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#F1 – Singapore Grand Prix from a Pirelli Point of View
Singapore Grand Prix Preview: 20-22 September 2013
Milan, September 16, 2013 – Following two fast and historic circuits in the heartland of Europe, Spa and Monza, Formula One is now headed for a complete contrast: the ultra-modern Singapore street circuit, which is the only race on the calendar run at night under street lamps. To suit the stop-start nature of the track, Pirelli has selected the P Zero Red supersoft tyre – the softest tyre in the range – and the P Zero White medium.
As well as the fact that the race is run at night, with the teams all sticking to a European time schedule, there are a number of other factors that make the Marina Bay circuit unique. In terms of duration, this is usually the longest race of the year as it often comes close to the two-hour time limit, which means that the cars carry the heaviest fuel load of the season. It's also one of the most humid races of the year, and statistically there's a high chance of a safety car intervention. All these elements affect tyre wear and degradation as well as strategy.
Paul Hembery: "The tyres we are bringing to Singapore this year represent a change from last year, when we went for supersoft and soft. This is because the tyres are generally softer across the board this year in order to maximise performance and grip. Singapore is quite bumpy – a typical feature of street circuits – and there's lots of street furniture such as painted white lines and manholes that compromise grip and traction. We're racing at night, which presents a unique set of parameters for the tyres to deal with when it comes to the way that track and ambient temperatures evolve. The cars also carry the heaviest fuel load of the year, which again has a direct effect on tyre wear and degradation. It's a long race, and that gives the teams plenty of scope to come up with some interesting strategies at what is a truly spectacular event in every sense. We've always been made to feel incredibly welcome at Singapore, which is probably the most spectacular event of the year in terms of the whole show that is put on for the public. Our aim as always is to contribute to that show by providing tyres with exactly the right compromise between performance and degradation in order to guarantee close racing."
Jean Alesi: "I've never raced at Singapore but I went over there to watch the grand prix two years ago. I can only describe it as an amazing sight: what the organisers have achieved takes your breath away. And it's fantastic to watch on TV too as a pure visual spectacle. From what I could see it's a race that is hard on the drivers and cars but maybe less so on the tyres: the average speed is not so high and there's a lot of stop and start with quite low grip, which are all conditions that generally do not punish the tyres too much. For the drivers though it's a different story: the high temperatures, humidity, and the sheer length of the race demand a lot physically. Spa and Monza, which we've just had, are two tracks that are very hard on tyres. Now we go to something that's completely different and I think it's going to be interesting to see what sort of strategies the teams can formulate in Singapore. With the supersoft and medium tyres, there is plenty of opportunity to try something different, and that's a fascinating part of modern grand prix racing."
The circuit from a tyre point of view:
Traction is fundamental as Singapore contains the second-highest number of corners of the year (23). The asphalt tends to be bumpy and slippery, with grip compromised by street markings and manholes. But the cars can still generate 4.3g under braking despite the lack of grip.
The humidity levels at Singapore are between 75% and 90%, which can often lead to rain. Consequently, there is a high chance that the Cinturato Green intermediates or Cinturato Blue full wet tyres could also be used.
Singapore has one of the highest pit stop times of the year, due to a lower pit lane speed limit than most races (60kph) and a 404-metre pit lane, which has an impact on the strategy as well.
Further information about Singapore and the demands it places on tyres, as well as more information about Pirelli's intermediate and full wet tyres, can be found on a 3D animated video starring Pirelli's Racing Manager Mario Isola.
Technical tyre notes:
As well as being a long race, fuel consumption per kilometre is one of the highest of the year due to the stop-start nature of the circuit. Around half the lap is spent on full throttle, but there are also several braking areas.All the podium finishers last year used a two-stop strategy. Sebastian Vettel won the race from third on the grid with the P Zero Red supersoft tyre and then completed two stints on the P Zero Yellow soft tyre. Jenson Button finished second using exactly the same strategy. All of the top 10 on the grid started the race with the supersoft compound.
Race strategy at Singapore has to be very flexible in order to take into account the high safety car probability (there were two safety car periods last year). Safety car periods mean that some drivers can effectively bank a 'free' pit stop, and it also slows down overall wear and degradation as lap times are much slower.
Meet the Pirelli F1 Team: Luigi De Candia, IT Project Manager
Luigi, known as Gigi, is one of the most indispensable people in the Pirelli motorhome. He looks after all aspects of the Italian firm's IT on-event, from setting up the RTS (Racing Tyre System) that acts as a central hub for all information to dealing with individual problems. He wrote most of the bespoke software that Pirelli uses for tyre management, and often finds himself updating this or adding to it during a race weekend as requests for additional functionality come in. Gigi studied mechanical engineering originally but then switched to IT, although he points out that in his line of work, most experience is actually acquired on the job. He should know, having worked for Pirelli for more than 10 years on a massive variety of projects. "Originally I was writing software for production processes, then by chance the need arose to create some software that could be used for motorsport. My first motorsport project with Pirelli was WRC in 2004, then I also worked in GT racing, Grand Am and GP3 before coming over to Formula One with the rest of the team in 2011."
Like most people who work in Formula One, Gigi doesn't get much free time to call his own. But when he does, he enjoys spending time with his three-year-old daughter and meeting his friends to watch the other love of his life: Juventus…
Follow Pirelli on Twitter @Pirelli_Media and @pirellisport or Facebook: Pirelli Motorsport.
Please also visit the Pirelli website for more information on the company: http://www.pirelli.com


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- The Deep Convergence of Networks, Software, and People — as we wire up our digital products increasingly with interconnected networks, their nature is increasingly a product of the responses that come back from those networks. The experience cannot be wholly represented in mock prototypes that are coded to respond in predictable ways, or even using a set of preset random responses. The power of the application is seeing the emergent behaviour of the system, and recognizing that you are a participant in that emergent behaviour. (via Tim O'Reilly)
- An Ethics Class for Inventors, via Sci-Fi — "Reading science fiction is kind of like ethics class for inventors," says Brueckner. Traditionally, technology schools ask 'how do we build it?' This class asks a different question: 'should we?'
"databases" entries
Graph tools forge path to new solutions
Find emergent properties and solutions to new computing problems with graphs
Graph databases haven't made the news much because, I think, they don't fit in convenient categories. They certainly aren't the relational databases we're all familiar with, nor are they the arbitrary keys and values provided by many NoSQL stores. But in a highly connected world–where it's not what you know but whom you know–it makes intuitive sense to arrange our knowledge as nodes and edges.
Ted Nelson, inventor of the hyperlink, recognized the power of viewing life in graphs. After the implosion of his historic Xanadu project, he embarked on a graph database tool called ZigZag. The most modern instantiations of graphs–the Neo4j store and the Alchemy.js tool for interactively visualizing graphs–were well represented this year at O'Reilly's Open Source convention.
Four short links: 3 June 2014
Machine Learning Mistakes, Recommendation Bandits, Droplet Robots, and Plain English
- Machine Learning Done Wrong — [M]ost practitioners pick the modeling algorithm they are most familiar with rather than pick the one which best suits the data. In this post, I would like to share some common mistakes (the don't-s).
- Bandits for Recommendations — A common problem for internet-based companies is: which piece of content should we display? Google has this problem (which ad to show), Facebook has this problem (which friend's post to show), and RichRelevance has this problem (which product recommendation to show). Many of the promising solutions come from the study of the multi-armed bandit problem.
- Droplets — the Droplet is almost spherical, can self-right after being poured out of a bucket, and has the hardware capabilities to organize into complex shapes with its neighbors due to accurate range and bearing. Droplets are available open-source and use cheap vibration motors and a 3D printed shell. (via Robohub)
- Apple's App Store Approval Guidelines — some of the plainest English I've seen, especially the Introduction. I can only aspire to that clarity. If your App looks like it was cobbled together in a few days, or you're trying to get your first practice App into the store to impress your friends, please brace yourself for rejection. We have lots of serious developers who don't want their quality Apps to be surrounded by amateur hour.
Four short links: 30 May 2014
Video Transparency, Software Traffic, Distributed Database, and Open Source Sustainability
- Video Quality Report — transparency is a great way to indirectly exert leverage.
- Control Your Traffic Flows with Software — using BGP to balance traffic. Will be interesting to see how the more extreme traffic managers deploy SDN in the data center.
- Cockroach — a distributed key/value datastore which supports ACID transactional semantics and versioned values as first-class features. The primary design goal is global consistency and survivability, hence the name. Cockroach aims to tolerate disk, machine, rack, and even datacenter failures with minimal latency disruption and no manual intervention. Cockroach nodes are symmetric; a design goal is one binary with minimal configuration and no required auxiliary services.
- Linux Foundation Providing for Core Infrastructure Projects — press release, but interested in how they're tackling sustainability—they're taking on identifying worthies (glad I'm not the one who says "you're not worthy" to a project) and being the non-profit conduit for the dosh. Interesting: implies they think the reason companies weren't supporting necessary open source projects was some combination of being unsure who to support (projects you use, surely?) and how to get them money (ask?). (Sustainability of open source projects is a pet interest of mine)
Four short links: 24 January 2014
Floating Point, Secure Distributed FS, Cloud Robotics, and Domestic Sensors
- What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic — in short, "it will hurt you."
- Ori — a distributed file system built for offline operation and empowers the user with control over synchronization operations and conflict resolution. We provide history through light weight snapshots and allow users to verify the history has not been tampered with. Through the use of replication instances can be resilient and recover damaged data from other nodes.
- RoboEarth — a Cloud Robotics infrastructure, which includes everything needed to close the loop from robot to the cloud and back to the robot. RoboEarth's World-Wide-Web style database stores knowledge generated by humans – and robots – in a machine-readable format. Data stored in the RoboEarth knowledge base include software components, maps for navigation (e.g., object locations, world models), task knowledge (e.g., action recipes, manipulation strategies), and object recognition models (e.g., images, object models).
- Mother — domestic sensors and an app with an appallingly presumptuous name. (Also, wasn't "Mother" the name of the ship computer in Alien?) (via BoingBoing)
Four short links: 10 December 2013
Flexible Data, Google's Bottery, GPU Assist Deep Learning, and Open Sourcing
- ArangoDB — open-source database with a flexible data model for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient sql-like query language or JavaScript extensions.
- Google's Seven Robotics Companies (IEEE) — The seven companies are capable of creating technologies needed to build a mobile, dexterous robot. Mr. Rubin said he was pursuing additional acquisitions. Rundown of those seven companies.
- Hebel (Github) — GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning Library in Python.
- What We Learned Open Sourcing — my eye was caught by the way they offered APIs to closed source code, found and solved performance problems, then open sourced the fixed code.
Four short links: 3 December 2013
- SAMOA — Yahoo!'s distributed streaming machine learning (ML) framework that contains a programming abstraction for distributed streaming ML algorithms. (via Introducing SAMOA)
- madlib — an open-source library for scalable in-database analytics. It provides data-parallel implementations of mathematical, statistical and machine-learning methods for structured and unstructured data.
- Data Portraits: Connecting People of Opposing Views — Yahoo! Labs research to break the filter bubble. Connect people who disagree on issue X (e.g., abortion) but who agree on issue Y (e.g., Latin American interventionism), and present the differences and similarities visually (they used wordclouds). Our results suggest that organic visualisation may revert the negative effects of providing potentially sensitive content. (via MIT Technology Review)
- Disguise Detection — using Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Python.
Four short links: 11 November 2013
Squid in the Dark, Beautiful Automation, Fan Criticism, and Petabyte Queries
- Living Light — 3D printed cephalopods filled with bioluminescent bacteria. PAGING CORY DOCTOROW, YOUR ORGASMATRON HAS ARRIVED. (via Sci Blogs)
- Repacking Lego Batteries with a CNC Mill — check out the video. Patrick programmed a CNC machine to drill out the rivets holding the Mindstorms battery pack together. Coding away a repetitive task like this is gorgeous to see at every scale. We don't have to teach our kids a particular programming language, but they should know how to automate cruft.
- My Thoughts on Google+ (YouTube) — when your fans make hatey videos like this one protesting Google putting the pig of Google Plus onto the lipstick that was YouTube, you are Doin' It Wrong.
- Presto: Interacting with Petabytes of Data at Facebook — a distributed SQL query engine optimized for ad-hoc analysis at interactive speed. It supports standard ANSI SQL, including complex queries, aggregations, joins, and window functions. For details, see the Facebook post about its launch.
Four short links: 5 November 2013
Time Series Database, Cluster Schedulers, Structural Search-and-Replace, and TV Data
- Influx DB — open-source, distributed, time series, events, and metrics database with no external dependencies.
- Omega (PDF) — flexible, scalable schedulers for large compute clusters. From Google Research.
- GraspJS — Search and replace your JavaScript code based on its structure rather than its text.
- Amazon Mines Its Data Trove To Bet on TV's Next Hit (WSJ) — Amazon produced about 20 pages of data detailing, among other things, how much a pilot was viewed, how many users gave it a 5-star rating and how many shared it with friends.

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Life should be experienced not just lived. (John 10:10) Whether it's my kids, my husband, my marriage, my faith, etc I want nothing more than to experience them all.
If I'm experiencing as opposed to just being 'in' them, I'm saying, I'm fully connected, I'm engaged, I'm committed spirit, soul & body to the entire moment.
If we're truly going to get everything God has planned for us, we have to be willing to get the entire experience. The ups, the downs, the good blessing and the discipline. We have to be willing, yes wiling; it's up to us to make ourselves do it; be willing to go after what we want whole heartedly with instruction. With an expectation that God never intended for us to just get by.
Get back to experiencing every aspect of life. You know the saying, you get what you give, it's foundational. It's biblical. It's practical. You sow, you reap.
I tell my group fitness students if you're half steppin' you're not gonna get a whole lot out of this class. If I say squat and I see you doin this baby bounce and I know you can give me more…or if I catch you doin sissy push ups when you know good and well you can modify by gettin on your knees so you can drop down to 90 degrees…come now…who's cheatin who?
Eat: Eat to live, don't live to eat. Have a practical, regimented (not extreme, rigid, ridiculous) approach to how much, when and what you eat. I really like to enjoy what I'm eating. If food seems boring, I mean really who wants to keep eating it? I love exploring food that looks exciting. I love trying flavors or recipes that involve things I already love, just better. If you can't trust your own kitchen skills consider visiting one of the healthy food stores when they have cooking demonstrations or check out a fresh market cafe and try something new.
Pray: Praying is simply communicating with God. Most of us know that effective communication involves talking & listening. If you've got something to say, say it. If you've asked a question, listen. Speak from your heart. Listen with your heart. Speak to be heard, not to be loud. Listen to get wisdom, not to debate your position.
Many times God will lead you to walk in wisdom by simply helping you use common sense; often, plain ol' common sense is wisdom. Use common sense in the way you act, the way you work, the way you relate to your spouse and children, way you manage your time and the way you manage your finances. For instance don't spend more money than you make; don't eat foods that make you sick; and don't agree to time commitments that will stretch you beyond your limits and cause you stress.
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While not every trend that struts down the runway or red carpet is one that is easily translated into everyday life, there are several that you absolutely can and wholeheartedly should embrace for the spring season. As the weather gets warmer and the sun shines a bit brighter, these are the real life trends to try today. After all, if you can't have some fun with fashion, what's the point?
Here are the perfect fashion-forward items to add to your wardrobe this season, all at $100 or less:
Whether your hair is shorter like street style icon Nicole Warne's or on the longer side, dangly earrings that brush against your shoulder or collarbone add a true element of visual interest.
1. Liz Palacios Plumas Gold Chain Earrings ($73)
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We have long been fans of modern bomber jackets like Cara Delevingne's, and we doubt this trend is going anywhere anytime soon. To tone down the masculine factor, follow her lead and wear yours with a pair of stilettos.
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《Gnomon出品男性肖像构建和抽象绘画视频教程》(The Gnomon Workshop Drawing the Male Portrait Construction and Abstraction Methods)[光盘镜像]
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In this DVD, Ron focuses on creating a male portrait from the front, three-quarter and profile views while covering the fundamental tools of drawing with traditional media. He discusses and demonstrates the features of the head through shape analysis, a breakdown of the Abstraction and Construction Methods, and how and why he uses them. Insight into shading and how to control the tones and lines drawn are also covered. In addition, a few bonus drawings titled "Warm Ups" break away from a step process and develop similar results in a more freeform way. All artists types, from fine art to commercial, will benefit from this demonstration. Instructor for this title: Ron Lemen
Tools for Drawing
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Abstraction Method
Naturalistic Drawing
Facial Features
Multiple Angles
Shading and Lighting
Controlling Tone and Line
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Ron's art career first started in the Action Sports Industry working as a layout artist, logo designer, and board graphic illustrator. Moving in to more involved illustrations and conceptual design, he went back to school and is a graduate of the Atelier System, classically trained, and a former pupil of Sebastian Capella, Spanish portrait virtuoso. He has been a concept designer and art director in the video game industry for 10 years with dozens of clients including Sony, Activision, Ubi Soft, Mattel and more. Now freelancing fulltime, his clients include Blizzard, Time Warner, Wizards of the Coast, Marvel Comics, Disney, and more. In addition to illustrating and Portrait Painting, Ron has been an art instructor for the last 19 years. Together with his wife Vanessa, the two run their art school in Encinitas Ca., Studio 2nd Street.com, where they instruct classical foundation, fine art painting, illustration and conceptual design. Ron is also a faculty member at LAAFA and with TAD.org.
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 — Flash floods continued to hit various locations in the city yesterday, causing traffic jams in some areas and damaging properties.
The worst affected area was Jalan Segambut Dalam, where water from Sungai Keroh overflowed into some 90 houses.
Heavy rain, which began at 2.30pm and lasted for an hour, caused the river to overflow.
A team from City Hall was sent to assess the situation.
City Hall Segambut branch operations officer Muhammad Aizat Ramli said: "The knee-high flood is likely caused by the river which overflowed due to the heavy rain.
"People living here know the conditions during heavy rain, so they took the necessary precautions.
"It isn't something out of the ordinary for them, but we are also trying to remedy the problem as soon as possible."
Other areas affected by flash floods were Jalan Khidmat Usaha off Jalan Duta, and Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI).
A spokesman from the Civil Defence Department said the water level also rose in Jalan Khidmat Usaha at 2.40pm.
"We found the flooding was caused by the nearby drains which were filled with soil originating from the Met 1 Residences construction site," he said.
The spokesman said two lanes along Jalan Khidmat Usaha were submerged, causing two cars to be stuck.
Water from Sungai Penchala also seeped through the doors of at least one home in a nearby housing area.
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|2,100 sq ft
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|2 - 3 nights
This cabin has two separate living quarters, the main cabin sleeps 8, and the loft above the garage sleeps 4. Main cabin:
one bedroom downstairs with queen bed and one bathroom. There is an open kitchen, dining, and living area. The main cabin has TV with dish satellite, a fully equipped kitchen with coffee maker, toaster , microwave and dishwasher.
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Spacious sleeping area with one queen bed and two twin beds, tv and small siting area and a full bathroom.
Detached loft above garage:
Living area with futon, tv and vcr with movies, small kitchen area, 2 queen beds and 2 twin beds which can be pushed together for a king bed, also has its own bathroom.
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Very large garage area finished and heated to park your snowmobiles during the winter or just keep you vehicles out of the elements. The cabin is kept plowed during the winter by the owner. There is also a large amount of off-street parking for snowmobile or atv trailers, as well as a separate rv space. This cabin has three decks, one from the upstairs sleeping are has a view of Sawtelle Peak, one deck off the back for private gatherings and BBQs, and a deck off the living and dining area where you can take in the view. This cabin is great for multiple families or groups and has three separate areas for lounging and watching tv or visiting.
The owners are semi retired farmers from Iowa and have snowmobiled in Island Park since the early 1970's. They have come to love the area and purchased this cabin and one other for themselves where they now live year round.
The property managers Gary and Bonnie Dawson have lived and owned property in the area for approximately 10 years. Gary is a home builder who has built several log cabins in the area and is also a licensed real estate agent. Bonnie and Gary are avid fly fishers and are knowledgeable about the area. Please don't hesitate to ask us any questions.Tall Pines Retreat
Great Location with so many things to do that are within walking distance.
Great for multiple families. Great for snowmobilers because of the large heated garage.
Everything looks good 😊
The property is perfect for a large group but be prepared to take your own supplies. We bought all our own extra kitchen garbage bags, toilet paper and hand soap since the soap dispensers on the sink were empty and there was only one extra toilet paper roll in the bathrooms. We were required to take our garbage with us and with a large group there was plenty of garbage and no extra bags for the cans. We also found it difficult to clean up after the kids with no broom although there is a vacuum, it just didn't work very will on the hard floors. You will also need to plan on a little extra time for check out since you are required to wash and dry all of the used towels. With a little sprucing up this could be a little piece of heaven in the woods.
We had a great stay while visiting Yellowstone. The house was clean an comfortable. It had everything we needed. Be aware you are expected to wash towels before leaving. That is a bit of inconvenience to shower and get them washed and on the road the last morning. I would pay a little more to have WiFi. Cell phones work with weak signal (VERIZON) at house. Location is convenient just off highway. Walking distance from grocery store and restaurant. Gary was quick to respond to any questions.
Perfect vacation home to accommodate a large family gathering. Immaculately clean upon arrival, all appliances in great working order, well stocked kitchen for cooking home meals, plenty of room to spread out and relax, comfortable beds, plenty of natural light and fresh air, great outdoor deck to watch the stars at night. Yellowstone easily accessible. Well stocked grocery store a few hundred yards away. Lots of great outdoor opportunities all over the place. Owner Gary quick to reply both email and text. Will definitely stay here again.
Lots of room to spread out, everything was clean, nice baths, well supplied kitchen. For those not familiar with bear country, you have to take your trash to the landfill down the road.
The home was a great location to travel to the West Entrance of Yellowstone. It was a comfortable place to stay. Big bedrooms. Separate location over the garage was huge. Open dining, living room, and kitchen setup, which was nice for getting together as a group. Overall served our purpose of traveling to the sites we wanted to see this summer.
This cabin is 20 minutes from the West Yellowstone Park and is a super location for your Yellowstone and Grand Teton Park loop adventure. Island Park is world renowned for its fly fishing with several blue ribbon trout streams and lakes within 20 minutes. Island Park Reservoir is a great location for all your water sports. Golf Course is right across the street. The Centennial Mountains offer superb hiking and mountain biking opportunities. Winter sports include snowmobiling right out the front door, snowshoeing, and cross country skiing.
This cabin is only 20 miles from West Yellowstone Montana and the West Yellowstone airport should you chose to fly in there.
The cabin is actually less than 1/10th of a mile to a nice restaurant and bar, small grocery store, gas station, subway, and an outdoor sports rental and golf course.
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Does your daughter have an American Girl doll? If you have been looking for a deal on clothes for the doll, Amazon has a great deal available right now. You can get this 28 Piece Holidayclothing Lot (Fits 18-Inch American Girl Dolls) for just $39.95. This does seem spendy, but when you consider a 3 piece outfit typically costs $20 and up, this is a great deal!
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My first impression of Bejing is that the city is quit chaotic, loud and kind of dirty, but on the other hand also very interesting. For that reason I decided to make the Tadasana – the mountain pose – today, a Yoga asana for the complete peace, that gives me the sensation to be strong as a mountain.
I stand straight with hip wide legs and straddled toes. I incline my hip slightly forward to avoid a hollow back and bend my legs a bit. I move my shoulders loosely backwards. My arms and hands tangle relaxed down along of my body. I relax my face, close my eyes and hold the position.
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Enlisted men found their path to commissions via Officer Candidate School. There were eight at one time. However, by the time of the Vietnam War, they had been consolidated into four that I knew of: Infantry, Armor, Artillery, Military Police, and Signal Corps.
A direct commission to second lieutenant could be awarded to an enlisted or warrant officer for exceptionally meritorious or valorous service on the battlefield. These commissions, also to the USAR, were commonly referred to as "battlefield commissions." Most were rescinded at the end of the war during which they were awarded, however, there were notable exceptions with some rising to great rank.
Direct commissions to captain were awarded to professionals such as lawyers and doctors. Whereas most commissions in the USAR carried a two-year obligation for active duty, direct commissions to these professionals carried a four-year obligation. When asked why I didn't accept a direct commission as a lawyer, I averred that I didn't want to commit to four years although taking the OCS route committed me to a minimum of three years and going the hard way through all that infantry training. The funny thing is that I ended up serving more than five years on active duty.
Truthfully, I have long harbored a notion that doctors and lawyers as well as officers in the non-combat arms, should have been warranted rather then commissioned. All warrant officers – there are four grades from Warrant Officer 1 to Chief Warrant Officer 4 (now there is a fifth level, the Master Warrant Officer) – are superior to all enlisted men and inferior to all commissioned officers. Doctors and lawyers as well as non-combat leaders could have functioned perfectly well, commanding enlisted men only, to accomplish their missions. They didn't need the special rights and privileges enjoyed by commissioned officers as agents of the United States.
During World War II, candidates were hustled through a greatly accelerated program and graduated as second lieutenants, known as "90 day wonders." At the time I attended OCS, the program of instruction lasted twice as long – 26 weeks. Eleven weeks as a Junior Candidate, seven weeks as an Intermediate Candidate, and eight weeks as a Senior Candidate. Senior Candidates were referred to as "Third Lieutenants" – an unofficial rank with power to make miserable the lives of lower candidates.
I am told that once upon a time commissioned officers were also deemed to be "gentlemen." My commission did not contain that appellation. I was merely commissioned as a officer. However, inasmuch as all officer candidates rose from the ranks, there was no presumption that any of us had been exposed to the manners of a gentleman and, thus, we were taught to deport ourselves as such. We had an unbreakable honor code that allowed neither a direct lie nor a lie of omission, known as quibbling. My fellow candidates elected me to our company's Honor Court where all suspected breaches of the code were tried. The lesson was hammered into us repeatedly that it was better to admit a mistake than cover up one. Men lost their lives and battles were lost whenever an officer lied or so much as quibbled.
Read Jack's novel, Rebels on the Mountain, the tale of Nick Andrews, an Army spy, who has Fidel Castro in his sights but no orders to pull the trigger. The mafia as well as the American business community in Cuba will pay a fortune for Castro's assassination, but Nick has his career to consider, his friends to protect, and a romance to sort out in the chaos of a revolution.


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YA Plagiarist Conspiracy Just Won't Stop Giving May 9, 2006Posted by David Card in Media.
The NY Observer lobs this non-grenade into the Kaavya Viswanathan controversy:
- "To me, all that stuff is such a black box," said one author who has worked with the company. "They have writers who don't exist, and they have writers who don't really write the stuff, and they have one series supposedly by one author that are by many. There's no one-to-one alignment between anything that gets produced and the producer. There's no literary accountability."
What, pray tell, is "literary accountability?"
Get real. Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, heck, the Shadow pulps, were written by committees. It's pop lit, children, accent on the pop, not the lit. Oh, and I guess that mysteriously unidentified source doesn't want to blow a potential Alloy package deal.
Look at the freaking glamor shot of the Harvard undergrad plagiarist that the Observer runs:
You think this is about art? or "memoirs?"
- FORMER ALLOY EMPLOYEES AND OTHERS in the publishing world sometimes point out that the company is run by men—president Les Morgenstein, vice president of development Josh Bank and editorial director Ben Schrank—but that young women provide most of the grunt labor on Alloy's book projects.
That graf comes after the Observer piece describes the story of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, the bestseller written by "Ann Brashares, who was then co-president of Alloy," based on a concept by another Alloy exec, also a woman. But golly, last I checked, all the major talent agencies — which is what Alloy is — and most publishers, are run by men. Do you think teens run MTV, or kids run Mattel? Grow up.


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Lebanese Council welcomes increased police powers
The Lebanese Community Council has welcomed the extension of police powers passed by the New South Wales Parliament today, aimed at preventing further violence in Sydney's south.
Police will now be able to confiscate vehicles for 14 days, shut down bottle shops and hotels and close-off roads.
Bail will also be harder to obtain for anyone charged with riot-related offences.
The Council held a special forum on the latest tensions at Bankstown in Sydney's south-west tonight.
Council president Elie Nassif told the gathering the police have done a good job in dealing with the situation.
"We [are] all behind the police," he said.
"The police have more power today passed in the Parliament, very good, and we [are] all in favour of the power to give to police to do his job."
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Welcome to St Austell RFC under 8's.
We are a friendly local club open to anyone interested in Rugby. Our under 8's side (School year 3) is looking to recruit new Boy & Girl Players this season.
Contact the team manager or a coach below or feel free to turn up at a training session.


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Cornerstone exists because of Jesus. We are a people who have been transformed by the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ. Through Jesus' death and resurrection, God has forgiven us and adopted us into his family. Now, we have a whole new life.
Through the gospel, God redeems us, forgives us, and adopts us into his family. The good news of Jesus' death and resurrection makes each one of us a new creation and gives us a new identity: children of God. This is why we can never think of the church as an organization or a building. The church is actually a family—God's family, filled with redeemed sinners that are now his children.
Through the gospel, God forgives us, adopts us into his family, and makes us his disciples. This means that the church is not just any family. We are a family formed by God—and sent out with a purpose.
The church is a family that ministers to one another, cares for one another, and builds one another up. Each member of the family is a child of God who is uniquely gifted to bless the family and to be a light in our city.
Just like a vine grows best with a good trellis, our church family grows best with good programs. Our programs and ministries are tailored to support the community and mission God has given us.
"We all operate under some kind of functional covenant."
The exiles were sent out so that they could be brought back in. But, Christ was sent out so that we could be brought back in.
"What marks an authentically Christian church—on every level, no exceptions—is humility."
Suffering teaches us to hold on less and less to the things of this world, and to lay hold of Christ instead.
"Only by trusting in God fully and fixing our eyes on Christ can we overcome the obstacles that prevent us from faithfully following Christ's calling on our lives to love and care for the marginalized."
"Sunday morning is the time we gather together and remind ourselves of what's most important: the God who has saved us, adopted us, and given us new life."
"Worship is something that concerns Christians and non-Christians—but we are hard pressed to explain exactly what it is."
"Keep your eyes on the shepherd, listen to his word, follow him as he leads, trust him in the valley, because he went through a deeper valley for you and for me."
"We don't want a King, but we need a King, and He is different than we ever thought."
No matter the specific area where spiritual warfare is raging in your life, the truth of who God is and who you are defends you against the attacks and lies of Satan.
Do you ever wonder what the will of God is for your life? Paul tells you to 'understand what the will of the Lord is'…do you?
The resurrection shines a new light on our world, our selves, and our future.
For most of us, the grave is a sinkhole for hope, future, joy, connection, love, and life itself. Yet the borrowed grave in which Jesus is laid has become the incubator of all of those.
Redemption through Christ is more than the one way to heaven…it is the one way to everything of any lasting value in this world.
When you understand Christmas, it brings tidings of deep comfort and lasting joy.
Celebrating the New Year points us to the celebration we'll have when God brings in a whole new heaven and new earth.
You cannot live a life based on reasonable expectation and understand the Christmas story, because the Christmas story is about God doing things that we think are impossible.
What is a pastor? It may not be a question you ask yourself very often, but it is an incredibly important one.
The church is not a familial organization…but simply an organized family.


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Setting Fees, Getting Gigs and Delivering the Goods
If you're at the summer SCBWI Conference at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, CA on Sunday, August 1, come on over to my workshop from 10:45 – 11:45 a.m. (room TBA). Our topic is School Visits; Setting Fees, Getting Gigs and Delivering the Goods. I'll be sharing lots of resources and looking forward to lively discussion among P.A.L. colleagues.


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June 5, 2015
Sourcing Data 101: Last Resort – Web Scraping
Continuing our discussion about sourcing data sets, today we will talk about web scraping.
Web scraping is the process of automated extraction of data from a web page by exploiting the structure of the HTML code underlying the page. Other definitions of web scraping can be found on Wikipedia (but of course!) and Webopedia.
In terms of getting a data set for our data analysis, web scraping is usually the "last resort" option to fall back on if all else has failed. Concretely, if you have had no luck finding a nice well-organized data set in a conventional format like CSV or JSON and if you have had no luck plugging into your desired data stream via some sort of a controlled API, you would then try web scraping.
Web scraping is used in applications like price comparison websites (eg. hotels or supermarkets comparisons) or in other situations where the entire dataset is made up of smaller subsets that come from a large and heterogeneous universe of data sources. Web scraping also comes in handy when you are after information that is not available (maybe unintentionally or maybe deliberately) in a nice CSV file or via an accessible API, such as for example a list from LinkedIn with the details of all the .NET programmers in New Jersey. For some interesting use cases of web scraping have a look at this beer analytics portal or this angel investor syndication tool.
How Web Scraping Actually Works: HTML, DOM and XPATH
Automated web scraping relies on the fact that the website or web application that you intend to "scrape" has some sort of a regular structure, so that you can describe very precisely to your web scraping tool what kind of data to extract from which part of the underlying HTML.
This is usually achieved by studying the HTML structure of your target page and figuring out a way to uniquely identify the HTML elements of the web page (more precisely, the DOM corresponding to the web page) that contain the data you are interested in. All modern browsers (including IE) have developer tools that allow users to view a web page's underlying source code and zoom in on individual elements.
For example in Chrome, you can just right click on any part of a web page and a menu will pop up with an option to "inspect element", which, if clicked, will open up a developer panel with the HTML code view of that part of the web page.
How to uniquely identify DOM elements and how to access them will depend on the particular technology that you use for web scraping (see below for more detail), but most web scraping tools or programming languages will at the very least allow to access elements by id, or by class type, or name. If all else fails however, there is another very powerful method for uniquely identifying and accessing elements of a web page – XPATH.
XPATH is a language that describes structures and substructures of XML documents and thereby allows web scraper to navigate through the HTML / XML of the webpage to the part that contains the actual data to scrape. Think of XPATH expressions as being the same for XML documents as what file path names are for file and directory systems. XPATH is quite expressive and is a whole new subject matter in itself. For the purposes of simple web scraping there is no need to get into all the details and capabilities of XPATH, it will be sufficient to just say that there is plenty of documentation out there that can be referenced if and when a specific question or problem comes up. As a starting point, this W3schools tutorial or this XML tutotial on Lynda.com will be more than enough.
There are plenty of effective tools out there for web scraping but they essentially fall into two categories.
On one hand there are services like:
that are aesthetically pleasing user friendly websites where you can "drag and drop" a web scraping solution together. These are very slick but can be quite limited in effectiveness.
On the other hand there are web scraping packages for programming languages like Python or R – these allow a fine degree of control and enable really sophisticated web scraping but at the same time require programming skills to get up and running.
With this second category, the best place to start is to look at Python's Beautifulsoup package, which is a great web scraping library, nice and lean and simple to understand but at the same time quite powerful. There is also ScraPy (also for Python) which is even more powerful than Beautifulsoup but the programming can get quite involved.
Also here are a couple of guides to web scraping libraries in R:
- http://quantifyingmemory.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/digital-data-collection-course.html
- http://fredheir.github.io/WebScraping/
Dynamically Generating Web Pages For Scraping
Lastly, if you are building a fully fledged automated web scraping solution, you are probably looking to scrape a number of web pages all in one go, rather than just target one static page. For example you may wish to interact with a web application, enter data into forms, run a query and then scrape the resulting page that is returned by the web application, and then iterate through this process dozens or hundreds of times building up a comprehensive data set.
The challenge now is not only how to scrape an available web page, but also how to automate the generating of a sequence of relevant pages in the first place.
For this purpose, a very useful piece of technology is Selenium WebDriver – a popular browser automation tool. Selenium is normally used for automating testing of web applications, but at its core it is essentially an automation tool that drives the interaction with a website or a web application, so it can as well be used for generating web pages for scraping. Selenium is built in Java, but has API-s that other programming languages can call. In Python, Selenium APIs are available via the selenium package. (If at this point you are unsure what an API is, please have a look at my other post that explains just that).
Here is a great walk through guide on web scraping using Python's Beautifulsoup and selenium packages. And if you need to brush up on Python or make sense of how to use Python's packages, please read my other Python post here.
Legal Issues
One last thing I should mention is that there are a number of legal issues associated with web scraping. In most cases web scraping itself is not illegal, but you may want to investigate whether in your particular case collecting information generally, whether through web scraping or other means, breaches the law.
An interesting and comprehensive discussion of legalities of web scraping can be found here, and there is also a thread on Quora here. And of course, here is a mandatory disclaimer from me: I am not a lawyer so please do not take any of this as legal advice, please go do your own due dilligence and speak with a proper expensive lawyer if you must.


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Sometimes, the mind says one thing
And the heart another.
"Don't go!" says the mind,
"Don't listen to my brother.
"He talks from the middle,
"I talk from the top;
"He may egg you onwards,
"But I ask you to stop."
Whose pull should I heed?
Whose advice to take?
Which is the course of action
That will not result in a mistake?
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Okay, now that I've covered how you can move around your document, let's talk about how you can insert, delete, and move pages within your document. There are three good ways to handle these tasks in QuarkXPress: menu items, thumbnails, and the Document Layout palette. Let's look at each one of these.
As I said much earlier in this chapter, the Page menu holds QuarkXPress's page-manipulation tools. In this section we're primarily interested in the first three menu items: Insert, Delete, and Move. I'm holding off on a discussion of inserting pages until another chapter (see "Making Pages" in Chapter 4, Building a Document), so I'll talk about the last two.


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HOTSHOT Hopwood golfer Rachel Connor will hit the international trail again next month.
The 14-year-old Manchester Golf Club member has been selected from the championship training squad to represent England in the Scottish Ladies Golf Association's international team event at Strathtyrum, St Andrews on 7 and 8 April.
Rachel will team up with Hannah Barwood (Knowle) and Emilee Taylor (Gainsborough) for the under 16 open strokeplay competition.


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Discussion in '4x4 trucks / off road' started by oneluckypops, Mar 1, 2010.
Missouri does NOT permit retread tires on steer axles.
Missouri sucks
cant be worse than VA or MD.
Yea it does. Our junk yards arnt worth a dern, ours laws are poorly written, our roads are overloaded and broke to ****, oh and our LEO's are abunch of hypocrits. Yea I would say your correct in that statement
i just took a stab in the dark never been there.
i bought these same tires dicovers or something like that i was impresses by the tire but sizes only go up to like 32's 315 75 r16 or something like that good tires for what i paid
copper sst are nice to
try being stuck in liberal california highest taxes in the nation on fuel and vehicles worst roads on earth easier to navigate through chile right now than here
315/75/16 is 35's
No one has any pictures of there lifted chevy trucks? I would really like to see some pictures of what 33's and 35's would look like on a 96 ECSB with a 6" lift
nope, I'm putting 35's on 16.5 rims on my 2wd chevy C2500. 3in body lift and 3in spindle/suspension lift. In the future


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I've been a bit lazy with the blog recently, busy doing other things and mainly just listening to Nick Cave but when I heard this song I had to write about it.
Sparrowhawks are Sophie Ballamy (Vocals,Guitar), Jay Ronan (Guitar, Vocals), Ben Griffiths (Bass, Vocals) and Ash Turner (Drums) and the group reside just down the road from me in Chester. The quartet already have two EP's under their belt and are set to release their new EP titled Cool Down Your Blood on November 10th via the Wrexham DIY label Drum With Our Hands.
Having not heard anything from the band before 'All That I Am Holding Is Your Hand' is a perfect introduction to an obviously talented group; its summery shimmer, rumbling beat and infectious harmonies are more than enough to get me excited about hearing more.
Check out the official video below.
Like it? Hear more over at Sparrowhawks' Bandcamp page


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Girls with colored hair usually have their own attraction that can make every head turn to them on the street. This is the reason why most girls would like to dye their hair. It is true that actually almost every woman has their hair colored, dyed, or highlighted nowadays. However, what kind of color that makes people want to put their eyes on you? Coloring your hair in natural look is great, but it will make you look like everyone else. Thing that makes you look different is unique and expressive hair color. Dyeing your hair in unusual colors represents your personality as a creative and rebellious person. Here are some ideas of color combinations that you can apply for your hair.
Electric blue is a new blue. If you want to change your style into an emo look, you can dye your hair black and add streaks or electric blue around the facial area. Or, if you want to look completely different, you can dye your hair in electric blue as the base tone and add some streaks of black as the highlights. Having fair skin? Then it will look very nice if you have platinum blonde hair. Sure that platinum blonde is not enough. You can add the light orange color as the highlights. Color your hair in back side with platinum blonde, and color the front side with light orange. Girls with colored hair like this always get the attention.
If you think two colored hair is not enough, you can try multi colored hair. Having rainbow on your hair is a nice idea. For the color, you can choose the primary ones, like red, blue, and such. Or you may want to combine any light and bold color. Light blue, green, orange, red, pink, purple, and yellow in a hair is not impossible. Consult with your colorist to part the areas in your hair with the certain bold colors. If you want to look edgy only in two colors, then you can trick the coloring technique. Part your hair in two, and color the first part in one color and the other part with another color that is contrasted. Girls with colored hair like this always stand out in the crowd.
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A Level Psychology Lecturer
Job Title: A Level Psychology & Criminology LecturerLocation: Chichester, West SussexPay rate: £20 - 25 per hourHours: Flexible hours per weekDuration: OngoingOur REED Education FE branch are currently working with a great college on an exciting new role in the Chichester area.Starting immediately, the college are looking for an outstanding A Level Psychology Lecturer to join them on a temporary basis.The College:· This College has received an 'Outstanding' rating from Ofsted in 2014· Over 20 A-level subjects have recorded 100% pass rates in 2016The Role:· Teach and develop A Level Psychology & Criminology· You will be working with students aged 16 years old plus· Effective curriculum and lesson planning which meets individual needsWhat you will need:· Hold a teaching qualification e.g. (QTLS as appropriate) PGCE, Cert Ed, DTLLS, CELTA or equivalent· Hold a degree or equivalent in the specified or a relevant subject· Experience of teaching A Level Psychology & Criminology to young people or adults across a range of abilitiesBenefits of working with Reed Education:When you work with Reed Education, you will have access to a range of expertise and advice as well as benefits. We can provide you with:• Access to pension scheme• Weekly Pay for all candidates• Continual Professional Development• Dedicated and fully trained consultants, here to promote and develop our staff• Long Term and permanent vacancy focus• Permanent vacancy access to reed.co.uk, the UK's largest, most visited online jobsite.If this sounds like a role that you would like, please forward us your most up to date CV by clicking 'Apply Now'. If you have any questions, then don't hesitate to contact your local Further Education branch, we would love to speak to you and help you figure out the next step in your career.All candidates who register with Reed Education will have 2 years' referencing taken up and will be required to have a DBS check completed. All offers are conditional upon satisfactory background checks.Reed Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.Reed Specialist Recruitment Limited is an employment agency and employment business


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The Sheldon Orab Volleyball Team opened the Siouxland Conference schedule with a 3-0 home win over Okoboji Thursday night. The set scores were 25-8, 25-10 and 25-8.
Allie Jongewaard had 25 assists. Marti Vogel was the kills leader with 14. Jessica Van Beek added 10. MacKensey Radke had 3 solo blocks. At the serve receive line Van Beek went 25-of-25. Katlyn Holtrop was 18-of-18 and Vogel went 10-of-10.
With the win Sheldon improved to 11-0 on the season and will take part in the Spirit Lake Tournament on Saturday .
Elsewhere in the Siouxland Conference Thursday night …..
MOC-Floyd Valley 25-25-25, Sibley-Ocheyedan 12-22-17
Sioux Center 25-25-21-25, Boyden-Hull 13-19-25-18
Rock Valley 25-25-25, George-Little Rock 8-18-22


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Ask a Law Question, Get an Answer ASAP!
1. probably 5 years ago.
2. yes and also the buyers solicitor asked us to confirm if the overage was to be protected by a restriction to which my solicitor replied YES.
3. yes the overage was provided for in the transfer deed.
4. yes the buyer is still the owner.
hi the overage has another 10 years to run so in essence another 5 years left re the 15 years limit.
what about rectification of the contract?
the site is ripe for development and is likely to be allocated for housing later this year.
what puzzles me is that at the moment, i take it the under personal covenant the owner is still liable to make a payment to me following planning providing he is still the title holder.
therefore what in essence would i be suing the solicitors for?
hi, i should have advised you (although the question was never put to me) is that the solicitor has already tried to register the overage with a notice which was refused by the registry. secondly he tried to convince the owner to allow the restriction which was met by a firm NO!
a hypothetical question say the owner is preparing to wait another 10 years so my overage is over. could the solicitors use that as a defence i.e that my overage would be worthless as the owner had no intention of disposing of the land with planning permission. therefore how does the court view the fact that if i looked to sue the solicitors say next year when the owner was till the title holder, but he had not applied for planning, how would the loss be assessed?
hi joshua
i'm still a little lost! at the moment as we know there is no loss. for the next 5 years the owner could do nothing and then apply for planning. he could then sell the plot for next to nothing and flee. if that occurred in 5 years and 1 day i would have no recourse against the solicitors.
if i looked at the above scenario now and i look to protect myself i take it i could start an action against the solicitors as you detailed above. however i am still struggling to see how the court would calculate my losses, especially as at present my interest is protected albeit by a personal covenant?
sorry for harping on but what i am trying to get my head round is that if i sue now does it matter that 1) there is a personal covenant, 2) the owner has yet to apply for permission & 3) the owner could wait for 10 years?
my potential claim is for over 300k. if the solicitors have no joy in registering the restriction would my claim, subject to experts reports, be straightforward?
one last point, if the owner sold up tomorrow and he hadn't applied for planning permission is he under any obligation re his purchaser and the overage?
thanks joshua
if i do sue my former solicitors for negligence and succeed, what then happens to the overage clause, if for example it follows its course and say the plot is developed for example in 8 years time? will the solicitors insurers continue to monitor the situation? cheers


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Gas nozzle keeps turning off when I try to fill up my 1991 Jeep Grand Wagoneer
Just wondering if anyone has experienced this problem. It seems like the vapor guard on newer nozzles
makes the pump think the tank is full, even when it isn't. I have to hold the "trigger" in between off and on
and slowly pump gas in, it hurts my hand after awhile, sometimes overflowing when I'm trying to top it
off. Doesn't happen on old gas pumps without the guard, and happens about 80% of the time on newer
pumps. Thanks for any tips!
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Your fuel line vent line can be clogged shutting the pump off.
Or try holding the nozzle at a different angle.
Thanks for the info. I will check into the vent line. I did try pumping with the nozzle completely upside down, but couldn't seem to get the seal for the vapor guard flush enough to the car to even get gas flowing... I'll have to try that again though, at other angles. Someone at the gas station, noticing my trouble, suggested putting a brick under the rear tire where the gas cap is (driving up onto it), to help gas flow down better, but I can't do that every time I fill up! I'd rather just do what I'm doing.
The gas already flows downward I don't believe a brick would help maybe try to look down the fuel fill make sure nothing was put down in there or dropped anything,
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Michael Ende's DIE UNENDLICHE GESCHICHTE (THE NEVERENDING STORY) was one of my favourite novels when I was a child. Not only is the story magical, but also the book itself is beautifully made (or at least the edition I own was beautifully made). As you can see from these pictures, the book was printed in two colours: red for the real world and green for Fantastica.. There were also beautiful illustrations at the beginning of each chapter.
An amusing side note: I always thought Atréju had green skin. When I looked up his description a few months ago, I realised that he isn't really supposed to be green: he is described as olive-skinned. (But who cares? For the past thirty years, my Atréju has had green skin… *g*)


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A year. It's been that long since my last contact with the comb. One of the best things about getting a perm is not worrying about the hair. It's futile. It has a mind of its own.
Paid the salon a visit to get my hair ironed. It felt way lighter when I left the place! I did miss the straight hair but I'll be sticking with the curls.
It's more convenient 😀


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Parking garage No. 1 is located to the south of T1. It covers an area of 23854㎡ with a total of 700 parking spaces, including big ones, and small ones (including the physically challenged passengers, and overnight parking). The garage is mainly designed for temporary and overnight parking of public vehicles.
|Charge Standard of Capital Airport Parking Garage T1
|Discount for long-term parking
|parking length
charge standard
vehicle type
|small-sized vehicles
(less than 19 seats)
|Large-sized vehicles (more than 19 seats)
|parking length
charge standard
vehicle type
|small-sized vehicles
(less than 19 seats)
|Large-sized vehicles (more than 19 seats)
|Within 30 minutes
|RMB 80.00/Day
|RMB 160/Day
1. Those that park for less than half an hour will be charged as parking for half an hour;
2. Price Monitoring Hotline: 12358;
3. Service supervision number: 0086-10-64535811.
1. Long-term Parking means parking for over 16 consecutive hours;
2. Capital Airport reserves the rights for adjustment of the discount prices.
1. VIP card holders can enjoy preferential discount.
(1) VIP Year Card : RMB 8,990/year;
(2) VIP Season Card : RMB 2,690/season;
(3) Parking Area: Card is accepted at: Capital Airport Parking Lot #1, Parking Garage #2, Parking Garage #3, and Parking Lot #5 (Corporate parking area not included );
(4) VIP Year Card Fees include card costs, Season Card fees not included.
2. Address of the Card Application Office and service number
(1) Card Application Office in the middle of the exit on Floor 1 of Parking Garage No. 2.
Service number: 0086-10-64595468 (8:00 – 17:00); 0086-10-64595535 (17:00 – 8:00).
(2) Room GE15-GE17 at the exit of Zone E of Parking Garage No. 3.
Service Number: 0086-10-64530133 (8:00 – 17:00); 0086-10-64558552 (17:00 – 8:00).
3. For other details, please refer to signed agreements.
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This site does not currently take bookings here on Pitchup.com.
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- A members only site in pretty woodland
- Great for walkers and dog owners
- Historial sites to explore
Lady Margaret's Park Caravan Club Site boasts a range of pitches that are located in intimate tree-shaded glades and in open grassed areas. A pretty wooded parkland caravan site, the area is adjacent to the grounds of Chirk Castle in the heart of Marcher country. The castle remains the last Edward I Welsh castle still lived in today and features the award-winning gardens with thatched 'Hawk House', shrub garden, lime tree avenue and yew topiary. There are plenty of walks to enjoy in the local area and also a lovely dog walk from the site.
There are several historic houses and castles to visit that are characteristic of Chirk and located right on the doorstep of Lady Margaret's Park Caravan Club Site. Further afield there are opportunities to explore the Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty such as Ceiriog Valley, the Berwyn Mountains and Pistyll Rhaeadr, the highest waterfall in Wales. At Llangollen, train enthusiasts can view the scenic Dee Valley by steam train or by canal boat providing a momentary rest. You might also consider a visit to the National Trust property, Erddig, reported to be one of Britain's finest historic houses. After a hard day's sightseeing, you will find a selection of restaurants in the area offering incredibly good value and quality.
Site type
Languages spoken
✓ English
✓ Welsh
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Many sites set a maximum occupancy of 6/8 people per pitch, so try breaking your booking down into smaller groups to generate more results. For example, if you're a group of 10, enter 5 people in your initial search and then book 2 pitches.
However, where the pitch or accommodation occupancy allows it, you can make a booking for up to 30 adults and 30 children in one booking.
To book multiple pitches or accommodation, use the 'Special requests' box on the booking page to ask to be sited together. Complete the booking form for the first booking (you can add a password and save your card so that we remember your details). Then click "Make another booking like this" at the top of the confirmation page to make the next booking.
Large groups: check the listing page for any group restrictions set out in the terms and section titled 'Please note'.
Large tents/caravans: check the restrictions on unit dimensions to ensure your unit is suitable for the space you will be provided with.
Leisure on site
Bar or club house
Cycle hire
Evening entertainment
Fitness centre
Games room
Indoor swimming pool
Kids' club
On-site restaurant/cafe
Outdoor swimming pool
Play area
Take away
TV room
Amenities on site
Bath available
Disabled facilities
Drying room
Food shop
Free wifi
Ice pack freezing
Internet access
Parent & baby washroom
Pick-up from public transport
Public telephone
Shower available
Toilet block
Washing-up area
Charging facilities
Chemical disposal
Gas cylinders available
Recycling available
Renewable energy
Touring and motorhomes
Hard standings
Tourer storage facilities
Barbecues allowed
Campfires allowed
Commercial vehicles allowed
Dogs allowed
Nearby leisure
Fishing nearby
Golf nearby
Restaurant nearby
Groups welcome
Family friendly
Motorcycle friendly
Single-sex groups welcome
Student groups welcome
Nearby amenities
Bar nearby
Public transport nearby
Shop nearby
Large (51-200 pitches)
Nearest transport
- Coach stations
Chirk: Hand Hotel Coach Stop
— 0.7 miles
Coach Station
0.7 miles Froncysyllte: Bus Lay by — 2.2 miles
Coach Station
2.2 miles Gobowen Coach Stop — 3.0 miles
Coach Station
3.0 miles
- Train stations
Chirk Rail Station
— 0.3 miles
Rail Station
0.3 miles Gobowen Rail Station — 3.0 miles
Rail Station
3.0 miles Ruabon Rail Station — 4.0 miles
Rail Station
4.0 miles
- Ferry ports
Woodside Birkenhead Ferry Terminal
— 32.1 miles
Ferry Ports
32.1 miles
- Airports
Liverpool John Lennon Airport
— 29.5 miles
29.5 miles
From North: turn right off A483 (Wrexham-Oswestry) at the roundabout 8 miles past Wrexham onto the A5. At the next roundabout turn left onto B5070 (signposted Chirk). In 1.5 miles at the War Memorial in the centre of town (opposite Hand Hotel) turn right. In 0.5 mile (350 yards over railway bridge) turn left before ornamental gates (Chirk Castle) into private road.
Local attractions
Historic houses and castles - Chirk
Ceiriog Valley, Berwyn Mountains and Pistyll Rhaeadr (highest waterfall in Wales)
Llangollen - go by steam train through the scenic Dee Valley
Canal boating available
Plenty of nice restaurants to choose from
Must see
- Chester Castle (19.1 miles)
- Cheshire Military Museum (19.1 miles)
- Chester Cathedral (19.5 miles)
National Trust
- Chirk Castle (0.8 miles)
- Attingham Park (24.1 miles)
Cycle routes
Find local routes on the National Cycle Network - over 12,000 miles of cycling routes.


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TOUR PRICE - Price per person is AUD$3,600 (US$3200) - Contact me to arrange your booking
DEPOSIT - AUD$500 deposit at time of booking and balance 70 days prior to tour commencement.
Tour includes:
7 nights' accommodation in a beautiful Tuscan Farmhouse, accommodation based on twin share.
7 continental breakfasts.
5 day tours to itinerary locations including; Montalcino, Montepulciano, Cortona, Pienza, San Gimignano and Anghiari.
5 lunches including local wines.
5 dinners (from an open menu) at local trattoria's and restaurants, including some recommended by the Academia Italiana della Cucina.
All travel to and from tour locations as detailed on itinerary.
Wine tasting at selected vineyards/ establishments.
Contact me to arrange and discuss your tour on the 9th of September 2017 - you will love it!!!


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AURORA, IL - Construction will begin this week on North Lincoln Avenue between Spring Street and Grove Street.
The sanitary sewer project will require the southbound traffic lane on North Lincoln to be closed from Liberty Street to Grove Street. A detour will be posted.
In addition, no parking will be allowed on either side of North Lincoln Avenue from Spring Street to Grove Street.
Entrances to the commuter parking lot will be accessible, but some short term delays entering and exiting the lot should be expected.
Weather permitting, construction is scheduled to be completed in three weeks.
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(A) The morning water was quiet so reflections are clear as this doggie (Winston) goes fishing for minnows.
(B) Post shower entertainment as some of the younger folk (and some not-so-young as well) go wake boarding. This young man was the "pro". I had fun riding in the boat. The photo is not terribly clear – not only was he moving, I was, and the boat was too!
(C) After dinner Saturday night the post-sunset sky was beautiful. This shot was taken on the front porch, through the screen, giving an interesting effect.
(D) The next three I took on a Sunday morning walk down the beach to the point. I loved the feel of this dead tree – it looked like an entry way into sacred space.
(E) Perfection in pinecones!
(F) The beach flowering forth in delicate yellow bloom.
I hope you too have or had some opportunity for personal retreat – if even in a quiet walk around Lake Quannapowitt.