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When comparing Fly vs NPM, the Slant community recommends NPM for most people. In the question"What are the best Node.js build systems / task runners?" NPM is ranked 3rd while Fly is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose NPM is:
NPM is compatible with any CLI the developer wants to use.
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.pipe()). If it's a
fly- plugin you just call it directly. The build file get's to the point quickly without adding all the extra fluff. This makes your build file very clean and easy to read!
Pro Very easy to setup
Fly is easy to setup, there are no caveats that you have to know since everything is very intuitive. Also with fly you don't have to repeat your self several times. You just define out what you want and that's it. If it's a fly plugin it will be required automatically without the need for an additional plugin.
Pro Fly plugins are required automatically
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NPM is compatible with any CLI the developer wants to use.
Pro Plenty of helpful NPM modules/plugins
NPM has a strong community that has developed plenty of libraries and plugins that are useful to developers.
Pro Very concise configuration
NPM scripts require fewer lines of code to run a given task. This is true even when it's for running build processes. Using Unix pipes lots of tasks can be reduced to one-liners.
Pro Does not need any wrapper modules
With other task runners, you need to install wrapper modules for tools you may already have installed. When using NPM that's not necessary, to use the tools you need, just install them directly through NPM.
Pro Part of node.js distribution
Pro You're most likely using NPM already
Pro Uncomplicated package management system
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Con Custom tasks require additional keyword 'run'
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Con Not a build system, only a task runner
It is supposed to be used for running gulp, webpack or whatever. But it is not supposed to be used as a build system.
Con Passing parameters is awkward
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Con Badly documented
Less than bare minimum official documentation leaves users in the dark without taking often expensive external courses. Even the --help text has unpluggable gaps. One official source notes the documentation isn't adequate yet nothing has been done to fix this.
Con Lot of issues with authentication and random node problems
Unable to recover from common depencies conflicts consistantly. Error messages are not always helpful to debugging. Doesn't account well for users with different versions of node.
Con Does not run well with Windows
Since a lot of projects that use NPM as a build tool most of the time make use of Bash scripts as well. This means that open source projects that run the command
npm run may run into issues when used in a Windows environment.
Con Doesn't allow you to create build process with complicated logic on its own
In complex heterogeneous app you will quickly migrate to gulp, webpack or whatever leaving to NPM only simple task running responsibility.


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History of Sushi
Sushi is a Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegared rice (shari) combined with other ingredients (neta), usually raw fish or other seafood. Neta and forms of sushi presentation vary, but the ingredient which all sushi have in common is vinegared rice called sushi-meshi.
Raw meat sliced and served by itself is sashimi.
The original type of sushi, known today as nare-zushi was first developed in Southeast Asia possibly along what is now known as the Mekong River and then spread to southern China before introduction to Japan.[citation needed] The term sushi comes from an archaic grammatical form no longer used in other contexts; literally, sushi means "sour-tasting", a reflection of its historic fermented roots. The oldest form of sushi in Japan, narezushi, still very closely resembles this process, wherein fish is fermented via being wrapped in soured fermenting rice.
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Chirashizushi -Chirashizushi is a bowl of sushi rice topped with a variety of sashimi and garnishes (also refers to barazushi).
Inarizushi -Inarizushi is a pouch of fried tofu typically filled with sushi rice alone. It is named after the Shinto god Inari, who is believed to have a fondness for fried tofu.
Makizushi ("rolled sushi"), Norimaki ("Nori roll") or Makimono ("variety of rolls") is a cylindrical piece, formed with the help of a bamboo mat, called a makisu Makizushi is generally wrapped in nori (seaweed), but is occasionally wrapped in a thin omelette, soy paper, cucumber, or shiso (perilla) leaves. Makizushi is usually cut into six or eight pieces, which constitutes a single roll order.
- Futomaki -("thick, large or fat rolls") is a large cylindrical piece, with nori on the outside. A typical futomaki is five to six centimeters (2–2.5 in) in diameter.
- Hosomaki -("thin rolls") is a small cylindrical piece, with the nori on the outside. A typical hosomaki has a diameter of about two and a half centimeters (1 in).
- Temaki -("hand roll") is a large cone-shaped piece of nori on the outside and the ingredients spilling out the wide end. A typical temaki is about ten centimeters (4 in) long, and is eaten with fingers because it is too awkward to pick it up with chopsticks.
- Uramaki -("inside-out roll") is a medium-sized cylindrical piece with two or more fillings. Uramaki differs from other makimono because the rice is on the outside and the nori inside. The filling is in the center surrounded by nori, then a layer of rice, and an outer coating of some other ingredients such as roe or toasted sesame seeds.
Narezushi -arezushi ("matured sushi") is a traditional form of fermented sushi. Skinned and gutted fish are stuffed with salt, placed in a wooden barrel, doused with salt again, then weighed down with a heavy tsukemonoishi (pickling stone).
Nigirizushi -Nigirizushi ("hand-formed sushi") consists of an oblong mound of sushi rice that the chef presses into a small rectangular box between the palms of the hands, usually with a bit of wasabi, and a topping (the neta) draped over it. Neta are typically fish such as salmon, tuna or other seafood.
Oshizushi - Oshizushi ("pressed sushi"), also known as, hako-zushi, "box sushi"), is a pressed sushi from the Kansai Region, a favorite and specialty of Osaka.
Nori - The black seaweed wrappers used in makimono are called nori. Nori is a type of algae, traditionally cultivated in the harbors of Japan. Originally, algae was scraped from dock pilings, rolled out into thin, edible sheets, and dried in the sun, in a process similar to making rice paper.
Neta – For culinary, sanitary, and aesthetic reasons, the minimum quality and freshness of fish to be eaten raw must be superior to that of fish which is to be cooked.
Condiments -Sushi is commonly eaten with condiments. Sushi may be dipped in shōyu, soy sauce, and may be flavored with wasabi, a piquant paste made from the grated root of the Wasabia japonica plant. Japanese-style mayonnaise is a common condiment in Japan on salmon, pork and other sushi cuts.


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To transform any wooden furniture into an individual shabby chic piece you only need the following material and a bit of time:
- piece of furniture (solid wood)
- sandpaper / sander (coarse and fine grit size)
- wood stain (base color)
- paint (2-3 colors)
- varnish (silk mat)
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- bristly paintbrush
- small paintroller
- piece of cardboard
If your piece of furniture is untreated wood it suffices to prepare the wood with only the fine sandpaper. In case you have to get rid off some old coating, remove it using the coarse sandpaper and finish with the fine.
Clean the wood using a wet towel to remove dust and let it dry before continuing (over night works best).
The transformation starts with applying the wood stain (the new base color of your furniture) using the paintbrush. Apply the color to one side of the furniture(-parts) and let it dry completely before turning over and coloring the rest.
Once the wood stain is applied to the all parts and sides and dried completely you are ready to apply the colour accents. To achieve clear edges mask positions you like to paint using the tape. The shabby chic look is achieved by alternating 2 to 3 colors and by applying them in a random order. Use a quite bristly paint brush, lightly dip it in one of the paints and incorporate the color into the brush by sweeping the brush over the cardboard. Especially in the beginning use only a little paint and try how the apply the paint on a piece cardboard or a spare piece of wood. The frayed and irregular color accents show a fine structure if you use little color and apply it very gently.
Remove the tape while the color is still wet and let the color dry complete. Repeat this procedure if you want to apply more color accents – if you apply several colors next to each other, let each of them dry in between.
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Two days in and I realize that the biggest adjustment to being back at home is getting used to Rhys being mobile. When we left he was still just walking along walls and couldn't really pull himself up on his own. Now he is pretty much running and into EVERYTHING! It is going to take a while to figure out what he can get into and start Rhys-proofing everything.
It feels good to be home. To sit on my couch and watch my TV and sleep in my own bed. I am not sure if Declan is having a hard time adjusting because he keeps coming to our room at 3:00am and crawling into bed with us. Other than that he seems to be pretty happy to back at home with his own toys.
My favorite part at the moment is our heated bathroom floor. There is nothing better than getting out of the shower and stepping on a warm bathmat. I love it.
I get my big test tomorrow in fatherhood. Andrea is leaving for Vancouver for 4 days so I am going to be a single dad for a bit. I am terrified but excited at the same time. I have never had the boys for so long on my own and I am unsure as to how everyone is going to handle it. Pizza party here we come!
I am sure that we will survive and I will develop a new appreciation for single parents everywhere. If no one hears from me in a couple of days however, please send help.
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President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki on Wednesday, November 23 decorated Senator, Dino Melaye with Senator of the Year 2016 award. Hmm, controversial and talk talk Senator was given the award by his 'Friend and Brother' The award ceremony held at Abuja. See more photos… … [Read more...]
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All the gods are not the sameby Searles O'Dubhain
All the gods are not the same. All the gods are not actually one god either. This does not mean that humans from different cultures do not *view* the gods as being the same or as being one in most cases.
I believe that some gods do exist across cultures. I also believe that there are deities of place that are tied to the nature, creatures, plants, animals and physicality of a place. I believe that each river is a different river. I also believe that rivers are connected through streams and the nature of water. Some deities are like rivers and are connected by spirit just like rivers and water. Some deities are like places, and are distinguished one from another by the lay of the land and its influence on its surroundings.
I haven't talked about sky deities yet as they represent change to the max and have aspects of "coming out of nowhere or the unknown," a characteristic they share with deities of the Sea. In some cultures "atmosphere" and "sea" are seen as the same (but different) parts of the third leg of the three realms. The true Sky realms are those that are beyond the mortal pale and represent the future in most cases. The Land and Sea realms/deities have "borders" that touch on the other two aspects of reality.
Sky is something we all see by day and night. Atmosphere and Sea are parts of a realm that touches us everywhere with changes that are eventually the same. It is the Land that maintains its Nature the longest for humans and its other hosted plant and animal children.
We see the Land deities as local and specifically different (unless the Land is somehow the same). The Sea deities seem to be more universal but slightly different in the way they touch the Lands of humans. Across cultures, Sky deities have more in common, but with different names. This is because the Sky touches us all at the same time, distinguished only by separations into day and night or the local effects of weather.
That's how I view the deities of the three realms in general but in particular I can only view the deities personally as they call forth their images from within my psyche. If my traditions are Celtic, the images that I can best perceive are Celtic ones. Other cultural visions and images of deities will vary. Deities can call up whatever image and appearance they so desire and we'd see them that way to the limits of our perceptive capabilities. If they uncloaked themselves before us and appeared in all their power, we would just be psychic cinders before them.
In the Irish tales, deities often appear as humans and only throw off these cloaks and shells when they've achieved their purposes for us to realize their purpose. It is at that point in the tales, when clarity is restored and the subject realizes that the person is Lugh, Manannán, the Morrigan, or some other deity or Sídhe being. These beings are described when in human guise, but rarely are they described in their deity aspects. One just *knows* who they are through realization.
When tales are told across cultures, people have a natural tendency to consider these deities to be similar or the same as their own with different names and some cultural quirks. The Celtic culture moved across a large part of Europe influencing local tales of deities as it went. Some Celtic people raided and conquered one another across local seas and land boundaries until their cultures and traditions blended. This is why the deities in Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Britain and Brittany often have similar sounding names as well as very similar tales associated with them. Language and this blending of cultures also prepares people to assign their names to similar deities.
Are all the deities the same?
No! Two beings are never exactly alike even when they are twins.
Are all deities one deity?
No! Deities can be seen as a collective unity in the same way that worlds can be seen as one thing, but certain aspects are different when one gets close enough.
When taken to the limits, one extreme is infinity, which is so large that it cannot exist in a finite space. On the other extreme of limits is *nothing*. In nothing there cannot even be the smallest perception. In both cases *knowing* is impossible. It is only between the two extremes that real and perceived life can occur in being. It is due to these three aspects of possibilities that there are three realms and three deities who are said to be the top deities of their realms in the cultures touched by Triads. There is a deity of destruction who borders the goddess of nothing (i.e. the eternal and non existent, unknown depths; the abyss). There is a deity that is very large and represents the All-Father who touches on the goddess of the infinite whose realm expands beyond our perception into ever growing and all encompassing everywhere. Her streams are star rivers yet she is everything even the All-Father's mother. Between these extremes are the localities that are physical both in being and in dreams. These are the deities of creation and chaos. They are the deities we speak of in our various cultures; they take on shapes that are local, shared at times and seemingly universal if they touch us in every part of our lives. The "All-Father" and the "Great-Mother" represent these deities for us. We call them by the names we've been taught and have learned from our families, teachers and psyches.
I know the names of the deities that touch and affect the world around me from my own upbringing and education. I don't know all the deities of other people as intimately. I experience my deities as they allow me to perceive them. I can tell you how they appear to me, but cannot truly tell you how they are. Other folks do much the same. It's good to have a relationship with one's deities and spirits. That is what is so marvelous about finding one's ancestors and roots. It is then that we recognize their deities as our deities.
I call the Great Abyss, Domnu. I call the Infinite Sky, Danu. I call the All Father, An Dagda. I call the Great Mother, An Morrigan. I name their children in families according to the tales of the Tuatha Dé Domnann and the Tuatha Dé Danann. Those who exist locally have their own names that they tell me or have told my ancestors and friends. Some of these have names like the Sons of Mil while others have names like Niall of the Nine Hostages and Dubad. On one of the wheels I use in divination there are nine ancestral deities or Great Ones. There are nine children from the Abyss, the Fomorii and their minions, the Firbolg. There are nine children of the Sky River, the Tuatha Dé Danann. When fate or destiny winds and weaves over this wheel, chance and power shape the readings as the deities will it to be and as my feeble abilities can discern their resolution.
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Aug. 1 - I need to finish this Prague blogging and get on with my life so today I'm just going to cut to the chase. (And if that requires that I stoop to the occassional cliché, so be it.)
I'm going to skip all the stuff about the city's beauty, friendliness, and optimism. I'm not going to relate the story of our $40 cab ride late Saturday night, even though it gave us an alternate view of Prague—as a blurry and terrifying city of fast-approaching objects and skittish pedestrians.
I'm going to get right to the Stones concert.
As I mentioned earlier, Mick Jagger had turned sixty the day before the concert, so this was the first Stones concert for a sixty-something Mick. I don't know why I thought that was important, but I did.
In the event, it wasn't. Some fans sang happy birthday, Mick smiled and waved, and that was about it. But that was much later.
The interesting thing happened before the Stones took the stage and after the last of the warm-up bands had retired backstage.
The interesting thing was the introduction. A man of about Mick's age came somberly out of the wings. He was dressed in a suit and tie. He began addressing us over the P.A. in Czech. The giant screens mounted on the stage scaffolding showed a face that seemed somehow familiar to me.
It took me a few minutes to realize that the Rolling Stones were being introduced by Vaclav Havel, the President of the Czech Republic.
I realize Mr. Havel is not your ordinary president. I realize the Czech Republic isn't exactly a world power. It's hard, as an American, to acclimatize myself to smaller countries. The former Danish Prime Minister, for example, works out at our gym. The DMB has seen him there twice in the past week or so. (I may have seen him also, but I wouldn't know him if I saw him so it's hard to say.) No secret service detachments. No advance teams running background checks on us. Just a retired head of state working up a sweat on the stair-climber.
So, as I said, I understand there's a different scale involved with smaller nations.
I also realize the Stones have tremendous cross-cultural and cross-generational appeal. They're a marketing force unto themselves. I can't think of many public figures that would lose by letting a little of the Rolling Stones "brand" rub off on them.
With all that in mind, I've been rummaging through my thoughts for some kind of appropriate philosophical generality or sociological observation to make about Havel's introduction. I haven't found any. That's not because there aren't any there—it's because I'm an idiot and can never see the forest for the trees. Hell, I can't even see the trees for the trunks I keep walking into.
But surely there's something going on when a band that made its name on rowdy countercultural antics (and good music), a band that could be, or could once have been, held up as an icon of capitalist "decadence," is personally introduced by the first democratically-elected president of a former police state.
But then again, maybe there's not.
August, The Sixth Month
It's August, which means it's National Catfish Month. It's also National Golf Month, National Eye Exam Month, National Water Quality Month, Romance Awareness Month, Peach Month, and Foot Health Month.
How did a single month become so important? Like almost everything else that's difficult to understand, the history of August begins in Ancient Rome.
The Roman calendar was a mess. Not just because there were VII days in a week and XXVIII days in a month, but also because the calendar was being managed by a high priest. In 46 BC, for example, autumn began in January. This irritated Julius Caesar, who demanded that the calendar be reformed to make sense—and that the priests assigned to manage it stop getting high.
Caesar's new calendar went into effect on January 1, 45 BC. The fifth month of the year, Quintilis, which was actually been the seventh month of the year, was renamed July—short for Julius—in honor of his work on the calendar. (Calendar professionals still refer to July as the "Caesarian section.")
Years later, after Caesar's grand-nephew defeated Mark Anthony and Cleopatra and became emperor of Rome, the Senate decided to name a month after him. They chose the month of Sextillus, the sixth month (and therefore eighth), and renamed it Gaius Octavianus. Fortunately the Emperor renamed himself Augustus before any calendars had been printed.
The Emperor was not entirely pleased. His month had only 30 days, whereas his grand-uncle's had 31. The Senate immediately added another day to August, removing it from February in the hope of losing one day of winter to gain one of summer.
The Wild Kilo
On August 1, 1793, the kilogram first appeared in France. Developed by priests and scientists, the kilogram flourished as soon as it was released into the wild and can now be found thriving throughout the world. The kilogram can be found in parts of the United States, but has encountered too many indigineous predators to establish dominance.
El Rio de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula
In 1769, Spain sent an exploratory expedition from San Diego to Monterey to survey the area and identify places worth sending more people. The expedition was led by Gaspar de Portola, nephew of the celebrated Spanish comedian Uncle Porky, and included a number of religious missionaries assigned to impose afternoon naps upon the heathens.
Camping on some fertile ground beside a river on August 2, Father Juan Crespi suggested they name the river El Rio de Padre Juan Crespi. As the laughter subsided, he suggested El Rio de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula, "The River of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Uncle Porky." It was agreed, and the merry band continued on their way.
Twelve years later Mexico's Spanish Governor, Felipe de Neve, began dispatching settlers to establish pueblos in the name of the Spanish King. These settlers were called "Los Pobladores" on account of their penchant for Poblas. One such group, led by Captain Rivera y Moncada, settled in the area by the previously mentioned river. They named their new community "Our Pueblo by the River of Our Lady of the Angels of Uncle Porky."
The settlement grew, and came to be known as "The City by the Pueblo by the River of Our Lady of the Angels of Uncle Porky."
In 1822, Mexico took California from Spain. In 1846, following two years of hostilities, the United States took it from Mexico. Many Americans were injured attempting to pronounce the name of El Ciudad del Pueblo del Rio de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula, which they therefore renamed Los Angeles in 1850.
California was admitted to the Union later that year.
Los Angeles retained that name until the middle of the last century, when even that became too difficult for most American tongues, at which point it finally became L.A.
Other Stuff
On August 2, 1887, Rowell Hodge patented barbed wire. Mr Hodge had been inspired by the maxim that "good fences make good neighbors." He believed that barbed wire fences would make good neighbors even better while shredding the flesh of bad neighbors to bloody ribbons.
Half an hour before sunrise on August 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus famously set out to cross the ocean blue in a fleet of three ships: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula.
Holidays and Birthdays
August 1 is Independence Day in Benin and National Day in Switzerland. It's also "sometimes" Wattle Day in New South Wales, Australia.
August 2 is the Anniversary of Uprising in Macedonia.
August 3 is Independence Day in Niger and National Watermelon Day in the United States.
August 1 is the birthday of Jerry Garcia (1942), Yves Saint Laurent (1936), Dom DeLuise (1933), Herman Melville (1819), Francis Scott Key (1779), and William Clark (1770).
Born on August 2: Victoria Jackson (1959), Judge Lance Ito (1950), Peter O'Toole (1932), James Baldwin (1924), Carroll O'Connor (1924), and Myrna Loy (1905).
Born on August 3: John Landis (1950), Martha Stewart (1941), Martin Sheen (1940), and Tony Bennett (1926).
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Raja Ampat Archipelago located in West Papua Province of Indonesia is a unique place that every freediver dreaming about. This is officially the richest reefs in the world. 75% of all known coral species in the world, 1300 fish species, 13 species of marine mammals, 7 species of sea turtles, 700 species of molluscs, 57 species of marine shrimps. There is no other place on the Earth where freedivers can enjoy such richness of underwater world! Landscapes of Raja Ampat are unique and scenic as well.
Taking a path from Bali island towards the East, crossing 2 time zones, travelers will find themselves on the western tip of New Guinea island, in West Papua province of Indonesia. Words can not really describe the pleasure of what you will have as a freediver during diving there: go out of your bungalow, while walking to the shore put on your mask and snorkel on, put on the fins and you are ready to enjoy the richest underwater jungle. You don't need to go far from your homestay, the home reef is a wonderful spot: sharks, humpheads, several species of rays, gracious mantas, turtles, dugongs, dolphins…all of them enjoying life among coral gardens colored in all known colors.
The trip to these islands in the middle of nowhere is unforgettable experience and something that can be told to children and grandchildren.
We will spend one week on the small island called Kri doing some freediving training on the home reef and exploring underwater life of Raja Ampat as well as land wonders of archipelago.
We are happy to welcome experienced freedivers and as well as beginners as training programs will be planned according to your physical form and freediving experience. During the trip we will learn the art of freediving given by experienced instructors for you to use the new knowledges and skills later in some of the best dive sites in the world. You will enjoy being underwater and interacting with thousands of sea creatures that we will see.
No special skills are needed to participate the trip!
Therefore, even if you are not familiar with freediving but curious about your capabilities to naturally hold your breath under water, this trip can become a unique opportunity to learn freediving and building a connection with the water.
Also we invite you to learn to freedive or gain more freediving experience with us on Nusa Penida before the trip!
If you have not tried it before and learn all the basics for freediving in our two day course. If you are already a certified freediver you can join us for training or take advanced courses and better prepare yourself for the trip.
We have an experienced guide in our team, who has spent years in Indonesia, speak fluent Indonesian, knows a lot about social and cultural history of this huge country, and understands locals as people of his own country. We will also make our trip to be a journey into Indonesian culture and local's everyday life.
Price: USD 1300
Included in the trip
- Freediving sessions guided by professional freediving instructors and guides
- Yoga and breathing classes
- All tickets and permits, including diving permits in Raja Ampat
- All transportation fees during the program, except flights
- Accommodation (two people in one room) in a bungalows on the Kri island, 6 nights with meals 3 times a day
- Three nights stay in hotels in Makassar, Waisai and Sorong (two people in one room)
- Rental of freediving equipment
Excluded / additional costs
- Flights Bali-Makassar-Sorong and Sorong-Makassar-Bali
- Soft drinks & alcoholic beverages
- Meals other than mentioned above.
- Travel insurance
Trip Schedule
Day 1
Afternoon flight from Bali to Makassar and spend an overnight in the airport's hotel before taking one more flight to the city of Sorong.
Day 2
After arrival in Sorong, we will be transferred to the harbour and take a 3 hours journey by ferry to Waisai – administrative center of Raja Ampat Archipelago.
Check in at the guesthouse, rest after a long journey, walk around the city and dinner at the evening market.
Day 3
Early morning trekking to the jungle to see unique birds-of-paradise that inhabit only here. Return to the guesthouse around noon.
Transfer by speed boat to Kri island, the place which will be our home for the next days.
Check-in at the guesthouse. Having rest and first freediving on the home reef full of life: schools of fish, turtles, sharks and dozens of other amazing underwater inhabitants.
Our homestay's jetty reaches the distance of 50m out of the shore where 15-20 m depth is already available. Home reefs are located between a couples of hundreds meters long, stretching along the coast. It is a perfect spot for your first discoveries into the underwater world of archipelago.
Day 4-6
Every day we will start with yoga and breathing practices.
Then we will have freediving training on the buoy.
The first days we will explore dive sites around Kri Island and nearest Mansuar. There are plenty of them around: Chicken reef, Kri Cape, Blue Magic, Sardine reef, Mioskon Reef, and more.
The evenings will spend in the guesthouse café while discuss the bright impressions of the day, share emotions, play board games or watching freedive videos.
Day 7
After our days of diving around Kri and Mansuar, we will go for more diving in some spots of North Raja Ampat that are reachable by speedboat.
Dive sties near island Gam: Arborek Jetty (near the island Arborek with amazing sunset that we will enjoy after one of our fun dives), Mike's Point, Laosi, and Manta Sandy.
Day 8
Today we will travel to Pianemo island to check the famous, beautiful karst islands. On the way we will stop by some spots to dive on several reefs.
We will also visit the magic place of Floating Sand which is a group of sand islands that are only visible during the low tide. These islands are the tips of atolls with beautiful reef on its edges which will also be a spot for us to dive.
Day 9
Transfer to Waisai.
Return by ferry to Sorong and overnight at the hotel. Evening walk through Sorong.
Day 10
Flight back to Bali. The end of a long and unforgettable journey.
Booking and Payment
To book this trip we ask you to pay a deposit of 300 USD (+5% PayPal-Fee) per person via the PayPal link we will provide you for bookings. For paying via credit card, please also use this link. This deposit is non-refundable unless the trip will be cancelled from our side.
The remaining payment can be done via PayPal or in cash (USD or IDR using exchange rate on day of payment). Payments via PayPal are subject of additional 5% to cover PayPal Fees. The PayPal Fee of 5% for payments is non-refundable.
Full payment is due 14 days before the start of the trip.
Cancellations and Refund
A cancellation fee of 300 USD applies to all bookings. The extra PayPal Fee of 5% for payments is non-refundable.
For cancellations by customers a cancellation fee of 300 USD applies. For cancellations before the start of the trip we will refund payments above 300 USD.
Cancellations by Freedive Nusa
To run the Raja Ampat Trip a minimum number of bookings of 4 customers will be necessary.
Up to 14 days in advance of the start date Freedive Nusa will be able to cancel the trip. In this case full refund of all payments including the 300 USD deposit will be given to customers. With you booking you agree, that Freedive Nusa will not be held liable for any other travel arrangements might by customers, including but not limited to flights and transportation bookings to get to and from Sorong, reservations for accommodation, etc.
Itinerary changes
Sailing itineraries and daily programs are subject to change due to weather and sea conditions, availability of safe anchorage, government regulations and other factors. Every effort will be made to carry out the program as planned. Program changes may take place during the cruise to take advantage of local cultural events, to adapt to sailing conditions, or in response to other factors. Only if the duration of the trip or event is adversely affected shall Freedive Nusa refund the difference between the agreed tour price and the services actually provided.


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In February 2009 a group of Danish soldiers accompanied by documentary filmmaker Janus Metz arrived at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cameraman Lars Skree spent six months following the lives of young soldiers situated less than a kilometer away from Taliban positions. The outcome of their work is a gripping and highly authentic war drama that was justly awarded the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at this year's Cannes film festival. But it also provoked furious debate in Denmark concerning the controversial behavior of certain Danish soldiers during a shootout with Taliban fighters. The filmmakers repeatedly risked their lives shooting this tense, brilliantly edited, and visually sophisticated probe into the psychology of young men in the midst of a senseless war whose victims are primarily local villagers. Yet more disturbing than...
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Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama Bin Laden has been killed by US forces, President Barack Obama has said.
The US is said to be in possession of Bin Laden's body.
The al-Qaeda leader was killed in a ground operation in a mansion outside Islamabad in an operation based on US intelligence, reports said.
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Fuel consumption is reduced by over 80% and the total energy consumption by over 60%. The results of the field tests being conducted in Gothenburg show that Volvo Buses' plug-in hybrid more than meets expectations.
"Our performance results are even slightly better than we had anticipated. The plug-in hybrid consumes less than 11 litres of fuel for every 100 kilometres. That's 81% less fuel than the equivalent diesel bus consumes," says Johan Hellsing, who is the Project Manager for the field test at Volvo Buses.
Moreover, the figures for the overall energy consumption, including both diesel and electricity, have exceeded the target. Here, the plug-in hybrid gives an energy saving of 61%, compared to a corresponding diesel bus Euro 5.
The field test in Gothenburg began in June 2013 and includes three plug-in hybrid buses, whose batteries are recharged at the terminals. This makes it possible for the buses to run on electric power for most of the route.
In addition to the significant energy savings and reduced impact on the environment, this technology gives passengers a more comfortable and pleasant journey and improves the working environment of the drivers.
"Although there are many long, steep gradients on the routes, the plug-in hybrid buses can run on electric power for about 85% percent of the time. The diesel engine only kicks in when the bus needs some extra power", Johan Hellsing comments. "The test drivers from GS Buss really appreciate the quiet, vibration-free ride that you get with an electric powered bus."
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As its neighbor Costa Mesa plans to outsource half its workforce, the Newport Beach City Council will consider Tuesday if it should contract out its parking meter operations and enforcement.
The city would have to lay off a full-time meter service worker and a supervisor and it would eliminate the part-time work of another service worker. Additionally, three vacant Police Department parking enforcement positions would remain unfilled, and another service worker plans to retire in April, according to city spokeswoman Tara Finnigan.
In total, almost seven jobs would be removed from the city workforce.
"This program is ideal for contracting out because the industry is very specialized and is able to create greater efficiencies than an in-house operation," Administrative Service Director Tracy McCraner wrote in a staff report.
The report states that the city would save $500,000 per year in operational costs, which are mainly for salaries.
But in the first few years it could be paying more than that to the proposed contractor, Central Parking System Inc. of Nashville, Tenn.
If the meters, under Central's management, bring in the same $3 million annually that the city receives today, then the city would pay Central about $800,000 to operate them each year.
The higher operational cost is because Central would have more employees working the streets than the city does now.
Also, Central plans to replace some of the meters, at a cost of $2.4 million, or about $380,000 for seven years of its contract. Newport gets to keep the equipment, including new credit-card payable meters.
Where the city could save, and possibly make more money, is if Central brings in much more revenue than the meters make today.
Drivers might be more likely to park and pay with a credit card system, City Manager Dave Kiff said, and the meters would simply be in working order.
"We admittedly, did not have enough staff assigned to these efforts and that is mostly related to our budget tightening," Kiff wrote in an email.
Also, with stricter enforcement, Central may give people an incentive to pay the meters more frequently. Any citation fines, though, would go straight to the city.
If the contractor can generate significantly more revenue from the meters – to the tune of more than $4.1 million per year – then it would share the proceeds with the city.


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JOHANNESBURG — On Tuesday, May 8, voters in Johannesburg and Lewiston will be asked by the Johannesburg-Lewiston Area Schools board of education to approve a three-tenths mill levy request to purchase six new buses over the next five years.
The new buses would be used to replace older buses that would be retired from the fleet.
J-L superintendent Jim Hilgendorf said, if passed, revenues from the levy would raise around $500,000 by the end of the five-year millage. Hilgendorf said funds would become available through the summer tax collection later this year.
With cuts to school funding last year of $470 per pupil, Hilgendorf said millage votes for specific school expenditures, such as buses or technology upgrades, are becoming more common across the state.
"More and more these are the things schools are going for to make up for the loss of funding from the state," he said. "What schools receive from the foundation grant hasn't been able to keep up with our costs."
In 2009, voters approved a three-year six-tenths millage request for technology upgrades and new computers. That millage has now expired, and Hilgendorf said the new request for buses will not result in an increase in taxes for residents.
The building bond will be paid off in 2016, the same year as the three-tenths mill bus purchase request, if approved by voters. Hilgendorf said the current state equalized value for the building bond is 1.9 mills which would result in a total millage of 2.2 mills for the two millages, the same as it was for the technology and building bond.
"We just can't go without buying a bus," Hilgendorf said. "We can run one for about 10 years, and then you end up spending too much money on repairs to keep it on the road, and it gets harder for an older bus to pass state inspections. One year we didn't buy a bus when we needed to and used the money to buy textbooks instead."
Hilgendorf said the current price for a new bus would set the district back around $80,000.
Hilgendorf said the millage revenue may only be used for the purchase of new buses and may not be spent on salaries, benefits, textbooks or anything other than its intended purpose as stated in the language of the millage proposal.
Voting in Johannesburg will be held at the Charlton Township offices, 10900 E. M-32, and voters in Lewiston will cast their votes at the Albert Township offices, 4360 Hanson Road. Voting precincts will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.


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Having just gotten the tour of One Broadcast Centre, here's the obligatory outside shot of the studios. I did not take photos inside. The main entrance is out-of-frame to the left; the dish farm is to the right. (One Broadcast Center is very visible on route 116 just west of I-391.)
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1. Analyzed each die cast machine, at minimum give a complete maintenance check-up than washed, scrubbed and painted.
2. Several die cast machines needed improvements and upgrades. We have completed 5 die cast cells and 2 more are in-process. Improvements include robotics, automated ladles and reciprocators. The goal is to make this plant as automated as possible.
3. Move all the die cast machines in "New Bay" from east/west to north /south position. This will allow us to add machines in the future as well as create a more thorough robust process flow. Phase 1 of this project completed in spring of 2016.
1. New Stotek Stack melting furnace (October 2016)
2. Phase 2 of "New Bay" redesign - Moving die cast machine #28 and #30. Die cast machine #30 to be moved to "High Bay."
3. Painting of the interior of the plant.
4. Pass-through Shot blaster.
5. Continued Automation of all die cast machines.
6. Additional larger tonnage die cast machine if sales proves the need.
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British Pathé has now added all of its 85,000 film archives to its YouTube channel. Capturing historical world events and culture it makes for interesting viewing. We know a lot goes into making magazines; including blood, sweat and sometimes tears so spare a thought for the magazine makers of a bygone era who created editorial magic through illustrations and the written word. While there's certainly no sign of a circulation or marketing department, the art department gets an honourable mention with vision of the literal cut and paste process of the art direction and layout. So much has changed and we can thank our lucky stars for technology.
About British Pathé: The world's finest news and entertainment video film archive. Since the invention of the moving image in the 1890's, British Pathé began recording every aspect of global culture and news, for the cinema. With their unique combination of information and entertainment, British Pathé's documentaries, newsreels, serials and films changed the way the world saw itself forever.
With it's unparalleled collection of historical events and vast catalogue of changing social activity, British Pathé encompasses one of the world's most prodigious and fascinating documents of the modern age. From fashion to warfare and sport to travel, British Pathé is the definitive source for the 20th century in moving images. You can watch their YouTube channel here.
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Technically, "installing" also may (or may not) put something into the registry.
11/26/2017, 18:37:53
But that seldom makes any difference, since the game will be most often happy to create the appropriate keys itself if it doesn't find them. The worst thing that can happen is that you'll lose your game settings (like sound and music volume etc.) (since these are the things that are most often shoved into the registry).
With other programs, you may lose other things this way (for instance, the menu you get after right-clicking a file or directory is controlled from within the registry. Some programs like WinRAR will put shortcuts in there, so you can just right-click a folder and then click "Pack to RAR".), but I think I've never met a program that would refuse to run if it doesn't have its registry keys in the place.
(Note that, however, the setup programs check for the registry keys, so they will think that the game is still "uninstalled". Which may cause some mess when you want to uninstall or reinstall the game .)


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The tech community is abuzz because of a change in Google Search this week. Google started rolling out personalized results into its search results this week, calling it "Search Plus Your Web." Now, when users are signed into Google, Google+ Profiles, Pages and other content will show up in their searches. The move is not a complete delve into social search, as there are still "global search results," which will toggle on when clicking the button on the upper right hand corner of results or by signing off.
The idea behind Google's new social search is not new; content shared by friends is more relevant than that shared by strangers. People have been conducting their own social searches using social networks like Facebook and Twitter for years by asking for recommendations directly. "Search Plus Your Web" automates this process and allows for instant results rather than waiting for someone to actively respond.
Many social networks and travel sites not associated with Google such as Twitter, Facebook, Yelp and TripAdvisor are displeased with the changes because they "favor" Google+ Pages, Profiles and pictures over their own by placing them on top of search results. Google also displays Google Maps , Google+ Profiles, and Places pages on the right-hand side of searches for places.
What does all of this change mean for hotels? They can no longer afford to ignore Google+ and Google Places as a growing social network. Google is the largest search engine, and it is commonly known that many people do not look past the first page of their search results. A Google search for "hotels in Beverly Hills" will bring up the page below, with personalized results at the very top of the page. When a traveler sees that someone in his or her network has posted about a hotel in the area they are researching, as long as it is a positive review/post, it is likely that they will consider that hotel over random results further down on the page.
Further, a search for information on a specific hotel (such as Four Seasons, pictured below) will bring up not only personalized results at the top, but also its Google Places on the right-hand side with maps, pictures and information such as prices, bus lines and ratings. Having all this displayed is valuable because customers instantly have potentially enough information to decide whether or not to stay at this hotel right without even leaving the search results.
Since Google Places pages are now such a big part of Google search results, hotels should take care to create, moderate and liven up their pages by answering questions like these:
- Does your hotel's Google Places page contain pictures? If not, it certainly should. If so, do they highlight the positive aspects of your hotel? It may be time to update those older pictures, especially if the hotel has recently gone through renovations.
- Where do you stand in terms of reviews on Google Places? If many of your reviews are negative, perhaps you need to work harder to encourage happy guests to review on Google Places.


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A Sermon Preached at the ACK St. James Parish Buruburu during the first Service (Kiswahili Holy Communion Service) on Sunday 18th February, 2018.
Lectionary Readings:
- Psalm 25:1-9
- Genesis 9:8-17
- 1 Peter 3:18-22
- Mark 1:9-15
During the period of Lent, Christians are called to take a spiritual journey of transformation through reflection and repentance. Lent is not just an exercise of abstinence from physical food but spiritual practice leading to spiritual transformation. "Lenten Practice…" calls us to "The Celebration of God's Covenant with Humanity"; the covenant of life and not destruction; the covenant of grace and not vengeance; the covenant of reconciliation and not separation.
When we talk about "The Lenten Practice – The Celebration of God's Covenant", it means:
- The Celebration of God's Grace
Because of sin, humanity deserves God's anger, vengeance and punishment. It is not in God's best interest to destroy His creation or to punish His people. However, due to sin, God is compelled to punish the sinner:
Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Ezekiel 18:20a "The souls who sins is the one who will die."
Because of sin, God destroyed the first world with the flood –
Genesis 6:9a-14 "Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. 11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out."
I believe this was the most painful decision for God to make; destroying all that He had declared as "…very good…" (Gen. 1:31).
A reading of Genesis 9:8-17, gives a picture of a God who mourned the destruction of His creation as a punishment of humanity's sin; it gives a picture of a God who regrets His action of a near termination of the whole creation due to humanity's sin; and it paints a picture of a God who seeks a solution to save His creation.
Genesis 9:8-11 "8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.
God was remorseful for His actions and swore in a covenant that "…Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
When we talk about "The Lenten Practice – The Celebration of God's Covenant", it means:
- The Celebration of the Defeat of Sin
Through God's covenant with humanity, God provided away out for humanity to defeat sin. Sin can be overcome, sin can be defeated and sin has been defeated through Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 3:18 "For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit,"
The fact that …Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous… does not mean that an individual is exempted from the responsibilities and the consequences of sins. However, away has been provided by God, Himself, for the forgiveness and the overcoming of sins.
We can escape the consequences of sins through "The Practice of Lent". Lenten period, offers us an opportunity for reflection, humility, brokenness and repentance.
David felt the weight of his sins and the pain of separation from God. And during his Lent experience, he turned to God with the powerful repentance words:
Psalm 25:1-9 "1 To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul; 2 in you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me. 3 No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame who are treacherous without excuse. 4 Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; 5 guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. 6 Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. 7 Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD. 8 Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways. 9 He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way."
- Sin brings shame
- Sin brings defeat – Absalom's rebellion
When we talk about "The Lenten Practice – The Celebration of God's Covenant", it means:
- The Celebration of the Transformational Mandate
"The Lenten Practice…" leads to a spiritual-rebirth; spiritual transformation leading to transformational mandate. We have been called to be transformation agents but the actual involvement in the transformational activities is birth by "The Lenten Practice…" Friends, successful spiritual transformers birthed by The Lenten Practice.
In Mark's gospel, the synoptic writer – the evangelist Mark, gives us a clear evidence of the sequence of events that launched Jesus into His ministry of spiritual transformation:
Mark 1:9-15 "9 At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10 As Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 11 And a voice came from heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased." 12 At once the Spirit sent him out into the desert, 13 and he was in the desert forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him. 14 After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. 15 "The time has come," he said. "The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!"
- First: He was baptised in River Jordan
- Second: He was filled with/by the Holy Spirit
- Third: He was affirmed by God the Father
- Fourth: He was led by the Holy Spirit into the desert for "The Lenten Practice"
- Fifth: He began His ministry of spiritual transformation
The Lenten Practice leads to a spiritual rebirth so that we can become spiritual transformation agents.
Lent is that time of withdrawal; a momentary withdrawal from the world around us and have self-reflection. It is that time of coming out of the self to see the self though the holy eyes of God the conviction of the Holy Spirit.
As we observe this year's Lent period, may we truly enter into "The Lenten Practice" which leads us to "The Celebration of God's Covenant" of the preservation of life. It is God's will not to destroy His creation but to give life and to preserve life.
1st Sunday of Lent 2018
Your brother in Christ Jesus
The Rev. Simon J. Oriedo
Curate at the ACK St. James Buruburu – Nairobi, Kenya