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It had been a childhood dream of Dieneke Holstein, a mother of four from the Netherlands, to travel to Africa. After hearing that Projects Abroad provided the option for families wishing to travel with their children, Dieneke did not hesitate to sign up to spend one month at the Projects Abroad Care Project in Ghana.
After a brief discussion with her husband, all was cleared to see a new country and a different culture. The biggest priority for the family was to travel to a safe country. Ghana became that destination.
The family worked in a day care in The Hills, the placement was an important choice for Dieneke because she wanted her daughters to mix with other children. At the Adom Day Care Centre, she and her older son and family friend Meike Blankesteijn played with the children and assisted with the Day Care's daily tasks; they changed them from their school uniforms into their casual clothes and helped the teachers with lesson planning. The family painted classrooms, played and helped the children sing songs, rhymes and poems.
Meike compared children in Ghana and those in Holland, "The children here are playing with nothing. They don't have toys but they are laughing and dancing. That's really special," she said. Dieneke continued, "My children have a lot of toys. Too much I think. My children play with all the children here and they are playing the whole day with nothing but they are happy, and they are singing, jumping… we can't believe it. It's very nice to see that."
The family was happy about the friendly nature of the Ghanaian people and the sense of safety they had while volunteering in The Hills. After spending one month at the Projects Abroad Care Project in Ghana, the Holsteins would most certainly recommend volunteering as family.
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Google's cloud storage service is finally available. It offers the promise of accessing files, even large ones, from any location or device. With Google Drive, you can create new documents, spreadsheets, presentations and charts, and easily share with others. There is the suggestion of collaborative work, by two or more, on the same document simultaneously. In reality, that is rarely feasible. Well, it is difficult to do productively. Shared access is convenient for meetings and small work groups though.
As with Google Docs, one may search by keyword, and filter by file type, owner or file size. Over 30 file types are accessible from your browser. This includes HD video, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop— this part is key: File access does not require the program to be installed on your computer!
The first 5 GB of storage is free of charge for all Google accounts.
Google Drive may be used on a variety of computers and devices, including PCs, Macs and Android. iPhone and iPad support is "coming soon".
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Perhaps you are thinking,
This seems so similar to Google Docs!
I was too. Apparently that was by intent, as word has it that Google Drive will replace Google Docs for all users:
Precisely because Drive is just Docs with a new logo, Docs is being phased out. The site still works for now and will continue to work for months, but Google is pushing users away from the Docs URL and app and towards Drive.
I had noticed Docs was prompting me to try Drive recently. I suspect this was the reason. The URL will change from
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Nicholas II of Russia, (May 18, 1868 – July 17, 1918) was the last Tsar or Emperor of the Russian Empire. He became Tsar in 1894 after his father, Tsar Alexander III died. He married Princess Alix of Hesse, who was the granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and they had five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexi. Alexi suffered from a disease called haemophilia, which caused his parents great sadness.
|Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov
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|1 November 1894 – 15 March 1917
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|Empire ended, next Russian Head of State and Government is Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
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World War I created many problems for Russia and the Tsar. In the 1917 Russian Revolution he abdicated (gave up being Tsar) in March of that year.[1] He and his family were held as prisoners under house arrest. On July 17, 1918, Nicholas, his wife, and their children were killed by a firing squad. In 1981, the Tsar and his family were made Saints by the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1990, the bones of the Tsar and his family were found in the woods and given a proper burial in 1998.[2]
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- ↑ "The Execution of Tsar Nicholas II, 1918". www.eyewitnesstohistory.com. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
- ↑ "Romanovs laid to rest". BBC News. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
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Perry hid the wound under a flesh-tone bandage, along with a tan latex dress and Chanel red and white striped peep-toe boots.
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"Studies have shown that more than half of all schools in the U.S. suffer from poor indoor air quality, which is a major contributor to health problems like asthma," says Dr. Marilyn Black, GEI founder. "This is significant because asthma is a condition that accounts for 14 million missed school days each year. By giving parents, teachers, facility managers, and administrators a visual tool to help evaluate their school's indoor air quality, we can help them create healthier school buildings that promote learning, comfort, and well-being."
The computer-generated school begins in a classroom setting, where grade-school children are seated at their desks for a lesson on indoor air quality (IAQ). Users can point and click on each of the topics listed on the classroom whiteboard to learn more. Once they click, they will be "transported" to other areas of the school, where they can explore the relationship between school IAQ and student health, the benefits of improving school IAQ, the role a school's HVAC system plays in IAQ, and ways to minimize indoor air pollution. Users can even test their IAQ knowledge by taking a complementary online quiz.
"As with our recently released animated home tour, we really wanted to make the notion of indoor air quality more palpable," says Henning Bloech, executive director of the GEI. "It's a rather abstract concept to begin with, so coming up with innovative ways to illustrate it is important. We hope both virtual tours accomplish that goal."
The animated school, officially unveiled today, is available for "tours" on the GREENGUARD website at http://greenguard.org/en/healthierschools.aspx. GEI encourages school facility managers, teachers, parents, community leaders, and green building and design professionals to use the virtual school as an educational tool.
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Three types of user
When it comes to simplicity, you can divide users into three types.
Experts are happy to explore your product or service and to push the limits of what it can do. They want never-before-seen technology that is customized for them. Even if they're new to a product, they have an expert attitude. In other word, they'll spend time finding out how it works and exploring new features. If you're making a mobile phone, these are the people who want to be able to browse through the mobile phone's file system and tweak everything. It turns out there are relatively few of these people.
I call the next group willing adopters. They probably use some similar products or services. They're tempted to use something more sophisticated, but they're not comfortable playing with something entirely new— they need to be given easy ways to adopt new features. For instance, they might be interested in a more sophisticated phone, but only if they can transfer their precious contacts easily. There are fewer of these people than you'd imagine and their tolerance for learning is pretty low.
The vast majority of people are mainstreamers. They don't use technology for its own sake; they use it to get a job done. They tend to learn a few key features and never add to their repertoire. These are the people who say, "I just want my mobile phone to work." Most people fall into this group.
It's tempting to think that after a while people graduate from one group to another. But that hardly ever happens. Even after years of using a product, people tend to stay in the same group.
For example, take any large group of people who've been using Microsoft Excel for five years. You'll find some people who've explored settings and options, some who've got a few specialist features set up to do what they like, and others who just use it for adding up columns of figures.
It has more to do with their underlying attitude toward technology than the amount of time they spend using a product or service.
It's tempting to design for the first two groups—they're easier to please. But experiences that feel simple are designed for the mainstreamers.
Expert users are a minority. In 2009, complex cameras like SLRs comprised only 9 percent of the digital camera market (source: CIPA).
Why you should ignore your expert customers
Most companies spend too much time listening to their expert customers—the ones who spend the most time using their products or services—because they're easy to talk to. Expert customers are enthusiasts, they're vocal and opinionated about how to improve what's on offer.
But experts aren't typical customers and their judgement is often skewed. They don't experience the problems that mainstream customers have.
And they want things that mainstream customers don't care about.
Here's what one responder on Slashdot (a blog run by experts and enthusiasts) had to say when the iPod was announced: "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
Another commenter wrote: "I don't see many sales in the future of iPod."
Commenters on another enthusiast blog, MacRumors, also wanted more: "I still can't believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares about an MP3 player?"
Apple's expert customers wanted a flying car. Apple's mainstream customers just wanted an MP3 player that worked.
I see this again an again: a small group of customers make noisy, persistent demands for new features that are too complicated for typical users.
You'll find it hard to convince your stakeholders (who are insiders, and therefore, experts) that the customers who are also experts (just like them) are not the ones you should listen to. After all, your best customers spend a lot of time and money per head; they 'get' what you do, and they speak your languages; they they're so reasonable—if you ask them to upgrade to the latest version, they do it without hesitating.
But if you listen to them first, you'll create products that are too complex for mainstream customers to use.
As of January 2010, Apple had sold 240,000,000 iPods and no flying cars.
So if your stakeholders are trying to create a mass-markey product by listening to their expert customers, remind them of this story. Sometimes, it's best to ignore your expert customers.
Experts often want features that would horrify mainstreamers.
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Gratin of carrots & root vegetables
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- fat41g
- saturates25g
- carbs33g
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Preheat the oven to 180C/gas 4/fan 160C and butter a shallow ovenproof dish. Layer the potatoes, then the parsnip in the bottom of the dish with two of the sliced garlic cloves and sprinkle over a little salt and half the rosemary. It's best to keep the potatoes buried under the other vegetables because they go black if they are on top of the gratin.
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Italy is hopping on the 3D bandwagon with a pair of titles from two of its most exported directors: horror maestro Dario Argento and soft-porn helmer Tinto Brass.
Argento is penning the screenplay for a stereoscopic 3D adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" to be shot in English in Hungary.
Brass will start shooting in October on 3D "Who Killed Caligula?"
Both Argento's stereoscopic take on the tale of the Carpathian count who drinks human blood to stay alive and "Caligula" 3D are being shepherded by Roberto Di Girolamo and Gianni Paolucci's Multimedia Film Production.
"Of course there have been dozens of Draculas done before, but Dario is really excited about doing one in 3D and putting the Argento stamp on it," said Di Girolamo, who is preselling both pics in Cannes.
"Italy doesn't export many of its movies, but I think 3D can give Italian genre fare a big international boost."
Brass, 77, has helmed dozens of adult titles, including the Bob Guccione-produced cult classic "Caligula," starring Malcolm McDowell as the sexually perverted Roman emperor.
"Who Killed Caligula?" will be a much softer, comic take on that tale of Roman decadence. Conspiracies force Caligula to leave his palace and take refuge "in a luxurious brothel," where he loses his life, says the sales synopsis. Di Girolamo is setting up the 3D "Caligula" as an English-language co-production with France and Spain. Pic is set to shoot for 12 weeks in Tarak Ben Ammar's Empire Studios in Tunisia.
Brass, who was briefly hospitalized in April in Italy for a brain hemorrhage, has now made a full recovery, Di Girolamo said.
"Caligula" casting is not set. The budget is $6 million, not including casting costs.
Di Girolamo has "high hopes that with this erotic comedy Brass (who is widely sold on homevid and specialty TV internationally) will break into the global theatrical arena."


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The most significant challenge currently facing the radiation protection community is how to better integrate radiation protection within modern concepts of and approaches to risk governance. In response to this issue, the internationally accepted principles of radiation protection, upon which virtually all national legislation is based, are in the process of being reviewed and updated. The CRPPH goal is to ensure that consensus on directions for improvement is reached among radiation protection experts from national regulatory authorities, and that this consensus is taken into account during the development of new approaches and international recommendations. This will be the main focus of the committee's work for the coming years. The CRPPH will also actively pursue collaborative efforts to address cross-cutting areas such as stakeholder involvement and environmental protection.
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Specifically, growing stakeholder involvement in decision-making processes addressing human health and environmental risks, as well as interpretation and application difficulties with the current system of radiation protection, have lead to a general review of the foundations of radiation protection. As part of this, the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) has undertaken the very broad task of updating its 1990 general recommendations (Publication 60) to better reflect modern societal needs. The CRPPH feels that much of the current system is well presented and is operationally workable. Several key areas of Publication 60, however, have been identified by the Committee as needing an alternative approach to better respond to the needs of regulators, practitioners and stakeholders. The objective of the CRPPH in this work is to develop consensus with regard to how these key areas of the ICRP general recommendations could be improved, and how stakeholder processes should be reflected in these recommendations. In developing this consensus, national examples of good practice in various areas will also be documented.
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Oracle Team USA completed its miracle comeback Wednesday and retained the America's Cup in a regatta that carved a place in the San Francisco pantheon of unforgettable sporting events.
Twice down by seven wins, Larry Ellison's team rallied to win 9-8 in a 19-day marathon that was the longest final series in the Cup's 162-year history. And probably the most thrilling.
The final race of the 34th America's Cup brought three more lead changes to a series that was full of them, but skipper Jimmy Spithill's catamaran simply had too much speed for Emirates Team New Zealand and won by 44 seconds.
A roaring, flag-waving crowd greeted the crew after its eighth straight win. It secured each one knowing that a single mistake could mean the Cup was lost.
Ellison hopped on board and told his sailors, "Do you guys know what you just did? You won the America's Cup!"
Spithill, a feisty 34-year-old Australian, passed bouquets to his teammates moments after the race.
"When you've got a team like this around you, they can make you look great," he said. "They did all that today and in the whole series. I'm just so proud of the boys. They were looking down the barrel of a gun, and what do these guys do? They don't even flinch. It's a fantastic team."
At a news conference, Ellison – making his first public appearance of the regatta – said Russell Coutts, the team's chief executive, was instrumental in the changes that helped Oracle recover from deficits of 6-to-minus-1 and 8-1.
"A lot of his ideas were used to mode that boat and speed it up," Ellison said. "He's never lost in the America's Cup – not a bad record."
Coutts declined to take part in the news conference, Ellison said, because he wanted the limelight to be on Spithill, who was joined by tactician Ben Ainslie and strategist/grinder Tom Slingsby. The latter two provided valuable counsel to Spithill after Ainslie replaced Bay Area native John Kostecki when Oracle lost four of the first five races.
Ainslie paused during the lighthearted news conference to remember his British countryman, Andrew "Bart" Simpson, who died May 9 when Artemis Racing capsized, pinning him underneath the wreckage.
"He would have loved this competition," Ainslie said. "He would have thought the racing today was amazing. That's what he lived for."
Simpson's death was a severe emotional blow to everyone connected with the regatta, Ellison said. "These boats were meant to be extreme, but they certainly weren't meant to be life-threatening."
The regatta "has changed sailing forever," Ellison said. "If a bunch of kids watching this regatta on television was inspired, and they go out and start racing lasers, I'm a happy guy."
Ellison said he hopes the next Cup regatta will be in San Francisco after "the most magnificent spectacle I've ever seen on the water," but said he'd have to work out an arrangement with city officials. He has received an official notification from a challenger of record, he said, but wouldn't disclose which team it was.
When the Kiwis' lead reached 8-1 a week earlier, Ellison said Spithill told him, "You know what 8-1 is? Eight-and-1 is motivating."
The race didn't start well for Oracle. It lost the start and dropped its bows into the water with a big splash as the Kiwis zipped around the first gate with a seven-second lead.
The Kiwis had a 65-meter lead going into the second gate, but after three lead changes on the upwind leg, Oracle had the lead for good. In the downwind fourth leg, its lead reached nearly 700 meters.
The defender had been just one win from elimination for a week. It won 10 of the last 12 races to retain the oldest trophy in international sports.
It actually won 11 races to the Kiwis' eight but started two races in the hole because of a penalty levied by an international jury for a cheating scandal in the America's Cup World Series, a two-year warm-up series.
Oracle's feat will go down with the greatest comebacks by any team in any series – in any major sport.
The only big-league baseball team that has come back from being down 3-0 was the Red Sox, who were down to their last three outs against the Yankees in the 2004 ALCS. But the Red Sox rallied to win Game 4, then took the next three, too.
No NBA team has ever come back from a 3-0 deficit in a playoff series, although eight teams have come back from being down 3-1. Only three times has an NHL team come back to win a playoff series after being down 3-0, most recently Philadelphia beating Boston in the 2010 Eastern Conference final.
In golf, the U.S. Ryder Cup team in 1999 came back from a 10-6 deficit to Europe entering the final day and won 14 1/2 to 13 1/2. In 2012 the Europeans turned the tables – in the "Miracle at Medinah" – after they too trailed 10-6 going into the final day.
There had been two dramatic comebacks previously in the America's Cup. The American boat Resolute was disabled in the first race in 1920 and lost the second to England's Shamrock IV, only to win the best-of-five series.
Then there was the milestone 1983 regatta. Australia II, skippered by John Bertrand, looked dead in the water against Dennis Conner's Liberty. It trailed 2-0 and 3-1 before rallying to wrest the Cup from the New York Yacht Club, ending the longest winning streak in sports history.
Oracle has to do it the hard way. It was hit with the stiff cheating penalties just four days before the finals. Standout wing trimmer Dirk de Ridder was booted from the regatta and was replaced by 22-year-old Kyle Langford, who performed yeoman's work despite being thrown into the pressure cooker in the 11th hour.
The crew had just one American on the boat for most of the finals races, 24-year-old Rome Kirby. It had four Australians – Spithill, Slingsby, Langford and Joey Newton – and two New Zealanders – Joe Spooner and Jono Macbeth. Besides Ainslie, the British Olympic hero, the rest of the crew consisted of Shannon Falcone of Antigua, Gillo Nobili of Italy and Simeon Tienpont of the Netherlands.
It wasn't an All-America team, but it succeeded in keeping the Cup stateside.
Tom FitzGerald is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: tfitzgerald @sfchronicle.com. Twitter: @tomgfitzgerald


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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — If it felt hotter than normal in South Carolina this summer, officials have the number to prove that it was.
State climatologist Hope Mizzell said Tuesday that South Carolina set a high temperature record on June 29 with 113 degrees.
That record high was measured at the University of South Carolina. Weather experts reached that conclusion after doing detailed studies on several sites where temperatures were measured at 113 on that date.
Forecasters have been keeping records in Columbia since 1887, but never in 126 years of record keeping has the temperature been that high in South Carolina.
The hottest temperature ever recorded in South Carolina had been 111 degrees in Camden in June 1954.


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The first powered flight of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo propelled the passenger spacecraft faster than the speed of sound in a milestone test flight over the high desert of southern California Monday morning. "The first powered flight of Virgin Spaceship Enterprise was without any doubt, our single most important flight test to date," said Virgin Galactic Founder Sir Richard Branson, who was in Mojave for the flight. "For the first time, we were able to prove the key components of the system, fully integrated and in flight." The autonomous flight of the spacecraft lasted about 10 minutes and ended with the vehicle gliding to a landing at Mojave.
The spacecraft was lifted to 47,000 feet by WhiteKnightTwo before being dropped from the mother ship. Scaled Composites test pilots Mark Stucky and Mike Alsbury then fired the rocket engine for 16 seconds and the spacecraft streaked to 55,000 feet, reaching Mach 1.2. Flying WhiteKnightTwo was Virgin Galactic Chief Pilot Dave Mackay, and Scaled Composites' copilot Clint Nichols and flight engineer Brian Maisler. "The rocket motor ignition went as planned, with the expected burn duration, good engine performance and solid vehicle handling qualities throughout," said Virgin Galactic President & CEO George Whitesides. "The successful outcome of this test marks a pivotal point for our program. We will now embark on a handful of similar powered flight tests, and then make our first test flight to space."


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Froggy wrote:Yeah, the fact that Bowman only coached here 2 years, as well as the fact that he inherited a world championship team full of future hall of famers influences it a bit
Bowman gets a lot of credit for helping build that team too.
I regret posting previously, because I don't want to dwell on this any longer. I like Bylsma, and I've been a fan for most of the past few seasons. I hope he figures it out.


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Modified Amine Epoxy for Chemical Tanks, applied with XM70
Giving shape to the country's plans in the oil Industry
ATLAS Process Equipment, a division of the Al Shirawi Equipment LLC group was established in 1980. Atlas is a manufacturer located in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates and fabricates Process Road Tankers, Cement Bulk Carriers, Semi tipper Trailers, Cesspit Emptier, Transit Mixers, Water Tankers, Dump Trucks, Semi-Trailers, Fuel tankers and Refuse Compactors.
The range of Process Equipment road tankers produced by Atlas required a chemical lining to handle the aggressive chemicals which will be transported. A two component 100 percent volume solid modified Amine Epoxy coating system from Tnemec had to be applied.
The challenge with the above mentioned application was the 60 second purge time, exact paint mix ratio requirement and minimising on paint wastage. What made this application even more challenging were the ambient temperatures in The UAE, which varies from 35 deg C to 45 deg C – which could adversely affect the mixing ratio.
Bridgeport Glass Armor 500 / 90 have previously been applied with GRACO's Xtreme Mix 360. This was an ideal opportunity for GRACO to introduce the XM70 plural component proportioning system to Tnemec.
The XM70 was evaluated and tested by Tnemec, where Airblast (Middle-East) commissioned and supplied GRACO's XM70 to Atlas.
Atlas found the following features of the XM70 beneficial for their organisation:
- Accurate and affordable plural component system
- Mix ratio range from 1:1 to 10:1 (in 0.1 increments) allows them to apply a wider variety of coatings.
- Semi dynamic dosing allows for improved mixing of 100 percent volume solid materials.
- Easy to use and understand user control interface for their existing operators.
- USB data downloading useful to keep a record of historical spray data.
On-going production and everyday use of the XM70 by Atlas, allows them to enjoy further benefits in solvent savings.
- Atlas – Dubai United Arab Emirates
- www.alshirawiequipment.com
- Industry Market Sector: Oil or Gas, Tank, Fabrication, Steel pipe, tank coatings.
- Thick film reinforced modified epoxy internal lining for chemical tanks.
- Material Specifications
- Tnemec Bridgeport Glass Armor 90
- Modified Amine Epoxy. Series 390
Typical Properties
- Two Parts A (epoxy) to One: Part B (amine)
- 100 percent Volume Solids
- Pot Life: Purge time less than 60 seconds
- Self – priming
- Pre-heat each component of Series 390 to 43 deg C – 49 deg C prior to spraying.
GRACO Equipment
- XM70 Plural Component Proportioning Airless Sprayer.
- XN8B26 Proportioner
- 70:1 Ratio
- No pump filters
- Remote mix manifold
- Recirculating hoses from dosing valves to tanks with back pressure valves.
- Wall power: 2 fluid heaters and junction box.
- 240V immersion heaters for 20 gallon hoppers.
- 20 gallon hoppers with Twistlock agitators.
- 15 meter 3/8" high pressure integrator hose set
- 3/8" static mixers (with plastic inserts)
- 2 meter ¼" high pressure whip hose.
- XTR7 high pressure Airless spray gun.
- XHD 519 spray tip.
- Accessories
- 5:1 Monark feeding pump kit
- 30:1 Merkur solvent flush pump kit.
- Hopper/hose heat circulation kit.
- Water jacketed dual hose set.
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