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Remote Gaming Duty and freeplays When the point of consumption gambling duty rules were being designed in 2014, many bookmakers complained that free and discounted bets should not be subjected to general betting duty, particularly since the equivalent gaming incentives – "free plays" or "free spins" – were not subject to remote gaming duty. The Government's response … Continue reading Gambling tax Budget news
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With the recent introduction of the place of consumption duties (general betting duty, remote gaming duty and pool betting duty – which are to be considered in the Gibraltar Betting and Gaming Association's judicial review in the High Court next week) and the recent increase in the rate of duty on FOBTs (to 25%), the … Continue reading Budget 2015 – gambling taxes
VAT recovery on corporate deal fees: an update and further guidance following a recent Court of Appeal decision
The Court of Appeal has handed down its keenly anticipated judgment in a landmark case on the recoverability of VAT on deal fees relating to corporate takeovers. The background BAA plc ("BAA") was acquired by a newly incorporated company ("Bidco") backed by a consortium of investors. Professional fees were incurred by Bidco in relation to … Continue reading VAT recovery on corporate deal fees: an update and further guidance following a recent Court of Appeal decision
Rumours are flying around the City about what George Osborne will say in his budget on Wednesday. His objectives (often conflicting) will be to come up with measures which foster enterprise and innovation and make the UK a more attractive place to do business whilst increasing tax revenues and clamping down on tax avoidance (and … Continue reading Predictions for the Budget 2013
In recent years the Rank Group ("Rank") has been litigating several VAT claims based on "fiscal neutrality" arguments. There have been many twists and turns in this litigation and the claims have proceeded through the courts in three separate strands. Each of these strands is concerned with a comparison of two types of gambling machine … Continue reading Rank Group: fiscal neutrality case remitted to the First Tier Tribunal
HMRC now accepts that the grant of a long lease subject to existing leases is capable of being a transfer of a going concern (TOGC) for VAT purposes, provided that the lessor's retained interest is small enough not to disturb the substance of the transaction, being the transfer of the lessor's property letting business to … Continue reading Grant of lease can be a TOGC – HMRC reverses its position
So what does it say in the fine print of the Budget Press Release about the changes to gambling duties? Not a huge amount, but here's the gist of it: � – Machine games duty (MGD) will come into force on 1 February 2013 (and, at the same time, AMLD will be abolished and gaming … Continue reading Further gambling duty update
As expected, the Chancellor has announced that gaming machines will be moved into the VAT exemption for gambling and, at the same time, a new Machine Games Duty will be introduced (being a form of GPT for machines). The news is that the headline rate of the new duty will be set at 20%. More … Continue reading Changes to gambling duties
We've all heard the reports of small CD retailers (and the like) going out of business due to LVCR (or "low value consignment relief"). This is the rule which exempts from VAT goods (such as CDs) imported into the UK from outside the EU with a value of £18 or less. Following the Budget, the threshold … Continue reading VAT and LVCR (the £18 rule) – "Big deal!"

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At Boolcoomatta Reserve recently, under a brilliant blue sky with a hint of the summer to come, Glen Norris, Aaron Fenner and I went to check on a herbivore exclosure in a rocky badlands area. Here most of the mulga trees were dead and there had been no successful mulga recruitment for more than a century.
The exclosure had been built to find out what effect excluding kangaroos and goats, excluding rabbits, and excluding all of the above would have on recruitment by mulga and other plants. We were motivated by the research of Dr Fleur Tiver from the University of Adelaide in the north-east pastoral region, which had found mulga and many other tree species were on a slow road to local extinction.
On the way out we detoured to examine a bore in an area of the property none of us was familiar with, and spotted a distant tree that looked like a white cypress-pine - a species unknown on our reserve but recorded on several adjoining properties. Following a rocky walk we confirmed it as the first white cypress pine (Callitris glaucophylla) to be entered in the database for Boolcoomatta (although examination of some of the fence posts suggest there were more in times past).
This tree was just hanging onto life with half its trunk severely damaged as though it had been struck by lightning. As the tallest thing on a low ridge it was highly possible. After noting a few-full looking fruits but lack of mates we hugged the tree and decided Lone Pine Ridge was a good name for the locality.
From there we retraced our steps with Glen's frustration building as orange chats sat photogenically and enticingly on top of saltbush and bluebush shrubs, only to fly off when he pointed the camera in their direction.
Nevertheless the plants were more co-operative and every time we crossed a gully with sandy soil we saw many Australian broomrape (Orobanche cernua) plants. A rare plant in South Australia, it's a parasitic herb that looks like a large multi-flowered orchid with mauve flowers but as a root parasite it lacks green pigment, so the stems are white.
Soon we were at the site with a few mulga recruits we already knew of from our monitoring work a year ago. Some had grown considerably in the past year despite the generally average conditions on top of a dry year previously.
But even more exciting was when we looked further afield – there were a considerable number of Mulga recruits (up to 50) in the adjoining hectare. We surmise these seedlings had developed from seed set following two wet summers in 2010 and 2011 when the Mulgas had flowered well and set fruit. But this raises the question 'What enabled the first recruitment in more than a century, and outside any herbivore exclosure?
There's little doubt the goat culling program on Boolcoomatta as part of the South Australian Department of Environment Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR) 'Bounceback' program, (of which Boolcoomatta reserve is a participant) had a large part to play in it.
After a 1km walk to the exclosure we found one recruit that had developed to a size where it was obvious, since the exclosure was built 3 years ago.
But the afternoon of discovery hadn't finished yet, with another exciting event on the way when we found a dispersed population of six slender bellfruit (Codonocarpus pyramidalis) trees - a short-lived species listed as 'vulnerable' under the Federal EPBC Act.
This species is thought to regenerate after fire, like its close relatives in mallee and heath communities. But fire isn't a frequent event in these parts and it may be that the ongoing regeneration of seedlings had never had the chance to develop into the typically tall, narrow, leaning trees we were looking at until the goat browsing had been removed.
We inferred from their size and likely age that these quick-growing and short-lived trees would have also started their lives when the Bounceback goat control program began. In this way they're like the mulgas, but unlike the long-lived but slow-growing mulga trees, which were still comparatively small, they have a quick component to their lifecycle as visible plants with an extended period as dormant seeds.
It was encouraging to see developing fruit on the bellfruit trees, which when they shed their seeds would then lie in the soil for a long time until some soil disturbance induced them to germinate.
A bit further downslope we found a horse mulga (Acacia ramulosa) the first of this species to be found on Boolcoomatta, and what may be an extension of range from the north and west of the state.
Since we were in tree hugging mode we spread our love around and hugged them all!


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Since March is "Canadian Nutrition Month," we looked for some of Canada's most popular influencers in the health & nutrition world. This group is always ready with advice and recipes and best of all, are fully open to working with PR professionals!
Using Cision's media database, the team compiled this list based on Cision's proprietary research.
Vincci Tsui – Vincci Tsui, RD (Calgary, AB)
Instagram: VincciRD
Vincci Tsui helps clients pause and listen to their own needs in order to discover their own way of eating well and feeling good. Tsui frequently appears on Global Calgary and Breakfast Television Calgary and has been featured in the Calgary Herald. She likes to post healthy recipes and great foodie experiences she has at local restaurants.
Priscilla Soler – Gastrawnomica (Victoria, BC)
Instagram: Gastrawnomica
On Gastronawmica, Soler shares her experiences as a certified Health Coach, advanced detox and plant-based lifestyle coach. She also likes to share fitness routines and mouthwatering vegan recipes on her Instagram account.
Andy De Santis – Andy The RD (Toronto, ON)
Instagram: AndyTheRD
A self-proclaimed "food humourist," Andy De Santis writes about sports nutrition, fitness and family-friendly recipes and has been featured in Impact Magazine. His posts are both educational and hilarious and are balanced with posts from his personal life.
Tori Wesszer – Fraiche Nutrition (Kelowna, BC)
Instagram: Fraichenutrition
A proud foodie, mom and Registered Dietician, Tori Wesszer gives you a front row seat into her kitchen as she shares her favourite appetizers, entrees and desserts with a healthy twist. She shares a collection of food, interior design and cute photos of her young children.
Chantal Urbina – Nutty 4 Nutrition (Winnipeg, MB)
Instagram: Nutty4nutrition
Based out of Winnipeg, Chantal Urbina us a registered massage therapist by day and a culinary nutrition expert at night. Alongside photos of her adorable daughter, Urbina shares her culinary creations, most of which are meat-free.
Nazima Qureshi – Nutrition by Nazima (Mississauga, ON)
Instagram: Nutritionbynaz
Focused less on diets and more on healthy habits, Nazima Qureshi works exclusively with women to help them live a happier and healthier life. She likes to share healthy South Asian recipes alongside inspirational quotes to keep her followers motivated.
Joy McCarthy – Joyous Health (Toronto, ON)
Instagram: JoyousHealth
On Joyous Health, McCarthy tackles a variety of topics such as health, beauty, fitness, parenting, food, and healing. She uses her expertise as a holistic nutritionist to teach readers how to live their best life.
Yoni Freedhoff – Weighty Matters (Ottawa, ON)
Instagram: Yonifreedhoff
A family doctor and assistant professor at the University of Ottawa, Freedhoff blogs about weight loss and the many myths that come with it. He will often post about current events alongside health and nutrition.
Leanne Vogel –Healthful Pursuit (Calgary, AB)
Instagram: Healthfulpursuit
Leanne Vogel has spent over a decade revolutionizing her perception of food and wellness by creating a life of kindness and acceptance towards herself and others. A proud supporter of living a "ketogenic" lifestyle, she shares meal plans and standalone recipes to help others stay on track.
Abbey Sharp – Abbey's Kitchen (Toronto, ON)
Instagram: Abbeyskitchen
On Abbey's Kitchen, Abbey Sharp tackled nutrition fads and trends and shares countless recipes that are a healthy version of your favourite comfort foods. In 2015, Abbey relaunched her popular YouTube channel, working with some of her favourite brands to create healthy delicious recipes, nutrition tips and fun food videos.
To learn more about Cision's comprehensive media database, which contains over 1.6 million records, click here.


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February 2016
The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.
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Mikros Image has completed an impressive trailer for Ubisoft's soon-to-be released Far Cry Primal videogame.
Mikros image teamed up with Ivan Grbovic, agency BETC and production house Wanda for this new trailer who sets the hero in prehistoric times.
Commencing with a scene of hightech modern warfare, the trailer follows a soldier's experience anachronistically through the battlefields of time. He ultimately finds himself facing a saber-toothed tiger with nothing more than a bone in hand to fight for survival.
Shot in Croatia, the trailer features an array of visual effects : futuristic helicopters deploy soldiers in a modern military operation, a herd of mammoths encounter a magnificent mountainous setting, and finally a gigantic saber-toothed tiger snarls and bounds towards us.
Christophe Huchet, vfx producer comments "we did some stunning visible vfx such as the futuristic helicopters, animals, great environments but also a lot of invisible effects too, as we intervened an almost every shot". One of the challenges of the project was to succeed to make the heroe move from one setting into another very smoothly. "Impressive military action scenes were also flogged with explosions, smokes, and , inflamed arrows, gunshots.
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Posted on March 25, 2008, Stephany Viking: Battle for Asgard Hacks Its Way into North American Retail
Are you in the mood to plunder and pillage in an open world environment that allows you to step into the shoes of a resurrected battle weary Viking? You now have the opportunity to do so because Viking: Battle For Asgard from Creative Assembly and SEGA has finally hit stores for the PS3 and Xbox 360.We have been bombarding you with information on the game for months now, but just in case you missed it, here is some background information for you:
Viking: Battle For Asgard thrusts players into a mythological world overrun with demonic warriors unleashed by Hel, the Norse goddess of the underworld. As Skarin, a rage-fueled Viking hero, players will wage all-out war to free mankind from the grip of evil and ultimate annihilation. Players can command dragons and wield fire, ice, and lightning, laying waste to enemies in either small skirmishes or epic battles featuring hundreds of warriors. Enemies will suffer graphic dismemberment with disturbing realism from an array of Skarin's melee, range, and magic attacks. Upgradable combat skills and Skarin's otherworldly abilities create an ever-changing landscape of epic violence and heroic victory.
Woo Whoo! Hopefully this will be a fun and bloody action game for to drive away the Winter chills. For more information on the game along with tons of screenshots and trailers look no further than our previous posts.
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Persis Khambatta (born October 2, 1948) was an Indian model and actress. She was known for her role as Lieutenant Ilia in the feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979).
Khambatta's first appearance at age 13 in advertisements for a soap brand set her on her way to becoming a popular model. In 1965, she entered and won the Femina Miss India contest.
In 1980, Khambatta was seriously injured in a car crash in Germany, which left a huge scar on her head. In 1983, she underwent coronary bypass surgery.
In 1998, Khambatta was taken to hospital in south Bombay, complaining of chest pains. She died of a massive heart attack aged 49. Her funeral was held in Bombay the following day.
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A Natural Approach to Learning the Art of Drawing
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Hundreds of full-color and black-and-white illustrations
This beautiful book is so packed with the richness of life and a zest for beauty that the fact that it is also the best guide to learning how to draw and teaching children to draw that I've ever seen comes almost as a surprising bonus. As you feast your eyes on one delightful, beautiful drawing after another, you can't help but be inspired to try your own hand at drawing, and to pass along what you learn. But, remarkably, this is only part of the genius of Drawing with Hand, Head, and Heart.
Drawing with Hand, Head, and Heart is a comprehensive and practical guide to the art of drawing and to the process of visual thinking that is part of our full human intelligence. More than 500 illustrated exercises and examples—collected and developed over many years of Waldorf classroom experience—show teachers, parents, and students how to learn to draw simply and naturally, as a child would learn to draw.
The introduction examines contemporary research on brain development and its relationship to learning, showing how the process of picture making contributes to the development of visual thinking. An overview follows about how children learn to draw and how their visual intelligence can be engaged through age-appropriate drawing exercises. Many useful examples of form drawing, portraiture, and geometric and perspective drawing illustrate the art and science of drawing for students of all ages and ability levels.
Van James also provides samples of inspiring blackboard drawings and main lesson book pages for teachers and students and includes an informative appendix on therapeutic drawing, a bibliography of resources, and an index. Includes 576 color and black and white illustrations.
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I really love this book! Reading it is such an inspiration! It is full of beautiful illustrations. I love it's developmental approach to teaching art and it's emphasis on practical advice to those working with children. The form drawing sections are detailed with illustrations and give the reader an understanding of the importance of doing them. By the way, form drawing is not just for kids, adults can benefit from it as well. I love the section on the changing child and interesting ways to approach drawing for children age ten to teens. This is an age when children may be more inclined to give up drawing all together.


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Every Pi fan has a love for an irrational number– and that makes them irrational.
Alright, alright…that was a bit hyperbolic. Not every Pi lover is irrational, just their choice in numbers — and we get it. We can totally understand being fascinated with things that never end. For example, we love The Neverending Story, The Song that Never Ends, and other things that keep going on and on. People who love math are rare, so support your favorite Pi lover's obsession with some Pi themed gifts for Pi Day!
A Clever Way to Measure Circumference
Does your Pi lover often forget how far Pi goes? Maybe they need an easy way to check that 30th digit. This does all of that and more! Let them measure your affection with this neat little gadget.
Get it for $5
A Mug to Remind Them Not to Overdo Their Pi
We all get a little excited about Pi. Especially on Pi Day. But friends don't let friends overdo it. There are plenty of calculations that don't have Pi in the recipe (but all the best ones do!)
Get it for $10
A Cold Pi-nt
Nothing is better than sharing an irrational number of drinks with some friends…well, maybe keep it more of a rational number (or at least have a DD). These glasses will help keep the party going forever — or just until everyone passes out.
Get them for $15
A New Nickname
Is your Pi lover a bit irrational? Do they just go on and on and on sometimes? Well, this shirt can give them the most fitting nickname of all. Let them own their best traits with a rad new shirt.
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A Spoonful of Pi
A cute reminder that a spoonful of Pi can fix just about everything. This cheeky little play on words turns a spoon from an eyebrow raiser to an awesome gift.
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A Delicious Mug
If you can read this, you might be a math nerd! Okay, jokes aside, any math lover will…well, love this! It's a fun way to include more math in their lives (without actually doing any math). We like that last part the best.
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Proof They Can't Be Stopped
No one can stop a Pi lover. This shirt gets to the bottom of the issue while showing off the love of a concept as unstoppable as you are.
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A Scarf as Unending as Their Favorite Number
This scarf goes on and on and on. Okay, really it's just a loop, but this infinity scarf is just as infinite as the number that's printed on it. There are an endless number of ways to wear it — and that means it's the perfect gift!
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An Imaginary Argument
Sometimes an imaginary little thing becomes a huge irrational argument, and that is exactly what's happened in this mathematical tee. Please use caution with imaginary arguments, however — they can go on forever.
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A Pi Pan
This is pretty much the best visual pun we've ever seen. We could go on about it all day, but it would be irrational and circle back a lot.
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An Irrational Place To Sit
This teak bench is about the coolest math themed seating we've ever seen — okay, it's the only math themed seating we've ever seen. But, if your Pi lover is also a lover of sitting down (and let's be honest, who isn't?), this is the perfect gift that they will talk about forever.


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[S02E08] WordPress has come a long way since its humble beginnings as a blogging tool. It's now a fully fledged content management system. But is it still the right choice for a site like Boagworld?
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As soon as I started talking about redesigning boagworld, everybody asked me what content management system I was intending to use. To be honest it wasn't a subject I had put a lot of thought into. I had used WordPress for years and didn't see the value in changing. Nevertheless I felt I should ask around.
It's difficult to change CMS.
Every web designer/developer seems to have a strong opinion about which content management system is the best. Rarely do they agree. It quickly became clear that content management systems are a point of contention.
This is probably because people become invested in their CMS. They have taken time to learn how it works and imported large amounts of content into it. Changing would not only be a steep learning curve, but also a hassle.
Not that I am any different. Although people suggestedDrupal, Expression Engine and various other solutions, I couldn't really face switching from WordPress. What I would gain from switching CMS just didn't seem worth the trouble. The return on investment didn't seem worth it. That said, I did have some concerns.
Some concerns over WordPress.
To be sure I was making the right decision I needed to deal with my lingering concerns. These included:
- Many people suggested performance as a drawback of using WordPress. I had also experienced some issues myself in the past and that couldn't be allowed to reoccur.
- Ryan Taylor had done a load of work with custom post types and taxonomies which I knew little about. They appeared powerful but had also created some issues, so I wanted to make sure that they were the best approach going forward (not that I don't trust Ryan!).
- Legacy content was an issue that concerned me too. Boagworld has been around since 2005 and so has accumulated a lot of posts coded in slightly different ways. I had standardise these overtime without it requiring a huge amounts of effort.
- Best practice in regards to plugins was a somewhat unknown factor to me. Ryan used to tease me for being the 'plugin king' because I used what he considered an excessive number of plugins. I wanted to know whether this was true and whether I was using plugins because WordPress was hard to configure without delving deep into the code.
- Finally, I had concerns about the future of the site. The current boagworld website wasn't coded particularly well and built upon by a number of people. This new version had to stand the test of time and not break when WordPress updated.
In short, I needed to talk to an expert. Fortunately I had met Ian Stewart (who is one of the people responsible for WordPress.com) atFuture of Web Design. I decided to give him a call. What follows is a transcript of that call.
Ian Stewart: Paul, hello.
Paul Boag: Hello, Ian. How are you?
Ian: Awesome, how are you?
Paul: Very good, very good. Thank you for letting me pick your brains. It is much appreciated.
Ian: It's not a problem. My pleasure.
Paul: So the kids got off to school alright?
Ian: Yes, mostly alright. Probably late.
Paul: Yeah, they often end up late. So, I heard your talk at Future of Web Design, which was so timely because I had in the back of my head that I was going to be redesigning the Boagworld website, and Boagworld is built on WordPress. So, I thought, "I'll give this guy a ring, and I'll pretend that I'm interviewing him, but actually what I'm doing is just mining his brain for useful information." So I hope that's alright.
Ian: No, that's perfect.
Paul: Excellent. Ok, so it was a brilliant talk and incredibly helpful from what I heard of it, but I do have some specific questions, which are kind of partly related to Boagworld, and then some general, kind of WordPress-y stuff that's relevant, as well.
Ian: Sure.
Paul: One of the things that I wanted to kick off with is you mentioned something called the Toolbox theme.
Ian: Yes.
Paul: Can you just kind of go over that again, just so that I can get my head around that and work out whether I think it's probably going to be a good starting point for Boagworld, but I wanted to make sure what it was and how it worked.
Ian: Okay. Alright, so Toolbox started out as a project for us at WordPress.com. So, I work for Automatic, and we run WordPress.com, and I look after all the themes there. So, we're launching a lot of themes, somewhere around like 50 – 60 a year, is the goal.
Paul: Wow.
Ian: Yeah, and so we have a vested interest in making sure that they're bug free, and that they're well coded. So, what we did is make a theme that we can use to start out making themes.
Paul: Oh, okay.
Ian: Right? So, it serves two purposes. Like a tool box that you would reach in and pull out a tool, we'll copy/paste stuff out of there, into maybe an older theme because we know that this code snippet in there works correctly. And the other thing we do is just start making new themes with it.
Paul: Oh, okay.
Ian: Yeah. Sort of fork it. The open source term is fork it.
Paul: Yes.
Ian: And turn it into something else. And so that's what we've been doing.
Paul: So that would be very appropriate then, as a starting point for me to begin development with Boagworld.
Ian: Yeah, and one thing that we try to do with it that's really cool is, it's all semantic HTML5.
Paul: Oh, is it? Oh, good.
Ian: Yeah. So, that's super fun. It was a fun project to do, and so all of the new themes that we launch on WordPress.com are all semantic HTML5. Yeah, so every post is an article. Your comments are lists of articles. There's nav elements in there, widgets are asides, and so forth.
Paul: Oh, brilliant. That kind of saves a lot of work then, for me starting out, and speeds things up a lot. Brilliant. That's what I like to hear and I'm sure that will help other people as well, but I don't really care about that, I just want to make my life easier. (Laughs.)
Ian: Yeah.
Paul: Okay, the other thing I wanted to ask you about was custom post types, which you kind of touched on, but you didn't go into that much detail, really. The existing Boagworld site, when I built it, custom post types didn't exist.
Ian: Correct.
Paul: And then I know of Ryan Taylor, who worked at Headscape. He made some updates to the site and introduced custom post types, and now he has gone off into the world of freelancing. And I'm left with a site that uses custom post types and it's like, "Crap." I mean, I could ring up Ryan, but I don't want to admit weakness that I don't know what I'm doing. So, I thought I'll ask you. Tell me a bit about custom post types. How do they work? How do you go about using them? When is a good time to use them, and that kind of thing.
Ian: Okay. So, the best way to think of custom post types is, you know what a blog is, right? Like, WordPress and its posts, right?
Paul: Yeah, yeah, I worked that out.
Ian: And, but there's also pages, right?
Paul: Okay, yeah.
Ian: So, if you cracked open WordPress itself and dug deep into the code, you would discover that there is no difference, really, between posts and pages. Except one is a custom post type, and that's what a page is. So, when I think of a custom post type, I think of any sort of content for your WordPress site, your blog, which is out of that post order. So, the posts are in reverse chronological order and it shows up in your feed, but the pages don't.
Paul: Yeah.
Ian: So, if you ever need content that's outside of your regular posts, and isn't really a page, and it's not a post either, a custom post type is probably the solution.
Paul: So the way that we seem to be using them is as seasons and episodes.
Ian: Oh, okay.
Paul: There seems to be some kind of hierarchy that he's created between the episode set within the season. So, instead of having those just as normal posts, because obviously our bloggers are on the site a lot as well, he separated those out. So, is that the kind of thing?
Ian: Yeah, that's a really cool use of custom post types, because you don't want it to be part of your blog, and you don't want it to be really flat, like a page. You want it to have some sort of continuity between seasons, so you can navigate back and forth between those, and that's a perfect example of why you would want to use custom post types on your blog.
Paul: So how do you go about creating the relationship between custom post types? I mean, he seems to have got some kind of hierarchy going on between seasons and episodes, and I'm quite interested about how that works.
Ian: Okay, so what you can do; to make a custom post type there are functions in WordPress that let you just add them with a simple plug-in or with a theme, but you can also add your own taxonomy to them for organizing them. So a taxonomy is like a category or a tag your taxonomies . You can make your own just for organizing them. So you can tag them in certain ways, and not pollute your regular tags. So if you have a tag cloud on your blog, you might not want to see your posts or your season tags mixed up there. You create your own, just for that custom post type.
Paul: Ah, okay. Can you recommend any resources for kind of digging into that? Because obviously I'm going to have to get my head around this. Where is the best place to start?
Ian: Yes. The best place to start, just to generally read about it, is the WordPress Codex.
Paul: Right, yeah.
Ian: If you go to codex.wordpress.org. But, going back to my FOWD talk, I made a theme that uses custom post types, and custom taxonomies as well, and I tried to make it really dead simple. So, on ThemeShaper.com the featured post right now is powering your design with WordPress. Themeshaper.com is our blog for WordPress.com themes, the theme team that I'm a part of there.
Paul: Oh, okay.
Ian: It's a blog about stuff we're working on, and I turned my Future of Web Design talk into a post there, and if you grab the theme from that post and take a look at the functions file, there are some dead simple examples of how to implement custom post types that are not too complicated. They're easy to get your head around. As well as in the post too, I explain what's going on there.
Paul: So Theme Shipper.
Ian: Theme Shaper.
Paul: Shaper.
Ian: As in, "Shaping Themes."
Paul: You strange Americans with their weird accents.
Ian: Strange Canadians.
Paul: Oh, sorry, oops!
Ian: Yes.
Paul: I knew that! That's the ultimate sin! We talked about that, didn't we? When I was at FOWD I said that the first time I was introduced to Daniel Burka I presumed he was American. It's the ultimate sin, isn't it? It's like calling British people European.
Ian: Yes. We both get the saying, "God save the queen."
Paul: Exactly. Certainly, I feel more of a kinship with you. All because of that. Okay, that's brilliant. I'll check that out. That's really good.
So, the other problem that I have, which is a silly little problem, is one with legacy content, right? So, what I mean by that is that I've got, like, hundreds and hundreds of blog posts, I think 800 plus, that I've been writing since 2005. And there are all kinds of things in there that maybe I want to strip out because I don't use it anymore, like a break out box for example. Or, I might want to change all of my H3 headings into H2 headings in order to kind of fit in with HTML5 or whatever. Is there a kind of mechanism to do that? My instant reaction when it's anything to do with WordPress is, "Oh, I bet there's a plug-in for that." But I sometimes wonder whether that's really the best way of doing that, if you want to makes those kinds of universal changes across the site.
Ian: Right. Well, you couldn't make a plug-in that sort of, while it was running, had those changes happening. That wouldn't be the best way, right? Because you'd always have to be depending on that plug-in. The best thing to do is to change the content. There's a really great plug-in. It's something like WordPress search and replace that will search through your posts and let you change, say, all of your H2 tags to H3, or what have you. Or if you know you have specific HTML in there, like a div with a class to make a break up box, you can just go in and search and replace, and change all those class names, or change that to an aside element if you want. That sort of thing.
Paul: Okay. Yeah, that's exactly what I need. That's wonderful. I thought it would be something simple. But, I always have mixed feelings about the plug-ins. I'm a little bit afraid of them. Because, you never know entirely where they've come from, or who's coded them, whether they're safe. You never know whether they're going to have a performance impact on your server. I don't know how far you go with plug-ins. Whether you need to be careful about them or not. Have you got any advice from that point of view?
Ian: Yeah. What I would do is, I would rely on what WordPress.org is providing for plug-in information. So if you go to WordPress.org and look at a plug-in there, you can see a rating. You can see, if you scroll down to the bottom of any plug-in page, you can see what people are saying on the WordPress support forums. And you can get kind of a sense of what the plug-in developer is like. You know, if it's a one off plug-in and the developer never answers or supports requests, that would be a bad plug-in.
Paul: Right.
Ian: But if you check out the author and you can see a profile of the author and see if they're contributing to WordPress, if they're doing a lot of stuff, if they're answering support requests, that would be a plug-in I would use.
Paul: Yeah. So, I mean, I just happen to be looking at that search and replace one that you mentioned a minute ago.
Ian: Yes.
Paul: And it's rated four and a half and does have 98 ratings for it. I've gone through to the author and there's a stack load of plug-ins that he's done. He uploaded something as recently as June 19th, which I think is a couple of days ago from when we're recording this.
Ian: Yes.
Paul: And so yeah, I see what you mean. Yeah, I guess a lot of the time, what I've done is I've installed plug-ins directly at the WordPress interface, where you don't get quite this level of detail that you get from looking at WordPress.org.
Ian: Yeah.
Paul: So yeah, it's also got a compatibility area I noticed, as well, which has got a lot of detail on, so.
Ian: So, if it's a plug-in you're going to depend on, especially for a production site, just do a couple minutes of research and just check it out.
Paul: Should you kind of be limiting the number of plug-ins you use? I mean, you can easily go ten, 20 plug-ins, you know?
Ian: Yes, I've heard of someone with 500 plug-ins and I would say that might be too much. Maybe 400 and less.
Paul: Okay, 400 and less.
Ian: No, I think the average is anywhere from no plug-ins, or maybe just a kismets, to maybe 30 plug-ins. And I think 30 is pushing it.
Paul: Okay. So, in the teens you'll be okay, kind of thing.
Ian: Yes.
Paul: Presuming they're good plug-ins.
Ian: Yeah. Yep.
Paul: Okay, that's interesting. Because I mean, that kind of comes on to performance issues and stuff like that.
Ian: Right, yeah.
Paul: Now, when I dropped you an e-mail earlier you said performance isn't necessarily your strongest area, but is there any general advice? Because I mean, you do hear whispers, don't you, about WordPress? You know, it's got performance problems.
It's one of these things, isn't it? When it comes to things like content management systems, everybody's got an opinion. Everybody's got their preferred thing and I was talking to somebody else who said, "Oh, you shouldn't be building it in WordPress, you should be building it in ExpressionEngine." And I'm going, "I'm sure that's great, but I've got all this legacy content in WordPress, and is it really worth the hassle, and blah, blah, blah."
So, I just thought I'd ask you about performance with WordPress. Is there an issue there?
Ian: I don't think there is.
Paul: Says the man who works for WordPress.com.
Ian: Yes, that's right. I've heard the evil whisper campaign of which you speak, but no. I haven't heard of any serious performance issues. I mean, WordPress.com itself is one WordPress installation.
Paul: Really?
Ian: Yeah, with over 20 million blogs on it.
Paul: No way!
Ian: Yeah. So, you can certainly scale it up. It's the best case example of scaling up WordPress. Taking one installation up to 20 million plus sites on it.
Paul: That's just insane.
Ian: It is insane. But, for Boagworld, I'd probably recommend a caching plug-in. Like WP Super Cache, which turns all of your pages into static HTML.
Paul: That's what we've been doing currently, and I haven't really had any problems with that.
Ian: Yeah.
Paul: So, it's always worth asking.
Ian: It can certainly scale up to very high levels.
Paul: So, one last thing I wanted to ask about. You really have dealt with everything. It's really good, I'm excited to get going and digging into this. But the last area I was thinking about was kind of future proofing the site a little bit and thinking ahead.
Because I mean, the danger is, is there anything you need to be aware of when designing your theme or when you're selecting what plug-ins you use as to WordPress suddenly makes some upgrade or does something, and it's going to break something? That's a little bit of my fear. Because I know, for example, is it 3.2's coming out soon?
Ian: Yes.
Paul: And that looks like, as every major release of WordPress is, it's going to make some changes. Do I need to worry about that? That kind of thing.
Ian: Yep, well there isn't anything in WordPress that should break your site. That would be very unlikely. It's been years, I think when tags were first introduced was the first time I really had to change something.
Paul: Right.
Ian: Back like five years ago. For future proofing, the only thing I would recommend would be not relying on plug-ins that add stuff to your content.
Paul: Right.
Ian: So, like if you're using a plug-in that had a short code. What's that, sort of like a bulletin board sort of code, and you started using that in a lot of your posts, and then you stopped using that plug-in, you would have all these weird codes in your content. That would be the only thing for plug-ins I would worry about.
Paul: Okay, cool. So what is coming up? I saw that there's 3.2 coming out soon, but I'm quite curious as to what it's going to contain.
Ian: Yeah, 3.2's got a couple of cool things in it. For developers, the PHP version has been upped to PHP5.
Paul: Oh, okay.
Ian: So, everyone's developing on that now. There's a new default theme, 2011, which is responsive, which is really cool. Responsive and HTML5, it's full of buzz words.
Paul: Good, good.
Ian: Yep, and there's distraction free writing.
Paul: Ooh, that I like.
Ian: Yes, so when you're writing a post you can click an icon and everything on the screen disappears. So all you see is a blank screen, no interface, just you typing.
Paul: Because when I write blog posts I use a piece of software called Byword, which is a basic word processor that supports Markdown and things like that.
Ian: Oh, okay.
Paul: It does exactly that, kind of fills the screen and hides everything else away, so having that built into WordPress would be superb.
Ian: Yes, there's also Markdown plug-ins for WordPress too, I believe.
Paul: Yes.
Ian: You can combine those.
Paul: Isn't that an example of something that you wouldn't want to use, based on the advice you gave a minute ago, because if that plug-in is removed, then suddenly all that Markdown is going to show.
Ian: It depends on how the Markdown plug-in is working.
Paul: Okay.
Ian: If it's converting it to HTML after you save the posts, that would be a good Markdown plug-in.
Paul: Right.
Ian: But if it's not, then that might be kind of bad. We always depend on that, right? Otherwise you'd be stuck with search and replacing, and a lot of Markdown.
Paul: Yes. I need to look into that because I'm not sure what mine does at the moment. Fortunately I haven't been using it for that long, so if it is bad then I can still fix it.
Ian: Of course, a plug-in that's doing that wouldn't be very complicated. It would probably always work.
Paul: Okay, thank you very much, Ian. That was really useful.
Ian: You're welcome.
Paul: I'm sure other people will find it useful as well. So yeah, I might come back to you at some point in the future if I need to pick your brain more, if I may.
Ian: Good, good. You're always welcome.
Paul: Alright, thanks very much, Ian. And I apologize for calling you American, the ultimate sin.
Ian: As a very good Canadian, I forgive you.
Paul: Speak to you soon.
Ian: Alright.
Paul: Bye, bye.
Ian: Bye.
As you can tell from the reference to WordPress 3.2's release this conversation took place a while ago. Since then I have beaverd away on building the site. The advice that Ian gave has proved invaluable especially in regards to selecting 'quality' plugins. The article he wrote on 'powering your design with wordpress' was also a great starting point. The plugins he recommended (Search & replace and W3 Total Cache) were excellent.
I am in love with Toolbox.
However, the real treasure was the Toolbox theme he mentioned. I have built the new site entirely upon Toolbox and it has saved me hours of work. Although it is not all coded as I would have chosen, it is well written, makes use of HTML5 tags and generally pretty semantic. I highly recommend it.
Overall working with WordPress has been a pleasure and things have definitely improved since the last time I coded with it. That said, I am not suggesting it is for everybody. Each site and developer is different.
Developer first, CMS second.
The choice of CMS is about functionality required, and the skills of your developer. If you have found a good developer who has extensive experience in Expression Engine you are better off using that. There is more value in having a good coder than in having a particular CMS. After all most content management systems offer similar functionality.
That said, and with a deep sense of trepidation, I would love to hear your opinions of the different CMS options available. What CMS do you use and why did you select it? Let me know in the comments.


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15 March 2018
AN AUTUMN ROAD TRIPby GREAT OCEAN ROAD
Taking the Great Ocean Road in autumn is spectacular as always, however you could be fooled into thinking autumn has passed you by. Deciduous trees don't tend to like salty air so spectacular displays of autumn foliage are rare by the beach.
You need to head for the hinterland to see the towns and villages of the Otways and Volcanic Lakes and Plains really come into their own during Autumn.
Top towns for Autumn foliage include Winchelsea, Birregurra, Forrest, Camperdown and Terang.
Taking an inland route you'll be rewarded with unexpected shopping and foodie experiences and get the opportunity to meet friendly locals who are more than happy to have a yarn and share local secrets with you.
In Winchelsea you should make it your business to visit Barwon Park Mansion. It's a National Trust building made of bluestone and the former home of the man who introduced the rabbit to our shores. Tours are available at times and from time to time Baron Park hosts special exhibitions. It's only a couple of minutes off the Princes Highhway in Winchelsea.
While you're in "Winch" stop into Run Rabbit Run Cafe for some lovely homemade food (You can' go wrong with the slices!) and to browse through the gift shop and quirky terrariums and homewares. There's even a resident pet parrot.
In Birregurra (The home of Brae - one of Australia's best restaurants and voted the World's 44th best in 2017) you'll discover a beautiful streetscape, park for the kids to enjoy and a selection of collectible and gift shops.
Forrest is Mountain bike central and the heart of the Otways. It comes to life in Autumn and its not a bad place to stop for a bite to eat. The recently opened Platypi Chocolates is THE place to grab a hot chocolate and some handmade confectionaries while The Forrest Brewery is THE place to whet your whistle with a handcrafted beer - brewed on site.
The Forrest General Store is a favourite for a quick coffee, fresh handmade bread, pies, sausage rolls and salads. Their coffee is also pretty good - they use Apollo Bay's own Hello Coffee blend.
Bespoke Harvest is your fine dining option - they deliver a locally sourced degustation with passion and authenticity.... by a nice warm fire.
If you're staying in Forrest for longer make sure you try the bike trails (hire is available at the store) - there are easy options for the whole family to casually enjoy - and plenty for the experienced MTBer. Be careful. We've had plenty of bingles here - fortunately most of them hilarious (can I say there's nothing like watching your mother-in-law sail slowly into a bush when she forgot how to operate handle-bars).
The Colac Botanic Gardens are a gem in this thriving regional town. Colac is a great place to pick up supplies and has many branding shops for those who seek familiarity. The Botanic Gardens are nestled next to Lake Colac. You'll find a fantastic play area for the young ones and a lovely cafe.
From Colac to the west you traverse Australias largest and the world's 3rd largest volcanic plain. Hard to believe, right? Dotted with extinct volcanoes (yes they are little ones and those from the High Country would class them as hills) and crater lakes, the region we call the Volcanic Lakes and Plains is known for it's country charm and hospitality.
Antique and collectible store can be found in almost every town and the food sourced from these landscapes is divine. It's generally served up with a smile and likely some advice on your next stop.
If you're a fishing man or woman you'll be spoilt at Lake Purrumbete. The BIGGEST trout going can be caught here and on the Lakes Edge you'll find one of the loveliest cafes in the region. Be warned, the Lake Edge Cafe is VERY popular with locals from Camperdown and Colac so get there early or make a booking.
In Camperdown pop into the old Courthouse to arrange a guided tour of the clock tower. Especially in Autumn the view from here down the main avenue is stunning. The Botanic Gardens are just out of the main town centre and overlook lake Bullen Merri. (See main image)
Terang is a little further west on the Princes Highway and serves up a beautiful array of colour in autumn.
For some crisp country air why not climb a mountain?? Our picks are Mount Noorat (five minute drive off the Highway from Terang)and Mount Elephant near Derrinallum - dominating the landscape from all directions. From certain angles it's not clear but from some you'll see the shape of an elephant very clearly. Please note - you will not see actual elephants on this mountain. Mount Elephant Visitor Centre is open on Sundays - on any other days you can pick up a key from the take-away store in town.
On your travels you'll see the intricate work in the stone walls made from volcanic rock along the roadside and fencing off paddocks.
Cobden is south of the highway and a hub of activity for the dairy industry with factories pasteurising and packaging much of the milk you might be enjoying in your laneway cafe back in the city.
Around the Lake in the town centre you will be rewarded with a beautiful display of colour. The boardwalks and platforms around it's edge are there for your enjoyment. Perfect for a picnic or a stretch of the legs. Tip - if you're now thinking about coffee stop in at the Blue Wren in the main street for a fix of the good stuff.
The Great Ocean Road Woollen Mill in nearby Glenfyne is a working Woollen Milll where you can see how they produce fine blends of Alpaca and Merino. You can buy some wool or a ready made beanie and thank the Alpacas on your way out!!!
Guess what?! You're now on the 12 Apostles Gourmet trail! Cheese, Cheese and more cheese will be coming your way. There's also whiskey, beer, chocolate, ice cream and much more to fuel your foodie desires. Explore around Timboon and Cooriemungle for some direct-from-the-paddock produce
From here you are so close to the 12 Apostles it's probably worth stopping in! If these are on your bucket list or if you haven't visited for a while it's worth stopping in to say G'day. EVERY time you visit (and we go a lot) you feel dwarfed by their magnitude. There might possibly be a few others stopping to see our rocks so if you want a quieter time there go in the morning. Stay overnight in nearby Port Campbell so you can get there early. On the other hand the sunset here is something that you'll be happy to suffer the crowds for. We highly recommend the 12 Apostles Morning Express if you're there early. Catch the bus at the Visitor Centre car park at 7.30am and be dropped off in Princetown. From here it's an easy 7km back along the last section of the Great Ocean Walk tot he 12 Apostles and your vehicle. Seeing the changing light at this time of the morning is an experience you'll never forget.


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Fatigue or tiredness is extremely common in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and is an important cause of disability. The mechanism for this symptom is incompletely understood. Suffice it to say that the complaint is multifactorial and related to pro-inflammatory chemicals, neuro-hormonal activity and where relevant, muscle weakness.
Many patients with chronic disease have fatigue, particularly those with cancer or immune disorders. However, in MS the fatigue is often disproportionately present, i.e. the patient may have little on neurological examination but much in the way of fatigability.
Often patients with depression have lethargy. They're sluggish. Indeed, depression and fatigue in the MS patient can occur concurrently. But the depression may be lifted through medication though the fatigue may remain.
The matter of fatigue needs to be sorted out in more detail via sub-classification, not only in MS but in any disease. As per my reference above, fatigability can be purely muscular. The classic example of such fatigue is the patient with Myasthenia Gravis who has muscles that tire very easily after repetitive effort or via heavy lifting.
This striking problem is not exhibited in MS. Rather, the MS patient may have a more gradual and less pronounced decline in strength in a given muscle after heavy exercise, work or after a long day of activity. This is akin to the kind of problem a stroke patient might have in a body side that has been affected by a cerebrovascular accident (CVA).
Moreover, the MS patient typically has a kind of central fatigue, whereby there is a feeling of energy loss in many muscle groups. Recall that the muscles per se or their receptors are not damaged in MS. It is the Central Nervous System (CNS-brain and spinal cord) that is dysfunctional. The muscles and peripheral nerves supplying them are indirectly affected by damage to these Central Nervous System structures. Not only can muscles suffer strength deficits via the CNS plaques of MS but spastic and involuntary/uncoordinated movements of same muscles can impair their functional power.
Heat can worsen MS by exacerbating weakness and fatigue. An MS patient in the throes of an acute MS attack may also suffer sudden increase in tiredness associated with new findings on neurological exam or a deterioration of old problems. This speaks to a chemical surge in inflammation that can impair overall energy. Likewise, any infection, new disease (diabetes, emphysema) or fever due to many causes, such as a drug reaction, can promote MS fatigue.
In the last 30 years, with a better understanding of a condition known as Excessive Daytime Sleepiness, another distinction in MS fatigue has been made. Sometimes, tiredness is different from physical exhaustion. It's tiredness associated with a predisposition to fall asleep. There is a laundry list of causes for such hypersomnia; many such factors are linked to MS. They include:
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Central Sleep Apnea
Sleep-Wake Cycle Impairment
Psychophysiological Insomnia
Insomnia due to Pain
Narcolepsy-like Disorder
Periodic Nocturnal Myoclonus
REM Sleep Disorder
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Hey Book Nerds! :D I hope you're all doing well. It's miserable where I live today. It's been tipping it down since I woke up this morning! ;_; Oh well. Any who, last night I finished Flawed by Kate Avelynn - it was one of the best books I've read this year. Totally amazing. ^.^ I'll be posting my review for it sometime in January before the release date of the book. (:
Title: The Nightmare Affair.
Author: Mindee Arnett.
Publisher: Tor Teen.
Expected Publication: March 5th, 2013.
Format: Hardback, 352 pages.
Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she's a criminal. No, she's a Nightmare. Literally.
Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother's infamy, is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker's house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He's hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn't get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder. Then Eli's dream comes true.
Now Dusty has to follow the clues—both within Eli's dreams and out of them—to stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the killer learns what she's up to and marks her as the next target.
This is another incredible book I can't wait to get my hands on! The plot seems so original and I don't think I've actually heard of another book like this before. (: As for the cover; it's stunning and really awesome. :3 I am in LOVE with it! :D Plus, Purple is my favourite colour. :P I wish I could have this book now and not have to wait til March, but oh well! ^.^
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BMW M4 GTS 2016 – Shaded Style
BMW granted us a first look at an upcoming higher functionality version of the M4—the M4 GTS. Far from being another high powered derivative for collectors, this special edition is a real technology showcase. The M4 GTS specialty two industry firsts: a water injection system designed to sharply enhance power
In the case of the M4's S55 twin turbocharged straight-six, maximum power rises from 425-hp at 5500 rpm to 493 horsepower, available at 6250 rpm. Maximum torque, which is 406 lb-ft on the regular M4, rises to 442 lb-ft, available from 4000 to 5500 rpm.
The unique water injection system cools down the intake temperature by allowing for an even higher boost pressure. We have explained the system in detail; the takeaway is that it enhances proficiency and high end power significantly.
The sprint from zero to 60 mph now takes 3.7 seconds instead of the regular M4's 3.9. Top speed, which is limited to 155 mph on the M4, rises to a governed 189.5 mph on the GTS, as the press release notes meticulously. The M4 GTS comes with a 7 speed dual-clutch automatic only the regular model's slick-shifting six-speed manual will not be offered.
The front camber setting is adjusted, too, along with the active rear differential. The M4 GTS rolls on 265/35R-19 rubber up front and 285/35R-20 in the rear; the wheels are called "666M." Carbon-ceramic brakes are standard.
BMW has scrapped the M4's aluminum front hood for a carbon-fiber unit; the costly material is also used for the adjustable rear wing, the rear diffuser, and the front splitter. A titanium exhaust system delivers a soundtrack that is highly emotional.
The list of equipment includes a roll bar and a fire extinguisher. It does not contain regrettably the carbon-fiber seats fitted in other markets. U.S. regulations require the installment of more conventional sports seats.
Even though the M4 GTS is designed for highly skilled drivers and ready for the track, it does include characteristics that most buyers prefer not to live without, such as electronic parking assist and navigation.


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When financial troubles abound, many in Arkansas take on a significant volume of stress. Over time, this can lead to health issues, both physically and emotionally. A recent study looks at how debt impacts emotional health, and the results may be of interest to many consumers who are in search of debt relief options. When it comes to protecting one's health, virtually no measure, including bankruptcy relief, should be excluded from consideration.
The study looked at data collected from more than 13,000 participants, all between the ages of 21 and 65. Researchers conducted the survey in the late 1980s, then checked back with participants in the years between 1992-1994. The information gleaned from these surveys suggests that individuals with certain types of debt were more likely to experience signs of depression. Specifically, short-term debt was associated with problems related to sleeping, weight gain, inability to focus and lack of motivation.
Short-term debt includes credit cards and overdue household bills. These forms of debt are often more expensive than long-term debt, which includes mortgages and car loans. In addition, long-term debt is usually associated with an item of significant value, such as one's home or car. It is easier to accept making these payments over a long period of time, because there is a tangible reward for doing so. When it comes to short-term debt, such as credit cards, many consumers have forgotten what was purchased by the time the bill is due, and certainly before the balance is paid in full.
For those in Arkansas who have amassed a significant volume of short-term consumer debt, the findings within this study may be troubling. Managing financial strain is difficult enough, but having to manage depression on top of financial hardship is a very serious set of circumstances. Often, seeking personal bankruptcy protection is the best way to move beyond a period of financial turmoil while also preserving one's emotional health.
Source: health.com, "How the Type of Debt You Have Could Contribute to Depression", May 14, 2015


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We don't know about you, but this abysmal winter weather has us dreaming of 72-and-sunny forecasts. While we've been perfectly content getting comfortable on the couch and sipping pinot noir, now that spring is within sight, we're looking forward to dining alfresco with a beaded glass of crisp white wine in hand. (Not that we're counting, but a quick Google search tells us that there are only 22 more days until the first official day of spring.)
Seeing as we're poised to stock up on refreshing white wine in anticipation of the new season, we turned to Winc's wine director Brooke Matthias to spill the details on the best foods to pair with sauvignon blanc, aka the light, flavorful, citrusy varietal that's essentially spring in liquid form. Ahead, the wine expert reveals three of the best bottles and divulges the perfect food pairings for each. Spanning spicy Thai food paired with a light Chilean sauvignon blanc to briny oysters paired with a citrusy Marlborough, there's a combination to please every palate.
Light & Flavorful Sauvignon Blanc
The Wine: "A light and flavorful Chilean sauvignon blanc that is truly unique with tasting notes of bell pepper and melon," explains Matthias.
The Pairing: Thai food
Why It Works: "A lean, dry and exotic style of sauvignon blanc, this bottle will perfectly complement the various spices and flavors found in different Thai dishes," offers Winc's wine director.
The Recipe to Try: Saucy 30-Minute Thai Basil Salmon Curry
The Pairing: Garlic prawns
Why It Works: "This bottle's generous tropical flavors give it a kick that make it a nice match for dishes with garlic or herbs," says Matthias.
The Recipe to Try: Honey Garlic Butter Shrimp in Coconut Milk
The Pairing: Sushi
Why It Works: "Crisp, cool climate white wines always are my go-to pick for sushi," divulges Winc's resident wine expert. "They accentuate the flavors without overpowering them."
The Recipe to Try: Korean Avocado Tuna Sushi Roll
Aromatic & Crisp Sauvignon Blanc
The Wine: "Aromatic and crisp, Diviner is has bright green fruit notes and a refreshing minerality," recommends Matthias.
The Pairing: Grilled veggies and swordfish
Why It Works: "Diviner is light and fresh and is great with food pairings that accentuate its delicate flavors," says Winc's wine director.
The Recipe to Try: Spicy Fish Tacos With Tequila Lime Pickled Pineapple
The Pairing: Arugula salad with goat cheese
Why It Works: "The acidity in Diviner matches the acidity in this particular cheese," reveals Matthias.
The Recipe to Try: Super Green Sun-Dried Tomato Herb Salad With Crispy Chickpeas (Editor's note: Swap feta for herbed goat cheese)
The Pairing: Crab cakes
Why It Works: "Mineral-based undertones go with the richness of crab cakes," she explains.
The Recipe to Try: Crab Cake Sliders With Pineapple Kiwi Salsa
Citrusy Sauvignon Blanc
The Wine: "Outer Sounds has citrus flavors along with the classic green, grassy highlights that are so characteristic of wines made in Marlborough," says Winc's wine director.
The Pairing: Oysters
Why It Works: "This light and dry wine will go hand-in-hand with the briny flavors found in oysters," she explains.
The Recipe to Try: Roasted Oysters With Melted Compound Butter
The Pairing: Asian salad with citrus dressing
Why It Works: "Citrus brings out the bright acidity in this New World bottling," explains Matthias.
The Recipe to Try: Thai Steak Salad With Sweet Spicy Tahini Dressing
The Pairing: Rosemary chicken
Why It Works: "The fattiness of the chicken allows the wine's acidity to shine through beautifully," she says.
The Recipe to Try: Slow-Cooker Herbed Chicken and Rice Pilaf
Next Up: 9 refreshing wines for spring to try that aren't just rosé.


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The US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has demonstrated a new forecasting tool that delivers up to a 50 percent increase in accuracy and the potential to save millions in wasted energy costs.
The tool, called the Power Model Integrator, was tested against five commonly used forecasting models processing a year's worth of historical power system data.
"For forecasts one-to-four hours out, we saw a 30-55 percent reduction in errors," said Luke Gosink, a staff scientist and project lead at PNNL. "It was with longer-term forecasts - the most difficult to accurately make - where we found the tool actually performed best."
Fluctuations in energy demand throughout the day, season and year along with weather events and increased use of intermittent renewable energy from the sun and wind all contribute to forecasting errors. Miscalculations can be costly, put stress on power generators and lead to instabilities in the power system.
Grid coordinators have the daily challenge of forecasting the need for and scheduling exchanges of power to and from a number of neighboring entities. The sum of these future transactions, called the net interchange schedule, is submitted and committed to in advance. Accurate forecasting of the schedule is critical not only to grid stability, but a power purchaser's bottom line.
"Imagine the complexity for coordinators at regional transmission organizations who must accurately predict electricity needs for multiple entities across several states," said Gosink. "Our aim was to put better tools in their hands."
Currently, forecasters rely on a combination of personal experience, historical data and often a preferred forecasting model. Each model tends to excel at capturing certain grid behavior characteristics, but not necessarily the whole picture. To address this gap, PNNL researchers theorized that they could develop a method to guide the selection of an ensemble of models with the ideal, collective set of attributes in response to what was occurring on the grid at any given moment.
First, the team developed a statistical framework capable of guiding an iterative process to assemble, design, evaluate and optimize a collection of forecasting models. Researchers then used this patent-pending framework to evaluate and fine tune a set of five forecasting methods that together delivered optimal results.
The resulting Power Model Integrator tool has the ability to adaptively combine the strengths of different forecasting models continuously and in real time to address a variety scenarios that impact electricity use, from peak periods during the day to seasonal swings. To do this, the tool accesses short- and long-term trends on the grid as well as the historical forecasting performance of the individual and combined models. Minute by minute, the system adapts to and accounts for this information to form the best aggregated forecast possible at any given time.


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Below you will find brief information about copyright issues that you are likely to encounter, as well as information on the University Agreement. If you have any questions about the current rules, don't hesitate to ask the library staff who will try to help you.
Act on Copyright in Literary and Artistic Works
The Swedish Copyright Act regulates the rights of authors, composers, artists and other creators to make decisions about how their artistic and literary works may be used.
According to 12 § of the Copyright Act you are allowed to make one or a few copies of an article or a publication of lesser extent. Copying from a book of normal size such as a textbook is restricted to a limited part of the book. There is no exact definition of what is meant by "limited part" though a reasonable interpretation is that it applies to a minor part of the work and not as much as half or even close to half of a book.
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Cloves' many
medicinal uses have been most famously applied to toothache, and for
mouth and throat inflammation (2).More than just a counterirritant
though, the German Commission E Monographs list cloves as having
antiseptic, antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties (1) (4).
What is behind
cloves' various properties? One of the main constituents of clove oil (eugenol)
exhibits broad antimicrobial activities against both Gram-positive,
Gram-negative and acid-fact bacteria, as well as fungi (3) (7). Cloves
are well known also for their anti-emetic (relieves nausea and vomiting)
and carminative properties (3) (5) (6) (17).
The oldest apparent medicinal use of cloves was in China, where it is
reported that they were taken for various ailments as early as 240BC.
Cloves were taken over the centuries for diarrhea, most liver, stomach
and bowel ailments, and as a stimulant for the nerves (8).
cloves have been used to treat flatulence, nausea and vomiting (2) (9).
In tropical Asia cloves have been given to treat such diverse infections
as malaria, cholera and tuberculosis, as well as scabies (10).
Traditional uses in America include treating worms, viruses, candida,
various bacterial and protozoan infections (11).
Laboratory tests on
cloves identify eugenol as being the possible reason for the
antimicrobial actions, and confirm cloves' effectiveness in inhibiting
food-borne pathogens as well as other bacteria and fungi (12). The
volatile oil of cloves (about 85-92% eugenol) was highly active against
a range of test microorganisms, being classified as bactericidal in
nature (13).
Cloves are
generally regarded as safe when taken orally and appropriately for
medicinal uses, and as a short-term topical application. Cloves are
regarded as unsafe when inhaled, and clove cigarettes contain properties
more damaging than many tobacco varieties. It is generally accepted that
cloves are safe to use while pregnant or breastfeeding in quantities
commonly found in foods.
1. Blumenthal M, et. al. ed. The Complete German Commission E Monographs:
Therapeutic Guide to Herbal Medicines. Austin: American Botanical Council, 1998.
2. Jellin JM, Batz F, Hitchens K. Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database.
Third Edition. Stockton, California: Therapeutic Research Faculty, 2000.
3. Lueng AY, Foster S. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food,
Drugs and Cosmetics. Second Edition. New York, NY: Wiley & Sons, 1996.
4. Gruenwald J, et.al. PDR for Herbal Medicines. First Edition. Montvale, NJ:
Medical Economics Company, Inc., 1998.
The British
Pharmacopoeia (2001), Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London.
British Herbal
Pharmacopoeia (1996). Fourth Edition. British Herbal Medicine Association
Scientific Committee, West Yorks, England.
Bisset NG. ed. Herbal
Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. Translated from Second Edition. Boca Raton: CRC
Press, 1994.
L. A Country Herbal. Devon, England: Webb & Bower (Publishers) Ltd. 1980.
Bruneton J. Pharmacognosy Phytochemistry Medicinal Plants. Second Edition as
Translated by Caroline K. Hatton. Paris: Lavoisier Publishing, 1999.
Chevallier A. Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants. Revised Edition. Sydney,
Australia: Dorling Kindersley. 2001.
11. Duke
JA, et. al. Handbook of Medicinal Herbs. Second Edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC
Press. 2002.
12. De
M, Krishna De A, Banerjee AB. Antimicrobial screening of some Indian spices.
Phytother Res. 1999 Nov; 13 (7): 616-8.
Dorman HJD, Deans SG. Antimicrobial agents from plants: antibacterial activity
of plant volatile oils. J Appl Microbiol 2000, 88; 308-316.
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There are special times in the life of any organization and Child Care Resources of Rockland is no different. We are pleased to plan for and implement many events that are celebratory in nature, such as our Children's Champions Dinner. We also plan events, such as our Spring Fling and Murder Mystery Dinner, that give us an opportunity to market our services to people who may not otherwise know about us.
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