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Formats and tools
- Unit Description
- Reconstruct the unit from the xml and display it as an HTML page.
- Assessment Tool
- an assessor resource that builds a framework for writing an assessment tool
- Assessment Template
- generate a spreadsheet for marking this unit in a classroom environment. Put student names in the top row and check them off as they demonstrate competenece for each of the unit's elements and performance criteria.
- Assessment Matrix
- a slightly different format than the assessment template. A spreadsheet with unit names, elements and performance criteria in separate columns. Put assessment names in column headings to track which performance criteria each one covers. Good for ensuring that you've covered every one of the performance criteria with your assessment instrument (all assessement tools together).
- Wiki Markup
- mark up the unit in a wiki markup codes, ready to copy and paste into a wiki page. The output will work in most wikis but is designed to work particularly well as a Wikiversity learning project.
- Evidence Guide
- create an evidence guide for workplace assessment and RPL applicants
- Competency Mapping Template
- Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners. A template for developing assessments for a unit, which will help you to create valid, fair and reliable assessments for the unit, ready to give to trainers and students
- Observation Checklist
- create an observation checklist for workplace assessment and RPL applicants. This is similar to the evidence guide above, but a little shorter and friendlier on your printer. You will also need to create a seperate Assessor Marking Guide for guidelines on gathering evidence and a list of key points for each activity observed using the unit's range statement, required skills and evidence required (see the unit's html page for details)
- Self Assessment Survey
- A form for students to assess thier current skill levels against each of the unit's performance criteria. Cut and paste into a web document or print and distribute in hard copy.
- Moodle Outcomes
- Create a csv file of the unit's performance criteria to import into a moodle course as outcomes, ready to associate with each of your assignments. Here's a quick 'how to' for importing these into moodle 2.x
- Registered Training Organisations
- Trying to find someone to train or assess you? This link lists all the RTOs that are currently registered to deliver SITTPPD008, 'Develop tourism products'.
- Google Links
- links to google searches, with filtering in place to maximise the usefulness of the returned results
- Books
- Reference books for 'Develop tourism products' on fishpond.com.au. This online store has a huge range of books, pretty reasonable prices, free delivery in Australia *and* they give a small commission to ntisthis.com for every purchase, so go nuts :)
Elements and Performance Criteria
Elements describe the essential outcomes.
Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.
1. Research the market.
1.1.Focus product research according to organisational objectives.
1.2.Evaluate information sources for tourism, tourism market trends, and distribution and marketing networks.
1.3.Consult with internal and external stakeholders.
1.4.Analyse current market trends, needs, and product and service gaps.
1.5.Identify product development opportunities and target markets, including opportunities for new and innovative approaches.
1.6.Evaluate distribution and marketing networks that support proposed tourism product, including the use of new technologies.
2. Analyse issues relevant to product establishment.
2.1.Identify and analyse product preferences and quality expectations of different consumer markets, including those with special needs.
2.2.Identify and assess external issues that impact on establishing a product.
2.3.Assess suitability of destinations for accessibility and availability of services for target markets.
2.4.Assess organisational capacity to provide proposed product and identify additional resources required.
2.5.Consider issues relating to product life cycle.
3. Determine profitable selling price.
3.1.Determine net delivery cost by identifying expenditure items.
3.2.Identify organisations involved in the product distribution network and the commission or mark up structures that would apply.
3.3.Incorporate distributor commissions or mark-ups, and determine required profit margin and mark-up for profit.
3.4.Make reasonable cost adjustments to ensure price-competitive product.
3.5.Estimate expected income and assess profitability and yield.
3.6.Clearly and accurately document pricing structures.
4. Establish the product.
4.1.Create and implement product development plan that incorporates strategies and actions for marketing, communications and implementation.
4.2.Communicate plan to relevant internal and external stakeholders.
4.3.Where appropriate, test new products and services in marketplace prior to full implementation.
5. Monitor and evaluate the success of the product.
5.1.Monitor product development initiatives based on feedback and other business factors.
5.2.Identify and action changes required in a timely manner and according to any contractual obligations.
5.3.Communicate changes to relevant colleagues, customers and distributors.


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|Labor of Love
|By: Lauren Weiner
|Posted: October 31, 2014
|This article appeared in: Vol. XIV, Number 4, Fall 2014
A review of All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of M
|Opinions expressed in signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the editors, the Claremont Institute, or its board of directors. Nothing in this journal, whether in print or pixels, is an attempt to aid or hinder the passage of any bill or influence the election of any candidate.
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Is it really possible to have a house sold right away to a person who can afford it through cash payment.
If you're ready to sell a house and need to get rid of it quickly, you might be able to work with real estate cash buyers. These real estate buyers usually have their own business of buying homes for investment purposes and many other like rentals, flipping, and many other means that can earn them profit. These are the ones who usually have all the cash they need to buy the Mark King Properties they want. They are the fastest to transact with and are the best people to negotiate with when it comes to sellers wanting to have their houses sold in no time.
A few of the sellers who want to get rid of their houses already are sometimes drowning in doubts about these people or real estate investors who have the ability to give them cash really quickly. You must have to consider a few things before you try to negotiate with a cash buyer:
- These cash buyers are real estate investors.
They usually already have their cash ready for them. These investors usually buy properties to use them for their investments, they are not really on the lookout for homes they can have families in. They are just like all those other business owners who also have to keep up with regards to inventory in order for these people to gain profit regularly. Selling your house to cash buyers is just the same thing as selling stuff to those different investors in the business world. Except of course that they have cash with them all the time, only that their investments and the kind of business that they are handling is very much stagnant. Read further about home buying at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_property.
- Cash buyers will always look for homes that are marketable, and will not think twice about buying them.
These people are very much into homes that are marketable, so you cannot expect them to just simply acquire for you property if the property itself is not attracted for them or for the business they are running. If you want to have that property be sold right away, you must be able to maintain its cleanliness and keep it as functional as possible in order to attract these kinds of buyers. Some few repairs and fixes will also do good for your home for it to be bought right away by a cash buyer. Visit www.markkingproperties.co.uk if you have questions.


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A few samples of recent recognition for our winemaker, Jay Somers, and our wines. Enjoy!
J. Christopher Named Wine & Spirits Top 100 Winery!
Wine and Spirits Magazine has chosen J. Christopher as one of the 2017 Top 100 Wineries in the world!!! This is our second year in a row and third in the last four years.
Wine & Spirits Reviews J. Christopher's 2014 Vintage
J. Christopher Named Wine & Spirits Top 100 Winery!
Wine and Spirits Magazine has chosen J. Christopher as one of the 2016 Top 100 Wineries in the world!
"Jay Somers allows his spontaneous fermentations to continue as long as necessary, sometimes into the following spring. This may account for the family resemblance, texturally, in Somer's appellation wines: Lumiere (Eola- Amity Hills), Nuages (Chehalem Mountains), the Dundee Hills Cuvee, and, not least, the exceptionally well priced Willamette Valley bottling. Taken together they feel sublte and pure, with a clarity of fruit that reflect his harvest triage [...]." Read Full Article
Vinous' Josh Raynolds 2014 Reviews
"Appassionata Vineyard Estate 2014 - 94 pts - Deep red. An exotically perfumed bouquet evokes ripe red berries, cherry cola, spicecake and rose pastille, along with smoky mineral and vanilla overtones. Shows deeper dark fruit character on the palate, offering energetic, smoke-laced black raspberry and cola flavors enlivened by a spine of juicy acidity. Closes with repeating smokiness, finegrained tannins and outstanding, floral-tinged persistence."
"Abbey Ridge Vineyard 2014 - 92 pts - (25 percent new oak) Brilliant red. Powerful, spice-laced red berry and rose pastille scents are clemented by hints of smoky minerals and star anise. Juicy and precise on the palate, offering sappy bitter cherry and raspberry flavors that deepen and become sweeter on the back half. Delivers a serious punch of red fruit flavor but comes off lithe and elegant, finishing with impressive persistence and sneaky, fine-grained tannins.""Charlie's Vineyard 2014 - 93 pts - (25 percent new oak) Vivid red. Ripe red berries, cherry cola, musky earth and potpourri on the deeply perfumed nose. Smooth and sweet on entry, then more taut in the mid-palate, offering sharply focused bitter cherry and black raspberry flavors and subtle hints of vanilla and spice-cake. A smoky nuance emerges with air and carries through an impressively long, gently tannic finish, which echoes the floral note.""Lia's Vineyard 2014 - 92 pts - (25 percent new oak) Lurid red. Highly perfumed black raspberry, cherry cola and floral scents are complemented by hints of white pepper and cola, and a mineral element adds nerve and lift. Sappy, deeply concentrated but lively red fruit liqueur, mocha and floral pastille flavors are accented by a touch of allspice on the back half. Closes silky, sweet and very long, delivering impressive clarity and smooth tannins that fade slowly into the juicy fruit.""Sandra Adele 2014 - 92 pts - Lurid red. High-pitched aromas of ripe raspberry, cherry pit, Asian spices and fresh flowers develop a zesty mineral quality in the glass. Gently sweet, penetrating and focused on the palate, offering vibrant red berry and bitter cherry flavors that flesh out and put on weight with air. Smoke and spicecake notes appear on the clinging, smoke-tinged finish, which features even tannins and an echo of bitter cherry."
Our AVA Series Wines: Lumiere, Nuages, and Dundee Hills also scored over 90 pts!
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James Suckling's 2014 Reviews
"Abbey Ridge Vineyard 2014 - 93 pts - Aromas of dried strawberries and toffee follow through to a medium to full body, fine and chewy tannins and a fresh and flavorful finish. Stylish and cool. Drink or hold."
"Sandra Adele 2014 - 93 pts - Ripe strawberries with hints of spices and dried flowers on the nose. Medium to full body, silky tannins and a clean and racy finish. Very intense and focused. Drink or hold."
"Lia's Vineyard 2014 - 93 pts - Aromas of dried berries, chocolate, and walnut skin. Full body, tight tannins, and fresh acidity. This is a young wine that needs time to open but it's already exciting. Better in 2019."
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Wine & Spirits Rates Our 2013 Dundee Hills Cuvee Pinot Noir #1 U.S.
"The pure red-fruited drive of Dundee Hills Pinot comes through in this fresh, generous 2013, lent complexity by some pipe-tobacco spiciness and dusty mineral flavor." -Patrick J. Comiskey
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Wine Enthusiast 2013 Tasting Notes & Ratings
"Lia's Vineyard 2013 - 94 pts- This begins with compelling aromas of rose petals and breakfast tea. Those tea-like tannins underscore an elegant wine with subtle fruit flavors. A delicate dance partners the fresh cherry fruit, the baking spices and other barrel-influenced accents, soft but penetrating tannins and the lightly chalky minerality. Lovely already, it should continue to drink well through 2025."
"Olenik Vineyard 2013 - 93 pts - Expressive and loaded with fruit, mineral and spice components, this powerful wine centers around dense flavors of black cherry and cassis. Threads of coffee, caramel, wet rock and citrus keep coming through, and the wine seems to gain strength as it goes. Just a hint of heat comes out in the tail end."
"Sandra Adele 2013 - 92 pts - In a strong lineup of beautifully balanced Pinots, this cuvée shows just a touch more stem and leaf, and keeps the fruit on the tart end of the berry and cherry spectrum. The tannins remain a bit stiff and unyielding, but overall the punch and weight suggest that this is a wine bound for further development and improvement in bottle. Drink 2018–2025."
"Lumiere Eola Amity Hills 2013 - 92 pts - Pretty cherry fruit, lightly candied, steals the show here. There's a dash of cinnamon and a pleasantly toasty frame around the tannins, all in proportion and delivering clean, generous flavors through the lingering finish."
"Dundee Hills Cuvee 2013 - 91 pts - This barrel selection evokes the AVA's black-cherry fruit character nicely, keeping it lively and balanced, with excellent depth. Tasting the wine is like gazing into a deep pool; the flavors keep pushing further into the finish. Streaks of coffee and milk chocolate are in the mix, but it's the excellent fruit that captures your attention and holds it."
"Nuages Chehalem Mountains 2013 - 91 pts - The Nuages cuvée delicately includes lightly peppery herbal notes in the fruit-filled wine that leans toward blueberries and cherries. There is a streak of brown sugar, and the overall balance is exacting. Despite the relative youth, nothing seems awkward or out of place. Drink now through 2022."
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Chuck Hill Recommends Our 2013 Cuvée Lunatique Chardonnay
"There are some wines that just grab you, and they move to the top of the rankings. Look for white peach and green apple, dusty mineral and citrus on the finish - great with seafood or other lighter meals."
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Wine Enthusiast Rates Our 2012 Lineup
"Lia's Vineyard 2012 - 94 pts | Cellar Selection - This is introduced by scents of rose and cherry blossoms, with a hint of butterscotch. Once tasted it;s a lush, forward, sweetly appealing wine with the impressive fruit concentration of the 2012 vintage, underscored with a layer of mineral. It's delicious already, but destined to improve. Drink some now, and put away some to tast between 2018 and 2025.
"Olenik Vineyard 2012 - 94 pts | Editor's Choice - This single- vineyard selection shines, with nuanced layers of granite, lead pencil, pepper, and espresso around a core of dense black cherry and cassis. The power and concentration mark it as special. Still compact and lightly earthy, it's blessed with perfectly ripe proportionate tannins, ensuring a good long life ahead."
"Sandra Adele 2012 - 93 pts - Deep, dense black cherry signals immediately that this is pure, classic Dundee Hills fruit, much of it from Abbey Ridge. Average vine age is 20 years- giving it great penetration and complexity. At first tight and unyielding, it opens with scents of coffee and chocolate, and displays the thick minerality of all the winery's 2012s. Nuanced herbs add a peppery kick to the finish."
"Lumiere Eola-Amity Hills 2012 - 92 pts - Part of the winery's Terroir Series, this is aromatic with bright raspberry fruit dotted with peppery herbs. It displays the spicy herbaceousness of this AVA, with excellent penetration and balance. A strong finish hits a resonant note of minerality."
"Dundee Hills Cuvee 2012 - 92 pts - Sourced from several different Dundee Hills vineyards, this wraps its black cherry fruit in tart acidity, chalky minerals, and a hint of iron. Substantial, muscular and stiff out of the bottle, it will blossom with further bottle age. It's already a sturdy, expressive, impressive wine with deep flavors of fruit, earth, and rock."
"Nuages Chehalem Mountains 2012 - 91 pts | Cellar Selection - A tribute to a famous gypsy jazz tune, the name means "clouds" in French. It's an elegant wine with ample acidity and sleek fruit flavors of raspberry and strawberry. A dusting of pumice coats the fruit, giving it grip and texture. The balance to age gracefully is immediately evident. Drink 2017-2025 for maximum enjoyment."
"Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2012 - 91 pts | Editor's Choice - To call it entry level does not do justice to the quality here - this would be reserve level at many wineries. A generous mix of blueberry and black cherry fruit rolls seamlessly through the fruit-driven core, annotated with barrel notes of cola, coffee and cream."
"Croft Wineyard Uber Sauvignon Blanc 2012 - 92 pts | Editor's Choice - This particular cuvee is fermented in a large acacia wood barrel with helps round out the fruits flavors without sacrificing focus or precision. It's pleasantly grassy, with a strong pineapple flavor at the core. With excellent length, structure and mouthfeel, this wine could be cellared for another five or six years."
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Washington Post Rates Dundee Hills Cuvee 3 stars (out of 3!)
"This is another Oregon producer worth seeking out; order direct from the winery or look for it on fine-restaurant wine lists. The Dundee Hills are at the heart of the Willamette Valley, on volcanic soils that give the wines structure while maintaining finesse. Winemaker Jay Somers makes a Willamette Valley bottling that is more widely available and also delicious."
Wine Spectator's Matt Kramer Names Our Eola-Amity Hills "Lumière" 2012 a Top Wine of the Year
"The 2012 Pinot Noir called Lumière leaped out when I tasted it for its rich fruit allied with an unusual degree of flavor delineation and easily discerned mineral notes. I was surprised by its exquisiteness in a vintage that trades more in dramatic fruitiness."
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Wine Spectator's Matt Kramer Recommends J. Christopher
"So if you want to know whether you're dealing with a really good wineshop...see if they're offering some high-quality, small-production Oregon wine selling for less than the fancy dancers (try Westery, J. Christopher or Cowhorn, to name but three such star attractions)."
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Nittany Epicurean Reviews Our 2012 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir
"The wine showed a medium ruby color. Cherry, raspberry, loamy earth, oak and whiffs of eucalyptus and vanilla arrived on a compelling, earth-driven nose."
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On the Way from Germany to Portland, Winemaker Jay Somers Stops in Northern Virginia
A feature story by wine writer Christian Schiller.
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Jamie Goode reports on a visit to J. Christopher winery.
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Guitar Aficionado
Feature about how winemaker Jay Somers blends wine with music.
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Vine Stories
J. Christopher wines are available at your local retailer.
Or (in most US states) you can purchase them right from our online store.


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Seabiscuit is one of those films that is very hard to label. While the trailers may make it look like your normal inspirational horse movie, it turns out the film is actually a sports movie, and is one of the better entries into the genre ranking up there with some of the great baseball films.
Spanning roughly twenty years, Seabiscuit tells the true story of a race horse that not only captured the country's attention in a post-Depression era, but also changed the lives of three men that were each affected differently by the depression.
Jeff Bridges is Charles Howard, who made his riches on the new invention of automobiles before the great depression bankrupted him. Tobey Maguire is Red Pollard, the jockey sent away by his parents due to his "gift" of horse riding. Finally, Chris Cooper is Tom Smith, who, unlike the other two, didn't lose money or a family due to the depression, but lost his way of life when roads intruded into the plains where he spent his days. The first act of the film details these three characters and how they got to where they were before a race horse with an equally troubled past brings them together.
Seabiscuit is a sports movie telling the story of a horse that captured the hearts and minds of an entire country at a time when the average Joe was looking for something positive. The country was coming out of a dark time, and this horse that was too small to race with a jockey that was too big challenged a triple-crown-winning horse to a match race. It was the little guy taking on the big guy and the general public really identified with Seabiscuit and his jockey, Red Pollard. One out of three Americans listened to the race between Seabiscuit and War Admiral, including President Roosevelt.
Three broken lives are healed when this broken horse gives each of them a second chance in a time when the entire nation needed one. The film gives you just enough time to get to know where each of the characters are coming from, so by the time it really kicks into gear, you're already drawn into the story and want to see how everything will play out. And even at nearly two and a half hours, the movie never drags.
There is honestly not much that can be said against Seabiscuit. It's one of those rare inspirational movies that's never sappy or corny, while at the same time striking that balance where there's something for everyone. Sports and history buffs will enjoy the story of a major sporting moment in history, while casual moviegoers will find a very entertaining and almost innocent story with a huge heart.
Told with an amazing affection for the period and material, with perfect pacing and a great cast, Seabiscuit is one of the best films of 2003.
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Graphic Design Companies in Olney
List of Olney based agencies offering offering professional web, print advertising (brochure, leaflet, flyer) and corporate brand identity graphic design services.
Business Listings
Established in 1998, Satellite is a small, friendly, full service design and digital agency providing creative solutions in all areas of marketing and visual communication. From logos & branding, brochure design, exhibitions and packaging to websites, web applications, motion graphics, presentations and digital marketing strategies to build brands and sell your product or services. Experienced, friendly
We are a Milton Keynes based multimedia company specialising in website design, multimedia, 3D animation and broadcast. We provide services that cover; 3D and 2D modelling, development and production; website design and Internet multimedia delivery; interactive multimedia; education, culture and heritage development using multimedia products.
Mark Oliver Hawkins - a WordPress and Graphic Designer based in North Bedfordshire/Buckinghamshire and serving Northamptonshire, Milton Keynes and further afield like South Africa and the US. From corporate branding and design, to a fully-fledged creative consultancy. He endeavours to be there for the SME right up to the multinational or international. He creates stunning WordPress and print designs
Pauley Creative build the websites, web applications and digital marketing strategies that build brand awareness and help drive business for contractors, manufacturers and construction-related professional services companies. Straightforward, measurable, creative digital marketing for the construction industry.
Freelance graphic design and illustration for print and web. Over 25 years experience with a wide range of clients and industries, including Hyundai, Daler-Rowney, Sony PlayStation, Vodafone, Electrolux, Hasbro Toys, British Racing Drivers' Club, NASCAR, Jimmy Page, The Stranglers. Wealth of experience in design, graphics, illustration and finished artwork for catalogues, brochures, flyers, logo design,
We are a creative Graphic Design agency, Web design and Marketing company offering a full range of print and web design solutions aimed at enhancing and promoting your business profile. We have built up a wealth of experience covering literature for both internal and external communication covering stationery, logo design, marketing materials, branding, packaging, flyers, leaflets, adverts, publications,
Since 2005 the team here at Hive Creative has been helping businesses like yours to get the right message across. Our team is young, talented and bursting with ideas that will put your business in the spotlight and get you noticed. We're not just creative; we're fast, friendly and easy to deal with too. And because we don't charge London rates you won't get a nasty surprise when you get our bill.
As a graphic design agency based in Milton Keynes, Fir Tree can offer a number of design and production related services for all kinds of business and industry. Call now for free consultation and no obligation proposals, or visit our website www.firtreedesign.com to see samples from the portfolio.
Providing high quality design solutions since 1995, the company brings together multi disciplined excellence in a broad area of visual communication. Drawing on years of experience we provide advertisements, corporate identities, brochure design, web sites, exhibitions and packaging for clients as diverse as The Foreign Office, Hewlett Packard, Amway and Kodak.
Creative and strategic thinking, Meetings and liaison, Concept and doodles, Mood sheets and design variations all focused to jigsaw with the needs of our client. We develop new literature, Professional marketing tools and logos, Brand improvements with our clients to help them compete in their market place.


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Today's friday favorite is a picture from while Brandon and I were dating. This was right after we were reunited after I was gone for a week in Florida with Cru for Big Break.
It was a tough week being away from each other but we learned a lot during that time and it was so sweet to be able to come back together after a week!
I chose this picture because it shows our goofiness while also showing my pure delight of being back with my love ❤


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Jurassic Craft is an enthusing exploration with ancient reptiles in the cubic world that place you into a land packed with risk. You have to travel around the lane and attempt not to be dinosaur's food, shivering with panic at the place of the most dreadful of them, T-Rex. You can gather resources, build various structures & weapons and walk around the land and battle to stay alive. The game features a big collection of dinosaurs, endurance and innovative in hazardous situations, game shop and every day extras in the shape of coins, several types of blocks for construction including 3D pixel blocks and square dinosaurs. The game offers four fresh game lands – Savannah, Islands, Tropical and Superflat world and also presents an exceptional things of Herobrine mode – a pick and a sword. The also features simplicity of building objects that easily lets you to craft different items, weapons and armor.
Jurassic Craft can as well be run on Android and Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista platform. If you desire to use Jurassic Craft on your windows powered desktop computer or laptop PC, there are some steps that you have to learn from below –
How to Download Jurassic Craft for pc – Windows desktop & laptop
Now we will learn how to download android game Jurassic Craft for Windows 8.1 or Windows 8 or Windows 7 or Windows XP and Mac OS platform.
- At First, you have to download and setup Android Emulator software on your pc. You can get Bluestacks from here as your Emulator. Just download it.
- Install the Bluestacks Emulator software on your Windows or Mac running computer.
- After successful installation, just run Bluestacks and use the search feature of Bluestacks to type & search "Jurassic Craft".
- You will get some results containing Jurassic Craft in title; select the Install button of "Jurassic Craft" to get it on your pc or Mac system.
Now you have effectively downloaded and installed Jurassic Craft on pc. You can begin playing this game. Please Share this tutorial with your friends too through Facebook, Twitter, Google plus and others social media channels you have.


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"Raleigh is a great place to bootstrap a business"
In our new video series, Why Raleigh Works, local business leaders tell us why Raleigh topped their list of places to start or expand their business. The second in the series is an interview with Jesse Lipson, VP & GM of Documents Cloud at Citrix, and founder of Sharefile (acquired by Citrix). Jesse tells the story of why he chose to bootstrap his company in Raleigh. He also explains that being so close to several major universities provides an abundance of highly educated prospective employees. This series will continue with more of Raleigh's business leaders from all industry sectors.
Watch the videos to see why Raleigh works for local businesses.
"Raleigh is on the map"
In our new video series, Why Raleigh Works, local business leaders tell us why Raleigh topped their list of places to start or expand their business. Raleigh "is mature enough to be producing the talent that we are looking for" – D. O'Hara Macken, IPREO's EVP & Managing Director of Global Products & Applications, explains why having an office in downtown Raleigh works for the global leader in providing market intelligence, data, and technology solutions. The company enjoys Raleigh's innovative and entrepreneurial environment, and credits Raleigh's great quality of life for its ability to attract and retain top-notch employees.
Watch the videos to see why Raleigh works for local businesses.
Midtown Raleigh has so much to offer from great housing options to an infrastructure that supports local businesses. Property values are on the rise with the average home value at $425,000. Local residents of midtown are well educated with 59% holding a Bachelor's degree or higher. Come check out all that Midtown Raleigh has to offer.
Raleigh is a 21st century city of innovation focusing on environmental, cultural and economic stability. In recent years, the Raleigh City Council has worked hard to implement changes that will promote economic development. In 2012, the city hired its first ever Innovation and Entrepreneurship Manager, Derrick Minor. Economic Development Manager James Sauls came onboard in 2013 to provide leadership and direction for a comprehensive approach to economic development in Raleigh. During a retreat in January 2014, the Raleigh City Council took the first steps in a strategic planning process by identifying several strategic focus areas, including transportation and transit, and economic development and innovation.


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You might be looking the same !
@ http://ginoskoliteraryjournal.com/images/ginosko11.pdf
It is a magazine of sincerity, honesty, truth and fulness.
Enjoy some snippets here below …
From Dianna Henning
Sometimes it's so subtle
It's mistaken for something else.
A moth tumbled from night's porch light
A stone in the heel of your shoe.
Even a tattered corner of sunshine is better
Than believing it's never found.
Didn't the widow, stripped in grief
Reveal pure angle of cheek bone—
Hadn't she, at last, set her face free?
You'd gladly peel off that expression
Smooth it down over your own years
The radiant tucked behind ears.
Under some circumstances
Beauty is mistaken for grief.
But in the widow's case, the opposite—
A face so clear it revealed her soul—
Enlargement emerging from loss.
The moth was a small god on the porch
The stone, nugget of an angel.
An elderly man sits on a stone wall outside his house
Fondles his dog's ears, caresses its back.
Nearby, a shovel remains upright, plugged
As though an exclamation stuck in earth.
He won't pull it out.
He has terminal cancer.
From across the street, I imagine
The choked back tears as his eye lavishes
Over all that's quietly familiar;
His land shaped to a dream
Of rural beauty, rural equipoise: his lawn
Hedged with sprays of multicolored wildflowers
Porch perched above a lap of greenery
So surprisingly vivid it burns my eyes
As I watch him again and again
Lovingly cuff his black spaniel.
Strangers Between Walls by Andrei Guruianu
What can I say about changing place
And the weary night song piled outside every window ?
It can weigh you down like happiness, like rain, like the notion of destiny
Or an obligatory farewell that you carry strapped to your shoulders.
Believe me, if it would help you see things in a different light
I would only write poems about ballerinas and dream gardens.
The sun and the fresh air would do you a world of good.
And I would make it rain just enough to spruce up the flowers.
I would do all of this in a French dialect
And part my hair accordingly to look like a soft smile.
But the truth is I could never understand
Why a single language is not enough.
Breath blown into an empty bottle
And tossed into the nearest stream.
This human need for a philosophy of words
When a howl would do much better.
After all, we are only dogs missing the fancy leash
And the tinderbox of home we sometimes call a house.
Places change because with the years we change even less.
We've spent too much time in the dirt
And now everything is relative to it, because of it.
More or less under our fingernails.
Scrape away, rinse and repeat
And still the hounding memory of nights under the stars.
Backs to the chill of dry ground
And nothing but a long sigh
For a sheet to pull up to the neck.
How many sighs does it take to make a death ?
Let's begin counting now and see who gets there first.
Ce n'est pas le cirque du soleil after all.
That much any fool could tell you for a nickel.
Just open your eyes
When the night peaks at its most exotic and serious black.
We've been here before, you and I.
Heard sounds that would never make sense out of context.
But there was no need to translate what the crickets said.
For once there was no need.
By Gerd Theissen
We will have won if we have an inkling
That our life contains a message –
To us and through us and for others;
If we become certain
That the creator of our life wants
To say something through us :
And he needs us for that.
He also needs little things in our lives.
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After their cooperation on The Human Equation, Arjen Lucassen and Marcela Bovio joined forces again in the band Stream Of Passion. They started a tour across Europe on January 25th. The first performances have already taken place and they seem to be very well received. Some time before the tour I had a chat with Stream Of Passion's singer: Marcela Bovio. Of course I also slipped some Elfonía questions in.
Dries: Just before the Human Equation was released we had a chat with Arjen Lucassen and he spoke highly of you. Now you have worked together again, what was it like?
Marcela: It was wonderful we really got along well when we did The Human Equation we really connected in the studio I think , he really liked that I had a lot of ideas and a lot of creative input.
During the recording of this album did you meet or did you send your stuff in?
It was mostly remote, most of the recordings and song writing we did was remotely but I did get the chance to see him again because we all met at the end of the recording. We all traveled to the Netherlands and spend some time together, shoot the video clip and had the photos done and stuff like that.
I can hear some similarities between Elfonía's This Sonic Landscape and Embrace The Storm. How much of the ideas on this album are yours?
I did have a lot of say into the music of Stream of Passion and that is probably why you hear a similarity with Elfonía as well. But it started with Arjen recording some ideas: very rough just the chords and rhythm, stuff like that, and then he would send them to me and I would add my vocal melodies on top of that. And from that, of what I did, he worked on the arrangements of the songs and send them to everyone else for each musician to input their ideas.
The way Stream Of Passion is organised it does not look like another Ayreon project but a real band in it's own. So are there plans for more than one album?
I think the option is there, it will depend on how well this one does. Expectation has been quite large and we heard a lot of good things. It would be nice because we all know each other better musically now it could be interesting with what we could come up.
Sometimes is seems that everything in progressive rock happens here in Europe. What's your look on that?
I think progressive rock in Latin-America, in general, could have a bit more exposure. I know there are a lot of bands doing good things on this part of the ocean. Maybe there are not as many ways of exposure. In Europe you have labels like Inside Out that is very big and it has a lot of power of distribution and promotion.
I did call it ProgRock but how would you describe the music of Stream Of Passion?
Well a bit of a combination of Progressive Rock with other elements like Gothic, maybe (i don't even know what Gothic means but I add it because of the whole mood. A gloomy mood on the album. I think you can relate to that. There is a little metal and a bit of trip hop. A combination of things.
Gothic is a term you also use for Elfonía. But it is Gothic without the guitars and the screaming lady. Why use that term.
I don't really think the term itself means that much nowadays. The bands labeled Gothic are quite different from each other. Nowadays The Gathering has nothing to do with Within Temptation and Nightwish is a whole different band all together as well. It is useful when you want to describe the mood of the music because it is somewhat dark and mysterious.
For the recordings of The Human Equation you brought Alejandro (Marcela's boyfriend) to the Netherlands. This time he also participates, how did that come to be?
As you mentioned Alejandro and Arjen met at that time (when I was recording for THE) they have a lot of favourite bands in common so they could talk about music and stuff. And Arjen had heard what he had done on the first Elfonía album and he thought that his style and his playing could be a nice addition to Stream Of Passion so he invited him. It was nice because we know each other very well personally and musically, so that was good.
Is it Arjen only that put the band together? Did he pick all the members?
Yes definitely he was the one orchestrating and directing everything and I think he did a very great job, it was a very difficult thing to put a band together from different sides of the world. It turn out very well we do not only connect musically we also got along very well personally. so when we finally met it was very nice to talk and it turned out everyone is incredibly sweet and nice.
Half of Elfonía is cooperating: How does that make the other members of Elfonía feel?
I think there just very glad that we are doing this because it also give Elfonía lots of exposure. And we notice this already. Of course we have plans to continue working with both bands as longs as humanly possible. I think there mostly very happy for us that we are doing this. It is not something very unusual for them because all of the members do other stuff.
Aren't you afraid that Elfonía will become the band of the girl that is in Stream Of Passion
Well, you know the way I see it, as the audience of progressive rock is not that big, it is good to have the chance to make our music more accessible to people through Stream Of Passion. Because maybe all this people would have never discovered Elfonía if it wasn't for SOP. There are audiences for everything.
What is it like to release 2 albums at the same time with very different features (one big, one smaller, own album, cooperation album etc.)
It is highly demanding, it is interesting we will learn a lot about the whole experience because we get 2 sides of the spectrum. Very big production with a lot of promotion and a lot of potential, big record label on the other hand a totally independent album that we have to do everything ourselves. We are learning a lot and we like that.
You will be touring Mexico with Elfonía when SOP is (hopefully) selling big.
I think it will do very well in Europe especially in the Netherlands with Sony and all. With Stream of Passion in Latin-America doing the same hopefully. It will be strange to tour in Europe with bigger audiences, you have Ayreon on stage which will be very unusual and special event so I think a lot of people will be interested to come over to the show.
Is music your main occupation or are you still working in software?
I am still working in software but hope to make music my main occupation because it is driving me mad doing all these different things at the same time. Even though I am lucky: I work for an American company but I work from home.
You did not play much violin on This Sonic Landscape
Just a couple of bars (track 4) and on Gigantic 2. We don't really plan to much of it, if it fits we'll add it to it. If not then not.
It is more prominent on SOP.
Yeah but next to the parts I recorded we also had a very very talented string quartet who could perform much more difficult stuff, that I can't. I am not a big violinist but I like it and I added a few things here and there.
Is there any thing you listen to at the moment?
I currently listen to a real nice Norwegian singer: Anja Garbarek. She does sort of a very weird electronic music, it is very nice. I am listening to Porcupince Tree and The 3rd And The Mortal a Norwegian band as well. Have you not heard of them because they are very nice!
You met a number of people because of working for The Human Equation. What was that like?
Well I did not actually meet them because we were recording on different weekend but I get in touch with Devon Graves and Heather Findlay by e-mail to share stuff from the album with them.
I have done an interview with Nick Barrett he told of all this downloading how is that for you? What's your view on that?
I think the music industry will have to find a way around it and start profiting despite of the downloading. I don't know maybe there won't be place for large record companies in the future because for instance for Elfonía it works because you can get some songs for download. If you like that you can buy the album and I think people that don't like the download wouldn't have downloaded the album anyway. It's just like more exposure that you can later on exploit with live shows or merchandise. I think we have to gonna work around it and there is legal downloading that helps a bit. I guess stuff like downloading songs to your cell phone will get more important.
I still like to hold an album and read the booklet but there are 12 year-old kids I know, and almost all their music from the Internet. Maybe it's just that they are from a generation that grew up with it.
Well I don't consider myself from the download generation but it is kind of an hassle, put the album in a cd player and rip it for your collection. Maybe it will become too much of an hassle to get the albums. But still, it is nice to have the album especially the special editions.
Anything I forgot and you want to say?
Well I really hope you enjoy our album and the upcoming tour.
Stream Of Passion Oficial Website
Elfonía Official Website
DPRP Review of Stream Of Passion - Embrace The Storm
DPRP Review Elfonía - Elfonía
DPRP Review Elfonía - This Sonic Landscape


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OMG, I'm totally in love in the 3rd one along in the first post!
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great minds think alike because i have been drooling over the first one.
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i have already seen a few of the new fall Prada bags in the boutique, alot of brown. i would love to have one of the above brown bags!
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The leather ones are all nice. There's a few other bags, not posted here, that are a bit more unusual -- and very covetable! Must find photos to post...
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Geotaxis and leaf-surface preferences mitigate negative effects of a predatory mite on an herbivorous mite
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Reproductive success and population growth of an herbivorous mite are limited by activities of phytoseiid predators. However, occurrences on upper versus lower leaf surfaces are sometimes mismatched between these prey and predators. The mismatch potentially mitigates predation risk for the prey species. We assessed factors that affect mite distributions on leaf surfaces, testing whether the presence of the phytoseiid mite Phytoseius nipponicus alters the leaf-surface distribution and reproductive success of the herbivorous false spider mite Brevipalpus obovatus. The host plant was Viburnum erosum var. punctatum (Adoxaceae). Leaves were set in natural (TRUE) and reversed (upside down; INVERTED) orientations using experimental devices. Both surfaces were accessible to mites. We detected lower and abaxial leaf-surface preferences in P. nipponicus. In contrast, upper and adaxial surfaces were preferred by B. obovatus. Thus, prey and predatory mites accumulated on different sides of leaves. Presence of the predator also indirectly decreased egg production in B. obovatus. Brevipalpus obovatus females actively avoided leaf surfaces with elevated predator numbers; these females shifted their distributions and changed oviposition sites to leaf surfaces with fewer predators. In consequence, B. obovatus eggs on the upper sides of leaves were less frequently preyed upon than were those on lower sides. We suggest that upper leaf-surface exploitation in this particular herbivorous mite species mitigates predation risk from phytoseiid mites, which prefer lower leaf surfaces.
KeywordsTop-down regulation Predator avoidance Habitat architecture Gravity
We thank Prof. H. Amano, Dr. S. Yano and Mr. Y. Sakai, Kyoto University for valuable suggestions. This study was partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows No. 23.2696 to SM from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- OPEC was forced to take its Web site down after a protesting hacker posted a message on its opening page urging the oil cartel's members to do something about the high price of oil, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Wednesday.
"We really need to focus on the poverty-stricken countries who don't even have enough money for aspirin, let alone…heating oil," said the message, attributed to "fluxnyne," the report said.
Whoever posted the note apparently didn't do anything to the function of the site itself, however. OPEC hasn't commented on the hacker attack, nor has it explained why it took the www.opec.org site offline, the BBC report said.
OPEC's production restrictions, which have helped push the price of oil to the $34 range, have come under fire from critics who say the 10-year-high levels could threaten recession. In some countries like the U.K., individual governments have been taking the heat for the steep price of gas, which motorists and others blame on high taxes. The government blames the rising prices on OPEC.
Attrition.org, an organization that monitors and records Internet vandalism, said the OPEC site suffered a similar event in June, the BBC reported.
Olympics on the Web
Internet usage monitor Nielsen/NetRatings said Wednesday it's launching a daily tracking service to cover Olympics Web sites. The traffic monitor for more than 100 official and unofficial Sydney 2000 Olympic Web sites around the world will begin issuing reports on Friday and will continue until the games close.
"The Sydney 2000 Olympics (will) be the most-watched sporting event in history and the first 'Internet Olympics,'" said ACNielsen eRatings.com president William Pulver. "Because of the significant time difference between Australia and the major sporting nations of Europe and the Americas, we anticipate fans will generate an enormous level of Web activity to obtain Olympic results and updates."
In addition to the time zone issue, there's the fact that these Olympics will be the first since 1960 to be first broadcast via delayed transmission. "In many cases, people will log on to the Web rather than wait for the delayed broadcasts to be screened," Pulver said.
Already, traffic to key sites is "surging," according to the firm. The number of unique visitors to the official IBM-hosted site in Australia, www.Olympics.com, for instance, has grown from 36,000 in May to almost 200,000 in August. Page views have gone from 440,000 to over 4.4 million.
The sites in the company's survey will include the official TV networks like General Electric-owned (GE) NBC in the U.S. and the Seven TV Network in Australia, sports and news sites like ESPN and Sports Illustrated, national newspapers, portals carrying Olympics results and some "unofficial" sites.
Web sites will be monitored in each of the following countries: the U.K., Australia, Denmark, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Singapore and the U.S.
Sonera's online financial services move
Finnish telecommunications leader Sonera (SNRA) said Wednesday it's taking a $15 million minority stake in Juniper Financial, a Delaware-based online financial services company.
Juniper plans to launch this fall with a site offering online banking and financial services like credit card, bill payment and check services over the PC-based and wireless Internet.
Sonera's investment is being made through its Sonera Plaza Internet portal subsidiary, which aims to become "a leading Internet transaction center" offering entertainment, e-commerce, electronic banking and financial services. Sonera Plaza and Juniper said they plan to work together on the wireless and financial services fronts.
Separately Wednesday, Sonera Plaza said it's founding a financial services company together with Finland's OKOBANK Group. The new company will supply financial services to consumers over the Net starting in the first quarter of next year. Initially, the company will have share capital of 2 million euros; the companies have said they'll invest a total of 31 million euros to develop it over the next few years.
Shape up or else!
Commerce over the Internet is growing at such a pace that soon "today's brittle supply chains" won't be able to cope, says a new report from Forrester Research (FORR).
"With global e-commerce expected to reach $6.8 trillion by 2004, resolving today's inadequate manufacturing techniques and inefficient global logistics market is imperative," the research firm says.
Forrester analyst Navi Radjou goes even further with the doom-and-gloom: "Global manufacturers shouldn't be surprised that their supply chains are inflexible -- they're held together with string and bailing wire."
Radjou prescribes the following: "They should let specialization and networked assets drive the next round of supply chain upgrades because multinationals will tailor their operations to e-business manufacturing by 2005."
Only with an "always-on" global information pipeline over the Net will global manufacturers adequately keep up with demand, Forrester says.
Better prices online
Forrester rival Jupiter Communications (JPTR) had a report of its own out Wednesday, this one on European consumer attitudes toward shopping on the Net.
Seems they're attracted to e-shopping more by better prices than they are by improved security. "European shoppers appear to have moved beyond the initial fear of purchasing on the Internet," said Mark Mulligan, European data analyst at the Net-tracking firm.
In countries where the Internet is most widely used, this is even more conclusively the case, he said. In Scandinavia, for instance, 62 percent of e-shoppers cited better prices as a motivator to buying things online, compared to 50 percent in the U.K., Germany, and France.
For those consumers who haven't yet made the move to the Net, though, fear of lax security is generally what's keeping them away. Nearly half of this bunch said they'd consider a bout of e-shopping if security improved.


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All Films.All Above Board.NOW INCLUDES TV SHOWS & TV LISTINGS
Premiere. College freshman Sarah joins her mother's former sorority, but comes to learn it is run like a ruthless business rather than a sisterhood, promoting cut-throat seduction and destruction behind the scenes. As a consequence, she soon finds herself caught up in a devious power game that forces her to question where her true loyalties lie. Drama, starring Sierra McCormick and Cassidy Gifford.


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The Ocean Beach Town Council joined Surfrider Foundation San Diego County Chapter at City Hall to encourage our policymakers to pass a plastic bag ban.
With the state ban on hold until at least November 2016, it's time for the City of San Diego to pass their own.
The Ocean Beach Town Council is committed to protecting our natural environment and the public health and welfare of our community's residents.
Thank you to Innovations Academy, staff and students, for showing up to this morning's San Diego City Council meeting and expressing their concern about plastic pollution and support for a San Diego plastic bag ban. One of the 4th graders testified to City Council, "be Fantastic, cut the plastic!" 72 students were in attendance, along with two representatives from Surfrider Foundation and former District 2 Councilmember Ed Harris.
The mayor's office stated that that the process necessary to get a vote to City Council could be completed in about 2 months.
Let's ban the bag San Diego!
Click here to read our OBTC Resolution:http://obtowncouncil.org/


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Self-confessed geek Mauricio Freitas last week became one of the first people outside Vodafone to put the telco's souped-up 3G mobile broadband network through its paces.
The high-speed network won't be unveiled till tomorrow but Mr Frietas, who runs the website Geekzone, logged on early using a Sierra Wireless HSDPA data card that he imported from Britain.
Mr Freitas found the network connected at speeds of 1.4 megabits per second in Johnsonville and 1.1Mbps in the central city, but he expects users will generally experience download speeds of 700-800 kilobits per second once more people start to log on.
That should be a bit faster than Telecom's rival T3G network, he says, till Telecom upgrades to the Revision A standard later this year and takes a speed lead again.
Mr Freitas believes Vodafone's service could become a real competitor to fixed-line broadband and a tough rival for fledging wireless network operator Woosh, given Woosh's limited geographical coverage.
Vodafone is expected to unveil new wireless broadband plans with increased data caps tomorrow. It currently charges $49 a month for a gigabyte of data downloaded over its 3G network.
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A busy day – we went to RS Lestari A&I (Hospital for Women and Children) this morning to observe a couple of cleft lip / palate surgeries and it turned into a couple of other things as well.
First of all, cleft lip and palate surgery is absolutely life changing as growing up in Indonesia with a cleft lip is traumatic. This surgery literally gives these kids a new life; it also gives them the ability to eat normally and get the nutrition they desperately need. It allows them attend school and be a "normal" kid in the neighborhood without the stigma of a physical facial challenge. Many would be hidden away by the parents out of shame because the stigma is often that the parents have done something wrong. It's tragic and this surgery can change those lives for the good.
So then, Dr. Titi asked us to help her distribute a donation of clothes, toys and rice that were to be given to some poor families who had come to the hospital. So we did just that:
We are so in awe of Dr. Titi and all she does! It is a privilege to know her and work with her.


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Orange Box Original from Portugal - used, fixed with nails, with jute.
Outside dimensions ca.:Width: 55 cmHeight: 26 cmDepth: 33.5 cm
Inside Dimensions ca:Width: 53 cmHeight: 25 cmDepth: 31.5 cm
Wood thickness ca.: 10 mm
The box is available in different paintings (last photo):1) nature2) clearcoat3) oiled4) stain white5) jetsam6) paint greenA laserbranding can be chosen optionally.


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Ah, May in Chicagoland! Remember, last Monday I was bitching because it was so cold that we turned on the furnace? Today it's ninety degrees in the shade. The first hot Sunday of the year spurs me to run off the financial cliff like a sweaty lemming.
I drive, trance-like, to a fabulous and pretty darn pricey local nursery called The Planter's Palette. Surrounded by hundreds of fellow gardening lemmings I walk the immaculate brick-paved rows, lust-crazed for the enormous selection of , well, name it! annuals, perennials, herbs, old rare roses, vegetables, cool pots and garden furniture, astrolabes and birdbaths. This is no common or garden Garden Center. Hidden fountains burble away, secret gardens are tucked in here and there — if it weren't for the price tags, this place is my Eden.
Until I pay up. Great gulping gazanias! The cashier always checks for your name on the computer, because if you spend fifty grand (or something) they mail you a twenty-five dollar gift certificate. In fifteen years of giving them money I shouldn't , I've received fifty dollars back, and like any submissive greedy gardener I've been so grateful it verges on lame.
This year Lou the Killjoy decided he'd come along as a kind of designated shopping cart watchdog, and I was glad. We hired Victor the landscaper to weed,prune and mulch before Lloyd came and we made a pact that we'd maintain what's left this summer and limit new purchases to herbs. The only garden plans we have this summer is to expand the perennial herb garden to the left of the kitchen door.The chives, tarragon and marjoram overwintered well, and I'll add sage and thyme. Sage is surprisingly tough in this climate, and with some coddling the thyme may come back. The rosemary and basil will be transplanted into pots, so I can squeeze a couple more months from them indoors come fall.
The uncharacteristically tiny haul:
We decided we could get wild and crazy and buy a tomato plant. These are photographed against the background of rosa Henry Hudson rioting away.
A different view for the followers of Willow. As always, she was right there with me, eager to help.
I bought a couple of packages of Renee's Garden seeds I'd never consider a summer without: Nasturtiums "Cherries Jubilee" and Cosmos " Double Pink Bon Bon." They'll be planted in containers.
So I'm feeling smug and virtuous. Maybe this will be the only trip I make to Planter's Palette this year! Maybe I'll be able to harden my heart to those pathetic flats of midsummer marked-down annuals. (They just need some TLC.) Maybe this year I'll keep up with the weeding! Shoe addicted girlfriends can sneak a new pair into the house past a footwear-blind husband — no prob. It's harder to get away with "That row of hydrangeas? They've always been there, Darling."


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Hi everyone,
Would you be willing to help us transcribe the Goodspeed biographies from Williamson County? Here are the details of the project:
- We will send you a list of about 20 biographies; each biography is between 1/3 – 1/2 a page in length
- The transcription instructions will include a link to a PDF of the bios
- You will enter your transcriptions into an online, editable Google Docs page where you will enter your biography transcriptions
- We anticipate it will take anywhere between 2-3 hours of your time to do a set of 20 bios
If you can spare a few hours of your time to help out, we would greatly appreciate your help!
UPDATED: April 6, 2015 – These biographies have now all been accounted for. Thanks everyone!


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Self Catering in Cornwall - Portreath
Areas: West Cornwall, Cornwall
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Sleeps a maximum of: 4
Pricing From: £400.00 - 959.00
SET WITHIN 30 ACRES WITH LIVERY HORSES AND COUNTRYSIDE VIEWS Approached via a private driveway Forge Manor Cottage has been converted from a former barn into a most comfortable and inviting home from home. Nestling in a fantastic spot with views over the neighbouring meadow and woodland the cottage offers a relaxing retreat. Here at the cottage parties will enjoy watching the horses that are kept close by and often in the adjacent meadow.
A foot/bridle path runs directly from the cottage driveway offering a chance to explore the surrounding countryside and see various types of wildlife along the way. Access to the local tramway which is ideal for cycling is close by. From the tramline you can access the sandy beach at Portreath or take the opposite direction to meet the coast at Devoran (cycle hire can be arranged with the owners).
The sandy bays of Portreath and Porthtowan are approximately 2 miles away with village shops the local pub is approximately 1 mile and a Chinese restaurant can also be found within a mile. This North coastal area offers excellent surfing and attractions to suit all ages including The Cornish Cider Farm Newquay Zoo and Aquarium Flambards Theme Park and a short drive to the Lizard and Lands End peninsulas. The accommodation has been thoughtfully renovated and equipped to a good standard with TWO bedrooms: 1 double with TV en-suite shower room and WC 1 twin bedroom with TV en-suite bathroom with shower over bath and WC.
Lounge/kitchen/diner: open-plan including multi-fuel woodburner comfortable lounge with leather sofas TV Freeview and DVD. Kitchen with electric cooker microwave fridge (with ice compartment) dishwasher washing machine and a dining area for four people. Outside: choice of two patios enclosed with a low-level stone wall and a fenced lawned area.
There is an external secure storage area for bikes and surf boards if required. Amenities: ample allocated parking directly outside the cottage. Bed linen towels and first £10 of electric included central heating subject to a £15 weekly surcharge during November - March.
2 dogs welcome. Regret no smoking. Private water supply.
Location: beach and shop 2 miles pub 1 mile.
Pet Friendly
Downstairs bedroom | Downstairs bathroom | Enclosed garden / patio | Open fire / woodburner | Pub nearby | Beach within easy reach | Towels included | Cot available | Highchair available
Changeover Day
Get an Ordnance Survey map covering the Portreath area.
Nearest AttractionsHeritage Rated from 1- 5 (low-exceptional) on historic interest
Wheal Peevor Mine - 1.4 miles (Historic Building)
East Pool Mine - 2.5 miles (Historic Building)
Carn Brea Neolithic Settlement - 2.8 miles (Prehistoric Site)
Gwennap Pit - 2.8 miles (Historic Church)
Wheal Coates Tin Mine - 3.1 miles (Historic Building)
Burncoose Garden - 5 miles (Garden)
Perranzabuloe, St Piran's Church - 6.7 miles (Historic Church)
Bosvigo Gardens - 7.9 miles (Garden)
Perran Round - 8.1 miles (Prehistoric Site)
Royal Cornwall Museum - 8.5 miles (Museum)
Nearest Alternative Cottages
Redruth, Cornwall
Sleeps: 4
Stay from: £444.00 - 1231.00
Redruth, Cornwall
Sleeps: 6
Stay from: £600.00 - 1568.00
Redruth, Cornwall
Sleeps: 4
Stay from: £322.00 - 851.81
Details of facilities are believed correct at time of publication, but may be subject to change by the cottage proprietor. Up-to-the-minute facility listings will be always presented during the booking process for your approval.
UK Self Catering
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Popular Locations
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POV Fuckers is a site for all you mother fuckers out there who like to get straight to the shit and stay there. POV : Point of View, I had to look that up.
Someone sent me some links for this site and I was like POV Fuckers what the hell is that, I deleted it and said what the fuck are you sending me POV shit, what is that People on vacation. I was like that doesn't even sound interesting how am I going to post that shit. So they sent it again, dude download the images.
So I open the e-mail, clicked yes download the images, no not automatically this fucker will send me some pictures of midgets banging sheeps or some shit like that. So I open it and I was like damn, they have some hot chicks and they are straight to the business. I wasn't until I went t the sight that I found out what the hell POV Fuckers stood for.
I know the sample picture is not the greatest, but when you play the video it gets cleaner and if you go to POV Fuckers its way crisper. So do yourself a favor and take a look, if you don't have time to fuck around this is your place.
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Corporate Gifting Seeds - Lucky Bean Tree - Erythrina Lysistemon - Indigenous South African Tree
Seeds for Africa
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Erythrina lysistemon is a lovely, small to medium-sized, deciduous tree with a spreading crown and brilliant red flowers. It is a handsome tree at any time of the year, and its dazzling flowers have made it one of the best known and widely grown South African trees. Easy and rewarding to grow from seed.
Ideal as a corporate gift / give-away we can supply these seeds packed in our own bags (40mm x 60mm mini ziplock plastic bags) as per the below example
The seeds are also visually appealing.
Or the seeds can be supplied in a bulk packet for you to pack into your own personalised envelope / sachet / container.
A meaningful number of seeds to plant would be 5 seeds.
Supplied in a bulk pack of 100 seeds or in a pack with 20 of our packs of 5 seeds.
Order as many as you need for the number of gifts / give-aways.
Cost per gift / give-away - From R 3.20.


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West Elm is currently having a bedroom event with up to 30% off bedroom furniture (woohoo!) I love West Elm because they have beautiful, contemporary pieces that can fit almost any style (whether your style is traditional, transitional, modern). I also love that they carry lots of pieces in warm woods. Personally, I tend to use a lot of white and grey so having these medium toned wood pieces help to add warmth to your decor. West Elm is generally pretty affordable AND they tend to have lots of these great sales. SO, with that being said, here are my picks from this sales event.
- I love the shade of this dresser! It would look great in a neutral room with shades of blue or grey.
- Day beds are great because they are so multi-functional. I would consider a day bed in a small apartment where you would like to have seating and sleeping accommodations, a nursery so you can have a place to crash or sit in the room or in a kids' room. The dark grey colour makes this day bed feel more grown up and the nail head details is a nice touch.
- If you can't decide between a wood or upholstered bed, this is a great compromise! I love the combination of the wood and fabric together.
- This dresser is awesome! It feels very coastal to me with the white wash. Since it is such a neutral piece it would look great in any decor scheme.
- This acorn night stand with the brass handles is simple, yet sophisticated. Great for small spaces since it is so small and comes with a great price tag.
- I also love the shade of wood of this bed frame.It feels very sleek and contemporary with the mid-century style legs.
- If you love brass this is a great bedside table option. I love the multiple shelves so you can store your belongings.


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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
CAVELL - "Promise" [Audio]:
New music from Cavell:
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SID DIAMOND - "King or Queens" [Audio]:
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SMASHPROOF - "Survivors" [Video]
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SMASHPROOF x Music 101:
Smashproof talk to Sam Wicks for Radio New Zealands Music 101
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SMASHPROOF - Forever Available Now
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ASHLEY HUGHES - "Lvndlord":
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Shear-Jashub - 'Amy Poehler' [Video]:
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Outward opening aluminium windows with a limited opening width can be found in a range of public and commercial buildings.
For outward opening Turn-Only windows, Roto Object Business has now developed a solution that protects the sash against unwanted closing and opening.
The arrestable brake-stay is easily and intuitively controlled by the window handle. Window fabricators can have Roto directly test this hardware combination for an aluminium profile of their choice within just a few days.
The combination, specifically developed for a project, of "Roto Patio Fold" hardware product range hinges and an arrestable "Roto NT" hardware product range based brake-stay was first presented to a broad professional audience at BAU 2017.
The fact that this solution's ease of operation and performance values were immediately apparent was no "accident", explains Stefano Gianfreda, Manager Solution Center North.
"The specific task was to develop a convenient, outward opening aluminium window latching hardware solution with an opening width of 100 mm. We and, naturally, the aluminium window fabricators are starting to receive these types of enquiries with increasing frequency. The combination and adaptation of two tried and tested Roto portfolio components enabled us to find an ideal solution."
Intuitive Operation
The arrestable brake-stay ensures convenient latching within the defined maximum 100-mm opening width by simply operating the window handle.
"It was important to us that the sash could be operated just like a completely normal side-hung window. Accordingly, it can be opened as per usual, but only up to the set angle. The position of the window handle is then used to conveniently and steplessly latch the sash. This protects against uncontrolled movement by draughts. The latch can naturally also be released just as easily again using the handle", continues Gianfreda.
The proven "Roto Patio Fold" window hinges ensure durability in an outward opening window. They are extremely weather resistant and ideal for outdoor use.
An innovative combination and adaptation of various individual Roto hardware product range components is always checked by the Roto Object Business specialists for the specific project, while customers and interested parties do not have to wait long for the test result, assures Gianfreda.
"Once we have clarified the profile system, the sash formats and weights as well as the window requirements with the customer, we develop an ideal as well as cost-effective solution for the specific project, like this solution shown in Munich We naturally also confirm the defined window hardware's functional safety in writing."


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- Up a Lazy River - still needs borders and quilting. It'll be a while, because I have ambitious designs on the quilting and my skill is not quite able to follow through yet
- Butterfly Purse - making it up as I go
- Indonesian Railroad - Ready to be quilted, but it's huge! It won't fit my frame and will either have to be done on my domestic machine or else I'll have to pay somebody to do it. I've never paid anybody yet to quilt for me and I don't really want to start now. And I guess there's no need, since I have nobody to give it to at this time.
- Snail's Trail Blues - still in the piecing stage
- Christmas Star - still semi-actively working on this one. It's my first quilt that is paper pieced.
- Quilt-in-a-Box - This was a block swap. Still needs quilting and binding.
- Stars and Stripes - needs borders
I can't believe my list is finally this small, but I'm pretty sure there are others.


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UEA's Trenchless Division successfully completed three 18 metre bores beneath services for OHL-York JV in hard rock ground conditions at Railway Terrace in Schofields NSW.
In May 2016 UEA was contracted to bore and install one DN900 and two DN600 steel enveloper pipes at various levels and align from one launch pit beneath services at Railway Terrace. The works consisted of setting up the auger boring equipment at three separate settings from one launch pit.
UEA used the McLaughlin Auger Boring Machine with a specially designed tungsten carbide tipped drill head to install the steel enveloper pipes.
The bores were successfully completed to the correct alignment and grade on 10th May 2016.
Scope of Works
The scope of works involved the supply and installation of 36 metres of DN600 mild steel enveloper pipe in two bores and 18 metres of DN900 from one large launch pit at different grades and alignments, facilitating the installation and connection of DN375 & DN600 SCL pipes.
Technical Details
The geotechnical information provided indicated the ground conditions varied from 60Mpa to 150Mpa.
Project Completion
The project was a success, with UEA completing all bores on the correct grade and alignment and then completing the project within one week of commencement on Tuesday 10th May 2016.