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Harrismith | |
Latitude | -28.165111 |
Longitude | 29.18228 |
Climbing Type | Multi-pitch Sport & Trad |
Rock Type | Sandstone/Dolerite |
Season | All year round |
Province | Free State |
Area | Harrismith |
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This part of South Africa has some of the most dramatic and beautiful landscapes in the country. Views from the crags are huge, sweeping vistas of mountains and the endless Highveld plains under constantly changing skies; it is a must-climb for any south African or visiting climber!
There are currently about 140 fully bolted sport routes at Mount Everest. These range in grade from 7 to 29 (up to 7c+), the majority are below grade 20 (6b) so this is the perfect place for beginner and moderate grade climbers. There are more than a dozen fully bolted multi-pitch routes with 2 to 6 pitches, and about 20 trad routes for the adventurous. Then there is the POTENTIAL; there are dozens of unclimbed walls and boulders, lurking futuristic 30 somethings and easy stuff, just waiting to be developed. All this is located in a private game reserve with over a dozen types of antelope! The rock is sandstone, much younger and quite a bit softer than the quartzites of Boven, the Magaliesberg or the Cape. It forms weird and wonderful shapes and is highly variable, from loose-ish shaley stuff to perfect pocketed solid and smooth walls. The climbing at the Dark Side is on dolerite, an igneous rock which forms columns and cracks, a very different experience.
Rock climbing is a dangerous sport in which you can be seriously injured or even killed. This guide is intended only for the use of experienced climbers who have the necessary expertise, experience and judgement to ensure their own safety.
Whilst we have made a reasonable effort to ensure the accuracy of the information in this guide, you make use of it entirely at your own risk. We are well aware that there are various errors in the descriptions and topos that we have scrounged from various sources (see acknowledgments). However, it is impossible for any one person to climb every one of these routes and check all the details. So, please regard this information as a guide only and exercise the necessary discretion.
The information in this guide will obviously become progressively more dated as time passes and climbers are personally responsible for ascertaining the situation and conditions prevailing at the time of their planned visit.
The information in this guide will definitely change with time and is definitely NOT necessarily 100% accurate. These notes are simply an attempt to give you some idea of what to expect. It is up to YOU to determine the situation prevailing on each route you attempt and to exercise the necessary precautions.
From Gavin Peckham, "The information in this guide has been obtained from various sources. These include the Mount Everest staff and the route book prepared by Ruth Behr from information collected by Clive Curson. This is available for inspection at the Reception and has subsequently been added to by many climbers. Further information was obtained from a guide of unspecified authorship that was published well over a decade ago. Alex Steyn, Jacques Raubenheimer and Gavin Raubenheimer provided information about many of the trad lines. Other assorted scraps of information were obtained from various climbers who I met at the crags. We all owe a debt of gratitude to the various climbers who took the time, trouble and expense to bolt these routes and thus provide an excellent selection of safe climbing for the rest of us. In this regard, particular mention must be made of Mike Cartwright who put an enormous amount of time, effort and money into opening and bolting routes, especially in the initial stages of development at the venue. The following people have also made significant route opening and bolting contributions: Clive Curson, Grant Murray, Ian Guest, Mike Behr, Ruth Behr, Glen Harrison, Arno Naude, Gustav Janse van Rensburg, Gunther Migeotte, Gerhard Kruger, Gavin Peckham and Gavin Raubenheimer. Sincere apologies to anyone who I might have missed."
Mount Everest is located in the Free State just north of Harrismith. It is about 300 km southeast of Johannesburg and about 350 km northwest of Durban.
- From Durban: Follow the N3 and by-pass Harrismith on the ring-road. About 4 km north of the town, just past the top of a hill, the N3 intersects the R722. At this intersection there is a well sign-posted turnoff to the right labelled, "Verkykerskop". Follow this tarred road for about 13 km to a crossroad where it intersects with the S1204. At this intersection there is a "Mount Everest" sign. Turn right and follow the dirt road for about 5 km. The entrance to Mount Everest is a large, thatched gateway in a clump of trees on the right.
- From Johannesburg: Follow the N3 until you reach the small (hard to see turn off) for the S1204. This is a good gravel road, passable in all cars. Turn left onto this (toward the mountain!). After 500 m turn left again, then after 1 km turn right. Drive straight for 11 kilometres and you arrive at the cross-roads with the tar road (R722). Cross this and after 5 km you will arrive at the Mount Everest gate on the right. If you really don't want to do the gravel or you miss the turn, continue to the R722 to "Verkykerskop" and follow the directions as from Durban. It is 17 kilometres longer.
Campsites, caravan sites and self-catering chalets are available at very fair prices. You can obtain more information using the contact details given above. The chalets vary in size and sleep between 4 and 12 people; they are all of timber and really comfortable, some tucked up in the hillsides amongst the rocks, with amazing views. Booking is advisable if you want to make use of a chalet, but is not necessary if you are only planning to camp. All buildings and chalets are "SMOKE FREE" zones !
Please note that the resort does not have a restaurant, pub or TV facilities or a shop; for all of these you will have to go to Harrismith or one of the service stations on the N3 highway. Apart from rock climbing, you can hike or ride along a variety of trails (with your own mountain bike) or fish for bass in the dams (with your own rods). The setting is magnificent and the views are stunning, especially from the tops of the mountains. The bird watching is excellent and there is a good stock of various antelope.
Contact Details
The contact numbers are on the gate and you can ring one of these to gain access at any time. If you plan to arrive after dark, then please pre-arrange this with the owner.
Contact Details: Mount Everest Tel: 0823005999 or 0836682472 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com Web: [www.goeverest.co.za]
- Climb ZA Directory listing - http://www.climbing.co.za/directory/listing/mount-everest-guest-farm/
- The rock is soft and pieces do come off, small and large! Climbers and belayers should wear helmets. If you are watching don't sit/stand below the climber and if you are belaying stay away from the 'fall zone' if you can, certainly if the climber is on a potentially loose section.
- Always double check your harness and knots and your belayer! And check your partners knots when it's his/her time to climb.
- Walking along the top and reaching down to chains is dangerous; this is when accidents happen! If you are trying to retrieve gear or place draws from the top be very careful or reconsider.
- Some of the bolts are getting old, be wary with very rusty ones, especially chains!
- Never rely upon a single bolt. If you are unable to reach the chains and need to clean the climb, sacrifice two 'bail biners' and thread the rope through a bail biner clipped to the previous bolts as a back-up to the one you are lowering off.
- Watch out for others...if they are in a dangerous position tell them. Tell other climbers if they are doing something that is risky, they may be inexperienced.
The crags are NOT yours!! This special place must be treated with respect; not doing so could easily result in the closure of the crags. Please do your bit and stick to the following rules:
1. Climbers must report to reception on arrival and again before leaving the resort. No climbing is allowed on the climbing wall unless the prescribed fees have been paid. No climbing is allowed after sundown. No climbing at all is allowed at the Bushman Complex.
2. No pets (this is a game reserve, full of animals), loud music or open fires except in designated braai areas.
3. Camping is permitted only in the designated areas.
4. Do not drop any litter, however small, including cigarette butts, finger tape and tissue paper! Take all this rubbish home with you. If you find rubbish, please pick it up, you are helping us all.
5. If you must take a crap at the crag, go at least 30 metres down-hill and away from the cliff and make sure you dig a hole and cover it with dirt, sticks, rocks afterwards. Never do your business in a cave or corner. Do not leave toilet paper lying around; it must be buried or carry it out.
6. If you take a pee, do not do it close to the cliff, make sure it's in a place that is not sheltered from rain, otherwise it stinks.
7. Small tick dots are fine but tick marks over 3 cm are an eyesore and are unnecessary except for the hardest to see hand or footholds. Brush them off afterwards! Please brush chalk-caked holds after you have finished with a route, especially if it's a route that is sheltered from rain.
8. NEVER use wire brushes!! They will destroy this rock. A soft toothbrush is fine.
9. Respect others; try not to be too loud and think carefully about smoking, bringing your dogs or crying children to the crags; these things can spoil the pleasure for others.
10. 'IP' written on the rock in chalk or a piece of tape/plastic on the first bolt means the route is 'In Progress' and the route is a closed project. Do not try these climbs unless you have permission from the ''owner''.
11. Do not remove other peoples draws from a route even if they have been hanging there for weeks. Some locals like to leave projects clipped-up. You may of course climb the routes using the draws left up.
12. If a section of rock is marked with an X, written in chalk, don't touch those features as the X indicates that the rock is loose. Don't try knock it off.
You can have perfect conditions all year-round by choosing the right time at the right crag and by having the right clothes. Mt Everest is at 2000 metres above seal level. Summer here is warm but up to 10 degrees cooler (15 to 25 degrees) than places like Boven or the Durban crags (25 to >35 degrees). During summer storms build almost daily, but the rock dries very quickly; just run for cover when the storm gets close then enjoy the show! Winters days are usually magnificent, cold but sunny days and cold nights; daytime temps as little as 10 degree in the shade and plummeting to zero or well below at night. Winter snowfalls are not unknown. Occasional cold fronts sometimes bring cold, wet weather for several days at a time, just check the weather. The weather can be unpredictable and can deteriorate rapidly, it has a real mountain feel. But this is Africa, not Europe or North America; despite the grumbles of south African climbers the weather pretty amazing really! The wind can sometimes howl for hours, even on otherwise pleasant days. Fortunately, the various climbing areas have different aspects and you can usually find somewhere to escape from the wind, the cold or the sun. Please go prepared for any eventuality!
The sandstones forming the cliffs belong to the 170 million year old Clarens Formation (or Cave Sandstone), belonging to the Karoo Supergroup. These rocks were laid down in an aeolian (desert) setting which arose during a period of climate warming and desiccation (imagine!). The cliffs were massive sand-dunes in a sand sea! Sometimes you will see funny grey blobs or pockets where these blobs have been dissolved; these blobs are carbonate nodules. The rock is mostly solid, especially up on the Eagles Head. However, always be slightly wary of loose looking flakes, large and small! Give them a tap; if it sounds hollow be very careful, expect the worst! Above the sandstone of the Mooinoek Mountain you will see a thick grey-brown cap of dolerite. This is younger than the sandstone and was 'intruded' as sheets of molten rock into the sandstone, feeding the massive lava flows that formed overlying basalts (now eroded but preserved in the Drakensberg, forming the big dark cliffs there). The dolerite is a very hard crystalline green rock and typically forms huge columns with cracks.
Click here to download the bouldering guide for Mt Everest: http://www.climbing.co.za/topo/south-africa/free-state/harrismith/
I compiled this guide from the topos used during the 2009 NBL Finals held at Mt. Everest. Thanks to Dave Drummond and his team for establishing most of the problems and for writing them up. This guide is still incomplete. I am looking for the last couple of topos and all the route names and FAs. If you know a route's name or want to give it one, write it up on the wiki under new route info and I'll add it to the guide.
There is much good bouldering to be had at Mount Everest. Although bouldering at the resort is still in its infancy, over 120 problems have already been developed. The boulders are scattered throughout the resort but the main concentration is located in the vicinity of Cyclops Crag and Eagle Crag. There is a wide variety of problems from low roofs to high slabs. Grades vary from very easy (3) to very hard (7c) with some even harder open projects. Although a bouldering pad is required for some of the problems, many can be climbed with only a spotter. Climbing and bouldering in the Bushman Complex is strictly prohibited !
Many of the RDs are rather vague. Some of them have been written down by the first ascentionists long after they were first opened. There are a few instances where I (Gavin Peckham) have received RDs for the same route from different sources and they did not even agree on the total number of pitches, let alone the details for any individual pitch! So, I'd be grateful if you can help by supplying any corrections, suggestions, useful information or constructive criticism. More specifically, if you climb any route and find that the RDs or topos are vague, ambiguous or incorrect, then please undate this wiki. This will be greatly appreciated and will hopefully be of benefit and future service to climbers.
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220g caster sugar
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4 eggs
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300g self raising flour
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WASHINGTON Teenagers' perception of the dangers of marijuana has fallen to the lowest level in more than 20 years, a new study says, prompting federal researchers to warn that already high use of the drug could increase as more states move to legalize it.
The annual survey released Wednesday by the National Institutes of Health found that only 41.7 percent of eighth graders believe that occasional use of marijuana is harmful, while 66.9 percent regard it as dangerous when used regularly. Both rates are the lowest since 1991, when the government first began tracking this age group.
Teens' perception of marijuana risks diminished even more as they got older. About 20.6 percent of 12th graders said that occasional use of pot is harmful. Roughly 44.1 percent believed that its regular use was detrimental, the lowest rate since 1979.
- Obama: Time for "conversation" on marijuana laws
- Colorado lawmakers struggle to define: What's too high to drive?
- Jimmy Carter "okay" with legalizing pot
The government-sponsored study said teens' dwindling concerns about the dangers of marijuana, despite the risks, "can signal future increases in use."
"We are increasingly concerned that regular or daily use of marijuana is robbing many young people of their potential to achieve and excel in school or other aspects of life," said Dr. Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which is part of NIH. She said teens are influenced by whether a drug is legal in some form when deciding to try it recreationally, so in states where marijuana is sanctioned, "the deterrent is no longer present."
Volkow cited recently published research showing that people who used marijuana heavily before age 18 had impaired mental abilities even after they quit using the drug. Those who used cannabis heavily in their teens and into their adulthood showed a significant drop in IQ between the ages of 13 and 38, according to the studies.
"Marijuana use that begins in adolescence increases the risk they will become addicted to the drug," she said.
The findings come after Washington state and Colorado voted last month to legalize marijuana and regulate its recreational use, boosted by the strong support of younger voters. While the new laws apply only to adults over 21, the broader effort by states to decriminalize pot use and push the drug toward public legitimacy could confuse the picture for teens.
President Barack Obama said last week that the federal government won't go after pot users in Colorado and Washington state who are legal under their state laws, even though federal law officially bans marijuana possession. Eighteen states and the District of Columbia also have laws in place to regulate the medical use of marijuana.
"Now more than ever we need parents and other adult influencers to step up and have direct conversations with young people about the importance of making healthy decisions," said White House drug czar Gil Kerlikowske on Wednesday.
According to the federal survey, marijuana use among teenagers remained stuck at high levels in 2012.
Roughly 6.5 percent of 12th graders smoked marijuana daily, up from 5.1 percent in 2007.
Nearly 23 percent of the high-school seniors said they smoked the drug in the month prior to the survey, while 36.4 percent used it in the past year. About 45.2 percent reported they had tried marijuana at least once in their lifetime.
Daily marijuana use by 10th graders climbed from 2.8 percent to 3.5 percent, and for eighth-grade students it edged up from 0.8 percent to 1.1 percent.
On other topics the survey found:
-Use of illicit drugs other than marijuana was at a low for eighth-, 10th- and 12th-grade students.
-In the past year, about 1.3 percent of 12th graders used "bath salts," a new synthetic drug which mimics the effect of cocaine.
-In terms of prescription drug abuse, about 7.6 percent of 12th graders in the past year used Adderall, a stimulant prescribed to treat ADHD. That's up from 5.4 percent in 2009, coinciding with a decline in teens' perceptions of the harm in using the drug. Teen abuse of over-the-counter cough and cold medicines containing dextromethorphan held steady.
-Reported alcohol use continued to steadily decline, falling to the lowest level on record.
The survey, conducted by the University of Michigan for NIH, covered more than 45,000 students in the eighth, 10th and 12th grades in 395 schools.


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I have a question for next week's SSO: What do you think about Chicago possibly nabbing the 2016 Olympics? Is that exciting/would be a huge hassle or do you think your city could pull it off well?
Well, in all honesty, I don't live downtown and don't think it would personally affect me too much so I don't have any strong opinions.
I think it could be good for the city in that it would bring in tourism revenue. I'm sure a lot of improvements would be done to the CTA over the next several years to accommodate traffic. The city and private investors would likely enjoy a profit. And it should create some new jobs over the next few years.
I don't know what the effects will be long-term. Of course, there will be the increased traffic and congestion. Some people have suggested it puts Chicago at an increased risk of terrorist attacks. I imagine our taxes may rise which is stinky since we have the highest sales tax of all US cities and everything is taxed here.
I think it would be kinda cool to have the Olympics here, but I'm not really knowledgeable on the details of the plan, so I guess I can't really say. Daley has a way of getting whatever he wants though.
I swear this is the hardest part about parenting. How do you get a kid to understand the whole trust thing?
I don't know! I don't think it can just be taught. I think it's probably one of those things that has to be learned the hard way through making mistakes.
I can tolerate just about anything from my daughter, but when she lies to me, I completely come undone. I don't care WHAT the situation, DO NOT lie to me and we'll be cool. I love that you sort of suspected all along... your Mom Radar is pretty in tune!
Exactly! I have a real problem with lying. Had Austin told me that he'd messed up and blown off his homework, I would have been much more sympathetic. I don't tolerate lying though. Period.
Actually I think you were a little harsh on him.
I don't agree. I think it's important that he learn the effects of lying now when his punishment is simply a couple weeks without TV than to learn it when he's an adult and his wife leaves him because she's sick to death of his lies.
Wow, 2 weeks--are you going to be able to enforce that? I guess I'm used to 4- and 7-minute time-outs!
Well, it's been a week and so far, so good. I told him I'd consider shortening his punishment a bit if he turned in an excellent essay on the evils of lying. So far, he hasn't written a word, so it looks like it'll be another week.
Which child was the one who forgot to mention pizza? I'm guessing Brooklyn only because she's the youngest and it's possible that pizza has yet to fully permeate her consciousness.
Um, nope, Clayton was the only one to mention pizza. Repeatedly. He kept saying "pizza" mainly because it's his favorite word right now.
"Clay, what did you do at school today?"
"What do you want for dinner?"
"Get in bed if you want me to tuck you in."
Yep, "pizza" and "plumpy" are the words of the month around here.
I love the Thankful for list...the pink comments have got to be from Brooklyn, yes? Too cute =)
But of course!
Austin's not too bad at drawing. I am a little concerned though why Brooklyn looks so evil in all the pictures.
She is kinda is evil. Austin was just being realistic.
Methinks Austin has a wee bit of hostility bottled up toward a certain Brooklyn, eh? Very common. My big bro (oldest of 6) did also. Oh the things he did to us...!
He's got a lot of talent though. =)
Ya think?
Actually, Austin is very good at drawing. Those pictures don't reflect his talent. He was just goofing off with those. He can look at a picture and duplicate it just like that. And he starts drawing from one end of the paper and works his way to the other end, details and all; whereas most people would sketch in the larger parts and make sure it was spaced out correctly and then they'd add the smaller details. He's a weird kid.
Do Jackson or Savannah draw?
Sure, all the kids like drawing. Especially on walls and furniture and skin.
This is what I did today.
I put up the tree and decorated the house. It always looks so festive right after Thanksgiving. I love sitting in the family room, just looking at the lights twinkle. I gaze at the assortment of ornaments hanging from the branches and remember a story behind each one.
There's the little dog with a helmet and a shield with the words "Genie Hahmer" painted on it. Austin got that when he was 3 and he was into this play castle with knights in shining armor. He couldn't say "knight in shining armor" and he pronounced it "genie hahmer". There's the little pair of pink shoes given to me by my friend Julie because I lived in my pink Converse hightops in high school. There are personalized ornaments representing our family for each year and each year those ornaments have gotten just a little bit bigger. There are wreaths made from paper plates, macaroni, glue and glitter. There are ornaments that have pictures of the kids from that year. There are even more ornaments that still have the factory-installed picture of the model in them because I never took the time to replace them with pictures of my kids. There are ornaments my grandmother has made us from plastic canvas and yarn. She's been making those for over 20 years and each year she comes up with a different design. And of course, there are the branches that look like this:
I don't know why this is, but every year the kids flock to the same three branches and hang all their ornaments on those.
Then comes December 26 and suddenly my house no longer looks festive. It just looks cluttered. I can't wait to take down the tree and gain a little more space in my family room. I'm sick and tired of rehanging the ornaments that the littlest kids pull off again and again. The twinkly lights, the stockings, the wreaths and candles all lose their luster and look like tacky garage sale items that I just want out of my house, soon after Christmas.
But for now, in this season of Advent, I'll bask in the glow of the tree and anticipate the celebration of Christmas.


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The Fat Quarter Shop is excited to welcome Stephanie Carter of Lily Ashbury to the Jolly Jabber. Lily Ashbury's latest fabric collection is Summer House from Moda.
Q: What was the first seed that grew into the Summer House collection?
A:My Grandmother's house on Bowen Island off the coast of British Columbia. I spent every Summer there as a child.
Q: What are 3 words/ images you would choose to describe this collection?
1. Perfect Summer cottage circa 1940
2. Imagine an adorable little structure with white clapboard siding.
3. Sipping lemonade while swaying on the porch swing surrounded by a fragrant garden
Q: What single print/SKU in the collection is your favorite (can only pick one!)?
A:Rosemarie is my favorite because it has a sweet innocent charm. My family and I are moving into a new home in August and I am thinking of designing my daughter's bedroom around it.
Q:What is your dream project using this collection?
A:When I was a little girl I remember wanting a bedroom filled with all things girly girl. Now I get to live vicariously through my daughter as we design her perfect room together. We plan to make a duvet cover, shams, curtains, wall art etc..
Stephanie's Silly Secrets:
1. What music are you listening to right now?
Today I was listening to Bossa Nova but I often play the 1920's radio network found in ITunes under the eclectic radio section. It is a sweet mix of Big Band, swing and soothing vocals.
2. What is your guilty pleasure food?
Mac and cheese all the way!
3. Work and life essentials aside, what is the activity you spend the most time doing?
Entertaining is definitely it. My husband, daughter and I love having friends over for dinner. A smile and a nice bottle of wine buys admission to my husbands gourmet cooking at least twice a week. I am very lucky to have a man that cooks!!
4. What color are you thinking about today?
Lately I have been enamored with Vermillion. I love a spicy warm red.
5. What is your favorite fabric print ever (excluding your own)?
For me it's all about the color and I think Kaffe Fasset is a genius in this department. Of his prints many are my favorites.


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Creating your own UPC / EAN application
You may have a need for your application to work with our databse. There are many steps in creating an application and the needs of each application can be very different. But the basic data movement contept is pretty much the same in every case.
First of all, your application shouldn't rely on our server. This might seem like a quick way to get your application up and running with little cost but in the end, your app will suffer because it will have to share computing time with every other app that is trying to access our data and network bandwidth. And if we change the way our data is delivered, you would have to re-deploy new copies of your app to every machine.
You should always have your application communicate with your own server. This way you control the format of the communication between your app and the data. And if we need to change our data format, you only need to make the change in the module between your server and our server. Your users running your app won't see any impact or loss of service while changes are made to the communication between your server and our server.
This diagram demonstrates the basic data flow concept. Each device running your application would make requests (red) for data against your server. Your server would talk do your own database to find the needed information and return that information to the requesting devices. When you don't have the data in your database, your server makes a connection to our server requesting the needed information. Our server performs a lookup in our database and if we have the data we return it to your server.
Once you receive the data from our server, you need to store a copy in your database for the next time it is needed by your users. You also need to return the data to the requesting devices just as you would if you found the data in your database in the first place. Except for a slight delay in getting the data, your user shouldn't see any difference beween getting the data directly from your database or getting it from our database.
The odds are, if one user requests a peice of information from your server, another user will request that same information soon after. This is why you need to keep a copy of the data once you query it from our database. You don't want every user to encounter a delay when requesting the same bit of information.
If you are creating your application and database from scratch, there are a few ways to get started. The basic concept that we suggest is the lowest cost and most effective method that we have seen so far. Here are the basic steps you should follow...
- Create your own database with the information you want to track (few records are needed)
- Create your server aplication to control data flow on your system
- Create the interface between your server and ours using the data feed process. This can be done for FREE while you are developing. Once you go into production you MAY need to pay a fee to maintain fast data access. But if you feed data back to us you may be able to continue using the free feed. It depends on your actual need.
- Build your user application. This can be a phone app or something that is run from computers. Your user app is completly in your control and will talk to your server not ours.
- Test your app well. Make sure that when your server can't find the data in your database that it communicates with ours to get the answer.
- When your basic testing is done, you should load your database with an initial data load. You can get this data from our download page for a reasonable fee.
- Test some more!
- Release your app to the world and watch it go.
Althought the details involved in building your application and server and database are going to be different than what others might see, the basic concepts and steps will be similar as outlined here.
We have seen several app developers follow these basic steps with great success. We have also seen a few app developers try to take short cuts only to see their apps fail or strugle.
The key to a successful app is performance and easy maintenance. By creating your own server and keeping your own database you will have control over those aspects. It is much easier to set your application and communication structure up correctly from the start than it is to go back and rebuild it later.
Hopefully, this outline has been of value to you. Take some time to look around the rest of our site, check out our sample data and the data feed pages. Look at our statistics page. And if you still have questions, you are always welcome to ask.


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Nathan Eovaldi (0-0, -.--) vs. Michael Fiers (0-0, -.--).
I received excutive orders (from SoSG Orel) to scribe this evening's Game Thread. Of course, this is a tricky GT to write, since both pitchers are spot-starters called up from AAA, with limited MLB stats from which to glean insights. 22-year-old Nathan Eovaldi makes his 2012 debut for the Dodgers this evening, filling in for injured Ted Lilly. Eovaldi appeared in 10 games last year and went 1-2 with a 3.63 ERA and a 102 ERA+ (about league average).
Fiers has only appeared in two major league games to date, spanning a whopping two innings with a spotless ERA (2 H, 2 Ks, 3 BB). And the Dodgers don't tend to do well seeing opposing pitchers for the first time, so there's a clear and present danger that we could be in trouble tonight, against a team who already took the opening game of the series. Not to mention there's that guy on the Brewers who litigated his way to retain his NL MVP award, won under suspicious circumstances, without remorse.
Will the Dodgers stumble again against the Brewers, as we progress on our hunt for (red) October? Or will Matt Kemp's return to the lineup help knock out the Brewers' starter early, so tonight won't be the sum of all Fiers?


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Republican establishment bites back
Walking out of a private conference room beneath the Capitol Building on Tuesday, Republican House members looked tired. Not the typical "I-had-a-bad-night's-sleep" tired but something deeper — a look of battle exhaustion. Unlike past meetings in the same place during periods of fever-pitched warfare with Democrats, it appeared — for the first time in a long time — the fire in their bellies that drove them to shut down the government and risk federal default, was, for now, no longer evident.
These Republicans had just been briefed on a new, bipartisan budget blueprint that would establish long-term federal government spending caps.
The plan, a product of months of negotiation between Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, a Republican, and Washington Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat, lacks many priorities Republicans have fought for during the Obama era. It posits no major reforms to Social Security and Medicare, for instance, nor does it balance the budget.
But for the first time in years, many Republicans showed openness to a temporary truce.
"It's a positive step forward," said Oregon Republican Rep. Greg Walden, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. "It gets us past these minicrises that have caused all kinds of disruptions on our American citizens and government." (It is worth pointing out that in October, Walden voted against the ultimately successful deal to reopen the government after its two-week shutdown earlier this year.)
The government shutdown, as many Republicans will attest now, was a flop that failed to achieve the stated goal of defunding or delaying President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Because the new budget deal sets spending levels until 2015, it eliminates the possibility of shutdown battles over the next few years, which serves as a welcomed relief to Democrats and Republicans alike.
The generally positive reception among Republicans to Ryan and Murray's moderate plan appears to be, in part, a backlash to the ferocity and divisiveness that have defined Washington since Obama was elected. At least for the time being, Republican leaders fed up with the dysfunction are overruling the tea party-led refusal to compromise or settle for less.
This is not to say conservatives are rolling over. A number of well-funded outside groups, notably the Club for Growth, Heritage Action and FreedomWorks, have blasted the plan as insufficiently conservative and vowed to punish Republican lawmakers who support it.
Their antagonism has infuriated Republican leaders.
The frustration was on full display as Republican House Speaker John Boehner unloaded on the groups after a reporter asked about their opposition.
"Most major conservative groups have put out statements blasting this deal," the reporter said. "Are you worried that there..."
Boehner cut the reporter off and boomed: "You mean the groups that came out and opposed it before they ever saw it?"
"Yes, those groups," the reporter replied. "Are you worried that there are..."
Boehner interrupted again: "They're using our members and they're using the American people for their own goals," he said, raising his voice. "This is ridiculous! Listen, if you're for more deficit reduction, you're for this agreement."
Boehner's outburst had been a long time coming. Since he accepted the speaker's gavel, the Ohio lawmaker has served at the will of an unrelenting conference that made his life hell by refusing nearly all attempts at compromise. For two years, the conference humiliated Boehner by forcing him to pull key, sure-to-pass bills from the floor. In October, they dragged him and his deputies into a government shutdown fight they never wanted in the first place. And now Boehner is saying, "enough is enough, we'll fight another day."
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Then we passed over the Mighty Falls Of Despair:
And finally we basked in the azure splendor of the Blue Beacon of Hope:
Owww! Talk about sitting on the fence! [Kindly click this link now.] Of course, as always, feel free to leave your own intriguingly disgusting theories as to why that iron rod is wearing a prophylactic in the comments section.
Speaking of the comments section of this blog, you may have noticed that in recent weeks it has become rife with what tech geeks call "spam." This saddens me. In "real life" I believe we should all carefully consider what we say, but on the Internet I believe there should be as few steps as possible between having an inane thought and publishing it online. That's why I've never moderated comments or required logins or anything like that. Sure, some bloggers like to sit around plucking and preening their comment sections like Mario Cipollini tending to his pubic hair, but I prefer Internet interaction to be wild and woolly, and to reflect sort of a 1970s personal grooming (or lack thereof) sensibility.
Also, I'm lazy as fuck.
Nevertheless, it's gotten to the point that the sheer volume of spam has become onerous, so by way of doing something I've switched on this thingy that makes you type in characters to prove you're not a robot. Hopefully it works and it isn't too tedious, and of course if you've got any better ideas I'd love to hear them, but I'm telling you right now they better be very easy to implement because I didn't become a bike blogger in order to work.
No, I became a bike blogger in order to get a free Scattante, which is why I should have quit years ago.
The other thing that sucks about spam is that it winds up on old posts too. Sure, I could close the comments after a certain amount of time, but the fact is that people still weigh in with important insights months or even years after a post is published. For example, I was manscaping the comments section for spam this morning when I noticed a comment from yesterday on a post about top tube pads from 2007:
Anonymous said...
Not sure anyone mentioned protecting your top tube against dings on parking meters & bike racks? Seems obvious.
Nothing more heartwarming than an earnestly condescending comment about a trend that's been over for at least four years now.
Anyway, this whole spamming saga (when you're a blogger with no real job dealing with spam actually qualifies as a "saga") has brought me to an important realization, which is this:
If you could remotely kill a spammer with the click of a mouse I wouldn't hesitate to do it.
However, if after clicking the mouse there was a pop-up that said, "Warning: Killing this spammer will also cause his entire family to starve to death. Do you want to continue?," I would not. Instead, I'd just call out, "Honey, I have Cheetos all over my fingers. Can you just hit this enter key for me?" That way, I didn't do it and she didn't know, and everybody's happy. (At least everybody who matters.)
So basically, I have no problem with my actions resulting in awful things happening to people, just as long as there's a middleman. That's why I buy gasoline and Apple products.
Meanwhile, remember how disc brakes were supposed to be the new awesome thing for cyclocross? Well, it turns out they're not, at least when it's muddy:
Which isn't really a problem, since cyclocross races very rarely involve mud--just like professional road racing team presentations rarely involve bad taste:
In true Hollywood fashion, the team, which included home favourite Ted King, Damiano Caruso and neo-pro Guillame Boiwin, entered the fray from a hummer limo, making their way to the auditorium via a black carpet.
Was this a team presentation or a Long Island prom? I'm amazed that in 2013 companies are still launching professional bike racing teams with such fanfare. If anything, I'd think they'd want to let the teams pass unnoticed, like a fart on an airplane. Plus, between all the doping scandals and the fact that it was the same weekend as the Golden Globes it's hard to imagine that any media in Los Angeles would come out to see a bunch of European men in sickly green Lycra. I'm even more amazed that Ivan Basso is still racing at all, and apparently even he was embarrassed to be there:
Either that or it gets very cold in Los Angeles.
I wonder if Basso is part of that "new era of transparency" all the teams are talking about these days. You may recall that years back Basso was suspended not for doping but for "attempting to dope," and I'm not sure how it's possible to fail at doping when your own sister is a drug dealer:
That's like failing to get groped at a Mario Cipollini training camp:
Or like failing to get stoned while hanging out with Woody Harrelson--who, I was surprised to learn, is also a cyclist. As it happens, I was watching an interview with him last night in which he mentioned he likes to ride his bike in New York City. So I took to the Internet, where I discovered another older interview in which he tells an amusing antidote (that's stupid for "anecdote") to David Letterman about engaging in some Cat 6 racing antics and then crashing into a tree:
I was entertained until I actually saw Harrelson's bike, which retroactively ruined the story:
That's like replacing the car in "Bullitt" with a Hyundai.


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In no particular order, here are 13 things I need to pack before heading off to Suave's Glamour Reel Moments in L.A.
13. My camera (duh!) so I can get lots of candid pictures of my best friend Monica (that's Courteney Cox to you folks.)
12. Bail money for when I'm thrown in the slammer for stalking my bff Monica.
11. My stupid black dress that probably won't even fit when I pick it up from the seamstress tomorrow.
10. My laptop so I can write electrifyingly riveting updates about my trip.
9. Some high heeled shoes so people won't think I'm only 12 years old.
8. Some BandAids to put on the blisters that the high heels will give me.
7. Airborne. I'm sure it doesn't work, but it makes you feel a little better thinking that just maybe you could ward off the germs that the guy with Ebola spews all over while having a coughing fit on the plane.
6. A book written by someone other than Dr. Seuss.
5. My Epi-pen just in case a bee decides to sting me while I'm at the premiere. Hmmm, I wonder how many problems I'll have taking that on the plane?
4. Earplugs to drown out Joe's snoring...oh wait...that's right! I'm going by myself! I get the whole bed to myself with NO snoring! Woo Hoo!
3. My cell phone so the kids can call me up in California to ask stuff like, "Can Allison come over to play?" and "Mom, can I go to the movies with Max?" and "Mom, I can't find my shoes. Do you know where they are?"
2. Four times the amount of clothes I need so I can try on several outfits each day and stress about what to wear.
1. A bunch of other useless stuff I'll never need while making sure at the same time to forget something essential like underwear.
Remember to check out my review blog for a fun giveaway from (oops) wine! And check back tomorrow to see my brand spankin' new blog design!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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- In order to synchronize lunar and solar years, Jews added an extra month [[➝ months]] to twelve lunar months, as required. Before the Exile, the new year began in autumn when agricultural work was finished; but in the Exile the Jews took over the Babylonian year, which began in the spring, as the civil year, while retaining the former New Year for religious use.The observance of Rosh Hashanah ('beginning [[literally 'head']] of the year') still takes place in September–October (the first day of the month Tishri). According to Jewish tradition, there was a period of God's judgement which began on this day and lasted until Yom Kippur ten days later.
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Uncle Austin's Mexican pancakes with coconut
The day before Ash Wednesday? Yep, I'm a pancake eater. I grew up in an Episcopalian family and that's how we rolled—in warm griddlecakes and cold glasses of milk. And even though most of my friends prepare for Lent in a more colorful style, old traditions are hard to shake and I still enjoy a tall stack of pancakes on Shrove Tuesday.
Pancakes might not be shiny beads, feathered costumes, fevered dancing or boisterous singing, but they don't have to be completely boring. I've been known to serve gingerbread pancakes, buttermilk pancakes, banana nut pancakes and chocolate chip pancakes. But to truly get in the frenzied spirit on the eve of Lent, Uncle Austin's coconut pancakes (more colorfully known as Uncle Austin's Mexican pancakes) are a definite must.
When I was young, Austin would make these pancakes for us on special occasions. Their main attraction was their size—he'd make one pancake the entire width of a 10-inch pan. And you didn't even have to share this big baby—no way—this over-sized coconut pancake was all for you!
But incredible heft aside, Austin's Mexican pancakes were sweet with fresh coconut, and some family members allege that there was chocolate and nuts in them as well.
I asked Austin for his recipe, but he said that not only had he not made these in 30 years, but also that he never really had one. Instead, he just took my grandpa's basic pancake recipe and dolled it up a bit with the shredded coconut, chunks of brown sugar and extra pats of butter.
Curious why they were known as Mexican pancakes, he admitted that there was nothing authentically Mexican about them, but it was very, very important to be listening to Tejano music, preferably loud, while making them. He stressed, however that the main excitement was in the flipping of the 10-inch pancake—the messier the better!
If you're celebrating pancake Tuesday, why not try Uncle Austin's Mexican coconut pancakes—they're far more adventurous than your usual buttermilk pancakes. And with the Tejano thumping and the pancake batter flying, it may be the most thrilling pancake supper you've ever had!
What's your favorite pancake recipe?
Coconut pancakes (Uncle Austin's Mexican pancakes)
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/2 cups whole milk
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon whole-wheat flour
- 1 tablespoon fresh baking powder
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup fresh shredded coconut
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- Beat together the egg and the milk.
- Stir in the rest of the ingredients and mix until smooth. If too thick, add more milk.
- For regular-sized pancakes, pour 1/4 cup of batter onto greased skillet heated at medium low. For Austin-sized pancakes, pour about 1 1/2 cups to 2 cups of batter into pan.
- Cook for a few minutes on one side, until edges are brown and bubbles form in batter. Flip and cook on other side a couple more minutes.


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Cara Cara Oranges
Cara Cara oranges, a type of navel orange grown in California's San Joaquin Valley, are available December through April. The bright orange exterior of Cara Cara oranges is similar to other navels, but their interior is a distinctive pinkish red, has an exceptionally sweet flavor with a tangy cranberry-like zing, and they're seedless. Cara Caras, a cross between the Washington navel and the Brazilian Bahia navel, were first discovered in 1976 at Hacienda Cara Cara in Venezuela.
Sunkist Cara Caras – "The Power Orange®"
Research by the Sunkist Nutrition Bureau found a wealth of nutritional advantages packaged in this delightful piece of citrus -- newly branded "The Power Orange." Cara Cara Oranges are a special variety of juicy, low acid, seedless navels packed with more natural nutrition and minerals to power a healthy immune system.
Cara Caras are an excellent source of vitamin C, A and fiber; a good source of folate and potassium, and a natural source of Lycopene, the disease-fighting antioxidant. See the Sunkist Cara Cara Orange Nutrition Label for more details. This power-packed citrus is gaining in popularity and with its lower acidity; it is a great treat for kids. A perfect snack served as wedges, they're also a colorful addition to beverages or squeezed into a vinaigrette salad dressing.


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In France, an elderly man is fighting to make a formal break with the Catholic Church. He's taken the church to court over its refusal to let him nullify his baptism, in a case that could have far-reaching effects.
Seventy-one-year-old Rene LeBouvier's parents and his brother are buried in a churchyard in the tiny village of Fleury in northwest France. He himself was baptized in the Romanesque stone church and attended mass here as a boy.
LeBouvier says this rural area is still conservative and very Catholic, but nothing like it used to be. Back then, he says, you couldn't even get credit at the bakery if you didn't go to mass every Sunday.
LeBouvier grew up in that world and says his mother once hoped he'd become a priest. But his views began to change in the 1970s, when he was introduced to free thinkers. As he didn't believe in God anymore, he thought it would be more honest to leave the church. So he wrote to his diocese and asked to be un-baptized.
"They sent me a copy of my records, and in the margins next to my name, they wrote that I had chosen to leave the church," he says.
That was in the year 2000. A decade later, LeBouvier wanted to go further. In between were the pedophile scandals and the pope preaching against condoms in AIDS-racked Africa, a position that LeBouvier calls "criminal." Again, he asked the church to strike him from baptismal records. When the priest told him it wasn't possible, he took the church to court.
Last October, a judge in Normandy ruled in his favor. The diocese has since appealed, and the case is pending.
"One can't be de-baptized," says Rev. Robert Kaslyn, dean of the School of Canon Law at the Catholic University of America.
Kaslyn says baptism changes one permanently before the church and God.
"One could refuse the grace offered by God, the grace offered by the sacrament, refuse to participate," he says, "but we would believe the individual has still been marked for God through the sacrament, and that individual at any point could return to the church."
French law states that citizens have the right to leave organizations if they wish. Loup Desmond, who has followed the case for the French Catholic newspaper La Croix, says he thinks it could set a legal precedent and open the way for more demands for de-baptism.
"If the justice confirms that the name Rene LeBouvier has to disappear from the books, if it is confirmed, it can be a kind of jurisprudence in France," he says.
Up to now, observers say the de-baptism trend has been marginal, but it's growing. In neighboring Belgium, the Brussels Federation of Friends of Secular Morality reports that 2,000 people asked to be de-baptized in 2010. The newspaper Le Monde estimated that about 1,000 French people a year ask to have their baptisms annulled.
There is much anger across the continent by the recent pedophile scandals. In September, Germans marched to protest the pope's visit.
Christian Weisner, who is with the German branch of the grassroots movement We Are Church, says Europeans still want religion, and they want to believe, but it has become very difficult within the Catholic Church.
"It's the way that the Roman Catholic Church has not followed the new approach of democracy, the new approach of the women's issue," he says, "and there is really a big gap between the Roman Catholic Church and modern times."
Back at the church in Fleury, LeBouvier stands by his parents' grave. When asked if the case has ruined his chances of being buried in the family plot, he says he doesn't have to worry about that. He's donating his body to science.
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Patch 4.0.1 release date
We're very close to the release of Patch 4.0.1, at this point the only question is "How close?"
As far as I can tell, you can probably expect the patch on October 5th or October 12th. Ghostcrawler already suggested that the patch would be deployed right before the end of the arena season and added that "they shouldn't have a lasting impact on ratings, titles, and the like".
Additionally, the World of Warcraft Trial Website has been updated and now announces that the new streaming client will be available on October 5th, which is exactly what we've been testing on 4.0.1 PTRs.
As usual, nothing is official, but it's probably close enough.
Heroic Deadmines Video
TotalBiscuit released a nice video preview of the Heroic version of the Deadmines, one of the two revamped classic dungeon of Cataclysm.
Currency Conversion - Calculator Update
The Cataclysm Currency and Honor Calculator has been updated with the latest values of Justice Points.
Emblems and Badges
Honor points!
Blue Posts
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Fan Art
The Official Fan Art Gallery has been updated with a piece entitled: Pally Tank!


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A passenger airliner careered off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport and partly onto a highway while landing on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing at least four people.
Officials said there were eight people aboard the Tu-204 belonging to Russian airline Red Wings that was flying back from the Czech Republic without passengers to its home at Vnukovo Airport.
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Emergency officials said in a televised news conference that four people were killed and another four severely injured when the plane rolled off the runway into a snowy field and partly onto an adjacent highway, then disintegrated. No collisions with vehicles on the major, multilane highway were reported.
The plane's cockpit area was sheared off from the fuselage and a large chunk gashed out near the tail.
The crash occurred amid light snow and winds gusting up to 15 meters a second (30 mph), but other details were not immediately known. A spokesman for Russia's top investigative agency, Vladimir Markin, said initial indications were that pilot error was the cause.
The state news agency RIA Novosti cited an unidentified official at the Russian Aviation Agency as saying another Red Wings Tu-204 had gone off the runway at the international airport in Novosibirsk in Siberia on Dec. 20. The agency said that incident, in which no one was injured, was due to the failure of the plane's engines to go into reverse upon landing and that its brake system malfunctioned.
Crashed jet (Photo: AP)
On Friday, the Aviation Agency sent a directive to the Tupolev company's president calling for it to take urgent preventive measures.
Vnukovo airport spokeswoman Yelena Krylova said it had enough personnel and equipment to keep the runway fully functional Saturday. The airport resumed receiving planes after a break of several hours.
Prior to Saturday's crash, there had been no fatal accidents reported for Tu-204s, which entered commercial service in 1995. The plane is a twin-engine midrange jet with a capacity of about 210 passengers.
Vnukovo, on the southern outskirts of Moscow, is one of the Russian capital's three international airports.
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Some participants possessed experience handling video cameras and working with digital editing equipment. Others had solid backgrounds in the science behind the issues.
But each of the seven Princeton students enrolled in this summer's workshop on "Communicating Sustainability" came with a desire to better tell the story of this contemporary movement to a broader audience.
"This field seems to be growing, but it's all about the presentation," said Jessica Hsu, a rising junior who is majoring in civil and environmental engineering. "[Playing on] guilt is no longer effective. We need to make the presentation engaging and make people concerned without feeling guilty."
Offered by the University's Office of Sustainability and supported by the High Meadows Foundation, the intensive four-week training program took place on campus in June and July. The goal was to provide undergraduates with an orientation on sustainability issues and to train them in the variety of skills needed to produce pieces on these issues intended for placement on radio, television and the Web. By the end of the session, they had created initial versions of podcasts and short documentary videos on topics ranging from recycled paper to green roofs.
Shana Weber, the University's sustainability manager, is planning for the summer workshop to become a year round program under the Princeton Student Environmental Communication Network.
"During the academic year, I hope that it will become a combination of coursework -- similar to a new course we offered last spring -- and internships in the Office of Sustainability," she said. "We especially want to build on the momentum of this summer's program. We might have an intern this coming school year producing podcasts for the Office of Sustainability website so that we have a new podcast every week or two on some topic about sustainability."
The eventual goal is to develop a nationwide network of students that produces these stories at institutions across the country for anyone who wants to use them. "We want to build a strong program here at Princeton so that we can encourage other institutions to participate in the network," Weber said.
To run this summer's program, Weber brought in David Benin and Jessica Kellett, who had spearheaded a similar program at Sonoma State University in California. Benin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of California-San Diego with a background in both film and environmental issues, and Kellett has led environmental policy and education programs since graduating from Colby College five years ago.
"One of the interesting aspects of this program is merging knowledge about sustainability topics with specific media," Benin said. "The students need to learn how to express really complicated issues in compelling ways for general audiences. Certainly these are very scientific issues and we want them to have the rigor of science, but a film, a documentary or a podcast is a very different medium than an academic paper.
"We want to try not to lose the complexity and some of the specificity of the issues," he said, "but we also want to make it available to larger audiences. We want [the students] to understand the possibilities, but also the limitations and how these messages will translate."
According to Kellett, students applied and were selected for the program based on their interest in sustainability and their skill levels in radio and television production. While no credit was offered, the students received a stipend as well as free room and board.
"I was really into video production and journalism in high school and hadn't had a chance to pursue them at Princeton," said Doug Sprankling, a rising junior majoring in English. "I had heard this concept of sustainability as a buzzword, but never thought of it as the modern evolution of environmentalism as we know it. It's much more all-encompassing that I could have imagined."
Dawn Zhao, on the other hand, was drawn by the environmental aspect of the program. "I'd never had any film experience," said Zhao, a rising sophomore who is considering majoring in anthropology and earning a certificate in environmental studies. "I was surprised the filming aspect takes so much time."
Alex Renaud, a rising senior majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology, said, "As a science major, I was interested to hear we need to better communicate. The complexity of what goes into every shot creates an image of someone in a certain light for better or worse, depending on how you present things."
In the workshop, Hsu and Renaud were developing a podcast about Princeton's energy facilities and their overall efficiency. Ted Borer, energy plant manager, was one of the speakers during a program session.
"The program has really exceeded our expectations, especially with the lectures and the field trips," said Hsu. Speakers included other Princeton staff members involved in campus sustainability efforts, journalists and local environmental activists. The students went on field trips to the studios of WNYC, the public radio station in New York City; open space and gardens in the Princeton area; and Isles, a nonprofit organization in Trenton.
As Hsu, Renaud and their fellow participants worked in the Friend Center's digital editing lab during one session this summer, Benin and Kellett offered advice on different ways to improve the podcasts. "One of the goals is for them to use their own voice -- to speak from a college student's perspective," Kellett said.
Looking over Hsu's shoulder, Benin offered, "That point may be important in the larger scheme of things, but not for this story," noting that the podcast was to last between two and a half and five minutes.
The students later worked in groups to produce videos of five to 10 minutes each.
When they return this fall, the students plan to finish their work on the podcasts and videos with the hope of debuting them at a special event in October.


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Jeff Francis (3-8, 5.74) vs. Chad Billingsley (12-9, 3.10).
COMMENTS: Ugh, so last night's game was a little ugly. Kuroda looked shaky at the start of the game, our mighty bullpen started to show some kinks in the armor, and our bats fizzled with men in scoring position (13 men LOB). What do we need? Our ACE to come in and right the ship. I'm sure that Bills told Joe Torre the same thing that Ace Ventura said: "I'm ready to go in coach, just give me a chance!" We need the next two wins to salvage the series. Plus Orel and I will be at the game tonight! Let's Go Blue!


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Lagos, Nigeria - Scores of Muslim youths on Wednesday (May 19) besieged church property in Kano state in northern Nigeria, destroying two church buildings and a pastor's residence.
One of the buildings and the pastor's house were set ablaze on the premises of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) at Kwasam, in the Kiru Local Government Area, while another building under construction was demolished. Youths reportedly numbering more than 100 in the predominantly Muslim area stormed the church grounds.
"The problem started when some Christian youths of ECWA church were converted to Islam," the Rev. Lado Abdul, chairman of ECWA district in Kano, told Compass. "They swore that the ECWA church would not remain in the area, as they would do everything possible to chase Christians out from Kiru."
The ECWA pastor whose house was demolished, Gambo Mato, has found shelter in another Christian's home.
No life was lost during or after the incident as police and State Security Service officers intervened, and traditional rulers, religious leaders and government officials held an urgent meeting to quell potential skirmishes and establish security.
Abdul, however, lamented the denial of rights to Christians in Kano by area Muslims.
"Here in Kano, nobody gives you land to build a church," he said. "The old churches built before now are being demolished for reasons no one can easily grasp. We have taken our complaint to Sarki Kano [traditional emir of Kano] Alhaji Ado Bayero, and he assured us that something would be done about it. We are looking to the state government to come to our rescue."
Kano State Police Commissioner Mohammed Gana said that the attack on the church buildings grew out of a land dispute.
"The old church was a mud house, and the ECWA people wanted to rebuild it with blocks," Gana said. "In the process, there was a disagreement, but we moved in to ensure peace and order."
Four suspects have been arrested, and an investigation continues, the police chief said.
Elsewhere in Kano state, in Banaka of the Takai Local Government Area, a Baptist church was reportedly demolished on Saturday (May 15).
Kano state, one of 12 states in Nigeria where sharia (Islamic law) is in effect, has been the site of periodic Islamic aggression against the minority Christian community. Last year, when an Islamic extremist sect known as Boko Haram instigated rioting in Bauchi state that killed at least 12 Christians, the firestorm of violence spread to Kano state as well as Borno and Yobe states.
In 2008, hundreds of Muslims took to the streets of Kano city on April 20, attacking Christians and their shops and setting vehicles on fire based on claims that a Christian had blasphemed Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. Thousands of Christians were trapped in church buildings until police could disperse the assailants.
An unidentified Christian was said to have written an inscription on a shop wall that disparaged the prophet of Islam. Muslims at a market in the Sabon Garia area of the city reportedly attacked the Christian, whom police rescued and took to the area police station.
Muslims in large numbers soon trooped to the police station, threatening to set it ablaze unless officersreleased the Christian to be stoned to death in accordance with sharia, sources said.


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The Meccano Society of Scotland
NEMS (Darlington) 2007
A few of our members attended the annual North Eastern Meccano Society's exhibition at Darlington in November. This was the same weekend as the Greenock Model Railway Show. Here are a few pictures to give a flavour of that exhibition
Pictures from NEMS (Darlington) 2007
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Greetings, old-timer. In light of the recent Yahoo-buys-Tumblr news, my overlords at TIME have asked me to put together a guide of sorts explaining what Tumblr is. A Tumblr for Dummies, if you will. (Note: there is an actual Tumblr for Dummies book already. I did not write it.)
If you're a regular reader here at TIME Tech, you can skip this post entirely, as you already know what Tumblr is. For the rest of you, make sure your Depend elastic-leg undergarments are cinched really, really tightly, because what you're about to read can only be fairly categorized as a technoerotic thriller. Let's begin.
What is Tumblr?
Before there was social networking, there were blogs. And in an effort to muddle things, at one point in time the concept of blogging without trying too hard became known as microblogging. Tumblr is part microblogging, part social networking.
If you want to write a several-thousand-word opus about something, Tumblr isn't the place to do it. If you want to share a moving picture of a little kid acting like a detective as quickly and easily as possible, Tumblr is a good place to do it. That's the microblogging aspect to Tumblr. Then, other Tumblr users who like moving pictures of little kids acting like detectives can follow you on Tumblr so they're sure to see every moving little-kid-acting-like-a-detective picture you post. That's the social networking aspect to Tumblr.
For very little information about what Tumblr does, visit the main page of Tumblr.com. For more information, visit Tumblr's About page, which says:
Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything.
Post text, photos, quotes, links, music and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, e-mail or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors to your theme's HTML.
Why is the E in Tumblr missing?
Yes, it's very unprofessional.
For a website to try to convince people that it's cool, sometimes it will drop a random vowel from its name. You'll notice the Tumblr logo also has a cool period at the end, as though you're supposed to say it, drop whichever microphone you're holding and walk off stage.
Related: we considered calling our site "TIM." for a while but focus-group testing only revealed that when we said our name, guys named Tim would look up from the table. Very little else happened, so we stuck with TIME.
It's interesting to note that Yahoo bought a picture-sharing service called Flickr a while back. You'll notice that Flickr and Tumblr each have six letters in their name and both opted to drop the second vowel. COINCIDENCE? Maybe. But consider what happens if you add the numerical equivalent of the letters of Flickr together and the numerical equivalent of the letters of Tumblr together (A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.):
F+l+i+c+k+r: 6+9+3+11+18 = 47
T+u+m+b+l+r: 20+21+13+2+12+18 = 86
The 47th state to enter our great union was New Mexico. "Eighty-six" is a slang term used when you want to get rid of something. I'm not saying Yahoo wants to eighty-six New Mexico, but I'm not not saying it. And Yahoo's stance is that it has no comment (I assume) about its plans as they pertain to New Mexico. Still, it's all very fishy when you take a step back and look at the numbers — especially considering the Flickr one doesn't even use the correct numbers.
Can Tumblr make Yahoo cool again?
You may notice this question being asked several different ways on the Internet over the next few days. The answer is no. An easy way to remember this is like so: if a tech company turns a healthy profit and/or has public shareholders, it can never be cool. Cool tech companies make little or no money and then get bought by uncool tech companies. This is what just happened to Tumblr. Yahoo buying Tumblr merely makes Tumblr uncool — not the other way around.
Time for a break
At this point in the article, you'll probably want to make sure you've taken your most recent dose of blood-pressure medication. Things have gotten exciting, huh? You may also find it helpful to stand up for a moment or two for circulation's sake.
How big is Tumblr?
Tumblr currently boasts 108.4 million blogs with 50.9 billion posts. The company reportedly employs around 175 people, many of whom are about to buy nice cars.
Who runs Tumblr?
A 26-year-old named David Karp. Karp was born in 1986. Again, add the numerical equivalent of the letters of Tumblr together, and you get 86. If you don't think something weird is going on by now, you accidentally doubled your dose of blood-pressure medication earlier.
How would Tumblr change under Yahoo ownership?
I think current Tumblr users would hope that it wouldn't change at all. I can tell you that the extent of my recent experience with Yahoo is that Yahoo will allow me to completely rearrange my lineup for my fantasy football team, and then when I go to hit Save, Yahoo asks me for my password. It's like I'm halfway logged in at all times. So at the very least, I'd assume that you would type out an entire Tumblr post and then when you go to publish it, you'll be prompted for your password.
Doesn't Yahoo already have a perfectly good website service in GeoCities?
You may want to sit down for this. If you're already sitting, press the button on your lift-chair recliner until you're upright, then press the opposite button until you're back in a seated position (the entire process should take around 15 minutes). Yahoo "retired GeoCities to Florida" in 2009, if you catch my drift. Every death, however, brings with it the hopefulness of new life. Perhaps that new life is Tumblr.


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Anything you see on the site is sort of a 'base model' because you can add or subtract sleeves, shorten or lengthen hemlines, change the collar, add pockets -- and they only charge $7.50, a price which can not be beat.
I chose the Her 50's Colorblock Skirt in the bright red and white, because I love a good striped skirt, and this will be so fun to style in the summer.
The cotton skirt is pleated and quite full. It has a hidden zipper and the waistband has a smocked back panel, so it's very comfortable to wear. The sizing was accurate, and any possible alterations are depicted in a little drawing so you can easily judge how the garment will look.
Because of the customizations, nothing stocked in a warehouse ready to ship - it is all made to order, and therefore the wait time is about two weeks. Even if you don't want any alterations, you still have to put in your height so that no matter what you choose, it will be the correct length for you.
As someone who is petite, and who pretty much has to hem everything, I can certainly appreciate this!
Tights TJMaxx similar
Signature Spade Ring Kate Spade
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- Cotton Satin
- Regular collar
- Zari embroidered palm leaves with sequin work detailing
- Front closure with Embroidered fabric button
- Loose Fit
- Full sleeves
COLOR: Black
Fabric & Care:
- Cotton Satin
- Dry Clean
Front Length | 25.5" | 25.5" | 25.5" | 25.5" | 25.5" | 25.5" |
Back Length | 27" | 27" | 27" | 27" | 27" | 27" |
SHIPPING: It takes 5 to 7 days to get your order ready. And, 8 to 10 days if you have ordered from the tie-dye range or any other collection requiring hand embroidery. We partner with reputed courier services so that products reach you on time.
*Please note that our 'Indigo Meadows' collection will take 15-17 days to deliver. This delay is due to the time it takes to handcraft denim outfits to perfection.
EXCHANGE: We offer one-time size exchanges.
- Kindly email us at email@example.com within 48 hours of receiving the wrong-sized product.
- Once our Team approves your request, please send the piece to us within 7 days of receiving it and mention the size that you require.
- Items must be returned unworn, unwashed, undamaged and unused. If the product is worn, washed, damaged or used- we will not accept the item for exchange.
- If the size ordered does not fit you, we can offer you a one-time-use store credit voucher valid for 3 months provided the piece is unworn and intact with all the tags and labels.
- Items purchased during a sale are eligible for size exchange but only if the size is available.
- All exchanges are processed only after the sale is over.
- Customized orders are FINAL SALE and non-returnable.
Please note that the shipping costs for a size exchange are non-refundable and will not account for the amount of the store credit voucher. We do not accept exchange or return of discounted products unless size exchange is required.
If the wrong piece has been sent to the customer or if the piece received is damaged, we will bear the cost of picking it up and exchanging it for the correct order.
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Able Repair & Painting Inc
- General Contractors in Bellingham, WA
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Year Established | 2005 |
Business Categories | Additions and Remodels, Painting in Bellingham, WA |
The question is great for some industries and non-applicable for others. A general contractor, for example, will by definition employ subcontractors. Most Bellingham Additions and Remodels companies do not, but there are exceptions. You should always ask this question to your service providers. If they do use subcontractors, ask if they're all licensed and insured independently.
This is important mostly for larger jobs. Clearly a two man operation is going to build a home much slower than a 15 man crew. This is also a good indication of the overall size of the Additions and Remodels company, if that's an area of concern for you. The reason you may want to ask about the fleet is that fleet size is a good indicator of the mobility of the company. Mobility may not sound important, but it's hard for the Bellingham contractors to get to job sites if they lack appropriate vehicles.
These first two questions should only relate to services or good purchased directly from the service provider. Many products carry their own warranties, like roofing shingles or siding. It's useful to know what these warranties cover as well as how long they last. The "warranty agent" question is important, because often warranty agents work with the manufacturer to get you repairs under warranty at a much lower price.
You'll always want to ask how long the company has been in business in Bellingham. While this isn't a guarantee that the company will do good work, companies with longevity on their side must be doing something right. That being said, there are newer companies that do great work. If the company is under three years old, ask where the owner was employed before and for how long. If he/she has a long history of employment, it's reasonable to infer that he or she decided to go into business for themselves after so many years of experience.
This is very important, since an estimate is just that. Many contractors will submit a "paper estimate", meaning they've written the estimate down on paper. The bill is the true amount owed and will almost always say "Invoice" or "Bill" at the top of the page. The bill should also list the date it was issued, the due date of payment, and a list of services rendered.


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Tips for Eating Out on a Weight Loss Diet
Enjoying an occasional meal out at a restaurant with friends or family is one of the great pleasures in life.
Okay, so restaurants usually do pile up oversized portions on your plate, but that does not necessarily mean eating out will ruin your weight loss diet plan.
You just need to keep a few things in mind to make sure that your diet plan does not go off the rails when eating out…
Order the main dish from the appetizer menu:
Not only are dishes in the appetizer menu more reasonably portioned, they also save you money and a lot of calories. If you are feeling unsatisfied with the starter, consider ordering a side salad. The fiber rich vegetables will fill you up without spiking up the calorie count. Soups are another great option, as they are quite filling. However, steer clear of the creamy soups or too much salad dressing as theses can pack in a lot of calories.
Beware of these high fat buzzwords:
Stay away from the extra butter, cream sauce, au gratin, oil, breaded, Alfredo, batter dipped, smothered or 'with gravy' dishes when eating out. The extra calories are not worth it.
Beat the meat:
Even if you find that bucket of fried chicken tempting, it is better that you opt for the steamed, roasted, boiled, broiled, baked or grilled variety. Ask for skinless chicken if available or remove the skin yourself. If you are bored with just eating chicken, you might treat yourself to beef sometimes, but make sure you choose the leaner cuts like the flank or loin.
Banish buffets:
Portion control may turn out to be next to impossible for even the die hard dieter at an 'all you can eat" buffet. The huge variety of food at the buffet can actually overwhelm you with choices and lead to overeating. Studies have shown that when more choices are available, people tend to overeat without even realizing it. This is crucial when trying to stick to your weight loss diet.
Keep these tips in mind when dining out and you won't have to jeopardize your weight loss diet plan.


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Historic Houston Photographs
The digital collection contains 235 photographs of Houston dating back to the 1800s and early 1900s, including images of downtown, monumental buildings and landmarks, and daily activities in the lives of citizens. Legendary Houston newspaperman and historian George M. Fuermann gathered these photographs over the course of two decades for his book research; most are copy prints of earlier photographs, but some are originals.
The George Fuermann Texas and Houston Collection is an extensive group of materials amassed by Fuermann between 1950 and 1971. Among the collection's highlights are over 800 photographic prints that document Houston's history and enterprise. A small set of images depicts other cities such as Huntsville and San Antonio. The images available in this digital collection represent only a subset of the photographs in the Fuermann Collection -- those that are presumed to no longer be under copyright.
George Fuermann's career with Houston daily newspaper the Houston Post spanned 49 years, beginning in 1946 as a general assignment reporter. From 1950 to 1971 he wrote a popular daily column, based on snippets of local history, called "Post Card." Fuermann continued as Editorial Page editor from 1971 to 1983 and as "Wine Talk" columnist from 1984 to 1995, when the Houston Post closed its doors.
Fuermann also published approximately ten books, mostly on the history and people of the city of Houston. Among his best known books are Houston: Land of the Big Rich, 1951; Reluctant Empire, 1957; The Face of Houston, 1963; and Houston: The Once and Future City, 1971.
The original materials are available in UH Libraries' Special Collections in the George Fuermann "Texas and Houston" Collection.
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