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Blog Tour, Excerpt and Giveaway – "Schooled (Codename: Winger #2) by Jeff Adams
I am so excited to welcome Jeff Adams to my BookShelf. He's here to talk about his second book in the Codename:Winger series. I fell in love with Theo in the first, ready to continue this love affair in the second, and see if any of the red herrings I fell dramatically for held some truth. 😀 (Down below I will have my review for Tracker Hacker Codename: Winger #1)
Without further ado I bring you Jeff Adams!!
Thanks to Christina for hosting a stop on the Schooled blog tour. I'm happy to be here with an exclusive excerpt from the book, which is the second in the Codename: Winger series. This scene, from Chapter 14, features Theo with Eddie, his boyfriend, as they enjoy date night. After you read the excerpt, make sure to check out the Rafflecopter below to get your entry in the giveaway for a free copy of Schooled.
He nodded and we got back to our walk. "You guys ready for the competition this weekend?" Eddie shifted topics at the right time.
"I think so. I really liked what the team had today. They've paid attention to what I told them and it showed."
"Is there something I can come watch on Sunday? See you guys take the championship?"
"I actually don't know." It occurred to me that, other than the competition happening on the Amherst College campus, and that it went for thirty hours straight, I was kind of clueless. "Why would you want to watch a bunch of people sitting around computers anyway?"
"Because you're one of them, silly. I like the look you get when you're thinking super hard."
"You're weird." He stuck his tongue out at me and I smirked back. "I'll see what the deal is. Be cool to see you and make silly faces at you that'll confuse everyone else."
The team planned to leave for Amherst Friday afternoon to settle in and be ready for Saturday morning. Since I had a game Friday night, I'd catch up with them around midnight.
"Maybe I should come with you Friday and we can share a room. That was awesome in Denver." Eddie grinned and wiggled his eyebrows at me. He was ridiculously cute and it made my insides tingle in the best way.
While a lot of bad stuff had gone down in Denver, spending alone time with Eddie always made me happy. It'd said a lot about him that he didn't get too weird when things got super chaotic. I suspected most people would've run from the mess, but he stayed right there.
"Unfortunately I'll have roommates Friday. And once we start Saturday morning, we go straight through into Sunday afternoon."
"If I can get there on Sunday, maybe we could make the trip back together?"
"That would rock. Dad and I were already debating the best way for me to get there. If he drives me up, maybe you could bring me back. We'll figure it out."
"You really got into doing this thing, didn't you?"
I cocked my head and looked at him, trying to figure out what he meant.
"Coaching the team," he coaxed.
"I've enjoyed it more than I thought I would. And I didn't give them the credit they deserve."
"I figured you'd end up liking it."
"You like helping people. I can tell it when you help me with a computer thing, or if you're explaining something. There's never a condescending tone that you know more than someone else."
"I think the team would disagree with that," I said, kicking a pebble along in front of me. "I'm not always as modest as I should be."
"But I bet you're usually happy to give them the information. I bet you'll be a teacher someday."
"Nah. I like doing the actual work too much."
"Lots of people teach and work."
"What about you? Mr. Getting Me Through Science Class."
"It's possible. Maybe college level one day."
"I can totally see you as the sexy teacher everyone wants. You'll teach a few days a week and cure diseases the rest of the time."
"That's me—Doctor Teacher."
We chuckled. We knew what our basic futures looked like—me continuing to study cyber security at MIT and Eddie in biochemistry at UMass Boston. But we rarely talked about what might come next.
Book Blurb:
Secret agent and teenage computer genius Theo Reese lives in two separate worlds—and they're about to collide.
Theo's high school computer science club is gearing up for a competition, and Theo agrees to lend his knowledge of cybersecurity to help them win. The covert agency he works for also needs his talents. An encrypted key that allows access to the nation's electrical grid has been stolen. Theo's skills are crucial in its recovery before disaster strikes.
When the file shows up at the competition as one of those to be decoded, Theo must find a way to be both an average high school student and Winger, his secret identity. The file must be secured—all while protecting his teammates from those who will use any means necessary to get the file for themselves.
Buy Links:
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Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/
Jeff Adams has written stories since he was in middle school and became a gay romance writer in 2009 when his first short stories were published. Since then he's written several shorts and novels.
Jeff lives in northern California with his husband of twenty years, Will. Some of his favorite things include the musicals Rent and [title of show], the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins hockey teams, and the reality TV competition So You Think You Can Dance.
Jeff is the co-host of Jeff & Will's Big Gay Fiction Podcast, a weekly show devoted to gay romance fiction as well as pop culture. New episodes come out every Monday at biggayfictionpodcast.com.
Learn more about Jeff at http://jeffadamswrites.com/
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Youth Fellowship at Zion
Zion Mennonite Church Youth Fellowship exists to provide a safe and nurturing environment for all youth. We also seek to reach searching youth, to guide believers to a mature faith, and to challenge them to explore God's purpose for their lives by realizing their identity in the kingdom of God and its ministry.
Zion's Youth Fellowship includes Mennonite Youth Fellowship (MYF) and Junior Mennonite Youth Fellowship (JrMYF). Both meet as Sunday morning classes during Sunday school time and throughout the month.
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El Antiguo Juzgado (The Old Courthouse) is one of the distinguishing landmarks of Jimena de la Frontera, sitting right next to the main Plaza, and adjacent to the car park. The house offers the discerning visitor a unique opportunity to feel and share the history of Jimena through this most distinctive of buildings.
Built in 1738 on three levels, complete with the original Moorish lookout tower, at one time or another it has served as the village's jail, town hall, and/or police station. It is also believed to have been part of a convent or nunnery, which would account for its cloistered courtyard – certainly a house with a history.
In its present guise, El Antiguo Juzgado comprises four self-contained two room, en-suite apartments and a twin en-suite room downstairs. All apartments have a kitchen area and the centre apartment has its own balcony. Each also contains a sofa bed for a child.
El Antiguo Juzgado sleeps 10 to 12 people and is ideal for three or four couples, one or two families or a group of friends who would like a shared holiday.
Off the central patio is the spacious salon/music room with wood-burning stove, sofas, grand piano, and CD cabinet and hi-fi system. This is probably the most exquisite room in the house with original vaulted 18th century ceilings.
Linked to this is the smaller and cosy television/library room fully equipped with Video/DVD/ TV facilities. What was once the chapel now functions as an office with full broadband connection; it also houses an upright piano, drum kit, guitar and various other instruments.
The central patio contains tables for outside dining and the original well, (lit up at night) from which water is drawn.
The communal kitchen overlooks the central patio and is fully equipped including a wood burning stove.
The large double doors from Calle San Sebastián open into a vestibule with a separate staircase for two of the apartments.
Then there's the magnificent secluded pool, in its own courtyard, plus barbecue facilities and bar.
El Antiguo Juzgado is a family home offering a warm welcome to Jimena with a range of equipment that can be borrowed to enhance your holiday, ranging from buckets and spades and paddling pools for children, to a complete climbing kit for the fit and adventurous. There are various sizes of tents, sleeping bags and other camping gear if you want a night on the beach. There are also four Yoga mats, a blow up children's' boat, as well as a two-man adult canoe with paddles. The Mediterranean coast is forty minutes away and the Atlantic one hour fifteen minutes, both affording magnificent beaches.
Monica and Peter Becko are both musicians who love Spain, their home and the outdoors. The environs of Jimena offer walking, climbing, bird-watching, river-swimming, trekking and horse-riding besides wonderful restaurants all within walking distance of the house, which lives on the only pedestrianized street in the village. A warm welcome awaits you…
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Lowman Law Firm Serves Spring Hill, Brooksville and Outlying Areas for Motorcycle Accidents
Motorcycle accidents mark a special place in traffic law. Unfortunately, they represent a disproportionately high fatality rate, a very grim and tragic fact that all riders must face when they make the decision to own a bike.
Motorcycle Accidents and Intersections
Motorcycle intersection accidents are particularly confounding because so often they point to an oversight by the driver of a car or truck…even when the motorcyclist has the right-of- way. According to researcher Harry Hurt of The University of Southern California, in a study he conducted partially funded by The National Highway Traffic Association, "The failure of motorists to detect and recognize motorcycles in traffic is the predominating cause of motorcycle accidents. The driver of the other vehicle involved in collision with the motorcycle did not see the motorcycle before the collision, or did not see the motorcycle until too late to avoid the collision."
This is so true that anecdotal evidence permeates the conversations of everyone who knows someone who rides. Cautionary tales are invisible accessories you purchase when you buy a motorcycle.
The Road as a Hazard: Motorcycle Accident Causes
Sometimes it's a case where traffic lights are ill-timed to compensate for the heavy flow of traffic. In this instance, a motorcyclist is, as always, at higher risk to be involved in an accident. Because it's more difficult to see a motorcycle, a rider who is passing under a caution light necessarily puts him or herself in a statistically worse situation, virtually stranding themselves under a changing traffic signal and increasing their vulnerability to being struck by another vehicle.
Likewise potholes and other road conditions contribute to motorcycle wrecks. According to the same study cited above, "Roadway defects (pavement ridges, potholes, etc.) were the accident cause in 2% of the accidents; animal involvement was 1% of the accidents."
Still, with these facts in mind, the study concluded that, "Intersections are the most likely place for the motorcycle accident, with the other vehicle violating the motorcycle right-of-way, and often violating traffic controls." Indeed, intersections pose an imminent and specific threat to all drivers, notably motorcyclists.
Motorcyclists should always:
- Know their equipment
- Have and wear proper safety gear
- Exercise caution for two: anticipate that drivers of cars and trucks can't see you
- Avoid tailgating
- Obey traffic laws
- Proceed with care and caution at all intersections
For Motorcycle Accidents at Intersections
If you or someone you know has been the victim of driver negligence in an intersection while riding a motorcycle in Hernando County or Central Florida, contact the knowledgeable attorneys at Lowman Law Firm in Spring Hill, Florida.
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Here at the Barber we love school visits, so why not get in touch and plan yours?
To make a booking or enquiry, please fill out our School Visit Enquiry Form 2020 and email to email@example.com.
We offer:
- A pick & mix menu of workshops
- Tailor-made workshops
- Facilitated gallery time
- Practical workshops
- Storytelling and costumed interpretation
- Cross-curricular workshops
- Combined visits with other venues on campus
- Bespoke offers for all key stages and learning needs
- Support with Arts Award from fully trained staff
Plan your visit with the Learning & Engagement Team:
- Find out about our school visits programme
- Have a chat about what you want to do
- Come along to the Barber for a pre-visit
- Plan ahead to get the best value for your time and money
For all workshops, please book at least 6 weeks in advance. However, we recommend that you book as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Sessions for nursery and reception last 90 minutes and cost £100. Sessions include facilitated gallery time with interpretative, interactive storytelling, followed by an art workshop in our art room. Please click on the links below for further information about the sessions:
- Animal Stories
- Funny Faces
You can choose from the list of workshops below, or contact us to discuss a tailor-made workshop to meet your curriculum requirements. Workshops include facilitated, interactive gallery time where pupils can learn to interrogate works in the collection, develop questioning skills and engage in active discussion, forming their own opinions. This is followed by an art workshop in our art room, responding to the themes they have explored in the gallery. Workshops include drawing, printmaking and sculpture.
Workshops are 2 hours and cost £130. This includes a facilitated gallery session, an art workshop and all materials.
The maximum group size is 30 pupils.
School visits are available on Tuesdays-Fridays at the following times:
10am – 12noon
Examples of themes for tailor-made workshops we have provided include:
- Hybrid forms
- Myths and Legends
- Architecture and Buildings
- Vessels and Containers
- Christmas/Celebration
- Sessions linked specifically to our temporary exhibitions
We offer 1 hour interactive talks for KS3 upwards. These encourage your students to interrogate the works, employ critical thinking skills and generate and share opinions. Talks can be introductory or tailored to suit your specific theme or area of interest. Cost- £60
You can follow this with a practical art making workshop in response to the themes your students have explored in the galleries. Add a one hour practical workshop for an additional £70, which includes materials. Longer workshops can be arranged- get in touch for a chat.
Click here to see our college visits page for KS5 and beyond
We also run independent projects for young people outside of school hours. Click links below to find out more:
Ages 13 – 15: Barber Art School
Ages 16 – 21: Barber Collective
We can design workshops and programmes of activity for home school groups. Get in touch with Becca Randle, Learning & Engagement Assistant to find out more and discuss your requirements: firstname.lastname@example.com or 0121 414 2261
"We weren't really sure what to expect but this really exceeded our expectations. Everything was really well suited to the age group and the children have been talking about it a lot at home. They have got a lot out of it."
Home school visit, 2017
All of our gallery sessions and workshops can be booked for special needs groups. Our experienced and knowledgeable team can tailor sessions to meet the identified needs of your group so please get in touch to discuss further or let us know of any specific requirements at the point of booking.
Coaches and minibuses can drop groups outside the main entrance to the Barber Institute. Parking is then available in the University's entrance to the North Car Park on Pritchatts Road.
Coats and bags can be stored safely on our cloakroom trolley throughout your visit.
We have no dedicated lunch space- but a member of the team will be happy to assist and provide advice and alternative options.
There is a gift shop at the Barber- pupils are welcome to visit this at the end of their visit.
Adult to pupil ratios: KS1 and 2: one adult to every eight pupils; KS3 upwards: one adult to every twelve students. Gallery staff cannot be counted as supervisory adults.
When visiting the gallery we kindly ask groups to observe our gallery rules, click here.
You can download our risk assessment here.


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The scope of marketing – and the role that *good* marketers are playing within businesses today – has shifted significantly over recent years.
The perception of marketing within many businesses, however, hasn't changed at all.
Think it has? Think again.
Take a straw poll of what your non-marketing colleagues think you do all day, and there's a strong chance that 'making nice pictures', 'doing some cool things', 'having fun', 'spending money' and 'playing on Facebook,' will rank highly.
And they're only the things that people will say to your face.
The truth is, despite what you know you do and why you do it, and what you may believe other people think, the perception of marketing to non-marketers hasn't changed one iota.
You're a cost to the business ...
And you make pretty pictures.
Of course, it's not true. But while it's frustrating that perception still exists, it's also mightily ironic, given that marketing is all about changing perception, increasing awareness, and building relationships.
So, if you're in marketing and are sick and tired of being perceived as spending your day having fun in 'the coloring-in department' then this one's for you.
By taking these four steps, you can start increasing your influence and shifting some of the perceptions that come your way.
The first perception you need to change is that marketing is a cost. If it is, you're not doing it right. You need to be able to show how you're bringing in business and revenue. Or at the very least, play a significant part in contributing to it.
Ideally, you should have contributed to creating the business plan. If not, mark that as a goal for next year and, in the meantime, focus on this.
Every single one of your marketing objectives should be clearly aligned with the achievement of something on the business plan.
Every single thing you do should be helping the business grow and get better.
It sounds obvious, but if it's not delivering on something your board, MD or CEO have strategically identified as business critical, then why are you doing it in the first place?
'Mirror mirror on the wall. Who is the best marketer of all?' If you're asking the question, it's definitely not going to be you.
The moral? Don't fall into the trap of reporting vanity metrics. Because we can all find metrics that make us look good.
Five percent increase in open rates? Easy.
265,000 percent increase in blog views between 4pm and 5pm on the third Sunday of each month? Done.
If you're ever tempted to share measurements such as this without context of what it means and why it's important, ask yourself the killer question.
So what?
Unless you're reporting on how you're driving sales or delivering on an agreed business objective, then you're only reporting on it to try to make yourself look good.
And unfortunately, in reality, you're achieving the opposite, as you're showing you have little understanding of what's really important to the business's stakeholders.
As for those vanity metrics …. Make them work harder! Because they can play an important role in the customer journey. Assign them a Cost Per Acquisition value in Google Analytics, and understand where they have contributed to goal conversions, and where they haven't.
Everyone needs friends in the right places, and marketing needs them more than most. So make an effort and take the time to align yourself with different departments.
Do not, we repeat, do not, do this in a casual 'stop-by-and-chat' way – this will only serve to cement the very perceptions we're trying to banish.
Schedule a meeting with purpose – to find out how YOU can help THEM.
With Finance: How can we better measure the bottom line impact marketing's having?
With IT: How can we work together to optimize the online sales conversion process?
With Sales: How can we regularly review both the quality and quantity of our lead pipeline?
By regularly having the right conversations with the right people at the right time, you can demonstrate your focus on the business, and your influence with your peers grows.
If you can build a positive business relationship with the CFO or their direct reports, meanwhile, your job will become infinitely easier, and your influence will increase overnight.
The CFO always has the CEO's ear, after all.
A key reason marketing's influence internally is limited, is that marketers aren't great at demonstrating how what they're doing is impacting the business.
Ensure you are contributing to all important business meetings that affect you, and showcase your work. So, if your board meets monthly, put together a monthly report demonstrating the outcomes of your marketing activity – aligned to business objectives.
Convey what you've done – the stunning creative, the strategic social campaigns – but only in the context of what it's achieved. If you can't measure that yet, then you need to go back to step one and step two.
If possible, share a version of that report with staff across the rest of the company, too. And keep communication from your department focused on the business, rather than the creative.
After all, perception is reality.
Like all good senior members of a team, strong marketers operate with a true understanding of the business, its strategy and objectives. In other departments – finance, IT, however – that understanding is often assumed by others within the business.
As a marketer, you need to demonstrate you're operating with this understanding. So communicate – in fact, over communicate – why you are doing what you're doing, and how it's impacting the bottom line.
Influence grows when you can demonstrate you're actively helping the business achieve its goals.
Influence also grows when you show you're the reason money is coming in – rather than going out (albeit on some pretty spectacular creative).
In reality, you need to treat yourself, and your team, as a marketing project in its own right.
After all, no-one else is better placed to do so than you.
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PVR is one of the cinema chains in India. The company began as a joint venture between Priya Exhibitors Private Limited and Village Roadshow Limited in 1995 and began their commercial operations in 1997, headquartered in Gurgaon, India. SPI Cinemas is an Indian Multiplex and film production company owned by SPI Group, headquartered in Chennai, India. It is originally named as Sathyam Cinemas.
The PVR Group seems set to acquire SPI Cinemas for 750-1000 crore, in what could end up as biggest deal in India Multiplex sector. The SPI Group currently runs a cinema exhibition, distribution, and production business. It has five brands of theatres named as Sathyam, Escape, The Cinema, S2 Cinemas, and Luxe. The group operates around 56 screens, mainly in Tamil Nadu and within a few in Andhra Pradesh.
PVR, with 454 screens in 102 locations across 43 cities, is the largest cinema exhibitor in terms of screens. Of these, 204 screens are in western India, 133 in the north, 98 in the south, and 19 in the east. If PVR acquires this asset, it would be a good acquisition because it intends to double its capacity in the next four-five years. PVR and Inox Leisure Ltd, India's second largest cinema operator in terms of screens, together command close to 50% of the screens in India's multiplex sector.
With more number of smart cities and malls, there is a open area for companies to expand. Last year, Inox acquired Delhi based Satyam Cineplexes Ltd for Rs. 182 Cr. With this Inox expanded its presence to 50 cities, with 91 multiplexes and 358 screens. In 2007, Inox acquired Calcutta Cine Pvt. Ltd, and in 2010, it acquired Fame India Ltd. In November 2012, PVR had acquired Mumbai headquartered Cinemax Ltd from its promoters for Rs. 395 Crore.


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A Beneficial Online Course for Everyone
Successful completion of this course certifies that you've learned the basic principles behind the McDougall Diet – a clinically proven means of weight management that can reverse or prevent many common illnesses, all by simply altering your food. As experience is always the best teacher, this program is first and foremost designed to get you looking and feeling your best. Having achieved that goal, The Starch Solution Certification Course will help the Healthcare professional better assist your patients and the non-healthcare professional with their clients. Certification qualifies you to display the official Starch Solution Logo at your business and on your website, and establishes your credibility as a knowledgeable graduate of The Starch Solution who understands how this diet relates to optimum health.
Take Classes Online at Your Own Pace
The national best-selling book, The Starch Solution, combined with 19 video lectures (also made available in audio-only format) makes learning about human nutrition and the dietary treatment of common illnesses easy and enjoyable. The testing aspect of the certification program also serves as a valuable learning tool by helping you focus on the critical facts and important principles.
Earn 35 CEU Credits
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- Lesson 1 – Acknowledgements and Note to Reader
- Lesson 2 – My personal Journey to the Starch Solution
- Lesson 3 – Starch: The Traditional Diet of People – part 1
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- Lesson 5 – People Passionate about Starches Are Healthy and Beautiful
- Lesson 6 – Five Major Poisons Found in Animal Foods
- Lesson 7 – Spontaneous Healing on a Starch-Based Diet
- Lesson 8 – The USDA and the Politics of Starch
- Lesson 9 – An Inconvenient Truth: We Are Eating the Planet to Death
- Lesson 10 – When Friends Ask: Where Do You Get Your Protein?
- Lesson 11 – When Friends Ask: Where Do You Get Your Calcium?
- Lesson 12 – Confessions of a Fish Killer
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- Lesson 14 – Just to Be On the Safe Side: Don't Take Supplements
- Lesson 15 – Salt and Sugar: The Scapegoats of the Western Diet
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Plugin Information
View Periodic Reincarnation on the plugin site for more information.
Cron Restart
Using a cron time format the user can specify at which exact time(s) the plugin should schedule failed jobs for a new build. In addition to that he/she can also specify a list of regular expressions in order to restrict which failed jobs exactly should be picked up for restart. There is a global cron tab and also every regular expression has its own such that can be individually configured. The global one is used when the cron tab for a certain regular expression is empty or cannot be compiled.
Unchanged Restart
There is also the option to restart a job (independently from the regular expressions) if the following conditions hold:
- The last build has failed.
- The second last was a success.
- There were no SCM or configuration changes between these two builds.
Basically if these conditions hold it means that it is very possible that the code or the configuration of the job are not responsible for the failure of the last build. This leaves a infrastructure problem and PeriodicReincarnation will automatically try to build the project again.
In order to check if there was a configuration change PeriodicReincarnation uses jobConfigHistory plugin. It is an optional dependency so the plugin will continue to work if jobConfigHistory is not installed, but won't be able to tell if there was a configuration change and will always assume there wasn't one.
Afterbuild Restart
This feature was introduced in 1.2 and allows the immediate restart after a build failure occurs. It can be enabled globally for all projects or configured locally for every project alone. In order to prevent endless restarting there is a maximal restart depth that can also be set locally or globally. For projects where "Configure PeriodicReincarnation locally" has not been enabled restart happens like in the cron restart option - there must be a regex hit or an unchanged project that fails for the first time. For projects which have this option enabled (it can be found in the configuration page of every project, should be in the top) the restart will happen also if there is no regular expression that covers this project.
This plugin can be useful when something temporary may be causing a build to fail. its main purpose is to fix infrastructure problems preventing jobs to build successfully. For instance
- there was not enough space on the hard disk - (here a disk-cleanup script can be automatically executed before the job is scheduled for restart)
- there was a communication problem with a slave - (here a script that disconnects such agent can be executed before the job is scheduled for restart)
- there was some incompatibility of some kind
It is easy to periodically restart all jobs that have failed because of some arbitrary "error_failing_the_build". Just activate the plugin, set the cron time ("* * * * *" for every minute or "*/5 * * * *" for every 5 minutes) and add this "error_failing_the_build" as regular expression.
If you want jobs failing because of this "error_failing_the_build" to be scheduled for restart right away then use the afterbuild restart option. Just enabled it and leave the regular expression in the list.
If you want different regular expressions to be triggered at different times, just configure the cron time in the regular expression itself. It is very easy, just go to the global configuration page.
The configuration for this plugin can be found in the global configuration page of Jenkins under "Periodic Reincarnation of failed builds". Each option there has a help page, so it is easier to understand and use every feature presented in the configuration of this plugin.
For individual jobs: the local configuration reveals after clicking the box "Configure PeriodicReincarnation locally" and contains just the parameters for the afterbuild restart - whether it is enabled or not and the maximal restart depth.
Scripts execution
This feature was introduced in 1.2 and allows binding regular expressions with groovy scripts. Each time a reg ex hit occurs and a failed job is about to be restarted because of it these Groovy scripts will be executed before the restart. This can be very useful in correcting infrastructure errors like full disk or slave problems.
Open issues
Change log
Version 1.13 - (April 5 2019)
- Do not retrigger MavenModules (PR #28)
Version 1.12.1 - (October 2 2017)
- Fixed loop in afterbuild reincarnation.
- Fixed ClassCastException in case non-AbstractProject items are in Folders. (Issue #22)
Version 1.12 - (September 22 2017)
- Fixed ClassCastException in case non-AbstractProject items are in Folders. (Issue #22)
Version 1.11 - (August 18 2017)
- [JENKINS-42797] Fixed issue.
- Upgraded parent pom version.
- Fixed some findbugs issues.
Version 1.10 - (April 19 2017)
- Use Build Failure Analyser to search for failure causes.
Version 1.9 - (July 18 2014)
- Spam entries from log file removed (JENKINS-22132)
- Possibility to disable global reincarnation for single job via job configuration
Version 1.8.1 - (03.02.2014)
- HOTFIX: Pluin now handles MultiModuleProjects.
Version 1.8 - (04.12.2013)
- Issue https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-20205 now fixed and local job configuration enabled again.
- Fixed a NPE occuring when no regular expressions are configured.
- Removed spam Warning and Info messages from the console.Using Fine logging instead.
- Improved unchanged restart. See above.
- Afterbuild restart now has a delay period of 5 minutes. This prevents unnecessary overloading of Jenkins and improves the chances that a build will be a success.
Version 1.7 - (15.11.2013)
- temporary workaround for https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-20205. Local configuration is temporarily disabled. If you are using version before 1.34 you can still use the old version without problems.
Version 1.6 - failed release
Version 1.5 - (21.10.2013)
- fixed bugs with regex validation: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-19687
- fixed a problem where too much log information is printed every minute
- improved log information
- fixed bug with global cron time validation: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-19688
Version 1.4 - (20.09.2013)
- added a missing help page(see https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-19599)
- small code improvements and better use explanations in the help pages
Version 1.3 - (18.07.2013)
- cron time can also be defined for every regular expression separately
- added description to every regular expression that is also stated in the cause for the restart
- internal changes, allowing a better restart summary in log
Version 1.2 - (25.03.2013)
- added afterbuild trigger that automatically schedules a restart after a build failure
- added the possibility to execute scripts when restarting jobs with regular expressions
Version 1.1 - (19.11.2012)
- removed git as dependency
- added a missing help page
Version 1.0 - (29.10.2012)
- First release.
The plugin is open source. Feel free to make suggestions, requests and contributions!
7 Comments
Unknown User (oleg_nenashev)
It would be useful to have a comparison against https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Naginator+Plugin on Wiki
Unknown User (boev)
Well both plugins are actually quite different. After version 1.8 PeriodicReincarnation will also have a delay between the consecutive restarts caused by Afterbuild Restart option, so I guess that brings it a little bit closer to the Naginator Plugin.
Unknown User (dankirkd)
Any pointers on how to use this plugin to auto re-run a failed build? I tried checking "Configure PeriodicReincarnation locally" for my build as well as "Enable afterbuild job reincarnation locally" and "Max restart depth:" to 1, but my maven build did not re-run following a failure. Instructions are not clear about how to make this happen. Output gave no indication a re-run was attempted and could not launch. I'm confused. Any help would be appreciated.
Unknown User (boev)
The Afterbuild restart is working for me. It schedules a build to start 5 min after the failed one has finished. You can see it in the build queue or just above the failed build on the project page. If you configure a project locally it overrides the global settings, so it doesn't matter what configurations you have in the global page...If the" Configure PeriodicReincarnation locally" and "Enable afterbuild job reincarnation locally" are enabled with some "Max restart depth:" N, then the plugin will restart the project until N consecutive afterbuild restarts are reached. Do you still have the problem? Can you then give me more info so i can reproduce? What type of project do you want to re-run?
Unknown User (boev)
The plugin was not made to handle Multi Module Jobs, this will come with the next release. Use version 1.8.1.
Unknown User (dankirkd)
Does version 1.8.1 really require Jenkins 1.532.1? That's what I'm seeing in the Update Center but we're using 1.528.
Unknown User (alex01ves)
If a Matrix job child failure matches the regexp, it cannot be restarted, but gets caught in an infinite loop: the cooldown timer ticks to 0 and restarts, not actually running the job.


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What to Make of Bush's Oceanic Gestures
Image credit:James Crabbe
By: George Grattan (Note: The opinions expressed in this blog are the author's, and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Earthwatch.)
On his way out the door-with a reputation and a record as one of the worst modern American presidents on scientific and environmental issues - President George W. Bush nevertheless did something right: with the stroke of a pen, he created the largest marine conservation area in the world across nine sites in three regions in the central Pacific.
This move isn't only a good one, it's a huge one.In fact, it's so huge that the scope of his action might, paradoxically, be part of the reason why some environmentalists are still going to give Bush a failing grade.
But more on that paradox in a bit.
First, let's give credit where it's due. Setting aside nearly 200,000 square miles as both marine sanctuaries and scientific research areas via Teddy Roosevelt's 1906 Antiquities Act, Bush has not only rediscovered the moribund tradition of Republican environmentalism, but he also-and more importantly-has given a great gift to the planet.
Working with the advice of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Pew Environmental Fund, Bush selected sites that collectively harbor the world's smallest atoll (Rose Atoll-which is home to more than 500 fish species and 97% of American Samoa's seabirds), several threatened turtle nesting beaches, the deepest ocean canyon in the world (the Mariana Trench, with its otherworldly, undersea volcanoes, acidic thermal vents, liquid sulfur, and incredibly rare life forms), hundreds of species of corals, Hawaiian monk seals, and countless seabirds, rays, sharks, dolphins and whales.
At a time when the world's oceans face the very real prospect of an apocalyptic collapse, this development is an unalloyed good for worldwide efforts to bring us back from the brink. The scientific research which will be able to take place in these protected ecosystems may produce the data and solutions we need to keep burgeoning world populations in a more sustainable balance with the oceans' roles in climate, food supply, and biodiversity. And, as Roosevelt knew and Bush seems to have remembered, there's an intrinsic value to protecting vast areas of wilderness even if most people never encounter them.
So, kudos, President Bush, truly.
And yet....there's the paradox that a huge effort centering on places so remote (and even "exotic") to most Americans-heck, to most people on the planet-also reinforces the dangerous sense that protecting ocean health is something that happens A) far away, B) in pristine places, and C) with a single, dramatic governmental action. As great at it is that Bush has created these marine monuments through executive power, the fact remains that the day-to-day protections for American coastal waters are lacking, and that the American role in multinational legal efforts to protect shared waters has been neither dramatic nor active.
As good as creating these protected areas is, it's also a dodge, and an "easy" way to burnish that which is tarnished. It's great that Presidents can do these sorts of things, and it's a great and welcome surprise that this one has.
But just as one doesn't win a traditional war by pulling down a statute, landing on an aircraft carrier, and proclaiming "Mission Accomplished," one doesn't win the war for healthy oceans via a single gesture-however grand.
It's great to save the Mariana Trench. But you've also got to be willing to work in the trenches. Here's hoping for a new administration that's willing to work on both the monumental and the municipal scale.
More from our archives on marine sanctuaries.
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The Environmental Tipping Point.
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I think it's safe to say that Coco Chanel was the biggest fashion icon in modern history. Her clean-cut, elegant designs have withstood the test of time and made their way into fashion-conscious closets all over the world.
Now, super talented illustrator Megan Hess has just released a gorgeous 200+ page book - Coco Chanel: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon. The book is made up of a compilation of Hess' stunning illustrations of the 100 most quintessential moments through Chanel's history, from Coco's incredible life, to the impact of Karl Lagerfeld on the company.
I couldn't help but get lost in the images as I flipped through page after page of beautifully illustrated, iconic Chanel items – the little black dress, the luxurious bags and accessories, glamorous jewellery and of course that renowned Chanel No 5 perfume.
This is one book you don't want to keep hidden away on a crowded bookshelf. It's much too beautiful! I love to leave mine on a silver tray in the living room. That way it's on display and ready for all my equally fashion-loving friends to flip through. Ha! They love it just as much as I do!
'COCO CHANEL: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon' is out now in bookstores, but you can head to www.meganhess.com to have a copy delivered straight to your door.


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Lightbulb are a design consultancy with bright ideas looking for a print finish to give their business cards another dimension. The design was created for letterpress and the black and grey ink sinks deep into the 425gsm pure cotton paper. The focal point though is the debossed lightbulb, certain to draw attention when handed out. A deboss clearly shows the impression letterpress can make into the paper, leaving a beautiful tactile finish only possible with this amazing technique.
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Security researchers have discovered a single piece of malware that is capable of spreading to four different platform environments, including Windows,MacOSX, VMware virtual machines, and Windows Mobile devices.
First uncovered last month by security company Integro, Crisis was originally described as a Mac Trojan capable of intercepting e-mails and instant messages and tracking Web sites visited. Additional scrutiny by Symantec has found that the malware targets both OSX and Windows users with executable files for both operating systems. (Read More)


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Bro up! The dogs of war are at the door – and they brought aliens.
Free Lives hinted at a forthcoming alien invasion with the addition of Ellen Bropley some months back and Broforce has made contact with the Housekeeping Update. A word against reading on: In smash.the.game.state fashion, this post is not a review. The merits of Broforce will not be discussed. Rather, this post seeks to smash into Broforce and muse on the starstuff pixels exploding from it like spiders across the stars. Maybe you've heard this one before: Sagan, Kerouac, and Thompson were on the road somewhere outside Barstow, near the Pale Blue edge of the desert… Broforce's crow-murder of expendable heroes is decadent and depraved. And like the work of Sagan, Kerouac, and Thompson, it expresses some hard truths about the American Dream.
The South Africa based team at Free Lives has said in interviews that the intent of the game is to be "fun" without the appeals to "emotion" which, far too often, sap the fun out of gaming. (Examples: the sudden addition of emotionalism into Bulletstorm's climax or pretty-when-she-cries Lara Croft looking extra pretty crying muddy in the firelight. An argument could be made to include Max Payne's brand of humorous self-pity on the list.) Seeking to eliminate emotion from the picture, Free Lives identifies the game's inspiration in that half-cocked juggernaut of consumer paraphernalia – 1980s and 1990s American action films.
That is to say, popcorn entertainment, something to stare at until you fall asleep on the couch. Guns, muscles, 'splosions. Nevermind the Reagans with their brand new bag of the same old dirty tricks, the Jack Thompsons and the Tipper Gores, nevermind the regularly scheduled programming CNN interrupted to bring the SMF friends of Twisted Sister (link contains NSFW language) into your living room.
Broforce is a new game with old blood, a new cage built out of familiar bones. Out of one medium's deconstruction (i.e. film's) emerges a new whole – an altogether new construction in a different medium (i.e. video games) vis a vis capitalism's ongoing assimilation of post-modern sensibilities. Forged in a similarly exquisite hell as was Renegade Ops, Free Lives' Broforce conflates the action hero's violent acts with acts of "liberation."
To liberate an area implies a pre-existing condition of oppression in the area. Legitimate armies move to liberate an oppressed people from an oppressor. In modern language, the word used for the oppressor is the foreign-sounding "regime," from the French for "regimen" – a dose of poison, if you will, on which the liberating forces act as activated charcoal. State 2 must act in the name of State 2's people to rescue State 1's people from State 1. Even if State 1 was here first.
Broforce can be interpreted as a parody, accidental or otherwise, of unilateral military action carried out by military contractors at the behest of the United States "government" (see also: state, regime), as evinced by a common pattern of gameplay. Broforce action hero takes ground, kills occupiers, flies the star spangled banner over the rubble and bones. Does not rinse off blood.
Action hero repeats until the devil comes down to Vietnam. Action hero kills the devil – an incarnation of evil in a suspiciously Western suit and black tie.
Action hero hops on helicopter, and the area is carpet bombed into liberation. Obliteration is liberation and freedom is the only way, yeah.
Google "Broforce Murrica," Murrica being a distinctly Texan pronunciation, and you would think by the results (as one reviewer suggests in an Early Access review) that the game is expressly concerned with parodying the Bush Doctrine of foreign policy and unilateral military action. In Broforce, good Americans (the few, the proud) take up arms and go to war with the devil, fighting to the last man. Linking Broforce directly to Texas is Brodell Walker, a play on the name of Chuck Norris' character from his "Walker, Texas Ranger" TV show, itself the spiritual heir to the John Wayne mystique. Chuck Norris' internet celebrity as the indomitable lawman from Texas owes as much to his action films as it does to the Alamo and its memory — not to mention the untimely loss of Bruce Lee.
American gamers can find a more useful interpretation of Broforce's phantasmagoria of American M-16s on rock-n-roll in a jungleland full of inhuman foes (now more explicitly inhuman, with the addition of alien enemies in the November 2014 build), an interpretation inspired neither by the Bush Doctrine nor by the old chants of "Hey, hey! LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?" Nor is the appropriate reading dependent on assertions found in the liner notes of Lee Greenwood's Proud to Be an American. Rather, I'd gladly stand up and argue that Broforce may, and should, be used to tell scary truths about American idealism, imperialism, and identity. As the developers say, their purpose was to make something new, a game you couldn't make in the '80s or '90s.
I suggest that, by turning Broforce's farcical nation-building guns on ourselves (boom-boom-boom, area liberated!), we can better understand the roots of the Great contemporary political Divide in the present-day U.S. of A. My reasoning for this begins here: Broforce is Free Lives' South African take on an ultraviolent selection of Americana. As such, it is an effort of outsiders looking in. Adroit pop cultural emulation all but guarantees that idiosyncrasies invisible to the cultural native who has been conditioned to overlook them, will find daylight. Perpendicularly, same point, different axis of intersection: A new perspective brings its own selective blindness.
Take, for instance, this rhetorical from a developer: "Who would want to play a game about a South African action hero?" As an American with little experience of South African pop culture and littler comprehension of the broader cultural mentality, I think Nelson Mandela: Aparteid Smash, written by J.M. Coetzee, scored by Die Antwoord and narrated by Ninja, and with a visual aesthetic akin to District 9's playful-miserable grays-and-goops. And then I exclaim, "Yes! Let's make this happen! To Kickstarter!" The developer provides a humorously inappropriate and (it would seem) distinctly South African example of his own. The punchline is lost on the British interviewer.
Good thing Broforce is just mindless entertainment. No politics, all fun. Otherwise, I would have you consider the chart below, comparing American Jim Crow laws with South African Apartheid.
Compare and Contrast: Apartheid and Jim Crow Laws
|Jim Crow Laws
|General Explanation
|State and local restrictions based on "separate but equal" status for black Americans. These circumstances led to "dejure segregation"
|"apartness" system of legal racial segregation enforced by the National Party of South Africa. "Minority rule" by white people was allowed by Dutch descendants.
|Black vs. White
|Black, White, Colored, Indian
|State and Local level (United States)
|National Level (South Africa)
|Examples of Segregation
|Voting restrictions, segregation of public restaurants, facilities, schools, etc.
|Segregation of education, medical care, forced separation, etc.
|Various Civil Rights Rulings:Brown v. Board of Education (1954)Civil Rights Act (1964)Voting Rights Act (1965)
|Democratic elections in 1994 allowed the ANC's (African National Congress) Nelson Mandela to become South Africa's first black President.[data, text, and chart credit: africanafrican.com]
The similarities noted above suggest that racist social policies (associated with the American South though found throughout the Union, too) share a kinship with Apartheid. Bearing in mind the legacy of Jim Crow in the South, we see that Broforce's American huah bravado-as-substance is cut not from the cloth of the stars and stripes of the state of the Union (displayed prominently in the game) but, rather, from the stars and bars of the old Confederacy. Broforce serves as a remarkable image of Rebel Proud hubris and Republic of Texas bullheadedness, cast as it were in the red, white and blue of their mutual Union aggressor. Such is the duality of the Southern Thang.
The disgusting contingencies leading up to the divide at the Mason-Dixon line and those leading up to the Apartheid are beyond the scope of this post. Within scope, we can, and should, consider contemporary South African and American identities as scarred by institutionalized racism and, in a sense, unReconstructed. The racist practices of capitalism persist. In America, the institution of slavery has been re-branded and hidden from public view.
To the contemporary Yankee sensibility, the Rebel Proud phenomenon seems a ruse for racists, the stars and bars a klansman's daytime hood. "What about Sherman's March to the Sea, where the Union systematically trounced their cotton-pickin' asses, do they fail to comprehend?" asks the Yankee. But the inquiry ends prematurely. "They must just all be racist idiots." (Never a good blanket statement to make about a group.) Therefore, the Yankee mentality concludes, the flag must go. Down slams the star-spangled gavel. Case closed.
Of course, to destroy a symbol is to reinforce its legitimacy in the eyes of its followers. Rebel Proud, as a phenomenon, relies on the conceit that Lincoln's unilateral action against his own people (history repeating playin' reruns) marked a grave injustice – bloodthirsty persecution of women and men by a traitor charged to protect them and serve them.
To a Confederate loyalist, first blood is and will always remain on the tyrant Lincoln's hands and the insurrection is a just response to "Northern aggression" from overzealous Feds. Our hypothetical Confederate loyalist is hypocritical when he forgets or overlooks the brutality of the inexcusable economic institution in whose defense he has taken up arms. (Fact: The first blood of the American Civil War was African and it was shed in a slaveship, centuries before the first shot rang out at Fort Sumpter.) Is our Confederate loyalist a wealthy Southern Democrat hellbent on continuing his own tyranny? Is he not a rich man but rather the vassal of one, willing but not without misgivings to do his boss's bloody bidding? Is she a Southern belle comfortable in her position of stature and willing to hear the spinning wheel wear out the fingers of innumerable slavegirls to spare her own's becoming hard and unladylike? Is she a worker, a servant, who sees collaboration as an ugly necessity and joins the war effort because she can knit or cook or carry supplies or tend to wounds and after all everyone she knows has joined up? Maybe for some, joining up was never about ideology but rather a compulsion brought on by waking up to the barn burning or receiving a letter from your sister-in-law that says your only brother bled out in a hog pen and they just left him there like a butchered animal an' you sware vengeance 'fore God Almighty 'gainst the devils in the blue what put your brother in an early grave. Suddenly, the big war effort seems tangential, circumstantial, an unimportant prelude to the vendettas that steer the affected generation's fates and the blood feuds which will plague the descendants.
Vendettas and blood feuds shape consciousness. Those who identify as coming from a military family talk about the "tradition" of joining the armed forces. They remind us of the local character of war. "Sit yourself down and hear tell about the wars what my daddy and granddaddy fought." The specifics of the conflict are insubstantial in comparison to the sense of fulfilling one's duty in service, of keeping the tradition alive. Bleed all you can bleed for the sacred blood feud. Make daddy, God, and country proud.
Simulations of the mass murder and pillaging which characterized Sherman's March to the Sea would be right at home in Broforce's jungle hellhole. Just think: Brodell Walker in place of the Man with No Name wandering into the Good dead space between the Bad and the Ugly. All it would take is another conceit, akin in absurdity to the one that allows for an army of battle-ready suicide bombers and certainly less absurd than balaklava wearing warriors allying themselves with aliens to fight American action hero ripoffs in a fully destructible Vietnam wrought with death-bringing mechs and Metal Sluggish helicopter war machines designed by Early Cuyler.
Consider the prevalence of depictions of violence against people from Asia and the Middle East in contemporary games marketed to continental Americans and Western Europeans, each Western entity with an astonishing track record of committing actual real-life obliterating violence in the name of liberation. In gaming media, pictures of liberation and obliteration continue to be made from the perspective of the liberators and not the liberated. Despite the emptiness of its bravado and its farcical presentation, Broforce does little to discourage the ugly tradition in game design of putting the player in the Western oppressor's boots.
Local manifestations take precedence. Always. As a parting thought, I would have the reader consider Carl Sagan's comments on the Pale Blue Dot photo. "That's here. That's home. That's us… etc., etc." sounds real nice, but his intention was not to say something cool to go on that poster in your dorm room, Bro.
Sagan's intent — stated in the paragraphs immediately following the famous one, and in his later books — was to "underscore[sic] our responsibility" to avoid violent means and seek peaceful resolution in this terrifying nuclear age. We might say, with the same sentiment, that from the perspective of the Voyager 1 every war is a civil war. Brothers killing brothers, bros killing bros… Shudder at the thought but save your breath, bro. In space, no one can hear you scream.


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Only a year ago we heard that Napster wasn't keen on launching phones apps, simply because the licensing fees were too expensive. They seemingly got over that small issue, as you can now download their "free" iPhone app.
I say free, but while it's free to download from the iTunes App Store, you must be a paid-up Napster member, which comes in at $US10 a month. Songs, albums and playlists are playable offline (just like with the European-friendly Spotify), and recommendations and automixes are also supported.
It's only available to US residents at the moment, but Napster told Wired UK that they "are in negotiations with the labels and collection societies for a UK app". [iTunes via MusicAlly]


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Celebrate 15 years of youth voice. Join us for a screening of youth-made films and videos at 2 pm, a hands-on art-making activity, and a chance to meet with colleges and professional representatives from around the metro area from 12:30 to 2 pm.
Bonus! Catch a 4 pm screening of Battleground Minnesota, a hip-hop documentary musical about the 2004 presidential elections in Minnesota. Hip-hop activist Shakademic proves that if Walter Mondale can learn how to scratch, young voters can get schooled in election politics. Winner of the Netflix Jury Award at the 2005 Media That Matters Film Festival in New York.
The Twin Cities Youth Media Network (TCYMN) works to strengthen the field through supporting, sharing, and promoting the work of young filmmakers and adult mentors.


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Ruiner[v 1.01] (2017) PC 6.56 GB | RePack by Covfefe
Year of manufacture : 26 Sep. 2017
Genre : Arcade, Shoot'em up, 3D , Top-down , Cyberpunk
Developer : Reikon Games
Publisher : Devolver Digital
Platform : PC
Publication Type : License {GOG}
Language : English, MULTi
Language : English
Medicine : Not required {DRM-Free}
Description :
RUINER's action takes place in 2091, in a corrupt and gloomy world where people are mired in crime, and everything is completely controlled by large corporations. Players will take on the role of a sociopath who went against the whole system to free his brother. To achieve his goals, the hero is ready to go to any crime and victim. In this mission, a hacker friend and various modifications of the body and reflexes will help him. In the unequal struggle with the corporate titans, you will benefit from combinations of different augmentations, improved reflexes and a huge arsenal of weapons.
Features of the game
A refined and brutal combat system. Ruiner combines a dynamic and spectacular combat system, complemented by features of various augmentation and improved reflexes of the hero. Each battle will amaze with its cruelty and great tactical capabilities.
A unique cyberpunk-arsenal of weapons. The game will offer a huge arsenal of high-tech ranged and ranged weapons. A large number of different gadgets and devices, such as an energy shield, will help to defeat the enemies.
Intense action with emphasis on the plot. The project will tell a complex and intricate story, full of intrigues and conspiracies. The hero has to punch his way to the truth through hordes of enemies.
Impressive soundtrack. Strong bitters from Khoven, DJ Alina and the famous composer Susumu Hirasawa.
Features Repack
List of supported languages: Russian, English, French,
Spanish, German, Chinese, Korean, Polish, Japanese
Version of the game v.1.01
Do not cut
Nothing recoded
Installation time – 30 minutes (depending on the system)
Release from Covfefe
System requirements :
OS : Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10 (64-bit)
Processor : Intel Core i5-760 (4 * 2800) or equivalent / AMD Athlon II X4 645 AM3 (4 * 3100) or equivalent
RAM : 4 GB of RAM
Video card : GeForce GTX 460 (1024 MB) / Radeon HD 6850 (1024 MB)
Disk space : 10 GBhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tyUksAL3-4


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8 June 2015
Over 700 people from across the broad spectrum of Australian society are recognised on the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to the nation or to humanity at large. There were 170 women and 349 men appointed to the Order of Australia while a further 198 Australians were recognised through military and meritorious awards. 635 Australians have been recognised with Orders of Australia on Australia Day 2015, while a further 59 military and 130 meritorious awards were announced. Members of the tertiary education sector received 65 awards, particularly in the upper categories. These include 5 out of the 8 Companion awards (62%), 18 out of 44 Officer awards (31%) and 32 of 138 Member awards (23%), for about 33% of the higher awards – which is about on par with recent years. In the most common category of Medal, only 6 of 404 awards were tertiary sector related people (1.5%) – about half the recent norm. Women continue to be under represented with 33% of all awards, mainly in the Medal category – which is about the same as in the Australia Day List. Of the awards to people associated with the tertiary sector, we couldn't identify any distinctively "VET people". It goes back to the old ICBY motto: "you gotta to be in it to win it". Check out how to nominate someone for an award.
In the Australian honours system appointments to the Order of Australia confer recognition for outstanding achievement and service. The order has five levels :
- Knight or Dame is is awarded for " extraordinary and pre-eminent achievement and merit of service" to Australia or humanity at large (up to 4 awards in a calendar year).
- The Companion of the Order of Australia is awarded for "eminent achievement and merit of the highest degree in service" to Australia or humanity at large (up to 30 awards in a calendar year).
- The Officer of the Order is awarded for "distinguished service" (up to 125 awards in a calendar year).
- The Member of the Order is awarded for "significant service" (up to 300 awards in a calendar year).
- The Medal of the Order is awarded for "service"(no limitation) .
Australian Honours are announced twice a year: on Australia Day (26 January) and on the the Queen's "official birthday" (second Monday of June in most of Australia, although she was actually born in April).
Professor Kym ANDERSON
For eminent service to higher education as a leading academic and researcher, particularly in the field of agricultural economics, to the study of international trade and poverty reduction in developing countries, and to the viticulture industry. George Gollin Professor of Economics, University of Adelaide, since 1991.
Distinguished Professor Judith Ann CLEMENTS
For eminent service to the biological sciences and to education, through seminal contributions to improving the understanding of cancers, particularly prostate cancer, as an advocate for the development of biomedical research facilities, and to the training of scientists. Leader, Cancer Research Program, Faculties of Science and Technology and Health, Queensland University of Technology.
Professor Nathan EFRON
For eminent service to medicine in the field of clinical optometry, particularly to vision correction and corneal physiology, as an academic, researcher and author, to the treatment of juvenile diabetes, and through executive roles with national and international professional organisations. Research Professor, Anterior Eye Laboratory, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, since 2006.
Professor Stephen Vincent LYNCH
For eminent service to medicine, particularly through major advancements in the area of liver transplantation surgery and science, as a leading clinician, to medical education and training at a national and international level, and to professional organisations. Professor of Surgery, University of Queensland, since 2006.
Professor Stephen James SIMPSON
For eminent service to biological and biomedical science as an educator, researcher and author, particularly in the areas of human nutrition, obesity and metabolic disease, to higher education, and through roles with a range of professional scientific organisations Academic Director, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, since 2012.
Professor Paul Vincent ABBOTT
For distinguished service to clinical dentistry, and to higher education, as an academic, researcher and author, to endodontics as a practitioner, and to professional organisations. Winthrop Professor of Clinical Dentistry, University of Western Australia, since 2003.
Dr Barry John ALLEN
For distinguished service to biomedical physics, particularly to radiation oncology and the development of innovative methods of cancer treatment, and to international professional scientific associations. Research Principal Hospital Scientist, St George Cancer Care Centre, 1994 – 2012. Chief Research Scientist, Australian Nuclear Sciences and Technology Organisations (ANSTO) 1964 – 1994. Conjoint Professor, Medical School, University of New South Wales, 2004-2012.
Professor John William BOLDEMAN
For distinguished service to nuclear science and technology, particularly through the design and construction of the Australian Synchrotron particle accelerator, and as a mentor of young scientists. Professorial Fellow, Institute of Nuclear Science, University of Sydney, since 2009.
Emeritus Professor Terence Ross CARNEY
For distinguished service to higher education as an academic, researcher and author, to the law and social welfare, and through leadership roles with national and international legal organisations. Emeritus Professor, Department of Law, University of Sydney, since 2011.
Professor Lesley Irene CHENOWETH
For distinguished service to higher education, particularly in the area of social work, as an academic and administrator, and as a leading supporter of people living with disabilities. Inaugural Professor of Social Work, School of Human Services and Social Work, Griffith University, since 2006.
Professor Allan William CRIPPS
For distinguished service to tertiary education as a senior administrator, and to public health as a leading immunologist, academic and researcher in the area of mucosal immunisation. Pro Vice-Chancellor (Health), Griffith University, since 2005.
Professor Paolo FERRARI
For distinguished service to medicine in the discipline of nephrology, as a clinician scientist, to the establishment of innovative renal transplantation programs, and to medical education. Head, Department of Nephrology, Fremantle Hospital and Health Services, since 2004; Clinical Director, Medical Division, 2006-2014; Professor of Medicine, University of Western Australia.
Professor Douglas Warrington HENDERSON
For distinguished service to medicine, particularly anatomical pathology, as a clinician and diagnostician, and to education as an academic and author in the field of asbestos-related diseases. Professor of Pathology, Flinders University.
Dr Alan Peter JEARY
For distinguished service to engineering, particularly in the building and construction industry, to higher education, and through roles with a range of national and international professional organisations. Professor and Associate Head, School of Engineering, University of Western Sydney, 1985- 2008; Foundation Chair, Construction, 1998-2007.
Professor Nigel George LAING
For distinguished service to medicine in the field of neuromuscular disorders, as an academic and researcher, to medical education, and through contributions to professional associations Research Professor, Centre for Medical Research, University of Western Australia, since 2012.
Emeritus Professor Allan LUKE
For distinguished service to higher education, particularly in the areas of literacy, curriculum reform, educational policy, applied linguistics and sociology, and to improved learning outcomes for Indigenous students. Queensland University of Technology Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Education, since 2013. Research Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, 2005-2013.
Professor Ross David MILBOURNE
For distinguished service to higher education, to academic leadership and administration, to the promotion of excellence in teaching and research, as an economist, and to professional tertiary learning associations: Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Technology Sydney, 2002-2014.
Dr Hugh David NIALL
For distinguished service to biomedical science, particularly in the field of hormone sequencing, to higher education and research commercialisation initiatives, and to student development programs. Monash University Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Fellow, 2011-2015.
Professor Philippa Eleanor PATTISON
For distinguished service to higher education, particularly through contributions to the study of social network modelling, analysis and theory, and to university leadership and administration. Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), University of Sydney, since 2014. Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), University of Melbourne, 2011-2014.
Professor Karen SIMMER
For distinguished service to medicine in the field of paediatrics, particularly neonatal and perinatal nutrition, to medical education as an academic, researcher and clinician, and to the community. Winthrop Professor of Newborn Medicine, University of Western Australia (UWA), since 2001.
Emeritus Professor Peter James TAYLOR
For distinguished service to education, and to youth, particularly through the development of mathematical competitions and challenges for students, as an academic, and to professional learning associations. Emeritus Professor, University of Canberra (UC), since 2013; Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Education, 1996-2012.
Professor Deborah Jane TERRY
For distinguished service to education in the tertiary sector through senior administrative roles, as an academic and researcher in the field of psychology, and as a mentor. Vice-Chancellor and President, Curtin University, since 2014. Acting Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Queensland, 2012.
Dr Elvie Marelyn WINTOUR-COGHLAN
For distinguished service to medical science in the field of physiology, particularly in the area of maternal and child health, to education as an academic, mentor and researcher, and to professional organisations. Academic Physiologist, University of Melbourne, 1960-1990.
Professor David Arthur BATTERSBY
For significant service to tertiary education, as a senior administrator and academic, and as an advocate for improved community engagement. Vice-Chancellor, Federation University (formerly University of Ballarat) since 2006.
Professor Bruce James BREW
For significant service to medicine, particularly the neurological impacts of HIV/AIDS, as a clinician and researcher, and to medical education. Professor of Medicine (Neurology), University of New South Wales, since 2001.
Emeritus Professor Robert Walter CATTRALL
For significant service to science, particularly analytical chemistry, as an academic, educator, researcher and author, and to cricket. Emeritus Professor, Department of Chemistry, La Trobe University, since 2000.
Dr Russell Donald CLARK
For significant service to geriatric and rehabilitation medicine, and to international relations, as a clinician and educator in Asia and Africa. Associate Professor, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Tumaini University Moshi, Tanzania. Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales; Senior Lecturer. Lecturer, Rural Clinical School, University of Notre Dame, 2010-2013.
Emeritus Professor Jann Patricia CONROY
For significant service to environmental science, particularly climate change and plant growth, as an academic, and as a mentor of young scientists. Associate Director of Research, and Founder, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, 1996-2013.
Distinguished Professor Stuart Duncan CUNNINGHAM
For significant service to higher education, particularly to the study of media and communications, as an academic and researcher. Distinguished Professor of Media and Communications, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) since 2009.
Ms Dianne Margaret DAVIDSON
For significant service to the wine making industry, to horticultural management science, and to higher education administration. Deputy Chancellor, University of Adelaide, since 2013.
Ms Dianne Blair FOGGO
For significant service to tertiary education administration and development, to the advancement of women, and to industrial relations. Deputy Chancellor, Victoria University, 2003-2011. Council Member, 1999-2011.
Emeritus Professor David Ross FRASER
For significant service to tertiary science education, as an academic and researcher, and to the study of human disease and domestic animal production. Dean Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, 1994-1998; Professor of Animal Husbandry, 1986-2007.
Professor Ian Ronald GOUGH
For significant service to medicine as a clinician, to education as an academic, researcher and author, and through medical advisory roles. Professor of Surgery, University of Queensland, since 1991.
Adjunct Professor John Charles HAMILTON
For significant service to the print media as a leading journalist and editor, as an author and educator, and to the veteran community. Adjunct Professor, Journalism Leadership, Swinburne University, since 2011.
Professor Ian Andrew HARRIS
For significant service to medicine, particularly in the field of orthopaedics as a clinician, to education and research, and to professional bodies. Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of New South Wales, since 2008.
Dr Dennis James HASKELL
For significant service to literature, particularly poetry, as an academic, author, editor and critic, to tertiary education, and to inter-cultural understanding. Emeritus Professor of English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia, since 2011. Professor of English, Communication and Cultural Studies, 1999-2011.
Ms Rhonda Clare HAWKINS
For significant service to higher education through governance and leadership roles, and as an advocate for social justice and gender equity. University of Western Sydney Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Corporate Strategy and Services), Vice-President and University Provost; 2005-2014.
Professor Annemarie HENNESSY
For significant service to tertiary education, and to medical research, particularly in the area of clinical hypertension and maternal health. Academic: Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, since 2011.
Clinical Professor Richard Peter HERRMANN
For significant service to medicine, particularly to haematology as a clinician, to bone marrow transplantation services, and to education. Clinical Professor, School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Western Australia.
Professor Ross Beresford HOLLAND
For significant service to medicine in the discipline of anaesthesia, as a clinician, to healthcare standards, and to professional medical bodies. Professor and Chairman, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Newcastle and John Hunter Hospital, 1990-1993. Foundation Professor of Anaesthesiology, University of Hong Kong, 1987-1990.
Dr Alan ISAACS
For significant service to medical education, particularly in the field of ophthalmology, and to professional organisations. Details not released on the request of Dr Isaacs.
Professor Brij Vilash
For significant service to education, through the preservation and teaching of Pacific history, as a scholar, author and commentator. Professor, Pacific and Asian History and Deputy Director, School of Culture, History and Language, The Australian National University.
Conjoint Professor Florence LEVY
For significant service to medical education through seminal contributions to child and adolescent psychology research. Conjoint Professor, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, since 2004. Adjunct Professor, Curtin University, 2004-2007. Adjunct PhD Supervisor, Macquarie University, current.
Professor Robert James LUSBY
For significant service to medicine as a cardiovascular surgeon and clinician, and to medical education and research as an academic and educator. Head of School and Associate Dean, Concord Medical School, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney 2000-2015; Professor of Surgery, since 1983.
Mr Anthony David (Jock) MACKAY
For significant service to education through reform in the teaching profession, leadership in curriculum development and innovation in assessment and reporting. Inaugural Chair, Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, since 2010. Life Member, Australian College of Educators, since 2009. Fellow, Institute of Public Administration Australia (Victoria). Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne.
Associate Professor John Richard MACKAY
For significant service to medicine in the field of colorectal surgery, to clinical governance, and to professional organisations. Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Melbourne, 'no dates'.
Mr Robert Tasman NATION
For significant service to architecture and environmental design as a practitioner, to higher education, and to professional organisations. Has lectured at a range of tertiary institutions including: Hong Kong University; Melbourne University; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; and Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, Hobart.
Professor Murray David NORRIS
For significant service to medical research as a molecular biologist, and through pioneering development of treatments for cancer in children. Former Conjoint Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales.
Dr Clifford Walter POLLARD
For significant service to medicine in the field of trauma care, and through contributions to health policy and reform in Queensland. Associate Professor, School of Medicine, University of Queensland.
Professor John Francis SEYMOUR
For significant service to medicine in the field of haematology, through a range of senior appointments in blood and bone marrow cancer research. Honorary Professorial Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, since 2010; Associate Professor, 2006-2010.
Dr Robyn Joyce SLOGGETT
For significant service to the arts in the field of cultural heritage management and preservation as an academic, conservator and adviser. Director, Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, Director, Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, University of Melbourne, since 2005, since 2005,
Dr William Hugh SMITH
For significant service to higher education as an academic and researcher in the field of military sociology, and to the community. Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, 1996-2004; Visiting Fellow, since 2004.
Associate Professor Kevin Gerard TOLHURST
For significant service to science through land and bushfire management, and to the community through providing expert advice at fire emergencies. Associate Professor, School of Ecosystem and Forest Services, The University of Melbourne, since 2011; Senior Lecturer, since 1997
Professor Fredrick Clive WRIGHT
For significant service to dentistry, particularly in the area of population oral health, as an academic, educator, administrator and research scientist. Associate Director, Centre for Research and Education on Ageing, Concord Clinical School, and Clinical Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Sydney, since 2012; Honorary Clinical Professor, 2011; Honorary Adjunct Professor, 2006-2011; External Consultant, 1991- 1992. Professor Emeritus, Preventive and Community Dentistry, University of Melbourne, since 1997.
The late Dr Bevis Graham YAXLEY
For significant service to education in Tasmania, particularly through curriculum development, as an administrator and academic. Associate Professor, National Key Centre for Science and Mathematics Education Centre (SMEC), Curtin University, circa 2006-2014. Macquarie University, since 2011. Member of academic staff since 1970. Honorary Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, since 2010.
Mrs Catherine Mary BIRRELL
For service to nursing, particularly to professional education, and to the community. Clinical Associate Professor, Australian Catholic University, 2006-2014. Member, Australian College of Nursing (ACN), since 2012; Member, Royal College of Nursing Australia (merged into ACN), 1990-2012. Board Member, Gordon Institute of Technical and Further Education, since 2009.
Dr John Bruce BLACKWELL
For service to medicine, to professional organisations, and to medical education.. Clinical Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Western Australia, 2006-2012; Clinical Professor, School of Surgery and the School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 2012-2014; Adjunct Professor, School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, since 2014.
Professor Niki Maree ELLIS
For service to medical research, particularly to occupational and public health. Foundation Professor and Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research, Monash University, 2010-2013; Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, since 2013. Foundation Professor and Director, Centre for Australian Military and Veterans' Health, University of Queensland, 2005-2008.. Visiting Research Fellow, London Southbank University, UK, 2002-2005.
Ms Julie Ann HOLSCHIER
For service to nursing, particularly lactation education. Adjunct Lecturer, Curtin University of Technology, 2005-2011.
Associate Professor Alyson Margaret KAKAKIOS
For service to medicine in the field of paediatric allergy and immunology. Associate Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, The University of Sydney.
Emeritus Professor Martin Edward WESTBROOKE
For service to ecology, and to environmental management. Federation University Australia (formerly University of Ballarat): Emeritus Professor, since 2007; Associate Professor/Professor, 1992-2007.


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Ginataang Hipon at Kalabasa
I guess you have seen variations of these in my site as this Squash and String beans in Coconut Cream sauce is a popular base for different types of meat in the Philippines specially seafood such as Shrimps and Crabs. Also if you have noticed most of the Philippine dishes originated on different bases like Sinigang, Adobo and Afritada to name some, and from these base different meats is used to create a different dish. This now shows how Filipino dishes are flexible in terms of ingredients used as we can swap different meats as well as the vegetables from the base dish; I guess it's made that way because of how seasonal the vegetables can be. Making it in that way you can still enjoy the same meal even you don't have the original ingredients.
So for this dish we will be using the Squash and String Beans in Coconut Cream Sauce base and use shrimps instead, on my past posts we used the same base but used crabs and pork instead. If you like creamy dishes and you love seafood then this should be a must try. And don't forget you need to use your hands when you eat this dish, thats why the shrimps shell is still in tact, and if you dont know how to use then here is a good guide to let you know.
- 400g Shrimps
- ½ medium sized butternut, cubed
- 1 bunch string beans, sliced into 2 inch pcs
- 2 cups coconut milk
- 5 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 small red onion, chopped
- 3 pcs finger chillies, chopped
- fish sauce
- pepper
- oil
- In a wok, heat up oil and sauté garlic, onion and chillies.
- Add butternut and string beans and stir fry until there is a little bit of browning on the butternut.
- Add coconut milk, bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Add shrimps and flavour with fish sauce. Simmer for additional 2 minutes.
- Season with freshly ground black pepper.


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The Polyphonic Spree - Monday night at Club Congress, KXCI Presents!
KXCI Presents! The Polyphonic Spree, bringing their stage filling symphonic and choral pop-rock to Club Congress on Monday Aug. 26th. Doors open at 7pm for all-ages with The O's and Seryn.
Touring in support of their new release "Yes, It's True" a featured album of the week on Your Morning Brew. " The Polyphonic Spree from Austin, TX are set to embark on another national tour. Over 20 members join together to create a joyful and uplifting atmosphere that anyone can enjoy! Bring the whole family down for what is said to be a spiritual experience with the always colorful Polyphonic Spree. We are beyond excited to be hosting them at the Hotel Congress for the very first time."-Club Congress


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When we think of Alberta, we think of the Canadian Rockies, pristine lakes and rivers, pine forests and abundant wildlife. While white water rafting the Kananaskis River our family got an adrenalin rush and got to enjoy the iconic Canadian wilderness. We paddled hard, we got really wet, we splashed other boats, we laughed a lot and in the process created memories that we will have forever. Our trip allowed us a backcountry experience as a family, without any expertise or equipment needed.
Family Friendly Rafting
Chinook Rafting offers trips for children ages 5 and above and the whole family loved the thrill of the Class II and Class III rapids. The Kananaskis River is fed from the mountains and glaciers of the area and the water is very cold. Even though it was a sweltering summer day, we were geared up with wetsuits, booties, and splash jackets, which were definitely appreciated once on the river. Our guide put the kids up front, which is the safest part of the raft. He called them his "wave breakers" and they took their role quite seriously. The front is, of course, the place you get the wettest as you ride the rapids down the river. Our kids love adventure activities and from the constant smiles plastered on their faces, there was no question they loved the experience. During the gentler rapids, they tried their hand at paddling and peppered our guide with questions.
Our tour operator, Chinook Rafting had kid sized gear and extra layers of thermal clothes to keep the kids warm in the chilly mountainous river water. While white water rafting is an adventure sport with some risk, I felt completely safe with the kids on the raft thanks to our guide's expertise. He checked in frequently with the kids to make sure they were enjoying the experience and expertly navigated us through the rapids.
Thrilling Adventure
After a thorough safety briefing, we met our guides and excitedly headed out on the river. The trip starts right away with Class II and III rapids where the Canadian Olympic white-water team trains. The kids rode in the front breaking the waves, while we followed our guides commands. Forward paddle, stop, hold on, get down! We surfed a few of the rapids, we spun down some of the rapids and celebrated our success after each rapid with a paddle high five.
Wilderness Experience
The second part of the river was a gentler ride where we had the opportunity to indulge in some good old-fashioned water fights with the other boats. It was also an opportunity to sit back and really appreciate the wilderness we were floating through. No civilization in sight, just endless forest and mountains and the sounds of birds and the river. Our guide Dave pointed out some interesting things like the holes in the riverbed walls where birds nest and the effects of the 2013 floods on the river. It was also a chance for us to get to know our raft mates from all over the world. Towards the end of the adventure, we got to jump in and drift to our exit point in the chilly, take your breath away waters.
It was a treat to get back to base camp and enjoy warm drinks and snacks as we excitedly re-lived our adventure through the professional photographer's photos. Chinook Rafting will then return you in their shuttle bus to Canmore or Banff if you require transportation.
There really is no better way to appreciate Alberta's pristine wilderness then white-water rafting down the Kananaskis River as a family. Our hearts were pounding with exhilaration and we felt a sense of accomplishment and teamwork as we successfully navigated the white-water. From the shrieks of laughter on our raft, it was hard to tell who was having more fun: the kids or the adults.
Dawn Nicholson is a Canadian living overseas in Australia. She dreams about living in the Canadian Rockies someday and in the meantime blogs about traveling and living overseas with her three kids at 5 Lost Together. Dawn has visited over 50 countries and believes strongly in traveling now with kids by whatever and any means possible – backpacking, sailing or living as expats overseas.
Activity Highlights
- White-Water Rafting
- Wildlife Viewing
- Sightseeing Tours


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Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes
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I have always loved the fourth of July.
GREAT bbq
and my family always had a HUGE party
{complete with explosions that would put out the neighborhood street lights}
Our town also puts on a spectacular rodeo, and the bull run happens to take place on my street; it is quite the event.
But you know me, holidays are all about the food,
and while apple pie may be America's pie,
when I think patriotic it's Boston Cream Pie that comes to mind.
However, the last thing I want to do when the bulls are outside playing in my front yard, is to be inside cutting and serving.
That's where cupcakes come in mighty handy.
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 salt
- 1/2 cup milk{whole}
- 6 tbsp Greek yogurt {plain or vanilla}
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Vanilla Cream
- 1 cup of Greek yogurt
- 1/4 cup of vanilla protein powder
- Chocolate Ganache
- 1 cup of chopped dark and bittersweet chocolate
- 1/2 cup cream
- Preheat oven to 350
- whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt
- beat eggs and sugar until light and airy {about 5 minutes on med}
- Mix in the dry ingredients
- Beat in the milk, vanilla, and yogurt
- fill lined muffin cups halfway
- bake for 15 minutes
- cool and make a hole in the center {using the handle of a wooden spoon - twist to get a large enough opening}
- blend together the yogurt and the protein powder
- fill the center of each cupcake
- chill for about 30 minutes
- to make the ganache bring the cream to a simmer
- pour over the chopped chocolate
- allow to sit for a minute
- whisk {begin in the center and make your way to the edge of the bowl}
- pour the ganache over the chilled cupcakes
- smooth and serve
Just look at that ganache!!
This recipe makes 18 regular size cupcakes, but
I made 12 and then 3 LARGE ones 🙂
{guess which I'll be eating}
Because these are made with only Greek yogurt, no butter at all,I'm not even going to feel guilty!


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No, this isn't a thread debating if movie 3 exist in the tv canon or not since we already have that long running thread. Rather this is about the movie itself. I watched the whole thing from start to finish for the first time and I'm still not sure how I feel about it. In a way I prefer it to Our War Games for being so different (I definitely prefer it to Diablomon's Counterattack which was just so....bland) It's a weird movie. There's a very slow somber feel to it and I don't want to say the music was wrong. I assume the blue grass country jazz was to give it an "American" feel but it was definitely different seeing very slow jazzy music playing against action scenes. The very brief use of Brave Heart and Break Up almost feels out of place.
I also appreciate that the movie had a story it wanted to tell and didn't care about little things like details. Why/How did Chocomon disappear? Eh not important. How are these grade school children traveling from Japan to the middle of America? Eh the story needs them to go there who cares about semantics. Why are Angemon and Angewomon suddenly reaching their highest forms so casually which they've never done before? Stop nitpicking and just enjoy the movie. It's not the most tightly plotted movie but it knows what it wanted to do.
There's also a lot to talk about Wallace and Gumimon (Terriermon). Wallace's va speaks pretty good english! Except when pronouncing his own name as Warrace and pronouncing Digital World as Digitalo Worldo. The handwave that he learned Japanese from a Japanese girlfriend is whatever but it is odd he speaks Japanese to his American mother until the end of the movie. Also why is he calling Terriermon by his baby 2 name? As some point I would think Terriermon would have given him the 411. But even V-Mon calls him Gumimon. It's also interesting that Gumimon speaks exclusively in Japanese even when talking to just Wallace. This raises questions like are all Digimon's native language Japanese? Wouldn't English be its first language since it grew up with Wallace in Colorado and never lived in the digital world? Why did Wallace need a Japanese girlfriend to teach him when his partner speaks it fluently?
On a side not the fansubs I was watching weren't the greatest since it subbed Ultimate as Mega and referred to Chocomon disappearing incorrectly as 3 years ago.