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Water Rafting in Africa, White
Water Rafting in Africa
Africa is a continent of rivers flowing all year round due to its massive natural resources and daily 12 hours sun shine. In view of this, Africa is at its best for White Water Rafting tours and safaris for those who want to paddle and raft in the many meandering rivers in the African continent.
White water rafting is gaining popularity as one of the recently upcoming water sport for the armed forces and the military personnel, water sport lovers and those who would like to have incentive and team building tours far from their office locations. Water Rafting is becoming a preferred team building activity for both corporate and individual traveller of office executive who would want a change of environment some where in the wilderness, paddling among the new friends. Africa offers this environment through white water rafting on its rivers.
Water Rafting in East Africa
East Africa has several rivers flowing all year round which are best for water rafting and kayaking. These rivers are mostly placed in Kenya and Uganda. Very few rivers are best for Rafting in the other East African countries namely; Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.
For water rafting and Kayaking, Uganda leads followed by Kenya.
We, at Niche Africa Holidays offer our clients White water rafting, Kayaking and Bungee Jumping on the River Nile and the River Tana, Athi River, Ewaso Ng'iro and Mathioya River in Uganda and Kenya Respectively.
White Water Rafting in Uganda
In Uganda, white water rafting is done together with Bungee Jumping on River Nile by three Major White Water rafting Companies whom we represent namely: Equator Rafts, Adrift and nalubale rafting. All these water rafting companies have their camps at the source of the River Nile. They work in competition and at the same time as a team while on the river.
The River Nile
The River Nile is widely regarded the longest river on the planet with its 6,695 kilometers. The River Nile has been and still is the lifeline for Ugandan, Sudanese and Egyptian cultures since time immemorial. Before the discovery of the source river Nile by John Hanning Speke in 1856, the Egyptians, Romans and Greeks were wondering about the mysterious source of this ever flowing fresh water into the salty Mediterranean Sea. Niche Africa holidays in collaboration with the tree white water rafting companies make sure that all clients enjoy the rafting, Bungee jumping and Kayaking at an utmost safety environment. The first 30 kilometers of the River Nile offers some of the most challenging, stunning and fun rapids in the world, giving you the ultimate White Water Experience. Niche Africa Holidays ensures that rafting adventure on the Nile is still very much alive.
Surfing the River Nile
Surfing the Nile is quite fascinating. Over 3400 miles from where the Nile enters the Mediterranean Sea, we have some incredible surfing waves just at the source if it. You start from Kadogo Island (your overnight stopover) where the river disappears swiftly around another bend before entering 'Hair of the Dog' rapid.
Heavily forested islands divide the mighty Nile into a myriad of thundering channels and we usually follow the one offering the most exciting ride. Red-tailed monkeys leap nervously between trees as we drift past, Nile monitors bask on the rocks in the sunshine and smoke drifts between the trees from the local waragi (banana gin) distillery.
You will have a handful of exciting rapids in the morning; you will have the chance to jump overboard and float quietly on our backs in the river, carried by the current and to watch the world go by. Soon you will reach the first of the surf waves where we pull our rafts ashore.
Use of boogie boards
Our guides will give full instruction on the use of the boogie boards in the waves. The river behaves much like the ocean and breaks upstream with full force of a mighty wave that has travelled thousands of miles across seas. In theory, you could ride the wave all day but this is far too exhilarating for anyone we know. With fins to propel us onto the wave initially, the boards dance across the water followed very closely by their rider. The rider can experiment with steering the board and soon it carves gracefully to the top of the wave, races down the face and shoots back and forth at an incredible speed to the delight of the person on board.
In between the surf waves, sit back, relax and enjoy watching dug-out canoes move back and forth across the current in search of the many species of fish enjoyed by the local communities. The fishermen never cease to be amazed at our antics on the river and we always draw a crowd. Adrenalin pumping action on the board contrasts nicely with long calm sections of river between the waves. Between rides, you can sit nearby on the bank and watch others ride the wave (or join them on it) and rest.
Rafting on the River Nile
More than four thousand miles in length, the mighty Nile is the longest river on earth. The great waterway has played a monumental role in history. It traverses an incredible variety of landscapes; a colourful medley of cultures and since the beginning of time has enthralled civilizations with its power and mystery. Ancient Egyptian kings sent armies in search of the source of the great river and explorers from Herodotus to Speke have sought to chart its course. Until very recently no one dared challenge the White Nile at its source – some of the most powerful and sustained rapids on earth.
Water temperature of the Nile
With a water temperature of 26°C and a near constant flow, the Nile offers some of the best rafting in the world – year round.
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About the White Nile.
The White Nile has up to seven times the volume of the Zambezi. It thunders between heavily forested islands and then leaps widely into a series of spectacular drops. The roar of the rapids drift upstream with the gently breeze and wooden canoes laden with excited locals congregate in the calm waters anxious to see our rafts in action. To the amazement of our audience we plunge into the maelstrom and ride the mountainous waves downstream. Our rafts explode through huge walls of white water and drift through warm pools in the equatorial sunshine. This is white rafting at its best.
What about Safety?
While there is an inherent element of risk in every adventure, running rivers with our professional guides should not be considered dangerous. Clients can enjoy the thrill and exhilaration of world-class white water rafting in the security of knowing that they are in the safest hands. Our depth of experience is second to none and our safety procedures are setting standards for the rest of the industry to follow. In the unlikely event of an emergency, our guides are comprehensively trained in Wilderness First Aid, CPR and swift water rescue.
Do clients' need any rafting experience?
Clients' don't need any previous rafting experience to join us; they just require a healthy appetite for discovery and a lively spirit of adventure. The majority of people who join our expeditions are first time rafters. An internationally experienced guide controls each raft and will instruct the clients' comprehensively on all aspects of safety when white water rafting and prepare the clients' for an experience they will never forget.
Mild or Wild?
Clients' have the option to paddle as part of a team or ride in an oar raft where the guide rows the boat. We cater for those that want a more "wild" ride in a paddle boat or people who fancy a more sedate trip offering the "thrills and not the spills" in an oar powered raft. In the oar powered raft the guides row the boat and the passengers hold on for the ride. This boat is dubbed the "suntan raft" and takes more conservative lines in the rapids and the chances of flipping are very slim. In the paddle boat the guide calls the shots and steer from the back as the clients' paddle through the rapids. There is no shortage of huge white water action for those that want it!!


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Last year, in their Downtown Bicycle and Pedestrian Gap Analysis (http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/TrafficParking/pdfs/GapAnalysis2009.pdf), Nelson\Nygaard Consultants recommended a physically separated bike lane—or cycle track—on Elm Street. How would you design such a facility? View a 3D mock-up of two potential designs here and offer your suggestions. Don't like it? Download Google SketchUp to your computer here: http://sketchup.google.com/ and then download my drawings here: http://www.box.net/shared/z8e1db4ssq and give it your best shot.
For cycle track design guidelines and best practices, have a look at this design guide from the National Association of City Transportation Officials: http://nacto.org/cities-for-cycling/design-guide/cycle-tracks/
and this report from bicycle-oriented transportation planning consultants at Alta Planning: http://www.altaplanning.com/cycle+tracks.aspx

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Etude House have really hit the mark recently with super cute collections (check out Etoinette here if you love princessy make up).
Their newest collection is way too cute not to share with you. I have my eye on a few items.
1) Dear My (Etude House's lipstick range is just called Dear My, don't ask why) Jelly Lips Talk Lipstick – a 'jelly finish' shiny lipstick in 8 colours:
When Etude House say a lipstick is sheer, then it's going to be really sheer, because I find most of their lippies sheer-medium pigmentation at the very most.
Having said that I think the jelly finish will be lovely for the spring.
I like JPK002 which seems like the most pigmented of the lot and JBE101 which looks like it's yellow with glitter, cos I'm weird like that:
Also out is the Sweet Recipe Candy Stick which are tints in a stick. They're cute but I wouldn't bother with these:
See??? Too sheer:
Let's move to the face, we have the Baby Choux Base Primers which remind me very much of Lavshuca's primer. These have an SPF 25 and have a moisturising creamy texture.
They work as make up primers, skin tone fixers and moisturise the skin. I am ALWAYS tempted by green correctors as I get so red, but then I always think it looks a bit deathly and unforgiving if you over do it. Therefore I would be tempted to go for the Peach myself, I think it'd have brightening properties.
Then there's the Chocolate Highlighter, or rather WHITE CHOCOLATE highlighter? Yes, yes, I know Bourjois do a bronzer like this;
I'd be all over this but you know how I am not fond of cardboard packaging!
Another face powder (this range is HUGE), Choco Chip Cookie Pact – in one colour.
Then there is the multi tasking Cupcake all over cover! This products is for cheeks and lips and even the eyes. I love these kind of multi use products. I want one but need to pick something a bit more pigmented as the lighter shades always look washed out on me. I like OR201 (Orange) and Strawberry PO002. I like Peach too but I don't know if it will work on my olive skin tone.
Then the nail polish! Everyone loves these; I've decided I have already got too many of these creamy colours with infused glitters to buy any, but they are jolly nice to look at. Comes in four shades:
I do however love these Chocolate Smudge Eyeliners. Brown is my favourite eyeshadow colour at the moment and this dark chocolate and warm soft chocolate is right up my street. I hope they don't smudge!
These Sweet Cupcake Eyeshadow Duos I have no interest in, they are so glittery and frosty in swatch images:
I love the colours in this Sweet Chocolate Eyes though, however…no, I don't like cardboard packaging! Yummy colours though:
Last but not least, cotton balls. I am SO nostalgic about these, my mum used to have these multi coloured balls in her bedroom even though they leave fluff everywhere. It's essentially cotton wool balls in a plastic cup so er….buy it if you want:
You can also get:
2 make up brushes called the Chocolate Stick Eye Liner Brushes, one for drawing a line and one for smudging and also some triangle shaped make up puffs for make up application (typical foundation wedges), although they are made of good quality rubber so they are supposed to last longer).
Now THAT is how you release an absolutely massive collection, yo!
I personally would go for the lipsticks and cup cake blushers, as well as the gel eyeliner. I can leave the polish and eyeshadow products personally.
Anything catch your fancy?


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The old single action Gotoh style Martin rod used from the mid-1980's through 2005 is an excellent truss rod, and as you suggested, is no longer in use on any Martin guitars; however the Martin rod I am suggesting is the newer (post-2005) double action truss rod in service on something like 750,000 instruments. By way of recognizing these, they are completely covered with a shrink-wrap plastic, while the knock-offs have covering only on the operating end.
To my knowledge, only Martin is selling that rod at $13 per through Guitar Maker's Connection (Blues Creek Guitars and other vendors like StewMac are selling a similar rod, but it is not the Martin rod). Rods are available in 12 and 14 fret lengths, as well as one that will work for a Size 5 - the Size 5 rod is not on the web site, but can be purchased with a call to GMC. Either buy the short/long truss rod wrench on the site or mod a 5mm ball end T-wrench.
On getting the neck angle right initially - I see one or two builders a year that get this wrong and then ask me to correct the issue. With Cumpiano bolt-ons or Kinkead/StewMac dovetails, it's usually a quickly fixable thing, but on the Sloane and Willis guitars that have come through, it's generally a 'cut neck off/convert to bolt-on' job that costs the builders some time to refinish, etc. I agree with Allan that first time builders can get this right, but it is painful when a percentage of folks don't.
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The Urumqi international airport has become west our country one of important key position airports, the flight area rank is 4E, may satisfy the rush hour 2000 people, the passenger annual throughput 4,050,000 people, the goods postal annual throughput 41350 tons demands. Is undertaking the Xinjiang domestic ten airport relay duty, altogether opens route 113, domestic service 99, overseas route 14, with Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Islamabad, Moscow and so on 60 big or media-sized cities navigations. Has three in the airport unit to have the honor to receive the nation to found the spiritual civilization Advanced unit. The advanced airdrome facility, the unique geographical superiority and the warm thorough service have attracted the domestic and foreign 14 Airline in the Urumqi international airport operation. the 2007 year on April 18 the national total investment reaches 2,800,000,000 Yuan Urumqi international airport three issue of changing extension project to begin the project. After the project completes, the Urumqi international airport will have the western gateway key position airport function initially, becomes China face Central Asia, West Asia, South Asia, joins Asia and Europe's important international air channel.
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We got some great feedback on the new browsing UI change and will continue to make improvements over the next few days to address the short-comings caused by the new usage pattern.
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Manual:Running MediaWiki on Windows/da
This page will give you information about installing MediaWiki on a Microsoft Windows system using standard installation methods. For Windows-only hosting environments, the WIMP stack (using IIS) was recommended over Apache, (WAMP stack) as of 1.18, for manual installs.
Nginx - an alternative to apache and IIS - may be useful if you support MediaWiki across other host operating systems and/or are already using Nginx for internal hosting.
Required software
Make sure to also check the RELEASE NOTES shipped with MediaWiki for requirements.
For image thumbnailing og TeX-support, kræves flere programmer.
(*) – Selv om det måske ikke officielt understøttes endnu, er MariaDB, en GPL del af MySQL, hvor koden er skrevet af Monty Widenius, grundlæggeren af MySQL, et alternativ og kan også anvendes med MediaWiki. [$debRepos Debian/Ubuntu download].
Getting required software
Although these products are not that difficult to configure under Windows, it can be extremely difficult to install (by difficult, it takes 30 minutes for WIMP) and configure Apache+MySQL+PHP one product at a time if completely new to apache/mysql/php. Under such circumstances it is highly recommended to look for a LAMP or WAMP pre-made combination which can just be installed and used. These will save you 99% of the trouble of configuring each package manually. The down-side is that some of these are trimmed down or modified versions which makes it hard to upgrade individual components, and other ones are seriously out of date.
The most popular of which is XAMPP:
Microsoft Web Platform Installer can install required pre-requisites for you. Se blog.
- Bitnami is a free suite of compatible installers for open source software. It supports an Nginx stack [1], Microsoft WAMP [2]), a generic LAMP stack [3] and XAMPP (which it will not install itself and on which only XAMPP-specific bitnami installers work [4]). Bitnami installs MediaWiki 1.23 on any of those, and they work alongside Wordpress or other software bitnami supports. See Bitnami itself for instructions [5] and updated support data. This can be a good option if you intend to use only the long term stable supported MediaWiki releases. Support for older versions is not guaranteed. See Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows/bitnami for experiences with this method.
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On Azure: [6].
Installing MediaWiki
For experienced users, here is the quick version of the installation instructions. Most users will want to go through all the passages.
- Kontroller at dit system opfylder installationskravene
- Download MediaWiki (direkte link til nyeste version) og udpak den komprimerede fil i en web-tilgængelig mappe på din server.
- Point your browser to the directory where MediaWiki was extracted and follow the link to the setup screen. It should be in the form
http://domain/directory/mw-config/index.php. Replace directory with the path to your extracted MediaWiki folder. If installing on a local machine, replace domain with
localhost. If you install locally and later want to access your wiki from domain, then you will need to change LocalSettings.php from
localhostto domain. If installed on a remote server, replace domain with your server's domain name (eg: www.myserver.com).
- Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the process.
Disse instruktioner er bevidst kortfattede. Der er mange ting, der kan gå galt, så hvis du er i tvivl, anbefales du at læse den udførlige instruktion!
Optional Software
Diffutils (which contains diff3) can be downloaded from here, and File (file type checker) from here.
To activate the use of diffutils within MediaWiki, you have to ignore the fact that they won't be found during installation (they may actually be found if you install diff into your path) and open up LocalSettings.php to make the following changes:
$wgDiff3 = "/usr/bin/diff3";
bliver til
$wgDiff3 = "C:/Program Files/GnuWin32/bin/diff3.exe";
og erstat:
$wgMimeDetectorCommand = "file.exe -bi"; #use external mime detector (linux)
$wgMimeDetectorCommand = "C:/Program Files/GnuWin32/bin/file.exe -bi"; # use external mime detector
Please note that you have to replace "C:/Progra..." with the actual location where you installed the tools to.
The "Q8" ImageMagick releases use 8 bits per channel, while the "Q16" releases use 16 bits per channel. Here is the download page for ImageMagick on Windows. To make image thumbnailing work, you will need to open includes/Image.php, locate the line that starts with
$cmd = $wgImageMagickConvertCommand ., and remove the escapeshellarg() function, then do the same to the next line, so that the command variable builds like this:
$cmd = $wgImageMagickConvertCommand .
" -quality 85 -background white -geometry {$width} ".
($this->imagePath) . " " .
In addition, check to be sure that the
$wgImageMagickConvertCommand in localsettings.php points to:
(your imagemagick folder path)/convert.exe
- use the .exe extension! It won't work, if omitted.
- use a path without spaces as install path for ImageMagick or use the short name of the path.
Another way to make this work is to add the ImageMagick path to your Windows PATH variable, and simply setting the
$wgImageMagickConvertCommand in LocalSettings.php as follows (note that you must still modify Image.php as shown above):
$wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "convert.exe";
Make sure that the Internet Guest Account (Usually IUSR_MACHINENAME) has Read & Execute rights to the ImageMagick bin directory. Without this you might see an PHP shell execution error similar to what happens when it can't find the convert.exe file.
Inkscape can be used as an alternative SVG thumbnailing tool. Here is the download page for Inkscape on Windows. Here are some example settings to enable Inkscape as the SVG thumnailer in the
LocalSettings.php file:
# Image Converter
$wgSVGConverter = 'Inkscape';
$wgSVGConverters = array(
'Inkscape' => '"/Program Files/Inkscape/inkscape.com" -z -w $width -f $input -e $output',
# Image converter path
$wgSVGConverterPath = '/Program Files/Inkscape';
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Adam Hills is the comedian with one foot whom David and Samantha Cameron like to watch while in bed. It's an image that the friendly Australian cannot shake from his mind, that of the Prime Minister and his wife snuggling up under the duvet at 10 Downing Street to watch him discuss with another disabled man whether or not they take off their prosthetics to have sex.
"David Cameron told Ade Adepitan [the television presenter and former Paralympian] that was one of his favourite bits of the show. I thought: 'Hang on, David Cameron is watching Channel 4?' Good Lord, that's quite an achievement."
Hills was the unexpected hit of the station's Paralympics coverage, hosting comedy show The Last Leg, a late-night look at the previous day's action. In less capable hands, The Last Leg could have seemed tawdry and in poor taste. One of the most popular bits was a segment entitled "Is it OK?", in which viewers could ring in with questions that they'd previously been worried about asking, such as: "Do you have sex?" and "Do the blind see in their dreams?". But under the sunny stewardship of Hills, it became must-watch television, a refreshing change from the spiky, politically incorrect comedy that has become synonymous with Channel 4.
The Paralympics may be long gone, but the popularity of Hills lives on. So beloved was The Last Leg that it has been brought back to our screens on Friday nights, the sporting events replaced with current affairs. So far he has had guests including Prof Brian Cox, actors Idris Elba and Rafe Spall on the new series. But the man he really wants is Mr Cameron, if only to ask him: "Is it OK to make cuts to disability living allowances just months after the success of the Paralympics?"
"That event did a huge amount for public perceptions of disability, and I don't think that he [Cameron] made token gestures with his praise. But it is just disappointing to achieve so much and then a few months later take so many steps back."
Tall and tanned, Hills, who is married to an opera singer and has a young daughter, has the easy looks of an American TV star. He's a man for whom the word "hunky" was surely invented. In Australia, where he hosts a talk show, he is as famous as Graham Norton or Jonathan Ross, but not a tenth as crude.
He was born 42 years ago in Sydney, minus a right foot. He tells me that he has "an ankle joint and then a stump, and when I was born I had two toes on top of that which I could move, though they kept getting knocked around.
"When I was about 13 or 14, the doctors said I could have them removed, but I was insistent on hanging on to them. It was very much, 'This is my body, and I'm keeping it my way.' And then, when I turned 18, they said, 'Are you sure?', and I said, 'Actually, they're starting to get annoying now, so shall we just get rid of them?'"
He laughs heartily. He has never seen his disability as such. "Oh God, no. No, no, no! There's a British swimmer called Liz Johnson who has cerebral palsy, and she says: 'Some people were born with brown hair, some with blonde, and some with big noses. Well, I was born with cerebral palsy.' And I think that's very much the way I, and most people with disabilities, look at it."
When he was a little boy, his parents refused to treat him differently from his brother, enrolling him in gymnastics classes when he was four. "And I'm actually all right at it," he says. "I can bust out a cartwheel."
Hills has been in comedy for over 20 years. He got into it while studying journalism in Australia, when he would do open-mic nights. An early experience put him off ever mentioning his disability. "I'd done two gigs back to back and I only had 15 minutes' worth of material, and I found myself saying: 'Errrm… uhhhh… I've got an artificial foot.'
"The older comics said: 'You're not old enough to talk about your foot yet. Wait until you build up your comic chops, prove yourself as a comedian first, work out how to be funny, and then when you have got that down pat you can talk about your foot.' I was 19 and I thought 'Ahhhh, whatever you say.' "
It was another 13 years before the foot would come up in his routine again. He had been nominated for the Perrier Award, the most esteemed comedy prize at the Edinburgh Festival. "I thought: 'That's proof that I've built up my comic chops.' But I knew that there had to be a reason to talk about it, otherwise it would be a bit like a stranger sitting on a train telling you they had a really tough childhood."
In one of his routines, he riffs on his experiences in airports just after September 11, when he'd set off metal detectors and security staff wouldn't know what to do with him. "I'd explain that I had an artificial foot and they'd be so scared of offending me that they'd say, 'OK, sir, you go through.' And I'd be like: 'No, no, check! I could have a knife in there!' "
Hills, who spends half of the year in the UK and the other half in Australia, is quite the nicest comedian out there at the moment. He doesn't ascribe to the belief that you have to be offensive to be funny. "Actually, it's harder but ultimately more satisfying to make people laugh without being nasty. When I first came to Britain in 1997, there were a lot of angry comedians who had nowhere to channel that anger because New Labour had just come in. Clearly they became angry towards them later, but at the time it was quite weird because they would all just be standing around on stage with nothing to attack."
Strangely, he doesn't have anything against the famously inflammatory Frankie Boyle. "My view of him is clouded because back when we used to do the comedy clubs we would occasionally share a flat, and we got on like a house on fire. We'd get up in the morning, cook breakfast, and then spend the day together, maybe seeing a movie. We'd bond and talk about our family and the universe and spirituality. He'd probably hate that I am telling you this."
Surprising as the revelation is, if anybody could make Frankie Boyle seem nice then it is Hills. He once received a review praising his celebratory humour. "I thought: 'Oh yeah, I suppose that's what I do.' And from then on I made a conscious decision to put a positive slant on everything. Most of the time, every joke can have a positive slant.
"I had a gag about how I hate Americans because they name their children after personality traits that they hope they are going to grow up with, like Faith and Charity. Then one day I realised I could say that I loved Americans because of this, and it would still be exactly the same joke."
He pauses and looks down at his prosthetic. "I don't know. Maybe it comes from having one foot and believing that you can celebrate life or you can mock it. It's like that Dr Seuss quote: why fit in when you were born to stand out?"
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Four Americans were killed during a rocket attack at Bagram Air Base, outside of Kabul, a Pentagon official said Tuesday on condition of anonymity.
The U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force confirmed that four NATO coalition service members had been killed in an attack but did not disclose the nationality of the casualties or the exact location of the attack.
In a written statement, ISAF said the four were killed in an "attack in eastern Afghanistan."
The attack comes on the same day the Afghan government and U.S. announced they would meet with Taliban envoys in Qatar, and hours after the official handover of security responsibility to Afghan forces.


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I am always inspired by comments left by readers of this blog. Thanks to everyone for taking the time to read and to leave your thoughts. I just came across a comment from someone who had given me hospitality when I was in Argentina and Chili. That has reminded me of the people I have met and places I have been as I tried to figure out a new lifestyle.
After leaving Rob at the Mexico-California border after returning from Baja, I did not feel ready to go back home. Transitions are very hard for me and I have to do it slowly. I had been invited to Tucson but before doing that, I happened upon Organ Pipe National Monument on the Mexico-Arizona border. There I met a young Mexican woman working in the Visitor's Center. Her name was Janet and she was bilingual or we couldn't have had much of a conversation. After talking a while, she invited me to visit with her family and celebrate Thanksgiving with them. Thanksgiving was in the large kitchen of her grandmother's home. I sat in the middle of the room with grandma while the other female relatives did the cooking. The men were mostly outside talking. Grandma was not bilingual and I couldn't speak Spanish but we would smile and nod at each other and I felt a connection between us. That was the beginning of a relationship that still continues. Her town was Sonoyta, in the Mexican State of Senora.
After Tucson, I continued home slowly. I visited Chiricahua National Monument, and the Gila Cliff Dwellings in New Mexico. At the Cliff Dwellings I met a young man who was just returning from Batopilas in Mexico's Copper Canyon and was very enthusiastic about it. I put it on my list of future places to visit. It was getting cold so I decided to head south. I made it to Guadalupe National Park, and hiked there but it was still cold so I continued on to Big Bend National Park, one of my favorite places. Finally, even big Bend could not hold my interest and shortly before Christmas, I returned to my apartment in Maine. Temporarily.
Janet had said something when I was visiting with her that caused me to make another turn in my path. What she said was "…if you come back to Mexico, you can stay in my grandmother's house." This thought stayed with me. I had left my marriage, had hiked, and drove up country, cross-country and from the tip of Newfoundland to the tip of Baja California Sur. So why not have the experience of staying in a different country? I was driving to places more than I was staying home. So, after hiking the west coast of Newfoundland in the summer of 2004, I gave away most of my furniture and household things and started out, going wherever I felt like going. I was reminded of the song "Me and Bobby McGee" where it says "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." I saw that as a positive thing.
I don't want to just make this a travel monologue but I can't help being excited about the many different landscapes, the towns I have visited and the people I have met on the way. While visiting near and hiking in the Cabeza Prieta Wilderness Area in Arizona, a Ranger there gave me directions to the burial place of Ed Abbey. I learned that the "jumping cactus" (Opuntia fulgida) really does jump, I visited a place called "Painted Rocks," an amazing BLM Park and Campground near Gila Bend in Arizona. It looks like a large jumbled pile of rocks but are the remains of an ancient volcano. Earlier Native-Americans have covered them with petroglyphs. A long time camper there gave tours explaining the history and he and his wife also hosted potlucks with other campers so that was a busy and enjoyable place.
I revisited Big Bend and met two campers there in a huge mobile home that also pulled a jeep. I enjoyed many hikes and visits with them and we could go off-road with their jeep. That was a treat for me. I also met another couple living out of a minivan like I was doing. The man was 85, the woman somewhat younger. A friend and I both climbed Emery Peak, 7,825 feet. We thought we were something! Here is the recipe for their power snack: Take a large pitted date. Stuff with peanut butter.
I continued on to Louisiana, which is not that scenic from I-10, but much differently if viewed from one of their state parks. I picked Lake Fausse State Park to explore. I would have loved to just thrown a boat into one of the bayous but I knew I didn't have the skills for that. Getting to the park was pretty interesting. It was way off the highway and wound alongside a levy of the Mississippi River. It gave me an eerie feeling knowing what was on the other side of that high bank. Katrina happened the next year.
Next was the Natchez Trace Parkway, which I think is a great place for bike riding as it is not very hilly in the Mississippi part of it. There are also three free campgrounds and one convenience store along its length. And there are facilities in the campgrounds. No shovels needed. It is also close to the tiny two-room house in Tupelo in which Elvis was born.
About this time as I checked my email at a local library, I had a message from Rob
suggesting I get in shape if I wanted to have a free trip up Aconcagua this winter, summer in Argentina. Aconcagua is 22,834 feet high and is the highest mountain in the western hemisphere. That rather enthused me. I never stopped to question whether I would be able to do it.


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LeTourneau University has named John Lommel as senior director of Accreditation and Institutional Effectiveness.
He comes to LeTourneau University from Alaska Christian College where he served for nearly four years as Academic Dean and Title III Project Manager. Title III is a federal department of education grant that provides funding to colleges to enhance academic learning.
During his time at Alaska Christian College, Lommel led the school in receiving initial accreditation from the Association of Biblical Higher Education. He oversaw program development and institutional effectiveness. He also co-wrote ACC's Title III application and oversaw the subsequent implementation of the award, including construction of a new academic wing and library renovation.
Lommel has supervised multiple departments and views institutional effectiveness as a refining process that improves the institution.
"I view the institutional effectiveness process as to ensure constant growth and improvement," Lommel said.
Lommel graduated from North Park University in 2002 with a double-major in Bible studies and philosophy. He served as a youth pastor for six years as he pursued his master of divinity in 2007 and his master's in theology in 2009, both from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Boston. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in higher education from Azusa Pacific University. He and his wife, Kristen, have been married for 10 years and are the parents of three small children.
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'Spider-Man' robberies in Altamonte Springs linked, police say
Masked gunman flees with cash; No injuries reported
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. – For the second time in less than a month, a man wearing a Spider-Man mask robbed an Altamonte Springs store at gunpoint, and police believe the same man is responsible in both crimes.
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A masked man carrying a handgun entered the Subway at 954 E. Altamonte Drive around 10 p.m. Tuesday and robbed the restaurant, according to Altamonte Springs police.
No one was injured.
The culprit made off with an undetermined amount of money.
In March, a man wearing a Spider-Man mask and another masked man robbed a 7-Eleven on Lake Destiny Road in Maitland.
The clerk told police a rifle was pointed at her and one of the gunmen slammed her to the ground.
Police said the man wearing the Spider-Man mask in both robberies also wore a hunting-type hat and made similar statements to the clerks.
Detectives will be checking surveillance video at nearby businesses in the area throughout the day.
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I have long been as reluctant to discuss charitable donations as I have wages, viewing transparency about both as the same sort of social gaffe. However, the spirit of the Slate 60 has convinced me that being open about the dollar amounts one donates is a net good. I think Mohtalim ought to have an annual friendly competition for charitable giving. I personally haven't donated anything to anyone in 2008 yet, so I'm starting on an even keel.
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Interior defends Strickland's rafting trip amidst spill
The image of a top Interior Department official rafting down the Grand Canyon as oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico is not exactly what the Obama administration was hoping for on the public relations front. That makes revelations today about the rafting trip by Interior chief of staff Tom Strickland and his wife all the more touchy, especially given the extraordinary effort the administration has made to appear fully engaged as the spill has worsened into a looming environmental disaster.
Stickland, the former Colorado U.S. Attorney who also serves as Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks, left for the previously scheduled trip on April 27, three days after the leaking oil was discovered. The trip was work-related, department officials say, and Strickland kept on top of the quickly changing situation via satellite phone as he floated down the remote reaches of the canyon.
He was eventually helicoptered out two days later as the scope of the spill worsened, going directly to the gulf to assess the potential impact on wildlife and coast lines, said Interior spokeswoman Julie Rodriguez.
Strickland plays an important role in the department, but in this case Interior Secretary Ken Salazar had deputized David Hayes, the department's deputy secretary, as the main point man on the spill. After two and half days of a five day trip, "Strickland cut short the trip and left the Park via Park Service helicopter and travelled directly to the Gulf to oversee and help accelerate … response activities," Rodriguez said.
Officials point out that Hayes was in Louisiana the day after the rig exploded and sunk, and Salazar has made several trips to the region already, returning again tomorrow to meet with British Petroleum officials in Houston.
But in a moment when the Obama administration wants to avoid any impression of detachment — canceling public events and scrapping an awards luncheon praising the oil industry — the raft trip may be the biggest misstep so far.


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Friday, June 4, 2010
Stop the rooftop noise
6 comments:
- pinhead said...
People in my building have been complaining about a whining machinery noise coming from somewhere back there for some time now (a year plus), but they've been frustrated at not being able to pinpoint or stop it. (I've never heard it.)
- June 4, 2010 at 7:43 AM
- EV Grieve said...
I suggest that they hoist a pirate flag.
- June 4, 2010 at 7:45 AM
- pinhead said...
Too ironic. By the way, I found a new theory on that here.
- June 4, 2010 at 9:40 AM
- Bowery Boogie said...
is it the strokes playing a reunion gig for wiz kid?
- June 4, 2010 at 10:36 AM
We get that whining machinery noise at the NW corner of 9th and 2nd ave too. I think it's just par for the course.
- June 4, 2010 at 9:35 PM
I have complained to 311 about that same noise, it started over an year ago, but when the DEP guys came, they could not do a thing about it, as apparently I need to pinpoint the source of the noise for them to go and do their survey.
I am in 10St and Ave C.
Do you know with certainty; where is the whining high pitched noise is coming from?
From my rooftop it seems to be coming from the vicinity of 10th an Ave.B
but according with your blog, it is more to the west.
Please, any insight will be highly appreciated.
- November 28, 2010 at 8:04 PM


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Regexes, to me, are a different language entirely, but I think I have the hang of it now. I'm writing a macro to convert a Word doc saved as .txt to a certain format which I can make more use of. I'm merely reading the file, concatenating it into one humongous string with newlines intact, and doing the following with this array:
Entries 1 and 2 are the find/replace regexes, respectively.
Entry 3 determines whether to run the replaceFirst(1,2) or replaceAll(1,2) method. This saved time originally, but now the two marked with * are taking up to 40 seconds to run, compared with <10 ms for the others.
String[][] regexes = { {"\t+","","a"}, {"<.*?>\n*","\n","a"}, {"(?i)half ?time","","a"}, {"\n([0-9]{1,2}|(TIE|TB))(\\.|\\))? *","","a"}, {"(?i)(.*\n)+\n*.*toss-?ups\n*","","f"}, // * {"(\n *)+","\n","a"}, {"(?i)((.+\n?ANSWER:.+\n)*)(.*\n)+.*bon(uses|i)\n","$1ß","f"}, // * }; // more stuff
I originally thought the drastically lengthened search time was because it was looking through the rest of the files, which aren't large at all, but replaceFirst() fires normally, so it's a problem with the actual expression. How do I fix this so that it runs in a time comparable to the others?


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The Arts Alliance Gallery primarily features exhibits from local and state artists and craftsmen, grouped by medium or artistic societies. Past exhibits showcased work from New Mexico Wood Turners, New Mexico Bead Society and New Mexico Silk Painters Guild. The space, located on the corner of Lomas and San Mateo, also hosts receptions and meetings for Albuquerque art organizations. Till the end of March, the 1,500 square-foot gallery hosts "Beyond the I: From the Personal to the Cosmic," featuring work by New Mexico and Arizona artists from the Society of Layerists in Multi-Media. The Albuquerque-founded society shares the commonality of the holistic ability art across all mediums. The gallery's April exhibit is the work the New Mexico Polymer Clay Guild. The juried show opens Friday, April 3 and will feature polymer clay jewelry and art.
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In the Chalkboard Jungle
Last week, President Obama touched upon some of his plans to address our country's increasingly disastrous education system. What garnered the bulk of the attention was the proposal of tying teacher pay to performance. Most teachers find this idea anathema, and many outside of education don't understand why. In the business world, it's easy to quantify someone's performance: It's all in the numbers. Education, however, cannot be run like a business, even though that's been the trend for the past 15 years. The problem is: How is a teacher's worth determined? If it's solely tied to student performance, then good teachers who inherit struggling students could be penalized and poor teachers in good school systems rewarded. And what students have learned doesn't always show up in a test taken that same school year; it emerges over time as they learn to synthesize the information and skills into their lives.
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The Velocity of Gary (not his real name) at The Box Performance Space
In his performer's note, Chad Brummett describes The Velocity of Gary (not his real name) as a second chance. This production of James Still's Gary, presented by Tricklock Theatre Company at The Box Performance Space, is staging No. 2 for Brummett, having also performed the solo drama 10 years ago while studying theater at UNM.


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Yorkshire is bracing itself for the force of Storm Barbara which is to bring blustering gales and heavy rain to the region today.
The worst of the weather is set to hit further north, with gusts of up to 90mph expected in parts of Scotland. But weather warnings are in place for the region, with high winds of up to 60mph or 70mph expected in Yorkshire where flood hit communities in Hebden Bridge were yesterday putting up temporary defences.
And with today expected to be a busy day ahead of the Christmas period, the Met Office has warned travellers to take care on the roads.
"It looks very much like it's going to be hitting further north than Yorkshire - but the effects are going to be far reaching," said Met Office spokesman Graham Madge. "The main impact will be in Scotland, but there are warnings out for northern England. In Yorkshire, there are warnings in place from 7am until midnight. With gusts of that strength we could even expect potential structural damage. And, with it being the Christmas period, people can expect some travel disruption. We are asking people to consider that when planning their journey."
Councils were said to be "fully prepared" for the onset of harsh conditions over Christmas.
The Local Government Association (LGA) said it was issuing renewed advice on how to deal with flash floods and has stockpiled more than one million tonnes of salt to grit roads.
Environment spokesman Martin Tett said: "Councils are fully prepared to protect residents and minimise disruption caused by Storm Barbara and other potential bad weather such as snow and flooding. Council staff will be out in force clearing roads of any debris and damage."
Heavy rain is expected this afternoon until around 4pm, clearing into the early evening.
While Christmas Eve is set to be a quieter day, further weather warnings are in place for Christmas Day, with gusts expected of up to 50 or 60mph.
"Barbara is a main storm," said Mr Madge. "People should certainly be aware, and factor that into their travel plans."


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Bennett seeks deep overhaul of election system
PHOENIX - Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett is proposing a wholesale overhaul of the state's vote-counting system in the wake of embarrassing delays counting more than 630,000 ballots statewide from the Nov. 6 general election.
The delays kept voters from knowing the outcome of two of the state's three major congressional races until at least a week after the polls closed, and the last wasn't decided until Saturday. Bennett said if the presidential election had been in the balance, the state would have been the focus of nationwide derision.
Bennett said in an interview with The Associated Press that by 2014, he hopes to completely revamp the way early ballots dropped off at polling places are counted; cut the number of provisional ballots issued by 90 percent; and ensure the vast majority of votes have been counted within hours of poll closings.
"I want 98 percent of all the ballots to have been scanned into the system and counted by election night," Bennett said Saturday. "And the next morning, as an election family statewide, we're dealing with 10,000 to 15,000 ballots, and we're done in two days."
The lengthy vote count has brought complaints from voter rights advocates and others who say it highlighted problems with Election Day fairness in the state. But most observers said the delays mainly were due to Arizona's early voting system, which allows citizens to send in early ballots late and even drop them off at the polling place on Election Day.
Thirteen of the state's 15 counties didn't complete their vote counts for a full eight days following the election, while Pima and Maricopa county election officials continued slogging through piles of ballots Sunday.
Similar delays happened in the presidential election in 2008, when it took 15 days to complete the vote count in Arizona.
Bennett said he envisions a system where voters can show up at any polling place in their county, instead of being allowed to cast ballots only at their own precinct.
"Right now we're operating like a bank that has 1,000 branches, but when you show up to deposit money you can only deposit at the branch you opened your accounts at," Bennett said.
While cautioning that he had not yet approached Gov. Jan Brewer, legislative leaders or county leaders who run and fund elections with the proposal, he said he hopes to secure millions in state and county funding to add to more than $10 million in available federal cash to pay for the overhaul. He'll need counties on board to get anything done because they run local elections.
Bennett envisions dedicated state funding of $3 to $5 per voter and a per-voter money from each county to help pay for the overhaul. That's about $10 million in state funding yearly.
The money would help pay for new equipment allowing early ballot signatures to be scanned at polling places and to correct many of the problems that have led to provisional ballots being issued on the spot. The equipment needs to be replaced anyway, so coordinating purchases to make the changes makes sense.
County election officials say the early voting system is clearly broken, because people aren't turning in their ballots early.
Of about 2.3 million ballots cast, 460,000 were either dropped off at the polls or mailed too late to be counted early.
Another key problem was the provisional ballots, issued to voters who for one reason or another either didn't appear on voter rolls or who records showed had already been issued an early ballot. Those totaled 172,000.
The crush of about 631,000 so called "late-early" and provisional ballots overwhelmed county recorders and election officials. That's because each ballot required a series of labor-intensive verifications before it could be counted. It took six days before enough votes were tallied for the 9th Congressional District to be called. The 2nd District race featuring Rep. Ron Barber and Republican challenger Martha McSally was finally called by the AP on Saturday, a full 12 days after the election.
Civil rights groups have protested at the Maricopa County Recorder's Office regularly since the election, criticizing the delays.
Maricopa County Supervisor Rose Wilcox, who frequently sides with civil rights groups, was on the other side last week and said the elections workers are doing the best they can.
"I'm really sympathetic with the protesters. I just feel they have a right to protest. But it's just making people work harder to make sure those ballots are counted right," she said.
Bennett may be able to get some backing for his nascent proposal because pressure is sure to mount for the state to revamp a system that now sees more than half the vote counted in early ballots.
"As more and more people have taken to the vote by mail, we need to reconfigure our system to count those in a timely matter," said Rodd McLeod, a campaign consultant who worked for the winners of both the 2nd and 9th district races. "It's outrageous that a quarter of the votes don't get counted on Election Day."
Legislative leaders who were asked about the vote-count delays last week said they would look at the issues, but weren't proposing major overhauls.
"I don't think there's some vast conspiracy here," House Minority Leader Chad Campbell said. "We just need to make sure the system is working."
Sen. Michele Reagan, R-Scottsdale, for months has been doing preliminary work on election legislation for consideration in 2013 and said the delays will be among many election topics she plans to review. But she stressed that her overall effort has been in the works a long time and that she's not critical of the current system.
"I'm going to be really cautious to not just jump on the bandwagon and say there's a problem and that the sky is falling," Reagan said. "Let's really see where the numbers are at to see why and whether anything would make it better."
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