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Visit Asia's highest inhabited village nestled in the Spiti Valley. The valley is 8,000 sq. kms and located at an altitude of 3,600 metres in Trans-Himalayan Himachal Pradesh. The warmth of these people will sail you through the adventures of the harsh terrain, whether on the back of a yak or on a mountain bike!
Take a journey through time itself as you visit ancient Buddhist monasteries and fossils embedded for more than 500 million years. Spiti valley can be good for your limbs and your soul, offering adrenaline-boosting adventures and soul seeking meditation under the guidance of the Spiti Lamas or Bhuchens. And the goodness doesn't end there; a holiday at Ecosphere helps the local community and the conservation of its fragile ecosystem.
What we've planned for you...
Spiti Kaleidoscope – 7 days – Leaving 10 August 2014 – other dates on request
This trip begins at Manali and takes you up and over the majestic Rohtang and Kunzum passes and through the stunning and graphic valleys of the Chandra, Spiti and Pin Rivers. In the first couple of days we will take in the sights on the left bank plateau and get acclimatized to the altitude. We will then safari to the highest villages in the world and experience Spitian culture through traditional homestays along with visits to ancient monasteries, dating back to over 1000 years that are the cultural and spiritual hubs of the Spitian way of life.
In terms of your holiday experience this is a "high density" trip. In order to maximize your Spiti experience we will spend less time in getting to and away from the Spiti valley. While in Spiti we will travel primarily to the regions and villages that best integrate and typify the myriad aspects of Spitian culture, where you will experience it through our traditional homestays and cultural performances. Our endeavour is to showcase to you, within the available time "window", a fairly comprehensive Spitian kaleidoscope.
Essential Kinnaur & Spiti Jeep Safari – 9 days - dates on request
This jeep safari begins at Shimla and takes you through the stunning and graphic valleys of the Sutlej, Baspa, Spiti, Pin and Chandra Rivers and up and over the majestic Rohtang and Kunzum passes. During this trip we will travel into the spectacular valley of the Satlej River in Kinnaur. The mighty Kinner Kailash will keep us company in Kalpa, and the enchanting Sangla valley is the perfect place to chill out in.
While in Spiti we go to some of the world's highest villages, visit ancient monasteries (including an over 1000- year old monastery), experience the Spitian way of life through traditional homestays, get an insight into the essential aspects of Spiti's history, culture and practices.
This trip packs in as much of Spiti and Kinnaur as is possible without compromising your comfort levels and holiday experience expectations. We will probably travel a shade more than "ideal", a trade-off that in our opinion is worth making so that you may take with you the essence of the Spiti and Kinnaur experience.
Spiti Safari – 6 days – dates on request
The Spiti Safari begins at Manali and we journey through the magnificent Rohtang and
Kunzum passes and through the little known valleys of the Chandra and Spiti Valleys. We will then safari to the highest villages in the world and experience Spitian culture through traditional homestays along with visits to ancient monasteries that are the cultural and spiritual hubs of the Spitian way of life.
In a span of 6 days, the Spiti Safari provides a great overview of the region covering all the must sees and dos in the valley!
Your hosts will treat you with warm Spitian hospitality and provide boiled drinking water and their local cuisine, which is very similar to Tibetan cuisine. You can choose from Momos (steamed dumplings), Thukpas, Tibetan bread and Kyu, a popular vegetable barley stew. If you would like a simple meal of rice or roti with dhal and vegetables, do let us know ahead.
Bunk in
Choose from home stays in five villages of the Spiti valley - Langza, Komic, Demul, Lhalung, Dhankhar and Mikkim in Pin Valley National Park. There are also options in the Kibber Wildlife Sanctuary. Guest houses and hotels are also available or better still you could choose to camp under starlit skies.
Homestays - provide you with a clean and comfortable room in a local house with environment friendly and clean toilets. Hot water can be made available on request. Boiled water is provided for drinking purposes.
Hotel/Guesthouse – comprises of a clean and comfortable room with attached bath (running hot and cold water) and toilet.
High Altitude
Spiti is a high altitude region. Since few people have been to such altitudes, it is hard to know who may be affected by high altitude sickness. There are no specific factors such as age, sex or physical condition that co-relate with susceptibility to altitude sickness. Some people get it and some people don't, and some people are more susceptible than others. If one has not travelled to these altitudes before, it is recommended that you consult your doctor.
Your doctor may advice a dosage of Diamox 2/3 days before reaching Kaza – make sure you check with your doctor for the right dosage for you.
Holiday with a difference...
Ecosphere won the Virgin Holidays Responsible Travel Award for the Best in a Mountain Environment in 2010. They have been working close to a decade for development and conservation in Spiti. Everything you spend on this trip goes to a fund that helps in development, conservation activities and capacity enhancement of the local people.
The local community is involved at every level to offer tourists a comfortable experience without disrupting the unique ecosystem of the region.
All the trips offered by Ecosphere are carbon neutral. Whatever emissions are generated are calculated and offset through investments in their in-house renewable energy projects within the region.
These include construction of passive solar houses, green houses and investing in other sustainable renewable energy alternatives such as solar water heating systems, solar cookers, solar lighting, etc.
Ecosphere is a social enterprise and your travel with us will contribute to the development and conservation of the region. During your trip you will get a glimpse into the local development and conservation issues and the work being doing to ensure sustainable development of this Trans-Himalayan region.
How Much?
Costs start from Rs.20,000 per person on twin sharing basis
Yak or Horse safari @ Rs.1200/person
Evening of folk expression @ Rs.7500
Bhuchen performance @ Rs.11500
Mountain Biking @ Rs.500/bike (excluding any jeep transfers if need be)
Pottery @ Rs.500/person
Details on inclusions and exclusions for each tour vary.
Prices valid up to 31st December 2014
Transfers - can be organized at an additional cost
Meal prices approx. ₹ 600/- per day per person for typical local food (depending on the lunch home / restaurant you choose)
Check-in and check-out time - N.A.
Payment Policy – 100% payment to confirm the booking 2 weeks before arrival and confirmation of the package booking 30 days in advance
Cancellation policy – 4 weeks: full refund, more than 72 hrs and less than 2 weeks - 50% refund, less than 72 hrs – none
Please note that there will not be any reimbursements in the event that you are unable to complete the trip due to high altitude sickness, other personal reasons, weather conditions or road blockages.


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Vimala Raman in woman oriented movie
Prabhakar, who had worked in the direction department of creative director Krishna Vamsi for 10 years will make debut with a woman oriented movie.
Prabhakar also worked with other top directors like K Raghavendra Rao, K Bapaiah and VV Vinayak. The new movie with a novel concept will star Vimala Raman in lead role.
Prabhakar is also producing the movie under the banner Latha Universal Arts. Shooting will start this month itself.
It is going to be a thriller with action, comedy and sentiment said producer director Prabhakar. Ajay is hero of the movie. Several prominent actors will feature in the movie.

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Digimon Fusion (Sub)
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Watch Digimon Fusion full episodes online English Sub
Other title:Digimon Xros Wars
Synopsis Taiki Kudou, an upbeat seventh-grade boy who always helps people in need, encounters a Digimon named Shoutmon, who brings him and his friends to the Digital World. With his friends Akari Hinomoto and Zenjirou Tsurugi, they form Team Xros Heart to compete against rival teams battling for supremacy, with their ultimate goal of taking down the evil Bagura Empire, who plans to conquer the Digital World.
Language: English Sub
Status: Completed
Aired:Jul 6, 2010 to Mar 8, 2011
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen
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Planning a Good Vacation Destination
There are so many people who are trying to find places where they can go to to spend their vacation at and you might be going through the same problem as well. Maybe you just took a leave from your really hectic work schedule and you really want to go to a place where you can really just relax and have your own quiet time at but you really do not know where to go to have these vacations. There are so many wonderful places that you can go to in order to really get to enjoy your vacation and this is why you should really start planning. Today, we are going to help you to be able to pick the best vacation destination that you can try out when you are planning a vacation.
There are so many people who have no idea where to go to to spend their vacation and if you do not know, you should really start with making a list. One thing that you can do in order to have an easier time picking out the best place that you can go to is to make a list of what things you wish to do for your vacation. Do you want to spend your free time at the beach where you can soak up the sun in the sand or do you want to spend your vacation in the mountains, camping with your family and your friends. Writing a list down can really help you to see what the things you like to do are and once you find what you really want to do, this can be easier for you to pick out the best vacation destination. There are so many people who are now enjoying their vacation and if you are not yet enjoying it because you do not know what to do, we hope that you will really find something and a good destination to go to.
One other thing that you can do in order to really choose the ideal vacation destination is to ask for opinions. You can always ask for help when you are planing a vacation and you can get really good suggestions and advice. There are many people out there who know about these things, on the other hand, and whey you ask them about these things, they can really help you to decide which place you can go to in order to have a really good time at.


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Evolutionary biology is a sub-field of biology concerned with the study of the evolutionary processes that have given rise to the diversity of life on Earth. Someone who studies evolutionary biology is known as an evolutionary biologist; evolutionary biologists study the descent of species and the origin of new species. To philosopherKim Sterelny, "the development of evolutionary biology since 1858 is one of the great intellectual achievements of science.
In 1859, Charles Darwin published the great book "On The Origin Of Species" and then evolutionary biology has been born.
Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky (1900,Ukraine-1975,USA) was a prominentgeneticist and evolutionary biologist, and a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the unifying modern evolutionary synthesis. He published a major work of the modern evolutionary synthesis, the synthesis of evolutionary biology with genetics, in 1937.
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Arijit Basu, MD & CEO, SBI Life Insurance said the growth trajectory of SBI Life is on track and the company is confident of delivering upto 25 percent growth in FY15.
Now with the passage of the Insurance Bill, BNP Paribas Cardif would definitely like to hike stake in the company but at present the discussions are at preliminary stages and the final numbers haven't been decided, said Arijit Basu, MD & CEO, SBI Life Insurance.
The discussions had already commenced post the insurance Ordinance, he added in an interview to CNBC-TV18's Latha Venkatesh and Sonia Shenoi.
On the listing of SBI Life per se, he said it is unlikely to happen in FY15-16 but the process could begin in the next fiscal because of various regulatory approvals.
SBI Life Insurance is a joint venture between State Bank of India and BNP Paribas Cardif. SBI owns 74% of the total capital and BNP Paribas Cardif the remaining 26%. SBI Life Insurance has an authorized capital of Rs. 2,000 crores and a paid up capital of Rs 1,000 crores.
According to him the growth trajectory of SBI Life is on track and the company is confident of delivering upto 25 percent growth in FY15 and similar growth for the next two years at least. He aslo added that the company at present was adequately capitalised and did not need capital for the next two years, he added.
Talking about inorganic growth, he said currently the company was not interested in buying, although the industry could see some consolidation amongst smaller players.
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SBI stock price
On March 13, 2015, at 11:01 hrs State Bank of India was quoting at Rs 286.35, down Rs 0.85, or 0.3 percent. The 52-week high of the share was Rs 335.90 and the 52-week low was Rs 163.01.
The company's trailing 12-month (TTM) EPS was at Rs 16.61 per share as per the quarter ended December 2014. The stock's price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio was 17.24. The latest book value of the company is Rs 158.43 per share. At current value, the price-to-book value of the company is 1.81.


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Danger Mouse and James Mercer, in their continued collaborative effort, Broken Bells, have set a high standard for the remainder of 2014 in After the Disco. In what may best be, appropriately, described as a post-disco soundtrack to the re-emerging New Wave trends in popular music, this incredible followup to the group's 2010 debut combines melancholy lyrics with indulgent synth riffs, recreating the macabre sense of a 40 year party's end. If that was a little too adjective-laden, you have my sincerest apologies. The simple fact is this album is amazing.
I've already seen a number of analyses focusing on the "disco" aspects of the product, some going so far as to compare AtD to the works of the Bee Gees, and I find that unfair and at least mildly inaccurate. This album certainly features some high-notes in its vocals, and plenty of catchy bass lines; but musically, the album carries itself well enough to breach past decades-old genre conventions. The album seems, in many respects, to be a reaction to various musical trends from numerous generations that plays ironically with their key fundamentals.
Stand out tracks from this album include the titular "After the Disco," and the lead single, "Holding on for Life," which set expectations abuzz for this final product. Anton Yelchin and Kate Mara's presence in the single's video certainly had our household agasp. Die-hard fans of Broken Bells' debut album will enjoy "Medicine," which is reminiscent of its consistency, while playing with radio-pop rhythms. "The Angel and the Fool," another single, has vague hints of something from "While my Guitar Gently Weeps," in a most interesting way. The highlight, for me, comes in the album's opener, "Perfect World," which features great lyrics, solid production, and sets the stage for an amazing listening experience.
The group's sound has unquestionably moved forward since their debut, and mid-stage EP, but this movement is also unquestionably positive. A great soundtrack to a hangover, as has been mentioned by other critics, or as the soundtrack to the party itself, After the Disco is everything I hoped it would be.
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First, I worked on the black and white logo to make sure the structure was where I wanted it to be. The Kohl family moved to the U.S. from Germany back in the early 1900s, so I thought it would be fun to add an established portion onto the logo. The hot rod and the beer are a tribute to my dad. I also added a little Sheboyganese in there just for fun.
After I was satisfied with the structure, I decided to try out some colors. Since the Kohl family has german heritage, I started with the colors of the German flag (red, yellow, black). Being the indecisive person that I am, I continued my color exploration far beyond that and to this day I'm still not sure which I prefer best.
After the color exploration, I had to try putting them on a t-shirt. Here are some of my favorites.
Overall I'm quite satisfied with what I was able to create on my own. Thanks so much for the amazing class!


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Start Content Marketing With Free and Low-Cost Tools
An Action Plan for Content Marketing With Free and Low-Cost Resources
Content marketing is a lot of work, no question. Why not just blog when you can, update social media when you can, and hope for the best? If you're thinking content marketing and blogging are basically the same thing – you've probably seen disappointing results.
The big difference between content marketing and blogging that content marketing ties your actions to your business goals. Blogging often becomes posting 'when you can.' This is a recipe for frustration, because:
- Once you do grab a minute to write or post to social media, it's hard to know where best to focus
- It's nearly impossible to coordinate haphazard action to serve the goals you want to achieve
- It's hard to tell if you're getting the desired results
A simple, entry-level content marketing action plan helps you
- Choose a realistic, achievable business goal
- Know the hot topics and up-trending interests in your business area
- Streamline your production of social media posts each month
- Have a process for regularly writing articles each month (or having them written)
- Align your social media activity and blogging with your goals
- See and measure the results
Here is a brief content marketing action plan – 7 steps using free and low-cost resources to get you started doing effective content marketing. Make progress you can measure with a process you can sustain.
Simple Content Marketing Plan: Overview
The first step is to choose a goal. Content marketing is a plan to serve a business goal by meeting a need in your market. Define a goal so it's something you can measure.
Next we find ways to discover the hot topics people care about relative to the work you do. These topics will guide your topic choices for the content and social media activity you'll do. Then we add a call to action that ties the interesting content to your goal.
Finally, we'll track the activity and results so you can see what difference it's making.
A Simple Content Marketing Plan in 7 Steps
Step 1) Choose content-marketing business goal:
Content marketing uses coordinated actions for building awareness (rather than sales). For a simple, appropriate goal, pick from one of the following:
- Get more website traffic (from real people, not robots) – say, 10% more
- Get more social media followers – e.g., 10% more
- Get more email subscribers – e.g., grow 3% per month
How do you know if your goal is a fitting one for content marketing? I recommend the Content Marketing Manifesto by Rand Fishkin of SEO Moz. This slideshow is a quick way to see why having a content creation plan is important to your marketing and your business. It also explains what content marketing should do – and what is — and is not — suited for.
The short answer: Content marketing doesn't make sales directly – (landing pages do that). Content marketing builds trust, makes you familiar and likeable – all valuable to form a business relationship.
Step 2) Find current up-trending topics in your area:
Sum up your main business area in a short phrase. (If you have more than one focus, pick one for now.) Here's one process. Go to Google Trends and type in your word and select your country or service area.
If you see a line going up – good! Interest is increasing for that term. If interest is low or you can find no data, look for another short phrase. If you see "Not enough search volume to show graphs," come up with a shorter phrase, or ask someone to tell you in two words what you do. Try that phrase.
To see how people searching Google explore your topic, look toward the bottom for the heading "related searches" In particular, look for the "rising" terms (click the Rising sort button).
List the top 3 to 5 terms on a worksheet or document for yourself.
Step 3) Create some headlines or post titles — that you like — for 10 posts:
Take the terms from Step 2 and transform them into a list of potential article titles.
It's okay to have fun with this — using a wizard or automated tool for inspiration.
Some hot title creation tools to try:
- The Blog About title generator wizard
- Hubspot's Blog Topic Generator
- Inboundnow Blog Title Idea Generator
Step 4) Set a realistic schedule and commit resources to create your content:
Let's face it — creating content is the hard part for many people. Set yourself a schedule and come up with a production plan. This means doing more than "writing as time permits." It means creating an editorial calendar.
Free 2016 Blog Editorial Calendar Template: To download and use the same editorial calendar template I created and use, click here.
Experts will tell you that the more blog posts per month, the better your traffic. If weekly posting is too daunting, commit to one every other week. Commit to some schedule and dedicate the resources you need – even if you have to pay for writing help.
Choose your writing resource and map it to your calendar. For instance, if you are the writing resource, and you have 2 weeks between post dates, draft the article during the first wee. If this doesn't happen, try finding someone else who can draft it. One option is to use a service at the start of week 2 to delegate the writing project, and get it done.
The most important part of this step is to hold yourself accountable to getting a post done in your timeframe. Content creation is what moves you toward your goals.
Yes, it's serious work, but it can still be fun. Just write naturally and for added value, consider listing your resources at the end. Aim for 300-500 words. Don't worry about SEO or keywords for now.
Places to get articles drafted at entry-level pricing:
- Writer's Access
- iWriter (helpful tips to get started with this resource here)
Tip- you may prefer to edit rather than write. Review and change what you get back to ensure clear focus on your message and to say what know connects well with your audience.
Tips for writing blog articles yourself:
Create an outline. Here is one example:
1) What is the positive result people want?
2) What gets in the way? State the problem – empathize with how it feels.
3) What do you suggest to solve the problem?
- Make a clear thesis statement: What is your main point?
- What first step eases the problem?
- What other steps address it and why?
- Sum up some tips to address the problem in a bullet list
Good, brief guides to writing quickly and well (to adapt to your business):
From Grammarly: 7 Tips for Formulating the Perfect Five-Paragraph Essay
From Enchanted Marketing: No Time to Write? These 4 Routines Cut My Writing Time By 50%
A tip for writing without writing:
You can dictate your post by speaking your thoughts, and having them converted to text. I use the "speech to text" feature of Microsoft Word. I've also used the transcribing service at Spechpad.com. Get your transcript however you like, then edit away.
Post your article to your website with a featured image – I use WordPress to post and manage my content online. Pixabay is my go-to resource for quality royalty-free images. Depending on your publishing software (and how it tags your images) the graphic that you add can automatically get picked up on social media to help catch attention as your post is shared on the web.
Step 5) Include a call to action to serve the business goal from Step #1:
Clearly state what you want people to do before they leave your post. Even if you think it's obvious, asking for what you want makes a huge difference in whether or not you get it.
If you want people to sign up for your email list, ask them to do it, and make it easy to comply. If you want more visibility on social media, ask readers to share your post. If you want them to look at a landing page or view more content, give a link and a good reason why – from their point of view.
Important: Put your call to action near the link or button that presents the desired next click. The call to action is your goal in Step #1. For best results, show how the action is in the reader's best interest to do it.
For example, if you want shares, your call to action can urge people to
"Share this and let your friends see what you're up to".
To request subscribers, you could ask:
"Want great content marketing results with less work? Get our newest and best ideas in your inbox for instant access."
To get traffic to an offer page or e-store, you can say:
"If your goal for the new year is more traffic, engaged fans and prospects, check out our 2016 content marketing action plan."
Make sure your signup form is easy to see or click to from that call to action!
Step 6) Actively and systematically promote your content and other's too:
This means, share about your topic on your own social media accounts and in groups where others learn about your field of work.
It's critical to automate this process. Going to three, four or more sites each day to post updates manually is a giant waste of time. And it's not sustainable! Write batches of 10, then schedule them using an automation tool — HootSuite is one that can get you started even at the free level. They even have a helpful library of free tutorials at the HootSuite Podium.
How to come up with 10 social media posts in one sitting
To craft good posts efficiently – here's a process. Find 10 pieces of content – by other people – about your favorite topic or recent concern. If they're popular, that's good – it means people find them useful. Choose the ones you like best. Draft 10 updates to share them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google Plus.
For content, consider infographics, slideshows, articles or videos.
Among your 10 posts, also draft some about your own post on social media – take some quick excerpts about what people can find from your post, and share the link to it. Promote your post once for every 2-3 tips from others you share.
To join existing conversations – Find one or two LinkedIn groups that are on your topic of interest and check there weekly. If you can find someone who is asking a genuine question – chime in.
Step 7) Once a week, check how it's all going:
Use a chart like this to help you keep track of your progress (what's in your chart will depend on your goals)
Example Content Marketing Progress Chart
|Week ending…
|# Articles posted
|# Social updates posted
|# web visitors this week
|# shares in Facebook
|# views in LinkedIn
|# new email subscribers
Now you've got a process that
- Focuses you on a realistic, achievable business goal
- Helps you identify the hot topics and rising interest trends in your business area
- Provides steps to produce 10 social media posts a month
- Shows how to write 2 articles a month (or get them written)
- Helps you streamline your social media activity
- Promotes your client's goals and your business goals with calls to action
- Shows you the results
This basic action plan can get you started. But it's important to remember, as Neil Patel says, "Content marketing takes time. Don't expect results in a matter of a few weeks or even a few months…Give your content time to gain traction and deliver organic results."
Content marketing is the new marketing, and if you need a way to get started, or get yourself out of a slump, this basic 7 steps can help you get a fresh start.
And maybe, even have a little fun talking more about what you do…
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Question:Do you believe just in the view that the Song of Solomon is only about Solomon and a young woman he marries, as in your study, along with the other wives he had? Or do you think there is more to it? I was wondering what your opinion on that was? By the way for a study like that, how long does it take you to write it?
As I explained in the introduction, there are three basic views toward the Song of Solomon:
- A story about a young woman who marries King Solomon.
- A three-way love story of a young woman making up her mind whether to marry the king or a shepherd whom she really loves.
- An allegory of Christ and the church.
The allegory view doesn't fit many of the passages in Song of Solomon. While you can pull many parallels because the church is the bride of Christ, the whole of Song of Solomon doesn't match as an allegory.
To gain the three-way love story, you have to state that the poem is not presented in time order. Each scene jumps you either forward or backwards in time. I've found this to be highly awkward and not obvious. You have to have the plot line in your head first, that various elements in the story are sliced out separately and applied to the plot line.
The story about a young woman marrying King Solomon is creates a very smooth plot line. The scenes are in time order. Various subtle foreshadowing and puns come into play. In other words, it becomes a very unified story. The only thing that is awkward is the fact that Solomon already had multiple wives when he married this woman. It grates on our sensibility that there can be this deep of love when one involved is a polygamous.
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The headline at "The Fix" was too captivating to ignore: "Newt Gingrich: The most disliked politician in America." Two new polls show the former speaker of the House with super-high unfavorable ratings that make his quest for the White House quaintly Quixotic.
As Aaron Blake notes, the CNN-Opinion Research poll showed that 63 percent of those surveyed held an "unfavorable" view of Gingrich. This was 9 points worse (54 percent) than his standing in the New York Times-CBS News poll released yesterday. But Blake made an assertion that piqued my interest. "Sarah Palin, even at her most divisive," he wrote, "never saw her unfavorable rating rise above 60 percent in the CNN poll." That may be — but that's not saying much.
Before Palin bowed to the obvious and finally declared she was not running for president, I constantly carped that there was no way she could possibly run because of graphs like the one you see below.
This whole "most disliked politician in America" thing, then, is relative. But such high negatives could lead Gingrich to a similar end now faced by Palin, which was neatly summed up by The Post's Stephanie McCrummen today. Writing about the reaction of an attendee of the Conservative Political Action Conference to Palin, McCrummen wrote, "The response reflects how Palin's star has traveled from a central place in the galaxy of conservative politics to a more nebulous, quasi-pop culture, quasi-political realm that is the dwelling place of figures such as Donald Trump." There's no danger of Gingrich becoming a pop-culture icon. But how far he slides in the galaxy of conservative politics will be a sight to behold.


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Our goal is to help you get rid of your fear of speaking all together by teaching you to Visualize PAM. We want you to move ahead in your career by being a better speaker and you can't be a better speaker if you are paralyized by fear and not fully present. If you want to eradicate your fear of public speaking and contribute to the success of your career, all you need to do is visualize PAM! PAM stands for "Presentation, Audience, Mistakes."
Visualize your PRESENTATION: Visualize everything about your presentation. What will the room look like? What will people laugh at? How will you get on stage? How will you exit? Will there be other people before and after you speaking? Think of everything you can about your presentation and visualize what it looks like. Bonus: Before you give any speech or presentation, verbalize to a peer or co-worker how the speech turned out, how great it was and how much the audience enjoyed you. For example say out loud…"Wow, they gave me a standing ovation, took so many notes and asked me questions I knew every answer to. It was brilliant!" This is a great way to calm your nerves and feel confident!
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Visualize your MISTAKES: Imagine a cell phone going off. Think about a baby crying or the power going out. Think of all the things that can go wrong and how you would handle the situation. Visualize yourself messing up, making a mistake and how you would handle it. Think of it as a video game, you have endless lives and you can try it over and over again in your mind to get to the last level, where you win the princess and everyone is clapping (ok, maybe you don't win the princess) but everyone really is enthusiastically clapping. Visualize everything that could go wrong and talk to yourself about how it really isn't that bad. When you go into the meeting and the cell phone goes off, you have already played that in your mind… now you simple smile and tell the person to hold all your calls.
Visualize your mistakes and 99% of the time they won't happen but like we talked about before, luck favors the prepared mind.
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Long Lost
An Auschwitz Survivor Searches for His Twin on Facebook
Sixty-eight years after leaving Auschwitz, Menachem Bodner is using social media to search for his twin brother who he now knows also survived. By Nina Strochlic.
It's most likely that Menachem Bodner last saw his identical twin in 1945, in Dr. Josef Mengele's gruesome Auschwitz laboratory. He was 4 then and doesn't remember his time in the notorious death camp. But in the 68 years that have followed, Bodner says he's "always" been certain he was one of a pair. He just didn't have any proof until this past year. Now, he's searching for Jeno, a man who probably looks just like him, and who has a distinctive "A-7734" tattoo on his forearm. And 1 million Facebook users are helping him look.
Mengele, known among prisoners as "the Angel of Death," was deeply fascinated with twins and used them for research experiments in his macabre Auschwitz lab. Thankfully, Bodner, now 72, has no recollection of the cruelty he most certainly endured while undergoing experiments, though he can remember a sense of paralyzing fear. Unfortunately he also has few impressions of his family's prewar life in a small town east of Munkacs, Hungary, which is now in the Ukraine. But despite the lack of memories from a war-marred childhood, Bodner says that throughout his life he's felt a deep connection with his twin—and is positive he's still alive and out there. But where?
Until last May, Bodner didn't even know that his own name was once Elias Gottesmann. Now he knows that. And he knows for certain that he has a twin—thanks to the Nazis' dogged, pathological documentation of their crimes. Ayana KimRon, a professional genealogist in Israel, found the evidence, clearly written in a record put together by the organization Candles, of twins who were "identified as having been liberated at Auschwitz or from a subcamp":
A-7733, Gottesmann, Elias, 4A-7734, Gottesmann, Jeno, 4
KimRon got onto the case after spotting a posting made on a genealogical forum by a cousin of Bodner's partner, seeking information about the long-missing brother. When the woman was unable to answer KimRon's questions, Bodner ended up calling the curious researcher himself. "I was hooked," KimRon says of that first call. "I said, 'Look I'm going all the way with you,' and it turned out to be the project of my life." Bodner, a retired Israeli tax-service employee living in the Tel Aviv suburb of Rishon LeZion, was dubious at first, but KimRon began digging anyway. She asked him if he had any sense of his brother, and he told her, "All my life I've known that he was alive somewhere; I felt that he was alive."
In early March, after months of dead-end trails and fruitless posts within the Jewish and genealogical communities online, KimRon decided the campaign needed a broader audience. She created a Facebook page titled "A7734," posted a black-and-white shot of a young boy and a caption with his tattoo number, and asked for any clues into his whereabouts. Within 24 hours it had gone viral, and a within a week, the photo has had 23,000 shares, 1.13 million views, and hundreds of comments from readers offering resources, prayers, and words of encouragement. Other twins pledged to help. Amateur etymologists traced their names. One man even attempted to age the photo into what Jeno (known by his nickname Jolli) might look like now.
"I was astonished by the amount of comments, and I'm very grateful for each and every one one of them," Bodner, who speaks Hebrew, says of the rapid response. Before talking to The Daily Beast, he and KimRon had been watching the page, mesmerized as the comments and countries rolled in: China, Argentina, Ireland, Portugal, Finland. The success is galvanizing, and Facebook is just the beginning. "I'm going to maximize the Internet," KimRon says, explaining that her next plan is to build a YouTube channel of Bodner speaking (a Twitter account launched Sunday night).
In 1945, as allied troops advanced into Poland and the Germans fled Auschwitz—the most notorious of Nazi death camps—a boy approached a young Jewish man searching for his family and asked: "Will you be my father?" When the man asked his name, young Elias Gottesmann took a guess, saying his first name was Mendele and giving a similar-sounding last name. More than a half-century later, he laughs and shrugs when asked how he came up with that new name.
As the pair walked out of the camp a few days later, they saw a battalion of Soviet soldiers approaching. "I don't like them," he told the man. "They didn't save my brother, Jolli." Five years later, the ramshackle family moved to Israel. When Bodner turned 20, his adoptive parents told him about those words. Despite searching through Jewish agencies and publishing requests, searches using the name Bodner had yielded no clues about the fate of his brother.
But when KimRon ran the unique tattoo number through the Red Cross records, she soon found the proof of the twin Bodner always knew existed. In a hospital record dated February 9, 1945—nearly two weeks after Auschwitz was liberated—his brother's name shows up. Ironically, as Bodner lived with his adoptive family in a neighboring camp, Jolli was just inside those infamous gates. KimRon explains why Bodner never searched for himself or his brother using the inked numbers on his arm: "That's the symbol of turning human beings into numbers," she says. "People don't want to relate to it." She utilized it because she realized it was the only way past the dead-end trails.
Patricia Heberer, a historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and author of Children During the Holocaust, explains that twins studied by Mengele were housed together in barracks, underwent daily physical examination, and received surgeries or experimentations as a pair. "Experimentation included injections that caused pain or disease, spinal taps and spinal injections, and deliberate infection with certain diseases," she says. Surgeries were even more gruesome.
Because of Mengele's secretive nature (he "destroyed much of the documentation about his 'research efforts' in his effort to avoid capture," Heberer says), many twin survivors, like Jeno and Elias, have spent the rest of their lives unaware of the nature of their experimentation and suffer serious health consequences as well.
Along with historical records, KimRon found a flock of nearly 70 extended family members both in Israel and the U.S for a man who believed he had no blood relatives. Many of them had searched for Bodner for years. "I was shocked," he says. "I thought that nobody would look for me. I had a dream to find someone. It made my dreams come true." Within less than a year, Bodner has quickly assimilated into his family, and KimRon, who has found herself as part of the clan, says that the relatives "embrace as if they were together since birth." Bodner speaks to his new cousins weekly, and they've spent the past year's holidays together. "I'm still memorizing the names," he says with a laugh.
The enigmatic connection between family members who spend years separated is well documented. Nancy Segal, a psychology professor at California State University, Fullerton, and director of the Twin Studies Center, has spent years researching twin connections. She says that even after decades apart, many twins still find they have similar attitudes, values, and interests upon reuniting. "Sometimes circumstances of rearing and living can get in the way," she wrote in an email. "But even some who met in their sixties and seventies did well together."
Despite the skepticism he had going in to the search, Bodner has been eager to soak up his newfound history. "This man has quick digestion. He wants to face the demons," KimRon says reverently. In June—just a month after learning of his family—Bodner traveled to his small hometown in what is now Ukraine, but was once Hungary. When he arrived, an old woman approached the group, looking at the house they were eyeing. She still recalled his family. "In this house there were twins," she told them. Bodner, too, remembered the house and the Gestapo officers who came to take them from it two months before his fourth birthday. "I remember when Nazis came to take us: it was midday, I was outside, and my brother was asleep in bed," he says. "I saw them coming."
This June, Bodner, KimRon and four family members plan to make a trip back to Auschwitz, the death camp that once housed him, his brother, and his mother (a survivor who was murdered a year after the Holocaust while searching for her sons). The last time he was there was just a few weeks after liberation, when a Jewish journalist asked Bodner and his adoptive father to take him. As they approached the gates, the 5-year-old panicked. "I don't want to go there," he screamed. "They turn people to dust in there; I don't want to go there."
Sixty-eight years later, Bodner is ready to try again. "Until now I didn't have the mental strength to do it," he says, "but after finding my family and my house, it is time to close the circle." As for his twin, he knows he's out there somewhere. And Facebook's combined power of 1 billion users is a promising allure to renew optimism. "I never lost hope, and now I hope more," Bodner says.


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Parsing Configuration Files Bad for your Health
As part of my angst-driven search for stuff that other people might have done, and published, that would save me maintaining my own code, I took a look at things to handle INI files. Oh dear. They are everywhere, and they all do different things.
Python does provide a mechanism for reading INI files. ConfigParser is the basic in-built module, and it handles a reasonably simple form of config file, with some variable substitution. It is a starting point, but there are issues:
- Command line programs would like to be able to override entries in the config file with optional command line settings.
- Setting the configuration file name from the command line does not play well with the idea of overriding settings from an, as yet, unread config file.
- When building an application made up of multiple packages, each with its own configuration, the config file should be able to integrate the configs for these packages, while keeping them appropriately separate.
- It would be nice to be able to use different text formats. Conversely, there is no reason why the API should constrain the file format.
The main problem here is that optparse has a different API and does not naturally recognise the kind of block structure that INI files allow.
There are probably other issues, but these keep coming up. I am relieved, slightly, to find that many people have thought about this, and there has even been discussion in the Python wiki (ConfigParserShootout). I am also depressed. The discussion came to no great conclusion, and the issues are still open.
So I keep the old code, then.
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Senior Maggie Cross was one of 28 Norwich University undergraduates awarded Summer Research Fellowships to explore diverse topics across the arts, sciences and professional fields. Developed by the university's Office of Academic Research, the competitive, six- and ten-week fellowships are funded by university endowments dedicated to supporting student academic investigation.
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August 31, 2015
Overlapping worlds often spark innovation. Engineering major Maggie Cross knew she wanted to pursue an NU Summer Research Fellowship. Her advisor Prof. Michael Prairie suggested she explore haptics, the use of tactile feedback to speed learning.
Cross proposed that she develop a glove that could help wearers learn the sign language alphabet more quickly. Her inspiration: a sign language interpreter she observed while volunteering at a Vermont state LEGO robotics competition last fall.
Ideally, the glove would analyze and respond to the hand movements of wearers, activating embedded buzzers when students bent individual fingers incorrectly.
Such haptic feedback has been used to cue surgeons when they slice the wrong tissue during surgeries with obstructed views. More recently, engineers at Georgia Tech developed a "piano glove" that helps wearers learn the first 45 notes of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" more quickly.
Cross emailed the PhD student involved in that project to float ideas about her own project.
In June Cross began work in the lab. Early experiments involved attaching bend resistors, accelerometers and gyroscopes to a white cotton glove to track hand motions.
She soon abandoned that approach after discovering the Leap motion controller, an off-the-shelf device that senses and plots natural hand motions in real time. Think Wii game station controller or the Matrix sci-fi film.
Cross then moved on to increasingly complex challenges of programming, wireless integration, database comparison, and sensor feedback.
For each sign letter attempt, her glove needed to capture the wearer's gestures; compare them against a database of proper letter signs; and send, receive and activate the correct tactile feedback between the computer-based database and the glove.
Never a strong coder, Cross says the project forced her to dive deep into a number of programming languages, including C++, Objective C, JavaScript and Xcode, the coding language behind Apple iPhone aps.
The rising senior observes that there are nearly 70 million deaf people in the world and that sign language is important not only to the heard of hearing, but to their friends and family.
"Mastering sign language takes dedication and, above all, time. Using haptic feedback to learn sign language would reduce the amount of time required," Cross notes.
"It could make bridging the gap between the hearing and hearing impaired communities more accessible."
Cross says she was inspired to apply for her 10-week summer research fellowship by a friend, Ryan Fecteau '15, who conducted social science research on binge drinking at military colleges as a Norwich University undergraduate summer research fellow last year.
"He said it was a good experience and he learned a lot—not just learned technically, but learned how to do research," Cross says.
Cross has had a similar experience this summer. "I've worked all weekend before on a lab project. But at the end of the weekend, it's always finished," Cross says.
"Whereas with this, you'll work five [or] six … seven or eight hour days and then get nothing. So you have to take a step back and realize that you're learning how not to do it. So you are still learning, even though you don't have anything to show for it."
Cross had made significant progress on her glove over the course of her fellowship.
"In a way our engineers are working with the languages of machines—but many machines, many languages," says Norwich University Professor of Electrical Engineering Ronald Lessard. "They're trying to find out [how] to communicate with these machines so that they can get them, the machines, to work together to do what they need."
Cross says she may continue her work as a senior thesis project, expanding the scope of her initial summer research fellowship. "Instead of just being the hands and the alphabet, you could make a sleeve out of it [to promote haptic learning of the] full sign language alphabet with all the gestures."
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ScaleFocus with a recognition in the Best Bulgarian Company of the Year awards
Last night ScaleFocus received a recognition in the fourth edition of FiBank's Best Company of the Year awards. Our company won the 2nd prize in the "Startup Companies" category.
The award was accepted by ScaleFocus' CEO Plamen Tsekov:
"ScaleFocus is one of the best-performing European companies with over 250 full-time professionals, over 100 in 16 countries across the world, headquartered in Sofia and offices in London, Plovdiv and Munich. I would like to thank all the colleagues who inspire and pursue the company's high achievements. Thank you for this recognition!"
This is yet another recognition for ScaleFocus after being awarded with Outsourcing Service Provider from the NOA Awards 2015, four awards from International 'Stevie' Business Awards, Ruban d'Honneur and National Public Champion of the European Business Awards, 6 Forbes awards and two German Economy Awards in two consecutive years and the ICT Media Top ICT Employer for 2014.
"Best Company of the Year" award is another proof of ScaleFocus' aim on developing innovative processes and delivering smart solutions to clients in 16 countries in 100 countries across the world. ScaleFocus' fast-growing team is motivated to achieve the best possible results through technology and drive efficiency and excellence in business and society.
About the awards
For the fourth consecutive year Fibank (First Investment Bank) organized the contest "Best Bulgarian Company of the Year". What makes it different from all other rankings, is the desire not only to pick winners, but to focus public attention on the best examples in the business to become a role model. As we Bulgarian company, First Investment Bank, we strive to continuously stimulate the development of Bulgarian business. Our ambition is to make this competition a long-term initiative to motivate Bulgarian companies to be competitive and innovative.


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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hired human rights champion and former Spanish judge Baltazar Garzón to fight what he fears is an American scheme to eventually try him for revealing a stash of secret documents.
International jurist Mr. Garzón, who was recently disbarred in Spain, "has expressed serious concerns regarding the lack of safeguards and transparency, and the harassment [Assange] is being subjected to," says a statement released late yesterday evening on Twitter by WikiLeaks.
"There is clear political intentionality behind this affair," Garzón was quoted on Wednesday in a Spanish radio station, citing "the great job [Assange] has done with his organization."
Garzón met Mr. Assange "recently" in Ecuador's embassy in London, according to the statement. In June, Assange sought refuge there to avoid what would have been an imminent extradition to Sweden over rape allegations, although he hasn't been formally charged. Ecuador has said it will take as long as it wants to make a decision. The UK has a pending arrest warrant for breaking his bail terms.
Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño said Assange "has the right to hire and look for the legal advice that he needs or may need for the asylum request."
Assange respects the judicial process, Garzón said. "We want and demand guarantees that the process he is facing is really just."
US denouncement
The United States has not charged Assange either, but the Obama administration has publicly denounced him for allegedly putting lives in danger for disclosing thousands of secret documents compromising intelligence operations and sources, on top of angering a myriad of governments over embarrassing revelations.
US Army Private Bradley Manning is facing a court martial, among other reasons, for "aiding the enemy" when he allegedly leaked documents to WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks and its supporters contend that their revelations are protected under free speech and a legitimate vehicle in defense of transparency.
Garzón will defend both WikiLeaks and Julian Assange from "the existing abuse of process; expose the arbitrary, extrajudicial actions, and show how the secret US processes have compromised and contaminated other legal processes, including the extradition process." He also accused the UK and Sweden for being complicit in "wrongfully abrogating [Assange's] rights."
Celebrity status
Spain's Supreme Court in February disbarred Garzón for illegally ordering wiretappings, in effect ending his career. As a judge, Garzón rose to celebrity status for his relentless quixotic battles against South American dictators, terrorism, drug lords, and US sanctioned torture in Guantanamo.
He is not new to the UK legal system either. In 2008, he ordered the arrest of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and unsuccessfully tried to have him extradited to face charges for human rights violations.
Later that year Garzón opened a controversial investigation for human rights violations during Spain's Civil War that ended in 1939. Several extreme-right organizations soon filed three separate complaints against him, one of them related to his attempt to unearth the remains of over 100,000 people killed during the conflict.
Garzón is trying to appeal his disbarment. He opened a legal firm in Madrid and is still involved in human rights advocacy, but in an advisory role.


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DailyDirt: Everyone Loves Bacon
from the urls-we-dig-up deptBacon is one of the most universally enjoyed foods... it's been called the "gateway meat" for vegetarians (and it's created quite a few ex-vegetarians). If you can't resist bacon, then you'll probably enjoy these links, too.
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This grower is sure of this plant identification.
Aquilegia in my garden. Not sure of the varieties.
These self seed constantly around the garden. So happy for for someone to come and dig up a few.
Columbine, Granny's bonnet
Aquilegia genus (Columbine). This is a genus of around 60-70 species of graceful clump-forming short-lived perennials with bell-shaped, spurred, single to double flowers. They generally bloom in late spring and early summer.
Fully to frost hardy. They generally prefer well drained soil in an open, semi-shaded site, but some are more tolerant of deeper shade or full sun. Keep selected forms segregated from others to stop them interbreeding.
Grown for the mainly bell-shaped, spurred flowers in spring and summer. They are suitable for many situations in the garden.


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Really excellent Course with the great educators. There's a lot that can be learned in this course and applicate in everyday life, especially if you are teacher who transferred knowledge to students.
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Creatively inspiring, great content to reflect and practice upon and great innovation spark, thanks to Prof. Shlomo Maital & Arie Ruttenberg for delivering this creative experience and knowledge.
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Seems like all "creative" courses are alike, and this one is no different:
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And a bunch of case studies and examples of other people being creative.
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Hello blogging friends. It's time for another Creative Scrappers Reveal! This one, by the talented Jenny Evans, does not disappoint!
I actually scrapped a layout of myself this time (*gasp*). This was taken last Christmas in front of our Christmas tree. I converted it to a black and white photo so it doesn't look too Christmassy. I had to photoshop the photo to switch the heads. Yup, I couldn't keep my mouth shut when the photo was taken (why do I have to talk?) and in another shot my hubby closed his eyes! Has anyone else tried the photomerge faces? Thankfully it was relatively easy to do and it looks so much better without my mouth open :)
I used the gorgeous Maggie Holmes Styleboard papers from Crate Paper with a mish mash of embellies from Studio Calico, Crate, Fancy Pants, Maya Road, and American Crafts. I've had these gold doilies for about 6 months now! Gold is so trendy right now, why did I wait so long? I love the look with the gold vellum and gold rub-ons. As much as I love those triangles in the sketch, I had to replace them with hearts. I especially love that love paper clip from Maya Road! Here are some close-ups...
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Associate (Flood Risk and Drainage)- London
- Recruiter
- Penguin Recruitment
- Location
- City of London
- Salary
- £55000 - £65000 per annum
- Posted
- 11 Nov 2018
- Closes
- 09 Dec 2018
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- Contact
- Jordanna Jenkins
- Specialism
- Environment, Water
- Function
- Civil Engineer, Drainage Design Engineer
- Job Type
- Contract
- Level
- Associate
My client, a market leading multidisciplinary Engineering Consultancy, is searching for an experienced Associate or Technical Director to manage and expand their Water Team based in London.
It is essential that applicants are Chartered Engineers who have vast experience managing and completing Flood Risk, Surface Water, or Water Resources Projects for Public and/or Private Sector Clients and Housing Developers.
Applicants are also required to have experience completing bid proposals, managing projects, mentoring team members and completing and checking technical work including Flood Risk Assessment, Surface Water Management Plans, Drainage Strategy and design or Hydraulic Modelling.
Candidates are also required to have an awareness of Environmental Impact Assessments.
It is also essential for applicants to have the drive to develop new business opportunities, manage projects and mentor and expand the team.
As an Associate you will be required to manage and mentor the existing team of Flood Risk and Drainage Specialists based in London. You will be expected to provide technical advice to the team, review and amend Hydraulic Models, SuDS and Sewerage designs using Microdrainage and Infoworks and manage varied Flood Risk, Drainage and Pre-Planning Projects for Private Sector Clients, Housing Developers and Local Authorities ensuring Projects are completed to time and budget.
You will also be expected to prepare bid proposals and develop new business opportunities with new and existing clients across the UK.
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The preamble of Part Two has changed by deleting one sentence:
The rules of Part 2 apply between boats that are sailing in or near the racing area and intend to race, are racing, or have been racing. However, a boat not racing shall not be penalized for breaking one
of these rules, except rule 23.1.
When a boat sailing under these rules meets a vessel that is not, she shall comply with the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (IRPCAS) or government right-of-way rules.
However, an alleged breach of those rules shall not be grounds for a protest except by the race committee or protest committee . If the sailing instructions so state, the rules of Part 2 are replaced by the right-of-way rules of the IRPCAS or by government right-of-way rules.
When a boat racing fouls a boat that is not participating in the race - and I don't mean another boat that just is not racing at that particular encounter - only the PC or RC could protest that boat. That always struck me as not very fair. In most cases the RC, and let alone the PC, isn't on the water to look for this and hardly ever at the right place at the right time.
Now another boat who sees this, can protest. It will still be hard to get the non racing party into the hearing (as a witness - never a party, because that boat isn't under the RRS), but at least the likelihood that someone will sees this and can do something, has been increased.
In the four years this rule has been in effect I have never ever been in a protest involving a non racing boat. How about you?


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Monday, 21 April 2014
The Almighties - RECHARGED RELOADED REDUXED - coming Free Comic Book Day!
A free Digital comic to be released on Free Comic Book Day, The Almighties: Recharged Reloaded Reduxed is everything you need to jump into the world of our comedic super-team comprising super-arrogant field leader Maxi-Tron, former-downtrodden-housewife with 'issues,' Ms. F, borderline-psychotic merc Mason, cocky British punk Nite Fang and…kebab shop owner Stefanos.
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Here's Mrs. McDonald PRE-PURPLE HAIR...
Fourth grade boys get a hearty laugh!
Recess FUN!
Fox Hill PTO Presents
Paint Night
Friday, March 20, 6:00PM-11:00PM
Burlington American Legion
$45 per person, (Sorry, adults only)
Come join Fox Hill families for a fun & creative night out in Burlington!
Tickets are $45 per person. Light refreshments, chocolate fountain, 50/50 raffle & cash bar will be available during the event.
There are two painting sessions to choose from, each with its own unique painting but both guaranteed to lift the winter blues!
Doors open at 6:00, close at 11:00.
Session 1 (palm tree scene): 6:00PM-8:00PM • Session 2 (beach scene): 8:30PM-10:30PM
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One of Six Tribute Bands
Considered talented enough to be placed on the world famous, "Gene Simmons Family Jewels" in front of an international audience, Almost KISS caught the eye of Family Jewels' Producers and Executives in 2010 and were chose to be included as one of six tributes to be endorsed by Gene Simmons. Since then, this amazing group of four musicians has continued to excite crowds all over the country, growing substantially in popularity.
Complete Kiss Image on Stage
Part of what makes Almost KISS show so enthralling is the way in which they have so meticulously recreated the complete KISS image on stage. The boys feature authentic vintage instruments, makeup, and custom made costumes and boots. Their unmistakable New York accents and KISS antics truly bring out the outlandish, charismatic personas of the original four Gods of Thunder we all adore. In being true to the original characters, Almost KISS derives the majority of their song list from a specific part of the KISS katalog, primarily performing material that KISS played in live concert settings from 1974-1983. This long and wonderful list of songs spans material from the early tunes they played at small, dingy clubs in New York City to huge, international numbers such as "Lick It Up."
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When Maura Tierney accepted her Best Supporting Actress award at the Golden Globes, we were thrilled. She was the standout female celebrity that left on our favorite accessory during her acceptance speech. Glasses, of course. It just goes to show that even at the glossiest of events glasses are just as chic and just as acceptable.
We found a similar pair by Prada that is already a best seller. (Shop for those here!)
And of course, we always anticipate the red carpet looks from our favorite designer brands. (Many designers which we proudly carry at FramesDirect.com) That's everyone from Prada to Versace to Dolce and Gabbana.
We couldn't help but notice that the stars were getting a head start on the looming holiday of love with shades of pink, rose, and reds.
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Pollichia Campestris - Indigenous South African Perrenial Shrub - 10 Seeds
Seeds for Africa
The Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. The species are dicotyledons included in the order Caryophyllales. It is a large family, with 88 genera and some 2,000 species. This cosmopolitan family of mostly herbaceous plants is best represented in temperate climates, with a few species growing on tropical mountains. Some of the more commonly known members include pinks and carnations (Dianthus), and Fire pink and campions (Lychnis and Silene). Many species are grown as ornamental plants, and some species are widespread weeds. Most species grow in the Mediterranean and bordering regions of Europe and Asia. The number of genera and species in the southern hemisphere is rather small, although the family does contain Antarctic Pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis), the world's southernmost dicot, which is one of only two flowering plants found in Antarctica.
Waxberry", 20-60cm straggling shrublet, white flowers all year, edible white berries. Sow Autumn/Spring.
USDA Zone - 8
Season to Sow - Autumn / Spring