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1.1 Purpose—This guide covers information for assisting shipowners in planning for costs or scheduling complications during maintenance, repair, modifications, purchase negotiations, or scrapping activities. Removal and disposal of certain materials disturbed during modification, maintenance, or disposal of systems or components may be costly or interrupt the work schedule.
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1.2.1 This guide will describe materials that may be disturbed on ships during maintenance or scrapping activities, which may result in costly or time-consuming removal or disposal actions.
1.2.2 This guide will provide a systematic method to identify and record the locations of materials of concern for immediate planning and future reference.
1.2.3 This guide will include a brief discussion of issues related to the handling and storage of materials described in this guide.
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Opening ReceptionSeptember 6th, 7:00pm-11:00pm
Gallery HoursThur & Fri 2:00pm-8:00pm, Sat & Sun 12:00pm-5:00pm
Exhibition RunsSep 6 - Nov 9
A solo exhibition featuring new works of sculpture, video and large-scale prints by Alexa Horochowski
The exhibition Club Disminución ("Club of Diminishing Returns") was instigated by Alexa Horochowski's artist residency at Casa Poli in Coliumo, Chile, 2012/2013.
Designed by architects Mauricio Pezo and Sofía Ellrichshausen, Casa Poli, a minimalist, concrete cube, functions as a cultural art center/artist studio. Built on a jagged cliff overlooking the Pacific, 30 miles from Chile's second largest city, Concepción, Casa Poli appears perched at the end of the world. It offers views of the ocean from three of the cardinal points (South, West, and North), and directly below Casa Poli, the surf pounds into a narrow cave. The separation between landscape and architecture is indistinct.
In her pursuit of the physicality of form, Alexa Horochowski uses a wide range of elemental media to render sculptures that defy their native qualities. Hard becomes soft, soft becomes hard, gestures are frozen. Natural objects, flotsam, and 'naturalized' garbage, combined with studio-generated objects, suggest a post-human natural history of the future.
Sculpture, video, and large-scale digital prints work together to depict the struggle between the human drive to create lasting symbols of culture, and Nature's indifferent, persistent erasure of these symbols. The landscape is distilled into distinctive objects that are charged with elements of the alien or unknown.
Horochowski molds cochayuyo (Durivillaea antartica, kelp that grows on the shores of Chile below Casa Poli) into cuboidal forms that merge the mechanical with the organic/living. Sponges are translated into bronze so that they resemble pumice, and natural materials take on the qualities of man-made objects. The work explores entropy and the passing of time by imitating the natural processes of accretion and aggregation found in caves or the persistent impression left by fauna and water on architecture and the landscape. A fossil of a credit card heralds a post-consumer future, beyond the Era of the Anthropocene.
In The Soap Factory's 25th season, we are delighted to work with Alexa Horochowski on this major exhibition of new work of sculpture, photography and video.
Since 2009 The Soap Factory has selected regional practitioners to produce single artist projects in our space; an opportunity for artists to show their work in depth in our unique galleries. To show Alexa's work is particularly appropriate: she has exhibited with The Soap Factory at key points in her career, and was one of the first artists to exhibit in our building, in 1997.
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Raised in the Patagonia of Argentina, Alexa Horochowski immigrated with her family to the United States at the age of nine. Horochowski received Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri. In 1996 she completed an MFA degree at the University of Michigan. Her work has been exhibited at Praxis, New York/Miami; Braga Menéndez Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires; The Drawing Center, NYC; and Monique Meloche, Chicago. In Minnesota, she has worked on multiple solo exhibitions and projects including, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Soap Factory, and Franconia Sculpture Park. Horochowski has also participated in the following artist residencies, El Basilisco, Argentina; CasaPoli, Chile, The Bemis Art Center, United States, and Can Serrat, Spain. She is Professor of Sculpture at St Cloud State University.


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Brett Wallace agrees to minor league deal. Taking physical. Will report to twin lakes #Orioles
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Sunday, March 23, 2014
Brett Wallace signs minor-league deal with Baltimore
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I'll bet he whiffs in his first at bat for his new team!
- March 23, 2014 at 12:33 PM
C'mon man!! Give the guy a break!! I agree it was painful watching him struggle so-darn-much!! But what do I know. I was a terrible hitter I. High school ;-). Nothin' but love for Mr. Wallace. Wish him well in his new digs!!
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This project is just soooo much FuN... & I still have more to play with...
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love it..... so many great houses...
So cute,it will be finished in no time for K,you are making me want to applique something,lol,better finish things that i have started,hope your day is a good one my friend xxxx
That really is a fun project. I love the bright colours and dots.
Love the steep pitch of the roof!
Love it! What a fun project.
I am looking forward to seeing this neighborhood together. Looking good!


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For 42 years, Bill and Hillary Clinton have stayed married, largely out of convenience and for mutual political gain. When Bill was elected president in 1991, Hillary got to spend eight years in the White House, and both Clintons were able to use a revolving door of visitors to the Lincoln Bedroom to raise cash for their Clinton Foundation, which has been accused of being nothing more than a slush fund and a tax shelter for Bill, Hillary, Chelsea and their many globalist friends.
A night at the White House was payback for particularly large donors and operators like current New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. By the end of Bill's second term — after the scandals of Travelgate, Whitewater, Vince Foster and Monica Lewinsky, Hillary's sneaky spouse capped his time in office with a last-minute pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich and a host of any number of other shady associates.
Bill and Hillary then proceeded to load up on precious historical heirlooms, and got the heck out of dodge, plotting a return after Hillary served enough time as a term-and-a-half Democratic Senator of New York. Although Bill's political star still shone brightly, his reputational fire wasn't enough to set the national house alight for Hillary in 2008 — in part due to a one-term Senator from Illinois — Barrack 'Barry' Hussein Obama-Soetoro — stepping out of the shadows and putting a damper on the couple's plans.
After some tense back-and-forth, Hillary negotiated herself a consolation prize — a role as Secretary of State — while Bill's speeches and the couple's pay-for-play/bet-your-Foggy-Bottom-dollar deals continued to rake in more cash than ever for the two shameless grifters from Little Rock.
Whether it was allowing the U.S. to transfer 20 percent of its uranium to Russia even after they knew officials in that country were as corrupt as the day is long or giving Hillary's brother a gold mine in Haiti after a massive earthquake killed 230,000 people there in 2010, the Clintons went where the money was. They used their weight and influence to the max, suspiciously supporting actors such as hedge-fund whiz-kid Jeffrey Epstein and supermarket mogul Ron Burkle be damned.
Between the time the Clintons left the White House and 2017, they were able to make themselves $240 million richer, becoming the wealthiest former First Couple ever to not retire after their White House reign. In fact, by Hillary's score, they were just getting started taking in the big bucks when she announced her plans to run for president again in 2016.
This time they would really pull out all the stops, using their heavyweight draw with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to put the fix in for progressive archrival Bernie Sanders and arrange it so even establishment Republicans like the Bush family endorsed Hillary. With GOP opponent Donald Trump, Hillary thought she had an easy victory in the bag as late as Election Day as the mainstream media said her chances of winning Washington's biggest prize topped 95 percent.
There was hardly a billionaire, corporate CEO, Hollywood film mogul or sycophant movie star that had anyone else's name on their lips, and Clinton's war chest and Suge Knight-inspired wardrobe covered for the fact that her audiences at campaign rallies were largely purchased and that her hidden health worries were beginning to shine brighter than one of Rihanna's fabled Top-40 diamonds.
Too much money was riding on Hillary to let little matters like an ongoing FBI investigation and continuing harassment accusations against Bill dog the 'Wonder Woman of Wellesley.' Never mind that her popularity rating was miles below Bubba Bill's in 1991.
The one-time First Couple had since accumulated enough baggage to sink the Titanic, but they were convinced if they just threw enough watery brown earth at their former donor Donald Trump, the White House would be theirs for a nearly unprecedented third term (and surely — they hoped — a fourth). But hubristic arrogance and paid-for poll results are not the same as electoral votes. It all went out the window in the span of a few short, sickening news briefs at New York's Jacob K. Javits Center in the wee hours of November 9.
From that day, a nauseating new reality started to come into focus — a bleak tableau where all the noble humanitarian ambitions proclaimed on the Clinton Foundation website and the pages in Bill and Hillary's respective Rolodexes began to freefall in value as fast as a stock on Black Tuesday in 1929.
No longer could Bill leverage off Hillary's imagined future political career to obtain free rides with underage harlots on globalist billionaires' private jets. No longer could Hillary count on Bill's charming Southern drawl and ways of wooing wicked wealth builders even as he indulged in private side deals and sexual shenanigans with the Kathleen Willeys and Juanita Broaddricks of the world.
In short, the mutual possibility of each partner to "use the illusion" the other offered the political public had elapsed like a cheap short option from one of the Wall Street banks they owed favors (and probably money) to. Their last, best hope could only be an annulment of the election which buried them — thus, they quickly proceeded to join forces with jilted Jill Stein of the Green Party to fund ill-fated recount efforts in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — all places where they'd assumed that past history would roll out the red carpet for them in a likeliest-of-all-possible-futures in Washington, D.C.
But alas, this hoped-for fate wasn't to be, and the only recounting that had an effect on either Clinton's misplaced mindset was when media outlet after outlet replayed the damning Election Night results ad nauseam.
While it's true that Trump might have been (and still might be) vulnerable to impeachment, it's bitter fruit for the pair that had aspired to dine off rare White House china they hadn't been able to purloin in 2001. With cries of "Russian collusion!" and "Unfit for office!" the couple hallucinated that this was all just a bad dream the country would awake from and install Hillary as "Madame President," but regrettably, even too-hurried headlines on the cover of Newsweek don't necessarily make things so.
Thus, unless their mysteriously dissimilar-looking "daughter" suddenly takes popular flight, the Clintons have nothing to offer their misbegotten political patrons. There are no favors to trade, no legislation to be crafted, no trade agreements to be touted; there are no power plays that come with a pot of gold at the end of an adopted rainbow coalition.
Whispers in Washington are that without an office to operate from — Oval or otherwise — the Clintons are all washed up and ready to be someone's else's dinner — perhaps the media's. Tall tales of "What [funny thing] Happened" on the way to the electoral forum are no substitute for delivering on backroom promises, and it's looking like the marriage between Clinton aide Huma Abedin and debauched deviant Anthony Weiner may portend a destiny that even Bill and Hillary can't escape — if the Department of Justice doesn't get them first.
Me Here....I don't ever see them divorcing. You see, there is a legal tradition of a court not being able to force one spouse to testify against the other. If they were to divorce, they would no longer enjoy this protection.
I am sure that a great many lawyers would love to put each under oath to testify as to what all the other knew and when. I am sure that this would sink both of them for life. This would produce a gold mine of uncovering where all the bodies are buried.
So I would call this a fake news dream.
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They have too much on each other to get divorced. I agree with you.
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One of my favorite mammals is apparently in what could be a very very poor position. Now what makes this interesting is that there is apparently no definitive cause. This mysterious killer has only one call sign that may or may not be the cause (it could actually just be an opportunistic mofo). It is possible that as many as half a million (that's 500,000) bats have died because of this mysterious murderer. To me the scariest part of it, besides the entire mystery, is how it kills. These bats go to sleep and their food reserves burn out before they ever wake up so they starve to death in their sleep. While that does generally seem like the best way to go I don't know if I'd like to see half a million people mysteriously die while sleeping.
It seems odd to me with hundreds of thousands of bats are dying from some mysterious agent that could possible be transferred from cave to caves by people and the best I see from spelunkers (cave diving) is that they are upset. Some are trying to figure out how their business will survive. I understand the fear but it is certainly odd to guilt trip the bats for dying in throngs.
On the other side though imagine if whatever this agent is were to jump to humans? A mysterious organism that has yet to be identified has the potential to kill hundreds of thousands in a relatively short amount of time. Anything with a 90% mortality rate should most certainly be understood before it is brought within spitting distance of humans. We've already got AIDS and I'd hope that we'd only have one seemingly impervious disease at any time.


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40km (25 miles) NW of Siena; 57km (35 miles) SW of Florence; 270km (168 miles) NW of Rome
The scene that hits you when you pass through the Porta San Giovanni gate, inside the walls of San Gimignano, and walk the narrow flagstone Via San Giovanni is thoroughly medieval. Okay, so the crossbows, flails, and halberds in shop windows are miniature souvenir versions, and the small Romanesque church facade halfway up the street today hides a modern wine shop. But, if you can mentally block out the racks of postcards, you've got a stage set straight out of the history books.
The center is peppered with the tall medieval towers that have made San Gimignano, "city of the beautiful towers," the poster child for Italian hill towns everywhere. No one can agree how many stone skyscrapers remain -- so many have been chopped down it's a tough call whether they're still officially towers or merely tall, skinny buildings -- but the official tower count the tourist office gives is 14. There were at one time somewhere between 70 and 76 of the things spiking the sky above this little village. The spires started rising in the bad old days of the 1200s, partly to defend against outside invaders but mostly as command centers for San Gimignano's warring families. Several successive waves of the plague that swept through (1348, 1464, and 1631) caused the economy (based on textiles and hosting passing pilgrims) to crumble, and San Gimignano became a provincial backwater. Because there was no impetus for new construction, by the time tourism began picking up in the 19th century, visitors found a preserved medieval village of crumbling towers.
San Gimignano is by far the most popular Tuscan hill town, a day-trip destination for masses of tour buses coming from Siena and Florence. Therefore, the town is best enjoyed in the evening, after the tour buses leave, especially in the off season and on spring nights: The alleyways are empty, and you can wander in the yellow light of street lamps.


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Louisville, Ky. - Junior guard Jude Schimmel was named one of Glamour 's Top 10 College Women, the magazine announced today. The magazine highlights 10 dynamic young women who show campus leadership, scholastic achievement, community involvement, and unique, inspiring goals. The 10 winners will be profiled in an editorial feature in the May 2014 issue of Glamour and they were honored Thursday night, April 17 at the Lincoln Center in New York City.
Each year more than 1,000 women are nominated to take part in the ceremony -- based on the things they have achieved on campus. After a year of reviewing and pairing down applicants, 10 are chosen to spend a day in New York City.
Schimmel will join her fellow honorees in New York City next week at a ceremony/celebrity panel event Thursday night that includes Danielle Brooks (actress, Orange is the New Black), Greta Gerwing (actress and writer, Frances Ha), Gina Keatley (TV host, Healthy Soul with Gina Keatley), Dyllan McGee (Emmy award-winning documentarian), Shiza Shahid (CEO, the Malala Fund) and Colleen McGuinness (writer and producer, 30 Rock).
This season Schimmel helped lead the Cardinals to a 33-5 record this season while averaging 5.6 points and 3.5 assists per game. She was a WBCA Good Works team nominee and won the Elite 89 academic award last season as the player with the highest grade-point average participating in the Final Four.
Schimmel has been a leader on the hardwood and an active member in the community as well as a role model in the Native American community. When she began playing at Louisville, Schimmel made occasional speaking appearances at reservations and conferences around the country. After the Cardinals' run to the 2013 national championship game, Schimmel traveled to speak at 17 Indian reservations in nine states, shaking hands, taking pictures and delivering an encouraging message to Native American populations.


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Gabon - Travel and visas
Getting there and away
Getting around
Needless to say, you must ensure you have a valid passport, and one that is not due to expire for at least six months. An International Certificate of Vaccination against yellow fever is also necessary for entry into Gabon and is the first thing to be checked upon arrival. Visas are required for all travellers and the application process can be quite challenging if you're not a 'luxury tourist' (those who book a package via a travel agent or tour operator). These tourists will automatically have their visa arranged for them as part of the trip's services.
If flying into Gabon independently, you will either need to apply for a visa at one of Gabon's notoriously unfriendly embassies before departure or use the services of a travel agency to arrange the necessary paperwork. The latter is a bit more expensive but will save you lots of hassle, time and energy. The tour operator will provide you with a letter of authorisation issued by the Ministry of Immigration, that allows you to buy a visa for €70 upon arrival at the airport. All can be arranged through email.
At a European embassy a three months' tourist's visa costs €100, and depending on which embassy you go to, you will probably also need to attach a couple of passport-sized photos, photocopies of your airline ticket, proof of health insurance and confirmation of your accommodation, such as a hotel booking covering at least the first night(s) of a trip. An absolute minimum of five working days should be allowed for a visa application to be processed, but this varies between embassies.
Applicants for a business visa will need a formal invitation letter from their company plus the above mentioned documentation. It is usually easier and cheaper to obtain a visa from a Gabonese embassy in one the neighbouring countries (around 50,000CFA), so if you are crossing overland, you can apply either in Yaoundé, Cameroon, or in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. Sometimes visas may even be available at the border, but don't rely on it.
If you are intending to leave the country and then return – for example to go to São Tomé – you should apply for a multiple-entry visa, although there is no guarantee that you'll get one. If when you fly back from São Tomé you are connecting to an international flight then a single-entry visa for Gabon is sufficient. Once in Gabon, visa issues are dealt with by the Ministry of Immigration, but in the first instance it might be advisable to talk to a travel agent.
Getting there and away
By air
If you are leaving from Europe, your choice is between Air France, Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines, Royal Air Maroc or Ethiopian Airlines, which means flying via Paris, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Casablanca or Addis Ababa respectively. There's no direct flight from London. Direct flight time from Paris is about seven hours. Since Turkish Airlines entered the market in February 2013, ticket prices have dropped significantly and you can now fly for under €700, depending on the city of departure.
From North America Ethiopian Airlines runs direct flights between Libreville and Washington. There are regular flights to Gabon from other African countries such as South Africa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Cameroon, Kenya and Ethiopia.
By land
If you enter Gabon overland, the surest and cheapest approach is to have obtained your visa from your home country in advance. Although it may sometimes be possible, do not rely on being able to purchase a visa upon arrival at the border. The two most popular routes from the Republic of the Congo into the northeast of Gabon lead to the Gabonese towns of Ekata (customs office in Mékambo) and Mazingo. Travellers coming from Congo's Odzala National Park normally use the first route, while those coming from Ouésso are better off going to Mazingo. If you come from Congo's Okoyo, you can take the (rather bad) road to the border at Oyo, and continue to Léconi in the east of Gabon.
Popular with overlanders arriving from Dolisie in Congo, the main crossing into the south of Gabon is between Doussala (Congo) and N'Dendé (Gabon). The River Ntem forms a natural border between Cameroon and Gabon. There's a bridge for vehicles, and for those without their own transport there are plenty of piroguiers taking passengers from the Cameroonian side of the river to the Gabonese village of Eboro. Border formalities in Cameroon are carried out in Ambam. In Gabon you have to get your passport stamped in Bitam. There's a copy shop right across the street from the police station to make the necessary copies of your visa and your passport.
By sea
To go to Gabon by any means other than by air, you'll need to take a pirogue (5,000CFA) from Cogo, site of Equatorial Guinean customs and immigration, to Cocobeach in Gabon. Freight boats bound for Libreville will sometimes take paying passengers. They usually leave from Bata (Equatorial Guinea), Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Sao Tomé and, most frequently of all, Douala (Cameroon). Crossings are irregular and you would need to make enquiries at the boats docked at the ports and negotiate with the captain. Prepare for a rough ride and take more food and drink than you think you will need.
Getting around
Getting from place to place in Gabon can be difficult, time-consuming, expensive, and more often than not it's all three. It can also be a fantastic way to see the country and meet its people.
By air
Flight schedules change frequently and with little notice and airlines should be contacted directly for the most up-to-date information. They usually have offices in town as well as in the airports. Flying around Gabon isn't cheap. Depending on the distance and the airline, a one-way trip costs 70,000–150,000CFA and a return flight can set you back up to 300,000CFA. At the time of writing, there were three airline companies serving the interior.
All three of them are on the list of air carriers banned in the European Union (a blacklist including airlines with safety concerns, preventing them from entering the airspace of any EU member state). If you have the funds, hiring your own light aircraft will give you even greater flexibility. It's expensive, but the views are amazing – that is, unless weather conditions force the pilot to fly above the clouds. Seeing the rainforest from 10–100m above is much more than a means of getting to your destination, it is an attraction in itself. Make enquiries at Afric Aviation (mobile: 07 59 72 55), Air Affair Gabon (tel: 01 44 48 60/72 20 10) or a tour operator.
By rail
Gabon's only railway, the Transgabonais (Trans-Gabon Railway), bisects the country east–west, running from Libreville through over 20 stations to its terminus, Franceville. It serves a crucial role in the country's economy and in linking the capital to rural areas. In 2012, it transported an estimated 711,201 tonnes of merchandise and 255,930 passengers. The railroad is run by SETRAG, a private company. SETRAG runs two types of trains: the Train Omnibus l'Equateur that stops at all stations, and the faster and more luxurious Train Express Trans-Ogooué, calling only at Ndjolé, Lopé, Booué, Ivindo, Lastourville and Moanda.
According to the timetable the whole journey from Libreville to Franceville takes a little over 12 hours on the fast train (the Omnibus needs one hour more), but this is very optimistic. Delays might be due to any number of factors, for instance sometimes rear carriages come loose and the train has to return to reattach them. The Omnibus has a second and a first class while the Express train has three classes of accommodation: VIP – a quite bizarre-looking carriage in 1970s-style orange, yellow and brown – first and second class.
By road
Minibuses and taxis
Apart from the railway and the recently launched Transpog-bus network in Port Gentil, Gabon has no public transport. It does, however, have upwards of 9,000km of road. Despite remaining challenges, Gabon's infrastructure sector has seen large improvements since President Ali Bongo took over. When he came to power, only 10% of the roads were tarred and only 20% of the untarred roads were good. At the end of 2013, this was increased by 768km and it is by no means impossible that the president will achieve his objective of 3,600km of tarred roads in 2016.
Major renovation of the road between Libreville and Ntoum, currently a main bottleneck for all incoming and outgoing traffic, is planned for 2015 and a road between Libreville and Port Gentil, that currently doesn't feature on the road network at all, should be realised in 2017. During the rainy season, travel on certain roads is difficult, but the absence of surfaced roads does not mean an absence of unscheduled services by minibuses, taxi-brousse (bush taxi) or clando. Clandos are the – usually unregistered – pickups that ferry people and their packages between towns, beeping for passengers as they pass through villages. They are easily recognisable as always being in poor condition and very crowded.
They offer the cheapest form of transport, and a little money will bring you quite far. Minibuses and clandos can be found at the town's or city's bus, bush taxi/motor parks (gare routière). They only depart when full, even if it takes hours of waiting for passengers to come. Choose a seat behind the driver, near the window, and on the side with most shade. It doesn't matter if you're travelling in a bus or in a private vehicle – once on the road, checkpoints and roadblocks will inevitably slow you down. Officials may try to catch you on a mistake in order to make some money, so make sure your paperwork is in order and always carry your passport. To avoid unnecessary hassle, also carry your international immunisation record (yellow booklet).
Taxis are the lifeblood of the transport system within towns. They differ in colour depending on where you are – red and white for Libreville, blue and white for Port Gentil and so on – but they almost always look as if they are falling apart. Une course is when you hire an empty taxi and the driver takes you directly to your destination. It's a set fee of 1,000CFA for standard journeys. Each town has a recognised point beyond which the fare increases. For example, going to the airport or Owendo in Libreville, or Cap Lopez in Port Gentil, will cost you 2,000CFA. All fares double after 21.00.
By boat
Pirogues, or dugout canoes, are the traditional method of transport wherever there is water. Increasingly pirogues are now motorised. A man who directs a pirogue is called a piroguier, or a pagayeur, after the pagaye or pole used in traditional pirogues. Ferries run between Libreville's Porte Môle and Port Gentil and between Port Gentil and Lambaréné.
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My original objective in exercise has also deviated from its purpose. My goal was to get it done, and I only ran so I could eat. My favorite phrase was "I run to eat". Yes, I know scary goals. We all have to start somewhere and strengthen shallow expectations. My purpose and goals have finally evolved into a much more fulfilling aspiration, thanks to X-Fit.
Suddenly I have found myself belonging to a family of CrossFitters. I entered an environment of exercise that includes friendships. X-fit is a culture where exercise is a way of life and encouragement and shared goals are at the heart of every endeavor.
Exercise to me today is without routine. In fact, for those who have experienced X-fit we know that the whiteboard holds the only secret to the recipe of our routine for that day. Sometimes they say ignorance is bliss. In this case it is better for me to show up ready for the challenge not knowing what formula of pain is set for the day.
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Every football players have witnessed injuries at least once in their lifetimes whether minor or major. Some injuries could be minor that you could get back to the same game after some mild treatment. Serious injuries could also occur which could put an end to the career of the football player. And yes, some of the worst injuries in football have done so.
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#10. Kieron Dyer – Bristol Rovers vs. West Ham on August 18, 2007
Kieron Dyer has been prone to injuries during the game as known to most of the West Ham fans and spectators. However, a major blow happened in the second round of the Carling cup played against Bristol Rovers, which proved to be very serious.
It occurred at the initial stages of the match when a tackle by Joe Jacobson caused Dyer's right leg to be broken in two locations. Many people thought that this would mark an end to his career. However, he did come back to the field 5 months after the injury and stayed on until April 2013 when he retired.


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On a regular basis, Apple World Today posts a list of notable new apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be new, but they're popular and deserve mention. Here are today's picks for Mac OS X and iOS.
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The Australian government has decided to be more generous towards refugees from Iraq and Syria. In the beginning of this year itself, Australia had taken in as many as 12000 refugees. Despite the large number of people that have already been taken in by the Australian government, it is still ready to take in more such people into its territory.
A declaration was made by Prime Minister Tony Abbott that an extra 12,000 refugees will be taken in. This announced by him in the month of September last year. The number of refugees that Australia is willing to welcome into their territory for shelter. The number is going up to 13,750 that is way beyond the existing humanitarian visa.
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The immigration officer Peter Dutton opines that if they can assure regular and good quality health check ups, people will be able develop trust on the program that they have created. He also said that a large part of the success of this program, depends heavily on the present situation in Syria. All the states in Australia, are preparing to resettle the refugees, keeping in mind important factors like connections with family or friends.
However, not all the people in Australia, stand by the same opinion. The MP of Greens Adam Bandt holds a different opinion altogether. According to him, the addition in the number of refugees in may be a welcome shift but there is a need to take care of the ones that already suffering in the detention centers in Australia right now.
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Well, that's another classic Vile blunder. Entering Jury Play at the Traverse, I put myself into the lottery to become a member of the jury. I was selected, took my place on the stage and, as the cast took us backstage to explain our role, I realised that there was no no way but I would be able to write the fair and impartial critique that I could sell to The List. There goes my day's wages, I thought, as I mimed the action of rubbing my mind clean with a pretend pencil eraser.
On the other hand, being part of the cast is an experience that gave me some insight into the process of performance, the emotions of being an actor, and a sympathy for the production that challenges my usual attitude of the vicious spectator that hopes only for theatre's failure. Mostly, however, I felt like a puppet.
Jury Play evokes the worn-out trope of the script that, not trusting in the dramatic potential of a plot, sets the action in a court and uses the furniture of the law to suggest an exciting battle between guilt and innocence. There are valuable court-room scripts - Twelve Angry Men is probably still touring - but it's usually a pretty pedestrian genre. Apparently Ayn Rand wrote one and I associate her with a lumbering, polemical literature than has less interest in aesthetics than pounding home some dogmatic point about free will, or capitalism, or something.
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Luckily, Jury Play isn't a courtroom drama: it's a presentation of Dr Jenny Scott's academic research into the legal system. Even from the stage, I can guess that she is critical of the formality of the trial, and advocates a more down-to-earth and inclusive environment. My line - I did get to speak - was to do with allowing the jury to arrange their seating in a more informal manner.
In fact, I was the catalyst for the entire second act, which breaks up the jury box into a nice hippy circle, from which the jury can have a nice chat with the witnesses and the accused. And while the two professional actors on the jury led the discussion, my character - known only as Juror 13 - was the real antagonist.
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But I was still a puppet: a puppet of a script, and that fascinated me. During the first act, which represented a typical trial,
I had to pretend to be asleep, cover myself in a big cobweb and - well, I just sat there, wondering what was going on. I didn't notice that one actor was playing multiple roles (even though he had a very distinctive shaved head), and I didn't pay much attention to John Bett, who was the Judge.
Bett did come across as an avuncular old geezer: he had a few chats with the audience/jurors - when the script allowed it - and he was very good at making me feel comfortable.
From what I can make of Dr Scott's intentions, the sensation of being a puppet was the point. I was disempowered, a bit bored. Now, if I had been in the audience, doing my reviewing, this would be a bad thing. Happily, I was having an immersive experience, so I was getting the message. Luckily, I got to bowl about the place a bit more in Act Two - that's when I had my monologue - when Scott and director/co-writer Ben Harrison presented the alternative hippy court.
It's no surprise that the audience reckoned the accused was innocent though. He was getting treated like our old mate by the time we were questioning him directly.
Jury Play, ironically, is no less polemical than one of Rand's novels: Dr Scott clearly has a problem with the way that the legal system manages to mystify its own processes through the use of fancy language, and alienate the jury through the stifling procedures. At times it gets a bit blunt - when one of the jurors has a copy of Class War, Bett's judge gets to boast of his own open-mindedness, even though he reads The Telegraph - and there's two layers of audience experience: one for the selected jury, and another for the poor suckers in the auditorium.
Apart from the loss of my wages for the review - perhaps The Traverse could bung me a tenner for writing this - I had a good night out. I'm slightly annoyed that they took the notes I made in the first act (they gave me a pad of paper and I wrote loads of cool observations in it, which I intended to scan and use as a review, only I left it on my seat during the interval and when I came back, they'd disappeared it, along with the charge sheet and that pretend eraser, then they moved the seats around the stage, or rather we did, so I suppose that I was a stage-hand as well as an actor, I wonder what the Equity rate would be for that work?) because that was a rare occasion during which I took notes during a performance (a habit that I disdain in other critics and reviewers).
Sorry - for a minute there, I lost myself. There's some point I wanted to make: oh yeah. Polemical theatre, entertainment, academic research,right.
The immersive experience did get across the academic research: this is an example of theatre that has something to say and uses the format of a play to express an idea, rather than just banging on about it, a cup of tea would have been nice in the interval.


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A recent survey of 6000 consumers has resulted in a "Brand Simplicity" ranking. In the UK we would relate to the global ranking which puts Google at No.1 and includes McDonalds, ALDI, Carrefour, Apple, Nokia, Amazon and IKEA in the top 10. The US rank has Subway at N0.1 ahead of Google (No.3) and Amazon (No.4).
The report authors claim that the share prices of their previously top ranked (simple) brands have outperformed those of more complex offerings since 2009 by 99%+. They suggest that this is explained by the fact that consumers are 80% more likely to recommend a brand with a simple experience and communication. So, the business case for simplicity is potentially clear.
In our own work, we constantly emphasize the use of techniques that help to A. differentiate in contested markets, and B. seek out disruptions as a way to create 'uncontested markets'. The very definition of disruption is that value propositions should be relatively less costly, more accessible, and SIMPLER.
You don't have to be a stats boffin to notice that Facebook.com is now ranked No.118 (out of 125 brands) having plunged 31 places from last year! By contrast Yahoo! has moved up 15 places into the global top 10. Why? Well Facebook is looking more complex and Yahoo (under new leadership) is getting simpler. It's true that 2 data points don't make a trend, so lets not get too carried away – however, intuitively it feels right.
So, if you want to disrupt the competition where should you begin? Well, for starters take a look at the listing of US industry sectors by complexity.
If you have a scouting capability within R&D or marketing, get them on the case of investigating these complex sectors first. That's where there are potentially richest pickings for disruptors. Match a Customer Value Proposition your targeted Customer Segment and design a "simple" offering using a business model canvas.
Recent research in HBR (May 2012) pointed out that you should have around 10% of your total investment targeting transformational (white space) prospects. Within that you should only expect a hit rate of roughly 1 in 10 projects delivering breakthrough products and services. The important point to note from the research is that 70% of the returns emanate from this 10% investment.
So, if you buy into the notion that disruption is more likely in sectors that are over complex (and over-priced as in insurance and healthcare etc), then step one is to target those prospects. To make sure you succeed, step two would be to nurture a culture that can allocate 10% of investment to high risk ideas – i.e. where 9/10 projects fail! The other 90% of the business can get on with 'exploiting' the core (and next space) offerings in a culture which tolerates lower levels of risk.


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Reflection for Ash Wednesday
Read the Gospel Passage for Ash Wednesday
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Ash Wednesday inaugurates Lent, and the Church invites us to be with Jesus in the desert. This will be my second Ash Wednesday as a priest. Last year, I was surprised to see that while most of the year the Church struggles to fill her pews, on Ash Wednesday throngs of people came out to be smeared with ashes and told to repent. The large number of people seems to suggest a desire to really enter into this season; therefore priests need to capitalize on the opportunity to foster this unique encounter between Jesus and each person's desire to be freed from sin.
In order for Lent "to work" we need to understand why we are invited to the desert. What is supposed to happen in that strange dry place?
Most of us fearfully imagine the desert as a place where we will be left to our own thoughts, hungers, weaknesses and fears. If this were true, then despair would be inevitable. And sadly, this is the experience of most of us. We experience Lent as a kind of solitary confinement, where we are to be brutally punished for our sins. We rarely experience the depths of Lent because once we taste the initial discomfort of our brokenness, we do not know where to turn. We think of ourselves as alone. However, this way of thinking is hellish, and foreign to our Father's desire for us.
In contrast to this experience of desert isolation is God's reason for orchestrating the annual desert of Lent. Through the prophet Hosea, God says to Israel, that like an unfaithful wife she has gone "after her lovers, but forgot me" (Hos 2:13). In this passage, the heart of sin becomes clear: We forget God's fulfilling love and turn towards others for fulfillment. Read in the proper tone, one can hear in this passage the pain of a lover whose spouse has been unfaithful. No destructive anger exists in this passage, just God's hunger for Israel to be in unbridled union with Him. This dynamic of forgetting and infidelity is true of each one of us. Like Israel, we forget God's love and turn to sin, to our other lovers. But with great delight God responds to our infidelity proclaiming, "Therefore I am going to win her back; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her" (Hos 2:14). In God's desert there is always communion and transformation. Far from being a punishment, the desert is meant to foster an encounter between Jesus and our promiscuous hearts. Jesus draws us into the simple desert to win us back by reminding us of His tender caress. Like a husband and wife who need a get away in order to reconnect, in order to deeply remember their first love (Rev. 2:4); so too, every year the Church offers us Lent to give us a context so that Jesus can win us over.
Let us not be naive. This "winning us over" is a painful process because there is nowhere to hide in the desert. All the distractions of daily life are stripped away, and each of us must confront the reality that – like Israel – we are an unfaithful spouse. You and I must stand exposed in our guilt and regret, not to be broken down in isolation, but to be broken open into communion with the Lord. This exposure moves us to cry out with the psalmist, "Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned." Jesus is the Father's response, and through the sacraments and the Holy Spirit, Jesus' tenderness really can win our hearts over.
Many people will avoid this depth of honesty and intimacy, preferring to keep Jesus at arms' distance, but for those who do respond to His invitation, they will experience being filled with "the righteousness of God" (2 Cor 5:21). That is to say, where they once had experienced the painful and fearful regret of infidelity, Jesus will establish them in His divine love and communion. God will be all in all, in us. The Bridegroom and the bride will again become one flesh.
This is Lent. This is the drama of the desert. This is what Ash Wednesday inaugurates. Be not afraid. Enter in.
Father Ryan Mann was ordained in May 2014. He is a parish priest at St. Charles Borromeo parish in Parma, OH. He loves jazz clubs, comedy clubs and movies. He enjoys great meals with good friends and being out on a boat in the summer time. Above all of these things, Fr. Ryan loves the eternal life and love of Jesus that is given as a taste through all these little pleasures. Fr. Ryan has attended Theology of the Body I and Theology of the Body II courses with the Theology of the Body Institute.
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Sartre was square on the nail about love. Love is a perpetually awkward attempt to enslave another without becoming a slave oneself. At its dubious apex, what the Personals call a serious relationship, its a protracted staring contest, with the reluctant master snatching furtive glances through the blinds as the flustered slave scrubs the baseboards. When the sex gets routine, its all over but the bitterness, the slow leak in the balloons full of icewater we all conceal somewhere in our guts.
Of course, well always struggle for optimism. Well always feel like triumphant Pokemon characters when new birds run their fingertips through the fuzz on the backs of our necks and say were too cute. Well always ache when its over. Its bound to happen. Whats left but to snicker about it awhile, then go out and consume truckloads of narcissistic sex (get wet, as the sage says)? We might as well do something with the downtime. Maybe we'll be able to drop the cynicism along with our trousers one of these days, when we're wiser and don't need so much insulation.
Stephin Merritt writes songs for the brainy saps that ask too much for too little, get buoyed by false hope and sob like beaten gradeschoolers when the inevitable end arrives. Michael Dykehouse writes songs for the cynical, the smart, the funny, the new breed. I consider myself somewhere in between, and I enjoy both mens music equally. At this moment, on this day, for what my preference is worth, Id prefer to identify with Dykehouse.
Midrange revolves around Chain Smoking, the bubblepunk-flavored tale of a spurned idealist who, like a Chaucer stooge, was ruled by his dick from before Go, and cant stop sucking coffin tacks as he realizes just how dickish he acted. Most of the balance sticks to the sex act per se like a ripped Trojan wrapper on a sweaty shoulderblade. Witness backwards tenderness in a cheap motel (When You Come), a courtship that promptly fizzles post-coitus (Lost Holiday: Lay on top of me til you say when / Then show me to the door / Cause I dont need you anymore), and a nervous giggle at the dawn of a needy crush (One More Day).
Dykehouses vocals are flatter than Andy Partridge on horse tranquilizers, and his tracks are a wintry, computer-driven takeoff on glassy-eyed new wave. I suppose the album's title comes from its karaoke-like philosophical fidelity. This, comrades, is wounded decadence at its most deliriously tasteless.
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October 2013 News -
As British Airways have stopped flying from London to Lusaka we are no longer able to have books sent via our International Pilot Post. However it is still possible to buy books and bring them yourself when you visit. This means that you can now buy from the book shop of your choice.
How it works -
If you'd like to donate books for our Literacy Scheme for Young African Learners - it's simple - just go to our list of books here and choose the book, books or resources that you would like to donate. For each book there is a link where you can find out more from Amazon.co.uk.
However, when you want to buy a book you must first go to our Amazon Wish List for Young African Children and add the books or resources you wish to donate to your shopping basket. Amazon will automatically remove the book from the list once the requested numbers have been reached.
Getting the books to Mfuwe . . .
You will need to bring the books with you when you visit Zambia but we can help you get them from Lusaka to Mfuwe via Proflight at no extra charge. you'll need to have them wrapped and ready to hand over at Lusaka airport and if you can fill a suitcase with books or other goodies to donate we can help get that from Lusaka to Mfuwe too - don't forget the baggage allowance with Proflight is less than your International flight. All you have to do is get the bag as far as Lusaka - click here for instructions.
Don't forget to email
When you have made a purchase please email me with the list of books you have bought so I know who has bought waht and can also write to thank you.


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Tonight at 8 Paul and Tim unleash hell again. They will talk about the media's failure to ascertain what is important in the world in the past few weeks. This will relate to the coverage of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight, the Donald Sterling fiasco and a little story from Nigeria involving 260+ kidnapped girls being sold into marital slavery. The guys have some questions as to which story should have gotten the most coverage and about the way that the mainstream media covered the stories. The guys will also talk about a local AA County issue as Magnum Steve Schuh released a hilarious campaign video that he might want to rethink. We will also give you our heroes and morons of the week.


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Despite all the books, magazines and websites about parenting, you can only prepare so much. As your children age, new needs and challenges arise that you'll need to find solutions for.
Diet is one of the most important aspects of a child's development. Research is showing more and more that how we eat in our formative years can affect our health for the long term, especially with diabetes and childhood obesity on the rise. So, how do you make sure your child is getting everything they need? Multivitamins are one way to make sure there aren't any gaps in their nutrition even after you've finally gotten them to clean their plate instead of throwing their food at you.
When Children Need a Multivitamin
Mixed opinions remain about whether or not children need to be on a multivitamin. According to Jay L. Hoecker, M.D., a consultant for the Mayo Clinic, there are a variety of foods available now, such as cereal and milk, that have been fortified with extra nutrients to give children what they need. He recommended speaking with a doctor first before starting your children on supplements, considering these scenarios:
Important Ingredients to Look For
If you and your physician determine your child is in need of a multivitamin, be sure to read labels carefully. Gummies, for example, are a popular option for children's vitamins, but make sure they aren't packed with sugar that makes them more like candy. Check for a wide range of vitamins and minerals that meet the recommended daily requirement for your child's age group.
According to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, here are the top ingredients to make sure are included in your child's multivitamin and what they support:
Fish oil and probiotics are also supplements that can make a big difference, but check with your doctor first. Make sure you're not giving your child too much of any of these vitamins or minerals, as they may already be getting enough from food. Consider making a food diary of what your child eats everyday for up to a month before a doctor's visit to determine what they may be lacking in their diet.
Tips for Healthy Kids
Now that you know how to add vitamins and minerals to their diet with multivitamins when they need them, here are some other tips for raising happy, healthy kids:
Being a parent is the hardest job there is with a million things to remember. But providing your children with the proper nutrition from diet and a multivitamin will set them up for success.


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Movveo is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. We continually promote personal development with year round training using both "in house" and external resources recognised as excellent in their field. We also ensure we reward "high performers" so that they become the envy of the industry we work in. Having an opportunity to work at Movveo for many people represents the pinnacle of their careers and continued success within the Company demonstrates exceptional capabilities.
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Eman Raharno aka Clogtwo has been practicing graffiti art for the past six years involving human science, religion and horror into his style, to create provocative messages in his visuals.
"Apart from acrylic or oil painting on canvas, graffiti isn't a permanent form of art," he adds. "You may take three to four days spray painting a wall under the harsh weather, and it takes less than a day to paint it over in white. Just like life is. We have to forgive, forget and move on, making life much easier to live by with no regrets."
As a motion graphic artist and videographer, Clogtwo feels that it's harder to tell a story through static visuals, hence, he tries to apply as much details into his painting, so that the viewer can admire or be judgmental against it, as long as the message reaches across.
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New York City's subway system experienced a brief power outage Wednesday morning, grinding trains to a halt in the nation's biggest city.
Consolidated Edison, the city's power provider, told CBS New York station WCBS-TV that it experienced a "system voltage dip," like a brownout, around 9:45 a.m. and was investigating the cause.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the system, confirmed to CBS News that the power went out for approximately five minutes but has since been restored.
WCBS-AM reports that all trains were operating normally late in the morning after the system-wide outage.
According to the MTA, 5.5 million people ride the system every day.


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I like to think of it like the light.
We can know what we don't want, what isn't right for us, by what feels dark, scary. What we're afraid of.
So if we're afraid to lose him because we don't know if there's anything better out there, that would be the dark.
But then there's this beautiful place of light that few of us have been told about. It's where we find what we do want.
It's like marching for what we want vs. protesting against what we don't want. There's a beautiful difference there that happens in the energy you create and put out there.
So when you focus on what you do want instead of what you're afraid of that you don't want, you're in the light. We know if something's right for us by whether we feel like we're in the dark or the light.Continue Reading


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A permit is required to burn brush under Vermont state law (Title 10 V.S.A. Chapter 83 § 2645). A permit is not needed for recreational fires in a firepit, or to burn brush when there is snow cover. To obtain a permit, call Dale Decker, Pawlet's Forest Fire Warden, at (802) 325-3721, or David Hosely, Assistant Forest Fire Warden, at (802) 558-6450.
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Lajos Balogh has led the Portland Festival Symphony for 31 years.
(Matt Eich/The Oregonian)
The words "summer," "symphony" and "parks" mean one thing in Portland:
For the past 32 years, the orchestra has tuned summer evenings with upbeat music from a handful of parks around the city, encouraging children to participate with musical instruments that the kids can take home afterward. Attendance for the entire series is about 20,000.
Over the next three weeks, the Festival Symphony will perform in North, Northeast, Southeast and Southwest Portland. The music ranges from core classical pieces such as Haydn's "Toy" Symphony with kids and kazoos, and Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" ("A Little Nightmusic") and Aaron Copland's noble "Fanfare for the Common Man."
The man behind these popular concerts for the last three decades is Lajos Balogh, who was born in Hungary and studied at the renowned Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. So, pack a picnic, grab a blanket and head to one of these parks to enjoy a spectacular summer evening. All concerts start at 6 p.m.
Saturday, Cathedral Park: North Edison Street and Pittsburg Avenue, under the St.Johns Bridge. Guest conductor: Portland pianist Michael Allen Harrison. Program includes Tchaikovsky's punchy Fourth Symphony.
Aug. 3, Laurelhurst Park: Cesar Chavez Boulevard and Stark Street.
Aug. 4, Washington Park Amphitheater: 410 SW Kingston Ave. Kristin Chesnutt guest conducts.
Aug. 11, Grant Park: Northeast 33rd and U.S.Grant Place. Cameron May guest conducts.
Aug. 18, Peninsula Park: 700 N. Rosa Parks Way. Travis Hatton guest conducts.
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RGV has said he was at the Taj hotel by chance and the Maharashtra chief minister had not invited him. So tell me, do film personalities go visiting terror sites just a day after the attacks by chance? Or is it that poor RGV did not have a TV/radio at home and could not afford a newspaper since his Aag days, that he does not know what is happening in the world, around him.
Shivraj Patil claims he was at the hospital, and the terrorists had left by then. Since you are so keen on meeting them, Mr. Patil..please go to POK for a trip in solitude, and you can meet as many as you want.
And for the Mr. Patil who claimed the terror attack in Mumbai was a small incident, maybe he expected the entire city to be wiped out, and it was just a sincere expression of the relief he felt when that did not happen.
The political entourage which came to Mumbai even before the attacks were over…the people in the hospitals and the dead in the morgues want to see you again and spend a week with you. Will you come down please and give us your undivided attention, without ushering in the media with you?
All you mediamen, who sensationalized the stories and drove in more fear into the citizens minds in the name of freedom of press..some of the dead are calling out hoarsely for you. They miss your company in after life. If not for your mindless coverage, some of them would have still been alive today.
Fishermen who brought to the notice of the competent authorites, the security breach in license issue to the Gujarat boatman…next time, please use a loudspeaker and give a shout to the common man about such matters. Maybe they can do something about it. The authorities, naturally would not give a damn as there is no scope for earning a quick buck here.
Politicians who offer 1 Crore and more, to the slain…we, the living, want to take it from you to provide our forces with better training, and equipment to deal with such emergencies. And no, we don't want you to take that huge responsibility again. You are worth only the rubber stamp on the electoral sheet, nothing beyond that.
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Sinusitis is an infection and inflammation of the sinuses. Depending on the type of sinusitis the patient is having in terms of the causative factor for the infection, there are many different types of treatment. If the sinusitis infection is caused by a bacterial infection, then antibacterial medications or antibiotics will be prescribed. If the sinusitis is caused by a viral infection, then antiviral medications will be prescribed. And in the sinusitis is caused by a fungal infection, then antifungal medications will be prescribed.
Bacterial sinusitis is one of the most common types of sinusitis infection. As mentioned above, antibacterial medications are used to treat bacterial sinusitis. However, antibacterial medications can commonly cause uncomfortable side effects as it kills harmful bacteria as well as those helpful/good bacteria. There are supplements that can help the body in regaining all its lost helpful/good bacteria, thus helping the body return to its balance, known as probiotics.
Significance of Probiotics
Just like mentioned above, probiotics is very important in restoring the normal balance of good bacteria in the body, especially when the number of good bacteria in the body's decreased due to the intake of antibacterial medications. Probiotics counteract negative and uncomfortable side effects of antibacterial medications.
Function of Probiotics
Aside from helping the body in restoring the normal balance of good bacteria and counteracting the negative and uncomfortable side effects of antibacterial medications, probiotics can also help in boosting the immune system. For people who are suffering from sinusitis infection, having a strong immune system can help in healing and fighting the sinus infection more effectively and faster. A strong immune system will not just help in treating the current sinus infection, it will also help in preventing development of other medical disorders.
Misconceptions of Probiotics in Sinus Infection
It is a very common misconception that probiotics cure or treat sinus infections. Before taking probiotics, people should understand that probiotics can't cure any infection, but probiotics help the body in fighting off the current infection and it can help in boosting the immune system.
Warning When Taking Probiotics
Probiotics have not been scientifically tested for safety for people who have compromised immune systems or those people who have weak immune systems. Before taking any probiotics, it will be safe to ask the doctor first if you can take probiotics and it will not produce and negative side effects to your current medical condition.


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If you're staring out the window fantasising about that health, relationship or career goal you still want to achieve, you're not alone.
Procrastination can often be a roadblock to people achieving their goals. It's when that voice in your head says not today, maybe tomorrow, so you continue to postpone, stall and delay.
If you're nodding your head, thinking yes that's you, some of the below tips for success may help you turn that goal, whatever it may be, into a reality.
Common goals people set themselves
Sometimes it helps to think about the goals other people set themselves to help you realise what you could be doing. Some common ones1 typically revolve around:
- Health - Eating more nutritious food, exercising regularly, quitting smoking, reducing stress
- Career - Finding a new job, changing industries, getting a promotion, asking for a pay rise
- Finances - Spending smarter, saving, reducing debt, getting into the property market
- Education - Learning a trade, finishing your school certificate, obtaining a diploma or degree
- Relationships - Spending more time with loved ones, reducing conflict, making new friends
- Hobbies - Writing a book, learning a musical instrument, taking language lessons
- Travel - Going overseas, visiting family interstate, taking short breaks more regularly.
Golden nuggets for goal setting
Various studies, surveys and research papers on the topic of setting goals and successfully achieving them, suggest a range of approaches. Some of these include:
- Adopt a SMART approach
This is a popular method for setting goals. It's a simple five-step approach to ensure your goals are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound.2
- Write your goals down and commit to them
Put pen to paper and clarify what it is you want to accomplish. Those who write their goals down are around 50% more successful than those who don't.3
- Share your plans and be accountable
Make your goal known to someone close to you. It'll make you accountable and it's a good way to seek encouragement. More than 70% of people who send a weekly update to a friend, achieve their goal, compared to 35%, who keep goals to themselves.4
- Tackle one thing at a time
Work on one rather than multiple goals at once so you don't feel overwhelmed. Having too many goals is why around a fifth of people fail to keep them.5
- If it's a big task, turn it into smaller steps
To successfully achieve a large goal, many suggest breaking it into sizable chunks6. If it's an exercise goal for instance, start working out two days a week and build up from there.
- Use an app to monitor your progress
Download an app to stay motivated and remind you what it was you set out to do. People who use mobile apps to monitor their progress are more often successful.7
- Don't worry about minor setbacks
If you fall off the wagon, take another stab at things and remember to celebrate small wins along the way.
If at first you don't succeed try, try again
Goals need to be realistic—yes, but that doesn't mean you can't think big. Consider what these people8 did:
- Helen Keller was deaf and blind but learned to read and write, gained a bachelor degree, and became a well-known author and lecturer
- Nelson Mandela spent over 20 years in prison for his opposition to the apartheid regime and later was elected the first leader of a democratic South Africa and won a Nobel Peace Prize
- Thomas Edison was fired from his first job and despite being almost penniless, became one of the most prolific inventors of his generation. He created the light bulb among many things
- J.K. Rowling was a single mother on benefits. Her manuscript for Harry Potter was rejected several times before she became the world's best-selling children's author
- Colonel Sanders dropped out in seventh grade. It wasn't until he was 62 he franchised KFC.9
Remember - a wish without a plan is just a dream. If you didn't do what you set out to do yesterday, it's never too late to put something in place today.
1, 5, 7 http://www.finder.com.au/press-release-new-years-resolution-statistics-2015-2016
2 https://www.projectsmart.co.uk/brief-history-of-smart-goals.php
3 http://www.fastcompany.com/1798754/goals-difference-between-success-and-failure
4 http://www.dominican.edu/dominicannews/study-highlights-strategies-for-achieving-goals
6 http://www.wikihow.com/Achieve-a-Big-Goal-by-Breaking-It-Into-Smaller-Ones
8 http://www.biographyonline.net/people/overcame-difficult-odds.html
9 http://www.businessinsider.com.au/how-kfc-founder-colonel-sanders-achieved-success-in-his-60s-2015-6
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This week is all about the fair on Sunday.
Luckily I have my organising head on and I am also feeling rather crafty.
Anyone fancy a set of matching Liberty-esque luggage ?
The set includes a rather posh vanity case and a weekend case, perfect for a mini break to gay Paris.....
What about a handy dandy retro serving tray.
This tray has a rather useful rattan rim, you know the type. Perfect for anyone with a slightly unsteady hand.
I will be back later today (god willing) with some more fair snippets.
I am now off to do a bit of sorting at the charity shop. I spotted yesterday that there is a £1 sale underway, twill be utter carnage!
Wish me luck.
- Posted using IPad and half my brain.