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Paso atrás en el tiempo y entrar en una casa victoriana granja de 1890 con la artesanía en madera original, ventanas de espejo y tres historias de la belleza restaurada. Estamos cerca de la zona Quiet Sand Lakes con la visualización de senderismo / ciclismo / naturaleza, Turtle Creek Casino, Michigan Tart rastro de la bicicleta y la cadena O 'Lakes, así como numerosos campos de golf. Tenemos aire acondicionado central y conexión inalámbrica a Internet disponible.
5 en abril 15, 2015
Very nice! Out of the beaten path. Loved the location. Very historic. Great stories from the owner.
Respuesta del propietario
Thank you for your kind words. We're glad you enjoyed your experience.
- Judy (innkeeper)
4,8 en septiembre 26, 2014
My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed our stay here. The house was very well done with some great history that Judy shared with us. I was impressed with the care and attention to detail that went into it. The rooms were clean and there were plenty of snacks and breakfast goodies. My husband left a shirt and we received it in the mail a few days after we got home. Thanks for a great weekend!
5 en noviembre 30, 2013
My wife and I stayed at our first bed and breakfast, after 14 years of marriage, and we were really impressed with so many things at this home. The rooms were clean, and neatly decorated to fit the whole entire home. The service was outstanding! The innkeeper was very nice and welcoming during our two day stay at the home, especially during the Iceman Cometh race knowing that we were going to be coming back to the home a little cold, muddy and wet from the 30 mile mountain bike race. For that, we thank you for your service and hospitality. We don't have any experience staying with any other bed and breakfast homes, so we thought that our lodging expenses were at a great value. Pricing out the local hotels, and comparing them to this home were not much different, and I wouldn't trade the quality location, rooms and wonderful service by the innkeeper for a casino or hotel and resort facility. The innkeeper served a wonderful breakfast buffet of items to the guest, including some wonder scones from the local bakery. Wow, those were good, and I ate a majority of them when the other guests were out of the kitchen enjoying the nice fireplace! We will plan on staying again at Yorkburg Manor, and would recommend that bed and breakfast to anyone traveling to the Traverse City, Michigan.
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Thank you so much for your kind review. I'm so pleased that you enjoyed your stay. That entire weekend was filled with fun and laughter and all of the guests seemed to really enjoy themselves and have such a good time. We look forward to having everyone back. Hugs!!
- Judy (innkeeper)
5 en octubre 21, 2013
The Yourkburg Manor is a true gem that everyone should have a chance to experience. My husband and I stayed here to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary, Judy & John went the extra mile to be welcoming. They suggested a great place for our celebratory dinner, and were at the ready to help out with anything else we needed. The manor is beautifully restored and incredibly clean. A place we will return to!
5 en octubre 18, 2013
This is my first stay at a B&B and it has been phenomenal! The hospitality shown here is just incredible. I can't wait to return.
5 en agosto 09, 2013
We recently stayed at this location and I was so impressed that I felt obligated to search this site out and leave a review. Judy and John are superb hosts. The B&B was clean, unique and comfortable. Judy went out of her way to make us comfortable. We spent our mornings watching the birds while eating breakfast on the porch. Drove into Traverse City for the day, which was only a 15 minute drive, and then back to a relaxing and quiet atmosphere. I mentioned how much we enjoyed the local bread that she served us at breakfast that she ordered some more for us to take home! Who does that?! My next trip to this area will definately include a stay at this location. Thanks againg Judy.
5 en febrero 24, 2013
Judy and John run a fantastic B&B! We have stayed here for our annual girls' weekend for 4 years and we are always impressed. We always feel welcome the minute we walk in the door.
4,2 en octubre 26, 2012
We had a great experience at Yorkburg Manor. John and Judy were friendly and knowledgeable. The room was clean and comfortable. Breakfast was "serve yourself", and there were plenty of choices. The refrigerator was stocked with drinks, and there were snacks galore available anytime. We would definitely stay again.
4,6 en octubre 07, 2012
Yorkburg Manor was a wonderful place to spend a relaxing weekend. The rooms are clean, quaint, comfortable, and affordable. Judy and John York were extremely nice. They made you feel like family. This was our first experience at a bed and breakfast. We would gladly go here again, even if all we do is spend time at the manor.
4,2 en septiembre 23, 2012
Beautiful home, furnished with antiques in quiet country setting. Relaxing here is easy. Hostess was friendly and very accommodating.
Cama de tamaño completo con un gran baño compartido en el pasillo. Todas las habitaciones están en el segundo piso (con escalera original y segunda escalera de acceso.) Todas las habitaciones tienen aire acondicionado central (a / c) y de alta velocidad inalámbrico a Internet. Las tarifas se basan en ocupación doble.
: $125 - $145
: $125 - $145
Cama de tamaño completo con un gran baño compartido en el pasillo. Todas las habitaciones están en el segundo piso (con escalera original y segunda escalera de acceso.) Todas las habitaciones tienen aire acondicionado central (a / c) y de alta velocidad inalámbrico a Internet. Las tarifas se basan en ocupación doble.
: $135 - $145
: $135 - $145
The Garden Room has a queen size bed with a private bath and separate sitting/reading room with views of the yard and gardens. It also has central a/c, a 32"television, cable and wireless internet. All rooms are limited to two persons. Note: As this is a private home we do not have roll-a-way beds for additional persons. Maximum occupancy is two persons.
: $165 - $175
: $165 - $175
Quiet room with fireplace and private bath with old fashioned claw foot tub/shower combination.. This room is one of our guest favorites and is lovely for birthdays, anniversaries and for absolutely no reason at all.It has a 32" television with cable.
Zona rural
Traverse City, MI (TVC-Traverse City) 12 miles
Estamos ubicados 1/10th de 1 milla al sur de la M-72 en Broomhead RD. entre Traverse City y Kalkaska cerca de la zona tranquila de arena Lagos en Grand Traverse County.
Compra de Antigüedades, Playa, Casino, Sala de conciertos, Cenas Elegantes/Gourmet, De Interés Histórico, Lago, Cine, Museo, Parques Nacionales, Área natural, Tiendas Outlet, Área de picnic, Servicios Religiosos, Río, Area de esquí , Bodega
Juegos de mesa, Chimenea, TV, Teléfono, VCR, Vídeos , Snacks & beverages available.
Aire acondicionado, Ventiladores de techo, Instalaciones para café/té, Escritorio, Refrigerador , Secador, Microondas, TV por Satélite/Cable, Wi-Fi, Internet con conexión de cable
Pistas para bicicletas, Billares, Observación de aves, Pistas para esquí de fondo, Pistas para senderismo, Pistas para Mountain Bike, All activities within just minutes away, Pistas para andar con raquetas de nieve
Judy and John York
John es un maquinista y le gusta hacer las máquinas de vapor pequeñas, motores de ciclo de ley y trabajar en su tienda. También le gusta el trabajo de la madera. Te gusta la jardinería y la decoración. Ambos disfrutamos subastas, kayak, vela y entretenido.


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Scott Stanzel has served in high profile communications roles for nearly 15 years. As a spokesman and media adviser for a United States Senator, the President of the United States and one of the most scrutinized Fortune 500 companies, Stanzel has managed communications strategy on many of the biggest news stories in recent times.
Stanzel currently lives in Seattle, Washington, where he founded Stanzel Communications, a firm providing public relations strategy, crisis communications and media training services to corporate clients, government leaders and political candidates.
Stanzel graduated from Sac Community High School in Sac City, Iowa, in 1991. In May 1995, he earned a bachelor's degree in Journalism from Iowa State University.
Upon graduating from college, he went to work for the Dole for President campaign as the Northwest Iowa Field Representative. Following Senator Bob Dole's victory in the Iowa Caucuses, Stanzel was recruited to serve as the Deputy Finance Director for the Lightfoot for U.S. Senate campaign. In January 1997, he was hired as the Assistant Press Secretary for U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
In September 1999, Stanzel left the Grassley office to work for the Bush for President campaign. After serving in communications roles in several primary states, at the campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, and on the Florida Recount Team in Tallahassee during the historic post-election recount, Stanzel was selected to be a spokesman for the Bush-Cheney Transition Team, which guided President-elect Bush's Cabinet nominees during the Senate confirmation process. When President Bush was inaugurated in January 2001, Stanzel was asked to become a White House spokesman. He served in the White House Office of Media Affairs, where he was the primary spokesman for President Bush for reporters serving news outlets in 14 Midwestern and Industrial Belt states.
In August of 2003, Stanzel accepted a position with President Bush's reelection campaign. In his role as Press Secretary at Bush-Cheney '04, Stanzel traveled with President Bush to campaign events throughout the country serving as national campaign spokesman to television, radio, newspaper and wire reporters covering the campaign. After President Bush's election victory, Stanzel became a Senior Communications Advisor to the 55th Presidential Inaugural Committee.
Following President Bush's second inauguration in 2005, Stanzel moved to the private sector to work for Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington, as a Senior Public Relations Manager. In this position, he planned media relations activities and served as a spokesman for Microsoft on security issues.
On November 29, 2006, President Bush's appointment of Stanzel to be Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary brought his return to the White House. In this role, Stanzel served as a spokesman for President Bush on a variety of issues, including homeland security, education, agriculture and energy. As Deputy Press Secretary, he worked on the front lines with the most talented and aggressive reporters in the world. Stanzel conducted numerous on camera briefings in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House and at the "Western White House" in Crawford, Texas. Stanzel regularly prepared President Bush for media interviews and developed the strategy for the lengthy series of final interviews the President conducted over the last months of his time in office.
Stanzel serves on the Advisory Council of the Greenlee School of Journalism at Iowa State University and is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Iowa State University Alumni Association. In 2005, his professional success and service were recognized when he was named Outstanding Young Alumnus by the Iowa State University Alumni Association. He is an avid runner and triathlete. In September 2008, Stanzel completed the 140.6 mile Ironman Wisconsin triathlon. In July 2009, he finished Ironman Switzerland in just over 11 hours. As an active volunteer for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Stanzel works to raise money to help find a cure and better treatments for blood cancers.

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Boutique style hotel features extensive gymnasium, outdoor swimming pool, free Internet Kiosk, guest laundry and undercover parking. RC 02/10
Located on Sheridan Street, it is 5 minutes from Cairns Airport, 2-3kms to Cairns Central shopping centre and short walk to the Botanical Gardens, Whitfield Range bush track and the award winning Cairns Esplanade.
A five storey light pink coloured building in modern style.
A medium sized lobby with two lifts.
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Are you new to yoga and ready to incorporate it into your daily life?
We love sharing our passion for beginners and strive to make yoga accessible and fun for beginners. Those brand new to yoga have 2 options here at Soul Power Yoga.
Daily Beginner Classes
The first option allows you to join a beginner class around your availability. You are welcome to find a Level 1 class that suits your calendar and walk-in 15 minutes before class on the day it suits you. No pre-registration or membership required. Just an open mind!
Beginners Yoga Workshop
If you are looking for more guided interactive learning, we also offer a quarterly Beginners Yoga Workshops answering all the questions of how to safely start yoga. To sign up for an upcoming workshop, please view the WORKSHOPS page and contact the studio to enroll.
We look forward to sharing yoga with you soon! Check out our upcoming beginner yoga classes.
Get a Glimpse of A Soul Power Yoga Class
I have never done yoga before, what class do I attend?
We welcome new students daily and would be happy to have you in class! As a beginner, we recommend any of our Level 1 classes to learn basic postures, alignment and breathing. From there you can grown your practice at your pace up through our Level 3 classes. For safety, absolutely brand new to yoga will be turned away from Level 2.5 and Level 3 classes. For a complete class schedule of classes at Soul Power Yoga please click here.
In addition to weekly beginner classes, we also offer quarterly Beginner Yoga Workshops – click here to find an upcoming workshop.
Do I need to be a member or make a reservation to attend class?
NO! We understand that life is busy and hectic. That is why we make getting to class at Soul Power Yoga stress-free! Simply find a class time that suits your schedule and please arrive 15-20 minutes prior to class start to attend. With the largest studio space in all of Monmouth, Ocean and Middlesex County we welcome walk-ins. We encourage you to enroll in our Soul Power Yoga Loyalty Reward Program after the purchase of your class card. Use the SIGN UP feature before attending class and you will begin earning Soul Power Yoga Loyalty Reward points!
Please note doors do lock promptly at class start time and latecomers cannot be accommodated. This policy ensures a peaceful and undisturbed practice for students in class.
What do I wear to class? What do I need to bring?
Wear comfortable clothing appropriate to sweat in and stretch. Yoga is practiced barefoot. Bring a yoga mat, towel and water. Rental mats are available at the studio for $1. We also carry a line of yoga clothing, yoga mats, yoga towels and water for purchase in our Soul Power Yoga Boutique.
Cubbies are provided for your shoes, cell-phone and keys. Our studio is a cell-phone free space. Please leave valuables at home as Soul Power Yoga cannot be responsible for valuables.
Do I have to be flexible to do yoga?
Thinking you have to be flexible to do yoga is a myth. Yoga was actually created to help you gain more flexibility, which loosens tight muscles and prevents injury.
Should I eat before coming to class?
Doing yoga on a full stomach is not fun, however, practicing yoga when your stomach is growling isn't a good idea either. We recommend eating a light snack one hour before class or a meal 2-3 hours before class. This way your body is fueled but not focused on digestion. Please remember to drink plenty of water before and after class.
What style of yoga is practiced at Soul Power Yoga?
Yoga translates to "union". Each style of yoga is an expression of body, mind, spirit and breath union. Soul Power Yoga is a Vinyasa studio. Vinyasa means "breath synchronized movement" and therefore, each movement is linked with every breath creating a dance like sequence. This style can offer softer classes, such as Soul Flow into Bliss focusing on deep holds and grow into a vigorous athletic class such as Soul Power Yoga. Vinyasa gives you the freedom to build a sustainable practice as you can safely practice daily and adjust each class for the intensity and focus you are seeking that day. For complete descriptions of the various classes offered at Soul Power Yoga please click here.
Dedicated to sharing all aspects of yoga, attend one of our workshops or class with a guest teacher to explore various styles of yoga such as Kundalini, Anusara, Jivamukti and Ashtanga.
Hungry for more? Take the plunge into our RYS200 Teacher Training program to learn about the lineage and history of yoga plus explore taking classes in numerous yoga styles!
I just found out I am pregnant! Can I still attend class?
Yoga is a healthy and wonderful addition to your pregnancy and can safely be practiced all the way up to delivery. As the only Registered Prenatal Yoga Instructors in the area, we understand how to safely modify and structure class appropriate during pregnancy. Please inform your instructor immediately upon a change in your medical situation so that we can get you enrolled in a Prenatal Yoga class here at Soul Power Yoga. Join us after delivery for exciting Baby Yoga classes.
I have an injury or medical condition? Do I have to stop doing yoga?
Upon the change in your medical condition, please inform Soul Power Yoga immediately. We have personalized programs for students returning from a surgery and after an injury from sports or running to promote healthy and safe transitions back to your practice. We will work with your medical advise to find the right class for you or freeze your current class card if you are advised to refrain from yoga.
If you are advised to refrain from yoga, please submit an email freeze request with your doctor's note before your class card expiration for review. Retroactive requests after expiration will not be reviewed.
My child wants to do yoga? Can I bring them to class?
We allow teens starting at age 16 and older into our group adult Level 1 classes. Prior to age 16, please find an appropriate Kids or Tween class dedicated to their needs and level.
Do you offer childcare?
No, at this time there are no childcare options during Adult classes. We cannot allow any children or family to wait in our lobby during Adult Level 1-3 classes. The lobby is always open for parents to wait during Kids & Tween Classes.
Are all of the classes heated? Why are they heated?
We believe in safe levels of heat not overpowering can't breathe heat. Therefore, not every class is strongly heated; however, please note our Level 1 classes are slightly warmer than room temperature. Level 2 and higher is heated to encourage you to sweat!
One of the most important ways our body releases toxins is through sweat. The heat in the room, combined with the internal heat you are building by moving your body, promotes detoxification through the largest organ of your body – your skin!
With the first studio in Monmouth and Ocean County to invest in a state of the art heating system, our heat is gentle, dustless and noiseless. This system assists in reducing join pain, boosting your immune system, regulating your metabolism and improve skin quality. We recommend those new to heated styles of yoga begin with Level 1 to acclimate and build slowly to Level 2 and higher in order to safely transition to higher temperatures.
Do you offer hot yoga?
Yes, our Level 2 and higher classes are designed to make you sweat! Power Yoga and vinyasa flow classes generate significant internal heat allowing you to fully detoxify from within but also build heat safely. Plan to hydrate well before attending and take breaks as needed.
To learn more about Hot Yoga, read our recent blog post
Do you offer meditation?
Yes, each of our classes end with time dedicated to meditation or savasana. We do not allow anyone to leave class while in meditation, as it disrupts those around you trying to relax.
We also offer Intro to Meditation workshops, focusing on learning breathing techniques, mudras and mantras helpful to aid relaxation. Find an upcoming Meditation workshop on our Workshops.
What does Namaste mean?
I have never done a 3-Day cleanse before, will I be able to do it?
Yes, our 3 Day cleanses are safe for those looking for an introduction to cleansing but also a favorite amongst those who cleanse regularly as it allows you to go about your daily life without feeling fatigued and irritable.
Do I need to bring my own yoga props?
No, we do provide yoga blocks, yoga straps and bolsters in our studio. Yoga mats are available for rental or purchase. Take a studio tour to prepare for class !
Are your yoga teachers experienced and certified?
Yes, as a Yoga Alliance Registered School we offer a RYS200 accredited Yoga Teacher Training program. All of our teachers are highly trained and certified to lead safe and engaging classes.
Learn more about the Soul Power Yoga Directors, Cristal and Pooja, and their yoga experience and trainings.


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Start-up culture. End-up infrastructure.
Proving that the principles of lean-startups, when leveraging the global platform and brand of Argo Group, can accelerate our pace of change. Inventing new categories of business and building digital bridges to existing and future products is our resolve. Accelerating the technology ecosystem of a global company from the inside out, while producing ideas that have a meaningful impact on the daily lives of millions.
Agile. Lean. Purpose and Results Driven.
Inspired by Spotify, we operate in squads composed of Product Owners, Designers, Engineers, and Digital Marketers, with support from stakeholders throughout the business. Squads are located in NYC's SoHo neighborhood with one mission: turn the insurance paradigm on its head, talk to our large small business customer base, sprint to build new software, identify new categories, and define the way people transfer risk in the 21st century.
Our culture is inspired by a new way of working.
Today's fastest growing and most profoundly impactful companies use a different operating model. Our culture is influenced by elements from companies, such as Dropbox, Airbnb, Spotify, Amazon, and Valve. We're hypothesis driven and not solutions looking for problems. We operate as "one-pizza" cross functional teams, each focused on one problem at a time, iterating until we solve the customer need or pivot into something new from what we've learned. We leverage Argo's large customer base to do concept and user testing prior to making bigger investments.


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Fart Guitar: Written & Video iPhone App Review
(Promo Code Giveaway! See below for free promo codes)
Here at the iPhone App Review, we like a good gag application. Of course, we're talking about any novelty title that makes our day brighter, our smile cheerier, and our step springier. With that in mind, we're excited to be bringing you a review of the aptly named Fart Guitar from DevDigital LLC today. The app is a toot and an half—no pun intended—and if you're looking for a unique way to make music, this is it. For our full review, you need only to slide on down below the break! Starting with:
Concept and Functionality
If you couldn't gather from the title of the app, this is a guitar that also makes rather amusing flatulence while you pluck the strings. To put it another way, Fart Guitar is the only app we know of that combines over-the-top breaking-of-wind with actual guitar sounds produced by touching and strumming a simulated guitar.
Every time you pluck a string or create a chord (which you can do by select one from the row of icons along the bottom) you'll find your musical interludes accompanied with a blast of—well, a blast aught to summarize it. You can adjust the level of farting to the level of actual music, as well. If you'd like a bit more of a laugh, crank up the whoopee cushion sounds. If you want to actually play a bit of music, but still want some down-home duets, then crank it toward the notes end of the scale. Either way, it's a good time out, and you'll find yourself tickled to the bone almost every time.
Design and Interface
Here's where things get a bit more unpleasant with Fart Guitar. Obviously, the app works quite well. It adequately combines the two elements in question in a way that is amusing and entertaining. However, we found the mixture a bit off. No matter where we cranked the slider, it still seemed like we had a bit too much farting and not enough substance. Likewise, we found the strings a bit hard to activate. Lastly, there's a worrying lack of content here, as you'll only get an acoustic guitar, and only so many fart sounds to play with—none of which can be altered. All in all, it's not a very deep experience that you'll find here, though it does look nice to be sure.
Overall Value
At the end of the day, though, Fart Guitar is still a pretty decent value. It will only cost you a dollar, and largely the amount of joy you get out of the app depends on your sense of humor. If a fart joke makes you laugh for days, you'll find a lot to love here. If you weary quickly of this sort of thing, don't expect to get much beyond your original dollar out of Fart Guitar.
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Splendid Sea Green Anarkali Salwar Suit
Brand: Simple Sarees
Price: Rs. 3606
Leave a lasting impression on everyone around by wearing this sea green coloured net semi-stitched anarkali salwar suit beautified with elegant embroidery work. The suit is a wonderful pick to enrich your looks in all parties and events. The suit comes attached with matching sea green santoon bottom,santoon inner and sea green net dupatta. The suit can be custom tailored for upto bust size of 44 inches.


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The Stillwater Exhibit Project, a partnership with the Rose Ensemble, brought together students at Stillwater Area High School to learn about the choral traditions of Minnesota. Students interviewed Stillwater residents who have a deep connection with choral music for a panel exhibit.
See what people had to say about this project!
"Maren was a great leader. Thank you for the great experience!"
See the exhibit panels that were created for the project. Click on any image to view larger version.
Students learned how to conduct oral history interviews, interview Stillwater area residents, and work with an exhibit developer to create a panel exhibit at Stillwater Area High School. Students will write exhibit labels based on primary source documents and excerpts from interviews that tell the story of Stillwater's Choral Legacy.
Background on Stillwater
Stillwater, referred to as the "Birthplace of Minnesota," was established in 1848. It held the first territorial convention, to begin the process of establishing Minnesota as a state, on the corner of Myrtle and Main Streets. Stillwater was chosen for the territory's first prison, which opened in 1853. Today, you can tour the old Warden's House, located where the original prison was built.
Stillwater's main industry was lumbering until the second half of the 19th century. Logs were sent downstream and collected at the St. Croix Boom Site and processed in Stillwater's sawmills. Lumber barons built their intricate Victorian mansions amidst Stillwater's hills overlooking the river. Today, many of those mansions have been restored to their original grandeur and are now historic Bed & Breakfast Inns. The St. Croix River was also home to many steamboats, which were used until about 1890 as a major means of transportation
Background on the St. Olaf Choir
The St. Olaf Choir, with 75 mixed voices, is the pioneer a cappella choir in the United States. For nearly a century, the choir has set a standard of choral excellence and remained at the forefront of choral artistry.
Background on the Rose Ensemble
Founded in 1996 and based in St. Paul, Minnesota, The Rose Ensemble reawakens the ancient with vocal music that strives to stir the emotions, challenge the mind, and lift the spirit. Each performance illuminates centuries of rarely heard repertoire, bringing to modern audiences research from the world's manuscript libraries and fresh perspectives on history, languages, politics, religion and world cultures and traditions.
Resources on Exhibit Development
The top 10 techniques to designing an effective exhibit.
Date: January 2012 - May 2012
Partner(s): Stillwater Area High School; The Rose Ensemble; Maren Levad, Minnesota Historical Society, Project Manager
Location: Stillwater, MN


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If you find you have no brake lights one of the most common solutions to the problem is the brake light switch. These switches fail often and after your fuses should be the first place you check. The switch is quick and easy to replace and can solve a myriad of problems.
You will need to remove the kick panel on the driver side. Begin by removing any carpets including the big heavy foam floor piece (red arrow). Remove the single Philips head screw that holds the kick panel in place (yellow arrow). With the screw removed slide the kick panel towards the pedals and slip the retaining clips out from the lower dash (green arrows).
There is a large plastic screw where the panel meets the floor right under the steering shaft. Use a Philips head screwdriver and remove this screw (red arrow).
You can now remove the kick panel from the vehicle (red arrow).
The brake light switch is located on the brake pedal mounting bracket. Squeeze in the tab on the switch (red arrow) and rotate it clockwise 45 degrees. Then pull it straight back and out from the bracket.
It is much easier to disconnect the wires with the switch out of the bracket. One of the connections pulls straight off (red arrow). The other you have to squeeze in the tabs then pull (yellow arrow).
When installing the new switch attach the wiring before installing the switch in the mount. When you are ready to install it pull the plunger all the way out (red arrow) before installing. Installation of the kick panel is the reverse of removal.
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- Stunning Mono Basin Mixer with Ceramic Disc Technology
- Dimensions D100 x H120mm & Suitable for Low Water Pressure 0.5bar Minimum
- Quarter Turn Technology for Easy Operation
- Manufacturer's 10 Year Guarantee
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If you have been reading this blog over the last year or so it will come as no surprise that I like Wunderlist as a to-do list that works. At least it works the way I like to work. I am still a bit disappointed by the lack of a native Linux application, but the web version has been working fairly well for me. In addition, there is the really required version for me over on the iPad, which lets me take it with me to meetings and such or even out to the shop (garage) when I am working on a sequence of steps to accomplish some largely project. And of course the client that does run on Windows or Mac based operating systems seems to be pretty good, though I can only claim either as a casual user.
That all being said, I have found one subtle problem that is extremely aggravating. Namely, with the various system that I am using to access my Wunderlist, sometimes my list gets out sync. That of course really defeats the purpose of my trying to keep organized on what I have to get done right away and those things that I would also like to try to accomplish sometime today.
A current example, in my current list from the web-based client, I have 43 items in my list for today. If I hop over to the iPad, as I would after getting my tasks updated in the morning for the day, especially if heading to a meeting, I have 48 times in my list for today. This is without having added additional items or checked things off anywhere. Now, if I closely go through the list, I can find the 5 items that I checked off (or in a couple of cases deleted) that are still in the iPad list for some strange reason.
I do not feel like I should have to do that though, as there is a sync option in both platforms. However, after running the sync option on both the web client and the iPad (with the today list showing) I still have the same numbers. This is a clear indication that the sync mechanism is broken. My suspicion is that the sync mechanism checks the cloud copy for an indication of a change having been made since the last time it checked and that is that. Of course the reality of modern computing is that on occasion a system will crash or some such and not have the latest copy. And when, in particular a sync is being forced it should have a built mechanism that at least counts the number of records and verifies that along with the actual date of the last updates or something of such.
As it is, the only way to get the sync back in sync is to either find the items that are in the one list or the other that either should not be there or are missing, and delete them. Than if they should be there on both devices, re-add them. Or alternatively, you can uninstall the app and re-install, forcing it to pull from the cloud for the entire list. Both of these are very cumbersome. Bottom line is this, Wunderlist needs to fix this. The tool itself is something I would consider the pro (paid version) of it, but I will not do that given the current sync issues.
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Location: Subtropical Plant Pathology Research2012 Annual Report
1a. Objectives (from AD-416):
Application of new chemical therapies to eliminate huanglongbinb (HLB) bacterium from HLB-infected citrus plants.
1b. Approach (from AD-416):
Implementation of chemical control strategies by applying new device to deliver effective chemicals into citrus plants. Evaluation of the control efficacy of the treated citrus plants using polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based detection.
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This is related to inhouse project objectives: 1. Characterize ecology, biology, epidemiology, molecular genetics, and vector and host (crop and weed) interactions of domestic, exotic, newly emerging, and re-emerging pathogens and 3. Develop or improve comprehensive integrated disease management strategies. 'Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus' (CLas), the prevalent bacterial pathogen associated with citrus huanglongbing (HLB), harbors at least two prophages named FP1 (homologue to SC1) and FP2 (homologue to SC2). Due to the fastidious nature of Clas, little is known about the response of FP1 and FP2 under stress conditions. In this study, we used real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to investigate the variations of FP1 and FP2 in comparison with the copy number of 16S rDNA in the huanglongbing (HLB)-affected periwinkle and citrus under stress conditions. When the two-year old HLB-affected periwinkle plants were exposed to heat stress, more FP1 and FP2 were released at 42°C and 45°C than at 37°C. With a shift from 23°C to 37°C and stayed for 4h, the relative copy number of FP1 and FP2 doubled that of periwinkle samples before heat treatment. As a shift from 23°C to 42°C or 45°C and stayed for 4h, the relative copy number of FP1 and FP2 increased to more than 2.5~5-fold compared to initial samples. Meanwhile, tetracycline was used as antibiotics stress. HLB-affected citrus scions were treated with tetracycline at concentration 500ppm to 2500ppm by soaking, and then grafted to rootstock for further evaluations. When treated by tetracycline for 7h to 9h, the relative copy number of FP1 and FP2 increased to 2~3.7-fold compared to initial samples. The results indicated prophages in CLas were induced from lysogenic cycle to lytic cycle by stress (temperature up shift or antibiotics), which support our results of HLB-infected-periwinkle becoming undetectable 3 months after heat treatment. This is the first report of stress-induced variations of HLB bacterial prophages.
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Rentals On The Ocean's pet-friendly Oceanfront and Ocean view cottages in Nags Head will make you never want to leave our beaches.
Our pet-friendly vacation rentals are located in Nags Head, just past Mile Post 17 on S Old Oregon Inlet Road, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
They're located next to each other so we can accommodate two to over 100 people at a time.* Perfect for your:
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Rentals on the Ocean has 3 oceanfront cottages, 3 ocean view cottages, 2 oceanside cottages, and 4 cottages across the street from the ocean.
All cottages are pet-friendly and have non-porous floors.
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Our office is conveniently located in the Pirate's Quay Shoppes at 3022 S Croatan Hwy, Unit #24, Nags Head, NC.
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This is a beta release of FFplayer.
FFplayer (aka File Folder Player) is a music player that plays songs from a file/folder based structure. It is built entirely on Jason Robitaille's FileMgr Service and provides File I/O access as a result.
1) FileMgr Service must be installed.
2) Your songs must exist at /media/internal/music
For those who don't know, just connect your Pre to your computer via USB. Then create a new folder called "music" right there and transfer your song folders/files into it.
3) Note: Playlists are currently not supported.
The guaranteed method to installing FFplayer (as well as the required FileMgr Service) is to use WOSQI (WebOS Quick Install).
1) Click on the two download links below. Then save the files to your computer.
2) Connect your Pre to your computer via USB and put it in Just Charge mode.
3) Open WOSQI. Then drag the two saved files into WOSQI
4) Then click the Install button in WOSQI
5) That's it. Disconnect your Pre from your computer and FFplayer should be successfully installed.
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1) Added some Dashboard Controls
2) Added a Scrubber for advancing through the track
3) Spaced apart the current control buttons at bottom of screen
1) Fixed bug in which not every folders memory got cleared when global shuffle finished playing all tracks
1) Ability to shuffle all songs across all folders and subfolders
2) Bookmark automatically gets created upon swiping away the entire app
3) Ability to set FFplayer to auto-launch the last bookmark upon the FFplayer app opening
1) Fixed bug causing duration/elapsed time to break during gapless playback
1) Added bluetooth support.
2) Added ability for each folder to have its own unique bookmark
NOTE: Older versions must be removed before this version is installed
1) Ability to shuffle all songs in a given folder. Including memory as to which shuffled songs have already been played.
2) Ability to repeat the current song
3) Ability to lock the screen orientation as either portrait or landscape
1) Fixed russian character bug. Foreign language files are now automatically supported
2) Activated top-left pull-down menu on List View scene
3) Ability to turn off Gapless Playback via the Preferences menu
1) Added support for animated backgrounds
1) Fixed bug causing last song in song list to hang
1) Enabled gapless playback.
2) Added little notification to bottom of screen when fetching bookmark.
1) Fixed bug causing songs to shuffle.
1) Back Gesture now toggles between Now Playing and List View.
2) A bookmark automatically gets created now ALSO when you click the pause button.
3) Fixed bug causing song to skip when navigating back and forth from Now Playing scene.
1) Fixed bug causing double playback.
1) Ability to access songs from a file/folder structure.
2) Ability to scrub through a song by clicking preset skip values.
3) Ability to permanently delete songs from the Pre.
4) A bookmark of the currently playing song automatically gets created anytime you navigate away from the Now Playing scene, so that when you close the app later and then reopen it, you can continue listening where you left off.


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In this interview by blistering.com Jussi and Mari discuss the production of A Healing Place and the band's history.
13th Aug 2012
Excerpt from the review by Metal Kaoz: "Every time I listen to A Healing Place, it becomes more personal; of course it felt like I had heard all the songs before, but these are songs I have missed."
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Once again we got full points for "A Healing Place". This time from new-core.de. The review is in German.


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Reducing Recidivism Through Support Groups and Mentoring for Ex-Offenders
New Beginnings-Next Step is a support group run both with and for ex-offenders. It has been established to help men and women successfully transition from incarceration to freedom.
New Beginnings-Next Step grew out of the New Beginnings programs at Howard R. Young, Baylor, and other correctional institutions. New Beginnings creates a community of support, reinforcement, and accountability for those seeking to move forward with their lives while still in prison.
New Beginnings-Next Step was created for group participants who sought to continue the courageous but rewarding work of personal growth and change after their release from prison. Previous participation in New Beginnings is not mandatory for those interested in New Beginnings-Next Step.
Life after prison can be incredibly challenging. Odds of recidivism are high. Old friends and old surroundings can speed the return of old habits and old ways of thinking. Too often, the sincere decisions to live different or better lives don't stand up to the challenges and temptations of the street.
New Beginnings-Next Step offers a chance to network with others who share and celebrate the ex-offender's will to remain free. We provide community and support through weekly meetings. We also provide situational, relationship-based aid and informal mentoring opportunities with our concerned, caring community volunteers.
New Beginnings-Next Step meetings take place on Saturday at 3 P.M. at Wilmington Friends Meeting House, 401 N. West St., Wilmington, DE. For more information on how you might help, call 302-299-5600. And for more information visit their Facebook page.
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Saw this @ the bottom right of page, sitewide, and was wondering how Glam Media {Adverts} [ and its acquisition of Ning Social Network] relates to Hub Pages. A possible merger or addition to the Ad Program? If just Ad Related, will this now enable non Ad Sense participants to activate revenue measures?
Tech Crunch : Glam Media | Ning
I noticed this also and wonder what is in the works and how it affects the site.
Maybe HP is looking for more social integration outside of the community, also? With the new About Us page, there is more emphasis on sharing and community interaction.
Ning was//is possibly the most efficient DIY Social Network platform out there. Much better than Bubbypress, Dolphin, etc. Glam Media expanded its product reach using Ning social to increase their vertical demand and of course advertising. Could HP be in line as a new vertical, given their huge portfolio of content -especially recipes, whereby adding [seriously] premium ads? And what is the benefit on the Hubber end -as in an AdSense alternative for premium Hubs...
Well–I think it's safe to say that hubpages are unlikely to let us know anything until it has been fully implemented.
With search engine traffic continuing to diminish, I imagine hub pages are trying to find more ways of monetising their user base.
True -as in the MTurk PPC hopper.
Maybe this is an exit strategy?
Glam is a big player and Ning is on par with HP @ 50M UV per/month.
Adding HP's 1M plus UGC to Glam content portfolio could put them over the top.
On the other hand, HP integrating Glam Adverts as part of Yield Build solution could up the ante both in revenue and social media integration from their entire network. But, Glam is pretty niche on its verticals, so am not sure which areas would be most effective apart from recipes, family and fashion. If I were to do a vertical network, wouldn't choose many of the existing Topics on HP, as they have no growth or expansion capability.
Worse case scenario is an acquisition and then cherry pick content for specific target markets, which Glam is very good at. Am probing my good friends fiance for info. She knows some folks @ Glam + her seniority @ VSA // IBM Design Labs.
HP is exaggerating some what when they claim 50M visitors PM. More like 20M now. But you may be right about the exit strategy. They seem to have lost their marketing peeps recently.
I saw a mention of this somewhere else but can't find an explanation. What did I miss?
Is it in this thread?
Aha, missed that. Not happy.
I am not surprised in the slightest.
With your being non-American, you now have no chance of rating hubs, not that you would want to.
What is all this rating hubs about?
I have asked on other threads.
I have also brought up the fact that some hubbers are escaping the whole ratings hurdle by seeing instant publication/featuring.
Only a few, about 20 or so, but what the Hell is happening here?
Being granted instant 'featuring' is what we all had until recently.
We could instantly see if a hub had potential or not. If it got search engine hits, well, we had a hit on our hands.
If not, well we waited patiently knowing that one day we might.
Now, even on a topical, well-researched and written hub, we can forget it.
It took me the longest time to realise the strength of HP, if you write your hubs while paying close attention to on-page SEO.
I've written a few 'failures'.
It kinda annoys me deeply that the hubs I consider failures were the ones Google sent traffic to recently.
The only possibility is that it will be be added into the HubPages algorithm that decides what gets idled and what gets indexed. I can't see any other purpose for it. Which is why it's scarey - it was bad enough Hubbers sitting in judgment on each other, but to have MTurk users rating frantically to make money is an awful idea. You only have to look at the accuracy (not) of rating on Helium, to know what a dumb idea it is (you don't get paid to rate on Helium, but you must maintain a minimum level of rating activity if you want to earn on your own articles).
I don't know about any instant publishing, but I have figured out that you can go ahead and place a new hub in the highlighted area of the new profile page until it is through the "pending" process, if you so desire. It does allow that, as I had noticed that on others' profile pages, and so this last time, I tried it, and it worked.
That would be damaging to the hub, because while it is pending it carries a 'noindex' tag.
Placing the hub where Google can see it means the bots will run over the hub, see the noindex tag and make a quick, sharp exit.
Sometimes the googlebot doesn't return for weeks, so that hub will remain non-indexed until then.
If it is not indexed, it can't get traffic except that from other hubbers.
I asked this in question, receiving many different answers just the other day, when I noticed it too. Still not sure of the answer. In His Love, Faith Reaper
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by Ben Guinter5 years ago
HubPages is a Ning site? Look at the bottom right in the footer...It looks like someone deleted some of the code that hid the fact that this has been a Ning site all along.I thought HubPages was its own platform,...
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I already have a number of hubs moved to the Hubpages network sites, but haven't really seen a drastic traffic change in said hubs. So, is it worth the risk to submit one of my hubs that already receives a decent amount...
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I recently received an email saying that one of my Hubs could be eligible to be moved over to one of the network sites, providing I make a few changes. I'm just wondering what the effects of moving a hub over to a...
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I've come across a couple hubs that have really awful spelling and grammar but are on vertical sites. I know the vertical sites are HubPages' way of cherry-picking the best content, so how do these articles make it...
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I've been reading many questions on the forums about how to get more traffic to your hubs. I'm a great believer in testing something, analysing the results, refining and sharing, and I approached the subject of how...
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Cagsil we miss you.....Can someone tell me when Cagsil will return to forums and what exactly he did to be banned?
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So is that the edition with the book?
Whats that like?
So is that the edition with the book?
Whats that like?
I'll check this...
Although it doesn't sound like my bag to much.
I'm always willing to give something a chance.
I do like Atmosphere and Slug is deep.
What is their best album ???
Only listened to the album a few times. Right now, I'm really feeling the 2nd half of the album. At this part of my life, I really appreciate someone putting out an album like this...a few years ago, I'd prob hate it.
Yeah i figured the book would be kind of corny.
But yeah, i dig what your saying about it lyrically, you have a few listens and it starts to sink it.
The Skinny, Yesterday, Guarantees, Me, In Her Music Box, Puppets
all have interesting lyrics.
The whole cocaine motif is interesting also.
Whers, as far as their best album, id say its pretty subjective.
I like "Overcast" a lot, its a more classical, down beat Hip Hop album than some of their other material.
Also "Lucy Ford" gets a lot of plays for me.
In the end, all of their albums are worth getting in my opinion, although im a big fan so my opinion may be a bit bias.
um, also, on "Your Glass House" do people picture the person described as a chick or a guy?
i listened to it maybe 5 times, thinking it was a chick for some reason.
and then next time i listened to it i realised slug never mentions who the person is....
i was sure he said 'she' or something....
maybe i just always assume hes talking about women, or maybe i assume all coke heads are women.
Awesome track
I think it mostly his style though.. The way he raps makes me think that he's always talking about a girl :P
Meh, I dunno..
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Saw both the gold and black versions of this in HMV today. Was pretty surprised to see that the Recommended Urban shelf had all these on it:
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons
eMC - The Show
Guilty Simpson - Ode To The Ghetto
Pete Rock - NY's Finest
Rakim - Legends Volume 1
Rakim - The Archive: Live, Lost & Found
Prodigy - HNIC 2
Kool G Rap - Half A Klip
Can't remember when such a non commercial selection was laid out.
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this is what happens when you paint that shit gold after life gave this guy lemons, just look and see
lol i don't think this is what atmosphere had in mind when coming with that title i guess.
i think they thought it was an amusing take on 'when life gives you lemon, make lemonade".
... like, instead of make the best of your situation, just paint it gold and make sure it looks good.
whatever you think.
I picked up Roots, Portishead and Guilty Simpson.. will give this a listen soon, rapreviews gave it 9.5/10 and said it was their best album. Weird, werd.
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To be honest I don't feel Machine Gun either, it's better through proper speakers with top quality, but not their hottest song. Love the rest of the album however, a lot of hardcore Portishead fans are bitching about it but I love it. "Threads" is one of m favourite Portishead tracks ever, Magic Doors, Hunter, Nylon Smile... pretty much all songs are good IMO.I'm sorry for going off topic, but how's the portishead album? Loved their two first, but didn't really feel Machine Gun...
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Scottish Highlands & Islands Tour
16-27 August 2019 - £7,000
Explore the Highlands & Western Isles of Scotland | Tuition with Phillipa Turnbull & Meredith Willett
Away we go! This wild adventure will begin in Edinburgh and take us north to see the raw beauty of the Highlands as well as visits to Scottish Islands and their local textile crafts. We will visit an iconic castle with a special lace collection, embroider in a private castle as if it were your own. Study tweed, tartan, lace, needlepoint, crewel work, costume, silk and metal thread embroideries. This will be an active trip with visits to many places with limited access. For this reason, this particular Tour is not suitable for those with limited mobility.
This Retreat begins and ends in Edinburgh. Book your place now by paying a deposit or speak to us further by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com
You may secure your place immediately by paying a deposit or the full amount here. Alternatively you may download a booking form and return it, completed, to Laura Turnbull at firstname.lastname@example.com. A deposit of £500 will then be requested, at which time your booking will be confirmed. Please also read our full Terms & Conditions.
What is included in the price?
- All tuition, talks and lectures
- All materials and instructions required for workshops
- Loan of all the necessary frames and equipment required for workshops
- All hotel accommodations for the stated duration of the tour, and all coach travel (except Appleby Residential Retreat, which is tuition only)
- Meals as stated in the timetable (except Appleby Residential Retreat)
- All entry fees for castles, country houses, museums, and other special excursions
- Refreshments during workshops and lectures
What is not included in the price?
- Travel to and from the Retreat
- Personal expenditure at hotels, excursions and events, e.g. bar, laundry, telephone, IT, meal extras beyond anything that has already been arranged as part of the Retreat
- Additional tips and gratuities at your discretion
PaymentYou may pay the entire amount at the point of booking. Alternatively, you may pay in installments as follows:
- £500 deposit payable on booking
- 50% of payment no later than 6 months prior to start date
- 100% of payment no later than 3 months prior to start date
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- If you are paying from a foreign bank account, we recommend using TransferWise. This is a service designed specifically for foreign currency transfers and offers the cheapest fees (much cheaper than your bank would charge for an international transfer)
- We also accept payments by credit card (with a 2% surcharge) or debit card or by UK cheque
- We do not accept Paypal
If, having booked and made the first payment, you wish to cancel your booking, a refund of this payment will be made if your place is taken by someone from the waiting list. If there is no waiting list, or your place is not taken, then no refund can be made. All deposits are non-refundable. All other refunds are at the sole discretion of The Organisers.
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It is important that you inform us of any health issues or food allergies, etc, at the time of booking. Wheelchair users should please note that, due to the historic focus of our Retreats, most of the venues are extremely old and do not have good accessibility. If you have mobility or health issues and are not sure to what extent these might affect your enjoyment of the vacation, please contact email@example.com to discuss.
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As we have repeatedly seen already (#175, #178, #183, #184, #185, etc.) that concern for ritual and ethical purity was top priority for the Aaronid priesthood that penned the book of Leviticus and 75% of what is now the book of Numbers.
Throughout Leviticus, and especially in those chapters devoted to its laws and commandments (Lev 11-22), the role of the Aaronid priests is repeatedly defined through the phrase "to distinguish between the holy and the profane, between the pure and the impure."In fact, this priestly law code is presented as the very instruction (torah) for doing this. Its torahs are: "to distinguish between the holy and the profane, the pure and the impure" in matters of: diet (Lev 11); women, i.e., menstruation and childbirth (Lev 12); skin diseases and afflictions (Lev 13-14); bodily emissions (Lev 15); sex and nudity (Lev 18, 20); miscellaneous matters (Lev 19); and issues concerning the Aaronid priesthood (Lev 21-22).
Thus, according to the Priestly writer's god, Yahweh, certain foods are unclean or impure; a woman's menstruation is impure; any bodily discharge or emission is impure; leprosy and other skin infections are impure; in fact diseases by their very nature are impure; any clothes or a house that comes into contact with the infectious is also unclean and impure. Anything that touches, for example, pork, a corpse, the blood of a menstruating woman—whether a bottle, a piece of clothing, a bed, the walls of your house, etc.—also becomes contaminated and impure and must be purified through washing or simply discarded. Likewise, any individual coming into physical contact with a corpse or the blood of a menstruating woman also becomes impure. Exposing the nudity of one's relative is impure; homosexuality is unclean and impure; coming into contact with a dead person or animal is impure, etc.
In other words, in the strict sacred space that defined the world of ancient priestly clans, such as our Aaronids here, any one of these acts risked bringing the profane, the unclean, the impure, and the unholy into the realm of the holy, the pure, and the sacred, as conceived of by these priests. Moreover, any individual who has contracted an impurity (i.e., committed a sin) and did not expiate his impurity/sin through a ritualized washing and sacrifice officiated over by the Aaronid priest was irrevocably cut off and banished from the community.
Given this anxiety about issues of purity it is not surprising that we find in Numbers 9 an overt commandment stipulating that: 1) all males must partake in the Passover; it is an eternal law (Ex 12:14-17); 2) all males must be circumcised in order to partake of the Passover (Ex 12:43-49; see #118); and 3) every individual must be pure in order to partake in the Passover (Num 9:1-14).
This commandment is exemplified through a narrative about an individual who contracts impurity by coming into contact with a corpse (cf. #175). That individual, we are informed, is not to partake of the Passover, but alas since every male must partake of the Passover, he is to observe Yahweh's Passover in the following month. The Priestly source is the only text of the Bible that stipulates purity as a requirement for partaking in the Passover. Both the book of Deuteronomy and the texts of the New Testament express contradictory ideas.
Although the Deuteronomist's treatment of the Passover in Deuteronomy 16:1-8 makes no mention of the requirement to be in a state of purity during the Passover, it can be inferred that this author in general could care less about these priestly concerns. We have already seen that in other places where the Aaronid text of Leviticus stresses requirements of purity, the Deuteronomist is lax or even silent about such requirements (#178, #187, #188, #190). Additionally Deuteronomy 12 explicitly states that it is unnecessary to be pure for more general sacrifices (#187). Conversely, for the Deuteronomist the central concern was not issues of cultic purity, but of the centralization of the cult and Yahweh's festivals: the Passover was to be celebrated at and only at Jerusalem (#117)!
Turning our attention to the writings of the New Testament, it can also be confidently inferred that the issues of purity which concerned our Aaronid priests and their Yahweh are, if not absent in the writings of the New Testament, utterly negated and reversed. Luke's parable of the good Samaritan for example is a story that not only challenges priestly issues of what was pure and what was not, but overthrows those values. See #183 & #184.
I have most likely overlooked many contradictions between the New Testament and these older Pentateucahl traditions, which I will have to treat when we get to the New Testament. But Numbers 10:10 reminded me of something Paul writes in his letter to the Galatians.
And at the time of your rejoicing, on your appointed times and your new moons, you must sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your well-being offerings (Num 10:10).
The quote comes in a passage dealing with the sounding of the trumpets by the Aaronid priests to assemble the congregation. In the verse above, it is also relegated that the trumpets be sounded at every festival, appointed time, and new moon. The reference is to the Festival Calendar as outlined in Leviticus 23 and Numbers 28-29. Furthermore, in Leviticus 23, the priestly writer gives us the specific dates for these "appointed times," all of which are governed by the lunar cycle. Moreover, we must not forget that this is the same writer who penned the first creation account in Genesis 1:1-2:3, and through whose conviction these appointed times, including the Sabbath, were established at creation by God himself (see Gen 1:14)! They are sacred festivals woven into the very fabric of time at creation!—indeed all of which our so-called modern-day Creationists neglect, disdain, and unknowingly despise and in so doing profane the sacred fabric of creation as well as its creator God, according to our priestly writers. But that will have to be a topic for a later date.
At any event, all these appointed times, festivals, and new moons which were identified as "eternal laws" by the Yahweh of this priestly corpus of literature (Ex 12:14, 17; Lev 16:29, 31,34; 23:14, 21, 31, 41) become, in the hands of Paul, antiquated and unnecessary. For in Galatians 4:10 he seems to be specifically chiding his Galatian converts for practicing such appointed times and new moons: "You observe days, and months, and seasons, and years." This criticism comes in the midst of Paul's argument that "we" are no longer bound to the law. Yet the issues of the Torah aside, what Paul's criticism against observing the appointed times that fall on the lunar calendar, to which Gal 4:10 seems to refer, does however is to negate and neglect the very sacredness of the fabric of creation as envisioned by the Aaronid priestly guild and its god who built these sacred appointed times and festivals into the cosmos at its creation, and who furthermore stipulated that they be followed "eternally." In the end, these are two radically different worldviews and belief systems, and each one legitimated by making appeals to divine authority!


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An online retailer Flipkart is a good reflection of India itself. Unlike many others e-commerce sites, it tries to surprise its customers with amazing colorful campaigns. Trying to be a pioneer, Flipkart first posted a 360-degree video on Facebook as a part of its annual flagship sale. However, the Indian market is also occupied by Amazon, which continues to gain popularity in India. Which tools uses Flipkart to conquer the market? And does it manage to do that?
Annual campaigns
October is known as a shopping season in India, and Flipkart runs a big sale festival «The big billion days» this time every year. This tradition is three years old now. For example, last year Flipkart launched a campaign "#TheBigBillionHunt," and used multiple Instagram accounts to attract audience's attention to the platform and sales. Within 12 hours the number of Flipkart's subscribers on Instagram increased by 350%. Inspired by the last year success, Flipkart now made a breakthrough in video marketing. As a part of the sale festival campaign, it posted a 360-degree video on Facebook. The video gained over 728,000 views within just two days. "After the success of last year's campaign, we decided that we should have a new version of the hunt every year. The idea is to make the latest social innovation, in this case Facebook 360-degree video, the main driver," said Prashant Gopalakrishnan, associate vp at Dentsu Webchutney.
Engaging with viewers
The 360-degree format is not the only exciting thing about this video. The contest is even more interesting. The video is four-minute long. That's enough to guide a viewer on a tour to the office's lobby, conference rooms and many other worth seeing places inside. Each location contains different offers, and a view is suggested to find and screenshot them. It can turn into a real game: for instance, an offer can be found on an employee's T-shirt or on a Michael Jackson's poster. You need to find all 10 offers and post them on Facebook, and them maybe you are the lucky one to win the competition.
"Video is really taking off in India, but we wanted to take it a step further and make it interactive, not just have a passive audience on TV," said P.G. Aditya, creative director at Dentsu Webchutney. Indeed, it seems like a new era for digital marketing. People need and do love to feel involved. The role of a mere consumer attracts nobody. "For us, engaging with our users with a compelling story is as important as sales," said Shoumyan Biswas, vp of marketing at Flipkart.
Future plans
As you may guess, this campaign was a success. And the company doesn't want to stop. Just after the end of the sales festival Flipkart announced that it plans to raise a large round of funds before the end of the year. The final amount is not decided yet, but it probably be something between $500 million and $1 billion in fresh funds. Flipkart has a strong intention to engage more investors, and it's easy to explain: its main competitor, Amazon, has almost two times more investors to collaborate with. This decision is a hard one, as some familiar people say. "The problem till now was that sales had slowed down and the (e-commerce) market also declined. In a young market like India, that is shocking. So Flipkart was in no shape to go for a fund-raise. The plan was to go all in on BBD and if that worked out, to do a fund-raise'.
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Hey guys, new to Sketchup and rendering. I have narrowed down rendering to Indigo and Arielvision. Arielvision lets me disable all Sketchup lighting and make objects illuminated. Arielvision doesn't seem to give me much control over light. I have an interior scene and only want it lit by a desk lamp. I turned off all lighting in arielvision options and did a test render but the scene is still lit. Is it possible to disable all lighting only have the object I want lighting the scene?
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The ArielVision image is brighter - this may be because of the ambient light settings. But you should use the brightness slider to lower the brightness if that is what you want to achieve,
Our Photometrics feature automatically adjusts the brightness of a scene - much like most cameras - so if you want a dim room, you need to lower the broghtness, and not just use lower wattage lamps.
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Burt has released the UI extensions for the spring-security-core plugin.
As ever very useful.
Burt Beckwith has released a new Grails plugin that provides usefull info on the Grails app.
As we have come expect, it is very good.
From his post:
"I released a new Grails plugin today, app-info. This plugin exposes a lot of internal information for a Grails application. Most of the code for this plugin dates back a long time and was originally mostly JSPs that I would copy into whatever application I was working on to give myself a view into what's going on. Over time as I started using Spring and Hibernate I added more pages to display that information, and it now also shows information about Grails too."
|Creating a grails application
|A good tutorial needs a real world application problem to cover. I believe I have found just such a problem
In this tutorial spread over three postings we are going to create a complete grails killer web application. This application will keep track of the total number of days spent in each country our users visit in any one tax year. As I'm sure you have already worked out. This useful public service web application is targeted at the super rich international traveller who doesn't happen to have an account. It will help them avoid accidental tax domicile status in any single country. (which would obviously be a disaster)
|The app will include
|Security and user management with roles, for a normal user and for a super user or admin.
|Persistence of users itineraries and static reference data
|Some ajax and the integration of out of the box open source javascript components to display handy views of the itinerary and results to the user.
|Setting Up
|To build this app all you need is an internet connection, an installation of Grails and a text editor but life will be easier for you if you use an IDE. I will be using the STS (SpringSource Tool Suite) IDE for this tutorial so you should:
|Download and install STS
|set up the extensions for Grails and Groovy under the dashboard view.
|Download and install grails version 1.3.2
|Getting Started
|To create the app we use the standard grails app creation script
|grails create-app residency
|This will create a new folder with the name you specified for the application and inside the complete grails developement application structure.
|We are going to use the excellent spring-security-core plugin written by Burt Beckwith to handle the security and user management. We can install this plugin by doing:
|grails install-plugin spring-security-core
|When the plugin installation completes it will announce that two extra grails scripts are now available. The one that we need is the s2-quickstart script. This script will set up domain classes to handle the persistence of security details and config for the app. The script takes up to four arguments but we are going to use three. We will declare a package for the application security domain classes (actually this will also be the base package for the application), the name of the user class and the name of the authority class. As we will not be using any database that clashes with the obvious names "User" and "Role" we will use these.
|so we do:
|grails grails s2-quickstart com.yourcomapnyname.residency User Role RequestMap
|This will create three domain classes. The User class for storing the user credentials, the Role class for storing roles that a user can be assigned and a UserRole class that associates Users with Roles.
|The new spring-security-core plugin now uses the standard grails config.groovy file for config and if you look at the bottom of this file now you can see that the s2 script has inserted lines that tell the plugin the security class names you have chosen.
|Domain Classes
|Now we can create the domain classes we will need for the application.
|We will create three
|To do this we use the standard grails domain class creation script and do:
|grails create-domain-class com.yourcompanyname.residency.Airport
|grails create-domain-class com.yourcompanyname.residency.Country
|grails create-domain-class com.yourcompanyname.residency.Flight
|If you now look in your project grails-app/domain folder you will find the package com.yourcompanyname.residency containing three fairly empty groovy domain classes. That look like this:
class Airport {
static constraints = { } }
|We will need to fill out these domain classes in order to declare to grails the details of the model we will be using. Here is one of the major wins for grails. A single point of declaration for the domain model. This definition is used to great and update the database schema throughout the development process, freeing the developer from managing coupling across tiers. Believe me this saves LOTS of time.
|Ok so for our domain classes we will start by filling in the details of the Country class. Here is what this class should look like:
package com.yourcompanyname.residency
class Country { String name
static hasMany = [airports:Airport]
static constraints = { name blank:false, unique:true airports nullable:true } }
|Lets go through what we have done.
|Firstly we can see that we have declared a "name" property of type String. Also if you look in the static constraints block you can see that we have declared that this property cannot be blank and that it must be unique. This tells Gorm (the grails object relational mapping code) to enforce these rules whenever a domain object is validated.
|As well as the name property we can see that we have declared a relationship that the domain class has to the Airport domain class. We have used the standard Gorm static hasMany property to declare that the Country domain class has a one to many relationship with Airport. As it stands this declaration does not describe the cascade direction of this relationship and we need to do this now as we fill in the details on the Airport domain class.
|The Airport domain class looks like this:
|package com.yourcompanyname.residency class Airport { String name String code static belongsTo = [country:Country] static constraints = { name blank:false, unique:true code blank:false, unique:true country nullable:false } }
|Looking at Airport we can see that we have declared name and code as String properties and defined constraints for them in a a similar way to the Country domain class but also we have declared the cascade direction for the relationship between Airport and Country. The static belongsTo property declares that by default Country is the parent Object and that when a Country is updated or deleted then the child objects Airport should also be updated or deleted.
|Next will declare the Flight domain class.
|package com.yourcompanyname.residency class Flight { Airport departingAirport Airport arrivingAirport Date departureTime Date arrivalTime static belongsTo = [user:User] static constraints = { departingAirport nullable:false arrivingAirport nullable:false departureTime nullable:false arrivalTime nullable:false user nullable:false } }
|You should begin to see the same use of the relationships and constraints definitions. This is standard GORM and very much the bread and butter work of creating a grails application.
|Finally we need to modify the autogenerated spring security User class to declare a relationship to the Flight domain class. This will allow users to be associated with their flights and will allow us to limit the visibility of flights to only the user that entered them.
|package com.yourcompanyname.residency class User { String username String password boolean enabled boolean accountExpired boolean accountLocked boolean passwordExpired // declare the relationship with the Flight domain class static hasMany = [flights:Flight] static constraints = { username blank: false, unique: true password blank: false } static mapping = { password column: '`password`' } Set<Role> getAuthorities() { UserRole.findAllByUser(this).collect { it.role } as Set } }
|To do this we have inserted the "static hasMany = [flights:Flight]" line.
|To see what we have created so far we can use the Grails scaffolding code to generate a set of basic CRUD (create, read, update, delete) views and controllers that will form a basic web app prototype we can modify and refine to our needs.
|Do "grails generate-all" and when the script prompts you for a domain class just press return and the script will generate tests, views and controllers for all domain classes in the application.
|You should now have a runnable web application. To start the application do "grails run-app" and point your browser the the url provided by the run-app script.
|In my case the url is " http://localhost:8080/residency"
|If your application fails to start make sure that you do not already have something running using port 8080. If all went well grails will have started an instance of Tomcat listening on port 8080 and deployed the "residency" application into it.
|You should see something like this:
|This is the grails generated index page for the application and under the Available Controllers section are links to the controllers for each of the domain classes. Have a play around with them just to see what grails has set up for us.
|Finished playing? Very cool isn't it. Grails has been able to do a heck of a lot just by using the limited detail we declared in the domain classes.
|Don't spend any time entering any data into the app at this stage. We are by default pointing to the HSQL in memory db. So any data you enter will be lost when the app shuts down.
|In the next article we will set up some bootstrap data, get the security and user management configured and working and tidy up the application into the general storyline / layout that we want.


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Trentino with its beautiful summits and large skiing areas lies slightly north of the city of Verona.
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Here you will find some of the major summits of the Dolomites and numerous other mountains of the Southern Alps (pic: the Pale di San Martino mountains). In winter, they are home to stunning skiing areas and in summer they turn into large hiking and biking areas.
But the mountains and hills making up almost 100% of the Trentino landscape are not the only local treasure. Countless lakes such as enchanting Lake Garda and numerous mountain lakes characterise the region. A rich cultural program provide the many historical towns and villages, such as the University City of Trento, Rovereto featuring the famous Museum of Modern Arts (MART), Riva del Gardo, Arco and many more.