palm oil. [More about why some people don't consider Palm Oil vegan here.] Milk, Beeswax, and Honey are all animal-derived ingredients, which is why they do not fit our criteria.
- Can't I just melt my own wax and crayons to make my own candles?
- We encourage anyone who wants to be a maker to be a maker; however, anyone who plans on selling their products needs to do an incredible amount of product testing first. You can try whatever you please, but FYI on the DIY – crayons are created to be flame-retardant, so they will drown your wick.
- Do you have a shop on Etsy?
- No, we do not sell our products on Etsy or Amazon at this time. All of our products are sold directly to consumer from us through our website or at one of our tradeshows. We do not plan on joining Etsy or Amazon in the future. Our future plans consist on having independent sales representatives.
- How come you don't have more candle scents/soap scents, etc.?
- Putting a product on the market is a lot more work than "Ok, I'm going to put this on the market today." We have to buy fragrances/ingredients to make product, ensure it goes through complete testing, if it passes – then buy packaging and labels, pay a photographer, store the inventory, and then hope it is successful on the market. This process can take months. We've significantly narrowed our product line to ensure the products are successful and attributed to our vision and branding.
Do you have any other questions for us that we have not addressed? Email us at email@example.com and ask us!


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Why don't you have your drinks with this mini barware tray, set in cute pastel colors! Use the silver dolphin to open your bottles. The acrylic tumbler, in light blue dissolved into transparency, seems inspired by the ocean. Mrs Jack styled this little barware set for your convenience; all you need to do is add a drink! Cin, Cin!
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On this light peach tray which is made of fiberglass, (Camtray by Cambro 14 x 18 cm) a wonderful acrylic tumbler / Vintage chromed metal bottle opener in the shape of a dolphin (Made in W-Germany, BMF -Bayerische Metallwaren Fabrik- N) opens both screw top bottles (with the opener on the bottom) and also pops off tops (with the tail) A truly unique piece and a gorgeous home bar accessory ( 17 x 6,5 cm)
Please contact Mrs Jack for more information or to order.


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I thought I would share a few of my absolute fave beauty products that I use on a regular basis!
They are all relatively affordable and they all work really well!
So to start here are my absolute body essentials!
I use exfoliating gloves everyday in the bath. They are very cheap, costing roughly £1.50.
You'll never need expensive body scrubs if you use these everyday!
I always follow my bath with the Body Shop Miracle Oil in Cocoa Butter, it sinks in quickly thanks to its dry oil like consistency. I use it on the ends of my hair too!
I follow this up with Lush Silky Underwear Dusting powder and the Body shop Vanilla perfume!
All three help me smell like a chocolate cake! 🙂
Next up are the face items!
I've been using L'Oreal Revitalift for about six months now and it has cured my wintery dry patches on my face!
I have used Max Factor Miracle Touch foundation in Blushing Beige for about five years and have not found one better yet! It's solid but turns to liquid on the sponge applicator provided in the compact!
This Carmex lip balm is the only one I have ever finished! I normally get bored or lose them but I LOVE this one! I use it instead of lip stick/gloss for everyday use because it has a lovely berry tint! You can also get this in clear and pink colours!
I will use any shampoo and conditioner within reason but I always insist on V05 weather resistant hairspray! It just stops me turning into a frizzy nightmare!
I tend to wash my hair every two to three days and this Girlz Only shampoo refreshes me nicely between shampoos!
I picked it up on a whim because it was cheap but it has turned into a fave!
I was introduced to the Leighton Denny Crystal nail file about a year ago and haven't looked back!
It was £12.50 from Boots but it has a whopping 25 year guarantee!
I'll never need to buy another file again!
Seche Vite top coat is amazing because it cuts down drying time of polish drastically! It's also crystal clear!
The Superdrug Cuticle oil was a very recent find and I was pleased to see that Vogue had given it a jolly good rating! Here's my review of it!
I love this super thick hand cream from L'Occitane hand cream! It's expensive at £19 but it will last for absolutely ever! So pounds per use is brilliant! 🙂
Hope you enjoyed my fave products!
Let me know what yours are!


text: Last years Air Jordan 11 Low release featured a white and red drop, and Jordan Brand looks to replicate that success by tweaking the model and adding a black upper. The shoe is set for a summer release which is the perfect time to break out some lows with shorts. This pair is pretty identical to last years version but the black ballistic mesh and laces certainly give it a "Spy vs. Spy" feel when put up against the white and red joints. Looking like a Mike Bibby heat PE, this summer shoe is sure to be featured in many rotations, so get a look at the photos and let us know what you think.


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THE PHILIPPINES has long been prone to extreme weather, an unavoidable consequence of its geographical location.
But recent years have shown that our predicament is worsening for reasons outside just our place on the map. Five of the 10 deadliest typhoons to hit the country have occurred since just 2006 and, in a country of many coastal communities, we have seen thrice the global average in sea level rise.
Despite being among the lowest contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions, the Philippines is one of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Our development prospects are constantly threatened by climate-related disasters, while the vulnerability of our poor communities could well worsen with changes in precipitation, temperature, intensity of tropical cyclones, and frequency of extreme weather events.
Responding to the need for robust scientific assessments of the country's climate, the Oscar M. Lopez Center for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management Foundation, Inc. (Oscar M. Lopez Center), took the lead in publishing the Philippine Climate Change Assessment.
The report is patterned after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the most authoritative scientific body for the assessment of global climate change. Because climate action can only be effective when it is understood at the local level, the report is a first attempt to come up with a comprehensive scientific assessment of climate change for the country, with the aim of both informing our country's decision-makers and guiding our academe's future research.
The actions we can take to prepare for the impacts of climate change are both numerous and far-reaching. "What is important is that every effort is grounded in localized, scientific basis," says the Oscar M. Lopez Center's Executive Director Mayan Quebral, "so that we can properly weigh the environmental and socio-economic consequences and come up with response strategies that are both realistic and successful."
The report was produced in partnership with the Climate Change Commission (CCC), Filipino IPCC scientists, and other field experts. The first of three Working Group reports, the publication focuses on the physical science basis. It will be followed by "Working Group 2: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities", and "Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change," both set to be released in 2017.
The "Physical Science Basis" report, the first assessment of three volumes of the Philippine Climate Change Assessment, covers the following topics: Global changes in climate; the Philippine climate; historical changes in the local climate; observed changes in the country's ocean climate and sea level; drivers of local changes in climate; and projections of future changes in climate.
As a first attempt to come up with a comprehensive scientific assessment of climate change for the country, the publication's goals are two-fold. First, by highlighting the most pressing and up-to-date knowledge on climate science, it aims to help the country's decision makers create strategic climate response strategies. Second, it acts as a guide for future research by identifying the important gaps in the Philippines' climate change science that our academe must strive to fill.
Below is a guide to the report's key findings. The full report may be downloaded here.
Key Findings
- From 1951 to 2010, the annual mean temperature in the country increased by 0.65°C with a mean rate of 0.11°C per decade. In terms of temperature variability, more hot days and warm nights, and less cold days and nights have been observed over this period.
- The annual mean temperature for the tropical and maritime climate of the Philippines is 26.6°C, with high variability in rainfall influenced by large-scale systems (e.g., the northeast and southwest monsoons, tropical cyclones, El Niño Southern Oscillation [ENSO]) and local-scale systems (e.g., sea and lake breezes, urban heat islands).
- Observation records from 1951 to 2008 also indicate an increasing trend in the intensity and frequency of extreme rainfall events in many parts of the country, with significant increases observed in certain places such as Baguio, Tacloban, and Iloilo.
- On average, about 20 tropical cyclones (TC) enter the country every year, with the variation in yearly count driven by factors such as ENSO. Trends in TC frequency (or the number of TCs per year) indicate no appreciable increase in the observational record.
- Trends in sea surface temperature (SST) near the Philippines show that temperatures have been increasing by around 0.23°C ± 0.02°C per decade from 1981 to 2014. An estimate of the observed increase in global mean SST from 1979 to 2012 is 0.124°C ± 0.03°C for every decade.
- There is little available information on local sea level rise and as such, information on sea level rise for the entire country is limited.
- While global climate change is largely driven by GHG levels in the atmosphere, it is important to note the impacts of aerosols from biomass burning and pollution, land use and land cover change arising from agriculture and urbanization, and other such drivers on local climate and ecosystems, and their potential feedbacks on the greenhouse effect. The influence of the interplay between these local driving factors and GHGs on Philippine climate has yet to be examined.
- Future changes in Philippine climate relative to the baseline period (1971–2000) have been modelled for the 2020s (2006–2035) and 2050s (2036–2065) in response to various emission pathways. In one particular mid-range emission scenario (A1B of the IPCC SRES Scenarios), climate projections indicate increases in annual mean temperatures ranging from 0.9°C to 1.1°C in the 2020s and 1.8°C to 2.2°C in the 2050s.
- The dry season (March–May) is projected to be drier over most areas. The wet or southwest monsoon season (June November) will likely be wetter with rainfall increase ranging from 0.9% to 63% for Luzon and 2% to 22% for Visayas. Rainfall is projected to decline over Mindanao during this same season.
- Rainfall during the northeast monsoon season (December–February) is also projected to increase, particularly over the eastern part of the country.
- In general, by 2020 and 2050, dry days are likely to be more frequent over the Philippines, with more heavy rainfall days expected over Luzon and Visayas.
- This report identifies many areas that need further examination, such as the influence of large-scale climate drivers (e.g., ENSO, the Madden-Julian Oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation) on Philippine climate, the effect of sea level rise on saltwater intrusion and storm surges along coastal areas, and local climate impacts of aerosols and land use change, as well as their interaction with the enhanced greenhouse effect. However, such studies require reliable long-term observation records with adequate spatial coverage that is representative of local climate in the country.
- Local researchers are strongly encouraged to publish their work not only to contribute to the global pool of scientific knowledge, but more importantly to provide information and insight that can be used by policymakers to make well-informed, strategic decisions.
Directions for Future Studies
The Philippine Climate
- While there have been attempts to analyze the complex interactions and feedbacks, such as those between tropical cyclones and monsoon rainfall events, these studies tend to be based on particular cases rather than seen in a climatological context. The comprehensive understanding of the role of these large-scale climate drivers (e.g., ENSO, MJO, PDO) and their interactions in determining Philippine climate is important if we are to have a fuller picture of climate change and its different driving forces, such as the radiative forcing caused by rising levels of anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
Historical Changes in Philippine Climate
- In the Philippines, the physical science assessment of climate change is a challenge. Assessment of observational evidence of climate change and trends is constrained by the limited number of observing stations across the country and the fact that the current observing network does not adequately represent the diversity of local climates across the country.
- Efforts can be directed to the analysis of an older set of historical observations made in the late 19th to the early 20th century, since analysis of longer datasets can discern significant change over time.
- In view of the observational, analytical, and modeling work done in various places such as the national meteorological/hydrological agency, academic institutions, and the different national and local research centers, there is need for a mechanism to collate, integrate, and transform all the work into different sets of outputs that will be relevant for impact assessments, adaptation and mitigation planning, and knowledge management.
Observed Changes in Ocean Climate and Sea Level in the Philippines
- Analyzing records of existing tide gauges and correlating these to sea surface height (SSH) measurements will help in refining relative sea level change trends in the areas of the tide gauges and help identify local drivers of sea level change. Installation of additional tide gauges in areas with fastest rates of sea level rise based on SSH data should be recommended to NAMRIA.
- Local researchers can be encouraged to publish their paleo-SST and SLR in different locales in the country. Such studies can be prioritized in areas where human and ecological communities are projected to be highly vulnerable.
- Possible topics for future study include the relative significance of local groundwater extraction and land subsidence on sea levels, and the effect of SLR on saline intrusion and storm surges along coastal regions.
Drivers of Local Changes in Climate
- It is important to understand the relative contributions of Land use/land cover change (LULCC) and GHG increase on climate change because of their feedbacks on each other, where one can potentially amplify or attenuate the other. However, this interplay between LULCC and GHG increase has yet to be examined for the Philippines.
- There are ongoing but limited efforts to understand the impacts of urbanization on Philippine local climates. In addition, the local climate impacts of aerosols still need to be further examined. It is therefore recommended that these research areas be pursued to better understand and quantify local-scale drivers, particularly for urban areas in the country.
Projections of Future Changes in Climate
- It is important to enhance the modeling capacities in the country and to sustain activities that generate ensembles of model output to narrow down uncertainties in climate projections. The generation of worst and best case scenarios will guide the country's disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation efforts. Further studies can explore how to quantify the uncertainties involved in these projections and the implications on impact assessments.
- There is also a need for a deeper and more comprehensive analysis on how the underlying physical and dynamical processes in the climate system will evolve in the future.


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University President Drew G. Faust dismissed on Monday a group of alumni's proposal that undergraduate tuition at Harvard should be free.
Last month, a group of five alumni, including five-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader, launched a campaign for the Board of Overseers, the University's second highest governing body. The group argues the size of Harvard's $37.6 billion endowment would provide more than enough money to subsidize all undergraduate tuition. They are also calling on Harvard to release more data about its admissions practices, and suspect the existing system could be discriminatory towards Asian American applicants.
Faust critiqued both proposals. She denounced the claim that eliminating tuition would make the College more accessible for students from lower-income backgrounds, contending that such a move would only bankroll the cost of education for wealthy families.
"The kind of program that is being proposed here funds a lot of students who we don't think have need, from families who could and should afford to pay for their student's education," Faust said. "We would be using an enormous amount of institutional resources to subsidize families who could easily afford to support their children in college."
Ron K. Unz '83, who hand-delivered the signed petitions he hoped would secure the ticket's place on the Overseers ballot, said he believed eliminating tuition would increase socioeconomic and regional diversity at the College.
"There is such a huge number of students in the U.S. who would never consider applying to Harvard. It's beyond their imaginations," Unz said. "If Harvard abolishes tuition, I think you'll get a lot more true diversity."
Faust said she shares Unz's ultimate goal of making Harvard more widely accessible for students of varying backgrounds, but she added that Harvard's existing financial aid program accomplishes just that.
"We do want Harvard to be accessible; we want to use our resources to make it accessible for people who would not otherwise be able to afford it," Faust said. "And then we use our resources for a number of other really important things as well." She listed a number of other ways Harvard uses its money, like funding research and hiring faculty.
She also defended the Harvard's consideration of race as a factor in a "complex" decision, dismissing the adequacy of a purely numbers-based approach to admissions.
"We take into account this wide range of factors, one of which may be some aspect of diversity or race, but that would be alongside all these other dimensions," Faust said.
Harvard's admissions practices are currently under scrutiny from a lawsuit alleging the illegal use of admissions quotas, particularly against Asian American applicants.
The lawsuit is on hold pending the outcome of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, a Supreme Court case challenging the legality of race-based affirmative action. In the interview Monday, Faust reiterated her pledge to "vigorously" defend Harvard's existing admissions policies.
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A business website directly determines the success of the business. How the website looks gives an impression as to what kind of business you run. The approach taken in building a website is very important. Many businesses have failed because they simply made some mistakes when building the website. Some of the common mistakes web designers should avoid includes
Creating a site that sell the products or services of the company rather than the benefits
People go to sites to find solutions to their problem or to find something that can add value to their life. Many businesses overlook this factor when designing their website. Most of them will usually give information on the products and services that the business is offering. Though such information is necessary, it's not enough. Consumers need convincing that the product or service will be of help. As such websites should not information on why the products or services were developed and the end results of using them. This will create a good relationship between the customers and the business since the customers will feel that the business understands their problems. It is also a good way of branding the product.
Focusing on the business owner instead of the visitors
Visitors on the site are not interested on the business owner but what the business can do for them. Visitors will disregard a site that does not put their concerns first. As a business the primary role in creating the site should be to pass on information that is helpful to the visitor. Thus the web designer should make the visitors his primary concern.
Confusing quality with complexity
Many times businesses tend to incorporate very complex designs in their website. By doing these visitors find it hard to locate or manipulate things on the site. As such the site will be termed user unfriendly and will receive fewer visitors. A website should be designed in a simple manner so that visitors can locate what they want quickly and easily. A business can ensure that the site is of good quality by presenting all the items in a logical manner. Information that visitors are most likely to be interested in should be placed where it can be easily seen.
Wrong color, music and flashing images
Some designers think that flashing images are actually interesting and have a positive effect on the site. A few people find them amusing but a vast majority considers them annoying. Music on auto play is not healthy too. Many people want to maintain privacy when browsing especially in public places. Thus by putting music that automatically plays when the page loads, may be a big turn off to many people. Choosing colors that make it hard to read text on the page is another mistake that should be avoided when designing the website. Different colors can be used but then they should be combined wisely. A wrong choice or a wrong combination of colors will make visitors lose confidence in the business.
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With the small ship the entire crew, and other passengers, quickly become familiar with each other on a first name basis. One of the great features was the permission to go onto the bridge anytime you like during the day, unless they were in an especially tricky navigation spot.
This day I went up and it was just the Captain and me, jamming out to 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd, while we cruised along at about 5 knots looking for whales.
Later we anchored in a bay and set the kayaks out.
This bay offered more wildlife, which if I recall the information from the guides correctly are Cormorants.
A mama otter with her baby on her chest floating in the bay.
One of the paddle boarders and a kayak backed by 8000′ mountains.
Later on the same kayak outing we passed this otter, who was not happy we were in his space as he bared his teeth and hissed at us.
You can tell the females as their noses are dinged up from rough sex where the male apparently bites their noses in passion.
Why paddle board with your feet on the board when you can do a handstand.
Nothing better than to be in a still bay in Alaska checking out the sea life near the rocks.
A Harbor Seal.
The waters were so calm everything had great reflections.
The next morning there was thick fog that gradually lifted through the morning.
An eagle soaring above the fog.
A skiff returns across the calm waters.
The afternoon was spent 'bushwhacking' through the forest. No bears or other wildlife was found but there was evidence of foresting that once occurred there.
The ground was so thick with the moss that it was spongy.
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Everything you need to know about the GDPR.
The GDPR, what is it?
The General Data Protection Regulation is a European regulation for the purpose of protecting personal data. It concerns personal data kept by companies or organizations within the EU. Starting from May 2018 the rules of the GDPR apply to all European companies. Member States will monitor the compliance with the rules on their own.
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Distinct permission is required if you wish to keep personal information about people, customers and employees. By default, the highest possible privacy settings should always be used. Individuals should not only give their permission to store their data, they should also be able to revoke this permission. Each individual has the right to request any stored information concerning them.
The sanctions that could follow if personal data falls in the wrong hands can be significant. Fines can rise up to 4% of the company turnover.
Security means that you can provide sufficient access rights per document or document type, which can prevent unwanted use of information.Of course, security is as weak as its weakest link; e.g. the user. Maybe it is due to oblivion, or a careless day, but at certain times information can end up in places where it does not belong.
With a comprehensive monitoring system the required guarantees can be built in as well. Knowing who composed information, consulted documents or printed an email from the repository. There are applications available which ensure that an extended log file is kept on all actions within the system.
Basically, these rules make sense. As more and more information evolves from a paper carrier to a digital carrier, and thus from a cabinet to a server, which has a connection to the Internet, security becomes increasingly important.
In addition, in many organizations a responsible individual, e.g. the Data Protection Officer, should be appointed. He or she will be responsible for monitoring the stored data and for handling it. It is therefore important that each document is properly protected and is also given a life cycle. A data or document life cycle could entail that certain documents should be removed after a certain amount of time, or that the security of the document should be edited.
Another task of the DPO (Data Protection Officer) is to report violations to the document database as soon as possible.
Smartdoc & the GDPR, a great combination.
With Smartdoc, we want to offer an accessible and user-friendly solution for the questions and risks that rise as a result of the GPDR. Although applied measures are usually less severe than initially announced, everyone has once suffered the consequences of underestimation. We presume the following 5 principles.
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WordPress 3.1 doesn't just add an admin bar, among the new features are also Post Formats. This is basically a new way to sort content and it does indeed solve a lot of small problems. The Post Formats are:
- aside (for short asides)
- gallery (for post being just galleries)
- link (for post that are really links elsewhere)
- image (for posts that are really images)
- quote (for quotations)
- status (for short status updates)
- video (for posts that are really video embeds)
- audio (for posts that are really audio)
- chat (for chat transcripts)
Now, obviously you can have anything in any post with any Post Format. They are meant for the things above (sort of, I've kept it simple), but you're not limited to it. This is your content.
Assuming you've got Post Formats activated in your theme, you've got a box called Format under your Publish box in the Edit Post screen in WordPress admin. There you pick from the Post Formats that are active, as well as the Standard one which is what we've been using all these years, to put it simply.
The functionality is easy enough to work with. You can do conditional tag checks for what Post Format it is, and you can style it with CSS thanks to logical CSS classes added by the post_class() template tag. I'm using it here on TDH.me for asides (and more, soon), being the short posts without a title on the front page. Before we did the same thing with a separate category, a custom field, or even by adding a taxonomy. In that sense, Post Formats are a great addition to WordPress. After all, it means that we can basically build our WordPress sites looking like Tumblr if we want to. Sweet huh?
So what's the problem?
My main gripe with Post Formats is that it is limited to the ones listed above. Technically you can add your own formats without much hassle, but the developers doesn't want you to. This is from the Codex page, a good source for more information on how to use Post Formats:
The Post Formats feature provides a standardized list of formats that are available to all themes that support the feature. Themes are not required to support every format on the list. New formats cannot be introduced by themes nor even plugins. The standardization of this list provides both compatibility between numerous themes and an avenue for external blogging tools to access to this feature in a consistent fashion.
Highlighting by yours truly. Now, you can add new Post Formats if you like to, the developers just don't want you to.
I get why, in fact it is stated in plain English above. The idea is to stick to a standardized set of Post Formats to make sure that themes and plugins can support it in a wider range in the future.
But what if you need an additional post format? Just add it using a custom field, your own taxonomy, use a category, or any other solution that worked so well in the past, right?
You could do that, but it is poor design.
Think about it. You've got your users managing asides and galleries and whatnot in the Format box. But your custom format won't be there since the WordPress developers disagrees with this practice, meaning that the end user will have to do what should be similar things in two different ways.
That's not good. That's bad design.
I don't hate Post Formats
Don't get me wrong here, I think Post Formats are a great idea. I'm using them here, I'll be releasing a theme utilizing them all, and it is pretty nifty all in all. I understand the standardization thought, but I disagree with it.
Here's my suggestions:
- Have a set of official Post Formats, and communicate these.
- Let theme and plugin developers add additional Post Formats easily.
It's really pretty simple, and all we – and by we I mean all of us working with and developing for WordPress – have to do is clearly communicate when we're stepping outside of the official set of Post Formats so that users know what will possibly misbehave when they change their themes.
Leave it to us, dear developers, rather than deciding this for us. Isn't that the WordPress way, after all?


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A Canterbury student is in hospital with a serious spinal fracture he suffered jumping from a roof into a paddling pool with his hair on fire as a stunt.
The daring act was done to join University of Canterbury Engineering Society (ENSOC), whose guidelines say a filmed stunt is a requirement for candidates hoping to join the committee, Fairfax reported.
The 20-year-old remains in hospital after he apparently hit the side of the paddling pool during his two-storey plunge last Friday night, the same day as ENSOC's infamous RoUndie 500 event.
His flatmates told Fairfax the man was not drinking that night, calling the incident a "freak accident".
The water in the pool was about one metre deep.
"He went a bit too far and just kind of hit the side [of the pool] . . . it was pretty tragic," one said.
"It's been rough, but we are just holding up for him."
According to ENSOC's guidelines for potential candidates, nominees were supposed to tell the AGM adjudicator what their stunt would be prior to filming it.
Stunts likely to hurt the candidate or anyone else would not be accepted, Fairfax reported.
University of Canterbury vice-chancellor Rod Carr told the Herald in a statement a student had been injured at a private residence last week.
"The University has met with the student's family to offer its support.
"The student's family has requested privacy and the University will be making no further comment."
ENSOC did not wish to comment on the incident, he said, adding that the university worked with the students association to ensure students and clubs acted responsibly.
Police were aware of the incident and would be making inquiries.


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Florida Panhandle authorities say a teenager is charged with murder after allegedly beating and stabbing his mother to death.
According to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office, the Gulf Breeze teen and his mother had been arguing Tuesday night when the 17-year-old attacked her with kitchen knives and a baseball bat.
The woman died at the scene. The sheriff's office says the teen was found hours later at a nearby home, where he surrendered.
According to the sheriff's office, the teen confessed to the killing. He was being held Wednesday without bond.
The Associated Press generally doesn't identify juveniles accused of crimes.
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Richard E. Grant is not only one of Britain's most accomplished and sought after actors, but following the raves already bestowed on his directorial debut, Wah-Wah, an established career as a director is in his cards. Grant began acting in his native South Africa, where he founded the multi-ethnic Troupe Theater Company. In 1982, he moved to London to stomp the boards in fringe and repertory productions.
Grant made his English TV-film debut in Les Blair's improvisational satire, "Honest, Decent and True" (1985). The next year, he entered films as the star of "Withnail & I" (1986), writer-director Bruce Robinson's brilliant observation of the eccentricities of English actors in the 1960s. As the acerbic Withnail, Grant conveyed the great likability of a mostly vile character. He reteamed with Robinson for "How to Get Ahead in Advertising" (1988), a scathing comic indictment of the industry's morals or lack thereof. Here he was Dennis Dimbleby Bagley, an ad exec whose head is taken over by an evil boil.
Grant's American film credits in the early 90s include some of Hollywood's more notorious productions. He co-starred as the husband of Anais Nin in "Henry & June" (1990), the first film to receive the NC-17 rating. He also played the mad English villain opposite Bruce Willis in the much-maligned "Hudson Hawk" (1991). Grant had supporting roles in Robert Altman's "The Player", as the English filmmaker who initially refuses to compromise his "artistic integrity", and Francis Ford Coppola's florid "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (both 1992), as Dr. Seward. He worked with another one of cinema's titans, Martin Scorsese, in the opulent adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence" (1993), as a smug member of turn-of-the-century New York's high society. He reteamed with Altman for "Ready-to-Wear (Pret-a-Porter)" (1994) as an eccentric homosexual and portrayed a grieving widower coping with a newborn in "Jack and Sarah" (1995).
The following year, he played a wealthy suitor to Nicole Kidman's Isabel Archer in Jane Campion's "Portrait of a Lady" and appeared as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Trevor Nunn's film adaptation of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". Also in 1996, Grant published "With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E Grant" in England. Wah-Wah, which he also wrote, is a semi-autobiographical 'coming of age at the end of an Age' story, told through the eyes of young Ralph Compton. Set during the last gasp of the British Empire in Swaziland, South East Africa, in 1959, the plot focuses on the dysfunctional Compton family whose gradual disintegration mirrors the end of British rule.
About to premiere in the United States and heading to the Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals, Grant talked exclusively to Paul Fischer.
Question: I know this is very autobiographical. How cathartic it is writing a script that is so personal?
Grant: Obviously there's the wisdom of hindsight being middle aged. In writing about and re-examining it certainly brought up stuff and joy at the same time. So I tried as much as possible to write compassionately as I could on why and what and how things happened as they did and I tried and be as accurate and truthful to the town and to the people as I very possibly could.
Question: Was it always your intention to direct it as you saw it as you were writing it?
Grant: Oh yeah, yeah. Though it seemed like we would never ever find out and somebody said to me 'would you let somebody direct the movie?' And I said, 'no'. I knew that when I was asked that I hadn't really thought about it before but I thought if anyone was going to make it good or fuck it up I would be the one to do it and fuck it up if need be.
Question: How do you avoid fucking it up then?
Grant: How DO you avoid it? By securing an absolutely fantastic cast of people who believe in the movie and hopefully find an audience.
Question: What about your work as an actor and how does that influence the decisions you make as a director?
Grant: I suppose you have real empathy and understanding of what goes into an actor's performance and how important it is to create a creative environment and relaxed an environment as possible and also encourage them to come forward with improvisation, ideas/suggestions or whatever so that they feel that they are really collaborating the process, so handing them responsibility as it were for more than you might have stand here, hit the mark, say your lines, go home, which so often happens. So I suppose that because I'd written it as well it was sort of like walking into Richard Grant's memory field because whenever you needed to move something or find out the back-story for anything I was the live encyclopaedia in front of them.
Question: Talk about the balance between being a personal filmmaker and creating a story that has a degree of universality to it. I mean where is that line drawn?
Grant: Well although it is idiosyncratic and specific to my childhood as the British Empire is at the peril of the sixties at Toronto, Palm Springs and the screenings that we've had in L.A people respond to the fact that it is about family, the public face, private show of what family is really like dealing with adultery, divorce, addictions, death, first love, lost love and not quite in love all of those things and what really goes on in family lives and that is something that is universal for that fact that people laugh as hard as they do and are so audibly moved by the end has gone a long way to convincing me that it may be specifically my childhood. But there is a lot in there that other people relate too.
Question: Now you've clearly made the decision to turn down work as an actor was that very difficult for you to do while you were involved in the process of getting this made?
Grant: Yeah it was because there is always the risk of every time I turn down a movie I was told well the chances of your Indy movie ever getting off the ground are slowly no existent [laughter]. I mean to take a deep breath and go well have I enough money at this point in time to carry on regardless and to doing this new job or no, so I did.
Question: Is there now more a director in you than there was before? Would you like to direct other things?
Grant: Oh yeah, yeah I am writing something at the moment, which I intend to direct so yeah that is absolutely what I want to do. I am glad I have this day job but this is my passion.
Question: And what are you doing in your day job these days?
Grant: Well I've just finished a film called Penelope with Christina Ricci, Catherine O'Hara, Reese Witherspoon and also produced so that is what I've been doing.
Question: And anything else on the horizon as an actor?
Grant: No I am now promoting this and going into…I go back to London and then I go to Australia for the Film Festivals in Melbourne and Sydney for the first 2 weeks of June and then I go to South Africa for the release there, I am on this sort of global trot around.


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Ο TAP ξεκινά την έρευνα αξιολόγησης της διαδρομής του αγωγού στην Αλβανία
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The Trans Adriatic Pipeline project started route assesment survey in Albania on 1st of July, 2009. The goal of the survey is to determine an optimal routing for the future pipeline and to avoid problematic areas.
The TAP project will analyse five potential routes, which have been identified based on satellite images, maps and other research already undertaken. The goal of the TAP project team is to investigate and assess these alternatives in detail and identify any obstacles or challenging areas. The main priority for the pipeline routing is to avoid crossing the core of the National Hotova park, a protected natural reserve area in the region of Permet.
The TAP route survey will include detailed technical, environmental, social and cultural heritage impact assessments which form part of the Front End Engineering & Design process of the TAP project. This needs to be completed in each country the pipeline crosses, before construction can begin.
The site visits will be carried out by a group of 40 specialists, including international consultants from ILF (who will cover engineering issues), ERM (who cover the social and environmental issues) and Albanian consultants on the ground.
TAP is working closely with the Ministry of Environment of Albania on the route selection process to ensure that it complies with the national laws and regional regulations.
The technical part of the survey in Albania will assess any construction challenges and identify potential landslide areas. Other assessments will involve meetings with national and local authorities, heads of villages and local residents, as well as organizing focus groups in selected villages. In total the team will visit 3 regions and engage with 14 communities in 40 villages.
"Our intention is to start a good dialogue with the population, inform them about the TAP pipeline and listen to their concerns." – says Dr. Kai Schmidt Soltau, TAP's CSR & Environmental & Social Impact Assessment Manager, coordinating the survey. "The selection of the pipeline route will be a very transparent process in collaboration with all relevant stakeholders, local authorities and the Albanian Ministry of Environment."
The route assessment survey in Albania is expected to take three weeks, with some detailed follow-up studies to be carried out in August. The survey findings and proposal for the most optimal route will be presented to the Albanian government in December 2009. Following the approval of the routing by the authorities, the TAP project will begin the scoping work for detailed Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA) for the Albanian section of the gas pipeline route.


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(Rolling Stone) -- "How do these younger generations, with the way radio is today, get turned on to great acts?," John Stamos recently asked Rolling Stone.
The actor has an answer for that: He'll be producing a movie musical centered around the music of the Beach Boys.
Stamos -- who will share his production duties with Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, as he did on the 2000 TV miniseries "The Beach Boys: An American Family" -- has a long history with the band.
Members appeared on Stamos' first sitcom, "You Again?," and also, famously, on a 1988 episode of "Full House."
"People say that they know Mike [Love, Beach Boys singer] from 'Full House' more than almost anything," Stamos says. The actor also plays drums with Mike Love's touring version of the band.
Stamos says the film will be set in Southern California in the Sixties, but the exact time period is still to be decided. "We're sort of circling around '67," he says.
Rolling Stone: The Beach Boys in concert
"Vietnam was looming, which sort of gives way to the background of the story, and we wanted to be able to tap into all the music that came before that." Susannah Grant ("Erin Brockovich") will write the screenplay.
Stamos says he doesn't want to repeat the American Family miniseries, which, as Rob Sheffield wrote in Rolling Stone in 2000, "presents Pet Sounds as a fiasco and Mike Love as the group's real creative brain."
"It was so personal and some of it upset certain people," Stamos says. "That's the last thing I want to do to my heroes, you know? That's why I thought I would never do another Beach Boys project. But this one made so much sense. All it could do is really help [them]."
Stamos will leave out the Wilson family drama and focus on the harmonies. "It's completely non-biographical," he says. "You might have a girl singing 'I Get Around.' There won't be a guy who's a supporter, like a Brian character. The deal is to redo the songs with the actors singing, sort of in the way that they do on Glee. They kind of keep some of the same arrangements, but to have newer, younger people singing them."
The film is one of many special events planned for the band's 50th anniversary. In June, Al Jardine told Rolling Stone that the remaining members -- himself, Love, Brian Wilson and Bruce Johnston and possibly early guitarist David Marks -- will reunite for a concert.
Stamos hopes to get the film out in time to celebrate the occasion. "It'd be nice to get it out on the tail end of the 50th, [although] I think they're going to sort of celebrate the 50th for two years."
Stamos also has a solid model for how successful a project like this can be: The film version of the Abba musical "Mamma Mia!" was Universal Pictures' biggest earner of 2008, both domestically and internationally.
"Everybody has been sort of trying to figure out how to redo Mamma Mia! and also appeal to a male audience," he says. "It made a billion dollars, but that was the smaller demographic for [Abba]. With the Beach Boys, you've got girls in bikinis, you've got cars, so we expect to get a good male demo with this."
Don't expect the film to echo Broadway's "Good Vibrations," a jukebox musical that closed after two months. "I walked out halfway through," Stamos says. "It'll be nothing like that -- I promise you. It'll be the opposite of that. Trust me."
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The commercial, set to House Of Pain's "Jump Around," traces Adrian's unlikely journey from benchwarmer to star of the game. After scoring a touchdown, then running through the streets of Ashwaubenon, his dreams are realized when he runs the length of Lambeau Field, performs a touchdown dance and attempts his own Lambeau Leap in front of a nearly empty stadium. He celebrates a moment of happiness and accomplishment when a groundskeeper hands him an ice-cold
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Quality Software Project Management is the practical, start-to-finish project management resource for every software professional-experienced managers and developers moving into leadership roles. Drawing on best practices identified at The University of Texas at Austin Software Quality Institute's successful Software Project Management Certificate Program, it identifies 34 key competencies every project manager can use to minimize cost, risk, and time-to-market. Written by leading practitioners, it addresses all three pillars of any successful software venture: process, project, and people.
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The Raging One is the first book in The Sunderedlands Saga series, written by Lexy Wolfe.
Ages ago, the Raging One, dragon god of the warrior people, vanished in the final assault of the Great War that shattered the land called Desantiva. Nearly destroyed themselves, the children of magic withdrew from the world and kept to their own territory of Forenta. But now, the fragile balance is in jeopardy from a danger that forces Almek, the last Sentinel of Time, to leave the sanctuary of his goddess, the Timeless One, to hunt for what had always been considered mere legend: those able to touch more than one of the many energies of magic that hold the world together.
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OK, Central Texas, we need to talk about kolaches.
Before we get started, take a peek at my last name. It's as Czech as they come. The name Pšencík is actually a nickname for a peasant (I know, I know). It comes from the Czech word meaning "wheat." I grew up in the heart of the "Texas Czech Belt." So, trust me, I know a thing or two about doughy Bohemian pastries.
Texas is a pretty heavily Czech region, with immigrants from Bohemia settling in the Texas Czech Belt in the early 1800s. They brought with them one of the best pastries known to mankind, and even now kolaches are a pretty big deal around these parts. A "kolach" (that's the singular form of the word, though colloquially people use "kolache" as singular and "kolaches" as plural, so that's how I'm referring to it here) is a round or square-ish pastry made with sweet yeast dough and filled with fruit or cheese.
Notice I said fruit or cheese — not meat. The traditional kolache fillings include things like plums, prunes, poppy seeds, apricots and just plain farmer's cheese, due to the availability of those tasty flavors in poor immigrant families in the 19th century. Later, those fillings were expanded to include cream cheese, blueberries, pineapples, nuts, cottage cheese, cherries…you name the fruit or cheese, and you could put it in a kolache. Notice, again, I haven't mentioned meat.
At some point over the course of history, somebody started taking that sweet yeast dough and stuffing it with sausage, sometimes with cheese and jalapeno. Don't get me wrong, these little pastries are delicious. But they are not kolaches, although many people refer to them as such. Kolache, for those of Czech descent, contain only fruit or cheese, never meat.
A little Czech lesson: Those sausage-filled pastries you've been calling kolaches for years actually were never brought over from the motherland. They're called klobasniky, and they were invented by Czech families settled in Texas (The Village Bakery in West, Texas takes credit for the delicious treat). You may have heard of one of these delights referred to as a "pig in the blanket," which is what I grew up calling them, although pigs in a blanket can include hot dogs wrapped in croissant rolls, which, let's face it, isn't exactly Czech. Slight difference there.
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Samples the famous kolaches and klobasnek from The Village Bakery in West, TX. The softest yeast rolls with fillings of Czech sausage, cottage cheese, prune, apricot, and poppyseed. Not all on the same bun obviously. Tasty snack detour on my way to Dallas. #EpicRoadTrip #kolaches #klobasnek #west #texas #instatravel #travel #instafood #foodstagram #foodpic #foodporn
So now that we've had a little history lesson, I call upon you, people of Central Texas, to stop referring to these meat-filled delicacies as kolaches, and call them by their rightful name: Klobasniky, or klobasnek in the singular. The Czech community will thank you.


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One of seven islands in the Channel Island archipelago, Catalina lies 22 miles due west off Los Angeles. It doesn't surprise me that the Victorian botanist-poet Blanche Trask took up residence there; it hadn't been easy for me to return to the mainland after a week traversing the 37-mile Trans-Catalina Trail.
What does surprise – and impress – me is that she had done what few people, let alone women, at the time had done. She had lifted her heavy skirts, scaled the mountain rim surrounding the protected harbor and entered Catalina's "Interior."
The Interior is what locals call the area beyond the hills pushing Avalon against the sea and up to the low-lying isthmus town of Two Harbors. Aside from one paved road up to the Airport in the Sky, the Interior, as well as the West End (the tip north of Two Harbors), remains undeveloped and untamed. According to Trask, the island's "real self lives on unmoved upon the heights – the heights so full of mystery and beauty, seldom seen by any."
Here's the thing, though, about those heights so full of mystery. They jut straight out of the sea, and very little has improved the path of ascension since the scantily clad pre-colonial Tongva lived there. When not on buffalo trails or roads, trans-island hikers are scaling fire breaks, most of which cut straight up and drop straight down thousands of feet at unbelievable grades. Although hiking permits can be obtained for free, trekking takes its toll even on the most seasoned.
Nine years ago, the Reader's very own trail master and alpinist, the late Jerry Schad, referred to the fire breaks used in lieu of trails on the West End as a "sheer descent down the wind-buffeted ridgeline" from "slopes falling precipitously to the emerald-tinted ocean below."
I ascended the likes of what he had precariously descended, the two-mile vertical Fenceline Trail. With the Pacific in front of me and the San Pedro Channel behind me, I stood on Silver Peak Trail, which spans ten miles along the ridge line, absorbing panoramic, unadulterated vistas.
Trask had said that on those "lonely peaks" there was perfect quiet. She was right. One hundred fourteen years after she described them as such, a profound peacefulness is still settled upon them – which I think is a testament to local preservation efforts. Her rainbow cliffs, thousand-foot-high palisades and "bare and desolate mountains of over-burnt rock…comforted…by the brilliant lichens of green and orange and red and lavender" still remain as intact as when she herself skirted this wild rock in the middle of the ocean.
Descendents of her bald eagles still fish from the cliffsides, and the seeds of her wildflowers still propagate the meadows and deep-gutted canyons. And the breeze is infused with scents of white sage and wild fennel, just as it was a century before.
I was alone on the peak surrounded by heavenly majesty.
More from SDReader
- More stories by Ruth Newell
- Catalina's calling — April 14, 2015
- Double Peak — San Marcos — July 4, 2012
- Jones Peak — Nov. 19, 2008
- The remote Parsons Landing hike-in campground offers splendid isolation on the northwest shore of Santa Catalina Island. — Aug. 18, 2005
- Hike the west end of Santa Catalina Island, and survey the ocean from its high point. — Jan. 16, 2003


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Following three YEARS of leg pain, PGA Tour Golfer Brett Quigley is now headed back in the right direction. Treatments of P.T. as well as custom orthotics have helped relieve the nagging nerve compression that caused him to sit out from the PGA Tour. Using intensified specialized manual therapies and functional therapeutic golf-related exercises learned from National experts, including gurus Howard Dananberg, DPM, and David Tiberio, Ph.D., P.T., Brett's P.T. visits were very effective…but not easy. His injury required deep and sometimes excruciating release to the trapped nerve. Years of trouble led to an immobile joint which traps a leg nerve pathway. Brett gritted his teeth and charged his way through the exercises and the manual mobilizations. The team at OPT PT "tried everything, including the tough ones". "A lot of people wouldn't put up with what he had to fight for in treatments…he's a monster. He's a tough guy. You can sense his desire to get back to the top", says Bert Reid, D.P.T. "For a few years he has been in pain, struggling through as best he could, and favoring that limb. The nerve was being crushed, and he kept on playing. We've tried a combination of shoe inserts that had immediate benefit the day he tried them in his golf shoe and sneakers, and we did P.T. treatments everyday he wasn't playing in tournaments".


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Top - Ann Taylor
Shorts - Jolt
Shoes - Bear Traps
I have been all about the shorts lately, of course with the temperatures generally being above 100 I can hardly believe that I am putting on a wig and going out at all! Today I got dressed and went and visited one of my doctors. It is always kind of a strange thing going to a doctors office while dressed as a woman and telling them my real name! But the receptionist is so cool, she calls me by my girl name. She is such a sweetie!
The top I am wearing is an example of what I have been focusing my purchasing efforts on lately. In the past I would go and buy clothes by what looked pretty, not even trying the clothes on. Then I started trying the clothes on and started buying clothes that fit. That was a step in the right direction, but since Jules' and mine last clothing refinement I realized this type of top is generally the style I choose to wear more often than not.
In purchasing clothes lately, I have been focusing on top that have the following:
- longer arms
- longer in general
- v neck
It is quite difficult as there are so many other cute clothes out there though! But I have stayed focus and stuck to my new rules. This has meant that I have visited many, many stores and have not bought anything. But I have been able to buy a few things, like the top pictured above, and now instead of just having pretty clothes, I have pretty clothes that fit, and that actually flatter me, and I like to wear them! Wow what revolutionary concepts, I know!
A few mini thoughts-
- I am still searching for the right wig, I will keep you updated
- Jules and I got a sheet fed duplex scanner and we are trying to go paperless at home! Exciting!
- I actually got kind of harassed while dressed as a girl. Some ignorant dumbass front desk man at a hotel thought he would prove how ignorant he is. I tried to educate him and he didn't care! Funny!
Okay, gotta run! :)
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Week four was spent further fleshing out our two prototypes for our 1/4s presentation.
Design decisions made at the start of the week were:
- Making each monster advance towards you each turn in order to provide more interesting angle challenges
- Adopting a Pirate theme for our Crayon King prototype because the fantasy of being pirate and destroying and looting fit our demographic better than a king ruling subjects
By the end of the week we presented the two paper prototypes to our supervisors. They suggested focusing on them, and make them more visually appealing.
Fancying it Up
In order to improve the prototypes visuals we first adapted the Abstract Ball Glue prototype into Alpaca Toss (alpacas somehow often turn up in our brainstorming process!). The aim was to make it more appealing to both genders as well as root it in something more realistic rather than the current abstract idea.
Armed with these ideas our artists spent the weekend doing just that with the following results.
In addition our lead programmer developed digital prototypes with two interfaces. One prototype used the gyroscope and the other with slider we tried different ux methods for game.


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Southampton 1 Watford 1: Nathan Redmond equalises after Etienne Capoue gave ten-man Hornets the lead in the opening half
Saints new-boy scores with a left-foot volley on the hour after visitors had taken a shock, early lead at St Mary's Stadium
NATHAN REDMOND netted a second-half equaliser after Etienne Capoue had given Watford a 1-0 lead early at St Mary's Stadium.
Etienne Capoue finally netted his first ever goal for the Hornets, charging into the box from a knock-down header to thunder the ball into the back of the net.
However, Saints new boy Nathan Redmond - in his first Premier League game since his switch from Norwich - netted with a left-foot volley on the hour to draw his side level.
With the hosts pressing, things got worse for Watford, as last man Ben Watson was sent off after bringing down Shane Long outside the area - the first red card of the season.
- MANAGERS Claude Puel and Walter Mazzarri competed in the sartorial stakes. Both suited and booted - no trackie tops or trainers.
- CALL that one a draw, but Mazzarri was clear winner in the touchline antics, crouching, pacing and gesturing while Puel stayed calm.
- SOME things are worth waiting for - like Etienne Capoue's first goal for Watford. The midfielder has been a Hornet for more than a year.
- FORGET pre-season friendly form. Saints have shone but looked like they didn't know each other early on. Watford stuttered in friendlies but looked a compact unit.
- HEURELHO GOMES had a hamstring injury scare – and Watford will hope it's not serious. The big Brazilian keeper is important to the Hornets even though he was at fault for Saints' goal.
- THESE sides will not shrink from a physical battle in the new campaign. Tackles flew in thick and fast, with nobody giving an inch.
- GIVING a player a new five-year contract is not necessarily a good thing. Odion Ighalo signed one this week and seemed to think he was being paid for giving the ball away.
- DON'T get in an argument with Saints forward Nathan Redmond. The boy just never gives up, as he showed in a tirade against anybody who would listen when Shane Long was injured. But Redmond made his point
with a goal.
- SAINTS have a reputation for quickly replacing stars who have been sold, but it could be a while before they get over the departure of forwards Graziano Pelle and Sadio Mane.
- EUROPA LEAGUE? We're not quite having a laugh but Puel is right to point out that the hectic schedule will put his squad under strain.
Next five games - Southampton
Aug 19 - Man United (A) - PL
Aug 27 - Sunderland (H) - PL
Sep 10 - Arsenal (A) - PL
Sep 18 - Swansea (H) - PL
Sep 25 - West Ham (A) - PL
Next five games - Watford
Aug 20 - Chelsea (H) - PL
Aug 23 - Gillingham (H) - League Cup
Aug 27 - Arsenal (H) - PL
Sep 10 - West Ham (A) - PL
Sep 18 - Man United (H) - PL
Southampton scorer Nathan Redmond: "We wanted to get off to a good start.
"We were sloppy in the first half but luckily picked it up in the second. We've got to start better in the next game.
"The manager told us at half-time to take pride in what we were doing. We showed great spirit to come back.
"To get my first goal is good but I'd have preferred the three points."
Watford head coach Walter Mazzarri: "I am very happy with how we did. I look at the performance more than the point.
"When we had 10 men we were not able to play our game but the team showed great character.
"I think in the first half we could have got a bit more. When our energy was good we played a great game but we couldn't quite finish the game off.
"The players have done well with the formation and I think we were unlucky with the red card because we were playing well at that moment."