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- "Who does the Army trust the most? AIRBORNE!"
- — Members of the 82nd Airborne in "The Opening"
|Medal of Honor: Airborne
|EA Los Angeles/Demiurge Studios
|Electronic Arts
|PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
|First-person shooter
|Single player, multiplayer
|ESRB: Teen (T)
Medal of Honor: Airborne is a World War II first-person shooter computer game and the 11th installment of the Medal of Honor series. It was developed by EA Los Angeles and was released worldwide on the PC and Xbox 360 in early September 2007. A PS2 and Wii version was set to be released but was cancelled in 2007. A PlayStation 3 version was released late November 2007. The game takes place in the European theater of World War II, and is the first in the series to focus only on paratrooper activities.
In the single-player mode, the player takes on the role of PFC/CPL Boyd Travers, a fictional paratrooper in the US 82nd Airborne Division. Missions include various insertions into Italy, northern France, the Netherlands and Germany, each one beginning with a jump behind enemy lines, and success requiring completion of given objectives. Airborne also features a multiplayer mode available for online play, where users have the choice of fighting for the Allies and parachuting down to the battlefield, or fighting for the Axis and starting on the ground, defending the position from enemy paratroopers.
The game uses a massively improved version of Unreal Engine 3. Airborne employs a nonlinear gameplay style whereby the player can start the game anywhere in the map by directing where they land, as opposed to previous linear FPS games where the start point and direction is already laid out, such as Allied Assault.
The plot focuses around Boyd Travers, a U.S. paratrooper, who participates in six different missions. Each one takes place during a different operation, from Operation Husky to bringing down Der Flakturm in Germany. Travers fights alongside the 82nd airborne division and the 17th Airborne, in 'Young Fools' and 'Flying through Hail'.
- Operation Husky | Infinite Mischief
- Operation Avalanche | The Show
- Operation Neptune | Saved By Sacrifice
- Operation Market Garden | The Opening
- Operation Varsity | Young Fools
- Der Flakturm | Flying Through Hail
|M1 Garand
|M1903/A5 Springfield
|Thompson submachine gun
|Browning Automatic Rifle
|MK 2 Grenade
|Winchester Model 12 Shotgun
|M18 recoiless rifle
|Karabiner 98 Kurz
|Gewehr 43
|Sturmgewehr 44
|Model 24 Stielhandgranate
|MG42 (fixed)
Main CharactersEdit
- Corporal Boyd Travers (Alive)
- Sergeant Setzer (KIA)
- Sergeant Dane (MIA)
- Private First Class Wirth (KIA)
Secondary CharactersEdit
- Private First Class Rossum (Possibly KIA)
- Private Harding (KIA)
- Unknown Radio Operator (Alive)
- Harding Spotter (MIA)
- Colonel Scott Webb (Alive)
- Corporal Kish (Alive/ KIA, depending on player's actions)
- Corporal Towne
- Captain Campana (MIA)
- Jimmy(KIA)
Gameplay Edit
This game focuses on non-linear gameplay. The player is able to choose what weapons to take into battle, where to land, and what objectives to complete first. In addition, the player is able to upgrade weapons and grenades, upgrades which carry over from mission to mission. The A.I. is an entirely different design from previous Medal of Honor games, due to the non-linear style of gameplay.
Because of the non-linear gameplay style of Airborne, the developers had to build an entirely new artificial intelligence system to deal with the many ways the player can interact with or approach the computer-controlled allied and enemy soldiers (NPCs), and for them to react to the situation accordingly. With "Affordance A.I.", the characters have an awareness of enemy approach patterns, and also features of the terrain and urban infrastructure that provide a tactical advantage, such as cover, high ground and open doorways. This allows AI characters to take intelligent combat actions based on their surroundings, as opposed to the scripted movements of previous linear FPS games.
Airborne uses two systems to guide the physical and emotional reactions of the AI characters to what is happening around them. "E-cap" (emotion capture) is used to create more human-like emotions on the characters' faces by blending textures to give the appearance of facial expressions, wrinkles, and tension. A "procedural awareness system" gives every character an emotional state such as defensive, nervous, hysterical, etc., and also an awareness of their surroundings and other NPCs. For example, an AI soldier that started to move forward would jump back for cover if an ally next to him was shot.
Airborne uses a heavily modified Unreal 3 engine. The game's core development was started with EA's acquired Renderware engine, but it made the switch to the Unreal 3 engine in early 2006 which delayed the game by over a year. The engine was specifically designed for DirectX 9 and 10 PCs, PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360, and supports many rendering techniques utilized within the graphics capabilities of Airborne, including HDRR, per-pixel lighting and dynamic shadows.
Upon reviewing the game, IGN awarded Airborne a rating of 7.9/10, saying that "Airborne, while not perfect, is definitely the best game in the franchise to come along in quite a while".
GameSpot awarded the game 7.0/10, saying "the single-player campaign doesn't get cooking until the last two levels, but those two levels combined with solid multiplayer make it worth enlisting in Airborne."
Press Start Online stated that Airborne was "a Medal of Honor game that's not only good, it demonstrates a level of imagination and innovation that's becoming increasingly rare in the genre".
As of September 6, 2012, Airborne has received a GameRankings average of 77.53% for the PC, 76% for PlayStation 3 and 74.22% for the Xbox 360 version.
As of the same date, Airborne has received a Metacritic average of 78 for PC, 75 for PlayStation 3 and 73 for Xbox 360.
PlayStation the Official Magazine gave it a 3.5/5, stating "Medal of Honor: Airborne is outrageously beautiful and among the best looking titles on the PS3." Most reviewers praised the music from the games that Medal of Honor, with IGN stating in particular that the title music, which was said to bring back some classic memories from Allied Assault and the starting music for Operation Market Garden for Campaign.
- This game featured the return of Michael Giacchino as its composer five years after finishing MOH: Frontline.
- In Der Flakturm, If you look across the river, you can see where Operation Varsity took place.
- This is the third game in the series to feature Italian enemies.
- Most paratroopers in the missions have a private first class insignia, even if their rank is higher than that.
- By the time the player reaches the Operation Varsity mission, most paratroopers will be seen wearing the insignia of a Sergeant.
- The game used soundtracks from Medal of Honor (1999), Underground, Frontline, Allied Assault, Pacific Assault & Vanguard. However, it also contained 22 new tracks composed by Michael Giacchino, including the main theme, "secondary theme" used for quieter, more uncertain moments of gameplay, a "Vienna waltz"-styled piece for the level Der Flakturm, and two themes for multiplayer (an Allied theme based on his "War Theme" and the game's main theme, and a re-orchestrated version of his "Nazi-March" Axis theme).
- Two of these new tracks were featured in Medal of Honor: Vanguard earlier that year. They were, however, released under different names: the Airborne track "In The Trenches" was called "Operation Husky" in Vanguard and the track "Defusing the Charges" from Airborne was mistakenly named "Operation Market Garden" from MOH: Frontline.
- All the Paratroopers in the cutscenes use the Thompson submachine gun.
- In the aircraft before the jumps, all the Paratroopers carry the over sized holster for the M1A1 Carbine, though the Carbine does not make an appearance in game.
- Similarly, none of the paratroopers have a reserve parachute, which would be worn on the chest.
Video GalleryEdit
External LinksEdit
- Medal of Honor: Airborne for PC on Metacritic
- Medal of Honor: Airborne for PlayStation 3 on Metacritic
- Medal of Honor: Airborne for Xbox 360 on Metacritic
- Medal of Honor: Airborne for PC on GameRankings
- Medal of Honor: Airborne for PlayStation 3 on GameRankings
- Medal of Honor: Airborne for Xbox 360 on GameRankings


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I'm starting to see things like mums and little round, pumpkin-like squash trickling into the stores this week. So it has me wondering, where has summer gone? I have to admit, the image of pumpkins and falling leaves stirs some excitement in me. Fall is definitely my favorite time of year, however I'm just not quite ready to give up on summer. Yet.
I've been going through the photos on my camera and found some very summery pics. These were from a day trip to Carlyle Lake, the lake in my home town. We try to get there at least once a year for some sand castle building.
And of course I always seem to find my way to the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis at least once (okay, several times) a year. This summer was particularly a good one, because the Gardens began selling some of my hand painted pendants in their gift shop! (yay!).
I've included some photo samples of some of the hand painted pendants I sent over to the Missouri Botanical Garden's gift shop. It was a fun challenge to create some new pieces for them.
So for those of us living in Southern Illinois, close to St. Louis, MO (hey, that's me!), we know how August temperatures and humidity tell us we aren't even close to being into fall yet, no matter what the stores are selling. Of course, come September 1st all of that changes and mums and pumpkins are fair game, no matter what the temp is!

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For the past three months, I have been living in Dial-up Town, the internet equivalent of Radiator Springs; once a place frequently travelled through, but now a sleepy little backwater bypassed by the fast and heavy traffic of the broadband interstate.
This is not by choice - far from it. It's where I ended up as a consequence of my internet service provider's general upgrade to their service. The much-heralded free increase of speed from two megabytes to a maximum of eight took place on May 17th, and I have not been able to download a single webpage since that time - at least, not at home, and not on broadband.
The experience has been instructive in so many, many ways. I know far more about broadband provision than I ever imagined I'd care to. During the course of my more-than-40 phone calls to customer service, I've eliminated every possible confounder; if you suffer from insomnia just write to me and I'll send you a list of the things I've done - all of them more than once - and you'll be out like a light within five minutes. I have also developed a pretty clear picture of how my ISP's technical support operation is set up and just what it can't do. Things like operating a section devoted to solving recalcitrant problems, or locating and fixing a fault that lies in the telephone line or in the exchange, seem to be beyond the company's capability.
But far more depressing and sinister has been my discovery that broadband turns out to have been addictive - at least for me. I'd become a research junky, taking full advantage of the online services of various libraries to "shop" for interesting academic articles. I flattered myself that this was a cheaper and more edifying way of passing time than browsing for things to buy.
I'd also become a news junky, reading not just the Guardian, but also the Washington Post, and more cursorily the LA Times, the New York Times, the Boston Globe and Le Monde. Then there were the numerous political blogs, and various activist websites. There was really quite a lot to get through for the public minded citizen.
In retrospect, the problem wasn't the time I spent doing this, but rather the lack of satisfaction that it brought me. Browsing is compelling yet ultimately unsatisfying - precisely the emotional combination that makes addiction what it is.
And I think the compulsiveness has to do with the way in which broadband browsing can make you instantly aware of the size and complexity of the problem - any problem - while not doing quite the same thing about the solution. You seek but do not find, and so you seek again. The most alarming part is the sense that, for all our ideas that the internet promotes political activism, it is actually a way of giving us daily practice in coping with our political powerlessness.
When the world is swept into your consciousness, you discover (a) you're actually the size of an ant and (b) the solution to the problem lies more offscreen than on. It's always somewhere out of reach. The senses of urgency and of powerlessness are simultaneously and exponentially increased as one reads more and more. It's infuriating. I wonder if the medium itself doesn't contribute in this way to the belligerence people so often express in their postings.
Offscreen, an ant-sized life is lived more hopefully. What is ant-sized to an ant, after all?
I've found that, for me at any rate, it's not more information but more thinking that satisfies. With so many answers coming in onscreen, I forget what my question is. In browsing, my thoughts themselves become like a net, diffusely spread all over the place, but with no focus - scatterbrained in the truest sense of the word. Offline, the value of effort is restored; the afternoons spent writing letters or making calls or doing some one thing no longer seem of minute political value or social significance. I can read a book.
And speaking of life off-screen, I've got to go now. Must mail a letter to the PO box number that seems to be the only way my ISP's customer support unit can deal with complaints. I'm hoping to recover my three months' worth of pointless subscription fees - along with the £30 I've spent on telephone calls about my "free" upgrade.


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This is my son, Kurt. He was diagnosed January 24th after he had been sick for over 2 weeks and had started to breathe funny. Turns out he was in DKA and his blood sugar was close to 500! It's been almost 9 months now and we're still figuring things out, and some days I get very overwhelmed. But Kurt is back to his happy, playful, curious self, and he's healthy which is the most important thing!
Has anyone told you that you couldn't do something due to your diabetes, and you proved them wrong?
We've been questioned multiple times about if he can eat cake or sweets, or "what if he wants to play sports?" I just smile and say "He can do anything any other kid can do. We just have to think it through a little more, plan a little more, and pay a little more attention."
How do you inspire others?
Kurt inspires me (his mother) every day, just by how brave he is. He never fusses over getting his finger pricked. He never whines when he gets his shots. He actually asks me to check his blood sugar more often than he needs! To get your fingers pricked at least 6 times a day, get at least 4 or 5 shots a day, and still be so happy and full of curiosity and adventure and love?! Even when his blood sugar is all over the place and it feels like I have no control and there's "no end in sight," I see him smiling and I can't complain. He's happy and healthy, and I'm proud to be his mommy.


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Sometimes, a thought experiment turns into a policy suggestion.
More than 250 years ago, the occasional economist David Hume (and a good friend of Adam Smith) asked what would happen if we all woke up one morning with more money in our pockets. His answer was simple: we would all feel richer from the pleasant windfall and spend more for a while, but eventually all prices would double and nothing real would be changed.1 What Hume was suggesting is now referred to as the Quantity Theory of Money.
Almost 50 years ago, the full-time economist Milton Friedman asked a similar question of how a change in the rate of growth of money would affect the economy, and his answer was that inflation would eventually reflect that change. And yes, in his thought experiment, Friedman mentioned the example of a helicopter flying over a community and dropping cash.2 (Irony: the conclusion from his theoretical analysis, which is now called the "Friedman's rule," is that zero nominal interest rate and a little bit of deflation are the best for the society. Does it remind you of any country?)
Just 14 years ago, the economist-policymaker Ben Bernanke made use of the helicopter example and proposed something that was essentially the same but less comical: a coordination of the central bank and the fiscal authority, with the newly created debt from a fiscal expansion fully and permanently purchased by the central bank with newly created money.3
Okay, enough history of economic thought.
How is this policy different from quantitative easing, which also involves the central bank buying all sorts of government bonds, among other assets? Other than the explicit fiscal-monetary coordination, Bernanke's helicopter drop of money emphasizes the permanent nature of the debt purchase. Unlike quantitative easing, which central bankers around the world keep telling us is only "an unusual tool in an unusual time" and that central banks will get rid of the assets once things are back to normal, there is no coming back once the helicopter is flown. The amount of debt expansion is forever eliminated by the central bank.
It is also different from a mere expansion of government spending or tax cut: people know that the government is constrained (just like the rest of us), and the expansion has to be paid by some future tax increase or spending cut. This forward-looking behavior (which is referred to as Ricardian equivalence, after the economist-investor David Ricardo) limits the effect of fiscal policy.
So, what about the hype that helicopter drop of money is exactly the kind of policy that Japan should (or even does) seriously consider for getting it out of the quagmire of low inflation and low growth? Will it work?
It depends on what you mean by "work".
Inflation in Japan has been near zero for about 20 years, and there is no sign that it is going back to its 2 percent target anytime soon (though many promises were made, and then broken, by the Bank of Japan on this). Real GDP growth has been equally gloomy, hovering around zero since the 1990s. There is little evidence that things have improved since the start of Abenomics in 2013.
Abenomics is only a series of fiscal expansions juxtaposed with a series of monetary expansions, without any coordination or commitment to make any of them permanent.
As argued by Bernanke in 2002, a helicopter drop would hit two birds with one stone (or, more accurately, one drop): fiscal expansion will pull consumption and prices up, and the debt purchased by the central bank will eliminate the possible fiscal consequences (tax increase or spending cut). Even if consumption does not bulge, the rise in asset values induced by monetary expansion will indirectly make borrowing easier for businesses and households.
But real output growth is a matter of both demand and supply. One of the "three prongs" of Abenomics is structural reform, a set of policies that tries to boost aggregate supply by raising productivity and reducing inefficiency. As of now it is mostly talk with few concrete achievements, and I am doubtful that a higher dose of monetary and fiscal policies is enough to bring the growth rate up. Pumping more money into the hands of businesses and households is futile if they do not have anything attractive to invest in.
But I do think a helicopter drop of money, or what economists would prefer to call debt monetization, can raise inflation and its expectations. Why? It is because of the strong historical evidence behind it.
Then why is Haruhiko Kuroda, the governor of the Bank of Japan, so vehemently rejecting this idea?
I think risk or ambiguity aversion is the main explanation. The historical evidence I just referred to is not all bright and beautiful: quite often debt monetization is a dark force that is way too powerful, something that a broke or corrupt government uses to print its way out of a growing budget deficit, generating inflation that gets out of control. Zimbabwe since the late 1990s is a recent example (remember the note of one hundred billion dollars?), and for an older one we have the Weimar Republic of Germany. Having difficulties in paying off its war reparations and wage obligations, the government cooperated with the central bank and monetized more and more of its debt, leading to probably history's most famous and influential case of hyperinflation.
As a decision maker at the central bank, it is just too daunting to figure out the right amount for the helicopter drop, and overshooting the goal of a 2 percent inflation is not something you want to put on your résumé as a central banker. In contrast, given the repeated failures by previous governors, being unable to reach the inflation target does not sound all that bad. When facing a substantial parameter uncertainty (i.e., not knowing how the economy will respond to the policy), a somewhat lukewarm quantitative easing may be the optimal strategy for the Bank of Japan to adopt.
Does Abenomics qualify as a form of helicopter drop in disguise? It does include both monetary and fiscal actions, but their coexistence does not make them a case of helicopter drop. What we have since 2013 is only a series of fiscal expansions juxtaposed with a series of monetary expansions, without any coordination or commitment to make any of them permanent. Sometimes we even see the two contradicting each other: the recent 28 trillion yen fiscal stimulus announcement was oddly followed by an underwhelming monetary decision. Such confusion and ambivalence are not making Abenomics more effective.
Japan is likely to stay as a no-fly zone for helicopters loaded with money.
1. From the essay "On Interest". Retrieved from http://www.econlib.org/library/LFBooks/Hume/hmMPL27.html
2. From a chapter of his book, Optimal Quantity of Money, published in 1969 by MacMillan.
3. His speech can be found at https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/Speeches/2002/20021121/default.htm
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Taylor back with Boyz as Suriname assignment looms
Thirty-three-year-old Jermaine Taylor was selected in Jamaica's 21-man squad to face Suriname in the third round of the Concacaf Nations League qualifiers here at Montego Bay Sports Complex at 7:00 pm this Saturday.
The veteran central defender was chosen as a replacement for Watford FC's Adrian Mariappa, who is said to be less than 100 per cent fit and whose club has requested of the Jamaica Football Federation that the player be given time off to recover fully.
Taylor, who turns 34 next January, last represented Minnesota United in Major League Soccer in the 2017 season, after joining from Portland Timbers, with whom he spent the 2016 season. He has earlier represented Houston Dynamo for five seasons after joining them in February 2011.
The elegant defender last represented Jamaica at last year's Concacaf Gold Cup where Jamaica finished runners-up for the second-consecutive campaign to the hosts. He was later named alongside two other Jamaicans — outstanding goalkeeper Andre Blake and left wing back Kemar lawrence — in the 2017 Gold Cup Tournament Best XI.
Taylor and his teammates are expected to begin a training camp in Montego Bay today, with a first training session scheduled for tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock at Montego Bay Sports Complex.
The Jamaicans currently lie in sixth place in the Concacaf Nations League qualifiers standings with maximum six points, inclusive of 4-0 and 6-0 victories over The Cayman Islands and Bonair, respectively, for a plus-10 goal difference, while Suriname are in 12th place following their 0-0 draw against Dominica and a 5-0 whipping of British Virgin Islands.
Jamaica and Suriname last met here in a Caribbean Championship exactly two years ago when the Reggae Boyz prevailed 1-0.
Tickets for entry to the game were scheduled to go on sale from yesterday at Western Sports and Fontana Pharmacy (in Montego Bay) at $2,500 for grandstand and $1,000 for bleachers. Tickets will also be on sale at the former Cars to Go location opposite the stadium on match day. Authentic Reggae Boyz Umbro gear and caps will also be on sale on match day at special rates.
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Aqua Marine - we only have one of these (so the image you see is for the necklace you will receive). This is a beautiful pale green/blue necklace, and you can see why this gemstone is often associated with the sea. It is reputed to be a protective stone (it was carried by sailors to keep them safe), bringing peace, serenity, courage and clear communication. Aqua marine is associated with successful marriage since it symbolises faithfulness.
Chakra - this is a beautiful combination of the gemstones associated with the chakras: amethyst (crown), iolite (third eye), aquamarine (throat), peridot (heart), citrine (solar plexus), carnelian (sacral) and garnet (base).
Amethyst - a pretty lilac/purple gemstone that's associated with harmony and calm. It is often used during meditation, to calm the mind and balance out highs and lows to encourage tranquility.
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'I am in hell," Rosa tells me, as she is lowered by a rope down the cliff face, "and I hold you personally responsible." This isn't what a parent wants to hear on holiday, even if she is - mostly - joking. At least she's not bored. "Don't worry," I call down, trying to hide my own anxiety, "you'll soon be back on the ground."
The ground, in this case, is the bottom of a deep canyon in the Sierra Aitana, the beautiful limestone mountains north-east of Alicante. It's our mission to navigate its 5km of cool green water and shady white rock. Once we're inside, there isn't really any other way out, what with vertical cliffs hundreds of feet high surrounding us.
Safely down, Rosa, 14, discovers a huge pool of mud and dips her wet-suited body into it, giggling with pleasure. "It's like bathing in a giant's fart," she says. Soon we're all paddling through the canyon, sliding down short drops into deep pools, then swimming out. Over the next four or five hours we're one happy family, for once heading in the same direction.
Leading the group is Jonathan, our tough South African guide with the useful trick of tossing rocks ahead of him to scare away any snakes sunbathing in the pools. Our 12-year-old son Joe is agog. This will play big back at school. True, they're not poisonous snakes, but this is no theme park. Jonathan does, however, have a picnic, wrapped inside the dry bag on his back. At lunchtime we bask in sunshine like the snakes, and tuck in.
Family activity holidays can seem almost too good to be true: a series of exciting adventures you can all share in, solving the problem of how to fill those long holiday hours while putting colour back in the kids' cheeks after too much screen time at home. ("Yeah," says Joe sardonically, "quality bonding time.") And all of it happening in a beautiful place. The reality can be disappointing. Some outdoor centres feel institutional, like school, so while the activities are top-notch, evenings are spent in sterile dining areas or bland rooms with bunk beds - for the adults, too. Opt for your own digs instead, and you can feel disconnected from the action.
Then there's the problem of keeping the whole family more or less content. Enthusiasts might know what to expect from each activity, but newcomers can't be expected to enjoy everything that's served up. What if one sibling thrives and the other whines? As Tolstoy said, every unhappy family is miserable in its own way. The ability to bungee jump is one thing, but working with families requires a different skill set.
Minutes after arriving at Hort de Gloria, just outside the village of Sella, I could see that Dartmoor-based travel specialists Spirit of Adventure have found the perfect solution. Hort de Gloria is a 200-year-old farm of terraced orchards converted into a beautiful and relaxed guesthouse. Run by Jonathan Neil and his wife Violetta, who grew up on the farm before moving to South Africa, it's hard to imagine a better base for an active family holiday.
Walking round the terraces, the air scented with rosemary and fennel, I quickly forgot the skyscrapers of Benidorm just the other side of the mountains. But their impact is still revealed in Sella's landscape. Many of the Sierra Aitana market gardens are falling into disrepair. Mass tourism offers easy pickings compared to the graft of a smallholding, and produce grown in Morocco is cheaper.
So Hort de Gloria - the garden of heaven - is a little ray of sustainable sunshine. The farm is organic, and around the table at dinnertime you're likely to find a few "wwoofers", volunteer organic farm workers who swap labour for board and lodging. They tend the farm's fruiting trees - with 20 different varieties, something is bound to be in season. We could see lemons and avocados, but were flummoxed by something that looked a bit like apricots but turned out to be loquats, a kind of medlar from China. Rosa and Joe were soon grazing direct from the branch.
The farm also produces 2,000kg of olive oil each year, and turns a lot of its fruit into jams and preserves. There are a few chickens running around, so the eggs are fresh, too. Not surprisingly, the food is excellent - something of a relief on the Costa Blanca, where meals out can often be expensive or disappointing, or both.
All those fruit trees thrive on a deep, sweet spring, which also feeds a cooling 25m pool and the well in the guesthouse kitchen that is still drawn with a bucket. The swimming pool is home to noisily amorous frogs, and the trees outside our room came equipped with a nightingale, which kept up its musical genius for much of the night.
With children of their own, and parents and grandma living close by, Hort de Gloria is habituated to family life and the chaos that can involve. Jonathan was a construction project manager in South Africa and a keen paddler; Vio was a design journalist. Those skills have been put to good use.
If Hort de Gloria is a heavenly place to wake up each morning, then it's well placed as an adventure destination, too. Sella is famous among climbers as having some of the best rock in Europe, but it's also a great place to try climbing for the first time. And despite the mauling Valencia's coastal landscapes have suffered in the last few decades, the Sierra Aitana are still wildly beautiful and a popular destination for walkers.
There are plenty of mountain biking trails and, being a limestone landscape, the mountains are seamed with canyons and caves to explore. And a short drive south are all the water-based activities you can imagine. You can do most of these things in North Wales, but you aren't guaranteed a warm, friendly sea or sunshine - or an ice-cold gin with lemon that was still on the tree five minutes beforehand.
On our first morning, we paddled in double kayaks for an hour or so along the coast from the marina in La Vila Joiosa. A weak swell rocked the boat as we emerged from behind the breakwater, provoking a few squeaks of alarm from Rosa in front - "Is this normal?"
Paddling behind Rosa was a valuable parenting lesson. It was no use getting frustrated if she missed a stroke or her attention wandered. I just had to fit in around her for a change, timing my effort to match hers. Soon we were moving along nicely, passing a nudist beach - the children somewhat slack-jawed - while the coast gradually revealed some steep cliffs ahead.
The plan was to pull the kayaks on to a flat rock below the cliffs, have lunch and swim, but the swell was building under a strengthening wind and Jonathan decided it was too awkward to land, so we elected instead to go back to a beach. First, however, with Rosa proving the star kayaker, Kate decided we should swap boats.
So I found myself jumping reluctantly into a sea heaving under the lee of the cliffs. It was beautifully warm, and bobbing about in the waves was good fun, but the children looked rather forlorn alone in their boats, so we cut the bathing short. With the wind now at our backs, we paddled easily back to La Vila Joiosa, where Jonathan took us to a staggeringly good ice-cream shop. Paradise.
The trick Spirit of Adventure seems to have managed is providing enough structure to fill your days and keep you active, but enough room to relax together as a family. As well as kayaking down the coast we also took a boat trip and went snorkelling, explored a cave, climbed rocks, rode mountain bikes and spent a day scrambling through that canyon.
And yet, as busy as all that sounds, I never felt that the activities had taken over from the spirit of the place. Sella still feels very Spanish, and the easy pace of life was immensely relaxing. There's a feeling around now, promulgated by stunt monkeys on television, that adventure is all about adrenaline and biting the heads off snakes. (Although Bear Grylls would probably like our digs.) Some activity holidays can play up that quasi-military side of things. But the beauty of this holiday is that it focuses on the accommodation and location, not simply dazzling guests with excitement. I prefer kayaking with a man who knows how to build a house rather than blow one up. And while Hort de Gloria could, in all its organicness, seem rather self-righteous, Jonathan and Violetta are too down-to-earth - and fun - to allow that to be the case.
The acid test of how the kids felt came on our last day, spent on the coast. After a trip to a shopping mall for Rosa to buy a dress, we headed to Aqualandia, the water-slide theme park on the eastern end of Benidorm. In front of us were the canyons and sheer cliffs of tower blocks. The scent of herbs at Hort de Gloria was replaced by the smell of fast food.
For two or three hours we ran up ladders and slid down slides like lemmings on espresso, along with hundreds of others. Rosa and Joe seemed back on familiar ground and loving it - as did their parents, I admit. But, as we drove back to Sella, Rosa said: "Yeah, fun, but I couldn't do that all week." Kids today, eh? No stamina.
Way to go
Getting there
Thomson Airways (0871 231 4787, thomson.co.uk/flights) flies from Gatwick to Alicante from £109 rtn inc taxes, and £129 from Manchester.
Where to stay
Seven nights' full board at Hort de Gloria near Sella costs £550 per adult and £440 per child (under 18), including airport transfers, all activities and equipment, with Spirit of Adventure (01822 880277, spirit-of-adventure.com).
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Elko, Spring Creek top South Tahoe
Elko fended off a South Tahoe team that just wouldn't quit Friday, making it out of town with a 51-43 league win.
"Elko's a great team, so to come out and compete with them tonight in our house was very complementary of our boys and the effort they put in," said South Tahoe coach Joby Cefalu.
Ranked 11th in Nevada and first in IA Northern League, Elko (19-2, 12-0) and South Tahoe were neck-and-neck through the first four minutes, but the Indians ended the first quarter with a 7-1 run for a 15-7 lead.
South Tahoe cut Elko's lead back down to four. But with strong offensive rebounding, Elko pulled further ahead and took a 29-18 lead into halftime.
South Tahoe never gave up. The Vikings played solid basketball, but proved unable to close within seven points of Elko.
"Give it up to Tyler Hogbin in the first half and to Chase Waterman and Dominic Diana," Cefalu said of his team's performance. "The guys just played an excellent game and battled on the boards."
Waterman led South Tahoe in scoring with 12 points. Hogbin and Denzel Perez each scored nine. Stone Merkley scored five and Jared Fajman scored four.
South Tahoe lost a tight matchup with visiting Spring Creek 63-59 Saturday.
The two league losses leave South Tahoe (8-12, 6-6 IA Northern) tied with Fallon for a 4th place playoff spot.
The Vikings have four more league games on their schedule, including a regular-season ending game at Fallon in mid-February. Cefalu said he is pleased with his team's prospects.
"We're hoping to get a few more wins over the next couple weeks and if we do, then we head back out to Elko and we get another shot at them. We've competed with the top two teams in the league, Elko and Lowry, and had opportunities to beat both of them," Cefalu said.
"If we take Elko or Lowry in playoffs, they're going to be a little more nervous. I think they're rooting against us down this stretch."


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This is the symbol I would use. Christ has taken residence at the center of my life. The grace of God, through the gospel, is what empowers my life. This grace is leading me to a maturing dependence on Christ as my Lord and Savior. The ultimate aim that Christ has for my life is not personal perfection or external compliance or communal belonging. The aim is Christ dependence. This Christ dependence is expressed through repentance and faith. Repentance and faith (continually coming back to the Gospel) produces a Christ-likeness that is matured in my affections, my understanding, and my obedience. My life is being tailored by the Spirit of God to be a dance around the cross. The Spirit will continue this work of grace until at last I behold my Savior face to face.


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A Robber in the Old Orchard
"I DON'T believe it," muttered Johnny Chuck out loud. "I don't believe Jenny Wren knows what she's talking about."
"What is it Jenny Wren has said that you don't believe?" demanded Skimmer the Tree Swallow, as he once more settled himself in his doorway.
"She said that Hummer the Hummingbird is a sort of second cousin to Sooty the Chimney Swift," replied Johnny Chuck.
"Well, it's so, if you don't believe it," declared Skimmer. "I don't see that that is any harder to believe than that you are cousin to Striped Chipmunk and Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel. To look at you no one would ever think you are a member of the Squirrel family, but you must admit that you are."
Johnny Chuck nodded his head thoughtfully. "Yes," said he, "I am, even if I don't look it. This is a funny world, isn't it? You can't always tell by a person's looks who he may be related to. Now that I've found out that Sooty isn't related to you and is related to Hummer, I'll never dare guess again about anybody's relatives. I always supposed Twitter the Martin to be a relative of yours, but now that I've learned that Sooty isn't, I suspect that Twitter isn't either."
"Oh, yes, he is," replied Skimmer promptly. "He's the largest of the Swallow family, and we all feel very proud of him. Everybody loves him."
"Is he as black as he looks, flying round up in the air?" asked Johnny Chuck. "He never comes down here as you do where a fellow can get a good look at him."
"Yes," replied Skimmer, "he dresses all in black, but it is a beautiful blue-black, and when the sun shines on his back it seems to be almost purple. That is why some folks call him the Purple Martin. He is one of the most social fellows I know of. I like a home by myself, such as I've got here, but Twitter loves company. He likes to live in an apartment house with a lot of his own kind. That is why he always looks for one of those houses with a lot of rooms in it, such as Farmer Brown's boy has put up on the top of that tall pole out in his back yard. He pays for all the trouble Farmer Brown's boy took to put that house up. If there is anybody who catches more flies and winged insects than Twitter, I don't know who it is."
"How about me?" demanded a new voice, as a graceful form skimmed over Johnny Chuck's head, and turning like a flash, came back. It was Forktail the Barn Swallow, the handsomest and one of the most graceful of all the Swallow family. He passed so close to Johnny that the latter had a splendid chance to see and admire his glistening steel-blue back and the beautiful chestnut-brown of his forehead and throat with its narrow black collar, and the brown to buff color of his under parts. But the thing that was most striking about him was his tail, which was so deeply forked as to seem almost like two tails.
"I would know him as far as I could see him just by his tail alone," exclaimed Johnny. "I don't know of any other tail at all like it."
"There isn't any other like it," declared Skimmer. "If Twitter the Martin is the largest of our family, Forktail is the handsomest."
"How about my usefulness?" demanded Forktail, as he came skimming past again. "Cousin Twitter certainly does catch a lot of flies and insects but I'm willing to go against him any day to see who can catch the most."
With this he darted away. Watching him they saw him alight on the top of Farmer Brown's barn. "It's funny," remarked Johnny Chuck, "but as long as I've known Forktail, and I've known him ever since I was big enough to know anybody, I've never found out where he builds his nest. I've seen him skimming over the Green Meadows times without number, and often he comes here to the Old Orchard as he did just now, but I've never seen him stop anywhere except over on that barn."
"That's where he nests," chuckled Skimmer.
"What?" cried Johnny Chuck. "Do you mean to say he nests on Farmer Brown's barn?"
"No," replied Skimmer. "He nests in it. That's why he is called the Barn Swallow, and why you never have seen his nest. If you'll just go over to Farmer Brown's barn and look up in the roof, you'll see Forktail's nest there somewhere."
"Me go over to Farmer Brown's barn!" exclaimed Johnny Chuck. "Do you think I'm crazy?"
Skimmer chuckled. "Forktail isn't crazy," said he, "and he goes in and out of that barn all day long. I must say I wouldn't care to build in such a place myself, but he seems to like it. There's one thing about it, his home is warm and dry and comfortable, no matter what the weather is. I wouldn't trade with him, though. No, sir, I wouldn't trade with him for anything. Give me a hollow in a tree well lined with feathers to a nest made of mud and straw, even if it is feather-lined."
"Do you mean that such a neat-looking, handsome fellow as Forktail uses mud in his nest?" cried Johnny.
Skimmer bobbed his head. "He does just that," said he. "He's something like Welcome Robin in this respect. I—"
But Johnny Chuck never knew what Skimmer was going to say next, for Skimmer happened at that instant to glance up. For an instant he sat motionless with horror, then with a shriek he darted out into the air. At the sound of that shriek Mrs. Skimmer, who all the time had been sitting on her eggs inside the hollow of the tree, darted out of her doorway, also shrieking. For a moment Johnny Chuck couldn't imagine what could be the trouble. Then a slight rustling drew his eyes to a crotch in the tree a little above the doorway of Skimmer's home. There, partly coiled around a branch, with head swaying to and fro, eyes glittering and forked tongue darting out and in, as he tried to look down into Skimmer's nest, was Mr. Blacksnake.
It seemed to Johnny as if in a minute every bird in the Old Orchard had arrived on the scene. Such a shrieking and screaming as there was! First one and then another would dart at Mr. Blacksnake, only to lose courage at the last second and turn aside. Poor Skimmer and his little wife were frantic. They did their utmost to distract Mr. Blacksnake's attention, darting almost into his very face and then away again before he could strike. But Mr. Blacksnake knew that they were powerless to hurt him, and he knew that there were eggs in that nest. There is nothing he loves better than eggs unless it is a meal of baby birds. Beyond hissing angrily two or three times he paid no attention to Skimmer or his friends, but continued to creep nearer the entrance to that nest.
At last he reached a position where he could put his head in the doorway. As he did so, Skimmer and Mrs. Skimmer each gave a little cry of hopelessness and despair. But no sooner had his head disappeared in the hole in the old apple-tree than Scrapper the Kingbird struck him savagely. Instantly Mr. Blacksnake withdrew his head, hissing fiercely, and struck savagely at the birds nearest him. Several times the same thing happened. No sooner would his head disappear in that hole than Scrapper or one of the other of Skimmer's friends, braver than the rest, would dart in and peck at him viciously, and all the time all the birds were screaming as only excited feathered folk can. Johnny Chuck was quite as excited as his feathered friends, and so intent watching the hated black robber that he had eyes for nothing else. Suddenly he heard a step just behind him. He turned his head and then frantically dived head first down into his hole. He had looked right up into the eyes of Farmer Brown's boy!
"Ha, ha!" cried Farmer Brown's boy, "I thought as much!" And with a long switch he struck Mr. Blacksnake just as the latter had put his head in that doorway, resolved to get those eggs this time. But when he felt that switch and heard the voice of Farmer Brown's boy he changed his mind in a flash. He simply let go his hold on that tree and dropped. The instant he touched the ground he was off like a shot for the safety of the old stone wall, Farmer Brown's boy after him. Farmer Brown's boy didn't intend to kill Mr. Blacksnake, but he did want to give him such a fright that he wouldn't visit the Old Orchard again in a hurry, and this he quite succeeded in doing.
No sooner had Mr. Blacksnake disappeared than all the birds set up such a rejoicing that you would have thought they, and not Farmer Brown's boy, had saved the eggs of Mr. and Mrs. Skimmer. Listening to them, Johnny Chuck just had to smile.


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Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council has agreed an inflationary district rate increase of 1.76 percent for 2017-18.
A spokesman said, "The Council has an ambition and vision to grow the economy, stimulate investment, sustain and create new jobs and provide improved services for every resident and the modest rise agreed reflects its commitment to continue to deliver in these priority areas.
"The decision to increase the rate marginally came following a detailed analysis of the key priorities outlined for the incoming year, the annual budget required, along with external cost pressures facing the Council."
Lord Mayor of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Councillor Garath Keating said: "The decision to increase the average domestic district rate by a modest 64p per month reflects the Council's commitment to manage its finances well while balancing the needs, priorities and expectations of all residents which include the delivery of high quality and efficient value-for-money services, investment in our communities and infrastructure that will underpin growth and prosperity for the future.
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Deputy Lord Mayor, Councillor Paul Greenfield added: "The Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon area is fast realising its potential, investing for the future and promoting its strengths locally, nationally and globally.
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The shell of a duvet can be made from a variety of materials, including cotton, silk and silk blends. Cotton is the most durable and easy-to-maintain choice, while silk and silk blends have a luxurious finish that's elegant enough to use uncovered - although they may require specialized care.
A duvet's construction type will determine how well the filling stays in place and resists flattening. Duvets feature two basic types of construction: box stitch and baffle box. Box-stitch construction, also referred to as sewn-through construction, consists of two pieces of fabric filled and sewn into squares, creating a quilted pattern that prevents fill from shifting. Baffle-box duvets have sewn-in chambers with side walls that not only keep the fill from shifting but also ensure more even distribution of warmth.
Tog Rating
A tog rating is a measure of a duvet's thermal insulation based on a scale of 1 to 15, where 1.5 is cool and lightweight and 15 extra toasty. If you live in a climate with cold winters, you'll want a duvet insert with a tog rating of at least 13. If you live in a warmer climate, a duvet with a tog rating between four and nine will keep you cozy at night without causing you to overheat.
When buying a duvet cover, consider if you'll need a cover for it or if you plan to use it without. Add style with a duvet cover and some throw pillows. Some duvets come with a cover, saving you the time and hassle of shopping for a separate piece.
When it comes to duvets, not all inserts are created equal. Keeping the above points in mind as you shop will help you choose a cover that's perfectly tailored to your bed.


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Use of our fully-formulated technologies can help you deliver a final product that saves you development, scale-up and production time while assuring the integrity of the enteric release coating to the efficacy of your finished dosage form.
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Get the Look: Your Big Moment
Posted by Paul Mitchell Team on Apr 19th 2015
When it comes to on-trend styles and near perfect execution, Paul Mitchell International Trainer and celebrity stylist Noogie Thai is one of our favorite resources. He was the genius behind one of our party-perfect styles for Big Night Out, Your Big Moment.
According to Noogie, this style was inspired by the styles he often sees at Hollywood events: "My inspiration for your Big Night Out is what I see on the red carpet. There are so many styling options for you with these product mixes. They allow you to create a classic look with a bolder statement using new techniques and adding a modern feel. Your Big Moment is a volumized "do with luscious waves, high-volume and bounce. I added an element of dramatic flair for the paparazzi by sweeping everything over to one side. Not only is it show-stopping, this full-body blowout will be a huge trend this spring."
Now, Noogie is sharing how to get the look. Follow these steps and you'll be photo-ready for your Big Night Out:
How to:
- Prep your hair with Thicken Up before blow-drying. Then spray dry hair with Hot Off The Press to protect your hair from thermal styling.
- Create three sections.
- First, create a triangle shaped section on the top of your head by parting from the front left side down to the center, bottom hairline and the front right side down the center, bottom hairline. Pin this section up and away.
- As a result, you will have two sections on either side of your head.
- Starting on the left section, spray your hair with Hot Off The Press then pull your hair over to the right and clip in place at the roots.
- Using the Neuro Unclipped Styling Rod, curl the hair below the clip towards your face. Secure each curl with a pin. Repeat until all hair in this section is curled.
- Next, release the top section and spray with Hot Off The Press. Curl small sections of hair away from the face and pin into place.
- Finally, curl the right section towards the face and pin into place.
- Once all of the pin curls have cooled, release and brush the hair out with a 413 Sculpting Brush. Gently spray with Stay Strong to lock your style in place.
Make waves on your Big Night Out with these glamorous waves!
Inger Berg is the Brand Manager for Paul Mitchell®. She works closely with our Product Innovation Center and team of professionals to develop Paul Mitchell products that deliver superior results. She is known around the office for having shiny, gorgeous locks!


text: Children & Families Please note this event has already taken place and you are viewing an archived page of the Lakeside website.For a list of current events, exhibitions and workshops, please click on 'What's On' in the menu above TRAVELLING LIGHT THEATRE COMPANY presents CLOWN Enter the wonder-filled world of author-illustrator Quentin Blake as two of Britain's brightest theatre companies - Travelling Light and Bristol Old Vic – translate an award-winning, wordless story from the page to the stage, to create a memorable show for children of all ages. Once-loved toys now lie in a dustbin but the little cloth clown is undaunted. He will overcome all setbacks and dangers to get them a new home – once he's found his feet, of course. Quentin Blake is internationally celebrated, both for his solo work and for his collaborations with authors such as Michael Rosen and Roald Dahl. This new show follows on from the nationwide success of Travelling Light's earlier production for the very young, CLOUDLAND. "Beautifully conceived… quite magical… an enchanting piece of children's theatre" The Scotsman on Cloudland "I've never met a child who didn't love Quentin Blake" Melanie McDonagh, Daily Telegraph


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Olantuj Victor from Osun State, Nigeria, nearly died but it made him think about his life:
It started as a normal day. Eighteen of us were travelling in the bus to school. I even slept for a while, normally I am awake all the way.
On its side!
Suddenly the bus hit a hole in the road. The driver tried to use the brake but it was not working. The bus ran into a field and only stopped when it hit a tree. It ended up on its side, the side I was sitting on. Several passengers fell on top of me. I thought, "God, is this how I am going to end my life?"
I called out to Jesus to help me and so did some of the other passengers.
At last someone broke the windscreen and we were able to escape through it. I was saved and so were all the other passengers. None of us was even hurt with cuts or bruises. I remembered God's promise in the Christian's book (the Bible) when he says, "When you pass through deep waters I will be with you, your troubles will not overwhelm you. When you pass through fire, you will not be burnt; the hard trials that come will not hurt you."*
I knew that God had been with me, but I asked myself, "If I had died, would I have been ready to go to heaven to be with Jesus Christ for ever? Had I asked Jesus to forgive me and be my friend?"
* You can find these words in the Bible book called Isaiah, chapter 43, verse 2.


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My friend Jamie recently had a baby. It was so fun that she asked me to do a photo shoot for baby Dario when he turned 6 months. Their apartment was the perfect backdrop for the photo shoot. Here are a few of my favorites.
a collection of baking recipes
Natalie. Writer. Photographer. Etc.
Flower, Nature, Macro & Fine Art Photography
HiP insider tips and insights on dining, shopping, culture, renting, and living in Paris, France & Italy from Erica Berman & her Haven in Paris - HiP Paris team.
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For those of you who work with wikis on a regular basis know, they can be a hard concept to explain to people. This is why PBWiki has been a blessing for us. Their funny name stems from their intent to make the concept of a wiki as easy as a peanut butter sandwich.
They may have a funny name, but PBWiki has gained considerable traction in the collaborative web space. Mostly popular in the education and non-profit web site market, PBWiki has generated more than half a million wikis. Now with the re-launch of Jotspot as Google Sites, PBWiki is releasing new features and capabilities to make itself a more business-friendly wiki engine.
The first new feature most people will notice is the new and improved user interface. The administration interface received a new look and feel along with improvements in speed and performance. Additionally, the PBWiki team made it easier to brand and customize your PBwiki by allowing users more control over the design of their website. You can easily upload your company logo and if you want, PBWiki will create a color scheme for your website based on your uploaded logo.
In addition to the fresh new UI, PBWiki 2.0 new features are also focused on security. Now you can create folders and organize your web assets by directory. PBwiki has built in folder level security, allowing site administrators to grant users granular security to each folder. If site administrators want to get even more detailed, individual pages can have security set on them as well. Finally, PBWiki 2.0 allows for individual logins for site editors.
If you are looking for a collaborative website and like the idea of using a wiki, PBWiki deserves a look. They've always been a drop-dead easy site to use and now have some new features that make them a more attractive website tool.
To check out the new 2.0 features, head over to PBWiki, create a new wiki, and chose "2.0 Beta" as your wiki type. Alternatively, you can see some of the new features at their demo wiki site.


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At Aspire we are concerned about the issue of climate change and recognise that the way we operate our business has an impact on the environment.
The Aim
Our initial aim was simple – to look at ways we could reduce our affect on the environment. The aim has now evolved and we aim to become a carbon neutral business.
The Process
In 2010 our team raised the issue of how our operations effect the environment. We discussed the obvious but sometimes ignored issues – good housekeeping, what we order, how we manage our day to day activities and recycling. The team were encouraged to log some of the issues and what they considered good practice. These initiatives were implemented. The discussion evolved into a review of our business processes – it was recognised that much of our activity is paper based and travel by vehicle and air big contributors to our environmental impact – the 'footprint' we leave.
We identified opportunities to reduce our impact by changing business processes:
- Offering trainees files in an electronic format rather than in traditional paper and binders
- Introducing e learning in our range of services
- Critically reviewing our regional travel events to minimise the number of journeys. Selecting carbon offsets when we do book flights.
- Planning our metro visits and journeys more efficiently
We also recognised that as a business we would have a residual carbon footprint. At this point we engaged Carbon Neutral to assist us. Building on the work we have done to reduce our impact they have assisted us to quantify and offset our carbon footprint in accordance with the National Carbon Offset Standard (NCOS).
The Future
When you work with Aspire you are working with an organisation that is committed to innovatively managing its operations and growth to minimise the impact on the environment. We accept responsibility for the greenhouse gas omissions that our activities do produce and will offset these through our partnership with Carbon Neutral.


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Bone Jack
Sara Crowe's excellent debut novel, while firmly set in the here and now, feels somehow timeless, a characteristic it shares with the very best fantasy writing for children, from Alan Garner to Susan Cooper.
Fifteen year old Ash is taking part in the annual Stag Chase, a wild race through the countryside in which one boy, the 'stag', is chased by a pack of human 'hounds'. The land he runs through on his training sessions is parched and dry, the effects of the foot and mouth crisis still painfully clear to the locals. That damage to the land is echoed in the people around Ash: his best friend Mark's father has committed suicide; his own father, a soldier just returned from a war zone, is suffering the effects of PTSD. While out on his runs, Ash is harrassed by the ghosts of long dead hounds and haunted by the death of a previous stag boy. He also comes up against Bone Jack, a strange and frightening figure, part shapeshifter and part Green Man, whose job it seems is to keep watch over the borders between this world and the next. The Stag Chase is bringing all sorts of things to a head and Mark, suffering his own sort of PTSD and living wild in the woods, understands this totally. It's not a race he says, 'It's about the old ways. About life and death and the past and the land'. The narrative is alternately dreamy and urgent, but becomes increasingly tense as the day of the race draws near. Mark's belief that only a human sacrifice will make things right feels horribly plausible, and inevitable.
What a rich and rewarding read, involving and compelling from start to finish. Crowe takes her inspiration from old legend, but has created a myth of her own with a story that feels fresh and relevant, and a delight in the dangerous wildness of nature that should send readers out into the woods!


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LINCOLN, AlABAMA: Japanese automaker Honda is going to invest $85 million in its manufacturing plant in Alabama, informed the company in an official statement.
The amount is the first investment of a multi-phase project to improve vehicle manufacturing flexibility, strengthen the logistic efficiency for future models and prepare for future technologies.
The new investment includes a building expansion at the south end of Line 1 for Honda Manufacturing Alabama's vehicle assembly operations. Construction for this initial phase of the project is expected to be completed in 2018.
"This significant financial investment in our Lincoln facility will enhance Honda's manufacturing efficiency and flexibility to help us meet strong customer demand for our products and prepare us for future opportunities in our industry," said Honda Manufacturing Alabama President Jeff Tomko.
With this project, Honda Manufacturing Alabama's total capital investment since 2011 exceeds $750 million, including the addition of more than 450 associates in Lincoln.
Honda Manufacturing Alabama builds four different light truck products – with sole responsibility for production of the Honda Odyssey, Pilot and Ridgeline, as well as production of the Acura MDX.
In addition to production of the Odyssey minivan, Pilot sport utility vehicle, Ridgeline pickup truck, and Acura MDX luxury SUV, Honda Manufacturing Alabama builds the V-6 engines that power each vehicle.
The $2.2 billion facility employs more than 4,500 associates at its current 3.7-million-square-foot Lincoln facility, with the capacity to produce 340,000 vehicles and engines each year.


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Oct 10, 2007
* World Wide Wing Night 3 on November 10th.
* Our EVE guild is thriving. We hope you'll join us!
* Spoof Fear the Boot podcast contest.
* The relationship between the number of modules and the success of an RPG.
* Ryan and Tim offer a rebuttal to episode 67 in which they defend organized play events.
Hosts: Adam, Dan, John, Luke, Tex
Guest Hosts: Ryan Dancey, Tim White
The bait and switch! We\'ve been tricked into listening to Dancey and his crazy indie ideas.
Actually, it didn\'t seem like there was as much conflict/debate as there normally is.


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Black Gay Films Featured at Outfest Fusion Film Festival
ShareTweet Outfest Fusion: The LGBT People of Color Film Festival is this weekend, March 4 & 5 in Los Angeles. It bills itself as the only multi-cultural, gender-inclusive People of Color film festival in the world. The festival opens with "The Wiz" sing-a-long on Friday night, so if you miss Michael go on and ease […]Read more
Black Gay Movies & Directors at Pan African Film Festival
ShareTweet Black gay movies are too few and far between, so we're going to give them as much attention as we can here! We've already profiled the lesbian love story "Love…Another 4 Letter Word" and the drama "Children of God" but here are a couple of other LGBT films that will be showcased at the […]Read more
WATCH: Black Lesbians & Gay Men Out on MLK Day
ShareTweet On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the NoMoreDownLow.TV team followed the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and allies group of participants in the 2011 Kingdom Day Parade in Los Angeles. This was the third consecutive year that the Barbara Jordan/ Bayard Rustin Coalition, The Here to Stay Coalition, Black Lesbians United, In the Meantime Men's Group, At the Beach Los […]Read more


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Magpie started kickball last week. The first week was filled with the thrill of the game. But the second week? I guess the thrill had already worn-off. I didn't attend the game, but this is the update I got:
Me: How was kickball today?
Husband: Fine, oh fine.
Me: Did she seem to improve from last week, or the same?
Husband: The first two innings she played, the last three innings she held a worm. When she was in the outfield, she insisted on everyone coming over to see the worm. When she was at bat, she ran the bases holding the worm and pointing things out that Wormie (the worm was named) might find of interest.
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Did you need any more proof that climate alarmism is indeed an environmental religion?
The Church of England has invested 150 million pounds with Generation Investment Management, the green fund started by Nobel Laureate Al Gore.
Can I get a "Hallelujah" ladies and gentlemen?
As reported by Religious Intelligence News Tuesday:
The Church of England's Church Commissioners have gone green, investing £150 million with former US Vice-President Al Gore's environmentally minded investment firm, Generation Investment Management.
On Nov 18 the First Church Estates Commissioner, Andreas Whittam Smith reported that in late September the Commissioners had placed the funds with Gore's boutique management firm which follows an "environmentally sustainable global equities mandate." Funding for the investment came from "cash and Treasury bills", he said, and not from the sale of UK equities as initially planned.
The Church's commissioners should have gone to a higher authority than Gore to discuss the timing of moving so much money out of cash and T-bills given what happened to the market in late September:
We can only hope for the Church's sake that Gore knows more about investing than he does climatology.


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Top 10 Video Sharing SitesPublished by Yoni • December 14th, 2007 RSS News Feed
In August, PC World released an informative guide to the top 10 video sharing sites.
Though Youtube is clearly the most well-known of the bunch, there are a number of other worthy, and perhaps better, video sharing sites out there. One might assume that all video sharing sites are more or less the same to the extent that they all do the same thing, but there are a number of important differences between them. A few key areas of divergence include video quality, ease of use, revenue sharing, and the maximum file size that you're allowed to upload.
I've used a few of the sites on the list myself and have the following to share: If your main goal is to show your video to as big an audience as possible, then Youtube is clearly the horse to ride on. In terms of quality, however, I'm a big fan of Vimeo. Their navigation is
extremely intuitive and they have impressive video and audio quality. Also, they recently began supporting HD content.
Inevitably, the video quality among these video sharing sites will improve to the point where it will be hard to differentiate one from the next, and factors
such as site design, social networking, and editing capabilities will be the features that will make the next generation of video sharing sites stand out among the pack.
For the time being, take a look at the list linked above, try some sites out, and upload some interesting videos. Stay tuned, I'll have add a top ten list with a write up of my own over the next couple of days.
Yoni is a business / tax attorney from the windy city. Yoni is also a gadget enthusiast who enjoys writing in the third person.
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Property Details
0 Snow Hill Road, Ooltewah, TN 37363
Type: View
Price: $6,800,000
Acreage: 199.94
200 +/- acres of rolling pasture land located in one of Chattanooga's fastest growing areas. The property has been maintained as a working horse farm with boarding and training facilities. This is truly a rare opportunity to own one of the largest contiguous working farms in Ooltewah. The property's exceptional location, access to utilities and gentle topography make it well suited for development. The abundant natural resources make this property a prime candidate for conservation and environmental uplift projects. Advanced notice is required to view this property. Listing agent must be present.
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Attraction Information
- Castles and Palaces
Ages: all ages
Venue type: Indoor and Outdoor
The first county park in England, this has been gently entertaining and thoroughly inspiring for forty years.
Obviously devoid of modern entertainments this place of quiet walks and scenic appreciation is probably for the less boisterous child, though there is in addition to the formal gardens, there is acre after acre of woodland and parkland incorporating a lake to explore, hide and run about in.
A tea room, information centre and gift shop are located in the Castle building, though the main castle itself is rarely accessible. There is also the 14 hectare designated Local Nature Reserve that also contains a large lake and a wader scrape.
- Restaurant Onsite
- Snacks Available
- Onsite Shop
- Toilets Available
- Parking Available On-site
Getting There and Contact Information
Elvaston Country Park, Borrowash Road, Elvaston, Derbyshire, DE72 3EP, England
Click here to visit Elvaston Castle's website
01629 533870
Standard Opening Times and Pricing
Opening hours
October - March
Monday to Sunday 09:00 - 17:00
April - September
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Perfect Pick HD's ergonomic workstation is integrated into the aisle itself at one or both ends — either at ground or mezzanine level. Vertical...
System Overview
Features & Benefits Provided:
- Multi-level picking
- Maximized Product Flow
- Streamline Consolidation
- Smart Storage Media
- Efficient U-Shape Design
The Customer's View
"We have partnered with Siggins to upgrade all of our distribution centers. Working as a team, we have identified incremental improvements in space utilization, productivity and other areas. The resulting changes have had a major impact on our growth and success over the years."
The Challenge
Because of acquisitions and steady sales growth, a regional distributor of automotive parts located in the South Central U.S. needed to expand the inventory capacity of several distribution centers. The changes had to provide increased storage capacity of both product and SKU's, while improving productivity.
System changes had to be implemented while maintaining normal shipping operations. To help offset the required Total Investments, changes needed to generate increases in productivity while meeting growth targets.
The Solution
Efficient U-Shaped layouts for product flow were designed for each site, and correct storage media types were applied in multi-level picking modules to manage growth.
New automatic sortation systems were applied to maximize shipping efficiency. Sortation systems were elevated above the dock doors, with overhead gravity lanes and gravity spirals feeding shipping tri-lanes. The design increased the capacity of the shipping lanes and simplified consolidation of all products at shipping.


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My daughter is home from a week of church camp, and she is glowing, and it's not from the extra layer of dirt and sun that is coating her body. She's been rejuvenated.
Camp is her wellspring. She draws on this one week away for the rest of the year. Camp sets her spiritual and moral compass in the right direction, it puts her on square footing and it restores her soul.
Now, you could say that all camps do this at some level. There is something crucial about putting kids in nature with other kids and taking away video games, phone, televisions, and all electronics. There is something crucial about allowing them to form relationships and take responsibilities without parents present. There is something crucial about letting them experience a canoe ride and a high ropes course, and allowing them to see that they are braver than they thought. There is something crucial about creating a community where people are intentionally inclusive and welcoming. — Where it's cool to say "hi" to strangers or ask if you can help, or stand on chairs and sing silly songs, and have campfires and lose track of the days. Most good camps provide this kind of experience.
But Church Camp is different. I'm not talking about the emotionally charged camps that require alter calls at the end of the week and ask kids to reflect on their sinfulness. I'm not talking about camps that take advantage of kid's emotions and make them question their salvation. I'm talking about camps couched in the Reformed Tradition that use scripture, discussion, worship, communion, and community to build a lasting relationship with Jesus Christ. It was at church camp where I was given a Bible and a devotional time. It was under an oak tree at Camp Stronghold in Oregon, Illinois that I first felt the presence of God. It was the older kids, the camp counselors and the adults who came along who would sit beside me on a rock and share their faith with me and ask me about my own. There was something powerful about being prayed for and praying for others. – When you are 12 years old, you don't spend a lot of time thinking about praying for others, or knowing that you are being prayed for.
This Sunday, the lectionary is on Jesus giving all of these illustrations about the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is like a pearl in a field, a mustard seed, yeast, a treasure. I'm not entirely sure I understand all that Jesus was saying in this passage, and frankly I think the disciples were confused too. But here is what I do understand, mustard seeds, once planted became unmanageable and out of a control. The results of that little seed can spread like wild-fire. One week away for an impressionable kid with other adults who testify to their faith and encourage them to do the same, can be more of an impact than any overture before the General Assembly. When we give kids time in sun and with the Son, their faith is like uncovered yeast on a sun porch. It expands and grows in surprising ways.
Around the country Presbyterian church camps are running out of funds and Presbyteries are having to make difficult decisions as to whether or not they should be sold. The reasons for these hard discussions are multi-faceted.
Kids have so many choices throughout the summer, and the checkbook only goes so far, so if it's not a "need," the decision to go to camp, can quickly go to a "want." Further, denominations are dwindling and Presbytery funds are declining, so are our camps.
After the last General Assembly gathering in Detroit, a parishioner asked, "When is the Presbyterian Church going to focus their General Assemblies on growing disciples and faith formation?" I thought it was a valid question. Although I'm sure much of what was never mentioned in the press about G.A. was focused on discipleship and faith formation. But never the less, I wish we spent as much talking about providing opportunities for our kids and adults to plant seeds of faith than we do talking about language and procedure. I wish we spent as much time praying for each other and looking for the pearl in the field than we do tossing the field out all together. I wish we adults could remember camp. I wish we could some how encapsulate the inclusivity, hospitality and the community of camp in our worship services on Sunday morning and in our church community throughout the week. I wish the Holy Spirit that shows up at camp, showed up at Presbytery and session meetings.
I know camp doesn't fix everything. Experiences like camp and mission trips are times set apart, and we can't stay on the mountain top forever. But, it would be good to go back there from time to time, either mentally or physically and remember, and be restored.


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The school applies strong traditions in basic, translational and applied biotechnology research.
NSTM will launch a variety of basic, clinical and biotechnology educational programs to train a new generation of scientists and health professionals.
The depth and breadth of the Texas Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine in concert with resources made available by the Houston location provide the foundation and the model for the establishment of the National School of Tropical Medicine.
Why is Baylor ideal for the new National School of Tropical Medicine?
Our school aspires to unify tropical disease and global health activities across the TMC, as well as with our university neighbors in greater Houston and East Texas, through interdisciplinary efforts to enhance NTDs and NIoPs education, R&D, policy, and advocacy to alleviate these global health burdens.
What are Neglected Tropical Diseases and Neglected Infections of Poverty?