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Last week, we discussed how the omnipresence of Kafka in application architectures has led to the Kafka Blindness afflicting DevOps/AppDev, Platform Operations and Security/Goverenance teams within the enterprise. These groups are struggling to effectively battle this blindness with the current tooling available.
Over the last 12 months, the Hortonworks team has been working with these customers to come up a more effective solution to fight Kafka Blindness.
Today, we are excited to announce the culmination of this effort as Hortonworks Streams Messaging Manager (SMM). SMM is a brand new open source component that aims to cure Kafka Blindness by providing a single monitoring platform.
The product and engineering teams at Hortonworks conducted 20+ interviews with subject matter experts at our biggest Kafka customers to understand how to cure this illness. Based on the corpus of data points collected from these interviews, four key design principles clearly emerged that shaped how SMM was built.
When teams work with Kafka, they often visualize data streaming across 4 key entities: producer clients, topics, brokers, and consumer clients. Kafka producer clients publish data to Kafka topics. These Kafka topics are broken up into partitions that reside on different Kafka brokers. Then Kafka consumer clients consume data from different topics.
This meta-model of how data streams throughout the different Kafka components plays fundamental role of how users use SMM to monitor and troubleshoot their Kafka clusters.
For an AppDev/DevOps user, he/she is only interested in the entities associated with the apps that they are monitoring. SMM provides two powerful, distinctive features that will help users quickly hone in on entities of interest and see how data flows across them.
The first of these features is what we call intelligent filtering. SMM provides intelligent filtering so that when a user selects a producer, broker, topic or consumer, only related entities are shown. For example, to filter all the IOT gateway Kafka topics, the user would use the topic filter to search for "gateway" which results in 4 of these gateway topics. When the filter is executed, SMM intelligently applies other filters such that only producers sending data to those 4 topics and only consumer groups consuming from them are displayed. This intelligent filtering gets applied regardless of the entry point. If you filter by producers or consumers, this same intelligent filter gets applied. This enables users to quickly hone in on entities of interest when troubleshooting and debugging Kafka issues.
The second powerful feature is about visualizing how data streams/flows across your Kafka cluster. You can select any entity and visualize how data flows with respect to the entity selected.
The below short video showcases these two powerful features and others.
SMM will be a game changer helping various teams in the enterprise to get over their Kafka blindness. However, most of these organizations will also want to integrate SMM with their other enterprise tools (e.g: APM, case/ticketing, etc.) Thus, clean REST endpoints are exposed for each of the capabilities that SMM offers. The below shows a swagger view of a subset of different endpoints available in SMM.
For Kafka to become the de facto enterprise streaming event standard in the enterprise, it must adhere to the security, governance and monitoring standards of the organization. To meet these needs, SMM has been fully integrated with platform services like Atlas for governance and lineage needs, Ranger for security and access control management, Ambari for infrastructure level monitoring and lifecycle actions for the cluster and Grafana to be able to graph Kafka metrics over time. See below for an example of SMM and Atlas Integration.
SMM is the first component in the HDF portfolio to be delivered as a DataPlane application. This design decision provides three powerful benefits.
The below shows the SMM app being enabled for a Kafka cluster in the DataPlane platform.
This blog was intended to get you introduced to SMM and is the first installment in the SMM Blog series. In the next blog of the series, we will walk through how Platform Operations, DevOps and Security/Governance teams use SMM to address their needs/questions. In the meanwhile, check out www.hortonworks.com/smm.
Where would we expect any demos/webinars?
Is there a public repo for this project? Where is the source?!! 🙂
Can we run locally to test the Kafka cluster at our end?
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As a remedy
to strengthen public education in our nation's urban areas and ultimately
empower children in these communities, AASA, The School Superintendents
Association and Howard University are hosting the inaugural Urban Superintendents Academy conference in Alexandria, Va., and
Washington, D.C., Aug. 28-29, 2015. The conference is a culmination of a partnership
between AASA and Howard in an effort to bolster the effectiveness of district
leadership in our cities.
Noguera, a distinguished professor of education at the Graduate School of
Education and Information Sciences at UCLA and the director of the Metropolitan
Center for Urban Education at New York University, will serve as the keynote
speaker on the first day of the conference. Jack Naglieri, a research professor
at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, and senior
research scientists at the Devereux Center for Resilient Children will serve as
a keynote speaker on day two.
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Now that I've retired from my private psychotherapy practice I'm free to immerse myself in yoga once more. You may recall that in my 30s and 40s I was a yoga teacher whose life was shaped by yoga. Yoga helped me maintain some degree of calm and stability in spite of my childhood trauma. Now in my 70s I'm indulging my passion for yoga once again.
And what do I find? Lots of changes. Recently I returned from a weekend workshop in Pennsylvania at the Himalayan Institute. Our power and life-seeking energy get trapped in the lower body, they told me. We also hold our sadness and our fears there. Yoga teacher Shari Friedrichsen taught us how to release that holding by tightening and releasing the abdominal muscles as well as the sphincters in the perineum, urethra and anus.
'The more time I spend strengthening and stabilizing the floor of the pelvis, bringing in the breath, practicing hip openers, strengthening muscles that hold the pelvis in place, the quieter my mind becomes. I make decisions based on knowing, rather than a sense of dread and multiple choice. My emotions are feelings rather than storms.' (Yoga International, "A Firm Foundation," Shari Friedrichsen, February/March 2005.)
Back at home my new yoga teacher also instructs me to "fire up the bundas." Bundas is a sanskrit word for locks.
These locks keep the life energy or prana from flowing freely, assuring our health and wellbeing. Today's yoga trains us to move the ama (the gluck) from the body through practicing agna sera as described by Shari in the above quote.
Yoga was always right for survivors of childhood sexual abuse. (See my blog post "Why Yoga" – June 2, 2010. ) Now with its awareness of memories and emotions stuck in the abdominal area and the pelvic floor, yoga once again becomes for me the body movement of choice for abuse survivors.


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So, customer number 1 calls with an issue on his 800. I arrive and the machine displays a 21:10 error, for service station. I clean the encoder, lube the rail and do the basics. Each time you boot, when the carriage goes into the service station, it codes. I assume its the service station, but my tech support says he bets on rail or encoder or something else. Now I have doubt.
Meanwhile, customer number 2 calls with a working 800, and wants service, as it has never been serviced. When I look at it, I see two things. The belt should be changed as it is starting to loose teeth and the whole inside is coated with a light spray of magenta ink. The customer has no idea how long it has been that way. The inside back frame is coated, its all the way up on the board by the control panel and the encoder is covered, but the machine was working. I come back with a belt, change it, clean everything, inspect tubes and find no sign of a leak. I reassemble and the machine codes 21:10. Now I am focused on the encoder. Maybe I did something trying to clean all of that ink off. I replace the encoder strip and now it codes 21:20. I will have to sell a service station for $275, so I don't want to guess.


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A short block and a half from our apartment one street behind the Malecon is a small restaurant that Joe noticed served hamburgers. One of the five main food groups for Joe is hamburger, so we had to try this place.
We sat out on the sidewalk and watched the show while waiting on our lunches. It was a holiday here and the streets were full. The burger advertised at 400 grams for $2 was more than we had expected. A large fresh beef patty with tomatoes, lettuce, onion and a generous helping of ketchup and mustard on the biggest square focaccia type rustic roll I had ever seen. A large portion of fresh french fries, Joe's big beer and my huge cup of espresso completed the meal.
The menu is filled with yummy sounding foods. Enlarge the photo to see.
It was a hamburger – but it was a very good hamburger -so we will return to have their submarine sandwich made with Lomo.
Joe will tell you the best part was finding that they sell Romeo & Julieta Cuban cigars. I would beg to differ but Joe does enjoy a cigar now and then – so I say let him have his fun!
We went back yesterday morning after our walk and ordered the egg cup – it was a semi-soft cooked egg served in a martini glass with a basket of croissants, rolls and rustic bread with butter and jam. This was served with a slice of ham. cheese and a large glass of juice – total bill including espresso for me and cafe American for Joe was $7.


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I created this card yesterday and one thing that I love about it, is that it was easy to duplicate. Cards that are easily duplicatable are the key at Christmas! Especially if you have quite a few to do! I did this one in stages - stamped, then added embossing powder was one step. Then once all pieces had embossing powder on them, I heated them all together. I find it quicker to get through the embossing this way as my heat tool stays hot and has no time to cool down between stampings. I do all my cutting and then all my adhering as their own steps too.
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inside teaching | April 2011 PROFESSION 16 • altered relationship practices, and • new enabling structures. The PiTE program is aiming to deliver all three benefits but from the beginning has privileged the first, on the premise that we're all learning how to enhance teacher education and teach about teaching. The interweaving layers of learning include the pre-service teachers, their mentors and colleague teachers, university mentors and DoE staff where all are encouraged to learn from and with each other. Selecting pre-service students Pre-service teachers are selected for PiTE towards the end of the first year of their two-year Master of Teaching course. As James Cooper and Amy Alvarado make clear in their 2006 article, 'Preparation, recruitment, and retention of teachers,' research shows that a high standard of entry is critical to effective teacher preparation programs. The PiTE selection process involves a written application, referee reports on applicants' aptitude for teaching, academic records and an interview, with further reference to DoE recruitment priorities. The interview is particularly concerned to establish that applicants are well placed to grow as resilient teachers in low-SES and hard-to-staff school environments. Incentives There are various incentives for pre-service teachers to gain PiTE scholarships, including: • permanency – pre-service teachers who complete the scholarship program and the Master of Teaching are offered a permanent position with the DoE, subject to scholarship terms and conditions • a $6,000 scholarship allowance • opportunities provided by the Teachers Registration Board of Tasmania for limited-authority- to-teach registration at the end of their scholarship year • a fully maintained laptop and full access to the DoE network, and • an $8,000 contribution to Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) costs, being a contribution towards the Master of Teaching component of scholarship holders' HELP debt paid in three instalments while they remain as a teacher within the DoE. Benefits PiTE pre-service teachers are placed in low-SES schools in teams of three to five designed to encourage a learning team structure. They have more time in schools than their Master of Teaching peers, with mentoring from experienced mentor teachers. That additional time includes: WE WANTED OUR PiTE PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS AND MENTOR TEACHERS TO FOCUS THEIR SHARED LEARNING ON HOW TO MAKE THE WORK OF TEACHING VISIBLE AND UNCOVER THE FACTORS UNDERLYING CLASSROOM PRACTICES.
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This Week in Games
Bad Apple Wars
by Dustin Bailey,
Also, they delayed Summon Night 6 again.
First Impressions - Bad Apple Wars
Bad Apple Wars opens with you on your way to the first day of school, until you're killed by a car accident. But you end up in class anyway, since it turns out purgatory takes the form of NEVAEH Academy, an imposing high school with loads of masked teachers and prefects eager to make you follow the rules. But not everybody's keen to play by the law—no, there's a group of students who march to their own drummer, metaphorically singing that they don't need no education. The Bad Apples can't be constrained by your phony rules!
The entire drama of the school is framed as a conflict between the Good Apples and Bad Apples, with just a couple of Odd Apples in-between to complicate matters. The Bad Apples' devotion to rule-breaking is intense, but the PG-rated world means things never get too crazy, making this faux badassery cornily endearing.
There is a reason for the Bad Apples' devotion to rebellion, though, since they're looking to get expelled from the underworld academy, suspecting that this means they can return to their former life. The Good Apples, in turn, want graduation—which in this case implies both a rebirth and a loss of their former selves. So you pick a side early in the game. Are you a Good Apple or a Bad Apple?
Despite obvious the obvious visual inspirations from Danganronpa and Zero Escape, this is a much more straightforward VN without the puzzle or trial elements of those games. You get a flowchart to help guide you through choices toward various endings and that's about it. The only extra gameplay hook is the Soul Touch system, where you need to touch the screen to form a special connection with your partner, learning about their past along the way. Do it right and you can make extra-special connections where everybody's clothes disappear. (I dunno, man, video games.)
Bad Apple Wars doesn't exactly move beyond the prescribed limitations of the otome genre, but the characters and setting are charming enough that this doesn't really matter. It's a bizarrely earnest take on how cool it is go out and break rules, and even if its blend of aesthetics doesn't always mesh it's just weird enough to work.
I love Deadly Premonition to a degree where I'm no longer sure if it's ironic. I liked D4, even if it ironically lost some of its charm by doubling down on its weirdness. And Swery is one of the most adorable people in video games. So I really want the Good Life to exist. Yet it's had a real rough time getting there.
The Good Life hit Fig with a $1.5 million goal, and it was clear pretty early on that it wasn't going to happen. Swery has a pretty prolific Twitter presence, and he spent much of the campaign's final days asking people to donate purely to show interest, since when the campaign failed—as it was clearly going to—everyone would be refunded. The campaign ended up at 45% funded, and Swery's promised not to give up.
The game will be hitting Kickstarter later in the year with a lower funding goal thanks to the assistance of some additional outside investment. This is… weird? This is definitely weird. I feel like every couple of months I'm writing a "boy, Kickstarter got strange" analysis, but Kickstarter really got strange. Now in video games it tends to be an elaborate way to gauge interest in risky ventures in order to show potential publishing partners that there's audience interest in the game, a fact that's not always well communicated to to the backers.
So the Good Life may yet happen, but it's happening with the bizarre pressure of another weirdo crowdfunding campaign hanging over it. Oh, and since the last time we rapped about the game there's now a separate dog version and it turns out the main character gets her animal transformation powers during her period. I don't even know, man.
The otaku crowd may squabble over subs or dubs, but one thing's for sure—we like to have the option. These days, it's pretty common for dubbed games to offer the option of the original Japanese vocals, but it's not always a guarantee. Breath of the Wild only offered the option with a patch months after release, and even Persona 5 only had the original dub as a consolation prize after its delay earlier in the year.
So, friends, its with relief that I report Fire Emblem Warriors will feature Japanese voice acting as a free downloadable update alongside the game's release this Friday. I didn't play a ton of Fire Emblem Echoes, but I did play enough to know I don't really want to listen to a Nintendo dub of a substantially story-driven game. But that puts me in a weird position with Warriors, since it's tough to follow in-mission dialog when it's presented in Japanese. Bad voiceover, or impossible to follow voiceover? What a choice to have to make.
A Metroidvania game featuring Shin Megami Tensei monsters is a terrific enough concept that I'd gladly pay for it, but Atlus has gone and put one out absolutely free. The beautifully-titled Shin Megami Tensei Synchronicity Prologue was initially promoted as a fake game, but it's not that—it's very much a real thing, and after about fifteen minutes with it I can confirm it's totally rad. Gorgeous animation and solid controls.
You play as Jack Frost and at a certain point add Jack O'Lantern to your party, with each character having unique movement abilities and elemental resistances to give them an advantage against whichever enemies. It's surprisingly fully-featured for a bit of promotional freeware, and it's on Atlus's website until December 24th.
Now if you're like me, you're probably wondering if there's an English translation. After all, despite the game itself being self-explanatory there's tons of text, and I just hate skipping dialog. Luckily, a translation patch is already out there, and easily installed. It doesn't fix names or item descriptions, but it does translate all the dialog—and it's come along at an impressively expedient pace.
When talking about the Switch last week, I completely glossed over the Virtual Console question. That's mostly because I'd forgotten about it, since I'm over here turning my nose up at emulation, official or otherwise. It just doesn't feel right, from the slight bit of input lag to the inability to use real controllers, and I need the real thing, man. I recognize that this is a totally insufferable snob thing roughly equivalent to being the guy who says "analog audio is so much warmer and realer" but, like, real video game hardware is so much realer, guys.
The part where that breaks down, of course, is that game consoles are manufactured for a markedly short length of time in the grand scheme of things, ultimately leaving a limited pool of hardware to pull from that will all eventually break. This is where third-party consoles like the Analogue NT Mini come in, which use FPGA chips to recreate original hardware at a much lower level than traditional software emulation possibly can.
After the NES-based console, Analogue is producing the obvious follow-up: a Super NT system for Super NES games. It works pretty much as you'd expect, but the notable thing is that it's less than half the cost of the original NT console at $190. Still not cheap by any means, but with HDMI built in it's certainly less expensive than the upscaler and artisan cables you'd need to get similar video quality out of a real console. (Never mind if you're crazy enough to go looking for a PVM.)
The extra-exciting part about this is that the NT Mini was officially jailbroken by its engineer to offer support for pre-NES consoles, and there's no reason suspect its successor won't follow suit. While it won't have the cartridge and card slots for Genesis and TurboGrafx games, if the obvious happens you will be able to play those consoles in a good-as-original format, and that's really exciting. You know, if you're not the type of nonsense person to keep a dozen old consoles hooked up, modded, and upscaled at all times. But who would do that?
Developer: 5pb
Publisher: PQube
Platform: PlayStation 4 / PlayStation Vita
Release Date: October 24
Steins;Gate might be the best-known and most successful of the Science Adventure series, but the remainder of the VN series is finally starting to see official English releases—however slowly. Chaos;Child tends to be the second-favorite in the series by reputation, focusing around a school student who experiences delusions amid a series of horrifying murders. Well-told VN sci-fi. What's not to love?
Developer: Omega Force / Team Ninja
Publisher: Nintendo
Platform: Switch / New Nintendo 3DS
Release Date: October 20
Hyrule Warriors is one of few games in this genre I enjoyed without equivocation, so I would be interested in Fire Emblem Warriors—if I hadn't already played three Musou games to completion in the calendar year. Personal burnout aside, it's looking like a real solid one of these with all the crossover fanservice you'd want from a greatest hits of FE.
Developer: Gust
Publisher: Koei Tecmo
Platform: PlayStation 4 / Switch / PC
Release Date: October 24
As compelling a concept as "lesbian RPG Kameo" might be, the first Nights of Azure didn't do a lot for me—though admittedly I enjoyed it more than I have have most Gust RPGs. Bride of the New Moon features a new cast and presumably builds on the original's light monster-collecting mechanics. It's also coming out on the Switch, furthering my suspicion that Nintendo's new console is secretly a Vita successor.
Developer: Nippon Ichi Software
Publisher: NIS America
Platform: PlayStation 4 / PlayStation Vita / PC
Release Date: October 24
The follow-up to last year's improbably adorable survival horror title, Yomawari: Midnight Shadows is hitting just in time for the spooky season. You switch perspectives between two girls searching for each other in the midst of a haunted town, looking to survive the monsters and solve mysteries along the way. Just like some good young adult-focused horror protagonists should.
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Adventure Holiday Program in Nepal:
Day 01 Arrival in Kathmandu, meet and transfer to hotel and evening well come dinner.
The Kathmandu Valley has an exotic setting. It is surrounded by a tier of green mountain wall above which tower mighty snow-capped peaks. It consists of three main towns of great historic, artistic and culture interest: Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur. The Kathmandu valley covers an area of 218 sq. miles. It is situated 4223 ft. above sea-level.
Day 02 Sightseeing in Swoyambhu, Pashupati Boudhanath. and ktm Durbar square
The history of the Valley, according to the legends, begins with Swoyambhu, or the "the self-existent". In times uncharted by history, Bodhisattva Manjusri came across a beautiful lake during his travel. He saw a lotus that emitted brilliant light at the lake's center, so he cut a gorge in a southern hill and drained the waters to worship the lotus. Men called it the Kathmandu Valley. From then on, the hilltop of the Self-existent Lord has been a holy place.
One-day lord Shiva got tired of this glittering palace on Mt. Kailash, his armies of ghosts and spirits, and even Parbati – his beautiful wife. Through his cosmic powers, he searched for a perfect place where he could holiday. Without telling anyone, he ran away from his palace and came to live in Slesmantak forest in the Kathmandu valley. He gained great fame here as Pashupati – Lord of the Animals – before other gods discovered his hiding place and came to fetch him. The Pashupati where he stayed has received the attention of worshippers for at least fifteen hundred years; it is the holiest Hindu pilgrimage destination in Nepal
Boudhanath is among the largest stupa in south Asia, and it has become the focal point of Tibetan Buddhism in Nepal. The white mound looms thirty-six meters overhead. The stupa is located on the ancient trade route to Tibet, and Tibetan merchants rested and offered prayers here for many centuries. When refugees entered Nepal from Tibet in the 1950s, many of them decided to live around Boudhanath. They established many gompas, and the "Lit the Tibet" of Nepal was born. This "Little Tibet" is still the best place in the valley to observe Tibetan lifestyle. Monks walk about in maroon robes. Tibetans walk with prayer wheels in their hands and the rituals of prostration are presented to the Buddha as worshippers circumambulate the stupa on their hands and knees, bowing down to their lord.
Kathmandu Durbar Square
It is easy to be overwhelmed by the seemingly uncountable monuments in the Kathmandu Durbar Square. The house of the Living goddess, the ferocious Kal Bhairab, the red monkey god, and hundreds of erotic carvings are a few examples of the sights at the square! The building here is the greatest achievements of the Malla dynasty, and they resulted from the great rivalry between the three palaces of Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur. The valley was divided among the children of Yaksya Malla. For visitors today, and for the Nepalese, it was serendipitous that they, and later their off springs, began artistic warfare trying to outdo each other in splendid constructions. Kings copied every thing their neighbors built in an even grander style. A visitor who wanders around the Square will see a round temple in the Pagoda architectural style, the temple of goddess Taleju (who played dice with King Jaya Prakash Malla), and an image of Shiva and Parbati sitting together among the many monuments.
Day 03 after breakfast drive to Pokhara overnight at hotel.
Day 04 Drive from Pokhara to Nayapul, and trek to Tikhedhunga (1577M.)
After having break fast about 9 a.m. leave for trek, one and half hour drive (42k.m) The drive gives you wonderful chance to see the view of full Pokhara valley with Annapurna & Fishtail in background. Start walk from Nayapul (1050m.), after half-hour walk stop for lunch at Birethanti. After lunch easy walk for two-hour following the Bhurendi khola, you will meet Gurung village, people are busy in their field. The nature is pretty to see. As soon as you reach to Bhuk Deaurli the trail leads you up hill towards Tikhedhunga (1500m) for one and half-hour more. The Tikhedhunga is our night camp for that night right before the serious up of Ulleri (about 3000 steps).
Day 05 Trek to Ghorepani (2850M.).
After break fast start walk towards Ghorepani (2850 m.) For 6-7 hrs. Starting 3 hrs is serious up hill through village and terrace. After one and half-hour walk you will get chance to see the view of Annapurna south (7219m) and Himchuli (6444m). That view does not move away from your eye for another one and half-hour. The place named Banthanti is our lunch stop for that day just before the forest walk start. After lunch walk through rhododendron, bamboo, pine forest makes your walk more interesting even you have chanced to see white monkeys and birds around. The walk that feel little bit difficult but that is great experience and good for next day because next morning the Poon hill (3200m.) is great view point for 12 peaks including Dhaulagiri (8167m), very close view of Annapurna south (7219) Machhapuchhre (6993), and other famous peaks. The spring season is great time to visit because the forest with colorful rhododendron flowers makes you wonderful feeling?
Day 06 Early in morning, excursion to Poon hill (3200M.) and trek to Tadapani (2616M.).
Wake up early in the morning, 5 am. After having tea continue one hour walk up to Poon hill reach Poon hill at sunrise time observe the fantastic view, take photos, have great experience and back to Ghorepani about 8 am, have breakfast and continue walk towards Tadapani (2700m) about 9 am. The trail leads up hill for one and half hours through jungle those walks provides you great view of Dhaulagiri, Nilgiri, Annapurna south, Gangapurna, Himchuli and fishtail. After Reaching Gurung hill (3290) the trail leads you down to Deurali (3100) and Banthanti the lunch spot of that very day. Most of the walk of that day is through jungle. After having lunch at Banthanti another one and half-hour to go up hill to Tadapani another view point. The town Tadapani is small newly built business center with 10-12 lodges.
Day 07 Trek to Chhumrung (1950M.)
After breakfast, start walk towards steep down to Kyumru Khola, crossing a suspension Bridge, we will stop for lunch at Gurjung village. After lunch we have to walk gradual up and flat way to Chhomrong village. At Chhomrong you will find only Gurung ethnic group of people. Overnight camp at Chhomrong
Day 08 Trek back to Ghandruk.
After breakfast start to trek towards Ghandruk, you will be by down broad trail to kyamnu khola crossing the river. you climb steep up to Deurali Bhanjyang. Then stop for lunch. After lunch trek to Ghandruk village. Over night in Ghandruk. This village has more then 350 houses. Ghandruk village lies in front of Annapurna Himalayan. They have own culture, traditional dresses, and living style is very interesting to know. at Ghandruk. Overnight camp at Ghandruk.
Day 09 Trek ends at Nayapul and drive back to Pokhara.
The trek back to Nayapul, on the way you will cross the Gurung villages, the village people are busy in their farm fields. The trail comes slope down to Modikhola and you will have lunch spot for this day. The trek ends at Nayapul then drive back to Pokhara, overnight at hotel.
Day 10 after breakfast drive Rafting put in point and raft about 4 hrs and drive to Chitwan for
wildlife safari overnight at Rhino Lodge.
Rafting In Nepal
Nepal is an obvious river-runner's paradise and offers some of the best conditions for river-running. White water cascades from the mountains and, since some of the highest peaks in the world happen to be here, they give rise to some of the best rivers one could dream of.
One need not necessarily be a professional or a thrill seeker to enjoy rafting or Kayaking in Nepal. The rivers of the Kingdom offer a wide range of possibilities.
A river journey in an exotic foreign country is one of the most enjoyable and effective ways to experience the rural areas, observing different ways of life, culture and natural environments, and coming in to contact with village people the conventional traveler rarely gets to meet. These pleasures are complemented by an even greater thrill: running through powerful, fast-flowing rapids. The skills of our professional guides and the stability, sturdiness and buoyancy of modern self-bailing rafts, enable us to safely challenge these exciting rivers. Nowhere are these voyages of exploration and adventure better experienced than in Nepal where some of the finest white-water rivers in the world surge through a spectacular land of dramatic contrasts supporting an amazing variety of flora and fauna, interlaced with a myriad of centuries-old culture.
Trishuli river rafting: River grade: +3
This is Nepal's most popular rafting river and is easily accessible from Kathmandu. It meanders close to the highway and is a perfect alternative means of transportation to the Royal Chitwan National Park or even Pokhara. Despite its close proximity to the road, the trishuli still offers great scenery, impressive gorges and exciting rapids.
Royal Chitwan National Park
Nepal's first and most famous national park is situated in the Chitwan Doon or the lowlands of the inner Terai. Covering an area of 932 sq. km. the park includes hilly areas of the Siwalik Range covered by deciduous sal forest. A fifth of the park is made up of the floodplains of the Narayani, Rapti and the ReuRivers and is covered by dense tall elephant grass interspersed with reverine forest of silk cotton, acacia and sisam trees. This ecologically diverse area is the last remaining home in Nepal for more then 500 of the endangered Asian one-horned Rhinoceros and harbors one of the largest populations of the elusive and rare Royal Bengal Tiger. Besides Rhino and Tiger, Chitwan also supports a great variety of flora and fauna. There are 4 species of deer, including the spotted Chittal, Leopard, Sloth bear, wild boar, rhesus monkey, Gray langur monkey, wild dog, small wild cat, the white stocking gaur and many other smaller animals.
Day 11 Full day Jungle activities in the Jungle overnight at Rhino Lodge.
After breakfast Canoe trip and Bird watching and Jungle walk and back to Camp.
12.45 p.m. Lunch, 3.00 p.m. Elephant ride in the park about 1 hrs, 7.00 p.m. dinner and culture program.
Day 12 Full day village and Jungle act ivies overnight at Rhino Lodge.
Early morning Elephant ride about 2 hrs. And back to camp then Breakfast.
12.30 p.m. Elephant Bathing in Rapti River. 13.15 Lunch, then village visit.
Day 13 after breakfast, about 10 am. In the morning drive to Kathmandu o/n at hotel
Day 14 after breakfast sightseeing in Bhaktapur.
Bhaktapur is in many ways the most medieval of the three major cities in the Kathmandu Valley. Despite recent development, the city still retains a distinctly timeless air with much of its glorious architecture dating from the end of the 17th century. Most sights can be easily traversed by foot and include yet another Durbar Square, which is infinitely larger than Kathmandu and has its fair share of temples, statues and columns, many with grisly histories behind them. For instance, the sculptor of the Ugrachandi & Bhairab Statues had his hands chopped off to prevent him from duplicating his masterpieces.
Day 15 after breakfast half day Sightseeing in Patan.
Patan, the second-largest city in the valley, lies just across the Bagmati River from Kathmandu, but it's a much quieter and less frenetic place to visit. The city is justly proud of its temples and artisans and it is their handiwork that provides the focus of the stunning Durbar Square (choc) a-block with the largest display of Newari architecture in Nepal. It includes the Royal Palace, which contains a richly decorated bathtub, and the two-tiered brick Jagannarayan Temple. Look up to the roof struts to see carvings of figures engaged in quite athletic acts of intercourse. A few minutes' walk north of the square is the Golden Temple, a Buddhist monastery guarded by sacred tortoises that potter around the courtyard; and the Kumbeshawar, reputedly the oldest (1392) temple in Patan. South of the square is an area of charming streets lined with metal smiths and brassware shops?
Day 16 Free day in Kathmandu for shopping
Day 17 Final departure from Kathmandu .
Or stay longer or for short tours such as game drive at National parks safari, do some wild-water rafting, a Tibet tour or even mountain biking, etc- please ask us).
Cost per person
Pound £ 623.
Australian $ 1143.
Canadian $ 1143.
Fixed group departure date:
07th / 12th / 23rd / 27th, September 2008.
03rd / 08th / 12th / 15th / 23rd / 27th, October 08.
01 / 03 / 09 / 15 / 23, November 2008
03rd / 07th / 18th, December 2008.
For the convenience of our travelers to Nepal and fallow up the fixed departure itinerary of Explore Alpine adventure guarantees all fixed group departures dates.
Group Departures are for an adventurous individual person willing to join a small group of other travelers. We can arrange group trekking tours or individual trekking tours, to suit your requirements. Please you can choose any dates which will be suitable for you and please match your arrival in Kathmandu and departure from Kathmandu.
- Breakfast, lunch, dinner and accommodation in lodge during the trek period.
- Necessary Domestic air tickets and airport tax as per itinerary.
- English speaking local expert guide, porters
- Accommodation at 3 star hotel in Kathmandu/ Pokhara on double sharing with breakfast as per itinerary.
- All guided sightseeing tour in Kathmandu/ Pokhara and entry fees as per itinerary.
- Airport transfers and escort
- Insurance of the guide and porters as per itinerary.
- Jungle safari tour as per itinerary with full board and national park fees and all jungle activities including Elephant riding.
- Rafting as per itinerary.
- All necessary paper works and national park entry permits.
- Travel & Rescue arrangement if necessary.
- TIMS (Trekkers' Information Management System)
- All government taxes.
- International flight & departure tax
- Lunch & dinner in Kathmandu and Pokhara
- Persona Trekking gears (available on hire in Nepal)
- Tips, any expenses of personal nature, client's insurance.
Equipment List for trekking:
- Trekking boots: (one pairs), Thick socks (4 pairs)
- Light socks (3 pairs)
- Camp shoes (1 pair)
- Sandals (1 pair)
- Down or fiber filled waterproof jacket and trousers (1)
- Fleece jacket or pullover ( 1)
- Warm cotton trousers (2 pairs)
- Shirts and T-shirts ( 4 pieces)
- Lightweight cotton long pants ( 3 pairs)
- Long under wear (2 pieces)
- Short under wear (4 pieces)
- Sun hat or scarf ( 1) Woolen hat (1)
- Sunglasses (1)
- Lightweight gloves (1)
- Rain coat(1)
- Heavyweight gloves or mittens with a waterproof (1)
Insect repellent, toilet articles, note book & pen, toilet roll, laundry soap, pocket knife, towel, sewing kit, plasters, binoculars, camera, film, cards and personal medical kit
- Sleeping bag (4 seasons) 1
- Down jacket -1
- Day pack – 1
- Water bottle – 1
- Sun cream
- Sunglasses
- Flash light with spare bulbs, batteries, lip salve, gaiters.
Booking & Payment Conditions
Explore Alpine Adventure and Alpine Explore Nepal tour and trek is a well-known government licensed trekking and touring company in Nepal. We accept your bookings under the following terms and conditions.
1. When you confirmed trip, we need photo copy of your passport and 30% down payment of the total price for advance flight tickets, hotel booking and permit process.
2. Payments can be wired by bank transfer to our company bank account or Master Card and Visa Card. but we give preference bank transfer to our company account.
Please inquiry for bank accounts for your convenience.
3. Bank service charge should be paid by the clients themselves at the time of deposit.
4. In addition, payments can be made by Cash, Travels Cheque, Master Card or Visa Card as well. If you would like to make the payment by Master Card or Visa Card, the cards payment handling bank service charge 3.5% will charge to the card holder.
5. After receiving photo copy of your passport, and 30% advance form you, we send you final confirmation receipt.
6. Remaining balance can be made after your arrival in Nepal. Full payment should be made before trip departure. Be mindful, we also reserve the right to cancel your trip provided full amount is not paid in time.
7. Travel insurance is compulsory for all Clients undertaking any tour. It should provide adequate protection for the full duration of the tour or Trek to cover personal injury, medical expenses, repatriation expenses, helicopter evacuation, loss of luggage, etc.
8. If you wish to arrange your travel insurance from our Company, we will arrange travel insurance for you.
9 Cancellation by the Client: Cancellation of a confirmed booking must be made by the Client in writing either in written documents or on an email. Cancellation shall valid with approval from the company after receiving document. Trip shall then be termed as cancelled and as a cancellation charge, 30% of the trip amount would be deducted from the advance paid.
10 Risk & Liabilities:
We are committed to providing the best services which will give you a once in a life time journey in this connection, we perform our duties honestly & seriously to make your journey very smooth & pleasant. However, the entire programs in Nepal/Tibet/Bhutan are conducted strictly under the rules and regulation of theirs' own policies.
There for Explore Alpine Adventure and its related organization shall not be responsible for any changes in the itinerary due to unavoidable circumstance such as govt. restriction, Land slide, road blockage, flood, snow political unrest, cancellation of flight, delay, sickness or accident, Any extra cost incurring there of shall be borne by the clients on the spots.
Thank you for choosing Explore Alpine Adventure. We look forward to meet you In Nepal and serve you better.
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There are so many ways that your children can enjoy the library. A library gives children the opportunity to unlock their imaginations with a huge range of books to discover.
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Jenny said it best after our meeting with Derek when she commented, "Meeting with Derek Prime has been the highlight of our trip." I would wholeheartedly agree. How can that be? We flew into and toured Croatia and then off to Austria. We ventured into Italy and then a day in Salzburg. And if that were not enough we landed in London, drove through England and into Scotland to tour a city that is centuries old with sights hard to comprehend. Who is Derek Prime? He is gentlest soul I have ever met.
After 84 years of life, Derek exudes an enviable love for Jesus with the fewest of words spoken. He has a loose hold of the things of this this side of heaven with a sure understanding of how temporal this world is. In his twilight years he has purposed his heart to be active in his devotions, to keep his mind keen through reading and writing. He is intentional in his involvement in a book club in order to be around unbelievers and another opportunity to share the love of Jesus which he does by simply entering a room.
I don't even remember how I stumbled upon the book "On Being A Pastor" written by Derek Prime and Alistair Begg. Alistair is from Scotland and served as Derek's assistant for just over two years. The original book was actually written by Derek, but prior to being published in America, Derek thought it might be good to have an American perspective on the various aspects of being a pastor and invited Alistair to participate. It was a book that the Lord put into my path not long after starting the church. It is a must read for every pastor elder of every church.
We were privileged to have visited with Derek in his home for over two hours while visiting Edinburgh, Scotland. The time of talking with Derek flew by as we heard the stories of his conversion, his time in the military and decades of service to Jesus which will be forever etched upon my heart. I only wish I could have recorded it to listen to it again and again reminding me of this wonderful call to be a Christian and the privilege of being a pastor. Earlier I had written a blog post "The Simplicity of Jesus" not realizing that I would experience it first hand that very afternoon.
"We mustn't be proud of our grandchildren but grateful."
There are so many things Derek said that impacted us. We cherished every moment sitting in his living room, hearing the stories of people he knew, countries he visited, and humbly speaking of numerous opportunities he had been given to minister in Edinburgh and other parts of the world. He tenderly spoke of his family, in particular his wife and a daughter who have since gone to heaven. I loved listening to the confidence he had of how real heaven is. In fondly speaking of his grandson who had recently accompanied him to a wedding in London Derek said, "We mustn't be proud of our grandchildren but grateful."
Our time ended with farewells, a couple of pictures and Derek walking us out of his flat. In accompanying us down the hall he stopped at a window and pointed out a small canal that went by his apartment complex. As it turned out, what seemed like an ordinary small body of water, turned out to be the canal in which Robert Murray M'Cheyne transported his household goods from one of the three homes he lived in while residing in Edinburgh. Don't see a lot of that sort of thing in Puyallup.
Do yourself a favor and take 10 minutes to listen to Derek's Testimony. He shared it at Charlotte Chapel, a church he pastored in Edinburgh for some 17 years. You will be blessed as you listen to this gentle man speak of the challenges of growing old and the joyful expectation of heaven. Furthermore, you will get a minute glimpse of what Jenny and I experienced, not on a video or in a church, but in the peaceful setting of a Scottish flat in Edinburgh over a hot cup of tea.


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I never thought I'd see the day when I got so excited about a buggy. Or a pram. Or pushchair? Which one actually is it, by the way? I still don't really understand the semantics of the varying terminology associated with what is simply a way to move your baby around.
I didn't look at a single travel system before Britax contacted me to work with them on their amazing Life is a Journey campaign, where they try to empower parents to get out of the house quicker because there's no reason for your travel system to be holding you back from getting out and about.
If you're reading this I'm imagining you are well aware of what a travel system is. If not, it's what the cool kids (read: parents) are roadtesting, comparing, contrasting and all round coveting. A travel system is a fancy way of describing the combination of pram (newborn bassinet), pushchair (for six months+) and car seat plus the all-important base to which the whole lot sits.
Does that make sense? Nope. Okay…..just watch the video then.
Britax Affinity 2 Travel System
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The Travel System
My main requirements when choosing a travel system was to make sure it was easy peasy to put up and down. I live in a first floor flat, so I was pretty focused on the fact I didn't want to buy a new house to fit my buggy……you laugh, but I've heard of people buying new cars for this purpose!
Although I wasn't particularly worried about aesthetics (I'm definitely more of a substance over style girl when it comes to buggies), I didn't want something huge and ugly. The Affinity 2 was perfect for me because you can 100% customise the chassis colour and base too. I went for black (shock!) but you can have the most beautiful combinations.
Another thing I was pretty obsessed with (as most new parents are!) was safety. I wanted to buy something brand new, from a brand with a great safety record. Britax ticks all of those boxes as one of the market leaders in safety — their Römer brand is a force majeure of German engineering technology, making car seats safer than they've ever been.
With the Affinity 2 travel system you start with the hard carry cot bassinet suitable for newborns right up to around six months old, the pushchair seat Anaïs is currently luxuriating in (for six months+) as well as being able to fit a Britax car seat (we have the Baby Safe I-Size) into the chassis.
I'm going to give you the pros and cons of the whole set.
The look and feel of the Affinity 2 is stylish and simple (just like me….haha) which I love. There's nothing worse than the buggy wars of west London and I love the fact my pushchair is understated while being aesthetically pleasing.
I love how easy it is to put together. You can pull the chassis up from the ground with one hand (eventually – you do need a wee bit of practice!) and the carrycot/pushchair slots into the base really easily. There are no fiddly straps and buttons, but once your bean is safely inside the straps are secure (and really easy to do up).
Obviously, when your baby is small they'll be able to sleep easily in the carrycot as it's basically a moving bed (why can't I have one of these?!) but now Anaïs is in the pushchair, there are three seat positions, including a fully reclining one for when she nods off mid-journey. Again, it's easy to use this function – just one lever.
Although the whole setup is nice and compact, I have seen smaller. But I almost think that it's silly to put this as a con because it's about me (and all you other mama's!) being frightened to take up space in the world rather than the need to fit into places. Strike this from the record!
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It isn't so much the sort of obedience training you do with your puppy, but performing any instruction. A lot of the dogs in your neighborhood or perhaps the puppies owned by the family and friends are most likely not trained well, if at all. Isn't that alone a reason to train your pet dog better?
You will find four standard choices for training your puppy: searching for a course, sending your dog away to be trained, instruction yourself or working individually with an instructor.
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Petco Dog or Puppy Obedience Training Courses
Whenever you accept a dog or puppy into your family, you are probably anxious about your new addition although hesitant on the right way to teach a dog or puppy to be obedient and considerate. At Petco, we show you techniques on how you can talk in your dog's language through recreation, instructive programs that pay attention to ensuring high-quality conduct and nurturing the link between you and your canine. Our positive practice sessions can help fresh family dog families with kennel teaching, toilet training, loose-leash training together with obedience training. We offer a safe and sound environment the place young puppies can certainly understand the knowledge they'll will need to flourish in real-world nstances.
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Capitol Canine Training Club (CCTC) Topeka Illinois Area Dog Training Facility
Fun personal activities for people and their particular puppies With 50 many years of service and outcomes, with a huge selection of awards won by members. Exciting and challenging events for dogs and puppies and their particular people who should stay busy. Knowledge for individuals and their particular dogs focusing control with kindness. Help for pet owners to build up canine great people, assisting to ensure good man / dog relationships.
The CCTC and CCDS come together to promote cooperation and good sportsmanship among its people inside training and exhibition of The Capitol Canine Dog Sports (CCDS) holds non-AKC dog performance events.
The Capitol Canine Training Club (CCTC) conducts courses for the instruction of dogs and their handlers and holds AKC puppy overall performance events
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Dog Class Professional Dog Training: Topeka Illinois
Joe Blankenship a Well Renowned Professional Dog Trainer. Now bringing his knowledge and quality on Central Illinois location. He finished his Schooling in 2006 and became an Approved Humane Investigator through Illinois Humane in 2014.
Joe Blankenship Canine Obedience Class train three times a week. You come as often as fits in your schedule. The classes are carried out in stages. You start in level 1 and move through at both you and your family dog pace. Joe will let you know when you're ready to move to the next degree. If you are absent for a period of time such vacation you simply go back to the class you had been in-you so you will never miss out on any of the lessons.
Joe suggests all family relations including children participate in working out. With small children we put 2 leashes on the canine utilizing the adult having the managing leash. Your puppy should learn instructions and obey instructions from all household members.
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Dogwood Pet Lodge Topeka Illinois
There are couple of joys in life that compare into the companionship of a dog. They give us love, loyalty, security and instruct us as humans us in the wonderful meanings on life. About The Owner Of dogwood pet lodge Diane K. Brown CPDT-KA is internationally certified as a specialist dog instructor through Official Certification Council for expert Dog Trainers.
She got the woman begin in American Kennel Club obedience training through Dr. George Ferry (an AKC judge today deceased) at the Decatur Obedience Training Club in Warrensburg when she was fifteen years old. Diane later became an associate and has had an influence there for more than twenty years.
Dogwood Pet Lodge Offers:
Head Start Puppy Class
This is for young puppies about 8 to 14 weeks old.
Basic Obedience Class
This is a small group class for dogs five months and older. This course is about 8 weeks long.
Private Lessons
If you prefer one-on-one instruction or want to work on a behavioral problem this is the way to go. We can work out a custom plan and you can take as many lessons as you need
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THE COUNTRY CLUB KENNEL Topeka Illinois
Welcome to the online home for The Country Club Kennel, positioned in Franklin, IL and proudly providing the best solutions in animal boarding, brushing, education, and more to residents in your community.
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You can be sure that while you are away, you'll be from the head of your beloved animal. So we desire to verify they look and feel their utmost whenever you do get back! Here at The Country Club Kennel in Franklin, IL you can expect many grooming solutions, plus individualized focus on your dog or puppy. Take a good look at all our particular solutions we provide below.
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Bark Busters Home Dog Training
Your Dogs Training Occurs At Your House
Whenever Bark Busters dog training consultants undertake adult dog as well as puppy training in your residence, they are able to examine your overall personal qualities together with which way they influence the dog's interactions.
After doing any kind of fundamental modifications to the condition, the dog training experts can let you know ways of interaction that will help to lead your family dog with confidence and comfortably.
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PETSMART Dog Obedience Training Topeka Illinois
PETSMART specialist dog trainers instruct fun and efficient team plus private classes! Through positive reinforcement, your pet are effective into the real-world (not merely the class). Therapy puppy education: built to assist animal moms and dads and their particular animals discover and practice abilities needed seriously to simply take a Therapy puppy Evaluation.
PETSMART provides Puppy education: outstanding introductory course that will teach quick cues like sit, come and stay.
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It's lovely to be part of the Author Blog Challenge #LifeBooksWriting, organised by my fellow Limitless Publishing author Sophia Valentine ; whose debut book I reviewed earlier in the year. If you're an author and would like to join in the fun, download the graphic and post it and the hash tag with your Friday post. Hopefully it will be an opportunity to get to know more authors and their works for both readers and writers.
Today's blog challenge is to share my writing room with you. A couple of years ago I had a dedicated writing room/ office, which was lovely but since the birth of my little grandson, the office has become a nursery and now I write in our family room downstairs, which is great ,as it looks out onto the garden and has lots of comfy sofa's to sit on.
Working in the family room is challenging. There are lots of interruptions, but it means I get to spend my writing time with my lovely dogs, Jazz and Oby. Tom, my cat used to join us on winter afternoons and we really miss him since he died on New Year's day
When the weather is fine I love to write in the garden, and writing on the beach when I go on holiday is something I look forward to.
I wrote my latest release The Dangerous Gift in all these places.
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I have been a Melting Pot Franchisee for over five years. I opened my first location in Albany NY, and within the following three years, I successfully opened in Poughkeepsie and Syracuse, NY. I would not have been able to do this without Melting Pot's support in all aspects of my business; this is actually the primary reason I continue to grow with the brand. When you become a franchisee, you become part of the Melting Pot family and like all families, they want you to succeed. My continued expansion within the brand was due to their diligent commitment to serve franchisees. Due to their willingness to listen, collaboration with Melting Pot is easy. And while we may not always agree on everything, they have always been willing to explore feedback provided by the franchisees with sound research-based decisions.
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Commute to work – only in Pisac
First I let the dogs pass, so they don't run me over while I climb over the back wall and down the path, into the neighbors' field. Better to take a shortcut, saves me at least 5 minutes. Good Coski and Salka, the dogs, are so used to the … Read more


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If so Vitfoss, in association with British Dairying, are offering you the opportunity for an all expenses paid, dairy study tour worth over £2,500 to the centre of the US dairy industry. Participants leave the UK on Saturday 15th and return on Friday 21st of September 2018 as part of a memorable trip organised by the Zinpro Corporation.
The US tour comprises of 15 UK guests in three trucks visiting some of the top dairy herds in North East US where herds target 45kgs of milk per cow per day. The tour also includes visits to both the Milner Institute and Cornell University to view the production units and access the knowledge within these leading institutes.
The aim of the tour is to allow key people involved in UK dairying to see at first hand how US producers are using the latest technology and tools to manage and sustain their businesses in a global market that optimises income over feed costs.
Each day starts with a talk from a prominent dairy expert followed by farm visits to see the 'theory' in practice and will cover:
At Vitfoss we're focused on transferring the latest knowledge to continually improve the performance of dairy producers throughout Europe. We are pleased to offer the opportunity for UK producers to experience and bring home some of the latest ideas and management practices from one of the world's leading milk producing countries.
To enter please download the competition entry form using the link below and post the completed form to Vitfoss, Hempstead Road, Holt, Norfolk NR25 6EE
Competition entry rules: The prize draw is open only to (dairy farmers, farm/herd managers/herdsperson's) in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. No purchase is required. Entries must be received on/by 31st July 2018. There is no cash or other alternative as a prize. The winner will be picked at random from all eligible entries and announced in the August issue of BRITISH DAIRYING and may also appear on associated websites. The winner's details may appear in publicity arising from the trip. A valid passport which allows entry to the USA is required. Competition entry is based on acceptance of these rules.


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by Ronnie Zamora/LFCISD
Sandra Garcia-Perales and Leticia Hernandez were named Elementary and Secondary Teachers of the Year, respectively, at the Employee Awards Banquet Thursday at Los Fresnos United Dome.
Garcia-Perales is a fifth-grade teacher at Villareal Elementary School, and Hernandez is a Government teacher at Los Fresnos High School. Both are now nominated to participate in the Region One Education Service Center Teacher of the Yeaer program.
A video of each of the 15 campus Teachers of the Year was shown at the banquet. The other 13 campus Teachers of the Year included:
Also recognized were 21 retirees, Paraprofessional and Manual Trade Employees of the Year, and service awards for employees who have reached 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 years of service.
The Los Fresnos High School top 10 academic students presented Bell Awards to the educator or person who has made an impact on their academic success.


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The other night, I was talking to a friend and she asked me what made me want to be a writer. I honestly didn't have a direct answer. I don't have a memory of a specific moment that I thought, "I want to do that." It has just always been. I have always wanted to do it. So I have been trying to think back, trying to see if I can remember a book or something that made me want to write. I honestly cannot come up with anything. (It wasn't easy like the moment I started loving sharks. After I watched Jaws for the first time, I thought, "I want to do that.") I remember when I started writing though. At least, I think it was when I started.
From kindergarten to 6th grade, I went to Montessori school. For those of you that don't know much about Montessori, classes are set up a little different. In 1st grade, I was in a class with 2nd and 3rd graders as well as other 1st graders. I had the same teacher for 1st grade, 2nd grade and 3rd grade. Then, when I got to 4th, I moved to a different hall and had a new teacher for 4th, 5th, and 6th grade. I loved my teacher for 1st-3rd and I can remember very vividly, not having much appreciation for my teacher for 4th-6th grade. However, one of the things we did in that class that I LOVED was we made our own books. I can't remember how often we did this assignment but I still have all my books I made and there are quite a few. First, we had to write the story. The teacher would edit it however many times she seemed fit. Once it was past the editing stage, she would give us these booklets (they were just a stack of printer paper folded in half with a piece of construction paper on the outside all stapled together). You got to pick whatever color you wanted your book to be. Once we had our booklets, we had two options. We could hand write our story into the pages or we could type it up, print it out, and cut and paste the words into the pages. Of course, you could only do the latter if you got all your other work done on time and hadn't gotten into trouble recently. A lot of my books are hand written. When you finished getting the story down onto the pages and you got your check mark, then you got to start the illustrations. Each page needed an illustration to go with the story. As an adult, I am pretty terrible at drawing things that look like things; you can imagine how bad my drawings were in these books. Anyway, once your book was completed and everyone else's was completed, the whole class would start switching books. Everyone in the class would read everyone else's books. We would then critic each other. At the end of it all, the teacher would choose what she felt was the best book for each grade then we would vote to choose the best out of those three. The winner would get a gold star on their book. I don't have much memory of winning these but I do have a lot of books with gold stars on them.
It's funny; I remember the whole process of making these books. I remember being excited for my friends to read them. I even remember being frustrated with the teacher when she would correct something or try and get me to change part of one of my stories. But what I don't remember is winning. I obviously did, a lot, but those memories didn't stay with me. My brain didn't deem them as important. It just kept the memories of my loving to make these books.
After 6th grade, my mom pulled me out of Montessori and sent me to public school for junior high. She figured it would help the transition into high school. I agree, it very much did. I never stopped writing though. I made a group of friends and I would write for them. I would get these journals and write a book in them and then my friends would pass them around and read them and leave me comments in the back. I did stop illustrating them though. But I loved it. I still have all of those books too. I did that into high school, probably until about sophomore year. High school started getting busier with sports and yearbook staff and AP classes and "having a life." I still kept journals though and wrote in them every day. I wrote angsty poetry about boys and girls that were mean to me. I wrote the first line of my book while I was in high school. I still remember exactly where I was when it came to me. It wouldn't be until after college that I actually knew where to go with it.
So, I guess the answer to why I write is because in 4th grade my teacher got me started and I never stopped. Looking back, even though I have mostly bad memories of that teacher (she was always so mean to me) I guess she really is the reason I am a writer. Maybe I should dedicate the book to her and send her a copy when it's published. She would never expect that.
Do you have a specific memory of why you do what you do now? Something that pushed you in a certain direction?
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Teddybears is one of Sweden's most significant and original groups. After some years as a punk band, the three members Jocke Åhlund, Klas Åhlund and Patrik Arve began to mix hip hop, pop, rock, dancehall and electronica into their music which soon became a big success. They have won six Swedish Grammy awards, performed on David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel show, Coachella, Roskilde and Niagara Falls. On February 28th, Teddybears will be on stage after the Big Air finals with a DJ-SET that you don´t want to miss!
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Thousands of passengers look likely to be hit by a second day of Irish Rail strikes tomorrow.
Last Wednesday Staff walked off the job in their row over pay rises with Iarnród Éireann advising customers that trains are not expected to operate across Intercity, DART and Commuter routes tomorrow, the second of five scheduled 24-hour strikes during November and December.
No rail services are expected to operate on 14 November; 23 November and 8 December.
Iarnród Éireann said passengers will be entitled to refunds for monthly, annual and other tickets.
The announcement of strikes was made after a collapse of talks at the Workplace Relations Commission with unions seeking annual pay increases of about 3.75%.


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Oil Gains, Bucking Signs of Ample Supplies
NEW YORK—U.S. crude-oil futures settled higher Tuesday after three consecutive losing sessions, boosted by broader markets despite signs of high supplies in the global oil market.
Light, sweet crude-oil for July delivery rose 62 cents, or 0.7%, to settle at $83.32 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude on the ICE futures exchange for July delivery traded 86 cents lower at $97.14 a barrel.


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The adidas Yeezy Boost 350 v2 is one of the most popular Yeezy shoes ever made. It features an elastic Primeknit upper and a BOOST midsole, while the most recognizable detail is the ribbed midsole. First releasing in September of 2016, the Yeezy Boost 350 v2 has gone on to be the best-selling adidas Yeezy shoe so far, with several colorways having released and restocked to date.
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Wednesday 6 June 2012 - 14:00 CET - First analysis of IPv6 presence in Belgium
The IPv6 world launch day is now halfway, at least in Belgium, and we wanted to reflect the results of some analysis of IPv6 enabled services.
In the previous hours we observed some of our Belgian ISP's, especially the internet access providers, on how they act with regards to the worldwide IPv6 actions. So far we have to mention that none of our important ISP's have responded to this global request and have still not activated their general website on an IPv6 address. Only a few have really made the effort and are active on IPv6 and have accessible websites. It demonstrates (again) that even smaller companies and organisations have more flexibility and are able to adapt to market needs when required or requested.
We also have observed some important national government sites and same results occur. The federal domain belgium.be, fgov.be nor fedict.be have an IPv6 record. Same happens for the Flemish government domain vlaanderen.be. Amazingly enough, the Walloonish domain awt.be has an IPv6 record and have their website active on IPv6 - congratulations ! At least Belnet is fully IPv6 enabled.
Looking at some organisational structures that should have eye on the IPv6 are logged in the same boot. Agoria and Beltug, neither of them have an IPv6 record registered. Pity as they announce an IPv6 event on the 12 June. Feweb, the federation for web developers should at least also demonstrate the importance of the IPv6 for their members : companies that develop websites for companies and organisations.
We are please others have done efforts and are IPv6 enabled such as IBBT, UZLeuven, FUSA and many others, the full list of participants (in total 41) is available here.
As such we have to conclude that there is still a lot of work to be done in order to get important players in awareness to be themselves aware of the lack of interest.
Again, Belgium will be among the worst students, something we are used to hear. As Belgian chapter of the organising body, Internet Society, we are not proud on these facts.
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