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- Chicken sausage
- Broccoli
- Spinach
- Kalamata olives
- Mozzarella cheese
- Homemade pizza sauce
- Homemade pizza dough
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Most couples plan a romantic date out the first time they hire a non-family babysitter, but my husband and I opted to visit Wegmans to shop for pizza ingredients. We sampled a couple of organic cheeses and landed on an aged cheddar cheese from Sonoma Creamery in California. When you purchase such a rich cheese you don't want to take away its intensity by adding too many toppings so the combination of white pizza sauce, broccoli, and a dash of red pepper flakes was the perfect combination. After pre-baking the dough, the cheese melted nicely at 450 degrees for 8 minutes.
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Apple, bacon, and cheddar are becoming one of my most favorite pizza combinations. What's interesting to me is that this pizza turns out different each time I make it. Check out this post from November 2011 and another from October 2012. Two different strategies make this version stand out from the others. First, my friend Sara showed me how to slice the onions super thin, making caramelizing easier. Second, rather than putting the toppings on one topping at a time we added them more randomly. This made for nice flavor distribution and nice presentation. This apple, bacon, and cheddar recipe is sweet and savory, and so delicious!
Posted in Apple, Bacon, cheddar cheese, cheese, Fruit, meat, Onion, pizza, veggie
Tagged apple, bacon, caramelized onions, cheddar cheese, pizza
It's been almost two years since I made a four cheese pizza, and one year since I've eaten real dairy cheese. What a simple pizza recipe! The cheese combination was strong but tasty and went well with my homemade pizza sauce. I was so excited to eat my first real cheese pizza after a year without, that I only let the dough rise for 30 minutes when it really needs at least an hour. When it baked the crust didn't get as fluffy as it usually does. Despite the slightly dry, flat crust it was a good pizza.
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Notes: I would never have imagined making a dairy-free pizza a year ago, but since I found out my daughter has a dairy allergy I've adopted a completely dairy-free diet. My pizza dough doesn't contain dairy, but if you've being reading my blog for long you know I love cheese. Recently, I've started to experiment with dairy-free cheese. Non-dairy cheese will never compare to a fresh block of soft-ripened cheese, but I've come to appreciate the subtle flavors in vegan cheese. However, what made this pizza special was the roasted acorn squash. Combined with chicken and apple sausage, my dairy-free autumn pizza tasted like fall.
If you've had a good experience with a dairy-free cheese, please let me know because I am open to suggestions.
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Notes: The 31st Annual Downtown Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival inspired this pizza. I picked up some fresh apples from the friendly students at Cornell Orchards and knew I had to make a pizza. After a quick stop at GreenStar Natural Foods Market for some organic ingredients I was ready to assemble. A light spread of Annie's Goddess Dressing helped keep the dough from drying out. My husband said the flavors of the apples, onions, cheddar cheese, and sausage were an excellent combination.
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Review: The Polo Bar & Tsukiji Sushi Restaurant, The Westbury Hotel, Mayfair
Style Points: 3/5
Price: ££
Overall: 4/5
The Polo Bar and Tsukiji Sushi Restaurant are both in the opulent Westbury hotel, located a lovely walk down from Bond Street station. This elegant hotel is situated amongst the high end stores on New Bond Street, setting the scene perfectly.
Would I Want Seconds?
We decided to start our meal with drinks in The Polo Bar found to the side of the main hotel. This bar has relaxed art deco styling, and is decked out in dark paneled wood and low lighting, as is much of the hotel.
Once we had ordered and savored our drinks chosen from an extensive menu, we were guided by the waiter to the Tsukiji Sushi Restaurant. The restaurant itself is a small 20 seater space with a red wood interior and views into the sushi kitchen.
As with many sushi restaurants the best option was to order the tasting menu and sample a range of dishes. Our tasting menu started with Salmon Tartar with Yuzu miso. This was served with grated cheese on the top, and although I've never thought to mix salmon and cheese, this combination of the tart yuzu miso and creamy cheese actually worked really well to create a delicious dish.
Next on the tasting menu was the Hamachi New Style Sashimi with spicy sauce. I'm a big fan of sashimi and this dish was presented in a beautiful manner to resemble roses. We then tried the Tataki Chu Toro with jalapeño salsa followed by Octopus Carpacchio with truffle mustard miso dressing.
The next course was Grilled Oyster with creamy sauce and this was actually the first time I'd tried oysters! As we were only served one each as part of the tasting menu I managed to take the leap and quite enjoyed it!
By this point we had lost count go the courses but they kept coming! Our next course was Harumaki with vinegar soy which was served as a spring roll cut in half. The following course is a selection for 3 chefs choice New Style Sushi and then Black Cod with saikyo miso sauce which was one of my favorite dishes as the cod was cooked so well.
Finally we ended with dessert which was a traditional Ume Sorbet with Japanese plum sorbet. I also ordered green tea ice cream as I had been craving it for a while!
Could I Afford Seconds?
The tasting menu consisting of 8 courses including dessert cost £59.50 per person and offered a substantial amount of food. Although the courses themselves are quite small, the large number of courses balances this out so that diners don't leave hungry.
Tsukiji Sushi Restaurant also offer a pre-theatre menu which is a better option for diners looking for less course. The pre-theatre menu offers three courses and a glass of Prosecco all for £37.50 per person.
The sushi and sashimi at Tsukiji Sushi Restaurant was innovative, delicious and very well prepared and given the number of courses we left quite full!
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Your Travel Guide to Brussels
We love seeing the beautiful images artists take while traveling. Today we are so excited to have Sarah Carpenter sharing a bit from her trip to Brussels with us!
Ever since my husband and I went to Brussels last summer, I have been daydreaming about it nonstop. When we stepped out of the train station and into Brussels Center that beautiful summer day, I fell in love. The city is diverse and artistic, young and old at the same time. It's the perfect mix of everything I love about Europe- innovation and preservation.
My husband and I spent the first few days of our 2014 Europe trip roaming around the city, eating waffles and fries, listening to the music festival from our hotel room and taking pictures of any part of the city we could easily walk to. We loved everything about it so much that, after traveling for the next 10 days with my sister and her boyfriend, we took her back to Brussels and did it all over again. We especially made her eat some waffles. Actually, that was the first thing we did because the waffles are to die for.
I was so excited that we just happened to be in Brussels during the opening of the flower carpet. Ever since landscape architect, Etienne Stautemas, designed the first one back in 1971, the city has put it together every 2 years. This thing is huge and stunning and takes all day to put together. It is literally a giant carpet on the Grand-Place made of all colors of flowers, and the opening ceremony for it was magical. Fireworks came out of the center of the carpet, powerful music played. I think I might have shed a tear or two… or three. If you ever get a chance to see this, you definitely should.
If I could go back to that city every year for the music, the food, and the flowers, I would. If I could do the whole experience over again every single day, I definitely would.


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Adding a relatively efficient pre-regulator at the input of a dc series-pass regulated power supply minimizes power losses, especially at low output voltages and high currents. Typical applications employ optically isolated TRIAC drivers using pulse control.
This idea implements a pre-regulator using a novel analog optical-feedback loop combined with an LED and light-dependent resistor (LDR). When applied to a 24-V, 1-A variable dc power supply, the linear regulator dissipates less than 7 W.
The dc power supply's input stage is a standard TRIAC light dimmer fed by the 230-V, 50-Hz mains (Fig. 1). The LDR, which is connected across R8, has a typical no-illumination resistance of 1 MΩ and a fully illuminated resistance of a few kilohms. The variation of the effective resistance across R8 combines with capacitance C1 to create a reduced-amplitude and phase-shifted drive.
When this drive exceeds the 30-V threshold of the DIAC (D2), the gate of the TRIAC (Q2) triggers. This effectively controls the conduction angle of the 50-Hz supply, from typically 20° (minimum output) to 170° (maximum output), which correspond to the no-illumination and full-illumination conditions.
The TRIAC-controlled ac input to the switched-mode power supply (SMPS) stage generates a variable dc input to the linear regulator stage, which uses an LM117 (U1). R9 adjusts the output voltage from 2.5 to 24 V, and Q3 combines with R11 to provide short-circuit protection, which is limited to 1.25 A. R1 limits the peak current drawn from the mains, and R10 bypasses the TRIAC circuit, supplying current for startup and light load conditions. R8 is adjusted to provide the initial trigger for the TRIAC with the LED not illuminated.
The heart of this design is the optical-feedback circuit consisting of PNP transistor Q1, which drives a red LED housed within a dark enclosure along with the LDR. Divider R5/R4 compares the voltage across the linear-regulator against the forward-biased diode voltage of D1, changing the emitter-to-collector voltage of Q1. This change varies the current in the LED.
An increase in LED current increases the light on the LDR, reducing its resistance. This increases the TRIAC conduction angle, raising the dc voltage at the input of U1. Closed-loop operation with negative-feedback control requires the current through the LED to decrease when the voltage across U1 increases.
Figure 2 shows the PSpice simulation results of Q1's emitter-collector voltage (Q1EC), as the voltage across U1 is increased while VOut is fixed at 5 V. At power ON, an initial dc voltage is developed at the input of U1 through R10 by setting R8 to provide a minimum conduction angle for the TRIAC.
Q1EC shows a desirable initial increase corresponding to an increase in illumination, which leads to the pre-regulator voltage momentarily going to the maximum. The negative-slope in the closed-loop control region results when the illumination decreases and the pre-regulator settles to a U1 input nominally 4 to 5 V above VOut.
Instead of a standard 50-Hz transformer-rectifier-filter combination, the pre-regulated supply uses a half-bridge, self-oscillating SMPS as an intermediate stage (Fig. 3). The SMPS reduces the power supply's overall size, while providing 1 A dc at an output of 4 to 40 V as the ac input is varied from 24 to 230 V.
D3-D6 and C6 full-wave rectify and filter the ac voltage from the TRIAC and provide dc voltage across the totem-pole connected transistors Q4 and Q5. This topology self-oscillates in hard-switching mode, generating a square wave at a frequency determined by the alternating positive and negative saturation of the transformer core.
With T1 fabricated as shown, the converter operates at 10 to 50 kHz, the frequency increasing with input voltage and load. Schottky diodes D9-D12 and capacitor C7 rectify and filter the output to provide a dc input to the linear regulator stage.
The experimental results demonstrate the pre-regulator's effectiveness in the 24-V dc power supply (Fig. 4). The circuit's dissipation is less than 7 W for a 1-A load. The efficiencies for the SMPS and overall circuit are also shown. This technique can also be applied to power supplies with higher ratings.


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The Vista City Council approved a five-year contract with Redflex Traffic Systems, with an option for 10 more, to keep unblinking eyes on nine city intersections to catch for red-light runners.
Since the first of the year, the city has been paid $156.33 from a standard red-light photo ticket of $436, the state got $164.52 and the county $115.15, said a spokeswoman for the San Diego Superior Court.
A review of city records showed that 6,143 photo citations were issued in the city in 2007, the last full year for which data was available.
In the last two fiscal years, Vista has reported $2.44 million in revenue from the Red-light Photo Enforcement Program, which city officials say is not about money.
"It's primarily about safety," said Larry Pierce, Vista's director of engineering, and is not intended to be a revenue-producer.
Pierce said data showed that right-angle collisions – also known as T-bone accidents – are down at four of five intersection where cameras were installed. At the fifth, the number of such accidents remained the same: zero.
Opponents of the cameras contend that while they might reduce the number of right-angle accidents, they cause more rear-enders. Pierce acknowledged an increase in rear-end collisions, but said serious crashes are down.
Traffic camera companies like Redflex, the cities that use the cameras and the nonprofit Insurance Institute of Highway Safety, which is funded by auto insurers, maintain that the cameras save lives and about $14 billion nationally each year by reducing emergency-room trips and insurance rates.
A 2005 Federal Highway Safety Administration study found that red-light cameras reduced right-angle crashes by nearly 30 percent, while increasing rear-end collisions by 8 percent.
The City Council agreed Tuesday to pay Redflex $2,833 per month per intersection approach – or $25,497 a month – and approved $420,000 for a contract that includes the salary of a sheriff's deputy to review photos and accompanying administrative costs for the upcoming fiscal year.
In July 2008, the last month figures were available, 323 photo tickets were generated by the city's system. Pierce said there are no plans to add more traffic cameras, although there is an option to add up to 10.
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The nonpartisan Utah Health Policy Project are already cheering the results of the independent analyses of whether or not Utah should participate in the Medicare expansion program. They just sent out this press release:
You can read the full study HERE.
In short, the PCG study reveals:
(1) At the end of 2014, up to 42,866 Utahns will be newly enrolled as a result of a traditional Medicaid expansion; by 2015, the number could grow by 109,420 people. In total, 123,500 Utahns could gain coverage through Medicaid expansion.
(2) Significant savings to state and county government at around $20 million over the first three years (2014-2016), and $131 million overall.
(3) Reductions in uncompensated care absorbed by Utah's health system: PCG estimates an annual savings of $814 per newly insured individual; adding 100,000 individuals to Medicaid would yield annual savings of $81,400,000 for Utah hospitals and clinics. In 2011, PCG estimates that the Utah health system spent $331 million on uncompensated care
(4) Expanding Medicaid will produce 3,552 new jobs, generate $286 million in additional state economic activity, and contribute over $20 million in state and local revenue by year 2022 (under a tradition benefit package expansion)
"We now have the facts and figures to support the existing moral argument to expand health insurance to Utahns with no other alternative for coverage," says Matt Slonaker, Medicaid Policy and Collaborations Director at UHPP. "The question for expanding Medicaid is simple: Do we want to make health care more affordable for Utah workers and their families, or are we going to continue to ask a family that earns $30,000 a year to do the impossible and pay $15,000 for private insurance?"
Over the next few days UHPP will conduct a thorough analysis of the 144-page study. But from our initial reading, we think it offers a strong fiscal defense of Medicaid expansion options in Utah. In addition, any alternatives to a traditional Medicaid expansion will need to be compared to the detailed cost-savings and economic benefits described in this study.
"Even though this PCG study used a more conservative "take-up" or enrollment rate than similar studies by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Utah Legislative Fiscal Analyst, the net cost savings to Utah's state and county governments are still significant—totaling $20 million in the first three years of expansion and $131 million overall," says Slonaker.
"While Utah will invest additional state funds in administering a Medicaid expansion, this study demonstrates that those investments are dwarfed by the new savings and economic activity created by expanding coverage to more than 100,000 Utahns," says Matt Slonaker.


text: I occasionally make a boiled fondant to pour on a cake - i particularly like a white or sponge cake in four layers with sweetened whipped cream with cut up strawberries between each layer and poured fondant on top - i love the chewiness of the fondant mixed with the softness of the cream and the sweetness of the fondant mixed with the sharpness of the strawberries. (Actually, strawberries dipped in fondant are special too). I used to absolutely love eclairs, napoleons and petit fours that had fondant on top - whether chocolate fondant, in the case of eclairs, or white in the case of the others. (i never find anything with poured fondant on it nowadays). I had once made an ersatz (fake-o) fondant with powdered sugar, crisco (wince), i think glycerine, and other stuff from Rose Beranbaum's cake bible, to roll out for a wedding cake. It was decent, but nothing like the one i make by boiling sugar and water, pouring on a marble table and scraping. I was afraid to try that for the wedding cake because it was too risky and the quantities so large, but i would like to make a rolled fondant based on boiled fondant for more normal cakes. For one thing, on a cake with whipped cream inside, the heat of the warm fondant that gets poured on it always risks melting the cream through the top layer. On the other hand i'm not skilled enough to pour it on the top layer and transfer without cracking and wrinkling it. Does anyone have any hints as to what I would have to do differently if i wanted to just roll out the boiled fondant? Will it have the same effect as poured on top of the cake? (I don;t want that "oh, what the heck is this, let me peel it off" effect).Will it stick to the rolling pin? should i use powdered sugar to "flour" the board? roll between parchment paper? grease the rolling pin? any suggestions are welcome. I don;t want to go ahead and make it and then be stuck with something that won't work. It's quite a process in a home kitchen.


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Rush Assault (ハードラッシュ, Hādo Rasshu?, lit. Hard Rush) is a recurring ability in the series. It is a Limit Break for Zack Fair.
Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-Edit
Rush Assault is a Limit Break-esque ability for Zack, obtained at the start of the game. It is used when Angeal Hewley's portrait lines up in the reel during modulating phase.
Rush Assault deals non-elemental physical damage while ignoring the target's Vitality, with the final hit inflicting Stun, and also may grant Endure to Zack. The attack hits up to three times with different attack power, and each hit will hit a random enemy. The power of the first hit is 7 at level 1, and increases by 1 per level up to 11, while the second hit has a power of 12 at level 1, 18 at level 2, 20 at level 3, 24 at level 4, and finally 32 at level 5. Level 5 increases the Emotion Gauge by 1 level.
The Rush Assault Independent Materia boosts the chance for Angeal's portraits to line up. It begins at 5x, increases by 1x each level up to 9x. It is a level 8 materia bought from Research Dept. QMC+.
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there are a lot of products that you can buy where you count down to Christmas. some of these have chocolates for each day leading up to Christmas, some have stickers you can place on each day, and some have numbered ornaments you can hang. there are tons of creative advent calendars out there.
but i wanted something more. i wanted something meaningful, but also decorative. i didn't want just 25 pieces of chocolate wrapped up to eat each day, although that certainly has it's appeal! i was on a search for something different, something Christ focused. i wanted something to constantly remind me of what the Christmas season is truly about.
then, a few weeks ago, Elizabeth at Oak + Oats posted about an advent calendar from Naptime Diaries that i just fell in love with! it was everything i had been searching for & more! so, i decided i must have it for our first Christmas together. & every Christmas after that! the great thing about the print advent calendar is that you can reuse it each year!
i've hung twine above our fireplace & hung up all of the prints! i love the twine & clothespin look & use every excuse to do it! we will take down one print each day & display it on the frame on our fireplace as we count down to the arrival of Christ. the really cool thing is that Naptime Diaries also gives you a 5 page PDF to use along with the prints. these pages include scripture, activities, & tips on how to use the advent calendar. so each night before we go to sleep, we will reflect on the print of the day & use the guide to make the most of this advent season.
tomorrow is the first day of advent & we will be driving back from our roadtrip most of the day. so, we've set up day one on our frame for when we get back tomorrow night!
i am very excited about this awesome advent calendar & starting our own Christmas traditions!


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Our HISTORY
Since its inception over forty years ago, Princeton Summer Theater has provided the Princeton community with great works of theater produced by the stars of tomorrow. PST is dedicated to training the up-and-coming leaders of the theater world and offers students and young professionals experience working in every area of theater production, from performance, to design, to marketing, and everything in between.
Housed in the charmingly intimate Hamilton Murray Theater, PST has helped launch the careers of hundreds of young artists while bringing high-quality, affordable theater to the Princeton area. Some of PST's notable alumni include Tony Award-winning actress Bebe Neuwirth (Chicago), Tony award-winning producer Geoff Rich (Avenue Q), and Hollywood veteran William Hootkins (Star Wars, Batman).
In 1968, seeking to continue their theatrical endeavors into the summer months, Princeton University students and Theatre Intime members Charles Bernstein, Geoff Peterson and Jon Lorrain founded the organization that we now call Princeton Summer Theater. The Hamilton Murray Theater had never before housed a successful student-run summer repertory company, but these bold youngsters were not to be deterred. They organized an ensemble, and Summer Intime was born. It was a huge success, prompting Princeton University to install a much needed air conditioning system in the Hamilton Murray Theater.
Summer Intime prospered for many years, and soon a board of theater- and community-savvy trustees was assembled to advise students involved. Eventually, the company's name was changed to Princeton Summer Theater.
A one-million-dollar renovation of the Hamilton Murray Theater halted PST's production for two seasons in 1999 and 2000. But in 2001, a group of devoted students led by Amanda Brandes revived the company and reintroduced Princeton Summer Theater to the community. The theater has seen improved attendance and great critical success every year since. As Princeton Summer Theater continues to grow -- this summer presenting a more ambitious season than ever -- it remains committed to making challenging, entertaining plays accessible to the Princeton community and hopes to do so for many summers to come.
As in 2018, in 2019 Princeton Summer Theater will present a full season of programming, including four main stage shows and a children's show. We hope that you will join us this June for our new 2019 season!


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Donald Trump, Jr. and his wife Vanessa are adding to their brood.
Already the proud parents of 3 ½-year-old daughter Kai Madison and 2-year-old son Donald John III, the couple is expecting child number three sometime this year.
On Wednesday, Don Jr. shared the news with the Twitterverse.
"Ok guys BIG NEWS (at least for me) my awesome wife Vanessa has another bun in the oven," he shared with fans. "Baby #3 on the way. Wish us luck!!!"
His younger sister Ivanka – who is currently gestating her first spawn – responded via Twitter with great happiness.
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Queen Nefertiti's Tomb Discovered?/
We love interesting burials here at Skeleton Keys. Add in some fascinating history and we're in heaven. We spent lots of time examining the process of finding and identifying Richard III. We covered the potential discovery of the remains of Joan of Arc and King Alfred. We looked at the plague burials of London, the Roman burials of York, and even those entombed at Pearl Harbor. But we've never tackled ancient Egypt.
This past week, there was a press conference in Cairo. The Egyptian minister of antiquities announced that new research being conducted in King Tut's tomb revealed the possible presence of two hidden chambers off the room that held the royal sarcophagus. Seeing as almost everyone thought the tomb had been fully excavated by Howard Carter between 1922 and 1932, the announcement came as quite a surprise.
The one man who thought there was more to discover was Dr. Nicholas Reeves, an archeologist from the University of Arizona. Known as a scientist who often makes discoveries by fully analyzing the research of others, he published a paper in 2015 based on radar scans of the tomb done by a team of conservators from Factum Arte. Factum Arte's scans were commissioned in order to produce a replica of the tomb for an Egyptian project to preserve tombs in the Valley of the Kings. After the scans were complete, they were uploaded to the Internet for all to see. When Dr. Reeves examined the highly detailed scans, he saw what everyone else had missed—the outline of two doorways in clear, straight lines beneath layers of plaster and paint. His analysis of the data prompted further scans to determine if there was any truth behind his theory.
Dr. Hirokatsu Watanabe, a well-known Japanese radar expert, was brought in to run fresh scans of the north and west walls of the tomb. Immediately following the scans, Watanabe was "90% positive" of the presence of a hidden room behind the north wall. Six months later, the full analysis is complete and Watanabe reported finding empty space on the other side of both walls, with metal and organic material behind the north wall, and organic material behind the west wall. Organic material in this case could be anything from wooden items to human remains.
The quality of the plaster in those two areas is also different from the tomb walls themselves. It is composed of a softer, grittier material than the tomb walls proper. More specifically, this type of gritty plaster exactly matches the material sealing another door opened by Howard Carter in his initial excavation. Carter kept some of the material so Reeves was able to do a direct comparison.
Reeves has a theory about the reported organic materials. It is his opinion that the remains of Queen Nefertiti, stepmother to King Tut, are buried in the chamber behind the north wall. If so, KV62, the most important archeological find of the 20th century, may prove to also be the most important archeological find of the 21st century.
Howard Carter was an amazingly thorough archeologist and painstakingly took a decade to document and excavate King Tut's tomb, a dedication that was considered unusual for the times. But imagine such an excavation with modern archeological and scientific tools at the researchers' disposal. They would be able to do field testing radically unlike anything Carter could achieve and in-lab testing well beyond that. Not to mention that current conservation skills far outstrip any of a century ago, ensuring the safety of any objects inside the tomb, sealed away for the past 3,339 years.
So what are the next steps? National Geographic has been invited to send in a team of specialists to confirm the previous radar data as well as to determine the thickness of the walls. Once that is determined, Dr. Reeves would like to use a tiny fiber optic camera to breach the wall with as little damage as possible to visualize any open space beyond without defacing the beautiful painted murals that cover both the north and west walls. He would also like to talk to Japanese conservators with experience in removing wall paintings intact in case they have to fully breach the wall to excavate behind it.
It's a very exciting prospect, but one that will take time and care to achieve. So patience will be the watchword as the Egyptian government carefully oversees the entire process. But they will not be the only ones to pay attention. To say the whole world will be watching is surely not an overstatement.
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An athletic winger who played in Manly's initial season in 1947. He scored 61 tries in 134 first grade games for Manly. Willoughby represented NSW in 1951 before making his Test debut against France in the First Test that year. He played in the Sea Eagles' maiden grand final appearance, against Souths in 1951, and made his last Test appearance against NZ in 1952.
Willouuhby was later a long-serving administrator with the Manly club, serving as vice-president, delegate to the NSWRL, chairman of the Board of Directors and Leagues Club Director. The following tribute has been extracted from Smith 1991, p 54:
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Wednesday was the kick off of the annual Salvation Army Fabric Sale here in PA. I kind of debated going on opening day, but then the night before I realized I would really regret it if I didn't. So Wednesday morning I got up at 6am and my friend Crystal and I headed to stand in line (with lots and lots of other people) for a chance at some crafty supplies!
It was so much fun as always, and I was really restrained this year. I only filled two bags for myself, and one for my friend Molly who wasn't able to get off work. She just opened a online shop selling the really cute things she makes using vintage supplies, check it out here!
I'll take some detail photos to share of all the goodies I got, not much fabric this time-but goodness knows my fabric stash is not lacking.


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The Leather Sneakers You Should Own This Spring
Words by, Igee Okafor
Photography by, Mark Asuncion
Without exception, footwear is the cornerstone of every man's attire and without a doubt, springing into warmer weather indicates ensuring your footwear basis is covered.
By no chance am I a sneaker fanatic of any sort but as an enthusiast and student of all things menswear, I must say, there are few classic sneaker models that seem to have secured prominence in a variety of quality wardrobes and for good reason, I happen to have fallen in love with one of them - The Common Projects Original Achilles Sneaker.
Sure, everyone on Instagram seems to own a pair or three but I tell you, the desire for the product is all for fit rationale. Simplicity and Comfort are key words and quality essentials for footwear for all seasons. The simplicity of the Achilles Sneaker makes it painless to wear with everything - From your double breasted linen three piece suit to your white T shirt and cropped jeans.
The sneaker is a relaxed shoe option in its own right making it ideal for the weekends, more casual looks and errands. A little bit of color like the blush option presented in the photos above will set you apart from the other gentlemen at your local grocery store.
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A red-tailed boa was caught alive in Tseung Kwan O.
The gold-colored boa constrictor was found inside a fertilizer container at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Eco-Park on Wan O Road at about 11 a.m. Wednesday by a female employee, Ming Pao Daily reported.
Police officers arrived and blocked the container before calling a snake expert known by his nickname "Snake King Pong".
Pong didn't take much effort to catch the five-foot-long female snake, which was then taken away by the police.
According to Pong, the red-tailed boa is not a local species but an imported one that is usually reared as a pet.
He said the snake could have escaped from its cage or it might have been abandoned by its owner after it became too big.
It could be worth several thousand Hong Kong dollars in the market.
Jack Ip, a project officer at the Hong Kong Society of Herpetology Foundation, said red-tailed boa is classified as a protected species and can be imported for commercial purpose.
He urged owners not to abandon their pets for whatever reason and instead ask authorities for help.
Also on Wednesday, residents of Kau To Shan in Sha Tin called another snake expert to catch a two-foot-long non-venomous grass snake.
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On many occasions I have tended to agree with the Chief Minister's statements pertaining to the rights of Sarawakians but I find his latest jibe at the opposition in the matter of keeping out Semenanjung Malaysia based parties rather insincere and silly. He is taking such delight in gloating over his 'clever' reply in the recent DUN sitting that I hate to burst his bubble - but necessity compels.
Firstly, although the Chief Minister has not said so, he does not have the power to restrict the registration of UMNO or any other political party in any part of the federation under the laws of Malaysia. He is conveniently letting the public labour under the misconception that he does have such power.
Secondly, it is common knowledge that for his own political expediency, he cannot allow UMNO to come into Sarawak as the state BN is ruling the state in the form of PBB and its partners. Allowing the powerful UMNO into Sarawak would dilute his influence within the state BN and loosen his control over the state. By saying 'not allowing', we mean that there is an understanding between the state BN and UMNO that as long as PBB and its partners hold the majority of seats in Sarawak, UMNO will not set up officially in Sarawak.
In the case of Sabah, when BN proxy PBS withdrew from BN 5 days before the 1990 general elections and went on to win 14 out of the 20 seats, Dr Mahathir immediately sent UMNO into Sabah. It is clear that as long as the Sarawak BN proxies remain meek and mild, and continue to welcome their visiting top UMNO leaders with tight embraces, UMNO will not set up shop here. After all, UMNO does not need to do so as they are effectively ruling the state through their PBB and other BN proxies. To keep them happy and loyal, the extra incentives for the state BN's parties include 7 ministerial and 3 deputy ministerial posts in the PM's cabinet (PBB 7, PRS 2, SUPP 1).
The Chief Minister has been riding high on the Sarawak for Sarawakians sentiment for many months, echoing the unhappiness of Sarawakians over the failure of the BN federal government over the past 50+ years to safeguard our interests and facilitate the development promised. However, he has proven to be ineffective. When asked to declare the fact that Sarawak has no official religion, he remained silent, perhaps for fear of offending his leaders at the United Malay National Organisation. Our demands for increased oil royalty and the recognition of the UEC were rejected, and the use of the English language was met with either criticism or a deafening silence from the BN politicians. It is rather pointless to ask Sarawakians for 5 more years when it will be 5 more years of just being ignored.
The burning and relevant question for the Chief Minister is this: given that we have been sidelined and exploited by the federal BN government for half a century, and given that his voice has been embarrassingly unheard by them, is he willing to gather up his remaining gumption and leave the BN coalition? Will he be brave and bold and have the PBB stand on their own against the exploiters of Sarawak and Sarawakians? He will have to make his stand clear very soon. Failing which, please stop this nonsensical debate of stopping UMNO and Semenanjung based political parties from coming to Sarawak.
The pertinent question for all Sarawakians is this: Who are the politicians who first reminded Sarawakians of their forgotten rights that were guaranteed under the Malaysia agreement? Who are the politicians who have been fighting for the rights of Sarawakian and Malaysian natives?
It is the opposition, especially PKR that has fought for Sarawakians, in particular for our natives' rights, among which are the rights to their customary land known as the "pemakai menoa" and "pulau galau" concepts for the Dayaks and "cari makan" land for the Malays. These concepts have clearly been rejected by the Chief Minister and even by the native BN leaders in Sarawak. Why pretend to be champions vis-a vis the Federal Government when at home, you refuse to recognise our rights to our lands and our livelihood? This is the most basic and fundamental right, which has been declared to be equivalent to the right to life by the Courts in this country.
So, the issue is not about making the opposition look stupid in DUN, it is about these questions which the Chief Minister has to contemplate and iron out in his mind. He has to make his stand clear. If he wants to be the champion of Sarawak for Sarawakians against our exploiters the Federal BN politicians, he cannot continue to associate with them and embrace them so fervently. He cannot have his cake and eat it too.
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The Worthy Series
Through a partnership with The City of Boston, The Boston Art Commission, MassArt's sparc! the Artmobile, and Grove Hall Main Streets, I contributed to the Grove Hall in Color Initiative via participation in The Paint Box Project. For this commission, I was one of four artists selected to beautify the Grove Hall neighborhood with paintings on four electrical boxes along Blue Hill Avenue.
About the Series
In an effort to pull from the beauty of the residents in Grove Hall and display some positive affirmations after a summer of violence against people of color in America, I created this series of paintings both as a reminder and spotlight on our worthiness of love and respect. I also incorporated some symbols from EMERGENCE: What does hope look like? with the sentiment of hope for the future of the community.


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Also bathroom may be the tiniest room in your house, but it plays key roles though in your life. You will certainly likewise have comfy showering if you have a comfy bathroom. That is why you must have some ideas to decorate bathroom for your house, to make sure that you will certainly have comfy bathing.
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Some people may need some home entertainment inside the shower room. If you like some home entertainment media though, you could also place a television there. Nonetheless, there is a vital point you must pay the interest. If you want to put a television or various other electronic devices, make sure that it will certainly not be touched by water. You will certainly ruin the gadgets if it is not. Furthermore, you will threat yourself because water could transfer electricity. What has been discussed is just an example of how you can decorate your washroom. There are a great deal of ideas to decorate bathroom. The basic thing is what has been stated, that is locating the principle. If you have currently located it, you can locate anything having the very same concept and you do not afraid to discover anything. For the last, take care.
That is why you ought to have some ideas to decorate bathroom for your home, so that you will have comfortable bathing.
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Captcha is actually an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart". The type with which most internet users are familiar, in which you are required to decipher the glyphs in a distorted image and then reproduce them in order to identity yourself as human, was invented by a team working at for the search engine AltaVista in 1997. Their aim was to prevent bots from automatically adding addresses to their database. The story goes that they created the solution by analysing the manual for their office scanner they simply implemented the discrepancies that the instructions said would result in poor OCR (optical character recognition) in parsing text documents.
It has to be able to work as a display typeface as well as a informative way finding design. As it will be used on the signage both large and small for directions. It will be displayed a visual brand of the exhibition. The past generations of typefaces such as Beowulf, Elektix, Dead History and ZXX have taken there inspiration from technology of the time but there hasn't been a typeface that specifically focus on the form generated when creating a captcha.


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Free To Be Me? Free To Be You?
If we truly are bought at a price, then we are not free to live life however we want. None of us will ever be as perfect as our Messiah, but we are to walk after the PERFECT example He gave us. What you do in this life matters.


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Recently, I had a chance to sit down and catch up with Richmond-based Singer-Songwriter Susan Greenbaum. Even though we have worked together several times, I learned a few new and marvelous things about this powerhouse musician! She'll be coming to the Festival on Wednesday, July 22 to sing some of her own songs as well as some songs from 1975, the year the Wintergreen Resort was founded. Check out her fascinating journey and beautiful songs below, and then join us on July 22 for a celebration not-to-be-missed! - Erin
Check out her page on our website and visit hers!
When did you start singing?
I cannot remember not singing! In fact, I have memories as far back as age 3 of singing, "That's Amore" with my dad and "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" with my mom, and "Our Love Is Here to Stay" with both of them! I sang in elementary school choir, I sang at my neighborhood talent show on someone's driveway, I sang in choirs all the way through and beyond college, and I have always sung on my own—especially once I learned to play guitar.
Were you always a singer-songwriter?
I think the answer to this question is "yes," but it took me a while to figure that out! I was unaware that a person could actually pursue a career in music, and I certainly had no idea how to do such a thing. I graduated from college and took the first job I applied for; I moved through a few corporate jobs and really learned a lot, sprinkling my business responsibilities with creative efforts that supported the consumer products my company made. For example, I wrote a song and produced a music video for it to promote a camera whose target audience was kids. The video was on MTV (back when MTV had music videos), and the VP of advertising at my company, Polaroid Corporation, was stunned that someone "in-house" (vs someone from the very expensive NYC advertising agency) had made the video and written and performed the song—for a very small budget. It was only after my youngest big brother passed away from brain cancer that I discovered free will and realized that I needed to follow my dream—and my dream was to make my living and life as a singer-songwriter. Wonder of wonders, that's exactly how I've made my living and life for the last 12 years!
How do you go about writing a song?
I have to say that, in many cases, the song writes itself. A melody will come to me, a lyric will come to me, often a lyric will arrive in my head with a melody attached, and I then sit down and try to expand on the initial inspiration. It's a really thrilling and challenging combination of music just showing up and then the rigorous, very focused work of turning that inspiration into something that will make sense to a listener, both lyrically and musically. It's really a combination of my right brain doing creative work as my left brain organizes and corrals that creative output. Usually, I have my guitar as I write, with a tape recorder to capture ideas that might slip away if I don't get them recorded! And I always have paper and pen at the ready—everywhere! My very patient husband has to put up with sticky-notes and envelopes and other random scraps of paper all over the place, all covered with different words and musical notes! He's also a musician, so he gets it!
Do you have a favorite from among your songs?
It's very difficult to choose a favorite, because every song I've written comes from my heart, no matter what the subject matter. But some do stand out to me. I think my song, "Virginia, the Home of My Heart" is one that particularly springs to mind, because it really flowed so easily once I started to write down my initial idea.
I wrote it as a love song to my husband, who is a Virginia boy through and through; as I mentioned, he's also a musician, and we travel the Commonwealth to play music in cities and towns large and small. I was away from him for about a week, and it was the first time we'd been apart since we'd been married. I was really missing him, and I expressed my feelings by describing the state that I'd grown to love and call my own, thanks to him and the wonderful people we meet in our travels, or as we call them, our adventures together. The song came straight from my heart, and we both cried a little bit the first time I sang and played it for him. Reaction to the song has been overwhelming, as people everywhere we play it have urged me to submit it to become the new State Song of Virginia. I'm overjoyed and so excited to say that "Virginia, the Home of My Heart" was presented to the General Assembly in a bill and is now officially under consideration by Virginia legislators to be named the new State Song!
At Wintergreen, you'll be performing some of your own works and some works from 1975, the year the Wintergreen Resort was founded. Do you approach singing your works differently than singing songs written by others? And how?
I think that I have a dual responsibility when performing other people's songs (that's also known as covering a song). I need to sing the song in a way that is recognizable to the audience, especially if it's a well-known cover. People understandably like what is familiar to them. But I also feel that, as a performer, I have a responsibility to bring some of myself to the song, either through a different stylistic interpretation or just by changing inflections or improvising or, in some cases (because I can't play lead guitar when my rhythm guitar is the only melodic instrument—and I can't play lead guitar anyway!), scatting or whistling what might be a guitar or keyboard solo in the well-known version of a song. When I perform my own songs, I tend to stick pretty close to the way I wrote the song. Sometimes I'll change things up a bit, but as my original songs aren't well-known, I want to present them as clearly as I can. That way, if a listener hears me at different venues or buys one of my CDs or downloads my music, s/he will recognize the songs on the recording as those from the live performance—at least, I hope so!
What are some of your favorite musical memories?
I'm really blessed to have so many favorite musical memories! Certainly at the top of the list was standing in front of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra and singing one of my songs as the RSO played a magnificent, soaring orchestral arrangement to accompany me!
I don't mean to make your readers think that I cry all the time, but that was another experience that brought tears to my eyes! It was literally breathtaking to hear such a marvelous group of musicians playing my song, and I had the thrill and luxury of singing along! I'll never forget that!
Another great memory was attending the awards ceremony for a songwriting contest I'd entered; I'd received the top award in two categories, and as the hosts announced the overall winners for the entire contest—selected from all the top award winners in each category—I was overjoyed when they called my name for second place. I returned to my seat very happy, with prize in hand; the hosts then said, "This is the first time in our contest's 22-year history that the same person has won the first and second top prizes." I didn't really register what they saying, as I was still glowing from having won second prize. I sure didn't think they were talking about me—until they said my name. Even then, it took me a few seconds to figure out what was happening. It was literally a jaw-dropping experience!
And one more vivid memory: When I was in college, performing as the youngest member of the women's close-harmony group, I was just really excited to have been chosen for the group. We had a very big concert for 3,000 people, and the hall sold out—it was Junior Parent's Weekend, always a big weekend for a show on campus! I had a solo in the show, singing most of the song, "I Only Have Eyes for You" with the group singing backup. In the middle of the song, I returned to the "U" that we sang in, for the part where we all sang a few lines together; the audience started clapping as I returned to the "U," in the middle of the song, and then wouldn't stop clapping at the end of the song. I'm actually getting chills as I remember this now; it was my first inkling that people really liked my singing. I have that concert on cassette tape; I'll have to dig it out and get it digitized before the tape disintegrates!
What is your favorite thing about singing?
I am a very friendly person. I love talking with and getting to know all kinds of people. Singing gives me a great opportunity to reach out to people in a very welcoming way. Although I'm doing my best to entertain people when I sing, I'm also doing my best to communicate with them. I'm lucky to have a somewhat versatile voice and an affection for many different styles of music; this is really fun, as it allows me to reach folks who like all different kinds of music. I always enjoy hearing from people about what styles they like to hear from me. Some folks really like my blues-ier numbers, some prefer my more rock-oriented songs, and some prefer my gentler, more acoustic (some might say folk-oriented) songs. Plus, singing for me is a wonderful release. It's just so liberating to get to make a joyful noise, and then it's pretty darn thrilling when people clap at the end of a song!
What other artists do you admire?
I'm a very big fan of Patty Griffin, a singer-songwriter who not only has a very expressive and beautiful voice but also writes incredibly evocative, emotional, lyrically and musically interesting and gorgeous songs. I love the Beatles, because they wrote in so many different genres and had no boundaries to their creativity—and they're the Beatles! I love James Taylor, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Jackson Browne—these were the artists whose albums were in my brothers' record collections alongside the Beatles (and a copy of Iron Butterfly and some other harder rock'n'roll groups!). I think I just internalized so much of their artistry while listening to their music over and over as a really young kid of 7 or 8. My brothers are all quite a bit older than I am, so I had to sneak into their rooms to use the stereo—and not mess up the records! I also love John Hiatt and a group called Fountains of Wayne (they're amazing musicians and songwriters), and I'm a fan of Taylor Swift, for a lot of reasons! And I love Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett; I learn a lot listening to them, and I had the great joy recently of seeing Tony Bennett in person—it was like attending a master class in performance! I also admire my parents. Although they were never performers, they both have beautiful voices; we always sang around the house, not formally, just for fun. They instilled in me a love of music and have always encouraged me to pursue my passion.
Tell us something about you that might surprise the audience!
I love to cook! And eat! Not necessarily in that order! And I'm under five feet tall—which has nothing to do with the fact that I love to cook and eat!
(Sounds like she's a perfect fit for Wintergreen Performing Arts!)


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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
A thousand little pieces
7 comments:
- missfee said...
caatabl73WOW looks great - so sorry to hear about the shins what bad luck
- November 7, 2012 at 12:46 PM
- Ness said...
How lovely! I'm sorry to hear about your son's leg. Sounds painful! I'm glad the building is going well! Can't wait to see the finished room!
- November 7, 2012 at 4:18 PM
- DrK said...
perfect yarn for this pattern, it really looks great. and im not sure who to feel more sorry for, you or louis. take care yourself xx
- November 7, 2012 at 5:35 PM
That looks so great in that yarn. I so want one! Not so much the hours waiting at the hospital though. Hope the full leg cast is only temporary, and recovery is swift and easy.
- November 8, 2012 at 8:43 AM
- Ann said...
Sorry to hear about your son and hope he is feeling better now. That scarf looks gorgeous and I also knitted a shawl in that same colorway.
- November 12, 2012 at 9:12 PM
That's really bad about your son. Is he going to Jamboree?
Your knitting is beautiful as usual. Sadly I've been soo busy with work and home knitting is getting dusty.
- November 18, 2012 at 3:59 PM
- Ruby Girl said...
It is lovely Ailsa, the bright colours and faded colours go well together
- November 22, 2012 at 12:24 PM


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Topsoil For Sale
If you are getting topsoil on sale, it is difficult for any gardener to pass up the offer. Some landscape artists who deal in bulk orders also prefer to wait for a sale to buy topsoil.
Buying at full price, even with a discount given by the suppliers – works out to be more expensive for people.
However, when you buy topsoil on sale, you have to exercise some basic caution and make sure that you are not being taken for a ride:
- Satisfy yourself on the quality of the topsoil that you are buying on sale. Premium topsoil should be sifted through a fine screen to get rid of all the naturally occurring debris.
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For those that follow me, you will know I have swapped my filter system recently, to the excellent Kase Wolverine Filters. I have been busy taking shots with them and using them in the wild to make sure they are as good as my first impressions of them were. They are, I can not recommend them enough to anyone serious about landscape photography. These filters are not aimed at the budget end of the market, they are aimed at those that use the glass offerings from the likes of Lee and NISI. They are very competitively priced compared to those and have that amazing quality of being virtually indestructible, hopefully no more dropped and shattered 10 stops filters for me. In the wild, being that I like to spend a lot of my time near the coast, the other quality that I really love is that they clean so easy. Salt water spray just wipes off, no annoying smearing. And as for optical quality, then these are just excellent, which hopefully you will see in my gallery below.
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FTheory: Lorentz Invariance from Spin 2
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In this talk, I study all translationally and rotationally invariant local theories involving massless spin 2 and spin 1 particles that mediate long range forces, allowing for general energy relations and violation of boost invariance. Although gauge invariance is not a priori required to describe non Lorentz invariant theories, I first establish that locality requires a type of `soft gauge invariance'. Then by taking the soft graviton limit in scattering amplitudes, I prove that in addition to the usual requirement of universality of couplings, the special relativistic energy formula is also required and must be exact. I contrast this to the case of theories with only spin 1 particles, where, although one can still derive charge conservation from locality, special relativity can be easily violated. I provide indications that the entire structure of relativity can be built up from spin 2 in this fashion. This talk is based on Phys. Rev. D 96, 084048 (2017) arXiv:1704.05071.


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These primary school students enjoy a hot meal every day at school.
Nothing beats a hot meal after a long journey to school and a morning filled with classes. Or a home-cooked meal after a long day of work. It's the fuel that keeps us going.
But it's hard to learn on an empty stomach. And hunger pangs are no match for an effective workday. With no promise of food, priorities begin to shift. Children miss out on school and parents lack the strength to provide for their families.
In Sierra Leone, with support from the World Food Programme, Plan Canada is improving the lives of children and entire communities thanks to innovative projects that put proper nutrition on the agenda. Here's 3 ways we're keeping families nourished in Sierra Leone:
Now when primary school students get to school, they'll have a hot meal waiting for them. In fact, the school feeding program has reached over 155,500 children in communities across Sierra Leone, allowing these youngsters to reach their full potential in class.
The project affects parents, too. The promise of a hot meal is motivating parents to send their young children to school. Instead of keeping their tots at home to help with chores, parents can feel confident that their children are receiving a healthy meal and a rewarding education at the same time.
When times get tough, nutritious food isn't always available. But through Plan's supplementary feeding programs, malnourished children under 5 and at risk individuals are getting the proper nutrients they need to thrive. To date, over 11,600 children and families have benefited from the supplementary feeding programs.
In communities across Sierra Leone, Food Management Committees have been established to help distribute the food to those in need. On top of that, committee members refer malnourished children to health clinics to ensure they get the special care they need.
Keeping children properly nourished through school feeding programs will help their brains and bodies develop.
Last, but certainly not least, 20,800 people have benefited from food-for-work programs across Sierra Leone. That means Plan has employed over 5,500 people to help with community projects, like road improvements and land rehabilitation projects. In exchange for their labour, they will receive enough food to keep their families fed.
Yes, food-for-work programs like these keep people healthy but they also help motivate people to get involved in their communities' development. It's a win-win situation!


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At the soirée-cum-salon-reading-series Spoken Interludes, participants enjoy a buffet dinner, a cocktail party atmosphere, and a few author readings. Past readers have included Meg Worlitzer, Jeff Gordinier, A.J. Shapiro, and the series producer DeLauné Michel. The reading series takes place each year in the spring and fall.
Best New Literary Salon; 2005. Kudos to the county for snatching this cool salon series away from that backwater town, La La Land. At Spoken Interludes, participants indulge in a little fine dining, mingle with like-minded readers, and connect over some literature. Past participants have included such big-name writers as Kinky Friedman, Rupert Holmes, Meg Worlitzer, and Anne Perry. Spoken Interludes is on hiatus for the summer, but don't fret. It'll start up again in September with a fresh lineup of authors. A must-do for any lit fan.


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The SHARE Institute provided a mini-grant to Samraksha which was used to fund two training workshops for outreach workers. Another mini-grant was provided to implement workshops for training medical practitioners in managing STDs and HIV.


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|The Float
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The Float is the twenty-third episode of The Looney Tunes Show.
Bugs and Daffy, in Daffy's parade float, go for a car ride down the freeway. Daffy asks Bugs if it is safe for him to switch lanes, but Bugs is uncertain. Daffy tries a lane change anyway, but almost collides with another vehicle, then attempts another one, causing him to swerve off the freeway and get mud all over the float. Upset about this, Daffy decides to go to the car wash, but Bugs wants to get off to avoid any further mishaps. Daffy, in an attempt to reenter the freeway, causes a lot of commotion and near-misses.
At the car wash, Daffy puts his parade float through the machine and enters the waiting area. When a woman questions what will happen to it when it gets wet, Daffy panics as the float loses its color due to the water. Witnessing this, he shouts for someone to shut the water off while chasing after it while more damage occurs. His attempt to save his float is fruitless, as it withers away under the drying lamps. All that is left of his float is a chipped eye, and he cries as he returns home. Brokenhearted, he retreats to his room, where he cries long enough for the seasons to change.
After Daffy's long cry, Bugs gives in and tries to console Daffy, and a misled Daffy thinks it's because Bugs constructed a new parade float. When Bugs reveals he didn't, Daffy repeatedly slams his head against the dresser and claims he's fine, but also somewhat disappointed. Bugs asks him why he can't drive a normal car, and Daffy claims that normal cars are for normal people and that he is not normal. After Bugs smugly agrees, Daffy continues, stating that he drives a parade float because Bugs, his best friend, sees how horrible he is, and he wants to distract the others from seeing it as well. To this, Bugs notes that Daffy should get something more than a parade float, and Daffy decides to get a yacht. After hearing that a yacht costs $375,000, Daffy asks Bugs for the money, but he refuses, then claims that no one will just give him that kind of money.
Afterward, Porky agrees to give Daffy most of the money when he lies about needing a new kidney. However, Porky is $25,000 short, and Daffy asks for more, forcing Porky to hand over the last of his money as well has his coat and bow tie. As Daffy exits, Porky questions how he will live if Daffy took all his money. While Daffy enjoys his newly purchased yacht, Porky is having a miserable time, since he has no food, clothes, or electricity. Entering Porky's house, Bugs questions Porky's new lifestyle, and Porky reveals that he gave Daffy all of his money and clothes, leaving him bankrupt. Bewildered, Bugs questions Porky's actions, and Porky claims that Daffy is in need of a kidney transplant, then wonders how he is holding up. Bugs, with an evil grin on his face, takes Porky along so they can "find out".
While Daffy is lounging in his yacht, Bugs arrives and sarcastically asks Daffy how his kidney is doing. Daffy admits that that was a lie told to Porky so he will give him the $375,000 he greedily wanted. Hearing this, a naked Porky beats Daffy senseless while Bugs stands by and witnesses Daffy get his just desserts. Porky questions Daffy's greedy scheme, and Daffy claims that he would not have given the money had he stated what he would really use it for. Still enraged, Porky continues beating up Daffy, and after a while, Bugs breaks up the fight, then tells Daffy to return the yacht so he can give Porky his money back. Daffy greedily refuses, and an upset Porky saunters away. Bugs points out that if Daffy doesn't set aside his greed, he will soon lose Porky, but Daffy claims he can easily get more friends since he has a yacht.
Porky points out that the yacht has drifted away from the shore, and Daffy remembers that he didn't tie the yacht to the dock because he got distracted by a hot dog stand. As Porky begins to panic, Bugs gets the idea to rise the sails and sail back to the shore, only to find out there are no sails on the yacht. Daffy claims that he did not get any because he wanted a jacuzzi and had no remaining money afterward. Bugs then decides to call the coast guard via radio, but Daffy reveals he never bought one because he wanted a second jacuzzi. Daffy plans on relaxing in the jacuzzis and forgetting about their problems.
At night, Daffy finally comes up with a solution: Porky swims to the mainland and seeks help. Bugs reveals that he made a sail out of the bed sheets Daffy purchased with Porky's money. As Daffy panics due to their price, he also reveals that he favored them over life jackets and as a result didn't buy any, thinking they look unattractive. On the hoist, Daffy tries to retrieve the bed sheets but is stopped when Bugs steers the wheel, causing the hoist to shift and Daffy to fall. When Daffy is rendered unconscious, Bugs simply ties him to a pole and orders Porky not to let him go.
Upon awakening, Daffy sees himself tied up and asks Porky to untie him, claiming he is his best friend. Porky has his doubts because of Daffy's previous scheme, but when Daffy offers to give Porky a hug, Porky unties Daffy. Daffy then throws Porky overboard, prompting Bugs to jump into the water to save him, leaving Daffy alone. After realizing what Daffy set himself up for, he decides to jump in the water with them, but first takes his bed sheets before making the jump. As he drowns, he shouts that he regrets not purchasing life jackets when he had the chance.
Daffy suddenly reawakens in a hospital, then thinks he was dreaming, which explains why he was so horrible and did those horrible deeds. Nearby, Bugs points out that the events actually happened and that he is a horrible person. When Daffy questions the events after his jump, Bugs reveals that they were rescued by a passing ship and that they sold Daffy's yacht to get Porky his money back, much to Daffy's horror. Dr. Weisberg enters and tells Daffy that he will need a kidney transplant, which costs $375,000. Since Daffy has no insurance, he asks Bugs and Porky if they're still willing to give him the money.
Later, a new float is being constructed outside of Bugs and Daffy's house. Daffy claims that he couldn't ask his "best friend", a.k.a. Bugs, who paid for the operation, to rebuilt the float, and as a result had Porky do it. Porky asks to take a break since he hasn't fully recovered from giving Daffy one of his kidneys, but Daffy refuses, making Porky rethink his friendship with Daffy. He continues rebuilding the float while Daffy stands idly by.
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|Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck
|Bob Bergen
|Porky Pig
|Garry Marshall
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Galor IV was a Class K planet located within the Alpha Quadrant.
This world was the fourth planetary body within the star system that consisted of nine that orbited a red dwarf star. The system was situated at least within a ten light year radius of Deneb. Its surface was a harsh and lifeless habitat with an unbreathable atmosphere consisting of numerous gases as well as never ending storms that plague it. Whilst harsh, this rocky world was rich in common industrial minerals that made Galor IV was a useful colony for mining and trade. It also meant that it was also self sufficient allowing for numerous facilities to be constructed by the planets resources alone. (Decipher RPG module: Worlds)
It later held a Starfleet facility which was mainly devoted to cybernetics, robotics, archaeology and computer science. Whilst officially it was designated as Galor IV, the underclassmen stationed on this planet sometimes referred it by its previous name of Mudd. (Decipher RPG module: Worlds)
- The Decipher Sourcebook "Worlds" indicates that Galor IV has no moons.
Initially, Galor IV was a nameless planetoid that was first settled countless centuries ago by denizens of the distant Andromeda Galaxy who were known only as the Makers. These extragalactic aliens became curious about the Milky Way Galaxy and decided to explore it by first creating a series of outposts for further probes into the local systems. Their first chosen colony was the planet that came known as Galor IV which they believed its uninhabitable surface was perfect to conceal their activities initially from outsiders. However, the surface was so inhospitable to the Makers that they first sent android creations in a starship to this planet in order to build a number of underground pressurized facilities for their Makers. in addition, the first androids sent were responsible for building extensive factories from which more of their kind could be created with each such facility creating tens of thousands of new androids who in turn set about building new chambers along with additional facilities. The androids performed their duties perfectly but before the Makers could join them in their campaign of exploration - their homeworlds sun went nova and destroying their civilization. This act severed any contact between Galor IV and the Andromeda Galaxy thus forcing the androids to live on their own where they were acted aimlessly and without purpose. Whilst they were sophisticated mechanical beings, they lacked any means to operate on their own and needed instructions in order to proceed further thus forcing them to be confined on their world. (Decipher RPG module: Worlds)
It was in the later part of 2266 that the androids received their first visitor who was Harry Mudd who crash landed on his damaged ship to the planetary surface. Detecting his arrival, the androids activated and rescued the lone survivor of the ship who had been on the run from the authorities of the United Federation of Planets. Mudd quickly came to realize that the androids needed direction in order to operate and thus declared himself the ruler of the planet and himself being given the title of Lord Mudd. The androids were thus now programmed to serve his every order and he had them create even more different series of androids most of whom were in the form of beautiful women. For a short time, Lord Mudd was happy in his new home and renamed the planet Mudd after himself. He later learnt, however, the androids were not going to led him leave their world as they wanted information and their purpose given to them. Harry Mudd thus decided to replace himself with the crew of an entire starship to occupy the androids whilst he himself escaped. To commence his plan, he had a Norman unit capture a starship which turned out to be the USS Enterprise who were ensnared in 2267. His plan failed when the androids revealed that they were still not going to let him leave and now intended to enslave humanity under their service. It was only an alliance between Mudd and Captain James T. Kirk's crew did they defeat the androids by introducing an illogical causality loop that caused them to overload and burnt out the Norman unit. (Decipher RPG module: Worlds)
Afterwards, the androids were reprogrammed to return to Galor IV and engage in productive work. (Decipher RPG module: Worlds) The planet was initially quarantined with only authorized Federation science teams allowed to arrive on this planet otherwise all outside contact was not allowed. (FASA RPG module: The Federation) Following that time, the planet became an important research center for Starfleet with the Federation establishing a facility on the world in order to study the androids. In the 24th century, it became dedicated point for civilian researchers as well as Starfleet science officers who sought to further unravel the mysteries of heuristic learning systems as well as neural networks. This sparked a general study of cybernetics and robotics research that later saw the incorporation of an Annex of the Daystrom Institute of Technology by 2315. (Decipher RPG module: Worlds) However, another report indicated that the planetary government won a big to became a planetary annex of the Daystrom Institute in 2322. Regardless, the planet chosen due to it's distance from Romulan space, Klingon space and Earth. The location near Cardassian space had caused concern but moving the facility elsewhere was deemed "impractical." (Last Unicorn RPG module: Planets of the UFP) It was on Galor IV that Doctor Ira Graves conducted much of his early research at the Annex and he later taught Dr. Noonien Soong on tihs world was well. Soong's attempt at creating a positronic brain were first made at the Annex on Galor IV where he later left in order to work with his wife in seclusion. (Decipher RPG module: Worlds)
Following the discovery of the android Data by the USS Tripoli, a group of Federation scientists was sent to the planet after half a century quarantine. The Android Commission stated that Mudd's World contained at least 10,000 fully functioning androids that wanted to learn more about the galaxy. This led to a second expedition that took three android units back to the Federation for study and involved the highest levels of security where it was learned that the machines were fully sentient through a means that was not fully understood. It was this act that later led to the acceptance of the Soong-type android Data as a sentient being with the full rights available to such individuals in the Federation. (FASA RPG module: Star Trek: The Next Generation Officer's Manual) Later, in 2361, Captain of Sciences Anthony Haftel was promoted to the rank of Admiral and was thus made the Chief of Starfleet Cybernetics Research at the Annex where he worked closely with Commander Bruce Maddox who had been attached to the Daystrom Institute by Starfleet Academy. During this time, Admiral Haftel was concerned that Lieutenant Commander Data, a Soong-type android and the only successful version of his kind, was not assigned to Galor IV but did not push the matter like Commander Maddox as he believed the android to be sentient. Following first contact with the Borg Collective in 2365, Galor IV became an important hub in the development of weapon technology to combat this menace. A year later, Admiral Haftel used his position as head of Starfleet Robotics Research to get Lieutenant Commander Data's daughter Lal transferred to Galor IV due to the fear that the technology to create such androids would be lost if the USS Enterprise-D was ever lost in service. This battle of custody over Lal ended tragically when she died of a cascade failure which saw Admiral Haftel both impressed by Data's parental devotion and saddened over the loss of Lal thus seeing him return to Galor IV alone. During the Dominion War, Galor IV once more became an important research center in the development of weapon systems to combat the Dominion. (Decipher RPG module: Worlds)
In 2382, Starfleet (via Admiral Owen Paris) ordered the Doctor's mobile emitter transferred there, but a lawsuit and injunction prevented this from happening during that year. With the acceptance of a Starfleet commission and rank in 2395, The Doctor took an assignment on Galor IV that also allowed the Starfleet Corps of Engineers to study the emitter. (ST website: The Path to 2409)
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- Carbolic Sea
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