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This is an easy and flavorful way to enjoy chicken thighs, and the dish is delicious with pasta or rice. Serve with a salad on the side for a perfect family meal.
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 6 to 8 chicken thighs
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 cloves garlic (minced)
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 1 can (14.5 ounces) diced tomatoes
- 8 ounces sliced mushrooms
- 1 small can (about 2.25 ounces) sliced black olives (drained)
- 1/2 teaspoon dried leaf thyme
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
Steps to Make It
Heat oil and butter in a large skillet.
Saute the chicken thighs, turning frequently until browned on all sides.
Remove chicken to a casserole dish and set aside.
Heat oven to 350 F.
Stir flour into the skillet juices. Cook, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes.
Add salt and pepper. Add the garlic, wine, and tomatoes. Bring to a boil.
Add thyme, mushrooms, olives, and parsley. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, for about 4 to 5 minutes.
Pour over the chicken in the casserole.
Cover and bake for 40 minutes.
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The monastery of St. John of the Baptist is located at the village of Katastari, northeast of Zakynthos and about 12 km from the center of the island. It offers a magnificent view over
the nearby island of Kefallinia and the Peloponnese coast. For this reason in the past, pilgrims were staying there because they wanted to have peace and tranquility. This monastery is a post-Byzantine era where there you will find great works of 17th-18th century from the known painters- Poulakis/ Baffa, and also exquisite wood carvings. The complex has a small abbey, a two-store building, and a tower with a circular base, built in the past as a watchtower. Access to the monastery is easy for the visitors, after the Bishop of Zakynthos has made efforts to maintenance and renovation of the monastery and the road.

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A cache of internal Facebook documents has been published online by a UK parliamentary committee, giving unprecedented insight into the social network. These documents are via Six4Three's discovery in their lawsuit against Facebook, and were previously sealed. (Facebook objected to their release.)
It's about 250 pages worth of information, and the BBC has a quality topline on the main information.
I'm not shocked, but I'm stuck on how brutally Facebook played the game of growth and money making (NYTimes), and how appalling the ethics of the company are. There's Facebook, and then there's a company like Patagonia (The Conversation).
Here's a quick look at what you can't miss:
Facebook isn't worried about privacy, just not becoming a meme:
At least a few lines from Mark Zuckerberg will go down in history:
Zuck also personally agreed to turn off Vine's friend-finding feature:
Facebook's response:
🚔 Daughter of Huawei founder and CFO arrested in Canada (Android Authority). It appears to be related to breaching US sanctions on Iran, although little more is known. But remember the ZTE fracas? Meng Wanzhou, known as Sabrina, is also the Vice Chair of Huawei and a 25-year veteran. Beijing will want her back.
📳 From our men in Maui, here's what's new in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 (Android Authority).
🤦♂ OnePlus announced with much fanfare that it would have the world's first phone with the Snapdragon 855. Apparently, that was a rather large mistake, and was meant to be "one of the first". Not *the* first (Engadget).
❌ Google is shutting down Allo (Android Authority). Duo and Messages will get better to compensate, apparently.
🔐 Australia rushes its 'dangerous' anti-encryption bill into parliament, despite massive opposition (TechCrunch). Update: it passed into law, despite protests.
🚗 Waymo One has launched, Google spinoff's first self-driving taxi service that's now available in four suburbs in Phoenix, Arizona (The Verge). Quote: "Before, it felt like you were being driven by your half-blind grandmother, but now, riding feels… mostly normal."
🚀 Unlucky 27: The SpaceX mission to the ISS went up successfully, but the Falcon 9 failed to land after 26 straight landings (Ars Technica) Elon Musk tweeted a fin didn't deploy - watch it land on water (Twitter).
🚍 Luxembourg to become first country to make all public transport free (The Guardian)
🥇 Gold is no longer the most valuable precious metal. It's now palladium, used in catalytic converters in combustion engines, fuel cells, and more (LiveMint).
🤐 Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, keeps saying the word "shitstorm" and it's funny that Germans don't have their own word (NYTimes).
🎄 According to a poll, 'Die Hard' isn't a Christmas movie. 62 percent of people are wrong. (Morning Consult).
💡 "I tried 10 extreme creativity hacks - Putting the best advice of geniuses from Beethoven to Tesla to the test" (Medium).
This is a throwback waaayback to the hot metal printing press, and this short documentary on YouTube, showing the last day of operation at the New York Times, titled Farewell EtaoinShrdlu, for reasons you'll discover:
There's also a great discussion on Reddit, talking about molten lead, the fact that deaf people were employed because it was such a loud environment, and much more.
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Wood carving, turning and general woodworking
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Vintage Boutique Fairs & Events Celebrating Elegance of Past Eras
Woodworking Education & Craftsmanship
Green Wood Chair-making
DIY Woodworking Projects From A to Z
Stampin' Up! in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Beyond!
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Things I do in my workshop.


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|Adult Dogs For Sale
George will be training in North Dakota this summer and will post available dogs for sale at the end of this summer after he has run them on wild birds. If you are interested in a dog, please check back towards the end of summer 2019.
All of our puppies have been vaccinated and are up to date on immunizations, are wormed, and examined by a veterinarian. All litters are registered with the Field Dog Stud Book. To reserve a puppy please call or email our office. George will contact you and discuss the breeding and your requirements.
|Started and Introduced Dogs
|We keep puppies from any of our breedings to develop. We specialize in preparing young dogs for more advanced training. These started dogs are introduced to numbers of birds, properly introduce to gunshot, e-collar introduction, clicker training, and check cord point drills. In my opinion dogs from our young dog program are a great investment. The dogs have demonstrated strong hunting and pointing instincts and have the right start. Introduced dogs are from 5 months of age to a year of age. We work with the new owners to ensure they have a program for the future training.
We also take puppies to develop through our young dog program after an initial evaluation. We take dogs from 8 weeks of age through six months of age for this training program.


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As a UK-based direct mail services company, we can automatically enclose up to 6 inserts by machine, including booklets using standard Envelope sizes from DL, C5 or C4 and everything in between. Generally, we have the ability to fulfil up to 50,000 envelopes within a 24 hour period via Royal Mail.
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As the current passing through the speaker's coil changes, the speaker cone moves back and forth toward or away from the speaker's permanent magnet. This moving cone pushes or pulls on the air, creating compressions and rarefactions that propagate through the air as sound.


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Ok, as you've seen in the last update we had a bobcat come in and move all the junk wood into 5 big piles, the plan was to burn these piles to get rid of them and into a managable size. There was A LOT of wood lying on the ground, there still is, but the bulk of it is now stacked into these giant bonfires. We are planning to burn a fire per weekend until they're all gone.
The morning…..looks peaceful hey? It wasn't….it was just evil waiting to happen.
The time came for the first burn-off. We did all the right things, notified fire control that we were going to be burning off, told our neighbours (in case they saw a fire and called the fire brigade) and created a break around the fire by raking all loose and dry stuff away within about 2 meters. It was a reasonable wind free day, we were there for about half an hour before the wind died down a little and we decide to do start the fire…as soon as I put the match to the dry grass at the fires base, WHOOSH, the wind came up.
This particular wood pile was at the base of a hill, despite the break we created the dry grass as the base of the fire caught fire and started burning up the hill, fuel by the wind as it took off. We did our best to control it as it crawled up the hill, but by this time the main fire was raging and standing too close risks loss of eyebrows or worse. By the time the grass had burnt about a 20 metre front up the hill the neighbours across the road saw we were having some trouble and came over, shovels in hand to help out. We hadn't met them at this stage…what a way to meet your neighbours.
By about 30 metres we decided we weren't getting very far with shovels and rakes, we were managing to control the direction of the grass burning but not the speed and it was approaching our car, the picnic area and the next door neighbours block..so I decided it was time to dial 000.
As it happens, by the time the brigade arrived (from Chisholm fire station first, then the volunteers from Williamsdale) we had it under control, the pictures show how far it got. It was a bit scary for a while, it's just amazing how fast fire can travel in the right conditions. The fire guys were very sporting about it, they used it as an occasion to catch up with their fire brigade mates from the other stations while we stood around exhausted from trying to put the damn thing out…while the main fire quietly burned away in the background……
Unforunately there are no pictures of the main fire in full force or the grass burning the way up the hill, mainly because our official photographer (me) was a bit busy with a rake, trying to put the stinking fire out.
A fire truck, they didn't even show us their hoses.
The aftermath, the burned bits, some charcoal and a lot of dead grass, if it would rain, this bit would come up nice and green. The fire was still burning 3 days after we lit it (in the main pile, we had it under control)..the fire was actually burning inside the pile and was warm for a long time.
We learned our lesson, and despite the fact that we did everything right, just had bad luck (the fire guys said so, really!) we decided to get a tractor witha blade on the front to dig proper dirt breaks around all the remaining (4) piles, this would make controling them MUCH easier. And it did, we burned the big one shown at the top in these pictures on the weekend and it went off without a hitch, pictures as they come…..
We took some smarty pills
As mentioned in the last Fire episode we got smart and learned a lot from the small bushfire we started the first time. It's a lucky thing too, because the next 4 burn offs where epic in size and length. Take a look.
We got up really early one Saturday morning to set fire to this large pile of wood, Kristie took this shot, she forgot how to use the zoom button (or use poor mans zoom i.e. stand closer to your subject). The point of this shot was to show how big the pile was, it doesn't look it, but it was a monster!
There was very little wind, the fire burnt nice and fast and high, but at no time did it threaten to jump the breaks and set our hair on alight. Kinda boring really (after the last effort)..were we being overconfident in our fire lighting skills? This pile was still smoldering 4 days after we lit it…..
The next one was a night time effort since the early morning one went so well. Luckily fire is hot, because it's freakin cold in Canberra at night during the winter. This one was rather large, but again, got kinda boring as we soon discovered how effective the fire breaks we had cut were. It took a long time to burn but after about 45 minutes when the initial raging inferno died down, we had nothing more to do but sit and wait for it to die down enough so we could leave it alone (this usually took about 6 hours).
So ends the fire saga, we took it all for granted after the 3rd pile and didn't even take any pictures of the 4th and 5th, it was just more of the same. Now the biggest fire we should have to deal with is the BBQ, since the land if mostly clear of junk, dry grass and dead wood. If we do ever have to burn off again I'll make sure I park a fully fuelled car or leave a jerry can full of kerosene near by, just to add a little excitement 😉


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**Dirty Princess**, Aglae, bats, BAX, black, cats, Catwa, celebration, Chop Zuey, Devilish, event, fireflies, fireplace, FLECHA, ghosts, halloween, HJM, holiday, Hottest Fashions, hypnotize, Jaily, Jaily Bailey, LoQ, Lumae, Lushish Catz, Maitreya, model, modeling, Nekotron, Obscure, PinUp, pumpkins, Second Life, Siamese, skeleton, SL, tattoo, trick or treat, Trowix, witch, [JOH], {MUA}
Black cats and bats and ghosts, make such enchanting hosts. As some of you know, I'm a Canadian who lives in Australia. Aussies don't really celebrate this wonderful holiday, however the Canadians, Americans and Brits do celebrate it in full form—parties, trick or treating, and dressing up on Halloween night.
Wishing you all a very fun, and safe, Halloween. Meow!
Hottest Catwoman Princess (Maitreya appliers) – Dirty Princess
Cat Mask – Leo Grey – Obscure
Mbielu necklace – Chop Zuey
Mbielu claw bracelets – Chop Zuey
Mbielu necklace (used for belt) – Chop Zuey
Cognac left and right sides – black – LoQ Hair
Ankle boots – Black Patent – BAX
static neko tail with bow (color edited) – Nekotron
Fable skin – Moon – Lumae
Aglae tattoo – Pin*Up
Smitten lipstick (Catwa) – Hypnotized – MUA
Cat Make-up (Catwa) – Hottest Fashions
Decor Credits
Fireplace with Pumpkins – [JOH] John Brianna (from Scare Me Silly event)
skeleton table with skull and candles – HJM Designs (Jeepers Creepers hunt gift)
skeleton table – HJM Designs (Jeepers Creepers hunt gift)
Bones Siamese cat – Lushish Catz (gacha item)
Witch cat – Lushish Catz (gacha item)
Siamese BatCat – Lushish Catz (gacha item)
Devilish cat – Lushish Cats (gacha item)
Firefly pumpkin – created by me using FP sculpts by FLECHA and firefly script from Trowix
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Want to save money on sound effects? Here's what's on sale right now
You get (at least) 6+ GB free SFX with ANY order right now
Sound effects libraries organized into genres such as sci-fi, horror, comedy, game packs and more
With DATA sound library Sound Response brings you high quality collection of meticulously designed data processing and readout sci-fi sound effects!
If you're looking for those futuristic-sounding, hi-tech processing interface sound effects, and the sounds of sci-fi computer readouts, calculations, sensors and scanning sound effects, this soundpack will provide you with diverse arsenal of various high tech data processing sound effects to suit your needs. With DATA sound library at your disposal you'll have the right audio tool to create that sophisticated, futuristic, sci-fi sound for your game, movie, trailer, video, or any other project that you're working on!
DATA soundpack contains 403MB (170 sound effects) of high definition 24bit/96khz Stereo WAV files, embedded with metadata to speed up your workflow.
SCI FI MECHANICS is a collection of 301mechanical/robotic sound effects.
SFM is a contraction-kit, that allows you to created, heavily synthesized robotic and mechanical sound effects.
Packed with high quality robotic sequences, one-shots, transformations, impacts and experimental mechanical sounds.
Perfect for crafting sound for all sorts of sci-fi/future-tech.
CREATED WITH: Pro Tools, Live, Reaktor, Kontakt.
This package contains 287 high quality Sci-Fi sound effects. Covering ambiences, general sounds and weapons.
Plus an additional 645 bonus sounds effects covering guns, 8bit sci-fi and general sounds to help make this a must have collection for everyone working on Sci-Fi projects.
ALL sounds from this entire package are included in our complete sound collection Pro Sound Collection. So if you need more sound be sure to check it out before purchase.
(Please note that all sounds are in 24bit/96k, except for the bonus 8bit sci-fi sounds they are in 16bit/44.1k)
"Sci-Fi Transitions" is a sound pack dedicated to the futuristic or unidentifiable transitions that are designed to sound great on their own or as a building material for other sound effects. The collection includes pass-bys, whooshes, and other actions in a varying degree of complexity – all ready for panning and Doppler effects.
The Sci-Fi Weapons library delivers more than 2000 futuristic weapon shots, charges, ricochets and other related sounds.
All of them were designed using exclusively recorded Foley sounds, synthetic layers, various sound manipulation and morphing techniques.
Single shots and automatic fire, reloading ammo, energy blasts, impacts and explosions, surface hits – it's all there, ready to be used in your sci-fi projects!
Forthcoming updates and extensions of the library are free! You have to pay the actual price once, and you will be getting new stuff as it is released.
Version 1.4 is out:
A new version has just been released, with another 300 sounds – bringing the total number of sounds in the library to more than 2118
With its second official release ''Sci-Fi Weapons'' Sound Response brings you a cutting edge, hi-tech weapon sound FX library ready for unleashing cybernetic hell! Months of field recording and sound design yielded 400+ high quality futuristic weapon sound effects. A must have for anyone working on a video game, movie or any other project containing futuristic combat action scenes. With Sci-Fi Weapons at your disposal you'll have one of the most powerful and advanced sci-fi audio arsenals out there!
Sci-Fi Weapons soundpack features 588MB of high definition 24bit/96khz sounds, embedded with metadata to speed up your workflow and separated into following categories: 1. Assault Rifles 2. Sniper Rifles 3. Machine Guns 4. Submachine Guns 5. Rocket Launchers 6. Loading FX 7. Scanners and Shields 8. Source Sound Accessories.
NOTE: As a result of collaboration between Sound Response and Soundmorph this library is also a part of Soundmorph's Future Weapons 3 library. If you have Future Weapons 3 library then you already have the included Sci-Fi Weapons sound library.
• Assault Rifles
• Sniper Rifles
• Machine Guns
• Submachine Guns
• Rocket Launchers
• Loading FX
• Scanners and Shields
•Source Sound Accessories
You can now create the perfect room tone and sound environment for your next sci-fi game, film, and audio productions. Sci-fi World: Colony is an ambience loop library inspired by the human race of award-winning game 'Starcraft'.
This loop library includes over 119 location-specific ambience loops and loopable layers which gives you the ability to accent your ambiences with sounds like air burst, air leak, wind and more.
Library highlights:
• 26 ambiences loops like an alien cave, energy lab, hangar, sub bay & more
• 45 minimal version loops
• 48 loopable layer loops like bio lab, air bursts, wind, air leak
Sci-fi World Guardian is a library geared towards multiplayer games, space, dystopias, utopias, fantasy, magical places, serene game moments, RPG, MMO, and sci-fi games all alike and showcases sounds like automated shipyard, electron flow, data mining, engines, mothership hums, conversions, moons of Venus, deserted area, bioengineering lab, desolate space, holy house, a variety of pulses, tech-based loops, winds, & more.
Each loop is game ready, seamlessly loopable and around 1 minute in length. Each main ambience includes 1-2 alt mix versions + you get a variety of layers to accent your scene and games ambience. Having both full ambiences, alt mixes and layers allows you to truly orchestrate your game's background sound how you want it. If the full loop has too much going on, then try using the minimal version without the sound you don't like or by stacking a layer loop to boost the dynamic of the atmosphere.
The latest installment in the Epic Stock Media Sci-fi World Sound Effects Series has landed on planet earth. Sci-fi World – Swarm presents a meticulously designed ambience loop library inspired by an insect-like alien race and their quest for dominance in the galaxy. Sci-fi World – Swarm is a collection of over 2 hours of interior and exterior sci-fi background loops.
With a selection of 141 designed sci-fi loops, you'll be able to create new worlds effortlessly. Dramatic room tones, custom sci-fi interior and exterior scenes, ambient sounds like; alien cave, energy lab, transport hangar, termite mounds, and Queen's chambers are all ready to mix, match, stack and layer for the perfect vibe in your production.
Loops are approximately one minute in length and the ambience loop files include one or two minimal or alt mix versions. Also, sounds are pre-mixed and mastered to high volume so you can mix your tracks for optimal immersion and sonic dynamics without losing fidelity.
Of course, it's ready to use in any multi-media production. All of the recordings are royalty-free and RTU-OTB. Need more ambience loops? Be sure to check out Swarm sister sound libraries – Sci-fi World Colony and Sci-fi World Guardians Ambience Loop Libraries.
SCIFI ATMOS is a collection of 30, seamlessly looping, sci-fi soundscapes and ambiences with total run time of 38 minutes.
All sound effects have been created using real field recordings in order to add organic feel to them and trick your brain into
perceiving them as something realistic and later edited with top of a line outboard and plugins to add dark, sci-fi depth to them.
All SFX have baked-in Soundminer's meta data
RECORDED WITH: Sound Devices MixPre 6 + Senhheiser MKH8060, DPA4060, PCM D100
EDITED WITH: iZotope RX, Wormhole, Modular, Waves, TC Electronics, Pro Tools.
Introducing the Scream Collection (A Tribute To Wilhelm). This library pays homage to the infamous Wilhelm Scream first heard in the film Distant Drums as well as dozens, if not hundreds, of other films. This compilation includes 441 vocal effects ranging from startled gasps to all out screams.
This release features 873 screams, shouts, moans, grunts, hisses from female/male humans, zombies, monsters and creatures. Fantastic for horror, suspense, thrillers, action movies and games
All sounds are 100% dry. Reverb was just applied for the demo.
The "Screams & Shouts 2 – Humans" sound effects library brings you over 1.200 human shouts of pain and death, disturbing screams plus grunts of anger, struggle and attack from several men, women and children.
All sounds have been edited precisely and cut clean for instant use in your projects.
The "Screams & Shouts 2 – Monsters" sound effects library brings you over 940 shouts of pain and death, disturbing roars plus grunts of anger, struggle and attack from several monsters and zombies.
Additionally you get 250 clean untreated vocalized human monster sound to create your own designed monsters with it.
This is the go-to sound effects library to give your monsters an unpleasantly threatening, disgustingly haunting and ferocious voice
All sounds have been edited precisely and cut clean for instant use in your projects. These sounds fit very well in any scifi, horror, action, fighting or fantasy game, movie or any other audio-visual production.
Sea Monsters from The Library by Empty Sea is a collection containing over 4000 sound effects for creature vocals. This collection weighs in at a whopping 9GB!
A must-have for any sound designer looking to level up on creature sound design.
"Sense" is an exciting collection of textures to enrich the sonic world of your Sci-fi production. If you need that extra ingredient when you are creating a dense and deep Sci-fi atmosphere, this library can help you to achieve that.
Movements, atmospheric elements and energies are some of the things you will find in this pack of sounds. Sounds with a strong and futuristic feeling, elements that are a great addition to your collection.
Categories:Atmospheric element • Energy • Feedback • Glitch • Impact • Interference • Movement • Robotic
In addition to being a great library for Horror or Sci-fi games and movies, this collection works well for trailers too.
A collection of motor and machine sounds, recorded in ultra-HD 24-bit 192k resolution. You'll find a variety of electric motor sounds in this library, from sources such as cameras, car electronics, tools, pencil sharpeners, shavers, immersion blenders, disc ejects, radio controlled (RC) cars and many more. All ready to bring your robots and sci-fi scenes to life.
27 libraries of production elements and soundscapes suited to all forms of broadcast media. From glitched-out future computers to dark, ominous atmospheres, these libraries feature organic elements, analogue source material and extreme digital processing for a blend of the familiar and the experimental side of sound design.
Think Dystopian environments, unexplored Science Fiction spaces, unsettling horror ambiences, signals gone awry, abstract textures and harsh walls of noise.
Join us as we embrace the decay of the human psyche with Shadowscapes. This anxiety-inducing 2.6GB sound effects suite features 100 soundscapes inspired by all things maddening, and is intended to add bleak, atmospheric tension to projects in the horror, sci-fi, fantasy, surrealism and music production.
Come, have a listen to the textures of Shadowscapes and get ready to lead your audience down the path of pure melodic mental mayhem!
SampleTraxx is back with SHOCKING SIGNAL, a collection of big screen alarm, disturbed cinematic feedback, ping, distortion and re-amped production elements.
Shocking Signal is all about alerts, notifications, danger, disaster, emergency, panic red alerts, sirens, warnings, static, bad signals, blasts, broken circuits, electrics, glitches, neon, power and anything requiring sophisticated and extreme sound design.
Providing new and experimental sound materials generated using the most cutting-edge digital techniques, this collection is designed to suit the needs of people who want to add something unique to their production.
Dedicated to sound designers, experimental composers, cutting edge electronic music producers, busy post-production facilities, video editors, broadcast radio/TV stations.
Featuring 170+ sound effects with detailed Soundminer metadata in 96/24 HD resolution ready to be fired in your favorite DAW.
Create state of the art seat jumper and modern glitches, delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience with a complete set of disturbing sound effects to enhance the action on screen and make spectacular experience for your audience.
Shockwave offers rich and powerful digital glitch, dirty blast, heavy ping, electric shock, flash, buzz, stutters and source recordings ready to be dragged in your favorite DAW or sampler.
For modern movie trailer, soundtrack, cutting edge electronic music, and audiovisual installation.
A total of 150+ WAV Samples in 24 bit / 48 kHz.
Sigil is a unique library of dark, gritty, raw, and eerie textures and tones made from one-of-a-kind handmade electro-acoustic instruments and found objects created by sound designer and musician Nathan Moody.
Sigil provides an edgy set of layers that are rich with organic complexity: Skittery bows on handmade string instruments; "prepared" string tones and textures, bowed and rubbed springs under tension; salvaged rusty metal tubes; perforated steel gongs; aluminum water bottle bells; and deep, resonant handmade percussion instruments. Textures include chugs, shrieks, groans, drones, bounces, peals, and rattles. The sounds range from blissfully musical to horrifyingly atonal, and are equally at home lending an uneasy tone to either avant garde musical works or multi-layered sound effects, especially in thriller or horror genres.
The organic nature of the Sigil library means that its sounds hold up well to extreme processing like pitch shifting and granular resynthesis. The handmade nature of the instruments used means that there's no other library quite like it.
The recordings were made with a variety of pickups, contact microphones, and traditional microphones, through various high-end "character" mic preamps selected uniquely per microphone and per instrument. Full details are in the library's documentation.
This collection was recorded at 24 bits, 96 kHz and includes over three hours of recordings with more than 600 individual sounds, all fully tagged with metadata. Multiple articulations and voicing are ganged into single files for convenience and organization.
Signal Frontiers is a huge collection of cutting edge futuristic sounds for interfaces, robotics, space machinery and more. The library contains 1000+ uniquely designed assets and covers everything from web interface to spaceship consoles, telemetry and ambiences, offering an unparalleled variety for any project. Signal Frontiers features more than 1000 stereo 48 kHz/24 Bit sounds, all Soundminer friendly.
Silenced Gun Sounds contains a total of 410 sound effects.
– 102 silenced gun sounds.
– 132 bullet sounds (flybys, bullet shells)
– 176 bonus sounds from Pro Sound Collection
ALL sounds from Silenced Gun Sounds are included in our complete sound package Pro Sound Collection , so if you need more sounds be sure to check it out before purchase.
Introducing SoundMorph's Sinematic – a sound pack featuring cutting edge impacts, stutters, sub sonic bass, mega horns, stingers, risers, whooshs, bowed cymbals, and source recordings.
Get this collection of cinematic sounds to cater to the most modern and cutting edge productions out there.
• Stutter Risers
• Sub Sonic Bass
• Mega Horns
• Hits and Impacts
• Stingers
• Risers
• Simple Design
• Statics
• Whoosh Bys
• Bowed Cymbals
• Raw Source Recordings
The follow up to SoundMorph's hit cinematic library Sinematic, Sinematic 2 is now here! We've gone all out to bring you the best of the best in designed and source files, more than doubling the size of the first release! Designed in collaboration with the same world class sound designers as Robotic Lifeforms 2 and Sinematic…we are really proud to give you even more awesome Sinematic goodness! This library was created over the last 2 years using extensive high end recording techniques, KYMA, and Euro Rack Modular setups.
Sinematic 2 was created by and in collaboration with Thibault Csukonyi and Boris Haladjian (Robotic Lifeforms 2) and Real Cardinal (BioWare, Sinematic, Microsoft).
Sinematic 2 features more than 1,000 24bit/96 kHz .wav files, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer & Basehead metadata, including:
500 + designed sound effects
550 + source audio files
Deep Impacts
Synthesized Impacts
Lowend Hits
Subtle and Iconic
Textures – noise, grit, glitch
Reversed FX
High Pitched
Motion Graphics
Impulse Responses
If you're looking for cinematic SFX, here's the follow-up to the wildly popular Sinematic sound library from SoundMorph: This Neon Expansion pack focuses on avant-garde cinematic sounds including synthesized impacts, static glitched hits, mechanical mechanisms, cyber & biotech hits, motion graphic sound glitches and passbys, organic slams and electronic punches. Perfect for adding punch to your projects – and a heads up: These sounds go extremely well with visuals!
Sinister Impacts & Transitions sound library features 200+ tension-building, dark cinematic horror impacts and whoosh sound effects for music production, movies, trailers, games, tv, and more!
Whether you need intense and disturbing hits and transition sound effects for music production, or you're looking for creepy and unsettling horror impacts, slams, strikes and whooshes sound effects to enhance the feeling of anticipation and suspense in a video game, trailer or horror movie, this sinister-sounding, cutting edge SFX collection will provide you with the right sonic tool to keep your audience on the edge of their seats!
Sinister Impacts & Transitions sound library contains 832MB (241 sound effects) of high definition 24bit/96khz Stereo WAV files, embedded with metadata to speed up your workflow.
Sounds for you to use for sci fi lasers, thin sheets of ice and electricity popping sounds recorded with a contact microphone and a slinky.
Inspired by thin ice sound recordings and huge pictures of power lines, I recorded a slinky with a contact microphone in order to get some sounds for some thin ice. I ended up with a lot of sci fi lasers and "star trek torpedos." With some cool bouncing popping electricity stuff, take a listen and pick up a copy to throw in your library when creating sci fi stuff and/or some electricity being sent through power lines!!
Here is a little demo. I think some cool sounds were captured. with the 96k recording you can pitch it quite harshly and get some fine stuff…..the last 2 laser "blasts" have been pitched for you to hear. the first one at 20% of the original speed and the last at 15%. Feel free to send me an email if you want to hear more.
Don't be fooled at the size of 350mb and 24 minutes….there is all the sounds you could want from a slinky in here. :D
The Solar Sky library features a diverse set of state-of-the-art spaceship sounds. Designed for use in any modern sci-fi production, Solar Sky is an essential addition to add to your workflow.
Designing sound for spaceships can be quite time consuming, and Solar Sky gives you a great set of sounds to get started.
Solar Sky features more than 2.2GB of 350 24bit/96kHz files, all embedded with Soundminer and Basehead metadata.
• Ship ambiances and drones
• 120+ Ship passbys, both large and small
• Ship power ups
• Ship power downs
• Ship door opens and closes
• Wave Warped passbys
Put yourself right there in the trenches with this huge soundpack of war-themed voices. High quality audio and top voice acting talent means that every sample is locked, loaded, and ready for use in your project.
Featuring orders, shouts, screams, squad communications, grunts and more. Combine them together for a battlefield soundscape like no other.
SONIKSCAPE has been produced to create intense underscore, dark atmospheres and abstract textures.
This collection comes packed with cinematic soundscapes, vocal atmospheres, textures out of processed flutes, ghost breaths and vocal effects, dark low oscillations and subsonic frequencies, bowed cymbals, psychological screech and more.
Dedicated to the movie trailer, suspenseful film and television soundtrack, dark ambient music, audio-visual installation and sound artist.
Sonikscape is a collaboration between SampleTraxx and German sound designer Sebastian Emling who already collaborated on Cinematic Zither and Old Broken Piano.
With A Sound Effect, Asbjoern has created a web site where our international community can browse, learn, and share the vast fruits of our labors. Together we are accelerating the very real potential power of sound design as a recognized art form.
A Sound Effect is an excellent resource for us to keep our animated films sounding unique and exciting.
A Sound Effect is a great asset to have discovered.
We found the site very easy to navigate, purchasing and downloads were effortless and the effects themselves are awesome! Asbjoern has done us all a great service.
We'll definitely be back!
There are many great independent sound effect libraries available these days. The main problem with having so many, is keeping track of them!
A Sound Effect is a great hub, and is one of the first places I visit to look for sounds by category or genre. I started coming here to see if I could find libraries that I knew I had heard, but forgot WHERE I had heard them.
And in the process discovered libraries I never would have found otherwise. Great work! Keep it up!
We're always looking for new sounds to mangle, so when A Sound Effect had a holiday sale, I tried them out.
The purchase experience is really smooth and quick, and delivery is almost instant.
I'll definitely come back to them again in the future!
A Sound Effect is a wonderful resource for indie sound effects libraries. On top of that, it has some of the finest sound design, film and game audio interviews!
I often need very specific types of sounds so I've become a big supporter of independent recorders.
Until now I've always had to go to their individual websites. Now I can find them all in one place.
And, Asbjoern is great to work with!
A Sound Effect is a well curated boutique sound effects shop and a great place to find industry interviews and learning resources.


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Fun Facts About Austria
Located in Central Europe, Austria is a German-speaking country that is noted for its alpine scenery. The landscape is characterized by alpine villages, rugged terrain, and baroque architecture. Vienna, which is located on the Danube River, is the capital. In this post, we are giving you the best Austria facts.
A Basic Introduction
Home to the Hofburg and Schönbrunn Palaces, the city has counted such famous people as Freud, Strauss, and Mozart as its illustrious residents. Some of the noteworthy regions of the country include Traunsee Lake and the Bohemian Forest.
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The Government of Austria and its Leaders
The first Austria fact is that the government of Austria is defined as a Federal parliamentary republic. The President is Alexander Van der Bellen and the Chancellor is Christian Kern. The Upper House in Parliament is known as the Federal Council while the Lower House is called the National Council. Austria joined the European Union on the first of January in 1995.
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Austrian Men Really Enjoy Austrian Cooking
The next Austria fact is that among the population, about 50% of Austrian men are considered overweight, which is considered the highest in the EU. However, only 8.6% are considered obese. In contrast, approximately 20% of the women are said to be overweight. Not only do the men like to eat but Austrians drink liquor that is much more potent as well. The definition of a standard drink in Austria is 20 grams of pure ethanol, double the standard amount in other countries in Europe.
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A Home to a Number of Nobel Laureates
One of the fun facts about Austria is associated with the country's tendency to win the Nobel Prizes. The tally of the prizes makes Austria a leading country in this respect. Seven of the prizes have been awarded in physiology or medicine while four have been given in chemistry and three in physics.
Also, the Austrian novelist Bertha von Suttner was the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905. Because of this record, the country can boast one the highest number of Nobel laureates per capita. Austria only follows Luxembourg, the Scandinavian countries, and Switzerland in this respect.
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Some Interesting Facts about Austrian History and Culture
Austria interesting facts and statistics also note the age of the Austrian flag. The banner is one of the oldest national flags in the world as it dates from 1191. That is when Duke Leopold V fought during the Third Crusade in the Battle of Acre.
This type of information also leads history buffs to pursue a number of fun facts about Austria that are related to the country's heritage and history. For example, the country itself is part of the German-speaking part of the Austrian Empire, which was ruled by the Hapsburg Family dynasty. The family had a long history as members of the ruling class as their reign lasted from 1526 to 1918.
During the Hapsburg reign, the Schönbrunn Palace was the summer palace of the family and featured 1,440 rooms. You can also find the world's largest emerald in Austria, a 2,860-carat sparkling green gem. The sizable emerald is displayed in the Imperial Palace in the Imperial Treasury of the Hofburg in Vienna.
In 1938, Austria became a part of Nazi Germany. It did not exist as an independent country until 1955, when it formally became independent once again.
Austria is bordered by eight countries including Germany, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Slovenia, Italy, Hungary, and Slovakia.
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Some of the Oldest Historic Sites
The next Austria fact is that the oldest zoological garden in the world is located in the Austrian capital. Tiergarten Schönbrunn was established in Vienna in 1752. Another one of the oldest sites in the country is Haslauer, which was founded as Stiftskeller St. Peter in 803. The business is the world's oldest inn and restaurant that is still in operation. It is also the oldest company on the European continent.
Another historic site is Vienna's Central Cemetery, which is called Zentralfriedhof. The final resting place is home to over 2.5 million tombs, which is a number that is higher than the city's current population. You can find the tombs of Brahms, Beethoven, Gluck, Schoenberg, Schubert, and Strauss in the cemetery.
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Austrian Topography
One of the interesting facts on Austria is that when it comes to topography, Austria is primarily made up of mountains. The Austrian Alps cover just over 62% of the country's land area. Europe's second highest and prominent peak is Großglockner, which stands at 3,798 meters with a prominence of 2,423 meters.
Indeed, Austria is defined by a mountainous terrain as the country features 13 peaks that are above 3,000 meters and 34 peaks above 2,000 meters. The country also boasts spell-binding cascades. The Krimml Falls, or Krimmler Wasserfalle, in the state of Salzburg are Europe's tallest waterfalls. They extend to a height of 380 meters.
Austrians must appreciate their land and nature as they are also known to be the top recyclers in Europe. About 63% of waste is recycled in the country.
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Interesting name
One of the fun facts on Austria is the name of the country is derived from the Germanic word "austro," which means "east." In German, Austria is called Osterreich, which means "Eastern Kingdom."
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The unique culture and interesting people
One of the interesting facts on Austria is that Josef Madersperger, an Austrian, invented the sewing machine.
Born in Salzburg, Christian Doppler is famous for his discovery of what is known as the Doppler Effect. The Doppler radar used by meteorologists relies on this Doppler Effect.
In Austria, the traditional folk costume known as the Tracht is accepted as formal attire and can be worn to elegant balls at the Viennese Opera. While men wear green Loden Jackets and leather breeches, women don Dirndl dresses.
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World famous food
One of the fun foodie facts of Austria is that Wienerschnitzel is a typical main dish of Austria and strudel, which is a dessert, was first created in the country.
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Austria is known for its charming and unique hotels.
Make the most of your time in Austria by staying in one of these famous hotels.
Located in Kühtai, Iglu Village is perfect if you're going on a skiing holiday and you want to experience a unique winter adventure. Check out the latest prices for—> Iglu Village.
Located in Langenfeld, Aqua Dome 4 Sterne Superior Hotel is basically a jacuzzi/spa heaven surrounded by mountains. Check out the latest prices for—> Aqua Dome 4 Sterne Superior Hotel.
Located in Bad Blumau, Rogner Bad Blumau is truly different from the other hotels out there. With a very quirky and colorful vibe, you have to take a look at this fairytale hotel. Check out the latest prices for—> Rogner Bad Blumau.
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Other facts of Austria
Let's take a look at the other fun facts of Austria.
Because the Austrian spa waters of Bad Gastein contain radon, patients must present a doctor's order before enjoying the water's "healing" effects.
The first postcards that were circulated were used in Austria.
Downhill or alpine skiing has been the most popular sport in Austria for over a century. The first handbook on skiing was written by Mathias Zdarsky in 1897.
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The deal sees amaysim making its offer to all new NBN residential customers from today (19 June) until 30 June 2017.
Amaysim commercial director of broadband Rob Appel says the launch is in response to NBN Co recently revealing that less than half of the five million homes and businesses that are currently NBN-ready have actually signed up to the service, "mostly due to cost and complexity".
"We pride ourselves on making things easier for our customers by offering amazing value NBN plans, no-lock in contracts and a brilliant online customer experience, but we get that some people may need to get hands-on with the service before they feel secure in making the move to the NBN," Appel says.
"amaysim's NBN plans are built on simplicity, all with unlimited data, no lock-in contracts, no standard activation fees, and the flexibility to switch between the three download speed options of up to 12, 25 and 100Mbps without penalty. The 'first month free' trial includes the option to bring your own modem, but customers can also purchase a pre-configured NetComm NF17ACV modem when they sign up."
amaysim's move to replicate its success in the MVNO mobile market in the broaband market follows its acquisition last year of Australian Broadband Services (AusBBS), a company launched in 2012.


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To know God and make Him known, that is our mission, that is what we do. DTS is the starting gate of YWAM. You step into your first role as a missionary the first week of your DTS through local outreach. Right away, students get the chance to go out into the city and make God known. Throughout the first few months of DTS you are continually getting poured into and loved so that when you go out into the world you can do the same for the complete strangers you will meet. As a student, you learn so much more about your relationship with God as well as about yourself. Then you get the amazing opportunity to take that new knowledge and passion for the Lord, to the Nations. You get to share the love of the Father you've experienced, during lecture phase, to the people you will encounter during outreach. YWAM LA creates a safe place for students to be able to dive deeper into their relationship with God and equips them to be sent out around the globe. Outreach is beautiful. It's messy, it's raw and it's real. It could seriously change your life. It changed mine, I experienced the love of God on a whole other level and it's an experience I will highly recommend for the rest of my life. This is what we as Christians are called to do, to go out and spread the love of God to everyone we meet.
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.
Matthew 28:19-20 (ESV)
A few things come to mind when I think of outreach- adventure, spiritual growth, a beautiful challenge, and life-changing experiences; these are just a few. My outreach experience was all of these things. Ever since I was a little girl I have been intrigued by the idea of being a missionary, I grew up watching my grandparents live out this lifestyle, so it caught my attention early in life. Attending a YWAM DTS had been on my heart for as long as I can remember, so when the timing was finally right for me to go I was thrilled. Right from the start of DTS there was so much excitement and anticipation in waiting for the big outreach reveal. It's something we all got to experience together; the waiting. I was so blessed with the outreach team I got to be a part of. During DTS, the people you're around instantly become your family, this is the case even more so during outreach. You experience so much with this group of people, you can't help but bond so much and so quickly with them. I am incredibly grateful that I got to travel the globe with my outreach family, I couldn't have done it without them. Kenya and the Philippines were the two countries I got to go to. If you were to ask me what my favorite thing about outreach was, I still don't think I could give you an answer. Not because I didn't enjoy it, but because so much had happened that I couldn't choose which experience was highlighted over another. As difficult or how amazing of a situation we experienced ever was, we endured it together. God broke our hearts for so many people and situations during those two and a half months. But what I learned was that He was in each of those situations, no person we encountered was forgotten by God and each of them is unconditionally loved. Outreach was a wake up call for me, it truly changed my life, I was able to fully depend on God and trust that He was always with us and continuously working, even if we couldn't see it. We were in Kenya first, and a portion of our time there was spent fixing up and re-painting a children's oncology ward at a hospital. That is a situation that is understandably difficult to see, and at the time was very heartbreaking for me to walk into every day. There were many days where I just wanted to turn around and walk right out of the hospital or beg God to let me take those kids' place during chemotherapy. But what I couldn't see was how God was there with us and with those kids everyday or how He began to work through us.
One of my teammates connected quickly with a little boy at the hospital. The boy was, of course, shy the first few times we were there. But my teammate didn't give up on him, he knew that boy was special. For two weeks my teammate spent time with that little boy poured life into him and encouraged him every day. That boy started asking questions like, "Jesus loves me, right? Can God heal me? Will I be able to run again?" Yes. The answer is yes. At the end of our time in Kenya we could see a little bit of improvement in his spirit and attitude. He laughed and smiled and played despite his cancer. Leaving those kids in the hospital definitely broke many hearts. But just because we had to leave didn't mean that God left them. We went on to the Philippines and started our adventure there, while still thinking and praying for the children in Kenya. Six weeks later we were about to fly back to America, and my teammate got a very special message from the hospital in Kenya. That beautiful little boy was healed; he was running again! He never stopped believing and praying, he knew God was with him, and that changed his life. That changed our lives. We as a team needed the reminder that God was with every person we encountered. A small seed of hope and faith was planted into the heart of a child and even though we were not there to witness its fruit we still got to experience the joy it brought from across the world. God reminded us that day that the one child we were able to reach, mattered. It's not always about getting to multitudes of people, sometimes all that matters is one. Everyday we get the opportunity to reach the one, and it is so worth it.
Emily Bates
YWAM Los Angeles Staff


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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
Did you know that tags in the Catalog can be used to create resource guides? Today we share textual archivist Kathleen Brown's project for the Hispanic and Latino Organization (HALO), one of several Employee Affinity Groups at the National Archives.
Throughout the years, the National Archives has published various research guides to assist researchers in identifying and locating Latin American records within the holdings of the National Archives, including a Guide to Puerto Rican Records that is available as a PDF on our website.
Images from the National Archives at New York's Guide to Puerto Rican Records, 2013.
The primary benefit of these guides is that they can provide much more contextual information about the records than a typical finding aid or catalog record. Due to the extensive research involved, however, these guides can take years to prepare and are updated infrequently. Additionally, government agencies are constantly creating records that will someday come to the National Archives, which means that by the time any guide is completed it is already out of date.
To create a sustainable way to identify and locate records for resource guides, HALO started an initiative to tag records in the Catalog. By adding the same tag to relevant records, NARA staff can quickly and easily identify records in the Catalog and continue to add new records overtime.
Example of tagging in the National Archives Online Catalog (circled in red) , Papers Relative to Seizure and Confiscation of Property.
Since last October, members of HALO have added the tag prg_2013 to all the records that appeared in the Guide to Puerto Rican Records in New York and then added the tag to records concerning Puerto Rico that did not make it into the guide. More recently, HALO members and other Archives staff have responded to a "call for volunteers" on our interoffice network and have begun tagging records related to Latin American countries with the tag lag_2017 and those related to prominent Hispanic Americans, Hispanic and Latino issues in the United States, and related records with the tag lax_2017. Other tags have also been added as relevant, including personal names, geographic locations, and subject matter.
Tagging these records not only allows us to identify records that promote Hispanic culture but will also allow us to group these records together and create "resource portals" that will enrich our existing web page of Hispanic Heritage resources, ensuring everyone will be able to discover them.
Example of tagging in the National Archives Online Catalog (circled in red), Union Pickets the Jewel Food Store, 8/1973
Please join us in celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by looking through our catalog and tagging a few records!
Special thanks to Kathleen Brown, Textual Processing archivist at the National Archives in College Park, and co-chair of HALO, for her work on this project. Learn more on the Pieces of History blog.


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Fire crews were called to a house on Thirlmere Road, Lancaster on Sunday (February 18) evening.
One person was checked for burns by North West Ambulance Crew when fire crews arrived just after 4.45pm.
The fire involved an oxygen cylinder on the carpet of the living room floor, however it was out on arrival.
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TV, computers, and cell phones have given everyone a unique opportunity to explore the world without ever leaving home.
However, many people, like myself, have curtailed, and or carefully scrutinized our planned "bucket list" destinations due to civil unrest and terrorism. What a shame!
Fortunately, earth is a big place and those pockets of global unrest have not stopped us from traveling.
That said, I made a decision to create a collection that takes it's inspiration from travel destinations. These new styles reflect our artistic interpretation of the history, architecture, textiles, folklore and the lifestyle of many amazing cultures; including that of US cities. So, whether you wear our shoes to a neighborhood French bistro or find yourself shopping on a boulevard in Monaco, it is my hope that YOU will feel like a genuine trendsetter.


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Evolution of a "Composite" floor board deck with Topless Rail on a specially detailed pony wall.
Client did not want duck boards which would be our choice but opted for full width sleepers. As such it became more critical with our choice of materials for structural support for floor boards.
The newly installed torch-on membrane is inherently uneven and the deck had a crown for proper water dispersion. As such our carpenters were challenged to create a perfectly level deck.
The 20″ high pony wall was sheeted with 1/2″ plywood and standard stud placement requiring the wall to be modified for installation of face mounted topless glass posts.
The wall was further modified to CMHC "Best Practices Guide" or better for proper water dispersion.
Privacy for one side was required and to create a water like look to those elements, the glass is acid etched and posts are a light gray.
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Blue Planet Network (BPN), a program of Thrive Networks, has announced funding for critical work on 44 water-supply systems in five low-income countries in Africa and Central America. The funds, provided by an anonymous donor, will support the rehabilitation, expansion, and/or upgrade of these systems through seven of BPN's member organizations. The projects were selected by an expert panel of practitioners from a total of 21 proposals submitted by 18 BPN member organizations.
Failure of rural and small-town water systems is widespread in the developing world. A reasonable estimate is that at least one in five such systems globally is non-functional. Repairing a water system can be more efficient and less costly than building a new system from the ground up. But given the complex mix of factors required to keep water services functioning at a high level of performance, rehabilitation efforts that focus strictly on technical problems may not be sufficient for success. Thus, the organizations selected for funding will combine the repair and upgrade of infrastructure with broader operational reforms that pay attention to financial viability and other long-term management challenges.
"These funds address a critical gap in the development world – moving beyond infrastructure toward sustained water service delivery for low-income people in developing countries," said Melinda Griffith, Thrive Network's interim CEO. "Our review process ensures a high likelihood of promising outcomes from these projects."
Support through Blue Planet Network for the selected projects ranges from $2,800 to $35,000 each. Payment will be based in part on performance outcomes. The nine projects selected are as follows:
- Nicaragua:
- El Porvenir will manage rehabilitation and upgrade services in El Guabo Jicaral and Yaro Central
- EOS International will manage the introduction or upgrade of 10 rural village water tanks
- Honduras:
- Pure Water for the World will repair the water system for Febrero de Veinte Uno
- Haiti:
- Water Mission will install a water treatment facility for St. Damien Pediatric Hospital
- Uganda:
- International Lifeline Fund (ILF) will rehabilitate and upgrade boreholes and strengthen the ecosystem around them in Apac District
- Water Mission will help expand the water distribution systems in both Kimmi Island and Busiro
- Kenya:
- Sabore's Well will help replace the borehole for a Maasai community in Narok County South District
- The Samburu Project will help repair or replace 14 water wells in Samburu
In addition to choosing the funded projects, the Selection Panel has provided written reviews to the applicants that were not chosen, so that they understand how they might strengthen their work and qualify for future funding opportunities.


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WASHINGTON/CARACAS – U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened military intervention in Venezuela, a surprise escalation in Washington's response to the South American nation's political crisis.
On Friday, Trump appeared outside his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, alongside Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, where he told reporters that he had "many options" for responding to the Venezuelan crisis.
"The people are suffering and they are dying. We have many options for Venezuela including a possible military option if necessary," Trump said.
Venezuela's Constituent Assembly ratifies Maduro as President
The Pentagon, however, has reportedly not been directed on any such plans.
Venezuela has appeared to slide toward a more volatile stage of unrest in recent days, with anti-government forces looting weapons from a military base after the installation of an all-powerful new legislative body.
More than 120 people have been killed in Venezuela and thousands arrested in over four months of unrest.
Venezuela and China strengthen economic ties in Caracas meeting
Trump called Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a "dictator" and blamed him for the humanitarian situation in the country.
Trump did not elaborate as to whether American troops would be leading the military option.
"We don't talk about it," he said. "But a military operation, a military option, is certainly something we could pursue."
The U.S. military, however, has not been instructed to provide that option.
Venezuela's defense minister, Vladimir Padrilo, denounced Trump's talk of a possible military intervention, labeling it "an act of craziness," speaking to state TV on Friday evening.
The country's Communications Minister, Ernesto Villegas also called Trump's statement "an unprecedented threat to national sovereignty" in a state TV interview.
On Thursday evening, Maduro addressed the 545 members of the new Venezuelan Constituent Assembly and said he wants a relationship with the U.S. Maduro reached out, saying, "Mr. Donald Trump, here is my hand," the Washington Post reported.
Meanwhile, the White House claimed it had declined a request by Maduro to have a phone call with Trump, accusing the Venezuelan government of not "heeding the call" to stop alleged human rights violations.
U.S. imposes more sanctions against Venezuela including Hugo Chavez's brother
The U.S. leader "will gladly speak" with his Venezuelan counterpart "as soon as democracy is restored," a statement released Friday evening read.
On August 9, the U.S. imposed sanctions on eight Venezuelan officials, including President Nicolas Maduro and the brother of former President Hugo Chavez. The sanctions were imposed due to last month's Constituent Assembly elections in Venezuela, which the US called "illegitimate."
Approximately 8 million people voted for 545 candidates who will look to draft a new constitution for the country.
"I am proud of the alleged sanctions… because I do not wag my tail like a lying dog," Maduro said. The sanctions state that the U.S. will conduct no business with those individuals.
Maduro also accused the opposition of flatly rejecting dialogue and his government's attempts to bring about reconciliation, saying that its supporters "have become prisoners of strategies of local violence." The opposition in turn accuses Maduro of violating the Constitution and staging a "coup."


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Apparently, sending flowers as a gift is the latest environmental sin.
"Environmentalists warned that 'flower miles' could have serious implications on climate change in terms of carbon dioxide emissions from aeroplanes."
"You can argue the planes would be flying anyway but the amount of greenhouse gases pumped out depends on the weight of the cargo."
Vicky Hird, of Friends of the Earth, said: "We don't want to be killjoys because receiving flowers can be lovely but why not grow your own gift?"
Indeed, why not "grow your own gift"? In fact, since virtually everything we consume needs to be delivered somehow and thus will increase "emissions", why not make everything you need? In fact, why not live on self-sustaining farms where you only grow what you need and subsist hand to mouth without the emissions causing conveniences of modern life like automobiles, refrigeration, air conditioning, heat, indoor plumbing, medicine, television, dvds, microwaves, electric ovens, indoor lighting, cell phones, computers, air travel, to name a few?
Well if you want an example of what this lifestyle would be like in reality see the past 10 million years of human existence up until about 100 years ago. Or go to the nearest third world country and see what life is like without modern technology.
It goes without saying that the ease of transportation (along with all the other advances brought by technology) leads to massive productivity increases which lead directly to real purchasing power and thus increased standards of living including life expectancy. We have reached a point where we have so much wealth that flowers can be shipped around the world and given as simple gifts for next to nothing. Shouldn't we be rejoicing? Anyone truly concerned with human life would have almost spiritual level appreciation for modern technology and the quality of life it has brought about.
In fact, ironically, modern technology has resulted in appreciation of nature. It is only from the vantage point of someone who has a home and endless supply of food that you could actually even conceive of "enjoying" nature. If you were left alone in the wilderness to exist like an animal would you value a sunset or would you realize it is the last moment of light to gather food and find protection from the descending darkness of a merciless nature?
Does anyone think the environmentalists are really concerned that global warming will somehow impact our standard of living or life expectancy and that this is what concerns them? What other conveniences would they have us sacrifice? How would they have us live? Will bouquets be on the list of prohibited items under "environmental law"? In principle, wouldn't everything we consume be on that list unless you "grow your own gifts"?


text: BEIJING, July 21 (Reuters) - China, the world's largest mobile phone market by subscribers, posted a 0.32 percent monthly increase in the number of mobile subscribers to about 1.27 billion in June, data from the country's three telecommunications operators showed. Following is the breakdown of mobile subscriber statistics for June provided by the three carriers: China Mobile China Unicom China Telecom Mobile subscribers (including 3G): -cumulative no. of users 790.61 295 180.24 -net addition 3.31 1.71 -0.98 -m/m growth (pct) 0.42 0.58 -0.54 3G subscribers: -cumulative no. of users 238.52 140.81 107.24 -net addition 2.23 3.05 1.29 -m/m growth (pct) 0.94 2.21 1.22 4G Subscribers: -cumulative no. of users 13.94 N/A N/A -net addition 5.83 N/A N/A -m/m growth (pct) 71.89 N/A N/A Note: All numbers are in millions, unless otherwise stated. (Source: Companies, Reuters calculation) *: China Unicom's figure includes 3G and 4G LTE subscribers combined. There is no breakdown for 4G. (Reporting by Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Prateek Chatterjee)


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Waters, Alan and Vilches, Ma. Luz C. (2005) Managing Innovation in Language Education. RELC Journal, 36 (2). pp. 117-136.Full text not available from this repository.
As a steady stream of recent papers indicates, ELT curriculum reform projects are not always as successful as they might be. One overall reason for this situation appears to be a failure to adequately take into account concepts and practices from the world of innovation management. This paper describes an attempt to contribute towards ameliorating this problem by detailing the content, activities, learning processes and outcomes of a short in-service training course on managing innovation in language education, delivered 'on-site' to a cross-section of change agents involved in a major educational reform initiative currently being undertaken in the Philippines. Data from the course are used to throw light on its value as an innovation management awareness-raising vehicle. Although illustrated in terms of a particular innovation context, the course is felt to be also of potential relevance to similar situations elsewhere.
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Even before election day in the U.S. was – thankfully! – fast approaching, a number of fast food chains were anticipating the success of minimum-wage-raising ballot initiatives in various states … and going ahead on their own to better compensate their workers.
An article today (Oct. 31) in South Florida Business Journal (and, no doubt, in other publications from the same company), before noting that both McDonald's and Starbucks had recently announced raised wages for workers in company-owned stores, cited perhaps the best reason for other companies to make similar moves: The paper quoted Sonic Drive-In CEO Cliff Hudson as saying his company expects to improve sales by paying managers higher wages and hiring more full-time workers and, as or more important, he anticipates the company's action will encourage the franchise owners of 95% of Sonic locations to follow his lead.
Business Insider noted that while such initiatives may seem counter-intuitive for a business that depends on low-cost labor in an industry where thin profit margins make it difficult for franchisees to either up wages or cover health care insurance, Sonic's Cliff Hudson says that his company's research has proved that investing more in labor is necessary if the chain wants to compete in a crowded industry.
"We're just trying to show [franchisees] this can be a win-win deal, if it's done right and it's done well," Hudson said, referring to the chain's plan to increase its number of full-time employees.
With 95% of Sonic locations being franchises, Hudson can't automatically raise wages at Sonic restaurants. However, he said, the company can try and convince franchisees that doing so would be financially beneficial. Hudson said raising wages was a major topic of discussion at the company's annual franchisee meeting in September.
There's also the argument that better-paid workers should be happier in their jobs and, thus, be more likely to provide better customer service. Similarly, better-paid managers would, you'd think, be motivated to work harder at find ways, within their limited playbooks, to encourage workers in that (better customer service) direction.
And if raising wages for workers and managers leads to marginal increases in prices to customers, let's be realistic: Most people who regularly eat fast food aren't going to be put off by a nudge up in the price of a burger, fries or a soft drink. Most of those customers are in the fast food place in the first place for one of two reasons: Either they don't see themselves have a choice or where or how to spend their food dollar, and/or they simply like the food.


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Hideaway Presents Aretha Soul Diva with Vula Malinga and Brendan Reilly (Friday)
Seated tickets have now SOLD OUT for this date. Tickets are still available for Aretha Soul Diva on Sunday 24th March!
Hideaway presents Aretha Soul Diva - celebrating the music of the late Aretha Franklin for a three night residency, featuring the vocals of VULA MALINGA and BRENDAN REILLY with MD Janette Mason and an all-star band.
Brendan Reilly
London-based Brendan Reilly is an American singer-songwriter of Jazz, Soul, Pop, and Dance music.
In addition to his own independent releases over the years, he has toured the world with artists such as Disclosure (he is a featured artist on their Grammy nominated, chart-topping album, "Caracal"), Basement Jaxx and Sam Sparro,
worked with artists such as Robert Glasper, Stormzy, Rag'n'Bone Man, Laura Mvula, Florence and the Machine, and Rita Ora, been featured on numerous adverts (most recently the voice of Uber's "Year With Uber" campaign),
had music featured in films, and can regularly be seen in London's finest live music venues such as Ronnie Scott's with his band Soul Family, and at events such as the BBC Proms, and jazz festivals. When he's not touring his solo show around the world, you can see him as a featured vocalist with Pete Tong and the Heritage Orchestra on their Ibiza Classics project, and on the Quincy Jones & Friends concert series. You never know where he might turn up!
He released his first full-length album on April 29th 2016, "The Life of Reilly", a soulful return to his Jazz roots, which was a best-seller on iTunes in the UK and has received amazing support with airplay from radio stations such as Jazz FM and BBC Radio 2 (Jamie Cullum) in addition to receiving rave reviews from publications such as Blues and Soul magazine and Jazzwise magazine. He's currently busily working on his next album, which will add elements of R&B and Afro-Cuban music to his signature Soul-Jazz style.
Vula Malinga
Powerhouse vocalist Vula Malinga is probably best known for her work as lead vocalist with Basement Jaxx, including the hit single 'Oh My Gosh'. Vula is also one third of vocal trio LaSharVu.
Powerhouse vocalist Vula is probably best known for her work as lead vocalist with Basement Jaxx, including the hit single Oh My Gosh. Vula is one third of vocal trio, LaSharVu, with whom she has opened the main stage at Love Supreme Festival, supported Average White Band at the Festival Hall and performed sold out shows at Festivals and venues all over the UK.
She has an impressive CV as one of the premier backing vocalists both in the UK and in the States, performing with Sam Smith, Clean Bandit, Lalah Hathaway, Sam Sparro and other major artists. Vula has wowed huge audiences at the Royal Albert Hall, featuring as a lead vocalist with The Heritage Orchestra, as a featured vocalist for the Quincy Jones Prom and alongside Gregory Porter at the Battle of the Bands Prom, 2014. Her work with the Heritage Orchestra has seen her perform at Hollywood Bowl in LA and tour the major stadiums of Australia. She also received rave reviews for her show stopping performance at Jazz Voice, the opening gala concert of the London Jazz Festival at a sold out Barbican Hall.
Janette Mason
Janette Mason is one of the World's Finest Jazz Composers today.
Janette Mason, from her high profile gigs throughout the 90's touring with artists like Seal, Oasis, k.d.Lang and Robert Wyatt, to the years on camera as Musical Director for Jonathan Ross and Antoine De Caunnes, has proven to be a consummate musician and a standout talent in Jazz, Pop, Indie, Rock and World Music.
Her skills as a composer can be heard in countless Television adverts and programs from Sex and the City, The Drew Carey Show, Come Dine With Me to feature films like Ruby Blue (2008 MEDB Films) starring Bob Hoskins, The Calling (MEDB Films) starring Brenda Blethyn, Susannah York, Amanda Donohoe, Corin Redgrave and Rita Tushingham, as well as the acclaimed Documentary Film Paris Was A Woman by Greta Schiller.
A mainstay of the British Jazz scene for over a decade, Janette has toured her unique sound in Europe, Israel, Japan, Thailand the United States, playing everywhere from The Atlanta and Rochester Jazz Festivals to Carnegie and Albert Hall.
Janette is also a successful recording artist and arranger.
Her hit debut album, Din and Tonic, was shortlisted by Guardian Jazz Critic John Fordham as a contender for "Jazz Album of the Year."
January 2009 brought the release of Alien Left Hand, featuring Julian Siegel, Tom Arthurs, Lea DeLaria, which garnered a Parliamentary Jazz nomination.
She is a sought after arranger and producer and has contributed tracks to Ian Shaw's Drawn to All Things and Lea DeLaria's The Live Smoke Sessions, which reached the Grammy Ballot in 2009.
D'Ranged, Janette's 2014 release featuring David McAlmont, Claire Martin, Tatiana LadyMay Mayfield, Gwyneth Herbert and Vula Malinga, has received rave reviews.


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About SANTANA
More than 37 years of experience in diving in Phuket!
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Having been one of the first dive centers in Phuket we paved the way for generations of divers to come and even explored and named a dive spot or two. As a PADI Dive Center we strongly care about the education and training of divers and new dive instructors and PADI PROS.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Guilty Pleasures Part Fifty-Two -- Take a Letter, Dad
Fearless Maria is back in the house and this time, I'm driving. Dad, you know what's the best part about that?
What is it, Maria?
Now you have to be the voice in the italic type! I'm driving this bus and you're going to have to get off at the next stop if you don't watch your step, buddy!
You've put me on notice, haven't you?
Yeppity do. Now, today we've got some music from all the way back in 1969. That's 40 years ago, Dad!
Yes, I remember it. I turned 6 at the end of that year. Started kindergarten, too!
So let's get started. First, we have this weird guy that I never knew existed, but his name is R. B. Greaves, and he wants someone, maybe even me, to:
It sounds like this Maria is supposed to be his secretary. Back in those days men often had secretaries and they would type letters for their bosses.
Why? Were they too busy being lazy bums to type their own letters? They must not have had the skills to pay the bills! And why did his recorder start bursting into flames at the end? Apparently since can't type his own letters, his mission was impossible!
Sounds right, Maria. I'm guessing you would have had a lot to say about life in 1969.
Well, the whole thing makes me suspicious. And Elvis Presley seemed to be pretty suspicious, too, because he has:
Dad, Elvis looks a little sweaty there, don't you think?
Well, I'm thinking that white jumpsuit he was wearing was probably made of some strange polyester fabric.
Why did Elvis seem to change outfits in the middle? You know what, Dad? I'm pretty sure he was lip-syncing on some of this. So Elvis is being pretty suspicious with his own mind. That's what I think.
Actually, I especially like his sideburns. Those are pretty impressive. You could build a bee's nest in those things!
Plus, he's shaking his butt a lot. Wasn't he a little old for that by then? I don't think the girls were swooning over that stuff by then!
Well, you'd have to ask those girls, but they aren't girls any more.
I bet some of the girls might have looked like this lady in the next song. It's a group called Smith, with:
Well, first of all, I think there's a little mistake in the lyrics on this one, Dad.
What is that, editor?
Number one, I'm thinking she didn't touch this "Baby" person's heart. She probably stabbed it with that pointy headband thing! And also, I think it was the belt that was torn apart.
No, that's fringe, Maria. A lot of people wore fringe outfits back then, including most of this band, apparently.
They seem like they belong out on the fringe, Dad! But I did think the song was, well, interesting. But maybe she was overdoing it a bit with the "NOBODY NOBODY" business. Maybe nobody wants to hear that screaming!
Good point, Maria. So what's next?
Well, it's just Sly and the Family Stone, all wearing really huge hair and if you ask me, they sure don't look like:
Holy smokes, Dad! Sly's hair is as tall as the Willis Tower!
What you talkin' about, Willis?
Dad, they renamed the Sears Tower the Willis Tower. Try to keep up, slow Daddy-O. I guess the rest of the band had an unexpected trip to the hair salon.
Well, considering how long they'd grown it out by then, if they showed up at any hair salon it probably was unexpected, don't you think?
Yep. And it wasn't very smart, either, because their hair was so big that it didn't fit in the camera frame and it looked like they had their heads cut off!
Technology has gotten a little better since then, fortunately.
Yes. Finally, this last song really earned its singer a lot of Cash. Here's Johnny Cash, who seems confused, singing:
Nice hair, Johnny Cash! You seem to be the only person who owned a comb in 1969. The song is some story, though! I wouldn't want to be named George or something like that!
Here's something you might not know, Maria. Johnny Cash was singing that song for a bunch of inmates at San Quentin Prison in California. Some of those guys in the audience were pretty rough dudes.
I wonder if any of their names were Sue?
I'm pretty sure that were all named Bill or George or any old thing, but not Sue.
Well, don't sue me, but it's time for everyone to vote! And if you don't vote, we may have to send you to the Neighborhood Prison, which might not be as bad as San Quentin, but, ooh, it's a tough place! Don't try to survive on mush -- vote in the comments section! Anything else you want to say, Dad?
I think that went well. But you still don't get to drive the Santa Fe.
Posted by Fearless Maria at 7:59 PM
2 comments:
- W.B. Picklesworth said...
Ooh, strong field this time! Put one Boy Named Sue in the ballot box.
(and maybe punch some air holes in it.)
- August 12, 2009 at 9:12 PM
- Night Writer said...
It figures that a guy with multiple on-line aliases would go for something entitled "A Boy Named Sue". (Might be a great name for a blog, though!) I'll cast my vote that direction as well; this was a favorite around our house when I was a kid and I can't believe how I still remember the whole song practically word for word.
One day musical archeologist will look at this as the first rap song. It's got everything: fatherless boy an a never-ending quest for respect and to get revenge for being "dissed"; gun and knife violence. Of course, when Cash wrote this, a hoe was just something you used in your garden.
- August 13, 2009 at 9:52 AM
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The West Midlands Combined Authority has welcomed the Prime Minister's announcement of £70m to transform Birmingham's Alexander Stadium for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Plans are underway for Alexander Stadium's capacity to increase from 12,700 to 40,000 in time for the Commonwealth Games, and to retain 20,000 permanent seats after the event.
The revamped stadium will also include new community sports facilities within the new stand, a permanent warm-up track and a new conference meeting space created to host business and cultural events after the Games.
WMCA chief executive Deborah Cadman said the funding would not only create a world-class stadium for the Games themselves but also a landmark sporting asset for the region and the local community.
"The stadium will be centre stage for the Games and the focal point for millions of viewers around the world," she said.
"So not only will its redevelopment create the perfect venue for fans to watch our top athletes compete, it will also reflect the wider cultural and economic regeneration our region is experiencing."
The announcement comes hard on the heels of a £20m pledge by the WMCA towards the planned Commonwealth Games Village, also in Perry Barr.
The 24-hectare development, on the site of the old University of Central England (UCE) and Birmingham City University (BCU) campus, will house competitors during the Games and then be used help provide much needed new housing for the city. It will also play a key role in helping to regenerate the wider area.


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This year for her birthday, Abby chose to invite her entire ballet class along with all of her "local" friends. {I say "local" because the majority of her classmates live in Seattle. If you're not too familiar with anything north of the city, it makes the trek up to our neck of the woods feel as though you're driving to Canada! }
The party was held at Abby's former ballet studio, Pacific Chamber Ballet. Miss Judy was so sweet and generous to allow us to use the studio like that! {Thanks again, Judy!} And Indeah, their extremely talented student teacher, graciously agreed to provide a fun, workshop-style class for the girls. {You did an amazing job, Indeah! Thank you!}
Here are the photos from that day…
Thank you all for making Abby's day so special! You are a blessing!


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Well, it's not that kind of dog! It's used for moving semi-trailers around in the yard. They are not the most friendly things to operate but this is my hard working Bear man handling one around the yard.
I was a little early (on PTO) to pick him up and grabbed the camera and starting snapping!
He always gets this pose in when I'm trying to take pics of him!


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Guillermo Varela leaves Manchester United for Penarol return
Manchester United have confirmed that defender Guillermo Varela has re-joined former club Penarol.
Varela, 24, joined United from Penarol in 2013 on a five-year contract during David Moyes' reign but has now been allowed to return to the Uruguayan club.
A statement on United's Twitter account read: ".@Guille_Varela4 has left #MUFC to rejoin Penarol. All the best for the future, Guillermo!"
.@Guille_Varela4 has left #MUFC to rejoin Penarol.— Manchester United (@ManUtd) August 12, 2017
All the best for the future, Guillermo! pic.twitter.com/myhrdMMBFl
Varela had limited impact at Old Trafford. After a loan spell at Real Madrid Castilla in 2014-15, he made four Premier League appearances under Louis van Gaal in the season that followed but was unable to establish himself in the first-team squad.
Jose Mourinho allowed the right-back to join Eintracht Frankfurt last season, but his hopes of prolonging his stay in Germany ended after he got a tattoo against the club's wishes prior to the DFB Pokal final.
Earlier this month, the Manchester Evening News cited a source close to the player as saying: "Guillermo decided to play in Penarol for personal tranquillity.
"The player decided it after how badly he was treated in Frankfurt. His experience in Europe was not good. In 2017-18, Guillermo would have been making only £4,000 per week."
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It was a pleasure seeing on-board and enjoying the trip with Camille and Franck as well as their hospitality and dive professionalism!
Thanks for sharing more experience in current and adventure diving, specially during the night!!!
November 29th, 2014
A great trip with the 6 dive buddys.
It was a pleasure seeing on-board and enjoying the trip with Camille and Franck as well as their hospitality and dive professionalism!
Thanks for sharing more experience in current and adventure diving, specially during the night!!!
Experiancia unica!
Experiencia Unica, Increible lugares, dentro y fuera del agua!
Islas, bahias, junglas de coral, miles de peces.
Vimos tinuron bellena! reef sharks, rayas etc..
gracias a Franck, Camille y Guillaume y Ana, muy buenos instructores y personnas, volvare!!!!
Difficult to assess how good this trip was. Between the crew, the guides, the fellow divers and of course, the amazing, absolutely amazing places both above and under, this was the best travel experience had till today!
"on thai sea I felt at home"
"thank you for an amazing trip with awesome dives, nice devoted adorable guides and great ambiance on board! We had whales, mantas, seahorses!!
Very good trip, fantastic food! Awesome dives! Very good organization!
Thank you for an amazing trip with awesome dives, nice adorable guides and great ambiance on board! We had whales, mantas, seahorses!
Fantastic food! Awesome Dives! Very good Organisation!
Incredible Thailand
Some of our guests were doing their first dives in tropical waters (hello Heather Lucky Charm ;) ), and two of them passed their Open Water on this trip (Congratulations Charlotte and Tarek !). What a way to start a diver's life...
Once again, thanks to all of our guests of the week : Hubert, Peter, Fabienne, Tarek, Charlotte, Heather, Andrew, Bern and Maria. It was a pleasure sharing these magic moments with you all !
Hello big guys !
We just came back from a very special week ! First af all, we got to dive the best of both worlds, with a full day in Richelieu Rock before going through the Burmese border, where we dove our very favorite sites !
And what was waiting for us there was just amazing : the very first whale shark of the season, spotted by Guillaume and his divers on North Twin ! This happens very early in the season, let's hope it's a good omen ;)
But that wasn't the only guest of honor : on Shark Cave, a WHALE came to say hello, a few meters from the dingy ! Luckily, we had some Experts on board, and their adverted eye indentified the visitor as a milky whale. We kept our eyes wide open during the dive, but she only let us hear her lovely song...
The strong currents did not discourage Alejandro, who completed his Open Water, nor Madlen, who became an Advanced Scuba Diver ! Congratulations !!
"Will recommend to all my friends"
"everything was perfect"
"a wonderful cruise"
"really well organised, everything was perfect"
"just the perfect week: great dives, great team, great food! At the end of the word with no network!!!"
"A great idea "
"great idea to travel with The Smiling Seahorse"
Camille and Franck are the Smiling Horse's owners since 2012.
Camille has been working all around the globe during seven years before creating this company.
Now mother of two little ones, she works at the office and she's the one who will answer all of your questions.
Her hobbies: horse riding, diving and traveling!
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