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List Games
Transport Fever 2
Transport Fever 2
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way.
3:58 am, December 17, 2019
Fifa 20
Fifa 20
Enjoy more control over the Decisive Moments that determine the outcome of every match in FIFA 20. FIFA 20 is a football simulation video game published by Electronic Arts as part of the FIFA series. It is the 27th installment in the FIFA series, and is set to be released on 27 September 2019 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
4:01 am, September 21, 2019
AI: The Somnium Files
AI: The Somnium Files
Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.
11:32 pm, September 15, 2019
Project Nimbus: Code Mirai
Project Nimbus: Code Mirai
Project Nimbus: Code Mirai is an exciting mech-based flying game inspired by the Gundam, Macross and Ace Combat series. It features vibrant graphics, blistering action gameplay and an epic storyline.
11:05 pm, September 3, 2019
Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers
Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers
Take part in the next saga of the critically acclaimed FINAL FANTASY® XIV Online with the next legendary expansion pack—SHADOWBRINGERS! Explore breathtaking new environments, encounter exotic new races, master exciting new jobs, and fight alongside prominent characters with the new Trust system as you embark on a new journey as the Warrior of Darkness! With over 16 million adventurers worldwide, join the next chapter and become what you must. Become the Warrior of Darkness!
6:02 am, August 14, 2019
Beat Saber
Beat Saber
Beat Saber is a virtual reality rhythm game developed and published by Beat Games. The game features the player slashing blocks representing musical beats with a pair of red and blue light sabers and takes place in a surrealistic neon noir environment.
5:54 am, August 14, 2019
Dead Island 2
Dead Island 2
Dead Island 2 is an upcoming survival horror action role-playing video game developed by Sumo Digital and published by Deep Silver for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game was originally being developed by Yager Development, until Sumo Digital took over development in March 2016
5:27 am, June 3, 2019
Away: The Survival Series
Away: The Survival Series
Inspired by nature documentaries, AWAY: The Survival Series takes you on the Sugar Glider's breathtaking journey into the wild. As cataclysmic storms bear down on the planet, immerse yourself in nature and explore a vibrant world brimming with life, but beware of the dangers that lie ahead.
4:45 am, May 10, 2019
Ghost Recon Wildlands
Ghost Recon Wildlands
Ghost Recon is the first military shooter set in a massive and responsive open world, entirely playable in single-player or four-player co-op.
11:28 pm, May 6, 2019
Dragon Age 4
Dragon Age 4
Dragon Age 4 is coming people. This is not a drill. Although it's not technically called Dragon Age 4 yet, rather just 'Dragon Age'
12:18 am, May 5, 2019
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is an upcoming tactical role-playing video game for the Nintendo Switch. The game is the sixteenth main title in the Fire Emblem series and the first on a home console since 2007's Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, and as such features more detailed graphics.
12:04 am, May 3, 2019
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an upcoming action-adventure game developed by ArtPlay, DICO and WayForward Technologies, and published by 505 Games. The game is led by former Castlevania series producer Koji Igarashi, and is considered a spiritual successor to the series
11:57 pm, May 2, 2019
Overpass™, an off-road simulation focussed on conquering natural and artificial obstacles. The player takes control of powerful buggies and quads, scrabbling across extreme tracks and very hazardous terrain. This simulation, unique in its genre, pits the player against craggy slopes and puts their cool-headedness to the test throughout technical obstacle courses along wilderness tracks. The Career mode lets you manage your buggies and quads and choose the one best adapted to each track and terrain type in order to win the competition and attract sponsors. In multi-player mode, you'll need to know and master the slightest detail of each track in order to post the best times and show that you are truly the master of off-roading! Overpass™ will be available on PlayStation 4TM, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch™ and will be released in October 2019.
1:54 am, April 30, 2019
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2 is a survival horror video game published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 and developed by Team Silent, part of Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo. It was released in September 2001 as the second installment in the Silent Hill series.
12:15 am, April 29, 2019
This Land Is My Land
This Land Is My Land
This Land Is My Land is an upcoming open world stealth action video game developed by Ukrainian studio Game Labs to release on Microsoft Windows in 2019. The game is featuring 19th-century American Frontier and based on the point of view of the resisting indigenous peoples of North America.
12:13 am, April 29, 2019
Tropico 6
Tropico 6
Tropico 6 is a construction, management and political simulation game in the Tropico series, developed by Limbic Entertainment, published by Kalypso Media, and announced at E3 2017.
12:24 am, April 25, 2019
For Honor
For Honor
For Honor is a 2017 action video game developed and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
1:00 am, April 24, 2019
Cuphead is a run and gun indie video game developed and published by StudioMDHR. First announced in 2014, the game was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One in September 2017, for macOS in October 2018, and for Nintendo Switch in April 2019. Wikipedia
12:38 am, April 24, 2019
Falcon Age
Falcon Age
Falcon Age is a first-person, single-player action adventure. As Ara, learn to hunt, gather, and fight to reclaim her cultural legacy in the lost art of falcon hunting against a force of automated colonizers. Bond with a baby falcon and go on an adventure on PlayStation®4 or immersive VR with PlayStation®VR.
12:59 am, April 21, 2019
Ghost Giant
Ghost Giant
Take on the role of a Ghost Giant and befriend a lonely boy named Louis. Solve PS VR puzzles to help your tiny friend in this charming adventure on PS4.
12:35 am, April 21, 2019
My Time at Portia
My Time at Portia
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
12:22 am, April 21, 2019
One Piece: World Seeker
One Piece: World Seeker
One Piece: World Seeker is an action-adventure video game based on the manga and anime series One Piece. Developed by Ganbarion and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, the game will be the first video game in the franchise to feature an open world environment.
12:11 am, April 21, 2019
Two Worlds II
Two Worlds II
Two Worlds II is an action role-playing game developed by Polish video game developer Reality Pump and published by TopWare Interactive as a sequel to 2007's Two Worlds. It was released on November 9, 2010 in Europe for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
12:57 am, April 20, 2019
World War Z
World War Z
World War Z is a third-person shooter video game developed by Saber Interactive and published by Focus Home Interactive and Mad Dog Games LLC. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on April 16, 2019
12:40 am, April 20, 2019
Days Gone
Days Gone
Days Gone is an upcoming action-adventure survival horror video game developed by SIE Bend Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation 4. The game uses Unreal Engine 4.
12:32 am, April 20, 2019
Steel Division II
Steel Division II
Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order. May 2, 2019. Eugen Systems.
12:23 am, April 19, 2019
Explore the everchanging halls of the Neverinth and uncover the history of the Valkyrie. Do glorious battle against the beasts and monsters of Norse legend and uncover the hidden pasts of each heroic woman.
5:55 am, April 17, 2019
Gears 5
Gears 5
Gears 5 is an upcoming third-person shooter video game being developed by The Coalition that will be published by Xbox Game Studios for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One as part of Xbox Play Anywhere.
11:21 pm, April 16, 2019
God Of War
God Of War
God of War is an upcoming third-person action-adventure video game in development by Santa Monica Studio and to be published by Sony Interactive.
6:57 am, April 16, 2019
Cytus Alpha
Cytus Alpha
Cytus Alpha is a rhythm game featuring a futuristic graphical style, which includes more than 200 songs from the original Cytus and new tracks created for Cytus Alpha.
6:35 am, April 16, 2019
Conan Exiles
Conan Exiles
Conan Exiles is a survival video game developed and published by Funcom for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The game is set in the world of Conan the Barbarian, with the custom playable character being rescued by Conan, beginning their journey
2:48 am, April 16, 2019
Risk of Rain 2
Risk of Rain 2
The classic multiplayer roguelike, Risk of Rain, returns with an extra dimension and more challenging action. Play solo, or team up with up to three friends to fight your way through hordes of monsters, unlock new loot, and find a way to escape the planet.
12:30 am, April 10, 2019
Yoshi's Crafted World
Yoshi's Crafted World
Yoshi's Crafted World is a side-scrolling platform video game developed by Good-Feel and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. The eighth main installment in the Yoshi franchise, the game was revealed at E3 2017, had a delay in 2018 and was released worldwide on March 29, 2019.
12:24 am, April 10, 2019
The Elder Scrolls: Blades
The Elder Scrolls: Blades
The Elder Scrolls: Blades is an upcoming action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is part of The Elder Scrolls series. Blades is a free-to-play game, currently in early access, scheduled to be released for Android and iOS devices in mid 2019.
1:45 am, April 9, 2019
Dangerous Driving
Dangerous Driving
Dangerous Driving is an upcoming racing video game by Three Fields Entertainment. It is scheduled for release on 9 April 2019
1:22 am, April 9, 2019
Assassins Creed Origins
Assassins Creed Origins
Assassin's Creed Origins. Assassin's Creed Origins is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. ... The game is set in Ancient Egypt near the end of the Ptolemaic period (49–47 BCE) and recounts the secret fictional history of real-world events.
12:54 am, April 9, 2019
The Long Reach
The Long Reach
At its heart The Long Reach is an adventure game. Closer inspection also reveals it's a thrilling horror story, flavoured with sci-fi ideology, psychological context and a sceptical view on the human psyche.
12:27 am, April 9, 2019
FreeSpace Blue Planet
FreeSpace Blue Planet
Blue Planet is a series of campaigns set 18 years after the events of FreeSpace 2. With the Alliance in economic turmoil, Terran-Vasudan relations decaying, and the Security Council grappling with the ominous Contingency Morpheus, the GTVA's elite 14th Battlegroup spearheads the effort to re-establish contact with
11:46 pm, April 8, 2019
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster is a high-definition remaster of the role-playing video games Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2, originally developed by Square on the PlayStation 2 in the early 2000s.
11:37 pm, April 8, 2019
Assassins Creed 3
Assassins Creed 3
Assassin's Creed III is a 2012 action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, and Microsoft Windows. It is the fifth major installment in the Assassin's Creed series, and a direct sequel to 2011's Assassin's Creed: Revelations.
5:33 am, April 8, 2019
Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare
Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a first-person shooter developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision.
5:30 am, April 8, 2019
Hellblade: Senuas Sacrifice
Hellblade: Senuas Sacrifice
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a dark fantasy action-adventure game developed and published by the British video game development studio Ninja Theory. Self-described as an "independent AAA game", it was created by a team of approximately twenty developers led by writer and director Tameem Antoniades.
5:42 am, April 3, 2019
The debut game from developer The Outsiders, Darkborn places you in the role of a little monster who must grow and evolve to seek revenge on the humans that devastated your family.
5:38 am, April 3, 2019
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is an action-adventure video game developed by FromSoftware and published by Activision. The game was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on March 22, 2019
10:19 pm, April 2, 2019
Borderlands 3
Borderlands 3
Check out the Borderlands 3 Developer Trailer and prepare for an all-new mayhem-fueled adventure! Visit Borderlands.com on April 3 for more info.
1:56 am, March 30, 2019
Last Idea
Last Idea
Last Idea is classified as a treasure-hunting RPG by Square Enix, looks a bit like Fire Emblem. A short reveal trailer has been released.
12:24 am, March 25, 2019
Deep Rock Galactic
Deep Rock Galactic
Deep Rock Galactic is a cooperative first-person shooter video game developed by Danish indie studio Ghost Ship Games and published by Coffee Stain Publishing. It released on Steam in Early Access and Xbox One Preview on February 28, 2018 and is developed in Unreal Engine 4
12:19 am, March 25, 2019
Devil May Cry 5
Devil May Cry 5
Devil May Cry 5 is an action-adventure hack and slash video game developed and published by Capcom. It is the fifth installment of the mainline Devil May Cry series, and was released on 8 March 2019. Devil May Cry 5 received a positive reception from critics.
4:13 am, March 13, 2019
Dragons: Dawn of New Riders
Dragons: Dawn of New Riders
Join the new heroic duo, Scribbler and Patch, in an epic battle to save dragons and defeat the villain, Eir, who is controlling dragons to carry out her evil plans.
11:40 pm, March 7, 2019
Apex Legends
Apex Legends
Apex Legends is a free-to-play battle royale game developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on February 4, 2019, without any prior announcement or marketing.
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Fatal-Chaos''s Gamespot Rank
Fatal-Chaos's Emblems
Greatest Game Villain Henchman
Hey, everyone's got to start somewhere. These loyal minions created a bracket to guess at who is the most vile of them all. Let's hope they don't get caught betting against their overlords!
E3 2011 New Game Ninja
Hi, this achievement is all about ninjas, REAL NINJAS. This achievement is awesome. I followed a game announced at E3 2011 during the week of E3 and inherited REAL ULTIMATE POWER.
E3 2011 Game Gladiator - Bronze
Are you not entertained? I followed 5 games featured at E3 2011 during the week of E3, and have won the favor of the crowd.
E3 2012 Connoisseur of the Arts
E3 is about a lot of things (exhaustion, hot dogs, etc.) but if you can boil it down to its absolute purest form, it's a about the art. So that's why this viewer tuned into GameSpot's live stage show--so they could see the art live as it happened.
E3 2012 Safari Documentarian
The only thing better than being at E3 live and in person is taking direct control over a GameSpot employee lugging around a camera and a live-streaming backpack that weighs as much as a small house. This viewer helped guide our live floor cam, going from booth to booth documenting all the wonderful sights and sounds of E3 2012.
E3 2012 Literature Enthusiast - Day 3
Taking a break from watching YouTube videos of kittens playing with a ball of yarn, this viewer made the excellent decision to read the fine E3 coverage on GameSpot's official E3 site on day three of E3.
Hey look, it's a totally original dude wearing armor. With a huge gun and a helmet (a visor?). And he's riding a unicorn. This user was granted this magical emblem for not having any of their user profile images hosted on untrusted websites during The Great Purge of March 2013.

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This just in:
Just a heads up, Joe Phillips productions did a full length animated gay superhero themed hardcore porn. www.stonewallandriot.com/ NSFW
(full disclosure, they're friends of mine, and I did ~15 minutes of incidental music on the project)
It's an interesting movie since it doesn't fully stick to the "fake
realistic" thing, and being superheroes/supervillains the characters
have various stretching, bending, and robotic powers. Future of porn?
Probably not, but a niche that isn't going away.
This stuff also takes MUCH longer to do than a regular porn.
anyways, cheers,
.mi [whose band is preteen pornstar NSFW if your work notices unworklike audio]
I just watched the trailer and it floats my boat, but I can't post screenshots here of the juicy bits, so here's a SFW taste:
I just posted this and noticed it created a jump link ... to a blank page. I can't seem to get Typepad to delete the jump link, so I'll make a few more remarks.
Like many women I think gay male porn is hot, and finding it in combination with animated superhero style story has certainly made my weekend.
Unfortunately, I can't buy the whole thing off the site yet, as the Downloads page just says "coming soon." Now I have to remember to keep an eye out for it. Joe, if you're reading, have someone put a "send us your email and we'll alert you when you can buy it online" page on your site.
Here's a barely SFW screenshot from the trailer, which you can watch in large, small and iPod sizes here.
There. That'll do.


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The objective of the Register of Public Roads Policy is to provide a framework for making consistent and structured decisions as to whether a road or area of land should be included.
The Footpath Construction Strategy provides a basis for prioritising the construction of footpaths and shared paths across the Shire.
Our Road Safety Strategy adopts a world's best practice approach by addressing Road Safety in three key areas: Safer Drivers, Safer Roads and Roadsides, and Safer Vehicles.
Mornington Peninsula Shire is trialing a new smart parking approach to decrease congestion in and around Rye from January 2020 to June 2020.
If you are deaf, or have a hearing or speech impairment, you can contact us through the National Relay Service.
Visit: National Relay Service
TTY/voice calls: 133 677 Speak and listen: 1300 555 727 SMS relay: 0423 677 767
Please be aware that CCTV cameras are in operation at a number of Shire buildings, including municipal offices, recreation centres and youth centres.
Mornington Peninsula Shire acknowledges and pays respect to the Bunurong / BoonWurrung people, the traditional custodians of these lands and waters


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In order for a corporation to be properly formed the board of directors must hold a first organizational meeting. Ordinarily, a meeting of the directors requires notice. Use this form to allow the directors to waive notice and consent to this meeting. This enables the corporation to hold the meeting without having to give proper notice.
Thank You very Much! I have been out of work for a long time and this really helped me as i don't have funds for an attorney to get started. Thanks Again, Mike
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Protean Instrument uses two types of gas-flow proportional detectors. Both models were designed and manufactured by Protean. These detectors require a steady supply of industrial grade P-10 (10% methane and 90% argon) counting gas. Flow rates vary based on the detector, ranging between 60–150 cc/min at 10 psi pressure.
Pancake Detector
The pancake design is used in the WPC-1050, WPC-1150-Series, and the MDS-Series. It is an ultra-thin window design and must be operated with a window in place.
Hemispherical Detector
The hemispherical detector is designed for windowless operation, but can also be operated with an ultra-thin window in place. The Protean windowless detector is designed for easy cleaning, with a smooth plated interior surface that minimizes trapping points. The detector anode wire can be easily cleaned or replaced by the user without disassembling the shield. The hemispherical detector is used in the IPC-650-Series, MPC-900-GFW, MPC-900-GFL, and the MPC-1000-Series.


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"The optimizer developers say it's the biggest change to the optimizer in ten years." -- Rasmus Johansson
Portland, OR (PRWEB) July 26, 2011
The MariaDB Project today announced the availability of MariaDB 5.3.0 Beta. It includes a large number of features and additions while still remaining backwards compatible to MySQL®.
"There are many optimizer changes which makes this a very interesting release, because people will notice that their queries run faster," said Rasmus Johansson, COO of Monty Program Ab, a commercial backer of MariaDB. "The optimizer developers say it's the biggest change to the optimizer in ten years", he added.
A few highlights of the changes include subquery optimizations which allow subqueries to finally be usable and materialize. There are many join and disk access optimizations, including Classic Hash Join, Batch Key Access, Multi-Range-Read and Index Condition Pushdown. For fans of NoSQL, the HandlerSocket interface ships with MariaDB and 5.3.0 debuts support for dynamic columns (each row can have a different set of columns).
"We've spent years on many features, and I've even fixed some of my pain points," says Michael Widenius, CEO of Monty Program Ab and the original developer of MySQL. "Things like a better optimizer, progress reporting and dynamic columns have been on my bucket list for a long time and I'm thrilled that we finally have it," he added.
The beta release of MariaDB 5.3.0 is available for download at http://downloads.askmonty.org/ immediately. This MariaDB release is supported by a release partner, SkySQL Ab.
About Monty Program Ab:
Monty Program is the primary development driver of MariaDB, the Aria storage engine, and engineering excellence for MySQL® and other associated technologies. We are committed to
work with the community to plan, review, and release new versions of MariaDB.
About SkySQL Ab:
Affordable, enterprise class product support, professional services, and training for your MariaDB databases is available from Monty Program's release partner, SkySQL Ab. To learn more about SkySQL and its services for MariaDB, visit http://www.skysql.com/products/skysql-enterprise, or email SkySQL at sales(at)skysql(dot)com.


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English Country Cottages offers the finest collection of holiday cottages, all chosen for their character, luxury and heritage. This collection is one of many within the cottages.com family and features cottages graded 4 stars and above, all curated by our accommodation experts. If you can't find what you are looking for at English Country Cottages, click here to visit Cottages.com and browse over 19,000 properties from all of our collections, all of which are inspected and graded to ensure you find the perfect cottage.
Special Occasions
Activity & Leisure
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2 nights - mostly start on Fri or Sat
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5 nights - 22nd or 29th Dec 2012 only.
If you're looking for a tranquil, rural retreat in the heart of beautiful Oxfordshire, then The Old Stable is perfect. Nestled in the grounds of the owner's home, within the quaint village of Wendlebury, you will be sure to get a taste of quintessential English country life.Ideally located for exploring Oxfordshire, an array of local amenities can be found just a short walk away. Neaby, Bicester offers a wide variety of shops with its designer outlet, or travel further afield to Oxford and marvel at the period architecture found throughout the city. For a change of pace, the rolling hills of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, where you can enjoy beautiful gardens and an array of wildlife. However, if you wish to stay close to base, the wonderful village is the perfect setting for an evening stroll and a glass of your favourite tipple in the local pub.Spread over one level, this former stable is ideal for less mobile guests due to its easy accessibility. There is also the added benefit of a large walk-in shower in the uniquely decorated bathroom. Beautifully furnished with a tiled floor, Velux windows and wooden beams, the spacious open plan living space creates a warm and welcoming environment. Cuddle up on the loveseat and catch up with your favourite shows on the 40" Smart TV. Or on an evening whip up a treat in the kitchen area, warm your toes with the underfloor heating, and enjoy a movie night.No matter how you choose to spend your days, revel in knowing an elegantly furnished, cosy bedroom awaits you for a deep slumber. This fabulous abode is perfect for an escape to the country any time of year.
Step to entrance. All on the ground floor.Open plan living space: With beams and tiled floor.Living area: With 40" Smart TV.Dining area.Kitchen area: With electric oven, electric hob, microwave, fridge, dishwasher and washer/dryer.Bedroom: With twin beds (no door).Shower room: With shower cubicle, toilet and heated towel rail.
Oil underfloor central heating, electricity, bed linen, towels and Wi-Fi included. Welcome pack. Courtyard with sitting-out area and garden furniture. Bike store. Private parking for 1 car. No smoking.
English Country Cottages is the trading name of Vacation Rentals (UK) Ltd.
Registered Office: Spring Mill, Earby, Barnoldswick, Lancashire, BB94 0AA.
Registered in England and Wales. Company Registration Number: 00965389.
VAT Registered Number: GB 598 22 99 77


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The Perfect Gift For Everyone
Give the Gift of a Spa Day Escape
Each fall, Thanksgiving kicks off the holiday season with a day of gratitude and foodie-bliss. But, the five weeks that follow are generally filled with mounting seasonal stress and a devil-may-care attitude towards our well being.
This year, instead of gorging on sweets cakes and wine to wind down after making your list (and checking it, not twice, but thrice), consider a better way to undo the damage of being under pressure with a pampering spa day at Hoshall's.
Whether in search of an extended escape or a single treatment, Hoshall's day spa is the perfect place to disconnect, rejuvenate, and reinspire.
To start your stress relief, allow yourself to be swept away by a Swedish, Deep Tissue, or Hot Stone Massage—each of which improves circulation, releases tension, and leaves you feeling light enough to defy gravity.
From there, experience the clarity-boosting, anti-aging power of our skincare experiences. As you lay comfortably swaddled in warmed sheets, drifting away to soothing sounds, our expert estheticians will treat your skin to impeccable pore-cleansing, surface-smoothing, vitamin-infusing, and eyebrow-grooming treatments, leaving you glowing with flawless, no-need-for-makeup results.
To feel like total perfection from head to toe, don't forget to give your fingers and feet their own red carpet treatment. Hoshall's Signature Manicure and Signature Pedicure go a step beyond polish, revitalizing hands and feet with a series of luxurious treatments designed to smooth and restore moisture.
Taking a pre-festivities refresher day is a wonderful way to become more attuned to your body and mind—and better equipped to deal with holiday stress.
And don't forget to arrive early! Access to Hoshall's private patio and Turkish-inspired amenities are included with every service, enhancing your sense or serenity or providing the perfect atmosphere in which to spend time with visiting family and friends—we'll even provide your party with a delectable lunch.
Make your appointment today to unwind, reconnect with, and pamper yourself and your loved ones with a day of luxury at Hoshall's.
P.S. - Can't figure out what to get the ladies in your life? Give the gift of a spa day! Choose from our enticing selection of treatments—each decadent and fully customizable, thanks to our menu of skin-indulgent add-ons—and allow those you love to soak up a day of pure bliss.
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Five years of jet fuel spikes, expensive and intrusive security upgrades and unrelenting competition have left the airline industry bruised but not beaten. In fact, maybe""just maybe""better times lie ahead in 2007 thanks to lower fuel prices and the anticipated end of painful restructuring that has resulted in lower costs for Delta Air Lines and its competitors.Positive business news for the airlines could spell some welcome stability for business travelers, says Michael Boyd, an aviation consultant and owner of Boyd Group. "Airlines will be making money in 2007 unless we see oil prices going back up over $70 a barrel," he suggests. "Fares won't drop, but there may be some additional air service."
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A Healthy Recipe
It's been often thought that sugar isn't as sweet as it seems.
The average North American intake of added (non-naturally occurring).
Sweetener is 20.5 teaspoons per day.
Which adds up to 68.5 pounds per year, per person.
But while many doctors are still saying it's okay.
We should be more concerned than ever about our consumption.
It used to be something you didn't need to pay much attention to until later in life.
Now it's something none of us should ignore at any age.
We're going to give you some quick and easy things you can do right now.
The not-so-sweet scoop on artificial sweeteners.
Sugar may not be as sweet as it seems.
But neither are many of the artificial sweeteners.
You'll find in the "sugar bowl" in restaurants.
That's because the sweet taste in your mouth triggers the release of insulin.
Even though there might not be any sugar present.
When there's more insulin present than your body needs at the given moment.
Your cells can become resistant.
The result is often trouble maintaining your weight and your blood sugar.
But if you have a sweet tooth, there are two good sugar alternatives you can use.
The first is called Stevia.
Stevia doesn't raise blood-sugar as quickly as regular table sugar does.
The beauty is that unlike many artificial sweeteners.
Stevia has no aftertaste or side effects.
It's available in both powder and liquid extract forms, check for it in your local health food store.
Xylitol is another great sugar alternative.
It's as sweet as sugar and it breaks down slowly, like Stevia does, so it helps to keep your blood-sugar even.
It also has 40% fewer calories than sugar (sugar has 4 calories per gram, Xylitol has 2.4).
Xylitol can be substituted for sugar in cooking and for other sweetening.
Though more expensive than sugar, it's an absolute bargain for your health.
There's a new spice for blood-sugar support and that's cloves.
Cloves are dried buds that come from a small evergreen tree that grows in the tropics.
The flavor is sweet and aromatic and for most of us, the only place we've eaten it is in pumpkin pie.
But for blood-sugar support, you'll want to make it more than a pie spice.
In fact, you'll want to eat a few cloves a day, or 1/2 to one teaspoon of ground spice.
The flavor can be fairly intense though, so using cloves in cooking is more palatable.
One delicious way to enjoy cloves is in spiced brewed tea, a delicious fall treat.
Just place eight to 10 teabags in a pot, add a cinnamon stick or two and a sprinkle of whole cloves.
Then simmer for five to ten minutes, depending on how rich you want your tea.
You can flavor the hot tea with Xylitol to taste.
And store the rest in a container in the refrigerator to reheat later or to serve cold over ice.
Go ahead and sprinkle on the cinnamon...
...because another spice we've recommended for blood-sugar support is cinnamon.
It's one of the ingredients in my morning smoothie, and I'll often mix it into yogurt or oatmeal.
The most effective amount of cinnamon for blood sugar support is one gram (1/2 tsp.) daily.
This time of year there are many delicious and easy ways to add cinnamon to your diet.
Try slicing a crisp apple, and sprinkling the slices with cinnamon.
And a drizzle of honey or a sprinkling of Xylosweet.
You can also core an apple, sprinkle it with some chopped nuts, sugar or honey and heat it up to make a healthy baked apple.
On another note:
While these diet recommendations will go a long way toward supporting your blood-sugar.
We also recommend a blood-sugar support supplement.
So with the change of season, and before all the holidays arrive, it's a good time for us to turn over a "healthy new leaf".
Adopting a few new habits can go a long way toward keeping your entire body, as healthy as possible.
Secret One;
Get Moving
Exercise provides you with four important benefits.
It increases lean body tissue and burns fat.
Increases the sensitivity of insulin (enabling the pancreas to produce less).
And raises your metabolic rate.
Brisk walking, swimming, and bicycling are all good exercise choices.
But whatever exercise you choose, you want to do it for at least 30 minutes, three times weekly.
Secret Two;
Muscle Up
I'm not suggesting bulking up.
Even a very limited amount of weight training increases muscle mass.
Unlike fat tissue, muscle tissue uses energy.
And it's muscle tissue that's responsible for 80% of blood-sugar uptake following a meal.
To build muscle, try using dumbbells or heck, even a pair of soup cans will work for that matter.
Plus, remember that walking builds leg muscles.
Secret Three;
Get More of this "Forgotten Fat"
Preliminary research suggests.
That conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) may help build lean muscle mass.
But in our modern day diets, most people don't get enough.
We tend to eat fewer CLA rich foods, such as whole milk, butter, cheese, beef and lamb.
Feed and production processes.
Have reduced the amounts of CLA found in these foods.
That's why we'd recommend supplementing with a high quality form of CLA.
Preferably one made with pure safflower oil.
Secret Four;
Stretch Out Your Meals:
To keep your level steady.
You may want to try splitting the foods you eat into several smaller meals throughout the day.
If you eat a sandwich at noon.
Split it and eat half at your normal lunchtime and the other half in the middle of the afternoon.
Some other "snacks" to consider at these times.
Might be a cup of vegetable soup or a handful of nuts.
Several spirulina tablets, half of cup of cottage cheese.
Raw vegetable slices or half an avocado as examples.
Secret Five;
Enjoy Blueberry Leaves:
Blueberry leaves (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) have been used in folk medicine.
To promote healthy blood-sugar levels and insulin function.
Blueberry leaves are 10-15% chlorogenic acid.
Which may help to inhibit the enzyme in your liver that forms glucose.
It also may help to inhibit the breakdown of glycogen, which is the sugar that's stored in your muscles.
You can look for a blueberry leaf supplement in your health food store.
The last thing I want to point out when it comes to blood-sugar.
Is that when your level is where it should be, you'll feel it in your energy level and mood.
So these healthy habits do pay off in more ways than one.Tweet
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We are down to three couples competing for that ugly mirror ball trophy after losing Hope Solo to bad sportsmanship, I mean poor dancing, I mean low popularity, this week.
Hope never deserved to get this far and it was only her gold medal and Max's unpredictability that got her this far. In a perfect world David Arquette or Chyna Phillips would have been in the top 4. And both would have been in the top 5 instead of Nancy Grace. Especially after Nan's remark about her not being a 'war hero' which made her look like the bitter middle-aged woman she probably is. (not that its bad to be middle aged!)
I was disappointed in Hope's departure, which sounded like so much sour grapes my mouth pursed to listen. Yes, Hope, you just go get you one of those soccer gold medals again because that mirror ball that you got tricked out of because the judges hate you, is stupid and plastic. Note to Hope Solo: Great name but it serves no purpose to be snarky on national TV and Max does not set a great example.
Now we have JR, Rob K and Ricki Lake. Let's just take Rob out of the mix unless something absolutely amazing happens over the weekend. He's come a long way baby but no match for the other two.
JR looks like his candy has been taken away and he needs to get his confidence back on, in spite of his ankle injury. Doctors, do something quick for that ankle. Karina, do something for his confidence.
Ricki is deserved of the win but her dancing is not as fluid and gorgeous as JR. Her shoulders continue to stay in a tense, hunched position and her arms aren't as graceful as they should be.
JR deserves the win and not because he's a war hero who has overcome such horrors to deserve anything, but because he is a beautiful dancer. If his ankle does not give him a break this week though, we may end up seeing Ricki with the mirror ball, tight shoulders and all.
JR needs to assume the win, keep smiling, keep dancing and show us the dancing we've come to expect. Come on Man, you can do it. We'll see on Monday and Tuesday nights for the Two Night Finale.


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Growing up, the liberal arts college in my hometown would hold an international celebration every year. It was, by far, one of my favorite things to attend. The college had a sizable student population from different countries and this event allowed all those students to showcase items and food from their cultures. When you're in a rural midwestern town, it can be an eyeopening (and delicious) experience.
These tacos are based on a hazy memory of delicious, spicy tacos. I wasn't the biggest fan of tacos back then (shocking, I know), but these still tacos still hold. After a bit of research, I found the tacos were most likely a variation on the classic chicken tinga taco which has a base of a spicy chipotle tomato sauce. These white bean tacos are my riff on tinga tacos using canned tomatoes for ease of use.
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Two new routes in a weekend!
A lot can be done in with some motivation and a good partner. Colin Moorhead and I rolled out of golden at 6pm on friday August 19th, bound for the Bugaboos. 51 hours later, we were back having completed two new multi-pitch routes routes! The stories and beta for "Minotaur Direct" and "Sick and Twisted" are below.
Minotaur Direct was a multi year project whose first ascent story goes something like this: In 2011 Moorhead and I started on Labyrinth and but ventured into new terrain aka Minotaur, on what's now it's 6th pitch. We rejoined Labyrinth for it's last three pitches but did 7 new ones, of which a couple included free variations of the aid route Les Bruixes Es Pentinen. Although it was a great day out and a memorable adventure, the King line with a direct start and finish awaited to be done.
In 2014, Michelle Kadatz and I started the direct route, cleaning many loose hanging blocks left precariously in place from the great flake that fell off the mountain in the late nineties. We soon had a five pitch direct start established to the ledge system that Colin and I had traversed from Labyrinth on. Over several sessions from the July 2015 to July 2016, we continued to work on Minotaur ground-up, cleaning the cracks, bolting the stations, and pushing the direct finish until only 60m below the summit ridge. In 2015 when Michelle's schedule was too busy, Alik Berg joined me up the first 5 pitches until we could branch out left and establish Welcome to the Machine over two days. When Michelle's schedule was busy in 2016, she told me to find another partner to finish the route with. On a whim, I reached out to Colin, fully expecting his busy guiding schedule to get in the way. Luckily he was psyched and cleared his schedule and made the 9 hour drive from Squamish. We stumbled into Applebee camp by moonlight on the night of the 19th. By 7 am, the next morning, we were crossing the moat on the edge of Cresent Glacier and climbing into the sunshine. It took us about 14 hours up and down, which included us bolting a the last two belays and brushing the final 60 meters on rappel.
Our day went well as we settled into a nice rhythm, swapping leads up the 500-meter face. It was fun watching Colin react to the route's challenges and quality as he climbed it on-sight. Top quality climbing every pitch with lots of variety is perhaps the best way to describe the route, with an emphasis on hand jams in upper pitches. We expect this route will become a classic, as Welcome to the Machine seems to be already.
The next day, despite feeling quite sore and completely full with satisfaction, we decided we might as well attempt climbing a shorter route before hiking out. It so happened that Chris Brazeau and I had an un-sent project on Eastpost Spire, just ten minutes walk from camp. Chris, who was at Applebee at the time, even suggested we go for it without him, as it made sense to get it done before the short Bugaboo season ended. Chris and I had done two-and-a-half laps on it in September 2015 and June 2016, putting the route up ground-up, on gear which was definitey sparse or minimal at times, and then adding a few bolts to it after. Despite having both followed the second / crux pitch clean, we had both fallen off it on lead.
So after multiple coffees and meals and camp, we headed up to give it a go, with no expectations given the fatigued state we were in. This timehowever, as I felt my fingers wanting to slip off the crux holds, I found it in me to double the power and move through it, finally redpointing the pitch properly, as well as the rest of the route. After Colin arrived at the belay at the end of the fourth pitch he said to me "This is sick and twisted". I agreed, and so the route name was born… I think this route was a good find and it was somewhat surprising to discover something like this right beside the main climbers campground. For me, it sure provided a fun few days of climbing.
Minotaur is in red; Welcome to the Machine is in yellow; green dots are bolted belays, purple dots are gear belays.
Minotaur Direct, 5.11+ 16 pitches, East face of Snowpatch Spire
beta: bring two 60 ropes; a double rack of cams to #3 camelot, one #4; and triples of .3, .4, and .75. One set of stoppers from #3 to #11. 12-14 draws half of which should be extendable. All belays are bolted.
p1 - 30 meters 5.10-: step across the moat which gets harder as the season goes on. Climb double cracks / opposing flakes for about 10 meters until you're able trend right, and easily up the big scoop. Make a gear anchor before it steepens where you can find some good foot ledges.
p2 - 30 meters 5.10+: continue up the scoop via a thin corner crack, to a belay station at a good stance. (Earlier in the season it's possible to link pitches 1 and 2 with a 60m rope, but later in the season a 70m rope is needed for the link).
p3 - 30 meters 5.10+: climb the corner above and pull through a small overhang to a stance. Step left and up a shallow left facing corner, until an easy ramp leads back right. Follow this, hand traversing flakes until a belay station below a long left facing corner.
p4 - 45 meters 5.11+: This pitch has 3 cruxes separated by good rests. A thin tips corner gains a section of cool stemming. When you get to a bolt clip it and face climb left to a stance on the arete. Do not move up to the bolted station up and right, or you'll have to down-climb 3 meters to continue sending! From the stance on the arete, move up and right back into the left facing corner, and follow it up past one more crux to the bolted station on a good ledge. (Rappel note: the station skipped on this pitch is good to use while rappelling, but requires a directional piece to swing into it. From here, rappel directly to the top of the big scoop in 55m)
p5 - 50 meters 5.10: After a couple body lengths of fist crack, pull a small overhang to a stance. Rather than continue up the obvious corner, look up and you'll see a bolt that can be reached via face holds. Climb up to it, and move left into the next corner system left, which is much better due to the hand crack. It leads to a fourth class ledge, which needs to be traversed up and left. A belay station with ring hangers below a groove is for Minotaur, or, continue past it for five more meters to a belay station bellow a nice looking flake which is Welcome to the Machine. If you miss the first protection bolt, the mountaineers version of this pitch exists and will get you to the same place but less directly, with sandy sections, loose rocks, rope drag, etc.
p6- 30 meters 5.10+: Follow the groove up and right past two knifeblades to belay on a good ledge.
P7- 35 meters 5.11+: Follow the obvious finger crack in left leaning corner, through the roof to a belay station. This pitch could probably be called 5.10+ with one point of aid for those that find free-climbing the roof too difficult.
p8- 30 meters 5.11a: Clip a bolt and traverse right on the slab to a shallow left facing, right leaning corner with a thin crack that takes excellent micro cams. At it's top, step left past two knifeblades into the main corner which is followed until a belay station is reached.
P9- 5.10 55m: This pitch is mostly 5.7ish with one little 5.10 bit. Follow the corner up and slightly left. After a short 5.10 sequence it will soon be possible to start trending back right to a belay a big ledge, a belay station, and an excellent bivi spot should one be needed.
p10- 25m 5.9: Climb the best looking crack above the belay station towards a steeper wall above split by several cracks. There is a belay station on the left. (The original Minotaur route goes hard right from here)
p11 - 30m 5.11a: Hand jams up the right hand crack give way to a thin finish in alcove, and a belay station. (P10 and P11 can be linked)
p12 35m 5.10+: climb the left crack out of the belay. After about 5 meters, transfer back into the right one, which parallels the arete, and follow it to a belay at a nice perch.
p13 25m 5.9: An easy chimney leads up and right to another nice belay perch on top of a pinnacle.
p14 30m 5.11c: A left leaning crack. Bouldery moves past three bolts soon give way to easier crack climbing that leads to a big ledge and a station.
p15 28m 5.11c: a short corner with a fist crack leads to a ledge. A beautiful thin hand splitter continues up the headwall above to a belay station on a ledge. This pitch is why you need the third .75 camelot on the rack.
p16 35m 5.10+: Keep going up the same crack which has now kicked back slightly in angle and become more positive. A 60m rappel gets you back down to the last two pitches.
The North summit is about 150 meters of 4th class scrambling away. Stay on east side of the ridge if you go for it.
Rappel the route
All grades for both routes are suggested. Any feedback on grades is welcome!
Sick and Twisted, 5.12a, 5 pitches, Eastpost Spire
A good option for a short day, bad weather, or just something to play around on.
Rack: double rack of camelots from #.3 to #2, one #3, one of each size below .3; 6-8 stoppers. If rappelling, a 70m rope is needed although two ropes is nicer, especially if you want to haul a pack. All belays are bolted.
P1 25m 5.11d: Climb up and trend right to a corner. follow it out below a roof until it's possible to pull the roof, then up the groove to a belay. This pitch has four protection bolts. The in the first half of this pitch is unfortunately a bit crumbly but the rest of the route is a lot better.
P2 30m 5.12a: Climb up a few meters, then traverse below the big roof to the left for about 15m until it's possible to climb up a left facing corner to a belay on a good ledge. The 12a grade is a combination of the sustained 11+ climbing and the intimidation of the traversing style. (35m to the ground from here)
p3 30m 5.11a: Start up a left facing corner to a ledge, move left to the next left facing corner and climb it past some funky features. Move right to another big ledge but make steep moves upwards at it's left edge, and belay at a good stance at the right end of the big hanging slab. There may be a bit of suspect rock on this pitch, but much better than the first one.
P4 25m 5.10d: Cross then hanging slab past four bolts, then up and across to belay below some short steep crack lines.
P5 20m 10d: start up the corner then head up the middle of three cracks. (the left one is The Flaming Hack Arete)
You can either walk off (down the trail on the other side of the ridge), or rappel. From the top, a 55m rappel makes it to a bolt station on the slab below, rightness the edge and about 10 meters away from Sheldons Corner. Another 50m rappel hits the ground.
A few action shots of the two route:
Michelle Kadatz on P11 of Minotaur direct, 5.11a
Colin on pitch 15, of Minotaur Direct 5.11c thin hands!
Chris Brazeau on the first pitch of Sick and Twisted. There are now a couple more bolts in this section.
Me on P4 of Sick and Twisted, the hanging slab pitch. Photo: Chris Brazeau
Chris on the last pitch of Sick and Twisted. A fun finish!


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There are so many available that the University has brought the most popular apps used at the University of Salford by staff and students into one place so you can quickly and easily search for, and download, the apps that you want.


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First Thing's First: Essential SAFe?
In recent customer visits and SPC classes, we see and hear about various applications of SAFe, and we address many of the common questions that affect enterprises adoption everywhere. One of those questions (which might seem to be in even greater frequency with the launch of the expandable 4.0), is "but what do we have to do to assure the SAFe benefits. All of it? Some of it? And if some, which parts?" And as we know, while the consultants answer of "that depends" is usually correct, it isn't always helpful.
SAFe is a framework. That implies a degree of flexibility in applying the practices in a specific enterprise context. But it is also a system. In a system, the whole is the greater than the sum of its parts, and you can't just grab a component practice, and hope you get all the benefits. So the question is:
What is the minimum subset of practices beyond which SAFe isn't safe?
To address this, in the last SPC class we took some time to define specific practices that represent the "must have" for every SAFe implementation. We quickly realized that the best way to this is via a graphic (duh) that contains the essential aspects of elements. A few days later, we had the following graphic to test with the class. It was well received, so we offer it below:
Here is a summary:
1. The Foundation includes Lean-Agile Leaders, Core Values, a Lean-Agile Mindset and SAFe Principles. Any transformation is unlikely to be successful unless it is grounded on educating management and key stakeholders so they can lead, rather than follow, the transformation.
2. Teams apply Scrum and/or Kanban, and rely on Built-in Quality practices to frequently produce fully integrated increments of value. They power the train. There can be no Agile enterprise without Agile Teams.
3. Vision and Program Backlog provide alignment.
4. Some Roles are critical. We rarely see successful ART execution without the minimum roles of Product Management, System Architect, RTE and Business Owners. Product Owners and Scrum Masters help the teams meet their objectives.
5. Cadence is the heartbeat of every SAFe enterprise. A PI and Iteration cadence (you pick yours) is mandatory.
6. Key program events are a "must", too. There's no SAFe without PI Planning that involves the entire train and results in team's commitment reflected in their PI Objectives. The System Demo provides the ultimate measure of the train's iterative and incremental progress. Inspect & Adapt provides a venue for comprehensive review of the PI outcomes and systematic improvements.
7. The IP Iteration is like extra oxygen in the tank: without it the train may start gasping under the pressure of a plan that forgives no mistakes, nor provides dedicated time for innovation, not to mention dedicated time for routine PI Planning and Inspect and Adapt.
8. Some Architectural runway provides "just enough" enablement to sustain development velocity over time.
This is the Essential set. Eight things (depending on how you count!). If you implement these, you are on the right track. Then you can further reason about the rest of the practices, roles and constructs, whether they are Team, Program, Value Stream, Portfolio or enterprise. Additional business and personal benefits are sure to follow.
We see this as a particularly important topic and we value your opinion. Please provide feedback in the comments to this post. Who knows, maybe this essential content will make it into some future version of SAFe.
Thanks and stay SAFe, at least essentially.
— Alex and Dean
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Excellent summary of an "MVP" for SAFe. This will prove to be a great tool as I transform teams to scaling.
this is a very valuable definition of the guard rails for getting value from SAFe. it often makes me cringe when I read or hear people casually discarding parts of the framework because 'it's just a framework'; you can't still call it a salad if all have is a bowl of dressing and bacon bits
I will try to use these as the basis of some form of Essential SAFe score card for our teams. Many ARTs say they follow SAFe, but if you scratch below the surface you sometimes see they follow the motions and the ceremonies but they still work "the old way", dont trust teams, keep centralised control etc
Thanks Alex and Dean.
Yes this is essential set of eight things. There are minimum number of acceptance criterias of SAFe to be safe.
Appreciate the concise representation of what is the minimum viable change that needs to be incorporated to realize the benefits of SAFe.
I constantly get this query from my clients around what is the minimum that we need to implement at Portfolio, Program and Team levels in SAFe.The program and team level seems to be clear to me.
What do we preach to the client as minimum for Portfolio including the constructs and roles?
This is great information – is there a way to download high res poster of the Essential SAFe version ?
Thanks for the guidance.
When I think of a Minimal Viable Product for SAFe in a traditional environment I try to reduce it further to focus on what I want to achieve.
Is it Trust ?
Is it Alignment ?
Is it code Quality ?
Is it Time to market ?
Is the organisation ready for self organising Teams / Team of Teams ?
Is the organisation prepared for a shift from project thinking to Value/Risk thinking ?
Based on the answer to those question I would try to prove some assumptions first and gain traction in the organisations before moving towards adding the remaining points quicker or slower.
Really good stuff Alex!
Addendum to my last comment, I miss the Enablers on the program level of Essential SAFe. In my understanding it is a must for having an Architectural Runway.
This is great news and very much appreciated! … and a lot to think and consider.
Essential SAFe eases the access to start with SAFe and we are actually about to design/ build it into Applied SAFe. On the program level most of the things seem to be straightforward. I would like to hear more about what, or what not, should happen on the portfolio level. The picture shows several Value Streams, i guess it implies that each value stream contains exactly one train.
We are thinking about having an Essential (Program) SAFe even within larger organizations; where new to SAFe departments just start with Essential SAFe Program Level and other departments already work with a full blown 4-Level SAFe configuration. Do you have any thoughts on such a setup?
Thanks for bringing this up!
As this is a question of what is the minimum common set of practices (etc) which are common to pretty well all SAFe adoptions, I think it's worth bearing in mind that (almost) no SAFe implementation will adopt ONLY this set. I see an attendant risk that this will be seen as a "SAFe LITE"; do this and you'll be okay, which I think will be an extremely dangerous assumption.
I think its purpose is different: it is just to show what are the minimum characteristics that most/all SAFe adoptions will share. That helps understand the essence of SAFe, and could also help in targeting the most effective areas to start in. But is it all you'll ever need, well probably not, not even from Day 1. But the bits you may need will differ according to the context of your organisation, business, technology, products, systems and solutions.
Some specifics:
• Would expect to see enablers still; unless it's intended as a simplification that an enabler is just a special kind if feature;
• Feels like it should mention Value Stream somewhere (maybe as tag on the train graphic?); as value streams are always present and ARTs are always based on them.
• Not sure I'd include Business Owners in an essentials set – at leaset not as separate identity. Content Authority and Vision through program management can drive an ART pretty well (hence they implicitly carry the business ownership in them).
• If Release Management aspects are all subsumed into the RTE essential (or into Product Management) then that's okay but Release Management is a crucial aspect and it feels a bit uncomfortable without it..
• A subset of metrics should probably appear to reinforce the central ideas of factual tracking and frequent feedback.
Thanks Alex and Dean. This is a great summary and helps me have a more specific conversation rather than a custom conversation.
I would say that the Foundation needs to include the Implementing 123 as most of the things called out in the article @ http://www.scaledagileframework.com/implementing/ is very helpful and needed for implementations following the above guideline. Please consider adding Implementing 123 to the Foundation of Essential SAFe as a guideline
Just tested this in Tallinn, Estonia with some potential new Finnish, Dutch, and Belarusian SPC's.
Here is their feedback:
–It's missing the Customer
–It'd be good to show at least the portfolio backlog for alignment and flow
–Nice and simple
–Definitely a need for the simplification
–The Essential 8 helps! (Kinda like the Fab-4)
–Helps with avoiding overwhelming folks
–Allows for focus
–Could add another "spanning" icon to show "Essential SAFe"
–What about CI/System Team/DevOps?
–Like Built-in Quality
–Love the Arch Runway
–Like PI and I&A called out
–Maybe to add simplification, only show one team (we're showing two, but that's implied)
–Enablers aren't called out (both positive and negative around this)
–In Implementing SAFe, when teams are creating their SAFe message and presentation, this could be a good visual to start with
–Implies Train everyone/Launch Trains, but perhaps an icon to show that
–Portfolio shows budgets, but does that imply that you have to implement lean-agile budgeting?
–Maybe show the # of people in the train (dunbar's).
They LIKED IT! Thanks for this Dean and Alex!
This is a prefect depiction of this same conversation that I've also had with clients implementing SAFe. The strength of the framework allowing for interpretation and adaptation into any company/enterprise is also its weakness, in terms of misinterpretation by some folks. This leads to introducing some elements of the framework (e.g. RTE), while choosing to skip implementation of the most key/essential ones (e.g. ensuring all teams are truly agile/Kanban), and still claiming to have "implemented SAFe".
Thanks for bringing forward this reference as another guide!
Thanks for the post Alex, this confirms a lot of things I thought.
The one thing I see in the picture, but not in the text, is the explicit alignment of an ART to a value stream, and funding going directly into that value stream. A localized train is a pointless train.
Yet local trains (so within a department) are still a very common antipattern, at least here in the Netherlands.
Thanks Alex and Dean!
Great summary and food for thought. This will be useful as a discussion starter with certain clients.
What I am missing is what is happening prior to the ART. How is the content for the backlog picked? How can we adress the invisibility and bottom up approach to architecture and enablers? How can we include and track work that spans mre then one PI?Enters epics, enablers and epic kanban system. For me these are essential even in a reduced context, since they add so much on top of just a scaled scrum of scrums approach.
Just my 2c. I am sure you have had that discussion or something in that direction, so I would love to hear your reasoning and understand why you decided to skip them.
Thanks for sharing.


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Prisoner Debriefings:
Someone knows Something
By: Joseph Giacalone
If you want to catch a fish would you climb a tree? Of course you wouldn't.
An often overlooked or under utilized tool of law enforcement that can help solve cold cases is the prisoner debriefing. If debriefings are used properly, the police can obtain actionable intelligence from those that are in the know-the criminals themselves. Someone knows something, it is just up to law enforcement to find out by asking the right questions. However, there is a caveat to debriefings: the investigator must believe in the importance of the task or they will just go through the motions.
What is a prisoner debriefing?
Simply put, a debriefing is a quick questioning of an arrested person on matters that have nothing to do with his / her charge – so Miranda Warnings are not necessary. The debriefing is a tool that gathers intelligence or HUMINT, from prisoners. The questionnaire is designed to ask about guns, narcotics, gangs, fencing operations, murders, etc., but how often do law enforcement officers ask specifically about cold cases? In order to ask about a cold case, investigators must be aware of them. I recommend a cold case review for all of the cases under the agency's specific area. This way when an arrest is made from that part of town, investigators can key on specific cases and details. Investigating units should not be narrowly focused on their own jurisdiction. A list of all open cases that include a brief detail of the crime, Modus Operandi (MO) and a possible nexus for the killing(s) can be shared through law enforcement networks. If investigators don't ask, the bad guy won't offer!
A New Spin on an Old Technique
The prisoner debriefing can be used to gather more than just information on cold cases. It can be used to establish a nickname database and to identify new trends in social media. Does the law enforcement really believe that it will continue to be successful by using just Facebook and Twitter? The hardcore criminals have already moved onto new sites. How cool can Facebook be when your grandmother is on it?
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A record of prisoner debriefing must be kept – whether it is in a log book or an electronic database. If information is received that may prove useful for an investigation, an investigator's report must be written to document what was received and who was notified.
Why would criminals talk?
No snitching? It doesn't matter when they have to save themselves. Most bad guys have a reason to talk, its called self-preservation. Court consideration is the main reason, especially in states with the Three Strikes rule. Many perpetrators are slick and intentionally hold onto information that they may need some day. Think of it as a "get out of jail free card."
Unfortunately, the prisoner debriefing form often turns into another "checkoff box investigation sheet." I have noticed this trend more and more as micromanagement has crept into criminal investigations via the CompStat process. Supervisors must maintain an equal balance between making the downtown bosses happy and letting detectives do their jobs.


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Our little Pip has been an active crayon scribbler for at least the past 9 months now and I am already dreaming up ways to foster her creativity and encourage her to play with paint, mud, clay, flowers, etc. Pip likes to color in her Elmo coloring book but anytime I get some of my "homework" out, she'd much prefer to grade my papers with crayons. Sadly, I'm not sure high school students would appreciate Crayola technique as I do. If this doesn't sound too tacky, I did put in a request for a Mother's Day gift…I wanted Pip to start a "Mommy Book." The recent issue of Real Simple had a great article about the various journals filled with delightful drawings, poems, letter and doodles dedicated to Mom. I too wanted to collect Pip's evolution in this creative outlet, so I put in my request and was very pleased when my leather bound journal was delivered on Mother's Day. What a beautiful gift to start (thank you Daddy for the legwork to make it happen & putting up with my very specific request)!
Page one…Mother's Day 2011! I am a very happy and proud mother! You can almost see a bit of Monet and Picasso in her technique, right?
I also recently stumbled onto another "series" of how-to display/arrange/keep your kids artwork and magically found myself daydreaming into the future of Pip's creations. These were a few photos that impressed me with their simplicity. Thank you (again) Modern Parents Messy Kids for fabulous ideas.
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Another suggestion-keep the important artwork and pass along early drafts-photographing them first. Below you put photographed art collection into a book for keepsake. Brilliant with less clutter (my problem)!
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Love the quote and again simple idea of hanging on the line approach. Ikea has wire curtain hangers that would be perfect to install for artwork.
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I think this would be so much fun-wallpaper frames, but wonder if Pip would understand which walls are okay to color on and which aren't. Yikes!
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And finally….WOW…not even sure how this is done but it looks amazing! What a beautiful piece or art. How do you narrow it down? Each year? Over the course of 5 years? Medium used-crayola, finger paint, watercolor, pencil? I am so impressed and it looks fantastic!
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Aboriginal history of the Paterson Valley
Aboriginal people have inhabited the east coast of Australia for at least 17,000 years and probably earlier.[1] Baiame is the keeper of the Hunter Valley and the ancestral being of its people. He created the earth and sent other spirits to form the natural features of the land. Baiame created the first laws by which Aboriginal people lived and these were unchanged through thousands of years of Aboriginal life in the Valley.
Aboriginal nations in the Hunter Valley
There were several Aboriginal nations in the Hunter Valley at the time of European arrival. The Awabakal people lived on the southern side of the Coquon (Hunter River) while the Wonnarua lived to north west and the Worimi to the north east.
An axe factory at Green Wattle Creek in the lower Paterson Valley. It contains hundreds of grinding and sharpening grooves.
European occupation of the Paterson River Valley
There were four phases of European occupation of the Paterson River Valley, each with increased impact on Aboriginal life and culture. The first phase involved minimal contact as Europeans explored the Hunter Valley, for example the 1801 survey of the Paterson River by Ensign Barrallier.[2]
In the second phase, starting in 1804, convict timber-cutters from the penal settlement at Newcastle were the main form of European contact with Aboriginal people in the Paterson area. The gangs operated along the Paterson River and established a camp at Old Banks. They had little impact on areas available to Aborigines for hunting or materials but may have impacted through sexual relations and the introduction of European diseases.
The third phase involved settlement of a few Europeans on the river at Patersons Plains (see overview to 1821). Given the low number of settlers and the small areas of land involved, this probably had little impact on the local Aboriginal people.
The fourth phase of European settlement of the Paterson Valley involved large-scale alienation of land from 1822 as individual settlers were granted up to several thousand acres each. By 1825 most of the prime alluvial land along the lower reaches of the Paterson River has been granted to European immigrants. This scale of settlement drastically reduced the hunting areas of the Wonnarua and Worimi, restricted their supply of game and materials, and further exposed them to European diseases against which they had little or no immunity.
Conflict and accommodation
Throughout the phases of Indigenous/European contact there were varying degrees of conflict and accommodation, although conflict in the Lower Hunter was sporadic rather than sustained. The intercultural exchanges were diverse, fluid and ambivalent — some involved violence but there was also cooperation, companionship and sharing of knowledge.
Decline in Aboriginal numbers
In the 1830s Aboriginal numbers in the Lower Hunter declined markedly, and mortalities in a smallpox epidemic from 1829 to 1831 may have exceeded 30 per cent of the Aboriginal population. After this epidemic Aborigines survived in numbers only in the Upper Hunter but not in the Lower Hunter area (which includes the Paterson River valley).
1. Attenbrow, Val. Sydney's Aboriginal Past - Investigating the Archaeological and Historical Records. UNSW Press, 2nd ed., 2010.
2. Barrallier surveyed what we now call the Hunter and Williams Rivers in mid 1801 and returned to survey the Paterson River in November 1801, see: Macqueen, Andy. The Life and Journeys of Barrallier 1773-1853. Self published, 1993.
Archer, Cameron. Chapter 3 (The Indigenous era) in "Social and Environmental Change as Determinants of Ecosystem Health: A Case Study of Social Ecological Systems in the Paterson Valley NSW Australia". Ph.D. thesis, University of Newcastle, 2007.
Attwood, Brian and SG Foster (eds). Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience. National Museum of Australia, 2003.
Laffan, Jennifer and Cameron Archer. Aboriginal Land Use at Tocal: The Wonnarua Story. CB Alexander Foundation, 2004.
Miller, J. Koori: A Will to Win. Angus and Robertson, 1985.
Rule, Margaret. "Relations Between the Aborigines and Settlers in Selected Areas of the Hunter Valley and in the Liverpool Plains, 1800-50". Hons. thesis, University of Newcastle, 1976.
Sokoloff, Boris. Aborigines in the Paterson Gresford Districts: Effects of Settlement. Paterson Historical Society, 2006.
Virtual Sourcebook for Aborginal Studies in the Hunter Region.
The Virtual Coquun - Hunter River Project.
Walsh, Brian. Chapter 5 (The silence of convict-indigenous relations at Tocal) in "Heartbreak and Hope, Deference and Defiance on the Yimmang: Tocal's convicts 1822-1840". Ph.D. thesis, University of Newcastle, 2007.
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An overview of settlement at Patersons Plains up to the end of 1821.


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Project Runway Ep. 5 Recapcomments (1) September 18th, 2009
This week the fashion world sets their sights on NYC as Fashion Week comes to a close. While newspapers cover the new collections of people we know well (like "top American designer Michael Kors"), our favorite runway designers were challenged to create garments from this unusual material. Instead of shopping at their usual fabric haunt, Mood, the designers were given 3 minutes to raid the warehouse of The Los Angeles Times. Designers could use materials including newsprint, tape, paint, glue, and muslin (as long as it didn't show) to create their garments.
The drama this week (let's face it, there is always something) was all about Johnny. He made excuses for a poor design by lying about a steamer malfunction. The other designers (and Tim) finally tired of his attitude and Nicolas was forced to call him out on the runway for his excuses.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump gives himself high marks for his response to hurricane damage in Puerto Rico, even though there is a widespread lack of power and drinking water on the island about a month after the storm struck.
After Trump met with Puerto Rico's governor, Ricardo Rossello, in the Oval Office on Thursday, he spoke to reporters and Yahoo News asked, on a scale of one to 10, how he'd grade his handling of the hurricane.
"I'd say it was a 10," Trump said.
Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on Sept. 20. The storm was a Category 5, the top rating on the hurricane scale. Earlier last month, the island was damaged by Hurricane Irma. Currently, about 78 percent of Puerto Rico is without power and 28 percent of the island lacks reliable drinking water.
After praising his response to the hurricane damage on Puerto Rico, Trump went on to marvel at the magnitude of the devastation.
"I'd say it was probably the most difficult — when you talk about relief, when you talk about search, when you talk about all of the different levels, and even when you talk about lives saved. If you look at the number, I mean this was, I think, it was worse than Katrina. It was in many ways worse than anything people have ever seen," said Trump.
Earlier this month, Trump said Puerto Rico didn't suffer a "real catastrophe" on the scale of Hurricane Katrina.
Speaking Thursday, Trump reiterated his high grade for the storm response after describing the strength of the hurricanes that hit the island.
"They got hit by a Category 4, grazed, but grazed about, you know, a big portion of the island. … That was bad, but then they got hit dead center, if you look at those maps, by a Category 5," said Trump, adding, "Nobody's ever heard of a five hitting land. Usually by that time, it's dissipated. It hit right through. It kept to a five. It hit right through the middle of the island, right through the middle of Puerto Rico. There's never been anything like that. I give ourselves a 10."
Yahoo News also asked Rossello how he'd rate the White House's hurricane response on a scale of one to 10, but the governor declined to offer a numerical grade.
"The president has answered all of our petitions. … This is still ongoing, so we expect that that'll continue," Rossello said, adding, "We set some very aggressive milestones to restore energy in Puerto Rico … about 30 percent of the energy by the end of the month, by the middle of next month about 50 percent, and so on."
Trump then asked Rossello to gauge the White House's response.
"Governor, I just want to maybe ask you a question," Trump said. "Did the United States, did our government, when we come in, did we do a great job? Military, first responders, FEMA, did we do a great job?"
Rossello complimented the Trump administration's handling of the hurricane damage in Puerto Rico.
"You responded immediately, sir," said Rossello. "We recognize that there are some logistical limitations that we have in Puerto Rico. We didn't have the ports open for a couple of days. We didn't have the airports working at full capacity until about a day or two ago. So, that was always a great limiting step. But if you consider that we've gotten, even with those obstacles, we've gotten about 15,000 DOD personnel in Puerto Rico, about 2,000 FEMA personnel, HHS and others. The response is there."
Rossello went on to acknowledge that "we need to do a lot more."
"I think everyone over here recognizes there's a lot of work to be done in Puerto Rico. But with your leadership, sir, and with everybody over here, we're committed to achieving that in the long run," Rossello said.
Puerto Rico's power grid was in bad condition prior to the storms, a fact which was repeatedly cited by both Trump and Rossello on Thursday. When Trump was asked how long it would take to restore full power to the island, he said it was a "good question" and would likely "take a while."
"We have to build a brand new plant or we have to do essentially a renovation that's so large it's going to be like a brand new plant. One or the other, we're looking at both right now," Trump said. "But there's never been a case where power plants were gone. You can't just fix the poles. There's never been a place where power plants were gone, so it's going to be a period of time before the electric is restored."
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