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Breakfast with Scot is a pitch-perfect comedy about gay couple Eric and Sam
What do you do when a psychopathic killer is murdering old ladies in the area you live? You move your outspoken, chain-smoking, slightly deranged mother in.
Infestation is a great little movie with the tag-line "Prepare for Global Swarming".
This show made me feel like a big kid again so I will be tuning in to the kids of McKinley High School for my weekly musical fix
There are certain singers who come along that take your breath away, their albums blowing your mind each time you listen to them which consign them to the classics section. Unfortunately, this is not one of those.
Sarah Blasko has released her album "As Day Follows Night" internationally and is a hot name in the music world. Her smoky voice and easy listening/bluesy songs are causing quite a stir with the term "Album of the Year" being bandied around.
While this may be true, I honestly cannot see how this one will have people overly excited for too long.
The album starts off extremely promising with the sweet and perky "Down on Love" with its warm and haunting melodies, like someone opening a music box from your childhood and Sarah's voice floating along with angelic precision.
This is followed by the rather wonderful "All I Want", which will have you singing along to the simple chorus, music carrying you like the wind on the top of Greenwich Hill. "Bird on A Wire" beats along next with another easy listening and pleasant chorus while song 4, "Hold On My Heart" gives the album a great burst of energy, as if Easy Listening Goes Pop, firing up the bpm. Sarah's vocals are perfect here and as the next track starts with its happy lyrics in "We Won't Run" the playlist is thoroughly enjoyable.
Unfortunately, after this track, the album becomes incredibly samey and I find myself getting frustratingly bored, fast forwarding track after track to find something to lift the mood. I even go back to listen to each song in its entirety, just in case I have missed anything rousing. "Sleeper Awake" does the complete opposite to what the title suggests as its lifeless lyrics and monotonous beat steal six minutes of my life.
From here on in "As Day Follows Night" becomes background music, something you'd be happy to play quietly at a dinner party.
This isn't a dreadful album full of awful songs but after "We Won't Run" (track 5 of 12) there is nothing memorable here. There will be fans, of course, but wasn't there all this praise and hullaballoo when Dido, Norah Jones and Duffy came out?
There is nothing wrong with having an album where most of the tracks sound the same, and if that works for you then this is worth a look-in. However if you want something to lift your spirits then I would suggest downloading the first five songs and don't worry with the rest.
Sarah Blasko has created an album I've no doubt she is proud of but moniker "Album of the Year" it isn't, though it will be the biggest of her career so far.
"As Day Follows Night" is available for download from iTunes now.
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A quick share today of an old Cricut project from this past summer. A few simple shapes and some of my favorite pictures.
November 3, 2011
Cricut Beach Tray
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What a cute project. Love your sand dollar!ReplyDelete
This is really adorable. Very creative idea, I may have to steal this idea. :o)ReplyDelete
I love your tray. The colours are my favourite combination and the photos are really great.ReplyDelete
This is adorable!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 5, 2011 at 3:58 AM
What a great idea - so cute! And I have a new Cricut that I want to start using, so this would be perfect.ReplyDelete
love this idea Nancy!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 7, 2011 at 9:54 AM
I haven't used my Cricut much lately... but I love your project, and think I will make one for my family!ReplyDelete
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20.10.17 Chicken Licken & Friends!
Wow, half term is nearly upon us, where did that half term go already? & what a start to the week!
We began with a harvest assembly in which we welcomed St.Austell Food Bank and Tesco bakery.
First we learnt all about harvest and why we celebrate it. It was great to hear from the children how much they have learnt about harvest in their classes.
Next we related this to a kind of harvest we had been doing by collecting food for our local community (a big thank you by the way!).
We then had a presentation from SAFB. It was great to find out where our donations would be going but sad when we realised just how many people in our local area need our help.
Finally, Tesco presented us with a harvest loaf to celebrate.
In English our Autumn theme has continued with the book Chicken Licken! We loved reading about how an acorn dropped on his head and he thought the sky was falling in!
We began by looking at the villain of the story, Foxy Loxy. We decided to produce a wanted poster but first we would have to describe his inside -personality and outside - appearance using adjectives and verbs.
To understand this we began by sorting words that described Miss.Bingham and discussing if they were inside or outside words.
We then used what we had learnt to make a huge list to describe Foxy Loxy before using them to create some super posters.
In maths we have continued to work on our addition and subtraction using various models and images. We have worked on part/whole, tens frames and working systematically. We have even applied our knowledge and skills to some tricky problems where we had to give reasons for our answers!


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Library Playhouses – Here at Tanglewood Design, we're all about imagination. And as far as we can tell, there is no better place for fostering imagination than in a library! But these days convincing the kids to go on a book run isn't always easy. The solution? Make the library a place the kids can't wait to go. And how do you do that (other than by fostering an early love of reading)? With an awesome kids section playhouse!
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First and foremost, a library playhouse must have places to read in–lots of places to read in. Some spaces should be large, great for group readings and sharing stories. Others should be small, meant for one little body and one little book. Cozyness is a necessity!
But there's more to a playhouse than just comfortable spaces! A library playhouse should give kids a chance to really get into their stories. It should be full of creative opportunities that allow them to jump from the page, straight into their imagination. There has to be room for playing pretend, acting out their favorite book scenes or creating their own.
Additionally, the playhouse itself must get kids imaginations whirring. Themed playhouses are perfect for this, whether it's a broad literary theme (a playhouse shaped like a book, perhaps), or a more specific ones (a fairy tale castle, or trip to the moon!).
And lastly? Places for books! It is a library after all! Why not feature a series of children's books every week on a playhouse shelf built specifically for them. Cabinets, bookshelves, open shelves, storage galore! Built in storage of books and toys is simply a must.
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So I'm leaving for a trip abroad soon (to HOT weather), but I was walking around the mall and saw that Express was having a sale. I could not pass that up! I bought these two awesome sweaters – buy one get one half off. This sale is still going so get on it quick!
My other winter obsession is my Jord Watch made of wood! It's so cute and is the perfect winter time, rustic watch. I think it would make a great gift idea too – for him or for her!
We also have a giveaway that if you enter through this link you instantly get a $25 gift card. Not too shabby!
What else am I wearing?! I got all the answers:
- Cream lace-up inset cable-knit sweater from Express
- Long Sleeve Ribbed Cut-Out Choker Tee From Express
- Green Booties from Steve Madden
- Wooden watch from Jord
I definitely wont be needing these sweaters abroad but at least in the mean time I can look cute :).
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Although various gold price predictions have been given these past few months, it will never be completely accurate. However, London-based consultancy and research company, Gold Fields Mineral Services (GFMS) Ltd., Chairman Philip Klapwijk said that the market is predicted to rise to new highs by early 2013 after struggling this year.
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So far, analysts have a diverse prediction when it comes to the price of gold by 2013. This mirrors the uncertainties in the global markets. An interesting fact about gold is that it often performs well in scenarios of deflation (for example driven by global debt reductions), but also in scenarios with higher than usual inflation rates.
"We are expecting still that we are going to see a push above $2,000 in 2013, but it may be that 2013 marks the high water mark for the market," Klapwijk said.
Just to give a little flashback, the year 2011 is the tenth consecutive year in which the price of gold has increased. Over the entire 2011, the price of gold has increased by over 12 per cent in spite of the two dips in September and mid-November and December. The price of gold has further increased late November of this year—amid high volatility – to roughly $1,713 i.e. by more than 12 per cent from the beginning of 2012.
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6 days ago, while other fat-cat bankers were still sleeping off their excesses of food and wine, the Icelandic judiciary acted.
Without a great deal of fuss and bother, two of Iceland's most senior former bankers were jailed for making reckless business loans, following investigations stemming from the collapse of the country's banks in 2008.
Larus Welding, the former chief executive officer of failed Icelandic bank Glitnir, and Gudmundur Hjaltason, a former director at the bank, have each been sentenced to nine months in jail for fraud, a court ruled.
They were sentenced by the Reykjavik District Court after the two men were indicted a year ago on charges that they had "misused their position and grossly endangered the bank's funds" by lending €102m to a company called Milestone, without guarantees or collateral, the prosecutor said. At the time Milestone was a shareholder in the bank.
Larus Welding was formerly a senior executive at Landsbanki, the former owners of Ireland's Merrion Capital. The nine-month sentence handed down by an Icelandic court makes Welding the first head of a major bank anywhere in the world to be jailed for a crime linked to the global financial collapse.
Mr Welding helped to negotiate Landsbanki's €90m takeover of the Irish stockbroker back in 2005, when he was Landsbanki's most senior London-based executive, according to sources in Dublin.
Landsbanki's former joint chief executives, Halldor Kristjansson and Sigurjon Arnason, were both directors of Merrion Capital from December 2005 to October 2008, according to Companies Office filings.
Both men have been quizzed by Icelandic prosecutors as part of investigations into the collapse of Landsbanki.
The Larus Welding case has attracted headlines around the world over the past week and more Icelandic prosecutions are expected to follow over the coming months.
What is the most exciting thing about this story is that it proves, without hesitation, that it is possible to prosecute senior bankers in a mature economy and convict them and send them to prison.
Now, my detractors will say "Iceland, where is that place?" or "Not the biggest world economy", but that doesn't matter. Everything is relative, and in a small country which suffered badly under the speculative maelstrom unleashed by the global banking criminals, they too were damaged severely by the actions of bankers who felt that they could do what they wanted without recrimination.
And the Icelanders have debunked that theory by sending these two banksters to jail.
And that message will be heeded by other Icelandic bankers, because when these two scumbags finish their sentences, they will never again be able to find work inside the financial sector. The very work skills they have spent years learning will be forced to lie idle because society has demonstrated that they don't ever want to have anything to do with criminals who have been marginalised by having been convicted of crimes.
That is because the convicted person has just been instantly 'labelled' as a 'criminal' and that very word alone possesses a great deal of emotive baggage.
So why is it that here in the UK, we cannot get the regulators and the other Government agencies to prosecute bankers like they have just done in Iceland?
Why have the senior executives of HSBC not been prosecuted for money laundering, and why was Barclays fined for LIBOR rigging, but no-one was charged with any criminal offences.
I mean it's not as if the present Government is anti-prison for criminals. On the contrary, they want to see prison working even harder and more cost-effectively. Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary has been quoted as saying:
''Prison is not meant to be a place that people enjoy being in. I don't (want to) see prisoners in this country sitting in cells watching the Sunday afternoon match on Sky Sports.
''Am I planning to reduce the number of prison places? No I'm not. I do not want to set a target to reduce the prison population. 'What I do want to do is bring down the cost of prison. The whole philosophy I will bring to the department is getting more for less.''
But Grayling never once mentions banksters, or other financial criminals.
And this is part of the problem with the British attitude towards dealing with financial crime. We are quite happy to watch zigga-gillions worth of foreign dirty money flood into the City of London, because of the weird view that it somehow contributes to our GDP. I have never understood how that happens, and no-one has ever satisfactorily explained it to me, but we keep on being told this huge lie.
British banks routinely facilitate foreign tax evasion, particularly from the sub-continent of India and Pakistan.
Lifting the veil that has for years shrouded the names of those who allegedly stashed money away in Swiss banks, "...India Against Corruption..." recently released a list of 10, including a politician and heads of corporate houses, and charged HSBC Bank with running 'hawala' (money laundering) transactions.
In a daring expose, IAC members alleged that Mukesh and Anil Ambani and Congress MP Anu Tandon, among others, had crores of rupees sitting in Swiss banks. This information, they said, was based on a list of 10 account-holders in HSBC banks in Switzerland that was passed on to them by a senior Congress leader and cross-checked by them independently. Those named were part of the list of 700 people who had accounts with HSBC banks in Switzerland. The list was shared by the French government with India, which, however, did not reveal any name, and the matter is pending in the Supreme Court.
This was the tip of the ice-berg, the IAC members said. Charging the Manmohan Singh government with protecting the guilty, they said: "It is the biggest threat to the economic sovereignty of the country."
In its most serious allegation yet, IAC charged HSBC Bank in India with involvement in 'hawala' transactions, as revealed by the depositions of three "small fish" account-holders whose premises were raided last year.
"You don't even have to go to Dubai or Geneva [Switzerland] to open a Swiss bank to deposit your unaccounted money. HSBC Bank is openly and brazenly running a hawala racket in India, making the country vulnerable to terrorist money, drug money and ransom money. Someone from the bank comes and collects rupees from your house, and its equivalent in euros or dollars is deposited in a Swiss account opened for you. It can work in the reverse order, too, if someone wants to spread terror in the country," IAC members Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan said at a press conference here.
Demanding action against the bank and its top officials, they urged the 30,000-odd employees of HSBC to quit the bank "in the national interest." They also demanded the "immediate arrest" of those who indulged in money- laundering transactions.
In the UK, we openly stand back and welcome foreign criminal money entering our country, even though much of it is merely passing through as part of a money laundering process, and we welcome foreign tax evasion for the same reason,. but David Cameron bleats like a stuck pig when foreign companies like Amazon or Starbucks ruthlessly exploit our elastic tax computation laws. This is hypocrisy of a truly breath-taking variety.
Cameron and Osborne are caught in a cleft stick. On the one hand they want to keep on making Britain attractive to wealthy foreigners who wish to evade tax in their own countries, to come here to shelter their capital (however acquired). So they can't really prosecute anyone caught swindling and cheating the UK market, because too much draconian regulation of the London market might prove to be a disincentive for all those Pakistani and Indian and Russian billionaires who might want to hide their money here.
The problem is however that their failure to regulate the London market in an effective manner has meant that the British Government has sent a very clear message to every crook, con-man and money launderer that London is wide open for business.
At the same time, they are trying to talk tough on other kinds of crime, and bragging about how effective prison is for working class criminals, while refusing to prosecute white collar criminals for fear of putting off other crooks from coming here.
There is a strange dichotomy of moral conflicts inherent in this position. The ordinary man and women in this country is now very clear that this Government stands to protect the interests of their own class, while not giving a flying fuck for the interests of ordinary working people who are suffering so acutely at the hands of the bankers and the financial institutions. Cameron and Osborne are demonstrating that their truly is one law for the rich, etc.
Four out of five people want individuals to be prosecuted when banks break the law, according to a new survey.
Research by consumer watchdog, 'Which', has amply demonstrated that two-thirds of people believe the Government will not act in their best interests when implementing banking reform.
And only one in five think the Financial Services Authority is effective in regulating UK banks.
The watchdog is calling on the Government to ensure criminal prosecutions can be brought against individuals - up to boardroom level - who have presided over corrupt and dishonest practices.
These are findings which should be sounding a real warning bell in the Cabinet Room, because it means that a significant number of people are withdrawing their legitimacy from this Government, because they are failing to act in a manner which the great majority of the people want to see being adopted.
Cameron has shown that he will spend money like a man with no arms in certain cases, the amount of police time and money being spent on the investigation into the Plebgate affair has surmounted all realistic needs or expectations, while he will not sanction any meaningful prosecutions of bankers who have stolen billions of pounds.
So, that is why I am happy to see the Icelandic courts handing down prison sentences to senior bank executives for fraud, and that is why such outcomes are long overdue in the UK as well.


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Planet Peaceland
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55,000 tons
Kazuya Aoyama,
Mamoru Kusumi (giant)
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After their home planet Peaceland was destroyed by the Garoga Baron aliens the Zone family fled to earth to seek shelter on earth. Calling themselves the Sakimori family, the Zone family tried to start a new peaceful life, the oldest son, Hikaru Sakimori even finds a job working as a test driver for cars. It seems that the family would enjoy a new life however fate would have other plans. With planet Peaceland gone the Garogas set their evil eyes on earth for their next invasion. Infiltrating earth's socity, the Zone family takes it upon themselves to stop their evil plans once and for all. When fighting the Garoga the three Zone children, Hikaru, Hotaru, Akira can transform into the super heros Zone Fighter (AKA Zone The Meteor Man), Zone Angel, and Zone Junior respectively by calling out "Zone Fight Power". When the Garoga's summon a giant monster Hikaru will transform into his giant from by calling out "Zone Double Fight".
Zone Fighter would go on to battle many monsters made by the Gargo known as the Terror Beasts as well as the monsters Gigan and even The Destroyer of Worlds himself, King Ghidorah. The King of The Monsters himself, Godzilla, would become an ally and later a close friend of Zone Fighter and help him out on several missions.
PersonalityEditHikaru is bright, and cheerful young man who strongly believes in doing what is right. Altough normally a kind spirited person he feels nothing but utter contempt for the Gargo. He does everything in his power to make sure no harm comes to the innocent even going so far as to refuse to attak the kaiju Goramu until he found out where some captive kids were being held hostage inside the creatures body. He has become good friends with Godzilla and the two have been seen having a friendly sparing match in episode 21.
Height and weight: Zone Fighter is 62 meters tall which is not unusual (the average height for kaiju or monsters in the Showa era is around the 50 meter range) however his mass is very heavy for his size. Zone Fighter weighs a whooping 55,000 tons. The average weight in the Showa era is between 15,000 tons and 30,000 tons but Zone Fighter and most of the monsters he encounters with the exception of Gigan, King Ghidorah and Godzilla weigh from anywhere between the 50,000 ton to the 80,000 ton range. This makes them as heavy as several of the monsters from the Heisei era of Godzilla films. Several of the Terror-Beasts were genetically engineered, machines, cyborgs which could explain this. The fact that their alien biology, along with Zone Fighter, could be made of something unknown may also be the reason why they are so heavy.
Powers and weaponsEdit
- Transform: When Hikaru and his siblings pose and scream out they "Zone Fight Power" they become Zone Fighter, Zone Angel, and Zone Junior respectively.
- Giant Form: When Hikaru poses and screams out "Zone Double Fight" he turns into his giant form.
- Super human strength: Even in his small human form Zone Fighter posses an insane amount of strength. The Terror-Beast Goramu stepped on him while he was in his human form and while his 79,000 tons did severely hurt him it failed to kill him as Zone Fighter actually managed to hold the foot up for a while before the monster changed tactics and attempted to crush him with a large boulder. Zone Fighter even managed to beat Showa Godzilla in a friendly sparring match which suggests that Zone Fighter is at least equal in power to Godzilla if not stronger. The only other monster equal in power to Godzilla in the Showa era was Rodan.
- Acrobatic: Zone Fighter is very acrobatic as he is seen doing a lot flips and jumps to avoid an attack.
- Jet Speed: Zone Fighter can run on land at mach speeds. Combining his unnaturally heavy mass with the speed he is running at makes for a very effective tackle move that knocked even King Ghidorah to the ground.
- Flight: Zone Fighter can fly at incredible speeds and often flies around in circles to gain momentum before slamming head first into a monster to knock them down. This tactic often buys him enough time to summon his Meteor Missile Might wristbands. Zone Fighter can also fly in the vacuum of space.
- Uzi Punch: Zone Fighter can perform a series of punches that speed up into a blinding blur.
- Meteor Missile Might: Zone Fighter's trademark finishing move and his second strongest attack. Zone Fighter does a series of poses and shouts out a command (though not always for the latter of the two). Afterwards a bright flash of light signals the arrival of wristbands armed with missiles. Unlike the missiles made here on earth these missiles have devastating power, enough to harm kaiju just like Showa Mechagodzilla's finger missiles. They have killed countless kaiju including the cyborg known as Gigan, a space monster who has been hit by countless missiles by earth's armies to no ill effect. Strangly most monsters don't explode until several seconds after Zone is done shooting them. The missiles by some unknown means turn their targets into living time bombs. Some fans suggest that the missiles transfer their explosive power into the targets body some how but this is purely fan speculation. Fan speculation also tries to explain the sudden appearance of the wristbands as having arrived from another dimension and when not in use are stored in this other dimension as a sort of storage space. Neither of these speculations has been confirmed. However they work it is alien technology far beyond our understanding.
- Meteor Proton Beam: Zone Fighter's strongest weapon, he often hesitates to use this power for it uses up a lot of energy. When his Meteor Missile Might fails to kill a kaiju he will finish off the monster by using this power. Sometimes he will use it before using his Meteor Missile Might to weaken a foe quickly and finish the fight as fast as he can. Just like with his other powers Zone Fighter must do a series of poses and shouts a command before a thin blue line fires out of the gem or jewl attached to the tip of the crest sticking out of his forehead.
- Subduing Mist: Zone Fighter can spray a mist like smoke from his finger tips that will act like a drug and make the target less aggressive and more calm.
- Zone-Barrier: Like most super sentais Zone Fighter can summon a rectangle shaped force field that is clear and see through in the middle but orange around the edges. This barrier stops any projectile from reaching Zone Fighter and buys him time to decide what his next course of action is. The barrier can only last for a few seconds and it uses up a lot of energy.
- Hyper-Barrier: Just like the Zone-Barrier the Hyper-Barrier is meant to protect it's master but it can also be used as an offensive weapon as well. The Hyper-Barrier is a force field shaped like a shield that reflects any energy attack that hit's it right back at the target. Just like the Zone-Barrier their are draw backs. The barrier only lasts for a few seconds, it takes even more energy to summon then the Zone-Barrier and it offers less cover then the Zone-Barrier but because it can injury an attacking monster by turning it's own energy attacks on it the risks are worth it.
- Plasma Capsule: Zone Fighter is able to relase a series of energy waves from his body to zap a foe. This power is very useful in stunning monsters and stopping their attacks.
- Arrow-Beam: Zone Fighter can fire arrow shapped energy waves from his hands that stab into a Terror-Beast and can cut off limbs. These Arrow-Beams seem to have several different levels of power. They are from weakest to strongest:
- Level 1: Zone Fighter can fire a nearly endless stream of red Arrow-Beams from one or both hands. Because it is a stream it offers a good chance for Zone Fighter to readjust his aim however because they are weak in power they are best used on a target with weak flesh. Best used to remove limbs.
- Level 2: Zone Fighter summons energy to both of his hands to fire several large red Arrow-Beams to cut off a targets head. This level is much stronger then level 1 and has a higher chance of cutting off a kaiju's head. However unlike level 1, level two can only hit one target at a time and shoots fewer rays.
- Level 3: Zone Fighter's arms glow yellow with lighting before he fires two yellow Arrow-Beams from the tips of his hands. This move can be used to cut off either limbs or a head. Since it offers two shots it has a better chance of taking off a head then level 2 which only offers one. On the down side where level 2 doesn't need a charge time level 3 does.
- Teleportation: What maybe one of the strangest powers he has, in episode 4, when Hikaru saw the monster Wargilgar on TV attacking a city he turned into Zone Fighter before jumping forward and, while shrinking, flew into the TV set. After that he is seen in his giant form flying above the city right where the monster is attacking. Just like with his Meteor missile Might fans have speculated for years on how this power works and if he needs to use a TV to teleport to a location. Double Anti-Missile Might: Used in Episode 22, this upgrade allowes Zone Fighter to recapture his missiles in his bracelets after having them fired back at him and fire them again. This proved very useful when fighting Super Jikiro who would just use it's Anti-Missile Might upgrade to capture Zone's missiles and fire them back at him.
Zone Fighter does have his limits. He can only stay in his giant from for a short amount of time. This time limit can be 7 minutes, 5 minutes, or 3 minutes depending on several variables. Simply being hit can cause the time limit to be shorter, or using powers that consume a lot of energy can make the time limit shorter. Zone Fighter's belt buckle has a light on it called the Light Meter. The color on it determines roughly how much time Zone Fighter has before he runs out of energy. Blue means full or nearly full, Yellow means moderate power left, and red means dangerously close to low energy. If the Meter Light is blinking it means Zone Fighter has less then a minute to finish the fight. If the Light Meter is red then Zone Fighter has only a 110 seconds left of energy. How much sun light there is can also affect how much time Zone Fighter has as sun light prolongs the energy drain.
Sometimes how powerful an attack is can effect how long Zone Fighter can stay in his giant form. They have been times where after a poweful attack the Light Meter goes from blue to red, completly skipping yellow. Zone Fighter has ways around this issue. Special energy rays fired by Zone Angel and Zone Junior into the capsule on Zone Fighter's head crest can recharge him. The aircraft Smokey can fire a similar ray into the capsule to recharge him. When Zone Fighter has run out of energy the capsule will fall off and he will only be able to fight for a few seconds longer before he will shrink back to human size shortly after. Smokey also comes equipped with spare capsules that it can fire as a replacement on Zone Fighter's crest when one falls off and keep him in combat longer.
- Zone Fighter seems to have been inspired by Ultraman. Both have a time limit and means of recharging, both look very similar, both have a light timer to measure how much energy they have left, and even have some similar powers.
- A lot of Godzilla fans are hoping one day that Zone Fighter will end up making a guest appearance as a playable character in a Godzilla fighting/adventure game which would mirror how Godzilla, King Ghidorah, and Gigan have made guest appearances on his show. Originally he was obscure and largely unknown to the fans in the west but thanks to the advent of the internet interest in him has increased.
- Originally early concept ideas for the story made it that Zone and his siblings could not transform unless they shake hands with another member of the family before the concept was dropped.
- Zone Fighter is mostly famous for having Godzilla, King Ghidorah, and Gigan make guest appearances on the show.
- The show was canceled before it was finished, some believe due to the 1973 oil crisis.
- There were 26 episodes.
- The events of the show is canon with the Showa Godzilla films (1954-1975) and takes place inbetween Godzilla ve Megalon and Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla. As such it is presumed that the Gargo's were eventually defeated since after the events of Terror of Mechagodzilla there were no more major alien invasions until Destroy All Monsters which takes place in the year 1999 and is the final event in the Showa films.


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Questions about cell phone security hit home for a Republican lawmaker in the Congress late this week, as several hours after the posting of a series of unintelligible tweets, the personal Twitter account of Rep. Billy Long (R-MO) was deactivated on Friday, with Long's office saying his cell phone had been hacked.
"The first hack was yesterday and the Congressman reset his password thinking that would solve the problem," Long's Press Secretary Hannah Smith said in an email on Friday.
"However, this morning his phone was hacked again and he thought it was best to have his Twitter account deactivated until he returns to Washington, D.C. so he can have the House tech staff can examine his phone," Smith added.
Long, who was first elected in 2010, regularly uses his personal Twitter account of @auctnr1 to comment on daily topics in the news – for example, retweeting in recent days a variety of articles on North Korea, the crude comments of comedian Samantha Bee, and the trade actions of President Trump.
But what came from Long's Twitter account four different times on Thursday and Friday was simply gibberish, mixed in with the Congressman's normal tweets.
These three were from Friday morning:
The first indication of trouble came early on Thursday morning, with a tweet that made no sense:
It wasn't immediately clear if Long's email, or any other items related to his work in Congress had been compromised.
The hack of Long's phone and Twitter account came amid questions over security measures – or a lack thereof – for a personal cell phone used by President Donald Trump, and questions about the unauthorized use of cell-site simulators, to eavesdrop on electronic communications in the nation's capital.
In a May 22 letter to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), officials at the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged that "anomalous activity" had been observed in 2017 of possible efforts to track and monitor cellular communications and devices in Washington, D.C.
The letter said those cell trackers had been noted possibly working near 'potentially sensitive facilities like the White House,' but Wyden was told that it was never confirmed whether the trackers were real or not.
Two years ago, a pair of lawmakers urged their colleagues on Capitol Hill to pay more attention to the risks of hacking and eavesdropping, as Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) expressed the need for lawmakers to be more vigilant – both for their own personal cyber safety, as well as that of their Congressional offices.
"Your devices will be subject to continuing cyber attacks," the two wrote in a "Dear Colleague" letter to all House members.
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'I just gave myself a name'
The Jebediah frontman and his alter ego are singing about a suburb near you.
THE SANDY-HAIRED man with the open face and the occasional Strine whine was born Kevin Mitchell and recorded under that name for the Perth group he formed in his early teens, Jebediah. But on two solo albums and subsequent tours around Australia he is known as Bob Evans. Yet, when he marries this year it will be as Kevin Mitchell. Identity crisis?
"Call me Kevin," he says. "You can call me Kev if you have to." Then he adds with a warning chuckle, "But don't call me Kevin Bloody Mitchell because that would be like the millionth time I've heard it."
Most of us will resist the temptation to link Mitchell/Evans with Perth's most famous/infamous comedian, Kevin Bloody Wilson. After all, the often-gorgeous melodies of Bob Evans songs, with their roots in the music of George Harrison, the '70s US west-coast singer-songwriters and occasionally Bob Dylan, are a sophisticated league or three away from crass comedy. However, there is still something of a connection: Wilson's appeal is in the suburbs, while the two Bob Evans albums, the debut Suburban Kid and the newly released Suburban Songbook, have their flag firmly planted there, too.
"I like to think about my music as a stage musical because I've always liked the theatre and this is a good background for the songs," Evans says of the suburban motif. "But it's also where I've lived. It's been in the background of my life and it's what the music speaks to. When I made my first record, Suburban Kid, I was saying I don't want to be anything that I'm not."
There is an irony in saying that while recording it under a different name. "I can see the irony in that but there were very good reasons for that name," Evans admits. "When I first started doing solo shows, around '97, '98, it was at a time when Jebediah were quite successful. I didn't want the other guys to feel that I was gaining something individually on the back of the success that four people had built up together."
So, did taking on the name and persona of Bob Evans influence the type of songs that were being written?
"You could say that name gave me something to hide behind because I was writing very personal, autobiographical stuff, more so than I ever did with Jebediah, but I think that would be making too much of it. I just gave myself a name and that's pretty much it," he says.
"I think all the songs I've ever written have essentially been what I classify as pop songs. That's what I like. There are many ways to dress them up but if you take all their clothes off and stand them naked they are all pop songs."
He thinks about this briefly and then adds with a hearty laugh: "On the other hand, by definition, pop is short for popular so you could say that none of the songs I've written are pop songs at all, because they haven't sold enough."
Evans is getting married in November to a woman whose praises he can't stop singing at gigs; he has a new record out on a major label and is picking up great reviews. If he wasn't happy after all that you'd want to slap him, wouldn't you?
"The last year of my life has been f---ing awesome, has been fantastic. I've had an exceptionally fortunate life and I'd be a f---ing arsehole to suggest otherwise. It is not to say bad things haven't happened, it happens for everybody, but I am not going to dwell on that shit. Life is too good and too short to waste with that stuff."
True, no matter what your name is.
Bob Evans's Suburban Songbook is out now on EMI.


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Here is my card for two different challenges, Just Magnolia challenge and Sketch saturday challenge.
the sketch:
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
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- Ingrid said...
Wow, this is sooo pretty!!
- November 9, 2010 at 8:53 PM
- Michelle said...
Beautiful --love that corner piece!
- November 10, 2010 at 4:54 AM
- scrappinpeg said...
Awe... Love your musical pp used like this. And the lace makes it so pretty too. GREAT JOB.
- November 10, 2010 at 6:22 AM
- Sandra said...
Beautiful card Debby....such a cute Tilda coloured perfectly and a great take on the sketch....thanks for joining us this week at Sketch Saturday...
Take care
San x
- November 12, 2010 at 11:41 PM
- Cora said...
That is one fancy piece of lace and so are the corners. Of course I like the music paper on all kinds of cards. Can't go wrong with it.
- November 17, 2010 at 12:44 PM
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By Chifu Edward - After political inactivety in Mezam I Bamenda which is expected to host the commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Cameroon Armed Forces, the Ntaghem CPDM Sub-Section President Ruth Ndonyi, took the bull by the horns over the week end and organised a ground-breaking conference to mobilise the population towards the anniversary celebration.
To denounce several vices
Ruth Ndonyi, the pioneer cum lone female President of CPDM Sub-Section in the Northwest Region used the occasion to denounce several vices which she said were endemic in the Northwest CPDM such as slander, petition-writing, witch-hunting and vaulting ambition for power.
Dissolve their differences
She ipso facto enjoined her fellow CPDM comrades to dissolve their differences so as to be able to work together as one man and mobilise forces to give their national party President and the Head of State President Paul Biya, a befitting reception in Bamenda later this year during the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Cameroon Armed Forces.
Mobilise the population
Equally lashing out at personal creed and tribal politics, Ruth Ndonyi advocated for unity in diversity, peace and development in Mezam I and Northwest as a whole. She entreated other Sub-Sections to emulate the Ntaghem CPDM Sub-Section by organising their own conference in order to mobilise the population towards Biya's visit.
Most vibrant
Observing that her Sub-Section is the most vibrant in Mezam I with six branches all very vibrant, Ruth attracted a standing ovation when she said the Ntaghem Sub-Section has a CIG called the Ntaghem Multi-purpose Common Initiative Group in which they keep poultry, cultivate maize and assist the needy.
Hailed some
She hailed some outstanding patrons of her Sub-Section like the Minister of Special Duties at the Presidency of the Republic, Atanga Nji Paul, Puwo Jonas (Guarantee Proprietor) and Ngufor Peter (Director Farmers House) for the relentless efforts to support her Sub-Section financially and morally.
Among others
The conference was attended among others by the coordinator of the North West CPDM Section Presidents, John. B. Ndeh, who also doubles as the Santa CPDM Section President and Hon. Enwe Francis, MP for Momo Division.
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What are the moral responsibilities of writers? Should they self-promote on social media? How do you know if you're any good at writing? Chaired by Bhakthi Puvanethiran, the Emerging Writers' Festival Emerging Q&A panel, which included Dion Kagan, Celeste Liddle, Martin McKenzie-Murray and Abe Nouk, answered all the questions thrown at them by the audience. Here are a few highlights.
What are your thoughts on 'trigger warnings'?
Indigenous politics and women's rights forms the basis of Celestes' work. She started her website in order to create a safe space for people to share their trauma. Celeste believes trigger warnings can end up silencing these people.
Dion believes trigger warnings can be stifling, and that confrontational narratives and images are part of the discourse.
Martin says he writes about sensitive issues as eloquently and truthfully as possible. He believes trigger warnings conflate writing with political advocacy.
How do you deal with the pressure to earn an income as a writer, while growing your craft?
Martin believes writing is not capital intensive. 'If you have the desire, you'll do it'. Martin rattled off jobs he has taken to supplement his income, including McDonald's, back-packers and the Premiers Office. He said, 'I wrote all the time and I improved all the time'. It took him at least 10 years to hone his skills.
Celeste was picked up by Fairfax 6 weeks after starting her blog. She still doesn't know where she will end up, but this is all part of growing as a writer.
Abe urged everyone to keep writing and nurturing their craft. 'Writing will eventually reward you'.
What do you wish Australian writers would stop doing?
Dion wishes writers would stop writing opinion pieces where they present themselves as editorial in knee-jerk positions.
Martin prefaced his response by saying no one should not do anything – 'you're only going to do better if you write'. He dislikes 'cookie cutter columns' and believes there is an aggregate fixated on pop culture. He urged writers to 'write something a little more deeply than what's on HBO this week'.
Abe believes artists can be caught up with trying to have a perfect voice. He said 'do your sanity justice. Do your life justice. Be you' and accept that imperfections make your story.
Celeste wished writers would stop being concerned with self-preservation. 'Don't feel you have to be answerable to everyone for everything you write'.
Bhakthi pointed out that it took Miles Allinson, winner of the 2014 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript, 6-7 years to complete his manuscript. 'There's nothing wrong with crafting'.
Would you still write if you knew no one would ever read your work?
Abe said he comes from a tribe where stories are recited verbally. He believes 'when you write, you've written into infinity'.
For Dion, writing is about having a conversation, so he writes with the intent to be read.
Martin finds writing to be a 'deeply infallible compulsion'.
Celeste wants people to read her blog. She wants to claim a space for feminist indigenous thought.
Should social media play a major part in emerging authors? Is there more of an onus on the writer to promote themselves?
Abe believes blogs allows readers to get a sense of who the writer is and what the writer likes. All writers should ask themselves who they write for, so they can clearly communicate their message.
Martin feels pressure to self-promote. He only created a blog and joined Twitter two years ago. In online publishing, content is king. Martin urged writers to practice and refine their writing – 'you'll find an audience if you're good'.
Dion warned writers against getting lost in the vortex of social media and self-promotion, and to put their work first.
How do you know if you're getting better?
Martin said 'if you read a lot, you'll internalise the rhythms that work'.
Celeste knew she was getting better when indigenous women who read her blog started to write and get their opinions out there.
Dion proclaimed that he is deeply stuck in the prestige of performance. He lives and breathes for the praise of other people. He knows he's getting better when he makes readers feel something. He said the 'cringe test' is also a good indicator.


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Countries within the Economic and Monetary Union area have differing wage regimes, with some countries having comparatively centralized and coordinated procedures on wage negotiation while others are decentralized and uncoordinated. This project examines the extent to which this heterogeneity has contributed to the diverging developments in wage and price levels within the eurozone as well as to the associated distortions in real exchange rates under which the eurozone has been suffering since the introduction of monetary union. The project also examines whether the problem can be confronted either through a European-wide export of the German-styled wage regime or through European wage coordination. Project duration: October 2012 to September 2019.
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My grandfather, Stefano Dragone, apprenticed in Italy at a young age to learn the art of blacksmithing. He learned to shoe horses, make tools and practice metalworking.
When he was 18 he travelled to the United States from Bari, which is in the Puglia region of Italy. He worked for a few years and then returned to Italy to marry. He was introduced to a young lady from a neighboring town called Alberobello by a matchmaker. Alberobello is known for trulli, which are cone roofed stone huts.
The young lady's name was Maria Calderella. Maria and Stefano were soon married and returned to America. Like many Southern Italians, they moved to Rochester, NY. Stefano and Mary, as she came to be known, were blessed with eight children, Vito, Mario, Charles, Niblia, Mary, Donato, Annetta and Francis. During World War II all five boys served their country. Two of them returned with Purple Hearts.
Stefano started his career at the Rochester Carting Company and worked shoeing horses for twenty years until mechanical trucks replaced the wagons. He then worked for himself, travelling to farms and barns with a lit forge and anvil on a wagon behind his horse. The story goes that the horse would know to stop at every bar on the way to the farms and back.
His clients included the Genesee Brewing Company and their twelve horse team. Stefano became good friends with the brewery owner on his visits to the horse farm.
When farrier work became even harder to find, Stefano took a municipal job making tools, fences and metal railings for the city.
Stefano made his own wine and grape crushing was an annual family event. He had a wine cellar in his basement with several old oak barrels up until the end of his life. My memories of him almost always included a juice glass of wine in front of him.
Stefano passed away in 1970. Cory never met him, but I can't help but compare these two men that learned their craft at a young age. They were born 90 years apart but share a true artisan tradition.
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"a walk through the past"
As everyone is aware, 2005 will see St Patrick's Church celebrating the Centenary of the move from their premises iin Springhill to the present Church (1905), Presbytery (1901) and School (1909) at Station Road, Shotts.
.......here are a dozen or so postcards and views of, and around, the NEW church, as it was then getting on for a hundred years ago. Most of the pictures were taken within the first doaen or so years of the church going up.
Peter Taylor - December 2004
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On Tuesday evening, 06.12.2012, we had been with many others as Jimdo, our website and online store provider, invited into their office. It was really nice meeting with the team and with the other users.
It was super tasty finger food, freshly prepared and grilled by Sam (the own Jimdo cook). And the good Hamburg drinks Astra and Fritz-Kola should not be missed. ;-)
We took a lot of inspiration, motivation and feel-good feeling.
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Imagine my surprise this morning when I opened my facebook page and saw this:
It's my freebie, An Irish Blessing. I was so thrilled to see this!
So if you're over here from Victoriana Quilt Designs' recommendation, welcome! Here is the direct link to the Irish Blessing freebie, please take it and enjoy!
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I am not a stock picker... I gave that up some time ago. My investment worldview these days is to actively time the market for macro plays that make sense to me, using baskets of stocks, or even ETF's. Holding PM's has made sense to me for some time, and the fundamentals behind them become stronger every day, though watching the recent price action in the metals, and especially in the mining stocks, would lead one to think otherwise. The mining stocks are a beaten down sector.. unloved... left for dead. The HUI Gold Bugs index of miners is bouncing around near a two year low, the sector left in the dust by most every other type of stock. Some might say investing now in Gold and Silver miners is akin to catching falling knives.. and they might be right.. for a while longer at least. Take a look at the UNG chart if you don't believe that knives can just keep falling and falling. But... and this is a big But... there is going to come a time when more folks.. more investors.. more hedge funds.. realize that QE has gone worldwide (Looks like Japan may be next in the daisy chain; http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/04/economic-madness-bank...) and that real inflation.. the kind that gamed Gov't statistics can no longer deny.. will be coming. The PM asset class will come back in favor.. what is old will become new again!
So if you did want to speculate with some of your money on stocks.... which ones should you buy now? Which ones are so out of favor it leaves you a little sick to your stomach to push the "buy" order key on your brokerage account screen? Which ones represent not what has been hot.. but where the puck is going to? I think you know where my speculative dollars are going.
I am not going to reiterate the case for manipulation.. .it is real, and it is the basis of my belief that Gold, and especially Silver, are underpriced at present. If you believe that Gold and Silver are underpriced now, and have strong fundamentals that should continue to drive them higher in the future, then the miners are a way to get more leverage behind your convictions, without doing it through paper entities like AGQ. To illustrate the opportunity, I would like to compare/contrast a few miners with a few stocks that are REIT darlings... both groups offer dividend yield, which is a big plus these days.
Commercial Real Estate darlings;
Stock Market cap ($) P/E EPS Div ($) Div yield (%)
High Yielding Miners;
So.. let's look at these small baskets and think about them (noting that I am talking my book and that I own some IAG). The first thing you note is the rich PE's of the commercial real estate stocks... that means you are paying more to get each dollar of earnings. For reference, the historical average price/earnings ratio of Dow stocks is 15.5, and the Dow overall was running to the high side at 17.8 as of early March 2012. So, relatively speaking... the REITs are priced with an expectation of continued growth, whereas the miners are priced, from the vantage point of PE.. like some kind of big old boring utility that is not going to grow it's earnings. The second thing we can look at is the dividends themselves.... and what is amazing to me is that the little basket of miners throws off more cash. Would you rather have a 10 year bond throwing off 1.97% interest, or a basket of miners throwing off something like 3%? Which investment do you think will provide better protection of your capital five years from now? Ten years from now? Finally, we can look at the sustainability of the dividends themselves... and this is where the really dramatic contrast lies. Two of the three CRE stocks payout more on a yearly basis than they earn.... Div is higher than EPS. Think about this... where is the money coming from the pay the dividend? I know that REITs play some funny game with their cash flow on an accounting basis... but to me, that is just yet another GAAP-legitimized ponzi scheme. The miners pay out very sustainable fractions of their earnings as dividends... very simple math here.
So... what is going on here? Why would such an "efficient" and liquid marketplace like the US stock market allow such inequities to exist? I can speculate : ) CRE is to the banks as the banks are to the FED... the FED cannot.. will not, let the (TBTF) banks die. REITS live and die by their ability to serially refinance their debts. the banks cannot let the REITS die.. otherwise the banks die, along with all that debt, with them. Low interest rates, and willing banks, have been manna for the REITS. The forward looking bull case for REITS, especially those with a retail or other CRE focus, is that the economy recovers. If you believe this will happen.. I recommend you invest in SPG and own a piece of your local shopping mall.
If though you think PM's might continue to rise in value.. though the ride may be bumpy... I would make the case that the miners are very near a bottom. I would also make the case that the least speculative of the miners are the ones that have dividend payouts and PE ratios that make them look like old fashioned value stock plays.. which is exactly what they are. There are always risks... and we need to keep them in focus... MIners could be nationalized (as SagerXX has pointed out recently), rising energy costs could take a bite out of earnings... or a natural or mine safety disaster could crimp the earnings of one or more companies. That being said, I still think that investing today in a small basket of good miners will bring stunning returns over the next few years.
I invite your constructive criticism of the case for mining stocks...


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My Hero
(Me And The Chief of the Medical Staff at NY Presbyterian)
HIM: How can I help you Dr. Gordon?
ME: It's how I can help you Eliot.
HIM: Please explain.
ME: I have one word to say to you: JCAHO
HIM: (Nervous) Go on.
ME: My oldest and dearest friend just had surgery and is in your hospital and there are some issues with your nursing staff.
HIM: If this is a nursing issue why aren't you talking to the nursing office?
ME: Because I learned from Muhammad Ali if you kill the head, the ass will die.
HIM: Interesting way of putting it, but I understand and respect your philosophy.
ME: When I'm done with you I'll start dealing with the people whose last names end in a vowel. Now just be thankful it's me on the phone, not JCAHO….YET…
HIM: Well nobody wants that. What are your concerns?
ME: These are my concerns (I list the concerns)
HIM: I see. That's not good. But there's no need to call JCAHO. That would be an overreaction.
ME: Correction. That would be disaster for your institution. You know JCAHO. They are just looking for a reason to make a surprise visit.
HIM: You are well aware a complaint such as this generated by a doctor to JCAHO will result in incredible scrutiny.
ME: Yes, I am WELL aware. I am also aware of how that scrutiny will translate into the loss of revenues from federal funding, not to mention the loss of hair from the extra JCAHO site visits.
HIM: Well I'm sure we can resolve this immediately.
ME: Of course you can. You have power… limited… but power.
HIM: (laughs) You know hospital politics VERY well.
ME: Yeah and I'm sorry I had to involve you in this but this is my oldest and dearest friend, so I'm serious as JCAHO finding a nurse giving a doctor a blow job in a sterile quadrant during a PICC line procedure.
HIM: (Laughs) You do have a way words.
ME: I do two things well… and using colorful language is the other one.
HIM: (laughs) So are you based in New York?
ME: No honey, I live in LA. I'm too pretty to live in New York…
HIM: Nice weather, but I'm too manly to live in LA.
ME: Manly huh? Well we should meet in Kansas sometime.
HIM: (laughs) You are quite the character. A most unusual, but effective patient advocate, I must say… And oddly enough what started out to be very uncomfortable and disconcerting turned out to be quite fun and enjoyable.
ME: Honey do you know how many times men like you have said that to me?
HIM: No and that's information I can live without. Please. (We laugh)….
ME: The next time I'm in New York, I'll come visit.
HIM: Please do. Now let me go beat up some nurses for you.
ME: Ohhhh…. my hero.


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Tendo em conta que o conhecimento geral da biologia e ecologia de muitas espécies e existentes em Portugal continental é ainda muito escasso, deixo aqui o resumo de um artigo recentemente publicado com o meu singelo trabalho, que basicamente põe em discussão a possibilidade de uma mina ser um sítio "swarming", um dos comportamentos mais desconhecidos dos morcegos.
This study investigated the visitation of an underground site by bats during the "swarming" season (September and October) of 2009, 2011 and 2012, in a mine located in the Northeast Portugal (Vila Cova mine, 850 m a.s.l.). A total of 79 bats were captured, representing 12 of the 25 bat species identified in Portugal Continental. The Western Barbastelle (Barbastella barbastellus) was the most predominant species, with 31,6% of the captures. Although the relative low number of specimens captured, the species composition and their conservation status were significant due to the presence of Critical Endangered species (Rhinolophus euryale and Myotis blythii), Vulnerable species (Rhinolophus ferrumequinun, Rhinolophus hipposideros, Myotis myotis, Myotis escalerai and Miniopterus schreibersii) and species with Data Deficient (Barbastella barbastellus and Plecotus auritus). The peak of the nocturnal activity was 3-4 hours after sunset, with statistically significant differences between males and females in the third hour after sunset (P=0,002). In total, 75,9% of the specimens captured were males, representing a sex ratio of 3♂♂:1♀♀. In the specific case of B. barbastellus the ratio was of 2:1. The peak of captures between males and females was different along time, with females arriving later to the mine. This behavior was also verified to B. barbastellus. The differences regarding Body Condition Index (BCI) between sexes in B. barbastellus were statistically different, with females presenting higher BCI than males (P=0,015). Undoubtedly, the conservation value of "swarming" sites is of special concern for bats management strategies, especially when used by species such as B. barbastellus, characterized by high level of philopatry within their populations.
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The lives of three women, all from different walks of life, are woven together to offer an eye-opening look at life in communist Cuba in director Joel Cano's intimate, slice of life drama. An impoverished peasant who recently lost her daughter in an untold tragedy, Maria strives to comprehend a life without her child. Slaughterhouse employee Nieves' lot in life isn't much better, especially after she is unceremoniously fired by her callous boss, and television news broadcaster Norma finds her career in dire straits after refusing to deliver deliberately misleading government propaganda over the airwaves. The one thing all of these women have in common is a hope for a brighter future in a time when their vision has been distorted by the darkness that surrounds them.
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text: Audemars Piguet has teamed up with basketball's most prodigious talent, LeBron James, to create the Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph LeBron James. The limited edition gold and grey timepiece features the brand's iconic Mega Tapisserie textured pattern on its 44mm dial. But the watch really gets its swag on with two rows of diamonds on the pusher at 2 o'clock. It's the kind of slam dunk that's difficult to match.


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Lindorfer, Robert and d'Arcy, Anne and Puck, Jonas (2016) Location decisions and the liability of foreignness: Spillover effects between factor market and capital market strategies. Journal of International Management, 22 (3). pp. 222-233. ISSN 1075-4253
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The Government's directive to ban manufacture, importation and use of plastic bags in the country by September this year has received mammoth support from the United Nations General Assembly. The 71st Session United Nations General Assembly President Peter Thomson yesterday extoled the order, describing it as a step forward to safeguarding the environment.
Mr. Thomson said use of plastic bags across the globe was contributing immensely to environmental pollution. He said the United Nations General Assembly was rallying its member countries to embrace use of devices which are environment friendly.
President Thomson made these remarks during his official tour of the Nairobi National Park, yesterday 27th May 2017. He accredited the government's move to burn 105 tons of ivory adding that the initiative was a clear indication that Kenya is committed to eradicate wildlife poaching.
While accepting the President's acknowledgement, Environment and Natural Resources Cabinet Secretary Prof. Judi Wakhungu reaffirmed her ministry's commitment to upscale wildlife and environment conservation.
Prof. Wakhungu said the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has implemented far-reaching measures including enacting stiff decrees that prohibits wildlife poaching, human wildlife conflicts and destruction of the environment.
The President and his entourage were accompanied by Kenya Wildlife Service Director General Kitili Mbathi among other government officials.
Mr. Thomson and his delegation are in the country to hold talks with relevant government agencies in regard to illegal wildlife trade, trophies trafficking, human wildlife conflict, wildlife policies and legal frame works alongside community participation.
The government has banned use of plastic bags used for the commercialization and household packaging. The ban includes importation, manufacture and use of plastic bags CS Environment and Natural Resources Judi Wakhungu said the ban takes effect in six months' time and it is in line with environmental management. The banned plastic bags are categorized under the carrier bag and flat bag where carrier bag is defined as one constructed with handles, and with or without gussets. The flat bag are constructed without handles, and with or without gussets.


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Join us Wednesday, June 21st from 5-7p.m. to meet the maker behind Design Canoe Studio. Functional and organic in nature, Jacob Baker's sculpture serves as a tangible reminder of our connection with the power and beauty of the elements surrounding us. He enjoys discovering materials that are interesting to the eye and takes great pleasure in releasing the individuality found within each of those materials, bringing to light their potential in completely original designs. His newest collection of work available at Showroom includes stone, wood and other materials discovered along Minnesota's North Shore.
Jacob Baker is a native Nova Scotian who grew up along its beautiful South Shore. His work is informed by a love of the outdoors, in particular shorelines, places of contrasting elements: light, water, land. The persistent tension between these worldly domains drives a primal conversation of creation and deconstruction. This is where he goes for inspiration and where he gathers many of the materials used in his work.
Jacob explores how the shore's atmosphere of contrasts in motion can be sculpturally represented. His pallet is a mix of opposites – stone and glass, wood and metal, that he harmonizes in his compositions while allowing their differences to still speak of the tensions between them. His design premise appropriates a common shoreline feature, the lighthouse beacon, which stands still as a silent observer of the movement surrounding it. Jacob pulls this kinetic energy into his work by deconstructing the lantern form, carving wood along its flowing growth lines, and creating fluid shapes in wire and solder. Each of Jacob's pieces aims to provide a point of beautiful inquisition, where even an eye familiar with the piece may be rewarded with something new.
Design Canoe Studio reflects the joy he's had paddling with a great friend in a fine birchbark canoe that they built together years ago. In it, he has ventured along many shorelines, each of them a special and cherished place.
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2505 1289 Hornby Street, Vancouver Listing #: R2306158
BURRARD PLACE - the iconic building in the heart of Downtown Vancouver. This prestigious address offers the ultimate luxury living with five star amenities including full length lap pool, sauna, steam rooms, fitness centre, 30,000 sq.ft of private clubhouse, 24/7 butler concierge services. This 815 sq.ft 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, and 1 flex home features lofty 8'6"-9' high ceilings, central air conditioning, wide plank hardwood flooring throughout, automated smart home controls, Nuheat heated floors in bathrooms, high end GAGGENAU kitchen appliances, and much more. Steps away from skytrain, shopping, restaurants, and Yaletown. Enjoy the spectacular city and water views from the comfort of your corner balcony home on the 25th floor! 1 parking & 1 bike locker.
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Tuesday, 1 May 2012
I have been missing a little recently mainly due to university work but yesterday was the hand in for my big report, this morning was my exam so I don't really have that excuse anymore! I have one presentation a week today which I doubt will take up as much of my time as the report and exam did so I am happy to say that I am back in the blogging world ... oh how I have missed it! And ... summer is nearly here! Believe it or not?!
On to the point of this post, I had planned on getting myself these shoes today when my exam was all done & I felt like I deserved a treat however I ended up buying them last week almost a week before my exam... I might have also bought a handbag too! Both are wonderfully beautiful pieces that will have plenty of use out of them so it was worth the money. I did work hard this semester too so I deserve them... kind of. A little bit. I blame Twitter, Emma in particular! haha.
Of course they were worn while revising, what else would you wear? Orange palazzo pants & heels is standard revision wear! Right?! x
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This question floated into my mind today after a conversation with my writing agent. He was concerned that some of my blog comments could put off potential writing clients. I attempted to assuage his fears only to find myself having doubts of my own. Which lead me to the very basic question: what is the purpose of this blog?
read moreEveryone writes blogs for different reasons. But for someone who puts words together for a living, the importance of the blog takes on a whole new dimension.
I have to realise that this is a shop front. Not the only one I have, granted. Scripts sent by my agent to potential clients is usually their first experience of me and my work. But then potentially they may Google my name and end up here. Which makes what I put here fairly important.
It's would be a shame if potential clients were bowled over by my scripts but then came here only to discover a rant denying the holocaust and a picture of me with underpants on my head. So I'm going to delete both those posts immediately.
On the other hand, I don't want this to stop being a place where I can kick back, relax and write nonsense. Surely there must be a common ground that doesn't lose me work?
A solution that springs to mind is to create virtual Worzel Gummidge heads.
No, really, bear with me.
These would be false personalities that I could adopt - with names, histories and perhaps even mocked up photos. These alternate voices would allow me to adopt their personalities and rant in character about whatever takes their fancy. Thus granting me total deniability.
"It wasn't me that said that, officer. It was Curly Pieman."
And step by step, I draw ever closer to full blown multiple personality disorder. Making me a much more interesting writer.
Everybody wins.


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CDN Services and Features
Several of our clients leverage CDNs for delivery of their static content. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) allow dedicated server administrators to offset some of the load from their servers, using strategically distributed servers hosted by a CDN service. Although the most basic goal is to reduce load on the server, it can also be used proactively to increase overall access speed, increased fluidity of dynamic websites, and reduce bandwidth by serving content to users from locations geographically closer to their connection point.
Some common CDN features include:
On-demand storage – Usually served on a per-gigabyte basis, this can be used for backup, caching, or general storage.
Dynamic site acceleration – Dynamic sites normally require access to a database server and constant on-the-fly creation of web pages. A CDN may offer a method of caching repeatedly accessed pages and even hosting the databases or applications themselves.
Media Delivery – In the world of social media and streaming content, a CDN can deliver HD-quality video, high-quality audio, and other media, without bogging down your servers.
Electronic Software Delivery – If you deal in software, first-time downloads and upgrades can be costly, and bandwidth can add up quickly. CDNs offer affordable delivery systems.
Analytic software – In addition to providing the delivery of content itself, many CDNs also provide analytic services to track your usage statistics, and even provide marketing tips to help you make your content distribution more effective.
Ad Delivery – Some CDNs offer ad services that can distribute your custom ads with little effort on your part.
Using a CDN is a great way to reduce stress on your server's hardware and also make the distribution of content a less involved process for the already busy system administrator.


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Unless the South Australian Labor Party can conjure a minority government from the ashes of last night's state elections, the ACT will be the only Labor government left in the country.
Will this go unnoticed in Cabinet (or more specifically, the powerful Expenditure Review Committee who run the country)? Will the likes of Abbott, Hockey, Truss, Corman and Sinodinos let this go unpunished?
My money says no, it will be punished, severely. The ACT already epitomises many of the things that terrifies Abbott's men (and woman). The Ministry can't leave Parliament for fear of encountering a married-lesbian, EL1 asylum seeker.
The next Council of Australian Government's meeting is sure to be a chilly one for our fearless Chief Minister. And no doubt a disappointment for the rest of us when she treks back down the hill clutching a parcel of territory funding cuts.
Did the voters of South Australia and Tasmania just deliver the ACT's economic coup de grace? Did we do it to ourselves in 2012 re-electing Gallagher's mob? Or should we be proud of our "Abbott's most hated" status?
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Security-appliance specialist Calyptix Security announced the release of AccessEnforcer Version 3.0, the latest major version of the AccessEnforcer software. Version 3.0 brings a host of new enhancements, expanded features and functionality to AccessEnforcer to deliver enhanced Internet security to small and midsize businesses and nonprofit organizations. The company said many of these improvements have been implemented at the request of partners and customers.
AccessEnforcer, an all-in-one security appliance tailored to work with Microsoft's Small Business Server, provides organizations with up to 250 users with comprehensive, integrated network security and control from a single interface in a plug-and-play format. In addition, Calyptix provides AccessEnforcer v3.0 documentation in an online handbook in response to customer preference for using Web-based support resources.
Selected highlighted v3.0 features include increased throughput (up to 800 percent faster), outbound traffic filtering, multi-WAN support with automatic WAN failover, WAN prioritization, enhanced reporting and logs, direct access to Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team Rules, GUI enhancements, new diagnostic tools and inline v2.0 to v3.0 firmware upgrades (v3.0 supported hardware models only).
"We've paid close attention to the critical issues and goals of small and medium business owners around the world," says Benjamin A. Yarbrough, CEO of Calyptix Security. "Our development efforts in v3.0 bring options to SMBs that owners didn't think would be available to them because of their system and budgetary limitations. Because the needs and goals of each business are different, knowledge and understanding of the Internet's potential and risk is required to create security plans for the future."
When it comes to security, user misconceptions of safe online behavior may be the weakest link, according to two recent research studies. Users are in the dark about the "reality" of malware threats, according to G Data Software's global survey released June 24. The massive survey included responses from nearly 16,000 users worldwide, of which more than 5,500 were based in the United States.
More than 40 percent of the respondents from the U.S. said it was more dangerous to go to adult-content sites than to hobby sites, such as those about horseback riding, the survey found. In actuality, hobby sites are "usually easier" to attack and pose a "greater infection risk" than adult sites because visitors aren't expecting any danger, according to G Data.
A separate study by GFI Software found that users are not protecting themselves when they are on the Internet at home, and their carelessness has implications on enterprise security. In a survey of 1,070 adults and their teenage children, 65 percent of parents said at least one of their home computers has been infected by malware. Of these, 62 percent of them have been either "somewhat" or "very" serious problems, and 55 percent have been infected more than once, the report found.


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Spéculoos are flemish biscuits made from cassonade (brown sugar) and cinnamon, they match perfectly with bitter drinks like coffee or some beers. Actually they became the national representation of Belgium, ask for a coffee everywhere in france, and in some places in London and it will be served with these delicious belge biscuits. You can use them to do Tiramisu as well, or your favorite Cheesecake!!
To drink: coffee, a glass of Orval
Cook time:Â 25 min
Prep time:Â 15 min
Ingredients for 4p:
1.5 l single cream
90gr powder brown sugar
4 yolk eggs
9 speculoos
4 ramekins for ovens
1. Heat the cream and add 6 speculoos, and cinamonn.
2. In a bowl, beat until white the eggs and the brown sugar.
3. Add the hot cream delicatly, still beating.
4. Put the blend in the ramekins.
5. Put the ramekins in the oven (120°, th4) with Bain-marie, for 25 min.
6. Let in the fridge for some hours, decorate with speculoos, ready to be serve!!


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Smedbo HOUSE glass toilet brush RK333
- Brand: Smedbo bathroom accessories
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Available Options
The HOUSE toilet brushes are wall mounted and have a frosted glass container.
The holders and brush handles are available in either Brushed Chrome or Polished Chrome.
Shown here in Brushed Chrome.
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Smarties Pop Up Ice Cream and Calippo Shots
When we are out and about and decide to treat our Little Garden Helpers to an ice cream or ice lolly we always face ice cream or sticky juice running down their front, so we decided to try out the Smarties Pop Up Ice Cream and Calippo Shots because we thought they would be relatively mess free. How wrong we were.
The Smarties Pop Up is essentially ice cream with crushed smarties in it, packaged in a cardboard tube. You push the ice cream up the tube as you eat it, which we thought would be a good idea. The bulk of the ice cream would be contained inside the tube so there was less chance of it melting all over the children. It worked for a while, but when Garden Boy neared the bottom, his ice cream fell out all over him and all over Garden Dad's knee. Garden Boy was upset and Garden Girl was worried the same would happen to her.
We managed to alleviate the upset by getting them to look in the bottom of the packet. You see, when you have eaten all the ice cream, there is an extra special treat waiting for you at the bottom, in the form of mini Smarties. Our Little Garden Helpers were happy again. We weren't. Having been soaked in the ice cream, the Smarties were a congealed mess of sticky chocolate. By the time the whole thing had been eaten they were covered in melted ice cream, chocolate and various food colours from the sticky Smarties. Never again!
And the Calippo Shots weren't any better. These small icy balls of flavour come packaged in a plastic pot that has an opening at the top through which you can tip the 'shots'. Great, we thought. They could just tip the balls into their mouth and if the rest melted because it took them a while, it would just melt into the plastic pot and they would be able to drink the juice. But of course the little balls were all stuck together so they couldn't tip them out in small amounts. In fact they couldn't do it themselves at all. We had to squeeze the sides of the pots for them, to loosen the balls, then tip them out. Because it was difficult to tip straight into their mouths we ended up tipping Garden Girls into her hand. But the more they melted, the more juice we were pouring over her. In the end Garden Girl became so fed up she stopped to trying to eat it. For Garden Boy we tipped them onto the push chair tray and he picked them up from there, leaving behind a pool of sticky stuff on the train, down his front and on the pushchair seat.
In future we will stick to a traditional cone.